Posted on 04/19/2013 11:20:43 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
One of the curious, but also most predictable, responses to the Boston Marathon bombings from the Left has been the fervent expression — amounting nearly to a prayer — that the perpetrator or perpetrators of this act of mass murder be “homegrown,” preferably white, male, Christian, and conservative.
Why? Why does the Left prefer to have its terrorism served up by Timothy McVeigh rather than Durka Durka Mohammed Jihad? It’s an interesting question. That the Left exhibits this prejudice is, like Falstaff’s dishonesty, “gross as a mountain, open, palpable.”
David Sirota, writing at Salon, gives almost comic expression to the genre in an essay with the really special title “Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.” Why does Mr. Sirota wish that the Boston murderer of 8-year-old boys be a white American? Because a spectral quality called “white male privilege” operates insidiously behind the scenes. If Timmy McVeigh blows up a government building, says Mr. Sirota, only he is blamed. If Mohammed does it, Muslims are likely to be “collectively slandered and/or targeted with surveillance or profiling (or worse).”
What do you think of that argument? I think it’s hooey. For one thing, categories like “white male privilege” are a sort of Leftist version of phlogiston: hypothetical explanatory devices that have the unfortunate attribute of not actually existing. For another, there’s plenty of “collective slander” of Christian fundamentalists (you know, those “bitter” small-towners who “cling to guns or religion”) going around. A full anatomy of David Sirota’s hope for a great white villain would fill many pages. What I want to note at the moment, however, is how consonant it is with President Obama’s often noted reluctance to employ what Andrew McCarthy calls the “T-word” when commenting on episodes of mayhem and murder.
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They had an FBI profiler on and the talking heads all were commenting that this had nothing to do with Islam. Then this FBI jackass says it really doesn’t matter, then just out of nowhere mentions several right wing organizations. To be accurate, he didn’t accuse any of these organizations but why in the world did he immediately run off these supposedly right wing extremist groups? It sounds like these guys have been so used to accusing right wingers of everything it is like Pavlov’s dog. Say the word “terrorist” and they immediately think “blame conservatives”.
The moment I heard they were Chechen I knew Muslim fanatics were behind the bombings. Its disgusting how people like this suppose 'FBI profiler' can't even call a spade a spade anymore. No wait...they can if the spade turns out to be a "right wing Christian white male fanatic".
When it comes to "calling a spade a spade," Roger Kimball is as bad as the media he correctly deplores when he calls McVeigh a "right-winger." McVeigh was a kook, plain and simple, not associated with any wing, left or right. He had the same level of intellectual acuity as that Loughner guy who shot the newer, more female version of James Brady in the face.
:: Why does Mr. Sirota wish that the Boston murderer of 8-year-old boys be a white American? ::
Why is it that first, loudest and most consistent voices in the current culture wars comes from doughy, white, midlle-aged men?
Project much Sissy Matthews?
phlogiston - Haven’t heard that one in a while.
I was going to interject that as well.
McVeigh was also an atheist. One may 'like' the poem Invictus -- but for someone to have that read as their last words as they are marching off into eternity -- they are clearly 'without Christ, having no hope, and without God in this world'. Sure, McVeigh was 'master of his fate, and captain of his soul' ... I'm sure Satan had a great laugh at this guy who shipwrecked his own soul trying to tell him how he was a great captain ...
“What is more evil Islam or liberals?”
They serve the same god.
LLS
Sarkozy is saying “what beeg ace hole zis guy 0bama ees”
I think so too. lol
Because islamics and the Left unite to cut off Adam Smith's invisible hand.
I left MA in 2001. I will always have a lot of room in my heart for MA, especially Chatham, where I lived for four years. What I DON’T miss are the slimy, weaselly Rat politicians, and Markey is close to the top of that gut pile.
he forgets mcveigh wasn’t the only one blamed.
rush limbaugh, talk radio, and conservatives were blamed.
yup, same master.
and apparently these two were on radar a couple years ago and fbi and dhsdid jack sh1t about it.
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