In Buffalo, Biden mourns victims, says 'evil will not win'
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Speaking to victims' families, local officials and first responders, Biden said America's diversity is its strength, and warned that the nation must not be be distorted by a 맥스카지노hateful minority.맥스카지노
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Biden's emotional remarks came after he and first lady Jill Biden paid their respects at a makeshift memorial of blossoms, candles and messages of condolence outside the Tops supermarket, where on Saturday a young man armed with an assault rifle targeted Black people in the deadliest racist attack in the U.S. since Biden took office.
In Buffalo, the president was confronting anew the forces of hatred he frequently says called him back to seek the White House.
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Replacement theory is a racist ideology, which has moved from white nationalist circles to mainstream, that alleges white people and their influence are being intentionally 맥스카지노replaced맥스카지노 by people of color.
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Biden's condemnation of white supremacy is a message he has delivered several times since he became the first president to specifically address it in an inaugural speech, calling it 맥스카지노domestic terrorism that we must confront.맥스카지노 However, such beliefs remain an entrenched threat at a time when his administration has been focused on addressing the pandemic, inflation and the war in Ukraine.
In his remarks Tuesday, Biden paid tribute to each of the 10 people who lost their lives, describing them as model citizens, beacons of their community and deeply committed to family.
Three more people were wounded. Nearly all the victims were Black, including all of those who died.
The shooter's hateful writings echoed those of the white supremacists who marched with torches in 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia, a scene that Biden said inspired against President Donald Trump in 2020 and that drove him to join what he calls the 맥스카지노battle for the soul of America."
Payton Gendron, 18, was arrested at the supermarket and charged with murder. He has pleaded not guilty.
Before the shooting, Gendron is reported to have posted online a screed overflowing with racism and antisemitism. The writer of the document described himself as a supporter of Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black parishioners at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, and Brenton Tarrant, who targeted mosques in New Zealand in 2019.
Investigators are looking at Gendron's connection to what's known as the , which baselessly claims white people are being intentionally overrun by other races through immigration or higher birth rates.
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The claims are often interwoven with antisemitism, with Jews identified as the culprits. During the 2017 맥스카지노Unite the Right맥스카지노 march in Charlottesville, the white supremacists chanted 맥스카지노Jews will not replace us."
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In the years since Charlottesville, replacement theory has moved from the online fringe to mainstream right-wing politics. A third of U.S. adults believe there is 맥스카지노a group of people in this country who are trying to replace native-born Americans with immigrants who agree with their political views,맥스카지노 according to a poll conducted in December by The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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Tucker Carlson, the prominent Fox News host, accuses Democrats of orchestrating mass migration to consolidate their power.
맥스카지노The country is being stolen from American citizens," he said Aug. 23, 2021. He repeated the same theme a month later, saying that 맥스카지노this policy is called the great replacement, the replacement of legacy Americans with more obedient people from faraway countries.맥스카지노
Carlson's show routinely receives the highest ratings in cable news, and he responded to the furor Monday night by accusing liberals of trying to silence their opponents.
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His commentary reflects how this conspiratorial view of immigration has spread through the Republican Party ahead of this year's midterm elections, which will determine control of Congress.
Facebook advertisements posted last year by the campaign committee of Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., said Democrats want a 맥스카지노PERMANENT ELECTION INSURRECTION맥스카지노 by granting amnesty to illegal immigrants. The plan would "overthrow our current electorate and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington.맥스카지노
Alex DeGrasse, a senior adviser to Stefanik맥스카지노s campaign, said Monday she 맥스카지노has never advocated for any racist position or made a racist statement." He criticized 맥스카지노sickening and false reporting맥스카지노 about her advertisements.
Stefanik is the third-ranking leader of the House Republican caucus, replacing Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who angered the party with her denunciations of Trump after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Cheney, , said the caucus' leadership 맥스카지노has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-Semitism. History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse.맥스카지노
Replacement theory rhetoric has also rippled through Republican primary campaigns.
Although Biden has not spoken directly about replacement theory, his warnings about racism remain a fixture of his public speeches.
Three days before the Buffalo shooting, at a Democratic fundraiser in Chicago, Biden said, "I really do think we맥스카지노re still in the battle for the soul of America.맥스카지노
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Associated Press writer Karen Matthews in New York contributed to this report.