When Coronavirus and Xenophobia Go Hand in Hand - NPR

[TomCADem]

Just like 2016 and 2018, the Trump administration will make racism and xenophobia the cornerstone of its reelection strategy in 2020. This will not be changed by the advent of COVID-19. Instead, expect Republicans to double down on the hate. Indeed, it has gotten so bad that Trump is even lashing out at George Bush for pushing for unity and non-partisanship.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. COVID is a dream come true for the christofascist eugenicists...

it will kill the right people because those people are weak blah, blah.

If it does not kill the right people then they will just delude themselves with God's plan and conspiracy theories.

[TomCADem]

2. 'A Perfect Storm': Extremists Look For Ways To Exploit Coronavirus Pandemic

White supremacists are pushing a version of Marx's sharpen the contradictions theory:

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/16/835343965/-a-perfect-storm-extremists-look-for-ways-to-exploit-coronavirus-pandemic

Extremism monitors are keeping tabs on so-called accelerationists, a subset of the racist right that believes in using violence to sow chaos in order to collapse society and replace it with a white nationalist model.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, an extremism watchdog group, has said, "Accelerationists consider themselves the revolutionary vanguard of the white supremacist movement." In chat forums, they've discussed using the virus to infect people of color, staging attacks on medical centers and other forms of violence they hope will trigger a domino effect leading to the breakdown of society.

"These far-right extremists are arguing that the pandemic, which has thrown into question the federal government's ability to steer the nation through a crisis, supports their argument that modern society is headed toward collapse," wrote Cassie Miller of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Miller wrote that, for now, the fallout is already so chaotic that the accelerationists are content to watch, reckoning, "the situation seems to be escalating on its own, requiring no additional involvement on their part."

[yuiyoshida]

3. omg! I am glad I am sheltering in place....

But than again I have never really faced many problems here..than again we own this hood!