Posted on 03/13/2016 8:13:36 AM PDT by Lazamataz
One consistent behavior of the left is that they create a crisis, then offer to solve it, all the while blaming the victim.
So it goes with Donald Trump and his rallies. The group #BlackLiesMatter has stormed his rallies, fighting with his supporters in Chicago, and disrupting other events, and even had a lone wolf Thomas Dimassimo rush Trump on his podium. Thank the Good Lord the Secret Service was prepared and protected him quickly with their bodies, for who knows how this might have otherwise played out.
In response, the Propaganda Ministry (formerly and inaccurately known as the American News Media) blamed Trump for the attacks on him. This is the political equivalent of blaming the rape victim. They are claiming that Donald Trump caused the attacks with 'divisive and inflammatory' rhetoric.
Note, also, that the meme circulated last weekend was that Trump is just like Hitler. Yet, who is really acting like the Nazis? It is those in the #BlackLiesMatter movement, and others who would shut down Trump's rallies. In the 1920's and 1930's, the Sturmabteilung (also known as Brownshirts) stormed the rallies of their political opponents with violence and disruption. It turns out that those who falsely accused Trump of Nazism, adopted every single tactic of the Nazis themselves.
Let us momentarily ignore the hideous accusation that "Donald Trump deserved it, for he dresses like a SLUT!” Let us analyze his "divisive and inflammatory" rhetoric:
In so doing, they impugn all of us who think these comments are very positive developments in modern politics -- and, most importantly, they blame Trump for the attacks upon his supporters and upon his person. They are saying that "Trump deserves his rape! He dresses like a SLUT!"
This is the most base and vile possible argument. People who advance this heinous must be called out and publically shamed for their comments. Additionally, let us imagine for a moment that Trump *was* speaking in an objectionable way. America traditionally does not shut down objectionable speech. America traditionally meets such speech with more speech.
I was quite disappointed to see Ted Cruz jump aboard this argument, and it gives me pause per his true allegiances and motivations. He presented the obligatory condemnation of the attackers, and then used the word 'but', and went on to defame Donald Trump. I hold that most of the time that people say "this, BUT that", they deny their first clause, and are actually solely advocating their second clause. Cruz went right to the most base of all possible arguments. He agrees: "Trump deserves his rape! He dresses like a SLUT!"
This argument cannot stand, and we must call out anyone who advocated this "blame the victim" mentality.
Can Trump get a restraining order against the groups involved in the attack in Chicago to keep them from attending his rallies?
Prove otherwise or admit it.
Wrong.
It was written in haste. Accurate. :)
You are wrong. and you are proving that statement correct by your continued failure to provide supporting evidence.
You are arguing in a similar way to the way leftists argue.
Incorrect.
You are acting silly, and not proving anything other than that you are acting silly.
You are mistaken.
A winner. Short and to the point.
You post in error.
My opinion of you as a Free Republic member is far lower now than before.
Your argument is invalid.
So you are allowed to be illogical and unreasonable and not be lower than I used to think you were?
That’s a revelation. Logic and reason are not allowed in your world? That seems to be what you are saying.
Your conclusions are erroneous.
Re: a critique.
Loved your post, but you wrote “People who advance this heinous must be called out and publically shamed for their comments.”
This heinous what? I think the sentence needs another word.
:)
Just being constructive...
Otherwise I gotta keep screwin' with him. :)
You have a better than average vocabulary. I like that.
Your assertions are wide of the mark.
Kinda scared when someone cannot tell I’m playin’ with them. LOL
You are off-target.
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