One of the greatest things about this gig is that I have a readily available platform for venting over politics whenever I want or need to. That's especially helpful in a maddening time like this. Something gets under my skin, I share it with you nice people, and my blood pressure is spared for another hour or two.
Today's venting, dear readers, has to do with social media being the digital whipping boy whenever people reveal themselves to be horrible.
There is one thing that I want to make perfectly clear first: I am not discounting the ability of social media to fan the flames of whichever tragic and/or infuriating dumpster fire that we're dealing with at any given time. Increased connectivity is helping activism in so many ways. I co-founded the Los Angeles Tea Party in 2009 with a few guys who I only knew on Twitter. The worst among us can also get together online though, and that can be a problem.
My point right now is that constantly banging on about the evils of social media is a distraction from the root causes of our societal ills. Social media might add additional fuel to the aforementioned dumpster fire, but it isn't the original source of the fuel, nor does it light the match.
As I have written on may occasions, a lot of people — including many of our neighbors — have always been horrors; social media merely makes us aware of them. In a lot of cases, that can be a valuable service, a prime example being all of the teachers who have been exposed in the last week. We don't need our children being left alone with unstable, taxpayer-funded educators who are publicly cheering on political assassination.
Relating to the horrific murder of Charlie Kirk, a lot of responsibility for that can be laid squarely at the feet of the dinosaur mainstream media. The propagandist mills at CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC have been indulging prominent Democratic psychopaths like Adam Schiff, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jasmine Crockett, and Chris Murphy for years. They're allowed to hold press conferences and appear on panel shows spouting hatefulness about President Trump and his supporters. They're never challenged; they're never asked to tone it down.
They're the ones buying the gasoline and setting it on fire.
After more than two decades of battling and attempting to weaken the mainstream media, I don't want it to get any cover from people's obsession with social media. For example, The New York Times recently published an article with the headline, "Social Platforms Duck Blame for Inflaming Divisions Before Charlie Kirk’s Death." I can assure you that there is no media organization or platform in this country that deserves more blame for "inflaming divisions" than The New York Times. It's important to remember that the Times had more than a century-and-a-half head start on social media.
It's also the primary source of hate-mongering for the academics who keep poisoning the minds of our college students. They all read the Times, and are often given the opportunity to write guest columns to feed the insanity.
Yes, social media is part of the problem, just not as big a part as the real problems are making it out to be.
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