Michael Christopher Estes is the very (white) model of a modern social justice warrior. Because placing an IED in an airport is to some (not) a terrorist act, because white lives matter.
The story didn’t go viral and Trump didn’t tweet about it because the bomb was not placed by an immigrant, or a Muslim, or a Mexican. It was placed there by a good ol’ white man, Michael Christopher Estes. Unlike the Las Vegas shooter, Stephen Paddock, whose motive is still hard to discern, Estes wanted to be very clear that his ultimate goal was to accelerate a war on American soil.
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In this case, though? Crickets. We hear nothing at all — almost exclusively because the man who planted an improvised explosive device, just like ones that have been used to murder and maim people all over the world, was white. His guilt starts and stops with him. His actions aren’t an indictment of his whole faith, political outlook, and race. White people aren’t, thanks to Estes, suddenly labeled terrorists or seen as a threat to American safety in the way that would almost certainly happen had it been anybody other than a white man.
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What Department of Justice? What Homeland Security?
Mr Estes has been charged with attempted malicious use of explosive materials and unlawful possession of explosive materials in an airport.
He told investigators that “he did not actually set the alarm clock” that would have triggered the explosion. It is unclear why.
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One reason could be that he needed a Texas teenager to serve as the clock.
A collection of white nationalist groups announced their plans to host a “White Lives Matter” rally in Tennessee.
Donald Trump: "The final key to the way I promote is bravado.”
There’s no evidence that Señor Estes was a member of MS-13 or that he attended nearby mosques in Chattanooga or Murfreesboro.