{"id":1653934,"date":"2022-09-22T18:20:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T22:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1653934"},"modified":"2022-09-22T18:23:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T22:23:33","slug":"i-am-not-a-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-am-not-a-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"I am not a threat"},"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\">10<\/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%2Fi-am-not-a-threat%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=1653934&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--><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/190121_AlvedaKing-1250x650-1-1.webp\" alt=\"President Donald Trump with Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr., during a meeting with inner city pastors at the White House in 2018. (Photo: Jim Watson\/AFP\/Getty Images)\" class=\"wp-image-65794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/190121_AlvedaKing-1250x650-1-1.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/190121_AlvedaKing-1250x650-1-1-400x267-1.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/190121_AlvedaKing-1250x650-1-1-768x512-1.webp 768w\" \/><figcaption>President Donald Trump with Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr., during a meeting with inner city pastors at the White House in 2018. (Photo: Jim Watson\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Alveda King, PhD<br \/>Thursday, September 22, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently, President Biden escalated the inflammatory rhetoric that inundates American politics to a whole new level. In prepared remarks, President Biden referred to President Trump\u2019s voters as \u201cMAGA Republicans\u201d and called the America First movement \u201csemi-fascism,\u201d in effect smearing the good character of almost half the country and demonizing his political opponents.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><\/figure>\n<p>Mr. President, while I am a \u201cMAGA\u201d supporter, I am by no means a fascist or a threat to this nation. I am a Fredrick Douglass Republican, I am a friend of President Trump, and I am a prayerful American Christian woman working to unite humanity as the one blood human race.<\/p>\n<p>As an American, my goal is that everyone gets to live out the American dream, regardless of race, age, faith, or creed\u2014and yes, that includes those still in the womb. I want to see America return to the days when we were a nation that placed our trust in God; and I pray every day that our people be safe and blessed. Nothing about this makes me a threat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><\/figure>\n<p>Mr. President, your rhetoric is harmful and irresponsible, and it is only serving to further divide this nation, despite your promises of unity.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is not the first time political rhetoric has been used to make the \u201cother side\u201d seem less than human. In our very own nation, Blacks were once viewed as \u201csub-human\u201d for centuries in order to justify the travesty known as slavery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Because the \u201cother\u201d was not deemed to be a full human being, the logic went, therefore they did not possess the rights or dignity inherent to human beings. As such, the \u201cother\u201d could be enslaved, beaten, brutalized, and even killed\u2014all because they were labeled as less than a full human being made in God\u2019s own image and likeness.<\/p>\n<p>This strategy of demonization is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes, and it has precipitated some of the greatest atrocities in world history. In Adolf Hitler\u2019s Germany, Jews were seen as subhuman, depicted as \u201crats\u201d and vermin to be exterminated. We all know how that ended. Six million Jews were brutally slaughtered in the Holocaust, and the world was torn apart by World War II.<\/p>\n<p>In the Soviet Union, \u201ckulaks\u201d were dehumanized, arrested, deported, starved, and executed on a mass scale. In the Rwandan genocide, Hutus labeled Tutsis as \u201ccockroaches.\u201d In America, Blacks, Asian and Native Americans were once denied human dignity because of ethnicity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The list goes on, but it has a common theme: the demonization of enemies makes them seem \u201csubhuman,\u201d therefore providing the justification for atrocity against the other group.<\/p>\n<p>History doesn\u2019t repeat itself, the saying goes, but it often rhymes\u2014and yet we must learn from our past mistakes so that we don\u2019t repeat them in the present.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why it is so concerning to see this dehumanizing rhetoric continue to this day. To the far left, a living, breathing baby in the womb is not a person. It is just a \u201cfetus\u201d or \u201cclump of cells,\u201d and therefore it can be killed without repercussion.<\/p>\n<p>Now, President Biden is extending this standard of demonization even further to include his political opponents as well. Language like this precipitates conflict, internal fracture, and if left unchecked, possibly even civil war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When half the country is labeled as \u201csemi-fascist,\u201d things can get drastic quickly\u2014because in the name of opposing fascism, any sort of violence can be justified.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden, I\u2019m not a fascist. I\u2019m simply\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/TruthPR.us13.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=c42848a03537a7f08765c5e4b&amp;id=a37c9e6ae7&amp;e=6ac5ce89ee\">an American grandmother<\/a>\u00a0who just wants her homes, neighborhoods, and communities to be safe for American families.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. President, your rhetoric is harmful and irresponsible, and it is only serving to further divide this nation, despite your promises of unity.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is not the first time political rhetoric has been used to make the \u201cother side\u201d seem less than human. In our very own nation, Blacks were once viewed as \u201csub-human\u201d for centuries in order to justify the travesty known as slavery.<\/p>\n<p>Because the \u201cother\u201d was not deemed to be a full human being, the logic went, therefore they did not possess the rights or dignity inherent to human beings. As such, the \u201cother\u201d could be enslaved, beaten, brutalized, and even killed\u2014all because they were labeled as less than a full human being made in God\u2019s own image and likeness.<\/p>\n<p>This strategy of demonization is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes, and it has precipitated some of the greatest atrocities in world history. In Adolf Hitler\u2019s Germany, Jews were seen as subhuman, depicted as \u201crats\u201d and vermin to be exterminated. We all know how that ended. Six million Jews were brutally slaughtered in the Holocaust, and the world was torn apart by World War II.<\/p>\n<p>In the Soviet Union, \u201ckulaks\u201d were dehumanized, arrested, deported, starved, and executed on a mass scale. In the Rwandan genocide, Hutus labeled Tutsis as \u201ccockroaches.\u201d In America, Blacks, Asian and Native Americans were once denied human dignity because of ethnicity.<\/p>\n<p>The list goes on, but it has a common theme: the demonization of enemies makes them seem \u201csubhuman,\u201d therefore providing the justification for atrocity against the other group.<\/p>\n<p>History doesn\u2019t repeat itself, the saying goes, but it often rhymes\u2014and yet we must learn from our past mistakes so that we don\u2019t repeat them in the present.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why it is so concerning to see this dehumanizing rhetoric continue to this day. To the far left, a living, breathing baby in the womb is not a person. It is just a \u201cfetus\u201d or \u201cclump of cells,\u201d and therefore it can be killed without repercussion.<\/p>\n<p>Now, President Biden is extending this standard of demonization even further to include his political opponents as well. Language like this precipitates conflict, internal fracture, and if left unchecked, possibly even civil war.<\/p>\n<p>When half the country is labeled as \u201csemi-fascist,\u201d things can get drastic quickly\u2014because in the name of opposing fascism, any sort of violence can be justified.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden, I\u2019m not a fascist. I\u2019m simply an American grandmother who just wants her homes, neighborhoods, and communities to be safe for American families.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not a threat, and neither are the tens of millions of other Americans like me. All we want is to live, love, work and worship as we choose; in an America where people don\u2019t demonize each other; in an America that doesn\u2019t inject inflammatory rhetoric into our political debates; and in an America that doesn\u2019t label any \u201cother side\u201d as less than human.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden, I want to help to build an America that cherishes life and respects the inherent value in all people\u2014from the womb to the tomb; into eternity. And there\u2019s nothing extreme about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump with Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr., during a meeting with inner city pastors at the White House in 2018. 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