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GOP Congressman insists white terrorist attacks are different

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Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) vehemently defended President Donald Trump’s ban on refugees and travelers Tuesday, arguing that terrorists who come from the Middle East are an existential threat to the United States and totally different from white domestic terrorists, who just commit “one-off” incidents that the government can’t do anything about.

Duffy said Trump was justified in stopping Syrian refugees from entering the United States “until in Syria they figure out this conflict in the civil war and this hotbed for terrorism.” Presumably, however, once the conflict is over, women and children, for example, won’t feel it is as necessary to escape their country to find a safe haven.

Host Alisyn Camerota pressed Duffy on Trump claiming that the media were intentionally covering up terrorist attacks and either not reporting or underreporting them. The White House later Monday released a list of 78 attacks it said backed up Trump’s claim.

The list notably did not include a recent attack on Muslims inside a Quebec City mosque that killed six people. Trump, who frequently tweets about terrorist attacks, also has not mentioned this one.

Duffy argued in his CNN interview that attacks by white people ― such as the one in Quebec City ― aren’t as big of a problem.

“You don’t have a group like ISIS or al Qaeda that is inspiring people around the world to take up arms and kill innocents. That was a one-off. That was a one-off, Alisyn,” Duffy said.

Camerota then pointed to the massacre of black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015 and the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, as acts carried out by white terrorists. Duffy tried to make lemonade out of the Charleston attack, in which a white supremacist killed nine people:

CAMEROTA: How about Charleston, congressman? He was an extremist. He was a white extremist?

DUFFY: Yes, he was. OK?

CAMEROTA: How about that? That doesn’t matter?

DUFFY: No, it does matter. It does matter. Look at the good things that came from it. [Then-South Carolina Gov.] Nikki Haley took down the Confederate flag, that was great.

But you want to say I can give you a couple of examples. There’s no constant threat that goes through these attacks. And you have radical Islamic terrorists and ISIS that are driving the attacks, and if you want to compare those two, maybe you can throw another one ―

CAMEROTA: You can.
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Duffy claimed that people on the left were manufacturing outrage, saying there was plenty of blame to go around.

“Look at Gabby Giffords. The Marxist, who took her life, a leftist guy, and now you see violence and terror in the streets all across America, burning and beating people with Donald Trump hats. The violence you have to look in, you’re trying to use examples on the right,” he said.

Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.) is not dead. As a congresswoman in 2011, she survived an assassination attempt, and she remains an outspoken proponent of gun safety reform.

Duffy said he’d be happy to help do something about white supremacy but he just didn’t know what to do: “Can we vet that? How should we vet that to keep ourselves safe? I will join you in that effort, what do you do?”
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“You don’t have a group like ISIS or al Qaeda that is inspiring people around the world to take up arms and kill innocents. That was a one-off. That was a one-off, Alisyn,” Duffy said.
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Is he seriously pretending neo nazis and the KKK don't exist?
 
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echoshifting

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How can you vet that?

How about robust background checks for gun purchases, just for starters

How about allocating resources to monitor these groups

How about treating them like fucking terror attacks
 
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Jack Scofield

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Wow at his response to the church massacre:

Look at the good things that came from it. [Then-South Carolina Gov.] Nikki Haley took down the Confederate flag, that was great.
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I don't even know what to say to that.
 
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Dryk

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Duffy: They’re white supremacists, you dolt. Apart from you, they’re the most stupid creatures on this planet. They don’t plot, they don’t scheme, and they are not organized
 
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LegendofJoe

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Yep, the Quebec killer is just a one off. Just like Timothy McVeigh, Dylann Roof, Anders Breivik, Eric Rudolph, David Copeland, Thomas Mair, Wade Page, Frazier Miller, and Jim Adkisson. Notice a pattern here? All white and all men. The color of someone's skin and the country they were born in does not make someone a terrorist. There are terrorists of every ethnicity and nationality. And yes that includes white people you dumb mother fuckers.
 
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Toxi

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I wonder how Gabby Giffords feels about this prick claiming she died to score brownie points in an argument.
 
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lazygecko

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There's been a not insignificant amount of "one offs" all inspired by the same/overlapping ideology across the west in recent years and that number is just going to keep on growing.
 
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parrotbeak

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Jack Scofield said:
Wow at his response to the church massacre:



I don't even know what to say to that.
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Just think how great this country would be if some lone wolf acting in complete isolation and not influenced by anyone killed even more black people. Seems like the easy answer to a lot of problems.
 
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Felix Lighter

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ISIS has always wanted to frame their fight as a the West vs the Muslim world instead of the world vs ISIS and Trump and the GOP are giving them exactly that.
 
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jellies_two

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m_shortpants said:
Is this mother fucker really trying to look at the bright side of the Charleston shooting?
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Yes as I understand it the bright side is the interior of the church got a full new coat of paint.

Do they think 12 years a slave is a contemporary drama down there or something?
 
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GuessMyUserName

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So bizarre when he asks "what can we do about that?" and the host starts listing things to do. And the guy just screams up "Yeah exactly you're right! So let's do that!............... to muslims"

Like... what?
 
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Azuran

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Wow a what a piece of shit. You have to be a big one to look for good sides in a shooting.

Fuck him. The fact that people like this get into positions of power is outrageous.
 
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JBourne

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Hey, those people were murdered and a flag was taken down! Guess they didn't die in vain.

Cunt.
 
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LegendofJoe

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It's going to be amazing when Gabby Giffords or her husband Mark Kelly take Jeff Flake's job next year. This dude is going to be really surprised when a dead person shows up to Washington as a newly elected US Senator.
 
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