There are so many examples of race-card hypocrisy in our society that I tend to be judicious about zeroing on on any of them to make points about ideology, but this one is so clear-cut that it bears mentioning.
17-year-old white guy Marley Lion was shot and killed in Charleston, South Carolina by three black guys. Lion had done nothing to make his assailants think they were in danger. This was an instance of a type of crime that, demographically speaking, is 39 times more likely to occur than the reverse scenario.
But Brittney Cooper at Salon is so incensed that Michael Dunn was not convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting of Jordan Davis that she wonders in print whether it might be time for a violent racial uprising.
So identity politics becomes yet more pervasive, and it becomes that much easier for the low-information comrade to believe that there is some sort of systematic tracking down of young black males in our society.
It's just the racial manifestation of the overall leftist strategy. We see it in the perpetuation of the climate-change fantasy, the entrenchment of the notion that anywhere near a majority of minimum-wage earners are trying to support families, that the number of uninsured people showing up at the nation's ERs was so big it required radically restructuring the way health care is delivered.
Up is down, down is up. As I said yesterday, "Orwellian" would be apt for any one of these examples, except that it's been applied so much - properly so - that it has lost some of its power to properly alarm us.
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