This past week thirteen people have been killed in acts of terrorism by white nationalists.

Eleven people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh:

Joyce Fienberg, 75
Richard Gottfried, 65
Rose Mallinger, 97
Jerry Rabinowitz, 66
Cecil Rosenthal, 59
David Rosenthal, 54
Bernice Simon, 84
Sylvan Simon, 86,
Daniel Stein, 71
Melvin Wax, 88
Irving Younger, 69

Two people in the grocery store shooting in Louisville, Kentucky:

Maurice Stallard, 69
Vickie Jones, 67

That’s this week. White nationalists have murdered others this year:

Robert Miller, 40 of Murfreesboro, TN
Blaze Bernstein, 19 of Orange County, CA
MeShon Cooper, 43 of Kansas City, MO

As well as the victims of the Parkland, Florida school shooting:

Alyssa Alhadeff, 14
Scott Beigel, 35
Martin Duque, 14
Nicholas Dworet, 17
Aaron Feis, 37
Jaime Guttenberg, 14
Chris Hixon, 49
Luke Hoyer, 15
Cara Loughran, 14
Gina Montalto, 14
Joaquin Oliver, 17
Alaina Petty, 14
Meadow Pollack, 18
Helena Ramsay, 17
Alex Schachter, 14
Carmen Schentrup, 16
Peter Wang, 15

The murderers names will not be listed here, but every one of them has been identified as a white nationalist or white supremacist. Some belonged to white nationalist militias. Some carried white nationalist iconography. Some explicitly stated their white nationalist views in confessions. These murderers are tied together by their ideology and their influences. They watch the same news programs. They listen to the same radio hosts. They visit the same websites. This is no different from a Muslim perpetrator of violence who is tied to terrorism because he has visited Al Qaeda websites or viewed propaganda from Muqtada al-Sadr. We treat it differently because it’s Tucker Carlson and Michael Savage. We treat it differently because we still don’t take reddit and 4chan and Twitter and Facebook seriously as rallying places for genuine real-world terrorists. We treat it differently because these killers are white.

White nationalist violence has increased dramatically since the inauguration of our current president. Statistics show a twofold increase in white nationalist violence in 2017. This same week the president proudly proclaimed himself a “nationalist,” a favorite brand of identification for the modern Neo-Nazi.

These murders will continue as long as we, as a society, are willing to allow them. White nationalists love to talk about the “marketplace of ideas,” and we have granted them legitimacy within it. Ethnic cleansing is now routinely discussed on talk shows and in university panels with the same level of detachment as tax policy or welfare reform. Freedom of Speech does not mean treating all ideas equally, nor all ideas as legitimate. We know this. Need proof? When was the last time a representative of Nambla was invited on television to defend the merits of pedophilia? But we grant advocates of Nazi-style white nationalism that freedom regularly.

As long as Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham and InfoWars are shaping this discourse this will continue. As long as liberals defend Steve Bannon’s right to the spotlight, he will continue to encourage the terrorists in his audience. As long as Twitter and YouTube and Facebook embrace content by and for white nationalists, they will have a recruiting ground. Everyone of their advertisers is paying to serve white supremacist propaganda to eager incipient white supremacists. You have a voice in that as a voter and as a consumer. Will you use it?