What the hell is wrong with people? If you felt compelled to cheer the “not guilty” verdicts against Diddy, there’s something wrong with you. There’s something wrong with a lot of people, as morons reportedly poured baby oil over themselves outside the courtroom as the verdict was read, demonstrating that our culture is in an endless, accelerating cycle of rot.
There is no reason for you to have ever heard the name Karen Read, unless you know her. But you probably don’t know her, yet you have heard her name. She ran over her fiancé and killed him, maybe she was drunk, maybe she wasn’t, I didn’t follow it that closely.
I also couldn’t escape it because the media covered her trials like she was a celebrity because she was an attractive white woman, and attractive white women being involved in murder cases (victim or perp) gets almost as much media attention as a celebrity and slightly more attention than a minority having a conflict with a police officer. In other words, the hierarchy of media concern is: 1) celebrities, 2) attractive white women, 3) minority victim vs police of any configuration, 4) nothing – there is no 4, nothing else matters because it doesn’t rate.
It's a sickness in society, a perversion of our culture that celebrity is so “big,” but more than that we have completely obliterated the line between famous and infamous. One used to be something to aspire to, the other a cautionary tale. Now there is no difference.
Ask kids what they want to be when they grow up and one of top answers you will get is “influencer.” They probably can’t explain what that is, likely thinking it is someone famous who doesn’t have to do all that much (truth is, they have to do a lot and constantly, as the public will quickly move on to the next big thing). In other words, they want to be rich and famous and haven’t given it much thought beyond that.
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It is the job of adults to get kids to think of things beyond that, but too many “adults” are sucked into that celebrity/attention vortex too. That’s how you can end up with a crowd of adults outside a courtroom in Manhattan cheering a domestic abuser and sexual deviant (and quite probably much, much worse) being found not guilty of a series of crimes.
What is missing in their lives that this is how it would even occur to them to spend any of their time on the planet this way?
I assume they have no families or their families don’t like them, and who could blame them?
All (mostly) joking aside, we do need to figure out why it is so many people in this country scramble to be a part of something horrible and side with horrible people, guilty or not. I doesn’t matter that Diddy was found not guilty, he’s nothing close to what anyone should want or accept as a person who you’d be happy to have date your daughter or befriend your son. He’s a very sick person, a sickness that is likely fed by having so much money everyone around him indulges anything he can think up and no one has been able to tell him “no” and make it stick in any meaningful way in the last 30 years.
But that sickness is also fed by people who put up with him; people who have seen the video of him beating holy hell out of his girlfriend in a hotel hallway and still support anything about him because he’s rich and famous. That is the sickness we need to root out.
I don’t care about Diddy and how much, if any, time he’s going to spend in prison for the crimes he was convicted of, I’m more concerned with why people cheer him and people like him. Or with why people you’ve never heard of become famous or people found not guilty of murder, but who are responsible for the death of someone, can sign a movie deal and it be perfectly normal seeming.
If we don’t get a handle on our culture soon, our culture will get a hand on us…right around our necks.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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