Recently a black young man stabbed a white young man to death over a completely trivial argument (the black kid had entered some meeting that he wasn't invited to and was asked to leave, so he just stabbed the person who asked in the heart with a knife. Absolutely incomprehensible.)
The parents and family of the teenager have been essentially on a tour, doing press conference after press conference where they recount with tears in their eyes how he was such a good kid, raised in a good family, and how good of a person he was, demanding justice, and how this entire thing is a complete injustice.
In a recent press conference the father of the other kid showed up, and he was berated and told that it's absolutely "disrespectful." In fact, the police was called and the father was escorted out.
If you watched all of these press conferences and had no context, you would think that it was the parents of the murdered teenager who were tearing up and making touching speeches about how good of a boy he was, how he was raised in a good Christian family. You would also think that it was the killer's father who showed up at one of the press conferences, was called out for being disrespectful, and escorted out by the cops.
As you might guess, and as incredible as it sounds, it's actually the exact opposite:
It's the murderer's parents and family who are making the teary-eyed speeches and calling for "justice" for their son, and proclaiming how much of a good person he was, and how the entire system is racist and unjust, and how he is the actual victim. And it was, indeed, the victim's father who was escorted out by the cops, and called "inappropriate" for showing up.
That's right, the father of the teenager who was murdered, the father who lost his son to this incomprehensible act, who was escorted out by the police, and who was called out for being "inappropriate", as if he was the actual villain in this situation, the actual bad person.
The entire narrative is completely backwards. Murderers are now the "victims", and the family of the people who are murdered are the villains. The "injustice" is when the murderer is held accountable for his heinous crime.
And what's scariest about all of this is that this isn't some kind of weird unique isolated case. There have been numerous similar cases (although this might be the most prominent and visible one so far), and it's only going to become more and more common.
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