The modern GOP doesn't think white people can be terrorists

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The very same Republicans who called Black Lives Matter a terrorist group and smeared Muslims as terrorists now defend the Jan 6 attackers. Why? Simple, Jan 6 was carried out by GOP's white nationalist base PLUS these GOPers AGREE with 1/6. My MSNBC

Opinion | The modern GOP doesn't think white people can be terrorists
Defending white people from being called a terrorist is apparently more important than defending America from terrorism.
msnbc.com
5:04 AM · May 21, 2021

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/marjorie-taylor-greene-doesn-t-think-white-people-can-be-n1268084

In the weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attack, former President George W. Bush famously: "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists." Apparently to today’s Republicans, that axiom only applies if the terrorists are brown or Black — because when it comes to the overwhelmingly white mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the GOP is doing everything it can to whitewash and downplay the attack.

But what we saw that day was by definition an “,” as well as an act of “domestic terrorism.” Period. That’s not hyperbole or my opinion. FBI Director Christopher Wray labeled it the latter in in March.

If we must engage with the GOP’s latest effort to distract from the seriousness of the violence we saw in January, the law is clear.

As 18 U.S. Code Section 2331 provides, “domestic terrorism” involves “acts dangerous to human life” in violation of the law. Given that 140 police officers were injured, some seriously, we can say this element was fulfilled.

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1. "We are not terrorists, we are White Christians"

Ku Klux Klan parade in Binghamton, NY in the 1920s (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

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2. They don't think they can be fascist either

Or deplorable disgusting piggy excrement.

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3. As they like to say, "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"

The folks attacking the Capitol were yelling "freedom" while beating cops and trying to overthrow the duly elected government. They view themselves as patriots defending their way of life and doing whatever is necessary to maintain white supremacy.

Problem is, the country changed while they were busy spouting all their white supremacist and freedom bullshit. We're seeing the final death throes of white supremacy, and their refusal to accept reality will likely become more violent.