OPINION: White Americans must take a stand against those who enable supremacists

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Jerry Springer

Payton Gendron, a 18-year-old male who openly expressed his belief in "white replacement theory," has been charged with killing 10 people – all of them Black – during a May 14 mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.

Ever since then, the news coverage has been inundated with commentary as to who, in addition to the shooter, is responsible for what happened. In other words, who else has blood on their hands?

Predictably, all of those accused of enabling the bloodshed have denied that they did so – or they have said next to nothing at all. Indeed some of those under scrutiny – including various members of the Republican Party – have trotted out responses ranging from openly professing that they don't condone violence to loudly blaming the Democratic Party's policies for what took place in Buffalo.

Let's give these figures the benefit of the doubt and assume that, of course, they don't actively support violence. But let's also not dismiss the reality that the toxic words these figures frequently utter – at rally speeches, on nightly cable shows and through other public platforms – can serve as inspiration for loose cannons, unstable people and hardened racists who are only too happy to use right-wing diatribes as calls to act in violent fashion.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-white-americans-must-stand-221954199.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Good luck with that.

[ReluctanceTango]

2. The ones who would heed the message

Already have.

The rest will never change. They're such worthless losers that they have nothing else to make them feel like they're "special."

[OldBaldy1701E]

3. Hear Hear! (n/t)

[twodogsbarking]

4. Traditions are hard to break.