It Is Not the Principle. It Is Who Holds the Principle. (Including Clancy Jury)

Clancy Jury

They were perfectly comfortable condemning the lone Lindsay Clancy holdout juror right up until one inconvenient fact wandered into the room:

He was Black. Then the gears started grinding. “I have to sit with that.” “That changes the landscape.” “A lot of us were assuming he was white.” Oh, really? What changed? Same juror. Same vote. Same case. Same evidence. Same dead children. Same decision. His skin color entered the chat, and suddenly the moral calculator needed a reboot. That is intersectional politics in one perfect, embarrassing little scene. These people lecture the country about justice while running every moral question through a demographic spreadsheet. Race. Sex. Sexuality. Religion. Victim ranking. Oppression points. Privilege penalties. Then, after all the boxes are checked, they finally decide who is allowed to be criticized. Apparently “right and wrong” now comes with a dropdown menu. Imagine admitting, out loud, that learning a juror was Black “changes the landscape.” You just told everyone that your judgment depended on the race of the person you were judging. Bravo. You accidentally explained the entire scam. DEI and intersectionality sell themselves as moral progress while training people to abandon universal standards the second tribal identity enters the equation. And when the tribes collide? Cue the sweating, the stammering, the “I need to sit with that.” They built a moral system so stupid it can short-circuit over a skin tone. Same facts. Different identity. Suddenly the ethics change. That is the punchline. And somehow they still want to be taken seriously.

In today’s edition of “you can’t make this up,” it appears that the lone holdout in the Lindsay Clancy jury was a Black man. (And the only “person of color” on the jury.)  Watch the TV squawking head CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King who blundered into discovering this:  She literally has no idea what to do. “I have to sit with that.” Her brain cannot solve the equation and determine which tribe she’s supposed to be backing.  She seems disappointed that she can no longer attack that juror, that he has been placed out of reach for criticism.

 Tough problem for western societies.