The Importance of Language: Leftist Thugs are Terrorists, not Protesters or Snowflakes - Jack Kerwick:
"While
violence has always had a home on the political left, and while the left in America has been engaging in violence from at least the time of the late 1960s,
forces on the thuggish left became emboldened during Obama’s tenure in the White House.
Within the last year or so, they have become especially brash and merciless toward Trump supporters.
This came to a head recently at Berkeley when “protesters” prevented provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos from delivering a planned speech. Mobs of anti-Milo and anti-Trump demonstrators were on the scene.
No small number were self-described “anti-fascists” (or “antifa”) clad in black with masks concealing their faces.
Things turned feral as fires were lit, Molotov cocktails were thrown, property was destroyed, officers were assaulted, and innocents were tear-gassed and beaten up with various weapons.
And the police arrested…no one.
While it’s true that most of those on the left do not physically engage in violence, for two reasons this is neither here nor there.
- First, it only took 19 terrorists on September 11, 2001 to murder nearly 3,000 innocent Americans while causing pain and suffering to many more. Within an hour or so, fewer than two dozen immigrants brought the country to a standstill and irrevocably altered its history. A minority of rotten apples, however small it may be, can ruin the bunch.
- Second, those leftist Democrats in political office, the media, academia, and Hollywood, those who aren’t literally initiating violence against innocents, are hardly off the hook. The rabble in the streets functions as their strong-arm wing, the Democrats’ foot soldiers. Those Democrats who object to this characterization of their relationship to the thugs, who explicitly disavow violence while qualifying their denunciations with the very same anti-Trump vitriol that gave rise to the violence, want to have it both ways.
The Democratic left’s demonization of President Trump and his supporters—after all, it was the Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, who described “half” of those backing Trump (over 30 million Americans) as “deplorable”—created the climate of hatred, irrationality, and thuggery that is now consuming cities and college campuses around the country.
...The Democrats who control the
Government-Academic-Hollywood-Media Complex are like the proverbial person who runs into a crowded theater and screams “Fire!”
In demonizing the president and his tens of millions of supporters as “racist,” “sexist,” “Islamophobic,” “homophobic,” “xenophobic” and the like,
the non-violent Democratic left aid and abet their more overtly thuggish counterparts on the streets.
...“Protesters” or “demonstrators” do not act violently.
Those who act violently for any reason other than self-defense are thugs, criminals, felons.
Those who act violently in mobs are rioters.
And
those who act violently toward innocents for the sake of altering the direction of government or government policy are terrorists.
To reiterate, those leftists who have been wreaking havoc, those who the leftist media call “protesters” and who the right continually characterize as “snowflakes” and “crybabies” are indeed
domestic terrorists.
...Second, the terrorists are not “anti-fascist.”
They are anti-American neo-communists, or neo-coms, militant leftists who want nothing less than the fundamental transformation of the United States from what it has always been into something more on the order of the utopian totalitarian order of their fevered imaginings.
Importantly, these anti-American neo-com terrorists are also Democrats, if not formally or officially, then in spirit, for their ideas are essentially one and the same as those who have been greasing the wheels of Democratic politics for decades."
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