OK, This Is Too Funny. The Left's New 'Hero' Has a Rap Sheet

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Earlier today, I wrote about the likely Psy Op involving the Patriot Front's march in Washington yesterday. 

As I said then, I really don't care much about the Patriot Front itself—there are more people who got struck by lightning last year than are members of the group, so even if they are genuinely white supremacists, they tell you nothing about what ordinary conservatives think. 

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But the Pravda Media worked hard to get everybody deeply concerned about the "rise of white supremacy" based on the fact that a bunch of cosplayers rode a subway and walked around with flags. 

Walking is all they did. Nobody got hurt. Nobody was even shouted at. They marched with flags and left, and we are supposed to worry about the rise of fascism in America. 

Whatever. If the Patriot Front is a genuine white supremacist group, they are the first one in history to be comprised entirely of young, fit men in their 20s with no tattoos, no beards, and a willingness to walk around looking almost exactly like an FBI training group. Or, for that matter, to ride on a subway car with a lone black female and a Reuters photographer, bothering neither. 

Yet that young woman is, we are told, the modern Rosa Parks. If you followed any of this over the past couple of days, and it was impossible not to if you jumped onto X, you saw a lot of people deeply troubled by the whole scene. 

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So someone annoyed by the whole affair decided to track that young woman down, and what they found was interesting. 

At least the Patriot Guys kept their clothes on. 

There's a reason why every conservative I know thinks that the Patriot Front is a front organization and not real, and it's not just that they are picture perfect and so easily packaged in a way that hits every liberal's political erogenous zone. No ideological group looks so homogenous in every way. There are genuine white supremacist groups out there, and most of them are older, of every morphological type (fat, skinny, bearded, clean shaven), and they don't all walk around in identical outfits so neatly pulled together. 

And they don't travel with Reuters photographers in tow, or get on Washington Metro trains that happen to have a lone black girl on them in a city that is plurality black. 

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But let's assume they are real, and that the scene was real, however implausible that would be. Implausible things do happen, and I have a mutual on X who really WAS hit by lightning, so it does happen. 

Still, would you want your hero to be that girl? The one who pulls her pants down on the Metro, looking like she was about to take a dump? 

The answer, apparently for many on the left, is "Yes." Anything for a good photo you can use for propaganda purposes. 

Which, ironically, brings us to the iconic photo of Rosa Parks, which also was staged. This is something I never knew, and while it doesn't make me any less sympathetic to activism against segregation, it does make me a lot more cynical about media manipulation. 

Almost everyone has seen the famous study in black and white, one of those rare photographs that enter the collective memory as a snapshot of an era and maybe something more. It’s an invitation not just to remember but to reflect.

At the front of a bus, where black people had never ridden before, is Rosa Parks, face turned to the window to her left, seemingly lost in thought as she rides through Montgomery, Ala.

In the seat behind her, like the symbol of the old segregated order, is a young white man looking to his right, his face hard, almost expressionless. The two seem a few inches and a universe apart, each seemingly looking at and for something utterly different.

Everyone knows her. No one knows him.

Except for Catherine Chriss, his daughter. And, like his identity, hidden in plain sight, what’s most telling about the real story of the black woman and the white man is how much of what we think we know is what we read into the picture, not what’s there.

The man on the bus, Nicholas Chriss, was not some irritated Alabama segregationist preserved for history, but a reporter working at the time for United Press International out of Atlanta.

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That was not journalism. In this case, as in so many others, the reporters created the story. 

Parks told her biographer, Douglas Brinkley, that she left her home at the Cleveland Courts housing project specifically for a picture of her on a bus and that the idea was for her to be seated in the front of the bus with a white man behind.

Chriss then agreed to sit behind her for the purpose of the picture. Parks said she was reluctant to take part in the picture, but both the journalists and members of the civil rights community wanted an image that would dramatize what had occurred.

“It was completely a 100- percent staged event,” the biographer said. “There was nothing random about it.”

I am so tired of the emotional manipulation. The Narrative™ building. The whole corrupt enterprise. 

If the media and the establishment don't want us to be cynical and believe that everything is staged, they should quit staging everything. 

I honestly have no idea whether the march by the Patriot Front on Saturday really was 3-400 white supremacists or not, but can you blame me or others for believing ti was? We know that the Unite the Right rally was staged—bought and paid for by the SPLC. We know that the Patriot Front is an organization that participated in that rally, then named "Vanguard America." And we know that almost every racist incident that makes national news is a hoax. 

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Quit gaslighting us, and maybe we will take you seriously. 

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