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Why don't we let kids knife fight like the good old days? |
2021-04-24 |
[NRO via NYPost] OK, sometimes NR does good satire, rare, I know Just when I thought that America couldn’t possibly get any softer, people start suggesting that there’s a role for the police in preventing knife murders. The snowflake generation strikes once again. Is there any tradition that the radicals won’t ruin? As the brilliant Bree Newsome pointed out on Twitter, "Teenagers have been having fights including fights involving knives for eons." And now people are calling the cops on them? I ask: Is this a self-governing country or not? When Newsome says, "We do not need police to address these situations by showing up to the scene & using a weapon," she may be expressing a view that is unfashionable these days. But she’s right. Disappointingly, my colleague, columnist Phil Klein, has felt compelled to join the critics. Phil asked in a sarcastic tone whether the police should "somehow treat teenage knife fights as they would harmless roughhousing and simply ignore it." My answer to this is: Yes, that’s exactly what they should do — yes, even if they are explicitly called to the scene. I don’t know where Phil grew up, but where I spent my childhood, Fridays were idyllic: We’d play some football, try a little Super Mario Bros, have a quick knife fight, and then fire up some frozen pizza before bed. And now law enforcement is getting involved? This is political correctness gone mad. It’s hypocrisy, too. Who among us hasn’t come within a second or two of murdering someone else with a steak knife? My best friend in school, Bobby "The Blade" Simpson, used to throw shivs at the smaller kids in the music room. Did we need the authorities to step in when that happened? No, we did not. As MSNBC’s Joy Reid argued smartly on her show, pranks such as these were dealt with by our teachers — just as we all expected they would be. And if something went wrong? Well, that’s why we had substitutes. In all honesty, I worry that this sort of helicopter policing is making us weak. Back in my day, the people who survived a good stabbing came out stronger for it. I learned a lot of lessons from my time in the ring: self-reliance, how to overcome fear, the importance of agility, the basics of military field dressing. And, given the turnover, I also learned how to make new friends. Today, the free-range generation to which I belong is dying out — and, this time, it is not from the wounds inflicted by everyday teenage knife fights but because our politicians and activists simply cannot leave us be. From the time of the Colosseum, our civilization has had a tradition of lightly regulated, highly entertaining combat. Who are we, exactly, to think we know better? |
Posted by:Frank G |
#15 Now if we were to do that, to be in keeping with the Democrats planning, they'd just euthanize anyone showing up with knife or gun wounds. |
Posted by: Silentbrick 2021-04-24 23:39 |
#14 OK, if that's they way the wanna be about it, police can stay completely out of black neighborhoods. Let them deal with each other as they see fit. But when they show up in the Emergency Room with stab wounds and gun shot wounds they better have insurance because I don't wanna pay. |
Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-04-24 14:41 |
#13 Footage of the neighborhood kids hanging out on a warm Spring day. Didn't see a dodge ball among them. |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-04-24 14:18 |
#12 When I was a kid we called this type of knife fight getting butchered. |
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-04-24 14:13 |
#11 Not a movement. A multi-billion $$$ racket. |
Posted by: Thor Bumble4070 2021-04-24 13:20 |
#10 No other than the child-god Lebron called for extermination. Problem is, Bron Bron isn't a leader he is a follower, he just saw some trending tweets in between GED studies and looked for a face position on the parade float like some douche Mardi Gras politician. He's a fking face poised to make bank from companies poised to make trillions by keeping the black community like this, or worse. Seriously, Disney and Spider-verse? Break-through black super hero story right, like the white made make believe Wakanda the best parallel to the overachieving white kid is a school dodging graffiti artist? "The best and the brightest of the black community all dream to one day tag train cars. You're welcome. Watch Space Jam 2." |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-04-24 12:30 |
#9 I won't be surprised if he's targeted like Chauvin by the Wakandans. |
Posted by: Dron66046 2021-04-24 12:17 |
#8 And the other gal getting The Undertaker kick to the head; and that isn't a Trying To posture that is a gladius kill. Pinky was going to die, and likely the other gal too. Rookie cop, DM? Rookie of the Year. Quick, correct decision, every shot on-target. |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-04-24 12:13 |
#7 If Ma'Khia were shouting Allah hu akbar while raising the knife, the cop would've done the same thing. And that is what really matters. Because if you decide that black crime is acceptable you'll have no choice but to accept the others. And in that direction lies oblivion. |
Posted by: Dron66046 2021-04-24 11:50 |
#5 my post 'knife hugging' yesterday was snarc Thank you for explaining, my dear. I’ve been very sheltered, both as a child and as an adult, and have no idea. Mr. Wife talks about sitting in the high school cafeteria and keeping watch over each other’s shoulders, and the summer he and his best friend never left home without an ice hockey stick or baseball bat, but I remember precisely one fight in the school halls in the twelve years I went there. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2021-04-24 10:46 |
#4 Apologies to Brecht and Bobby Darin: Oh the Woke have Great big teeth, deah And they use them On cringing whites Oh, the line forms On the LEFT, deah Now that Woke-y's BACK in tow-own Look out! ol' Woke is BACK |
Posted by: Pearl Uneth7349 2021-04-24 10:39 |
#3 Cultural convergence: 17-yr-old dies from stab wounds in Shuafat refugee camp, murder suspected |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-04-24 10:31 |
#2 TW, my post 'knife hugging' yesterday was snarc; looks like I'm not the only one doing the WTF. Just to be clear, those pics, that is a kill posture, and pinky has clearly conceded. |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-04-24 10:18 |
#1 You don't remember those books from school days? |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-04-24 09:58 |