theintercept | O Sean Duffy, where art thou?
Back in February, the Republican congressman from Wisconsin told
CNN’s Alysyn Camerota that white terrorists of the far-right variety
did not pose the same level of danger to Americans as so-called
“Islamist” or “jihadist” terrorists. Why? “I don’t know, but I would
just tell you there’s a difference,” proclaimed Duffy, who went on to
dismiss as a “one-off” the attack on a mosque in Quebec by a Trump-supporting white nationalist, in which six Muslim worshippers were killed.
One-off? Seriously? Has Duffy been reading the news in recent days?
On May 20, Richard Collins III, a black, 23-year-old U.S. Army second
lieutenant, was murdered
while visiting the University of Maryland by a member of a Facebook
group called “Alt-Reich: Nation.” According to University of Maryland
police chief David Mitchell, the group promotes “despicable” prejudice
against minorities “and especially African-Americans.”
On May 26, 53-year-old U.S. Army veteran Rick Best and 23-year-old recent university graduate Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche were murdered, while 21-year-old poet Micah David-Cole Fletcher was severely injured, by a knife-wielding white supremacist
when the three of them tried to prevent him from harassing a Muslim
woman in a headscarf on their commuter train in Portland, Oregon.
Why isn’t Duffy back on CNN decrying the threat posed by such vile
domestic terrorists? Why aren’t the Republican political and media
establishments loudly alerting voters to the white-skinned far-right
menace in their midst?
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