Don’t believe your lying eyes

We’ve all heard a lot about the mainstream media and how it has been infiltrated by corruption. The media has not only picked sides, in the political realm, they are no doubt the Most Valuable Player.

We heard testimony last week from Mark Zuckerberg, who finally admitted that the Biden administration had pressured social media outlets to censor some COVID-19 content during the pandemic. Zuckerberg said, “I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. … We’re ready to push back if something like this happens again.” Can we believe him?

The job of the media is to shed light so the people can find their way. In other words, just give us facts, true facts, and let us make our own decisions. Instead, we usually get propaganda and only what they want us to hear.

There’s very little trust left in most media. That’s sad because we need honest journalists to do their job so that people can hold government accountable. Journalists need to ask questions of government officials and then give us unfiltered answers. Not to mention the many other issues, outside government, that we need to be informed about. We need facts and truth to influence the culture that we live in.

A few years ago, before I became a senator, I did a lot of traveling and speaking at various rallies. At a rally in South Carolina, I got a dose of how easily some in the media can be misled.

This is a true story, nobody could make this stuff up.

A media outlet, in order to prove that people at the freedom rallies were racist, sent a reporter from a prominent African American publication.

At the rally, someone asked my friend Henry, “What do you say when people accuse you of being racist?” Henry said, “I tell them I can’t be racist ’cause I’m black.” Well, Henry is not black, he’s whiter than most. Everyone laughed and pointed out that he wasn’t black. Henry pounced on them and shot back, “Who are you to tell me I’m not black? What right do you have to determine whether I’m black.” Laughter subsided after a while and the meeting continued.

When Henry was leaving the event with his friend, the reporter from the magazine came up to him, put her arm around him and said, “Honey, don’t you let them make you feel bad about being black. You keep standing up for yourself and don’t you let anyone tell you that you’re not black.” Henry’s mouth fell open as she walked away. His friend said, “She thought you were serious.”

The point of this story is if the media can’t even bother to find out a simple truth, how can we ever expect that we can get accurate reporting? We can’t.

We’ve recently seen the need to change language to fit an agenda. We can identify ourselves as male or female and nobody is supposed to question our self-identity. We use whatever pronouns we like regardless of science or history or any other logical reasoning.

What happens when more and more people decide to identify as something other than what they are? If I identify as a man, that’s my right. Perhaps, I may want to identify as black, Hispanic, or Asian.

I told you before about the people that are self-identifying as animals. They don’t consider themselves human. I understand there are two main groups: otherkin (people who identify as mythical characters) and therians (people who identify as earthly animals.) Oops, I called them people. My bad, I mean individuals.

You might assume these folks are mentally unstable. Clinical psychology professor Dr. Marc Feldman explained to The Daily Dot that it isn’t true. He said, “People in advantaged countries like to think of themselves as especially complex, colorful and special. The otherkin phenomenon certainly reflects this first-world preoccupation. But it isn’t illegal, doesn’t victimize other people and isn’t a form of mental illness (unless people become delusional about it), so I don’t see a particular need for ‘treatment.’”

A serious media would be calling this stuff out, don’t you think?

I’ve decided to identify as a 30-year-old wealthy woman who looks like Marilyn Monroe. Don’t you dare try to tell me differently. And that stupid bank better not be bouncing my checks.

Sen. Joyce Krawiec has represented Forsyth County and the 31st District in the North Carolina Senate since 2014. She lives in Kernersville.