This is a great demonstration of how the mainstream media in the English speaking world are now essentially a single entity that circulates homogeneous, constructed and noticeably ideologically slanted narratives.
The same threadbare, tangential fragment of salacious material that the state broadcaster at the top of the world in Canada has leapt upon to sex-up the pointless act of barbarism that occurred in Toronto last week is simultaneously being torqued for its sensationalist value by the state broadcaster at the bottom of the globe in Australia.
So what if “we don’t have proof that these conditions led to the horrific van attack in Toronto that left 10 dead and 14 injured” as the CBC freely acknowledges in its version of the script? What’s the point of a reputable news organization refraining from divisive and irresponsible speculation when it can justify it by simply pronouncing “it’s worth discussing regardless”?
And so we have ‘The Dawn of the Planet of the INCELS’ story-line. We will be contending with it for the foreseeable future. Proceed to set your hair on fire and run around hysterically exaggerating out of all rational proportion the threat posed by a handful of obscure Internet nerds who can’t get laid.
But the media is only using this nonsense about ‘incels’ as a literary device. The real intention is to insert their favourite ideological narrative into a tragedy that has no inherent meaning of its own. The unambiguous takeaway that both the CBC and the ABC are propagandizing to their respective hemispheres is that the proper focus of your rage, your blame and your fear is on “white” people, on “men” and on those who do not conform to ‘progressive’-Left ideology.
CBC: “Combine powerful online echo chambers, the perceived decline of the white male, a surge in online troll culture and groups of angry and alienated men, and you have a powerful cocktail for dangerous radicalization.”
ABC: “They’re primarily straight, white dudes who claim to be plotting violent revolution because women won’t have sex with them.”
The CBC explicitly identifies a “hatred of social progressive values” as one of the officially sinister characteristics motivating all of the lunatics who have deliberately mowed down pedestrians in a rented van in Toronto. From the first one ever to this latest one. Which is also the first one ever.
This is apparently sufficient evidence of an irrefutable pattern to those in charge of our state broadcasters… whose sole purpose it seems is to expose the public to their biases.
If you are a taxpayer in Canada or Australia who has internalized this ideology… then you probably regard having your generic preconceptions mirrored back to you by your publicly funded media as something like responsible journalism.
Those of you who still prefer independent thinking might be inclined to feel like you’re not exactly getting your money’s worth.
