Tessa Majors and the New York Times’ “Robo-Call”; MSM, Left and Right, are Giving the Hate Crime Murder/Disfigurement of Tessa Majors the Standard Treatment, Just Like Police and Prosecutors

By David in TN and Nicholas Stix
Wednesday, January 8, 2020 at 4:07:00 P.M. EST

David in TN: I was in a public library today and glanced at the current National Review. In the Periscope section, there was a paragraph on the Tessa Majors murder. Want to know what National Review calls it? According to the Great Magazine of Conservative Intellectualism it was:

“A robbery gone bad.”

The rest of the MSM is following a template used for the Knoxville Horror whenever they noticed it. Namely, that the “racist reaction” is worse than the murder itself. Today another New York Times essayist called a “racist” robo-call about the murder “the worst thing I ever heard.”

N.S.: Note that National Review has enthusiastically supported the Trayvon Martin Hoax and the Charlottesville Hoax. Its editrix, Rich Lowry, clearly makes editorial decisions based on what will keep those dinner party invitations coming from influential, rich communists like Pinch Sulzberger.

Meanwhile, the New York Times published its version of a “robo-call.” A Barnard professor who is a contributor wrote a column that functioned to divert attention from the racist hate crime committed against Tessa Majors, to a supposedly “white supremacist” robo-call from Idaho to faculty members at Barnard, the latter of which she asserts was motivated by “hate,” as opposed to former, which was a mere, racially-motivated murder.

“I did not know Ms. Majors, but I’m proud to be a teacher at Barnard. It will take a long time for our community to heal; in some ways, we never will.

“When I got the racist robocall, I deleted it instantly. My hope was to erase it from my memory, from my life, from the world I live in.

“But I should have known it’s never that easy. I can still hear that man’s voice. The more I try to forget it, the more it haunts me.

“Since then, I’ve been trying to understand, without much success, what the right response to hate should be. It’s not the first time I’ve heard voices like this, or wrestled with this question.”

“When I was young, I was ridiculed and beaten more than once for being queer. As a public advocate for L.G.B.T.Q. people, I’ve gotten used to threatening letters and being accosted in public. Last year, in response to something I’d written in The Times, someone came up to me on the street in Midtown Manhattan and began to yell and swear.” [“Tessa Majors and the Worst Thing I Ever Heard,” by Jennifer Finney Boylan, New York Times, January 7, 2020.]

The author expects the reader to believe everything in his “thing,” but gives us no reason to. If someone asserts that someone said or did something extremely offensive, he has to say which it was, not demand that we take his word on faith. Two “reporters” at Buzzfeed pulled the same stunt, in their thing about the murder, in which they asserted that a statement on Facebook was “racist,” but refused to quote it. We were simply supposed to take their word for it.

Let’s go over the author’s credibility.

He depicts a nasty telephone call as worse than a murder: Strike One;

He teaches at a college that is dictated by feminist ideology and practices, i.e., lies (including intellectual fraud and rape hoaxes), sexual hatred, and totalitarianism: Strike Two; and

He asserts that he is a she.

Jennifer Finney Boylan’s real name is James Boylan. Several years ago, Boylan declared that he was a woman, a “transgender.” However, his wife and the mother of his children didn’t leave him.

I saw James Boylan and his wife interviewed by Willie Geist on The Today Show several years ago. Geist is a normal man with a wife and kids, but I never saw him act as if a sexually normal life were normal. He was always promoting the perversion of the week.

Boylan fits the stereotype of “transgenders” described by my VDARE colleague, Steve Sailer, to a t: A very aggressive man. There was no doubt as to who wore the pants in the Boylan household.

To attend or work at Barnard, you must be a totalitarian feminist (pardon the redundancy), who lives by lies (ditto). Feminism has both its own set of lies, and the lies it promotes in league with its totalitarian allies, e.g., that innocent black males are constantly being arrested and railroaded or murdered by racist white policemen.

Feminism’s own main lies are:

There are no natural differences between men and women; the differences are all due to patriarchal socialization;

Women everywhere suffer pervasive sexual (now, they say “gender”) discrimination in pay, treatment, etc.;

Women are as intelligent as men;

Women can do every job as well, or better than men;

Privileged, white, heterosexual men maintain a “rape culture”; and

Women never (or virtually never) lie about rape.

When last I checked, James Boylan’s New York Times thing had received 239 comments. Most of them were supportive, as one would expect, but a number of honest comments were also permitted.


andy b
hudson, fl.10h ago
Times Pick

It disturbs me that so many of the comments about this essay totally miss the point of the author. She isn't placing the actual crime in any particular racial context, nor is she excusing the horrific result of it. She is writing about a specific reaction to it : a disheartening robo call on behalf of white supremacists that attempts to capitalize on a tragedy. Many of the commentators here seem to have used this article to grind their own particular axes, while criticizing the author for something not contained in her piece.

