"All too often, acts of left-wing violence and extremism are ignored because the left is obsessed with the rather non-existent threat of right-wing extremism."
All too often, acts of left-wing violence and extremism are ignored because the left is obsessed with the rather non-existent threat of right-wing extremism so much so that it blinds their ability to see an increasingly radical left and as a result, (as is the case with Chicago), the knee jerk reaction from Democrats and the left is to blame Republicans.
"When a burning cross was found at a Chicago park last week, the media and Democrats already apparently knew who was responsible.
"“A large burning cross — a historic symbol of hate and intimidation against Black Americans — was discovered in a Chicago park where former President Barack Obama famously delivered his acceptance speech when he was elected the nation’s first Black president,” The Associated Press (AP) reported on June 10.
"Given the framing, readers may have been under the impression that police were searching for a white supremacist, a racist, and, given how the left has broadly painted Republicans as both of those things, a Republican.
"Gov. JB Pritzker said while speaking at Rainbow PUSH’s Coalition annual conference the very next day after the incident: “The fact that it even occurred at all speaks to what happens when the seeds of racism and fascism grow unchecked in our country.”
"Given how Pritzker himself has compared Trump to the Nazi regime and Democrats writ large have accused Republicans (and Trump) of being fascists, it’s hard not to suspect that Pritzker was subliminally blaming Republicans.
"Frank Chapman, a Chicago resident and executive director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression “pointed to how people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were ultimately not punished. President Donald Trump pardoned, commuted prison sentences, or ordered the dismissal of cases for all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in the attack,” as described by NBC News.
"“The same kind of people got the same white supremacist mentality as a cross-burning,” Chapman reportedly said. “So, they figured like they got a license now … with people pardoned and more or less shaking hands with the devil.”
"Gina Miranda Samuels, faculty director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago, blamed the cross burning on Trump.
"“I do think we’re living in a time when we have a president that stokes this kind of thing and invites this type of stuff,” she said. “People feel emboldened and are invited to see how far they can go.”
"Before any facts were known, the assumption that the culprit must be associated with Trump or the right was publicly disseminated by the left.
"It turns out that the man who is at least publicly claiming responsibility is Merlin Lu, a University of Illinois Chicago student who said he lit the cross to protest President Donald Trump." . . . More...
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