Republished with permission from Daily Kos
The pattern is becoming frighteningly familiar: A white man, radicalized online at alt-right media websites and through social media into hateful white nationalist beliefs built around the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about “cultural Marxism,” walks into a mass gathering of his selected targets (which can be any of the perceived participants in the conspiracy, including liberals, Jews, Muslims, Latinos, any nonwhite person, LGBTQ folk, even moviegoers) and opens fire.
That was the scenario that played out Saturday, once again, in Poway, California, at the Chabad of Poway Jewish congregation, when a 19-year-old California man named John Earnest burst through the doors and began firing. Though he injured three other people, including a young girl, he only killed one person—Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60—before his gun jammed and his would-be victims chased him out of the building. He fled in his car and surrendered to police a short while later.
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