Megan McCardle explains: Why people see what they want in protests and police shootings. (WaPo gifted link)
“Who, whom?”
It’s a famous formulation, originally attributed to Vladimir Lenin. It is a formula that abjures any principle in favor of raw power: Actions are justified not by abstract rules but because they are done by the right people, for the right people and to the wrong people.
Clearly, this is a formula for a police state, not a democracy where we are all equal before the law and where government power rests on the consent of the governed. But though we ought to know better, “Who, whom?” thinking pops up in democracies all the time.
Megan's column is very good. Even if you've picked your side on the Renée Good, check it out and beseech yourself, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken.
And while you're at it, ponder Mr. Ramirez's cartoon; it never hurts to wonder if we can do better.
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