Posted on 05/06/2015 5:36:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
Liberals claim to be the world's boldest defenders of freedom of expression, which is, of course, nonsense. Here's another canard: Liberals also claim to be the most offended against anyone "blaming the victim." What liberals possess is an ideological system which identifies favored groups as victims and supports squelching the free speech of anyone challenging them.
One of those favored groups is Muslims. Over the weekend, the American Freedom Defense Initiative held the Muhammad cartoon contest in Dallas, obviously a provocative event. But it wasn't meant to result in two Islamic extremists showing up with assault rifles, later shot to death by police after they opened fire.
Two men identifying as ISIS have now attacked America -- in our homeland. So how did the press respond? Liberal journalists deplored AFDI's exercise of free speech and blamed the targeted victims for the attack.
Within hours, ABC described AFDI as "notorious for its anti-Islamic views." The shooters were not "notorious," the shooting targets were. On the Monday evening news, all three "objective" networks were repeating a leftist group's highly emotional "hate group" designation.
"It happened at a Dallas suburb where a group [that has been] labeled an anti-Islamic hate group was holding a Prophet Mohammad cartoon contest," announced NBC anchor Lester Holt.
Washington Post national reporter Lindsey Bever wrote a highly negative article labeling AFDI leader Pamela Geller as an "incendiary organizer" of a Muhammad cartoon contest. The Post, too, went to that same highly emotional leftist source for a smear. Geller was labeled the "anti-Muslim movement's most visible and flamboyant figurehead." In addition, "She's relentlessly shrill and coarse in her broad-brush denunciations of Islam and makes preposterous claims."
On MSNBC, Chris Matthews blamed AFDI for "causing" or "provoking" the shooting. NBC terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann even claimed they were not holding a free-speech event: "These people are not standing by that principle; they're standing by the principle of hatred for other people. That's their guiding light. That's what they do. They are intentionally trying to provoke a response from the Muslim community."
This spin is obnoxious and offensive. By this standard, MSNBC spends most of its waking hours operating on the "principle of hatred of other people," people who define themselves as conservatives.
Activists like Geller and her partner Robert Spencer are making a provocative point about how free speech is being uniquely curtailed out of sensitivity to Muslims, who apparently "earn" this sensitivity by being violent or making threats of violence. Liberals and their media outlets have no such sensitivity toward Christians or Jews.
Freedom of speech, not religious sensitivity, was the mantra for the media when the National Endowment for the Arts subsidized the maker of "Piss Christ" in the 1990s, as it was when museums hosted Chris Ofili's dung-spattered "art" work on the Virgin Mary, as it was when the National Portrait Gallery promoted a video of a crucifix with ants crawling over the body of Christ.
But freedom of speech for criticizing Islam? There's apparently no room for that in America. They won't even show the cartoon.
And who was their source, anyway? The Southern Poverty Law Center -- yes, that group that has also labeled the Family Research Center a "hate" group for supporting traditional marriage, leading to an assassin using their "hate map" to go to FRC's building and open fire, seriously wounding a security guard, with the intent to kill as many staff as possible, before being subdued.
The leftist media know that. And still use SPLC as their source.
Now the lefties are blaming the victim for exercising free speech.
Typical.
Geller is a liberal isn’t she? Even though other lefties do not claim her any more, she still defends freedom of speech. She “gets” the threat of Islamic terrorism.
We haven't and won't.
Scoreboard so far:
U.S.A. 2
ISIS 0
Blame Art!!
“Hate group blamed for isis attack”
Yes. Savage islamists.
Where to start?
sharia law
isis
boko haram
hezbollah
To their shame, it will be remembered FOREVER
that the corrupt, lying MSM
(abetted by the docile, self-EXEMPT, “US” Congress)
brought Islamic terrorism to the American homeland,
less than a score of years after the 911 Atrocity,
.... and that they odiously and reprehensively
dared to blame the victims.
Liberals like blaming the rape victim for dressing too sexy.
No event in recent history has so clearly demonstrated the Left’s hypocrisy as this one. Just listen to the absurd logical gymnastics they go through trying to explain why Pam Geller is incendiary but Andres Serrano and Robert Mapplethorpe are champions of free speech.
Right. Let’s not address that fact that ISIS has advanced and is in our country under obama. Libs make me sick.
Megyn Kelly nailed it last night speaking with, I think, Andell Brown. Kelly brought out the point that freedom of speech is protected, while the other point of view is that speech is only good or be allowed when it is not offensive. Kelly was impressive. Levin would have said, “Get off the phone, you big dope!”
Good one.
Liberals
DON’T HAVE CORE VALUES.
They have agendas.
Once you understand that, this whole paradigm of
“why do they claim this in this situation and ignore it in that one?” is a moot point.
Liberals have core values:
Power for themselves
Money for themselves
And if they can get some sex in the deal, all the better.
Liberalism is based on “you will be as gods”.
No, not really. They believe that they are noble and worthy, but not you. You’re just a thing for them to use.
The next time you hear some unctuous journalists raving about their (holy) 1st amendment freedom of expression ... talking points:
Why don’t you accord the same respect to the 2nd amendment? and,
Remember Garland? What does your expression impact here? Who are you victimizing? Isn’t this provocative on your part?
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