TST 5/4/23 - Don't Debate Just Race Bait

Every major news story is motivated by selective narratives. Andrew Lester shooting Ralph Yarl is somehow racially motivated, but Kevin Monahan shooting Kaylin Gillis is just gun violence. Robert Singletary shooting a six year old girl and her parents is also gun violence and has nothing to do with race. But when Francisco Oropesa, a five-times deported Mexican national, executed five of his Mexican neighbors in Texas, the story wasn’t about gun violence or race, it was buried. Meanwhile, overall crime rates are down and most violent incidents, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, are “committed by an offender of the same race or ethnicity as the victim.” Those crimes are even down. (https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv20sst.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1i9Myq66U12XlhGVSVNfqhAlG-fth5sASZpipo9V3dY6i2IOWvV78d6TU)This is what the mainstream and alternative media does with lies by omission, ignoring of facts, sensationalism, and out-of-context details. Imagine what sort of awesome power could be wielded with the introduction of artificial intelligence into these tactics, with fake videos and photos, even fake voice recordings. Our grip on reality would be lost forever. Now the story of Jordan Neely begins the cycle over again.