PoliticalChic
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1. There is that witticism "There are the folks who know, and the folks who donāt know, but you belong to the third group: the ones who donāt know, and donāt know they donāt know."
Perhaps it can be compared to Reagan's brilliant observation:
āIt isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.ā
No matter the basis or degree of disagreement, here is the reason: there is no such thing as objectivity....we believe what we believe based on the input to our experience, perhaps some generalization about a limited number of experiences, but more likely, what we have read or been told.
2. Which brings me to today's article in Britannica.com.
Matthew Shepard, in full Matthew Wayne Shepard, (born December 1, 1976, Casper, Wyoming, U.S.ādied October 12, 1998, Fort Collins, Colorado), American college student who was severely beaten because of his sexual orientation and was left to die in 1998. He was discovered and hospitalized, though he succumbed to his injuries. His death, which was evidence of the physical danger that homosexuals still sometimes faced in the United States, played a key role in the 2009 passage of legislation that expanded federal hate crime law to include violence committed because of the sexual orientation of the victim.
3. There were a number of hoaxes aimed at advancing the cause of homosexuality, and the most poignant was the death of Matthew Shepard. According to the story found in the press, a young man was beaten to death because he was gay, and hung, crucified, on a barbed wire fence.
Mr. Shepard may have been murdered as stated above, or not, but his death was certainly useful to the Left, to Militant Secularism, to advance a cause that the a particular element of society deems important.
The point here is that there is another view of Mr. Shepard's epic, one which is pretty much hidden by those who control the dissemination of information in this society.
4. "Stephen Jimenez didnāt set out to be the most dangerous journalist on earth.
Or, more to the point, the most dangerous gay journalist.
But Jimenez unearthed a story that few people wanted to hear. And it calls into question everything you think you know about the life and death of one of the leading icons of our age. Matthew Shepard, college student. Killed, at 21, for being gay.
Or was he?
Jimenezās āThe Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard,ā challenges every cultural myth surrounding Shepardās short life and unspeakable death. After some 13 years of digging, including interviews with more than 100 sources, including Shepardās killers, Jimenez makes a radioactive suggestion:
The grisly murder was no hate crime.
Shepardās tragic and untimely demise may not have been fueled by his sexual orientation, but by drugs. For Shepard had likely agreed to trade methamphetamines for sex. And it killed him."
āUncomfortable truthā in Matthew Shepardās death
" Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson, now doing life for murder, were not homophobes, .... McKinney likely had been Shepardās gay or bisexual lover." Ibid.
" In 2004, theABC Newsnews program20/20aired a report quoting claims by McKinney, Henderson, and Kristen Price, the prosecutor and a lead investigator, that the murder had not been motivated by Shepard's sexuality but rather was primarily a drug-related robbery that had turned violent."
"New Details Emerge in Matthew Shepard Murder". ABC News Internet Ventures. November 26, 2004.
5. I don't know whether Mr. Shepard was killed because of his sexual proclivity, or because of illegal drug sales.....but I do know this:
Antonio Gramsci, Italian Marxist theoretician and founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy. Gramsciās motto is that of liberals today: āthat all life is "political."
Perhaps it can be compared to Reagan's brilliant observation:
āIt isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.ā
No matter the basis or degree of disagreement, here is the reason: there is no such thing as objectivity....we believe what we believe based on the input to our experience, perhaps some generalization about a limited number of experiences, but more likely, what we have read or been told.
2. Which brings me to today's article in Britannica.com.
Matthew Shepard, in full Matthew Wayne Shepard, (born December 1, 1976, Casper, Wyoming, U.S.ādied October 12, 1998, Fort Collins, Colorado), American college student who was severely beaten because of his sexual orientation and was left to die in 1998. He was discovered and hospitalized, though he succumbed to his injuries. His death, which was evidence of the physical danger that homosexuals still sometimes faced in the United States, played a key role in the 2009 passage of legislation that expanded federal hate crime law to include violence committed because of the sexual orientation of the victim.
3. There were a number of hoaxes aimed at advancing the cause of homosexuality, and the most poignant was the death of Matthew Shepard. According to the story found in the press, a young man was beaten to death because he was gay, and hung, crucified, on a barbed wire fence.
Mr. Shepard may have been murdered as stated above, or not, but his death was certainly useful to the Left, to Militant Secularism, to advance a cause that the a particular element of society deems important.
The point here is that there is another view of Mr. Shepard's epic, one which is pretty much hidden by those who control the dissemination of information in this society.
4. "Stephen Jimenez didnāt set out to be the most dangerous journalist on earth.
Or, more to the point, the most dangerous gay journalist.
But Jimenez unearthed a story that few people wanted to hear. And it calls into question everything you think you know about the life and death of one of the leading icons of our age. Matthew Shepard, college student. Killed, at 21, for being gay.
Or was he?
Jimenezās āThe Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard,ā challenges every cultural myth surrounding Shepardās short life and unspeakable death. After some 13 years of digging, including interviews with more than 100 sources, including Shepardās killers, Jimenez makes a radioactive suggestion:
The grisly murder was no hate crime.
Shepardās tragic and untimely demise may not have been fueled by his sexual orientation, but by drugs. For Shepard had likely agreed to trade methamphetamines for sex. And it killed him."
āUncomfortable truthā in Matthew Shepardās death
" Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson, now doing life for murder, were not homophobes, .... McKinney likely had been Shepardās gay or bisexual lover." Ibid.
" In 2004, theABC Newsnews program20/20aired a report quoting claims by McKinney, Henderson, and Kristen Price, the prosecutor and a lead investigator, that the murder had not been motivated by Shepard's sexuality but rather was primarily a drug-related robbery that had turned violent."
"New Details Emerge in Matthew Shepard Murder". ABC News Internet Ventures. November 26, 2004.
5. I don't know whether Mr. Shepard was killed because of his sexual proclivity, or because of illegal drug sales.....but I do know this:
Antonio Gramsci, Italian Marxist theoretician and founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy. Gramsciās motto is that of liberals today: āthat all life is "political."