Posted on 03/07/2018 4:20:28 AM PST by simpson96
he hard left is always so angry, and uses emotion to great effect in our modern politics.
And shame — through social and mainstream media voices — is the left’s whip, keeping Americans in line.
Most Americans understand the penalty for thought crimes on issues ranging from traditional marriage to affirmative action to American citizenship. Say the wrong thing, write the wrong thing, even think the wrong thing, or tweet the wrong thing — in referencing positions that were mainstream only a few years ago — and you’ll be publicly shamed in media. And you’ll be shunned as a homophobe or a racist or ultra-nationalist and mocked and probably lose your job.
The left will see to that. And most Americans understand this.
But if you’re of the left, and happen to be a Democratic Party politician, you can get away with making excuses for notorious anti-Semite and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
And when those excuses are made, the left is largely silent.
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few, if any Democratic voices are being raised against Farrakhan. The Congressional Black Caucus certainly won’t condemn him. And white Democrats aren’t demanding condemnation either. They don’t want to risk losing votes.
“It is so sad that if white people disapprove of somebody, we follow suit and disapprove,” Farrakhan said in his Saviours’ Day speech. “It’s so cowardly.”
But they’re not saying much. They’re not saying much at all.
This silence is dangerous. And it incites and gives hateful license to some on the hard right, provoking equally hateful views.
What we’re witnessing is the Balkanizing of the United States. And the left’s silence about Louis Farrakhan is the canary in the coal mine.
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He engaged in anti-semitic speech at the 1990s MMM Rally in DC. The media didn’t give a *$@# because they still honored the 20th anniversary of the MMM march as if it was a positive event and not a hate group’s rally.
Is Farrakhan even relevant anymore?? Its like when Dems complain about David Duke supporting Trump. He just does stuff to get people to talk about him, he just isn’t important anymore.
He must be important given the effort that the mainstream media made to suppress all information about his meetings with Barack Obama for a decade.
T’he stupidity of it all is that the descendants of Shem also include the descendants of Ishmael. in these DF’s are too stupid in thought yo make that connection.
Like $harpton, he is relevant every four years when Dems pull out all the stops to drive blacks to vote for them.
farrakhan enjoys the benefit of being in two government-certified victim groups, and is allowed to hate and to incite to hate. He can use whichever free pass card he chooses.
Due to his protective pigmentation, he can spew hate and nobody does anything about it.
“Louis Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism and the silence of the left”
Not to mention too much silence on the part of many in the Jewish community.
“What we’re witnessing is the Balkanizing of the United States. And the left’s silence about Louis Farrakhan is the canary in the coal mine.”
You badly underestimate the significance and influence of Farrakhan.
Hey, if people get slammed for meeting with David Duke, the same rule needs to apply to people meeting with Calypso Louie.
It’s fine to be prejudice in the USA, as long as you’re a leftist.
Louie may not like Semites, but he hates white people more. We are his blue-eyed Devils. My ancestors built this country and the modern world Lou, what did your African ancestors build?
Anti-white and the silence of White Americans. He’d kill you just as look at you if he could get away with it.
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