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Mass Shootings (a symptom of white supremacy + capitalism)

White Supremacy Violence While many of us woke up on February 14th, 2018 eager for the showering of Valentine’s Day gifts and kisses from our loved ones, one 19-year-old white man prepared his weapons and ammunition and stormed Stoneman Douglas High School shooting ruthlessly at the kids he’d spent years growing up with. When the news first broke out on social media, a rumor started by the alt-right identified the “shooter” as a young white man wearing a Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and hammer and sickle shirt. Immediately conservatives began claiming this was a terrorist attack on behalf of “antifa” and leftists on various social media platforms were being harassed and threatened. Worst of all, the innocent man who they claimed to be the shooter was on the verge of suicide for a crime he didn’t commit. And then Republic of Florida, a white nationalist terrorist group, had come out and claimed the shooting was on their behalf and suddenly the conversation of political terrorism dispe