vdare--2020-06-05--Police Racism: A Manufactured Crisis

Police Racism: A Manufactured Crisis

Earlier : Irresponsible Dem/ MSM Complex Tells Childish Blacks To Riot—So They Do .
Whose Fault Is That ?
The United States is in an uproar over the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police .
There have been demonstrations in over 400 US cities , and looting and arson in every major city .
Why are so many people in the streets ?
Because they believe that American society is systematically racist and that the police brutalize and even casually murder black men .
The media constantly tell people the police are racist , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the death of George Floyd bears this out .
But let ’ s look at the facts .
Every year , American police officers have about 370 million contacts with civilians .
Most of the time nothing happens , but 12 to 13 million times a year , the police make an arrest .
How often does this lead to the death of an unarmed black person ?
We know the number thanks to a detailed Washington Post database of every killing by the police .
What is your guess as to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ police every year ?
One hundred ?
Three hundred ?
Last year , the figure was nine .
That number is going down , not up .
In 2015 , police killed 38 unarmed blacks .
In 2017 , 21 .
What about white people ?
Last year , police killed 19 unarmed whites , in addition to the 9 unarmed blacks .
We know the number of black and white people arrested every year , so it is possible to make an interesting calculation .
The chances of being unarmed , arrested @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are higher for whites than for blacks .
For both races , it ’ s very rare : One out of 292,000 arrests for blacks , and out of 283,000 arrests for whites .
This is hardly what we would expect from the way the media report these deaths .
What about the people the police kill who are armed ?
Since 2015 , when the Post began tracking these numbers , the police have killed about 1,000 people a year .
Every year , about one quarter of them are black .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the population , which is 13 percent .
Is this proof of police racism ?
No .
The more likely explanation is that blacks are more likely than whites to act in violent , aggressive ways that give the police no choice but to shoot them .
In 2018 , the most recent year for which we have statistics , blacks accounted for 37 percent of all arrests for violent crimes , 54 percent of all arrests for robbery , and 53 percent of arrests for murder .
With so many blacks involved @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that blacks should account for 25 percent of the people killed by the police seem like a surprisingly low figure .
There is another perspective on police killings of civilians .
Every year , criminals kill about 120 to 150 police officers .
And we know from this FBI table that every year , on average , about 35 percent of officers are killed by blacks .
So , to repeat , blacks are 13 percent of the population and account for 25 percent of the people killed by police .
But if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their threatening , violent , criminal behavior , they would be a greater percentage of the people killed by the police .
Some people believe that high arrest rates for blacks for violent crime reflect police racism .
They believe that biased police arrest innocent blacks and let guilty whites go , and that is why the black arrest percentages are so high .
That ’ s not plausible .
Are we supposed to believe that when police get a report of a white robber or assailant , they don ’ t bother @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that when they get a report of a black robber , they go out and arrest an innocent young black ?
Police are rewarded for making arrests that end in convictions , not for indulging in prejudice .
And there is very strong evidence that refutes the idea of “ racist ” arrest rates .
Every year , the US Bureau of Justice Statistics conducts what is called the National Crime Victimization Survey .
This is a survey of a nationally representative sample of no fewer than 160,000 people .
They are asked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crime , and are always asked the race of the attacker .
Many of these crimes are not reported to the police , so the numbers in this survey are always greater than the numbers of arrests for the same violent crimes .
However—and this is a crucial point—the racial proportions of arrests track the racial proportions of the national survey very closely .
For example , every year , the American public says that about half the muggers were black .
Therefore , when half the muggers the police arrest are black @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supposed to do : arrest criminals without regard to race .
There have been careful scientific studies of possible police bias against blacks—and Hispanics .
Last year , this paper and , later , this correction were published in the highly prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Science .
The researchers built a sophisticated database for all the fatal police shootings in 2015 , and looked at them from every possible racial angle .
They found that the race of people shot had no bearing on their likelihood of being shot , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from white officers .
They therefore concluded that “ increasing diversity among officers by itself is unlikely to reduce racial disparity in police shootings.
” Roland Fryer is a black economist , and the youngest person ever to get tenure at Harvard .
He was angry after the deaths of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray , so he did his own research on the use of deadly force by police in 10 big-city police departments police killing .
His detailed study of 1,332 police shootings—in which he carefully compared the circumstances of each @ @ @ @ @ @ @ If anything , police were more likely to shoot at non-threatening whites than at non-threatening blacks .
