The peaceful, innocent youngster, Michael Brown, volunteering to show a grateful shopkeeper the finer points of mosh pit dancing prior to being murdered by evil white copper.
Reading the Left-lapdog Media after a day of protests marking the one-year anniversary of the death of the criminal Michael Brown, shot down after he attacked a police officer, the framing and revisionism of both the original and current events clearly demonstrates that reality and facts are never to stand in the way of The Narrative(tm).
Take WaPo’s headline: “Police shoot and critically injure man during Ferguson protests; state of emergency declared”.
Nothing in the headline indicates that the police fired on the man after he started shooting at police. Indeed, the opening paragraph is written to cast doubts on the police.
FERGUSON, Mo. — A man who was shot and critically injured by police here after authorities said he opened fire at officers was in critical condition Monday, his father said, as questions remained about what sparked the gunfire amid protests marking the first anniversary of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown.
And, of course, the next paragraph engages in dishonest framing of the event of Michael Brown’s death.
The late-night shooting was a violent coda to a mostly peaceful day of protests and vigils commemorating a year since Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old, was shot and killed by a white Ferguson officer, an event that thrust this small suburb of St. Louis into the center of a national conversation on how police officers use lethal force toward minorities.
WaPo was only one of among many Leftist media outlets covering the protests … all claiming that these peaceful protesters could not be blamed for the shooting, looting and assault. Oh no! Never, ever think the #blacklivesmatter engage in anything other than respectful, peaceful protests!
Let’s not forget this is the same media who have portrayed every TEA Party gathering as dangerous and violent, even though not one criminal incident ever took place.
What attracted me to the #gamergate movement/hashtag/public-venting-club was how similarly they were handled though on a much smaller scale.
1. atavistic/ stupid/superstitious holding everyone else back, hates science and knowledge, racist, sexist, anarchists, totalitarians, theocrats, nihilists, destroyers, here only to make money, etc. Ultra-right wing whatever that even means any more…
2. Trying to hold on to or reacquire lost power and basically already dead culturally
3. All angry white males w/ “OBVIOUS” ties to virtually ANYTHING distasteful or hated even when black, female, hispanic, asian
4. Dangerous/violent/crazy/prone to harass and attack (It is knonw!)
5. if ANYONE does ANYTHING it’s the Teaparty’s fault. top-view of a fustrum of a cone used as a mark on a political map? That’s why a crazy leftist shot a congresswoman!
6. marked as fair game for insults, harasement, violence etc. Shunned at the very least. Call them gay and then call them homophobes. Feel free to be random and nonsensical in allegations. Use everything but the kitchen sink and then only because you threw the kitchen sink first. Manufacture an appearance of reality and reinforce it that the Tea Party is being thrown off of the Earth for good and everyone agrees they deserve it.
About the only difference was that the gamers weren’t accused of being Christians and it happened on the smaller scale of a collapsing enthusiast press, some blogs, and a few mentions on less popular 24 hour cable network shows.
Always only one side of the story was told.
Instead of basic liberty and smaller government it was about video games., specifically not letting a bunch of San Francisco weanies tell game developers what to produce and act as king makers in an industry they existed as parasites to. People did not want their 80’s space epic interrupted by lame out of place political diatribes thinly disguised as plot or odes to how great gay people where. They wanted to shoot tings with cool guns and have fun.
As in the tea party times, gamers had people they were fans of or colleagues with trotted out to condemn them or spit at them gratuitously.
The parallelism is huge.
Of course the Tea Party face the whole damned media eventually and the political party that they most helped out.
The gamers were facing lame hacks who wanted to write for a Rolling Stone that no longer mattered but couldn’t get the gig so ended up in video games and hated it. They got a little help from the real press, but beyond Gawker who owned a terrible gaming site, no one cared.
