("Fear not," sayeth the Lord, yet that appears to be the driving force behind the Right now. Most, maybe not all, know the deleterious effects of having Fear as a motivator. Most are paranoid and defensive, distrusting. They strongly tend to cluster with fierce loyalty to like-mind people; any hesitation or question is a betrayal. Fear always generates anger. The need to blame someone or something for their state is overwhelming.

(The Judas Goat Syndrome, in a way, though they did not sin. They are the wrongful victims. Like Lord Of The Flies, there will be a frenzied celebration over any conceived strike against the supposed enemy. Puerile insults and personal attacks against the supposed enemy will get a wild dance about the bonfire and be lauded by all, usually in chorus. Like most of the Right here at OPP and at the Capitol back in January.

(Wake the hell up, for crying out loud! Get a freaking grip. Your attitude is tearing apart this country and we will not survive your sniveling. I mean, Jeez Louise, get out of the Horror House creation of your thinking, like some cheap Carnie attraction, and get some huevos. Fight for your country.)

Miami Herald
Why is anyone still shocked that fear propels white hostility and violence?

Apparently, Robert Pape was surprised.

Notwithstanding earlier research or the alarm raised in this and other forums, Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, expected, when he began studying the J*** 6 i**********n at the U.S. Capitol, to find the r****rs acted out of economic anxiety. His anticipation, he told The New York Times recently, was that as he delved into the demographics of 377 people who had been arrested or charged, he would quantify the r**t as an aftershock of the 2008 recession.

It didn’t turn out that way.

In his initial findings, detailed in an op-ed for The Washington Post, Pape determined the r****rs to be 95 percent white, 85 percent male, middle and upper-middle class, and — significantly — to hail mostly from counties where the white population is shrinking fastest and the non-white growing most aggressively. Such counties were six times more likely to produce r****rs than counties where demographic change was least dramatic, a disparity that held even when controlled for various variables.

Coincidence? Pape says the chances are less than one in a thousand. So assuming his findings hold, we may conclude that, while there was anxiety here, economics had nothing to do with it. This anxiety was racial.

And another word for anxiety is fear.

We seldom discuss the degree to which that primal emotion has driven U.S. history where race and tribe are concerned. And yet, it has always been there. It ripped the Choctaw, the Cherokee, and the Creeks from their ancestral lands. It awakened Jefferson “like a fire bell in the night.” It forced George, Noriyuki, and Norman out of their homes and into camps ringed by barbed wire. It got Emmett maimed, Sam skinned, and Mary hanged upside down and set afire.

Yes, ignorance has its role in all of that. As does greed, as does h**e. But let’s not overlook fear. Fear of pure blood, tainted. Fear of attack. Fear of replacement. And the fear of reprisal, fear that, given power, the “minority” will treat the majority as the majority has treated it.

This fear has only grown more acute since we learned that these are the last days of that majority, that soon, no racial group will be able to claim numerical dominance. Some white people find it frightening to envision a nation without white people calling all the shots. And bad things tend to happen when white people — particularly white men — get scared. Hence, the tea party and the birthers. Hence, Pittsburgh, Charlottesville, and Charleston. Hence, the spike in v**er suppression. Hence Donald Trump.

And, hence a mob of mostly white, mostly men, smashing through the sacred space of the U.S. Capitol. Economic anxiety? Who’s more economically anxious than Black and brown people? And how many Capitols have they breached?

To answer that question is to understand why there is something vaguely insulting in Robert Pape’s surprise. History tells us what’s happening here. Previous studies have quantified what’s happening here. Some of us have spent years declaiming what’s happening here.

So how is it a learned man is surprised by what’s happening here?

A disruptive demographic change is upon us. It represents a challenge, yes, but also an opportunity. To meet the one and seize the other will require a clear-eyed view of what we are and some strategy that delivers us to what we ought to be. The particulars of that are beyond the scope of this column, but there’s one thing we must do at a minimum. When frightened white people act out?

Stop being surprised.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-anyone-still-shocked-fear-153650869.html

rumitoid]("Fear not," sayeth the Lord, yet that appears to be the driving force behind the Right now. Most, maybe not all, know the deleterious effects of having Fear as a motivator. Most are paranoid and defensive, distrusting. They strongly tend to cluster with fierce loyalty to like-mind people; any hesitation or question is a betrayal. Fear always generates anger. The need to blame someone or something for their state is overwhelming. That paragraph does a really good job of describing the Left. Congratulations!

