As disgusting, abhorrent and sad as mass shootings are, equally so are the efforts by opportunists on the left and their lapdogs in the media to exploit these tragedies.
When do these spin monsters get called on the carpet for politicizing – falsely – such horrific events?
When do they pay the price by being fired, as was the outcome for one AP reporter so eager to incite World War III that he went with a false story about Russians (not Ukrainians) shooting missiles into Poland?
Begin with the shooting at the gay night club in Colorado. Blood still was wet on the floor when the usual suspects were in full song blaming MAGA types, right-wing extremists and any of the left’s political opponents for inciting the incident.
Within days, it has come to light that the alleged shooter is a member of the gay community, with a non-binary gender identity. This is according to documents filed in court by his lawyers.
And the response from all those hate mongers who shot from the lip in fingering Republicans for inspiring the shooting has been, at least in some cases, to question whether this is just a legal ploy to avoid charges of a hate crime.
This whole hate crime concept is ridiculous. If someone murders someone, can’t we just have them executed upon conviction, or at least jailed for life? Do we need to heap hate crime charges on the list which, presumably, do little other than to pander to the social justice warrior crowd?
To recap, we are lectured that never can we question someone’s self-proclaimed gender identity. Yet, here, when it serves to push back on one of the left’s failed agendas, questioning is fair game.
More recently, there has been a mass shooting at a Virginia Walmart, reportedly by a managerial type who then shot himself.
The typical social media response to such is to decry immediately violent white males for such acts. Just one problem in that narrative, this atrocity was not committed by a white male.
Images posted on zerohedge.com, apparently from store surveillance video, clearly show a non-white person, presumably a male although one is hesitant to speak out of turn regarding this.
In watching the noon news on our local NBC affiliate – amidst the usual overabundance of stories from nearby Blair and Centre counties – there was a national report on this shooting.
Maybe it was just coincidence. More likely it was by plan that there was no mention of the shooter’s race and no images were included that might allow the viewers to make their own call on it.
Had he been the stereotypical white male mass shooter, I’m thinking any available video of the shooting, page captures from his social media postings, or any publicly available pictures would have been part of the report.
Since this violent person doesn’t fit the favored narrative, the less mentioned about race the better.
Again, why must we endure such blatant political opportunism in the midst of such tragedies?
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