OP-ED: The left decides which victims deserve mourning
The rush to excoriate the ICE agent and lionize Good has been so intense for the past few days that even I was accused of having no empathy on more than one FB feed for providing some common sense.
Caitlin Stup, Iryna Zarutska, Karen Diamond, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim.
Does the left even recognize these names?
These five were innocents killed in the past year by criminals who don’t value life or terrorist sympathizers who celebrate death.
I’ll bet many quickly forgot their brutal murders because they didn’t fit the narrative of the shrieking left and the media didn’t scream for justice.
They were hurriedly removed from the legacy news cycle as if they never existed.
I thought about what hypocrites leftist politicians, activists and the legacy media are in both Canada and the U.S. as the tributes flowed in for Renee Good, a woman who was shot on Jan. 7 by an ICE agent on the streets of Minneapolis while obstructing ICE procedures with her car.
Good had, according to news reports, been part of ICE Watch, a group that resists ICE raids.
Videos show her partner telling her to “drive, baby, drive” in the direction of the ICE agents instead of getting out of the car as she was instructed.
The opinions on both sides have been neverending as to whether she intended to harm the agent and whether the ICE agent feared for his life.
Where was the left when the aforementioned innocents were caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and lost their lives to criminals?
Good’s death has seen $1.5-million raised on GoFundMe.
While most politicians remained silent about the innocent killings I’ve mentioned, the mayor of Minneapolis and disgraced governor Tim Walz played judge and jury before they even knew the full details of the shooting. And most irresponsibly, they fired up the easily indoctrinated to protest against ICE. They have done so for days.
But it’s the leftist legacy media outlets — most suffering from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) — and on social media in Canada and the U.S. where so many have lost their minds.
The rush to excoriate the ICE agent and lionize Good has been so intense for the past few days that even I was accused of having no empathy on more than one FB feed for providing some common sense and an alternative view of the situation.
Heaven forbid one suggests the cult of performative and narcissistic empaths don’t really care about Good but are using her death as a means of propping up their anti-ICE, anti-Trump, Elbows Up agenda.
It is clear to me that this is all theatre and the actors that are so easily brainwashed are hypocrites, not that they even realize or would admit it.
For if they were truly “empaths” the politicians and the legacy media would have been equally upset about 25-year-old Stup, whose young life was taken on the very same day as Good when she got caught in the crossfire of two shooters on a Houston bus.
I wouldn’t have known about this if not for a contact of mine who had mentioned it.
A GoFundMe set up for her family has raised $18,810 to date and that’s only because New Yorker Bill Ackman donated $10,000 Tuesday night.
There was no legacy media coverage to help the family.
The same goes for 23-year-old Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska, who was stabbed to death on a Charlotte light rail train last August. The video of what occurred was chilling.
The alleged perpetrator, who had a lengthy criminal record and spent time in prison, now faces the death penalty.
Yet the story was barely a blip on the legacy media radar. Only billionaire Elon Musk donated $1-million for murals around the country so she’d never be forgotten.
Imagine attending a pro-Israel rally and being burned to death by a Molotov cocktail.
That’s what happened to 82-year-old Karen Diamond when 29 people at a peaceful rally in Boulder, Colorado, last June were the victims of alleged assailant Mohamed Sabry Soliman.
We heard little of the tragic event or the fact that Soliman, who is facing many charges, was in Colorado on an expired tourist visa and work authorization.
Of course, there was no GoFundMe. Of course, there was no establishment media outcry.
Soliman is the kind of person that the ICE agents are working to remove from the United States.
Then there’s the lovely couple, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, cut down in the prime of their lives in front of the Israeli embassy, allegedly by a pro-Palestinian terrorist, Elias Rodriguez last May.
The gunman, who reportedly shot the couple 21 times, flew all the way from Chicago to the Washington event.
Their GoFundMe raised only $17,882 of the $26,000 target.
What the obscene media and social media silence on all of these horrific killings proves is that empathy is very selective among the legacy media and left-wing politicians.
It’s a very sick society that virtually ignores the murders that do not advance a preferred political narrative for them.
It’s also sad that so many people are so easily brainwashed by those who can no longer separate right from wrong.