He said , this was “ the most surprising research result of my career.
” Why was Professor Fryer surprised ?
Because he believed what the media say about race and crime , and the media are often biased .
Here is a particularly relevant example .
On June 3 , in the midst of the rioting over the death of George Floyd , the New York Times published a long , detailed article with this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Against Black People at 7 Times the Rate of Whites.
” This sounds like a clear case of horrific police bias , and this is the impression the Times clearly wanted to convey .
However , the article included nothing about race differences in crime rates or arrest rates .
This is like reporting that the police were seven times more likely to use force against men living in Minneapolis than against women , and getting outraged over ani-male bias .
Needless to say , men in Minneapolis are much more likely to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because they commit far more crime and are arrested far more frequently .
No one would conclude that disproportionate use of force against men was a result of anti-male bias .
The only way to determine whether the Minneapolis police were biased would be to do the kind of research Roland Fryer did for police killings : make side-by-side comparisons of arrests of blacks and whites and see if police used force more often when they arrested whites .
We don ’ t have those data , but we do have graphs from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ between 2009 and 2014 .
This one shows the racial percentages of victims , suspects , and arrests for an aggregate of violent crimes : murder , rape , robbery , and aggravated assault .
This is the official graph , with random colors .
( This is deliberately obfuscatory . )
Recolored graph , with black represented as black , etc .
Since we know the percentage of each race in the population Minneapolis , it is easy to determine that compared to all other races combined , blacks were 12 times @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and 9.5 times more likely to be arrested .
Given this high rate of contact with the police , can it be surprising that a black person is seven times more likely than a white person to be treated forcefully by an officer ?
If anything , the multiple of seven seems low .
Once again , the only reasonable conclusion is that police are reacting to behavior , not race .
For the Times not to have included this kind of information is either grossly negligent or just plain dishonest .
Reckless @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the police .
An SFGate article about policing in San Francisco publicized a similar finding that seems to prove police racism : that over a five year period , blacks were eight times more likely than whites to be charged with resisting arrest .
But again , there were no data on racial differences in arrests .
Like the article in the Times , this creates a dangerously false impression of how the police do their jobs .
In America ’ s big cities , racial differences in crime rates can be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ignores these differences is likely to be misleading .
This dull looking New York City report for 2019 contains some remarkable graphs .
Take this one for murder .
The bars show the percentages of people of different races who are victims of murder , murder suspects , and eventually arrested for murder .
As you can see , Asians and whites don ’ t figure very high in any category , but blacks were 57 percent of victims , 62 percent of suspects , and 58 percent of arrests for murder .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ too .
Since we know the racial composition of the city , a simple calculation shows us that blacks are 17 times more likely than whites to be victims , 31 times more likely than whites to suspects , and 26 times more likely to be arrested .
The Hispanic multiples are high , too , seven times more likely than whites to be victims , 11 times more likely to be suspects , and 12 times more likely to be arrested .
Here are the figures for robbery .
Blacks are 22 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suspects and 17 times more likely to be arrested .
A shooting is when someone fires a gun and a bullet strikes someone , whether it kills him or not .
Blacks are hugely overrepresented : 42 times more likely than whites to be victims , 46 times more likely to be suspects , and 39 times more likely to be arrested .
These crimes are almost exclusively the work of blacks and Hispanics .
Similarly eye-opening data are available for other big cities .
These data are as easily available to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Have you ever seen them in the papers or on television ?
What about bias in the justice system after criminals are arrested ?
It ’ s hard to find nation-wide or comprehensive studies on this subject , but in 2017 , the city of San Francisco hired independent researchers to look into what happens after an arrest .
It ’ s true that when they are arrested for the same crimes , whites are more likely to have charges dropped , and if convicted , more likely to get lesser sentences .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ No .
It ’ s because blacks are more likely to have prior convictions , to have an open case against them , to have been out on parole when arrested , etc .
What matter are the characteristics of each case .
The report concluded : “ For nearly all of the outcomes we study , simple statistical controls for predetermined case characteristics can fully or mostly account for observed disparities , and in some instances they over-explain disparities.
” In other words , if you compare identical cases , there is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ phrase “ over-explain disparities ” means that in some cases , blacks received more lenient treatment than whites in similar circumstances .
It is important to recall that in not one of these celebrated “ black lives matter ” cases—Trayvon Martin , Michael Brown , Freddie Gray , Philando Castile , and Eric Garner—was there any proof that racist intent of any kind led to their deaths .
