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Week of Tragedy Reveals Our Ideological Blind Spots
Townhall.com ^ | July 13, 2016 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 07/13/2016 12:25:25 PM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 07/13/2016 12:25:26 PM PDT by Kaslin
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"Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (who did not lose his lazy certainty) spent the weekend attacking the Black Lives Matter movement as "racist." He wants people to focus on the fact that most black murder victims die at the hands of other blacks. That's true, and tragic, and fairly irrelevant."

Jonah, you ignorant slut.

2 posted on 07/13/2016 12:30:31 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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I usually agree with Jonah Goldberg, but I think he's off-base here. We don't yet what really happened with the two men who were killed by police officers. There will be thorough investigations and if it turns out the cops behaved improperly, you can bet their careers, and, basically, their lives, will be over. In contrast, we know that the five police officers were murdered by a black racist who was inspired by Black Lives Matter. I agreed with every word Rudy Giuliani has said over the past five days. Black Lives Matter is a racist group that incites violence against the police.
3 posted on 07/13/2016 12:33:26 PM PDT by utahagen
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To: Kaslin

A swishy summary of elite emotional response here.

It has nothing to do with reality.


4 posted on 07/13/2016 12:35:00 PM PDT by donna (No one should be allowed to become a citizen or even a resident if they support Sharia Law.)
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I’m pretty much ignoring the cucks of National Review these days....


5 posted on 07/13/2016 12:37:43 PM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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That's true, and tragic, and fairly irrelevant.

Only when you're doubling down on unilaterally setting the "terms of debate."

6 posted on 07/13/2016 12:39:00 PM PDT by papertyger
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There had been reports that one of the one guys, that was killed by the policeman did not have a gun permit as he had claimed. I don’t know if it was the one in Baton Rouge, or the other one in Minnesota


7 posted on 07/13/2016 12:43:49 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needI have beeed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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Cuck says what?


8 posted on 07/13/2016 12:44:04 PM PDT by The Toll
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ESAD Goldberg. ESAD.


9 posted on 07/13/2016 12:52:15 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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I refuse to read beyond that statement.

Black-on-black crime is TOTALLY relevant, because it is a major source of interactions between police and perps. Cut down on BoB crime, reduce interactions with police, reduce officer-involved shootings, gain respect for the black community.

Why is this so difficult to understand?


10 posted on 07/13/2016 12:52:44 PM PDT by Chaguito
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Jonah used to be good.

He’s a younger George Will. And basically still in the closet as “I’m pretending I’m not a Democrat”.


11 posted on 07/13/2016 12:55:43 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The official language of the United States should be Arabic. It's clear that our government is.)
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Paul Ryan is a conservative and blacks “have good reason to believe the state is murdering young black men?”

Drooling moron.


12 posted on 07/13/2016 1:06:58 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

He was paid to write this, that makes him a whore, sluts work for free.


13 posted on 07/13/2016 1:13:12 PM PDT by Impy (Never Shillery)
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‘Rats need to get Right with the Law. From Hussein and H->! on down.


14 posted on 07/13/2016 1:15:14 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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Conservatives, of all people, should understand that...

Still amazed that the post-American cheap-foreign-labor globalist donor class shills at NRO managed to steal the label "conservative" and apply it to themselves.

This is basically a "moral equivalence" argument in which Goldberg tries to find something, anything among the BLM lies to stick on cops and white Americans, so he can lecture both sides and appear morally smug and superior.

Fryer also found that blacks are disproportionately victims of bias when it comes to non-lethal use of force by police, such as use of pepper spray, manhandling and the like.

Oh really? And did the study evaluate whether blacks are disproportionately aggressive and uncooperative when confronted by police, which would explain the non-lethal use of force? No? Of course not.

15 posted on 07/13/2016 1:40:30 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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“There will be thorough investigations and if it turns out the cops behaved improperly, you can bet their careers, and, basically, their lives, will be over.”

Correction: even if the officers behaved entirely properly their careers and the lives they used to have will be over.

Just ask Darren Wilson.

And as for blacks being “disproportionately” manhandled by police - that comes down to the disproportionate chip on the shoulder attitude and childish non-compliance.

For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktryILbNZqg

What does this dope think ? That if Slager and the other officer can’t pull him out of the car they are going to let him go ?


16 posted on 07/13/2016 1:45:22 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (UK out of the EU; UN out of the USA !)
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There was no tragedy, that implies an act of Fate; there was only Infamy.


17 posted on 07/13/2016 2:02:08 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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Jonah used to be a good read. He went leftie a long time ago. F him.


18 posted on 07/13/2016 2:22:39 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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Quote:

“......so he can lecture both sides and appear morally smug and superior. “

Text book definition of a “liberal.”


19 posted on 07/13/2016 2:38:27 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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Gun rights activists were dismayed that Philando Castile, the man shot by a police officer in Minnesota, had followed all of the rules -- he had a gun permit, cooperated with the officer, etc. -- and was still killed.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? I thought all of this was discredited?

20 posted on 07/13/2016 3:00:01 PM PDT by Hardastarboard
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