As an organization, Black Lives Matter is diametrically opposed to the majority of Americans of every race, creed, and color, not just the American way of life. With the help of mainstream media coverage, which sanitizes its radical views and goals, the organization has hoodwinked many well-intentioned Americans and will continue to do so with its particular brand of neo-Marxism, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-faith-in-a-dark-time">deconstruction of traditional values</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-cancel-culture-is-now-invading-the-american-workplace">calculated outrage</a>. Amid the rapid spread and scope of the movement in recent months, here are five ways in which the organization’s values and goals clash with the majority of Americans.
1. BLM seeks to abolish traditional family values 
With its repeated attacks on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronormativity">heteronormativity</a> and the nuclear family, BLM seeks to abolish not only traditional values as they exist in America, but, also, as they exist in nearly every culture around the world. The truth is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientation#General_findings">vast majority of men and women are heterosexual</a> and most still believe in traditional notions of marriage and fidelity, especially among immigrant communities here in America.
Here is how <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/">BLM’s official site</a> describes its goal of &#8220;disrupting&#8221; the nuclear family:
<blockquote>“We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement… When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual…”</blockquote>
The massive blind spot in BLM’s antagonism toward traditional family values is that those very same values continue to serve as the bedrock for immigrant communities throughout America and have done so for centuries, whether it’s generations of Italian and Irish immigrants or, more recently, Asian, Latino, and Eastern European immigrants. Citing the Census Bureau, the <a href="https://ifstudies.org/blog/most-immigrant-families-are-traditional-families">Institute For Family Studies</a> reported:
<blockquote>“[C]hildren of immigrants are more likely, not less likely, than children of native-born Americans to be growing up in traditional families, i.e., with two married parents.” </blockquote>
Additionally — and crucially to the aims of the larger &#8220;black lives matter&#8221; movement (as opposed to the organization) — the traditional nuclear family is imperative for black prosperity in America now more than ever, as Glenn T. Stanton of <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/16/how-black-lives-matters-antagonism-to-marriage-and-family-hurts-black-americans/">The Federalist</a> points out:
<blockquote>“Beyond the mistaken assumption that the “nuclear family” is unique to the Western world, their position is profoundly concerning. BLM, as an organization, seeks to dismantle the very institution that mountains of published <a href="http://familyinamerica.org/files/3214/5806/3564/Stanton.pdf">academic research</a> has consistently demonstrated as most likely to strengthen and empower Black Americans and their children: the traditional, nuclear family.”</blockquote>
2. BLM seeks to cancel capitalism 
Capitalism has allowed the U.S. to become the greatest economy the world has ever seen. For centuries, generations of Americans and immigrants from all over the world have been afforded a far greater standard of living because of America’s capitalism-based economic system. It’s the driving impetus behind the American dream. Yet Black Lives Matter organizers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-led-drive-to-defund-the-police-also-targets-capitalism">openly seek to dismantle it</a>.
In 2017, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-leaders-campaign-to-cancel-capitalism-shaped-by-marxist-upbringing">Melina Abdullah</a>, one of the most influential of BLM’s leaders and a professor at California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA), <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/black-lives-matter-black-christmas-capitalism-724309">declared</a> on her radio show, <a href="https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/beautiful-struggle/">Beautiful Struggle</a>:
<blockquote>“[W]e have to disrupt the white supremacist, capitalistic, patriarchal, heteronormative system that is really the root cause of these police killings.”</blockquote>
Anthony Ratcliff, another BLM leader and tenured professor at CSULA, echoed her assertion, declaring that capitalism is “just as nefarious” as white supremacy and thus must be eliminated as well:
<blockquote>“Black Lives Matter and other organizations have as much hatred or vitriol against capitalism… Until we start to see capitalism [is] just as nefarious as white supremacy, we will always be struggling.&#8221;</blockquote>
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3. BLM disallows anyone from transcending the superficial categories of race and color
According to BLM, one is hopelessly confined to the superficialities of race and color by supposedly overarching patriarchal strictures and structures. This is a classic Marxist trope promoted in the works of <a href="https://www.iep.utm.edu/fouc-pol/">Michel Foucault</a> and other radical theorists that refuses to acknowledge the volition and agency of each and every individual, regardless of color, creed, or circumstance.
It’s also a Marxist trope that the great and complex American writer, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin">James Baldwin</a>, summarily dismissed even as a gay, black man in the 1950s.
In the final lines of “<a href="http://faculty.gordonstate.edu/lsanders-senu/Everybody's%20Protest%20Novel%20by%20James%20Baldwin.pdf">Everybody’s Protest Novel</a>,” a scathing critique of Richard Wright’s Marxist novel, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Son">Native Son</a>,” Baldwin dismantles the spurious notions of being confined to one’s race and class by some nebulous patriarchal structure with eloquent precision:
<blockquote>“The failure…lies in its rejection of life, the human being, the denial of his beauty, dread, power, in its insistence that it is his categorization which is real and cannot be transcended.”</blockquote>
The great failure of BLM is that it yields to an inherently flawed Marxist paradigm that disallows the individual to prosper, grow, and transcend regardless of race, color, or circumstance. Instead, it seeks to confine all people, particularly minorities, to narrow, external categories of race and color to further its agenda.
4. BLM marginalizes many shared values of minorities and immigrant communities
Whether by misandry or the constant derision directed at heterosexuality and values such as marriage, fidelity, traditional gender roles, and religious beliefs, most minorities in America are also targeted, directly or indirectly, by the agenda of the Black Lives Matter organization.
Most minorities come from immigrant communities that hold to values that are directly opposed to what BLM espouses. This includes most <a href="https://sojo.net/articles/importance-thriving-black-church">black communities</a> as well. These individuals and communities do not want their beliefs and ways of life challenged or ruined by the postmodern constructs, loose sexual mores, and gender-fluid values that BLM propagates.
In particular, the supposed “spirituality” that BLM promotes is really just a mishmash of New Age tropes that are anathema to the religious beliefs of many immigrant communities that have or are assimilating into the American way of life. For example, according to <a href="https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/the-fight-for-black-lives-is-a-spiritual-movement">The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs</a>:
<blockquote>“The movement [BLM] infuses a syncretic blend of African and indigenous cultures’ spiritual practices and beliefs, embracing ancestor worship; Ifa-based ritual such as chanting, dancing, and summoning deities; and healing practices such as acupuncture, reiki, therapeutic massage, and plant medicine in much of its work, including protest.”</blockquote>
It’s worth noting that, according to the <a href="https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/immigrant-status/immigrants/">Pew Research Center</a>, almost 70% of immigrants to America are Christian. The New Age <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/syncretism">syncretism</a> that BLM espouses is often considered sacrilege to the religious practices of these immigrants. Yet, the organization continues to indoctrinate the children of these immigrants through the media and on <a href="https://reason.com/2017/10/04/black-lives-matter-students-shut-down-th/">campuses nationwide</a> to oppose the beliefs of the religious teachings of their upbringing until it falls in line with their larger cultural and political agenda.
5. BLM is explicitly Marxist in orientation
BLM’s founders, <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/our-co-founders/">Alicia Garza, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, and Opal Tometi</a>, openly admit to being <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdpIIiBe7Wc">Marxists</a>. They draw almost exclusively from critical theory and its offshoot, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory">critical race theory</a> (CRT). Both theories are rooted in Marxist thought and have been a mainstay in left-wing academia for decades. <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/">The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy</a> offers a detailed analysis of critical theory while <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/critical-theory">Encyclopedia Britannica</a> offers a more succinct definition: 
<blockquote>“Drawing particularly on the thought of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Marx">Karl Marx</a> and <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sigmund-Freud">Sigmund Freud</a>, critical theorists maintain that a primary goal of philosophy is to understand and to help overcome the social structures through which people are dominated and oppressed…Since the 1970s, critical theory has been immensely influential in the study of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/history">history</a>, law, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/literature">literature</a>, and the social sciences.”</blockquote>
Writing for <a href="https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2020/06/65132/">Public Discourse</a>, R. Albert Mohler, Jr. offers a necessary critique of why critical theory and BLM are in opposition to the American way of life:
<blockquote>“[G]uided by Marxist ideology that seeks to revolutionize our culture and society… Black Lives Matter operates from a worldview that undercuts human dignity. It sees each person’s identity as determined by externally imposed social structures, which are in turn determined by the human desire to seize power and oppress others. Such identity politics entangles human identity in subjective, materialist terms…”</blockquote>
It’s important to note that Mohler does not, at all, dismiss the notion of “black lives matter” as a sentiment. In fact, as the president of <a href="http://www.sbts.edu/">The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary</a>, he offers a broad and compassionate take rooted in the very American values BLM seeks to erase:
<blockquote>“Today, there are very real and urgent moral concerns about the lives and well-being of black Americans. It is not wrong in our context, therefore, to say ‘black lives matter’ as a sentence…But it’s not that simple…Black Lives Matter did not emerge merely as a sentence. Those three words function as a message and a platform making a significant political statement…”</blockquote>
Currently, BLM has far more to do with Mao and his violent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution">Cultural Revolution</a> that lead to the death of untold millions than Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement. King demanded an end to injustices rooted in the inequality and racism that were contrary to American values. Mao, however, sought and succeeded in uprooting an entire nation through violence and propaganda.
Like Mao, BLM seeks to uproot the very foundations of a nation with its Marxist goals. In this sense, they view our nation, in its entirety, with all its deep struggles and great achievements, as a lost cause.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/8-ways-black-lives-matter-activists-changed-the-nations-largest-criminal-justice-system">8 Ways Black Lives Matter Activists Changed The Nation’s Largest Criminal Justice System</a>
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KHAN: 5 Radical Goals Of The Black Lives Matter Organization The Media Ignores

