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| 2015-04-29 |
| [SultanKnish] Race riots usually begin with criminality and end with criminality. They're protests by criminals on behalf of a dead criminal. The stores with smashed windows aren't the means to express outrage, but the end. The purpose of criminality is criminality. The police exist so that stores can remain unrobbed and random pedestrians can remain unbeaten. The protests express opposition to that policy by robbing stores and assaulting random white people. The police were never the problem. The looters and rioters were. The counterculture has not changed dramatically since the 70's, but it has tossed aside any appearance of idealism. The new counterculture draws in two groups, disaffected upper middle class white youth and lower class black youth. Their goals are purely materialistic, looted iPods and government subsidies for housing, education and anything else they can think of. Divestment is the common denominator. Neither the white leftist nor the lower-class black rioter is invested in his society. The white rioter is a globalist, the black rioter is an outsider. Neither are invested in the city and country they are busy trashing. These are the children of the welfare state with little in common except a rejection of the commercial way of life. Neither the entitled white university brat or the posturing ghetto teenager has any interest in working. The businesses they smash are an alien thing to them. Small businessmen do not go about smashing stores. The people who do think of commodities as something they trick or intimidate others into giving to them. And that covers everyone from municipal unions to thugs driving around BMW's. This lawless materialism is the essence of the welfare state. "Loot as much as you can, or someone else will." If you don't grab government benefits or sneakers in store windows, someone else will. The rich are grabbing, the pols are grabbing-- time to queue up and loot your share. Communism made this way of thinking so commonplace that all of Russia became one black market. And we are not far behind. What kind of people behave this way? Those who have come to think of wealth as an infinite pile from which everyone grabs as much as they can. This is where the ethos of the socialist left and hip-hop comes together. Obama gleefully spending millions on himself and trillions on national giveaways for his donors and supporters is the most obnoxious fusion of this phenomenon. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #11 We never tried "benign neglect" which was proposed almost 50 years ago..................by a Democratic Lion. Not enough opportunity for graft. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-04-29 14:14 |
| #10 There must be something else as a common denominator. We have a permanent underclass in this country that is perpetuated by the welfare state. The likes of Barack Obama and Rev. Al Sharpton prefer to exploit this underclass for their own nefarious purposes rather than do anything positive to change things for the better. Their house organs such as ABC, NBC and CBS fan the flames every time some punk gets killed during the commission of a crime by making it sound like police go out every morning looking for some innocent kid to kill. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-04-29 12:15 |
| #9 When an entire generation has been told from birth that everyone deserves a trophy regardless of their talent or work ethic, sooner or later they demand it with violence. The inner city rioters of the Sixties were not given participation trophies and told they were wonderful at regular intervals, yet they rioted and looted anyway. There must be something else as a common denominator. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-04-29 11:46 |
| #8 Please, no place for targeting. Name deleted from #6. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-04-29 10:54 |
| #7 Throw a stone, recieve a bullet |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2015-04-29 10:38 |
| #6 Post notices "Rioters Will Be Shot, Survivors WILL go to Court" Test us, RIOT, CIVIL INSURRECTION, IS RIOT, BE SURE TO SHOT THE "lEADERS" just listen to the screaming, of those who can read, |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2015-04-29 10:35 |
| #5 When you clear cut and strip mine the productive class out of your social political environments, you end up with a Detroit. You have your political control you seek but you're left with pretty much a Pyrrhic victory. One of the unsaid mottoes of the Donks - Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-04-29 08:50 |
| #4 Both of which are concentrated in urban islands 'Urban Islands' ie, urbanization, and powerful, concentrated voting blocks are the plan. Integration is not the plan, never has been. In most cases the cultural span is far too wide. In other news: The Ayoreo of Paraguay continue to boycott enrollment at the prestigious Yale Law School. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-04-29 08:07 |
| #3 The new counterculture draws in two groups, disaffected upper middle class white youth and lower class black youth. Both of which are concentrated in urban islands to which both are oblivious to their dependency upon the 'outside world'. They produce none of the basics that make their environment possible. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-04-29 07:54 |
| #2 Yep. When an entire generation has been told from birth that everyone deserves a trophy regardless of their talent or work ethic, sooner or later they demand it with violence. Whether they are entitled college brats or entitled ghetto thugs. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2015-04-29 05:44 |
| #1 Thanks for posting this refreshing glimpse of reality. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-04-29 04:32 |