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Culture War Roundup for the week of January 23, 2023

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This is the culture war, so there's one detail of supreme importance you haven't mentioned -- the victim in that case, Jason Harley Kloepfer, is white. The mainstream media is not interested. The article on the shooting on Wikipedia has already been proposed for deletion.

It's not so much the media doesn't care about white victims - it's that the African-American community is organized in such a way that if somebody gets shot by the police, somebody in that family knows a pastor or a community organizer who knows another pastor or a local politician who knows somebody reasonably famous or a prominent journalist to get it out there.

Meanwhile, probably half of the white victims' own family will back the cops over the victim.

Something no one ever points out is that the person organizing all these news “events” is Ben Crump the civil rights attorney. He pretty much makes or breaks cases and whether they become national news. Pretty much every famous case including Breonna Taylor, Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown etc have been represented by Ben Crump.

Really? I've never even heard of him, that's crazy. The worst thing is that knowledge of this fact would probably dial down the heat of the culture war.

You haven't? He's pretty well known.

The worst thing is that knowledge of this fact would probably dial down the heat of the culture war.

I doubt it. He isn't (just) some shadowy figure manipulating things from behind the scenes. He's front and center in the news conferences for all of these incidents.

He has only been mentioned once before in the entire history of the motte, and that was in relation to desantis and his ap course. Including when we were on reddit. This is the only place I read about those things because of toxoplasma. News conferences in particular are generally entirely substance free and more about emotional manipulation.

Not sure how you’re searching, but I’ve certainly mentioned him before on /r/TheMotte, e.g. here

He’s under-discussed, certainly. But it’s not accurate to say he’s never been mentioned

IIRC there were also discussions at some point of the indie documentary film The Trayvon Hoax which prominently features Crump (accusing him of witness tampering), a controversy regarding theaters backing out of airing it, and the resulting defamation suit against Mr. Crump by the filmmaker

Ah shit, I only did a google site: search on reddit for "Benjamin Crump", not Ben Crump. Sorry for that. Also I wish I had read that post when you posted it, because it was excellent.

No worries and ty! Glad he’s being discussed more

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