Expert Tom Nichols grubs for Retweets with RIFF on MASS KILLING of human beings in New York

by Fred T

People are dead. They were grocery shopping. They felt safe. And then a stranger filled with hatred attacked and killed them. Not even for imagined wrongs. Just because they were the bad guys in his sick mind.

And in reaction to that horrific fact, one-time pretend conservative and current guy who determines his self-worth in Twitter adoration Steve Schmi– err, Tom Nichols spread hate in return. He named the bad guys as a group. He fostered exactly and sowed the exact kind of mindless division and rancor to which his throwaway retweet bait ostensibly was tossed online in reply.

Late in life liberals always do the thing they say they oppose. Always.

This is of course factually absurd as an absolute. As hyperbole it’s grossly misinformed – or deliberately misinforming.

In fact it is the case that murders across the world and across the country and across New York and even just in Buffalo are committed by all races. And in fact it is true that even mass shooting, even those motivated specifically by hatred, are likewise a United Colors of Benetton rainbow of disturbed, bitter, unstable, evil people.

Some people reacted in anger to Tom’s approximation of outrage, offering up instances he was overlooking, glossing over, ignoring, or ignorant of. Others mocked his routine’s predictable regularity.

This one gets close to nailing the whole thing with a single sentence.

All that responding in kind is fine for what it is but it’s still letting Nichols off the hook easy.

Tom, who will never, ever read this article, believes that he’s “covered.” In fact he thinks the objections are telling on those objecting. He thinks to himself, and says to friends, and hell maybe he has even tweeted (I ain’t gonna go read his feed, you do it) that he never pegged it to an ideology or a political affiliation. And so those who yelp must’ve had their tails stepped on. They must have felt indicted.

But that’s not true at all. Tom knows what his audience reads in between those lines, and so do the people who hate him. That’s the idea. That’s why he said it.

He types: “A young white male shooter with a livestream and a manifesto. Every time, the script writes itself.”

But he means the same thing that S.E. Cupp and Elie Mystal and Joe Lockhart mean. The same thing that Tiffany Cross says every Saturday and Brian Stelter says every Sunday. He means Fox News. He means Donald Trump. He means you.

But most of all, he means “retweet me.”

Nichols isn’t offering any sort of legitimate critique of modern society or guns or the culture wars or politics or even the incidence of young white males with manifestos harming others.

He’s not describing a pattern or positing a reason for it, he’s not hoping for or offering solutions or even theories about solutions. He isn’t doing anything even like those kinds of things.

He’s just doing what all the blue check media types do. Using the least words with the most implication of the most trite observations that appeal to the widest swath of the woke left so he can get that precious, mass market praise reserved for the most banal participants in the public square. That Twitter love, that fellow blue check approval.

Men and women are dead. A brave security officer was killed in the line of duty, and nine of the customers he tried to protect are gone with him. Families are bereft. These were human beings cut down at random for nothing. And Tom’s response is to try and capitalize on that. To make it about him and the pet issues of his audience.

Lives ended by an unimaginable burst of hatred, and Tom Nichols decided to open his Twitter app and spread a little more hate in response.

How sick is that?
 


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