Quote from: MSMToo much debate is tied to identity
Chris Kenny (http://twitter.com/chriskkenny) | The Australian (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/) | 24 June 2017
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/too-much-debate-is-tied-to-identity-of-the-attacker-and-victim/news-story/78f93ee9f7837afffc67e8517d5b0d1a?nk=bbe131cec5d32275507a3188f9b22d60-1498271665 (https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwjCzIvjpdXUAhVIpZQKHYY4CQEQqOcBCCgwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theaustralian.com.au%2Fnews%2Finquirer%2Ftoo-much-debate-is-tied-to-identity-of-the-attacker-and-victim%2Fnews-story%2F78f93ee9f7837afffc67e8517d5b0d1a&usg=AFQjCNFlBB9mCO18h-Gya2vpwoudpW4hrg)
Extract: Abuse, vulgarity and ad hominem attacks have become standard weapons of the so-called progressives.
This tendency also leaves many on the left with a blind spot for transgressions against conservatives. ABC radio host Jonathan Green tweeted this week that "there may well be a moment (soon?) when the hate and anger licensed by social media and fanned by politics will play out in physical reality". Staggeringly, he shared this thought days after conservative commentator Andrew Bolt was attacked by leftist activists on a city footpath. Just a week earlier, near Washington, DC, a gunman who hated Donald Trump asked whether the politicians he was watching train for a charity baseball match were Republicans before he opened fire on them. We can only presume these examples of "hate and anger" that did "play out in a physical reality" escaped Green's attention because they didn't fit the narrative he had in mind.
Since Trump's victory sent the left into a funk we have seen pop star Madonna cheered for proclaiming she thought about blowing up the White House, comedian Kathy Griffin pose Khaled Sharrouf-like with Trump's decapitated head, theatregoers in New York treated to Trump being stabbed to death in lieu of Julius Caesar and actor Johnny Depp applauded for joking about assassinating the President. We can only imagine the reaction of the media/political class if such monstrous contributions to public debate had targeted Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
My Comment (which hasn't yet been deleted by the censors :-\)
CailenABC radio host Jonathan Green tweeted this week that "there may well be a moment (soon?) when the hate and anger licensed by social media and fanned by politics will play out in physical reality".
Hah! Long before the rise of social media, and thanks to media, politicians and police unwilling or not allowed to do their jobs, there has been a war on the streets. A war where we are judged based on our race, our gender and our sexual preferences. It's a war that's been going on for decades now, where the politically incorrect are not only subject to the violence of the politically correct, but are forced to harden up and shut up or face the criminal and social consequences of telling the truth.
Yeah, hate and anger has long been played out in physical reality, but for us politically incorrect Average Australians, the very real violence we are forced to live just does not matter.