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Editorial: Virulent white supremacy has become normalized. And we let it happen by: Group 6 Jeanne LeGall hugs Claudia Carballada at a makeshift memorial as people gather at the scene of a mass shooting at a Tops Friendly Markets store in Buffalo on May 15. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) BY THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD MAY 16, 2022 3:41 PM PT The ugly truth is that while Americans, especially those in the white establishment, shake their heads and maybe even shed some tears over the 10 Black people gunned down in Buffalo over the weekend in another apparently racially motivated attack, we’re growing accustomed to the virulent white supremacy that may have driven it. How long did the shock last after the killing of 23 people, most of them Latino, at an El Paso Walmart in 2019? How long after 11 people were killed at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018 or nine Black churchgoers were mu...