All I hope to accomplish is to demonstrate to others that may be vulnerable to such ideologies that such positions are deserving of only contempt and ridicule.

To demonstrate that the FACTS contradict these ideologies, thus such positions are a form of insanity…

Facts and reason would never get through to creatures like TB, Jody, Frank, and RobVG- but for a while they pretended that their positions could be defended as reasonable and ethical… but once they threw their lot in with Trump, even THEY realized that pretense could not be sustained-

So they ran away…

They criticize Liberals because Liberals criticize Israeli policy towards the Palestinians. They claim to love the Jews because Israel plays such a central role in their Apocalyptic Endworld fantasies.
But when they march, they chant “Jews will not replace us.” And now they have a President who claims “There are bad people on both sides.”

It doesn’t matter if you’re Progressive, foreign, non-Christian, Jew, Muslim, Latino, Red, Brown or Black. They just don’t like people who are not exactly like them. You cannot reason with these people. They are ignorant, afraid, angry and violent.

You can’t really blame them, they are simple, uneducated, easily-misled people, but you CAN blame those who have tapped into these folks and mobilized them to further their own economic, cultural and political agendas.

Unfortunately, you can’t reason with THEM, either. They are not ignorant, or mistaken. They know exactly what they are doing.

They are usually innocuous saccharine motivational religious memes, or alt-right talking points…

This time it was a link to a Breitbart article on recent ‘massacres of christians’ by muslims in Nigeria- framing it as liberal hypocrisy that the NZ massacre is getting all this press and no one is talking about the Nigeria atrocities…

In googling this it quickly became apparent that this talking point was being distributed en masse on every right wing media platform-

Here is my response to him:

1) When you get your talking points from Breitbart you have already lost whatever ill-informed argument you were trying to make.

2) The press HAS covered this conflict, repeatedly- it has been going on for many years, thousands on both sides have been killed- so the question is why- ALL OF A SUDDEN – it has become important to YOU, and why has it become important to you NOW?

3) The warring between these groups has been going on for well over a decade, and while it may have some religious component, it is primarily a war between farmers and herders over scarce resources in the area.

4) The slaughter in New-Zealand, however, was the first mass shooting in that country in decades.

5) The incident is also indicative of the spread of white nationalist terrorism to areas it had not been seen before.

6)White nationalist terrorism is on the rise in the US and world-wide.

7) Right wing terrorists were responsible for %73 of domestic terrorism deaths in America between 2009 and 2018, accounting for nearly %100 in 2018.

So the question, again, is why- ALL OF A SUDDEN – it has become important to YOU, and why has it become important to you NOW?
And why are alt-right organizations suddenly shouting at you about it trying to get you outraged about it RIGHT NOW!?

As I said, its been going on for decades. So why are you suddenly scrambling for something else to point to, rather than doing the human thing and expressing sorrow at the slaughter in New Zealand? What makes you so uncomfortable about the fact that the slaughter of 50 innocent people in a normally peaceful country gets media attention?

Is it because it has made you defensive, because the rhetoric this murderer in NZ spouted so closely resembles that spewed by the president and other republicans in this country?

You are better than this… aren’t you?

I then posted numerous links to articles from the past decade in the ‘liberal’ media covering the growing violence, warning that it was getting worse.