There is a derangement afoot in the land.
Or maybe it is simply evil.
I just wasted 15 minutes on an e-mail exchange with an editor of the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press over a story they printed yesterday, involving a mother and daughter who were set upon and beaten, in the street, by a gang of “teens”.
I chided the editor for plainly covering up the fact that the “teens” were black, and he responded by saying that the police had told the paper that “there were no detailed descriptions”.
Both the Minneapolis-area papers cover the news this way, and of course it is preposterous, and pointless, and demeaning to readers AND to those who are unfairly included (people of every race, by the way, including innocent blacks) in their stupid color-blind descriptions.
Let’s all of us agree that if it were gangs of white skin-heads who were perpetrating these crimes, and a bigoted white sheriff were screening their identities, then the papers would extend every effort to find out who was behind this viciousness, and who was covering up and why—as well they should!
But we are now in the land of derangement, and of favored groups, of suppression of facts and of outright lying.
We are in the land of Orwell, only with the rules of distortion and deceit being carried out in a clumsy, slovenly, roughshod manner—not with the chilling precision of Big Brother, but rather as if by a shabby, drooling Beast.
Feels like evil to me.
I think you’ve got it right - evil, and not even trying to be anything but obvious.