The Loss of Freedom

Ja Morant: Part 2

One of the tactics that the media uses when trying to push their agenda is to not reveal to the public what the crime or the bad event that happened was. For example, in real time when these stories about Morant were coming out, I turned to ESPN to see what was up. I had to watch for what felt like 30 minutes (probably was if you count the commercials) before I even found out that it was a gun that Ja had gotten suspended for. ESPN never bothered to show the actual footage from the Instagram Live video, the evidence for why Ja was getting in trouble, and subsequently getting suspended. The vast majority of the time when you heard Ja Morant speak on the subject, he did not describe his actions at all during that video, all he kept saying was that he “does not condone violence” and that he “takes full accountability for his actions”. The obvious question from this is “what actions are you taking accountability for Ja?” because up to this point I had no clue what he had done “wrong”.

For instance, if he had done something wrong, I would have expected him to say something like, “I am sorry that I pointed my gun at another individual and I take full accountability for what my actions could have produced.” That would have made more sense because then he would be saying specifically what he did wrong, how others should not follow his example, and how others should not be committing the same mistakes that he did (in this hypothetical case, that would be carelessly pointing the muzzle of a gun at another individual). Instead, the way Ja Morant handled it leaves one to feel that while he may be sincere, you are not exactly sure what you are not supposed to do unless it is to never be found in possession of a weapon.

Ja Morant’s apology reminds me of when your sibling says or does something hateful towards you and your parent catches wind of it and makes your sibling apologize. What does the sibling say unless told otherwise, “I’m sorry”, not “I’m sorry that I was hateful towards you”. If the sibling says the latter, it is out of a heart of sincere remorse. Ja Morant’s apology was not the latter, but the former, and I would say this is grounds to suspect his sincerity on this issue.

The vagueness that both the media and Ja utilized after his “crimes” were committed are not coincidental. The media in particular uses this tactic on numerous occasions because they do not want to present the facts plainly as they stand. The reason for this is that the media does not want to risk the possibility of you coming to your own conclusion. Instead, the media wants you to come to their conclusion. The only reason that the media (whose purpose should be to solely report the facts) would want you to come to the one conclusion which happens to be their conclusion is because they are pushing an agenda. This is the definition of propaganda, using misleading and biased information to publicize a singularly particular political ideology. In this case, that ideology is that of the far left which says that guns are bad so you shouldn’t have one. The facts that the media shows are “misleading and biased” because they are so vague that no-one can come to a proper, well-informed conclusion. The sin of omission is committed just as frequently as the flat out lie by today’s media, and yet, one is just as untruthful as the other.

One of the craftier arguments used for the support of Ja Morant’s suspension is that the actions that he took were dumb and irresponsible. Ja appears to be somewhat intoxicated in the first video where he is loosely holding a gun, and in the second Instagram Live video he has it pinned up against the steering wheel of his car while he appears to be driving. In the first video, if that handgun were to go off Ja would probably have shot himself in the foot, while in the second video who knows who could have gotten hurt if a shot had been fired. In both instances, he has a loose hold of the gun in question and conducts himself in a careless manner. No doubt, these two examples would go against every handgun safety course in the continental United States. In my next article, I will explain why this is not grounds for suspension, so stay tuned!