Baseless hatred is destroying our nation

…This is as deplorable as it is sick.

On May 15, Glenn Greenwald posted a lengthy article titled, “The Demented – and Selective – Game of Instantly Blaming Political Opponents For Mass Shootings,” The article’s subtitle read, “All ideologies spawn psychopaths who kill innocents in its name. Yet only some are blamed for their violent adherents: by opportunists cravenly exploiting corpses while they still lie on the ground.”

He did not overstate his case in the least, carefully documenting the points he was making. Without question, the constant exploitation of these terrible crimes for political purposes is absolutely inexcusable.

And while his focus was on the left’s habit of using these tragedies for political gain, further fanning the flames of hatred in the process, the indictment can be broader still: there is way too much irresponsible and inflammatory rhetoric from all sides of the political spectrum.

With good reason, Greenwald ended his article with these sobering words:

“The distinction between peaceful advocacy even of noxious ideas and those who engage in violence in the name of such ideas is fundamental to notions of fairness, justice and the ability to speak freely. But if you really want to claim that a public figure has ‘blood on their hands’ every time someone murders in the name of ideas and ideologies they support, then the list of people you should be accusing of murder is a very, very long one indeed.”

Well said, and worthy of consideration.

In another article, I plan to explore more fully how politicians and news outlets are demonizing whole swaths of people in the aftermath of the Buffalo massacre.

To cite one case in point, a Rolling Stoneheadline announces, “The Buffalo Shooter Isn’t a ‘Lone Wolf.’ He’s a Mainstream Republican.” Yes, “The right-wing extremists who control the modern GOP are all gripped by a racist delusion. The shooter is just the latest to act on it.”

And so, the cycle continues and the inflaming of hatred grows deeper. Rolling Stone makes baseless, reckless, and hateful accusations, which further angers those falsely accused, deepening their own sense of hatred. When will all this stop?…







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Baseless hatred is truly evil. It’s effects are disastrous upon society. It is terrible that some hate gets swept under the rug and other hate acts are used by some to fan yet more hate.

 

Stopping the blame game and trying to create new bogeypersons would go a long ways to ward healing when bad things happen to good people. God can bring the healing for these things. Secular progressives on the other hand cast about seeking whom they might blame and cause more division in society when it happens. Of course if a leftist commits a baseless hate crime it’s swept under the rug as the perp and their victims don’t advance an agenda.

 

The MSM and Democrats started this war. If they were honest about where the REAL violence
comes from, we wouldn’t be having this argument. It’s the double standard that’s disgusting and race baiting. Just like all the misinformation about Asian hate. Same source. But Democrats just want to keep stoking the flames.

 

~ All psychological warfare of sorts. As the West is hurtling towards totalitarian global government the USA and Jolly Ol' England are the last hold-outs.
Once the bastion of liberty, freedom and opportunity the American middle-class finds itself under attack by its' own government administration. Two generations are complacent and " civilized " as to not exercise their Constitutional Rights to demand elected officials do their jobs to correct this path or be replaced. Instead they " trust" the system.
There is always hope — but it may also be too late.

 

I can honestly say I don't hate anyone who doesn't hate me first. Call it Lemmi's Golden Rule.

 

It goes against all that I believe in to hate others. We can disagree without being disagreeable. Mindless hate is a grave evil. It must be all out resisted by all good people.

 

~ Hate, jealousy and anger are all self-destructive and mostly unnecessary emotions. When you understand the cause and reason they usually go away .

 

So, you're going to stop your daily attacks on progressives and begin exploring ways to heal the divisiveness of our Nation?

 

You've certainly had me fooled.

 

Words that reach out for healing if I've ever read any.

 

While I disagree with progressives and all that they stand for, I do not hate them. Differences between conservatives and liberals are real and not actually divisive at all unless one side thinks the other is not just wrong but personally evil for holding a political point of view that is different. It’s progressives that have a problem with diversity of opinion

 

“The distinction between peaceful advocacy even of noxious ideas and those who engage in violence in the name of such ideas is fundamental to notions of fairness, justice and the ability to speak freely. But if you really want to claim that a public figure has ‘blood on their hands’ every time someone murders in the name of ideas and ideologies they support, then the list of people you should be accusing of murder is a very, very long one indeed.”

