CNN’s Sally Kohn Blames The Right For The Alexandria Shooting

Leave it to someone from CNN to continue to use the right as their scapegoat.

Update: I saw a Periscope from Scott Adams and I felt I needed to update this story. Pasting a quote from Charles Krauthammer as it is the most relevant.

“When you say ‘unless we stop Donald Trump, the republic will not survive’, then that justifies anything. That’s the language, the ideology, the rationale of terrorists, the fate of the world hangs on this, and it’s up to the leadership to say these are policies, this is not the fate of the republic.”

The Facebook post in question:

Sally opens by saying “right wing extremists do violent and hateful things.” Sounds about right coming from Sally Kohn. Politifact had to rate one of her statements as half true when she said: “Since 9/11, right-wing extremists (incl anti-abortion, anti-gov) have killed more Americans than Islamic extremists.”

And sometimes — as it would appear happened today at a Congressional baseball practice — left wing extremists do violent and hateful things. These are the moments to search our souls.

You see how she dodges the issue in question? She refuses to disavow the attack. We need to search our souls? For what? Just say it, violence is not the answer and no one should endorse or condone it while disavowing the attacker.

I do happen to believe that conservatives are habitually more hateful and violent than progressives, that those on the right end of the spectrum have historically been guilty of perpetuating hatred and violence than on the left.

“When they go low, we go high.” Was that the saying, Sally? Very disingenuous to continue to shift blame over to the right. It makes me wonder, what’s the point of this entire post?

Slave owners were infinitely more violent than abolitionists. Segregationists extraordinarily more hateful than civil rights protesters. It is indisputable that throughout history, more evil has been done by those seeking to prop up and perpetuate misogyny, homophobia, transphobia and racism than by those seeking inclusion and equality.

When does Sally condemn this attack?

But pointing out that one side is historically worse in this regard doesn’t absolve the rest of us. Just like acknowledging that conservatives are more casually inclined toward sexism or homophobia doesn’t mean the left is beyond reproach.

I missed the research and statistics Sally linked to back up this claim. Again though, she has to justify any negative behavior from the left by directly spelling out something against the right and blaming them for it.

In fact, if we think we’re answering the higher call of justice, shouldn’t we hold ourselves to a higher standard? When I hear Islamophobia on the right, I’m angry. But when I hear Islamophobia from my progressive brothers and sisters, I’m devastated. We’re supposed to be the ones standing strong against hate. In all its forms.

You’re devastated when you hear Islamophobia from the left because “you’re” side is supposed to be the one’s who stand against hate?

I spent a good part of the last two years trying to teach my eight-year-old daughter not to hate Donald Trump. She didn’t get the idea to hate Trump from conservatives. She absorbed it somehow from the liberal bubble in which she lives, picking it up from peers or side conversations or maybe even from me if I wasn’t being careful enough to mind my own consciousness.

Yeah, she somehow absorbed it from the liberal bubble in which she lives. Have looked in a mirror lately?

The extremities of hateful rhetoric coming from parts of the conservative right during and in the wake of this election have taken my breath away. I can’t believe that people not only still believe such hateful things but suddenly feel safer to say them out loud. And it is also true that I have also been taken aback by how many decent people I know feel what can only be described as hate toward not only Donald Trump but the people who voted for him.

You fail to mention the hatred and violence coming from Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and other organizations. You fail to mention Hillary Clinton calling us racists, Nazis, homophobic, xenophobic, and many other names. People use this as a means to justify their attacks against us while you sit there and smile while eating popcorn. You do not disavow the violence committed against the right from groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter.

I’ve talked to people in the corners and cracks of America who voted for Trump and they’re convinced that people like me hate them. And they’re right. Sure, people like me are convinced a lot of Trump voters hate people like us and maybe some do. But I’ve taught my daughter that two wrongs doesn’t make a right.

She doesn’t even hide it. She hates us and she admits it. She can try to use an analogy with her daughter all she wants, she admits people like her hate Trump voters. This is the environment they have created and continue to endorse.

Martin Luther King wrote, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” I know it is hard to ask that we love even those who we feel represent so much darkness and hate in the world today. But what do you think fighting for justice and equality means? Yes, sometimes it means fighting their hate and opposition. Sometimes it means fighting our own. Sometimes it means being the change we want to see in the world. Being that love and kindness. Not being full of hate.

That’s great you bring up an MLK quote but I’m still waiting for you to disavow the attacker and what he did without linking back to the right as a means to justify it or downplay it. Still focusing on hate when your entire post here is linking back to those on the right.

I pray for the victims of the shooting. I pray that those on the right will be less hateful. And I pray those on the left will be less hateful, too. In the meantime, I’m only responsible for myself. Imperfect and searching.

Last section and she cannot disavow. It’s nice she is trying to brush it off by saying she’s only responsible for herself Only someone working at CNN can be this vile.

Sally Kohn also proves Mike Cernovich is 100% right in this video. The left will continue to not disavow and those in media will refuse to acknowledge wrongdoing. They know what they are doing and it’s on purpose. By refusing to disavow, they are complicit in the violence. At least Bernie Sanders was able to disavow the attacker.