tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post8905448799100264381..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting and the Political Blame GameStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-40180008990202141272018-10-31T04:22:19.858-07:002018-10-31T04:22:19.858-07:00This seems important to help understand the motive...This seems important to help understand the motive. So he did't target the church because of a hatred of Jews but a political intervention, because they were supporting the invasion of imagined violent nonwhites into our country. If we want a blame game, it can start with "social media" that allows hate groups to exist in their own echo chambers long enough to radicalize. But as well Trump's aggressive rhetoric against foreigners adds to that.<br />https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/us/hias-pittsburgh-robert-bowers.html<br />---<br />HIAS is one of nine agencies with contracts from the State Department to help refugees acclimate to the United States. ... It is also the target of many anti-Semitic rants posted on social media by Robert Bowers, the suspect in the mass shooting on Saturday at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh — including one post published only a few hours before the shooting.<br />Mr. Bowers’s writings on social media were bitterly hostile to refugees and to the agency that helped them, writing “HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people,” he said in a post hours before the attack. “I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.”<br />---Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-87040648205380075052018-10-29T12:40:53.167-07:002018-10-29T12:40:53.167-07:00This STOOPID DEGENERATE has been removed by a blog...This STOOPID DEGENERATE has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-2217584123939041282018-10-29T09:58:14.913-07:002018-10-29T09:58:14.913-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-15804359580838404662018-10-29T06:04:54.819-07:002018-10-29T06:04:54.819-07:00It all doesn't make sense to me, not in the sl...It all doesn't make sense to me, not in the slightest, but mass murder is real and horrific.<br /><br />I can't say I've ever met a single person who has expressed a hatred of the Jewish people. Maybe it is because I am not sensitive to anti-Semitic rhetoric, somehow it passes right through me without awareness of invisible implications of hatred?<br /><br />Lacking awareness I'm forced to go back to the question of how emotionally unstable people have access to weapons that can perform mass murder, and I see I find my fear of unstable individuals is greater than my fear of governmental tyranny. I've never been in a situation where I'd feel safer with a gun than without a gun. A gun makes you a target.<br /><br />Maybe churches of all denominations need to keep armed guards to help keep people safe. Or maybe we need a society with less guns, and somehow we have to ween people away from their paranoia, that the government is going to take away their freedom if they don't have the power to murder with an itchy finger. We are an insane people to make guns our idols. <br /><br />So until we stop being controlled by our most paranoid, it looks like we just have to accept mass murder is our future, and use statistical averages to keep us safe. Most of us will never be shot, and our lack of exercise and bad diet will kill many more of us.<br /><br />p.s. Vox shows the US is off the scale in gun ownership and gun deaths, although it does seem that freedom for suicide is what guns are most about.<br />https://www.vox.com/2018/10/27/18032284/pittsburgh-synagogue-mass-shooting-gun-violenceAres Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-48662971920507063862018-10-29T05:55:42.030-07:002018-10-29T05:55:42.030-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-79145063740909455762018-10-28T18:40:06.446-07:002018-10-28T18:40:06.446-07:00"Dershowitz continues that conservatives shou..."Dershowitz continues that conservatives should be out front denouncing criminals like Cesar Sayoc. Liberals and progressives should lead the march against those among them who are promoting violence. They should begin by denouncing the Resistance, and by rejecting the Congressional leaders who have encouraged harassment-- which is an assault-- and also, by purging their party of leaders who have openly promoted anti-Semitism."<br /><br />I believe Repubs have,but Dems? Not happ'nin'!Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-19603023540460668722018-10-28T18:35:43.552-07:002018-10-28T18:35:43.552-07:00Anti-Semitism is as evergreen as mold on cheese. ...Anti-Semitism is as evergreen as mold on cheese. It strikes me that the left likes the Palis because they are so incompetent and angry at the Jews because they ARE competent.<br />I could be wrong, of course. Totally off base and headed for the sidelines, but I don't think so.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-75135084405391581592018-10-28T18:20:05.462-07:002018-10-28T18:20:05.462-07:00The identity politics dispute is gamified with no ...The identity politics dispute is gamified with no intention to resolve it one way or the other.<br /><br />No reasons are given except for short sighted misleading reasons as for why The Game exists in its current conformation therefore observers must make inferences. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-6216139016908296052018-10-28T17:20:30.274-07:002018-10-28T17:20:30.274-07:00Walrus double bind is not for me.
