It’s a sad day at the New York Times and the Boston Globe. Both papers, thinly disguised semi-official advocates for the progressive antifa, BLM, LBGT etc., and various other lefty “movements” saw their movements grind to a halt in the recent elections, despite their rabid view that the revolution was going to begin.
Guess what? There was no Blue wave. There was no repudiation of Trump or Trumpism. Trump didn’t get slaughtered by Biden as the left anticipated and planned for. The Democrats did not tighten their grip on the House of Representatives, as they had anticipated – in fact they LOST several seats. The Democrats did not regain control of the Senate, as they anticipated, so even if Biden eventually wins he will be significantly hamstrung. The Democrats did not, as they anticipated, and despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars, take control of any state legislatures. All these they promised to do. All these the Times and the Globe promised, hoped, and advocated zealously for.
Of course, they have their explanation, which is racism/white supremacy. That is rabid black Globe columnist Jeneé Osterheldt’s explanation the day after the vote – though white supremacy is her answer for just about everything she doesn’t like, if you’ve ever read her columns. Her headline about this? ” Regardless of who wins this election, America is lost”. One classic excerpt: Across the country, business owners boarded up their windows in anticipation of looters and violence over the election results. People are vigilant about their things. But the violence that is racism, sexism, mass incarceration, police brutality, poverty, hunger, xenophobia, LGBTQ+ discrimination, anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia? The list doesn’t end. People don’t understand the reality: America is violence. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/04/nation/regardless-who-wins-this-election-america-is-lost/
Yes, she is part of the “silence is violence” crowd, as if that cute catchphrase actually makes any sense at all if you think about it. it sure sounds cool and hip to call all those things “violence,” but that concept is patently absurd on its face.
Renee Graham is yet another black Globe columnist – her post-election headline was “Black people voted for democracy while Trump supporters chose white supremacy.” So you don’t even have to bother reading her article to see what she had to say. If you do read it, it isn’t much different than Osterheldt’s. It’s all racism, racism, racism, punctuated only by white supremacy, white supremacy, white supremacy, etc. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/06/opinion/black-people-voted-democracy-while-trump-supporters-chose-white-supremacy/?p1=StaffPage
There’s not much if any discussion of any policy differences between parties or candidates other than racism and white supremacy being the cause of the election results they both have found so disappointing. It is clear that these black “progressives” do not admit that there was any election issue other than to support or not support racism and so-called white supremacy.
And then there is the hilarious column by a fellow named Charles M. Blow for the Times, who is just bereft at the outcome. In a wonderful article, Wall Street Journal columnist James Freeman, tees off on Mr. Blow at https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-disappoints-the-new-york-times-again-11604615710?mod=opinion_lead_pos11, which we strongly recommend reading – he includes some precious Twitter quotes from Mr. Blow as well. Mr. Blow is “stunned” because inexplicably “[a] larger percentage of every racial minority voted for Trump this year than in 2016.” He is particularly amazed that that was true among black and Hispanic men AND women:
On Twitter, Mr, Blow adds that these numbers are “so personally devastating to me”. Let’s hope he’ll soon be on the road to recovery. But it’s hard to be optimistic because apparently the survey statistics just will not leave him alone. Mr. Blow notes in the Times:
“This one pushed me back on my heels: the percentage of L.G.B.T. people voting for Trump doubled from 2016, moving from 14 percent to 28 percent. In Georgia the number was 33 percent.”
The Times columnist adds a bizarre declaration on Twitter:
“This is why LGBT people of color don’t really trust the white gays. Yes, I said what I said. Period.”
How dare those stupid voters vote the way their conscience dictated rather than jump on the lefty bandwagon and ask Osterheldt, Graham or Blow how they should vote so they could be well-behaved voters! Goodness, we can’t have that!
These media buffoons are, of course, the people who squawk the loudest about free speech if they think they’re being muzzled, but just try to express a different view to them – that gets you cancelled.