Or consider 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, who used his semi-automatic weapon to kill two Black men in Kenosha, Wisconsin, while waging a glorious race war on behalf of his inherited White power. That's not to mention the White people who rallied behind him to post his bail. Fear has gripped the patriarchy, and the threat of righteous violence - or the lethal use of it - is the patriarchy's response.
The Good Kings, Kara Cooney
Kara Cooney, a PhD Egyptologist at UCLA has a new book out: The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World. The excerpted passage appears in the book. The falsity of the claim calls into question the rest of her scholarship. If she had done minimal research on the case, she would have discovered that Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber were both white. Even the man who survived being shot by Rittenhouse - Gaige Grosskreutz - is white. Where is the race war in this? Where exactly does patriarchy figure in this event? Whites killing whites signals white power? Clearly, she was on the receiving end of propaganda from some source that she trusted and just put it blindly in her book. This glaring error slipped by her editors too.
We no longer have news, we have narratives. Dr. Cooney is trapped in one of those narrative bubbles. Maybe the embarrassment of having to revise this for the 2nd edition will pop her bubble and make her question the propaganda she has been consuming.
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