An insane amount of the modern progressive agenda involves gaslighting you about basic, provable things.
That man in a wig? It's a woman and you have to pretend it is.
Inflation? It's caused by, um, greed.
That thing we admitted happened in 2021? It now never happened.
The Marxist head of Venezuela? He's right-wing.
The border crisis we said we don't have the power to fix? We're fixing it now, you're welcome.
The student loans we said we didn't have the power to forgive? Of course we have the power to forgive them, we always have.
The debate Trump agreed to with Biden and we extensively reported he agreed to with Biden? He actually agreed to debate Kamala and now he's running away.
Turning Pulse into merely an anti-LGBTQ+ attack accomplishes several things for the media and fringe left:
1) Suggests that criticism of trans activism leads to this or even that this was a right-wing attack on gays.
2) Avoids mentioning the actual Islamist motivations of the attacker, which they fear would raise Islamaphibia
3) Turns it into a parable about guns rather than Islamist terrorism.
4) Avoids talking about the fact that armed police being at Disney Springs led the attacker to switch targets.
The more cynical of those is the suggestions of it being the result of an opponent of LGBTQ+ agenda items who also owns guns.
They want you to hear that and think "crazy right-winger" rather than Islamist terrorist who chose the target as a result of relative convenience.
The subordination of the actual interests of gay people to the paramount interests of not offending Islamists (not Muslims but Islamists) continues apace.
This is what happens when civil authority breaks down and refuses to enforce the law because political considerations.
People deposit some sovereignty into civil authority in exchange for an agreement to enforce laws equally. And when that breaks down, they try to reclaim it.
Which is why if you want a peaceful society, the law needs to be enforced and it needs to be enforced blindly.
Because otherwise civil society devolves back into tribes and vigilantism.
Permissive law breaking, and unequal distribution of justice based on perceived entitlements, lead to violence and disorder not "social justice".
If a violent mob of Klansmen were harassing black people on college campuses and scaring them away, I'd want law enforcement to crush them as well.
And I don't doubt that universities like UF and Georgia would. Because the guiding principle is not tolerating lawlessness.
Universities like Columbia would have zero-tolerance for Klansmen attacking black students but had a long-permissive approach for Marxists attacking Jews. Because the guiding principle was "social justice" rather than rule of law.
The result? Violence. Chaos. Disorder. Persecution.
The dirty little "secret" is that much of the world, including elements of the US government, don't actually want Hamas destroyed.
The quiet part is that they think having an armed militant group occasionally murdering the Jews is just and in line with their oppressor/oppressed world view.
They have to genuflect to "yeah murdering the Jews is bad" but then they don't really want the Jews to rid the world of the violent antisemitic terrorists because the latter group appeals to their "oppressed rising up against the colonizers" radical world view.
Like they may not want Jew murder all of the time. But they see it as a little of the Jews getting their own back, getting knocked down a few pegs, for being privileged colonizing yada yada whatever and at least a little murdering of the Jews as legitimate "anti-colonial" justice.
Harvard was always full of people who hated Jews. People who very vocally supported those who murder Jews.
The only reason you as an alumnus are shocked about it now is because you wore rose colored glasses and comforted yourself with the lie that it was just nuanced criticism of Israeli security policy.
They weren't marching against specifics of Netanyahu's policies with the justification that it made a two-state solution harder to achieve.
They were calling Israelis "occupiers" and calling for them to be driven from the Holy Land and celebrating those who murdered Jews.
You preferred to turn a blind eye to those realities because you didn't want to believe that the cool guy wearing the keffiyeh around his neck in gender studies class who always talked about "decolonizing" and "occupation" actually just wanted dead Jews.
So you comforted yourself with some self-generated lie that actually his labeling Jews as "occupiers" and labeling of Jew-killers as "freedom fighters" was actually a nuanced criticism of the security policies of the Netanyahu administration and he'd totally be cool with a two-state solution where Israelis and Palestinians lived in harmony together respecting each other's pronouns and planning how to implement critical race theory.
As the dude celebrated people who murdered Jews for being Jews.