Posted on 07/29/2019 4:02:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
It’s tough being a white guy these days, especially when you combine being literally responsible for every evil and injustice on the planet that’s ever occurred at any time or place in all of human history with bearing the Atlas-like burden of everything from global warming to micro-aggressions against college snowflakes.
And then I’m apparently supposed to somehow feel “guilty” about being at least the indirect cause of all that carnage. Should I feel guilty about not feeling guilty? Does eating ribeyes and sleeping like a baby at night make me a “bad” person? Am I irredeemable because I don’t seek the approval of social justice warriors, college professors and squirrelly Antifa types? It’s all so confusing.
Maybe I’d get the whole “white privilege” thing and feel a little bad about it, if it were indeed a “privilege” to be a member of the only group today’s super-weird PC culture allows to be stereotyped, censored, pigeonholed, discriminated against, and generally maligned as good-for-nothing malcontents.
Fine, whatever. I know it probably sounds like it here, but in real life I’m not crying a river. White people still do plenty well in this country, though I’d argue that it’s in spite of and not because of the “system” that’s currently in place. But it still rankles to get accused, as a group no less, of things that quite simply aren’t true. Especially when society has generally moved past generalizing people based on the group to which they belong.
But when there’s racial generalizing to be done, leave it to the experts - far left Democrats - to show the rest of us that ignorance is still alive. Case in point, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, who is shown generalizing white men as “causing most of the deaths within this country” in a recently publicized February 2018 interview with Al Jazeera host Medhi Hasan.
“I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country,” Omar said, responding to a question from Hasan about people who fear Islam because of what they consider a “legitimate fear of jihadist terrorism.”
“And so if fear was the driving force of policies to keep America safe, Americans safe inside of this country, we should be profiling, monitoring, and creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men,” she concluded.
Obviously, Omar’s statement doesn’t come in a vacuum. She’s trying to make an apples to apples observation by stating that if Americans are going to be skeptical of Muslims because of jihadist terrorism, we should also be skeptical of white men because of all the “deaths” they (we) are apparently causing.
OK, you say, maybe Omar was thinking hate crimes and somehow getting those mixed up with “deaths.” Surely whites commit the vast majority of hate crimes, right? At least that’s what the media has been telling us for years, so it must be true.
Well, 2017 FBI statistics do show whites committing 50.7 percent of hate crimes, but again if you take out Hispanic offenders, which a lot of the data deceptively does not, the actual number of Caucasian white male hate crime offenders is likely well under 50 percent. So again, even “most” of the hate crimes aren’t technically being caused by white men.
Interestingly, despite the fact that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio blamed the “forces of white supremacy” for an attack on a group of Hasidic Jews in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, last May, those attackers were actually … black. In fact, the NYPD’s own hate crimes reporting shows that city’s hate crime suspects to be “most frequently black (55.0 percent), white (23.6 percent) or Hispanic (20.0 percent).” Nationwide, blacks account for 21.3 percent of hate crime offenders, still significantly more than their 13 percent population representation.
How about mass shootings? Well, Omar may have a small point there in this category that represents a tiny fraction of all shooting deaths, but it’s still not what liberals would have us think. Indeed, though a higher percentage of mass shooters are definitely white males, even Slate understands that white representation in that tragic category isn’t above what would be expected given the white percentage of the population. “The plurality of mass killers are white,” writes Slate’s Daniel Engber. “But the notion that white men of privilege are disproportionately represented among mass shooters—indeed, that they make up ‘nearly all’ of them—is a myth.”
To be clear, zero hate crimes, and murders, and mass shootings, and crimes in general, is the number we’d like to see from all varieties of humankind, but we’re just talking raw numbers here, you know, since Omar brought it up.
To bring things back to the Minnesota congresswoman’s attempt to compare apples to jihadis, Forbes’ Dominic Dudley attributed “well over half” of the “18,814 deaths caused by terrorists around the world last year” to “just four groups: Islamic State, the Taliban, Al-Shabaab and Boko Haram.”
Sure, white radicalization isn’t good, should be fought, and can certainly result in the most horrendous of crimes, like the tragic black church shooting in Charleston in 2015. Nobody is minimizing that. However, Islamic radicalization, when it hits, can do far more damage than what happened on September 11, 2001. It is devastating entire nations.
NO. Next question, please.
...one day for no reason at all...
Most crime is not “hate crime”.
If there is a bullet in my brain, do I care how it got there?
Crime is crime. Criminals have motivations. Their motivations are only interesting in as much as they can be analyzed to prevent future crimes.
The entire world wants to live in a majority white country, and the math will simply not work.
I’m glad someone took the time to rebut her dishonest point.
Hate crimes are political pandering and BS.
Race based crimes from blacks and violent crime in general from blacks is now and has been an ignored issue.
No. This thing is an America hater, and a member of a violent, repressive, intolerant death cult and has no right to be in congress.
You got that right, and she should have never been allowed to immigrate
Yeah, except that those deaths supposedly caused by white men (murders) were mostly caused by black men, to other black men. 7% of the population causing nearly half of the murders in the country. So as she is demonstrably and utterly wrong, no she does not have a point. Or a clue. Or a brain.
CC
Islam has killed more people over the centuries than Socialism.
I would guess those hate crimes numbers by blacks are a bit higher from under reporting.
The utter idiocy today disguised as “journalism” is mind-numbing.
What exactly is white radicalization? David Duke doesn't inspire many white folks. Barack Obama, on the other hand ...
ML/NJ
Just because we don't hang burning tires around your neck if we don't like ya. How many refugees flee to Somalia?
Why would we take their commands to make our nation like theirs? Do they miss the smell of burning tires and flesh that much?
I will agree that Hitler and Stalin caused most of the deaths of the 20th century and that Hitler and Stalin were white.
IIRC Chairman Mao gets top billing.
Really?
Does she know that the Hindu Kush mountain range is where tens of millions of naked Indian slaves froze to death while being marched to Europe to be sold by Muslims as slaves. Hindu Kush means slaughter of the Hindus.
BINGO
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