OJ Simpson briefly

I’d just like to show you something about two-time murderer OJ Simpson who finally snuffed it today. Cancer. Hope it hurt. Feminists and – let’s face it – humanists have been pretty outraged by the media’s treatment of this story. Rightfully so. Let’s take a look.

Here was this morning’s New York Times headline, reminding the world how, uh, riveting and entertaining the murderer’s trial was…

His world was ruined, was it? If only. How about Nicole Brown’s world or Ron Goldman’s? I’m pretty sure their worlds were lethally ruined by OJ, and their families were forever haunted.

Moving on to NPR.

“Football great.” Cancels out the New York Times headline, doesn’t it? Nothing ruined here. Nope. Not a single stain on a man’s enduring posthumous reputation.

What about Associated Press?

I guess OJ just lost that American Dream by way of two homicides? What a shame. Poor OJ, the victim of this terrible miscarriage of jus… You’d think he was found guilty.

It’s as if all the antisemitic Hamas apologist publications are also misogynists. Which is, in fact, extremely consistent when you think about it. The individual voiceboxes who have championed Hamas since October 7 were no different from the outlets. Here’s former CNN correspondent Marc Lamont Hill; the one who denied that Hamas are terrorists after October 7.

Marc Lamont Hill thinks OJ was a “monster” but he managed to get away with killing two white people so… victory? Honestly, consistent with Hamas.

And then we have Owen Jones, who manages to make himself the victim of every single situation possible:

Tough day for men called OJ. I hope none of his “friends” (he has some?) are women.

So here we have it. The SAME outlets and media personalities glorifying OJ Simpson as a hero or making light of his crimes are the SAME outlets and media personalities who have denied rape by Hamas and posted antisemitic disinformation for six months. And yet tomorrow every upset and rightfully angry feminist will return to business as usual and participate in the latter despite the former. It is quite something to see it all come together. A consistent incapacity to report the truth and instead feed the frenzy of politicized narratives to further agendas rooted in power, not in justice.

Today provided a much-needed parallel exposure on the grifters of the mainstream, and yet people will continue to overlook this vis-a-vis the Jews/Israel. Guys, I’m beginning to think it might be because they’re antisemitic. Maybe? It seems like they saw what Hamas did on October 7 and got FOMO. It also speaks to a parallel I’ve made before between the machinations of misogyny and that of antisemitism. The media always needs a woman to hate, and it always needs an angle against Israel, because there’s an unhealthy obsession with both, and a perverse joy that comes from targeting these groups, that goes back to biblical times. These are the stories that sell the most. Burn the witch. Blame the Jews.

OJ Simpson got away with murder because he was rich and powerful and his image was worth more than that of Nicole Brown Simpson who, according to society, got what she deserved. That is society's judgment on women. That is one of the legacies of that trial. America was unable to forgive a woman for her own murder. And you could say that the West is unable to forgive the Jewish people for the massacres of October 7. Of course, race also played a major role in the OJ trial…

I saw this picture earlier and it took the breath from my lungs.

These are students reacting to watching the OJ Simpson verdict, which was viewed by 150 million Americans. I see a lot in this image. I see domestic violence as entertainment. I see a youth brainwashed by mainstream media narratives. I see people drunk on misogyny. I see the effects of the LA Riots and the widespread belief that all police are lying racst thugs. And I see the subsequent tragic manipulation of minority communities to believe that this verdict was a race-based victory. I see the misperception of OJ, a murderer, as an American hero. I see a circus. I see celebration of a systemic failure to protect the most vulnerable. I see the treachery of groupthink. I see a lot of pain in every person photographed. I see a portrait of how upside down the world can often become. I see so much of today in this image. Plus ça change.

Of course, I’ve been called a racist for these comments today because it’s not my place to talk about the reaction of the Black community to the verdict, or to “infantalize” a group I’m not part of. Well if that’s the case then why is it every removed Westerner’s place to talk about the Israel/Palestine conflict? Pick a goddamn lane. Commenting on the weaponisation of particular minority communities does not equate to infantilizing them. Denying that minority communities can be the subjects of predatory power structures is frankly dangerous. Is it infantilizing to the Palestinians to say that they’ve become the pawns of the Arab world? No, it’s the truth. And it’s similarly the truth that social justice movements in the West have been hijacked by Iranian propaganda. Vulnerable communities are preyed upon by those who want to advance agendas that won’t stand to benefit those it claims to help. Look at BLM. Look at Me Too. OJ Simpson should never have been the source of vindication for Black Americans. October 7 shouldn’t have been cause for celebration by those who claim to resist. Black Americans deserved much better. Society deserves much better. Declaring this shouldn’t be problematic. It’s common sense. But people’s emotions are too easily manipulated that common sense no longer registers, and the most obvious facts become sources of blind outrage.

Today should be about Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

Here is Andrea Dworkin, who wrote a timeless piece on Nicole that you should read in full. In it, she talks about why women suffering from domestic abuse don’t “leave”:

Escape, in fact, is hell, a period of indeterminate length reckoned in years, not months, when the ex-husband commits assaults intermittently and acts of terrorism with some consistency. Part of the torment is that freedom is near but he will not let the woman have it. Many escaped women live half in hiding. I am still afraid of my ex-husband each and every day of my life—and I am not afraid of much.

Maybe you don’t know how brave women are—the ones who have stayed until now and the ones who have escaped, both the living and the dead. Nicole Simpson is the hero. The perpetrator is the problem, stupid.

Today, legacy media remembered OJ Simpson as an American hero. He was a murderer who killed two innocent souls in cold blood. May their memories be a blessing.