Indeed. As you probably know, back in the ’80s Joseph Sobran started describing the Democrat-media complex as being a hive mind. A perfect description, I always thought. It’s not a conspiracy. It’s actually worse than that, because it’s automatic and only partly conscious.

(Disclaimer: I know, Sobran took a bad turn toward anti-Semitism. But in his prime he was one of the best among pundits.)

But, as Mollie Hemingway pointed out, it’s perfectly ok to talk about the “South African strain” of the virus, or the “UK strain.”

Global health pandemic breaks out from China.
Trump: It’s called the Wuhan Flu.
The Press: That’s racist. You’re encouraging violence against Asians.
America: Mostly silent.
Reports of anti-Asian sentiments rise in Canada and America.
COVID-19: Millions of people die.
Some deranged guy targets Asians in Atlanta; the press thinks Trump was an influence.
The Press: Trump did this.
Asians: Supposedly we’re still getting beaten in the streets and the Ivy League has put a cap on us.

Some Idiot Cop from Minnesota: I’m going to put my knee on your neck.
Black guy: Ouch.
Black guy dies.
America and select Western European countries mobilize and destroy stuff.
UberEats and Uber prioritize black businesses and drivers
Social lefty businesses declare they’re anti-racist.
People put small black squares on their social media page.
Universities delve deeper into their Wokedom.
Oscars & Emmy Awards: There aren’t enough black people being nominated.

The whole point of the gun control discourse is to stick the blame for urban mayhem with small town and rural gun hobbyists, instead of with the feral young men who are shooting at each other and at hapless people in their field of vision. There are, of course, effective means of reducing urban mayhem, but they are unacceptable to the narrative pushers because they incorporate (1) deterring and punishing feral young men by (2) hiring deplorables and deploying them optimally. Academic sociologists and social workers hate this because it assumes personal agency, does not improve the employment prospects of social workers and sociologists, and violates their sense of status – having low status people (police officers) empowered to impose the norms of low-status people (that’s us) on the clients of high status people (those in word-merchant occupations).

Quite hive like. If you begin with the understanding that people who work in such environments tend to be other-directed fad chasers, it makes more sense.

CB, re the “coordinated megaphone”: local college issued substantially the same statement.

“When are you going to simply admit that all bad things that happen anywhere are because of deep, historical, and structural racism and hate baked deeply into the very being of America? Reject your baseless narratives, and embrace the warm righteousness of the movement, and strive to begin reparations for the victims. And quit hating, hater. Do you know how tiring it is to have to write these same articles and university community communiques again and again? Work with us here, people.”