Posted on 02/02/2011 12:09:37 AM PST by No One Special
A number of years ago, I was the victim of a brutal street crime. Although I was left with a broken nose and two black eyes, I learned soon thereafter that I wasn't a "good victim."
A progressive friend, Fran, clued me in. When I told her what happened, she said, "What you went through wasn't half as bad as what he has suffered." Fran was referring to the fact that I am white and the assailant was black. In other words, my suffering didn't matter.
Fran's reaction is not at all unique in these parts; here, there are good and bad victims. For instance, a couple of years ago, a middle school teacher was stoned and beaten in her classroom by a vicious mob of students. And yet, because of the racial make-up of the victim and the assailants, the media had little to say, except to imply that the teacher may have been a racist.
When I mentioned my horror about this heinous crime to yet another Leftist friend, she responded in the prescribed, politically correct way. Without showing an ounce of compassion toward the battered teacher, my friend blamed "white privilege."
With Obama and the hard Left in charge, we see nationwide what I've witnessed up close and personal here in Berkeley. Thus, when a young, white couple were beaten unconscious after leaving a GOP fundraiser, the mainstream media did not find their plight worthy of reportage. Similarly, when a conservative had his finger bitten off, or a frail, diabetic conservative was beaten, the silence was deafening. Sarah Palin's church being torched with children in it didn't deserve even a blip on the evening news.
When 13 US soldiers at Ft. Hood, including a pregnant woman, were mowed down in cold blood (and 30 more wounded), President Obama didn't interrupt a Native American shout-out to renounce the horror. When Obama finally did speak, he urged us not to jump to conclusions. Since then, next to nothing has been said about the slaughter. The fact that the murderer was a Muslim automatically disqualifies the soldiers from being "good victims."
In contrast, during the recent, also horrific Tucson massacre, 20 people were injured and 6 killed by an apparently psychotic 22 year old. Given that the Ft. Hood murders involved an internal Jihad, doesn't this genocide pose a greater safety risk to this country than a lunatic in Tucson? Consequently, shouldn't Ft. Hood have been dissected and analyzed for months on end?
However, since the politicos found a way to blame Tucson on conservatives, this latter atrocity has garnered much more publicity. In fact, Obama presided over a huge Memorial Service for the families and survivors of Tucson. No comparable event was held for the loved ones of Ft. Hood.
The Left divides the world into good and bad victims. People who are viewed as part of an aggrieved group are "good victims." Those who suffer at the hands of these protected groups are not afforded this same status. In fact, "bad victims," such as the middle school teacher, as well as I, are made to feel responsible for being assaulted. Good victims are showered with attention because they reinforce the Leftist party line.
The Left needs to control popular opinion by censoring information that's unflattering to their cause. If the populace were fully informed about Leftist violence, there would be a mass stampede rightward. New Black Panther leader King Samir Shabazz railing about murdering "crackers" and their babies isn't exactly the best PR for the progressives.
But there's an even more disturbing reason why so many hard-core Leftists divide the world into good and bad victims. It is because many of them don't care about human beings.
Think I'm exaggerating? Then why haven't progressives spoken out against the death threats received by Sarah Palin and her family? People on the Left relish telling Palin rape jokes -- or laughing at them. Several Leftists fantasized publicly about conservatives dying painful deaths. Comedian Wanda Sykes thought it would be a hoot if Rush perished from a kidney disease.
And we're not talking here solely about contempt towards conservatives. Many progressives don't appear to be fans of the human race. Euthanasia for the dying and Death Panels for the old are discussed with cold, steely indifference.
Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich, tells elderly people that with government-run health care, "We are going to let you die." Editors at Newsweek Magazine think nothing of splashing a cover feature about "Killing Granny."
Obama himself doesn't seem to be a big people lover. He's buddies with unrepentant terrorist, Bill Ayers, who bombed living, breathing humans. Obama appointed John Holdren as Science Czar, a man who has advocated forced abortions and sterilizer in our drinking water.
When Obama was an Illinois State Senator, he refused to protect live babies who survived late-term abortion. While abortion is a hot-button topic, who among us would not agree that if the baby is born alive, he or she should be allowed to remain in that state?
Another disturbing example: progressives have had a field day blogging about how Palin should have aborted her Down Syndrome child, Trig. Part of the reason Palin resigned her Governorship is because of the vicious things said about Trig. Isn't it offensive in the extreme when people wish an aborted death on a fully formed child?
