This past Friday, Sept. 11, Bill Maher interviewed Jessica Yellin, former C.N.N. White House Corespondent and, one assumes, devout “progressive.” While Maher asked her repeatedly to comment on or condemn the violence presently plaguing several cities in the U.S., Yellin both suggested property damage was necessary for the dissidents to achieve their goals and that the level of violence was being grossly exaggerated in the media. “If you look at Portland,” she said, “its two square blocks!” Maher looked at her incredulously, suggesting that surely she had seen the videos showing not only massive property damage across the country but a growing pandemic of disrespect for human life itself. But Yellin would not relent in her typically “woke” devotion to her Ideals!
On the evening of Sept. 12, the day after Maher’s interview, two L.A. County sheriffs, a man and a woman, were shot in the head while sitting in their cruiser at Compton’s Metro Station. They are presently fighting for their lives. While there is video evidence of the ambush, the perpetrator remains at large. He simply walked up to their car and opened fire!
Of course nobody in their right mind is going to exonerate cold-blooded murder on national TV. Yet in the wishy-washy, morally dysfunctional, utterly biased, rationally bereft world of “Progressivism,” it makes perfect sense to promote a fundamental disrespect for the Rule of Law in the cause of Social Justice, even when that policy, to anyone who knows anything about human nature, must inevitably entail the unleashing of Man’s ugliest impulses, in this case the impulse to kill two perfectly innocent people who perhaps had never had a racist thought between them.
As the two officers in question fought for their lives, protesters showed up at their L.A. hospital chanting “Death to the police.” But as Yellin’s refusal to condemn such behavior implies, as the narrative promoted by C.N.N., The N.Y. Times, The Washington Post and indeed the bulk of the Democratic party implies, because 13 [?] unarmed Blacks were killed unnecessarily in 2019 by harried White cops working under the most stressful of circumstances, all White people are somehow guilty.
It is a sophisticated vision of human behavior, one worthy of a six year old. Whereas “conservatives” are given to seeing every human interaction in its specific moral context, “progressives” see the world in terms of stereotypes, the specific intentions and behavior, for example, of people such as George Floyd and Jacob Drake, both of whom were criminals addicted to amphetamines, simply deleted from consideration of the events that led to their deaths. No one is exonerating their killers but the narrative presently being promoted by “progressives” at the obvious instigation of B.L.M is both incredibly simplistic and morally repulsive, though thrust upon their mindless adherents with all the certainty of revealed religious truth.
Blacks constitute only13% of the U.S. population yet die at a significantly higher rate at the hands of police. For “progressives” this is unequivocal evidence of pervasive racism among America’s cops. Of course they fail to mention that Blacks are responsible for approximately 50% of the country’s violent crimes. Indeed their Statistics of Injustice are predicated on the complete elimination of Morality from the human narrative, a ludicrous refusal to even consider the impact of the vile beliefs, values and behavior of that small percentage of Blacks responsible for the disproportionate numbers in question.