ReasonTV/Wikimedia Commons Taylor Lorenz
Certain people in our society are members of what has been called the “culture of death.” They have outed themselves again, too, in a most shocking way: Celebrating the murder of the healthcare CEO assassinated Wednesday on a Manhattan street.
What’s more, in this they’re not just cheering the murder of a man. They’re also, usually unwittingly, enabling the murder of the United States’ first-world status as Third World behavior becomes normalized.
The victim on Wednesday was UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a 50-year-old Minnesota resident. Thompson, reports The Independent,
was due to speak at an investor meeting when he was gunned down at point-blank range around 6:46 a.m. on Wednesady [sic] outside the New York Hilton Midtown on Manhattan’s 6th Avenue.
Police are calling the crime a “targeted attack.”
No question. The video, which I won’t post here, shows the black-clad assassin coolly approaching Thompson and shooting him in the back. The killer then draws closer and fires more shots into the felled man, making sure the job is done. So this was either a political hit or a killing driven by personal motives.
As commentator Monica Showalter points out, this is another sign of the U.S.’s descent into Third Worldism. Coming in the wake of the two attempts on Donald Trump’s life, it signals that assassination may become the new normal. In fact, don’t “be surprised if the U.S. starts resembling certain South American countries,” Showalter warns. Despite this, there are those who cheer the killing.
The Grim Reaper’s Groupies
Enter Taylor Lorenz, the ex-Washington Post journalist who, as Showalter puts it, seems quite “unstable.” Here’s a selection of her tweets, courtesy of Showalter:
For those unfamiliar with Lorenz, Showalter writes that she, do recall,
is famous for her doxxing of political opponents. When she was at the Washington Post [she] doxxed the once-anonymous owner of LibsOfTikTok, even going to the home of a relative to do so, and then lied to her editors about consulting sources. She’s also got the censorship bug in her, demanding that Twitter ban certain accounts for her, with a pre-Elon Musk Twitter exec emailing to another that “we need to be careful with her.”
It all suggests at least a semi-violent orientation.
For sure. Note that doxxing somebody can be an invitation to perform a hit on the target. The tacit message can be, “Here’s this individual’s personal information. It would really, really be a shame if something happened to him.”
Lorenz has many partners in “crime,” too. Just consider a couple more tweets Showalter provides:
Here’s one that could perhaps get you arrested in Britain (though I’m not advocating U.K.-like hate-speech laws. Note: language warning):
Then, one X user provided perspective:
A Historical Pattern
Understandably, some may dismiss the above as anecdotes and anomalies. Yet this behavior is actually the continuation of a historical pattern. For example, consider far-left representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), who, rabble-rousing in 2018, encouraged a crowd to harass Trump administration officials. (Video below.)
Yet that was tame compared to many leftists, who, not being public figures, can thoroughly show their true colors. Just consider the reaction to this 2012 video featuring a cute six-year-old boy providing 10 reasons to vote against Barack Obama. Here’s a sampling of responses from its now-disabled comments section (I documented them previously):
- “can someone kill that child… to teach his parents a lesson!!!!”
- “If I could id kill this kid.”
- “This child and his parents need to be euthanized.”
- “GO F*** YOUR MOTHER YOU LITTLE ****-SUCKING HOMOPHOBIC GUN LOVING ****-SUCKER.”
A similar fate befell eight-year-old Ava Martinez, a girl dubbed “Mini AOC” for doing satirical impressions of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). She had to cease her activities in July 2019 after she was doxxed and threatened with death.
Both Sides Do It? Not Really
Conditioning and the desire to be “even-handed” (as opposed to truly objective) will cause many to say, “Well, both sides do it.” True — with perhaps a 99-to-1 leftist/rightist ratio.
As I illustrated in 2020’s “Violence, Inc.: A Leftist Enterprise,” virtually all political violence originates with the Left. If this seems a bold claim, ponder a question:
What, and where, are the conservative analogues to the above examples of evil?
When have we seen GOP politicians behaving as Maxine Waters did? Where are the rightists threatening left-wing child activists (pawns), of which there are many, with death? (This perhaps only happens instinctively with people who’ve already made child murder a cause; i.e, abortion.)
For that matter, leftists are now notorious for their Trump Derangement Syndrome fits of rage. This is witnessed continually on social media, as in this very funny video. Where were the conservatives acting likewise after the elections of Obama and Joe Biden?
We don’t have such videos and comments for a simple reason: As a rule, they don’t exist. Were it otherwise, the mainstream media would put them front and center.
In fact, hate-crime hoaxes — framing conservatives, in other words — are relatively common precisely because rightist violence is not.
Dark Character
Showalter provides a few historical examples of leftist-movement violence in her piece. But there are simply too many to list here. Suffice it to say, however, that the so-called Left has been violent ever since its French Revolution birth and that event’s Reign of Terror. Its character has never changed, either.
And what is that character? Leftism isn’t really an ideology; it’s a process. Detached from Truth, morally relativistic/nihilistic, and hostile toward virtue, leftism represents movement toward moral disorder. Thus does it attract people with disordered thinking (e.g., more than 50 percent of young, liberal, white women have been diagnosed with some form of “mental health” problem).
This is why leftists often warn of “right-wing” threats. They’re projecting onto others what they would do to their opponents — if they had the power.
