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And if you think this stuff only happens in Germany, think again:

On Wednesday night, at a bar in Olathe, Kansas, a man named Adam Purinton allegedly told two men he thought were Middle Eastern to “get out of my country” before shooting both of them, one fatally. He also allegedly shot and injured a white bystander who intervened in the situation.

Purinton was arrested five hours later in Missouri after he told a bartender “that he needed a place to hide out because he had just killed two Middle Eastern men,” the Kansas City Star reports. (The men are actually of Indian descent and worked on an engineering team for Garmin.)

The racially motivated violence in Kansas comes amid an explosion of hate incidents since the election. But instead of commenting on the Kansas shooting in any way or denouncing hate, Trump on Thursday tweeted this:


Trump has established a pattern of trying to capitalize on incidents that reinforce his Islamophobia and fear-mongering about “inner cities,” while ignoring violence perpetrated by white supremacists.

Trump’s response to racist shooting in Kansas: silence

And you might also want to realize this:

Though terrorism perpetrated by Muslims receives a disproportionate amount of attention from politicians and reporters, the reality is that right-wing extremists pose a much greater threat to people in the United States than terrorists connected to ISIS or similar organizations. As UNC Professor Charles Kurzman and Duke Professor David Schanzer explained last June in the New York Times, Islam-inspired terror attacks “accounted for 50 fatalities over the past 13 and a half years.” Meanwhile, “right-wing extremists averaged 337 attacks per year in the decade after 9/11, causing a total of 254 fatalities.” Kurzman and Schanzer’s methodology, moreover, may underestimate the degree to which domestic terrorists in the United States are motivated by right-wing views.

You Are More Than 7 Times As Likely To Be Killed By A Right-Wing Extremist Than By Muslim Terrorists