{"id":6802,"date":"2015-12-06T04:27:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T04:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/12\/06\/backlash-and-frontlash\/"},"modified":"2015-12-06T04:27:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T04:27:17","slug":"backlash-and-frontlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/12\/06\/backlash-and-frontlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Backlash and ‘Frontlash’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some lefty scribblers, effete and epicene, have their knickers in a knot worrying about the nativist and xenophobic 'backlash' post-Paris and post-San Bernardino.  Even worse, however, is Attorney General Loretta Lynch's disgracing of herself<\/a> along these lines:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lynch addressed the Muslim Advocate\u2019s tenth-anniversary dinner and declared that she is concerned about an \u201cincredibly disturbing rise of anti-Muslim rhetoric . . . that fear is my greatest fear.\u201d Her greatest fear is \u2014 not terrorism \u2014 but a nonexistent Islamophobic backlash? ISIS has demonstrated that it can bring down passenger jets, strike the heart of a great Western capitol with urban assault teams, and inspire horrible carnage in California. We also know that ISIS has pledged to keep attacking the U.S. and possesses chemical weapons. Yet it\u2019s politically incorrect speech that strikes fear into the heart of our attorney general.<\/span><\/div>\n
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To put it in the form of an understatement:  Lefties are not very good at threat assessment.  I should think that the 'frontlash' is far worse than any backlash that is likely to occur.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Some lefty scribblers, effete and epicene, have their knickers in a knot worrying about the nativist and xenophobic 'backlash' post-Paris and post-San Bernardino.  Even worse, however, is Attorney General Loretta Lynch's disgracing of herself along these lines: Lynch addressed the Muslim Advocate\u2019s tenth-anniversary dinner and declared that she is concerned about an \u201cincredibly disturbing rise … Continue reading “Backlash and ‘Frontlash’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,163,375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}