So the gamers quasi-organized on social media got their message out, condemned everyone who condemned them first, documented it to make the case more easily to strangers and newcomers, and then went after Gawker’s advertisers saying ” who wants to read a gaming site that admits it hates gamers.” They pointed out obvious violations in journalistic ethics forcing some blog sites to start retroactively adding disclosures about where they were close tot he subject they were reporting on. For a year now they’ve been declared dead but Gamergate is still grinding away here and there.
I hear the tea party is too but I don’t see any marches or rallys on TV anymore so who really knows.
#blacklivesmatter seems to be a self-souring movement like #occupy was.
They piss people off and creep people out without having to be destroyed with massive public relations campaigns, and most of their slogans are still based on very officially and methodically debunked lies.
I almost think #blacklivesmatter exists to block another black movement of “let’s stop being democrats and believing all this ridiculous racially charged shit and go back to a steady economy and better lives”.
I almost think #blacklivesmatter exists to block another black movement of “let’s stop being democrats and believing all this ridiculous racially charged shit and go back to a steady economy and better lives”.
Correct.
That’s why it is an essential part of the Commiecrat playbook. The black sheeple must be herded into the corral again.
It’s theater manufactured to disguise what’s really going on. Pure propaganda.
Keep living the thug life, badasses. Keep killing each other.
Faster, please.
Palaeo wrote: #blacklivesmatter seems to be a self-souring movement like #occupy was.
They piss people off and creep people out without having to be destroyed with massive public relations campaigns, and most of their slogans are still based on very officially and methodically debunked lies.
I don’t know. Certainly they are alienating people with Common Sense and who possess a Moral Sense, but those kind of folks are a minority these days.
In the Black Communities, they are resonating with the same fools who still believe that the CIA introduced Crack into minority neighborhoods and that O.J. was a victim of the White System because he got too uppity. There are a lot of Blacks out there who believe this crap, but, unless you probe them deeply enough or spy on their conversations, you would never see it. They are, in a sense, practicing their own version of Taqiyya.
>True, Havel’s post-totalitarian world comes with its own circumstances very different from our own. Examining the Power of the Powerless isn’t an exercise in comparison between the lives of the Czechs in 1978 and the lives of Americans in 2015. Rather, it is an examination of the psychological experiences of bureaucratic control and the power individuals have to affect systems of power through individualized rejection of the structures supporting the bureaucratic state. Havel’s brilliance is in understanding power and individual choices to oppose or facilitate it:
>>You do not become a “dissident” just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society. … Today, if we are not to be snobbish about it, we must admit that “dissidents” can be found on every street corner.<>… utterly obsessed with the need to bind everything in a single order; life in such a state is thoroughly permeated by a dense network of regulations, proclamations, directives, norms, orders, and rules. (It is not called a bureaucratic system without good reason.) … [The] legal code serves the post-totalitarian system in this direct way as well, that is, it too forms a part of the world of regulations and prohibitions … Like ideology, the legal code functions as an excuse. It wraps the base exercise of power in the noble apparel of the letter of the law.<<
I’ll leave it to you, the reader, to decide whether America in 2015 is closer to Jefferson’s vision or Havel’s nightmare.<
Vaclav Havel’s ‘Power of the Powerless’ Endures
Quite a few of the black people I know seem to be mildly afraid of the #blacklivesmatter people. I take it some heads have been knocked and threats made.
#Blacklivesmatter when it’s a white cop doing the killing, or if somehow a white cop was there. Otherwise, not so much.
it would be fun if trump ask hillarity how much soros is paying blm for hillarity? oh my that would shake the “system”.
Someone should start researching the agitators and find out how many abortions have been preformed on their spawn.
And how many baby mamas they don’t support.
And maybe their criminal records.
If they have the time to protest, you know they probably don’t have jobs.
speaking jobs oh my
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I should have mentioned that I was writing about blacks in urban areas and blue-collar suburbs.
Street rats, much like Rattus Rattus, are mainly dangerous in packs, but there are always exceptions.
Me, I’m glad the chunky thug caught some hot lead.