Furthermore , in all but one , a criminal trial or Justice Department investigation found that the killing was justified .
In the Garner case @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the 400-pound Garner to the ground in a neck hold , was fired from the New York City Police Department , but maintained he had done nothing wrong and planned to sue the department for reinstatement .
It is reasonable to conclude that , once again , what led to an unfortunate death was behavior , not race .
Something else that has an important bearing on cases like this is resisting arrest .
One of the best ways to turn an arrest for a minor crime into a felony case and—if things @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fight the police .
Michael Brown , Eric Garner , Philando Castile , and now , George Floyd were all resisting arrest when they died .
It is safe to say that if they had followed officer commands , they would not have died .
Are there racial differences in the rates at which suspects resist arrest ?
Again , comprehensive data are not available , but a study in New York City found that in misdemeanor drug-possession cases , blacks were nearly twice as likely to face an additional charge of resisting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the country as whole , it is yet more evidence that black criminal behavior differs from that of whites not only in frequency of contact with the police , but in the crucially important area of whether they are likely to become violent when arrested for a minor crime .
In conclusion , let me be clear about one thing : I am not trying to justify what happened to George Floyd in Minneapolis .
He was a big guy , and he was resisting arrest to the point that even with cuffs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ couldn ’ t get him into a squad car .
Police had a problem to deal with , but keeping a knee on Floyd ’ s neck for nearly 9 minutes may have been homicide .
But the solution is to investigate the officer , charge him if there are grounds to do so , and punish him if he is guilty .
The solution is not to demonstrate and riot against police racism , when there is hardly any evidence of any kind of system-wide bias .
There may be some bad @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as it should : In the overwhelming majority of cases , police deal with criminals properly , without regard to race .
There is a tremendous head of steam built up behind the idea of police bias .
But it ’ s not the police who need reform .
It ’ s the media .
This crisis will not end until the press stops presenting a false and dangerously inflamed picture of the American justice system .
Rioting and looting are wrong no matter what the reason .
Rioting and looting over an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even true—is an American tragedy .
Jared Taylor [ Email him ] is the editor of American Renaissance .

Earlier: Irresponsible Dem/ MSM Complex Tells Childish Blacks To Riot—So They Do. Whose Fault Is That?
The United States is in an uproar over the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police. There have been demonstrations in over 400 US cities, and looting and arson in every major city. Why are so many people in the streets? Because they believe that American society is systematically racist and that the police brutalize and even casually murder black men.
The media constantly tell people the police are racist, and many people think the gruesome video of the death of George Floyd bears this out. But let’s look at the facts.
Every year, American police officers have about 370 million contacts with civilians. Most of the time nothing happens, but 12 to 13 million times a year, the police make an arrest. How often does this lead to the death of an unarmed black person? We know the number thanks to a detailed Washington Post database of every killing by the police. What is your guess as to the number of unarmed blacks killed by the police every year? One hundred? Three hundred? Last year, the figure was nine.
That number is going down, not up. In 2015, police killed 38 unarmed blacks. In 2017, 21. What about white people? Last year, police killed 19 unarmed whites, in addition to the 9 unarmed blacks. We know the number of black and white people arrested every year, so it is possible to make an interesting calculation. The chances of being unarmed, arrested, and then killed by the police are higher for whites than for blacks. For both races, it’s very rare: One out of 292,000 arrests for blacks, and out of 283,000 arrests for whites. This is hardly what we would expect from the way the media report these deaths.
What about the people the police kill who are armed?
Since 2015, when the Post began tracking these numbers, the police have killed about 1,000 people a year. Every year, about one quarter of them are black. This is about twice their share of the population, which is 13 percent. Is this proof of police racism? No. The more likely explanation is that blacks are more likely than whites to act in violent, aggressive ways that give the police no choice but to shoot them. In 2018, the most recent year for which we have statistics, blacks accounted for 37 percent of all arrests for violent crimes, 54 percent of all arrests for robbery, and 53 percent of arrests for murder. With so many blacks involved in this kind of violent crime, that blacks should account for 25 percent of the people killed by the police seemslike a surprisingly low figure.