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The pandemic remains a serious issue in America. It would be disingenuous to state otherwise. How serious, though, remains a bone of contention for many given the levels of obfuscation.
It seems much of the overarching narrative surrounding COVID-19 insists on either <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/04/10/832171895/coronavirus-panic-how-to-get-your-thinking-brain-back-online">sanctifying anxiety</a> or <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/8-times-dr-fauci-revised-the-coronavirus-narrative">misleading us to some extent</a>, rather than providing clarity and responding with composure.
Recall Neil Ferguson’s <a href="https://idp.nature.com/transit?redirect_uri=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01003-6&amp;code=9c280baa-9238-40a3-b28d-5d59b626571d">Imperial College Model</a> that predicted the death of millions. Ferguson’s model compelled lockdowns all across the world. While they were certainly necessary for a spell, Ferguson’s model not only appears to have been inherently flawed, Ferguson himself <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/05/uk-coronavirus-adviser-prof-neil-ferguson-resigns-after-breaking-lockdown-rules">defied the very lockdown</a> he insisted upon.
As Kevin Dayaratna pointed out quite succinctly for <a href="https://www.heritage.org/public-health/commentary/failures-influential-covid-19-model-used-justify-lockdowns">The Heritage Foundation</a>:
<blockquote>It is fundamentally important for models used in policy to be made publicly available, have assumptions clearly stated, and have their robustness to changes to these assumptions tested. Models also need to be updated as time goes on in line with the best available evidence.
Bottom line: The Imperial College model didn’t meet any of these criteria. And sadly, its model was one of the inputs relied on as the basis for locking down two countries.</blockquote>
While there still remains a paucity of data, the pandemic is also being politicized to exhaustion. When the BLM protests erupted for weeks upon weeks, the pandemic all but disappeared from the headlines. A little more than a month later, tremendous COVID-19 surges began occurring all across the country. The media adamantly refused to make any kind of connection between the surge and the protests.
<a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/24/883017035/what-contact-tracing-may-tell-about-cluster-spread-of-the-coronavirus">NPR</a> ran a piece insisting that parties and disdain for masks were the main culprits in the surge, not the protests. <a href="https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/06/30/black-lives-matter-protests-did-not-cause-an-uptick-in-covid-19-cases">The Economist</a> stated the same, even arguing that any concern over the possible spread of COVID-19 during the protests was tantamount to “scaremongering.”
The answer, unfortunately, is that we may never fully know how much massive nationwide protests contributed to the recent surges. According to <a href="https://www.thecity.nyc/coronavirus/2020/6/14/21290963/nyc-covid-19-trackers-skipping-floyd-protest-questions-even-amid-fears-of-new-wave">The City</a>, New York City mayor Bill DeBlasio explicitly instructed those conducting contact tracing to actively avoid asking anyone if they had attended a protest:
<blockquote>The hundreds of contact tracing workers hired by the city under de Blasio’s new “test and trace” campaign have been instructed not to ask anyone who’s tested positive for COVID-19 whether they recently attended a demonstration, City Hall confirmed…</blockquote>
It’s certainly not beyond the scope of reason to wonder if governors and mayors like Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, and Eric Garcetti instructed their own contact tracers to follow suit.
Even more perplexing, many of the very epidemiologists involved in battling the pandemic allowed their own political misgivings to color their analyses. They had no problem scolding conservative anti-lockdown protestors for large gatherings. However, when it came to the BLM protests that were infinitely larger in scale, they did not voice any concerns.
Catherine Troisi, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at the University of Texas Health Science Center, at the very least, admitted to her own inherently contradictory views. 
She told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/us/Epidemiologists-coronavirus-protests-quarantine.html">The New York Times</a>: “I certainly condemned the anti-lockdown protests at the time, and I’m not condemning the protests now, and I struggle with that…I have a hard time articulating why that is OK.”
The argument that protestors were maintaining social distancing, actively wearing masks, and using copious of amounts of hand sanitizer is woefully inaccurate. Even on the <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/blmgn-slider-now-we-transform-062220-2000x1125-01-1024x576.jpg">very front page of the BLM</a> site there’s a young man clearly not wearing a mask.
Finally, how COVID deaths are being counted seems as contentious as ever. In April, Dr. Ngozi Ezike, the director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, stated in a press conference that, regardless of any comorbidities, if someone tested positive for the virus and died, it would be counted as a COVID death, as reported by <a href="https://week.com/2020/04/20/idph-director-explains-how-covid-deaths-are-classified/">25 News</a>:
<blockquote>If you were in hospice and had already been given a few weeks to live, and then you also were found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death. It means technically even if you died of a clear alternate cause, but you had COVID at the same time, it&#8217;s still listed as a COVID death. So, everyone who&#8217;s listed as a COVID death doesn&#8217;t mean that that was the cause of the death, but they had COVID at the time of the death.</blockquote>
While such a statement doesn’t necessarily prove that the numbers surrounding COVID-19 are inflated, as many claim, it rightfully gives many pause regarding the data and information we receive on a daily basis.
Regardless, it’s hopelessly unfortunate that there remains little to no open discussions about the pandemic and our continued response to it. Any counterpoint or question, no matter how <a href="https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2020/07/09/a-conversation-with-john-ioannidis/">reasoned or insightful</a>, is bludgeoned into silence online and elsewhere. One is simply forced to cede to the many dogmatic overtures presented to us or be vilified into silence.
This piece has been revised for clarity.
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A litany of falsehoods and misleading headlines from the media has hounded President Trump from even before his inauguration. Many of these false claims range from the trivial to the dire. Here are some of the more egregious assertions put forth by the media.
1. Trump touted improved employment numbers as a “great day” for George Floyd
A favorite ploy by many in the media is to take Trump’s statements out of context then mock and deride him for it. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/06/politics/trump-george-floyd-maine/index.html">The way CNN misconstrued his statements</a> on George Floyd is just another example:
<blockquote>President Donald Trump showed his breathtaking disconnect from the pain and tumult that has unfolded in this country after George Floyd&#8217;s death, declaring Friday that new economic numbers and nationwide protests against racism and police brutality had made it &#8220;a great day&#8221; for Floyd.</blockquote>
In fact, what Trump said was far more dignified, as a fact-check by <a href="https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/did-trump-say-he-hoped-george-floyd">The Dispatch</a> revealed. Here&#8217;s what Trump actually said:
<blockquote>Trump: Equal justice under the law must mean that every American receives equal treatment in every encounter with law enforcement, regardless of race, color, gender, or creed. They have to receive fair treatment from law enforcement. They have to receive it. We all saw what happened last week. We can’t let that happen. Hopefully George is looking down right now and saying, &#8220;This is a great thing that’s happening for our country.&#8221; This is a great day for him. It’s a great day for everybody. This is a great day for everybody. This is a great, great day in terms of equality. It’s really what our Constitution requires and it’s what our country is all about.</blockquote>
Context counts. What Trump said about Floyd was both generous and honorable and not at all some dismissive, self-serving remark.
2. Trump declared COVID-19 a hoax
Earlier this year, many news sites ran headlines stating that Trump had declared COVID-19 a hoax. <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/trump-says-the-coronavirus-is-the-democrats-new-hoax.html">CNBC ran with it</a> and even stated the following:
<blockquote>President Trump says that Democrats are using the virulent coronavirus as a &#8220;hoax&#8221; to damage him and his administration.</blockquote>
A media avalanche ensued, insisting that Trump considered the pandemic a hoax.
Amid the onslaught, <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-coronavirus-rally-remark/">Snopes</a> offered surprising clarity on the matter given the site’s general bias toward the left. Trump had only insisted that the Democrats&#8217; criticism of his response was, in fact, a hoax.
&#8220;In context, Trump did not say … that the virus itself was a hoax,&#8221; Snopes concluded. &#8220;He instead said that Democrats’ criticism of his administration’s response to it was a hoax.&#8221;
3. Trump claimed all Mexicans are drug dealers, rapists, and criminals
In 2016, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-37230916/drug-dealers-criminals-rapists-what-trump-thinks-of-mexicans">The BBC</a> ran a headline claiming that Trump considered all Mexicans criminals in some form or another. The content of the piece featured a heavily edited video featuring curated sound bytes from Trump during his campaign seemingly supporting the headline’s claim. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/06/16/theyre-rapists-presidents-trump-campaign-launch-speech-two-years-later-annotated/">Other media outlets</a> ran with it as well.
As documented by <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/aug/08/tim-kaine/tim-kaine-falsely-says-trump-said-all-mexicans-are/">Politifact</a>, Trump actually stated the following:
<blockquote>Trump: When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you… They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.</blockquote>
Too broad a generalization on his part? Inaccurate even? Perhaps, but in no way was Trump declaring that all Mexicans were rapists and criminals. That was just yet another specious attempt at spin by the media. He made a point of saying that he assumes some are &#8220;good people.&#8221;
Trump’s condemnation of “rapists” followed multiple reports, like this <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/facing-risk-rape-migrant-women-prepare-birth-control">tragic PBS report</a> from 2014, on the horrific treatment of women and girls at the hands of “coyote” guides as they immigrate to America.
4. Trump referred to undocumented immigrants as “animals”
Trump supposedly referring to undocumented immigrants as “animals” is easily one of the more egregious examples of the media misleading the American public. It’s a lie that continues to hound the president as well. <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/05/16/trump-calls-undocumented-immigrants-animals-echoing/617762002/">USA Today</a> even went so far as to not only mislead its readers about the alleged claim, but used it to compare Trump to Adolf Hitler, slave owners, and the Hutus during the Rwandan genocide:
<blockquote>“These aren&#8217;t people. These are animals.&#8221; That&#8217;s how President Trump described undocumented immigrants during a White House meeting…Trump&#8217;s not the first to use such rhetoric: Adolf Hitler justified the Holocaust by saying Jews weren&#8217;t people but rats, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2011/03/29/134956180/criminals-see-their-victims-as-less-than-human">as NPR notes</a>. In the Rwandan genocide, Tutsis were called not people, but cockroaches [by the Hutus], and slaveowners justified slavery by calling their slaves not people, but animals.</blockquote>
In fact, Trump was specifically referring to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-13">MS-13</a>, one of the most brutal, murderous criminal gangs in the entire world, in an exchange with Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims as detailed by <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-animals-hitler/">Snopes</a>:
<blockquote>According to a White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-california-sanctuary-state-roundtable/">transcript</a>, Mims referred to &#8220;bad guys&#8221; and specifically named the violent criminal gang MS-13 immediately before President Trump’s &#8220;animals&#8221; remarks…</blockquote>
Trump even clarified his statement a day later, though it seemingly fell on deaf ears. “I’m referring to the MS-13 gangs that are coming in,” said Trump.
5. The infamous photo of kids in cages
One of the more glaring problems with headlines or stories that end up being false is that the redactions later offered rarely achieve the same level of attention as the initial claim. In effect, the misleading claims hold true for many, especially when confirmation bias is so pernicious in today’s climate and fact-checking is at a premium.
<a href="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/071019-obama-era-photo.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=618&amp;h=410&amp;crop=1">An infamous photo of kids</a> amassed in a border detention center circulated by House Democrats in 2018 is a glaring case in point. In fact, the photo was <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/02/the-lying-about-donald-trump-is-now-completely-out-of-control/">taken in 2014 during Obama’s administration</a>.
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Continuing to prove that Dems are only playing politics with the border crisis, House Democrats promoted a hearing on “kids in cages” with a photo taken in 2014. 
As in, during the Obama Administration. 
Don’t bother looking for their tweet &#8211; it’s been deleted. <a href="https://t.co/tXWvMNpYYH">pic.twitter.com/tXWvMNpYYH</a>
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6. Trump called white nationalists “very fine people”
In 2017, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/trump-defends-white-nationalist-protesters-some-very-fine-people-on-both-sides/537012/">The Atlantic</a> insisted that Trump supported white nationalism after the violence in Charlottesville. The piece opened with the following line:
“President Trump defended the white nationalists who protested in Charlottesville on Tuesday, saying they included ‘some very fine people,’ while expressing sympathy for their demonstration against the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.”
Of course, missing from The Atlantic’s piece was full context of the four-word phrase as well as <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/896420822780444672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E896420822780444672%7Ctwgr%5E&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Ftrump-never-called-neo-nazis-fine-people-michael-j-knowles">Trump’s tweet</a> that morning condemning hatred and violence and calling for unity:
“We ALL must be united &amp; condemn all that hate stands for. There is no place for this kind of violence in America. Lets come together as one!”
As the transcript of the exchange reveals, Trump was arguing that the demonstration involved far greater complexities than what was being reported. The rally was not inherently “white nationalist,” containing many people there to protest the removal of tributes to America’s complex history. Fringe elements on the Right were indeed present, as were violent radicals on the Left, but Trump made a point of distinguishing between those there to promote patriotist and those there to spread hatred.
Below are excerpts from the contentious August 2017 <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/15/full-text-trump-comments-white-supremacists-alt-left-transcript-241662">exchange</a> in which Trump made his “some very fine people” comment:
<blockquote>Trump:I will tell you something. I watched those very closely, much more closely than you people watched it. And you had, you had a group on one side that was bad. And you had a group on the other side that was also very violent. And nobody wants to say that, but I’ll say it right now. You had a group – you had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit, and they were very, very violent.
Reporter: Do you think what you call the “alt-left” is the same as neo-Nazis?
Trump: Those people – all of those people, excuse me – I’ve condemned neo-Nazis. I’ve condemned many different groups, but not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me. Not all of those people were white supremacists by any stretch.
Reporter:Well, white nationalists –
Trump: Those people were also there, because they wanted to protest the taking down of a statue Robert E. Lee. So – excuse me – and you take a look at some of the groups and you see, and you’d know it if you were honest reporters, which in many cases you’re not. Many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. So this week, it’s Robert E. Lee, I noticed that Stonewall Jackson’s coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after. You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop? […]
Reporter: Mr. President, are you putting what you’re calling the alt-left and white supremacists on the same moral plane?
Trump: I’m not putting anybody on a moral plane. What I’m saying is this: You had a group on one side and you had a group on the other, and they came at each other with clubs — and it was vicious and it was horrible. And it was a horrible thing to watch. But there is another side. There was a group on this side. You can call them the left — you just called them the left — that came violently attacking the other group. So you can say what you want, but that’s the way it is. &#8230;
Reporter: The neo-Nazis started this. They showed up in Charlottesville to protest —
Trump: Excuse me, excuse me. They didn’t put themselves — and you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group. Excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.</blockquote>
7. Trump is to blame for the looting and violence during the BLM protests 
In another case, of fantastically spurious reasoning, CNN’s David Gergen insisted that Trump’s supposedly constant “race-baiting” inspired the looting and violence during the recent BLM protests. Writing for the Washington Post, Dana Milbank offered a similar wild assessment, as reported by the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/02/the-lying-about-donald-trump-is-now-completely-out-of-control/">New York Post</a>:
<blockquote>CNN political analyst David Gergen said Tuesday that Trump’s referrals to himself as ‘the president of law and order’ functioned as &#8220;race-baiting&#8221; and, in turn, &#8220;would deliberately incite violence.&#8221;…Liberal Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank wrote Monday that the riots and destruction we’re seeing &#8220;are the wages of Trump’s hate-filled incumbency.&#8221;</blockquote>
These were nothing more than caustic, inflammatory remarks devoid of any real substance or logic on the part of Gergen and Milbank. At best, the comments were built upon previous lies made against Trump. Much of the reason why Trump is painted as some race-baiting hate monger is due, in no small part, to the incessant falsehoods the media promulgates about him as the examples above demonstrate.
Trump has made his fair share of comments that deserve criticism from the media. But the reality is the establishment media has largely thrown off all pretense of objectivity in its coverage of him, and at times even knowingly promoted false narratives. And it&#8217;s not just Trump. Many mainstream outlets have allowed themselves to devolve into petty, dogmatic activism with little regard for the truth or the division and destructive consequences that result from their actions.
Given all the bogus claims and misleading reports targeting one side of the aisle, it should come as no surprise that trust in the media has eroded. A <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/1597/confidence-institutions.aspx">Gallup&#8217;s survey</a> found that by 2019, confidence in newspapers had plummeted from 51% in 1979 to just 23%, while confidence in televised news was even worse: down from 46% in 1993 to just 18% in 2019.

