Posted on 08/08/2019 5:55:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
Immediately following two horrific mass shootings — one in El Paso, Texas, and another within a matter of hours in Dayton, Ohio — the blame game started.
For many, culprit No. 1 is, of course, President Donald Trump. Presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said: "There is a complicity in the President's hatred that undermines the goodness and the decency of Americans, regardless of what party. To say nothing in a time of rising hatred, it's not enough to say that, 'I'm not a hatemonger myself.' If you are not actively working against hate, calling it out, you are complicit in what is going on." Booker used to be mayor of Newark, New Jersey, where in 2013 — his last year as mayor — the city's murder rate was the third-highest of all large U.S. cities. Kind of difficult to pin that on Trump, who did not take office until January 2017.
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke also blamed Trump, whom he agreed is a "white nationalist." O'Rourke said: "We've got to acknowledge the hatred, the open racism that we're seeing. ... We also see it from our commander in chief, and he is encouraging this. He doesn't just tolerate it, he encourages it." Indeed, a 2018 Quinnipiac University poll found that 55 percent of voters believe "President Trump has emboldened people who hold racist beliefs to express those beliefs publicly."
But is this true?
University of Pennsylvania political science professor Daniel Hopkins and research assistant Samantha Washington, the authors of a working paper, admitted that they began their research expecting it to corroborate what Trump critics and they themselves believe: that Trump is "normalizing" the expressing of racist attitudes and that white racism against blacks and Hispanics is increasing. "As a political leader, Donald Trump has used racist rhetoric to build political support," they wrote. "In his campaign and first few years in office, Donald Trump consistently defied contemporary norms by using explicit, negative rhetoric targeting ethnic/racial minorities. Did this rhetoric lead white Americans to express more prejudiced views of African Americans or Hispanics, whether through the normalization of prejudice or other mechanisms?"
But the authors, surprised by their own conclusions, stated, "Our findings contradict both hypotheses, as we primarily found declining prejudice and racial resentment, and certainly no increases." Hopkins wrote: "Measuring prejudice is notoriously difficult, but we were able to draw on a panel survey, which has posed questions about political issues to the same group of people 13 times since late 2007. Our panel asked the respondents — a representative sample of about 500 white Americans — to rate different racial groups' work ethic and trustworthiness repeatedly."
"On average, anti-black prejudice dropped sharply among whites, from ... just before the 2016 election to ... two years later," the paper read. "That marked the lowest level of anti-black prejudice since we first conducted this study in late 2008. Prejudice against Hispanics also dropped. ... In both instances, declines were larger among Democrats, but they appeared among Republicans, too."
The media and Dems focused more attention on the El Paso shooting than on the Dayton shooting. Certainly, the El Paso shooting was more deadly — 22 dead compared to nine in Dayton. But the key reason Trump critics paid more attention to El Paso is that the shooter posted an online manifesto that he apparently wrote, in which he complained of a "Hispanic invasion," "open borders" and "free healthcare for illegals." But he also wrote that he had these feelings years before Trump and that any attempt to link his actions to Trump would be "fake news." The manifesto read: "Some people will blame the President or certain presidential candidates for the attack. This is not the case."
Of less interest to the blame-Trump crowd are the words of the Dayton shooter, a self-described "leftist" who in June 2019 tweeted: "I want socialism, and i'll not wait for the idiots to finally come round to understanding." In November 2018, he tweeted: "Vote blue for god's sake." He posted "F--- John McCain" on the day of Sen. McCain's death. In December, he tweeted: "This is America: Guns on every corner, guns in every house, no freedom but that to kill." On the day of the Parkland, Florida, shooting, he sent a tweet to Ohio Sen. Robb Portman: "hey rob. How much did they pay you to look the other way? 17 kids are dead. If not now, when?" He also made clear he favored Sen. Elizabeth Warren over Sen. Kamala Harris in the 2020 Democratic presidential race. He tweeted: "Nahh, but only cuz Harris is a cop — Warren I'd happily vote for."
By all means, let's examine these killers' motives and means so we can reduce the possibility of more such shootings and reduce their lethality. But blaming Trump is lazy, dishonest and bigoted.
It may be increasing, but not caused by any white people.
If it’s Increasing, it’s bacause so many are demonizing whites as racists. And pissing them off royally. Many weak whites can’t help but reach the point of “You think I’m racist? You want to see racist? F U, I’ll show you racist! Get ready, bastards!”
And that plays directly into the hands of those that want a culling of the herd.
Democrats support a lack of respect for the Rule of Law and the sanctity of life.
“Is White Racism Really Increasing?”
Of course it is! We have nightly KKK meetings in the woods here with over 1,000 hooded members showing up and several crosses burned onto lawns every night. The night riders are on the loose and terrorizing everybody who isn’t white.
The left has given up on the term 'racist' after all of us started greeting each other by saying 'yo racist, what's happening'
I just cant wait til the Democraps find out (if ever) that they have NO partners in this effort.
A Force Ten hurricane is blowing in the opposite direction.
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UPDATE It's happening so fast, it's difficult to compose a definitive thread.......
but the overwrought global push for open borders has turned the globe into Trumpland.
They are Trump-wannabes----candidates swept to victories in the UK, France, Italy, Hungary, Sweden, Poland and the Netherlands. The new EU political stars are Salvini, Le Pen, Farage and Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
All are in talks to form a team of international nationalist leaders....and Trump is the acknowledged world leader..
<><> Mette Frederiksen: the anti-immigration left leader set to win power in Denmark. Under her leadership, the SD have called for a cap on “non-western immigrants”, for asylum seekers to be expelled to a reception centre in North Africa, and for all immigrants to be forced to work 37 hours a week in exchange for benefits.
<><>In France, President Emmanuel Macron's party suffered a humiliating defeat to Marine Le Pen.
<><>In the U.K., Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage won a landslide victory in the EU Parliament,
leading a Trump-like party that was established just six weeks ago.
<><>Boris Johnson, the Trump-like former mayor of London, emerged, against all odds, as the new prime minister of Britain.
<><>In Italy, Matteo Salvini's nationalist party became one of the leaders
of the EU Parliament, winning an astounding 28 seats.
<><> Opposition conservatives prevail in Greek local election runoffs Reuters. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ leftist Syriza party suffered its first major defeat in years to the conservative New Democracy party in last Sunday’s European Parliament vote, prompting him to say he would call an early election. The snap election is expected to take place on July 7. On Sunday, the seats of the mayor of Athens and the district governor for the wider Athens area were the top prizes up for grabs in the runoffs of local elections. Results showed New Democracy candidates winning both seats, handing the conservatives another boost before Greeks return to vote in the expected election next month.
I kinda like the short version, "Blow me", but I'll go with, "you're a lying Alinskyite bastard!" if I have the time to debate it.
Almost all Southern Democrats opposed the civil rights bills, but most Northern and Western Democrats supported them. The most conservative Republicans, like Goldwater, opposed the civil rights bill, but on states rights and libertarian grounds, not white supremacist ones.
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