You’re going to hear an awful lot today about the shooting at the mosque down in New Zealand. The Usual suspects are going to be spending a great deal of time trying to tag this guy has a right-wing terrorist. The facts are a little different [1], however.
He calls himself an “Eco-fascist,” one who combines environmentalism, racism and authoritarianism into one repulsive package. In his mind the world is dying from over-population, but over-population of the “wrong” kind. He hates capitalism, free markets, and free trade but he loves the Communist Chinese government and fascism. He takes the racist rhetoric of Donald Trump and mixes it with Marxist rhetoric about the poor workers of the world.
What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is someone who destroys the myth that leftist by definition cannot be racist.
One can certainly understand why the left is trying to do this… they’ve been waiting quite a while for their gun-grabbing politics to be justified. They must have seen this as a golden opportunity.
Well, they’re going to have to wait a bit longer I guess.