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As the Left attempts to demolish all vestiges of the complex history of America, Southern rock may very soon find itself in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-cancel-culture-is-now-invading-the-american-workplace">the crosshairs of cancel culture</a> if the madness continues unabated. This includes the likes of The Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and The Band. It&#8217;s not hard to imagine that such artists, songs, and albums will be de-platformed from the likes of Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, etc., to appease these history-erasing mobs.
Currently, there is virtually no room to discuss or contextualize any monument, statue, or song that commemorates the South and its complicated history in any meaningful way. Instead, amid all the current protests, acts of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-if-you-value-our-national-history-and-the-rule-of-law-you-should-oppose-the-destruction-of-monuments">vandalism, and destruction</a>, it must all be eradicated, sight unseen.
While there are many songs that epitomize the somewhat nebulous definition of Southern rock in various ways, perhaps the most emblematic example remains The Band’s sonorous lament, “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jREUrbGGrgM">The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down</a>.” The Band and that particular song alongside the likes of The Allman Brothers serve as the progenitors for the genres that would later come to be defined as Southern Rock and Americana.
Ironically enough, ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” was written in 1969 by a Canadian, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Robertson">Robbie Robertson</a>, and sung by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levon_Helm">Levon Helm</a>, a native Arkansan. Although a <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/joan-baez/chart-history/adult-contemporary/song/574446">bigger hit for Joan Baez</a>, only when one hears it sung by Helm, with his hauntingly tortured vocals, are the depths of the song fully realized.
The song is a fictional account of Virgil Caine, a Rebel soldier and a poor white Southerner. It details some of the last days of the Civil War alongside portraying the profound exhaustion and growing despair that emerged for many in the South after its loss to the North.
<a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/night-they-drove-old-dixie-down/">The opening verse of the song</a> begins with the aftermath of one of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stoneman#Stoneman's_raids">George Stoneman’s raids</a> behind Confederate lines that had torn up supply routes to Robert E. Lee:
<blockquote>Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train 
Till Stoneman&#8217;s cavalry came and tore up the tracks again 
In the winter of &#8217;65, we were hungry, just barely alive 
By May the tenth, Richmond had fell, it&#8217;s a time I remember, oh so well…</blockquote>
The chorus, in particular, serves as a kind of grand eulogy for the Confederate South. It captures so many of the complex emotions by way of lyric, melody, and harmony that arose among so many Southerners in the wake of such defeat for generations to come:
<blockquote>The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, 
and the bells were ringing, 
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, 
and the people were singin&#8217;.</blockquote>
In the context of the song, Robert E. Lee is presented as a fallen hero, not a turncoat or a villain. From the perspective of the forlorn protagonist, Virgil Caine, this makes perfect sense. <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/night-they-drove-old-dixie-down/">The song continues</a>:
<blockquote>Back with my wife in Tennessee, 
When one day she called to me, 
“Virgil, quick, come see, 
there goes Robert E. Lee!” 
Now I don&#8217;t mind choppin&#8217; wood, 
and I don&#8217;t care if the money&#8217;s no good. 
Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest, 
But they should never have taken the very best.</blockquote>
The song’s final verse emphasizes the contempt and resentment that would emerge for generations in the South toward the proverbial North with its many hypocrisies and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpetbagger">carpetbaggery</a>:
<blockquote>Like my father before me, 
I will work the land, 
Like my brother above me, 
who took a rebel stand. 
He was just eighteen, proud and brave, 
But a Yankee laid him in his grave, 
I swear by the mud below my feet, 
You can&#8217;t raise a Caine back up 
when he&#8217;s in defeat.</blockquote>
Legendary music critic, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_J._Gleason">Ralph J. Gleason</a>, considered the song a literary masterpiece that rivaled all other historical accounts of the Civil War. In his review for Rolling Stone, <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/the-band-179326/">Gleason wrote</a>:
<blockquote>[L]ean and sparse like a Hemingway short story…Nothing that I have read, from Bruce Catton to Douglas Southall Freeman, from Fletcher Pratt to Lloyd Lewis, has brought home to me the overwhelming human sense of history that this song does. The only thing I can relate it to at all is the ‘Red Badge of Courage’. It is a remarkable song, the rhythmic structure, the voice of Levon and the bass line with the drum accents and then the heavy close harmony of Levon, Rick and Richard Manuel in the theme, make it seem impossible that this isn’t some oral tradition material handed down from father to son straight from that winter of ’65 to today. It has the ring of truth and the whole aura of authenticity.</blockquote>
Levon Helm’s own elaboration on the writing of the song is quite telling also according to <a href="https://musicaficionado.blog/2016/04/25/the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-by-the-band/">The Music Aficionado</a>:
<blockquote>Robbie and I worked on the song up in Woodstock. I remember taking him to the library so he could research the history and geography of the era for the lyrics and make General Robert E. Lee come out with all due respect. It was another of those workshop songs we worked on a long time before we got it down. Robertson’s take on the events that ripped the nation apart are not siding with any of the parties but rather describe the sentiment and human suffering of a confederate soldier at the end of and shortly after the war.</blockquote>
And, yet, amid so much praise and nuanced analyses, it’s simply a matter of time before the Left will actively seek to castigate and discard a song like ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.” It will be maligned and misconstrued as some racist song that supports slavery and white supremacy instead of being one of the great chronicles of the South and the Civil War ever written.
Similarly, it’s impossible not to also mention Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Southern rock classic “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GxWmSVv-cY">Sweet Home Alabama</a>” as progressives continue to decimate our cultural landscape. It’s brash, defiant tone and praise toward all things Southern makes it an easy target for the Left.
Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote the grand homage to Alabama and the South in response to Neil Young’s derisive song, “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5FCcDEA6mY">‘Southern Man</a>.” Young had painted the South with tired stereotypes and broad strokes in that particular song though, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/12/17/676863591/sweet-home-alabama-lynyrd-skynyrd-southern-discomfort-american-anthem">according to NPR</a>, he would later come to regret it:
<blockquote>In his 2012 autobiography, he stated that he deserved that musical jab, writing, “I didn&#8217;t like my words when I wrote them. They are accusatory and condescending.”</blockquote>
In fact, Young would end up eulogizing the band by playing ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ in concert weeks after the tragic plane crash that killed many of the founding members of <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flashback-neil-young-covers-sweet-home-alabama-in-1977-186638/"> Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1977</a>.
Even Dr. Henry Panion III, a black professor of music at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, considers Skynyrd’s Southern anthem universal for all Alabamians. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/12/17/676863591/sweet-home-alabama-lynyrd-skynyrd-southern-discomfort-american-anthem">In an interview with NPR</a> from 2018, he stated the following:
<blockquote>What they were trying to do when they wrote it was say, “Everybody&#8217;s talking about the South, but there are some wonderful things about the South…And everyone don&#8217;t necessarily subscribe to the policies and practices of bigots and racists.”</blockquote>
Will Southern Rock be afforded such nuanced assessment in the future?
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Amid the at-times violent uproar over the tragic death of George Floyd, so many have forgotten the heroism that members of law enforcement commit every day all across our nation. At any given moment, these brave Americans risk life and limb protecting all of us. Many have made the ultimate sacrifice. Here are just a few recent examples of such heroic individuals.
1. David Dorn
In the current climate, it’s appropriate to take a moment to honor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-david-dorns-murder-exposes-a-massive-blind-spot-among-the-blm-protests">David Dorn</a>, whose life was taken as a direct result of anti-police sentiment inflamed by the death of Floyd. A former St. Louis police captain, Dorn’s character and service were held in the highest regard in his community.
“David Dorn was a man of great character who dedicated his life to helping others and protecting his neighborhood,&#8221; said U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, As reported by the <a href="https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/hundreds-gather-at-st-louis-church-to-honor-ex-police-captain-killed-in-looting/article_358d9a6d-f9c7-511f-9821-8eb3a48787b1.html">St. Louis Post-Dispatch</a>. &#8220;…His life of honor and dedication reminds us of the vital service the good men and women of law enforcement render to our communities every day. We depend on them, people like David Dorn.”
The retired Dorn was senselessly murdered trying to protect a neighborhood pawnshop from looters during the recent Black Lives Matter protests. Sadly, the media offered little by way of tribute or reflection for the life-long public servant.
<div id="attachment_122543" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-122543" class="size-full wp-image-122543" src="https://editorial.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Captain-David-Dorn.jpg" alt="Captain David Dorn" width="600" height="337" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2020/06/Captain-David-Dorn.jpg 600w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2020/06/Captain-David-Dorn-300x169.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" />St. Louis Police Department</div>
2. Cameron Kinsey
Cameron Kinsey, a sheriff’s deputy in Palmdale, CA, recently saved an 11-month-old boy from choking. While ensuring the peace during local protests, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=external&amp;v=550770299144162">the deputy saw two distressed women</a> run toward him with a child in their arms. According to the <a href="https://www.avpress.com/news/deputy-saves-choking-child/article_22c122ec-b110-11ea-891c-db501b88f833.html">Antelope Valley Press</a>, Kinsey&#8217;s swift action saved the child&#8217;s life.
&#8220;Kinsey conducted a medical assessment. He checked the baby’s airways, breathing and pulse, and gave him a couple more pats on the back to try to dislodge whatever was stuck in the baby’s throat. The baby had turned blueish,&#8221; the outlet reported. &#8220;Kinsey opened the baby’s airway with a mouth sweep procedure with his finger. The baby started crying and breathing again.&#8221;
Kinsey&#8217;s actions are significant in part because they are common among law enforcement. That such acts of heroism go unnoticed is a travesty, especially as law enforcement continues to be endlessly vilified by the media and elsewhere.
<div id="attachment_122541" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-122541" class="wp-image-122541" src="https://editorial.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Cameron-Kinsey.jpg" alt="Cameron Kinsey" width="600" height="339" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2020/06/Cameron-Kinsey.jpg 587w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2020/06/Cameron-Kinsey-300x170.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" />Los Angeles County Police Department</div>
3. David Patrick Underwood
Federal Protective Officer David Patrick Underwood was killed in a drive-by shooting during recent BLM protests in Oakland, CA. According to a <a href="https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/06/19/boogaloo-boys-steven-carrillo-david-underwood-homeland-security-race-war-george-floyd/">local CBS affiliate</a> in San Francisco, the 53-year-old Underwood was gunned down while working security at Oakland’s Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building complex.
Praised by his friends and family, Underwood went into law enforcement to better serve his community. Like David Dorn, Underwood is not a hero because of some singular grand act of bravery and courage but instead because of a steadfast willingness to uphold and raise the standards of the community.
Underwood’s eloquent <a href="https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/06/19/boogaloo-boys-steven-carrillo-david-underwood-homeland-security-race-war-george-floyd/">eulogy</a> given by Pastor Alvin Bernstine summarizes what so many people feel amid the widespread vilification of law enforcement.
“We’re not crying Black tears, we’re not crying White tears,&#8221; said Bernstine. &#8220;We’re crying human tears. We’re not crying Republican tears or Democratic tears, we’re crying heartbreak tears.  We’re not crying law enforcement tears or law-deprived tears. We’re crying justice tears.”
<div id="attachment_122539" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-122539" class="wp-image-122539" src="https://editorial.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/David-Patrick-Underwood.jpg" alt="David Patrick Underwood" width="600" height="334" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2020/06/David-Patrick-Underwood.jpg 750w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2020/06/David-Patrick-Underwood-300x167.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" />Pinole Police Department</div>
4. William Kimbro
William Kimbro, a South Carolina deputy, saved a 12-month-old baby last June. <a href="applewebdata://15F6C440-2288-48A6-AF12-462438D7884D/Kimbro's%20body%20camera%20captured%20the%20tense%20moments%20as%20he%20performed%20live-saving%20CPR.%20%20%22Come%20on,%20baby.%20Cry%20for%20me.%20Cry%20for%20me.%20Come%20on,%20open%20those%20eyes,%20sweetheart.%20There%20you%20go,%22%20Kimbro%20could%20be%20heard%20saying.%20%22I'm%20worried%20about%20her,%20because%20she%20starts%20breathing%20and%20then%20she%20stops.%20And%20then%20starts%20and%20then%20stops.%22%20%20Baby%20Ryleigh%20went%20on%20to%20make%20a%20full%20recovery">According to ABC7</a>, Kimbro’s body camera captured the anxious moments as he diligently administered CPR to the infant:
“Kimbro&#8217;s body camera captured the tense moments as he performed life-saving CPR. ‘Come on, baby. Cry for me. Cry for me. Come on, open those eyes, sweetheart. There you go,’ Kimbro could be heard saying. ‘I&#8217;m worried about her, because she starts breathing and then she stops. And then starts and then stops.’”
Not only did baby Ryleigh make a full recovery, Deputy Kimbro is now officially her godfather. Kimbro&#8217;s actions transformed three lives and transcended the superficialities of race and color that continue to beleaguer our nation.
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One year ago today, Berkeley County Deputy William Kimbro saved 12 day old Ryleigh&#39;s life during a traffic stop. Last night. Ryleigh surprised Kimbro and his wife..asking them to be her godparents. An awesome update, from an elated officer. <a href="https://twitter.com/BerkCoSheriff?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BerkCoSheriff</a> <a href="https://t.co/a20Oid7Wzm">pic.twitter.com/a20Oid7Wzm</a>
&mdash; Scott Eisberg (@SEisbergWCIV) <a href="https://twitter.com/SEisbergWCIV/status/1271215850830417921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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5. Jonathan Wiese
In mid-June, Jonathan Wiese, a San Diego K9 officer, rescued a pair of two-year-old twins in spectacular fashion after the girls’ desperate, suicidal father plunged their vehicle off a cliff and into the ocean.
With the aid of fellow officers, Wiese scaled the cliff, swam toward the upturned vehicle, and rescued the girls. Weise’s training as a Marine came in handy <a href="https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/officer-rescues-toddlers-after-father-drives-off-sunset-cliffs">according to ABC10</a>.
“He said the truck acted as a break from the surf while he gathered his thoughts, and a memory hit from his time in the Marine Corps,&#8221; ABC10 reported. &#8220;&#8216;They taught you how to do water safety rescues and I had a little flashback of okay grab him under the armpit and push him so I swam and held them above water,&#8217; bringing them to shore.&#8221;
SDPD Police Chief David Nisleit commented on Weise’s actions and stated, “That&#8217;s probably the most heroic thing I&#8217;ve seen in my 32 years.&#8221;
Weise responded to the praise in characteristic humility.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t do the job to be liked every day, I didn&#8217;t do it to become rich, I did it because I want to be out there making a difference and helping people, as cliche as that might sound, but I was just glad I could be there,&#8221; he said.
<div id="attachment_122526" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-122526" class="wp-image-122526" src="https://editorial.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Jonathan-Weisse.jpg" alt="Jonathan Weisse" width="600" height="337" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2020/06/Jonathan-Weisse.jpg 932w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2020/06/Jonathan-Weisse-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2020/06/Jonathan-Weisse-768x432.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" />San Diego Police Department</div>
6. Stephen Williams
In a poignant, emotional service for Sgt. Stephen Williams of Moody, Alabama, some 1,000 mourners came to pay their respects for his ultimate sacrifice. <a href="https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2020/06/funeral-to-be-held-today-for-slain-moody-police-sgt-stephen-williams-who-was-fatally-shot-at-the-super-8-motel.html">According to AL</a>, Williams was recently shot and killed in a gunfight after responding to a 911 call made at a local Super 8 Motel.
Sgt. Williams’ own memorable words on service that seemed to foreshadow his own death were read at his funeral. As reported by AL, those words exemplify the brave men and women of all colors and from all walks of life that serve in law enforcement all across our great nation:
“Please don’t cry for me. I’ve lived and loved on principles such as truth, honor and courage. Don’t cry for me because I made the sacrifice I might have to make, and I accepted that risk anyway. Don’t cry for me. I was proud to be a part of something special and something amazing and I am confident I made a difference in the lives of those who needed me.
&#8220;Don’t cry for me because I have the most incredible wife and the most incredible family. My brothers and sisters in blue, I love you all. Smile for me for I am in a new place and it is beautiful, where there is no hurting, and no crying and no suffering. I am welcome here and I finally get to rest. You see I am no longer on watch but know that I am watching over you. And I’ll be smiling because I love you still.”
<div id="attachment_122527" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-122527" class="wp-image-122527" src="https://editorial.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Sgt.-Stephen-Williams-930x576.jpg" alt="Sgt. Stephen Williams" width="600" height="372" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2020/06/Sgt.-Stephen-Williams-930x576.jpg 930w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2020/06/Sgt.-Stephen-Williams-300x186.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2020/06/Sgt.-Stephen-Williams-768x476.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2020/06/Sgt.-Stephen-Williams.jpg 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" />Moody Police Department</div>
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Six Heroic Members Of Law Enforcement That Deserve Recognition And Praise

