{"id":13140,"date":"2021-04-13T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13140"},"modified":"2021-04-13T09:16:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T16:16:11","slug":"eeyores-cabinet-noble-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/eeyores-cabinet-noble-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Eeyore’s Cabinet: Noble Lies?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Private Papers<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Americans are being saturated by a whirlwind of events never quite seen in recent memory. When a person with a gun or car now kills someone, the media\u2014in anti-humanistic fashion, and quite callously\u2014 massages the story to fit deductive narratives. And they are based solely on the race of the victim and victimizer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So a crazed, white-male sex deviant killer of six Asian and two white women in the Atlanta area is machined into proof of an epidemic of anti-Asian \u201chate crimes\u201d committed by whites. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who cares that all the data show African-Americans committing attacks on Asians at numbers far greater than their population percentages, while whites perpetrators are vastly \u201cunderrepresented\u201d? (When Asian-Americans, now bombarded with such media certitude, walk out in the evening in big cities, do they feel terrified when a white male approaches and yet relieved when an African-American youth nears?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the Colorado shooter kills 10, he is useful proof of \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d and \u201cwhite terrorism\u201d\u2014until in a nano-second he is revealed as an Arab-American, Syrian-born immigrant with delusions of Islamic victimhood. When did a sick country so racialize death and destruction? In the Jim Crow days, whose values the Left are straining to return to?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If a car rams into a Capitol barrier, the crasher becomes representative of the January 6 \u201cwhite armed insurrection\u201d\u2014until a media moment later when he is not really, but rather a wannabe Black Muslim unhinged follower of racist Louis Farrakhan?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When two teen African-Americans girls carjack a Pakistani immigrant\u2019s Uber car, crash his vehicle and de facto<\/em> kill him, and then worry only about retrieving an incriminating cell phone, we are told this is a \u201cjoy ride,\u201d or we are advised by officials about securing our own cars so as not to \u201cinvite\u201d crimes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When an-ex NFL player shoots a doctor and his family of four, we sense the media is hoping at last they can run with \u201cwhite nationalist murderer uses AR-15 to kill five people of color.\u201d And then, the story suddenly mutes. And it is assumed but never spoken that the sick murderer is black, his victims all white. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can a society long last when the population assumes that official reality is a lie, and the truth is thus opposite from what they are told by the state and its media?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Private Papers Americans are being saturated by a whirlwind of events never quite seen in recent memory. When a person with a gun or car now kills someone, the media\u2014in anti-humanistic fashion, and quite callously\u2014 massages the story to fit deductive narratives. 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