VESTER FLANAGAN, POSTER BOY FOR LEFTIST ‘MICROAGGRESSION’ CULTURE

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Breitbart:

Details continued to emerge about the behavior and history of black, gay Virginia shooter Vester Flanagan II, aka Bryce Williams, in the aftermath of brutal slaying of two white journalists on live television on Wednesday.

 

Williams’ blackness and homosexuality are relevant only because Williams used them as rationales for the murders, explaining in a 23-page manifesto that he felt justified in his murders because of racism and homophobia. He said he wanted a “race war” and, on Twitter, specifically accused Alison Parker, one of his victims, of racist comments.

 

Naturally, some on the left bought Williams’ version of events. Sally Kohn of CNN tweeted that Williams “was mentally unstable AND appears to have acted out of sense of victimization i have no reason to believe not justified.”

 

It turns out that Williams did have an unjustified victim complex. According to The New York Post, Williams took nearly everything as a racial insult. Trevor Fair, a cameraman at WDBJ, said Parker would say, “The reporter’s out in the field,” and Williams would respond, “What are you saying, cotton fields? That’s racist.” When a manager brought in watermelon for employees, Williams reportedly said, “You’re doing that because of me… You guys are calling me out because I’m black.” He even accused 7-Eleven of racism for selling watermelon-flavored Slurpees.

 

Bryce Williams may have been mentally ill. But he was the ultimate product of the left’s microaggression society, seeking offense everywhere and then lashing out at others based on a perceived sense of victimization. Some victimization is objectively true, but that doesn’t mean that all claims of victimization are. The notion that subjective self-assessment of victimization should take precedence over objective fact is deeply dangerous.

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