{"id":1477896,"date":"2022-05-17T10:29:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T14:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1477896"},"modified":"2022-05-17T10:29:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T14:29:43","slug":"is-the-buffalo-shooter-far-right-or-far-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-the-buffalo-shooter-far-right-or-far-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Is The Buffalo Shooter Far-Right Or Far-Left?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fis-the-buffalo-shooter-far-right-or-far-left%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1477896&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Knowles-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The horrific shooting that left ten people dead in a Buffalo supermarket on Saturday has triggered a familiar political routine. First, the media determined that the massacre fit their preferred narrative: A white racist targeted and killed black victims. Had the attack differed in these details, the media would have ignored it, as they did last November when a black racist <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/24\/darrell-brooks-called-for-violence-against-white-people\/\">drove<\/a> his SUV into an early Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing six (white) people and injuring sixty-two others, and again last month when a black racist, who had posted prolifically about a looming race war and his hatred of white people, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/13\/suspect-frank-james-was-spewing-racist-hate-well-before-brooklyn-shooting\/\">opened fire<\/a> on a New York City subway train during rush hour, injuring twenty-nine people but fortunately killing none.<\/p>\n<p>Once the media had determined that the Buffalo shooting fit their narrative, Democrat politicians hurried to exploit the tragedy for their own political purposes. President Joe Biden, who refused to visit the families of the victims in Waukesha <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10256041\/Psaki-says-Biden-NO-plans-visit-Waukesha-deadly-Christmas-parade-attack.html\">because<\/a> \u201cany president going to visit a political community requires a lot of assets,\u201d has already announced plans to visit the families of the victims in Buffalo. A trip to Waukesha would not have allowed Biden to score political points; a visit to Buffalo will. So Biden has put his assets to work.<\/p>\n<p>The media have established the political narrative of the massacre by citing a \u201cmanifesto\u201d that the shooter allegedly left behind. The existence of this manifesto, censored by most major platforms but still accessible to anyone with a little online know-how, has spurred the third stage of this political routine, in which partisans of all stripes scour the attacker\u2019s public writings for evidence that their political opponents bear responsibility for the slaughter.<\/p>\n<p>The media have already exploited the killing to attack conservatives, in particular Tucker Carlson, for embracing the so-called \u201cgreat replacement conspiracy theory,\u201d according to which Democrats use immigration policy to gain power. Since overhauling American immigration law in the 1960s, Democrats have in fact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2014\/04\/22\/the-republican-demographic-problem-is-just-going-to-keep-getting-worse\/\">bragged<\/a> about this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2020\/07\/27\/opinion\/republicans-demographic-trap\/\">strategy<\/a>, and Joe Biden himself has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?c5015290\/user-clip-joe-biden-source-strength\">embraced<\/a> the alleged \u201cconspiracy theory,\u201d albeit with approval. Nevertheless, leftists will continue to cite the shooter\u2019s comments about immigration to blame conservatives for the killing.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives, in turn, will cite different passages from the killer\u2019s manifesto that seem to place him on the political Left. Asking himself, \u201cAre you a conservative?\u201d the shooter answers, \u201cNo.\u201d Asking himself, \u201cAre you a socialist?\u201d he responds, \u201cDepending on the definition.\u201d \u201cAre you right-wing? Are you left-wing?,\u201d he asks. \u201cDepending on the definition, sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was 12,\u201d the killer recalls, \u201cI was deep into communist ideology.\u201d Score one for the Right. \u201cFrom age 15 to 18, I consistently moved farther to the right.\u201d Score one for the Left. \u201cOn the political compass,\u201d he concludes, \u201cI fall in the mild-moderate-authoritarian Left category.\u201d Another point for the Right.<\/p>\n<p>The shooter rejects Christianity. Point for the Right. He hopes that his attack will lead to renewed calls for gun control \u2014 another point, it seems, for the Right \u2014 but only so that conservatives will resist and defend the Second Amendment, so never mind, the point might actually go to the Left. The shooter embraces fascism and neo-Nazism. Who gets that point?<\/p>\n<p>Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8\">smear<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-xpm-2012-sep-03-la-pn-democratic-chair-nazi-20120903-story.html\">anyone<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2014\/09\/11\/teacher-assigns-project-comparing-hitler-and-george-w-bush\/15440065\/\">the Right<\/a> of Rachel Maddow as a \u201cNazi.\u201d Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3yFLiWN\">call<\/a> Hitler a leftist. The Left cites Hitler\u2019s hatred of communism; the Right, his hatred of Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>These insipid arguments reveal little about Hitler, the Buffalo shooter, or the left-right political spectrum, which served initially to distinguished between Christian monarchists and liberal revolutionaries in the National Assembly during the French Revolution and ever since has been misunderstood by simpletons and cynics to catalog all possible political perspectives. In fact, the shooter does not fit neatly on the Left or the Right. His typo-ridden manifesto does not suggest particularly sophisticated or systematic political thought. He may be nothing more than an idle, disturbed teenager who wanted to shoot up a grocery store. The shooter himself raises this prospect, attributing his radicalization to \u201cextreme boredom\u2026during the outbreak of covid.\u201d Perhaps conservatives can cite this confession as one last pointless point against the Left.<\/p>\n<p>None of it matters much to the conversation. Establishment media and politicians are not focusing on the Buffalo massacre because they care about the victims of violent crime, which they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/think\/opinion\/abolishing-police-prisons-lot-more-practical-critics-claim-ncna1258659\">encourage<\/a>, or the rise of domestic terrorism, which they <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kamalaharris\/status\/1267555018128965643?lang=en\">fund<\/a>, or black people, whom they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/biden-tells-african-american-audience-gop-ticket-would-put-them-back-in-chains\/\">exploit.<\/a>\u00a0The slaughter in Buffalo interests our corrupt ruling class for only one reason: the opportunity it affords them to expand seize more power by blaming the bloodshed on their enemies.<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The horrific shooting that left ten people dead in a Buffalo supermarket on Saturday has triggered a familiar political routine. 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