Why no one will learn the lessons from "Citi Bike Karen" fiascohttps://tomknighton.substack.com/p/why-no-one-will-learn-the-lessonsThere are lessons to be learned here, including that whole critical thinking thing.
After all, why would we assume a pregnant woman would seek out an altercation with a group of young, fit men? It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. People should have questioned the whole thing from the start, especially when we’ve been told that one of the problems modern women face is fear that they’ll be murdered for whatever reason by some guy.
Why, then, would a vulnerable healthcare worker—she was wearing her scrubs in the video, which is funny because it wasn’t that long ago that she would have been described as a hero—put herself in the position to be killed like that?
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Did CNN learn its lesson after (the Covington kids story-fiasco)? Not really.
It’s also pretty obvious that no one else did, either. They’re not worried about the truth. They haven’t been for a very long time, if ever. Instead, the media is looking for stories it can use to advance the narrative that there’s all this racism in the country, and this was too good to view skeptically.
Unwillingness to think and learn has morphed into inability.
