Many have questioned social media giants for not flagging and alerting the authorities about NY Subway train shooter Frank James’s deeply troubling behavior on social media
James had detonated smoke bombs and opened fire in a packed
subway train in Brooklyn during rush hour. Over two dozen people were
wounded. Fortunately, there
were no casualties because James’ gun jammed.
Following a massive 30-hour manhunt James was apprehended. The
police say that James will be charged on several
counts, including the violation of a federal law which prohibits
"violent attacks" against mass transit systems. James had nine prior
arrests for larceny, disorderly conduct, and criminal sex acts. If found
guilty, James could face life in prison
James had a significant social media presence. He had
uploaded myriad
videos on YouTube that include racist diatribes, and even threat
against Mayor Adams.
Among the prevailing theme in James’s posts was racism.
In one video, James says, "the White MF----rs that I want
to kill, you know, I really want to kill them because they're White."
Pretty direct about his feelings on that.
In another, James claimed that "the vast majority of
people, MF----rs, are racist. “and expressed disgust that
Judge Ketanji Jackson is married to a Caucasian man.
On Facebook, James posted a meme with the caption "Oh Black
Jesus, please kill all the whiteys."
So how has the media covered this?
CNN covered
it as follows:
“Many of the videos that James uploaded to a YouTube channel
included references to violence, including at a set group of people he believed
had maligned him, in addition to broad societal and racial groups that he
appeared to hate.”
But CNN isn’t explicit about the group of people being
targeted.
NBC covered
it as follows:
“James' posts date to 2016. He has used slurs, denigrated
women, and made racist comments — some of them against Black people.”
Since some of the racist comments were against black people,
NBC should have mentioned the remains groups being targeted. But they didn’t.
MSNBC covered it as follows:
“James’ online presence reportedly documented multiple
instances of unhinged hate and racism alongside videos seemingly about the
difficulties he had trying to receive New York City social services.”
MSNBC refrains from mentioning the targets of James’s racism.
The
NY Times mentions “harshly bigoted views” and “videos delivering
extended tirades, many of them overtly concerned with race and violence, often
tying those subjects in with current events”
The NYT doesn’t mention the targets of James’s bigotry.
The
Washington Post states the following:
“Social media accounts appearing to belong to James offered a
portrait of a man who had ranted and cursed in videos”
An FBI agent in a complaint wrote that in his YouTube videos, James
said that he “should have gotten a gun, and just started shooting
m-----rf-----s.”
The Post once again no mention of whom Frank wanted to shoot
and whom he ranted against on YouTube.
CBS
News mentions online ‘grievances’ but nothing more. Politico and ABC News
exclude mention of his online presence,
Only Fox
News and the NY
Post made explicit mention of the contents of James' racist messages.
In the coming days, don't be stunned if a media pundit
compares James to Trump for being a misogynist and a racist, obvious the race
James despises will not be explicitly mentioned.
The Oxford dictionary defines racism as “unfair treatment of
people who belong to a different race; violent behavior towards them”.
However, in modern liberalism, bigotry is only recognized when
an individual from the demographic majority targets someone from the demographic
minority.
Hence, it is racist only when a white person targets a person
of color. Their current narrative is that Trump and his supporters are the only
forces of bigotry in the US. The need to confront White Supremacy is a dog
whistle for silencing political opposition.
However, where a black man rants against Caucasians it is not
even worth mentioning because it doesn't fit the narrative. In fact, calling out
racism in people of color will probably be termed racist. Liberals and their
BLM allies may even claim that slavery and segregation, and Trump's victory justifies
people of color being racist towards Caucasians.
This explains the shameful exclusion of James’s racism by the
mainstream media. Since the media is a propaganda arm for modern liberalism,
their coverage is the barometer for the liberal mindset.
In fact, James’s ideas are quite similar to those of
commentators on MSNBC, CNN, NYT, etc, it is just that he acted upon his idea
while they return to back to their luxury homes after spewing venom all day on TV.
It is likely that the woke overlords at Big Tech hesitated to
flag James’s videos and post because they simply don’t regard targeting white
people as racism and fear being called a racist.
This mindset prevails among the leadership in Washington.
Biden, Harris, and Pelosi. They frequently talk about confronting White
Supremacy, when the January 6th protests went overboard the
movement was called an insurrection by White Supremacists. But BLM-led looting
and riots were encouraged and termed peaceful protests.
Perhaps investigative agencies, who are supposed to be
monitoring social media hate think anti-white bigotry is not racism and are
fearful of being called a racist for acting against the persons of color such
as James who post anti-White content.
How would they have reacted if James was Caucasian man spewing
hate against people of color?
He would have been summarily apprehended and news about him
would be blared across the media. We only have to look at the vicious treatment
meted against the January 6th protestors and the
Covington kids to know that.
The question is where does this insanity stop
Some will remember the 2017 bombing at
a concert in the UK. Twenty-two people were killed and numerous others
injured when an Islamist terrorist detonated a bomb.
During a recent
inquiry, a security guard revealed that he had a "bad
feeling" about the suicide bomber who dressed all in black and carried a
large rucksack. But since the bomber was a person of color, he did not approach
or report him for the fear of being branded a racist. The guard is probably not
wrong. If his suspicions had indeed turned out to be wrong, he would have lost
his job and been rendered unemployable for ‘targeting’ a person of color.
This narrative is no longer idle talk at a university faculty
lounge.
Mayhem and violence could have been stopped but for the fear
of disrupting the narrative and being called a racist.
Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream of a color-blind world
where people will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content
of their character.
This thinking desperately needs to be encouraged and applied
everywhere. Bigotry is bigotry irrespective of who the perpetrator is and what
the targets are. Bombs and bullets kill irrespective of the race of the
individual controlling them. A loss of life or an injury is the same
irrespective of the race of the killer who caused the incident.
It may seem like stating the obvious, but in times of
universal deceit, stating the truth is an essential revolutionary act.
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