re: #67 LudwigVanQuixote

Because the propagandists at Fox are the ones covering the story though, people in the middle and the left will dismiss the realities of honor killings and the horrs behind them. Because the MSM doesn’t look into such things, people who watch Fox, have something true and horrible to point to when they claim that lefties ignore the realities.

In both cases, the hand wringing and jingoism of Fox coupled with the apathy of the left brig no real recognition of a serious issue.

Well said.

Still, there is more than apathy. There is a real cognitive redefinition going on here. Far too many on the left refuse to even mildly criticize anything Arab or Islamic. Those nations/cultures are regarded as ‘elevated’ and morally superior. All criticisms are verboten. Thus, any and all critics are regarded as ‘evil’.

This kind of idealization( used in the psychological sense) is at best, dangerous.

If the ugly and violent parts of those cultures are redefined as ‘not so bad’, then our efforts to confront them are ‘not so good’.