Looking at the terrorist attack in a wider context.
This was one of a number of cowardly attacks by right wing nutters. In fact the body count on this one could have been a lot worse. I was shocked at the sight of heavily armed crazies who are avowed haters of non white people. They were marching through the streets in broad daylight intimidating local people. It was a shocking sight.
It was clear that the local police had not got control of the situation and tragedy ensued.
I think that the right has a duty to sort out its own. Although the perps are few they are seemingly backed up by a silent majority of folk who are nodding quietly with a grim satisfaction.
Their leaders reactions range from approval,to weasel words condemning all violence.
The right wing needs to prove that they belong in the US by rooting out these crazies and reporting them to the proper authorities.
They also need to ditch their religion of hate and embrace secular, modern, western values.
Its the only way they can ever belong.
I thought it was bigoted to expect, for instance, Muslims to sort out the violent jihadis, or for BLM to sort out the "fry 'em like bacon" types. I thought that I wasn't allowed to blame "the left" for the actions of only a few hundred, maybe a few thousand ANTIFA members who show up at every other pro-anything-right-of-Karl Marx rally and start attacking people for having the bad thoughts. Are we doing away with this set of rules, now? Or is guilt by association only reserved for those people of which you personally disapprove?
Also, if we're looking for causal issues to solve, maybe you should cast your gaze away from the fringe assholes like the KKK who've been utterly irrelevant for like 40 years, and check on our mainstream culture pushing racial divisiveness in the name of anti-racism. We yell about how race is a social construct that was invented by slave owners to justify the tiered legal treatment of people of different colors, but then we insist on continuing to classify everybody by this same set of slave owner categories and treat the world like it's all one big power struggle between the resulting tribes, and then we act like it's someone else's fault when the tribes we encourage start acting tribally. It's ******* mind boggling.
Our mainstream culture, by falling more and more into line with this social justice, intersectionality insanity is creating Hotel Rwanda right here in the US. We're not all Americans, or all humans, no no no. . . We're actually all members of either tribe ****** or tribe PoC, and you can tell who's in what tribe based on their skin color. And tribe ****** did bad stuff back in the day, whereas tribe PoC was the victim of tribe ******, and then the narrative spins out into proposing various degrees of punitive action against the individual members of tribe ******. But we don't call it punitive, we just say we're balancing the privilege equation, because most of the super rich are part of tribe ******. Now, mind you, that doesn't mean that Elon Musk is handing out checks to Joe Six-Pack who lives in a trailer park. But, if Elon Musk WAS going to give all of his wealth away to either Joe Six-Pack or Jose Cerveza, he'd be statistically more likely to give it to Joe Six-Pack. So even if that tribal affiliation doesn't -actually- help Joe Six Pack, it does in hypothetical thought experiments, and that's why Joe Six Pack needs to shut his privileged mouth when we're discussing tribal issues. Which is all issues. The problem is, tribe ****** is still the tribe with the numbers on this continent. Once you convince the tribe with the numerical and economical advantage that they are, in fact, part of a tribe in a contest for control of resources with the other tribe(s), and you do so by taking fat rhetorical and legal shits all over their tribe, who do you suppose will play the part of the machete wielding Hutu tribesmen?
Honestly, you Intersectionalists and Social Justice advocates should look at the sheer number of white supremacists who showed up for this rally (probably the largest such gathering on this continent in decades!) and pat yourselves on your shortsighted backs. The growing ranks of identitarians ready to violently prove their tribe's superiority over all the other tribes are evidence that the tenets of your whacked out ideology are really starting to take root! Congratulations, assholes.