Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Why the media is trying to lynch Ben Carson

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Why is Ben Carson being so mercilessly flogged by the mainstream media? Jerome Hudson at Breitbart believes he knows the answer:
...Why is it this way? Carson’s political flogging, if you will, serves two purposes.

First, it serves as a warning to blacks, Hispanics, women, and any other member of the Liberal Victimhood Class System that should you ever decide to leave The Liberal Thought Plantation, we’ll sic the dogs on you!

Second, the mainstream media is a 24-hour propaganda mill charged with protecting a false narrative about American life for blacks, Hispanics, and women in 2015 to benefit the Democratic party. There are Cardinals of Faith that liberal media elites must propagate and protect. And Ben Carson–his life story, his politically incorrect character–is a threat and is anathema to the preferred progressive orthodoxy.

...No matter that before he was surgically splitting brains, Ben Carson was being raised in poverty by a single mother. The disgusting, and yet prevailing, wisdom among far too many Americans is that if black people grow up impoverished like Ben Carson did, their unfortunate fate is a fixture of an America that is, always was, and always will be a devoutly racist place. And if you are black in America, you should never expect to achieve any meaningful socioeconomic success–like becoming a brilliant brain surgeon–simply because of the barriers American racism persistently permit.

Of course, this is fallacy.

...More pointedly, Ben Carson rebukes that bitter ethos and the victim-focused racial identity it breeds. And now that–as a national figure running for president–he has chosen not to be a mindless minstrel puppet, tap dancing, performing, like a good boy, for his white liberal media gatekeepers, he is being whipped, strung up, and left to hang.
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