Abstract
ABSTRACT Following the 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, this article examines the manifesto written by the perpetrator, Patrick Crusius. I use critical discourse analysis to reveal some of the racial contours of white nationalist protestation, which I connect to the erasure of indigeneity by settler colonialism. I also use a moral, economic framework to discuss Crusius and other white nationalists’ deployment of affective structures to justify their violent actions. This unconventional nature of the mass shooting, which resulted in the killing of 23 primarily Mexican and Mexican American individuals, was based on rather ordinary arguments about white erasure, the fear of invasion, and anger over economic and environmental concerns. This was overall a cocktail of reasons and sentiments that Crusius used to justify lethal violence against brown bodies associated with indigeneity.
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