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Spearheaded by the recent protests and riots over the unjust killing of George Floyd, the dogmatic outrage and conceit that inform <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cancel-cultures-failure-james-baldwins-famous-essay-exposes-the-lefts-flawed-logic">cancel culture</a> are now invading the American workplace. As the outrage foments, it’s no longer enough that politicians and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nfl-quarterback-drew-brees-dragged-for-anthem-kneeling-remarks">public figures</a> get pitchforked into online kangaroo courts.
Adam Rapoport, the editor-in-chief of food magazine Bon Appétit was recently forced to resign after a photo from almost <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/adam-rapaport-photo-bon-appetit-editor-resigns-halloween-costume/">two decades ago</a> surfaced of him dressed in a Halloween costume viewed by some as a Puerto Rican stereotype.
According to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/501762-editor-of-bon-appetit-steps-down-after-brownface-photo-surfaces">The Hill</a>:
<blockquote>Several staff at Bon Appétit reacted to the photo by calling for Rapoport’s resignation and for better compensation and treatment of people of color on staff. Sohla El-Waylly, an assistant food editor at the magazine, told <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/bon-appetit-adam-rapoport-brown-face-racism?bftwnews&amp;utm_term=4ldqpgc">BuzzFeed News</a> that Rapoport called a staff-wide Zoom meeting to apologize and that she requested he resign.</blockquote>
According to <a href="https://www.insider.com/bon-appetit-sohla-el-waylly-people-rallying-behind-adam-rapoport-2020-6">Business Insider</a>, El-Waylly also made other accusations about disparities at Bon Appétit.
Rapoport is not alone. <a href="https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/canceled-racism/?fbclid=IwAR0VPslFtBa_jAvRlWkY3Zu8mVfWlywjI803ZnayJ_aA6irwjbsLEwlmeYE">Los Angeles Magazine</a> now has a running list of editors, celebrities, and athletes who are being canceled in the current wake of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-david-dorns-murder-exposes-a-massive-blind-spot-among-the-blm-protests">BLM protests</a>.
These are, however, high profile instances. Sadly, it’s reasonable to assume that cancel culture and its wild arsenal of accusations of racism, sexism, and privilege will infest the average American workplace wholesale soon.
Worse, the <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/companies-black-lives-matter-workforce-scrutiny-amazon-microsoft-nike-adidas/">massive corporate virtue signaling</a> amid the protests will only enable such accusations. As companies like Apple, Amazon, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/starbucks-flips-stance-on-black-lives-matter-apparel-at-work-previews-new-t-shirts">Starbucks</a> insist on pursuing their cynical brand of “woke capitalism,” views and opinions that exist outside the tidal progressive narrative will be summarily dismissed. Companies simply don’t want to risk their bottom line over bad PR.
According to <a href="https://time.com/5735415/woke-culture-political-companies/">Time</a>:
<blockquote>In an age when companies have detailed information on customers’ ages, incomes and political persuasions, they’re calculating that these socially aware consumers are more lucrative than those who might be put off by social-justice campaigns.</blockquote>
As outrage becomes weaponized in the workplace, many Americans may be forced to employ some form of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink">Orwellian Doublethink</a>. Those holding religious and political views outside the progressive norm will be coerced into silence or compelled to publicly disavow such beliefs to avoid being ostracized or worse.
Are many, ultimately, going to have to apologize in some inane, servile manner for any and all perceived slights or untoward gestures made in our lives? According to the NAACP, BLM, and their new site, <a href="https://itakeresponsibility.org/about">I Take Responsibility</a>, the answer is a definitive and dystopian yes:
<blockquote>This begins with white men and women taking responsibility for their personal role in eradicating racism in America – taking a stand and committing to change. It is not enough to not be racist. We must be anti-racism. That’s humanity.</blockquote>
One can’t help but hear the echoes of Mao and his <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution">Cultural Revolution</a> as cancel culture encroaches upon the American workplace and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-faith-in-a-dark-time">tramples American values</a> into oblivion. That parallel no longer seems untenable or some farfetched attempt at fearmongering.
When comparing the current <a href="https://medium.com/@seattleblmanon3/the-demands-of-the-collective-black-voices-at-free-capitol-hill-to-the-government-of-seattle-ddaee51d3e47">demands of CHAZ</a> and <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/">BLM</a> with Mao and his cohorts, the following excerpt from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/11/the-cultural-revolution-50-years-on-all-you-need-to-know-about-chinas-political-convulsion">The Guardian</a> on the Cultural Revolution reads with eerie relevance:
<blockquote>A fortnight later…the party’s official mouthpiece newspaper <a href="https://www.marxists.org/subject/china/peking-review/1966/PR1966-23c.htm">urged the masses</a> to “clear away the evil habits of the old society” by launching an all-out assault on “monsters and demons”&#8230;students sprung into action, setting up…divisions in classrooms and campuses across the country. By August…the mayhem was in full swing as…allies urged [the students] to destroy the “four olds” – old ideas, old customs, old habits and old culture…Schools and universities were closed and churches, shrines, libraries, shops and private homes ransacked or destroyed as the assault on…traditions began.</blockquote>
Certainly, cancel culture has yet to reach the violent, terrible zenith that the Cultural Revolution achieved. It also seems rooted more in nihilism than any kind of discernable ethos. Still, cancel culture echoes the same treacherous tropes that Mao insisted upon.
Are we now facing a similar purge in America today as cancel culture invades the workplace? At the moment, the easy answer is “no.” The more difficult and complex answer remains “not yet.”
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Red X

KHAN: Cancel Culture Is Now Invading The American Workplace

Across the entire political spectrum in America and even abroad, the senseless killing of George Floyd by officer Derek Chauvin has been resoundingly condemned. The outrage has lead to protests, riots, and looting all over our nation.
Lost in all the outrage and mayhem, however, is the brutal murder of David Dorn. Dorn was shot and killed by looters days ago while protecting his community as a retired police officer. Dorn served the St. Louis community for 38 years as a police captain. He was 77-years-old. More importantly, David Dorn was also black.
According to <a href="https://apnews.com/1421b4f84e39488c41c0a285dba8a8cc">AP News</a>, Dorn was a pillar of his community even as a retired septuagenarian.
“Former St. Louis County police Chief Tim Fitch knew Dorn for 30 years and said they became close friends when Dorn and his wife were leading the St. Louis police department’s Explorers program for young people interested in law enforcement careers, while Fitch was leading the county’s program…‘He was very dedicated to youth, especially disadvantaged youth,’ said Fitch, who led the St. Louis County Police Department from 2009 to 2014. ‘He wanted to see them succeed.’”
<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/blog/2020-06-03-george-floyd-protests-n1223081/ncrd1223311#blogHeader">NBC News</a> reported that Dorn was most certainly killed by looters per a statement made by St. Louis city officials:
<blockquote>Dorn, 77, was “murdered last night by a looter,” while guarding a pawn shop,<a href="https://twitter.com/SLMPD/status/1267851105024667650"> city officials told reporters,</a> adding that surveillance tools would be used to identify the criminals.</blockquote>
Dorn’s murder at the hands of rioting looters exposes a massive blind spot and just how selective the narrative of outrage remains in America. Dorn’s murder is almost presented as an inconvenience or an afterthought toward the larger narrative of supposed systemic racism surrounding the killing of George Floyd.
No public outcry or protests have taken place in Dorn’s name. It simply doesn’t fit the script, particularly when it seems the media and some of the various movements are, essentially, manufacturing dissent through a very narrow and, at times, false scope.
To be sure, George Floyd’s murder was an egregious act of injustice. So was David Dorn’s murder, though. The two are not mutually exclusive nor is one more deserving of disgust than the other. And, yet, the outrage surrounding David Dorn’s murder flits away <a href="https://allpoetry.com/the-hollow-men">not with a bang but a whimper</a>.
This selective outrage is just another kind of limiting bias that, collectively, sets us back as a nation. We’ve seen it before, not just with David Dorn, but with the likes of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-in-so-many-instances-of-police-brutality-far-greater-complexities-are-at-play-than-racism">Daniel Shaver</a> as well. It will not lead to a meaningful reckoning on police brutality and excessive uses of force nor will it contribute to the coming together of our nation. Instead, it may contribute to an even greater divide.
While so many on social media and elsewhere are virtue signaling ad nauseam, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdX6aVzPgHs">apologizing for their very existence</a> under the hopeless pretense of privilege, resentment is growing and growing fast over the protests and rioting.
As of right now, the very conversations on race, racism, and police brutality are all but over according to many in the media. <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/empirical-analysis-racial-differences-police-use-force">Facts notwithstanding</a>, there is no room for dialogue anymore.
Any attempt at offering a reasoned counterpoint, no matter how sincere or even inelegant, is literally crushed under the onslaught of the current, flawed narrative on systemic racism. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nfl-quarterback-drew-brees-dragged-for-anthem-kneeling-remarks">Just ask Drew Brees</a>.
Sadly, for all the rhetoric amid all the protests and riots that our nation can now finally heal or is healing its long-standing and deep-seated issues over race, it may very well be coming apart at the seams. God willing, I hope and pray that I’m wrong.
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Protesters in Minneapolis

