Social justice warriors rampaged throughout the nation Tuesday night.
When Donald Trump made a campaign stop in Albuquerque, N.M, youths brandishing the Mexican flag rioted in the city and attacked police officers in response to the presence of The Donald. This wasn’t the first time anti-Trump demonstrators turned violent this election cycle as similar events occurred in Chicago in March and in California in April. (RELATED: Mexican Flag-Waving Mob Attacks Police, Horses Outside Trump Rally)
Speaking of Chicago, Breitbart writer and famed provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos visited DePaul University in order to give a talk. Unfortunately, the event was disrupted by Black Lives Matter activists who took over the stage and threatened Yiannopoulos with violence. Security stood by and watched the chaos unfold without raising a finger. (RELATED: DePaul University Descends Into Chaos Over Milo Yiannopoulos Visit)
Outside of the event, demonstrators slung insults and physically harassed attendees of Yiannopoulos’ talk. Security, once again, did little to restrain the offenders.
The two events were symbolic of the kind of violence that left-wing agitators feel is justifiable against their enemies. There’s no equivalent for these vile acts on the American Right. Just compare the level of aggression between Black Lives Matter and the Tea Party.
It appears violent protests do the exact opposite of helping the leftist cause. These acts only encourage voters to sympathize with the targets of these attacks, which in these cases are Trump and Yiannopoulos.
There’s not much of rational reason for this behavior. The liberal site Vox clutched at straws trying to find an excuse for rioting against Trump, eventually settling on “peaceful protest is invisible.” The main Milo hater at DePaul (who, by the way, wasn’t a student) justified his aggression with the outlandish claim that his opponent “threatens my safety” because Yiannopoulos’ rhetoric causes massacres.
SJWs are a deluded kind, you know.
The hysterics of these protesters are typical of what we’ve witnessed at many college campuses in recent years and shouldn’t come as a surprise. What is most troubling though is the amount of hate these people have.
The typical narrative envisions that those who attend Trump rallies or Milo talks are driven by hate and those who oppose them are motivated by love. However, at all of these incidents, the rabidly intolerant seem to be the ones screaming about racism, not the folks in the red Make America Great Again hats.
Videos from the Milo event reveal a whole lot of anger and little reason. A blogger filming protesters trolled a girl shouting “check your privilege” with advice on losing weight. That response turned the demonstrator into a ball of fury as she attacked the man and shrieked, “Fuck you, you fucking racist!”
So this fat SJW assaulted me and tried to steal my phone at @Nero‘s #DePaul speech. #depaulagainsthate #milo pic.twitter.com/HjaaRGAJVl
— Matt Forney (@basedmattforney) May 25, 2016
Other incidents show a white female gleefully telling Milo fans to “pick up your Trump shit, white male!” In another clip, she’s seen taunting attendees with more racial invective before trying to take a reporter’s phone.
The rage of the stage disruptors is amply clear, as the two ringleaders felt they were in the right by physically harassing Yiannopoulos. And there’s no need to clarify that Trump’s Mexican flag-waving rioters were filled with hate towards the presumptive GOP nominee and his supporters.
So why are these haters given the image of righteous, but loving renegades? Because they are targeting figures the liberal elites despise, despite using tactics those same snobs would frown upon.
The real question, though, is why are these individuals so full of hate for Americans who have a different point of view. Our society likes to brag we encourage reasonable debate between people who can agree to disagree. At the end of the day, we can all come together on sharing the same values and aspirations, or so the story goes.
In reality, that can only take place when people actually do share the same values and have a similar view of the country in which they live in. That’s not the case today. The young people rioting out in the streets and disrupting peaceful have been taught, and believe, America was an evil country from the beginning. It was built on white supremacy. It stole land from the Indians and Mexicans. It’s derived from that cancer on the human race, western civilization.
This is the message the protesters have heard since grade school, and it’s only drilled in further during their college years. That message leads them to believe that people who don’t buy into that orthodoxy are racists themselves and are what’s the matter with this country. Conservative white people aren’t just wrong in their views, they’re fundamentally evil. And they have white privilege. And they can’t help but be unconsciously racist.
Coupled with the typical moral self-righteousness of the Left, and you have zealous agitators who are hellbent on crushing anyone who may resemble the villainous characters they read about in their textbooks. Dead white males are problematic, and so are their living descendants. That’s why get the ridiculousness of a young white female jeering at “white males” like they’re a race of foreign conquerors.
With all the progress in our country in favor of the Left, you’d think there would be a lot of happiness within the SJW crowd. But it appears that left-wing extremists have only gotten angrier with every advancing step. This is likely due to the increasing prevalence of rhetoric such as “checking white privilege” and spouting off about “institutional racism” that has taken hold of our most-valued institutions.
An eyeopening article at The Federalist recently argued this “anti-white rhetoric” is encouraging white nationalism. On the other side of the coin, the hate is leading to riots in Albuquerque.
For all the talk about love and tolerance, it seems no amount of progress will ever make the hateful Left happy.
