The Lynchings That Aren't

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I guess that now, with the SPLC potentially sidelined from the business of inciting a race war, Pravda has to pick up some of the slack. 

Not that they have ever been slouches. After the Jussie Smollett "incident," we were treated to weeks of breathless coverage and fawning interviews promoting the absurd idea that MAGA thugs who watched Empire roamed the streets of Chicago during severe cold snaps armed with bleach and a pre-made noose, looking for gay black actors to assault. 

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Do you really think any of them didn't know Smollett was a fabulist, or was this a variation of the Jason Arday strategy of white people pretending to believe absurdities in support of The Narrative™?

CNN is at it again, in one of the most vile media hoaxes in recent memory, as if you can rank them properly. 

We have Mississippi Burning, Part Deux. As with almost all sequels, aside from Aliens, Terminator 2, and The Godfather Part II (in all these cases, ignore subsequent sequels), the sequel is worse than the original 

Mississippi is now leading the country in turning around the literacy crisis in the black community, but that is not noteworthy to the media. Instead, the fact that black people are being fake-lynched is top of the headlines. 

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It sure sounds bad that three black people have been found hanging from trees in the Southern state, and in human terms it certainly is a tragedy when people die by suicide or get murdered as if they were Canadians seeking healthcare, but none of this is caused by an outbreak of racial hatred from SPLC-funded Nazis or KKK members. 

More likely, it is a sad case of social contagion, where one incident sparks a series of others in people who are on the edge. 

Not all the victims were even black, but carefully managed, his sad suicide can be spun as part of a pattern worthy of national attention. Implied in the story, one of the suicides is "suspicious" according to the family, for instance. 

Death by hanging seems particularly gruesome, so I can't imagine why somebody would choose that method for a suicide. It is dramatic, I suppose, and it's not like a suicidal person is, by nature, rational, but still... As for the murder of Fortune, I hope her boyfriend gets the chair or some other gruesome form of penalty. She had four kids; now motherless. 

The Left is deeply invested in the idea that America is filled with racists always on the edge of murderous outbursts of generalized hatred for minorities, when the fact of the matter is that the recent outburst of racial violence is aimed primarily at Jews and white people, inspired by hate campaigns the left itself promotes. 

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It's now quite common to find leftists celebrating the violent deaths of prominent conservatives, or even screaming on camera about who deserves to be taken out next. 

While the media cheers it on or spins the story. 

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