McPherson: Why Do Hillary Supporters Hate Black People?

Hillary Clinton’s supporters are a scary, racist lot. It wasn’t enough that they helped start the “birther movement” – even a former personal aid to the president has suggested Hillary’s people had a hand in that – but now they are going after another black presidential candidate, this time one who thinks that people should protect themselves – and have the means to do so – against an oppressor.

Recently GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson – who is black – suggested that German Jews might have better resisted the Nazis if they had not first been disarmed by the German government.

To which Hollywood’s Seth Rogan – a Hillary Clinton supporter – responded ever-so-intelligently with a hate-tweet reading, “F*ck you @RealBenCarson” – demonstrating that Hillary’s Hacks have IQs as low as her polling numbers.

Why didn’t Rogan just shout the “N” word?

Now, don’t get me wrong. Carson’s statement was controversial. But it’s far from incendiary, or spiteful.

History is replete with examples of armed citizens resisting – sometimes successfully – both the murderous state and private groups that use terror and murder. I devoted a significant part of my book, Freedom and Security: The Second Amendment and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, to this very subject.

Carson’s views on Jewish self-defense are not ridiculous either. Prisoners in the Treblinka Death Camp and occupants of the Warsaw Ghetto used stolen and illicit firearms to fight back against their Nazi tormentors. In the former case, the revolt allowed 300 prisoners to escape from the camp (100 of whom survived the ensuing manhunt). In the latter, Nazi troops and resources – even air power and tanks – were tied up for nearly a month fighting Jewish urban guerrillas. (At the peak of the fighting Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels wrote in his diary, “This just shows what you can expect from Jews if they lay hands on weapons.” Perish the thought.) The Jewish Bielski Partisans fought the Germans in present-day Belarus, saving over 1200 of their people from the Nazi death machine.

Carson said the extent of the Holocaust could have been “greatly diminished” if German Jews hadn’t first been disarmed, that “the Nazis were able to carry out their evil intentions with relatively little resistance.” No one is suggesting that success is guaranteed in such scenarios. History is also replete with examples of failed resistance movements. But that’s the nature of success – one must first try. Having access to weapons for self-defense makes that a lot easier.

People can disagree on this subject, but still understand the other side’s point of view.

Unless they’re Hillary Clinton supporters. For them, a black man seeking the nation’s highest office must be verbally attacked and libeled.

Why does the Democratic Party tolerate these racists?