{"id":448923,"date":"2022-05-18T02:44:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T23:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/malicious-portrait-of-buffalo-shooter-and-other-commentary\/"},"modified":"2022-05-18T02:44:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T23:44:01","slug":"malicious-portrait-of-buffalo-shooter-and-other-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/malicious-portrait-of-buffalo-shooter-and-other-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;Malicious&#8217; portrait of Buffalo shooter and other commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40b41093da1\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40b41093da1\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/malicious-portrait-of-buffalo-shooter-and-other-commentary\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Malicious_portrait_of_Buffalo_shooter_and_other_commentary%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Malicious&#8217; portrait of Buffalo shooter and other commentary&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/malicious-portrait-of-buffalo-shooter-and-other-commentary\/#Media_watch_%E2%80%98Malicious_Portrait_of_Shooter\" >Media watch: \u2018Malicious\u2019 Portrait of Shooter<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/malicious-portrait-of-buffalo-shooter-and-other-commentary\/#Libertarian_Republicans_School-Choice_Chance\" >Libertarian: Republicans\u2019 School-Choice Chance<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/malicious-portrait-of-buffalo-shooter-and-other-commentary\/#Russia_beat_Dont_Get_Wobbly_on_Putin\" >Russia beat: Don\u2019t Get Wobbly on Putin<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/malicious-portrait-of-buffalo-shooter-and-other-commentary\/#Liberal_My_Late_Friend_From_Across_the_Aisle\" >Liberal: My Late Friend From Across the Aisle<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/malicious-portrait-of-buffalo-shooter-and-other-commentary\/#Education_desk_COVIDs_Villains\" >Education desk: COVID\u2019s Villains<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Malicious_portrait_of_Buffalo_shooter_and_other_commentary%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Malicious&#8217; portrait of Buffalo shooter and other commentary&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Payton-Gendron-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Media_watch_%E2%80%98Malicious_Portrait_of_Shooter\"><\/span>Media watch: \u2018Malicious\u2019 Portrait of Shooter<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> accusations that \u201cBuffalo barbarian\u201d Payton Gendron, who shot 13 people Saturday, is \u201csome sort of Tucker Carlson acolyte would be baffling\u201d if not so \u201ctransparently malicious,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/the-buffalo-shooter-was-an-eco-socialist-racist-who-hated-fox-news-and-ben-shapiro\">fumes the Washington Examiner\u2019s Tiana Lowe<\/a>. His 180-page manifesto doesn\u2019t \u201cmention Carlson once\u201d; instead, he denounces Fox hosts as Jewish, Rupert Murdoch (who owns Post parent company <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> Corp) as a \u201cChristian Zionist\u201d and conservative Ben Shapiro as the \u201crat\u201d phenotype of Jewish people. He declares himself an \u201cethno-nationalist eco-fascist national socialist\u201d who loathes conservatism. \u201cThe shooter wasn\u2019t radicalized\u201d by Fox or Shapiro; he was \u201cenraptured\u201d by the \u201cdregs of the internet\u201d during the COVID lockdown, a \u201cpoison\u201d that proved \u201cas addictive as any opioid\u201d \u2014 and for the victims, \u201cfar more dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Libertarian_Republicans_School-Choice_Chance\"><\/span>Libertarian: Republicans\u2019 School-Choice Chance<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s telling that school choice has risen to the very top of the GOP agenda,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/05\/17\/this-is-the-school-choice-moment-will-the-gop-screw-it-up\/\">notes Robby Soave at Reason<\/a>: \u201cThe public education system\u2019s pandemic-era failures drove many . . . into the arms of the GOP in 2021.\u201d \u201cThe right policy <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach is well known:\u201d allow \u201ccharter schools to grow and experiment\u201d and let \u201cstudents claim the public funds invested into the system in their name.\u201d But Republicans may lose \u201cclarity of purpose,\u201d since \u201ccurriculum controversies\u201d can \u201cdraw Republican attention away from school choice\u201d toward \u201cmicromanag[ing] what gets taught.\u201d Yet \u201cindependents and moderate Democrats would reward\u201d any politico \u201cfor making school choice a top priority,\u201d as \u201ca majority of Democratic voters support school choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Russia_beat_Dont_Get_Wobbly_on_Putin\"><\/span>Russia beat: Don\u2019t Get Wobbly on Putin<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Some Western leaders still don\u2019t admit \u201cthat isolating Mr. Putin and responding to him with strength is the only way to make lasting progress,\u201d<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/this-is-no-time-to-go-wobbly-on-russia-putin-invasion-ukraine-weapons-support-aid-isolation-war-dictator-11652731939?mod=opinion_lead_pos5\"> thunders Garry Kasparov at The Wall Street Journal<\/a>. While \u201cPutin\u2019s war on Ukraine has again been scaled back amid courageous Ukrainian resistance and international support,\u201d the \u201cWest needs to stop helping him. Every phone call that legitimizes his authority, every cubic meter of gas and every barrel of oil imported from Russia is a lifeline to a dictatorship that is shaking for the first time.\u201d \u201cIf the goal is to save Ukrainian lives, as Western leaders say, then the only way to do it is to arm Ukraine with every weapon President Volodymyr Zelensky wants as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Liberal_My_Late_Friend_From_Across_the_Aisle\"><\/span>Liberal: My Late Friend From Across the Aisle<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/3490962-a-capitol-hill-friendship-that-mattered\/\">At The Hill, former Rep. Steve Israel (D-L.I.) recalls<\/a> his friend ex-Sen. Tim Johnson (R-SD), who died last week, as \u201can unheralded hero to anyone who believes that Republicans and Democrats should attempt compromise when possible.\u201d After striking up an unlikely friendship, Johnson and Israel formed the Center Aisle Caucus, a bipartisan group that met weekly over dinner to pick \u201ca politically contentious issue\u201d and focus \u201con areas of consensus.\u201d In the Obama era, the caucus was attacked by the far right and the far left, with GOP members \u201cportrayed as RINOs\u201d and \u201ctraitors\u201d rather than \u201ccombatants.\u201d Johnson \u201cwas a proud conservative whose heresy was believing that he could fight for his values while respecting\u201d the views of Democrats.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Education_desk_COVIDs_Villains\"><\/span>Education desk: COVID\u2019s Villains<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Pandemic school closures \u201cwere arguably the most significant episode of government-sponsored child abuse in American history,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creators.com\/read\/stephen-moore\/05\/22\/when-the-people-tasked-with-protecting-our-children-are-the-villains\">charges Stephen Moore at Creators<\/a>. But politicians aren\u2019t the only ones responsible. \u201cThe teachers unions were probably the most shameful player, the worm in the education apple. Even after months of evidence that in-class instruction posed virtually no danger to children or teachers, they wouldn\u2019t teach.\u201d And: \u201cLet\u2019s not forget about the inexcusable role of the American Academy of Pediatrics. This group of children\u2019s doctors originally called for entire school openings for the 2020-21 school year. That was based on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>.\u201d But \u201cpolitics intervened. Two weeks later,\u201d the group reversed itself \u201cand joined in solidarity with the teachers unions.\u201d It\u2019s \u201cchilling and unforgivable\u201d that teachers and pediatricians \u201cselfishly put politics and paychecks ahead of child welfare.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Compiled by The Post Editorial Board<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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