The Left has only one note to play: if you oppose their agenda, you’re a racist. That’s it. And if you oppose jihad terror, you’re doubly a racist: what we have seen in the wake of the killing of Justine Damond by Mohamed Noor is that all the outrage on the Left over police shootings was conditional on the cops not being Muslim. Once a Muslim cop shot an unarmed woman, Leftists became law-and-order types, and if you questioned the police and the policies that led to the hiring and retention of the rogue cop, you were a racist.
And so we come to the self-styled “comedian” Roy Edroso of the Village Voice, who, like all Leftist comedians, is spectacularly unfunny, mistaking Leftist agitprop for comedy. Edroso compounds the idiocy of the “racism” charge by doubling down on what got Justine Damond killed in the first place. He manifests the chronic Leftist confusion about what exactly constitutes a race, claiming that conservatives “went with straight-up racial appeals” and then quotes me as I allegedly “raged” and “roared” about the identity politics that kept Mohamed Noor on the force because he is a Muslim. Islam is not a race, but try challenging a Leftist like Edroso with basic facts.
The other people he quotes do mention racial issues involved in this case, and justifiably so, since there is legitimate reason to believe that Noor was only a Minneapolis cop because of his race and religion. Yet instead of calling for a reexamination of the policies that led to an incompetent cop being kept on the police force as an ethnic and religious trophy, Edroso consigns all concern about this yet again to “racism.” Leftists have no other tool in their box.
Roy Edroso’s mindless repetition of this ridiculous and baseless charge is just going to get more innocent people killed.
“Kid Rock and the Cop Who Shot a White Lady: Conservative Alternatives to Trump-Fluffing,” by Roy Edroso, Village Voice, July 24, 2017:
…If conservatives didn’t want to trifle with Kid Rock, they could challenge themselves to explain why the latest famous police shooting enraged them in a way others typically don’t — without saying that it was because in this case the victim of the Minneapolis incident, Justine Damond, was a white lady and the cop who shot her, Mohamed Noor, is Muslim.
As you probably already guessed, the ones who addressed the case didn’t bother to try to thread that needle, and in some cases just went with straight-up racial appeals.
“Justine Damond: Killed by ‘Islamophobia’ — Political Correctness Put Her In The Way Of A ‘Nervous, Jumpy’ Muslim Cop Who Took Her Life,” raged Robert Spencer at Freedom Outpost. When the cop’s lawyer tried to find out if the victim was on Ambien when she was shot, Spencer roared, “Like so many Muslims before him, it looks as if Mohamed Noor has opted to defend himself by blaming the victim.”
“Skreee,” added Pamela Geller. “Blond Yoga Instructor Skreeeeeeeeeee.”
Thomas Lifson at American Thinker explained the incident thus: “An entire African, Muslim community was grafted onto what had been the most heavily Caucasian major metropolitan area in the country — perhaps the first ever diversity graft onto an American metropolis, engineered by the federal government.” Lifson seemed to think all the Somali Muslims in Minneapolis had shot Damond, like in Murder on the Orient Express.
Former congresswoman Michele Bachmann refined the idea somewhat by calling Noor “an affirmative-action hire by the hijab-wearing mayor of Minneapolis.” Affirmative-action and Muslim hatred — a wing-nut twofer! Further down the food chain, rightwing Twitter dummies ran with the message (“I will always defend police but not a token Muslim Somali Pirate turned cop by ladder climbing County officials,” etc.).
“[Noor] was promoted to be Minneapolis’s first Somali immigrant cop by a city administration that cared more about his background than his actual qualifications,” agreed Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit. Rightbloggers don’t usually question the fitness of other cops who kill but, with Trump pushing to ban Muslims from entering the country, you can also see why this one has them excited. Now, if a “gypsy” cop does a bad shoot, they’ll really have something!…
SAM says
The left and Muslims make me furious with their sick world view. No common sense no integrity on the part of the left and Muslims. They have nothing but hate for America where they have the most freedom to spew hate. What a strange state of cultural suicide for no good reason.
mortimer says
The Red-Green Axis of Evil.
john spielman says
the leftist world view is psychotic- a delusion of reality
mortimer says
What race is MENTALLY HEALTHY? A head case should not carry a gun.
Someone with INTERMITTENT EXPLOSIVE DISORDER should NOT carry a gun.
John A. Marre says
The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Boston Globe, are all leftist voices of insanity.
Nothing published in any of them has any value whatsoever.