There is another perspective on police killings of civilians. Every year, criminals kill about 120 to 150 police officers. And we know from this FBI table that every year, on average, about 35 percent of the officers are killed by blacks. So, to repeat, blacks are 13 percent of the population and account for 25 percent of the people killed by police. But if police were killing them in proportion to their threatening, violent, criminal behavior, they would be a greater percentage of the people killed by the police.
Some people believe that high arrest rates for blacks for violent crime reflect police racism. They believe that biased police arrest innocent blacks and let guilty whites go, and that is why the black arrest percentages are so high. That’s not plausible. Are we supposed to believe that when police get a report of a white robber or assailant, they don’t bother to try to catch him? Or that when they get a report of a black robber, they go out and arrest an innocent young black? Police are rewarded for making arrests that end in convictions, not for indulging in prejudice.
And there is very strong evidence that refutes the idea of “racist” arrest rates. Every year, the US Bureau of Justice Statistics conducts what is called the National Crime Victimization Survey. This is a survey of a nationally representative sample of no fewer than 160,000 people. They are asked about their experiences as victims of violent crime, and are always asked the race of the attacker. Many of these crimes are not reported to the police, so the numbers in this survey are always greater than the numbers of arrests for the same violent crimes. However—and this is a crucial point—the racial proportions of arrests track the racial proportions of the national survey very closely. For example, every year, the American public says that about half the muggers were black. Therefore, when half the muggers the police arrest are black, police are doing what they are supposed to do: arrest criminals without regard to race.
There have been careful scientific studies of possible police bias against blacks—and Hispanics. Last year, this paper and, later, this correction were published in the highly prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. The researchers built a sophisticated database for all the fatal police shootings in 2015, and looked at them from every possible racial angle. They found that the race of people shot had no bearing on their likelihood of being shot, and that non-white officers behaved no differently from white officers. They therefore concluded that “increasing diversity among officers by itself is unlikely to reduce racial disparity in police shootings.”
Roland Fryer is a black economist, and the youngest person ever to get tenure at Harvard. He was angry after the deaths of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, so he did his own research on the use of deadly force by police in 10 big-city police departments police killing. His detailed study of 1,332 police shootings—in which he carefully compared the circumstances of each killing—found no evidence of police bias. If anything, police were more likely to shoot at non-threatening whites than at non-threatening blacks. He said, this was “the most surprising research result of my career.”
Why was Professor Fryer surprised? Because he believed what the media say about race and crime, and the media are often biased. Here is a particularly relevant example. On June 3, in the midst of the rioting over the death of George Floyd, the New York Times published a long, detailed article with this headline: “Minneapolis Police Use Force Against Black People at 7 Times the Rate of Whites.” This sounds like a clear case of horrific police bias, and this is the impression the Times clearly wanted to convey. However, the article included nothing about race differences in crime rates or arrest rates. This is like reporting that the police were seven times more likely to use force against men living in Minneapolis than against women, and getting outraged over anti-male bias. Needless to say, men in Minneapolis are much more likely to be subjected to police use of force because they commit far more crime and are arrested far more frequently. No one would conclude that disproportionate use of force against men was a result of anti-male bias.
The only way to determine whether the Minneapolis police were biased would be to do the kind of research Roland Fryer did for police killings: make side-by-side comparisons of arrests of blacks and whites and see if police used force more often when they arrested whites. We don’t have those data, but we do have graphs from a Minneapolis police department report on crime between 2009 and 2014.
This one shows the racial percentages of victims, suspects, and arrests for an aggregate of violent crimes: murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.
This is the official graph, with random colors. (This is deliberately obfuscatory.)
Recolored graph, with black represented as black, etc.
Since we know the percentage of each race in the population Minneapolis, it is easy to determine that compared to all other races combined, blacks were 12 times more to be suspects in these crimes and 9.5 times more likely to be arrested. Given this high rate of contact with the police, can it be surprising that a black person is seven times more likely than a white person to be treated forcefully by an officer? If anything, the multiple of seven seems low. Once again, the only reasonable conclusion is that police are reacting to behavior, not race. For the Times not to have included this kind of information is either grossly negligent or just plain dishonest. Reckless reporting gives people a completely false impression of the police.
An SFGate article about policing in San Francisco publicized a similar finding that seems to prove police racism: that over a five year period, blacks were eight times more likely than whites to be charged with resisting arrest. But again, there were no data on racial differences in arrests. Like the article in the Times, this creates a dangerously false impression of how the police do their jobs.
