In politics, perception is reality. This is frustrating for those of us who believe the laws of the United States, not to mention U.S. governmental policy, should be based on reality rather than wishful thinking. Here is the main source of the divide between the right and the left in American politics: The right-winger believes his fellow human beings' freedom of action is a benefit that accrues to all, while the left-winger believes your freedom to conduct your life as you see fit is a threat that must be "controlled" for the "common good." The right-winger believes that we ought to make laws based on reality because to do otherwise is to invite self-destruction.
Thus, the right-winger opposes laws that disarm him and leave him helpless in the face of criminal violence, while the left-winger supports "gun control" and open borders. When the right-winger points out that violent illegal immigrants commit crimes like rape and murder in the United States out of proportion to their representation in society, the left-winger accuses the right-winger of racism. On and on it goes, with the right-winger supporting the Constitution as written and the left-winger voting to ignore it or pervert it based on his wishful thinking of what is in this "living document." This is how our Supreme Court, packed with leftists, routinely finds "rights" not defined in the Constitution to be protected by that document, while ignoring explicit language forbidding certain laws the leftist justices help write from the bench.
The wishful thinking of left-wingers extends to a psychic ability to see within the hearts and minds of those they hate. Make no mistake; Left-wingers hate their ideological opponents and want them to die. They frequently give vent to these feelings; death threats and rape threats against conservatives and libertarians are common online, as are trial balloons routinely floated by left-wing academics and political figures in which they muse that conservatives should be imprisoned or sanctioned for wrongthink. That's not an exaggeration; already, various left-wingers have called for the imprisonment or re-education of those conservatives who dare to question left-wing theories of man-caused global warming (and the crippling economic destruction the left-wingers see as the solution to "climate change"). In their hatred, leftists project their racism and their evil onto their ideological opponents.
This projection manifests itself in liberals' obsession with "dog whistles," "code words" and "microaggressions." In other words, innocent, benign behavior that is itself not offensive becomes offensive when a left-winger claims it is part of a greater over-arching pattern or, worse, code for hidden racist or sexist thoughts. The insidious nature of this type of scarlet letter, this branding of innocent people as racists or hatemongers, is that marginalizing someone as a "hater" is only an accusation away. When that accusation is made online and in social media, it quickly spreads across the majority of the population. Even when that accusation is not accurate, most people using social media never read past the headline. That headline, right or wrong, becomes "fact" in their mind. Thus, when an anonymous "hacktivist" group publishes a list of U.S. government officials alleged to be secret members of the Ku Klux Klan, few look past that headline. The goal – marginalizing as hatemongers those whose politics you dislike – has been accomplished. The truth is irrelevant when you're a left-wing social-justice whiner, after all.
So it is that hacktivist group "Anonymous," whose members gleefully "dox" or publish the personal information and addresses of those they would like to see assaulted and murdered, began, as part of their "Operation KKK," publishing lists of names to social media. The names are supposed to be members of the notorious racist organization. This social-justice assault is doubly effective because it relies on two stalwart left-wing bogeymen: anonymous allegations of racism and hate (which are also false), and white supremacy as a category of thought.
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We've discussed why left-wingers love to claim their enemies are full of hate: When you can deride someone as a hatemonger, nothing they do or say can be taken seriously (or so you hope). The Southern Poverty Law Center, which has the ear of the Obama administration and was instrumental in declaring anyone opposed to Obama and the Democrats to be potential domestic terrorists, loves to declare almost anyone to be a hatemonger. Their brush is so broad that literally anyone who is not a progressive Democrat is supposed to be some kind of racist terrorist in the making. But if these allegations can be tied to an overarching "white supremacist movement," they become that much more powerful.
Liberals – and domestic terrorist groups like #BlackLivesMatter – are the only people alive today still convinced that "white supremacy" is a problem. Alex Griswold, writing for Mediaite, points out that the Klan is a "pathetically small" organization that has perhaps 3,000 to 5,000 members. (Even the SPLC agrees with this figure, which is 10 percent of what the group boasted for membership in the '60s.) The KKK, like the "militia movement" leftists believe represents a greater threat than Muslim extremism, has been absurdly overestimated in terms of the danger it presents. Just as the threat from right-wing "militia" groups has always been overblown by the libs to create a straw man attack on conservatives and libertarians, the KKK has not been a viable threat to racial harmony for decades. But boy, do left-wingers lap up the thought that various Republicans (whose party championed abolition of slavery) are supposed to be members of the Klan (while ignoring the long historical association between the Democrats and the KKK).
Oh, did we mention that the claims were false? That's right: Even Anonymous admits that the Republicans "outed" as KKK members aren't actually in the organization. In true leftist fashion, however, the hackers involved intend to keep falsely smearing people as KKK members anyway.
Being a social justice whiner means never having to say you're sorry. If you wreck a man's reputation by falsely claiming on social media that he's in the KKK, well, too bad. He probably had it coming, what with him being a Republican and all.
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