{"id":108816,"date":"2015-12-14T16:09:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T23:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=108816"},"modified":"2015-12-14T16:09:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T23:09:44","slug":"two-wrongs-dont-make-a-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2015\/12\/two-wrongs-dont-make-a-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Two wrongs don’t make a right"},"content":{"rendered":"

COMMENTARY:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cTwo wrongs don\u2019t make a right.\u201d This is something our parents and grandparents said to us whenever we wanted revenge against someone who\u2019d done wrong to us. We thought it would make the other person feel bad and apologetic, that it would make us feel better, that it would make us better\u00a0and bigger.<\/p>\n

\"Barbara<\/a>

Courtesy photo<\/p>

Barbara Alvarez<\/p><\/div>\n

Y\u2019know, that\u2019s not how it works. I just read about the 23-year-old kid (not man) who allegedly firebombed a mosque<\/a>\u00a0in the Coachella Valley. In revenge, I suspect. For the terroristic attack<\/a> carried out by Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik. Because. . . because. . . why?<\/p>\n

The kid who firebombed that mosque thought he was righting a wrong, I suspect. But, instead, he was throwing a gesture back after Farook and Malik killed 14 innocent people in cold blood.<\/p>\n

Yes. What they did was wrong, cold-blooded and they did it because of their own perception that they were carrying out a holy act. It looks something like this:<\/p>\n

Somebody does something against someone else.<\/p>\n

Someone from the group that was targeted does something to people from the group of people who hurt them.<\/p>\n

Another person from the first group does something else \u2014 in revenge. Lots of people are hurt and killed.<\/p>\n

Some people from the second group come back with something that\u2019s \u201creally gonna hurt \u2018em!\u201d They\u2019re right. They hurt and kill a bunch of people.<\/p>\n

And on and on and on and on. . . ad nauseam. Where does this end? When both groups of people hurt, maim and kill everyone\u00a0from the other group? For what?<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo wrongs don\u2019t make a right.\u201d Farook and Malik committed a huge wrong. That\u2019s being investigated. I\u2019m not going to give any publicity to the firebomber who \u201ctook revenge.\u201d He thought he would exact \u201crighteous revenge\u201d by attacking that mosque, I suspect.<\/p>\n

Only. . . you know what he really did? He confirmed the fact that there\u2019s a real \u201cthem versus us.\u201d In so doing, he fed right into that false narrative that DAESH (that group in Syria and Iraq that attacked several places in Paris) is feeding to potential recruits.<\/p>\n

That firebomber, protesters who shout \u201cNo Muslims in (name of community),\u201d and not a few of the Republican candidates for president are all taking actions and making statements that, in the end, only make the situation worse.<\/p>\n

To what end? All those wrongs aren\u2019t going to help. We\u2019re better than this!<\/p>\n

Alvarez is an independent writing and editing consultant living in Las Cruces. She writes articles for clients as well as creating fiction based right here in our city.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The kid who allegedly firebombed a mosque in the Coachella Valley fed right into that false narrative that DAESH (that group in Syria and Iraq that attacked several places in Paris) is feeding to potential recruits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192,16],"tags":[142,177,201],"class_list":["post-108816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","category-guest-columns","tag-crime","tag-religion","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}