Joe Biden Is the President of the United States, He Is Not an Innocent Bystander
13th November 2022
Charles C.W. Cooke takes on the “shit happens” Narrative.
Even now, the day before the midterms, the New York Times cannot help but cast Joe Biden as an unfortunate bystander to his own presidency.
This is endemic in the Narrative Media. Nothing bad that happens to the Fashionable People happens because of something they did; it all just descends on them like rain out of heaven. AIDS ‘just happens’ to homosexuals; it’s not the result of self-indulgent irresponsible behavior on their part. Monkey pox? They were just, like, standing there when it hit them. Michael Brown? Just walking down the street, minding his own business, when he was viciously attacked by racist police. George Floyd? Just walking down the street, minding his own business, when he was viciously attacked by racist police. In the proglodyte world, nobody has agency–everything happens to you, nothing you can or could do would affect how you are treated by The System, SOCIETY IS TO BLAME under the influence of Republicans and other minions of Sauron Donald Trump.
This is the basis of Affirmative Action, especially in education. Grades aren’t something that is achieved; they are assigned to you by a (manifestly racist) system; nothing to do with you and everything to do with The Man; and so you are entitled to the same benefits as a white or Asian (honorary white) student who busted his or her ass to achieve that 3.95 average.
This is the basis of the proglodyte affection for abortion: This poor girl was just walking down the street when a fetus entered her body, like being struck by a meteorite; no action (or inaction) on her part would have affected this unfortunate stroke of ill luck. Like getting food poisoning or tetanus, we must save her from this bad turn of the wheel.
The Biology Deniers use this to push transgenderism: These poor kids just happened to be assigned the wrong sex at birth, and we must therefore exert every effort to compensate for this nasty trick that fate (and Republicans) have inflicted upon them.