Amy Cooper deserved criminal prosecution, not social media shaming

To translate, Christian is declining to aid the investigation into Amy’s undeniably criminal conduct, effectively ending the case, because… social justice? Because there are other racists? Or perhaps in a more prescient mantra for the moment, we’re all subliminally racist, just quiet Karens waiting to be caught on a viral video and punished in the court of public opinion.

Fans of this race riot-ridden moment have likened it to the #MeToo movement, so let’s draw a parallel: Would it make any sense for a victim of criminal sexual assault or harassment in the autumn of 2017 not to seek justice in an actual courtroom just because sexual violence is a broader problem than one perpetrator? That would be patently absurd, and that Christian sees some sort of equivalence between what Amy did — potentially put his life in danger by telling the cops that a black man was threatening her, a white woman — and the laundry list of grievances posited by trigger-happy protesters just goes to demonstrate the fundamental unseriousness of this moment.