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 within minutes the democrats and media blamed Trump and stirred up hate.
There can be no kumbaya, no co existence, no coming together.
The left must be destroyed, ground to dust and then salted
For modern leftists, the concept of "evil" has been mischaracterized just as badly as "racism" has. It's just a political buzz-word aimed at eliciting emotional responses for political purposes.
Nobody did a better job of exposing this than Judge Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings, when he called out that Milk Dud dope Cory Booker for characterizing Kavanaugh's supporters as "evil." Booker was so embarrassed he even had to retract that characterization, which is astonishing when you consider that leftists NEVER apologize for ANYTHING.
So, Ben -- here's the problem in a nutshell: We have a culture and political landscape dominated by people who don't even believe "good" and "evil" can be objectively defined.
“...And will see a court challenge....”
...After how many 4am “no-knock” flash bang raids and dead Citizens? AND dead cops.
Not acceptable.
We ALL have to stand up to EVIL. That is what is Ben Shapiro is saying.
Thank-you Mr. Shapiro.
I see a court challenge coming.
Is that with, or without Jesus? Good luck with the later.
Again - no one has proven the manifesto (originally posted on Instagram) was written by the shooter!
The argument is facetious as we haven’t confirmed the actual motives of the El Paso shooter compared to the AntiFa shooter in Dayton who is NOT being talked about!
Said it best.
Second, we can't agree on what is evil.
Ben the Cuck. No thanks.
In view of the Jewish/Christian world view.
because the ‘evil’ do not want to come together. they want complete control and conservatives/Christians are in their way. They once were the democratic party.. today they are the evil side of this war we are in for the survival of our nation and our families.
The reality is it will get much worse before it gets better (the return of Jesus). This is what happens to nations that turn their backs on God, every time.
Because the left is uncompromisingly evil, you (BS) stupid cuck
Not if that side is bashing whites and wants to destroy the West. However that is exactly what the left, Marxist & GOPe does. The recent shooting aside they want us destroyed. Multiculturalism and diversity are unworkable unless whites get on their knees & acquiesce to being evil. The West must be destroyed. Why would I want to be on that side?
Correct about what?
The Civil War should be joined.
Fixed it.
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