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"What terrifies me is if ISIS were to detonate a nuclear device..."
"... Imagine the backlash against peaceful Muslims?" is the punch. (Click image above for the Tweet)
The late, great comic Norm Macdonald, making fun of, mocking in fact, people who are are concerned more with alleged or feared "Islamophobia" in the wake of a Muslim terrorist attack, than they are for the victims themselves.
We see that now with the Minnesota school shooting by a Trans Woman. That is to say, a man who believes he is a woman. He murdered two innocent ten year old school children in the midst of their prayers. He wounded nearly twenty others. The fact that he's trans is relevant, for it's part of who he is. It played a part in his "thinking", such as it is, that he wrote down in a garbled manifesto.
But the worry, the deep worry, the concern of the Mayor of Minneapolis and of the media was not for the lost lives of these young children and for their families. The concern was for the trans man, and worry that he might be "tarred with a bigoted brush". And thus fearsome attacks on all who dared to mention the fact that he's trans. Shaming them as "pointing fingers". And the mayor, Jacob Frey, says; "I worry about the trans kids". Huh! Not about the murdered children and their families. About the trans kids.
This is both stupid and revolting.
Stupid for the fact that it doesn't help us understand his motives. And revolting for their abandonment of murdered children and their grieving families. They even attacked that fact that they were praying. "What good did it do them?" they mocked. Shocking. Even to an atheist like me.
If it's not Islamophobia trumping people killed by Islamic terror, then it's Transphobia trumping the murder of children. I've got Phobia-phobia. I'm sick to death of these made-up "phobias" that are made up to stop any criticism, made to stop even any informed analysis of why "some people do some things", to misquote the forever aggrieved Muslim member of Congress Ilhan Omar.
Comments at the site of Norm's Tweet are interesting:
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| Daniel Tweet here |