(The Judas Goat Syndrome, in a way, though they did not sin. They are the wrongful victims. Like Lord Of The Flies, there will be a frenzied celebration over any conceived strike against the supposed enemy. Puerile insults and personal attacks against the supposed enemy will get a wild dance about the bonfire and be lauded by all, usually in chorus. Like most of the Right here at OPP and at the Capitol back in January. Again, describing the Left brilliantly.

(Wake the hell up, for crying out loud! Get a freaking grip. Your attitude is tearing apart this country and we will not survive your sniveling. I mean, Jeez Louise, get out of the Horror House creation of your thinking, like some cheap Carnie attraction, and get some huevos. Fight for your country.) You guys are really into projection, aren't you... It isn't the Right that sounds like a skipping record, (you're old enough, you should know what that sounds like). It isn't the Right cowering in fear behind useless masks. It isn't the red states that are sacrificing the economic lives of their own citizens, including and especially the ones that actually drive the economies, in fear of a disease proven to be more than 99% survivable. Look around you Skippy, the ones sniveling aren't in the red states.

As for the drivel from the Herald, No one on the Right gives a tinker's damn about the racial demographics, one way or the other. What we care about is what countless members of American generations have died to protect, our Constitutional way of life. Support the United States of America and every color of the rainbow is welcome to fight with us and live next to us. Don't support that and you are no longer welcome here.. and if you think that marks us as afraid, just keep thinking that way because it gives us one Hell of an advantage when push comes to shove.

("Fear not," sayeth the Lord, yet that appears to be the driving force behind the Right now. Most, maybe not all, know the deleterious effects of having Fear as a motivator. Most are paranoid and defensive, distrusting. They strongly tend to cluster with fierce loyalty to like-mind people; any hesitation or question is a betrayal. Fear always generates anger. The need to blame someone or something for their state is overwhelming.

(The Judas Goat Syndrome, in a way, though they did not sin. They are the wrongful victims. Like Lord Of The Flies, there will be a frenzied celebration over any conceived strike against the supposed enemy. Puerile insults and personal attacks against the supposed enemy will get a wild dance about the bonfire and be lauded by all, usually in chorus. Like most of the Right here at OPP and at the Capitol back in January.

(Wake the hell up, for crying out loud! Get a freaking grip. Your attitude is tearing apart this country and we will not survive your sniveling. I mean, Jeez Louise, get out of the Horror House creation of your thinking, like some cheap Carnie attraction, and get some huevos. Fight for your country.)

Miami Herald
Why is anyone still shocked that fear propels white hostility and violence?

Apparently, Robert Pape was surprised.

Notwithstanding earlier research or the alarm raised in this and other forums, Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, expected, when he began studying the J*** 6 i**********n at the U.S. Capitol, to find the r****rs acted out of economic anxiety. His anticipation, he told The New York Times recently, was that as he delved into the demographics of 377 people who had been arrested or charged, he would quantify the r**t as an aftershock of the 2008 recession.

It didn’t turn out that way.

In his initial findings, detailed in an op-ed for The Washington Post, Pape determined the r****rs to be 95 percent white, 85 percent male, middle and upper middle class, and — significantly — to hail mostly from counties where the white population is shrinking fastest and the non-white growing most aggressively. Such counties were six times more likely to produce r****rs than counties where demographic change was least dramatic, a disparity that held even when controlled for various variables.

Coincidence? Pape says the chances are less than one in a thousand. So assuming his findings hold, we may conclude that, while there was anxiety here, economics had nothing to do with it. This anxiety was racial.

And another word for anxiety is fear.

We seldom discuss the degree to which that primal emotion has driven U.S. history where race and tribe are concerned. And yet, it has always been there. It ripped the Choctaw, the Cherokee and the Creeks from their ancestral lands. It awakened Jefferson “like a firebell in the night.” It forced George, Noriyuki and Norman out of their homes and into camps ringed by barbed wire. It got Emmett maimed, Sam skinned and Mary hanged upside down and set afire.

Yes, ignorance has its role in all of that. As does greed, as does hatred. But let’s not overlook fear. Fear of pure blood, tainted. Fear of attack. Fear of replacement. And fear of reprisal, fear that, given power, the “minority” will treat the majority as the majority has treated it.

