Gustavo Arellano: The tragedy of Uvalde and the right’s cynical reading comprehension problem
by Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times
Jun 02, 2022
3 minutes
Racist. Bigot. Idiot. Hater.
Anti-white. Prejudiced. Stupid. Evil.
Those were some of the nicer things conservatives called me last week — all because I feel white supremacists are a danger to American society who increasingly target Latinos.
That was the opening premise of my May 25 column about the massacre in Uvalde, Texas, where an 18-year-old man gunned down 19 fourth-graders and two teachers. I wrote that when I heard the news about a mass shooting of Latino schoolchildren in the Lone Star State, I immediately figured the killer
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