US President Joe Biden has condemned the attack in Buffalo, which killed ten people, as “racist terrorism” and has also made serious accusations against the media and politicians. “What has happened here is terrorism, pure and simple,” the US president said in Buffalo on Tuesday. White supremacist ideology is “toxic” and has no place in America. He called on all people in the country to reject this “lie”.
“And I condemn those who spread this lie for power, political gain and/or profit,” Biden said.
11 of the 13 victims were black
On Saturday, a gunman opened fire with an assault rifle in front of and inside a supermarket, killing ten people and injuring three others. The 18-year-old suspect was arrested at the scene. Investigators say the crime was racially motivated — 11 of the 13 victims were black, and Buffalo has a predominantly black population.
Biden and his wife laid flowers
Biden visited the crime scene with his wife Jill on Tuesday and laid flowers there. The two also met with relatives of the victims, first responders, police and local politicians. In his emotional speech, Biden spoke at length about the victims. The shooter is a “hateful” person. “Evil will not win in America, I promise you. Hate will not prevail,” the US president said. The gunman killed innocent people in the name of a hateful ideology based on fear and racism.
The ideology of white supremacy is “perverted,” Biden said. The anti-racism organization Anti-Defamation League writes that “white supremacists” assume that whites are threatened with extinction. They believed that almost all actions that help “save” whites are justified. Biden now denounced that this hatred is also fueled by “the media, politics and the internet”. However, he did not say who he specifically referred to.
180 page manifesto
A 180-page manifesto had surfaced online containing racist and violent statements attributed to the Buffalo gunman. There is also talk of the “Great Replacement Theory”, a conspiracy myth of the far right. It claims that non-white members of other religions are deliberately working to “replace” white Christians of European descent. In the US, this theory is increasingly finding proponents in talk shows on right-wing broadcasters and parts of the Republican Party.
Source: Krone
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