In America’s big cities, racial differences in crime rates can be staggering. Any report on crime that ignores these differences is likely to be misleading. This dull looking New York City report for 2019 contains some remarkable graphs. Take this one for murder.
The bars show the percentages of people of different races who are victims of murder, murder suspects, and eventually arrested for murder. As you can see, Asians and whites don’t figure very high in any category, but blacks were 57 percent of victims, 62 percent of suspects, and 58 percent of arrests for murder. The numbers for Hispanics are high, too.
Since we know the racial composition of the city, a simple calculation shows us that blacks are 17 times more likely than whites to be victims, 31 times more likely than whites to be suspects, and 26 times more likely to be arrested. The Hispanic multiples are high, too, seven times more likely than whites to be victims, 11 times more likely to be suspects, and 12 times more likely to be arrested.
Here are the figures for robbery.
Blacks are 22 times more likely than whites to be suspects and 17 times more likely to be arrested.
A shooting is when someone fires a gun and a bullet strikes someone, whether it kills him or not.
Blacks are hugely overrepresented: 42 times more likely than whites to be victims, 46 times more likely to be suspects, and 39 times more likely to be arrested. These crimes are almost exclusively the work of blacks and Hispanics. Similarly eye-opening data are available for other big cities. These data are as easily available to the press as they are to us. Have you ever seen them in the papers or on television?
What about bias in the justice system after criminals are arrested? It’s hard to find nation-wide or comprehensive studies on this subject, but in 2017, the city of San Francisco hired independent researchers to look into what happens after an arrest. It’s true that when they are arrested for the same crimes, whites are more likely to have charges dropped, and if convicted, more likely to get lesser sentences. Is this proof of systemic bias? No. It’s because blacks are more likely to have prior convictions, to have an open case against them, to have been out on parole when arrested, etc.
What matters are the characteristics of each case. The report concluded: “For nearly all of the outcomes we study, simple statistical controls for predetermined case characteristics can fully or mostly account for observed disparities, and in some instances they over-explain disparities.” In other words, if you compare identical cases, there is essentially no bias against blacks. The phrase “over-explain disparities” means that in some cases, blacks received more lenient treatment than whites in similar circumstances.
It is important to recall that in not one of these celebrated “black lives matter” cases—Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Philando Castile, and Eric Garner—was there any proof that racist intent of any kind led to their deaths. Furthermore, in all but one, a criminal trial or Justice Department investigation found that the killing was justified. In the Garner case, Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who brought the 400-pound Garner to the ground in a neck hold, was fired from the New York City Police Department, but maintained he had done nothing wrong and planned to sue the department for reinstatement. It is reasonable to conclude that, once again, what led to an unfortunate death was behavior, not race.
Something else that has an important bearing on cases like this is resisting arrest. One of the best ways to turn an arrest for a minor crime into a felony case and—if things go wrong, into front-page news—is to fight the police. Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Philando Castile, and now, George Floyd were all resisting arrest when they died. It is safe to say that if they had followed officer commands, they would not have died.
Are there racial differences in the rates at which suspects resist arrest? Again, comprehensive data are not available, but a study in New York City found that in misdemeanor drug-possession cases, blacks were nearly twice as likely to face an additional charge of resisting arrest. If this is representative of the country as whole, it is yet more evidence that black criminal behavior differs from that of whites not only in frequency of contact with the police, but in the crucially important area of whether they are likely to become violent when arrested for a minor crime.
In conclusion, let me be clear about one thing: I am not trying to justify what happened to George Floyd in Minneapolis. He was a big guy, and he was resisting arrest to the point that even with cuffs on, a team of three officers couldn’t get him into a squad car. Police had a problem to deal with, but keeping a knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly 9 minutes may have been homicide.
But the solution is to investigate the officer, charge him if there are grounds to do so, and punish him if he is guilty. The solution is not to demonstrate and riot against police racism, when there is hardly any evidence of any kind of system-wide bias. There may be some bad apples, but the system is working as it should: In the overwhelming majority of cases, police deal with criminals properly, without regard to race.
There is a tremendous head of steam built up behind the idea of police bias. But it’s not the police who need reform. It’s the media. This crisis will not end until the press stops presenting a false and dangerously inflamed picture of the American justice system. Rioting and looting are wrong no matter what the reason. Rioting and looting over an illusion—because of something that isn’t even true—is an American tragedy.
Jared Taylor [Email him] is the editor of American Renaissance. You can follow him on Parler and Gab. This article is crossposted from Amren.com.


