Not even a week since the distressing atrocity in NZ and already several camps have shown some of the deepest and ugliest disrespectful examples of politically weaponising the massacre.
In the US even the Democrats have fallen foul. At a Democrat event 2 of their followers got stuck into Chelsea Clinton for apparently making comments that attributed, no helped cause the NZ Massacre. The 2 people that were getting stuck into Clinton...one has publicly called for the "demolition" of Israel.
So yes, its already gone off the rails. There is a mad scramble for the dominance of the Narrative Lead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT3hws144Sw
The only extremism to be targeted in all this is Islamophobia.
In the short time shadow of such a shocking massacre we can now expect Australian Gun Control activists to ramp up despite NZ & Australia having very different rules & regulations. There's a prediction as all sorts of people pile on the brutally murdered innocents of Christchurch in order to gain more political weight to their own political agenda.
Its is disgusting to see, total insensitivity and another extension of the "whatever it takes" attitude that's a hall mark of Australian Politics and political activism.
It is deeply disrespectful.
It was heralded as an opportunity for all people to come together, yet its been used as an opportunity by some to bring all people together behind their viewpoint.
Here's the lost opportunity.
Use time and bandwidth to oppose ALL EXTREMISM.
Extremism is an ideology of evil. That's as deep as one needs go for the philosophy behind killings this soon after the killings. White Supremacist ideology is no different to the Hindu & Muslim activists killing each other on the continent, anti-Semitic terrorists blowing up cafes of mixed faith people or any terrorists.
They may have different worldviews but they are ALL IDEOLOGIES OF EVIL.
It is not an opportunity to advance one ideology over another. Its a time to promote moderate positions that support more people of more faiths & ideas to be safe.
I saw the Drum have an all Muslim panel since the massacre. That doesn't worry me deeply even though the ABC should be promoting diversity and balanced viewpoints. I wasn't too worried and bit dismissive to be honest until one of the panellists cranked up against "Netanyahu" getting red carpet treatment. Ironically about the time of the NZ massacre a mortar attack on a supermarket in Israel. There was also a larger massacre in Nigeria, 140 people slaughtered. In Holland another terror attack.
All EXTREMISTS...but I can only guess why the media has been quiet on them.
Oppose EXTREMISM, AND IF YOU ONLY WANT ONE SIDE OF A CONFLICT OPPOSED YOU MIGHT JUST BE A EXTREMIST YOURSELF.
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Facts to make you think...go to this link, it will show you the number of Terrorist Attacks & the number of deaths its resulted in. To date 549 Terrorist Attacks resulting in the deaths of 2113 innocent people (as of 20th of March 2019)
Worse still when you understand that 10,000 deaths from Terrorist attacks is the low side of normal over the last few decades.
Terrorism comes from Extremism. Extremism wants full authoritarian state control & a loss of personal liberties and freedoms.
Theocracies, Marxism, Communism, Fascism, Socialism are all ideologies of evil, the home of extremism where terrorism is born, bred ad then exported.
https://storymaps.esri.com/stories/terrorist-attacks/
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