Setting aside for a second the oxymoron that is "responsible white separatist community", this is just more political posturing by a community that's been courting violence for decades. The leadership of organizations like this always tries to distance itself from the whackos who turn their rhetoric into violence but in the end the leadership is just as responsible as the one who does the act. We see this with the anti-choice leadership as well when abortion providers are killed. They advocate violence with their rhetoric, compare the targets with Nazis and say they're perpetrating a holocaust, and then when one of their sheep kills someone they swear they had nothing to do with it. The same is true with the white supremacist/separatist community. You can't spend centuries making the worst claims about a group of people and then claim ignorance when someone decides to do something about it.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
(Oxy)moron...
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/11/responsible-white-separatist/
Setting aside for a second the oxymoron that is "responsible white separatist community", this is just more political posturing by a community that's been courting violence for decades. The leadership of organizations like this always tries to distance itself from the whackos who turn their rhetoric into violence but in the end the leadership is just as responsible as the one who does the act. We see this with the anti-choice leadership as well when abortion providers are killed. They advocate violence with their rhetoric, compare the targets with Nazis and say they're perpetrating a holocaust, and then when one of their sheep kills someone they swear they had nothing to do with it. The same is true with the white supremacist/separatist community. You can't spend centuries making the worst claims about a group of people and then claim ignorance when someone decides to do something about it.
Setting aside for a second the oxymoron that is "responsible white separatist community", this is just more political posturing by a community that's been courting violence for decades. The leadership of organizations like this always tries to distance itself from the whackos who turn their rhetoric into violence but in the end the leadership is just as responsible as the one who does the act. We see this with the anti-choice leadership as well when abortion providers are killed. They advocate violence with their rhetoric, compare the targets with Nazis and say they're perpetrating a holocaust, and then when one of their sheep kills someone they swear they had nothing to do with it. The same is true with the white supremacist/separatist community. You can't spend centuries making the worst claims about a group of people and then claim ignorance when someone decides to do something about it.
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