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Violent Imagery Supports War on Humans

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Imagine if conservatives used violent imagery of people being murdered for not agreeing with their ideas and ideological goals. The screaming would — rightly — never stop.
But exactly that kind of violent imagery is being deployed in pursuit of global warming alarmism and other environmental “war on humans” agendas, with little criticism. In this past Sunday’s New York Times, for example, a cartoon showed a “climate change denier” being murdered with an icicle.
Even worse, the “No Pressure” advertisement in support of a campaign to reduce our individual carbon output by 10 percent. It depicts the murder of school children and others who refuse to get on board. Check it out. But be warned, the images of children and others exploding are graphic and realistic.
Cross-posted at Human Exceptionalism.

Wesley J. Smith

Chair and Senior Fellow, Center on Human Exceptionalism
Wesley J. Smith is Chair and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. Wesley is a contributor to National Review and is the author of 14 books, in recent years focusing on human dignity, liberty, and equality. Wesley has been recognized as one of America’s premier public intellectuals on bioethics by National Journal and has been honored by the Human Life Foundation as a “Great Defender of Life” for his work against suicide and euthanasia. Wesley’s most recent book is Culture of Death: The Age of “Do Harm” Medicine, a warning about the dangers to patients of the modern bioethics movement.

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