"Real Reporter (TM):" Look at This Ten Second Video of a Near-Deserted NYC Subway Station I Took. There Is No Crime Visible In These Ten Seconds. So the Claim That Murders Are Rising and Crime Is Out of Control Is Just a Racist Myth You Racists, LOL.

Here's how a "Real Reporter" deals with the issue of out-of-control crime in New York City: He takes a ten second video of a nearly empty subway platform in which, mirabile dictu*, no crime is being committed, and sarcastically suggests that this means that crime is not a problem that White Supremacists and MAGA Extremists are claiming it is.

Via Matt Walsh.

Responses:

It's bizarre that this leftist finds the comparison bizarre. We're told that the ten black men killed in 2020 is a national disaster requiring the burning down of cities to avenge -- but that more people being killed on NYC subways in 2022 is a fact of such little importance it should be mocked?!

Little light chemical terrorism. No biggie! Look -- he took video of a crime not being committed!

Someone posted this -- from ten days ago. Same subway station.

NYC Scoop @NY_Scoop

Oct 4
Manhattan: East 14th Street & University Place, a stark naked man went nuts at the Union Square @NYCTSubway station as @MTA officials struggle to get him to calm down before he runs into packed subway car.

@NYPDnews @NYPD6Pct @NYPDTransit @nyc311 https://pic.twitter.com/szcNpMszkt

What do you call a thousand journalists buried up to their flabby necks as the tide comes in?

* First time I've ever used it. Lay off. I should use it once. Everyone should get one free "try." Once a philologist, twice a pervert.

I had to look up the actual meaning and usage. I know it's used to express a kind of sarcastic surprise. It means "marvelous to say" or "miraculous to relate" in Latin. From Virgil.

Like, what a wondrous bit of news I'm thrilled to deliver to you! I think is the general sense. From my own experience, it's always used in a snide or ironic or arch way. I don't think I've ever seen it used in a straight, serious way.

posted by Ace at 01:09 PM

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