This meme is a fascinating look at how the modern left’s mind works.
▪️For years, it’s been known that the Matthew Shepard (not Shepherd) murder was over drugs, not a random anti-gay hate crime. Both of Shepard’s assailants were on a week long meth bender prior to the murder, Shepard himself was a meth addict and dealer, and reportedly had a sexual relationship with one of his attackers, who was bisexual.
▪️After his brutal murder, the assailants headed to Shepard’s house to finish the robbery, but got sidetracked and ended up brutally assaulted two other young men, which is where they were arrested.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/26/the-truth-behind-americas-most-famous-gay-hate-murder-matthew-shepard
https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=277685&page=1
▪️Yet the initial hate-crime narrative stuck in left-wing activist’s minds, and they never updated their priors, like in so many similar cases. They still think the Shepard murder was a result of some rednecks attacking a kid because he was gay, so this meme make sense in their minds.
▪️Even though Laramie isn’t a small, conservative town. It’s the 3rd largest city in Wyoming and the most liberal, the University of Wyoming is there. Which doesn’t exactly make it Berkeley, but it’s not your stereotypical small town.
▪️Additionally, Laramie residents were horrified at the murder and the assailants were immediately arrested and convicted of first degree murder. The defense even tried using the gay panic angle in hopes of finding sympathetic jurors (which helped fueled the false hate crime narrative) but it backfired. Later, one of the murderer’s girlfriends admitted it was false, she only said it because she thought it would help his case.
▪️So the “small town” of Laramie acted with swift justice against the murderers. This meme makes no sense on any account if you know the facts, but it does make sense in left wing activist’s heads because of the narratives they’ve constructed. It’s instructive to understand this.
As with the leftist freak out over “banned books” this is not banning books, it’s still easy to get Harry Potter and bookstores should be able to limit whatever books they want for whatever reason. But not only does it show a double standard, the rationale is far less justifiable than removing certain content from school libraries. At least there the justification was the content of certain books are inappropriate for children, clearly not every book should be available in a school library. Here, there’s no argument about the content they just don’t like the author’s politics!
Because news came out about his letter to the FBI, revealing he was a nutcase. The letter was rambling and incoherent, claiming he was trained by the US military off the books, and that Walz had instructed him to kill Amy Klobuchar so he could run for Senate. None of it made any sense (Walz is not running for Senate) and none of the assassinations made any sense, even in a diabolical way.
Nearly all of his hit list was Democrats (including Walz) and abortion clinics, but he was supposedly working for Walz?! Plus, one of the guys he killed wasn’t even on his list, and others were no longer in office or deceased. None of it makes sense from any coherent angle.
Basically, it appears the guy was mentally ill and neither the left or right can use the incident to push their agendas anymore, so the story was dropped.
This is so dumb. First, this means LA began as Spanish land founded to support Spanish missions (i.e. colonialism). Which contradicts their entire premise. But the reality is that Los Angeles is a quintessential American city.
▪️When the US acquired California in the 1840s, LA was a small town of less than 2,000 people. It was basically nothing. It became large only after the gold rush and the railroads completed in the 1870-80s, which brought thousands of new settlers and a booming commercial center.
▪️But LA had a major issue limiting its growth, no water. It wasn’t until Mulholland found a water source and built an aqueduct down from Northern California that LA had the infrastructure to grow into a major city.
▪️Then, a combination of oil, real estate and the film industry caused it to boom in the early 1900s. Post WWII, industries like aerospace continued its spectacular growth. Calling this “Mexican land” is a brain dead take. Neither the Mexicans, Spanish nor ...
