Biden: ‘Anybody Who Echoes the Replacement [Theory] Is To Blame’
'Susceptible' Americans can fall prey to this racist ideology, president says
President Biden's not backing down on the assertions he made Tuesday in Buffalo, NY, as that city continues to mourn the racist mass-slaying which took place there last weekend.
Just as he did Tuesday, Biden continues to single out for blame the racist “replacement theory” promoted by Fox News host Tucker Carlson and others on the right, which falsely and racistly claims that people of color are somehow “replacing” white Americans.
Those slain, who ranged in age from 32 to 86 years old, were either working or shopping at the Tops Friendly Markets store on Jefferson Avenue. Three others were injured but survived. Among those killed — a deacon, a civil right advocate and the store's security guard, who was killed after exchanging gunfire with the shooter.
The motive of the gunman has been determined by social media and other evidence.
When he and First Lady Dr Jill Biden were in Buffalo, the president labeled what happened as domestic terrorism.
“Well, we have enough laws on the books to deal with what’s going on now. But we just have to — we have to deal with it. Look, part of what the country has to do is look in the mirror and face the reality,” Biden said. “We have a problem with domestic terror. It’s real. I know you don’t want to hear me — not you, people don’t want to hear me saying. They say, ‘Well, he’s the president, he’s a Democrat.' But that’s what the intelligence community has been saying, that’s what the military has been saying for a long time.
“There’s nothing new about this. There’s nothing new about this. And look, there’s a lot of people like this murderer who committed this act who are just deranged, who are susceptible, who are just lost and don’t know what to do,” the president added. “And they’re easily taken. They’re easily sucked in. And it’s got to stop. We have to admit it. I don’t know why we don’t admit what the hell is going on.”
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