Some white people are terrorists and some white people are racists (Video)

Some white people are terrorists and some white people are racists (Video)

If the headline of this post specified any demographic other than white people, I would be guilty, according to conventional present-day liberal standards, of racial targeting, if not something more heinous. Since, however, white people are fair game because every white person, in the view of the left, born with “privilege,” the statement is acceptable.

It is also factual.

There are well-documented cases of white people who commit acts of terror — think Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh — and there are well-documented cases of white people who act on racist impulses: think Dylann Storm Roof, who reportedly said before opening fire on a Bible study session in a black church, “I have to do it. You rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.”

I am guessing that there are way more racists than there are terrorists, but the assertion that both exist is beyond dispute.

The problems with these statements of fact arise when all white people are painted with the same broad brush as terrorists or racists. That is an example of stereotyping and is, itself, one of the most pernicious forms of racism.

It is precisely what a black woman “broadcasting” on a street corner in Charleston, S.C., did Thursday. CNN was reporting on the latest events in the church massacre, which left nine black parishioners dead. At around 0:19 in the video that follows, the woman can be plainly heard saying, “White people are terrorists.”

A more subtle and therefore invidious form of the same brand of racism was practiced yesterday by another black woman, this one Washington Post opinions page deputy editor Karen Attiah, who should know better. She wrote:

The gruesome massacre of nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historically black church in Charleston, S.C., may amount to the worst racially motivated terror attack of our generation and a deeply violent reminder that racism and white supremacy continue to course through America’s veins.

The difference between her words and those of the misguided woman on the street corner is that Attiah’s intention is to inflame, to rouse passions. To make matters worse, her comments are received be a much larger audience.

All reasonable people wish fervently for an end to racial unrest in our nation and terrorism worldwide. Overgeneralizing is not the answer.

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Howard Portnoy

Howard Portnoy

Howard Portnoy has written for The Blaze, HotAir, NewsBusters, Weasel Zippers, Conservative Firing Line, RedCounty, and New York’s Daily News. He has one published novel, Hot Rain, (G. P. Putnam’s Sons), and has been a guest on Radio Vice Online with Jim Vicevich, The Alana Burke Show, Smart Life with Dr. Gina, and The George Espenlaub Show.

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