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Rightwingers desperate to make U-Haul truck crash at White House a 'false flag op'.

posted a year ago by HarlemEagle42 (16175)
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Do the MAGA folks ever realize they're telling on themselves whenever the suspect appears to be a Nazi sympathizer?

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Donald Trump Jr. accused “the FEDS” of manufacturing “fake crimes and fake hate” after a photo of a Nazi flag in front of the truck that repeatedly rammed a White House security barricade was released by authorities.

The flag was found when bomb squad technicians swept the truck for explosives on Monday night. No explosives were found in the truck.

“You would think with the amount of free time the FEDS have available to them from not focusing on actual crime, that they would be able to do a much better job creating fake crimes and fake hate,” Jr. tweeted.

He later included, “If the threat of White Supremacy to the republic is so real and so prevalent, why does it seem like they have to outsource all of the hate???” Trump Jr. was referring to a photo of the suspect who appeared to be a person of color.

Trump Jr. added, “I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that Sai Varshith Kandula is probably not Mexican.”

Trump Jr. finally concluded “Clearly a White Supremacist” while sharing a photo of the suspect.

Flamethrowing right-wing commentator Matt Walsh also tweeted, “Totally normal of course for the police to neatly lay out the evidence at a crime scene so that reporters can take pictures.”

Walsh added, “I’ve noticed an interesting trend where white supremacists are very often not white.”

Podcaster Joey Mannarino sarcastically tweeted:

America has officially beaten racism.

The white supremacy movement in our country is so absolutely diverse now.

I mean, Larry Elder is 100% Black and he’s a “white supremacist”.

We had a Latino Neo-Nazi in Texas last month.

Today we have an Arab White Supremacist who drove into the White House. You know a country is diverse and accepting when their white supremacy movement includes members of all races and genders. Congratulations, America, we did it! The white supremacy movement is more diverse than the NAACP.”

CNN reported that the suspect, 19-year-old Sai Varshith Kandula of Chesterfield, MO, “made threatening comments regarding the White House at the scene, including that he wanted to kidnap and harm President Joe Biden.”

The suspect was arrested at the scene around Lafayette Square, where he was arrested and charged with trespassing; destruction of federal property; and threatening to kill, kidnap or inflict harm on the president, vice president, or a family member.

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/don-jr-baselessly-accuses-police-of-creating-fake-hate-crime-after-u-haul-rams-white-house-fence/

[–] Bossdog677 (1448) a year ago

Go rent you a U-Haul and try to drive down Pennsylvania Avenue... I double dare you.

[–] CraigC (6956) a year ago

When you relentlessly lie to demonize the opposition, you have no credibility. Just like Keeliar.

[–] Keelai (31890) a year ago

What led a Latino to embrace white supremacist views? Garcia offered some clues: Referring to his “self-loathing phase,” he ranted against “loser Hispanics” and admitted he once wished he were white “because my own race treats me like [expletive].”

“This goes to the root of the power of white supremacy: the wish to identify with the racial category that you think is most powerful in the society that you live in,” said Heidi Beirich, a prominent extremism researcher and co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism.

A 2022 University of Chicago study found that nearly 7% of rioters charged in connection with the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were nonwhite.

The numbers show “how appealing right-wing extremism can be to people of color, and for some, the next stop down that rabbit hole is white supremacy,” Levin said in an interview.

“Some are focused on conspiracy theories and QAnon. Some are motivated by homophobia and transphobia. Some focus on Islamophobia. [Others focus on] nativism.”

But what unites the motley crew of hard-right believers is a belief in “the decline of the nation,” HoSang said.

“To address this decline, there's a kind of almost valorizing and heroic role for a small number of people who, in order to restore the nation, restore its honor, will take violent action,” he added.

“The racist fringes have mutated and expanded who can come under their umbrella,” Levin said. “Before, it used to be: Who are you? Now, it’s as much: Who do you hate?”

Nonwhites not only bolster the ranks of far-right groups, but they also shield them from accusations of racism, enabling them to legitimize their bigotry, experts say.

A Latino who looks and identifies as white but is not fully accepted as white may join an extremist group in order to prove his self-identify, said Hernandez of Fordham University.

But she noted that “one need not have a white appearance in order to be an upholder of white supremacy.”

For others, enlisting in a right-wing group is as akin to “joining a family of sorts, a family that's going to support them, provide substance to them and so forth,” said Williams of Montclair State."
https://www.voanews.com/a/why-some-nonwhite-americans-espouse-right-wing-extremism-/7101229.html