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The left is obsessed with victimhood. Victims — of racism, sexism, transphobia, Islamophobia, or whatever the outrage du jour may be — are superheroes in this Age of Absurdity. Leftists vie with one another to discard ever more of their “privilege” and become more victimized than their friends and comrades.
As silly as it is, however, this ridiculous game is no joke. For every victim, there has to be a victimizer. That means that innocent people all too often are roped into the victimhood charade and end up being genuine victims as they are vilified for supposedly blaspheming against the left’s gods.
A case in point is the horrifying experience of Morgan Bettinger, a student at the University of Virginia. The Daily Caller reported Monday that on July 17, 2020, during the threatening and dangerous Summer of George Floyd, Bettinger was driving home from work when traffic drew to a standstill. A group called Black Women Matter was blocking a street near the UVA campus, and a dump truck had parked in an intersection to keep cars from driving into the protest. Seeing all this, Bettinger got out of her car and began talking to the driver of the dump truck “about how she was thankful he was there to prevent the cars from turning protesters into speed bumps.”
One of the protesters, another UVA student named Zyahna Bryant, heard or misheard what Bettinger had said, and then began claiming that Bettinger had “threatened protesters, saying that they would ‘make good f***king speed bumps.’”
This was not something Bryant said simply to her fellow Black Women Matter protesters. She “tweeted a video of the incident to her thousands of followers and it quickly went viral.” In all the emotions that Bryant’s video provoked, few noticed that it didn’t actually establish what she had claimed about Bettinger. Bryant’s video did not show Bettinger saying what Bryant insisted that she had said.
It didn’t matter. For the left, to be accused is to be convicted: if someone is charged with transgressing against one of the left’s dogmas, he or she must be destroyed. The charge doesn’t have to be proven. This is because the left’s objective is not, contrary to its arrogant claims, to bring about a society of justice and equity. The left’s objective is to terrify the populace into submission and, above all, to preserve and protect its own counterfactual narrative, which is the basis of its power. Those whose lives are destroyed in the process are just collateral damage.
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mike says
the left has adopted the Islam of rule. Rule thru fear
bagsgroove says
Islam should fear our rule that never leaves anything unfinished. God said he would finish everything as vengence was his.
bagsgroove says
Islam is full of shit slam !
James Lincoln says
One of the best feature articles ever!
somehistory says
Ms. Bettinger should get a good attorney and sue the lying bryant witch. (her first name sounds mozlum) for slander, defamation, and the online part, libel.
Four years may be past the statute of limitations, but with the ‘precedent’ being set in NY in the Trump trial, perhaps the attorney could find some way of ignoring the statute.
Scotsman48 says
If black women lives matter then perhaps they could get themselves off Welfare and stop having babies with multiple men.
If black men lives matter then perhaps they could stop shooting each other dead.
If The Left and their victim buddies would actually listen to what is being said instead of thinking they heard what was said they would make a better life for themselves but I guess they just wallow in victim hood blaming white folks for the situations in their own Ghettos.
Kinda like blaming the match for burning your fingers.
OLD GUY says
You have to WORK to make changes, it’s easier to blame someone else.
Kepha says
My sympathies are with Morgan Bettinger. I will never give a penny to the organization Black Lives Matter, for it seems to be another Leftist kleptocracy wannabe. I have no use for the calls for reparations, or a growing climate of anti-white racism.
But, as a declarative sentence, “Black lives matter” is spot on to this [mostly?] white guy. Those are some of my neighbors, coworkers, and others whom I value. While I am for law and order, I am also aware that there is racism in these United States, and needs to keep some social as well as political checks and balances.
A fellow teacher, who is black, formerly worked in the police. Once, when in plainclothes, he had to pursue an armed and dangerous suspect. Two uniformed officers saw him in pursuit of the suspect–but first saw a black man with a drawn weapon. While my colleague was not hurt, the incident resulted in a real baddie getting away.
Kepha says
Hence, I’m for sensitivity and care being taken; and prejudices [on all sides] addressed and checked.