FOR WHOM THE MOB TROLLS

It trolls for thee.

What I’ve been dismissing as individual events with a beginning and end are actually part of a Tsunami of incremental manipulations that are slowly destroying the way we live. Think about it. The leftist mob will latch onto something, blow it up so big that soon cowardly politicians are furiously writing new legislation to appease it. Or corporations, human resources apparatchiks, and Hollywood are superficially remaking themselves, in hopes of slithering away from from the accusatory spotlight. All of it happening without an evidentiary case being made. Facts are tricky things that clutter up the bright shining clarity of the performative moral universe. And by the time the informational grift is exposed — never by legacy media — the train has left the station.

The CBC’s recent documentary — Dinner with a Bunch of Guilty, Woke ,White Chicks AKA — Deconstructing Karen — is a shabby little construct of anti-racist mushy-think masquerading as enlightened filmmaking. This is the latest version of Scared Straight — but for the Pilates, Range Rover crowd. Instead of prison, the setting is a posh dinner party attended by well to do white women, paying to be insulted while eating trendy food — assuaging both their guilty consciences and spiritual boredom. It is so absurd it could have been produced by The Babylon Bee. Read some of the comments about the film here.

Lumping all white women together as racist, complaining Karens is exactly the kind of dehumanizing language — both anti-woman and anti-white-women — that the producers and dinner facilitators are trying to ameliorate but only if it applies to women they deem worthy.

The negative stereotypes and generalizations made are the epitome of racist thinking. All white women are privileged and evil is the current trope — accepted by Liberals whose critical thinking goes on tilt when confronted by so-called anti-racist ideologues. One Karen example they allude to in the film is the Central Park Dog Walker — a story the film’s researchers clearly didn’t research.

Her real name is Amy Cooper and you might recall the video of her phone call to police from Central Park — asking for help because she and her dog were being threatened by a black man, named Christian Cooper. The video dropped the same day as the horrifying George Floyd images and it went super-viral — with the legacy media and its commentariat conflating the two. Note: despite the same last name, Amy and Christian did not know each other.

“It’s important for us to remember that what happened to George Floyd is what Amy Cooper would have wanted to happen to Christian Cooper,” as one YouTuber put it, reflecting a sentiment echoed broadly across Twitter and beyond.

The outcry was overwhelming, and it was supercharged by the mainstream press. The New York Times ran a dozen stories, letters, and Op-Eds in the first week alone. A rattled Gayle King said it felt like “open season” on black men, with Amy “nearly strangling her dog to falsely accuse another black man.” Trevor Noah said that Amy “blatantly knew how to use the power of her whiteness to threaten the life of another man and his blackness.”

By the next day, Amy Cooper had been doxxed, had surrendered her dog, had lost her job, and had issued a half-hearted defense followed by an abject apology. Christian Cooper would go on to become a minor celebrity, penning a story for D.C. Comics inspired by the incident, heralded across the media and even by Joe Biden. “You made an incredible contribution at a very important moment,” the future president said.

Amy Cooper’s life was ruined by accusations of racism without any investigation of the actual facts. Later reporting by brave indy journos, like Megan Phelps-Roper whose work I’m quoting here, uncovered information that suggested indeed Christian Cooper was the aggressor. And, it turned out, had a history of behaving this way toward other dog walkers in the park. But by then — the story had been cold-pressed into an ugly trope against white women. And I can tell you from experience, a correction will never be made. You can find Megan’s debunking article here and it is worth a read.

• May 2020 testimony provided by Jerome Lockett, a black man who said Christian had “aggressively” threatened him in the park. Among the details: “when I saw that video, I thought, sic — if he approached her the same way how she may have genuinely been afraid for her life.” He continued, “If I wasn’t who I was, I would of [sic] called the police on that guy too.”

• Lockett also says: “My two fellow dog owners have had similar situations with this man, but don’t feel comfortable coming forward because they’re white. They think they’ll be seen as some ‘Karen’ or whatever.” His complete statement can be found on page nine here.

Her article hosts a link to the Honestly Podcast where she breaks down the story further.

Last week, Fox news began promoting a documentary on a story most critical thinkers and the courts have already figured out — that Jussie Smollett’s tale of a racist attack on him by Maga enthusiasts was a fabrication. Fox even interviewed the two black men hired by Smollett to fake the assault and in doing so, put to bed any pushback that the Chicago prosecution was racially motivated.

This was another story inflated by legacy media who bought his improbable tale because it impugned a president they hate. Smollett was elevated to hero status for black and LGBTQ people following his weepy, soft-ball-fact-free interview with ABC star, Robin Roberts who is also black and gay. Not a single hard question was asked and ABC has not put out a statement apologizing for this journalistic atrocity that, like the Central Park Dog Walker story, inflamed racial tensions and fed the approved narrative.

In a Clean Up In Aisle Three interview with the friendly Hollywood Reporter, Roberts tries to explain how this embarrassing train-wreck happened. In doing so, she inadvertently reveals how intersectional frameworks are sinking legacy media.

“He’s saying that it was a hate crime,” Roberts said. “So if I’m too hard on him, then people in my LGBTQ community are going, ‘Oh, you don’t believe him.’ If I’m too light on him, then it’s like, ‘Oh, because you are in the community, you’re giving him a pass.’ So it was, like, it was a no-win situation for me.”

Roberts is right about one thing: it was a no-win situation, but not for her — rather for her audience. Smollett’s story was hinkey from the start.

Obviously I believe white on black racism exists but the current paradigm that only white people are racist and all must be punished and humiliated — at upscale dinner parties and worse, in classrooms, is pulling society apart. Any story that upholds the current thing’s constructed narrative, regardless of actual accuracy can be reported as if true. Is it gullibility by social justice warrior reporters, stupidity in legacy media newsrooms or a captured industry believing the end justifies the means?

This week’s episode with Billboard Chris Elston — a man who’s been campaigning against transing children exposes another issue media refuse to report accurately. Even as puberty blockers and disfiguring surgeries for teens are being outed by brave doctors as dangerous, objective reporting on the subject is difficult to find.

So the next time a video goes viral — or a news story seems like a perfect reflection of a favoured media stereotype — think for yourself.

Perhaps even….critically.

See you on the podcast!