salon is the worst of the worst crazy-a$$ leftists.
Obama needs to look up the definition os 'universal'.
The author needs to look up the definition of 'dhimmitude'.
The USA needs to look up the definitions of 'righteous anger' and 'just war'.
I pray “Chauncey”, whatever the hell it is, learns firsthand, the evils he is endorsing.
Salon, down on its knees to terrorism.
Don’t worry, girls, others will make the hard choices in defending your (misapplied) freedoms.
Meanwhile, continue to do what you do best - whine, p*ss, and moan.
Terrorism is politically motivated violence against a vulnerable population that is designed to intimidate, sow fear, create panic and alter public policy.
Chauncey takes time to give us a definition of terrorism, provided to him by some left wing Professor, no doubt. But, he gets it completely wrong. The goal of terrorism is the destruction of our civilization, not alter policy. He really has nothing to say about the terrorists who murdered over 100 innocent human beings, what is really on his mind is the evil right wingers who dare to criticize this behavior in the world as well as the much milder version running rampant on campuses. This is what he believes ought to be stopped at all costs. Those doing the killing apparently meet with his approval.
Not only a disturbed mind at work, but certainly diseased as well. Salon does a very good job of finding these nutcases, after all they are birds of a feather.
This fool needs to get a clue. He not only knows nothing, he doesn’t even suspect anything!
Right - don’t call them out for what they are. They’ll liable to get mad and kill people.
Only one.
There is no evil, murderous, filthy deed the worst type of human scum on this planet could commit that would compel a leftist to redirect their maniacal hatred for their political opponents.
In fact, such evil murderous deeds always seem to serve as a reason for the average leftist to intensify their hatred for their political opponents.
They are sick demented people.
of course when a white guy kills blacks in church that means leftist can engage in hate rhetoric towards whites by labeling them racists, having racism in their DNA, having white priviledge and labeling any white with a confederate flag racist...but hey nots let label muslim terrorists as muslim cause that’s hate rhetoric!!!!
Why doesn’t Salon just go ahead and incorporate a hammer and sickle into their logo?
What is worse - “Hate Speech” or..
Hearing the unique sound of an AK-74 on rapid fire, hearing the sound of a round hitting human flesh near by, looking over and seeing your child with her half her head blown away and finally looking up into the smoking muzzle of the AK just before it....
One might hurt someone’s feelings and the other ends your world. Which is worse?
Well, let's just look.
From your source article:
In the United States, the right-wing media and movement conservatives have for decades consistently used eliminationist and other violent rhetoric to describe liberals, progressives and other people with whom they disagree. As was seen in the recent attacks on a Charleston-area black church, and other violence by right-wing anti-government militias, such rhetoric does not float in the ether of the public discourse, harmless and unacknowledged. No, it does in fact lead to action.
[Emphasis supplied]
Anybody know any "movement conservatives" using "eliminationist" speech to advocate wining out the libs, killing them all?
Is anyone in here talking about mass executions of liberals and Communists, concentration camps as a preliminary to killing mass numbers of them? Destructive-labor camps? Anything like that?
Anyone in here? How about it, FReepers? Moderators? Sidebar? Guys?
I think dear Chauncey is confessing his daydreams.
(The rest of the article so that nobody else has to go to Salon to read it.)
Terrorism is politically motivated violence against a vulnerable population that is designed to intimidate, sow fear, create panic and alter public policy.
Terrorism is serious business that kills people, breaks bodies and alters lives.
It is not a game.
In the United States, the right-wing media and movement conservatives have for decades consistently used eliminationist and other violent rhetoric to describe liberals, progressives and other people with whom they disagree. As was seen in the recent attacks on a Charleston-area black church, and other violence by right-wing anti-government militias, such rhetoric does not float in the ether of the public discourse, harmless and unacknowledged. No, it does in fact lead to action.
In recent months, the right-wing media has used language such as “terrorism†and “violent,†or that the latter is “targeting police for murder†to describe the Black Lives Matter movement. Such bombastic and ugly screeds–which are wholly unfounded, with no basis in empirical reality–have also been used by right-wing opinion leaders to describe the African-American students who are fighting against racism at Yale and the University of Missouri.
There are many examples of this type of incendiary rhetoric from conservatives and their sympathizers.
A few examples.
Bill O’Reilly has declared “war†on Black Lives Matter and in doing so described them as a type of contemporary Ku Klux Klan (KKK). At its height of popularity in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the KKK was America’s largest terrorist organization. It was responsible for the murders of thousands of African-Americans. In contrast to the KKK, Black Lives Matter is a group dedicated to protecting the human rights of all people against state-sponsored violence and police thuggery and murder.
Ben Carson, in his designated role as a black conservative whose primary purpose is to disparage black Americans and to excuse-make for white racism, recently told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly that the black and brown students who are advocating for their full rights and respect at Yale University are ushering in “anarchy†and “this is just raw emotion and people just being manipulated, I think in many of these cases, by outside forces who wish to create disturbances.â€
Likewise, Fox News has repeatedly described the student protesters at Yale and Missouri using the same language. O’Reilly has even gone so far as to suggest that Black Lives Matter and the students who are protesting racist treatment are part of a cabal that is engaging in “fascist†behavior and “running wild†against white people. Trumping his allusions to “fascism,†on his October 22, 2015 episode of his TV show, Bill O’Reilly even made the absurd claim that Black Lives Matter is akin to the “Nazis.â€
These are implicit threats and overtures to violence as racial authoritarian fascists are a clear and present danger to democracy and freedom. Thus, they must be eliminated by any means necessary.
Other critics of the student activists at Yale University and Missouri such as The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf have even made the absurd claim that so-called “safe spaces†are being “weaponized†by student activists in order to deny free speech.
Terrorism has been practiced in the United States. It was used by a Herrenvolk white settler society built upon the genocide of First Nations peoples and the enslavement of African-Americans to control, intimidate, and murder non-whites. The decades of Jim and Jane Crow white supremacy were also a form of State-sponsored terrorism as well. Political violence continues in the present where in too many of America’s communities, police and other security forces kill with impunity, force the black and brown poor into a state of “custodial citizenshipâ€, and act in a thuggish and illegal way towards the country’s most vulnerable citizens.
Black Lives Matter stands against such violence. The student protesters at Yale and Missouri who are fighting for fairness and justice stand against violence. Liberals and progressives as a matter of principle, a belief in the Common Good, and a humane society stand against violence.
Despite what the right-wing media, Bill O’Reilly, and the opinion leaders in the White Right routinely bloviate, those groups and individuals are not terrorists.
Real terrorists have killed people in the streets of Paris. The right-wing media needs to take note of that fact and moderate their rhetoric and abusive language accordingly.
Given the American right-wing’s casual habit of using violent language to describe their foes, and to gin up fear and anxiety among the movement conservative base, the Fox News’ right-wing echo chamber and its elites should be ashamed given the death and destruction that terrorism actually reaps in practice.
The folks at Salon have spent too much time under the dryer with the heat turned up way too high.
Salon - “Don’t hate those that kill you because it gives them a thrill, hate those who disagree with your insane Leftist tirades against the good and decent.”