Thread by @MarDBallJr

It's not that bigotry against Jews or other ethnicities isn't a bad thing and can't be called out on their own, but @JackPosobiec and others who carry the "conservative media" label still virtue signal and play this game. This enables bigotry against whites and Christians.

https://twitter.com/MarDBallJr/status/1338978511105605632

The trend in popular media, and generally in our culture altogether, has been to tolerate expressed bigotry toward white people and/or Christianity without much, if any, pushback. Instead of confronting it or bucking the trend, conservative media engages in the same pandering.

The Nation of Islam is a dissident cult group wallowing in bigotry. Pick a group outside their narrow umbrella and they're generally bigoted toward them. Yet time and time again media figures ignore almost every objectionable thing about the group except "anti-semitism".

This disproportionate "anti-semitism" outrage is more a product of "conservative media" than the mainstream propaganda media, as mainstream media chooses to ignore the blatant bigotry of the NOI for the most part. The reasons for it are complicated, but the effect is not.

The effect, generally, is a blank spot; a void in both mainstream media and conservative media where there are few willing to speak out against anti-white and/or anti-Christian bigotry.
Just as it is self evident to moral people that #AllLivesMatter, so #AllBigotryMatters.

The mentality some "conservative media" have used to excuse their own values inconsistency and seeming to pander is that "you don't punch down". Besides how this harkens to the "white privilege" arguments, it flies directly in the face of fundamental conservative American values.

Justice doesn't allow for a short criminal to go free and a tall one condemned to the worst conceivable punishment. Likewise, small identity/interest groups do not get a pass for criminal or immoral behaviors, nor for intellectual incorrectness and/or dishonesty.

The reality of this moment is, the conditions are already in play in which the truly privileged minority among the majority groups have enabled, cultivated, and incentivized a competition in identitarianism and victimhood - creating a cultural and political 'victimhood olympics'.

And in such a state, where identitarianism consumes all and victimhood is the ultimate privilege, a competition of pandering to that victim privilege in turn becomes the social measure of an outgroup person's virtue. It also leads/has led to frantic/hysterical blame games.

The end result is a fractured society. Not because of diversity itself, but because the terms set by those with wealth and media platforms is a social standard of competing to be on the most victimized team possible, and against rational values many Americans have accepted it.

The Nation of Islam is bigoted against many groups. Their two biggest targets are "whites" and "Christians". Yes, they're also bigoted against Jews. They're also bigoted against Asians, Sikhs, and a multitude of other identity groups. Should we list them all every time?

It is enough to say NOI is a bigoted group and then list a few examples. It is not helpful to our society as a whole to mention their anti-Jewish bigotry exclusively, every time, as if it was the biggest or only reason NOI is an objectionable group. It feeds divisiveness.

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