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Salon: Paris jihad massacre shows that “right-wing” needs to “moderate their rhetoric”
Jihad Watch ^ | 11/14/15 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 11/14/2015 2:04:53 AM PST by markomalley

The American Left is beyond parody. Apparently Salon would have us believe that the Paris jihad massacre happened because “the right wing media” criticized the Black Lives Matter movement. Islamic jihad? Warfare against unbelievers? The Islamic State’s stated imperative to murder French civilians? Only greasy Islamophobes take such things seriously: everyone knows Fox News and Ben Carson are the real culprits!

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“And so the hate speech begins: Let Paris be the end of the right’s violent language toward activists,” by Chauncey DeVega, Salon, November 13, 2015:

In a still developing situation, the city of Paris, France, is under attack by terrorists armed with guns and explosives. Many dozens of people have been killed. A still undetermined number of people have been wounded. The terrorists took dozens of hostages in a concert hall. French police and military forces have been deployed. There is mayhem and blood in the streets of Paris….

In the United States, the right-wing media and movement conservatives have for decades consistently used eliminationist and other violent rhetoric to describe liberals, progressives and other people with whom they disagree. As was seen in the recent attacks on a Charleston-area black church, and other violence by right-wing anti-government militias, such rhetoric does not float in the ether of the public discourse, harmless and unacknowledged. No, it does in fact lead to action.

In recent months, the right-wing media has used language such as “terrorism” and “violent,” or that the latter is “targeting police for murder” to describe the Black Lives Matter movement. Such bombastic and ugly screeds–which are wholly unfounded, with no basis in empirical reality–have also been used by right-wing opinion leaders to describe the African-American students who are fighting against racism at Yale and the University of Missouri….

Real terrorists have killed people in the streets of Paris. The right-wing media needs to take note of that fact and moderate their rhetoric and abusive language accordingly.

Given the American right-wing’s casual habit of using violent language to describe their foes, and to gin up fear and anxiety among the movement conservative base, the Fox News’ right-wing echo chamber and its elites should be ashamed given the death and destruction that terrorism actually reaps in practice.



TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 201511; blacklivesmatter; blacklivesmattermeme; blm; chaunceydevega; dnctalkingpoints; enemedia; obamunism; parisattacks; proterrorist; socialjustice; terrorism; terrorists; usefulidiot; waronterror
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1 posted on 11/14/2015 2:04:53 AM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

What? They didn’t mention a flag or an internet video? They’re getting lazy.


2 posted on 11/14/2015 2:06:20 AM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: markomalley; Norm Lenhart

Cage theory ping.


3 posted on 11/14/2015 2:07:47 AM PST by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: markomalley

The Left is not crazy; they and Muslims are zombies who hate us.

They’re enemies of the Open Society. Birds of a feather do flock together.


4 posted on 11/14/2015 2:07:52 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: markomalley

It was the Weather Underground who calculated that they would need to kill 25 million hold outs after the Communist revolution in America.


5 posted on 11/14/2015 2:10:56 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
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To: SaveFerris

It was a comic book cover, no a sh** stain on a wall, no a pastor cooking a book, no...


6 posted on 11/14/2015 2:11:44 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
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To: markomalley
Okay, all together now: HANDS UP DON'T SHOOT!
7 posted on 11/14/2015 2:13:57 AM PST by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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To: a fool in paradise

Just waiting for Lester Holt and NBC to tie it to DT ... somehow ...


8 posted on 11/14/2015 2:14:58 AM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: markomalley

Useful idiots


9 posted on 11/14/2015 2:21:03 AM PST by ronnie raygun (better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.)
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To: GonzoII
Okay, all together now: HANDS UP DON'T SHOOT!


10 posted on 11/14/2015 2:25:19 AM PST by Stand Watch Listen (Was addicted to the Hokey Pokey...but I turned myself around...((@))
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To: markomalley

Classic communist projection.


11 posted on 11/14/2015 2:26:56 AM PST by Fhios
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To: markomalley

Wow, that is quite the satire piece there, Salon.


12 posted on 11/14/2015 2:27:01 AM PST by EBH ( I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.)
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To: Stand Watch Listen
PANTS UP DON'T POOP!
13 posted on 11/14/2015 2:33:01 AM PST by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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To: markomalley

The Salon excerpt doesn’t appear to imply that the Paris attacks happened because the right wing used harsh rhetoric, as Spencer’s headline said.


14 posted on 11/14/2015 2:33:33 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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To: markomalley

To us, it’s just a squiggle of magic marker or spray paint.

To a muslim, it’s the sacred arabic symbol for allah.

Be respectful of other cultures.

If seen on a public walkway, such as a parking lot or floor of a rest room, be careful NOT to step on it.


15 posted on 11/14/2015 2:33:41 AM PST by gasport (Immigration reform means arriving in air-conditioned comfort.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

OK, it wasn’t the headline, it was Spencer’s first paragraph.


16 posted on 11/14/2015 2:35:24 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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To: markomalley

To us, it’s just a squiggle of magic marker or spray paint.

To a muslim, it’s the sacred arabic symbol for allah.

Be respectful of other cultures.

If seen on a public walkway, such as a parking lot or floor of a rest room, be careful NOT to step on it.


17 posted on 11/14/2015 2:38:06 AM PST by gasport (Immigration reform means arriving in air-conditioned comfort.)
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To: markomalley

There is no hope for these leftists. I can only hope that the Islamists cut their heads first when they get into power with the help of the left.


18 posted on 11/14/2015 2:48:37 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: goldstategop

“The Left is not crazy; they and Muslims are zombies who hate us.”

The Left is full of idiots. If radical Islam should take hold here in the U.S. guess who would be the first to be tossed off the top of tall buildings. Fly birdie fly.....


19 posted on 11/14/2015 2:53:29 AM PST by snoringbear (E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: markomalley

These people are already dhimmis and likely sport their auto’s rear bumper. They are to be ignored in their stupidity and arrogant ignorance.


20 posted on 11/14/2015 3:01:46 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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