Posted on 10/23/2019 7:46:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The usual suspects are indignant, indignant I tell you, about the fact that President Trump used the term “lynching” in one of his tweets:
So some day, if a Democrat becomes President and the Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the President, without due process or fairness or any legal rights. All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here - a lynching. But we will WIN!
The accustomed media and left-of-center figures immediately began howling and caterwauling. This is unsurprising. If Trump stated, “The Democrats are pouring me a cup of tea,” we could anticipate the same St. Vitus’ dance of gibbering and hysteria and we would not be disappointed.
What is dismaying is the number of Republicans crawling onto this particular bandwagon.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said, “I don’t agree with that language.”
In the Senate, John Thune turned to the classic weasel term “inappropriate.”
Adam Kinzinger, a GOP congressman evidently out to be primaried tweeted, “…never should we use terms like ‘lynching’ here. The painful scourge in our history has no comparison to politics, and @realDonaldTrump should retract this immediately.”
The basis of the complaint, it seems is that “lynching,” like “slavery,” “suffering,” and “racism,” is a word reserved only for blacks, and can only be used by them or on their terms. This is scarcely an exaggeration – there are people in this country who believe that blacks are the only people who ever suffered under slavery.
The case with “lynching” is similar. Lynching, it is claimed, was reserved only for blacks, and was never suffered by whites.
This is asinine.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Crusading journalist Ida B. Wells focused for many years on exposing lynching. She carefully recorded the number of lynchings in the South and her findings, while refined over the years, have never been challenged. There were 4,743 lynchings all told. While 3,446 were black, 1,297, over a quarter, were white. The Klan and similar trash were not necessarily picky about who they strung up. It is also quite likely that some of the whites who were hanged were too friendly or supportive of them-there colored, a fact that has undoubtedly failed to occur to today’s commentators.
Lynching is simply the unlawful execution of a person by a group. It is not only not reserved for blacks nor does it only refer to hangings. The famous Roman orator Cicero was lynched by followers of Marc Antony.
The elected GOP are mostly Bush League Republicans.
If we want to keep our country we MUST replace them.
Enough of this nonsense. When are Republicans going to start raising all their great MAGA issues rather than responding to these distractions?
Somebody ping President Trump about this article. They want offensive? It's time to go on the offensive.
Lynching is a phenomenon of lawless areas - for example, the Wild West, Haiti, parts of Mexico, the South after the Civil War, etc. Or the House of Representatives...
Generally it has nothing to do with race. I honestly don’t understand how lynching has now become a term that refers only to crimes against blacks and thus is off-limits to any and all non-black people. It makes no sense.
I heard this floated on Faux News yesterday.
The GOP-e can’t even get charges against the IRS head, Holder or the State Dept.
What Clinton did would have gotten him fired from any company in the USA.
The fact that many other Senators and Congress were doing the same thing is what kept him in office.
A staple of old western movies and TV shows was the townsfolk riled up by the villain to lynch a prisoner held in the jail where the understaffed sheriff and his deputies tried to hold out against the mob. The well known film The Oxbow Incident, though following a somewhat different plot, includes a lynching of three men, two of which are white.
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