Posted on 09/14/2012 1:54:30 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Discussing the violent anti-American demonstrations erupting across the Middle East outside U.S. embassies in Arab capitals, MSNBC contributor Michael Eric Dyson put a share of the blame on, well, "horrible" Americans.
It was the "demonization of a predictable minority," in this case Muslims, that was the spark that light the conflagration, Dyson argued on the September 14 edition of the noon Eastern program Now with Alex Wagner. "It's not as if, oh in America, we've resolved this with equanimity and grace," he added, seeking to conflate isolated incidents of hate speech against Muslims inside the United States with the violent response of the Arab street to an obscure low-budget YouTube video.
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"It [the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims"] just exposes our flanks in a very serious fashion," the Georgetown University professor lectured.
Dyson's blame-America-first posture didn't sit well with at least one other panelist.
"Any day you want, on the Internet, [you can] go and find something to be offended about any religion in quite intense and graphic terms," BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith protested, adding that while the film is "offensive," there was "a very specific chain of events" where organizers were planning riots with the movie as an excuse. The bottom line is that "On any given day you can find something like this" to use as an excuse for a riot.
That was too simple an explanation for Dyson, who then turned to the left-wing professor's favorite bogeyman, colonialism.
"What is it, Rosaldo Renato [sic, it's really Renato Rosaldo], the anthropologist talks about imperialist nostalgia, in one sense" where "we destroy countries and then we go weep with them after they've been destroyed," Dyson lectured Smith, before laughably adding (emphasis mine):
Now, you're talking about a chain of events necessarily, that has to focus on what actually happened. But if you draw back a bit, that doesn't account for what America has done, how it has been perceived and understood in a world where it has also fomented, with far more skill and grace, than these so-called barbaric acts that have revealed it. I think we have to have a bit more responsibility in that.
Struggling to contain his laughter, Smith shot back, "Well, sure, but what actually happened does seem like something that you ought to be discussing here," prompting Dyson to double down, "But what happens is what America has done and contributed."
A few moments later, Dyson, an ordained Baptist minister, tripled down, which is where his "horrible" Americans charge came down:
You can find a lot of hate on the Internet. But that ain't all equal. All hate ain't equal. It doesn't target people with the kind of vicious specificity that Muslims have endured in this country since 9/11. So we can't pretend because there could be some anti-Christian stuff that's out there that it parallels what's going on, that, that not only attacks and assaults Muslims but also stigmatizes them in ways that we haven't quite dealt with in our society.
So when we see these kind of conflagrations, we're able to point the finger: oh, how horrible it is. But we're horrible too because we've quietly, you know, fueled and fomented the kind of unnecessary hostility that we ought to take a mirror and look at ourselves.
Dyson is just the average MSM coward trying to ingratiate himself with islam.
The reason these MSM pukes are pro-islam is that they are afraid to be otherwise for fear that they may get an assignment to a muslim country and then they will be toast.
Let’s be perfectly clear. For Dyson the words “horrible Americans” means one thing and one thing only: white people. Every single problem in the history of the world can be laid at the feet of white people. Period.
And it is the greatest of ironies that the ONLY country that can realistically be referred to as a “melting pot” is now reduced to being mere shorthand for “white people” in the language of racists like Dyson.
Minority? Last I looked there were like 2.2. billion of them in the world and they are trying to assimilate us.
Dyson is a self loathing moron.
Aye!
Dyson is 100% wrong. Horrible Americans have allowed terrorist extremism to fester and thrive for far too long, because they fear offending anyone. Cue Edmund Burke.
“If you want to know who controls you, find out who you are not allowed to insult.”
Who controls you, Mr. Dyson?
Only in America, where brave hero’s fought and died so that morons who live free, make good money and have the freedom to spew their un-american garbage, can these types get away with this baseless trash.
I’ll b et if this a-hole turn around you would not see any chain holding him back from leaving America and moving to Iran where that type of comment would have him hanging from a tree before daybreak.
MSNBC is so whacked out that I have to wonder if some of it is an act. There are some real whackos on that station..
If it had been up to me, 6 months after 911, there wouldn’t have been enough Muslims left to pick the fleas off of 100 camels.
“...and destroying Christians...”
The Communists (Progressives) and the Muslims have the same objective in mind. They’re two allies, in it together, looking to destroy the Christian Church and eliminate its influence. (They all have the same stance; arrogance, the pretense of intellectual superiority, and disdain for non-Progressives.)
IMHO
GTH, Dyson. Drag your pathetic ass downtown and contemplate the bullshit that flows from your grossly offensive mouth.
MSNBC is an entire network of communist idiots.
Recall too that Hollywood was not happy that Charlie Chaplin made The Great Dictator. That and other anti-Nazi films (from the 1930s-1941) found a difficult time in the film capital where studio bosses thought it soured Germany as a potential market.
This is the kind of Baptist minister they hire to lecture at Georgetown University these days?
Amazing. What a maroon.
Maybe he's at Georgetown because no red-blooded Southern Babdiss congregation would have him!
Yeah. People forget too easily what kind of animals we're dealing with.
We'll be lucky if we don't lose a whole city one of these days real soon .... the Pakis have them in inventory, and big money is shopping around for Al Q'aeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.
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