The Mythical White Christian Terrorist
By Mitch Berg
They’re back. In the wake of the shooting at the abortion mill in Colorado Springs, and the shooting in Minneapolis (and to a lesser extent last week’s shootings in San Bernardino, which the left tried its level best to jam into the template), the talking heads of the left are furrowing their brows and warning us, yet again, about the imminent danger of “white christian right-wing terror”, which, we’re warned, is a huge danger, and could become the biggest most dangerous terror out there. Says someone in the government. Because science.
It’s BS, of course; while white “conservative” terror was a real thing during the heyday of the Klan, by the seventies it had largely faded to obscurity; today, the Klan and other white/”Christian” identity movements are a pimple on society’s tush.
Indeed, the numbers aren’t even arguable; left-wing environmental groups committed more terror attacks than all other sources combined from 2001-2011; while 9/11 outstripped them all in terms of dead people, the level of effort was lopsided in favor of the left.
And yet the left – from Janet Napolitano to MPR’s Bob Collins down to the dimmest writer at Minnesota Progressive Project, assures us that white terror is the real danger.
David French points out the absurdity of the left’s claim, against a backdrop of steadily diminishing domestic terror of all kinds:
Don’t tell the alarmists that, though. Even before this weekend’s shooting at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic, left-wing sites trumpeted the threat of “Christian terrorists” while minimizing the threat of jihadists. This summer, the New York Times hyped a transparently idiotic study claiming that (mainly right-wing) homegrown extremists were deadlier than jihadists — by excluding from the death toll the almost 3,000 Americans who died on 9/11 and the nearly 7,000 Americans killed — not to mention the more than 52,000 Americans wounded — at the hands of radical Islamists overseas. SHARE ARTICLE ON FACEBOOKSHARE TWEET ARTICLETWEETSince the Planned Parenthood shooting, leftists have indicted the pro-life movement itself for the actions of a bitter and angry loner with no known connections to any activist organization. The Huffington Post wrote a story noting that Colorado Springs is full of — gasp! — Christians. Buzzfeed published a comprehensive report demonstrating exactly how abortion-rights activists intend to turn the Colorado shooting into a “rallying cry.”
What it is, is Berg’s Seventh Law in full effect.
December 10th, 2015 at 1:56 pm
It’s an economic problem.
The demand for white, Christian terrorists exceeds the supply of white, Christian terrorists.
The supply of Islamic and eco-terrorists exceeds the demand for Islamic and and eco-terrorists.
December 10th, 2015 at 3:13 pm
I think it’s time to commission a new US Army brigade called “The Templars”
December 10th, 2015 at 3:23 pm
AKA the “Baphomet Brigade.”
December 10th, 2015 at 3:55 pm
I’m starting to scare me.
December 10th, 2015 at 4:16 pm
I’ve noticed that as the Democrat party becomes more and more Atheist, they assume that all Republicans are conservative evangelical Christians. So this could a way for them to do a broad attack on all (in their eyes) Republican-Americans.
December 10th, 2015 at 4:38 pm
Chuck: Atheism embraces all faiths as equally wrong. The result is moral authority being defined by the secular “enlightened” class, i.e., them. Painting conservatives as Christian ideologues is sport for them. It’s easier than thinking.
December 10th, 2015 at 4:41 pm
Stink: amen to that. Can’t even look myself in the mirror. Nah, doesn’t have anything to do with the gray hairs that are starting to show up in my beard. :^)
Seriously, when are the Democrats going to lose their “party of tolerance” reputation with all the bomb throwing they’re doing?
December 10th, 2015 at 8:05 pm
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December 11th, 2015 at 1:26 am
I ran across this in NRO’s Corner.
It’s actor Kurt Russel being conversed up by an idiot journo:
Russell: I don’t understand concepts of conversation [about] the gun culture. We’ve lived with guns since, what, the 7th Century or something? I don’t know. Wells: Well, I think we all know…guns are a trope. Not a trope but a totem, a metaphor that disenfranchised white guys need…it makes them feel good about themselves. Russell: You can say what you want. I don’t agree with that. It’s not my thing. Wells: Well, it’s statistically irrefutable.
Statistically irrefutable? What does that even mean? It’s not statistically irrefutable to say that I tossed a coin a thousand times and it came up heads a thousand times, tales a thousand times, or any ratio in between. Is this a new magic phrase on the Left , that combines the math word ‘statistics’ with the absolute term ‘irrefutable’?
OMG just tack this on to anything if you find yourself arguing with a Lefty.
“Trump can leap tall buildings at a single bound and can outrace locomotives. IT’S STATISTICALLY IRREFUTABLE!”
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/428355/listen-kurt-russell-rips-leftist-reporter-who-says-its-statistically-irrefutable-guns