The Pathological Race Ideology of the American Progressive Establishment

I have finally returned to blogging. In fact, I returned on Tuesday, with the firm intention of writing about Friedrich Merz’s spiralling political problems and the collapse of the French government, but I can’t bring myself to write about those things right now. I have to get something else out of my system first, and this something else is about the murder of that young woman in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the lies the media tell about black crime in the United States. I’m sorry if this post pisses people off, but these are true things that I have to say and I’m going to say them.

As everyone knows, Iryna Zarutska fled the war in Ukraine with much of her immediate family, entering the United States in August 2022. Exactly three years later, on 22 August 2025, Zarutska was riding the train home from her job at a pizzeria when a 34 year-old black man with an extensive criminal history and at least fourteen prior arrests named Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr. slashed her neck with a knife.

Zarutska died within seconds, and security footage captured the murder. You can watch the santised, safe-for-television release here:

That video emerged last Friday and it has inspired a wave of outrage about the dubious, liberal approach to criminal justice that prevails in many U.S. cities. Most of this outrage has been expressed on social media. The American establishment press first tried to ignore this story. They suppressed it so thoroughly that, as of Monday anyway, the average German on a totally different continent was probably better informed about this murder.

Of course, blunt suppression becomes self-defeating before too long. Late on Monday, everybody’s favourite paper of record, the New York Times, finally relented, deigning to inform their readers not that a crazy violent black man had killed a young Ukrainian refugee in Charlotte, but that “a gruesome murder in North Carolina [has] ignite[d] a firestorm on the right.”