Democrat Ted Lieu of California as well as Biden’s Press Secretary Jen Psaki have put the burden of guilt for the recent murder of 8 in Atlanta Georgia, 6 of whom were female Oriental spa workers, on Donald Trump who not only made it quite clear that the Coronavirus had originated in China, but glibly referred to it as the “Kung flu.” His target was clearly the Chinese Communist Government rather than the people of China, but the utterly despicable, intellectually absurd tactic habitually adopted by the Left is to attribute any act of violence, no matter how demented, against any “marginalized” community [i.e., any demographic other than that of White, Heterosexual Males] to criticism of that group, no matter how rational, no matter how demonstrably valid that criticism. The result of this tactic, of course, is to discourage critical thought itself, indeed the pursuit of any truth that might be invoked as a pretext for slaughter.
Robert Aaron Long, the perpetrator of the Atlanta murders, has denied race had anything to do with his crime, saying he invaded the three spas in question because they were offering illegal sexual services to which he had become addicted. To the poor people he slaughtered, of course, his motive is utterly irrelevant. But not to the mainstream news and Democrats such as Psaki and Lieu who, ever eager to play the race card, have concluded both that Long’s crime was racially motivated and that Trump was directly complicit for having pointed out that this pandemic did in fact come from China.
Mar. 16, the day of the Atlanta shootings, was also the day that saw the demise of Steven Amenhauser of Rochester, N.Y. On Fri. Mar. 12, two teenagers had broken into his apartment, doused him with some sort of flammable liquid and set him on fire. Escaping out into the street, he was rescued by neighbors, only to die four days later of his burns. A 53 year old in failing health, he lived alone, his wife having died a couple of years ago, his girlfriend just this past fall. Very sad!
I bring up this incident because I have read several on line articles from major publications none of which saw fit to mention that the 14 and 16 year olds that killed Amenhauser for no apparent reason were Black! I am neither looking to ignore or exaggerate the racial component of any crime. But given the absurd bias of our era, the mainstream news never fails to imply racial hatred as the motive of any crime committed by a White against a member of the “other,” while scrupulously avoiding any such innuendo when the violence has flowed in the opposite direction.
But this bias, while appalling, is not nearly as dangerous as the effort by the Left to stifle all critical discussion of the “other” by invoking the fascistic bludgeon of “hate speech.” I vividly recall my outrage after the 2019 murder of 50 innocent Muslims by a psychopath in Christchurch, New Zealand, with an article written by Doug Saunders in Canada’s Globe and Mail which basically claimed that if you had ever suggested White Western Civilization to be in any way more enlightened, more humane than that of many Muslim nations, you were complicit in this mass murder! Saunders was not of course some lone fanatic, Canada’s parliament having sanctioned M-103 in 2017, a non-binding [???] motion proffered by Liberal M.P. Iqra Khalid that essentially made any criticism of Islam “hate speech.” This oft invoked Leftist equation of Truth to Hatred is absurd. I have investigated Islam at some length and many aspects of its basic texts and history are truly disturbing. No one is exonerating Christianity its many historical abuses of power, but while the Enlightenment did much to eliminate such, Islam, as highlighted by heroic figures such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Joumana Haddad is, in many parts of the world, still mired in the middle ages. Pointing this out, in the “logic” espoused by Doug Saunders, make me little better than a mass murderer; as is indeed Donald Trump for suggesting the Coronavirus originated in China’s Wuhan province.
If I have not made it clear by now, the Left’s disdain for rational discourse when it does not suit its narrative leaves it with no other option but the use of force to achieve its ends. It is not anecdotally fascistic, but inherently so. The multitude of “cancellations” by Big Tech of any who do not share its world-view is evidence of this irrefutable fact. As is indeed the tendency of “liberals” [ugh!] throughout the West, when devoid of any sane argument, to simply hurl insults at anyone of a “conservative” viewpoint!