The recent terror-horror in New Zealand reminds me of the blinkered outlooks that infects our urban centers. Our cities, with very few exceptions, are essentially one-party (Dem) states enthralled by a left-wing zeitgeist. Anything that can feed into the preferred phobia-angles of modern leftism will be disseminated by our urban-centered media. Other news is ignored. The result is a distortion of the mind.
The New Zealand episode fits the story line since Islamophobia has entered the approved list of the causes for chic resistance. Clearly, the Christchurch act is detestable but rare is the word about actions against Christianity in parts of Africa and the Middle East. Scarcely a word passes the lips at CNN/MSNBC/3-network-sisters and the scribblers at the WaPo/NYT/wire services. Recent stories of massacres of Nigerian Christians by Boko Haram and Fulani Islamists gets little ink. The decimation of Christians in the Middle East is a saga with daily incidents of genocide. Christians are entering the same list with the passenger pigeon in large parts of the world. Again, that kind of inhumanity goes down the memory hole.
(Read here from the New York Post of April 14, 2017.)
But when a nut case blasts his way into a mosque, it’s a media circus. I wish that our news-and-info organizations went back to being about news and information, and not furthering the ends of a narrow zeitgeist.
RogerG