The parasitism...Walrus double bind is not for me. <br /><br />The parasitism of hijacked identity politics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-10117035992893673032018-10-28T16:13:16.802-07:002018-10-28T16:13:16.802-07:00Well, I became acquainted with a Walrus when I was...Well, I became acquainted with a Walrus when I was lost at sea.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-17484307111374899772018-10-28T16:05:15.587-07:002018-10-28T16:05:15.587-07:00Though malicious, Otherwise is a fascinating drawn...Though malicious, Otherwise is a fascinating drawn out circus, each step a kid sticking hand into the same ant nest over and over. <br />As a feetsball conditioned nation the model does makes sense from that point of view. It beats the ME model.<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-68010560814261419622018-10-28T15:05:18.438-07:002018-10-28T15:05:18.438-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-156121864451712092018-10-28T14:30:40.059-07:002018-10-28T14:30:40.059-07:00Conservatives are called on to get out there and c...Conservatives are called on to get out there and condemn the actions of a insane man with Trump stickers. Who CLEARLY was unstable... but had Trump stickers. <br /><br />No. There is no comparison between activist on the left who brazenly commit domestic terrorism, and have all sorts of support and a compliant media willing to memory-hole anything and everything that is unhelpful... and these random crazies that do stuff but took a picture with a flag or put insane stickers on their van, but in no other way appear to be conservative AT ALL.<br /><br />Nope. This plays into the left's game of " both sides do it ". Uh, no they don't. The left has been pulling these stunts since the 60's.. even with the Rosenbergs you can go back further. There is no equal on the right. None. There is no support group on the right that immediately comes out to help. And the media is the arbiter of what gets huge attention ( even if lies ) and what is a 24 hours story.<br /><br />Hands up Don't shoot, vs BLM activist Democrat becomes a sniper in Downtown Dallas wounding 9 and murdering 7 police officers. That disappeared from the national news cycle within A DAY. Nothing to see here... move along!Uncle Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09201160092477098369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-67659550757074132572018-10-28T11:56:04.751-07:002018-10-28T11:56:04.751-07:00Both Jews and 'leading purveyors of anti-Semit...Both Jews and 'leading purveyors of anti-Semitism' such as Keith Ellison agree anti-Semitism is to blame.<br /><br />This comes across as instruction manual how to become a domesticated pet Walrus.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-51496219997180314292018-10-28T10:54:09.057-07:002018-10-28T10:54:09.057-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-84438166153785123802018-10-28T10:42:36.821-07:002018-10-28T10:42:36.821-07:00Well, at least until they're not neighbors any...Well, at least until they're not neighbors anymore or become distant neighbors. Some distances are less comfortable than others to cope with.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-27034619096071322192018-10-28T10:35:26.742-07:002018-10-28T10:35:26.742-07:00According to this logic, Everyone is now simultane...According to this logic, Everyone is now simultaneously both for and against everything and everyone, but at the same time are also those same people and things they are both for or against.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-80408908660375007342018-10-28T09:00:17.076-07:002018-10-28T09:00:17.076-07:00Lacking information to guide a proper conclusion w...Lacking information to guide a proper conclusion which one of these two contradictory comments is a Symbionese-fantasy, perhaps both are:<br /><br />"As for America’s leading purveyors of anti-Semitism, we should count Rev. Louis Farrakhan and Congressman Keith Ellison." <br /><br />Vs<br /><br />keithellison's twitter<br />"I am deeply disturbed by the attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh, and my heart breaks for the victims and their families. Anti-semitism and hate-motivated violence have no place in our society. We must all stand in solidarity with the Jewish community during this tragic time."<br /><br />Both agree anti-Semitism is the blame.<br /><br />The story of Itzhak "Ben" Bentov Ben-Tov is more interesting.<br /><br /> <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-54754239569891222312018-10-28T06:34:18.666-07:002018-10-28T06:34:18.666-07:00Denouncing. Yeah, that should work.
:-DDenouncing. Yeah, that should work.<br />:-DDr. Irredeemable Dregnoreply@blogger.com