On Saturday a white teenager traveled almost 200 miles to a Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, where he brutally killed 10 people and injured three others in a grocery store. Like other far-right terrorists in the past years, he live-streamed his terrorist attack and left a “manifesto”. And, as after other terrorist attacks, experts and journalists are happily amplifying his message and blaming social media and the government for this tragedy.
The problem is, we can talk endlessly about better regulating social media or calling for even more funding and powers for public and private “counter-terrorism” organizations, but none of that will make us safer as long as the broader conservative movement embraces and propagates far-right propaganda. This is a point worth repeating, even if I and others have made it many times before.
