Minutes Before El Paso Killing, Hate-Filled Manifesto Appears Online

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Minutes Before El Paso Killing, Hate-Filled Manifesto Appears Online


https://www.chron.com/news/article/Minutes-Before-El-Paso-Killing-Hate-Filled-14278945.php

Tim Arango, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Katie Benner, New York Times 10:34 pm CDT, Saturday, August 3, 2019



Photo: Mark Lambie, AP Image 1 of 53



Walmart customers are escorted from the store after a gunman opened fire on shoppers near the Cielo Vista Mall, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. Multiple people were killed and one person was in ... more

Nineteen minutes before the first 911 call alerted authorities to a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, a hate-filled, anti-immigrant manifesto appeared online.

It spoke of a “Hispanic invasion of Texas.” It detailed a plan to separate America into territories by race. It warned that white people were being replaced by foreigners.

The authorities were scrutinizing the 2,300-word screed Saturday and attempting to determine whether it was written by the same man who killed 20 people and injured more than two dozen others near the Mexican border.

Police were interviewing the suspect, Patrick Crusius, a 21-year-old white man from Allen, Texas, a roughly 10-hour drive to the Walmart. What brought him to a crowded shopping center in El Paso is one of the many questions on the minds of investigators.

The manifesto that may be linked to Crusius described an imminent attack and railed against immigrants, saying, “if we can get rid of enough people, then our way of life can be more sustainable.”

From New Zealand to Pittsburgh to a synagogue in Poway, California, aggrieved white men over the past several months have turned to mass murder in service of hatreds against immigrants, Jews and others they perceive as threats to the white race.

The unsigned manifesto, titled “The Inconvenient Truth,” draws direct inspiration from the mass murder of Muslims at two mosques in New Zealand in March that left 51 people dead. In that attack, the alleged killer published a manifesto online promoting a white supremacist theory called “the great replacement.” The theory has been promoted by a French writer named Renaud Camus and argues that elites in Europe have been working to replace white Europeans with immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa...........................................

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1. Had not heard of that Camus.

Had wondered where the whole 'replacement' thing came from.

Even took me months to while to realize that 'the Jews will not replace us' didn't use "replace" as medio-passive ("salt water is replacing fresh water in aquifers near the cost due to sea-level rise and on-shore pumping of water from the aquifer" ) but as active with a null instrumental object ("He replaced the recliner (with an Eames chair) " ). In other words, the population wouldn't wind up being entirely Jewish after the replacement.

Strange person, that Camus, from a cursory reading of easily available material on the web. Gay socialist who disapproves of his ruminations being picked up by American neo-Nazis, but "understands."

Still, just more of the "us versus them, they hate us and want to replace us" with a strange twist, and probably just as unfamiliar to those its attributed to as all the other kinds. I'm used to that kind of hatred being couched in class terms, or embraced in some form by non-majorities. (We just can't call it "hate" unless we judge it a good, respectable, ideologically approved or Jesus-sanctioned hate.)