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Fake Hate Crimes.......................and Fake Hate Too

by Kevin D Williamson

Democrats find themselves in the odd position of simultaneously suggesting 1. that Donald Trump is a closet anti-Semite and 2. that his son-and-law and close adviser, Jared Kushner, is a nefarious Jewish agent of Israel hoping to turn Washington into the Jewish state’s “Santa Claus.”

 

But first, a detour.

 

Juan Thompson, a left-wing journalist fired from his position at The Intercept for falsifying stories, is once again accused of falsifying a story: He has been arrested for making a string of threats to Jewish community centers in what police say was a plot to frame his ex-girlfriend. Thompson, who is black, said on Twitter he was himself being framed by a “racist white girl.”

 

Fake hate crimes committed by progressives are by this point so familiar that they are practically a cliché. When a Muslim woman at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette was attacked and had her hijab ripped off, two things happened: One, the Left insisted that this announced the coming wave of pogroms against Muslims in the Age of Trump; two, people who follow this sort of thing began betting how quickly she’d be exposed as a fraud. It did not take long. Incidentally, her name has been kept out of media reports, even though she faces potential charges herself for filing a false report. These hoaxers should be publicly named, as there is no legitimate reason to protect their identities.

 

There were other fake hate crimes attributed to Trump enthusiasts: Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani of Cary, N.C., says that he planned to leave the United States after an Islamophobic assault on his son following harassment by neighbors who named-checked Trump. School officials say there is no evidence that attack ever happened. A gay man in Santa Monica claimed to have been assaulted by Trump partisans, but the attack seems not to have happened. The San Francisco homeowner who raised a swastika flag was not a Trump supporter but a Trump opponent. A catalogue of similarly false, exaggerated, or distorted hate crimes has been assembled by Reason.

 

But the fake hate crimes and other politically charged fictitious horrors did not begin with Trump’s election.

 

{snip}

 

Here is the thing: It is not only the hate crimes that are fake. For the most part, the hate they are intended to highlight is fake, too. No matter how many times Jamelle Bouie of Slate insists that American conservatism is an ideology founded in white supremacy, no matter how many times the halfwits at Salon claim that the neo-Confederate impulse is the motive behind Republican policy ideas, no matter how passionately every third-rate intellectual from Bennington College believes that “all heterosexual sex is rape,” it is not so. These claims are as fictitious as the made-up rape at the University of Virginia — they are simply more general.

 

The Left desperately wants Americans to be indecent people who go around attacking Muslims and foreigners with funny names, but, by and large, we aren’t.

 

The Republican party within living memory was led by a Jewish man. The Democratic party just came within a hair of elevating to its highest institutional position a man who has long associated with the worst kind of anti-Semites, conspiracy theorists, racists, and lunatics, who has worked with them and apologized for them: As it turns out, Keith Ellison will only be elevated to the rank of No. 2 rather than given the top leadership position in the party.

 

The Left, for the moment, cannot seriously compete in the theater of ideas. So rather than play the ball, it’s play the man. Socialism failed, but there is some juice to be had from convincing people who are not especially intellectually engaged and who are led by their emotions more than by their intellect — which is to say, most people — that the people pushing ideas contrary to yours are racists and anti-Semites, that they hate women and homosexuals and Muslims and foreigners, that they could not possibly be correct on the policy questions, because they are moral monsters.

 

This is the ad hominem fallacy elevated, if not quite to a creed, then to a general conception of politics. Hence the hoaxes and lies and nonsense.

 

Phony hate crimes. Phony hate.



Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445495/bogus-hate-crimes-trump-conservatives

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Dear leftists,

 

Thank you for continuing to go full retard.

 

Keep screaming. Keep burning things. Keep injuring people. Your contributions are greatly appreciated.

 

Sincerely,

 

Trump/Pence 2020

Sad, but true.

