Admitted … the headline is a bit of hyperbole, maybe even provocative. But It is to make a legitimate point. It has to do with the murder spree in Georgia. By any measure, it is a horrific and tragic event. Whatever motivated the shooter only provides context to a very sick and evil person.
Although six of the victims were Asian, the shooter’s own confession – as reported by the police – suggests that he was not racially motivated. Rather, it was an act of irrational rage against those who fed his sexual obsessions. Whether these places and personnel were part of his personal sexual experiences has not yet been made clear. Was he operating off a common misbelief that massage parlors – and especially Asian massage parlors – are fronts for prostitution? Do not know.
But the lack of information has not prevented the news media from making their own determination that this was a hate crime intentionally directed at Asians. Having made that leap-of-logic, the media then segued into a broader narrative about an increase in violence against Asians.
The next segue was to blame former President Trump and all Republicans for promoting the violence against Asians. Mike Barnicle — a regular guest on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” – said that even though Trump did not pull the trigger, he was responsible for the killings in Georgia. Barnicle is now the first definition of “outrageous.” One should not expect accuracy from a guy booted from the Boston Globe for plagiarism and making up false stories.
CNN’s Lisa Lang was brought in to pump up the violence against Asians angle. She agonized over the loss of six Asian lives – saying that they are real people whose names should be remembered. At that moment, the names of the six appeared on the screen.
However, there is a part of the story that shows the evil of political correctness and identity politics — and the viciousness of the malignant news media that promotes them. There was virtually NOTHING said about the two non-Asians who died. Their names were not flashed on the television screen. The biographies were not reported. Their deaths were not mourned.
For the record, one of the non-Asians was Delaina Ashley Yaun, who had gone to the Young Asian Spa for a massage along with her husband. He survived. She was the mother of two children. The other non-Asian was a 54-year-old man named Paul Andrew Michaels. I could not find any biographical information on him.
The sole survivor was a Hispanic man named Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz. He is hospitalized in critical condition. His wife was quoted asking for prayers, and there was a request for donations to a GoFundMe account.
Perhaps the killing of two Caucasians and a Hispanic did not fit the medias’ overt effort to make this exclusively an Asian hate crime story. But if the amount of coverage reflects the importance of the victims – and it usually does – then the lives of the non-Asians were considered insignificant – or at least of much less importance.
For the benefit of the brain-washed left-wing nutcases … my observation about the disinterest in the deaths of the non-Asians is in no way intended to be – nor should be interpreted as – a diminution of the tragic loss of the Asian lives. Whether it is determined to be a hate crime or not, I view all the deaths on the same plane. The legal and political designation of a hate crime does not make other victims less dead – or other families less grieved.
As far as I am concerned, eight human beings are dead at the hands of a mentally compromised individual. Elevating some to the detriment of others for political reasons is an abomination – but unfortunately, an abomination in which the left-wing media wallows.
So, there ‘tis.