AB
New York City4h ago
@andy b People are responding this way because the media's focus has been on the phone calls rather than the murder itself. The case is coming to embody in the minds of many a double standard the media applies to crimes that plausibly have a racial component. When the perpetrator is white and the victim is black, the media's presumption--often asserted as fact--is that the crime is racially motivated or reflects systemic racism but when the perpetrator is black and the victim is Jewish or white, the media avoids noting the race of the perpetrator--or worse--refuses to even entertain the possibility that the crimes are racially motivated--or worse still, bends over backwards to excuse or mitigate the offense. If you willfully ignore the overall context of the article, then these comments are mysterious. If you look at the article impartially and in context, these comments are perfectly understandable.


SAH
New YorkJan. 8
Times Pick
“ What I heard instead was a racist message from a white supremacist group in Idaho, using the incomprehensibly tragic death of a first-year Barnard student, Tessa Majors, as an occasion to promote hatred toward African-Americans.” As Spencer Tracy, as a lawyer, said to the jury in that classic film “Inherit The Wind;” “Ignorance and fanaticism are forever busy and need feeding!” And so these ignorant fanatics feed their warped minds by picking up the phone and spewing hatred to an answering machine!
ms
MidwestJan. 8
Times Pick
The race to condemnation is always emotionally ahead of fact, and there is still an ongoing investigation. I believe Jennifer has this right: Using the murder of a young woman as an opportunity to spew racist hatred in voice mail via robocalls is a step beyond the circumstances of her death. It's capitalizing on an already horrific crime to "stir the pot" of racism. What kind of depraved and inhumane group of individuals targets a community already shaken and in mourning? It took organizational effort to spread such a message as far as possible by collecting the Barnard community's phone numbers and using robocalls to deliver their hate speech.

AS
NY10h ago

@Lifelong Reader It is not race that caused this woman's death. Poverty, a culture of gang banging, a sense of entitlement because of years of discrimination, and jealousy and anger at the privileged lives Barnard and Columbia students share are some more significant factors. Since the police have little evidence what race the perpertrator or perpetrators are is irrelevant.


voltairesmistress
San FranciscoJan. 8
Times Pick

I don’t see how Tessa Major’s killing has anything to do with hate. We still don’t know what happened, whether it was a robbery gone wrong, or a crime with additional motivations such as racial, gender, or class-generated hatred. The young, alleged perpetrators are being sheltered by their families and are not cooperating with the investigators. Whoever robbed and killed Ms. Major deserves swift and harsh justice. I hope we can stop stepping gingerly around this crime like a bunch of woke ballerinas. Violent crime has no color; neither should justice.


Leslie
KokomoJan. 8

@voltairesmistress , juvenile offenders are not "sheltered" by their families - they are protected by the laws that pertain to all young people who enter the juvenile justice system. Bearing in mind that brain development in humans is not complete until age 25, "swift and harsh" justice for them is not at all what should be accorded to fully grown adults, no matter their race or the nature of their crime. I am not at all making excuses for the horrific act these teenagers committed. I would feel exactly the same were the perpetrators the same race as the victim. And that is really the point: if these young men had been white,or the victim had been a person of color, I wonder if people's comments might be different.


Katherine commented January 8
NYCJan. 8

@Leslie You are mistaken. It has been widely reported (in this newspaper even) that one of the 14 year old suspects was sheltered by his family for nearly 2 weeks - long enough for his bite wound to heal that he received from her during the attack. As far as "swift and harsh" justice is concerned - we can debate about what that would look like. But assuming these kids are guilty of this heinous crime, would you seriously want them out on the streets again at 18 living in your neighborhood? Be honest with yourself.


SMcStormy
MNJan. 8

@voltairesmistress / The crime may have had nothing to do with hate, but the message the author received on her answering machine, (and your post), certainly does. When a tiny minority controls most of the power and wealth in the world, and certainly in the US: “White het males,” the rest of the world gets stepped on and kicked with regularity. For every supposed incident of “reverse discrimination” there are 1000 cases of discrimination. There must be, necessarily, because a tiny minority controls most of the power and the wealth. Everyone else cannot be less intelligent, less capable, lazy, its just not statistically possible, much less probable. When 50% of leadership positions from team lead to CEO, in business, government, military, academia are held by women, we can stop talking about discrimination. When People of Color hold similar leadership positions to their representation percentages in society, then we can stop talking about discrimination. And whether a simple snap-shot review or highly-credible thorough longitudinal analysis, the criminal justice wealthy white het males receive versus everyone else is WILDLY disparate. If Weinstein was Black and poor, he’d be in prison already, staying there for decades and to deny this obvious truth is just lying. As for “woke” and the misogynist “ballerinas” comment, language plays an integral part in keeping power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTvSfeCRxe8 .


Nancy
midwestJan. 8
@voltairesmistress The hate here is not who killed Tessa Majors but the white supremacist organization that left a hateful message when they knew no more than any of us about who or why Tessa Majors was murdered.


zmkedem
New York, N.Y.12h ago
@SMcStormy What actually was the message that was left?
chris commented 11 hours ago