Think about that for a moment. Top Conservative News is suggesting that four white men killing a black man is unusual enough to be big news. Really.
The anonymous blog UrbanBaby makes several errors of fact about the event, but assures us with remarkable certainty that: Joshua Chellew was killed because he was a white man. Its [sic] that simple."
That is simple indeed, but to get there the right needs to distort the event, even in its current, skeletal form. The distortion takes the form of oversimplification, as above, as well as omission to fit the agenda:
" omitted is any explanation for what started the beating -- not that the beating is excusable, but there's no evidence it had more to do with race than drugs, gambling, debt, or any other speculation.
" omitted is
the precise cause of death -- charged with felony murder, the four suspects may
not have killed Chellew.
" omitted is that still unidentified hit-and-run driver, who may or may not have provided the immediate cause of death.
Turning Racism
Inside-Out Doesn't Make It Any Less Racism
The right reduces Chellew's death to a simplistic racist killing without knowing the race of the gas station attendant or the girl in the car, neither of whom managed to help Chellew in time. They don't know the race of the driver who hit Chellew, or of any of the police and medical responders. And they don't know what relationship Chellew had with any of these people, if any. All the right wants is a real white victim, it's happy to invent the rest.
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