 

That doesn’t take much effort….

 

Our culture has become compartmentalized and isolated. People are separated into their own little echo Chambers in social media. They aren't exposed to vegans and hunters, gay people, Mormons and all the different varieties people come in so it's easy to convince them that the vegans are insane or the Mormons want to dominate the world or whatever. When in reality our similarities that have always united us are far greater than our differences.

Remember when arguing in here about politics, it's just politics.

 

That and this thread are a load of disingenuous nonsense proven by MONTHS of your prior posts, punctuated by the last one above. Your self delusion is so obvious it's sad. The only thing more obvious is your devotion to the Babe Ruth of bullshit who built his whole presidency on divisiveness that culminated in insurrection and an attack on our Capitol; Donald Judas tRump.

 

By tying certain ideas to violent murder in the public's mind, we could end up stifling debate.

"We can't talk about that because only bad people hold that view, and talking about it could push more people to violence"

And even in cases where an idea clearly has a connection to violent murder, like the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, it may still be worthy of debate.

 

That is the aim of the far progressive left.

 

Could you define what that means, because, I gather, from YOUR posts, that "far progressive left" includes anyone that opposes ex-president tRump and supports a progressive view point; no matter how moderate.

Reading your daily attacks on progressives and progressive-ism, it appears you are violently opposed to anyone that doesn't support your Right biased view.

 

Anyway, I've noticed that very often what Progressives accuse Republicans of, they themselves are actually even much more guilty of.

It seems to be an attempt at projection. Like husband who accuses his wife of infidelity when he is the one actually having the affair. He accuses her to switch around attention and make her the one put on the defense.

 

Except, looking at current events, it wasn't "progressives" that committed the affair of attacking our Capitol, it isn't "progressives" that now, daily and by the minute, are attempting to minimize, obfuscate and place the blame on people that had nothing to do with what happened on 1/6/2021; all the while denying any culpability in that insurrection attempt. Just as an example.

 

Hahahahahaha oh this thread is hilarious coming from Jeff-Jeff here. Oh I needed that laugh.

 

You don't think they would have, had the situation been the other way around?

Just look at the big barrier they recently had to put around the Supreme Court building.


Let's see, the anarchists who jumped on board the BLM protests in several major cities across the country. (I'm told the ones actually setting the fires were white progressives, while the black looters just got themselves some "reparations" from the local Walmart)

 

LOL, no, not even close.

Let's see, who started the culture war, began talking about it and had constant, numerous stories on TV and radio?

Who are the ones say, "Democrats are the enemy?" or "Media is the enemy?" or "We don't want Muslims refugees here but we will take Christian refugees instead?" Or, "well, if you ignore black mothers, our maternal death rates are just fine."

Why is it that a talk of a CW is mostly on your side anytime a Democrat is elected into office?

From the Cato blog, it says "Miller is right: it’s Republican politicians, not Democrats, who raise hell about these issues. But that’s because they represent the voters who see themselves losing these battles. And most Democratic politicians don’t want to be vocal advocates of these policies. Think back to gay marriage: most Democrats, including Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton opposed it or avoided the subject until the polls turned positive. Right now Democrats prefer to focus their messaging on populist economic issues, not controversial social issues, especially when the social policies are being effectively advanced through bureaucratic impositions and court decisions."

 

I certainly do NOT! Never before, in 240 years of the history of These United States has ANY losing President NOT honored the tradition of peaceful transfer of power. Not until Benedict Donald schemed to hold on to power with his "BIG LIE" that the election was stolen and went on to rile up his, already emotional, supporters has anything like the January 6th attack on OUR Capitol BY United States Citizens occurred.

The barrier's around the Supreme Court Building were honored. The Barriers, in place at the Capitol on 1/6/2021 were used as weapons against the police that guarded them. I've posted many links that prove that the 2020 violence was, as likely as not, instigated by anarchists from across the political spectrum that traveled (not locals) to the site's of peaceful demonstrations to stir up unrest between the protestors and themselves.

 

Hatred is destroying our nation -- says the "Let's go Brandon" crowd. Maybe, you gotta take a look in the mirror.