Wednesday, August 14, 2019

What the El Paso Shooter Learned from Immigrants

"Chicano university professors and student groups speak of "reconquista," claiming ownership of the entire American Southwest, which they call "Aztlan." This is based on the idea that it was once occupied by the ancient Aztecs, and Mexicans are descended from the Aztecs. (Who wouldn't want to be related to enthusiastic practitioners of human sacrifice?) "
Ann Coulter  "I know who filled the El Paso mass shooter's head with murderous thoughts! Contrary to the conclusions of The New York Times' Jeremy Peters, it wasn't me and other conservatives. 
"Peters says we caused Patrick Crusius' monstrous shooting spree by calling illegal immigrants streaming across our border "invaders." It seems that Crusius' "manifesto" also called illegal aliens "invaders." You see? We used the word "invaders" -- and so did he! CHECKMATE!
"I could say it's the Times that inspired Crusius' slaughter, inasmuch as other parts of his manifesto complained about "the increasingly anti-immigrant rhetoric of the right." But I'm bigger than that, New York Times.
"(Also, Peters, you lied about my quote, and you know it. I was not proposing that we shoot illegals at the border. I was pointing out the idiocy of Trump’s sending troops there at all, when they are not going to shoot anyone -- in lieu of the simple, elegant and entirely nonviolent solution of the wall which I, and 62 million other Americans, voted for.)
"Actually, there's another much more obvious source of Crusius' noxious beliefs than conservative commentators -- or even the hateful New York Times.
"The shooter's primary motive was, as he put it, to "(defend) my country from cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion."
"So he had an ethnic reason and a territorial reason.
"Who is constantly bragging about their ethnic group? Who makes territorial claims on America on behalf of their ethnic group?
"IMMIGRANTS!"
"Crusius' manifesto included lots of chauvinistic boasting about his people, saying his family had been here a long time "and America is the better for it, so I claim the right to reside here by manifest destiny, for myself, my cousins and uncles and children."
"He also had some nasty remarks about immigrants, saying they had "despoiled" his homeland, making it "unsafe and unlivable."
""No, wait -- my mistake! That wasn't Crusius at all. He said nothing about the virtues of his own ethnic group. " . . .

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