If you turn around this shooting in Boulder , into anti-Muslim rhetoric, need to stop right now. How many white Christians have gunned down school kids ? How many times have we seen authorities write off mass murder as a “bad day” or some other nonsense narrative when the shooter is a white male?
This is about toxic masculinity, and American gun obsession, and yes White Supremacy. Leave our Muslim neighbors out of it. White supremacy looking for cover a week after one of your own attacked the AAPI community is just another example of hate against another BIPOC group.
We have a toxicity issue in America, that destroys everything it touches. The ready availability of assault style weapons, with no background checks needed, is a direct result of GOP rhetoric, meant to ensure a power imbalance between poorer BIPOC communities and those that buy into the white supremacy narrative.
We have seen model minority syndrome infect members of BIPOC communities, evidenced by the presence of BIPOC members of the Domestic Terror group, the Proud Boys, who just this past January stormed the Capitol in DC.
Whatever the motivations of Ahmad Alissa, he was enabled by the same toxic culture that has allowed Robert Aaron Long, and this list of other mass shootings in the US.
Nothing justifies the violence and hate against AAPI groups in the United States, not the pandemic, not trade wars, and definitely not the actions of a long gunman.