Posted on 08/07/2019 4:48:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
This should be easy.
We're all on the same side. When a white supremacist terrorist shoots up a Walmart filled with innocents in El Paso, we should all be on the same side. We should be mourning together; we should be fighting together.
Instead, we're fighting one another.
We're fighting one another for one simple reason: Too many on the political left have become accustomed to castigating the character of those who disagree with the left on policy. Favor tougher border controls? This puts you on the side of the white supremacist terrorist. Believe in Second Amendment rights? You're a vicious, violent cretin covering for those who commit acts of evil. Cite Western civilization as a source of our common values, believe that police forces across the United States are not systemically racist, favor smaller government intervention in the social sphere -- in short, disagree with the program of the American left? Most of all, consider voting for Trump? You're an accessory to murder.
Now, there are many on the political left who are too smart for this sort of specious reasoning and character assassination. But not everyone. Charles Blow of The New York Times, for example, writes in a column this week that "terrorists" and "policymakers" are the two "sides of white nationalism." Blow clarifies: "White nationalist terrorists -- young and rash -- and white nationalist policymakers -- older and more methodical -- live on parallel planes, both aiming in the same direction, both with the same goal: To maintain and ensure white dominance and white supremacy." Who, pray tell, are these evil white nationalist policymakers? Those who favor "border walls, anti-immigrant laws, voter suppression and packing the courts." Never mind that many advocates of border security also advocate for broader legal immigration. Never mind that nobody actually favors voter suppression. To Blow, an R next to your name signifies merely a less militant Nazism than your neighborhood Hitler Youth.
David Leonhardt of The New York Times similarly argued this week that "American conservatism has a violence problem." While admitting that conservative America "is mostly filled with honorable people who deplore violence and bear no responsibility for right-wing hate killings" and that "liberal America also has violent and deranged people," Leonhardt lays the blame for an increase in political violence at the feet of "mainstream conservative politicians," who are somehow connected to "right-wing extremists."
There's something in the water at The New York Times, obviously. Jamelle Bouie, another voice on The Times opinion page, suggested a "connection between white nationalism" and my personal "ideological project." Never mind that I've been perhaps the loudest voice on the right decrying white nationalism for years; that I firmly fight for particular Western civilized values and small-government conservatism that foreclose and despise racism; that I've incurred hundreds of thousands of dollars in security costs for my trouble; that I require 24/7 security to protect me from white nationalist blowback; and that just weeks ago, the FBI arrested a white nationalist threatening to murder me. Obviously, all
There can be no unity when one side of the political aisle firmly believes that the other side is motivated by unmitigated evil. No decent conversation about fixes can be had when you assume the person sitting across from you sympathizes with monsters who go to shoot up Hispanic Americans at a Walmart. If we can't at least assume that we're all on the same page in condemning white supremacist terror attacks and white supremacist ideology, we may as well pack this republic in. We're done.
Because USA is divided.
The start of Civil War 2.
When a sitting president of the minority party calls for red flag laws, we fight.
These shooters are the suicide bombers of American left. Find the money trail.
Where has Shapiro been? The left finally have their dream legislation. Just like Obamacare, it was written years ago and will be enacted post haste.
Because of the Rat/RINO uniparty of treason like this member....
https://mobile.twitter.com/SenMcCollister/status/1158178237899522048
Because, Ben, when you have accepted that a libtard who wanted to kill brown people to “reduce global warming” is a “white terrorist” you have revealed you aren’t quite as intelligent as you think you are.
And will see a court challenge.
“...We’re all on the same side. ...”
No, Benny... we’re not.
One side hates everything that Americans love and hold dear.
One side hates the fact that you can actually dare to disagree with every single lunatic idea they come up with.
One side hates the fact that you can defend yourself - against them and their twisted ideology if necessary.
One side hates the fact that YOU get to decide what to do and what not to do with YOUR OWN PROPERTY. At least most of it, for now, anyway.
So, no, sorry Benny. We’re NOT on the same side. Our fathers and grandfathers crossed oceans to defeat the ideology the other side fervently believes in.
And that’s why “we can’t unify”. And won’t.
Ben Shapiro is on to something.
Lol.. seriously? Our sc killed religious liberty with their cross vote. You think they want us armed?
Our Republic hinges on this one right.. we just lost it. It’s only a matter of time.
Tyranny and Liberty will never mix.
Because only an idiot accepts the enemies premise as fact; the shooter was not a “white supremacist”.
Because the left is evil. They want to subject entire populations to tyranny, which is why they work tirelessly to keep people from being able to defend themselves with guns. Uniting with them is suicidal.
What happens when Islam hits the U.S. again with all the invaders that have crossed the border. Of course it will be Trumps fault because he didn’t build the wall. Even though the Demonicrats prevented the wall from being built and Muslim Obama financially aided Islam with our tax dollars.
Because Ben, you have lapped up “white supremacist” like a cat laps up a saucer of cream put down by its mistress.
Hmm, Ben only wants to talk about El Paso but not Dayton, just like the MSM.
Can’t imagine why we’re not unified.
Ben we’re not all on the same side.
The truth is Ben Shapiro is correct.
how funny a Green Deal kind of guy is considered a white supremacist.
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