{"id":19580,"date":"2010-06-29T07:08:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T11:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19580"},"modified":"2010-06-29T07:08:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T11:08:16","slug":"encouraging-a-race-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19580","title":{"rendered":"Encouraging a race war"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really don’t know what people are thinking. Courtland Milloy, a columnist for the Washington Post wrote a piece last week entitled “Tolerance of white militias exemplifies racial double standard<\/a>” in which he teams up with our dearest buddy, Mark Potok, to fan the flames of a race war;<\/p>\n

Since Obama took office last year, the number of white militias has shot up from about 170 to more than 500, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors extremist groups in the United States. Armed with enough firepower to take on a police department, some of these groups are honing their sniper skills using photographs of Obama for target practice.<\/p>\n

They cling to the delusion that the nation’s first black president is somehow a subversive working for Muslim extremists, and they aim to bring him down.<\/p>\n

“If the people we saw running around armed to the teeth were black, I think their organizations would be destroyed in a matter of hours,” Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, told me. “If people saw on their TV screens photos of black militia members shooting at images of a white president, I don’t think they would last.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course Potok sees racists in his closet and under his bed. That 500 number of “hate groups” is completely manufactured as we’ve shown in the past. If the number is manufactured, so is Potok’s and Milloy’s fear. And Milloy admits that his false outrage was ginned up by Chris Matthew’s “The Rise Of The New Right” propaganda piece.<\/p>\n

As Potok said, “There’s a huge amount of anger, and what we are really lacking at this moment is a kind of spark.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It appears to me that Potok is more than willing to provide that spark. Potok’s manufactured outrage and tendency for hyperbole as a fund raising scheme has the potential to create unreasonable fear on both sides of his hoped-for war. If some crackpot tried to warn about the rise of Leftwing terrorists in the pages of the Washington, they’d have been unceremoniously tossed out on their ear. So why is Milloy allowed to churn out this crap?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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