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Indeed, the foundations of the Brown story have been eroding from the moment a St. Louis television station broadcast security video from the convenience store where Michael Brown, prior to his fatal encounter, stole merchandise and assaulted a clerk. It was for example claimed that Brown was shot in the back. The evidence before the grand jury showed that he was not.
Is the movement to de-militarize the police that was sparked by Browns death therefore based on lies? Those questions may never be answered, says The New York Times, which campaigned for the indictment of Officer Wilson and sympathized with the violence and l**ting that has plagued Ferguson, Missouri, after the grand jury announced its decision.
Liberal myths propagated to generate outrage and activism, to organize and coordinate and mobilize disparate grievances and conflicting agendas, so often have the same relation to t***h, accuracy, and legitimacy as a Bud Light commercial. Marketing is not limited to business. Inside the office buildings of Washington, D.C., are thousands upon thousands of professionals whose livelihoods depend on the fact that there is no better way than a well-run public relations campaign to get you to do what they want. What recent weeks have done is provide several lessons in the suspect nature of such campaigns.
The 2006 Duke Lacrosse case is the paradigmatic example of a liberal rush to judgment when the perceived victim is a minority (in that case, a black woman) and the alleged perpetrator a straight white male. But it is not the sole example.
In 2007, an instructor at Columbias Teachers College specializing in racial micro-aggressions and under investigation for plagiarism discovered a noose h*****g from her office door; when she was fired the following year for academic malfeasance it was widely suspected that she had put the noose there herself. The r****t graffiti and Klan sightings that rocked the Oberlin campus in 2013 and served as the basis of an antir****m campaign were later revealed to be a left-wing joke. And of course the leader of the Michael Brown protest movement, tax c***t Al Sharpton, was involved in the Tawana Brawley h**x of 1987.
Would it even matter? Some liberals are upfront that the factuality of these cases is secondary to their political import. Actually, in both the case of the UVA rape and in the case of the k*****g of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, says a writer for the New Republic digital media company, the major takeaway of recent weeks should be that our systems do not work (emphasis in the original).
It is sometimes difficult to understand that, for the left, r****m and sexism and prejudice are not ethical categories but political ones. We are not merely talking about bad manners when the subject turns to Michael Brown or UVA or Thomas Piketty. We are talking about power.
So much of contemporary liberalism reeks of a scheme by which already affluent and influential people increase their margins and extend their sway. Liberalism, mind you, in both parties: the Republican elite seems as dev**ed as their Democratic cousins to the shibboleths of diversity and immigration even as they bemoan the fate of the middle class and seek desperately the v**es of white working families.
Has the jury reached a verdict? Yes, your honor, it has. We find the defendant guilty. Liberalism is a h**x.
(Personally, I don't believe it is liberalism that is a h**x, but progressivism, c*******m, socialism, the Democrat Party that are the h**x. I think liberals have disappeared or died off.)
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