My guess is that there are many progressive politicians who are also sincerely duped. Everyone around them, including all the authoritative voices of the mainstream media, keep telling them that there’s an epidemic of cops killing unarmed blacks going on, so they’d really have to delve into the numbers independently and think about the facts critically to understand they’re being sold a bill of goods. But that’s why I chose to write something about this particular Washington Post piece. It wasn’t written by mere politicians or even journalists. It was written by academics who actually study this issue. And there’s, of course, absolutely no chance they don’t understand that they’re deceiving us through key omissions and misplaced emphases. If many politicians and journalists are just well-meaning dupes, those guys, the ones who wrote that article, are pure evil-doers, consciously spreading deceptive propaganda to advance their careers by making a big splash mustering support for politically popular positions. It’s beyond disgusting.
