December 31, 2015
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Fair enough; I actually agree with that, and I apply it 100% to my vigorous criticisms of Muslim extremism, violence, misogyny, hypersensitivity, and denial.
But still, I was hoping for a specific answer to my “good question.” And I was to receive it from none other than Salon’s No. 1 hatemonger, Chauncey DeVega. DeVega, a young black fellow, is a real piece of work. As a writer, his abilities extend only to penning hateful screeds about whites. He is the definition of the one-trick blogger: “Donald Trump leads an insane white cult,” “White guys are killing us,” “White killers go to Burger King” (in which DeVega repeated, apparently with Salon’s blessing, the outright lie that police took Charleston mass murderer Dylann Roof to Burger King), “White America’s toxic ignorance,” “Donald Trump’s white fascist brigade,” “Sympathy is for white people,” “White America will ignore this video,” “Now white people are trying to ruin “Star Wars,”” “The violence white America must answer for,” “Black America owes no forgiveness,” and on and on. DeVega is not capable of penning an essay that doesn”t involve a blanket attack on whites. That’s not entirely his fault; he’s just a very, very bad writer. But no respectable publication or website would ever bring in a regular columnist for weekly (or, in DeVega’s case, sometimes daily) pieces that were perpetual retreads.
As with Frank Joyce’s apparent embarrassment over Salon’s choice of a title for his essay, this is yet another reason why Salon represents the very worst of the “new media.”
But back to DeVega. In response to my question “Do you think it might be a possibility that the various pieces (by you and others) that make blanket criticisms of whites might help white hate groups recruit new members?” DeVega answered (and this is his response in its entirety), “No.”
When I asked him (several times) if he could expand on that one-word reply, he countered, “I was generous in responding to you. Please don”t make me regret that use of my time.” Regular readers of this column may recall the incident earlier this year in which a Latina activist told me she’s too “way above” me to bother to provide me with an “understanding” of her reasoning. Left-wing minority supremacists always carry with them an inflated ego and an unearned and unrealistic sense of self-importance.
Having failed to impress me with his “generosity,” DeVega concluded by telling me that my repeated requests for clarification were, and I quote, “a bad look on you.” Either he’s semi-illiterate, or he somehow knew about the garish Christmas sweater I was wearing while we corresponded. No matter. His two-letter response spoke volumes. DeVega, master of the blanket condemnation of whites, understands that there is no possibility that his hostile words might make white people join “hate groups.” DeVega proved my point: Muslims are different. They do indeed have “compromised stability.” They can become radicalized due to the kinds of things the rest of us take in stride”hurtful Internet essays, mean words from a political figure, even a simple cartoon. Until this mass personality disorder is dealt with, extra caution is indeed warranted, especially when considering the importation of hundreds of thousands or millions of Muslims into non-Muslim nations.
This is not to say that white people can”t also become radicalized by reading things on the Internet, as the Dylann Roof case certainly proved. But it’s such an exception that even a hardcore antiwhite ideologue like Chauncey DeVega does not even consider it a possibility worth worrying about.
Their intentions may have been to attack Trump, but in the process, Clinton, Brokaw, Cuomo, and Koppel helped bring attention to the very serious problem of sudden Muslim radicalization, and we should thank them for that. Love Trump or hate him, it’s not his fault that Muslim terror “recruitment” is so easy. The blame lies with Muslims, and the solution, if there ever is one, will have to come from Muslims.
In the meantime, the worst thing the rest of the world can do is ignore the problem, or deny it. So (and I never thought I”d write these words) thank you, Hillary Clinton, for doing (if unintentionally) what liberals always say they love doing””raising awareness” of a vitally important issue.
