Sunday, November 5, 2017

Rhetoric of "being tough"

There are some current political views that United States is not "being tough enough" on terrorism and illegal activities, and this usually is directed towards non-white criminals.  I don't think the facts actually reflect this, so why then the perception?

I think at the core, the reason for this is that being accepting of others (love thy neighbors) is still viewed as a positive sentiment in these circles. That is why they don't want to focus on the "they are being accepting of others", and instead want to focus on "they are being weak".