OPINION - Liberal Elites Want Us to Care About Jan. 6. But They Don't Care When Our Cities Burn

Newsweek ^ | 07 January 2022 | JENNA STOCKER , MANAGING EDITOR OF THINKING MINNESOTA

[blueplum]

I remember the call from my husband on May 31. It was our anniversary, and he was out running errands before he came home—not because we had plans, but because there was a curfew in place in Minneapolis. He called to tell me he had to drive to a nearby suburb to pick up a medical prescription. "Our Walgreens on Hennepin Avenue isn't there anymore," he said. "It was burned to the ground."

Over the spring and summer of 2020, thousands of businesses were looted, damaged, or totally destroyed during the George Floyd protests—especially here, where Floyd was killed. Every day we read heartbreaking stories of business owners begging and pleading with rioters to spare their livelihoods, many of them uninsured, pleas that went unheeded. There was over $2 billion in property damage.

And yet, to follow the mainstream news, you'd be forgiven for thinking the destruction of cities across the country—the decimation of small businesses, many of them owned by lower income people of color—wasn't the biggest story of violence in recent history. That honor, to hear the media tell it, is reserved for an hours-long mobbing of the Capitol in Washington, D.C....

...This breathless, week-long commemoration—along with the sacrosanct solemnity with which January 6 is discussed in elite liberal circles—exposes whose lives really matter: the elites in D.C. ivory towers and Manhattan newsrooms. And it exposed whose lives don't....

...The real threat to democracy is an elite class who has shown us they value their pain, their inconvenience, and their lives more than ours.

[blueplum]

well stated

[Secret Agent Man]

and they want actual violent criminals to be freed and not get felony sentences and walk the streets to commit more violence

just because of superficial attributes

[Singermom]

Of course not because it does not affect them. You don’t REALLY think they care about us do you?

[GaryCrow]

The endless harping on Jan 6 will hopefully turn off voters and backfire on the dems. People are getting tired of the endless caterwauling about something that was mostly a non-event, a protest against a stolen election that got a bit out of hand. It was NOT an insurrection and when the media talking heads use loaded words like that it turns off viewers, at least the viewers that aren't completely brainwashed.

It's the boy that cried wolf and people are tired of it. We have real problems with the endless Covid hysteria and subsequent destruction of our economy. The dem narrative that a group of trespassers is an existential threat to the country is ridiculous and should turn the stomach of any American who still has a brain in his head.

[Lazamataz]

Utterly amazing that this was permitted to be published in Newsweek. It is not a condemnation of the Jan 6 overreaction and false-flagging, but it is close enough.

[SaveFerris]

(Utterly amazing that this was permitted to be published in Newsweek)

I know. I don’t trust Newsweak so I was shocked to see this.

[Eagles6]

They've let a few solid pieces through, lately.

The editor must be drinking, again.

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[FLT-bird]

How in the world did such a sensible and truthful article ever get published by Newsweak?

[imabadboy99]

I can’t believe this was published in Newsweek. I have to give them props for printing an opposing point of view.

[TheConservativeTejano]

and they want actual violent criminals to be freed and not get felony sentences and walk the streets to commit more violence just because of superficial attributes

This is so true and the title of the article is so true in today's world.

The MSM seems like they care more about Jan. 6th and President Trump but not the burning personal property, burning businesses, rioting, destroying property, and destroying personal property.

The list goes on and on.

We saw shots of that car lot in Kenosha, Wisconsin that was being burned down but the MSM switched off that particular scene and it was immediate. What does that tell ya???

[cuz1961]

“Hegel’s dialectics” refers to the particular dialectical method of argument employed by the 19th Century German philosopher, G.W.F. ... Hegel (see entry on Hegel), which, like other “dialectical” methods, relies on a contradictory process between opposing sides

[cuz1961]

Aka

Herding

[cuz1961]

a group of people or animals) move in a particular direction.

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[ThePatriotsFlag]

Any mention of Ashley Babbet? (I didn’t think so.)