by Rvaughn » Tue Aug 06, 2019 12:18 pm
I wrote Bob Allen at Baptist News and told that I was trying to find his article “Dayton shooting puts American leftism on trial,” but had not been able. He replied, “That would actually be a pretty good story.” Not sure if he was also being sarcastic or was serious. The point being that presenting these violent events as proof of the narrative that we prefer to run with, we cripple ourselves in trying to understand what is happening. If we have shooters who are Christian National White Supremacists (one who was also pro-green-new-deal, by the way, El Paso, Texas), Satanic Leftists (Dayton, Ohio), Islamic Fundamentalists (Pulse Night Club, Miami), Selective Mutists (Virginia Tech), Black Racists (Dallas police officer ambush), and so on, it seems to me that we need to see if there is a common thread these people have beyond their personal ideologies (as opposed to just bashing the other side from us over the head).