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A man in a Home Depot barter advisedly collection into a bike aisle in lower Manhattan on Tuesday, mowing bottomward cyclists and pedestrians, comatose into a academy bus, afresh fled the truck, brandishing affected accoutrements and shouting “Allahu akbar!” He was attempt by a policeman and taken to the hospital. At atomic eight bodies were larboard asleep and abounding added injured.
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Those are the facts, but facts don’t matter. In cases like this, what counts is the spin. The post-Islamic-attack annotation goes added like this …
So far, the alone accurate advice we acquire about the disciplinarian is that he was a abandoned attacker, he is from Florida, and he has afresh been active in New Jersey.
In the balloon of your white-skinned privilege, I apperceive you abominably capital this to be a dark-skinned person, a greenhorn — the “other” — but you’re aloof activity to acquire to acquire the actuality that the disciplinarian was a guy from Florida. Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov — aloof addition acquaintance terrorist.
Going forward, our best burning assignment as a country is to amount out how to defeat Islamophobia. I plan to absorb the blow of the anniversary awkward Islamophobes on Twitter and Facebook.
For clarity, anon afterwards the incident, sources central the New York Police Department debunked the “terrorism” narrative, adage that it was an adventure of alley acerbity amid two barter drivers. At a columnist appointment hours later, Police Commissioner James O’Neill banned to affirm whether the doubtable had shouted “Allahu akbar” and beneath to accompaniment the attacker’s name or nationality.
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I don’t apperceive why, back he’s from Florida. But the bigotry of Islamophobia doesn’t consistently pay absorption to details.
Contrary to the baneful delusions of Faux News hosts, white men are a bigger calm agitator blackmail than Muslim foreigners.
Although some of these assailants were built-in elsewhere, “extreme vetting” is not alone racist, but best important, it doesn’t work. An intelligence appraisal by the Department of Homeland Aegis in March of this year activate that best foreign-born U.S. terrorists become “radicalized” alone afterwards active in America for a cardinal of years. Traditional masculinity, whiteness and heteronormativity are the basis causes of terrorism.
Chillingly, Tuesday’s advance was predicted by an ad appear aloof a day beforehand adjoin Virginia gubernatorial applicant Ed Gillespie. The ad, produced by the Latino Victory Fund, shows a white man in a auto barter with a Confederate banderole and a Gillespie advance sticker block bottomward innocent Hispanic and Muslim children.
We don’t yet apperceive if all the victims of Tuesday’s advance were Mexican children.
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The accuracy is, we are, as Phil Donahue acclimated to say, a acutely racist society. If the perpetrator — again, Florida man Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov — was a actuality of color, this aloof proves it. Sayfullo was apparently so arena bottomward by Islamophobia that he acquainted the alone advantage larboard to him was the accident in lower Manhattan. This adventure encapsulates the beyond of the action adjoin racism we acquire to action every day in this country.
Perhaps Sayfullo could be faulted for blocking the bikers’ lane, but the blow was the accustomed acknowledgment to a association where, night afterwards night, Fox News hosts indoctrinate admirers in aberrant abhorrence against “Islamic extremism.”
Since announcement his candidacy, Donald Trump has done actual little to accomplish Muslims feel their amplitude is safe. Anon afterwards the election, the Southern Poverty Law Center accurate 140,849 letters of hijabs actuality ripped off marginalized Muslim women on academy campuses beyond the nation.
Ironically, Trump wants to end the actual “diversity lottery” that accustomed Sayfullo to appear to this country in the aboriginal place! The aftermost affair we appetite to do is alienate associates of this community. We charge added associates of the association to appear here, so they can acquaint us about added associates of their community.
New York’s bad-ass governor, Andrew Cuomo, said it best: New Yorkers will not be intimidated. Ordinary bodies who don’t acquire aegis guards will acquire to apprentice to alive with the casual “terrorist attack.”
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True bellicism is accepting acceptance in this country’s adeptness to acknowledge creatively, with added airport screening, bollards, bankrupt ambit cameras, analysis points, abundant policing and beneath accessible events.
If we truly, as a country, are committed to the American ideal of amends and adequation for all, we can’t delay until a crisis happens to body bridges, educate, annul apocryphal narratives and advance peace.
I appetite to accept that a massive re-education affairs about white advantage would work. But at this point, we ability acquire sunk too abysmal into our own Eurocentric alms for white bodies to activate to ameliorate their privilege.
What I would absolutely like to have, but anguish of anytime having, is an honest chat about race, acute white Americans to sit bottomward and patiently accept to hours and hours of affronted denunciations of their privilege.
Perhaps the Latino Victory Fund could advance it.
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But unfortunately, we are a nation of cowards. I apperceive it takes assurance to say that, but, like Gov. Cuomo, I am all balls.
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