Cognitive dissonance occurs when a person is grappling with simultaneously conflicting information and cannot accept that an old, false idea is being supplemented by a new, true idea. When it comes to Tyre Nichols’ horrific death at the hands of five Black police officers, we can see that America’s race hustlers, who have created a totalitarian world completely invested in racism as the answer to all questions, have swatted aside their cognitive dissonance with a crazed race theory.
Watching the videos showing the last minutes of Tyre Nichols’ life is just awful. It’s like watching a snuff film because he’s lying bound on the ground as the five officers literally beat him to death. I don’t believe we know yet what led to the officers treating Nichols with ferocity from the moment they first removed him from his car, but I do know that nothing justifies beating a helpless man to death.
But first, two observations that have nothing to do with the main point of this post: First, Memphis is one of America’s most dangerous cities, while urban Black culture has too often centered around explosive violence. It makes sense, therefore, that Memphis’s police culture would reflect these things—violent, out-of-control communities will create violent, out-of-control police. Basically, the video showed what looked like gangbangers in action.
Second, Tyre’s last words were to call for his mother, something I found utterly heartbreaking. No matter how old we get, when we think of the ultimate comfort, it’s that moment, beginning at birth and continuing throughout our childhood, when our mother takes us into her arms and makes the world better. It’s not uncommon for people in extremis to cry out for that primal comfort. As a mother, Tyre’s cry cut me to the core.
But back to the subject at hand.
For decades, going back at least as far as OJ Simpson’s trial, but with increasing urgency since Obama appeared on the scene and then, if possible, even more frantically when Trump upset the Obama applecart, leftists have relied upon a single concept to leverage themselves into ever greater political power: racism. Everything that opposes them, every person or idea, is racist. The Trump years added the alternative phrase “White supremacy.”
Critical Race Theory, whether acknowledged or not, permeates leftist thinking. It goes like this: All Whites are inherently racist supremacists who are simultaneously privileged and fragile because of the hideous racial burden crushing their souls. The corollary is that all Blacks, while pure of soul, are perpetual victims, always on the receiving end of White supremacist privilege. And the sub corollary is that police are White supremacists whose job gives them the power to act out physically the racism that other Whites can show only through “systemic” racism and microaggressions.
What happens, though, when the police who manifestly and brutally victimize a Black man are all Black, too? Well, that’s when the cognitive dissonance kicks in. The old idea is that White cops act out their inherent White supremacy on Black victims. The challenging idea, as seen in this case, is that it was Black cops doing the acting.
Because the race hustlers cannot accept that new idea, both because it runs counter to their identities and because they’ll be shunned by their totalitarian friends, they must devise a workaround. So far, that workaround has been to embrace the “No true Scotsman” fallacy. Here’s how that works:
The core principle is that “No true Scotsman wears underwear under his kilt.” The rebuttal is that “Mr. Angus McDonald wears Hanes tighty-whities under his kilt.” The refutation/fallacy is that “Mr. Angus MacDonald is no true Scotsman.”
In this case, the race hustlers are informing us that Black cops who abuse Black citizens aren’t true Blacks. Instead, they are White supremacists with an internalized White psychology that has overridden their otherwise skin color. You can call this the “no true Black” fallacy—or, as Joe Biden said in a political context, if a Black-identifying person didn’t support him, “then you ain’t Black”:
How is this not satire?
How is this not satire? pic.twitter.com/wir0lvbjb2
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 27, 2023
White supremacy doesn't just mean white people oppressing people of color. White supremacy pits POC against each other. White supremacy makes POC hate themselves. Internalized racism is a byproduct of white supremacy. Tokenism is a byproduct of white supremacy. It's all connected
— Christine Liwag Dixon (@cmliwagdixon) January 28, 2023
If one follows this line of reasoning to its logical conclusion, of course, all the Black-on-Black killings that are destroying urban Black America are also the fault of the dominant White culture. Every one of those amoral gangbangers, raised in a fatherless, Godless home, is no longer a “true Black.” We’re all White now.
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I.A.W. U.S. Census & FBI (Table 43a)
Black males make up about 7% of the U.S. population but every year commit ~56% of all the murders and ~64% of all robberies in the U.S… Every year in the U.S. there are ~6,000 African-Americans men, women and children killed and 92% of them were killed by fellow African-Americans.
Where is the outrage from “Black Lives Matter” and prominent members of the African-American community? Where are the words of condemnation and sorrow from “Black Lives Matter”, Obama, Al Sharpton, or Jesse Jackson over the fact that members of their own race are summarily executing each other?
How many bodies do you have to step over to get to the one that you think is important only because a White police officer was involved?
The ~6,000 African-Americans men, women and children killed that are killed by other Blacks are not really killed by other Blacks.
If one follows this line of reasoning to its logical conclusion, of course, all the Black-on-Black killings that are destroying urban Black America are also the fault of the dominant White culture. Every one of those amoral gangbangers, raised in a fatherless, Godless home, is no longer a “true Black.” We’re all White now.
The majority of Blacks and Democrats will believe this Bull Smit.
Democrats should have been struggling with the cognitive dissonance results of their pre-planned destruction of the American Black families and neighborhoods, brought on by inept failed social experiments of redefining what at real family is sans the blessing of a live-in father, now run by violence intimidated mothers driven to fits of fear by Democrat policies of easy black community Drug offerings, taught and encouraged loose sexual practices that produce children where no men step up to fill the roles of father, and are socially and monetarily rewarded by Democrat corrupted taught entitlement that looks the other way when violence and theft becomes a means of getting what the political taught criminals view as their entitlements, either in drugs, sex, money or political power. We hear their corrupt media. who also bears much of the responsibility for the destruction of the African American communities, praise the Victim Nichols as a fine son and father,,,,but nothing about his greatness as a husband. Did he also randomly impregnated some self-created social dependents sans the sanctity of a life protecting marriage certificate? I guarantee you that the majority of the fraudulent 5 who murdered him were also Democrat indoctrinated, denied of the cleansing presence of a strong black live-in father figure to nurture their own manhood past the urge to brutalize and murder images of their own kind.
That’s because for DECADES now, they’ve had it BASHED into their heads, by tv, by news, by their so-called leaders (sharpton etc), that ITS NEVER their fault, its always the white man…
Dostoyevsky from Siberia once said “There are some people who abuse freedom to a point of wishing only evil. They lose the distinction between right and wrong. They do not deny God, they challenge God, and set themselves up as an absolute. He said man is open at two ends,, he is open to the inspirations of Grace, and on other is open to the Devil himself. Some naively think that choosing the former is the only thing to be called the HUMAN condition, but no, I say BOTH combined indeed are the human condition. The former not human but an Angelic and the latter a Devilish one. We are the products of both the good and evil we extemporaneously but freely allow in when left to our human devices of choice, sans social indoctrinations. The individual himself is the true gatekeeper who allows either the better Angels of our nature or the darker Angels of our passions to come in and govern our actions that rule us, to dwell with the legions of good or evil spirits we ourselves choose to define which team we wish to play on and score the most points for. Abuse that God given choice as he sifts us on his scales, and the loss of not just this world, but eternity is in the balance. Dem sob sisters who cannot deal with the reality of the darkest side of man, in their denial of evil just empower it, and open the gate for it, to the point of denying God himself, because if there is a God, there must be a Devil, and then they and their political evil soon get found out.