Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: What Donald Trump and ISIS Have in Common

[n2doc]

TIME columnist Abdul-Jabbar is a six-time NBA champion and league Most Valuable Player. He is also a celebrated author, filmmaker and education ambassador whose life and career are the subject of Minority of One, a new documentary on HBO Sports.



The 2016 candidate has more in common with the terrorist group than he does with America


The terrorist campaign against American ideals is winning. Fear is rampant. Gun sales are soaring. Hate crimes are increasing. Bearded hipsters are being mistaken for Muslims. And 83 percent of voters believe a large-scale terrorist attack is likely here in the near future. Some Americans are now so afraid that they are willing to trade in the sacred beliefs that define America for some vague promises of security from the very people who are spreading the terror. “Go ahead and burn the Constitution — just don’t hurt me at the mall.” That’s how effective this terrorism is.

I’m not talking about ISIS. I’m talking about Donald Trump.

This is not hyperbole. Not a metaphor. Webster defines terrorism as “the use of violent acts to frighten the people in an area as a way of trying to achieve a political goal; the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.”

If violence can be an abstraction — and it can; that’s what a threat is — the Trump campaign meets this definition. Thus, Trump is ISIS’s greatest triumph: the perfect Manchurian Candidate who, instead of offering specific and realistic policies, preys on the fears of the public, doing ISIS’s job for them. Even fellow Republican Jeb Bush acknowledged Trump’s goal is “to manipulate people’s angst and fears.”

more

http://time.com/4143003/kareem-abdul-jabbar-donald-trump-isis/?xid=homepage

[Initech]

1. Go Kareem!

[longship]

2. It's Roger Murdock!

I love Jabbar! Here's his sole acting role.

[cojoel]

10. sole acting role?

You might want to check out his listing on imdb. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000717/?ref_=nv_sr_1

[saturnsring]

3. . “Go ahead and burn the Constitution — just don’t hurt me at the mall.” That’s how effective this t

. “Go ahead and burn the Constitution — just don’t hurt me at the mall.” That’s how effective this terrorism is.

[Glassunion]

4. On the Daily Show, they called him "White Isis" or "Whisis"

[Donald Ian Rankin]

5. No, violence cannot be an abstraction. That's a very dangerous road to go down.

Violence is violence; speech is speech.

[padfun]

6. And if the speech is the cause of violence?

What if I just speak to a person and tell them that a specific person needs to die.
And then they go and kill that person.

I am legally liable for a murder charge, even if I only spoke and didn't kill anyone.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

7. Yes, absolutely.

Incitement to crime is, and should be, illegal (although it's important to draw the distinction between deliberately inciting crime and saying things likely to result in crime).

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. Hmmm, I've been thinking about that.

And haven't quite come to a conclusion personally. Violence is an abstract noun. And the presence of violence certainly can be felt, even when the violence isn't against your own person. Yes, it is other emotions it evokes, but they wouldn't be felt without the presence of violence or the threat of violence. I'm leaning towards abstraction, but I could be persuaded away from that with a persuasive argument.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. Billo should have gone to jail after Dr. Tiller was murdered.