As for the close-up picture above of the leftist writer, it should be posted in public toilets, since it will surely frighten the viewer, and hasten the flow of solid waste towards the lower end of the digestive tract.
John Hawk says
Once upon a time, some of these publications were classically liberal, especially on matters such as free speech and free expression. What the hell happened? They have mutated into Stalinesque rags in which “correct” beliefs are more important than objective facts. It’s far more important, for instance, to parrot nonsense about “the religion of peace” while obfuscating news about the latest jihad mass murder in vague references to “mentally ill” perpetrators and “Asian men,” as if Hindus and Buddhists might be the responsible parties.
Irene Brekelmans says
When you criticise your government, you will know your government by their actions. And we know our governments by now. If a government can not take any criticisme, we know they are up to bad things. And they are and full of bad people too.
I lost my faith in humanity completely and in this life I will never have it back. It happens as it was predicted, when the technic ren forwards and drove people a bit crazy, but the consciousness of people stayed so far behind, balance is completely lost, and the worst in people has come out. All the old fights are drawn out. The old stuff and elite governments and mayors and people who are not able even to think properly have to go and killers have to go to and rapists and mutilators.We have to move forward an are trying for years already to move forward and make a better life and we will not tolerate that such a violent religion will destroy it and if we all do not behave better, we will not destroy ourselves any more, but God will destroy us !!! Think about that, muslims, and their is nothing Mohammed can do about it.It will be too late then.
somehistory says
There are many police officers across the country who are not White of skin. This is not about his “skin” color, which is considered by humans as “race” defining.
This is about the fact of his attitudes, his personality, his thought processes…all trained before he went through police academy training, by islum.
Police departments have manuals that instruct officers in how, when, where…why, who…to lessen the probabilities of killing an innocent, unarmed citizen. noor would have been issued this manual.
Tragically for the victim noor encountered, he had read and studied his other manual first and for far longer. His brain cells were steeped in that other manual long before he became a police officer. When he made his decision about how to treat this lady, the unholy book had the advantage….
The reality is, everything a moslum such as noor does is dictated by their unholy book and the other unholy writings and the brain processes it causes.
And some people are not qualified…by personality type…to carry a gun with the authority to shoot it based on their determination of whether or not they and others are in danger. All citizens have the right of self=defense…of their homes and themselves. Not all people have the authority to carry a gun into other people’s homes or property and the authority to discharge their weapon; only those deemed qualified to serve in a police officer capacity.
His skin color did not kill the lady. His thinking and lack of qualifications, his attitudes…built upon islum…killed her.
III Frogs says
Islamophobia is justified. Islamophobia is survival. Appeasement and licking daesh ass has never done anything but increase Islamic barbarity and supremacism from its inception 1400 years ago, by that inbred pedophile sadist, Mohammed.
Beagle says
You have to acknowledge the courage of the Village Voice to come out with a defense of a cop shooting an unarmed woman for no good reason. Even actual right wing extremists usually stop short of that.
Bezelel says
Edroso has a right to remain stupid, so do the people who take him seriously, It.s when their stupidity gets people killed it’s time to endure their rants as you do what you know is right. They seem to make a sport of drawing insane conclusions from facts like there’s a prize for doing it. I would have thought the laws of nature would have weeded these types out.
Shmooviyet says
Funny how this idiotic Villager and his fellow lovers of humanity aren’t squealing in outrage over the “latest famous police shooting” victim, as they usually do.
More desperate virtue-signalling and projection from a true bigot.
David says
I kind of have mixed feelings about this. Those of us with brains will see this for the laughable, yet at the same time tragic deranged stupidity that it is. The problem, bordering in catastrophic, is that so many will either read it and agree, or have their opinions swayed by it { toward the wrong conclusion}.
David says
I kind of have mixed feelings about this. Those of us with brains will see this for the laughable, yet at the same time tragic deranged stupidity that it is. The problem, bordering in catastrophic, is that so many will either read it and agree, or have their opinions swayed by it { toward the wrong conclusion}.
James Stamulis says
The only racism was on the part of the black Islamic cop who was so afraid of the white woman he had to shoot her.
paul says
The muslim city council is driving that pathetic mayor
Ron Naujelis says
The mayor should resign, no doubt her policies contributed to the atmosphere, her speech was as phony as hell. What happens now, that beautiful woman killed in such
A manner. What’s the Muslin community saying, not much of course they support him.