Latinos Can Be White Supremacists
A gunman turned a Dallas mall into an abattoir earlier this month, and parts of the American right reacted in disbelief. Not at the sixth mass shooting in a public place this year—by now these events have become numbingly routine—but that the suspect identified might have been motivated by white-supremacist ideology.
Why? Because the suspect was identified as one Mauricio Garcia.
As soon as the suspect’s name was reported, some conservative media figures that he could not have been a white supremacist. Twitter’s right-wing billionaire owner, Elon Musk, that the reporting about Garcia’s ideological predilections a claim that proved particularly popular among those users desperate enough to pay him $8 a month to have their terrible opinions boosted by the network’s later that Twitter had apparently limited the visibility of the account of the website Bellingcat, which had first followed Garcia’s ideological paper trail to the far right. Musk has continued to is a “psyop,” despite Texas authorities affirming Bellingcat’s assessment.
