Welcome to Crimetown, a series produced by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier in partnership with Gimlet Media. Each season, we investigate the culture of crime in a different city. In Season 2, Crimetown heads to the heart of the Rust Belt: Detroit, Michigan. From its heyday as Motor City to its rebirth as the Brooklyn of the Midwest, Detroit’s history reflects a series of issues that strike at the heart of American identity: race, poverty, policing, loss of industry, the war on drugs, an ...
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H3: "Manufactured Outrage: Violence, Victimhood, and the Media’s Double Standard"
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Across two intense segments, the hosts delve into what they argue is a dangerous normalization of political violence and performative victimhood on the American left. They highlight incidents involving Representative MacIvor’s confrontation with ICE, James Comey's “86 47” seashell photo, and a broader media culture that appears to celebrate revolutionary posturing and rage as social currency. By drawing parallels to January 6th protesters and historical figures like Che Guevara, the discussion critiques what they see as the left’s selective moral outrage, a cultivated media environment of double standards, and the incentivization of outrage for fame, power, or book sales.
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Across two intense segments, the hosts delve into what they argue is a dangerous normalization of political violence and performative victimhood on the American left. They highlight incidents involving Representative MacIvor’s confrontation with ICE, James Comey's “86 47” seashell photo, and a broader media culture that appears to celebrate revolutionary posturing and rage as social currency. By drawing parallels to January 6th protesters and historical figures like Che Guevara, the discussion critiques what they see as the left’s selective moral outrage, a cultivated media environment of double standards, and the incentivization of outrage for fame, power, or book sales.
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