KHAN: David Dorn’s Murder Exposes A Massive Blind Spot Among The BLM Protests

George Floyd

Racism

rioters

Riots

The death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police officers has managed to cut deeper an already infected wound across the American landscape. Fomented by social media and the charge of systemic racism, riots and protests have broken out all over our nation.
Voices spanning the political spectrum, including <a href="https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1265774770877902848?s=21">President Trump</a>, agree that justice and accountability for the death of Floyd is essential and a thorough investigation of the tragic incident is clearly warranted. If racism is a part of what drove the actions of the officers involved, that must be exposed.
But also at issue amid the widespread outrage, protests and riots is the narrative that police brutality is primarily a function of systemic racism, particularly against black Americans. This highly politicized narrative often eclipses a broader problem: the deep-seated and complex causes at the root of police brutality and the errant use of deadly force.
Sadly, there are countless documented instances of police brutality against all races in the U.S., including against white Americans, that continue to go largely unnoticed with little to no outcry on a national level.
According to <a href="https://reason.com/2015/01/26/kristiana-coignard-shot-in-longview-texa/">Reason</a>, in 2015, Kristiana Coignard, a seventeen-year-old girl struggling with mental issues, was shot and killed inside a Texas police station. While she did brandish a small knife, Coignard presented no immediate threat to the officers involved in her death.
In 2014, Keith Vidal, a 90lb 18-year-old also suffering from severe mental issues, was fatally shot by police officers in North Carolina according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2014/01/07/justice/north-carolina-teen-killed/">CNN</a>. The officers had no compelling reason outside of haste and profound incompetence to kill the young man.
<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Daniel_Shaver">Daniel Shaver</a> represents one of the most brutal and senseless killings at the hands of law enforcement in recent years. The <a href="https://youtu.be/OflGwyWcft8">documented footage</a> from 2016 is absolutely chilling. Shaver does everything humanly possible to remain compliant to the conflicting demands barked at him. Regardless, officer Philip Brailsford opens fire and kills the young father of two in cold blood. David French put it most succinctly in his piece on Shaver for <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/police-murder-daniel-shaver/">National Review</a>:
<blockquote>Shaver died trying his best to comply with a highly unusual, complicated set of commands while under extreme duress… it’s infuriating to see civilian police exercise less discipline than I’ve seen from soldiers in infinitely more dangerous situations.</blockquote>
Even worse, Brailsford was acquitted and <a href="https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/after-murder-acquittal-mesa-ex-cop-philip-brailsford-made-a-pension-deal">given his pension</a>. No nationwide protests. No outrage. No nothing.
From Shaver to Floyd, what many if not most of these instances of excessive force and brutality at the hands of law enforcement demonstrate is not racism; they demonstrate just how poorly trained and woefully ignorant of protocol and procedure some police officers remain, particularly, in times of crisis.
Add to that, the long shifts, the general contempt they receive from the public, the far too insular nature of police departments, and the <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sure-recovery/201803/police-and-addiction">crippling amount of stress</a> inherent to the job, and it becomes quite evident why so many excesses at the hands of law enforcement continue to exist today.
In 2014, the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-c1-recruits-20140220-dto-htmlstory.html">Los Angeles Times</a> chronicled a few LAPD recruits and put their insufficient training quite succinctly:
<blockquote>No amount of role-playing with paint-pellet guns could have taught Lopez how to control the adrenaline that coursed through her as she chased a man with a gun into the courtyard of a housing project on her first foot pursuit…And nothing the drill instructors said could have readied Bell for the day he responded to the scene of a stabbing and found a woman had taken a knife to her sister&#8217;s face because they were from rival gangs.</blockquote>
Beyond racial implications, the complexities at the root of so many instances of police brutality and excessive use of force paint an entirely different picture. For certain, disreputable folks exist in all facets of life, and law enforcement is no exception. However, what needs to be immediately addressed in law enforcement all across America requires far greater nuance than broad, uncritical accusations of racism.
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Police

KHAN: In So Many Instances Of Police Brutality, More Is At Play Than Racism

Minneapolis

Police Brutality

ESPN’s <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29180083/the-last-dance-how-replay-stream-espn-michael-jordan-documentary">10-part docuseries</a> on Michael Jordan’s final championship run is both a candid and an apologetic take on one of the greatest athletes of all time. While endlessly entertaining, “The Last Dance” also demonstrates over and over again just how integral and invaluable traditional masculinity and male role models were for Jordan’s unprecedented success. And it does so almost by accident.
Unfortunately, we live in a day and age where <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-men-must-learn-to-uphold-the-common-good-again">masculine ideals have been marginalized</a> to fatiguing degrees. At best, they’re viewed as antiquated norms to be discouraged in boys and young men. Increasingly though, they’re now discarded and vilified. Anything that might qualify as traditionally masculine outside of superficialities is often derided as toxic by the media and mainstream culture.
Michael Jordan’s success, however, would be non-existent if it weren’t for these traditional masculine ideals and the men that imparted them on his life, both on and off the court.
First and foremost, his father, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Jordan_Sr.">James Jordan</a>, an Air Force veteran, instilled discipline and a hard-nosed work ethic in his son at an early age. Tough love was the order of the day in the Jordan household, and it proved invaluable. Michael recounts his father’s final ultimatum in the ESPN documentary that was pivotal to his athletic career:
<blockquote>He was my rock…we were very close. He constantly gave me advice. I remember in ninth grade I got suspended three times in one year, and my father pulled me aside that summer and said: “Look, you don&#8217;t look like you&#8217;re heading in the right direction. You know, if you want to go about doing all this mischievous stuff, you can forget sports.”</blockquote>
The elder Jordan was not aiming to be his young son’s best friend or buddy. That could come later when his son was an adult. Instead, James Jordan understood that his role as a father was to impart discipline, guidance, and focus in his children. Such necessary parenting values are seemingly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dwyane-wade-hails-12-year-old-trans-son-as-lgbtq-leader-in-instagram-post-allow-her-to-re-introduce-herself">at a premium these days</a>.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Smith">Dean Smith</a>, his legendary coach at the University of North Carolina, would build upon the foundation Jordan’s father set for his son. In fact, Jordan would refer to Smith as his second father. Upon Dean Smith’s passing in 2015, Jordan eulogized his coach and mentor with the following statement according to <a href="https://www.si.com/college/2015/02/08/michael-jordan-releases-statement-dean-smiths-passing">Sports Illustrated</a>:
<blockquote>Other than my parents, no one had a bigger influence on my life than Coach Smith. He was more than a coach – he was my mentor, my teacher, my second father. Coach was always there for me whenever I needed him and I loved him for it. In teaching me the game of basketball, he taught me about life.</blockquote>
Other men that played huge roles in Jordan’s life were Phil Jackson and <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/sports/2020/05/17/remembering-the-security-guard-who-became-like-a-second-father-to-michael-jordan/">Gus Lett</a>, a key member of Jordan’s security personnel who also took on an important paternal role in Jordan’s life after his father’s <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/bulls/ct-michael-jordan-james-jordan-20200511-2lvgdqxhy5agphioln5zpbz2aq-story.html">harrowing murder in 1993</a>. All these men ascribed to very traditional masculine ideals that include discipline, forbearance, teamwork, and toughness.
We live in a day and age where men are increasingly disposable. Fatherhood and masculinity are often viewed as unnecessary, if not as obstacles and impediments for the growth and development of children.
Popular feminist constructs such as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duluth_model">Duluth Model</a> cast men as inherently oppressive and violent. Far from being just abstract academic ideas, these biased constructs against men have made their way into courtrooms, custody battles, and countless divorce proceedings for decades upon decades.
Yet, it’s sadly fascinating to witness just how imperative inherently masculine ideals and unapologetically male role models were to the success of one of the greatest athletes known to the world. That such men are now seemingly at a premium for so many continues to have a deleterious effect on current society and, possibly, for generations to come.
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Michael Jordan

KHAN: ESPN’S ‘The Last Dance’ Documents The Vital Impact Traditional Male Role Models Had On Michael Jordan’s Success

ESPN

Masculinity

I try my best to not be hyperbolic, to put forth reasoned arguments and to carefully consider opposing viewpoints in any and all discussions. However, having watched “Plandemic” and critically evaluated the major claims, “Plandemic” needs to be treated similarly to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory">chemtrails</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/apr/07/conspiracy-theory-paranoia-aliens-illuminati-beyonce-vaccines-cliven-bundy-jfk">lizard people</a>.
The short documentary is a sloppy albeit seductive mess, especially if one takes the information at face value. We all struggle with confirmation bias, especially in the current pandemic. “Plandemic” <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2020/05/12/plandemic-misinformation-judy-mikovits/3112206001/">preys upon our confusion and frustration</a>. Bits of truths are casually sprinkled atop heaping piles of USDA select BS with clever sound bytes, hackneyed edits, and, most importantly, misinformation if not outright lies.
Prior to “Plandemic,” filmmaker <a href="http://elevate.us/team/">Mikki Willis</a> was best known for buying his son a Little Mermaid doll in a viral video, <a href="https://ktla.com/news/local-news/ojai-dad-created-most-notorious-piece-of-coronavirus-misinformation-yet/">according to KTLA</a>:
<blockquote>The closest he’d ever come to viral fame was when he posted <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7rujK0iOJU%20%5Ct%20_blank">a video in 2015 </a>to his YouTube channel about how he’d bought his young son a “Little Mermaid” doll at the toy store – a moment of open-minded, non-gender-conforming parenting that earned him more than 4 million views and <a href="https://abc7news.com/956680/%20/t%20_blank">a laudatory spot on the local news</a>.</blockquote>
Willis’ short documentary centers mainly on unsubstantiated opinions from former research scientist, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Mikovits">Judy Mikovits</a>. Her unsubstantiated opinions masquerade as facts throughout the interview in quite the clever and insidious manner. Willis does his very best to paint her as some kind of embattled maverick and martyr for the cause. Judy Mikovits might very well be the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Baskin">Carole Baskin</a> of the anti-vaccination movement.
Meanwhile, Dr. Anthony Fauci is cast in the role of some megalomaniacal villain on the level of, say, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_Commander">Cobra Commander</a>.
Mikovits boldly states that Fauci is responsible for the death of millions in the doc:
<blockquote>What he [Fauci] is saying is absolute propaganda … the same kind of propaganda that he’s perpetrated to kill millions since 1984.</blockquote>
Many of us find Fauci to be an alarmist in the current pandemic and someone who has erred toward caution to such an extreme that socioeconomic chaos could very well await us like barbarians at the gate. Still, that doesn’t make him a mass murderer as Mikovits so idiotically claims.
Mikovits also insists she’s not against vaccines. In fact, she explicitly states as such in the doc to embolden her brand of pseudoscience and to hoodwink the audience. Nothing could be further from the truth upon examination. Mikovits is very much an anti-vaxxer and has duped a lot of earnest folks as a result. She simply enshrouds her stance with tremendous sophistry and sleight of hand.
She states that vaccines have killed millions and that there are no vaccines for RNA viruses that work.
<a href="https://media.giphy.com/media/3oz8xLd9DJq2l2VFtu/giphy.gif">Wrong</a>.
According to <a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/fact-checking-judy-mikovits-controversial-virologist-attacking-anthony-fauci-viral">Science</a>:
<blockquote>Vaccines have not killed millions; they have saved millions of lives. Many vaccines that work against RNA viruses are on the market, including for influenza, measles, mumps, rubella, rabies, yellow fever, and Ebola.</blockquote>
Mikovits’ actual position on vaccines is that she, technically, believes in vaccines as theoretically sound, but that all current vaccines in use today are a part of some grand conspiracy of murder, mayhem, and profiteering. It’s the same sort of reckless stupidity that has lead to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles_resurgence_in_the_United_States">recent measles outbreaks across America</a>.
In the same piece on Judy Mikovits, <a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/fact-checking-judy-mikovits-controversial-virologist-attacking-anthony-fauci-viral">Science</a> drives home her anti-vaxxing position:
<blockquote>She also repeats several claims made by people who are leading the antivaccine movement. In the PowerPoint presentation she sent to Science, she calls for an ‘immediate moratorium’ on all vaccines.</blockquote>
Again, what’s most reprehensible about the likes of Mikovitz is that they prey upon our frustrations and our need for answers by selling us on half-baked agendas rooted in conspiratorial nonsense. It’s intellectual snake oil and nothing more.
Conspiracies abound in this day and age. They offer many some sense of a discernible pattern amid so much chaos around us. Almost always though, they are rooted in confirmation biases and deductive fallacies of sorts: we so desperately want to believe something to be true that we build our arguments around these notions without questioning the underlying premises. Unfortunately, this is all “Plandemic” offers us. The doc has about as much merit as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ7GQbfj__0">‘Fatal Findings,’</a> but is far less entertaining.
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Face masks

