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.
Thanks, Laz!
I totally agree with that, and I have no clear solutions.
I, instead, focused on the hideous accusation that "Trump deserves his rape! He dresses like a SLUT!"
It's the only part of this set of scenarios that I pray I have a possible solution for: a (hopefully powerful) counter-meme.
Rafael Eduardo Cruz has shown his true colors again this morning on the news outlets crying about violence Trump has engendered and he is with the left in supporting the attempt to silence Trump and his supporters. The man is a TOTAL FRAUD.
Words only have power over us that we give to them. At timeswe hear what we want to hear rather than what is said. I stand with Cruz and will continue to do so. His statement was not in support of the protesters, but a comdmnation of both. Disengenuous to make the rape analogy and blaming the victim. Cruz blamed the protesters by bringing violence to a rally. Blamed the candidate for fostering an environment of violence that begets violence... If the candidate promotes raping the miniskirt clad victim, that candidate is not copable in the actions of the crowd... But fosters the environment. Responsibility always lands with the individual, trump supporters think because they have the numbers, thatt that makes them right. That is not the case.
If Ted Cruz gets a single primary vote after this, I would be shocked.
Friggin’ home run.
No worries if you continue to support Cruz, that’s your choice. I don’t agree with a single word of your text, but that’s okay too.
Cruz does this dozens of times in every debate.
Thats what makes america great
Brilliant! Spot on.
Please, call them what they really are....they are “black supremacists.” Funny how white supremacists are so bad but black supremacists aren’t???
Looks like he’s after Bernie’s voters?
Thank you, kind sir. :)
Most telling is how they get so upset when you say "ALL lives matter".
They are stating, outright, that white lives DON'T matter.
Thank you brother. :)
Indeed!
Thank you!
“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.”
That is not correct, Laz. The clause beginning with but is being contrasted with the first clause. The “but” does not eliminate the first clause.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/but
Many Trump supporters are claiming the same thing you did. Did you post that without checking to see if it were correct?
Oh, woe is me. :) My brevity has escaped me. :)
TC: Glaring grammar problem, and I need to rewrite to include Gondring's better examples of Trump rhetoric, but other than that, a critique please? I may send this one over the transom into several conservative blogs.
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