In a twist that everyone and their dog saw coming, the left is getting in front of every working camera they can to try to sell compassion and understanding to the man who killed Iryna Zarutska. They keep trying to push the idea that he was merely a troubled man, completely shrugging off the fact that he was arrested 14 times before the moment that he stabbed Zarutska in the neck.
As I mentioned in an article on Tuesday, the concept being passed around is that the man was a victim of mental illness, a concept that the left loves to pick and choose when to use, or even ignore completely.
To quote myself:
Have you noticed that the left loves to use the term with criminals, as Gutfeld points out, but when it comes to something like mass shooters, they want the term completely erased from the conversation? Bringing it up in the context of repeat criminals, especially non-white ones, allows them to remove the blame from the criminal and replace it with sympathy. Moreover, in a way, it takes the blame off Democrats for the results of their soft-on-crime policies.
"It's not his fault, he's not a criminal, and we're compassionate enough to understand that," is the vibe they want you to get, at least about them. Of course, mental illness goes out the door during a mass shooting because the use of a firearm needs to be a fully conscious, well-thought-out decision, so that gun control can be pushed. If it's clear that the shooter was mentally ill, such as the recent transgender shooter in Minneapolis, the story goes dark as quietly as possible, as quickly as possible.
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I want to be very clear right out of the gate. What the left is displaying isn't compassion. Not real compassion, at least.
This is self-serving, self-gratification, and it's killing people. Plain and simple.
What this boils down to is the left telling their peers and themselves that they are better than others when it comes to kindness and mercy by effectively taking their hands off those whom they deem as being lesser than them. People with mental illness, especially those who are non-white, are often shown bigotry through low expectations, and are seen as people whom society should think do no wrong, and possibly even show deference to.
This is, of course, a lie they tell themselves to feel like they're the good guy. In reality, this kind of attitude gets people assaulted, raped, and murdered. Interestingly enough, when their "compassion" results in any of these things, it's either ignored or excuses are made for it. You can probably turn on CNN right now and see one of those two things happening as you read this.
What makes this so much worse is that Zarutska is just one story out of a myriad of stories happening throughout the country. Major crimes happen every single day, and often from individuals who were "on the radar" and have multiple priors, only to be released because the people in charge want to feel like they're really making a difference in the lives of criminals by being soft on them.
This is a selfish idea. Full stop.
The release of one person who qualifies as "in need of compassion" endangers thousands, specifically women and children. Innocents die or suffer, and too often, and as society cries out in protest, the left simply turns its head or even points the finger back at the real victims.
Here's a question worth considering: How far does the left think they can take this before the citizenry radicalizes? How many murders, rapes, and assaults can continue before husbands, fathers, and brothers begin to take matters into their own hands? How much more pain can their "compassion" inflict on society before the culture shifts and the accusations and claims that used to keep people passive stop working?
I'm not sure this is that far off.
Like I wrote last year, New York's crime problem got so bad that vigilante justice is becoming more normalized.
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The bottom line here is that the left is patting itself on the back while it paints its abandonment of society as "care." It creates policy based on how well it signals its "virtue."
This isn't sustainable, and I suspect the time is coming when the people will establish law themselves in the absence of order.
