El Paso killer's manifesto regurgitates white-supremacist hate, but sneers at the idea he's racist

Source: www.dailykos.com - Saturday, August 03, 2019
A manifesto left online by the young white man accused of killing 20 people and wounding another 26 Saturday in a mall in El Paso, Texas, denounces the “invasion of Texas” by Hispanics, the “cultural and ethical replacement” of whites, and “race mixing” as “selfish,” and then closes by sneering ironically that the media will no doubt characterize him as a “white supremacist.” Patrick Crusius, the 21-year-old from Allen, Texas, arrested by police at the scene, was identified as the author of the manifesto, posted at the alt-right-friendly 8chan message boards. The incident marks only the most recent in a marked uptick of right-wing terrorist violence committed by red-pilled young men radicalized online by far-right ideologies. The four-page screed first reported by Scott Stedman on Twitter  reads like a regurgitation of most such previous manifestoes left behind by far-right-extremist mass killers , such as the Utoya Island, Norway, and Christchurch, New Zealand, mosque killers. Its only variation is that the El Paso shooter specifically identifies Latino immigrants as the source of his rage. “In general, I support the Christchurch shooter and his manifesto,” he wrote. “This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas. They are the instigators, not me. I am simply defending my country from cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion.” The manifesto describes not just his int

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