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How Climate Change Is Becoming a Deadly Part of White Nationalism

Patrick Crusius, the 21-year-old suspect police took into custody after the shooting, is believed to have uploaded a four-page white nationalist document to the message board 8chan (it’s since been removed from the site, which itself has been forced into retreat, and we won’t be linking to it) outlining his motives for killing at least 22 people at Walmart on Saturday. Included among its racist, anti-immigrant rhetoric are ideas central to the mainstream environmental movement. 

“[O]ur lifestyle is destroying the environment of our country. The decimation of the environment is creating a massive burden for future generations. Corporations are heading the destruction of our environment by shamelessly overharvesting resources,”

While I hesitate to call it a trend, there are growing signs the right-wing populists are leaning into climate change and other environmental crises as a way to drum up support for their policies of exclusion and hate.

Now, there’s also a powerful apocalyptic discourse that links climate change, environmental degradation, overpopulation, and scarcity. White nationalism is already steeped in violent apocalypticism—fears about the white race coming to an end feed the impetus to mount an Armageddon-style bloody-but-cleansing race war.

Or it could just be that what is obvious is what is real. Occam's razor so to speak. Patrick Crusius was an socialist environmental nut, who saw mass immigration as a major threat to a minimum guaranteed income, socialized medicine, and a more successful green policy. There is quite literally zero reason to believe that he wasn't exactly who he said he was in his manifesto.

Oh, and by the way, the only real reason for someone "not" to link his manifesto, is because the person writing about it doesn't want you to actually fact check them. There is nothing shocking or vulgar about the manifesto. Unless you are a Sanders/Warren type socialist or Al Gore environmentalist, then you would be shocked to see that he justified your arguments into mass murder.

White nationalism is white nationalism. It's the inherent believe that one race (whites) exists above others. If we now decide to expand the definition of white nationalism to anyone who is against illegal immigration for any reason whatsoever, then we no longer have a real definition of the term. The arguments made by Patrick Crusius in his manifesto could have been made by anyone of any race. There was no explicit suggestion that there was anything superior about white people, anymore than there was any explicit suggestion that there was anything superior about anyone living here legally. Just that they are currently here and that others are attempting (illegally) to invade their space and use up their resources. That might be a dumb argument, but it's not a white nationalist argument.

I get it. It's tough for liberals to understand that not everything fits into easy to understand compartments. Sometimes people are a little more complicated than that. It's also difficult for liberals to accept that their own extreme versions of political discord can lead to people acting out in violent and deadly fashion. They have gotten so used to just blaming "right wing" ideals or "racism" for every act of mass killing that it now gets to the point where it takes a five page essay to explain why black is white, up is down, and left is right, and this is the fault of Donald Trump. They continuously expand their range of logic into these sorts of fantastical realms, in order to stick to the talking points memo.

Truth is that mass killings is a bi-partisan thing. The only two obvious things we know about the recent mass shootings is that the California killer was Iranian/Italian and that the Dayton Ohio shooter was left wing radical who had stood with Antifa in armed conflicts. Because neither of them fit into the simple pattern that is ingrained in the mind of the typical liberal, we will hear less about them. Rather we will see the MSM focus on redefining the manifesto of the El Paso shooter into something their petty simpleton brains can wrap itself around. Which of course is the misguided concept that "everything" they disagree with is racism or white-nationalism.