Posted July 11th, 2016 @ 1:04pm in #Trump #black lives matter #police #clinton2016
Some of you watched with amusement as I endorsed Hillary Clinton for my personal safety. What you might not know is that I was completely serious. I was getting a lot of direct and indirect death threats for writing about Trumps powers of persuasion, and I made all of that go away by endorsing Clinton. People dont care why I am on their side. They only care that I am.
You might have found it funny that I endorsed Clinton for my personal safety. But it was only funny by coincidence. I did it for personal safety, and apparently it is working. Where I live, in California, it is not safe to be seen as supportive of anything Trump says or does. So I fixed that.
Again, Im completely serious about the safety issue. Writing about Trump ended my speaking career, and has already reduced my income by about 40%, as far as I can tell. But Im in less physical danger than I was.
If you didnt believe me that I endorsed Clinton for my safety, perhaps the recent shooting of police officers changed your mind. Thats the sort of tragedy you expect to happen when Team Clinton frames the national debate as a race war.
Let me give you an example of how Clinton and her supporters in the media have pushed us to the brink of a race war. This article in the Washington Post tells us that although cops kill more whites than African-Americans, we still have a police racism problem because blacks are killed in greater proportion to their relative population. Thats all true, as far as I can tell.
But what got left out?
Well, for one thing, it doesnt address the fact that most police shootings happen in high-crime areas (I assume). And high crime areas in the United States often have high concentrations of African-American citizens. If the police accidentally shoot someone in my neighborhood, the victim will almost certainly be white, Asian, or Indian, because thats who lives here. But if police accidentally shoot someone in a predominantly African-American neighborhood with a high crime rate, the odds are high that it will be an African-American victim. Does that tell us anything about racism?
To be clear, racism exists. What we dont know is how it plays out in every scenario. Cherry-picked data doesnt tell us anything useful. But it probably does get cops killed.
You also have to ask yourself how the environment influences the amount of resistance one shows to a police officer. If you grow up in a tough neighborhood, where youve learned to use aggression to resist all forms of bullying and abuse, you might not surrender to police as passively as people raised in a less violent world. Statistics dont capture that sort of difference, if there is any.
The backdrop to all of this racial tension is that Trump was winning the persuasion war by making citizens afraid of external threats from illegal immigrants and terrorists. That was a strong formula because people respond to fear.
But Clintons team including social media and the liberal-leaning mainstream media responded by defining Trump as a literal Hitler. A Hitler-like leader in your own country is even scarier than external threats. Persuasion-wise, it is a winning formula for Team Clinton, even though the case is built on confirmation bias, not fact. (Trump has never mentioned race in a negative way.)
So now we have a situation in which Team Clinton has scared citizens into thinking the threat to their lives is mostly domestic, coming from Trump, Trump supporters, and anyone who looks like them. People who are scared will act. And we see those actions now in terms of violence against police, violence against Trump supporters, and death threats to bloggers such as me. And we already have one attempted Trump assassination.
So far, Trump has showed a willingness to annihilate any professional politician that gets in the way. And hes annihilated professional reporters and news organizations that got in his way. And hes tough on non-citizens. But Trump hasnt tried to turn American citizens against each other. Clinton has, and successfully so.
You can blame Trump for Trump University, and for his uncivil language. You can blame Trump for lots of stuff. But the police shootings and the recent uptick in domestic racial violence are mostly Clintons doings to win the election. And it is working. Unless Trump finds a way to counter Clintons racial persuasion, he will lose in November.
I expect Trump to go full-attack after the conventions. It would take the worlds greatest persuader to redefine Trump in a way that he can win the election. But as it turns out, Trump is probably the worlds greatest persuader. Thats why I predict he will win in a landslide. Unless someone kills him first.
Here is the link.
https://www.micahmwhite.com/dallas
You knew your protest marches weren't working. And yet you failed to acknowledge the crisis. The result was predictable and horrifying.
I assume this was taken down for copyright reasons.
EXACTLY.