Virginian Pilot Letter Writer

At dinner with friends last night, we briefly touched on the subject of what's wrong with the country.  Why do so many people hate it?  The Virginian Pilot's Letters to the editor" section could not have provided a better answer.

‘Do better’

Those who oppose the immigration at the southern border need to look at the history of this country. The explorers who “discovered” America were immigrants who slaughtered the indigenous population. Their descendants imported people against their will, enslaving them for more than two centuries. During World War II, Japanese Americans were imprisoned by the descendants of the original immigrants for the sole reason that they had family who had emigrated from the then-American enemy, Japan.

During the 1930s and ’40s, virulent antisemites, including such vaunted Americans as Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh who influenced those in government, promoted the lies of the German government, preventing hundreds of thousands of European Jews from entering our country and thus saving their lives. While we have a country that we can be proud of for our many accomplishments, we have much to atone for and be ashamed of: Native Americans, Africans, Japanese Americans, European Jews, Hispanics. We must do better.

— Marge Schechner, Virginia Beach

And there you have it. According to Marge Schechner of Virginia Beach, America was founded by genocidal murderers, slavers, and antisemitic racists who exhibit special hatred for Japanese and Hispanics.  Marge may have overlooked other faults because she then mentions that we "have a country we can be proud of for our many accomplishments."   She fails to mention those accomplishments so we're left in the dark about what those are.  

Marge is not an outlier.  This is the Liberal view of America: a country of vile people descended from vile people.  But if we want to return to Marge's good graces, we are told to "do better."

Do you have the feeling that Marge represents a lot of the educational establishment that is teaching our children and creating their "standards of learning?"

Peering at another world - the world of the VIRGINIAN PILOT

There really is another world out there.  It's a world of virtual reality.  It was created before VR headsets were invented. 

It's a world inhabited by people who call themselves the press.  They produce the VIRGINIAN PILOT.

A fair example is today's VIRGINIAN PILOT.

In this virtual VIRGINIAN PILOT reality world, Seal training goes too far.  In this virtual VIRGINIAN PILOT reality, the kind of men who are the toughest, the best, and the cream of the crop get there just by showing up, not by subjecting them to the kind of training that weeds out the people who fail to accomplish their mission under brutal circumstances.  In the VIRGINIAN PILOT virtual reality world, everyone gets a trophy until even overweight transgender women can qualify to be Seals.

And then there is the VIRGINIAN PILOT’s spirited defense of kiddie porn in schools.  We can't object to having our toddlers or primary school students read about sex acts - with illustrations for those who have not mastered reading yet.  In the VIRGINIAN PILOT virtual reality world, people who object to that are termed, crackpots and extremists.  In this virtual reality world of the VIRGINIAN PILOT, people who want to teach your children about sex are the good guys. 

In the VIRGINIAN PILOT's virtual reality world, saddling the carpenter, plumber, or factory worker in an assembly line with a college graduate's student loan is the right thing to do because "driving a tank into enemy fire" or something.  Like so many virtual reality simulations, you must read it to believe it.

Just one day's peek in the VIRGINIAN PILOT alternative universe.  

Kurt Schlichter illustrates how the VIRGINIA PILOT - and virtually all the rest of the media works with an example.

In the real world, normal people do not have others – often people in prestigious positions in politics or the media – so shamelessly lie to them about something right in front of their faces. It’s like walking out to a parking lot and, as you hit the UNLOCK button on your Ford, someone else says, “That’s my car.” You immediately think it’s a misunderstanding. “No, it’s my car.” But the other guy doesn’t back off. He insists that it’s his car. Okay, fine. You open the glove compartment and get out the registration. “Here, look, it’s my car,” you say. “No,” he says. “It says it’s my car. And you are a bad person for insisting it’s yours.”

What do you do? Because reason has stopped being the means of resolving the dispute. You cannot talk out an issue where the other side simply refuses to defer to objective, demonstrable reality and is accusing you for bringing up the truth. That leaves you two options.

Option One – Hand him the keys.

Option Two – Kick his butt and drive home.

Our society depends completely on the ability to demonstrate truth with objective evidence. You prove who you are with a driver’s license. You show you paid for merchandise with a receipt. You get the honors due a graduate by showing your University of College degree in Pansexual Interpretive Dance. We all rely on the deference of others to the objective truth, truth reinforced by evidence. And, in the past, we did not impugn others character for pointing to evidence. But this is a whole new level of chutzpah. This tactic undermines the very idea that there is truth, and that truth can be ascertained with relative certainty. 

This is the Disgusting Virginian Pilot - Sunday May 22, 2022

 The Virginian Pilot's Editors hate you, and they don't care who knows it.

Murder is rampant as violent people roam the streets.  Guns are not the problem.  They are not escaping from homes and committing murder.  There are killers on the loose, and people are afraid of them.    

Guns are tools.  The killers are people; the Virginian Pilot is a tool in the hands of haters who are willing to lie to achieve their objective.  They inject poison into the veins of the public discourse.  Like killers with guns, the people who wield the Virginian Pilot like a weapon want you dead.  

So let's look are the real problem and see who is busy killing the culture.

They are people, and they have names.

Kris Worrell is the Editors in Chief.  kworrell@virginiamedia.com

Brian Colligan is the Opinion Editor.  brian.colligan@pilotonline.com