Thread by @JewhadiTM

Malice Has Its Day in the Sun

“Fake News” is a symptom of a bigger problem.

spectator.org/malice-has-its…

Ever hear of the “Anti-Trump Diet”?

It’s a thing you might not know about unless you live in or near Raleigh, North Carolina, where it was a cover story in the September 19 issue of the local weekly.

The diet was touted by a self-described “Vegan Feminist” who “wants to weaponize what you eat in the war against the evil empire.” That was the teaser.

Anyone unfamiliar with IndyWeek might be forgiven for thinking that only a clever satire would marinate a diet in TDS, but the story was written by "investigative reporter" @LeighTauss.

The article is a thinly-disguised book plug, willfully blind to the irony of weaponizing food & larded with questions like “Why is the kitchen your chosen battlefield?” and “Can you explain how the lines between animal oppression and female oppression blur?”

Activists who exploit cultural and philosophical divides are a dime a dozen.

Three generations ago, the appointment of singer Anita Bryant to the Florida Citrus Commission prompted gay activists to call for a nationwide boycott of OJ from that state because Bryant didn’t think a law forbidding discrimination against gays and lesbians was necessary.

What makes open disdain for traditional American (that is to say, freedom loving and non-socialist) opinions so noteworthy is that it’s no longer confined to fringe publications or personalities.

One example: an allegedly “straight news” story from the Washington Post that was reprinted in many other newspapers, including the Seattle Times and Raleigh’s own News & Observer, where it ran under the headline, “Mattis’ goals teeter amid Trump curveballs.”

Deep in the story, its reporters let their masks of objectivity slip,: Mattis (they write) “played a critical role in securing a 2-year budget deal from Congress” and “has largely insulated the Pentagon from the... politicization that Trump has inflicted on the CIA and the FBI.”

See what they did there? It wasn’t President Trump who “politicized” the CIA and the FBI.

it was the executive leadership at those agencies — officials who bragged about having an “insurance policy” against Donald Trump’s election, and pushed an entirely phony “collusion with Russia” narrative based on falsehoods purchased and published by Dems...

In other words, to the extent that news is “fake,” it’s because malice has gone mainstream, with the blessing of people who should know better but are blinded by contempt for anyone who disagrees with them.

As conservative writer and film producer @DineshDSouza has been trying to point out, the political party that gave birth to the Ku Klux Klan and the anti-anti-Communist movement is now the home of Antifa and the so-called “Resistance.”