What makes some murders more grievous to understand and grasp than others by measures of magnitudes? Here are some examples; when the victims are children, like a school shooting. When that same event is amplified by the knowledge that the children were praying. Perhaps when an innocent vulnerable young lady is ruthlessly murdered on a train based on nothing more than a purely evil racial impulse. Or when a young man is willing to make himself vulnerable, intellectually and physically to freely discuss topics that are of intense importance to his audience and is then shot at 200 yards from another young man that apparently had no interest, willingness, or courage to engage that man civilly, face to face. These conditions escalate the sense of injustice and grief infinitely. And by the way, this is just the past few weeks.
But it’s the second wave that almost stuns us more. When the regime media immediately runs ahead of the news story sowing deceitful mitigation, dulls the event by pasting misleading labels on the perpetrators, injecting doubt and vagueness about their plain origins, influences, allegiances, and worst of all, dehumanizing and anonymizing the victims up front, then foisting this onto the public with the straight face of willful ignorance.
Then we watch politicians with the same ideological orientation or sympathies as the killers go out and attempt the same thing but with even less convincing results, because their credibility is already long destroyed, and they wear their biases to work every day like heavy chains around their neck.
After that come the Internet trolls and haters that much like the politicians, have already made a name for themselves as full time haters because that’s all they do online.
Where this progression gets personally electric is when people you know either directly, or by acquaintance, or perhaps just in the employ of a company whose services you use, when they come out from behind their fake smiles and false congeniality and we’re shocked to watch them literally cheer a murder, the taking of an innocent life, and to make extraordinary excuses for the killer, and to even fabricate instantaneous condemnations, implied or overt, for anyone that doesn’t joint them in their hate.
Still further down the chain are all the people that pretend that this is just the ying to the yang, that the victims here are somehow always at least equally responsible for some abstracted ‘hate’, because of the color of their skin, for their beliefs and opinions, perhaps because some hypothetical trans could have have been blown away just last week; believing in the face of overwhelming contrary statistical evidence that this is all just tit-for-tat or even worse, knowingly drawing erroneous equivalencies, that alleged threats, micro-aggressions, or hostilities sponsored and planted by the feds are equal to aggravated homicide exercised straight out of their dark heart.
Now we’re at a place where even confessing ‘Christians’ are equally as compromised as their secularized counterparts. I’ve heard enough chatter in the news and through the grapevine of friends to believe that there were pulpits this morning that attempted to justify the killers I cited and others like it.
Overall, what is causing virtually the entire persuasion of people that carry a delusional hate of Donald Trump, to also automatically become overt or secretive sympathizers of willful murder against innocents?
No, this is not equal. The impulse to equalize the ideological aggression in this nation right now is based on a defensive pang of guilt by some and terminally internalized hate by many others.
Consider:
If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you’re illiberal.
If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you’re a fundamentalist.
If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you’re a totalitarian.
If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you’re a terrorist.
J.K. Rowling
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