On Thursday, President Biden reiterated his administration’s claims that domestic terrorism motivated by white supremacy poses the biggest threat to the United States by unveiling a program to prevent “hate-fueled violence.”
At the theatrical summit “United We Stand,” which was themed to suggest that right-wing hatred is pervasive in the country, Biden announced a new approach to combat domestic terrorism, “prevent people from being mobilized to violence,” and “counter exploitation of the internet.”
He cited the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” demonstration in 2017, during which a right-wing extremist rammed his car into a throng of counter-protesters, killing one woman and injuring scores more, as the motivation he ultimately decided to run for president after initially having no plans to do so.
During comments at the ironically titled “United We Stand” summit last week, Joe Biden declared that “hate” runs throughout American history, and once again singled out those who don’t agree with his politics as ‘violent extremists’.https://t.co/x27IWMkDnC
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Despite not finding them guilty of a federal conspiracy to plan an assault with racial motivation, a Charlottesville jury last November sentenced the march’s organizers to compensate the victims $25 million in damages.
With a paraphrase of the Declaration of Independence’s preamble, Biden lamented that “we’ve never lived up to it but we’ve never walked away from it,” which elicited laughter from the audience. Biden also referenced former President Trump, who at the moment when the incident occurred, said that there were “very fine people on both sides.”
Biden asserts that “there’s a through-line of hatred” in America, citing the country’s history of prejudice against Native Americans, enslavement, the Ku Klux Klan, prejudice and discrimination against Irish and Italian immigrants, antisemitism, and religious intolerance.
After the Buffalo incident earlier this year, in which the shooter opened fire at a grocery store located in a neighborhood with a high concentration of black people, civil rights organizations reportedly pushed for the creation of the “first of its kind” conference.
His actions were justified “because of the supposed race and/or color of such person or individuals” among the victims, according to the indictment, which led to his being charged with one count of domestic terrorism motivated by hatred.
Following the tragedy, Democrats and the mainstream media made an effort to link Republicans to the crime by asserting that conservative institutions and philosophy were the cause of and promoted his killing spree.
The conservative media is aware of the supposed “[great replacement] theory” of the Buffalo suspect, according to a Washington Post article.
