Atlanta police got 911 calls: Someone was spray-painting swastikas on the rainbow crosswalk in the predominantly gay Midtown district. The LGBTQ community, not only in Atlanta, but nationwide, was prepared to launch a 24/7 media circus over this atrocity, but then police released surveillance video of the suspect, and suddenly the activists got so quiet you could hear the crickets chirping. [More]
Do you even need to click on the link to know why?
And now is as good a time as any to bring up a tangentially-related point. For an earlier post today I wanted to make sure I was spelling “Requiescat in Pace” correctly so looked up “RIP” on Google. This was the second hit:
Reflecting on how Google makes sure “Traditional American” sites are buried to make them unlikely if not impossible to find, and how non-“woke” ideology is demonetized or outright banned on those platforms, it’s curious to see the values they give top billing to. It’s also curious that I could go right to that video with no “potentially sensitive content” warnings.
The thought also strikes that this is all being done because those pulling the strings find it useful for everyone to accept that the biggest problems facing minority communities are systemic racism and white supremacists.
[Via Michael G]
One has to wonder just how many real hate crimes are committed when so many of the identified perps are of one oppressed minority or another. Paraphrasing Ayn Rand, when there aren’t enough hate crimes one creates some.
Some years ago the American Communist Party had faded into a shadow of its former self. The FBI, thinking the home grown commies were no longer a threat, pulled out their agents who were under cover posing as members.
What was left of the ACP almost collapsed because the under cover FBI agents were the only “members” who actually paid their dues.
“We should be grateful that Jonah Sampson surrendered peacefully to police”.
Surrendering after five hours at gunpoint by a SWAT team is not exactly peaceful. Perhaps it was less violent than it could be. I can picture it now – “Put the rattle can down now, and no one will be hurt”.