DiscoGary wrote:
So are we going to use the Islamic terrorism argument that Muslim mass murderers don't represent Islam, therefore a white supremacist mass murderer doesn't represent all white supremacists?
We don't want to taint the whole group based on the actions of a few. That would be bigotry, right?
If I'd said that he represents all Republicans, then you'd have a point. But I just said he represents Nazis. Nazis are exterminationists. It's an inescapable part of the ideology. You can go to the Republic of Florida site if you want. They advocate violence, and while they don't advocate for extermination explicitly, but it's obviously implied. (How else are they going to achieve an all-white society in a place like Florida?) This kid appears to represent them fairly well.
Muslim mass murderers don't represent Islam as a whole, but they do represent the radical sects quite well. Just as you ask moderate Muslims to denounce terrorism (and they do; it just doesn't make headlines), I'd like certain Republicans to distance themselves from White Supremacists more aggressively than they do now and to stop pretending that racism in America isn't a thing. I'd also like them to stop demonizing perfectly reasonable gun control measures as sinister, 2nd Amendment eliminators.