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| The Fury of the Fatherless |
| 2020-11-15 |
| [FirstThings] The ritualistic exhibition of destructive behaviors in city after city is without precedent in America. Neither the civil rights demonstrations nor the protests against the war in Vietnam looked remotely like this. The differences demand explanation. Blame what you will on the usual bête noirs: Donald Trump, cancel culture, police brutality, political tribalism, the coronavirus pandemic, far-right militias, BLM, antifa. All these factors feed the "demand" side of the protests and rioting, the reasons for the ritualistic enactment. But what about the "supply" side—the ready and apparently inexhaustible ranks of demonstrators themselves? What explains them? The answer cannot be "racism." The spectacle of often-white protesters screaming at sometimes-black policemen undercuts anything dreamed of by Critical Race Theory. So do the actual statistics concerning cop-on-black crime. So do public attitudes. In 2017, according to Pew Research, 52 percent of respondents said that race "doesn’t make much difference" in marriage, and another 39 percent said that interracial marriage is "a good thing." When 91 percent of the public shrugs at or applauds interracial marriage, it is absurd to speak of a spectral racism that permanently and irredeemably poisons society. So, here’s a new theory: The explosive events of 2020 are but the latest eruption along a fault line running through our already unstable lives. That eruption exposes the threefold crisis of filial attachment that has beset the Western world for more than half a century. Deprived of father, Father, and patrium, a critical mass of humanity has become socially dysfunctional on a scale not seen before. |
| Posted by:Matt |
| #7 ^ that's saying a lot "Harvey Milk may have been a gay rights icon and one of the first openly gay elected officials in this country, but often left out of his biography by those who choose to celebrate him was the fact that he liked to have sex with underage boys. "One such example of this is Milk’s “relationship” with a 16-year-old runaway, Jack Galen McKinley. As told by San Francisco Chronicle reporter Randy Shilts in his 1982 biography of Milk, The Mayor of Castro Street, Sixteen-year-old McKinley was looking for some kind of father figure…At 33, Milk was launching a new life, though he could hardly have imagined the unlikely direction toward which his new lover would pull him. "Shilts was also a close friend of Milk’s and wrote of many of his encounters with teenagers as though there was nothing wrong with them. 'Harvey always had a penchant for young waifs with substance abuse problems,' Shilts wrote...." |
| Posted by: Rupert Johnson4714 2020-11-15 17:52 |
| #6 Oh, and Portland is even more sexually screwed up (tranny central) than San Francisco. |
| Posted by: Marilyn Hapsburg2880 2020-11-15 17:31 |
| #5 I wonder if their Mayor is a runaway teen? Suspect an aficionado of them. |
| Posted by: Marilyn Hapsburg2880 2020-11-15 17:29 |
| #4 For more than thirty years, abandoned children and runaways have been a unique part of the city’s culture. And, for thirty years, documentaries and other reports on these lost children have abounded. It was Portland’s permissive approach to runaways that created the nation’s best-known subculture of “teen hobos,” “teen homeless,” and “street teens.” Well, that helps me understand the Portland mess. I wonder if their Mayor is a runaway teen? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-11-15 16:23 |
| #3 We have spent decades 'educating' experts who find no real demand for their expertise, so they have to create a demand - thus BLM, ANTIFA... |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2020-11-15 15:58 |
| #2 woke "liberated" women divorce at the slightest whim, they have since the 60's, its mainstream now and look where we are..... |
| Posted by: 746 2020-11-15 13:04 |
| #1 In so many words, Godless bastards... |
| Posted by: Lampedusa Hatrack7816 2020-11-15 12:47 |