The Burden Of Proof
Why Isn't It On The Accuser And Not the Accused?
Last night, I was watching the response to the Hunter Biden laptop on Twitter.
had an extended tweetstorm illustrating the internal workings of the Twitter company during that time.It wasn’t a surprise that Twitter was wrong and incredibly biased. It wasn’t a surprise that they censored information in the attempt to turn an election, which they in fact did do.
No, what was surprising to me is that when confronted with actual data, the actual receipts, people on the left thought it was okay for Twitter to do what they did. This is typical.
Rationalizations to prove a point, but those rationalizations are supported by straw men. All it does is feed confirmation bias.
The response caused me to think about things like racism and me too and BLM and all the other stuff we have been inundated with over the past few years. They all have the same end game. They want to get rid of the way the Constitution was originally written, usurp individual freedom in favor of the collective, and empower a permanent class of people that will rule and reap the benefits of doing so.
Over the course of the last twenty years or so, we have been inundated with an accuser crying racism and charging an unsuspecting person. The press and society ruin the accused life and when the charges prove to be unfounded, nothing happens.
The latest round of this was in Great Britain.
A Black woman originally named Marlene Headly visited Buckingham Palace. She grew up in England. When she visited the palace, she went by her adopted name of Ngozi Fulani and dressed in traditional African dress. She runs a charity that benefits domestic abuse survivors that are Black.
The godmother to King Charles asked her, “Where are you from?” Ms. Headly interpreted this as overt racism.
Predictably, the press and social media created the typical racism firestorm.
As the facts come out, it looks like there was nothing racist about it. An 83-year-old woman sees a Black woman dressed in traditional African dress and innocently asks, “Where are you from?” It’s a conversation starter.
Perhaps Ms. Headly would have rather been ignored instead of being invited to converse with a close confidant of the King. I don’t expect Ms. Headly to issue any apologies. Meanwhile, Ms. Hussey has lost her standing in the palace.
The #metoo movement also abuses the concept of innocent until proven guilty. There are hundreds of cases of false accusations. Boys and men have to be absolutely walking on eggshells with interactions between them and women. Just staring at the wrong body part invites an accusation. Is it any wonder they have turned to porn?
There are so many cases of this abuse. It’s a very long litany. Fill in your own in the comments:
The noose at NASCAR
Jussie Smollett
Al Sharpton’s entire career ladder climb was based on it.
The Duke volleyball player at BYU. No Repercussions for the volleyball player but the University of South Carolina Dawn Staley women’s basketball coach won’t play BYU.
The NHL. If the NHL needs more diversity, what about the other pro sports? Arguably, baseball and soccer are the most diverse.
The Professors at various universities that have hung racist symbols in their schools hoping to incite an uproar.
Corporate America embracing not only one woke movement, but every woke movement.
The entire intellectual underpinnings of the 1619 Project. Instead, look to 1776 Unites.
John Kass, a longtime reporter for the Chicago Tribune, lost his job simply because he pointed out that George Soros funded a lot of hard left-wing causes. He was accused of antisemitism. It’s a laughable charge if you know John, or if you even have an objective brain cell.
Children (yes, they act as children so I identify them as such) posing as students at various universities needing “safe spaces”. Safe spaces are by definition racist since they specifically exclude one group from being there.
An adult and activist Indian approaching high school students in Washington DC to instigate an event
Like Tawana Brawley, Jussie Smollett, & Bubba Wallace, the Duke Volleyball incident at BYU was yet another fake racial HOAX by a liar; one who should be expelled & criminally charged, but we all know will go unpunished. Frauds like this spit on the victims of actual racism.After an exhaustive investigation, BYU announces they have found zero evidence of any racial slur & they apologized to the fan who was kicked out, saying he did nothing wrong. This was Jussie Smollett on a volleyball court. Duke should be ashamed. https://t.co/XtNEeusIHX
Clay Travis @ClayTravis
How many things like this happen that ruin someone’s life go unreported? I bet plenty because the race card is the ultimate card. It’s why Obama was using it on the stump in Georgia with his fake southern accent the other day.
Over the course of the last decade, standardized tests to get into colleges have been ruled as racist. Of course, for generations college admissions offices were racist. Ask a Jew that tried to get into an Ivy League School from the beginning of time until the mid-1960s. Or maybe as an Asian person today. The fact that admissions directors want to be graded on a subjective standard where goalposts can be consistently moved like “equity” shows they want to practice discrimination and not do things based on merit.
In America, we used to be innocent until proven guilty. We aren’t anymore. With CRT training installed, my three-month-old grandson is already a racist even though he can’t even comprehend what racism is.
It is high time we bring back the concept of innocent until proven guilty. Someday, the mainstream media might rediscover what the concept actually means and apply it evenly. In the meantime, the mainstream public needs to push back hard on the firestorm when it happens. I am hopeful that Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter allows that concept to come back.
America is not a misogynistic, racist country. There is no institutional racism or structural racism. Interestingly, when people try to change structures to give more people an opportunity or chance, like school choice, the leaders of those movements are called racist.
What we need is some bloody common sense which is pretty damn scarce these days.
Imagine this: A cultured woman is at an event that draws persons from all over the globe. She spots a black woman in some form of ceremonial dress -- clearly African -- that she does not recognize.
What does she do?
She asks the black woman in the African dress, "Where are you from?"
It is perfectly innocent and understandable.
The persons who need a throat punch are those who allowed this woman to be sacrificed on the altar of wokeness. Her utterance was not remotely racist. It was curious.
Curiosity is not racist.
We need to stop feeding the false narrative.
Was there cheating on an institutional level in the 2020 Presidential election?
Well, yes, there was. The FBI, the media, and social media conspired -- along with 50 morons who used to run the IC (intelligence community) -- knew that the Hunter Biden laptop was devastating to Joe Biden's presidential election efforts and they lied about it.
The damn FBI sat on that laptop for more than two years knowing from the very beginning it was damning. To this day, they are sitting on it.
Why did they do this? Why did those 50 IC members lie? To steal the election from its rightful victor.
Tell me how I am wrong.
Let's use some common sense and stop feeding the woke craziness.
JLM
www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com
Mr. Zuberi is under the mistaken belief that Mr. Musk needs money for Twitter to survive. Yes, Twitter should make a profit but if it doesn't Mr. Musk will either a) write a check or b) kill it, and laugh when Mr. Zuberi points and says, "see, it didn't survive!"
Multi-billionaires play a very different game compared to us ordinary folk.
America was a misogynistic, racist country in the past; every country was. We are far less misogynistic and racist today than we've ever been. We should quietly celebrate that and then continue to work to perfect our republic. Instead, a significant number of people wish to destroy the republic and substitute, well, something. That something will be more misogynistic and racist than what we have today, though we will be force-fed yet another lie.