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November 2, 2009
How The Center-Left Gins Up Paranoia
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at November 2, 2009 7:31 AM
Jesse Walker at Reason has written one of those articles that explains and provides a context for a phenomenon we are already well-aware of: The way the progressive left uses isolated incidents of violence to indict and discredit the right.
The (Holocaust Museum shooting) was quickly linked, in a free-associative way, to the assassination 10 days earlier of the Kansas abortionist George Tiller. This, we were told, was a "pattern" of "rising right-wing violence."
More imaginative pundits tried to tie the two slayings to a smattering of other crimes, from an April shootout in Pittsburgh that killed three cops to a year-old double murder at a Knoxville Unitarian church. The longest such list, assembled by the liberal blogger Sara Robinson, included nine diverse incidents linked only by the fact that the criminals all hailed from one corner or another of the paranoid right. "This is how terrorism begins," Robinson warned.
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Comments
I was struck by the juxtaposition of this item to the one following.
In the following thread, the obnoxious behavior of a couple of gay flakes are used to indict the entire gay community, not to mention those on the left who support gays.
This is a tactic that Moonbattery employs regularly. If one person on the left does something ignorant, everyone on the left is blamed and held responsible.
How the extreme right gins up paranoia.
Posted by: Anonymous at November 2, 2009 9:00 AM
Greg -
It's not just the idiot left that's fueling this bullshit fire.
A certain once respectable 'conservative' blogger (who shall go unnamed) whose site has completely gone into the shitter (which shall go unnamed) tries to connect these 'splatter patters' as some sort of dot puzzle of 'right-wing' violence.
Clearly upon close examination of the individual cases you find not only the do-ers acted alone and unaware of each other, but in most cases completely anti-conservative values.
IF the 'right-wing' was as threatening as the left and the obscure koolaide-drinker believes the right-wing would have taken over the country long before now.
Tell us again exactly which 'wing' is in total control and threatening to end the nation as we know it?
Posted by: drillanwr at November 2, 2009 9:18 AM
If one person on the left does something ignorant, everyone on the left is blamed and held responsible just for accepting them and cheering them on.
Fixed It For You.
Posted by: V the K at November 2, 2009 10:17 AM
Controlling the media, using the power of the White House to intimidate and discredit private citizens, government intrusion into every aspect of human life, signing away American sovereignty, disolving international borders, unchecked (and illegal) immigration, taxation bordering on usury, indoctrination of school children...
To fix Ms. Robinsons statement "This is how TYRANNY begins."
Posted by: Wyatt's Torch at November 2, 2009 11:59 AM
In the following thread, the obnoxious behavior of a couple of gay flakes are used to indict the entire gay community, not to mention those on the left who support gays.
This is a tactic that Moonbattery employs regularly. If one person on the left does something ignorant, everyone on the left is blamed and held responsible.
The post you mention does not, in fact, attempt to indict the whole gay community by the behaviour of the couple in question.
The story is presented as yet another example that the most virulent hatred in the "preference wars" comes from those who claim to be the oppressed victims.
Moreover, the Moonbattery.com archives are filled with thousands and thousands of leftists, all doing stupid things, upon whom the claim that leftists are stupid is predicated.
It's hardly accurate to claim there's a lack of evidence to support the contention.
Posted by: mandible claw at November 2, 2009 7:43 PM
