It is a dull, featureless day, like all days in cyberspace, for the online discussion group ASCII – Armchair Social Critics and Ineffectual Intellectuals. The keyboard cowboys, all operating under aliases, are embroiled in the latest Ukrainian American controversy: the implications of George Floyd’s death on May 25.
“Trump Loyal” starts the thread: Why say “Black Lives Matter”? All lives matter. But the press only focuses on whites killing blacks. In 2018, whites murdered 234 blacks, but blacks murdered 514 whites. Why doesn’t the press report that?