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Jack Del Rio, the defensive coordinator of the Team Formerly Known As Redskins, the Washington Commanders, is $100,000 poorer today, and he is lucky that he still has a job at all, for he has offended the gods of wokeness, and the gods of wokeness are angry and unforgiving gods.
Del Rio had the red, white, and blue temerity to downplay the seismic, world historical, cosmic, intergalactic significance of Jan. 6 and to wonder why the George Floyd riots didn’t get the same lavish attention that is being paid to the alleged “insurrection.” Now, this kind of impudent questioning of woke orthodoxy cannot stand, and Del Rio was not only fined but also forced to acknowledge and abjure his heresy. He did so, however, in a manner that may spell more trouble for him in the future.
On Wednesday, Del Rio aroused the ire of all those who think correct thoughts when he tweeted: “Would love to understand ‘the whole story’ about why the summer of riots, looting, burning and the destruction of personal property is never discussed but this is??? #CommonSense.” Del Rio said: “Let’s have a discussion. Why are we not looking into those things — if we’re going to talk about it — why are we not looking into those things? I can look at images on the TV, people’s livelihoods are being destroyed, businesses are being burned down, no problem. And then we have a dust-up at the Capitol, nothing burned down, and we’re going to make that a major deal.”
A “dustup”! Even “invasion” is not a strong enough word! Why, the earth was cleft asunder and the very heavens were shaken, and the pillars of what the Left calls “our democracy,” that is, their hegemony, tottered and would have fallen altogether had not those stalwart patriots, whose names will be sung by lovers of “democracy” throughout the ages, been there to hold them up. Pelosi! Schumer! Nadler! The heart swells, the soul is stirred, a tear comes to the eye at the names of these selfless heroes, who stood in the breach against the insurrectionist tanks and missiles — unless, of course, you’re a black-hearted, er, evil-hearted bigot on the level of Jack Del Rio, in which case you actually think that riots in which 25 people were killed and which caused $2 billion in damage are worse than events in which a handful of people were killed and minimal damage was done.
The reason why the establishment considers Jan. 6 to be so much more serious than the George Floyd riots is, of course, not because a guy in Viking horns with no weapons and no plan and no leader was going to overthrow the government, but because to pretend that the Capitol incident was an “insurrection” serves the Left’s agenda of stigmatizing and demonizing their legitimate political opposition.
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