Social Justice Warrior mistakes black guy for white guy
Esquire published an article on Wednesday called It’s Good to Be White When You’re Doing Crimes.
It followed the story of a man named Mark Ponder who participated in the January 6 protests at the Capitol in Washington DC.
Video and images show Ponder attacking Capitol police with a flag pole, which is an obvious crime.
Ponder was detained by police, but released about a half hour later when officers realized they were needed for further crowd control.
After Ponder was released, he went straight back to the Capitol.
The article concludes that “it’s impossible to imagine this kind of scenario if the detainee were Black.” And the entire point of the article, in fact, was to complain about white privilege, and that the only reason Mark Ponder was given such leniency is because he is white.
There’s only one problem with Esquire’s logic: Mark Ponder is black.
If the author of the article in Esquire had bothered to glance at the indictment documents he referred to, he would have seen the pictures of the suspect’s face.
Think about it— not only did the author of the article fail to perform any basic research, but this glaring and obvious mistake was also not uncovered by the magazine’s proofreader, assistant editor, and editor-in-chief.
No one at the magazine bothered to even look. Someone presented them with a story about white privilege and they automatically published it without hesitation.
The article has since been completely re-written with the most insipid preface
“We made an incorrect assumption about the race of the suspect in the original version of this post. The story has been updated. We apologize for the error.”
A more appropriate statement would be
“We are fanatical zealots who have no regard for facts or basic journalistic standards. Yet we still expect to be taken seriously.”
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