When rightwing politics is made respectable, rightwingers kill

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.editorialboard.com/when-rightwing-politics-is-made-respectable-rightwingers-kill/

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“I am terrified to be a Black woman walking around in America,” tweeted Anna Gifty, an economist and writer. “We are literally afraid to live our lives because some random person feels entitled to taking it. I map out exits before I enter stores. I have nightmares about dying.

“And no one cares,” she added. “No one really cares about us.”

The public might care were members of the Washington press corps to take white political violence as seriously as they do Al Qaeda’s or the Islamic State’s. As it is, reporters like the Post’s Matt Viser evidently see white political violence as if it were just a part of the politics game.

Joe “Biden ran for president pledging to ‘restore the soul of America,’” Viser wrote this morning. “A racist massacre raises questions about that promise, and his visit Tuesday will signal how he will respond.”

Put another way, Biden: They’re out to kill us.

Rightwingers: We’re out to kill you.

Matt Viser: How will Biden’s response impact the midterms?

The public: Maybe the rightwingers have a point.

One can only imagine what reporting might look like had Viser (and his colleagues) covered the Buffalo massacre as a deadly outcome of rightwing politics rather than an abstract problem for the president to solve. If more Americans understood violence is an end to itself in rightwing politics, more Americans might put blame where it belongs.

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