Monday, September 16, 2013

Matthew Shepard, Trayvon Martin, Brandon Darby and the Power of Leftist Mythmaking

Matthew Shepard, Trayvon Martin, Brandon Darby and the Power of Leftist Mythmaking:
Despite the clear evidence that the story that Shepard was done in by deadly homophobia was inaccurate and that Shepard was instead killled in a meth-fueled bender by another man who was bisexual, Hicklin states:
There are valuable reasons for telling certain stories in a certain way at pivotal times, but that doesn’t mean we have to hold on to them once they’ve outlived their usefulness.
Take a moment and read that quote again, because it's one of the clearest statements ever written on how the left sees "the narrative." It's moral relativism applied to epistemology and metaphysics. There is no such thing as truth to the left. There are "certain stories" that can be told "a certain way." The story tellers, whether they are artist or journalist, simply pick and choose which story they will tell which way depending upon whether it's a "pivotal time."
This philosophy explains why in so many cases you get a story that is heavily hyped in the culture at one point and then later the real story comes out. While trying to drive a gay rights agenda, the myth of Matthew Shepard was useful, so that's what ended up getting reported. If it's useful to say that Shepard was killed by homophobic good ol' boys in Wyoming, the news media and the arts go all in on that story.

.....The Matthew Shepard case proved that America was so homophobic that gay men could be crucified by straight men just for being gay. Except the story we were sold wasn't true.
The Trayvon Martin myth proved that America was so racist that young black men can't walk the streets without fear of being racially profiled and murdered. Except it wasn't true.
The Steubenville myth proved that America is so sexist and sports-obsessed that a small town covers up a brutal rape. Except it wasn't true.
The Brandon Darby myth proves that America uses entrapment to make up stories about a terrorism threat that doesn't really exist. Except it wasn't true.

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