WH decries ‘replacement theory’ as Biden visits site of Buffalo massacre

White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Tuesday blasted unnamed public figures for pushing the racist so-called “substitute idea,” saying they “ought to be ashamed of themselves.” 

For a second consecutive day, Jean-Pierre refused to call names when reporters on Air Drive One requested if anybody particular could have impressed the mass homicide of 10 individuals at a Buffalo grocery store Saturday by suspected white supremacist Payton Gendron, 18.

“The individuals who unfold this filth know who they're and they need to be ashamed of themselves,” Jean-Pierre stated. “However I’m not going to provide them or their noxious concepts they’re pushing the eye that they desperately need.”

Of the 13 individuals in complete who have been shot, 11 have been black and Gendron outlined his bigoted views in a 180-page manifesto.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visit the scene of a shooting at a supermarket to pay respects and speak to families of the victims of Saturday's shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., Tuesday, May 17, 2022.
President Biden traveled to the positioning of the capturing Tuesday morning.
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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visit the scene of a shooting at a supermarket to pay respects
President Biden had already referred to as out the “toxic, false, hateful ideology” in addition to home terrorism in statements over the weekend.
AP Picture/Andrew Harnik

President Biden traveled to the positioning of the capturing Tuesday morning to pay tribute to the victims, with he and first woman Jill Biden laying flowers exterior the grocery store the place the bloodbath befell.

Jean-Pierre advised reporters that Biden had already referred to as out the “toxic, false, hateful ideology” in addition to home terrorism in statements over the weekend.

“Each chief ought to condemn that hate and positively not echo it. We’re going to give attention to what unites us as People, that’s going to be what we’re specializing in,” she added. 

Victims killed during the Buffalo mass shooting
The victims killed through the Buffalo mass capturing.
Payton Gendron.
Payton Gendron allegedly killed 10 individuals at a Buffalo grocery store.
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When pressed about whether or not the president will name out any Republicans by identify, the press secretary responded: “I’m not going to provide them a platform.”

“We’re going to make our case on to the individuals. We've a imaginative and prescient for this nation: one the place we fight racism and violence. We denounce white racism and home terror. We hope you all will be part of us in denouncing hate and racism, in addition to the conspiracy theories that run rampant on-line.” 

The “nice substitute” idea is a declare that white People are being deliberately “changed” by different races via mass immigration. 

A body lies covered in the parking lot of a supermarket where several people were killed in a shooting
A physique lies coated within the parking zone of a grocery store the place a number of individuals have been killed in a capturing.
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An investigator works at the scene of a shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., Monday, May 16, 2022.
An investigator works on the scene of a capturing at a Buffalo grocery store.
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Gendron’s prolonged manifesto included a broad vary of bigoted remarks, together with about Jews and black individuals — two teams current in America since colonial occasions.

Some commentators, particularly on CNN and MSNBC, have sought in charge the assault on Republican leaders and Fox Information host Tucker Carlson — pointing to their allegedly frequent ideas on immigration. However different commentators disagree on the hyperlink, arguing that broader circulation of the shooter’s manifesto would present clear distinctions.

Earlier within the 12 months, Fb commercials posted by upstate GOP New York Rep. Elise Stefanik’s marketing campaign committee accused Democrats of looking for a “PERMANENT ELECTION INSURRECTION” by giving amnesty to unlawful immigrants, which they claimed would “create a everlasting liberal majority in Washington.” 

President Joe Biden embraces New York State Governor Kathy Hochul after disembarking Air Force One at Buffalo Niagara International Airport in Buffalo, New York, on May 17, 2022.
President Biden embraces New York Gov. Kathy Hochul after disembarking Air Drive One at Buffalo Niagara Worldwide Airport, Might 17, 2022.
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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden pay their respects to the 10 people killed in a mass shooting
President Biden and first woman Jill Biden pay their respects to the ten individuals killed in a mass capturing.
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On Monday, Alex DeGrasse, a senior adviser to Stefanik’s marketing campaign, insisted the congresswoman “has by no means advocated for any racist place or made a racist assertion.” 

The denial got here simply hours after Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) accused Home GOP management of getting “enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism.”

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