Actually, this is a sort of “You got your chocolate in my peanut butter” situation: We’ve seen how Democrats and some in the media have made “conservative” and “white supremacist” interchangeable, but after the storming of the Capitol Building last Wednesday, they’re not only laying the blanket term “seditionists” on all Trump supporters and several congressmen — they’re also claiming that the rioting was the ultimate in white privilege:
Oy vey. https://t.co/XTWxf3bxwa
— Christina Sommers (@CHSommers) January 7, 2021
Christopher F. Rufo, who’s done great work in exposing the creep of critical race theory into academia, business, and government, notes that the media is now throwing around words like “domestic terrorists” as blanket terms — we’ve seen tweets claiming that if you don’t repudiate any support you ever had for Trump, that makes you complicit with the seditionists like Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley.
Five years ago, the media launched a campaign to define conservatives as "racists and white supremacists."
Five days ago, they changed the terms to "seditionists and domestic terrorists."
The first is to dehumanize the opposition; the second is to justify their repression.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) January 11, 2021
Five years ago?
Ah, youth!— Baroness Munchausen On The Bayou (@redandright) January 11, 2021
He brought charts!
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) January 11, 2021
Check out the huge spike in the use of the word “whiteness” in the New York Times and the Washington Post, which also has seen a steep climb in the terms “white privilege,” “white supremacy,” and “racial hierarchies.”
Chris you reveal your age. This has been the mantra for 30 years, maybe more. The left has just become more shrill.
— I'm not impressed. (@RBerestka) January 11, 2021
Only five years ago? I remember this going on for much longer.
— Gitaarfreak (@gitaarfreak) January 11, 2021
Spot on. Classic authoritarian tactics.
— Tom Malone (@americanideals) January 11, 2021
Following the Saul Alinsky playbook perfectly.
— Blake Howard (@SCarolinaguy85) January 11, 2021
https://twitter.com/a_centrism/status/1348770786572709888
Which is why they use "fascists" all the time, it awakens hatred in most people
— Milan Gerjo (@milangerjo) January 11, 2021
Yep. It's a time-honored tactic called "othering". It allows you to hate someone you would normally empathize with and see them as beyond redemption. It's what lets you see as a good thing the lining up large numbers of people against the wall.
— David (@hcetamd) January 11, 2021
Honest question – do you think the election was a big fraud?
— DrillBit ?? (@fididrill) January 11, 2021
No. I think Biden won the election and haven't seen any evidence that has persuaded me otherwise.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) January 11, 2021
It would help if they didn’t encourage people to come to Washington for the purpose of overturning an election and invading the Capitol.
— David Boaz (@David_Boaz) January 11, 2021
I agree, David. I condemned the Capitol rioters and those, including the president and Lin Wood, who enabled them.
But what's happening now is that the left is trying to extend the labels to the entire conservative electorate. This is dangerous. Both can be true simultaneously.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) January 11, 2021
I really appreciate your opinions and work but I don't fully agree with this tweet. No one is calling Lisa Murkowski or Lindsay Graham or Mitt Romney a seditionist. The people who stormed the Capitol deserve this name. How else would you call them?
— Szymon Pifczyk (@spifczyk) January 12, 2021
I don't think sedition or coup is accurate language. The QAnon Shaman wasn't trying to overthrow the government and install himself as the new potentate. I think political riot, even political violence, is more accurate and the instigators should be held accountable for it.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) January 12, 2021
To be fair and honest when you attempt to burn (as several people in the videos from the Capitol stated they wanted to do) down the Capitol of the United States, they deserve repression, because that is after all terrorism at it's very core definition. pic.twitter.com/stl2DLBGr4
— Denz (@f4denz) January 11, 2021
I condemned the Capitol attack and those involved in the violence should be held accountable. But the attempt right now is to expand the definition to cover many or all Trump voters, not just those directly responsible.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) January 11, 2021
Yep. And notice how many times Rufo has to condemn the storming of the Capitol, even though he took no part in it. Also, notice how no one in the media has had to give back their Pulitzer for reporting on how Trump stole the 2016 election by colluding with the Russians. What was that?
Which makes affiliating with certain issues (Free speech, common sense immigration reform, pro-life, capitalism, etc) problematic: Do you want to be against those things (A Democrat) or for them (A white supremacist Nazi inurrectionist uneducated redneck).
— Reno Nevada (@RedlectoidReno) January 11, 2021
They ascribe their own characteristics to others.
— Joe Isuzu (@RottenJoeIsuzu) January 11, 2021
THIS!!! This is exactly what is happening pic.twitter.com/fsPf6TiW0J
— Noe (@onewaymatt1720) January 11, 2021
Related:
AOC — who encouraged violent protests ‘to make ppl uncomfortable’ — is still reeling after ‘close to half of the House nearly dying’ last week https://t.co/Pzu05YqqKC
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 11, 2021
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