In the wake of another series of mass shootings, we begin our regularly scheduled programming searching for the systemic culprits: “white supremacists” who, we are reliably informed, prowl the halls of our institutions pursuing a policy of ethnic cleansing as we speak. They hide in plain sight, the experts warn, and are represented among such notables as the president of the United States on down to heavily armed lunatics in makeshift rural bunkers.
The “white supremacist terrorists and the white supremacist policymakers,” Charles Blow huffs, “live on parallel planes, both aiming in the same direction, both with the same goal: To maintain and ensure white dominance and white supremacy.” They are united in their rage at immigrants, whose “numbers are ascendant,” writes Blow, “through both immigration and higher birthrates,” thus threatening the “accelerated displacement of white people from a numerical majority.”
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