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| 2020-06-17 |
| The Critic via Instapundit They had to make it all about themselves, didn’t they? No sooner had black Americans started protesting the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis policeman, than the whites took it over. They pushed the protests towards fighting the police. They denounced the incorrigible racism of their nation and families. They ’took a knee’ at every opportunity, even though the posture looked oddly like the one struck by Officer Derek Charvin when he had taken a knee on George Floyd’s windpipe. The killing was the spark and the coronavirus the accelerant — when one of the Four Horsemen is around, the other three are sure to turn up sooner or later — but the dry tinder came from all over. We have seen racial protests on a scale last seen in the late Sixties. This is strange. By every index, racial equality has improved since the reforms of the Great Society. White American disgust at racist violence by the police has risen sharply since Black Lives Matter began in 2014. In late May, a Pew Research survey found that nearly two-thirds of whites believe that the criminal justice system treats blacks unfairly. Meanwhile, the number of unarmed black men killed by the police has declined. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 Yes, the author does that. He tries at least. It's just this newfound pûssyfooting that cripples everyone's conscience, even when writing. I mean their mind wants to be heard, but the the new Id has been trained by a set of conventions to beat around the bush ineffectively. Talk around black racial prejudice, call spades pink horses. That is what generations of imposed guilt have done. The fact is, the aim of the constitution or the governments must never have been to 'produce' racial equality or some such inane humanist imperative. The aim of the State must only be to make sure no individual instance of assh0lery goes unpunished. Everything else would sort itself out as society advances. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2020-06-17 15:40 |
| #2 ^I posted it because I thought that the author gives a good explanation of the college educated revolutionaries phenomena. They're revolutionaries because there's no place in the economy (you can only have so much welfare/regulation business) for them. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-06-17 14:13 |
| #1 Why do I get the feeling that somebody means to say 'the black protesters were just wishing to protest, and the white anarchists led them to violence'? If that's what people want to believe, the day is not far when you'll see tribal flags and countries with strange names planted in the north American sub-continent. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2020-06-17 13:38 |