President Trump recently posted a video of illegal Haitian alien Robert Joachin beating a woman to death with a hammer in Fort Myers, Florida. All (mainstream media) hell broke loose — in reaction to Trump sharing the video. Heather Mac Donald comments in her City Journal column “Illegal Immigrant Bludgeons Victim—Blame Trump.” She writes (links omitted):
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Trump was right to post the video and right to publicize the murder. His determination to speak out about individual crimes is a notable departure from usual presidential practice. The media keep Americans in the dark about urban and immigrant crime. Reading a sanitized description of the murder is no substitute for seeing its heinousness.
The condition of America’s public spaces is a scandal. In New York City’s latest vagrant attack, a lunatic who calls himself “Lucifer” slashed three senior citizens with a machete in Grand Central Station on Saturday. Nowhere else in the modern Western world are people routinely and sometimes lethally assaulted by vagrants; nowhere else have streets been allowed to disintegrate into such squalor, filth, and threat. Those conditions are the result of policy choices, not of uncontrollable economic or social forces.
Yet to the liberal commentariat (often disguised as “news reporters”), crime and disorder are not the main problem afflicting the U.S.—racism is. Racism has become the cardinal sin for elite Western policy and opinion makers. (The BBC is still publicly flagellating itself a month later for allowing a racial epithet, emitted involuntarily by a Tourette’s Syndrome sufferer, to air during a movie awards ceremony. “We want to address the harm that this has caused” and the inexpressible “trauma and pain” that such offensive language carries, the broadcaster announced in one of its many apologies.) Governments across the West see their main duty as wiping out bigotry among their citizens, not only against “people of color,” but against females, sexual minorities (real or imagined), and as many other alleged victim groups as advocates can be found to put in a claim for. Western governments, especially in Europe, police racial thought crimes. Alternatively, Western governments pressure social media proxies to do the policing for them (as during the Biden administration). Murder is taken for granted, but speaking ill of an official victim group disqualifies one from polite society, sometimes from employment, and, ideally, from public office….
There is, in fact, behavior worse than racism, however odious the latter attitude may be. Murder is one such evil. But all violence against others, crimes against property and the social order, unjustified wars, extortion, treason, torture, terrorism—all these human sins would have been recognized up until the last half century as greater violations of the social compact than racist attitudes. Moreover, Western elites ignore lethal ethnic hatreds in the Third World and antiwhite racism in the First. Fighting whites’ alleged racism lets elites morally preen while ignoring the damage that their policies have wrought. That is the very definition of decadence.
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