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kairos12

(12,858 posts)
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 01:02 PM Dec 2015

The Reich Wing have Weaponized Hatred

http://www.salon.com/2015/12/01/wing_nuts_have_weaponized_hatred_how_the_conservative_echo_chamber_is_making_us_all_less_safe/
snip:
We’ve reached a tipping point in America’s political discourse. The shooting at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood facility is merely the latest in an increasingly alarming series of tragedies connected to political issues, each of which has been notably distorted by conservatives — or in the case of the Planned Parenthood shooting, almost completely ignored — throughout the past year and beyond. So far, attacks have occurred in relation to the following: immigration, Muslims inside the U.S., reproductive rights, LGBT equality and racial justice.

As far-right propaganda grows louder and increasingly divorced from objective reality, it seems as if incidents of violence have escalated accordingly. While there might not be a direct one-to-one correlation, it’s obvious to anyone paying attention that the GOP’s eliminationist rhetoric, intentionally or not, serves to inflame those who are already prone to radicalism and violence.

The Reich Wing echo chamber has finally let the repug crazies off the leash, and as a result, made the entire country a potential shooting gallery supporting their outright dangerous policies.
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The Reich Wing have Weaponized Hatred (Original Post) kairos12 Dec 2015 OP
Human pit bulls are being bred at a rapid pace. nt valerief Dec 2015 #1
Nah, far worse: They have legitimizd it. Eleanors38 Dec 2015 #2
K N R Faux pas Dec 2015 #3
K&R for truth is stranger than fiction... MrMickeysMom Dec 2015 #4
What to do about it? ck4829 Dec 2015 #5
I fear for the lives of all who stand up against the crazy. Octafish Dec 2015 #6
Indeed. nt 2naSalit Dec 2015 #7
One of the goals of the neocons was to exploit the position of being the world's "sole bobthedrummer Dec 2015 #8
I've been saying this for years! LongTomH Dec 2015 #9

MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)
4. K&R for truth is stranger than fiction...
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 01:16 PM
Dec 2015

This can't have been a stranger episode then any of them in the Twilight Zone.

We are here, folks.

ck4829

(35,069 posts)
5. What to do about it?
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 01:17 PM
Dec 2015

We have to shut these inciters down, that much is for sure. This isn't free speech anymore, this is the radical right being Charles Manson.

It is past due to disrupt, deny, degrade, and destroy their hate echo chambers.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
6. I fear for the lives of all who stand up against the crazy.
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 01:18 PM
Dec 2015

Whether it's a political candidate or someone on a soapbox, violence solves the problems of the right, as "no man" or "no woman" means "no problem."

 

bobthedrummer

(26,083 posts)
8. One of the goals of the neocons was to exploit the position of being the world's "sole
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 03:01 PM
Dec 2015

military superpower" and look at the results in our HOMELAND of mind control.
http://ce399.typepad.com/weblog

LongTomH

(8,636 posts)
9. I've been saying this for years!
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 07:02 PM
Dec 2015
Where is all this hatred leading?. There has been an eliminationist streak in American RW rhetoric for years; it includes eliminationist humor, like Sean Hannity's verbal diarrhea:

Hannity: My mind needs to be free so I can think about attacking liberals.

Schoen: You know what, we need to stop attacking and just try to come together.

Hannity: No, I want to attack liberals.

Schoen: Well, I want to solve problems.

Hannity: Well, by defeating liberalism we solve our problems, Doug.

Schoen: If we all work together, we solve our problems.

Hannity: If we get rid of liberals, we solve our problems.

Schoen: Well, most of them are going to lose this time anyway.
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