Last weekend twenty two people lost their lives in a matter of a few minutes to a single evil individual in El Paso, Texas while during the same time frame another such individual, in mere moments, stole the lives of eleven others in Dayton, Ohio. In both incidents many more were seriously injured.
In the days since, our media has been talking about little else as they look for ways to implicate Trump for the El Paso shooting and ways to avoid implicating Democrats in the Dayton shooting which seems to have been the work of someone who described himself as a leftist who disliked President Trump.
Yet, the media has all but ignored the carnage in Chicago last weekend. In that city eleven people were murdered and sixty three injured in a series of shootings, none of which were conducted by a lone white male. Since the shooters and the victims were black, and there was no way to tie the ghastly death toll to President Trump, the media was apparently disinterested.
Had the shooters been white and the victims black, well, that would certainly have made things different in the eyes of those who only seem concerned about homicidal slaughter when it has a racial or social policy dimension that can be politically exploited.
Progressives, of course, are very, very concerned about inflammatory rhetoric, or rhetoric they can at least portray as inflammatory, as long as it comes from the White House or from the mouth of some Republican, but genuinely inflammatory rhetoric which comes from the lips and fevered brains of their allies they tend to ignore.
For example, Reza Aslan, a contributor to CNN, has ostensibly called for the extermination of Trump supporters. Since this amounts to over half the country, Aslan is essentially calling for mass murder on an unprecedented scale. Yet, as far as I can tell, the folks at CNN and other progressive precincts, are undisturbed by Aslan's genocidal degeneracy.
To see how horrifying and hypocritical is the liberal apathy at Aslan's call for a "final solution," imagine someone at FOX News had in 2011 called for the extermination of Obama supporters. What do you suppose the reaction would've been?
Another example: Universal Studios is coming out with a movie next month titled The Hunt. In this film, sure to win plaudits from the left, rich liberals actually hunt down and slaughter a dozen or so kidnapped Trump supporters for sport.
From the link:
"The violent, R-rated film from producer Jason Blum's Blumhouse follows a dozen MAGA types who wake up in a clearing and realize they are being stalked for sport by elite liberals,” THR’s [The Hollywood Reporter's] Kim Masters wrote. “It features guns blazing along with other ultra-violent killings as the elites pick off their prey.”Lest the message be too subtle for the anticipated audience to grasp, the film was originally supposed to be titled Red State Versus Blue State.
According to the Hollywood trade publication, characters in the film refer to the victims as “deplorables,” which is what Hillary Clinton famously dubbed Trump supporters during the 2016 election. The report noted that a character asks, "Did anyone see what our ratf--ker-in-chief just did?"
It's an interesting question why liberals would be depicted committing recreational murder with "guns blazing," since liberals abhor firearms, but more seriously, whoever has been involved in any way in the making of this movie is just sick beyond words.
Again, ask yourself what the reaction would be if a film featured a bunch of MAGA hat-wearing good ol' boys hunting down and butchering a group of innocent Obama supporters. Any theater showing the film would be burned to the ground and every progressive (and conservative) news outlet in the country would be expressing their horror that anyone would be so depraved as to make such a film.
So where is the outcry from progressive pundits who otherwise profess deep concern for our toxic cultural climate? Do they see only the mote in the other side's eye and ignore the plank in their own?
It certainly seems so.