This fear has only grown more acute since we learned that these are the last days of that majority, that soon, no racial group will be able to claim numerical dominance. Some white people find it frightening to envision a nation without white people calling all the shots. And bad things tend to happen when white people — particularly white men — get scared. Hence, the tea party and the birthers. Hence, Pittsburgh, Charlottesville and Charleston. Hence, the spike in v**er suppression. Hence Donald Trump.

And, hence a mob of mostly white, mostly men, smashing through the sacred space of the U.S. Capitol. Economic anxiety? Who’s more economically anxious than Black and brown people? And how many Capitols have they breached?

To answer that question is to understand why there is something vaguely insulting in Robert Pape’s surprise. History tells us what’s happening here. Previous studies have quantified what’s happening here. Some of us have spent years declaiming what’s happening here.

So how is it a learned man is surprised by what’s happening here?

A disruptive demographic change is upon us. It represents a challenge, yes, but also an opportunity. To meet the one and seize the other will require a clear-eyed view of what we are and some strategy that delivers us to what we ought to be. The particulars of that are beyond the scope of this column, but there’s one thing we must do at a minimum. When frightened white people act out?

Stop being surprised.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-anyone-still-shocked-fear-153650869.html

("Fear not," sayeth the Lord, yet that appears to be the driving force behind the Right now. Most, maybe not all, know the deleterious effects of having Fear as a motivator. Most are paranoid and defensive, distrusting. They strongly tend to cluster with fierce loyalty to like-mind people; any hesitation or question is a betrayal. Fear always generates anger. The need to blame someone or something for their state is overwhelming.

(The Judas Goat Syndrome, in a way, though they did not sin. They are the wrongful victims. Like Lord Of The Flies, there will be a frenzied celebration over any conceived strike against the supposed enemy. Puerile insults and personal attacks against the supposed enemy will get a wild dance about the bonfire and be lauded by all, usually in chorus. Like most of the Right here at OPP and at the Capitol back in January.

(Wake the hell up, for crying out loud! Get a freaking grip. Your attitude is tearing apart this country and we will not survive your sniveling. I mean, Jeez Louise, get out of the Horror House creation of your thinking, like some cheap Carnie attraction, and get some huevos. Fight for your country.)

Miami Herald
Why is anyone still shocked that fear propels white hostility and violence?

Apparently, Robert Pape was surprised.

Notwithstanding earlier research or the alarm raised in this and other forums, Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, expected, when he began studying the J*** 6 i**********n at the U.S. Capitol, to find the r****rs acted out of economic anxiety. His anticipation, he told The New York Times recently, was that as he delved into the demographics of 377 people who had been arrested or charged, he would quantify the r**t as an aftershock of the 2008 recession.

It didn’t turn out that way.

In his initial findings, detailed in an op-ed for The Washington Post, Pape determined the r****rs to be 95 percent white, 85 percent male, middle and upper middle class, and — significantly — to hail mostly from counties where the white population is shrinking fastest and the non-white growing most aggressively. Such counties were six times more likely to produce r****rs than counties where demographic change was least dramatic, a disparity that held even when controlled for various variables.

Coincidence? Pape says the chances are less than one in a thousand. So assuming his findings hold, we may conclude that, while there was anxiety here, economics had nothing to do with it. This anxiety was racial.

And another word for anxiety is fear.

We seldom discuss the degree to which that primal emotion has driven U.S. history where race and tribe are concerned. And yet, it has always been there. It ripped the Choctaw, the Cherokee and the Creeks from their ancestral lands. It awakened Jefferson “like a firebell in the night.” It forced George, Noriyuki and Norman out of their homes and into camps ringed by barbed wire. It got Emmett maimed, Sam skinned and Mary hanged upside down and set afire.

Yes, ignorance has its role in all of that. As does greed, as does hatred. But let’s not overlook fear. Fear of pure blood, tainted. Fear of attack. Fear of replacement. And fear of reprisal, fear that, given power, the “minority” will treat the majority as the majority has treated it.

This fear has only grown more acute since we learned that these are the last days of that majority, that soon, no racial group will be able to claim numerical dominance. Some white people find it frightening to envision a nation without white people calling all the shots. And bad things tend to happen when white people — particularly white men — get scared. Hence, the tea party and the birthers. Hence, Pittsburgh, Charlottesville and Charleston. Hence, the spike in v**er suppression. Hence Donald Trump.

