Are You Smarter Than a Journalist?
The Press is lying to us and journalism is dead.
The vicious and capricious Atlanta Massage Spa shootings have been rapidly and rather predictably journalized as a fleeting event which is mainly valuable for carrying the more important, reproducing instructions to the masses like an mRNA shot. The only thing to see here is the over-arching narrative that we all must face like dogs having their noses pressed in their own excrement: The inevitable racism of white men.
Perplexed, I’m not sure if I should paint a protest sign, hoist my fist or fall impaled on my own sword of whiteness.
If only we could conjure Perry Mason from the reels to remind us that crime is comprised of criminals and victims, motives and opportunity. Remorsefully, the expertise of true courtroom trial lawyers are rarely welcomed in media anymore because they will not sidle up with a collective, mob-like prosecution that charges half the country guilty while defending the other half innocent.
The sloppy substrate of these Anti-journalistic stories is; this atrocity was the natural outcome of naming SARS-COV-2 as the, “China Virus”. This is the dim, anti-intellectual, and easily dismantled logic of the identitarian collectivists who try to erase individual culpability from our purview and instead, instantiate an abstract narrative of a cloud-covered yet, guilty-as-charged people group.
Reading on, I see the case details emerge a bit more and effectively summarized as: White, religious, gun-loving men perpetrate violence and death against minority Asian women. And therein lies the shrewd, hypnotic power of identitarian collectivism: Obfuscate individuals from the facts and replace them with homogeneous group labels so as to accuse and demand apologies not from not the actors, but from the entire, innocent audience.
Let’s call it, Anti-journalism rule number one.
Yes, he was white and tragically, the majority of victims were Asian. But, nothing in the case details remotely hint this was a racially motivated crime. The perp was a tortured sex addict and these Spa’s are purported to providing illegal sexual services. Predictably, news outlets can not admit to such sexual dysfunctions because that would lead to the need to call out the fast-crumbling, moral rails of our citizenry on the matters of human sexuality and self-control.
Anti-journalism rule number two; willful omission.
All the main stream outlets, including USA Today, NBC, CNN, Vox, HuffPost, and the like, went into painstaking detail how this was an all too familiar, classic case of xenophobia, racism, misogyny, and the, “Yellow peril” phenomena. I wonder — when the next of kin were brought in to I.D. the bodies, were these their first thoughts as well?
Can we at least all agree that this Rolodex of woke, derogatory, offender-group terms can now be retired as sleepy, overused and barely definable at this point?
The case facts indicate the 21 year old murderer suffered from some manner of sexual addiction and the assumption is he had frequented these parlors for illicit sex. One news commentator, in a temporary seizure of his synapses, tumbled from his mouth the term; prostitutes. The accompanying pundit panel virtually leapt through their Zoom-like, Brady Bunch squares and scoldingly corrected the ignorant man: “These woman are not prostitutes. Please refer to them as, sex-workers”!
No, they are criminals breaking the law too.
It is common knowledge that these, “Asian Spa’s” are all too often hot-tubs of sexual exploit replete with young girls who are imprisoned in the sex slave trade. (Note: no evidence released thus far indicates those murdered were victims of sexual exploitation).
I beg you, don’t spend any time researching the FBI statistics specific to white-on-Asian crime held in comparison with the number of projected minors being held today as sex slaves, particularly if you don’t want to be awoken from your social justice slumber.
Speaking of awoken, it is fascinating to me how the majority of news cycles, corporate Human Resource training initiatives, and Critical Race Theory itself are concentrated on eradicating whiteness from our society whilst the enslaved, “Sex workers” cry out, unheard by the millions, from their soul-imprisoned cells all around us.
If we shove the door a bit more ajar, violent crime against Asian-American’s is up since 2020, but violent crime is up steeply across the country against all races. Asians comprise about 6% of the U.S. population and according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, a twelve month rolling average shows that approximately 3800 incidents of crime against Asian-American’s are reported each year. These statistics include verbal abuse, shunning and violence or assault. This yields about a .01% rate of racially motivated crime committed against Asian-Americans. The majority of these crimes were not committed by white people.
