Donald Trump claims it is important to refer to terrorists as “radical Islamic terrorists”, but the reality is that in this country, terrorists are far more likely to be “radical white Christian terrorists”. (from Jill Dennison’s Filosofa’s Word.)
I was disgusted this week as the media strove to turn 23-year-old Mark Conditt, who was responsible for killing two and injuring several others in Austin, Texas over the span of three weeks, into something softer, gentler, and kinder than the evil persona he was. He was a murderer, a terrorist, and yet if you read the various accounts of him, you might catch yourself thinking of him as a Linus Van Pelt twin. “Quiet,” “shy,” and “kind” are not words typically associated with a terrorist, and I am offended by the attempts to portray this man as “disturbed”, “conflicted” … almost as if he were the victim. Oddly, this morning I was reminded by Facebook of a post I wrote exactly a year ago that addresses this as well as I could do so today. And so, while I rarely repeat my posts, I thought this one as apropos today…
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There is so much of a divide right now, that I don’t even see how it can be bridged. Not just in the US, but it seems to have started there, and then the people that used to hide under their rocks and only drop the racial slurs among their friends and families are now feeling emboldened enough to scream them from the rooftops or slyly replace them with dog whistles on social media. I alternate daily from raging angry to retreat-mode. I truly am far more frightened of those that follow than I am of the ones stirring it all up.
We currently have a vile woman leaving hate-mongering pamphlets outside mosques in Canada. People are actually defending her actions with the old ” you wanna come here, speak the language/blend in” spiel.
Ugh.
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“…the people that used to hide under their rocks and only drop the racial slurs among their friends and families are now feeling emboldened enough to scream them from the rooftops or slyly replace them with dog whistles on social media.” I think you’re absolutely spot on, Shannon. Used to be dinner conversations around tables at home. (And sometimes not even then in polite company!) Trump’s free-wheeling, name-calling (which is one of the signs of being a bully) rhetoric has removed most social inhibitions — world wide!!!
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It’s not only Trump who needs to be held accountable, media does too!
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True. It just bugs the heck out of me when you see one news story saying (for example) that the markets are going to tank because of fear of a trade war, and right next to it is another story saying the markets have gone up as fear of a trade war lessens. THAT is NOT journalism!
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The media has a lot to answer for. They like to create fear and stir up or create problems so they can have a ‘better’ story !
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Thank you Calen for the reblog, I’m afraid I abhor most forms of the media, and their basically right wing attitudes. And it’s the same all around the world, as they’re mostly run/owned by right-wing conglomerate companies….
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You just have to be so discerning when you read ANYTHING these days, don’t you, Ivor… 😦
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Yes, and I really don’t believe much of what they write
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Back in the 60’s I worked with someone who believed we would destroy our country from within. Looks like her prophecy might come true. Thanks for re-blogging this.
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Yeah, I’d say we’re following in Rome’s footsteps. Collapsing in on ourselves. Trouble is it’s only taken this country half as long… And here we always thought we were better than that… SURPRISE!
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ISIS declared a caliphate and captured the globe’s attention, there have been seven lethal jihadist attacks in the United States, leading to 82 deaths, …
White supremacists in the United States killed more than twice as many people in 2017 as they did the year before, and were responsible for far more murders than domestic Islamic extremists, …
So it would appear that American right-wing terrorism is more of a threat than Muslims. Maybe Trump should put a ban on white people coming in to the States?
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Heck of an idea! Shall we write him and suggest it? 😉
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