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The Brew: Condemn Vile, Wicked Speech, But Don’t Feed Into Double Standards

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There’s a genuine scandal on the Right, which is garnering massive attention.

Some staffers for Young Republicans engaged in nasty, repulsive racist humor in a group chat, which an internal enemy leaked to Politico magazine. Their language was ugly and indefensible, and the kind of thing that ought to get people fired, whether it’s on the Right or the Left:

Young Republicans’ national leadership immediately and rightly condemned this foul behavior, and called for all involved to resign immediately. In a healthy society, this is how anyone on either side of the political spectrum ought to react.

The problem is, we aren’t in such a society. We’re in one where murder fantasies of your political opponents don’t disqualify you from being the Democrat candidate for attorney general in George Washington’s home state. Where celebrating or lying about the political murder of peaceful activists like Charlie Kirk doesn’t get you ostracized.

Furthermore, we’re in a society where presidents of universities can use genocidal talk about one race — “white” people — and not lose their jobs. Where members of that same race are explicitly excluded from protection of anti-discrimination laws. That’s right, white males aren’t a “protected class.” (The courageous Jeremy Carl wrote an entire book about that fact, and its implications.) They can be fired at will by people who resent their race and sex, and the law will do nothing about it. Neither will civil society. It won’t show up in the media, except in sarcastic articles scoffing at the victims — or perhaps even triumphalistic op-eds that celebrate reverse discrimination as a “historic justice” or something.

And the fact that we’re in such a society tempts many to say that if we can’t impose civility on the Left, we shouldn’t expect it from the Right — that by policing our own ranks and punishing wicked speech and tribalist instincts, we’re not “hewing to a higher standard,” but simply being weak and helping our enemies. Vice President J.D. Vance tapped into this feeling with his response:

The courageous and principled William Wolfe, of the Center for Baptist Leadership also weighed in, suggesting that societal acceptance of anti-white bigotry is causing a vicious but not incomprehensible reaction — where whites respond in kind:

How should we think about this? On the one hand, we don’t want to let the Left drag us down to its own foul, godless level. On the other, should we be complicit in enforcing unjust double standards — only punishing one group of people for a certain kind of behavior? Let me illustrate the conundrum by means of a hypothetical.

We All Oppose Car-Jacking, Don’t We?

Let’s all agree that there are some things we oppose, and would like to see disapproved of by the government, maybe even restrained by law. Okay? Hypothetically, imagine if one state in the union (call it “Transylvania”) passed a law forbidding something wicked — say, carjacking.

But then in practice the Commonwealth of Transylvania carved out a huge exception, refusing to enforce that law when Asian-Americans were the victims. Every other car owner would be protected, except for Asians. In fact, Transylvania judges routinely gave Asians who committed carjacking themselves sentences twice as long as anyone else would earn. (As absurd as this hypothetical might sound, in the Jim Crow South there were numerous laws against “loitering,” “vagrancy,” and other actions that were only enforced against black people — this in addition to laws that were racist explicitly and de jure.)

I think you’d agree that such a situation was unfair. In fact, it might lead you to ask some probing questions, such as:

Do the leaders of Transylvania really oppose car-jacking in principle?
If so, then why do they exempt one group of people from protection?
Is Transylvania’s policy really meant to protect private property, or to punish Asians?

Now imagine that some Asian-Americans in this state, outraged at the double standard, were to go out and commit carjacking themselves, against members of other, legally protected groups. That would be wrong of course — because car-jacking is wrong. But you might not feel the same outrage about it that you would if that state offered Asians the same legal protections as everyone else. You might say that before the state prosecuted those carjackers, it ought to get its house in order, and protect Asian car owners too.

Some people would accuse you of being “pro-carjacking” for saying that. They’d pretend not to understand the deeper point you were trying to make, about unfair double standards that target just one race.

Does all of that make sense? I hope so, because now I’d like you to go back and read it again, making just two substitutions. Instead of “carjacking” plug in “racist discrimination/hatred” and for “Asians” plug in “whites.”

I don’t have an easy answer. But I do think that Young Republicans should revise its statement, and announce it will fire everyone involved in that filthy group chat — conditional on Jay Jones withdrawing from the race for Virginia attorney general, in light of his murder fantasies about Republicans and their children. If hateful speech is punishable by ostracism and ruin, that rule must be applied in a race-neutral, non-partisan fashion, or not at all.

People Who Work for Trump Don’t Get Justice

As if to fuel the perception that we face a two-tier, racially biased justice system here in America, the African-American teens who brutally assaulted a white DOGE staffer were given probation, instead of jail time, by an African-American judge, as The New York Post reports:

Two teenagers who jumped former DOGE staffer Edward “Big Balls” Coristine avoided jail time after pleading guilty to simple assault in a Washington, DC, court Tuesday.

The boy and girl, both 15, from Hyattsvfille, Maryland, were sentenced to probation by a DC court judge, just over two months after the pair were arrested for the vicious Aug. 3 attack, WUSA9 reported.

The boy was handed a 12-month probation and allowed to return home under strict house arrest, while the girl was given a nine-month probation and remanded to a local youth shelter.

Elon Musk, who worked with Coristine, chimed in with his evaluation of the case’s outcome:

DEI Justice Calls Being Black a “Disability”

During the arguments of a case that could cement GOP control of Congress by eliminating racially gerrymandered districts, the woman Joe Biden appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court because of her race and sex suggested that black Americans are comparable to blind people or those in wheelchairs:

Does that logic pass the smell test to you?

Dominion’s Rebrand Ought to Make Us All Deeply Suspicious

Last week I reported on the acquisition of election company Dominion Systems by a Republican who promised that his company, Liberty Vote, would help end election fraud — though it’s not clear how purchasing the company which critics say enabled such fraud would help with that. Election integrity activist Patrick Byrne joined Emerald Robinson on LindellTV to explain what he thinks is really happening here:

Along The Stream

Don’t miss Jim Tonkowich’s thoughtful essay on why we need to read classic books — and no, watching the BBC miniseries just doesn’t count.

Later this morning, watch this in-depth interview on how to preserve the sacred bond of marriage, no matter how tough things get.

 

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.

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