Political correctness has made it so that one cannot ask tough questions about racially selective news “reporting” or trends in criminal violence without being cast off as a bigot.
New York City’s Staten Island borough is being plagued by a recent succession of hate crimes. National Public Radio reported Aug. 20 of “at least 10 alleged hate crimes in the borough’s Port Richmond area since April — all violent, and all perpetrated against Mexicans.”
It wasn’t until a few days ago when I proactively searched for “recent hate crimes” in Google News that I came across this story. It wasn’t the lead feature on CNN. It never headlined the Drudge Report. Like me, many of you probably hadn’t heard about these unfortunate incidences of violence until now.
Why? Could it be because, as the Los Angeles Times revealed last week, 10 of the 11 assaults “involved blacks attacking Mexicans”?
Remember the Duke lacrosse case, the case that unnecessarily ruined the reputations of three innocent white Duke University students when they were falsely accused of rape by a black student and a pandering district attorney embroiled in a tough re-election bid? That “scandal” was front-page material for months. But charges of minority-instigated hate crimes can’t even crack the Fox News ticker.
It seems the media only care about reporting on hate crimes when whites are doing the hating. Is that claim too edgy? Too callous? Too speculative? Maybe so, but it’s getting difficult to care anymore.