Some of the animals are clearly more equal than others, as illustrated in this piece by Christopher Rulo at City Journal. The background is that in Seattle a woman was raped by a man living in one of the city’s sponsored homeless encampments. The author assisted the woman in making a short documentary video testimony about her attack. Here is the sequella:
Progressive activists launched a counterattack against Lindsey on social media. Local journalist Erica Barnett claimed that the story drew attention because Lindsey is an “attractive blonde woman†and dismissed the victim’s “many tears†as theatrics serving a false narrative that the homeless represent a danger to the community. She demanded that the media temper its reporting and be mindful that “graphic descriptions of violent rape may be triggering for survivors.†Barnett’s message was amplified on left-wing Twitter; Councilwoman Lorena Gonzalez claimed that Lindsey’s story would create fear and cause harm to communities “that may already be triggered.â€
The reality: city-sanctioned encampments in Seattle have become magnets for crime and violence. According to the Seattle Times, when the city opened a low-barrier encampment in Licton Springs, the police recorded a 221 percent increase in reported crimes and public disturbances. Neighbors witnessed a dramatic rise in property destruction, violence, prostitution, and drug dealing in the area. According to King County Jail statistics, homeless individuals are 38 times more likely to commit crimes than the average citizen (the homeless represented 0.5 percent of the population but 19 percent of jail bookings last year).
Seattle’s activist class seems, then, to have more compassion for transient criminals than for the victims of their crimes.
I think it’s more complex than that. There must be some hierarchy, heavily weighted by race and class, for assessing victimhood. I don’t quite have the instincts for it and I suspect it’s rapidly evolving but there must be some way of making these assessments.
Freeattle has become a socialists dream, and a normal persons nightmare.
“I think it’s more complex than that. There must be some hierarchy, heavily weighted by race and class, for assessing victimhood”
There is, but it’s always shifting and you’ll never figure it out.
Never argue with the “woke”, its what they want.
Look up the Progressive Stack for a start then watch the Mean Girls movie paying close attention to the lunch room table rules while doing a few dozen hits from the “fight the system” labelled bong.