White supremacy is Daesh’s greatest weapon
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Paul Ryan wants House vote later in the week for pause in Syrian refugee program, while a more comprehensive ISIS strategy is created
— Ram Ramgopal (@RamCNN) November 17, 2015
Of course he does.
In response to the latest round of post-terrorism-against-Europeans hate-arrhea from the U.S. right wing,* many people have observed that Daesh has a vested interest in stopping, or at least slowing, a mass exodus to regions outside of its control. The refugees fleeing Syria are some of the organization’s recruits, revenue source, scapegoats.
In this context, the discovery of fake Syrian passports on the bodies of attackers could very well be part of an attempt to conserve a resource. And if this is the case, is it then surprising that 27 U.S. governors (at last count) were so easily played by Daesh?
Nope.
Given this country’s history of dealing with people of color, the leaders of Daesh could probably get every neo-con frighthawk in America to punch himself in the face, and call people who decline to punch themselves in the face Freedom! Hating! Islamocowards! between blows.
Because from before the founding of this more perfect union, white supremacy in this part of the world has told its adherents that non-whites are cunning (but not too much so) and violent and stupid and violent. (Cowardly may be substituted for violent, depending on circumstances.)
This is how you get people who believe that Obama is a tyrannical chickenshit moron who managed to conceal the place of his birth from everyone.
(Also, people who will show you pictures of a graffiti-covered wall with a hole in it and tell you the wall is the Pentagon and the hole was created by a rocket, but that’s another sack of squirrel dookie.)
At any rate, the fairy tale of the brown cunning stupid violent coward boogey is perfect when the people who create the stories are in complete control. Whether someone tells himself that a man is hatching a clever plot to wipe out the white race, or is a drug-addled killing machine makes no difference if the response will always be to shout “He’s comin’ right at us!” and start shooting.
However, when dealing with people who really are bent on doing harm, the fairy tales hamstring the people who have come to rely on them.
To admit “Holy shit, this group of people requires a response that is far more serious and thoughtful than shout and shoot,” would require the admission that “Holy shit, this group of people are smart enough to require a serious, thoughtful response.”
And when a person’s ego relies on white supremacy to exist, making that step and changing strategy as a result remain impossible.
Do I have any solutions? Why yes, I have the solution to white supremacy, but it’s a secret until I’m elected president. No, not rilly.
Maybe if some of these dimwits read The Art of War they’d recognize themselves in such passages as:
… he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
But probably not.
*Why the focus on the U.S.? It’s what I know. I lack the knowledge to talk about France, but I hope commenters who do have such knowledge will add their deux centimes.
