29 Oct 2018 5:44 pm
I blame both the president and FOX News for pushing the narrative that there are terrorists, gang members, and all kinds of criminals mixed in with this caravan of mostly women and children who are walking through Mexico to seek refuge in the U.S..Robert Bowers, the Pennsylvania man accused of a fatal shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday morning, posted prolifically online about conspiracy theories and repeatedly threatened Jews.
Bowers frequently wrote on the social network Gab, where he made a specific threat against Jews hours before Saturday's attack, alleging that the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, or HIAS, a humanitarian nonprofit group that assists refugees, brought immigrants to the United States to do violence.
"Screw your optics, I'm going in," he wrote.
Bowers frequently posted about the "migrant caravan," a group of several thousand refugees walking to the U.S.-Mexico border from Honduras to seek asylum.
Preventing refugees in the caravan from entering the United States has been a major talking point among right-wing commentators and President Donald Trump, who has spoken about it in recent pre-midterm election stump speeches.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-cour ... an-n925256
FOX News is now also saying that these people are carrying diseases.
I'm sure POTUS will be Tweeting about that any moment.
Their hateful words are radicalizing people like the Pittsburgh shooter against immigrants, which is no different than the way that ISIS uses it's words to radicalize people against Westerners.