And, hence a mob of mostly white, mostly men, smashing through the sacred space of the U.S. Capitol. Economic anxiety? Who’s more economically anxious than Black and brown people? And how many Capitols have they breached?

To answer that question is to understand why there is something vaguely insulting in Robert Pape’s surprise. History tells us what’s happening here. Previous studies have quantified what’s happening here. Some of us have spent years declaiming what’s happening here.

So how is it a learned man is surprised by what’s happening here?

A disruptive demographic change is upon us. It represents a challenge, yes, but also an opportunity. To meet the one and seize the other will require a clear-eyed view of what we are and some strategy that delivers us to what we ought to be. The particulars of that are beyond the scope of this column, but there’s one thing we must do at a minimum. When frightened white people act out?

Stop being surprised.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-anyone-still-shocked-fear-153650869.html

("Fear not," sayeth the Lord, yet that appears to be the driving force behind the Right now. Most, maybe not all, know the deleterious effects of having Fear as a motivator. Most are paranoid and defensive, distrusting. They strongly tend to cluster with fierce loyalty to like-mind people; any hesitation or question is a betrayal. Fear always generates anger. The need to blame someone or something for their state is overwhelming.

(The Judas Goat Syndrome, in a way, though they did not sin. They are the wrongful victims. Like Lord Of The Flies, there will be a frenzied celebration over any conceived strike against the supposed enemy. Puerile insults and personal attacks against the supposed enemy will get a wild dance about the bonfire and be lauded by all, usually in chorus. Like most of the Right here at OPP and at the Capitol back in January.

(Wake the hell up, for crying out loud! Get a freaking grip. Your attitude is tearing apart this country and we will not survive your sniveling. I mean, Jeez Louise, get out of the Horror House creation of your thinking, like some cheap Carnie attraction, and get some huevos. Fight for your country.)

Miami Herald
Why is anyone still shocked that fear propels white hostility and violence?

Apparently, Robert Pape was surprised.

Notwithstanding earlier research or the alarm raised in this and other forums, Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, expected, when he began studying the J*** 6 i**********n at the U.S. Capitol, to find the r****rs acted out of economic anxiety. His anticipation, he told The New York Times recently, was that as he delved into the demographics of 377 people who had been arrested or charged, he would quantify the r**t as an aftershock of the 2008 recession.

It didn’t turn out that way.

In his initial findings, detailed in an op-ed for The Washington Post, Pape determined the r****rs to be 95 percent white, 85 percent male, middle and upper middle class, and — significantly — to hail mostly from counties where the white population is shrinking fastest and the non-white growing most aggressively. Such counties were six times more likely to produce r****rs than counties where demographic change was least dramatic, a disparity that held even when controlled for various variables.

Coincidence? Pape says the chances are less than one in a thousand. So assuming his findings hold, we may conclude that, while there was anxiety here, economics had nothing to do with it. This anxiety was racial.

And another word for anxiety is fear.

We seldom discuss the degree to which that primal emotion has driven U.S. history where race and tribe are concerned. And yet, it has always been there. It ripped the Choctaw, the Cherokee and the Creeks from their ancestral lands. It awakened Jefferson “like a firebell in the night.” It forced George, Noriyuki and Norman out of their homes and into camps ringed by barbed wire. It got Emmett maimed, Sam skinned and Mary hanged upside down and set afire.

Yes, ignorance has its role in all of that. As does greed, as does hatred. But let’s not overlook fear. Fear of pure blood, tainted. Fear of attack. Fear of replacement. And fear of reprisal, fear that, given power, the “minority” will treat the majority as the majority has treated it.

This fear has only grown more acute since we learned that these are the last days of that majority, that soon, no racial group will be able to claim numerical dominance. Some white people find it frightening to envision a nation without white people calling all the shots. And bad things tend to happen when white people — particularly white men — get scared. Hence, the tea party and the birthers. Hence, Pittsburgh, Charlottesville and Charleston. Hence, the spike in v**er suppression. Hence Donald Trump.

And, hence a mob of mostly white, mostly men, smashing through the sacred space of the U.S. Capitol. Economic anxiety? Who’s more economically anxious than Black and brown people? And how many Capitols have they breached?

To answer that question is to understand why there is something vaguely insulting in Robert Pape’s surprise. History tells us what’s happening here. Previous studies have quantified what’s happening here. Some of us have spent years declaiming what’s happening here.

So how is it a learned man is surprised by what’s happening here?

