Colleyville, Texas and the evils of identity politics

Why did the leaders of the free world sob more over a hate incident that didn't happen than they did over one that did? It's because everything is now judged according to identity, according to the inhuman accordance of moral worth to social and ethnic groups depending on where they appear on the ladder of woke concern. The Smollett lie had all the right ingredients: a gay, black man attacked by white supremacists (none of which happened). And so it became a cause célèbre. Colleyville, in contrast, is all wrong. A Muslim of Pakistani heritage attacking white Jews? There's no woke mileage in that for Biden, Harris and the rest, and so it is just perfunctorily denounced or outright ignored.

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