Posted on 11/24/2021 2:06:41 PM PST by grundle
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
November 24, 2021
On November 15, 2021, the Chicago affiliate of NBC News published this article, which says the judge dropped the illegal gun possession charge against Kyle Rittenhouse after the defense argued that because his gun was long-barrel and not short-barrel, it was legal for him to have it.
However, nine days later, on November 24, 2021, Yahoo News published this opinion piece by Howard University journalism professor Stacey Patton, which says that Rittenhouse was
“illegally in possession of a gun”
Here’s an archive of that in case Yahoo ever deletes it.
I would have thought that a journalism professor would be intelligent enough to avoid committing this kind of defamation.
I guess I would be wrong.
And even though all of the people that Rittenhouse shot were white, Patton falsely and repeatedly referred to him as a “white supremacist” – six different times all in that one piece.
Specifically, she wrote the following: (the bolding is mine)
“Welcome to a white supremacist theocracy that is regressing back to its barbaric prehistoric impulses.”
“What I see is saltiness over the intergenerational failure of white supremacy being passed on to their youth as racial resentment and a mandate for racial redemption.”
“And they need man-boys like Rittenhouse to strap up and kill because the future of white supremacy can only be secured by their criminality.”
“Rittenhouse is a young man who was destroyed as a boy by a toxic white supremacist culture”
“The coercive parenting and socialization of white boys is central to understanding white supremacy”
“As such, he had to be acquitted. Once you understand what white supremacy requires to sustain itself and secure its future, you’ll be less shocked and upset over its contradictions and evil.”
Meanwhile, in the real world, all of the people that Rittenhouse shot were white.
Patton gives zero evidence to support her repeated claims that Rittenhouse is a “white supremacist.”
Patton also seems to have zero understanding of the legal concept of self defense. Apparently, she thinks that if people are chasing you, hitting you with a skateboard, assaulting you, pointing a gun at you, and trying to kill you, you have no right to defend yourself from them.
I’m glad she wasn’t on the jury.
It’s interesting that 12 citizens picked at random for a jury showed far, far more awareness of the law than a journalism professor.
After the end of Patton’s opinion piece, Yahoo News wrote:
“Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions. In order to improve our community experience, we are temporarily suspending article commenting”
I’d been reading Yahoo News, as well as the reader comments, for many, many years. One thing that I learned a long time ago is that when it comes to Yahoo News, the reader comments are almost always more informative than the articles.
The real reason that Yahoo didn’t allow reader comments for this particular piece has nothing to do with “creating an engaging place” or “helping users to connect over interests and passions.”
Instead, the real reason they banned reader comments is because they do not want people to know the truth.
Sue.
Yahoo stopped allowing reader comments way before the 2020 election. I guess they got tired getting called out for their blatant lies.
The only people allowed to make comments are the approved journalists, comrades.
Nothing but the finest from Howard University, I had the pleasure to interview several of their graduates. For some reason I never hired any?
I bet his lawyers and assistants are compiling a big list. Just in time for Christmas 🎄 ⛄ 🎄. :)
AOL commie news is a similar bunch of blowhard liars. I can’t read their tripe without losing my dinner. They used to allow comments though.
Keep adding them to the list.
Gosh, I can’t imagine why...
We are rapidly approaching the point where we are not going to be able to coexist with these rabid hate based racist scum.
These ugly infatile responses to the VA Elections, and the Rittenhouse case, have exposed the rabid hate and racism at the heart of the current US Democrat Party.
In the Obama years, I used to gauge the overall mood of the country by what the yahoo comments were. The media told us everybody loved Obama, but that was definitely a lie according to yahoo.
The new and old media in this country is 90 percent of the problem in this country with their unethical acts, bias, lies and constant attempts to divide the country. Academia is also a big part of the problem with its constant propaganda and outright lies.
Add her to the list, Kyle. And Yahoo.
Yep. That list just keeps getting bigger, every day. 😀😁
That's from her Wikipedia profile a few minutes ago. I guess someone is trolling her good.
HA!
I hope he sues them all
“Patton also seems to have zero understanding of the legal concept of self defense.”
I wonder if she has a good understanding of the legal concept of defamation?
Like Kyle said, he has some VERY GOOD lawyers looking into this.
Yahoo, MSNBC, et. al. will be opening their checkbooks soon and writing 9 figure if not 10 figure checks.
These contributors will be put on notice.
Clear evidence that the tech overlords want racial strife and will lie to get it.
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