In the aftermath of the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, the United States is once again roiling in pain, struggling to come to terms with its violent reality. With every such act of mass murder, the American nation seems to be edging closer to the full recognition that the terror of its own racist white supremacy is far more serious than all the frightening delusions it has about the violent non-white "other".
Shortly after these mass shootings, the New York Times ran an editorial, pertinently pointing out that "[i]f one of the perpetrators of this weekend's two mass shootings had adhered to the ideology of radical Islam the resources of the American government and its international allies would mobilize without delay." Indeed, they would as they should.