Back in March of last year, I watched as a great pearl clutching occurred in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A large "progress flag," the flag representing the modern-day LGBT movement, was painted on a street and someone in a truck decided to peel out on the mural.
Naturally, the LGBT activist community, the corporate media, and Fort Lauderdale's Democrat mayor were furious and vowed to bring the driver to justice. However, I couldn't help but notice some odd things about the story. For one, there was a camera pointed directly at the mural on the street and nothing else, indicating that they were hoping something like this would happen.
I think it's also bizarre that, despite the truck being in full view, no one can identify the driver and there doesn't seem to be any clue whodunnit to this day. I'm not one for conspiracies, but when you put all this together, I can't help but think it was an inside job.
As I said at the time:
The camera being focused on the flag with (likely) the obvious hope of capturing bigotry also brings up the question of whether or not the vandalization is legitimate. If no one was scuffing the mural then it would be up to those concerned to make a situation to scuff it themselves and make it look like it was done by random people out of some unnecessary hatred.
Is that the case? We can’t be sure until the investigation is complete, but I’m willing to bet that if we don’t hear about the end result of this investigation, then that’s probably what happened.
(READ: The Vandalized Fort Lauderdale Trans Flag Controversy Has Some Oddities)
Why would people go to all that trouble to self-victimize? Because it grants them a kind of public status that's worth its weight in gold in the modern era. They're a "marginalized" group who are "victims" of bigotry and blind hate and that gives a group status in this day and age.
With this kind of status, any wrong done to them can be made into a big deal, and when that happens, those who do them wrong can be made examples of for everyone else to see. Before you know it, that victimization turns into protection and that protection turns into power.
It's not a new strategy for social control. For Democrats and the general left, it's an early chapter in their playbook.
As Ben Kew reported on Tuesday, another vandalization happened, this time in Clearwater, Florida, but this time they actually caught the culprit and gave him a felony charge for it:
The Delray Beach Police Department has made an arrest in the recent incident of intentional vandalism at the LGBTQ Pride intersection on NE 2nd Avenue. Dylan Brewer, 19, of Clearwater, FL, has been arrested and charged with felony criminal mischief over $1000 and reckless driving.
On the evening of Sunday, February 4th, 2024, witnesses reported that Brewer was observed intentionally performing multiple burnouts with his vehicle over the LGBTQ pride crosswalk at the intersection of NE 1st Street and NE 2nd Avenue. The reckless action caused significant damage to the streetscape painting, which serves as a symbol of unity and inclusivity for the LGBTQ community.
Let's be real. This wasn't the tragedy it's being painted as. This is a win for the LGBT activist community. They are happy this happened because now they get to do all the fun things I listed above.
If we're being honest, if you want your community or cause to be respected, the one thing you don't do is paint your flag on the ground where it can be easily defaced. Putting it on asphalt where a person can literally use their car as the method by which to deface something is bait, pure and simple.
They want someone to ruin it because then they can publicly self-victimize, publicly punish the person involved, and then sit back and watch as the public watches the events unfold and see the results of defiance against their group.
To be clear, it's wrong to vandalize things and it shouldn't have been done, but all clues point to this being a set-up, especially with reports going around that similar incidents had happened to pride flags being painted on streets before. For the LGBT activist community, having their flag disrespected is the best thing they could have asked for.
