second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter how is that possible, are not murder and manslaughter defined as intentional vs unintentional?
Posted on 04/28/2021 8:33:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
Last week, ex-police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The evidence on the murder charges was weak; the evidence on manslaughter was significantly stronger. Still, the jury took only 10 hours and zero questions to come to its conclusion: guilty on all counts.
In and of itself, the Chauvin case never should have been a national news story. After all, an average of three suspects are shot by police every day in the United States, and thousands of homicides that have nothing whatsoever to do with the police take place in the United States every year. Theoretically, national news stories should be indicative of profound national problems, not man-bites-dog statistical rarities.
But, of course, that was the entire point of elevating the George Floyd story to national attention: to declare it indicative of a deeper rot at the core of America. Thus, Chauvin was convicted not of his individual criminal activity but of a charge that was never even brought against him: the charge of racism. As Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison admitted, there was no evidence whatsoever that Chauvin was a racist, or that his killing of George Floyd was motivated by race. "We don't have any evidence that Derek Chauvin factored in George Floyd's race as he did what he did," Ellison ruefully told incredulous "60 Minutes" host Scott Pelley. And Pelley, speaking for the entire establishment media -- a left-wing bubble thoroughly invested in the narrative of systemic American racism -- responded, "The whole world sees this as a white officer killing a black man because he is black."
Last week, ex-police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The evidence on the murder charges was weak; the evidence on manslaughter was significantly stronger. Still, the jury took only 10 hours and zero questions to come to its conclusion: guilty on all counts.
In and of itself, the Chauvin case never should have been a national news story. After all, an average of three suspects are shot by police every day in the United States, and thousands of homicides that have nothing whatsoever to do with the police take place in the United States every year. Theoretically, national news stories should be indicative of profound national problems, not man-bites-dog statistical rarities.
But, of course, that was the entire point of elevating the George Floyd story to national attention: to declare it indicative of a deeper rot at the core of America. Thus, Chauvin was convicted not of his individual criminal activity but of a charge that was never even brought against him: the charge of racism. As Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison admitted, there was no evidence whatsoever that Chauvin was a racist, or that his killing of George Floyd was motivated by race. "We don't have any evidence that Derek Chauvin factored in George Floyd's race as he did what he did," Ellison ruefully told incredulous "60 Minutes" host Scott Pelley. And Pelley, speaking for the entire establishment media -- a left-wing bubble thoroughly invested in the narrative of systemic American racism -- responded, "The whole world sees this as a white officer killing a black man because he is black."
And that's precisely the point. Systemic racism is a fundamentalist religious belief. It posits original sin; it posits saints and prophets; it posits its own malevolent god of the gaps. Most of all, it persecutes heretics in the name of a supposedly higher good. To be saved is to declare fealty to radical racial polarization; to be damned is to deny such fealty.
We will have systemic racism so long as we have affirmative action.
It is like a theocracy that says the other worldview is the problem, the solution is always more power or more indoctrination with the dominant faith.
That racism is “systemic” implies that it’s ingrained in western culture, and therefore white people in general. Individually, their skin color represents a share of the collective guilt in the minds of those who take up the idea of “systemic racism”. “White privilege” is the imaginary scarlet letter they all wear. But it’s a lie straight from the father of lies.
Noah Pollak
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“Systemic racism” is such a perfect Marxist formulation.
It delegitimizes an entire society without blaming anyone in particular, so it generates little opposition.
It signifies everything and nothing simultaneously.
It can’t be proven or disproven. It’s genius propaganda.
The alleged proof of “Systemic racism” are differences in economic data between blacks and whites. They pretend that Asians, who make a lot more on average than whites, don’t exist.
Marking...
woke legal principle: sins of our fathers.
whitey gotta pay
The circular snake oil salesmen / used car salesmen / sophistry / verbal gymnastics / shuck and jive / doublespeak / fast talk /psychobabble, et al, et al , et al, to slither away without any responsibility.
((( the leftists ))) have always been the true Evil Geniuses at it.
second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter how is that possible, are not murder and manslaughter defined as intentional vs unintentional?
The problem with “Systemic Racism” is that the “system” is impossible to detach from the historic Democrat Party. The past must be changed, or their central “raison d’être” goes away. Teach American History as a defense against tyranny. Parents can teach it at home. There are hundreds of books, video documentaries, and educators that can and will help. Fight the Fraud of Historical Revisionism.
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