Posted on 02/02/2011 12:09:37 AM PST by No One Special
A number of years ago, I was the victim of a brutal street crime. Although I was left with a broken nose and two black eyes, I learned soon thereafter that I wasn't a "good victim."
A progressive friend, Fran, clued me in. When I told her what happened, she said, "What you went through wasn't half as bad as what he has suffered." Fran was referring to the fact that I am white and the assailant was black. In other words, my suffering didn't matter.
Fran's reaction is not at all unique in these parts; here, there are good and bad victims. For instance, a couple of years ago, a middle school teacher was stoned and beaten in her classroom by a vicious mob of students. And yet, because of the racial make-up of the victim and the assailants, the media had little to say, except to imply that the teacher may have been a racist.
When I mentioned my horror about this heinous crime to yet another Leftist friend, she responded in the prescribed, politically correct way. Without showing an ounce of compassion toward the battered teacher, my friend blamed "white privilege."
With Obama and the hard Left in charge, we see nationwide what I've witnessed up close and personal here in Berkeley. Thus, when a young, white couple were beaten unconscious after leaving a GOP fundraiser, the mainstream media did not find their plight worthy of reportage. Similarly, when a conservative had his finger bitten off, or a frail, diabetic conservative was beaten, the silence was deafening. Sarah Palin's church being torched with children in it didn't deserve even a blip on the evening news.
When 13 US soldiers at Ft. Hood, including a pregnant woman, were mowed down in cold blood (and 30 more wounded), President Obama didn't interrupt a Native American shout-out to renounce the horror. When Obama finally did speak, he urged us not to jump to conclusions. Since then, next to nothing has been said about the slaughter. The fact that the murderer was a Muslim automatically disqualifies the soldiers from being "good victims."
In contrast, during the recent, also horrific Tucson massacre, 20 people were injured and 6 killed by an apparently psychotic 22 year old. Given that the Ft. Hood murders involved an internal Jihad, doesn't this genocide pose a greater safety risk to this country than a lunatic in Tucson? Consequently, shouldn't Ft. Hood have been dissected and analyzed for months on end?
However, since the politicos found a way to blame Tucson on conservatives, this latter atrocity has garnered much more publicity. In fact, Obama presided over a huge Memorial Service for the families and survivors of Tucson. No comparable event was held for the loved ones of Ft. Hood.
The Left divides the world into good and bad victims. People who are viewed as part of an aggrieved group are "good victims." Those who suffer at the hands of these protected groups are not afforded this same status. In fact, "bad victims," such as the middle school teacher, as well as I, are made to feel responsible for being assaulted. Good victims are showered with attention because they reinforce the Leftist party line.
The Left needs to control popular opinion by censoring information that's unflattering to their cause. If the populace were fully informed about Leftist violence, there would be a mass stampede rightward. New Black Panther leader King Samir Shabazz railing about murdering "crackers" and their babies isn't exactly the best PR for the progressives.
But there's an even more disturbing reason why so many hard-core Leftists divide the world into good and bad victims. It is because many of them don't care about human beings.
Think I'm exaggerating? Then why haven't progressives spoken out against the death threats received by Sarah Palin and her family? People on the Left relish telling Palin rape jokes -- or laughing at them. Several Leftists fantasized publicly about conservatives dying painful deaths. Comedian Wanda Sykes thought it would be a hoot if Rush perished from a kidney disease.
And we're not talking here solely about contempt towards conservatives. Many progressives don't appear to be fans of the human race. Euthanasia for the dying and Death Panels for the old are discussed with cold, steely indifference.
Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich, tells elderly people that with government-run health care, "We are going to let you die." Editors at Newsweek Magazine think nothing of splashing a cover feature about "Killing Granny."
Obama himself doesn't seem to be a big people lover. He's buddies with unrepentant terrorist, Bill Ayers, who bombed living, breathing humans. Obama appointed John Holdren as Science Czar, a man who has advocated forced abortions and sterilizer in our drinking water.
When Obama was an Illinois State Senator, he refused to protect live babies who survived late-term abortion. While abortion is a hot-button topic, who among us would not agree that if the baby is born alive, he or she should be allowed to remain in that state?
Another disturbing example: progressives have had a field day blogging about how Palin should have aborted her Down Syndrome child, Trig. Part of the reason Palin resigned her Governorship is because of the vicious things said about Trig. Isn't it offensive in the extreme when people wish an aborted death on a fully formed child?
It makes me wonder: what has happened to these people to make their hearts grow so cold? Perhaps it's all the violent TV shows and movies desensitizing people. Maybe it's a result of the Left's Alinsky-like tactics that pit groups against each other for limited resources.
More profoundly, in our secular world, people are alienated from the life force, from the Source of all love in the universe. You can see it; the light has gone out of so many people's eyes. And they reveal this darkness by sexually degrading Palin, wishing bodily harm on Rush, or promoting the early deaths of our old people.
For many progressives, their indifference, even hatred, springs from a deep sense of spiritual alienation. Because it is an alienated person, a lost soul, who has forgotten this essential truth: that every life matters, even that of a Down Syndrome baby or a political opponent.
The Left. We need to define it as what it is. The Communists. They hate it when they are identified.
Too many facts lumped into generalities.
Part of the reason Palin resigned her Governorship is because of the vicious things said about Trig.
I'm unaware that there was a connection between these "vicious things said about Trig" and the pea-brained liberals who egregiously abused a loophole in Alaska ethics law to nickle-and-dime Sarah Palin out of the office with legal costs. If small minded yack about Trig was part of Sarah Palin's rationale to say adios to Juneau, she seems to have kept it quiet.
