If there is one exercise in which Joe Biden excels, it is that of compassion. Burned in his flesh by the death of his first wife and daughter in a car accident in 1972, then of his son, who died of cancer in 2015, the President of the United States found the right words to speak to African-Americans in Buffalo (New York State), who saw, on a sunny Saturday, a far-right terrorist killer, Payton Gendron, land to assassinate ten of their own on the grounds that they were black.
On Tuesday, May 17, Joe Biden spoke of their unspeakable pain: “You feel like there’s a black hole in your chest that you’re being sucked into and suffocating. » Then the mourning: The day will come when the memory of your loved one will bring a smile before making you shed a tear. » Joe Biden recalled the journey of each of the ten deceased victims, such as Andre Mackneil, 53: “He had gone to buy his 3-year-old son a birthday cake. His son celebrated it by asking, “Where’s daddy?” »
Then he lashed out at the evil wind that blows over the land, calling things by their name, “domestic terrorism”. The Democratic President denounced “a hatred that through media and politics, the Internet, has radicalized angry, alienated, lost and isolated individuals into the false belief that they will be replaced.” For Mr. Biden, “white supremacy is a poison…and it has been allowed to fester and grow before our eyes. It’s enough. »
Radicalized on the 4chan platform
Reading a 180-page text attributed to the alleged killer, Payton Gendron, but whose authenticity has not been officially confirmed, shows how his drift is in line with the ideological line of racist killings of recent years. His text begins with two pages on the insufficient fertility of whites. “It’s an ethnic replacement. It is a cultural replacement. It is a racial replacement. This is THE WHITE GENOCIDE”, laments the author. Noting that reversing the birth rate will take time, he calls for immediate action on behalf of “the very survival of our people” : “We must crush immigration and expel the invaders already living on our soil. »
In this text, where he has inserted two photographs of himself armed with a semi-automatic rifle, the author claims to be the “sole author” of the killing. But in the thirteen-page self-interview, he describes a specific process of radicalization, triggered by Brenton Tarrant, the author of the attack which, in March 2019, claimed the lives of 51 people attending two mosques in Christchurch, in New Zealand. “I was not born a racist…I just became a racist after learning the truth. »
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