A Modest Proposal: We Need To More Quickly Jump To Prejudicial Conclusions

**Before you read, if you think what follows is to be taken at face value, then you, faceless internet reader, do not know me, a faceless internet poster. If you weren't aware, "A Modest Proposal" is a reference to Jonathan Swift, satirist. Carry on.**

I think it’s time we take a look in the mirror, America.  Let’s look at our big, beautiful, pudgy faces, probably smeared with a combination of chocolate and bacon grease, our hair a little askew, some type of bad mustache with a few stray hairs, and ask ourselves, when did we change?  When did we become something different than who we used to be? We never used to accept news coverage that was this shoddy, this rote, and this lacking in information.  As a country, we used to demand MORE.

As a country, do we really want to become the type of people who are afraid – and that’s what it is: FEAR – to jump to conclusions, and make wildly speculative, semi-to-fully racist accusations based on nothing other than our own internal prejudices and fears?

What NO ONE in the LAMEstream media is willing to say, probably because it’s insanely inappropriate fear mongering based in xenophobia, but mostly because of BIG GOVERNMENT, is that we didn’t jump to conclusions fast enough.  Yes, there was that HERO Erik Rush, who decided, based solely on the sound of explosions in a densely populated American City, assumed that this was the act of Muslim terrorists.  Bravo, I say to you, sir.  You threw caution and common decency to the wind and alienated an entire population of largely peace-loving people based on the actions of a few.  THAT is the America I know.

But we dropped the ball elsewhere.  For every John King report on CNN stating that the suspects were swarthy foreigners, with hard to pronounce names (I’m assuming), we had so many more “RESPONSIBLE” journalists refusing to state what we all knew (everyone was thinking) to be true: dark skinned people are SCARY and responsible for ALL BAD THINGS in the United States.

You guys, I don’t think I saw ANYONE idiotically and carelessly try to plant the seeds of unnecessary fear with the Black Panthers, or ACORN.  Have we forgotten ACORN, everyone?  And their voter fraud pimps?  They were voter fraud, right?  Or were they the pimps?  Whatever, we know they were totally responsible for everything they were proven not to have actually done.

How come no one turned the spotlight of panicky scapegoating onto the Mexicans?  I mean, we still don’t have a wall yet, do we?  Can you prove that it wasn’t some crazy guy with a sombrero the size of the lead singer of Los Lobos who leaned a bomb up against his nappin’ cactus? (All Hispanic people have cactuses against which they nap, right?) No!  Yet no one made that claim!

I’m not interested in the truth. I’m interested in the FREEDOM to make stupid, hurtful, moronic accusations based solely on white privilege, about having the FREEDOM of RELIGION to not have to worry about praying that the people responsible for awful things don’t look like me, haven’t bastardized the God to whom I pray, and the RIGHT as an AMERICAN to live free from suspicion because of my ethnicity, something I can’t change.  I can’t change that I’m white, and white people don’t do things wrong, people. I guess this is what tyranny feels like, people.  It’s standing on a street corner, screaming about Tyranny, and no one is listening, because everyone else knows it’s not true.  Also, Tyranny, as I’ve come to understand it is how insufferable Tim Wise is on twitter when he’s right and he knows it. Unfollow, Tim.  UNFOLLOW.