The Politically Incorrect Killing of a Boy on This Day in History

 

This day in history: Jesse Dirkhising was killed on this day in 1999. You never heard of Jesse Dirkhising, but you have heard about Matthew Shepard. Matthew Shepard was a gay man who was killed by two heterosexual men and it made national and international news. Jesse Dirkhising was a 13-year-old boy that was bound drugged, tortured, raped and killed by two gay men, at about the same time, and only the Washington Times picked it up initially on a national level with a headline that read, "Media tune out torture death of Arkansas boy."

NewsMax reported:

“McGowan did a Nexus search and learned that the Shepard case generated a massive 3,007 stories. "And when the case finally went to trial ... it was all over the broadcast news, received front-page coverage in all major newspapers, and was featured on the cover of Time magazine. (In all, the New York Times ran 195 stories about the case.)

"In the month after the Dirkhising murder, however, Nexus recorded only 46 stories...

He sums up by quoting the surprisingly candid Andrew Sullivan - an openly gay columnist for the liberal New Republic.

Wrote Sullivan: "The Shepard case was hyped for political reasons: to build support for inclusion of homosexuals in a federal hate crimes law. The Dirkhising case was ignored for political reasons: squeamishness about reporting a story that could feed anti-gay prejudice and the lack of any pending legislation to hang a story on ... Some deaths - if they affect a politically protected class - are worth more than others. Other deaths, those that do not fit a politically correct profile, are left to oblivion."

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Walmart on This Day in History

Sam Walton

This Day in History: The first Walmart store opened for business in Rogers, Arkansas on this day in 1962. Walmart is the world's largest company by revenue, with US$514.405 billion and it is also the largest private employer in the world with 2.2 million employees. While many dislike Walmart, others argue that Walmart has done more to lift more low-income people out of poverty than any charitable organization or government agency in the world. Wal-Mart's everyday low retail prices in groceries, prescription drugs, clothing, and household items has significant economic benefits for the poor. Walmart also is at the forefront in many emergency response efforts. Ryan Ferguson in his article (My 5 Favorite Evil Corporations) states: "I don’t shop at Walmart very often, but they're a massive value creator for society that everyone hates. Rich people who prefer to imagine that poor people don’t exist like to lobby cities to prevent Walmart, ignoring how much they have improved the lives of people all over the world. They are the driving force of lowering the prices on all sorts of products. They have democratized wealth by pushing down supply costs and giving people access to inexpensive versions of almost any product available." https://fee.org/articles/my-5-favorite-evil-corporations/

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