Good for you to pick that up and I wouldn’t call it minor because it contributes to rewritng history. I think it’s important to get these things right.
Ping to article on the social methods of liberal fascism.
Yes, Robin nails it, and what people do not realize , is that our nation is being held hostage by a regime that promotes political correctness over our laws. It selectively enforces them, and ignores others.It depends on who the victims are, one system for white America, and another for racial and ethnic minorities. The constitution is meaningless, and the social contract of liberty for all is at an end.
The vile methods Ronin describes, hitherto the common fodder of criminals and inmate society, have now become institutionalized in our government.
HOw could they be so cold? Simple Robin, its fascism, liberal fascism, and we rid oursleves of then at the ballot bix, or by the methods used by our founding fathers in throwing off tyranny.
Many of us aspire to be the very best of victims. The ones who draw down in their own defence and pull the trigger.Of that you can be sure, Robin.And it is why this fascist government will seek to disarm the populace, denying them the 2nd amendment because it is just not politically, correct you see.
Freedom lovers everywhere in America should be ridiculing the left who plague us, driving them from office and pushing their political correctness back into the dark hole from which it came. There is no such thing as historic justice, the alleged sins of our fathers do not circumscribe our union, they constitute a mere excuse for tyranny which America will refuse to accept, and will destroy.Historic justice is the calling card for every tyrant in modern history from Bonapart to Adolf Hitler, and now Barak Obama.
America will never elect another minority president, not for many generations to come. This one has been so vileand his vileness accelerates with the passing of each day. This is perhaps one of the greater tragedies of this whole liberal fascist fiasco, because of the dehumanization of Americans in general, a precursor to absolute totalitariansim and a “final solution,” for the sake of some imposed fascist Utopia we do not want , nor ask for.
America is dying, and if we are to save our Republic, we must first make the points Robin has made into the common knowledge of the citizenry. We must face fascim squarely and defeat it using whatever means necessary, or millions will die at the hands of these cold, inhumane, treasonous psychopomps.Defeating them is worthy of the highest sacrifice.
Ahhh, I see. It’s the white’s privilege to be beaten up by racists with a different pigmentation.
Not sure about the Left and ‘good victims’ but I say they’re warped....
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/04/23/we-are-not-your-weapons-we-are-women/
When Obama was an Illinois State Senator, he refused to protect live babies who survived late-term abortion. While abortion is a hot-button topic, who among us would not agree that if the baby is born alive, he or she should be allowed to remain in that state?
Obama.
“my suffering didn’t matter. “
“Euthanasia for the dying and Death Panels for the old are discussed with cold, steely indifference. “
Wow! For all their assertions of moral superiority, Progressives demonstrate an amazing lack of empathy. Progressives learn to categorize people as abstract social phenomena rather than seeing them as flesh and blood human beings. During their indoctrination process, apparently, they can’t help but lose much of their own humanity.
This nails the fascists where it hurts.
Oops, I just got it: They don’t feel empathy. They just FEEL ideology.
Candor7: “Freedom lovers everywhere in America should be ridiculing the left who plague us, driving them from office and pushing their political correctness back into the dark hole from whence it came.
There is no such thing as historic justice, the alleged sins of our fathers do not circumscribe our union, they constitute a mere excuse for tyranny, which America will refuse to accept, and will destroy.
Historic justice is the calling card for every tyrant in modern history from Bonapart to Adolf Hitler, and now Barak Obama.”
Oxford: “psychopomps”; “treasonous psychopomps”; treasonous fascist psychopomps.
You may be right .... but it brings up the question, what if a conservative black candidate should run. Would he/she be electable?
Anyone who has read Newsweek’s account which actually interviewed Sarah Palin about the matter knows why Sarah Palin hung it up. I don’t think Robin would knowingly distort the story — she seems too far into theism to believe that God would approve of a falsified account — it sounds more like that’s part of the thicket of disinformation circulating about Berserkeley.
Oh — and the entrance of a black conservative in the race (e.g. Herman Cain) would probably bring about a good change in the state of race relations, as he would be able to candidly state that while Obama got a pass because of his skin color, he does not expect that. So many old, incorrect prejudices (on the part of many of the black and white races) have not been aired as they deserve, Martin Luther King Jr. notwithstanding.
Herman Cain is exactly who I was thinking of when I asked the question........ he’s a good man
Of course they can have cold hearts. It's acceptable and even desirable for them, because they care so much more about humanity than the rest of us.
I was brought up to believe that Democrats/leftists really care about people, and Republicans/the right hate people. The left's unwavering support for abortion for any reason at any time made me doubt that premise.
If you actually go read through Republican Party history, it turns out that, with all their blunders, on average they have still shown up on the side of the angels far more often than their Democrat rivals. The thing is, the Elephant Party doesn’t like to trumpet it (please excuse the lame pun). So the braying Jackass Party steals the publicity. Modern liberals’ “love” is a cheap caricature of the true thing.
Many Libs view the world thru their ideology and don’t see people as individuals, but as members of groups. This permits all kinds of horrors to be perpetrated on the individual.
Yes.
On another forum that I used to visit, on occasion, some kid will post their leftist fantasy of how to achieve utopia. One such post that was particularly disturbing was a kid's vision of forced abortion, parenting permits, and killing of anyone who is not perfect. Although threads like that are always deleted within a day, they are up long enough to realize that some leftist indoctrinated kids are truly horrifying people. I can only pray that, somehow, their hearts open up and they realize that the perfect society they long for is a hell on earth.
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