KHAN: ‘Plandemic’ Is A Sloppy, Seductive Mess

Judy Mikovitz

Plandemic

We do not need a new normal. Perhaps that’s too provocative a statement for some given the unprecedented events of the past few months. It seems lifetimes have passed since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns, safety measures, and ordinances. Still, I hold to my initial statement.
Unfortunately, the general tenor from the media alongside various pundits and powers-that-be throughout much of the country is that things will never be normal again. At the very least, normalcy will not return for many more months if not years according to many. Sadly, given the seismic paradigm shift the pandemic has elicited in the form of paranoia, hysterics, and grossly uncritical methodologies and evaluations, they might be right.
The very act of shaking hands may be rendered obsolete or at least ought to be according to Dr. Anthony Fauci himself as <a href="https://time.com/5818134/anthony-fauci-never-shake-hands-coronavirus/">reported by Time</a>:
<blockquote>I don’t think we should ever shake hands ever again, to be honest with you. Not only would it be good to prevent coronavirus disease; it probably would decrease instances of influenza dramatically in this country.</blockquote>
For all his credentials and scientific pedigree, the fact that no one in the mainstream media found such a suggestion patently strange is both comical and disheartening. It demonstrates both a continued fallacious appeal to authority and a fundamental inability for us as a nation to now navigate crises without resorting to dogmatic forebodings.
Heck, the pandemic has even rallied the anti-vaxxers and their brand of idiocy in the form of some bizarre documentary. Lead by some supreme quack, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52588682">‘The Plandemic’</a> continues to pop up on everyone’s social media feeds. To be sure, the doc has about as much scientific rigor and critical evaluation as a cold bowl of oatmeal, and even that feels unfair to oatmeal.
Major professional sports leagues are brainstorming all sorts of odd ideas to get players back on the courts and fields as well. While the NFL has released a tentative schedule for the <a href="https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2020-nfl-schedule-a-look-at-the-regular-season-home-and-away-opponents-for-all-32-nfl-teams/">upcoming season</a> with some hope of returning to normalcy by the fall, the NBA remains desperate to restart their season.
So far, the ideas being bandied about are hackneyed or just plain silly. The plan to create some kind of pandemic safety bubble keeps making the rounds <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29120877/blueprint-how-league-finish-2019-20-season">according to ESPN</a>, though it’s rife with major inconsistencies and conundrums:
<blockquote>If a quarantined zone guaranteed players and coaches wouldn&#8217;t get COVID-19, they told her it would be worth the sacrifice of separating from family and friends for several months… What if a team staffer went to get a slice of pizza and became infected? What if an asymptomatic family member or significant other came to visit and spread the virus? If the honor code was too lax, but a police state was too draconian, what was the point of a bubble?</blockquote>
At least the UFC is back even with some major hiccups. A <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/jacare-souza-cornermen-test-positive-035828121.html">fighter and two of his cornermen tested positive for COVID-19</a> literally a day before the UFC’s first scheduled event since lockdown measures were put in place. All three were asymptomatic though.
Many of these new-fangled attempts at some kind of “new normal” completely miss the overarching point. We have effectively exceeded initial expectations and outcomes regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. <a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/how-one-model-simulated-22-million-us-deaths-covid-19">Millions did not die</a>. We <a href="https://time.com/5827156/squashing-squash-curve-coronavirus-covid19/">flattened the curve</a>. Yes, it is a very real crisis, but we have endured the brunt of it with flying colors much to the chagrin of naysayers and doomsday prophecies.
What’s most worrisome is that we’re still berated by the same tired narrative in some odd combination of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome">Stockholm syndrome</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day_(film)">Groundhog’s Day</a>. We need to methodically return to normal with optimism, composure, and some degree of vigilance. That’s it. Otherwise, these insufferable and exhausting notions of a “new normal” are just echoes from the same anxious, hysterical refrains that currently overwhelm the conversation and drown out reason and common sense.
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KHAN: We Do Not Need A New Normal

The only foresight anxiety offers us is disaster. Nothing more. Certainly not hope, optimism, or even forbearance. Given that we live in what can increasingly be considered an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-anxiety-and-faith-in-these-modern-times">age of anxiety</a>, no wonder sagacity and critical thinking are at a premium in the current COVID-19 pandemic. It’s abundantly clear by most measures that anxiety is now at the helm given the continued insistence on lockdown policies all across America, even as the pandemic curve finally flattens.
The media has fed these anxious fires from the outset of the pandemic by continuing to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-the-media-continues-to-gaslight-the-american-public-about-the-current-pandemic">gaslight the American public</a>. Progressives have sought to galvanize their base with exhortations of panic over pending doom alongside Machiavellian levels of misinformation to create opposition to the federal response to COVID-19.
Perhaps what’s most insufferable is the exceedingly dogmatic and uncritical claims to “trust the science” behind the increasingly draconian measures put in place. Of course, that notion comes at the heels of the constant <a href="https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Appeal-to-Authority">fallacious appeals to authority</a> toward the likes of <a href="https://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/director">Dr. Anthony Fauci</a>. Whatever he says is apparently the gospel truth even when it shifts, changes, or, in some cases, <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/09/the_coronavirus_trumps_medical_advice_was_contradictory_inconsistent_--_and_wrong_142898.html">contradicts itself</a>. That’s not to say that Fauci should be disregarded or dismissed, it means that it’s our civic duty to critically assess what we’re being told.
As for the science, there are a growing number of esteemed scientists and epidemiologists who insist that our current lockdown measures are not only excessive, they may be counterproductive and are inviting unmitigated socioeconomic disaster. Unfortunately, they are being met with only pitchforks for their efforts.
The findings of <a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/john-ioannidis">Dr. John Ioannidis</a>, a Stanford professor of Epidemiology and Disease Prevention, are different in kind from the prevailing narrative concerning the pandemic and are, at the very least, a compelling counterpoint to the information out there. Far from offering fearful prognostications in the absence of data, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwPqmLoZA4s&amp;">Ioannidis offers a more reasonable outlook</a> amid this crisis:
<blockquote>We are falling into a trap of sensationalism. Can you imagine…what would have happened if the 60 million deaths that happen every year…[if] we had a meter counting them one by one and having stories written for each one of them? It would be horrible. There is a very high chance we are exaggerating. Many of the features of this pandemic are serious…but the estimates are exaggerated.</blockquote>
Instead of considering his vast, erudite knowledge of epidemiology and public health, he is simply mocked, derided, and vilified <a href="https://undark.org/2020/04/24/john-ioannidis-covid-19-death-rate-critics/">by the media and his peers</a>. Once hailed as a maverick in the scientific community for his critical assessments, Ioannidis is now increasingly a pariah of sorts according to a <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/prophet-of-scientific-rigor-and-a-covid-contrarian/">recent piece in Wired</a>:
<blockquote>Ioannidis’ legacy in medical science seemed unassailable. Today, not so much. I saw it on the faces of those medical students. To them Ioannidis may always be the fringe scientist who pumped up a bad study that supported a crazy right-wing conspiracy theory in the middle of a massive health crisis.</blockquote>
At least STAT has enough academic rigor and decency to publish <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/27/hear-scientists-different-views-covid-19-dont-attack-them/">a recent piece</a> that offered the following statement on Ioannidis:
<blockquote>We have followed the dialogue about his article from fellow academics on social media, and been concerned with personal attacks and general disparaging comments. While neither of us shares all of Ioannidis’ views on Covid-19, we both believe his voice — and those of other legitimate scientists — is important to consider, even when we ultimately disagree with some of his specific analyses or predictions.</blockquote>
<a href="https://davidkatzmd.com/david-katz-md-biography/">Dr. David Katz</a>, the founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, offers <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK0Wtjh3HVA">similar insights</a> regarding the current lockdown as Ioannidis. Again, to no avail. Rather than being lauded for offering their critical assessments on the pandemic from a scientific vantage point, they’re being dismissed out of hand for not toeing the line.
Most everyone in the media and on the Left would rather cede to blindly dogmatic overtures even in the face of contradictory or inherently speculative information, including the now-famous <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/coronavirus-pandemic-neil-ferguson-did-not-walk-back-covid-19-predictions/">Imperial College study</a> by Neil Ferguson. Beneath the mountains of hubris, many of the forecasts and dire predictions turned out to have as much merit as scrying pools and crystal balls.
No one is arguing that some preventative measures were imperative to curb the pandemic and to flatten the curve. Those measures have been successful. The curve has flattened. The problem is that now the narrative has shifted from flattening the curve to squashing it <a href="https://time.com/5827156/squashing-squash-curve-coronavirus-covid19/">according to Time</a>:
<blockquote>While the country as a whole has successfully flattened the curve, it has yet to show the extended period of decline necessary to declare ourselves out of the woods — a “squashing” of the curve.</blockquote>
And so the initial preventative measures mutate into draconian ones as the pandemic narrative devolves. We are drawn precariously closer to socioeconomic chaos amid this dystopian dance. Aside from record unemployment, <a href="https://theconversation.com/covid-lockdowns-have-human-costs-as-well-as-benefits-its-time-to-consider-both-137233">domestic violence and suicide</a> are now seeing potential upticks as lockdowns drag on around the world.
The current COVID-1984 meme making the rounds is fast becoming a reality to many of us. What began as necessary measures to limit a pandemic and to protect the infirm and elderly is fast devolving into authoritarian strictures diametrically opposed to the fundamental tenets our country was founded upon.
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KHAN: When Will Our Dystopian Dance With The Lockdowns End?

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<a href="https://cap.law.harvard.edu/faculty-and-staff/">Elizabeth Bartholet</a>, a Harvard law professor and director of the Harvard Law School’s Child Advocacy Program, recently published a paper in the <a href="https://arizonalawreview.org/homeschooling-parent-rights-absolutism-vs-child-rights-to-education-protection/">Arizona Law Review</a> decrying the supposed deleterious effects of homeschooling on children in America today.
Parsed of the legalese and academic conceits, Bartholet employs a very pernicious kind of subterfuge in her paper. What emerges behind all the verbiage is very much a blatant and uncritical attack on conservative and religious values.
In exacting and exhausting fashion given the length of the paper, Bartholet offers the typical progressive, authoritarian hubris disguised as necessary democratic measures for a just society. In a recent piece on Bartholet’s claims, <a href="https://harvardmagazine.com/2020/05/right-now-risks-homeschooling">Harvard Magazine</a> states:
“Homeschooling, [Bartholet] says, not only violates children’s right to a ‘meaningful education’ and their right to be protected from potential child abuse, but may keep them from contributing positively to a democratic society.”
However, later in the very same piece for Harvard Magazine, the real and terrible motivation is revealed in the form of fearmongering and demagoguery:
“But surveys of homeschoolers show that a majority of such families (by some estimates, up to 90 percent) are driven by conservative Christian beliefs, and seek to remove their children from mainstream culture. Bartholet notes that some of these parents are ‘extreme religious ideologues’ who question science and promote female subservience and white supremacy.”
Notice how Bartholet lumps religious values and conservatism with white supremacy alongside misogyny as though they’re somehow synonymous with one another. Of course, she gives mainstream culture and science their typical dogmatic place.
According to Bartholet and other like-minded progressives, to call science into question automatically relegates one into being some knuckle-dragging homunculus rather than someone who might possibly be aware of the works of, say, <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/">Thomas Kuhn</a> or <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/">Karl Popper</a>. And we are obligated to denounce what often typifies mainstream culture considering <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/10-year-old-boy-dressed-drag-pictured-naked-amanda-prestigiacomo">the excesses and abuses</a> it excuses as enlightened and egalitarian these days.
Worse, Bartholet – again, a Harvard Law professor – views the Constitution as an antiquated and outdated document in desperate need of revision to tow her myopic, progressive line of thinking. In <a href="https://arizonalawreview.org/pdf/62-1/62arizlrev1.pdf">her very own words</a>, Bartholet writes:
“The U.S. Constitution with its negative rights structure is an anomaly, outdated and inadequate by the standards of the rest of the world… The U.S. Constitution’s focus on negative rights represents an older western constitutional tradition, ‘increasingly out of step with emerging constitutional norms &#8230;in the rest of the world.’”
Here we get to the crux of the matter, and where Bartholet’s argument goes off the progressive rails. Her laborious arguments against homeschooling are not rooted in the Constitution or legal precedence. They’re explicitly rooted in inane, progressive tropes.
Deep in her 80-page paper, Bartholet tries to bolster her attack on the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) by drawing from a feminist blogger for support:
“‘Love, Joy, Feminism’ blogger Libby Anne argues that HSLDA has been complicit in aiding child maltreatment in four key ways: (1) it works to minimize the reporting of child maltreatment; (2) it works to impede the investigation of child maltreatment cases; (3) it opposes restrictions on excessive corporal punishment; and (4) it opposes any homeschooling regulation that might provide a check on maltreatment.”
Is Libby Anne some unheralded scholar of the Constitution or even a lawyer? Nope. She’s literally just some <a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/">random feminist blogger</a>. That Bartholet is even able to publish a paper in an academic legal journal with such an unqualified source beggars belief.
The likes of Bartholet are attempting to limit homeschooling to further inculcate our children with exceedingly progressive values, and it’s nothing short of madness. This madness, though, is pervasive and growing. Religious and conservative values are not only being cast aside, they’re also being vilified into oblivion. Sad to say but yet another culture war looms on the American horizon.
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KHAN: The Impending Progressive War On Homeschooling Our Children

