"The same groups that promoted the shooting of doctors and bombing abortion clinics were politically pandered to. Had they been brown-skinned Muslims instead of white Christian males, it is highly doubtful that they would have been coddled and given their way politically. Men who bombed clinics and killed doctors are never called "terrorists"; they're called "angry white males", implying that they're the victims...The roots of right-wing political violence go back 200 years to the French Revolution. That was the birthplace of Left and Right, and the conflict between those seeking a radically democratic and egalitarian society versus reactionaries, those desiring a society based on tradition and hierarchy. In the early 19th century, reactionaries favored the church, the king, the aristocracy and property, today they are for patriotism, Christianity (with a few exceptions), the free market and class, white, male and heterosexual privileges. Over the last two centuries, the Right has always mobilized group resentment and difference based on these various categories...
But it’s not history alone. There is organization and planning, in this case the deliberate stoking of anti-Muslim nativism by the Right. Max Blumenthal connected the dots<http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/12/the-great-islamophobic-crusade/>between various right-wing funders, organizations, leaders and activists, concluding, “the Islamophobic crusade … now belongs to leading Republican presidential candidates, top-rated cable news hosts, and crowds of Tea Party activists.” And as the bigoted fervor peaked before Sept. 11 last year, so did the violence from a stabbing of a Muslim cabdriver<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/nyregion/26cabby.html>in New York City to arson, bomb and vandalism on mosques and mosque sites in Tennessee, Texas and Florida<http://www.pensitoreview.com/2010/08/30/does-arson-at-mosque-in-tennessee-birthplace-of-the-klan-signal-a-rise-in-tea-party-terrorism/> . Also notable is the vitriol<http://splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/winter/the-hard-liners>against the LGBT community – equating homosexuality with pedophilia, claiming gays try to “recruit” children, downplaying anti-gay violence, stating “Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler,” and even calling for the execution of gays – that is a staple of Christian Right groups such as the American Family Association, Traditional Values Coalition, Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America, all of which find a welcome home inside the GOP’s big tent. This rhetoric quickly finds its way into the right-wing echo chamber whether in Rush Limbaugh’s bigotry<http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/homophobia-rush-limbaughs-top-anti-gay-quotes/discrimination/2009/03/05/517>, Michael Savage’s venom<http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-07-07-talk-host-fired_x.htm>or Fox News in general, which is fond of equating homosexuality with pedophilia<http://mediamatters.org/research/200905060016?lid=1034539&rid=27236742>. Finding a wedge issue, right-wing politicians pile on with more gay-bashing. On a campaign swing through Brooklyn last October, the Republicans' New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/nyregion/11paladino.html>warned that children are being “brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option.” Paladino’s comments were especially heinous coming on the heels three separate inciden<http://gothamist.com/2010/10/20/discussing_rise_in_gay_attacks_quin.php>If anything, the tragedy was the result of the reactionary Right’s politics of demonizing the other. The time has come to attack the Right, not with guns, but with words and ideas to expose its destructive and deadly politics.<http://gothamist.com/2010/10/20/discussing_rise_in_gay_attacks_quin.php> ts <http://gothamist.com/2010/10/20/discussing_rise_in_gay_attacks_quin.php>of anti-gay violence in New York City.." If anything, the tragedy was the result of the reactionary Right’s politics of demonizing the other. The time has come to attack the Right, not with guns, but with words and ideas to expose its destructive and deadly politics.." http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/149500/hate_and_violence_are_encoded_in_the_dna_of_the_american_right/comments/#comment-1288625 -- You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. -AMBEDKAR http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
