Posted on 01/13/2011 4:09:44 AM PST by WilliamHouston
Progressives never let a tragedy go to waste.
Although it is clear now that the Gabrielle Giffords shooter and 9/11 truther Jared Lee Loughner has no ties to the Tea Party, that hasn't stopped our friends on the Left from spreading a blood libel on the conservative movement.
We stand accused of fostering a "climate of hate" in America that subtly influenced an unstable "conscious dreaming" psychopath into attempting to assassinate a Democratic congresswoman. Some leftwing commentators have even asserted that Sarah Palin has the blood of a 9-year-old child on her hands.
The most laughable self described "progressive" spreading this meme is none other than our friend Tim Wise. He has penned a new article called "Paranoia as Prelude: Conspiracism and the Cost of Political Rage" as his contribution to this stupid Democratic narrative.
Tim Wise is no stranger to YWC readers.
Last November, Wise made headlines across the internet when he penned a hateful and incendiary article at Daily Kos, "An Open Letter To The White Right" (which he later censored in a damage control effort), as a temper tantrum in reaction to the sweeping Republican victories in the midterm elections.
In that article (which 31,466 leftists shared on Facebook), Tim Wise fantasizied about the impending destruction of White America and particularly the death of elderly White people, whom he claimed were not worth saving, unlike the muskrat and other endangered animal species:
"Fine, keep it up. It doesn’t matter.
Because you’re on the endangered list.
And unlike, say, the bald eagle or some exotic species of muskrat, you are not worth saving. . . .
We just have to be patient.
And wait for your hearts to stop beating.
And stop they will.
And for some of you, real damned soon truth be told.
Do you hear it? . . .
The sound of your empire dying? Your nation, as you knew it, ending, permanently?
Because I do, and the sound of its demise is beautiful."
Two months later, Uncle Tim now has the chutzpah to lecture White conservatives about their "daily stream of poisonous vitriol." The hypocrisy on display here is breathtaking.
Among the victims in the Tucson massacre, Dorwan Stoddard, a 76-year-old retired construction worker, and Phyllis Schneck, a 79-year-old grandmother, were killed in the rampage shooting. Last year, Tim Wise was gleefully waiting for their hearts to stop to beating.
He was planning their destruction.
As it happens, Tim Wise's "Open Letter to the White Right" was published in the Tuscon Citizen at the time. Was Jared Lee Loughner influenced by Wise's hatred of elderly White people? Is that why Loughner shot and killed Phyllis Schneck and Dorwan Stoddard last weekend?
We will probably never know.
Tim Wise and his fellow leftists in the "anti-racism" industry like Mark Potok don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to criticizing conservatives for their extreme rhetoric. These are people who have built lucrative careers for themselves spreading bogus concepts like "white privilege" and "systemic racism" (Wise enjoys his own "white privilege" in an affluent Nashville suburb) which promote the total dehumanization and demonization of White conservatives.
It was exactly this sort of "extreme rhetoric" which inspired the Beltway snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo to justify murdering White people in the DC area on the basis of race. Racial stereotypes about serial killers also prevented disgraced police chief Charles Moose from zeroing in on the right suspects.
In his latest article, Wise says:
"But if we are to survive as a nation, a culture — or as a planet, ultimately — we’d best begin to demand better of ourselves and others."
Yet in the aftermath of his "Open Letter to the White Right," Tim Wise refused to demand better of himself. He refused to repudiate his own hateful, incendiary rhetoric targeted at elderly White people.
CNN's Don Lemon gave him a softball interview. There were no howls of moral outrage from the likes of Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow. No one on the Left cared when Tim Wise and Daily Kos claimed the lives of White conservatives like Judge John Roll were worth less than the dodo.
Tucson is known for other reasons than the Gabrielle Giffords shooting.
It was the vitriolic anti-White rhetoric (i.e., "Kill the Gringo") being taught in Tucson high schools that inspired Arizona's ban on ethnic studies last year. I wrote about this in The Real Hate in Arizona.
I drew attention to the fact that the Left was fostering a "climate of hate" in Tucson over six months before the shooting there. I said it raised important questions. It was Governor Jan Brewer and the Republican state legislature in Arizona who acted to force Tucson to purge itself of this cultural poison.
Literally the day before the Gabrielle Giffords shooting, the New York Times was defending the "climate of hate" in Tucson public schools in the name of political correctness and multiculturalism. Now it is attempting to portray the conservatives who were tackling this issue as the problem.
Truer words were never spoken: Judge not, that ye be not judged.
And now the democrats are in total damage control mode.
Loughner is a prozac zombie and a perfect product of the marxist, America-hating public school system.
Leftists have been screaming bloody murder in Arizona for six months now ... because the ban on ethnic studies in Tucson was going to put an end “Kill the Gringo” program.
The NY Times was DEFENDING the “climate of hate” in Tuscon the very day before the shooting happened there!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/08/us/08ethnic.html?pagewanted=all
Expect more from Wise like this. He has found some success with the self hating outraged white race pimp shtick, especially his latest and most shrill offerings. Speaking is his gig. I bet his fees go up. This is a guy who really needs to “Keep Hate Alive”.
Good article. Thanks for posting.
“Leftists have been screaming bloody murder in Arizona for six months now ... because the ban on ethnic studies in Tucson was going to put an end “Kill the Gringo” program. The NY Times was DEFENDING the “climate of hate” in Tuscon the very day before the shooting happened there!”
Part of the problem is that this hypocrisy is rarely, if ever, pointed out to the American public. Although I had heard about the ‘Kill Gringo’ program (here at FR), I did not know that there were MSM outlets defending it, or the details of what was happening there. If it wasn’t for FR and a few alternative news outlets most of us would not be aware of these things.
We have to somehow do a better job of getting these hypocrisies more exposure. Tim Wise’s original ‘piece’ should be widely distributed and the hypocrisy of him being at the Tuscon should be hung pinned on the left for all to see.
Make it into an email and let it go viral...
The attempt to place the blood libel on conservatives isn’t sticking. The Tucson blood libel is as useless as the race card.
Good article ping.
Good article!
Thanks for the ping Hoodat. Excellent article. I am still disgusted at what we all witnessed last night. It’s a new low for Obama and the democrats. Their feigned moral indignation in full view of their own hypocrisy was stunning.
Notice too that the tee is blue..not a bit of red in the whole design. Simple oversight? I don’t think so. I would still like to know who paid for those tasteless Obama campaign tees and who made money off of them.
Wiki:
Wise was born in Nashville, Tennessee to Michael Julius Wise and LuCinda Anne (née McLean) Wise. Wise’s father is Jewish.[3] Wise attended public schools in Nashville, graduating from Hillsboro High School in 1986.[citation needed] In high school he was student body vice-president and a member of one of the top high school debate teams in the United States. Wise attended college at Tulane University in New Orleans and received his B.A. there, with a major in Political Science and a minor in Latin American Studies.[citation needed] While a student he was a leader in the campus anti-apartheid movement, which sought to force Tulane to divest from companies still doing business with the government of South Africa. He first came to national attention as an anti-apartheid leader in 1988, when South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu announced he would turn down an offer of an honorary degree from Tulane, after Wise’s group informed him of the school’s ongoing investments there
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