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Given the nature and origins of the current pandemic, it’s not without some degree of irony that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_word_for_%22crisis%22">the Chinese word for ‘crisis’</a> also signifies opportunity. While we ought to be wary before we reach conclusions just yet, there is some evidence suggesting some calculation on the part of the Chinese government regarding the current pandemic.
Regardless, it’s readily evident that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-u-s-intelligence-tells-trump-that-china-intentionally-lied-about-coronavirus-outbreak-report-says">Chinese government suppressed vital data</a> in the earliest phases of the COVID-19 outbreak and completely mishandled their response to the crisis.
Dangerous opportunities abound for more than just China though. The media continues to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-the-media-continues-to-gaslight-the-american-public-about-the-current-pandemic">exploit the pandemic narrative</a> while many on the Left aim to politicize COVID-19 to exhausting levels of subterfuge.
Worse, ‘shelter-in-place’ suggestions alongside social distancing and face masks are slowly mutating into orders enforceable by the rule of law. Potentially, we are facing an unavoidable battle between public health and our civil liberties.
Recently, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-officer-arrested-park-throwing-ball-daughter-due/story?id=70032966">ABC News</a> reported that a former police officer was arrested for simply playing catch with his daughter in an empty park:
<blockquote>In an incident caught on video, a former Colorado State Patrol trooper said he was handcuffed in front of his 6-year old daughter on a near-empty softball field Sunday by Brighton police officers enforcing <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/social-distancing-strategies-amid-coronavirus-outbreak/story?id=69648478%20%5Ct%20_blank">social distancing rules</a>. The department apologized Tuesday afternoon, calling the incident an “overreach by our police officers.”</blockquote>
This week, protests erupted in Michigan over the current lockdown as well. According to the <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/michigan-gov-claims-protesters-are-spreading-virus-making-it-more-likely-state-will-continue-strict-lockdown-measures/">National Review</a>:
<blockquote>Thousands of protestors, organized by the Michigan Conservative Coalition under the hashtag #OperationGridlock, took to the capitol in Lansing on Wednesday to voice their disapproval of Whitmer’s rules, which include the closing of businesses selling hardware supplies and gardening seeds, and the banning of travel ‘between residences.’ While Whitmer said she respected the ‘right’ of the ‘small segment of the state’ to protest, she warned they could be furthering the lockdowns by refusing to social distance.</blockquote>
Rather than making any conciliatory efforts to assuage the growing anxiety and frustration over jobs and the economy among her constituency, Governor Whitmer offered only threats in response to the thousands of protestors that showed up at her doorstep. These sorts of callous dismissals by those in authority regarding our current course in this crisis is cause for vital concern for all of us.
Another kind of authoritarian threat looms on the dystopian horizon as well. Torn from the pages of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World">‘Brave New World,’</a> Google and Apple have teamed up to create a surveillance app in the supposed hopes of mitigating the spread of COVID-19. The implications are patently obvious with just how this may infringe upon our civil liberties. <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/15/21222161/apple-google-bluetooth-contact-tracing-system-coronavirus-health">The Verge</a> explains:
<blockquote>The goal of contact tracing apps is fairly simple. They’d log every phone within a certain range of a person, and if that person later tested positive for COVID-19, they could send an alert to each phone that had been nearby. Google and Apple turned to Bluetooth, which can monitor the other phones in your area without tracking your specific location.</blockquote>
Sure, you can simply opt-out of downloading or using the app. However, what if your employer demands that you utilize it to continue working? There are serious implications and issues regarding such surveillance including corporate and government overreach.
It’s been reasonable and necessary to abide by the many measures put in place to lessen the severity of the pandemic. It seems quite evident that they have worked so far. Unfortunately, there is an increasing insistence by many, especially on the Left, to dogmatically cede all decisions and authority to politicians with little reflection or critical evaluation.
Fear and anxiety are becoming the final arbitrators in these dangerous times, not reason or critical evaluation, and certainly not faith. This is beyond worrisome as the crisis drags on. Perhaps Aldous Huxley said it best in his famous aforementioned novel: “A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”

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KHAN: This Crisis Remains A Dangerous Opportunity For Many

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Both <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/coronavirus-live-updates-china-reports-deaths-1st-time/story?id=70014891">ABC News</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/08/us-coronavirus-death-toll-latest-one-day-high">The Guardian</a> lead with alarming headlines on Tuesday stating that the death toll from the current COVID-19 pandemic had skyrocketed in a single day spike. ABC proclaimed an unprecedented death toll in New York City and The Guardian followed suit. From the headlines alone, one could only conclude that our current crisis had not only worsened, but that hope remained at a premium. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/08/us-coronavirus-death-toll-latest-one-day-high">The Guardian</a> certainly tried to make no bones about it:
<blockquote>The US suffered its highest daily death toll from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/coronavirus-outbreak">coronavirus</a> on Tuesday, with 1,858 people succumbing to the disease, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University.</blockquote>
It turns out the supposed spike in the daily death toll came about because officials have now begun recording fatalities outside of hospitals. In fact, the very same <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/coronavirus-live-updates-china-reports-deaths-1st-time/story?id=70014891">ABC News</a> piece proclaiming the unprecedented spike offered much-needed clarification well below the actual headline (emphasis added):
<blockquote>The daily death toll is appearing to spike because authorities are now recording fatalities that occurred outside hospitals and previously were unknown. Out of the newly reported 1,417 deaths, 607 occurred in hospitals in the last day, while other fatalities were previously unreported deaths outside of hospitals.</blockquote>
The spike was caused by new information being added to the overall analyses, not a direct spike in fatalities as the headlines very clearly suggested. In other words, the pandemic hadn’t worsened. The statistical margins had simply broadened to include other data.
Unfortunately, these headlines are being bandied about on an hourly basis and are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting">gaslighting</a> the American public to a dizzying degree. The mainstream media doesn’t have any interest at all in providing any sort of hope or solidarity in this crisis. They simply want panic-stricken clicks to fill their coffers and to promote their own misguided agendas.
Lest we forget, newspaper publishers have continued to see <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/184880/revenue-sources-of-us-newspaper-publishers-since-2005/">their revenues plummet</a> over the last few decades. It’s no wonder that they now resort to sensationalism, gaslighting, and in some cases, outright lies. This is now true more than ever amid the current pandemic.
Aside from glaring inaccuracies, one of the most egregious attempts at gaslighting by the media continues to be the belabored trope that President Trump declared COVID-19 a hoax. Regardless of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservatives-2016-election-already-lost-jeremy-boreing">what some of us may think of him</a>, in no uncertain terms did he make such a statement.
Media giants like CNN continue to run with this story though. In an attempt to drive home this false narrative, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/06/politics/scott-stringer-coronavirus-donald-trump-cnntv/index.html">they recently ran a piece</a> about a New York City official who lost his mother to COVID-19:
<blockquote>“Had the President taken this threat seriously and put people&#8217;s health before his political interests, he would have acted immediately,&#8221; Stringer said. &#8220;Instead, he wasted months of time – and spent it talking about how coronavirus was a &#8216;Democratic hoax&#8217; and how the problem would disappear &#8216;like a miracle.&#8217; It was wrong, it was reckless, it cost lives.&#8221;</blockquote>
The fact of the matter is that even <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-coronavirus-rally-remark/">Snopes</a>, hardly a bastion of conservatism and generally an exceedingly liberal site, begrudgingly admits that Trump never declared COVID-19 a hoax:
<blockquote>In context, Trump did not say … that the virus itself was a hoax. He instead said that Democrats’ criticism of his administration’s response to it was a hoax.</blockquote>
Now more than ever, we must critically evaluate everything we are reading and hearing amid this crisis. We can’t allow for confirmation bias, nor can we succumb to dogmatic overtures. Most importantly, we can’t allow ourselves to be gaslighted by the media into states of panic and despair.

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KHAN: The Media Continues To Gaslight The American Public About The Current Pandemic

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Alongside an incredible cast, plenty of twists and turns make HBO’s “The Outsider” binge-worthy, particularly now that many of us find ourselves with plenty of time on our hands. It may not feature <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/review-netflix-docuseries-tiger-king-is-a-bizarre-and-fascinating-true-crime-tale">murderous wives, methamphetamines, or polygamous zookeepers</a>, but it’s still quite entertaining nonetheless.
Based on Stephen King’s 2018 novel, the show combines elements of mystery and horror at an almost maddening pace. Particularly in the first half of the series, “The Outsider” unfolds into a labyrinth of dead ends and ominous clues echoing King’s better works as well as a dash of Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler.
Though I’d already read the novel, I found the show far more compelling than the book itself. Sure, the book is a page-turner with strong elements of mystery and pulp. <a href="https://www.hbo.com/the-outsider/what-to-watch-while-you-wait-richard-price">Richard Price’s</a> adaptation for television, however, manages to smooth out a lot of the rough edges and unsteady plot points that King’s works are sometimes notorious for.
In fact, King is famous for his aversion to plot in his works and even states as such in “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/oct/01/stephenking.sciencefictionfantasyandhorror">On Writing</a>”:
<blockquote>I won&#8217;t try to convince you that I&#8217;ve never plotted any more than I&#8217;d try to convince you that I&#8217;ve never told a lie, but I do both as infrequently as possible. I distrust plot for two reasons: first, because our lives are largely plotless, even when you add in all our reasonable precautions and careful planning; and second, because I believe plotting and the spontaneity of real creation aren&#8217;t compatible.</blockquote>
Unfortunately, “The Outsider” is no exception. Thankfully, Price manages to function as a de facto editor in his rendition of King’s story with solid results.
WARNING: Spoilers Ahead!
For the most part, the show functions largely as a crime thriller punctuated with brief but fantastical moments of supernatural fright. Ralph Anderson, a gnarled small town detective, played exceptionally well by Ben Mendelsohn, arrests Terry Maitland, a popular little league coach, for the brutal murder of a young boy. Amid the uproar and outrage, paradoxical and contradictory evidence emerges.
At loggerheads with his own guilt and misgivings, Anderson begrudgingly recruits Holly Gibney, a quirky private investigator, played by Cynthia Erivo. Fans of King will recall the character of <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a30552601/the-outsider-holly-gibney/">Holly Gibney in other novels</a> as well.
Erivo manages to channel a clinically introverted Sherlock Holmes in playing Holly Gibney though, at odd moments, her portrayal seems to inadvertently hint toward <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095953/">‘Rain Man.’</a> Regardless, she does a fine job.
Gibney discovers the otherworldly origins of the murderer in the form of a demonic presence she dubs El Cuco that feeds off grief and anguish. King’s creature draws from various myths including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelg%C3%A4nger">doppelgangers</a> and, more importantly, the Hispanic folklore of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_(folklore)">Coco</a>, the eater of children, that dates back to the 17th century.
As fantastical as it all sounds, “The Outsider” succeeds in not giving too much of the mysterious creature away while keeping the show grounded as a gritty whodunit. We only get to see the creature in fleeting, peripheral moments that only add to the tension.
Visually, the most terrifying aspects of the show evoke the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley">Uncanny Valley</a>. El Cuco is just barely human enough to give one, at least, a bit of shiver. It’s drooping face and blackened eyes are reminiscent of some of the great costume designs in classic shows like “The Outer Limits” and “The Twilight Zone.” I actually wish they showed a bit more of it.
Now from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-horror-films-may-be-last-remaining-bastion-sharif-khan">a digressive vantage point of faith</a>, the otherworldly elements in “The Outsider” are what draw me toward the genre of horror more than anything else, and what make the show such a fun watch. Too often, we are confronted with a very reductive and, dare I say, limited view of reality each and every day. I mean, right now, avalanches of information accost on an hourly basis. A good horror story reminds us that there is far more to this world then what we often have to reckon with to exhaustion.
Amid all the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-panic-pandemonium-and-the-pandemic">current pandemonium</a>, HBO’s “The Outsider” is not only a worthy distraction, it offers some food for spiritual thought or, at the very least, a reasonable snack of sorts. For fans of mystery and horror, you will not be disappointed.

