Just when
Americans think they cannot be horrified any more by innocent people just going
about their lives being gunned down by nut jobs with an agenda and an axe to
grind, here we go again. Two people, Alison Parker, reporter for WDBJ-TV in
Roanoke Virginia, and her cameraman, Adam Ward, were shot last week by a former
colleague at the station. The whole grisly nightmare played out on live TV as
Parker and Ward did a story on area tourism.
The usual sequence of events followed.
Liberals, including presidential candidate Hillary Clinton trampled each other
to see who could get to a camera the quickest to howl about gun control. Race
pimps and their wannabes hoped beyond hope that the shooter was another crazy
white guy who hated media. All of the common denominators were quickly ignored
by mainstream media. There were a lot of disappointed people as the story
unfolded.
There are many things that people would like
to lay the blame on for this tragedy. But perhaps the real reason behind this
shooting? It is a textbook case of learned victim hood and the indoctrination of
political correctness.
So that these pages do not help him in
seeking the notoriety he wanted, he will be referred to here as the shooter. If
there was a poster child for the Left and all that they espouse, this would be
the guy. As a student and occasional member of the media, he bought into the
Party line hook line and sinker. By all accounts of people who came in contact
with him, he longed to be offended. He had an extensive record of filing
complaints against co-workers of discrimination and racist behavior. As someone
who was black and gay, that is hitting it big in the lefty lottery. According
to liberals, have at least one of those things going for you, and you will
never get a fair shake in life.
The shooter was employed at several
television stations in various markets. The same story was told at virtually
every station. No stone was left unturned in the never-ending quest for racists
and anti-gay bigots. The shooter learned the lesson of chronic victim hood well.
Political correctness, that mechanism that,
for the Left, ensures that no one is offended and everyone gets a trophy, also
gets a huge portion of blame. Plenty of people who dealt with this man
suspected some mental imbalance. Yet no one tried to bring attention to it to
the right people. Yes at times in a free society, things are messy, and it is
hard to bring someone’s mental state to the attention of authorities if you are
not a family member or a crime has not been committed. No crime was committed
until the obvious and there was little family communication to be had.
But the most glaring reason made a U-turn
right back to victim hood. No one wanted to single this guy out for fear of
violating all important PC rules. By all means, do not imply that the black guy
or the gay guy may not have all of his marbles! In this case you could be next
in the complaint parade. Who wants that? No, if he is not calling me a racist,
I am not saying anything. Thus a clear case of mental instability falls through
the cracks due to a severe case of PC paranoia.
No amount of blaming guns, mental illness, or
anything else will bring back these two amazing people whose lives and careers
were just beginning. But maybe we can take the Left’s own suggestion. It’s one
they like to drag out when talking about terrorism. If you see something, say
something.
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