Tucker recounts the horrible tragedy of Eliza Fletcher’s murder and calls for us to refuse to accept the horrible status quo, that some places are dangerous and off-limits just because they are.
Highlights include:
“The most important thing to keep in mind in a period of intense change is that things are in fact changing, things weren’t always this way.”
“So, memory, history is your best defense against manipulation. When you remember the way things were, you can fight to preserve them. When you no longer remember, when ‘it was always this way,’ then you’re at their mercy.”
“So, with that in mind, it’s worth remembering that 100 years ago Memphis was one of the richest, best organized cities in the country. It had a booming economy, it had beautiful municipal parks, a lot of them, more than 100. It had one of the most modern sanitation systems in the world.”
“But not anymore.”
“Yesterday, authorities finally found Eliza Fletcher’s body. She’d been thrown like garbage behind an abandoned building in a seedy part of town. The whole story could not be more shocking or more horrible.”
“But here’s what may be the scariest part. Some people didn’t seem particularly shocked or horrified by it. In the hours after Eliza Fletcher’s disappearance, Biden voters on social media seemed to dismiss the crime on racial grounds. Why are we paying so much attention to the kidnapping of an attractive privileged white woman? That’s racist! Others seemed to blame Fletcher for the atrocity committed against her. Why was she jogging at that hour anyway? In Memphis? Come on.”
“The point they were making was clear. Everyone knows the rules. Eliza Fletcher violated those rules. You can’t go outside at certain hours in certain places in America, obviously, and if you do, if you violate the rules, you run the risk of being raped and murdered. That’s how things work in this country, so adapt, accept it, move on.”
“An American citizen should be able to live or walk anywhere in America without being raped or murdered for it, period. That is the baseline requirement for civilization, it’s called order.”
“But increasingly, that is not what we have. What we have is a country where you just can’t go some places. You’re not wanted there and it’s too dangerous for you to go. Most people accept this by default, but we should never accept this under any circumstances.”
“To accept something is to concede that it is more or less normal. Once we acknowledge something as normal, whether it’s children being castrated in the name of ‘trans rights’ or women being murdered by rapists who should be in prison but weren’t because ‘equity,’ once we accept that as normal, we are stuck with it forever. It is the new status quo, it will never change except to get worse.”
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