An Odd Silence from Our Betters

Victor Tango Kilo
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Remember how, after 9-11, George W. Bush made a big deal out of going to a mosque? Remember how politicians from both sides (ha-ha) of the aisle lectured us not to hate on Muslims because 3,000 Americans had just been murdered by gentlemen of Arabic descent shouting “Allahu Akbar!” Remember how each subsequent Islamist terror attack — Orlando Pulse, Fort Hood, London 7-11, Little Rock, San Bernardino, the Boston Marathon bombing — were accompanied by somber editorials reminding us that “Islam is a religion of peace,” and how local and federal law enforcement were ordered to be on the lookout for “Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes.”

All right, since you remember all that, isn’t it weird that no politician has told us not to hate Russians for the actions of Vladimir Putin? No editorials have been written telling us to love our Russian neighbors. No, quite the opposite is happening.

This is all stupid and as far as I know not a single politician has the guts to denounce it. Not a single major media editorialist is writing to tell us to knock off the anti-Russian bigotry. Even David French has finally found a topic he doesn’t feel like scolding people about.

Why are the people who have been so moralistic about “Stop the Hate” suddenly OK with hate against Russian-Americans? Most likely, it’s because they’ve been totally invested in anti-Russian propaganda over the last few years to stir up hate against the Bad Orange Man. After demonizing Russia for so long, they simply cannot write an editorial or issue a statement telling people to knock off the Ivan-bashing.  Or maybe it’s just that they just genuinely hate Russians; even those that had nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.

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There are 37 comments

  1. Nohaaj
    Nohaaj
    @Nohaaj

    This stinks more than 4 day old sturgeon left on the back porch. 

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  2. James Salerno
    James Salerno
    @JamesSalerno

    And when Corona escaped from a Chinese lab, they were telling us to stop (non-existent) Asian hate and go out to Chinatown and hug a Chinese person.

    Using pawns to commit political violence has been normalized through BLM, Anti-Trump and Covid hysteria. All of those things paved the way for this. And it’s always directed towards whites. That’s the only reason they’re not using the “it’s not all Russians” talking point. There is no other explanation.

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  3. Fake John/Jane Galt
    Fake John/Jane Galt
    @FakeJohnJaneGalt

    James Salerno (View Comment):

    And when Corona escaped from a Chinese lab, they were telling us to stop (non-existent) Asian hate and go out to Chinatown and hug a Chinese person.

    Using pawns to commit political violence has been normalized through BLM, Anti-Trump and Covid hysteria. All of those things paved the way for this. And it’s always directed towards whites. That’s the only reason they’re not using the “it’s not all Russians” talking point. There is no other explanation.

    Yup, it is normalizing of white hatred.  I will not be surprised if the killing of whites by BIPOC will even be a crime at some point.

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  4. DonG (Keep on Truckin)
    DonG (Keep on Truckin)
    @DonG

    Victor Tango Kilo: Remember how each subsequent Islamist terror attack — Orlando Pulse, Fort Hood, London 7-11, Little Rock, San Bernardino, the Boston Marathon bombing — were accompanied by somber editorials reminding us that “Islam is a religion of peace,”

    This was because Obama was bought off by a Saudi prince.  Did you ever wonder how an long-time unemployed drifter got admitted to Harvard Law School?  Some people did some thing and he got in.  Later, favors were returned.   As for charges of “hypocrisy”, people without principles cannot be hypocrites.  

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  5. Nohaaj
    Nohaaj
    @Nohaaj

    There have been reports that our gov’ment and Canada’s paid vast sums to the media to push vaccine efficacy and mandates. 

    Is it out of the realm to imagine those outlets have been incentivized to promote anti-Russian propaganda?

    To be clear, Russia’s aggression and attack was unprovoked and wrong. It’s continued war is wrong.

    But there is, as Paul Harvey used to comment, “the rest of the story”. 

    I don’t know what that is, at the moment, but I am sure there is one. 

     

     

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