|
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
|
Recently, there has been a spate of horrific murders.
The killers, whether committing mass shootings or single homicides, are hard to stereotype.
They can be clearly either mentally ill or simply innately evil. They can kill for revenge, for ideological purposes, out of hatred, for notoriety — or for no known reason at all.
They are probably left-wing and right-wing, white, Black, and brown, young, and old. While their weapons of choice are semi-automatic rifles, there are plenty of killers who favor handguns and even knives.
Unfortunately, these tragedies have increasingly become politicized.
Yet our media and politicians do not apply a common standard of reporting about either the victims, the killers, or the apparent motives and circumstances of the violence.
Instead, each horror is quickly analyzed for its political usefulness. Then its details are selectively downplayed or emphasized, depending upon the political agenda at work.
A sad example was the terrible murder spree at the private Christian Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. A transgender male shot and killed six people, including three 9-year-old children.
Almost immediately, three media narratives emerged.
One, semi-automatic weapons, not the killer Audrey Hale, were mostly responsible for the massacre.
Two, the shooter’s transgender identity profile played no role in the killing whatsoever.
Three, the public had no need to know of the contents of the shooter’s “manifesto.”
Why?
The media and authorities apparently assumed Hale’s written rantings tried to justify the murders because of Christianity’s supposed disapproval of transgenderism.
That censored reaction to the Tennessee shooting was quite different from another mass murder committed nearly six weeks later in Allen, Texas, by a former security guard Mauricio Garcia.
Within minutes of the identification of the shooter, the media blared that Garcia wore pro-Nazi insignia and was thus a “white supremacist.”
Apparently that narrative was deemed useful to promote the idea of white supremacist terrorists using their semi-automatic “assault” weapons to kill for right-wing agendas.
Yet second-generation Hispanic immigrants, whose parents do not speak English, are not likely “white supremacists.”
The strained effort to make violent “people of color” into white right-wing killers is reminiscent of Trayvon Martin’s death in 2012.
Then the media reinvented the shooter, half-Peruvian George Zimmerman, into a “white Hispanic.” He was transformed into a right-wing vigilante and racist who supposedly hunted down an innocent Black teenager.
The media did not wish to portray Martin’s death as a fight between a Hispanic and Black teen. Instead, it tried to refashion the shooting as “systemic racism” — to the point of doctoring the 911 tape and photoshopping Zimmerman’s police photo to fit its false narratives.
Recently, an African American man named Deion Patterson lethally shot one and wounded four others in an Atlanta medical facility waiting room. His own politics, race, and type of weapon were apparently of little interest. So he was simply described as suffering from mental illness.
The media also did not wish to sensationalize either the profile or circumstances of another contemporaneous mass shooter Francisco Oropeza. He executed five of his neighbors, including a young boy and two women.
Only later did we learn that Oropeza was in fact an immigrant in the country illegally who had been deported four times previously and returned each time through an open border.
Most recently, outrage grew over the homicide of Jordan Neely, a homeless man who frequented the subway and often threatened and occasionally attacked bystanders.
When a would-be good Samaritan and ex-Marine determined Neely’s latest threats to passengers were serious, he subdued him with a chokehold. Tragically, Neely died while being restrained.
A media circus followed. Neely was Black. The former Marine who held him down was white. So activists and the media immediately cited the death as yet more proof of systemic racism.
The public was lectured that Neely was a talented impersonator, who did professional street imitations of Michael Jackson.
The violent death of his mother, we were told, had traumatized him.
Released subway videos showed him on the floor of the subway, thrashing about while the white Marine held him in a headlock.
Protests and demands for a murder indictment followed.
Then later the inevitable skipped details trickled out, despite, not because of, media coverage.
Neely had been arrested 42 times, including for lewd conduct, with three convictions for violent assaults.
His forte was brutally punching random victims in the face, including a 67-year-old woman, and a 68-year-old Hispanic male.
The news stories also neglected to mention that a Black passenger helped subdue Neely.