It makes me wonder: what has happened to these people to make their hearts grow so cold? Perhaps it's all the violent TV shows and movies desensitizing people. Maybe it's a result of the Left's Alinsky-like tactics that pit groups against each other for limited resources.
More profoundly, in our secular world, people are alienated from the life force, from the Source of all love in the universe. You can see it; the light has gone out of so many people's eyes. And they reveal this darkness by sexually degrading Palin, wishing bodily harm on Rush, or promoting the early deaths of our old people.
For many progressives, their indifference, even hatred, springs from a deep sense of spiritual alienation. Because it is an alienated person, a lost soul, who has forgotten this essential truth: that every life matters, even that of a Down Syndrome baby or a political opponent.
The demand for purity or ideality in victim-hood by the left is even more divisive with respect to women as a group, which isn’t explored explicitly in the article above, but is undeniable.
Sarah Palin's church being torched with children in it didn't deserve even a blip on the evening news.
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Newly-minted conservative: A liberal who’s a recent victim of violent crime.
When Obama was an Illinois State Senator, he refused to protect live babies who survived late-term abortion. While abortion is a hot-button topic, who among us would not agree that if the baby is born alive, he or she should be allowed to remain in that state?
Another disturbing example: progressives have had a field day blogging about how Palin should have aborted her Down Syndrome child, Trig. Part of the reason Palin resigned her Governorship is because of the vicious things said about Trig. Isn't it offensive in the extreme when people wish an aborted death on a fully formed child?
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A conservativeblack candidate may be electable, it depends on just how badly Obama conducts himslef and how much blood shed he creates here at home.Its too early to tell.
But it would be one of the horrible results of this liberakl fascist regime, to never “annoint” another black person with the office.Obama does a trememdous diservice to our nation in this way, by implimemting anti-white racist politics and administration of our laws.
The leftist/progressives are using big words and by the help of union-like thugs are trying to squash the mainstream American people!!!
I can’t wait to see when Patriotic Americans FINALLY takes to the streets taking their guns out of the locked cabinets, saying enough is enough???
Candor, you are right!
It's talking about in the days before Christ returns.
When 13 US soldiers at Ft. Hood, including a pregnant woman, were mowed down in cold blood (and 30 more wounded), President Obama didn't interrupt a Native American shout-out to renounce the horror. When Obama finally did speak, he urged us not to jump to conclusions. Since then, next to nothing has been said about the slaughter. The fact that the murderer was a Muslim automatically disqualifies the soldiers from being "good victims."
In contrast, during the recent, also horrific Tucson massacre, 20 people were injured and 6 killed by an apparently psychotic 22 year old. Given that the Ft. Hood murders involved an internal Jihad, doesn't this genocide pose a greater safety risk to this country than a lunatic in Tucson? Consequently, shouldn't Ft. Hood have been dissected and analyzed for months on end?
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Few here would argue that there many in the MSM, in the sickest of ways, would use any type of Breslan massacre as a means to obtain political gain. We now have proof - as you cited - that the MSM went completely to the aid of Obama in that circumstance and said nothing and asked nothing. In the case of Tucson, the corrupt MSM went even further and eagerly engaged in accusing their political enemies.
Beware when men call evil good, and good evil, and none can tell the difference between the two. Sadly, in America, we have arrived at that day.
Look, liberals are the violent ones - NOT us. Check out your local prison if you have doubts. VEEERY few Republicans in those places...
You’re right. She nailed it.
She's a fool if she doesn't take stronger steps to protect herself than trying to educate and "raise consciousness" in her "brothers".
Why and how liberals ‘count more’...
Liberals don't have any compassion and couldn't give a rational definition of it if they tried. What they substitute for the real thing is assuaging of misplaced guilt.
Never thought of it that way, but you're right. We all knew it wasn't compassion - but it was hard to put into words what it was... Thanks.
I don’t think a lib’s idea of compassion even qualifies as sympathy which of course is not a synonym for compassion either. But their rhetoric does make it sound like it is.
Yes, but UNTIL the Patriots come out and say: "Enough is enough", and the liberals will be totally baffled and stunned, when that "Lion" wakes up after it has been teased enough, and they will regret it and be totally squashed like you step on a roach!!!
The left exists to exploit “victim” politics. There is a pecking order of victims, with white capitalist males at the top. A mixture of Marxist economics, and Freudian repression theory, with the added fallacy that we are or should be, all equal.
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