{"id":20456,"date":"2010-09-14T10:17:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T14:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20456"},"modified":"2010-09-14T15:40:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T19:40:42","slug":"potok-none-what-i-say-is-true-but-ill-say-it-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20456","title":{"rendered":"Potok: None of what I say is true, but I’ll say it anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a CNN interview, Mark Potok tells CNN that even there’s no data to support his contention that violence against Islamic adherents is on the rise;<\/p>\n

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Surprisingly, he gives President Bush credit for tamping down anti-Islamic incidents in the years following the 9-11 attacks. But then he believes in Big Government solutions. Without saying President Obama’s name (that would be racist in Potok’s world), Potok blames the current administration for the few attacks he calls “antecdotal evidence” of widespread hate crimes committed against Muslims. <\/p>\n

Yeah, one knifing by a liberal film student perpetrated on a cab driver is “evidence” of a rising hate crime incidents.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Daily Caller<\/a> quotes Potok while he tries to blame the Tea Party groups for this “surge” in hate crimes;<\/p>\n

\u201cThe \u2018tea parties\u2019 and similar groups that have sprung up in recent months cannot fairly be considered extremist groups, but they are shot through with rich veins of radical ideas, conspiracy theories and racism,\u201d Mark Potok, director of the SPLC\u2019s Intelligence Project, wrote in a piece titled \u201cRage On The Right: The Year In Hate And Extremism\u201d from the group\u2019s Spring 2010 edition of its Intelligence Report.<\/p>\n

SPLC also sees a connection between the \u201cparanoid\u201d antigovernment ideas espoused by extremist militias, racist skinheads, and the ideas espoused by prominent Tea Partiers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the imagined hate crime surge is fueled by imagined connection to the Tea Parties. That’s some diligent research and unshakable evidence you have there, Markie. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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