The public learned there might be other, as yet unreleased, videos of Neely earlier threatening commuters.
Death is traumatic enough, without searching for ways to gain political traction from it.
It is eerie how each tragedy prompts a desperate effort to spin narratives of a racist America, where only right-wing killers and vigilantes prey on marginalized people of color and those who are transgender.
Once these fables become “facts,” then the media runs with their fables.
When facts such as mental illness snd a rap sheet as long as your arm are ignored the results are that narrative is spun
As far as our garbage “news media” are concerned, its always narrative or they don’t report it. Ever heard of Carlton Gilford? Probably not. Google him. A bit over a week ago Gilford, a homeless black man, “allegedly” shot and killed two white people near Tulsa in a completely unprovoked hate crime. One he shot in the back of his head while he was using a library computer. And you haven’t seen a word of this in the msm. It’s all narrative, all the time.
“Garbage” is correct. As well as “useful idiots”. Biden, and his administration officials, want to keep the “white supremacist” threat front and center despite the lack of any real proof. To hear them speak, there are “white supremacists” hiding behind every tree and rock in North America. Yet, where are the news reports of the crimes they commit, the plots they devise? There aren’t any so they depend on their co-conspirators in the MSM to fabricate and broadcast them all over the country. Biden and company wait with baited breath to hear of another George Floyd or this Neely guy to, once again, fire up the presses to remind the LIV’s they are surround by threats to “our Democracy” at the hands of “extreme MAGA Republicans” and “white supremacists”. The real racists latch on to this narrative to convince themselves that racists can’t be victims and if that’s all they ever hear from the MSM it must be true.
Mental Illness, real mental illness (vs. “the worried well”) is one thing. A rap sheet is another. Don’t confuse the two. Please read “Insane Consequences” by DJ Jaffee, Then you will begin to understand.
Regards,
Ellen RH
The media and the Biden administration doesn’t want the facts and the truth to get in the way of the Big Lie “White Supremacy”.
Gee, one would think there would be an autopsy report by now. Think maybe it showed he died due to something like excited delirium or drugs in his system and they don’t want something like that to interfere with the narrative?
Victor, why do you do this? “white, Black, and brown”. Why is Black capitalized?
Yes, it is rather offensive, not to mention nonsensical. Black is a color; colors are adjectives and adjectives are not capitalized in English. End of discussion.
Watching the video, I do not think that neely died from the ‘chokehold.’ I think he most likely had a cardiac arrest because he was drug user for years and his health was suspect, as was his mental condition. The choke hold if a blood choke would have put him out in 5-7 seconds if applied properly. An air choke would have put him out in 20-25 seconds. Now he was kicking and thrashing about as two guys were trying to subdue him and that only showed that neither a blood nor air choke was actually the cause of death but rather a systemic failure, again, likely cardiac arrest.
That the chokes were too lightly applied to put him out shows that the restrainer was trying to subdue him only. And any charge of ‘death’ or ‘manslaughter’ is legally inaccurate.
It wasn’t a “choke hold” which is designed to cut off passage of air through the trachea. It was a carotid submission hold to temporarily cut off blood to the brain to cause unconsciousness so the person can be subdued, not killed. But the media can’t let that interfere with the narrative.
Didn’t the Marine help him after subduing him, and didn’t Neely sit up and speak for a while before collapsing and dying on his own? Or is that the narrative of some different incident.
If you give a boy a hammer, everything looks like a nail to him. The Dems and leftists generally are caught in the same time loop. Fighting white racism worked as an agenda for the left since the Civil Rights era, and they are trying to live off the milk of this movement, long after it has become irrelevant. To accomplish their goals more things have to be interpreted as white racism. Harmless people and activities have to be targetted as malevolent. We need a paradigm change, a shift to other ways of viewing social problems and how to solve them.
“You’re gonna have to serve somebody “. Biden serves China
The last line of the article is surely inspired by the classic line from John Ford’s ‘The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance’: “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend”..