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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMaddow: 'Why Do We Overlook RW Violence and Refuse to Call it Terrorism?' Because They're White.
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On the Tuesday edition of her MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow concluded a segment on the Republican Partys deep denial about (and active protection of) its violent Patriot and militia wing by asking the following question: why do we overlook right-wing violence and refuse to call it terrorism?
The answer to Maddow's question is simple.
"We" don't talk about right-wing domestic terrorists and other extremists because they are largely white and male.
The language used by Rachel Maddowand how it undermines the scurrilous Right-wing lie that there is such a thing as a liberal mediahelps to demonstrate the above claim. Once more, a "liberal" news analyst talks around the obvious and is afraid to connect the words "white" and "male" and "conservative" in their discussions of white violence, murder, mayhem, and treason.
Domestic terrorism is an oxymoron in America when white folks are involved. Whiteness imagines itself as kind, benign, safe, neutral, normal, and good. "Terrorism" is something those "other people" do, i.e. the Muslims, or some other ambiguous cohort of black and brown people who "hate American values". Whiteness and the white racial frame are possessed by an acute sense of historical amnesia as well. The most dangerous domestic terrorist organization in the history of the United States was the Ku Klux Klan, a group that killed thousands of black Americans during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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On the Tuesday edition of her MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow concluded a segment on the Republican Partys deep denial about (and active protection of) its violent Patriot and militia wing by asking the following question: why do we overlook right-wing violence and refuse to call it terrorism?
The answer to Maddow's question is simple.
"We" don't talk about right-wing domestic terrorists and other extremists because they are largely white and male.
The language used by Rachel Maddowand how it undermines the scurrilous Right-wing lie that there is such a thing as a liberal mediahelps to demonstrate the above claim. Once more, a "liberal" news analyst talks around the obvious and is afraid to connect the words "white" and "male" and "conservative" in their discussions of white violence, murder, mayhem, and treason.
Domestic terrorism is an oxymoron in America when white folks are involved. Whiteness imagines itself as kind, benign, safe, neutral, normal, and good. "Terrorism" is something those "other people" do, i.e. the Muslims, or some other ambiguous cohort of black and brown people who "hate American values". Whiteness and the white racial frame are possessed by an acute sense of historical amnesia as well. The most dangerous domestic terrorist organization in the history of the United States was the Ku Klux Klan, a group that killed thousands of black Americans during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Maddow: 'Why Do We Overlook RW Violence and Refuse to Call it Terrorism?' Because They're White. (Original Post)
Triana
Apr 2014
OP
Both the Anti-Government and Anti-Choice Terrorists are the GOP Base Now
Exposethefrauds
Apr 2014
#6
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)1. not just because they are white, but white and right
wing. Occupiers were not given a deal and they were mostly white.
madville
(7,412 posts)2. Correct, White and Left
Gets you squat.
Triana
(22,666 posts)3. +1 - Agreed!
Don't miss the video segment by Maddow on the issue: http://on.msnbc.com/1jJiYEt
JoeyT
(6,785 posts)4. She forgot Christian.
White right wing Muslims would've gotten annihilated too.
Gotta hit all three: White, right wing, and Christian. Failing on any of the three gets you jack shit.
Cha
(297,728 posts)5. "Christian" should be in quotes, imv.
Exposethefrauds
(531 posts)6. Both the Anti-Government and Anti-Choice Terrorists are the GOP Base Now
Hence the Government will not go after them
Rounding Up, Arresting and Incarcerating, not my preferred choice, both groups of well known terrorists will cause the GOP in DC to go nuts, what would the Democratic Party do if 30-40% of your base was arrested for terrorism?