"Some liberals are making hay saying one bunch of (behavior) is bad and another bunch of (behavior) is not bad because one is based on reality and the other one isn't. But the behavior would happen no matter what. And the main example that pops to my mind is Kenosha.
Every single thing that every liberal in the country believes about Kenosha is objectively fake, wrong, not at all real.
The Kenosha shot was totally justifiable by any reasonable standard. The victim of the shot was an alleged rapist attempt to steal the car of the woman he allegedly raped and drive off with her (their) kids. The cops can’t let him drive away, they’re not allowed. They don’t want to put the kids into a dangerous high speed chase scenario, and the alleged rapist already broke free of the taser and their attempts to tackle him. The Kenosha protests were based on a fake made-up media reality, not real reality.
And Kyle Rittenhouse's entire encounter, save for his possible choice of firearm, was a clinic in proper defensive gun use.
I could go on for days about this, providing a liberal culture warrior all the facts, all of the actual reality, and they still wouldn't believe it because the facts are so different from their "reality."
The very animus behind the BLM protests of 2020 isn’t grounded in reality.
We know that more black people as a ratio of total black population are shot by cops, and given more protracted sentences, but once you control for the fact that black folks are more likely to be involved in crime, the numbers skew much differently. On a scientific, multivariate analysis, you see that sentencing is in fact racist (about 20% racist) but that blacks aren’t shot by cops any more than whites are, by ratio of committed crimes.
A smart-but-very-not-nice-and-possibly-racist person might take that window into reality and say “well black people should quit breaking the law.” A smart-but-compassionate-and-more-forward-thinking-person, which I hope I am, might say “dude this is a really important clue, we need to dig up the reason why black folks are committing crimes more, and address the underlying causes of black crime rate so we can reduce the number of black people getting shot.” But only someone who believes a false reality would say “cops are racist” based on science. Judges maybe. That seems worth fixing. And that speaks to when and why each tribe bails on science."
Every single thing that every liberal in the country believes about Kenosha is objectively fake, wrong, not at all real.
The Kenosha shot was totally justifiable by any reasonable standard. The victim of the shot was an alleged rapist attempt to steal the car of the woman he allegedly raped and drive off with her (their) kids. The cops can’t let him drive away, they’re not allowed. They don’t want to put the kids into a dangerous high speed chase scenario, and the alleged rapist already broke free of the taser and their attempts to tackle him. The Kenosha protests were based on a fake made-up media reality, not real reality.
And Kyle Rittenhouse's entire encounter, save for his possible choice of firearm, was a clinic in proper defensive gun use.
I could go on for days about this, providing a liberal culture warrior all the facts, all of the actual reality, and they still wouldn't believe it because the facts are so different from their "reality."
The very animus behind the BLM protests of 2020 isn’t grounded in reality.
We know that more black people as a ratio of total black population are shot by cops, and given more protracted sentences, but once you control for the fact that black folks are more likely to be involved in crime, the numbers skew much differently. On a scientific, multivariate analysis, you see that sentencing is in fact racist (about 20% racist) but that blacks aren’t shot by cops any more than whites are, by ratio of committed crimes.
A smart-but-very-not-nice-and-possibly-racist person might take that window into reality and say “well black people should quit breaking the law.” A smart-but-compassionate-and-more-forward-thinking-person, which I hope I am, might say “dude this is a really important clue, we need to dig up the reason why black folks are committing crimes more, and address the underlying causes of black crime rate so we can reduce the number of black people getting shot.” But only someone who believes a false reality would say “cops are racist” based on science. Judges maybe. That seems worth fixing. And that speaks to when and why each tribe bails on science."