Americans, wrongly, are being told by intellectuals, politicians, and TV pundits that this deadly chaos is about “systemic racism,” to quote Joe Biden. It’s not, What we are actually witnessing is the return of a dangerous belief system that Manhattan Institute scholar Fred Siegel called “the riot ideology.” People are being killed, businesses are being looted, and the fundamental basis of a free society is being jeopardized because this irresponsible mentality has been promoted as a solution to racial inequality, when in fact it is a major cause of the problem. The deaths of James Scurlock, David Dorn and Floyd George illustrate the damage done by the riot ideology. Professor Siegel is 100% correct. Riots will help propel president Donald J. Trump Back Into the White House..
“The riot ideology justifies looting (and arson, vandalism, and every other kind of criminal violence) as an expression of “social justice.” If you disagree with that, you’ll be condemned as a racist. In an appearance Monday on CNN, New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones defended looting as “symbolic taking” by black people who have been excluded from America’s “social contract.” In case anyone didn’t get that message, Hannah-Jones doubled down Tuesday in an appearance on CBS News, declaring, “Destroying property which can be replaced is not violence. I think any reasonable person would say we shouldn’t be destroying other people’s property. But these are not reasonable times.”
“In reasonable times, some might say, Nikole Hannah-Jones would be locked up in a lunatic asylum, instead of inciting riots on TV, but she was far from the only one doing it. The Media Research Center compiled a remarkable video montage of media personalities defending the riots as “mostly peaceful” protests, including MSNBC’s Ali Veshi, who declared that the scene Friday in Minneapolis was “not, generally speaking, unruly” while standing in front of a burning building set aflame by the anarchist mob.
“Media apologists for looting and arson do not seem to care about — or perhaps they’re just too stupid to understand — the predictable consequences of the violent “protests” they encourage. Begin with the loss of life. The “unrest” inspired by the death of George Floyd has already killed about a dozen people, many of them black, including Dave Patrick Underwood, a federal officer who was shot Friday while providing security at the U.S. courthouse in Oakland, California, and 22-year-old Italia Kelly, who was leaving a protest in Davenport, Iowa, when she was shot by another protester. There is also the yet-to-be-estimated millions of dollars in damage to property caused by vandalism, arson, and looting. Some businesses destroyed in this “unrest” will never return, and the resulting disinvestment in urban areas will lead to the loss of employment opportunities.
“What about the distrust between police and the black community inflamed by the media’s 24/7 message that black people are routinely murdered by racist cops? On his Fox News program Wednesday, Tucker Carlson addressed that media-manufactured myth citing specifics of the 10 cases — yes, only 10 — last year in which unarmed black people were killed by police. Nearly all those cases involved extenuating circumstances (e.g., criminals in cars trying to run over police) that justified the use of deadly force. In a nation of more than 325 million people, and more than 40 million black people, these numbers hardly justify the claims of “systemic” anti-black violence by police. As author Heather Mac Donald told Carlson, the anti-police rhetoric is part of a “narrative that is both false and dangerous.” Considering that 89 law-enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty last year, what do the media expect to happen in the wake of the “unrest” they have incited? Isn’t it likely that police will be less diligent in pursuing criminals in the black community? And how many innocent black people will those criminals kill?
“Keep in mind, of course, that the reason the riot ideology has been revived is not because of what happened to George Floyd last week, but because this is an election year, and the anti-Trump media believe they can advance their partisan agenda by inciting racial animosity and stoking “unrest.” In his campaign speech Tuesday in Philadelphia, Joe Biden declared, “The moment has come for our nation to deal with systemic racism,” without bothering to explain why that moment never came during his eight years as vice president, or his 36 years in the U.S. Senate. For most of his career, of course, Biden claimed to be tough on crime, but the Democrats are now the pro-criminal/anti-police party.
“In Philadelphia, where Biden spoke Tuesday, District Attorney Larry Krasner was elected with the support of left-wing billionaire George Soros. Krasner has pursued a “social justice” agenda of turning loose criminals and, quite predictably, violent crime has escalated in Philadelphia. Anyone who imagined that Krasner’s radical agenda would prevent “unrest” in Philly was deluded; rioting mobs rampaged through the city and order was only restored when the National Guard arrived Tuesday:
“Two days of unprecedented violence emerged and ultimately resulted in the city being shut down — with access restricted and a curfew imposed for 6 p.m.
“In the city, rioting and looting continued to run rampant. Looters ransacked businesses in Kensington and Port Richmond, and sometimes even fought with each other over the stolen merchandise.
“This is perhaps the worst consequence of the riot ideology, namely that kowtowing to violent mobs only begets more violence. After the destructive “unrest” of the 1960s, America learned that lesson the hard way, and we are paying the price now because our leaders seem to have forgotten.” (from an article by Robert Stacy McCain over at American Spectator)
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