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Will the Left Ever Learn to Wait Before Blaming the Right for a Mass Shooting?
pjmedia.com ^ | 11/23/2022 | rick moran

Posted on 11/23/2022 2:02:08 PM PST by bitt

It’s our thirst to understand “why” someone would carry out such a horrific act that drives our curiosity and animates our search for a political villain in these mass shootings.

Answers are always few and very unsatisfying. Trying to ascribe rational, logical thought processes to someone who is mentally ill is an exercise in futility. It doesn’t matter if he leaves a right-wing manifesto railing against blacks and Jews or swears allegiance to Antifa and claims to want to stamp out “fascism.” “Politics” — a shooter’s limited understanding of it — isn’t a catalyst as much as it is a touchstone to a reality of which he or she is only vaguely aware.

The most recent incident led to a familiar pattern. A man walked into a gay club where a drag queen show was underway. Before he was stopped, five people were killed and 18 were wounded. Given the gunman’s “target,” it was “naturally” assumed that the perpetrator was a right-wing fanatic who was driven to this mass slaughter by conservative politicians and online hate sites (like PJ Media).

A National Review editorial sums up the arguments on the left.:

(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; bloggers; colorado; homosexualagenda; massshooting
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To: bitt
1) Their opening gambit is always slander.

2) It's about creating a general impression.

The idea is after a certain point, the general impression remains despite this or that instance.
All the totalitarian movements of the previous century played it this way.

41 posted on 11/23/2022 2:54:35 PM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: gitmo

If you look at the shootings of the past, the leftist smear is what you remember, not the truth.

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Exactly. Think Pulse nightclub shooting. Even folks on FR refer to it as motivated by hatred of gays. The dude who shot this place up had no idea it was a gay bar. He asked the bouncer, ‘where are all of the women?’ The smear is remembered.


42 posted on 11/23/2022 3:07:05 PM PST by mund1011 (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality)
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To: bitt

Just watched national news about the Walmart shooter. They didn’t mention anything about who it was. In other words, the black manager of the store.


43 posted on 11/23/2022 3:12:04 PM PST by Old Yeller (A nation of sheep, produces a government of wolves.l)
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To: bitt
Will the Left ever learn...

No.

44 posted on 11/23/2022 3:13:26 PM PST by Avalon Memories (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. -- P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: bitt

There is no downside to lying.

They press will never apologize, and most people will never know it wasn’t true.


45 posted on 11/23/2022 3:14:31 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████.)
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This isn't any kind of 'surprise'. It's a perpetual marxist de-armament campaign and promulgated by useful idiots.
46 posted on 11/23/2022 3:16:04 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: bitt

The mentally ill have no bounds


47 posted on 11/23/2022 3:18:13 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: BenLurkin

The idea is to demonize their opposition. This branding works because it leave a permanent scar.


48 posted on 11/23/2022 3:23:54 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: bitt
Will the Left Ever Learn to Wait Before Blaming the Right for a Mass Shooting?

The weak minded morons blame us because those evil guns haven't been eradicated from the face of the earth.

49 posted on 11/23/2022 3:35:02 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: bitt

Never let a crisis go to waste ... jump in with both feet & blame the right, MAGA, etc. .... if the crisis proves to be something that doesn’t fit the narrative, move along ... nothing to see. They never apologize or correct the record & the false smear stands in the minds of many.


50 posted on 11/23/2022 3:35:15 PM PST by Qiviut (I'm not out of control, I'm just not in their control. $hot $hills: Sod Off)
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To: bitt
Will the Left Ever Learn to Wait Before Blaming the Right for a Mass Shooting?

See my tagline.

51 posted on 11/23/2022 3:57:29 PM PST by Gritty (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution. - Saul Alinsky)
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To: bitt

Got to get in VERY early on the news cycle to keep the thing foremost in mind.

Accuracy loses out to propaganda.


52 posted on 11/23/2022 4:06:31 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Liaison

Once more, I shudda read ahead.


53 posted on 11/23/2022 4:06:56 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: libertylover

bingo


54 posted on 11/23/2022 4:07:40 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: gibsonguy

We ALL seem to know this tactic, so why don’t the useful idiots ever figure out they are being scammed?


55 posted on 11/23/2022 4:09:21 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: rktman

once more...


56 posted on 11/23/2022 4:12:13 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: BenLurkin

Agree. It’s like a free play when the other team is offside.


57 posted on 11/23/2022 4:15:39 PM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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As masters of propaganda, the left knows you can’t un-ring a bell. Even if later that bell was a wrongful ringing. The first impression remains in weak minds who later vote.


58 posted on 11/23/2022 4:16:41 PM PST by USCG SimTech ( )
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To: bitt

Never. The lie is already out and dominates the news. The lie furthers the narrative. So the truth will follow quietly and be hardly noticed.


59 posted on 11/23/2022 5:29:36 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: bitt

Michael Medved was blaming MAGA for this guy on Monday. Jerk.


60 posted on 11/23/2022 6:27:26 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Dumpster Fire Country.)
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