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Why is it that this extreme and demented approach of viewing everything through the lens of racial oppression has become so dominant when it’s not even popular among the people it purports to represent? These zealots are conditioning everyone to think in these terms. It’s dangerous because even though the corporate media only mention race when the victim fits its narrative, people can’t help but notice the unspoken race of perpetrators in recent situations like retail looting and the parade attack.

If we don’t return to viewing people as individuals and not avatars, this won’t end well.

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Thank you so much, Glenn, for being a small group of well-known, outspoken people who still care about the truth, no matter where that takes you. That is what real journalists do and there are too few of them around now. When I said Rittenhouse should sue for defamation on Twitter a whole bunch of people tried to use that to get me fired. They clutched their pearls and feigned outrage because of course, Rittenhouse is a White Supremacist! Everyone knows that. Every person in this country has a right to presumption of innocence, due process, and a trial. Convicting in the court of opinion is WRONG especially when the facts are rarely complete. We're all getting just a version of the facts and much of the time they turn out to be clickbait or flat-out lies.

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Glenn, this type of discourse is in no way limited to elites. I teach in the Chicago Public Schools, and within the last few years, "white supremacy" has become an obsession with school leaders, teachers who recently graduated from college, and those unwilling to jeopardize the rewards of membership in the professional-managerial class--and if someone happens to belong to all those groups, well, you'd better run for the hills. And within the last couple of years, "white supremacy" has become partnered with "causing harm": if you don't "decolonize" your syllabus enough or don't use enough materials that reflect the cultural backgrounds of your students, then you're going to be accused of "causing harm" in the furtherance of "white supremacy."

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To anyone with a brain, the constant white supremacy labeling is complete and utter bull shit. What needs to be discussed is *why* this is happening. Why is the DNC and the core of the so called “progressives” actively seeking to destroy the country, to redefine half the English language, use a virus to end free society permanently…just to get started.

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Even if Rittenhouse were a Grand Lizard in the KKK and also not a very nice person, i thought that the Bill of Rights was also intended to protect the rights of people that we do not like.

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Another great piece but a point Glenn doesn't mention but which supports his premise is that "White Supremacist" is hurled around so recklessy that The Woke Mob now routinely uses it to smear BLACK PEOPLE. Here in California when Larry Elder ran against Governor Newsom the LA Times ran an editorial calling Elder a "White Supremacist." It was disgusting. Elder grew up in South Central Los Angeles and no doubt faced more racism in one week of his life than Black people now face in their lifetime. But no matter to that flaming craphole of a newspaper. Elder was taking on a Democrat so he had to be taken down, truth be damned.

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J’accuse!! Just as the Dreyfuss affair uncovered the rot and corruption of the French elite, so this and other recent events show the liberal elites rot and corruption.

At Thanksgiving I had to listen to two histrionic 18 year old freshmen expound on the current liberal causes. They are bullies as is the entire left. I am sick of them

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The calculated dishonesty of the fake news attributing everything they don't like to "white supremacy" can only be grasped by comparing it to the other side of the coin: i.e., when actual racist violence is perpetrated by blacks against whites. That's counter-narrative and therefore gets the exact opposite treatment when it comes to reporting on motive.

Exhibit A is the Waukesha domestic terror attack in which six whites were massacred by a black killer in the aftermath of the Rittenhouse verdict. The black killer's anti-white racist motives were all over his social media posts (which had been immediately deleted by the platforms at the request of the DOJ/media). https://nypost.com/2021/11/24/darrell-brooks-called-for-violence-against-white-people/

The obviousness of the racial motive is demonstrated by the intervention of "the U.S. Dept of Justice Community Relations Service (DOJ-CRS) who oversee all U.S. criminal cases when race is identified as the underlying motive for an attack." https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/11/22/darrell-brooks-initial-court-appearance-scheduled-for-2pm-ct-tuesday-doj-crs-outlines-waukesha-judiciary-media-rules/

Now the DOJ and fake news are working together to cover this up. For example, they put out an obviously fake initial story claiming that the killer's motive was to flee a "knife fight." https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/23/how-events-unfolded-waukesha-parade/

This is pure disinformation reminiscent of the fake claim by anonymous "law enforcement" that officer Brian Sicknick was bludgeoned to death by Trump supporters with a fire extinguisher on 1/6. After putting out that fake diversionary story, the DOJ has locked up all the evidence on the case and announced it will allow no press conferences. (I.e., only controlled leaks to support the narrative). The fake news had to say something so they went with the angle of -- I kid you not -- blaming the SUV for perpetrating the crime. https://www.thewrap.com/washington-post-waukesha-tweet/

These people have done so much damage to our country by perpetrating the demonstrably false narrative that America is a racist dystopia where blacks are hunted by "white supremacists with guns." Indeed, it's entirely likely that the racist black killer in Waukesha was motivated precisely by the fake news narrative that a 'white supremacist' who shot blacks was acquitted by a racist white jury.

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"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken".

Carl Sagan

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"White supremacist" emerged when "racist" stopped doing the job. These are the believers in Subjective Truth - the gods of their own minds at work. To them, their own say-so is sufficient to establish any claim. They are solipsists, and we are just the background in their personal stories.

Attempting to reason with them is silly.

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Like the COVID narrative, the Rittenhouse narrative is one of the most blatant disinformation campaigns in recent history, particularly in light of how easily the propaganda could have been disproven by crystal-clear facts that few who had been manipulated were even aware of (e.g., the shooting victims were white, not black; there was incontestable proof that they were threatening Kyle’s life; their unsavory criminal backgrounds as a convicted pedophile and a woman-beater; and other details I won’t delineate because you have already covered them extensively in your own reporting).

I think Gustave Le Bon’s “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind” is especially illuminating when it comes to attempting to understand how such a large swath of people could be so easily duped and impervious to hard facts:

“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.”

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The only evidence required to support an accusation of white supremacy is that someone 1) is white or non-white, and 2) fails to prostrate before all aspects of an ever-mutating anti-racist ideology. Given this laughably irrelevant and low threshold of evidence, it's remarkable how anyone has faith that they won't be on the receiving end of this facile accusation.

I'm starting to understand why the woke are obsessed with demanding safe spaces from outsiders. Their own ideology is designed to wipe out all sense of safety, stability, and predictability. They've tripwired the entire world, the same world they themselves have to maneuver in.

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When will Ayanna Pressley fix her damn tweet? Pretty sure we know the answer is never. I'll bet she even CROSSED STATE LINES before writing it.

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The rot goes even deeper. Facebook pulled down post attempting to fundraise for Kyle and blocked posts about him from search, so the only thing people were subjected to was the narrative that he was a murderer.

The media refused for months to mention that the dead men had been imprisoned in the past for violent crime. I realize there are good reasons for this in a court of law, but in public discussion it would seem to be meaningful.

Since no one could donate on GoFundMe (they have a consistent policy of not raising funds), fundraising had to be done on a smaller website. Payment processors were constantly refusing to process their donations. Then the website was hacked, donors disclosed, and one ended up losing his job. At least one other person lost their job for supporting Kyle early on too.

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Does Ayanna Pressley really think that Rosenbaum, Anthony Huber and Gaige Grosskreutz were there to support BLM?? They were there to destroy property and create chaos.

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And by the way, it's exactly the same "white supremacist" labeling, white, elite crowd who insist that the entire Latin American race change their designation to Latinx, a term with no pronunciation or meaning within the culture, because these whites have decided that the entire Latino culture and language is hopelessly discriminatory. The White Man's Burden is alive and well, it's now called Progressivism.

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