tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655407863660711763.post2201248056442908566..comments2023-04-13T15:43:17.917-04:00Comments on Billy Rubin's Blog: "All Jews Must Die"Billy Rubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04850166742797443954noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655407863660711763.post-68407802942709320912018-10-28T08:58:49.462-04:002018-10-28T08:58:49.462-04:00Indeed, Anon. Among the more exasperating rejoinde...Indeed, Anon. Among the more exasperating rejoinders from many right-leaning pundits when faced with these acts is something along the lines of, "yes, violence in America is terrible, both left and right!" Paul Krugman calls it "bothsidesism," many others refer to it as "false equivalence," but at this point I think either "deep denial" or "borderline insanity" fits the bill (a term that would serve as confirmation to those on the right that the rhetoric of the "left" immediately veers to the hyperbolic, while I would say that the shoe appears to fit so it's time to wear it). There is a broader problem of paranoia and violence in the US (the Sandy Hook shooting wasn't politically motivated, nor apparently was Las Vegas), and the US isn't the only country that suffers from mass shootings (the Dunblane massacre in Scotland in 1996 leaps to mind). But to deny that this is primarily a right-wing phenomenon, and that it is fomented directly by the President of the United States, and abetted by virtually every elected Republican official, is to be willfully blind. <br /><br />Thanks for writing--BillyBilly Rubinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04850166742797443954noreply@blogger.com