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KHAN: Review Of ‘The Outsider’ On HBO

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If history tells us anything, the very first casualties in a crisis are often critical thinking and civility. Sadly, this is now evident in the current COVID-19 pandemic. Judging by the insufferable hoarding, overwrought histrionics, and the lack of toilet paper, it’s quite reasonable to say we are fast approaching the zenith of hysterics.
Our collective sense of civility is increasingly fractured and devolving into a conditional mess. That is, some are abandoning the tenets of decency and restraint if their own respective needs are not first met. Instead, they are resorting to infantile tantrums amid dystopian hubris with little to no regard for those most in need, i.e., our elderly and our infirm. Surely, we are better than this. This is simply not what we stand for as Americans.
We all need to do our part to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youre-not-helpless-america-u-s-surgeon-general-tells-americans-how-to-deal-with-coronavirus">flatten the curve</a> with vigilance and cautious appraisal of the various factors involved in the pandemic. We also need to flatten the hysterical curve as well. Panic leads to disorder and disorder leads to chaos. Again, history provides ample proof.
It’s worth noting that, aside from this very real pandemic, we are also enduring an insufferable <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/infodemic-when-unreliable-information-spreads-far-and-wide-11583430244">infodemic</a>. A constant barrage of information is being thrown at us on an hourly basis. A lot of it is just hyperbole disguised as facts. As MIT recently <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615368/facebook-twitter-social-media-infodemic-misinformation/">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Social-media platforms <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/facebook-groups-coronavirus-misinformation-thrives-despite-broader-crackdown-n1151466">continue</a> to be a dangerous socio-technical vulnerability in times of confusion and crisis. When information is scarce, opportunities abound for media manipulators to trade on chaos and fear.</blockquote>
We are also reminded again that the proverbial political swamp remains as bloated as ever and has, so far, proved pretty ineffectual in this crisis. Instead, all the insufferable political volleying back and forth these last few weeks demonstrates just how many heads in Washington remained buried in the sand or elsewhere.
Far too many in Washington insist on using the coronavirus pandemic to undermine their opposition rather than look out for the American public. Others throw caution to the wind in the hopes that this novel virus would simply flit away in the breeze. Clearly, it hasn’t. So far, it has become a perfect storm of apoplectic fits and Polly Anna optimism. It’s even been alleged, but not proven, that some in Washington have tried to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/21/us-senators-accused-coronavirus-insider-trading-are-a-symbol-moral-bankruptcy">profit off the crisis</a>.
This calculated jockeying for positioning in the political sphere is being done with little to no regard for the economy and for our jobs, never mind our public health. David Katz, the founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center wrote the following in a piece for <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/opinion/coronavirus-pandemic-social-distancing.html">The New York Times:</a>
<blockquote>I am deeply concerned that the social, economic and public health consequences of this near total meltdown of normal life – schools and businesses closed, gatherings banned – will be long lasting and calamitous, possibly graver than the direct toll of the virus itself. The stock market will bounce back in time, but many businesses never will. The unemployment, impoverishment and despair likely to result will be public health scourges of the first order.</blockquote>
Larry Brilliant, the epidemiologist who helped defeat smallpox, also offered some much-needed insight on the pandemic in a recent interview with <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-interview-larry-brilliant-smallpox-epidemiologist/">Wired</a>:
<blockquote>Well, I&#8217;m a scientist, but I&#8217;m also a person of faith. And I can&#8217;t ever look at something without asking the question of isn&#8217;t there a higher power that in some way will help us to be the best version of ourselves that we could be?</blockquote>
All of us must simply rise to the occasion. What’s necessary right now for most of us is some hard-eyed optimism alongside a deeper sense of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-amid-so-much-fear-and-fret-what-does-faith-tell-us">faith</a> and good cheer despite the current ominous outlook. We will get through this.

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Now that the Coronavirus has been <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-03-11/italy-passes-10-000-infections-as-clusters-spur-worry-in-us">declared a pandemic</a>, many find themselves at the mercy of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-amid-so-much-fear-and-fret-what-does-faith-tell-us">fear and anxiety</a>. It’s certainly understandable to an extent. After all, we have been inundated these last few months with an endless stream of both information and misinformation regarding COVID-19 that has now turned into a veritable flood.
To be sure, the virus is deserving of a healthy dose of concern and we ought to proceed with caution at this juncture. However, the rising tide of panic amid a variety of wild forebodings ought to remain the major source of apprehension for us.
It seems all the odd prognosticators are coming out of the woodworks to declare all manner of strange claims. Some are even misusing scripture to declare the end is nigh. They are rifling through any and all religious passages to bolster such silly pronouncements.
Never mind that such an exegetical pursuit is a deductive fallacy of sorts that only reckless extremists of all ilk love to make, it also goes against the very foundation of faith itself. Faith inspires us toward meaningful hope and an ability to endure with grace the hardships that befall us. Humility, not hubris, is its benchmark.
Faith is not some tool we employ to prophesize about the future in a reckless manner or, worse, use to speak in God’s stead, especially in times of crises, great and small. At the risk of Polly Anna proclamations, faith reminds us to remain steadfast, even-keeled, trust God, and look to be of service to our neighbors no matter who they are or what they believe. That is an inherently American ideal rooted in the enterprise of faith.
Not to be outdone, many progressives are doubling down on their secular pretensions to declare the sky is falling as well amid the current pandemic. Panic has become both a cheap form of political currency and a kind of dogma for many on the Left. It’s strange and comical to witness them try to save the world with nothing save <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-why-progressives-cant-save-the-world">histrionics</a> at their disposal.
They continue to declare war on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-joaquin-phoenix-rescues-calf-from-slaughterhouse-after-viral-oscars-cow-speech">hamburgers</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-walsh-america-responsible-almost-none-matt-walsh">plastic straws</a> among so many other trivialities in the name of so-called progress. It’s as though they’re hell-bent on summoning the final despondent lines from T.S. Eliot’s masterful poem, <a href="https://allpoetry.com/the-hollow-men">‘The Hollow Men”</a>:
<blockquote>“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”</blockquote>
The truth is, the current pandemic is just the way the world spins, not the way it ends. Trials and tribulations on an individual and on a societal level are often the orders of the day. Sadly, war, famine, and disease are mainstays of the human condition. Just a cursory glance at the entire history of the world confirms this beyond a shadow of a doubt. This world was never meant to be a utopia or some form of paradise.
I’d be remiss though if I didn’t share my own personal fears and apprehensions on the current crisis. I mean, the Lakers were atop the Western Conference and poised for a legitimate run at another championship after a long drought. That run may be for naught now that the NBA has rather wisely <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-nba-suspends-season-after-player-tests-positive-for-coronavirus">suspended all games</a> for the time being.
Forgive my attempt at some much-needed levity. In all seriousness, my most pressing concern remains for the elderly, including my own parents. God willing, we will come together as a nation devoid of fatiguing partisan lunacy as we’ve done innumerable times in the past and find our way out of this pandemic stronger than ever.

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“Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget
What thou among the leaves hast never known,
The weariness, the fever, and the fret…”
– John Keats, <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44479/ode-to-a-nightingale">Ode to a Nightingale</a>
Just a brief glance at the headlines these days can find us overwhelmed by phantasms of calamity. Plagues and disasters seem to lurk around every corner. We are accosted by bad news and fear-mongering 24/7 online and elsewhere. Obviously, going ape over every possible hazard, real or imagined, just isn’t the wisest course in life for any of us.
Certainly, we can’t yield to blind optimism either. Some measure of vigilance is always necessary in life. Voltaire said it best in “Candide”:
“‘What&#8217;s optimism?’ asked Cacambo. &#8216;I&#8217;m afraid to say,&#8217; said Candide, &#8216;that it&#8217;s a mania for insisting that all is well when things are going badly.”
Faith affords us a very different kind of optimism than the one Voltaire mocks and derides. It’s grounded in the fundamental notion that hardships will befall all of us in some capacity, but that we are more than capable to rise to the occasion in service to others and ourselves with God at our side.
In fact, it may be that the hardships that fall upon our shoulders are the very things that mold and shape us into who we ought to be. Often it’s the challenges we don’t want to face that force us to grow in spite of ourselves.
We are not afforded visions or foresight into our future. Instead, God tasks us with the profound and simple command to trust Him because ultimately, all is well and as it should be – as inscrutable as that may seem at times. Of course, such trust in God is no easy feat. Just ask <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_(biblical_figure)">Job</a>.
Here was a righteous man of God beset by a harrowing series of afflictions in his life. Loss of family, loss of wealth, and disease all assailed Job in unimaginable ways.
Though Job may have questioned his own existence at times in his anguish, he never abandoned his belief in God throughout the entirety of his trials and tribulations. Trust in God is how Job finally defeated the Devil’s most powerful tool: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-faith-in-a-dark-time">Despair</a>.
Rabbi Harold Kushner offers good insight on Job in his book, “The Book of Job: When Bad Things Happened To A Good Person”:
<blockquote>It is to this dimension of God, a God who cannot tolerate the reduction of a human being, fashioned in His image, to less than human status, that Job may be appealing. Job, in his extremity, is calling on God, saying,  “I have no one left. I am without family. My friends have deserted me. You who are the Father of all humanity…”</blockquote>
In more recent times, one can draw from Viktor Frankl and his harrowing account of the Holocaust in his seminal work, “Man’s Search For Meaning”:
<blockquote>Life in a concentration camp tore open the human soul and exposed its depths…The rift dividing good from evil, which goes through all human beings, reaches into the lowest depths and becomes apparent even on the bottom of the abyss which is laid open by the concentration camp.</blockquote>
In spite of such horrors, Frankl emphasizes again and again just how integral faith was for survival in concentration camps:
<blockquote>…I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost…It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.</blockquote>
The world will always remain in a state of flux. Calamities great and small will befall all of us. Faith in God, however, remains our greatest antidote in such times. Our greatest strength as Americans and as people of faith is that we rise to any occasion and never succumb to it.

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KHAN: Amid So Much Fear And Fret, What Does Faith Tell Us?

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Amid the mass shootings, the substantial <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-a-thin-line-separates-suicide-from-violence-among-men-today">uptick in suicides</a>, and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-addiction-fuels-homelessness-crisis-not-lack-sharif-khan">addiction epidemic</a>, the constant refrain seems to be that America is suffering a mental health crisis. Certainly, the numbers bear out when we consider prescription drug use to treat anxiety and depression alone.
<a href="https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/astounding-increase-in-antidepressant-use-by-americans-201110203624">Harvard University</a> reported that antidepressant use has increased by 400% since the 1990s:
<blockquote>According…to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), the rate of antidepressant use in this country among teens and adults (people ages 12 and older) increased by almost 400% between 1988–1994 and 2005–2008.</blockquote>
Those statistics alone should be cause for some serious soul-searching for all of us. Such a staggering increase in antidepressant use certainly adds to the argument that America is quickly becoming a helpless, inoculated society of hopeless souls.
Even a popular <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UoMXF73j0c&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=722">TED Talk</a> diagnosed our current plight with exacting precision:
<blockquote>We are the most addicted, we are the most medicated, obese, and in-debt adult cohort in human history.</blockquote>
Worse, the actual effectiveness of antidepressants is not at all confirmed when factoring in <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/npp2012153">placebo</a>. In fact, the claims made by psychiatry and by pharmaceutical companies on antidepressants remain quite dogmatic. In a piece entitled “The Psychiatric Drug Crisis” for <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-psychiatric-drug-crisis">The New Yorker</a>, Gary Greenberg states the following:
<blockquote>Despite their continued failure to understand how psychiatric drugs work, doctors continue to tell patients that their troubles are the result of chemical imbalances in their brains. As Frank Ayd pointed out, this explanation helps reassure patients even as it encourages them to take their medicine, and it fits in perfectly with our expectation that doctors will seek out and destroy the chemical villains responsible for all of our suffering, both physical and mental. The theory may not work as science, but it is a devastatingly effective myth.</blockquote>
Sadly, simple physical exercise has been repeatedly proven to be more effective in treating mild to moderate depression. In 2014, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/for-depression-prescribing-exercise-before-medication/284587/">The Atlantic Monthly</a> reported:
<blockquote>A 2011 study…looked at 127 depressed people who hadn’t experienced relief from SSRIs, a common type of antidepressant, and found that exercise <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21658349">led 30 percent of them into remission</a>—a result that was as good as, or better than, drugs alone.</blockquote>
If simple physical exercise can remedy an exceedingly common mental health issue, the fundamental problem with so many in America is, ultimately, a moral one. Our volition, our sense of courage and forbearance, are all now at a premium. However, so many are now accosted by a very insidious and nihilistic question: “What’s the point?”
Resignation and defeat seem to pervade the American landscape. We can barely even register notions of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-men-must-learn-to-uphold-the-common-good-again">the common good</a>, never mind what is objectively good for ourselves.
The moral and ethical foundation that ought to buttress us in times of hardship and fatigue is cracked and crumbling, if not altogether broken. While the Left has certainly deconstructed our values into oblivion, we cannot disregard our collective <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-anxiety-and-faith-in-these-modern-times">spiritual and moral lassitude</a> in this crisis either.
At best, only frail and brittle platitudes inform our collective moral pedigree these days. There are no longer discernible footholds to guide us out of the various trials and tribulations that assail us. Instead, we are told to inoculate ourselves with all manner of pills and potions. Others simply turn to illicit drugs and alcohol to remedy the existential aches.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-faith-in-a-dark-time">A dull despair</a> seems the order of the day. We must do better. It’s imperative that we dust off and engage our moral compass once again for the betterment of each other, and for ourselves. And we must do so with courage, fortitude, and, most importantly, hope.

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