{"id":22463,"date":"2021-05-10T15:59:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T15:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=22463"},"modified":"2021-05-11T12:41:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T12:41:39","slug":"amber-ruffin-right-wing-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/amber-ruffin-right-wing-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Ruffin Explains Why The Government Ignored Right-Wing Terrorists For A Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22466\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22466\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-22466\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-11.00.40-AM.png?w=1024\" alt=\"Amber Ruffin\" width=\"1024\" height=\"523\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber Ruffin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For months now, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/beyonce-grammys-viola-davis-oscars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">single ladies<\/a> all over the country have been reporting their ex-boyfriends and other random dudes they\u2019ve been chatting with on dating apps for bragging about participating in the January 6 <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/aoc-riot-impeachment\/\">riot at the US Capitol<\/a>. All this, in addition to the selfies and live streamed videos of the attack that rioters posted to their own social media feeds, have been helping authorities identify and round up these wannabe insurrectionists. Which, naturally, leads most sane people, like <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/amber-ruffin-voter-suppression\/\">Amber Ruffin<\/a>, to wonder why so many people have been so casually upfront about having participated in an armed uprising against the government that resulted in the deaths of five people?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How the Jan. 6th Capitol Riot Was Organized In Broad Daylight | The Amber Ruffin Show\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DaRgYqFmres?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, as Ruffin explained on this week\u2019s episode of <em>The Amber Ruffin Show<\/em>, it turns out white supremacist groups, like the Proud Boys who stormed the Capitol, had very little reason to think they would be held accountable for their actions. Because they pretty much haven\u2019t been for the past decade. Prior to 2009, domestic terrorist attacks had been on the decline since the feds cracked down on them in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing. But then <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/barack-obama-spotify-podcast\/\">Barack Obama<\/a> was elected, and, according to Ruffin, \u201cWhite people lost their whole dang minds!\u201d In a 2009 report, the Department of Homeland Security warned of a rise in right-wing domestic terrorism, which caused Republicans to complain that they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P-gsdI5I1Rk\" target=\"_blank\"><em>felt very attacked!<\/em><\/a> Because\u2026republicans = white supremacists. Just following their logic here!<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s the depressing part: the Obama Administration buried the report and disbanded the unit that tracked right-wing terrorists. Ruffin said it best: \u201cObama, baby, I love you but, you really f*cked up!\u201d Then, in 2020, the Trump administration shifted resources from tracking right-wing groups to focus on finding supposed left-wing threats to bolster the president\u2019s campaign message. And that\u2019s pretty much how the Proud Keepers and Oaf Boys and, I dunno, your uncle\u2019s golf buddies, managed to plan the Capitol riot on <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/donald-trump-facebook\/\">Facebook<\/a> without anybody paying them any mind.<\/p>\n<p>Except their ex-girlfriends, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29097,"featured_media":22466,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Amber Ruffin Explains Why The Government Ignored Right-Wing Terrorists<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Single ladies all over the country have been reporting their ex-boyfriends for bragging about participating in the Capitol riot. 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