Kevin Barrett Responds to LIHOP Shill Steve Alten - Excellent Essay

Which I'll spoil by posting the end of here. Kevin is an enigma as far as I'm concerned, but now and then he pens a great piece--this is one of them, and as promised, here's the end:

Those who suppress critical thinking, by promoting incoherent emotion-based obfuscation, are usually trying to protect some privileged belief, which they hold to a different standard than alternative beliefs. According to some such people, it is unthinkable to "blame Jews" for 9/11, but perfectly okay to "blame Muslims"--ignoring the overwhelming evidence that 9/11 was a false-flag op by the enemies of Muslims, designed to implicate Muslims and legitimize their mass murder, meaning that Muslims are the victims and thus the last who should be blamed! (Who cares about evidence, it's the privileged belief that must be protected at all costs.) Likewise it would be unthinkable to single out Jews for ethnic profiling or arbitrary detention, but thinkable to single out Muslims. And it's unremarkable -- in fact it MUST be unremarked-on or you'll never work in this town again  -- that Zionist Jews dominate in the American media...but if Muslim supporters of Hamas dominated in the American media, that would be a different story!

The 9/11 truth movement uses critical reason to deconstruct double-standards enforced by emotional conditioning. (The 9/11 psy-op was the ultimate conditioning operation, enforcing a double-standard of "us vs. them" on Americans and including Zionists in the "us," while condemning Zionism's Muslim foes to "them" status.) Those of us who seek the truth must challenge this and all double-standards, and the unreasonable arguments, chiefly insults, that uphold them. Steve Alten's irrational, evidence-free diatribe against me, like similar diatribes I have suffered from Hannity and O'Reilly and Glenn Beck and so many others, exemplifies the kind of emotional conditioning used by demagogues (like Hitler, Steve!) to prop-up double-standards, and pummel critical reason into submission.

See the whole thing, including some comments, here.