Social Media Goes Nuts With Bridge Collapse Theories! Is DEI to Blame?
Within hours of the cargo ship Dali crashing into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, conspiracy theories abounded as to why the collision occurred. Some people claimed the accident was a result of a cyber attack that knocked the ship’s engine offline. Others claimed the crew must be DEI plants who lacked the credentials to pilot the ship and were simply there based on the color of their skin. My personal favorite was the claim that the Biden administration orchestrated the accident so everyone would focus on infrastructure instead of the border.
The details of the story thoroughly debunk any explanation other than a freak accident. The local pilot steering the ship had 10 years of experience and saved countless lives when the ship lost power by issuing a mayday that cleared the Francis Scott Key Bridge. For those who are convinced a cyber attack was at play, the cargo ship was built in the 70’s and lacked the internal mechanism to be hacked in the first place.
But the disturbing trend in American culture has been to ignore the rational in favor of the sensational. Thanks in part to postmodernism’s war on truth, a growing number of Americans are catastrophizing events by drawing conclusions that are not supported by facts. Watch:
We are pissing away money all over. What would it have cost to add protection to the bridge supports? This isn’t the first bridge to be hit by a ship. The usual excuse is that this is an ultra rare occurrence. Tell that to the families that now have to deal with an empty chair at the dinner table.
Disagree. We aren’t making up conspiracy theories. We are simply asking if those things that have permeated our society due to Biden’s domestic and foreign policies were at play at all in the causation of the incident. Once we have all the facts, it appears to be a freak accident but, as someone who’s been involved in root causes analyses for the better part of my career, what you believe is the cause on day 2 (today) is still NOT the full explanation. So until that is completed, I will not agree with your assessment quite yet, either.