…..The media and Democratic politicians are tying the Buffalo atrocity to discourse opposed to mass illegal immigration from Third World countries. Glenn Greenwald has laid out the definitive rebuttal of efforts to blame ideas and the people who hold those ideas for violence committed by homicidal madmen who may also share some of those ideas. As a legal matter, Greenwald’s free-speech absolutism is unequivocally correct. Yet his robust assertion of the bright-line distinction between speech and action fails to capture our intuition about the power of language and ideas. To be sure, our inclination to connect repugnant acts to speech is in direct proportion to the degree to which we find that speech repugnant. While the Left blames Great Replacement theory for the Buffalo massacre, others may see demonization of the police since 2015 as responsible for increased cop killings, which rose by 59 percent in 2021. Figures from President Biden on down are telling blacks, nonstop, that they are under lethal threat from whites, and that it is white supremacists, not black criminals, who pose the greatest threat to their safety. “Buffalo attack ignites safety worries for Black Angelenos,” reads a headline in the May 22 Los Angeles Times. New York representative Jerrold Nadler, a sponsor of the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act, says, “Democrats are taking the fight straight to the . . . violent extremists that are terrorizing minority institutions.” A Washington Post-Ipsos poll found that 75 percent of black Americans were very or somewhat worried that they or someone they love will be attacked because of their race. A respondent interviewed by the Post says that he is “apprehensive at stoplights, imagining a White man getting out and shooting him in his car.” The false claim that we are living through an epidemic of racist shootings of black men by police officers arguably led to the crime waves of 2015 and 2016, and to the more dire anarchy since 2020. With the two-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death upon us, it’s not hard to imagine that the equally false claim that we are living through an epidemic of white-supremacist shootings of blacks could escalate America’s violence. Read more: https://www.city-journal.org/using-the-buffalo-tragedy-for-racial-propaganda The author of the City Journal is exactly right. Democrats and the left resort to playing the race card with each violent act. They do it shamelessly and without remorse or guilt. Thanks to Real Clear Politics for including this fine article in their collection today.
Heather Mac Donald is exactly right about what she wrote here as an expert on the topic. Well written.
The racism that is the democrat party has come home to roost. African Americans are now seeing themselves as being used by that party on Election Day and then nothing ever changes for the better where democrats have ruled with political power uninterrupted for many decades.
Buffalo? Old news. Try the latest record-breaking massacre of children Funny how it's a liberal ploy, when the whole world is talking about it.
It’s working! Here we are still talking about the white supremacist shooting when more recently there was a slaughter of CHILDREN Race baiting is the only thing these fools have so of course they are gonna milk it
Yet in Buffalo is was all about white supremacy and racism and this one is about how the guns did it? The last 4 big public killings have been done by an African American in Wisconsin, a white person in Buffalo, an Asian American in Southern California, and a Hispanic American in Texas. The President only went to one of the event sites.
He went to Buffalo. Now it seems he will go to Texas. Children were killed and injured in Waukesha and no Presidential visit. No Presidential support for Taiwanese killed or injured by a CCP advocate in a Church.
If a shooter is white it's all about the shooter who is a white supremacist. If the shooter is non-white, it's about problems created by white supremacists that made the shooter do what he did. It's always political to the Democrats.
We have seen the sleezy of the politicians use any tragedy to get attention, feed their ego, get some camera time, and push their agenda. They have no shame.
No care for the dead in any of these shootings, just a vehicle to jump on people you disagree with. Shame on you all.
