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Comments on New York Post article on shootings:

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Comments on Fox news article:
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more from Fox:
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And MORE from Fox:
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Comments on reddit r/conservative:
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Comments from face book page of an oklahoma news station
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From Breitbart:
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Please note this one from the above screenshot from Breitbart- since the shooter was hispanic they are blaming the shooting on immigrants- not guns - Patrick Crusius was the racist shooter that gunned down 23 people in an ElPaso Walmart he targeted because it had a high Hispanic population... He ALSO cited the 'Replacement Theory' garbage that the Right wing has become so enamored with:
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From Wikipedia-
Patrick Wood Crusius (born July 27, 1998) was arrested shortly after the shooting and charged with capital murder.[31][32][33] A 21-year-old white male,[34][35][36] he was last known to have lived in his family's home in Allen, Texas, in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex,[13][30][37] approximately 650 miles (1,050 km) from El Paso.[38] He graduated in 2017 from Plano Senior High School, and was enrolled at Collin College from 2017 until spring 2019.[38]

Police said he bought the gun used in the attack legally, but provided no details about the purchase.[39] During his first interrogation, he told detectives he had targeted Mexicans, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.[40][41][42][43][35]

Manifesto
The El Paso police chief, Greg Allen, said that they are "reasonably confident"[44] that a manifesto, titled The Inconvenient Truth, was posted by the suspect on the online message board 8chan shortly before the shooting.[31] It identifies the type of weapon used in the attack; the suspect's name was revealed in a separate document in the post.[45] Site moderators quickly removed the original post, though users continued sharing copies.[45] Claiming to have been inspired by the Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand that killed 51 people earlier the same year,[46] the author expresses support for the perpetrator of the Christchurch shootings[34][47][48] and bemoans grievances[49][50] such as environmental degradation,[5][51][47] "cultural and ethnic replacement",[48][52] and a "Hispanic invasion".[2][50][53]

The anti-Hispanic, anti-immigrant manifesto promotes the white nationalist and far-right conspiracy theory called the Great Replacement,[2][34] often attributed to the French writer Renaud Camus.[46] While the document uses language about immigrants similar to that used by U.S. president Donald Trump,[n 2] such as referring to a migrant "invasion",[2][50][57] it states that the author's beliefs predate Trump's presidency, and that Trump should not be blamed for the attack.[42][51][53] The author's "racially extremist views", according to The New York Times, could be used to prosecute the shooting as a hate crime or domestic terrorism.[13]

The manifesto states that Democrats would soon control the United States partly due to an increasing Hispanic population,[51] an idea that had gained acceptance for years on right-wing radio shows.[34] Criticizing both the Democratic Party and Republican Party[51] for allowing corporations to "import foreign workers",[52] the author describes the shooting as an "incentive" for Hispanics to leave the country, which would "remove the threat" of a Hispanic voting bloc.[51] While primarily focused on ethnic and racial grievances,[5] the document also expresses fears of automation's effects on employment and blames corporations for overusing natural resources.[51]

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