It is in our human nature to overlook small things in the wake of big things, and that makes rational sense. So with the mass murders of Hamas getting the justified attention of the world since October 7, it’s easy to forget two murders that happened in America just a few days earlier. Certainly the MSM news cycle has.

But the MSM is probably quite happy to forget these two for precisely the reasons they should not be forgotten and in that respect they’re at least as important and meaningful as that of George Floyd’s in 2020.

First up is this fellow (with that specific Leftie look of sneering condescension):

Josh Kruger, a leftist journalist and activist who was based in Philadelphia, was shot and killed inside his home on Monday. Kruger had a long history of downplaying violent crime in the city, often openly mocking those who expressed concerns about homicides in Philadelphia… The 39-year-old Kruger was shot seven times at a residence in the 2300 block of Watkins Street around 1:30 am Monday, reports 6 ABC.

Mr Kruger had a long history of sneering at anybody who was concerned about crime, including violent crime, identified as a gay HIV+ activist who strongly supported Antifa and Burn Loot Murder and naturally was keen on “punching Nazis” (meaning not just MAGA-hat wearing GOPrs but anyone right-of-centre) – because it all flows together. Andy Ngo’s collection of Kruger’s social media history shows all this and it will be his legacy. But the irony grew darker as more information was revealed:

The family of Robert Davis, the 19-year-old black man who apparently shot Kruger, now say that Kruger was a pedophile who had groomed Davis from age 15 and was threatening to post sexually explicit pictures of him online. The two men were actually in a drug-fuelled relationship that was destroying Davis’s life. “He was scared,” Davis’s mother said. “He said ‘He [Kruger] wanted me to do some stuff I didn’t want to do and if I didn’t do it, he said he was going to blackmail me.’”  Police have already found “disturbing” explicit images on Kruger’s phone, as well as methamphetamine in his bedroom.
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Back in 2018, Kruger tweeted:
“The centuries old smear that gay men are pedophiles is getting new life thanks to coordination between far right news sites and far right message boards. This egregious defamation is part of a strategy to target LGBTQ people with violence.”

TBF to the gay community this seems more like an Antifa characteristic.

It’s been something of an open secret, let’s call it “Kyle’s Law”, since the events in Kenosha on that fateful night in 2020, that you can take, say, three radical leftists at random from a mob and there’s a guaranteed chance all of them will have a criminal record and at least one of them will be a pedophile. Joseph Rosenbaum – the bald twerp barking “shoot me, nigga”, before Rittenhouse kindly granted his final wish – raped multiple children aged between 9 and 11. To this day, Antifa call him a “hero”.

And then, just a few hours later and hundreds of miles away in New York City, a similar believer suffered a similar fate:

Around 4 a.m., Ryan Carson and his girlfriend were headed home from a wedding. They were waiting at a bus stop on the corner of Malcolm X Boulevard in Brooklyn when a young man passed by them and began to knock down scooters parked on the block. He then turned his attention to Mr. Carson. 

The assailant screamed “What are you looking at?” and “Imma kill you right now” before he stabbed Carson three times, once through the heart. The entire incident was caught on video, and the suspect’s sister can be heard just after the stabbing saying, “I am so sorry”—calmly, as if they had just bumped shoulders on the sidewalk. Carson’s girlfriend, seemingly in shock, simply told the woman to “go watch him,” apparently referring to the man who had just left her life partner to bleed out on the concrete. 

It should be pointed out that in the days before the events in Israel the murder of Mr Carson got a hell of a lot more attention than the other approximately 300 other murders that have happened in NYC this year. Need I mention the Far Leftist background:

He was a prominent agitator for government facilitation of drug use on the streets, and his girlfriend—who stood silently beside him as he was murdered—was a radical of the “All Cops Are Bastards” variety.
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[His social media] contents are vile, but they are hardly uncommon on the American left today. He identified himself with “antifa,” a loose collection of amateur terrorists who have spent the last half-decade hacking at the roots of American order. He openly celebrated the violent riots and looting that rocked Minneapolis in the months after George Floyd died. (We know of at least twenty-five people killed and billions of dollars in property stolen or destroyed during this unrest.) He urged fellow radicals to attack police officers, mostly by hurling projectiles at them while they did their jobs. Such bloodlust makes sense in light of another post in which Carson described cops bluntly as “subhuman.” In an ironic foreshadowing of his own post-mortem treatment, he reveled in the death by cancer of Rush Limbaugh, a man whose greatest crime was sometimes speaking too loudly on the radio. 

It’s easy to say that these people are immoral, or amoral, but in this case the writer of that article had it right when he said they have no sense of moral reality. Carson held all those beliefs without any guilt. It’s why he approached a clearly disturbed man at 4am. It is why his friends have already excused the murderer as a “victim of a broken system.” It’s why his POS girlfriend refused to cooperate with the cops trying to find his killer.

This article’s title summed up both murders accurately, The Cost of Luxury Beliefs:

I’ve long argued that many people who hold “luxury beliefs”—ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class, while often inflicting costs on the lower classes—are oblivious to the consequences of their views. Support for defunding the police is a classic example. Luxury beliefs can stem from malice, good intentions, or outright naivete.

But the individuals who hold those beliefs, the people who wield the most influence in policy and culture, are often sheltered when their preferences are implemented.

And while these two members of our modern upper class – meaning the circles they move in more than the 19th century notion of wealth and money (French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu argued that “distance from necessity” signals high social class.) – turned out not to be sheltered from their own insane beliefs, the writer’s point holds true for the majority of such people, and the corollary of their lesser brethren:

But the fact remains that poor people are far more likely to be victims of violent crime. For every upper-middle-class person killed, 20 poor people you never hear about are assaulted and murdered. You just never hear about them. They don’t get identified by name in the media. Their stories don’t get told.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the poorest Americans are seven times more likely to be victims of robbery, seven times more likely to be victims of aggravated assault, and twenty times more likely to be victims of sexual assault than Americans who earn more than $75,000. One 2004 study found that people in areas where over 20 percent of inhabitants live in poverty are more than 100 times more likely to be murdered than people in areas where less than 10 percent of residents live in poverty.

Remember those facts the next time some Lefty asshole tells you that their soft-on-crime approach – whether via defunding or de-powering the police, or reduced sentences, or emptying prisons or whatever – will help the oppressed of our society:

A nationwide survey from YouGov found that Americans in the highest income category were by far the most supportive of defunding the police. Among Democratic voters, white Democrats were more likely to support reducing police funding than black or Hispanic Democrats.
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The vast majority of educated people have never been in a real fight or experienced serious physical injury. On occasion, I’ve wondered if this is why many of them believe words are “violence.” They have never known serious physical pain. I recently spoke with an editor at a prestigious magazine who explained how shocked he was to learn from Tara Westover’s memoir Educated how frequently people who work in junkyards experience cuts, scrapes, bruises, and burns. Physical pain—even bodily soreness—was just not a reality in this person’s world.

As always, read the whole thing.