Given the last five-to-ten years of wokeness, Americans are used to living in Opposite Land. Activists, leftist politicians, and the media have “educated” us on how everything we thought we knew about the world and the humans who live in it is wrong. Not just wrong, but exactly backwards. Men are women, and women are men. Morbid obesity is healthy. Censorship is freedom. Free speech is fascism.
This extended version of Freaky Friday rests on what I call the narcissistic reversal. Genuinely narcissistic people reverse the truth to duck out of responsibility for their own bad behavior. If they harass and malign a coworker, they claim that their target is really the one trying to ruin their reputation. When they lose their temper and scream demands at friends or loved ones, they’ll quickly turn on the tears and claim the victim of their tirade was “being angry and threatening.”
What’s so frustrating is that it works. Most people are fundamentally decent, and they mistakenly believe that must mean that every other person is fundamentally decent. Since I’d never lie and accuse someone of stealing from me if I was the one who took her possessions, then surely no one else would reverse the truth like that, we say to ourselves. It’s this naivete that has allowed American society to become so selfish, callous, rude, and entitled. For years there’s been little to no effective pushback on freeloaders, thieves, whiners, and socially maladapted people who make life miserable for everyone else.
The young track runner in the video below may be counting on this state of affairs to get her out of what appears to be plain old assault. Collin Rugg posted this video on X showing a moment from a high school girls’ track competition. In the video, two runners are going around the track close together. The clip appears to show one runner, Alaila Everett, repeatedly hitting her fellow runner on the back of the head with a baton:
What really happened? It’s impossible to say with certainty, but the baton strike sure does look intentional. But according to a tearful Everett, it was an accident. In an interview with a local television station, Everett claims she was merely pumping her arms and did not intentionally hit her fellow runner Kaelen Tucker. For her part, Tucker says she got a concussion when Everett’s baton struck her head.
In the interview, a crying Everett said she didn’t do it on purpose, and she’s upset with Tucker for not acknowledging her (Everett’s, the one with the baton) “mental” feelings, which are also hurt.
What do you think? To this writer, Everett doesn’t seem very believable. It does look like an intentional strike, and Everett’s later news interview does come across as a bully who turned on the tears to get out of trouble. At this point, no one can say.
But opinion on X/Twitter is not running in Everett’s favor:
What say you, WokeSpy Readers?
