Following from my last post, Can the NPC Speak where I asserted that the left had a terrible habit of objectifying dead people as political mascots, the tragic murder of Laken Riley became a national talking point in the US with leftists condemning the right for doing just that. Some people on the right were and are undoubtedly trying to cash in some easy morality points, but the fact that Laken was allegedly murdered by an undocumented — illegal — migrant who had been twice arrested and then subsequently released (a policy of sanctuary cities), makes this a genuine political issue. The issue of US border security under President Biden has been a major political talking point of both Democrats and Republicans alike for at least 20 years.
It is not, like “rape culture” or “institutional misogyny” a myth perpetrated by feminists to instil fear in young women in order to boost feminist ideological identification.
As distasteful as it may seem to some, the subject of illegal immigration and the tragic death of Laken are politically linked. What I am finding truly distasteful however, is that in their fervour to flip the narrative from a legitimate discussion to “right-wing” illegitimate propagandising, the left are adding their own blatantly mythical spin which does exactly what they are accusing others of doing, only much worse: by consciously refusing to call the suspect an illegal immigrant and instead framing her murder in nebulous terms of systemic racism directed against all migrants.
It is truly sickening.
For years now, after every ethnic minority or trans death, the first instinct of the left has been to link them with progressive talking points about racism and transphobia, even when the evidence if them being linked is scant, as with the recent death of “non-binary” Nex Benedict. Whenever prosaic and parsimonious explanations (not excuses) present themselves, the left rejects them for the lurid and extraordinary. When a killer is found to be of a protected class (trans, etc) the left warns its audience not to jump to conclusions and wait until more evidence comes to light. When a killer is found to be a ‘white’1 male, it is instantly a “hate crime”. The left have even concocted a supposed academic term, Stochastic terrorism in order to link the act of simply being critical of gender or critical race theory to inevitable violence and terrorism. The concept is basically a version of the infinite monkey theorem which states that, given an INFINITE amount of time, a monkey randomly bashing on a keyboard will eventually write everything that has ever been written, including the complete works of Shakespeare. It’s an abstract probability thought experiment which is equivalent to saying, if it can happen it will happen. No one can predict when of course, only that sometime given infinite space and time. This is not the world we live in and stochastic terrorism is clearly just another cock and bull story used in order to shut down free speech.
Greg Forman, a Youtuber who’s channel is Black Conservative Perspective, pointed out the hypocrisy well here:
Because Laken’s death contradicts progressive talking points, in an effort to flip the narrative, they are refusing to even say her name when talking about her murder, effectively, in their own terms, erasing her for the ‘good’ of the group. They have cast Laken Riley and others killed by illegal migrants, as NPC’s.
There’s nothing good about this and might be the most sickening example of the amorality of the left that I’ve witnessed.
You cannot always tell a person’s ethnicity from their skin colour.