Cornel West’s Disgusting Post Celebrating Aaron Bushnell’s Suicide Is a Look at the State of the Left – RedState

The problems with the suicide of Aaron Bushnell are many. He was clearly a mentally ailing man who was obsessive about radical leftist causes to the purpose the place he was keen to commit suicide by burning himself alive whereas shouting “Free Palestine.” 

But it surely does not cease there. As Streiff identified on Tuesday, Bushnell was a USAF lively obligation member with the 531st Intelligence Help Squadron, a 543d Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Group subordinate unit. This implies he had high safety clearance. A person with that stage of hatred for his nation and that stage of loyalty to its enemies ought to have by no means been round any form of top-secret info, but that is the state of the U.S. army. 

Leftist radicalism contained in the U.S. army is not one thing you’d suppose a lot about nevertheless it’s turning into more and more clear that it is an an infection inside it. Furthermore, members of the left appear to be encouraging this politically-driven psychological sickness to thrive. 

Cornel West, an activist turned Unbiased presidential candidate, launched what is perhaps one of the crucial disgusting posts on X I’ve seen this 12 months. West celebrated Bushnell’s actions, painted his suicide as a martyrdom, and is utilizing it to encourage the left to rally round the reason for “Palestine.” 

“Allow us to always remember the extraordinary braveness and dedication of brother Aaron Bushnell who died for fact and justice! I pray for his valuable family members! Allow us to rededicate ourselves to real solidarity with Palestinians present process genocidal assaults in actual time!” posted West.

Allow us to always remember the extraordinary braveness and dedication of brother Aaron Bushnell who died for fact and justice! I pray for his valuable family members! Allow us to rededicate ourselves to real solidarity with Palestinians present process genocidal assaults in actual time!… pic.twitter.com/9F7dXOAYJt

— Cornel West (@CornelWest) February 26, 2024

The variety of issues with this submit is many. 

For one, Bushnell was not mentally nicely. As Streiff coated in his article, Bushnell was obsessive about radical leftism and would write screeds on radical leftist subreddits about his hatred of all the things that did not match into his excessive ideological stances. West encouraging an embrace of his stances is successfully calling for an embrace of his identical sickness and obsessive brainwashing. What West is successfully calling for is a submission to psychological sickness. 

Secondly, what’s West making an attempt to say right here? That suicide for this trigger is sweet? Bushnell’s self-immolation is not only a waste of life, it is a waste of life primarily based on a lie. The “Palestinians” in query aren’t underneath the specter of genocide by the Israelis. The Israelis do what they’ll to reduce civilian casualties in what’s a conflict to stop the genocide of the Israeli individuals by a terrorist group that overtly confesses to wanting that. 

Is West so dedicated to the trigger that he is keen to off himself for it? I doubt it. Why is he encouraging individuals to have that stage of dedication then? 

This leads me to my third level. West is actively encouraging individuals to assist terrorism. It is not Palestine he cares about, it is the combat in opposition to Israel, which is in the end what many leftists care about. “Palestine” is only a cowl for what it actually desires, the loss of life of the Jewish inhabitants in a free nation. What it in the end desires is for Hamas, a self-professed genocidal terrorist group, to win, or on the very least, reside to terrorize Israel one other day. 

General, what we’ve right here is the state of the left. 

It appears at ridiculous habits, terrorism, being brainwashed into radicalism, and suicide as heroism. It encourages radical behaviors that hurt innocents and encourages hate-based actions. It desires individuals consumed with so many damaging feelings, spite, and prejudices that the particular person underneath the spell will toss their very own life away each figuratively and really actually to advance the trigger in any means they’ll.

West’s submit has practically 30k likes. That’s 30k greater than it ought to have gotten contemplating all this submit is asking for, however right here is the left on full show.