Asking for Sunlight

The news media is in its usual crouch mode—where they go when there is a news story that potentially threatens their cultural narrative.

With the Charlie Kirk assassination, they went from it was obviously a conservative gun nut that killed him, to the shooter’s exchange with his boyfriend was “touching” to Charlie Kirk deserved to die because he challenged DEI and was therefore all the usual string of insults they level at people they disagree with.

They are in crouch position tonight. A conservative student on a radical campus, a promising neurosurgeon, and other students who were allegedly in a conservative group circle, were the recipients of gun fire by a madman. Two of the students are dead. The man who fired on the group allegedly was reported to have shouted something as he pulled the trigger. Meanwhile, there are allegations that the shooter might have been another student, that Brown University is scrubbing its website, and there are other troubling clues.

Brown has been in investigative cross-hairs for its allegedly weak approach to controlling campus anti-semitism. Their federal research funding was frozen until they agreed to take specific steps to improve the campus climate for Jewish students. And Brown, like many other colleges, has been under fire for its treatment of conservative students and viewpoints, the lopsided number of leftist faculty members, and curious admission standards. Brown ultimately had to commit $50 million to a workforce development program and submit to a three-year monitoring program in order to have its federal funding restored.

All of this might make a true investigative reporter raise an eyebrow and give them fire in the belly to get to the bottom of it. But those kind of cigar-chomping reporters have long ago been replaced by journalism school fancy pants reporters with an agenda. We have now seen these “reporters’ in action for the last half a century. And so their behavior is not a surprise. Leftist reporters and their allies on social media are acting just like they were with Charlie Kirk’s assassination: desperately trying, inventing and strangely not looking into potential motives because, frankly, they don’t want to know—and they don’t want you to know.

They don’t trot out the “conspiracy theory” mantra as stridently as they used to. So, in response to the Brown murders they are raising the “reckless” argument to combat what looks like bad facts for their cultural narrative. It’s reckless to speculate. Reckless to ask questions. Forget that two students are dead, others are gravely injured and their lives destroyed. The families may deserve the truth and the public deserves clarity. But not important. What is important is that anything that makes the Left look crazy or intolerant be summarily dismissed.

But we already know the Left is intolerant. We did not miss the fact that an entire ball field of Republican Congressman were shot at by a crazed Bernie Saunders supporter.

We did not miss the two assassination attempts on President Trump, nor did we miss the fact that Jewish students were mocked, targeted and shamed on American college campuses for the sin of being Jewish—a horror movie repeated from the previous century. We already saw that thousands of Leftists celebrated Kirk’s death. We already know that anyone who disagrees with a Leftist is considered to be morally reprehensible. We already know that the children of the 60’s are far, far more intolerant and authoritarian in power than the “establishment” they complained about as misguided teenagers. We’ve seen bombs planted in the capital, we remember the Weather Underground, and most conservatives have former leftist friends who stopped talking to them because they hold the wrong views. So, the leftist Media Complex need not bother trying to hide the fact that Leftists are intolerant or violent.

The secret is out.

And we already know, obviously, that elite universities like Brown have spent years cultivating an atmosphere in which conservative students, or just “normal dudes” are routinely portrayed as immoral, dangerous or idiotic—or all three. We already know that it is easier to find a Yankees fan in Boston than it is to find a conservative on a college campus these days. We already know that faculties do not hire, let alone tenure conservative professors. We already know that places like Harvard and Brown treat conservative students as a “problem” to be managed rather than fellow students who have something important to say or people who deserve respect. If it were any other way, the Department of Education would not have to sue these universities or threaten to withhold government aid to gain even a modicum of fairness and equity on campus.

So, for the media to roll out its usual tiresome mantra of “how do we know?” or it is “reckless to assume” that these poor students might have been targeted for political reasons is frankly nauseating. And if the press, other than the small percentage of hardened leftists, believe we trust them, they are delusional. We have been through Covid. We saw the lies and cover-up on the origin of Covid, the lies and cover up on the border and the lies and cover up on Biden’s obviously debilitated condition. We saw that someone auto-penned over 8.000 pardons, many of which raise serious questions. And we saw the BLM riots that the media portrayed as “mostly peaceful.”

But, now we have maniacs running around shooting students, shooting conservative speakers on college campuses, where kids are supposed to be safe, hear different points of view and learn to argue logically and practice tolerance. Given everything I have stated above, it is absolutely reckless not to ask whether ideology played a role in the Brown murders. If the victims had been progressive activists, every newsroom in America would already be investigating campus rhetoric, online radicalization and political anger. If it was a right wing suspect whose information was allegedly removed from the Brown website, Rachel Maddow would have to be taken out in a straight-jacket. Morning Joe would have peed his pants.

Yet in this case, we are supposed to be happy with nothing. No follow up. We are cautioned against “speculation.” But, no one is demanding anything other than transparency, fairness and for the new media to do its goddamn job.

Brown University should state clearly whether ideological targeting is being investigated. They should detail which steps are being taken to protect politically vulnerable students who constitute a fraction of their student body. Has the mayor of Providence, who apparently works a more exhausting day than anyone else in the world, bothered to let anyone know whether the families have been informed of any working theories? Has political motive been ruled out, or has it been conveniently unaddressed? And why aren’t journalists asking —I guess we know why—the same questions, or applying the same standards in this case as they would any other?

A free society cannot survive if political violence is only acknowledged if it fits a preferred narrative. Silence is complicity.

Asking for answers is not hysteria. It is asking for sunlight. And essential for free Republic.