People who occupy the same ball of dirt in space consider interracial marriage to be a “sin” caused by sinfulness — whether the site and their reporter agree is unclear.

Joe and Jay gave us the two key components of the story that took the internet by storm on Wednesday, in which Buzzfeed singled out a couple with a TV show, Chip And Joanna Gaines, and attacked them over their failure to offer a timely disavowal of their sacred religious beliefs in a way that satisfied Kate Aurthur. Joe gave us the front end of the story, and Jay filled in the background. The short version is that they targeted this couple because they were mad about Trump. Or something.

On Twitter, popular writer and editor of Ricochet Jon Gabriel offered a third vital act to this play: the reversal. Via Twitchy:

Dear @KateAurthur: Did you single out the Chip and Joanna Gaines because you despise interracial couples? Need your response ASAP.

— jon gabriel (@exjon) November 30, 2016

Hmm, no comment from @KateAurthur. So there's a good chance she singled out Chip and Joanna Gaines because she despises interracial couples.

— jon gabriel (@exjon) November 30, 2016

https://twitter.com/CuffyMeh/status/804104122647646208

I think @KateAurthur's refusal to respond to my journalistic inquiry speaks volumes. I hope @BuzzFeedBen can root out this hideous racism.

— jon gabriel (@exjon) November 30, 2016

STILL no response from @KateAurthur or @BuzzFeed. It's 2016, and they refuse to clarify their retrograde views on mixed-race relationships.

— jon gabriel (@exjon) November 30, 2016

This is already awesome. Already, he’s exposed the ridiculous nature of this story. But it gets even better.

With the majority of reality show stars being caucasian, why did lily-white @KateAurthur bully an interracial couple? I think we might know.

— jon gabriel (@exjon) November 30, 2016

And that’s not even the microphone drop.

I guess some @BuzzFeed writers will just never accept a successful minority female business owner.

— jon gabriel (@exjon) November 30, 2016

That’s checkmate you guys. Game, set, match. Other sayings about finality. And there’s so much more to the story at Twitchy.

This is a well established pattern. The left can, and will, take anything, and use it as a knife. Not out of journalistic curiosity or investigative imperatives, but out of mere vindictive spite. It’s the expulsion of bile, built up through years of seething in anger that reality refuses to agree, comply, or cooperate with your opinion on how it ought to behave. How everyone in it ought to behave.

Anything you say can be turned into something it isn’t, made into a weapon to be used against you forever and ever more. Flipping it back on them is a powerful way to illustrate it.

Or, if you’re short on time …

tl;dr – Buzzfeed reporter refuses to comment on possible racist motivation for recent article.

…. wait I will add one more thing, because it’s worth adding this in 2016.

No, that's what makes this so frustrating. I know so many good journalists over there. This is not up to their standards. https://t.co/N2eChNssnt

— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 1, 2016