If it had been a blatantly obvious case of murder, both the left and the right would have agreed that the cop was guilty, and he would have been charged and that would have been the end of that.
Instead, we have a case which looks to one side like the most horrific case of racially instigated broad daylight murder via police brutality, and to the other side it looks as if a criminal died of a self-inflicted drug overdose, and that the police involved are being lynched in order to flame the fires of racial tension.
Personally, I think that the entire reason the media kept the spotlight on this specific incident, and kept amplifying it, is because they know that outrage sells.
The more tinfoil-hat side of me thinks that there is a push from an institutional level to constantly divide people by persuading them that everything wrong in America today is because of racism.
Between race relations, politics, and social justice, it seems as if the average person online in 2021 are straight-out incapable from having a conversation with half the population. They may as well be speaking in a unintelligible language, and trying to perceive the world through a completely foreign set of senses.
The leftist coalition of feminists, invaders, degenerates, minorities, and communists aren't being "duped" by the elites into hating and attacking us. They all hate us regardless. The elites have empowered and funded our enemies, but that doesn't mean we would be friends otherwise.
Most people arent born hating everyone else, they have to be taught it. Even then, a good chunk of the truly zealous would fizzle out and die alone somewhere if it werent for these ideologies giving them purpose.
This is exactly the same way I see it.
If it had been a blatantly obvious case of murder, both the left and the right would have agreed that the cop was guilty, and he would have been charged and that would have been the end of that.
Instead, we have a case which looks to one side like the most horrific case of racially instigated broad daylight murder via police brutality, and to the other side it looks as if a criminal died of a self-inflicted drug overdose, and that the police involved are being lynched in order to flame the fires of racial tension.
Personally, I think that the entire reason the media kept the spotlight on this specific incident, and kept amplifying it, is because they know that outrage sells.
The more tinfoil-hat side of me thinks that there is a push from an institutional level to constantly divide people by persuading them that everything wrong in America today is because of racism.
Between race relations, politics, and social justice, it seems as if the average person online in 2021 are straight-out incapable from having a conversation with half the population. They may as well be speaking in a unintelligible language, and trying to perceive the world through a completely foreign set of senses.
Edit: The best article I've seen on the above phenomena: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/ (Thanks to Guy_Incognito76 for sharing it.)
There's nothing tinfoil about it. Every social justice issue is pushed by the elites to keep us divided instead of uniting against them.
The leftist coalition of feminists, invaders, degenerates, minorities, and communists aren't being "duped" by the elites into hating and attacking us. They all hate us regardless. The elites have empowered and funded our enemies, but that doesn't mean we would be friends otherwise.
Most people arent born hating everyone else, they have to be taught it. Even then, a good chunk of the truly zealous would fizzle out and die alone somewhere if it werent for these ideologies giving them purpose.
this story never should have left the state