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2020-06-04 -Lurid Crime Tales-

The Controlled Burn Rages out of Control

[Real Clear Politics] In the wake of riots that have spread across America, leaving shattered businesses and wounded communities in their wake, it feels as though our nation is collapsing around us. That's bizarre, considering that virtually all Americans agree with the following two propositions: first, that it is evil for a police officer to place his knee on the neck of a prone suspect struggling to breathe for eight long minutes; second, that breaking store windows; stealing televisions and shoes; beating business owners; and attacking police officers is wrong. That seeming unanimity should mean unity in the face of police brutality and rioting and looting.

It doesn't.

It doesn't because members of our political class have decided that instead of rallying against obvious evil, Americans must be categorized as enlightened or benighted based on their answer to one question: Was America and is America rooted in racism and bigotry? If you answer in the negative, you are complicit in racism and bigotry, say our media, academic leaders and high-ranking members of the Democratic Party. If you answer in the affirmative, you may be categorized among the woke, the aware, the sensitive and the decent.

This is a nonsensical and dangerous game. But it's a game pressed forward by the most powerful messaging institutions in our society: our media, who award Pulitzer Prizes to faux history like The 1619 Project, which argues that every American institution has been fatally corrupted by America's original sin, slavery, and that every inequality of today can find its root in inequities of the past; our celebrities, who proudly proclaim that rights to free speech, property ownership and due process are merely facades for the continuing and malign maintenance of structural inequalities; and too many of our politicians, who casually attribute every instance of police brutality to deep-seated American racism.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-06-04 03:50|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top
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#1 it's a game pressed forward by the most powerful messaging institutions in our society: our media

"If we can't have it, nobody shall have it!"?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-04 03:55|| 2020-06-04 03:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Why don't we hear of similar stuff in Brazil? The Caribbean? Not woke enough there?

Posted by Clem 2020-06-04 04:55|| 2020-06-04 04:55|| Front Page Top

#3 ^Google "death squads" (and no, I do not approve).

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-04 04:59|| 2020-06-04 04:59|| Front Page Top

#4 re: #3

Kinda gives you an insight into the reasons that Death Squads became a thing.

Posted by AlanC 2020-06-04 07:26|| 2020-06-04 07:26|| Front Page Top

#5 The George Floyd killing was being handled and justice would have played out if allowed to happen. This was not enough for the radical left and DS operators. Peaceful protests would have been O.K. but these got hijacked by violent left-wing black shirted thugs and criminals. These out-of-control mobs are as angering as much as seeing the Minneapolis police officers abuse their power with Floyd. The Dems are promoting and exploiting this situation to the maximum. Most likely there is left-wing and Dem money financing these puppet mobs. These things don't happen just spontaneously. I hope the voters remember these mob scenes at election time when mobs were beating up and in some case killing citizens, burning and looting, threatening the peace and depriving citizens of their rights.

The left is going to keep pushing for power up to election time. The country is in for a rough ride.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-06-04 10:51|| 2020-06-04 10:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Bad police officers. Bad school teachers. Bad municipal employees. When they are treated the same as a private sector employee who says something off color on Twitter we will be getting somewhere. Don't hold your breath.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-04 12:14|| 2020-06-04 12:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Meaning bad public unions M.

Posted by Woodrow 2020-06-04 12:26|| 2020-06-04 12:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Why don't we hear of similar stuff in Brazil?

1) Our idiot media doesn't care about anything that can't somehow be framed with the Woke Narrative, so Americans don't know how incredibly violent and anarchic are Sao Oaolo, Rio, etc.

2) Brazil's elite and its middle classes are terrified of the constant roiling of anarchic violence in the favelas that are interspersed with most urban neighborhoods in that country and are willing to countenance extreme brutality to keep it in check.

We will be there too if this kak is not suppressed with overwhelming force soon.

The alternative model is post-riots Detroit: the northern cities completely hollowed out, with all law-abiding people with means having fled to the 'burbs or gone South.

Posted by Lex 2020-06-04 12:42|| 2020-06-04 12:42|| Front Page Top

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