FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers on Tuesday that the majority of the arrests his team has made this year related to domestic terrorism have been motivated by white supremacist ideology.
Durbin added: “We are having a national conversation about race that we haven’t had in a long time — about racism and the reaction, what is acceptable and what is not.”
“A national conversation”?!
Is that all Durbin can say to describe an overtly racist President supported by a racist Republican party stoking white nationalism?
Why does the current FBI director hate white people so much? He’s obviously a racist for saying this. Whether it’s true or not is besides the point. People who claim that there’s still racism in our society are the actual racists, just like saying that it’s raining is almost always the reason that it’s raining.
I’ve never respected Durbin much. He either actually believes that the better angels of our nature will eventually fix all that’s wrong with the country, or he’s hiding behind such utopian bullshit to justify doing nothing. I say the latter. I mean, I sighed and said some deep things, isn’t that enough?
Whatever complacency we had in the past has been removed by the Trump Era.
Those are the kinds of things (the reality of that which we have been covering up) which promote national conversations…There are good, inter-group things in America…which, while seemingly tangential to our discussion, are entirely essential and indicative…
Civility among people of different backgrounds, civility sometimes motivated by common embarrassment with Trumpism.**
Conversations never before initiated between and among neighbors, co-workers, friends and relatives**
** I am referring to non-Trumpers…but an occasional one gets the message
You know, you don’t have to treat every article here as a kind of Rorschach test in which you invariably see Democratic fecklessness. A senator and an FBI director are discussing how the director considers race-based domestic terrorism to be the single biggest threat the country faces. Try to focus.
a majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we’ve investigated, are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacist violence, it includes other things as well.
The Trump tweet will delete the reference to white supremacists, emphasize the “other things,” and proclaim that the FBI has affirmed the threat posed by the Squad and justifies his demand that we send them back.
But I do. “Democratic fecklessness” abounds. Calling racist Republicans stoking white supremacy as “having a national conversation about race” is a good example. It is like saying Nazis are having a national conversation about religion.