15. Absurd conspiracy theories of National Review 1963 & Delgado parallel other moves: deflecting conversation to "black-on-black crime"
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16. Or consider another deflecting move: Fox News, Giuliani, Santorum etc. saying this is really an anti-Christian attack (i.e not racism)
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17. To say it's an attack on Christians has the advantage of making white conservatives once again the victims and the center of narrative
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18. So: Mona Charen is right. These tragedies do get politicized. But the real dingbat politicization is by Charen's own political allies.
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19. Beyond these meta points, there's particular paragraph in Charen that
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20. Charen: "The heinousness of a person who can sit for an hour studying the Bible and then open fire is unfathomable."
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21. "Even more depressing, if that’s possible, is my suspicion...that this event will play a role in the 2016 presidential campaign."
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22. So, for Charen, killing of 9 people is "unfathomable" but "EVEN MORE DEPRESSING" is likely political impact.
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23. In the midst of complaining about politicization of tragedy Charen admits political consequences of event matter more to her than deaths
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24. Maybe it's unfair to focus on Charen's use of the phrase "even more depressing". She's not a careful or thoughtful writer.
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25. RT @normative Though, link at the bottom. Charitable read is "As if that weren't already depressing enough, also..."
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26. But the charitable interpretation also means that Charen took a horrific tragedy as excuse for lazy, hack writing.
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27. There are different forms of politicization, one of which is hack writing. THE END.
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