{"id":85290,"date":"2019-02-28T07:57:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T11:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=85290"},"modified":"2019-02-28T08:05:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T12:05:04","slug":"stolen-valor-stolen-victimhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85290","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Valor & Stolen Victimhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Washington Times<\/a> just came out with an excellent editorial talking about the nature of society and how “stolen victimhood” compares to “stolen valor.”<\/p>\n

You can tell a lot about a society and the culture by the people whom it venerates as heroes. Not so long ago in the United States military valor and other feats of physical and patriotic derring do were the ne plus ultra of what determined who became venerated. That\u2019s why the crime of \u201cstolen valor\u201d is there in the first place, by men (and sometimes women) who aren\u2019t veterans who want to bask in the glory and respect afforded actual heroes. Were American warriors not heroes, there would be no valor to steal.<\/p>\n

But now we\u2019re witnessing something altogether different. You could call it \u201cstolen victimhood.\u201d The pathetic and outrageous case of\u00a0Jussie Smollett\u00a0is the latest example of this baleful trend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was quite telling – not only that his sandwich survived the attack but that he was able to transition the story into the reaction to it vs. whether it was truthful or not.<\/p>\n

Mr. Smollett\u00a0was strangely unco-operative with the Chicago police. Still clutching the sandwich that survived the attack, he refused to hand over the cellphone he had used during his beating, and took refuge in stolen victimhood. \u201cIt became a thing of like, \u2018Oh, It\u2019s not necessarily that you don\u2019t believe that this is the truth,\u2019\u201d he said several days later, \u201c\u2018You don\u2019t even want to see the truth. If I had said it was a Muslim, or a Mexican, or someone black, I feel like the doubters would have supported me a lot much more. A lot more. And that says a lot about the place that we are in our country.\u2019\u201d Indeed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although the news is a version of storytelling, fact and fiction should stay in their own lanes.\u00a0 It is a terrible trend when we can’t accept the news as the news and have to put on our filters and evaluate everything in context and take into consideration politics, agendas, whether one is making enough money or getting enough playing time as a quarterback or an actor.<\/p>\n

How is what Smollett did any different than a news reporter that uses unnamed sources to promote a narrative?\u00a0 Why are they protected because they are labeled a “journalist?”<\/p>\n

The following clip from the Greg Gutfeld show is funny, but it is a nervous kind of funny since it probably comes too close to what is really going on.\u00a0 Worth every second of viewing.<\/p>\n