Yesterday's post was about hate, particularly white supremacist hate, which we tend to ignore much more than any other kind.
I wanted to point out a couple of things that are directly related both to yesterday's post, and to why this particular type of hate tends to be ignored.
First: I saw a couple of accounts (and you can watch here for yourself) about a request made by New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to president Trump. Her recounting was that Trump asked what offer of support the US could provide, and she asked him for "sympathy and love for all Muslim communities."
Below are three tweets the president sent about the white supremacist terrorist attack in Christchurch:
In between the first and second tweets about the attack, he tweeted about the "Jexodus" - a new term for me. According to Trump that's what you call it when Jews leave the Democratic Party and join the Republican Party. I'm sure he learned that on Fox News.
Other tweets and retweets yesterday, if my count is correct, included one about Google helping China but not the US; one about the Paris Accord; one about the economy; one about the weather in the Midwest: eight about the Mueller probe; and ten about immigration and his veto of the bill opposing the national emergency declaration to re-appropriate money for the border wall.
At no point did he do what Prime Minister Ardern requested.
But wait - there's more. Or, less, really.