Re:How the oil industry made us doubt climate change
by danans on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @07:06PM
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> You know about it only because it was lurid, not because it had any effect on you at all (presuming you don't shop at that Walmart).
As someone who has on many occasions been the recipient of physical intimidation and harassment by white supremacists, I assure you it affects me when it happens to others, in whatever degree.
> A national response to cases like El Paso would crack down on right-wing nutjobs, but that (too) is absolutely not happening. That is a problem with the FBI
The FBI are getting a little bit of pushback on that from DoJ's boss:
There is an active whistleblower complaint from within DHS that the administration-appointed heads of that department are trying to suppress release of assessments of the white supremacist threat:
As someone who has on many occasions been the recipient of physical intimidation and harassment by white supremacists, I assure you it affects me when it happens to others, in whatever degree.
> A national response to cases like El Paso would crack down on right-wing nutjobs, but that (too) is absolutely not happening. That is a problem with the FBI
The FBI are getting a little bit of pushback on that from DoJ's boss:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/us/politics/fbi-russia.ht...
There is an active whistleblower complaint from within DHS that the administration-appointed heads of that department are trying to suppress release of assessments of the white supremacist threat:
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/homeland-security-whi...