Buffaloing the People

Buffaloing the People

Taking the outlier as representative of large groups misunderstands the basic idea of 'outlier.' 

President Biden traveled to Buffalo, N.Y., to visit the scene of Saturday's insane massacre at a grocery store. Strangely, he called on Americans to reject white supremacy and criticized the racist conspiracy theory that inspired the shooter, as if this madman had a philosophy deserving opposition.

"White supremacy is a poison. It's a poison running through our body politic, and it's been allowed to fester and grow right in front of our eyes. No more," Biden said in remarks Tuesday at a community center alongside local leaders. "We need to say as clearly and forcefully as we can that the ideology of white supremacy has no place in America."

House Democrats plan to vote this week on a bill to combat white supremacists and other domestic extremist groups.

"What happened here is simple and straightforward: Terrorism. Terrorism. Domestic terrorism," Biden said, calling the shooting a "murderous, racist rampage" carried out in the name of a "hateful and perverse ideology."

In America, evil will not win, I promise you. Hate will not prevail. White supremacy will not have the last word," Biden said.

But this is is simply and straightforwardly not true. This crazy man is not a conspirator, he is a public health failure.

Biden--and Schumer--have taken a lunatic and made him emblematic of a larger threat to the nation. When you purposely use the outlier to create a false world to rally your brownshirts, you are a despicable politician.