A disruptive demographic change is upon us. It represents a challenge, yes, but also an opportunity. To meet the one and seize the other will require a clear-eyed view of what we are and some strategy that delivers us to what we ought to be. The particulars of that are beyond the scope of this column, but there’s one thing we must do at a minimum. When frightened white people act out?

Stop being surprised.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-anyone-still-shocked-fear-153650869.html

("Fear not," sayeth the Lord, yet that appears to be the driving force behind the Right now. Most, maybe not all, know the deleterious effects of having Fear as a motivator. Most are paranoid and defensive, distrusting. They strongly tend to cluster with fierce loyalty to like-mind people; any hesitation or question is a betrayal. Fear always generates anger. The need to blame someone or something for their state is overwhelming.

(The Judas Goat Syndrome, in a way, though they did not sin. They are the wrongful victims. Like Lord Of The Flies, there will be a frenzied celebration over any conceived strike against the supposed enemy. Puerile insults and personal attacks against the supposed enemy will get a wild dance about the bonfire and be lauded by all, usually in chorus. Like most of the Right here at OPP and at the Capitol back in January.

(Wake the hell up, for crying out loud! Get a freaking grip. Your attitude is tearing apart this country and we will not survive your sniveling. I mean, Jeez Louise, get out of the Horror House creation of your thinking, like some cheap Carnie attraction, and get some huevos. Fight for your country.)

Miami Herald
Why is anyone still shocked that fear propels white hostility and violence?

Apparently, Robert Pape was surprised.

Notwithstanding earlier research or the alarm raised in this and other forums, Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, expected, when he began studying the J*** 6 i**********n at the U.S. Capitol, to find the r****rs acted out of economic anxiety. His anticipation, he told The New York Times recently, was that as he delved into the demographics of 377 people who had been arrested or charged, he would quantify the r**t as an aftershock of the 2008 recession.

It didn’t turn out that way.

In his initial findings, detailed in an op-ed for The Washington Post, Pape determined the r****rs to be 95 percent white, 85 percent male, middle and upper middle class, and — significantly — to hail mostly from counties where the white population is shrinking fastest and the non-white growing most aggressively. Such counties were six times more likely to produce r****rs than counties where demographic change was least dramatic, a disparity that held even when controlled for various variables.

Coincidence? Pape says the chances are less than one in a thousand. So assuming his findings hold, we may conclude that, while there was anxiety here, economics had nothing to do with it. This anxiety was racial.

And another word for anxiety is fear.

We seldom discuss the degree to which that primal emotion has driven U.S. history where race and tribe are concerned. And yet, it has always been there. It ripped the Choctaw, the Cherokee and the Creeks from their ancestral lands. It awakened Jefferson “like a firebell in the night.” It forced George, Noriyuki and Norman out of their homes and into camps ringed by barbed wire. It got Emmett maimed, Sam skinned and Mary hanged upside down and set afire.

Yes, ignorance has its role in all of that. As does greed, as does hatred. But let’s not overlook fear. Fear of pure blood, tainted. Fear of attack. Fear of replacement. And fear of reprisal, fear that, given power, the “minority” will treat the majority as the majority has treated it.

This fear has only grown more acute since we learned that these are the last days of that majority, that soon, no racial group will be able to claim numerical dominance. Some white people find it frightening to envision a nation without white people calling all the shots. And bad things tend to happen when white people — particularly white men — get scared. Hence, the tea party and the birthers. Hence, Pittsburgh, Charlottesville and Charleston. Hence, the spike in v**er suppression. Hence Donald Trump.

And, hence a mob of mostly white, mostly men, smashing through the sacred space of the U.S. Capitol. Economic anxiety? Who’s more economically anxious than Black and brown people? And how many Capitols have they breached?

To answer that question is to understand why there is something vaguely insulting in Robert Pape’s surprise. History tells us what’s happening here. Previous studies have quantified what’s happening here. Some of us have spent years declaiming what’s happening here.

So how is it a learned man is surprised by what’s happening here?

A disruptive demographic change is upon us. It represents a challenge, yes, but also an opportunity. To meet the one and seize the other will require a clear-eyed view of what we are and some strategy that delivers us to what we ought to be. The particulars of that are beyond the scope of this column, but there’s one thing we must do at a minimum. When frightened white people act out?

Stop being surprised.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-anyone-still-shocked-fear-153650869.html