If we continue to allow this trail of logic to eek a bit further down the track, which is a wildly dangerous thing to do, we see that Chicago has had 345 shootings to date in 2021 with 85 dead. These numbers reflect an increase of over 20% from 2020 and over 70% of the perps were — not white.
One would have thought the election of a vaccinated, double-masked acrobat soaring high atop the treacherous steps of Air Force One would have surely birthed significant improvement in these numbers? Let me circle back on this one.
Never, in a million years, would I pride myself to cite such horrifying statistics. But, I am not the one who is rigging this dastardly game board of identity politics. “Identity Chutes and Ladders, by Hasbro. Draw your card to find out if your identity group is on the rise or decline. Fun for the none of the family”. How the general citizenry sits back and absorbs the media’s crop-dusting of these parasitic thought pathogens is beyond my comprehension.
The glaringly obvious, Anti-journalism rule number three is: Avoid statistics when they don’t support the intended, socially-charged narrative.
No sooner was I compiling my shattered thoughts about the Atlanta shootings than we were presented with a far worse derelict of death in the Boulder grocer massacre. The thought of standing in an aisle with my shopping cart only to hear gunshots ring out amidst panicked shrieks is enough to make me never want to shop — or write again.
Notice how the initial, Anti-journalistic accounts out of Colorado refrain from even mentioning the race or ethnicity of the shooter or the victims? Now, I fully contend the media should never need to mention race in this type of case or any other. Genetically, we are all of the same race; the human race. But after watching Atlanta’s chronicling of the culpability and complicity of all whites, at least be consistent and note that the Boulder shooter was born and raised in Syria before his family emigrated to the U.S. People who knew him said he had a violent temper, but no one divulged their fears because since he was Muslim, they feared being called out for bigotry.
Rule number four: See Anti-journalism rule number two.
Do you see how it’s not you and me, but the woeful press who are desperately vying to lure the populous to play their ship-wrecked game that yields no winners? Fierce identitarianism yields only losers. Every time.
As I look for Christ in all of this, it pains me to see even misled pastors putting out the charge to pray for the entirety of the, “Besieged Asian community” and hurl disdain upon the church for not only preventing such atrocities, but collectively placing our finger on the trigger.
Virtue signaling via yard signs and bumper stickers are bad enough, but when pastors who should be endued with the seismic power of the Kingdom of God offer the same meaningless, parroted slogans to their flock as MSNBC, I throw a penalty flag.
Christians, get the one thing straight: In Christ, all things are in the midst of being restored, reconciled and redeemed.
Notice the prefix, “Re” in all these words. In each case, it means, “To return to”. Why? Because in the beginning, Elohim saw that everything He created was, “Good”. And after forming you and me in His image, They upped it to, “Very good”.
“For God was pleased to have the fullness dwell in the Son, and through him reconcile all things, whether on Earth or in Heaven, by making peace through the blood of the cross”.
~ The Apostle Paul
Today’s social justice movements mostly reject there is anything good in our past worth reclaiming, so instead of reconciliation — they strive for, “Conciliation”. Meaning, they promise a future which is entirely untethered from the eternal past. Such thought is Anti-gospel.
While the social justice engines snap our heads back as we accelerate toward, “Progress”, we are never told precisely where the landing pad resides. What I see in these thrust-centric, woke missions are well-intentioned but unguided launchings which contain little competency of engineering or precision. In my careful estimation, the movement lacks the necessary avionics to effectively land a cultural payload of this magnitude. Imagine launching a rocket with no stabilizers or guidance system and thrust is the only force in play — there is no way to know where the rocket will go, or where it will crash.
So as you read the varied newsfeeds and absorb the conclusions asserted by the appointed media professionals, ask yourself; what are they tethered to, what is their purpose and why should I believe them?
Therein lies a journey worth pursuing. Perhaps, even; Journalism rule number one.
