Some of us did not see any real substantive shifts between Clinton and Trump because you could replace those two with a bag of sand and we would still be living in the exact same culture. It has become tiring because nobody and I mean NOBODY wants to step up and admit it was not the GOP or Dems that created Trump. It was us. It was our reaction to 9/11, and not 9/11 itself.
By falsely equating Muslims with terrorism we created the platform of equating terrorism with everyone except non Muslim Caucasians. Why do you think it felt natural for aspiring intellectuals such as Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who migrated from a reality show into politics (sound familiar?), to call BLM terrorists and not understand why people thought it was wrong. She was simply more committed to the program than others. Who the hell is Ann Coulter? (from an alternate universe where no major terrorist attack happened in the US)
Trump did not bolster or create white supremacy and the false equivalence is the same as saying the GOP created Trump. Their numbers did not increase simply because you finally got a peak into the trend just like you cant create more sand on a beach by simply observing the sand.
A practical exercise in testing this approach is to follow past and current stories on public shootings or attacks and you will see how you helped create Trump by not speaking up against the infinite demonization of Muslims. The breaking “active shooter” lives with an undeniable first question and it is not where, how many are dead, is the shooter still alive, how can we help, or is it over? No. The first question and arguably the only question is:
Can the suspects be tied to Islam or do they have Arabic “sounding” names?
(that’s what you call a two for one deal)
Please pay careful note to the fact it does not ask:
Did the shooters provide a motive?
Why? Because if their name, travels, or any family or close friends ever visited or drove by a Mosque in the last twenty years and they do not provide a motive, we provide one for them. What evidence of a motive do you have that comes directly from any of the 9/11 hijackers? San Bernardino? Orlando? Boston? Where the perps said they were doing it for Islam? If you are experiencing a knee-gut-jerk already forming a response of calling me an idiot I implore you to settle down and really think about those questions because none of those attacks have any independent evidence it was for Islam. In only 2 the perps provided a motive, Orlando claimed to be doing it for three different extremist groups, that happen to be enemies of each other, and in Boston it they said it was due to our actions of killing civilians and Muslims. None of it is justified. Just like none of our actions that kill innocent people are justified.
The San Bernardino attackers also became “radicalized” because they did not provide a motive, so we gave them one to continue the anti Muslim agenda. Do we always assign a motive when the perps do not provide one? No. We only do it when Islam can be blamed.
Did we say Adam Lanza was a terrorist since he did not leave a motive? Fair enough. We do not know his motive so to call him a terrorist in the absence of evidence would be fake news.
Those two attacks are exactly the same but we did not call Adam Lanza a terrorist even though he also did not state a motive.
cont'd
https://medium.com/@brylarfoustark/how-trump-was-born-from-our-9-11-reaction-bb3b5f036bad#.x03tkrvou