Why Republican Rhetoric Keeps Producing Violence
On October 27, 2018, a man walked into the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and murdered eleven people during Sabbath morning services. In the weeks before the shooting, he had been consuming a steady stream of online content that described immigrants as invaders and Jewish organizations as the people funding the invasion.
On August 3, 2019, a man drove ten hours to a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and executed 23 people. He posted a manifesto before the attack explaining that he was responding to “the Hispanic invasion of Texas.” The language in his manifesto mirrored language used…
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