The BLM and Biden Scandals You Weren’t Supposed to See By John Fund
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/the-blm-and-biden-scandals-you-werent-supposed-to-see/
Censoring content about these controversies only fuels the public’s increasing distrust of the media and Big Tech.
E ric Hoffer, the late “longshoreman philosopher,” said that “every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
Most of the defenders of censorship by Big Tech have claimed that most of the removed postings have violated “the science” surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. This ignored the fact that many of the offending posts have been by highly credentialed scientists and medical specialists from some of the most prestigious institutions in the world, including Stanford, Yale, Harvard, and Oxford.
But what explains Twitter’s censorship of Jason Whitlock, an African-American sports commentator formerly of ESPN?
Whitlock’s crime is that he posted a link to a real estate blog showing that Patrisse Khan-Cullors, a Black Lives Matter co-founder, was buying a $1.4 million home in a secluded Los Angeles neighborhood where only 1.4 percent of residents are black.
Whitlock had some fun zinging the self-described “trained Marxist” ideologue for her hypocrisy: “She had a lot of options on where to live. She chose one of the whitest places in California. She’ll have her pick of white cops and white people to complain about. That’s a choice, bro.”
Twitter promptly censored the tweet — posting a notice that it was “no longer available.”
Black Lives Matter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who killed Trayvon Martin in Florida. The organization has long been explicitly Marxist, and an affiliate lavishly praised Cuban dictator Fidel Castro when he died. In 2020, donations to it exploded in the wake of George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis. The group took in at least $90 million last year but has received little scrutiny of its operations and finances. Asra Nomani, the widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, writes frequently about extremist groups and has reported on the tangled finances of BLM.
Many former supporters of BLM believe that it’s time for Khan-Cullors and the other co-founders to answer basic questions. Hawk Newsome, the head of New York City’s Black Lives Matter chapter, is calling for an independent investigation into BLM’s finances. Khan-Cullors has recently bought four high-end homes worth a total of $3.2 million.
Samaria Rice and Lisa Simpson, mothers of the late Tamir Rice and Richard Risher respectively, have called on BLM leaders to step down and “stop monopolizing and capitalizing” on their family tragedies.
“We never hired them to be the representatives in the fight for justice for our dead loved ones murdered by the police,” both mothers said in a joint statement.
The family of Michael Brown, whose death in a police-involved shooting in Ferguson, Mo., led to a wave of corporate and foundation donations to BLM, says that their local group has received a total of $500 from BLM. “Why hasn’t my family’s foundation received any assistance from the movement?” Brown’s father asks.
Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, says the real issue with Khan-Cullors isn’t hypocrisy but the censorship by Twitter of criticism of her. “Twitter is rife with such criticism over the lifestyle choices of figures on the right ranging from Donald Trump Jr. to Rand Paul,” he wrote. “I would be equally concerned if criticism of Trump Jr.’s big game hunting exploits or Giuliani’s lavish tastes were censored.”
BLM’s Khan-Cullors isn’t the only left-wing figure to get soft treatment and protection from Big Tech. Recall that Twitter shut down the New York Post’s account after it published a pre-election story that Hunter Biden’s computer had been left at a store for repair and was found to contain disturbing information on how he traded on his family’s name to secure lucrative payouts from suspect Chinese and Ukrainian companies.
After the election, the New York Post was vindicated. The Associated Press reported that Biden’s financial dealings were being scrutinized by the Department of Justice. And this Sunday, John Ratcliffe, former President Trump’s director of national intelligence, told Fox News:
There was an FBI investigation ongoing at the time, before the election. It was Hunter Biden’s laptop. The things on that laptop that the FBI and the Department of Justice have — those are real. But now the question is: Will Joe Biden’s Department of Justice exercise prosecutorial discretion against Joe Biden’s son? I don’t know the answer to that. I know what the answer should be.
A Gallup/Knight poll last year found that nearly half of all Americans think the media is highly biased, with 57 percent saying their own news sources are biased. A troubling 52 percent believe that reporters misrepresent the facts, and 28 percent believe reporters make up facts entirely.
After episodes like the Khan-Cullors censorship and the media
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