Quote:It is amazing how many people seem to have discovered last Wednesday that riots are wrong -- when many of those same people apparently had not noticed that when riots went on, for weeks or even months, in various cities across the country last year.

For too many people, especially in the media, what is right and wrong, true or false, depends on who it helps or hurts politically. Too many media people who are supposed to be reporters act as if they are combatants in political wars.

Someone once said that, in a war, truth is the first casualty. That has certainly been so in the media -- and in much of academia as well.

One of the most grotesque distortions growing out of this carelessness with the facts has been a removal of Abraham Lincoln's name and statues from various places, on grounds that he saw black people only as property.

Such criticisms betray an incredible ignorance of history -- or else a complete disregard of truth.
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Unfortunately, too many American educational institutions -- from elementary schools to universities -- have become indoctrination centers. The riots that swept across the country last year are fruits of that indoctrination and the utter disregard for other people's rights that accompanied those riots.

At the heart of that indoctrination is a sense of grievance and victimhood when others have better outcomes -- which are automatically called "privileges" and never called "achievements," regardless of what the actual facts are.

Facts don't matter in such issues, any more than facts mattered when smearing Lincoln.
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Yet who cares about facts any more, in this age of indoctrination?

Read it all here.

For these Democrat elites---it wasnt that they were unaware that riots were wrong. They just were confident the riots would only affect the little people, while the ruling elite would glide along inside a bubble of safety---behind a massive security apparatus--of armed body guards, layers of Washing DC Police, FBI, Homeland Security---and even their own private Police Force few even knew existed before the riot---the Capital Police.

The difference was this riot happened in THEIR neighborhood. This riot affected THEM directly. This riot scared THEM. This was not some riot that destroyed the lives of little people in backwater Minneapolis---going on for days and days with no action or condemnation because the violence worked for Democrats politically. No---this riot was different---because it touched THEM---the elites---and that matters.

(01-12-2021 12:37 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  For these Democrat elites---it wasnt that they were unaware that riots were wrong. They just were confident the riots would only affect the little people, while the ruling elite would glide along inside a bubble of safety---behind a massive security apparatus--of armed body guards, layers of Washing DC Police, FBI, Homeland Security---and even their own private Police Force few even knew existed before the riot---the Capital Police.

The difference was this riot happened in THEIR neighborhood. This riot affected THEM directly. This riot scared THEM. This was not some riot that destroyed the lives of little people in backwater Minneapolis---going on for days and days with no action or condemnation because the violence worked for Democrats politically. No---this riot was different---because it touched THEM---the elites---and that matters.

welcome to urban vs. rural....

what I find amusing is 'surprising'....

what world do ewes live upon...

@enjoy