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ESPN layoffs to hit on-camera personalities

CNN Money ^ | March 6, 2017: 10:47 AM ET | Ahiza Garcia

 

 

They shouldn't have turned into MSNBC with better graphics.

They are irrelevant now and marching steadfastly toward obscurity and oblivion. Forward progressives! Forward!

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If all the sportswriters were writing with a conservative slant, and I agreed it, I'd still hate it.

Exactly. Tommy Tolbert has an afternoon show with John Lund, whoever he is. I love them because they often don't even talk about sports. They talked for 15 minutes yesterday how gross it was that John's dad ate sardines. When they do talk about sports it's often very tongue in cheek.

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I used to live in Dallas and they had a sports radio station, the Ticket. But they hardly ever talked about sports. It was about movies, thier kids, things they did as kids, cars, beer,etc. Boring.

 

It wouldn't be boring to me. Talking about sports all the time is boring to me.

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I used to live in Dallas and they had a sports radio station, the Ticket. But they hardly ever talked about sports. It was about movies, thier kids, things they did as kids, cars, beer,etc. Boring.

 

I would so much rather here a couple dudes talk about beer than On Base Percentage.

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White College Women Told to Stop Wearing Hoop Earrings Because It’s ‘Racist’

OH SHUT UP:

There are of course smarter arguments to be made than “Oh shut up.” But since “Everything is racist!” is a non-argument to force other people to shut up, why bother?

 

 

So does cultural appropriation go both ways? I mean, if white guys can't wear dreads and white girls can't wear hoop earrings, should African Americans stop wearing western-styled clothing and their women stop straightening their hair? How freakin' stupid and petty do people have to be? The girl that waited on me at the Pizza place down the the other day road was an early-mid twenties little white girl who wore a Dashiki. Should I yell at her next time I see her appropriating African culture?

 

For the love of all that's holy, people are really, really stupid.

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So does cultural appropriation go both ways? I mean, if white guys can't wear dreads and white girls can't wear hoop earrings, should African Americans stop wearing western-styled clothing and their women stop straightening their hair? How freakin' stupid and petty do people have to be? The girl that waited on me at the Pizza place down the the other day road was an early-mid twenties little white girl who wore a Dashiki. Should I yell at her next time I see her appropriating African culture?

 

For the love of all that's holy, people are really, really stupid.

 

There are not people who will suddenly stop thinking this way when they're adults.

 

These are people who grow up to be Al Franken. Liz Warren. Bernie Sanders. Sheila Jackson Lee.

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There are not people who will suddenly stop thinking this way when they're adults.

 

These are people who grow up to be Al Franken. Liz Warren. Bernie Sanders. Sheila Jackson Lee.

Or move to Berkeley. Jesus I'm surprised I've not killed anyone yet

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So does cultural appropriation go both ways? I mean, if white guys can't wear dreads and white girls can't wear hoop earrings, should African Americans stop wearing western-styled clothing and their women stop straightening their hair? How freakin' stupid and petty do people have to be? The girl that waited on me at the Pizza place down the the other day road was an early-mid twenties little white girl who wore a Dashiki. Should I yell at her next time I see her appropriating African culture?

 

For the love of all that's holy, people are really, really stupid.

 

Is Beyonce a natural blonde?

 

I don't even get the point of any of this appropriation stuff.

 

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Southern Illinois University Hosting Student Nap-In So Students Can Dream about Diversity.

 

"Student coordinator Marissa Amposta is facilitating four sleep sessions in March where students will be given the opportunity to nap for two hours in the rotunda during the library’s operating hours," reports the Daily Egyptian.

According to Amposta, the nap sessions will “internally generate student dreams of diversity."

“The nap-ins are part of the internal journey to diversity,” she added. “All dreams start while sleeping.”

The "interactive art installation" will welcome students writing their dreams on pieces of fabric, which will be hung from scrolls in the middle of the library.

"A labyrinth will also be set up in the rotunda surrounding the scroll to 'help guide students to their dreams,'" Amposta told the school paper.

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