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In the fight against white supremacist terrorism, we have to look not just at the trees directly in front of us, but at the entire forest as a whole.
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The events earlier this month have resulted in the loss of numerous lives. The loss of friends, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, sons and daughters. In the case of the shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, it was 3 deaths in addition to sixteen injured. The youngest victim was six years old. The shooter, Santino William Legan, was killed via self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Despite reports that Legan had posted messages on social media naming “hordes of mestizos and Silicon Valley white tw*ts” as two groups of people that would “overcrowd towns” in his home state of California and the fact that he made an Instagram post referencing a book widely circulated among white supremacist groups, FBI special agent in charge, John Bennet, told reporters when he was asked about the literature that “To call it ideology in one way or the other is conflicting readings.\u201d
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“Just because someone has a book in their house doesn’t mean they are leaning one way or another,\u201d he went on to say.
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The book in question is “Might Is Right<\/a>,” written in 1896 by an author using the pseudonym \u201cRagnar Redbeard,\u201d a name many believe was the chosen alias used by British author and poet Arthur Desmond<\/a>. Essentially a collection of poems and quasi-philosophical rants, the book amounts to a roughly 100-page text that vilifies “weakness,” dehumanizes those considered non-white and embraces social Darwinism<\/a>.
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As if that wasn’t enough of a red flag, the 1999 edition of \u201cMight Is Right\u201d was published by the now-defunct 14 Words Press, whose name is derived from the fourteen-word slogan<\/a> coined by the publisher\u2019s founder, neo-Nazi David Lane<\/a> (\u201cWe must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children\u201d<\/strong>). The phrase has since become a popular rallying cry for white supremacists around the globe.
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Days later in El Paso, Texas, another shooting occurred, this time claiming the lives of 22 innocent people going about their day and doing some back-to-school shopping at a Walmart. Within the very first paragraph of a manifesto that he uploaded to the site known as 8chan (which I\u2019ve obtained a copy of for the purpose of accurate reporting, but will decline to share in detail with the public out of respect for those lost), the suspect, identified as 21-year-old Patrick Crusius, wrote that \u201cThis attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas. They are the instigators, not me. I am simply defending my country from cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion.\u201d
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The El Paso shooter, filmed on closed-circuit television as he entered a Walmart and killed 22 innocent people. (ABC News \/ YouTube) <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInvasion.\u201d \u201cHordes.\u201d \u201cReplacement.\u201d This type of rhetoric, these types of dehumanizing,  anti-immigrant buzzwords are no longer just contained to the writings of white nationalist pamphlets or the darkest fringes of the internet (such as various neo-Nazi sites and the message board 4chan, along with the even darker 8chan<\/a>, the latter of which has finally been taken offline<\/a>).
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These dog-whistles are now commonplace among cable news shows and President Trump\u2019s tweets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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