Newsmax's Benny Johnson: The East Palestine train derailment is “leftist ecological and racial terrorism” against an “almost entirely white community”
Johnson: “If you're looking for systemic racism, here it is. But it's against white Republicans predominantly, so it's allowed. In fact, it's encouraged. It's endorsed”
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Citation From the February 13, 2023, edition of The Benny Show, streamed on YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): If you are looking for actual systemic racism, well, this is a perfect example of it in society. If you're looking at it from all over the top systemic racism, here's a almost entirely white community that is poor and that is impoverished and that is being systemically oppressed by the government through ecological disaster that will lead to their deaths, undoubtedly, based on what we saw yesterday.
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These individuals are the victims of leftist ecological and racial terrorism. The same messaging that Pete Buttigieg often says -- he talks about racist roads, he talks about racist environmental terrorism against people - it disproportionally affects communities of color. How many times have you heard that? And so here, you have a community that is being disproportionately affected by ecological terrorism, and nobody's lifting a finger.
If you're looking -- if you're looking for systemic racism, here it is. But it's against white Republicans predominantly, so it's allowed. In fact, it's encouraged. It's endorsed.