Posted on 05/31/2020 6:58:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
In 1989, District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry, Jr. insisted that his city was basically crime-free except for all the murder. "Except for the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country," he told a luncheon audience at the National Press Club.
On May 28, MSNBC reporter Ali Velshi said something just as mind-bogglingly absurd. As violent riots erupted in sections of Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd, Velshi insisted that the protests were basically peaceful.
"I wanna be clear on how I characterize this," Velshi said, as buildings literally burned to the ground in the background of the broadcast. "This is mostly a protest. It is not, it is not, generally speaking, unruly."
It's interesting to watch Velshi struggle to find the words to shape the narrative he's trying so desperately to tell: that the violence and upheaval unfolding around him aren't really happening. That the burning buildings are somehow not indicative of what is really taking place on the ground. That the whole scene is really just a peaceful protest, so please don't misinterpret the fires, the destruction and evacuation of Minneapolis's 3rd police precinct, the vandalism of police vehicles, and the looting of the Target and arson of the AutoZone as "unruly."
According to the Saint Paul Police Department, more than 170 businesses were damaged or looted that night, and there were dozens of fires.
Liberals are so obsessed with controlling the narrative on race, so immersed in their own self-serving propaganda, that they actually believe that society is going to accept their bald-faced lies over reality itself — over the television footage of the destruction, over the police reports documenting the property damage, over the cries from governors and mayors urging citizens to please stop the looting and rioting.
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VIRUS, WHAT VIRUS! Lock down is over! If these scumbag politicians refuse to arrest rioters and looters how are they arresting small business owners for not following their Nazi orders F THEM! One more hoax on the American people is done
Why isn’t Trump rounding up the ringleaders? Maybe Bob Barr can stop playing his bagpipes long enough to actually do his job.
Leftist politicians have stoked their base for years with an ideology of racial and economic victimhood. Its in schools, its in their campaigns, its in their programs. They then take away all work, lock society down, and create mass unemployment and idleness.
This is fully the fruits of leftist ideology.
We have many Baghdad bobs working overtime
NYT said black people have suffered so much every day that sometimes they rise up to stand up for themselves-—paraphrase.
One stood out: that stupid, lying BS they repeat that the July, 1967 Detroit black riots were an “uprising” because of the daily pain of black hopelessness in the white racist society. Nonsense. I was there, attending Wayne State University and working alongside about twenty black guys as campus mail sorter and carrier. They knew the narrative of that was BS. They condemned the lazy rioters.
Cackling c*ck holster trying to shape a narrative. These purveyors of pony plop know wanton destruction in urban areas turns off everyone with a lick of civic consciousness. This could be another election year like 1968 and media propagandists want to somehow tell us
not to believe our lyin’ eyes.
They ALWAYS deny the fact that violent antifa members are liberal. They normally lie and say Antifa is anarchists, so they’re not really liberal. Now they are lying and saying violent liberal rioters joining with BLM are white supremacists ... and thus the liberal violence can be blamed on conservatives.
There is no logic to their claims, but lest we forget there are still many people in our country who think George Bush controlled a hurricane (Katrina).
What I am realizing is that whatever the commonly-held, mainstream narrative is, the exact opposite is likely true
Blacks are oppressed - in fact, they are highly entitled and privileged, which is the root of their problem
US Cops are violent - in fact, they are extremely cautious and reserved. What I witnessed going on in American cities would not be allowed anywhere in the world without major violence from the authorities
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