Are "Diversity" and "Tolerance" Just Excuses for Violence and Insanity?
How often is this the case, I wonder, that some member of a protected group commits a crime? How often are they excused for their bad behavior, based on their group status?
In this case, at least, we can say the person is mentally ill. Well, duh! Why are we told we must accept this?
A former UC Berkeley student and left-wing
activist has been deemed insane and sentenced to 39 years to life in a
psychiatric facility for the murder of a woman and the attempted murder
of a second woman in Berkeley, California.
Pablo Gomez Jr., a known left-wing activist on UC Berkeley’s campus who reportedly
preferred to be addressed by the gender-neutral pronoun “they,” was
deemed unfit to stand trial for murder and sentenced to 39 years to life
in Napa State Hospital last week, according to a report by San Luis Obispo Tribune.
The 24-year-old leftist was transferred to the custody of the
Department of State Hospitals after pleading no contest to the
first-degree murder of a 27-year-old teacher, Emilie Inman, and the
attempted murder of her friend, Kiana Schmitt.
Gomez — who had been a Chicanx/Latinx Studies major at UC Berkeley at
the time — fatally stabbed Inman at her home on January 6, 2017, and
then went on to stab Schmitt after hiding the teacher’s body in the
garden, according to the Post Millennial.
The report added that Schmitt — who had driven Gomez to Inman’s home,
believing it to be the home of one of his friends — found the man in
the yard, drenched in blood, with a knife. That’s when Gomez reportedly
stabbed Schmitt, who managed to escape the attack, despite her injuries.
According to the San Luis Obispo Tribune, Alameda County
assistant district attorney Teresa Drenick said that Gomez made the
pleas with a stipulation that he would be not guilty by reason of
insanity based on the opinions of four doctors at the time of the
crimes.
Alameda County Superior Court Judge C. Don Clay, however, reportedly
said in court that if Gomez is ever restored to competency and deemed
fit to stand trial, he will serve the remainder of his sentence in
prison.
Inman’s father, Scott Inman, wrote a letter in preparation for last
week’s hearing, stating that the loss of his daughter has been
“devastating” for the Inman family, and that the case’s conclusion still
leaves many questions unanswered regarding “the strange collection of
events” that led Gomez to commit such a “heinous” crime.
“The profound grief that accompanies a loss of a child, especially
considering the conditions in which she died, have made the last three
years seemingly unbearable at times,” wrote Inman. “The numerous trips
to the Alameda County Superior Court house have continued to challenge
our mental state as well as our deep emotional being.”
In September 2016, Gomez was filmed confronting
the UC Berkeley College Republicans and grabbing their promotional
materials, stating, “this is fucked up, this is really fucked up,” in a
video eerily similar to many of the viral videos that surface showcasingleftistsattackingconservativestudents on collegecampusesacross the country.
In November 2016, just five weeks before his murderous rampage, the left-wing activist tweeted that
“the United States is a violent white supremacist settler empire whose
only fate is annihilation,” according to the Post Millennial.
Gomez, who was also involved with the school’s Queer Alliance Resource Center, was even featured in a 2014 Vice film about climate change.
“The way that we’ve been living our lives isn’t working out for us,”
preached Gomez in the film. “The world, as we know it, is in danger.”
So, confused about his own sex, racist, and violent, and yet we are supposed to welcome the things he wants? If he's nuts, how are the same standards from others sane?
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