Posted on 01/13/2016 12:00:50 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
A newly-released video shows a professor at the University of California, Merced (UC-Merced) teaching his students that 90 percent of terrorist attacks in America are conducted by white men who are "religiously motivated and politically conservative."
The video, recorded in October, was released by The College Fix. It shows professor Ross Avila lecturing his "Introduction to Psychology" class on the topic of heuristics, mental shortcuts people use when trying to assess information or solve problems.
To illustrate his point, Avila said that most Americans assume Muslims are the country's largest terror threat because they haven't thought about the matter systematically.
"Ninety percent [of terrorist attacks in the U.S.] are from these white Caucasian men," Avila tells the class. "I am not saying white men are evil - but that is what we should be thinking about. Usually they are people who are religiously motivated and politically conservative."
Avila then describes a supposed right-wing terrorist action that he said was ignored by the media. He said that just a few months before (meaning in the summer of 2015) a white Christian walked into the Texas statehouse and fired off 60 rounds from an AK-47, which he said was also terrorism even if nobody was hurt in the process.
That supposed Texas shooting is entirely fictional.
Later on, in response to a student's question, Avila says the Sept. 11 attacks were "basically the only act of foreign-born terrorism that's ever happened in the United States." Much like with the invented Texas shooting, Avila's statement is totally untrue. Just in the past few years, terrorist actions committed by foreign-born individuals in the U.S. include the Boston Marathon bombing, the Chattanooga military recruitment office shooting, and the attempted car bombing of Time Square.
Ironically, just a few weeks after Avila's lecture, UC-Merced student Faisal Mohammad (an American-born Muslim) went on a stabbing spree at the school, apparently in an act of solidarity with Islamic State. That was followed in early December by the shooting in San Bernardino, where one of the two shooters was foreign-born and both appear to have been motivated by Islamic extremism.
When contacted by The College Fix, Avila defended himself vigorously, and linked to several news articles to bolster his argument that conservative white men are the country's main terrorist threat.
"A common heuristic about terrorists is that they are most often Muslim. I wanted to show the class that this was not the case," he says.
Avila admits he completely mangled his facts in describing the non-existent Texas attack. He said he was actually thinking of an incident in Georgia in 2014, when a man attempted to storm the courthouse of Forsyth County with an AR-15 before being gunned down by a patrolling sheriff's deputy. Avila says he first saw video of the incident in the summer of 2015, leading to his confusion.
When you define terrorism as actions of white Christian men then you can see a lot of terrorism committed by White Christian men.
Even ‘back in those days’ the IRA (of which there were MANY other groups, wish I couple remember ‘em) CALLED IN their threats which gave time to evacuate the area and/or look/diffuse. I don’t recall any ‘heart of the market’ bombings/etc.; it was always them vs. govt vs. IRA-like
Until we get taxpayer $$ out of ‘education’
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Someone just needs to sue this person. It is easily proven slander. If it is a white guy they are almost all liberal and crazy.
And they’re protected.
And the IRA was Marxist, Catholic In Name Only (CINO).
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Since 9/11 I’m really sick of so many things being dumbed down. “Terrorism” is 1 of those things.
What is “terrorism”, e.g.?
Terrorism is not simply killing someone, or assailing someone, or doing either in a mass manner.
Terrorism is creating general terror (i.e., concern that anyone may be next, almost like a warning) through killings (much more than mere assaults) based on a belief in the name of that belief and in direct support of some organized grouping.
Guys like Columbine and the movie theater and Newtown don’t count as “terrorists” because they did it for themselves, not to support some greater organized group, like ISIS. They are merely mass murderers.
If he’s counting MM, then yeah, lots of white guys involved IN AMERICA (try expanding that to world-wide). Take out the MMs and you don’t have much terror in America to start, much less “white guys” as perps.
McVeigh was not affiliated with any “group”, and he basically did it himself. He was not doing it in the name of some religion, even if he called himself Christian, that was not his aim.
These absurd fools fall over themselves, anything to make anyone not white-American-male-Christian-conservative-hetero seem better than same.
I went to a great little religious college in SoCal called Vanguard University. It is run by the Assemblies of God, and has some very good programs up through the PhD level. But even there, we had a black adjunct sociology professor refer to whites in his class, as mongrels. I reported this to my advisor (who was Cuban) and that was the end of that man’s service to the school. This was in 1982.
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