The left is very good at selling narratives. That much can't be denied. If they were bad at it, then America would be in a lot better shape and the left wouldn't have the cultural hold on people that it does.
Narratives are worth more than gold when it comes to politics. With a good one, you could convince people that people being put on the business end of a firing line for simply being inconvenient to the government will save society. The right narrative can get people to applaud while you abort black children by the millions as you say you're a champion of the black community.
You can even get people to support your cause as the property and livelihoods of innocent people burn behind you.
One of the turning points that truly woke people up about the egregious bias of the media was when CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez stood in front of a burning car park in Kenosha, Wisconsin. As Jimenez, in protective gear, tried to make the riots in Kenosha seem justified and good, CNN's chyron described the scene as "Fiery but mostly peaceful."
CNN chyron: pic.twitter.com/dfP3N8OnsQ
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) August 27, 2020
It was a moment where jaws collectively dropped all around the country and the corporate media's radical leftist bias was impossible to ignore.
Since that time period, it's been difficult for the corporate media to truly sell a narrative like it used to be able to. It helps that X drops community notes on narrative-seeding posts constantly, but the "mostly peaceful" narrative pushed on the public by corporate media any time a new leftist narrative crops up seems less and less effective.
This isn't just because the media tried to sell us a very obvious lie. It's because behind the lie about the "mostly peaceful" protest is the not-at-all peaceful part of the protest, which doesn't have to be that large, at least not to begin with.
Let's take the recent university "pro-Palestine" protests as billed by the media. These are ultimately anti-Israel riots when given enough space to grow. They, too, are billed as "mostly peaceful," but you've seen yourself what happens when the destructive part of the protest becomes the riot, and property is defaced, destroyed, and violence begins to occur.
Columbia University, for instance, had an anti-Israel encampment that went off the rails pretty quickly. While most students didn't take part in the violence, the ones that did take part in the protest did condone it. The result was chaos, destruction, and violence. The "mostly peaceful" part of it quickly became irrelevant, and police were forced to act.
Compare that to the riot that started taking place at UC Irvine that was broken up within an hour of its creation.
UCLA and UC Irvine are only about 50 miles apart. But the fact that the latter cleared out the cosplay terrorists in about an hour while the former took a week, tells you all you need to know about quality of life in Los Angeles vs Orange County. pic.twitter.com/n2EUF9zXRd
— David Pivtorak (@piv4law) May 16, 2024
Compare that to the UCLA camp that was allowed to exist for a week, where defacement and violence took place, including one Jewish student who was bludgeoned on the head while on the ground.
(BREAKING: LAPD Issues Tactical Alert As Hundreds of Officers Prep to Dismantle UCLA Encampment)
If a protest is described as "mostly peaceful," it's a riot. Plain and simple, riots need to be broken up before people get hurt and things get destroyed.
Moreover, letting these things fester only emboldens the rioters to push things further, which the media loves more than anything because it allows for the creation of attention-grabbing scenes that will keep viewers locked in and internet denizens clicking.
The only good way to deal with a "mostly peaceful" protest is to call it what it is — a riot — and then treat it like one.
A "mostly peaceful" protest...isn't.
