Point A. Two black customers arrested at a Starbucks in Philly Total NPR / MPR freak out ... interviews, "shopping while black", etc, etc
Point B. Fresno State Professor glad Barbara Bush is dead. Lots of mostly right wing outrage, twitter storm, etc.
In a semi-sane world, both of these stories would be LOCAL stories at MOST!
Some worker at a Starbucks over reacted, and some cops likely over reacted as well -- or maybe the two black men got in the cops face. I don't really know, nor care to know. There is no Starbucks nor national police policy on such things, it was AN INCIDENT! Yes, I understand that the BLM race industry tribe sees this as a great manipulation opportunity, so they are using it to the max -- to create conflict, cement a narrative, etc. That is what happens in a tribal state where nobody has a sense of perspective, or an interest in getting along rather than their tribe "winning'.
Ditto the Fresno State proffessor. Of course she is a hateful shrew -- nothing new about there being people like that, the problem is IT GETS MADE INTO A NATIONAL STORY! And the right side tribes make use of it to stir up their troops, get the hate a flowing, get clicks, donations, people on lists, etc. It just weaponizes abject stupidity and lack of any sort of moral decency -- very standard human failings, which no tribe has any corner on at all.
In a CHRISTIAN nation, neither of these stories goes anywhere -- because Christians see these as localized, standardized run of the mill human behavior -- to be locally dealt with, and to say a silent prayer of "there but for the Grace of God ...".
Democracy REQUIRES a population that has a sense of perspective. As John Adams put it:
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