In 2019, Sandy Cortez said:
“There's a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.”
If anyone doubted or didn’t understand what she meant, we’ve had five years of information, actions and data to fill in the blanks.
Chad Felix Greene has been following the tragic death of Nex Benedict, a female Oklahoma high school student who reportedly identified as nonbinary or gender fluid. Benedict got into a fight in the girl’s restroom, one overheard by a supervisor at the school, that lasted approximately two minutes. The entire group of girls was escorted to the principal’s office, where they were examined and other than some scrapes and contusions, pronounced ship shape to be sent home.
Benedict collapsed the next day, was rushed to the emergency room, and sadly passed away.
No cause of death has been released, but the medical examiner did say that there was no evidence any sort of trauma was involved.
But that didn’t stop the powerline sitting carrion birds in the trans lobby.
Pretty much every one of them, including the risible and oddly appropriately named California State representative, Scott Weiner, chimed in on Twitter to say the Chaya Raichik (Libs of TicTok), the transphobic Oklahomans and the GOP was to blame because another trans person was killed at their hands.
The first thing I thought about was the Matthew Shepard case.
In the fullness of time, we learned that Shepard’s murder had nothing to do with homophobia, he was killed over a drug deal.
Greene notes such in his article:
“As a rare and honest 2013 article in the LGBTQ magazine, Advocate, revealed, 'There are obvious reasons why advocates of hate crime legislation must want to preserve one particular version of the Matthew Shepard story, but it was always just that -- a version.'
You see, Shepard wasn't targeted by hateful, violent homophobes, hunting for a victim in that bar that night. They knew Shepard, reportedly were sexual partners and the violence was over drugs. 'It's hardly surprising to learn from Jimenez that Shepard was also a routine drug user, and -- according to some of his friends -- an experienced dealer.'
The article concludes, 'There are valuable reasons for telling certain stories in a certain way at pivotal times, but that doesn't mean we have to hold on to them once they've outlived their usefulness.'”
Like always with these demons, it is the narrative that matters, and the people involved are expendable and disposable when the narratives spawned from their unfortunate or tragic circumstances are no longer useful.
And as AOC said, it is less important to be “precisely, factually, and semantically correct” and more important to be “morally correct”, an interesting perspective given that AOC’s morals seem to dovetail quite nicely with the political agenda of her party – which in this case is supporting the ritual butchering of children and calling it “gender affirming care”.
Too bad that the leading intellectual of the Justice Democrats doesn’t understand that one can’t have one without the other - to be morally right requires being factually correct. The combination of these two results in truth.
Everything else is a lie.
One really must ask themselves just what kind of evil lives in those who value tragedy for political advantage more than morality, facts, and the truth.
If there's anything a Democrat has no use for, it's the truth. They are loath to even say that it exists.
What they are devoted to is their narrative. Nothing else matters. Nothing.
Among the things that don't matter in the least to them? The well-being of the average American.
Just use whatever situation is at hand, tweak it, if needed, dump it like Shepard when deemed no longer useful.
The truth cannot be bent, and therein is the problem with truth for the DEMS.