GOP CNN Debate ignored the Terrorism that is KILLING the Most Americans in the US

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CNN’s Debate on ‘Terror’ Omitted the Kind That Kills the Most Americans

Zero references to Charleston and Planned Parenthood attacks expose CNN's rank intellectual corruption.

A large part of the two-hour ordeal was consumed by “Islamic terrorism” and the threat posed by the Islamic State, nominally in response to the Paris and San Bernardino attacks. The candidates fell over each other to see who could be tougher on “radical Islamic violence,” pushing for more bombing (in the case of Ted Cruz, more “carpet bombing”), more surveillance, more racial profiling and more curbing of free speech.

Missing entirely from this debate, however, was the very real threat posed by white terrorism. (“Terrorism” is a term thinking people could in general do without, but for purposes of consistency I’ll use it here to describe sub-state political violence.) The justification for this omission is entirely unclear.

Certainly it wasn’t, as some proposed, because the debate was focused on “foreign threats.” This would have excluded the San Bernardino attack, which was homegrown, according to the FBI—yet merited 18 mentions. Indeed, Ben Carson began the debate doing his best James Cameron impression and calling for a somewhat awkward moment of silence for the victims of the San Bernardino killings.

None of CNN’s moderators, nor any of the nine candidates, mentioned the very real threat posed by white political violence. None mentioned the racist terrorism of Dylann Roof, who killed nine African-Americans in Charleston South Carolina.