vdare--2020-06-06--JOHN DERBYSHIRE: I Will Not Genuflect To This Church Of Antiracism

When I first came to these shores in August of 1973 , I lived down on New York 's Lower East Side , with some Chinese friends from Hong Kong .
They were fairly recent immigrants themselves , and keen to show me the sights .
One evening they took me to Macy 's in Herald Square .
I 'd been in department stores before , of course ; but I had to admit , Macy 's was pretty darn impressive .
I can still recall riding up those escalators .
Monday this week a mob of looters broke in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ St. : Videos capture scene as rioters kick their way inside Macy ’ s flagship store in Midtown , by Catherina Gioino and Larry McShane , NY Daily New , June 2 , 2020 ] .
The store had boarded up its windows two days before ; and the break-in happened at night , when there was supposed to be a curfew in place .
Which was a further metastasizing of the disturbances I reported last week , over a black guy dying in Minneapolis while under arrest .
Yes : This is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are happening faster than I can keep up .
The last one—that black guy out jogging with his tuxedo on , remember that ?
—was only four weeks ago .
Now here 's another .
This one concerns George Floyd , a black man who died while under arrest in Minneapolis a week ago this past Monday .
Floyd had tried to pass a counterfeit bill at a convenience store .
Store employees called the cops , who struggled with Floyd both before and after handcuffing him .
He seems to have put @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was a very large heavy guy , either 6 ' 6 '' or 6 ' 7 '' , depending which report you read .
The fracas ended with one cop , Derek Chauvin , kneeling over the perp with a knee on his neck .
It 's not clear how much weight was on the knee , or the degree—if any—to which this style of restraint led to Floyd 's death .
He had high levels of illegal drugs in his system , as well as being seriously unhealthy The convenience store employees @ @ @ @ @ @ @ drunk .
[ Autopsy report : George Floyd died from cardiopulmonary arrest , was positive for COVID-19 , by Charlie Wiese , KTSP , June 3 , 2020 ] It 's also not clear to me how unorthodox this knee-on-the-neck style of restraint is .
Our own correspondent who posts as `` Federale '' here at VDARE.com , and who is a law-enforcement professional , says it 's pretty routine : Federale supplies a supporting video from an arrest in New York City ; and at least one law-enforcement website has said that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ policy . ''
[ Neck Hold Used By Minneapolis Officer Was Approved By Department Policy , LawOfficer.com , May 29 , 2020 ] On the famous video clip , Officer Chauvin plainly knows he 's being filmed ; yet he does n't have the look of someone aware that he 's doing anything wrong .
It 's difficult for a lay person to know how to judge this .
One of the great truths about human nature is that power corrupts .
For a police force to be effective at all , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; so it 's not a surprise that some cops get corrupted .
Looking back over my own interactions with the guys in blue , across several decades and many jurisdictions in half a dozen countries , what surprises me is how few cops go bad .
In a broad and general way , I 'm pro-cop .
This past few days we 've been hearing calls to defund the police [ Movement to defund police gains 'unprecedented ' support across US , by Sam Levin , Guardian , June 2 , 2020 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are of course rich celebrity types living in gated communities , but there seems to be some broader support too .
Speaking as the inhabitant of a quiet middle-middle-class white suburb , I 'm not totally unsympathetic .
If there was no organized police force , myself and my neighbors , many of us armed , could keep order among ourselves with no trouble .
Community self-sufficiency is a fine old American ideal .
The problems would arise , of course , when underclass blacks from some nearby ghetto came in to steal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We 'd end up shooting a couple , and then we 'd quickly be where Officer Chauvin and his colleagues are now , where the three guys in Brunswick , Georgia are , looking at four hundred years porridge on federal `` civil rights '' and `` hate crime '' charges .
And that 's only to speak of the civilized part of town .
Removing police from the ghetto itself would lead to real mayhem .
The black-on-black homicide rate would go from the current seven or eight times the white-on-white rate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would n't rule out cannibalism .
And it would all , of course , be white people 's fault .
You may say : `` OK , but George Zimmerman was doing neighborhood watch , and he was acquitted at trial . ''
That 's true ; but what George Zimmerman went through is not an advertisement for community self-policing .
In any case , that was before the Great Awokening really got under way .
Nowadays the Ruling Class would move heaven and earth to get a conviction .
Derek Chauvin 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; and Minnesota 's state Attorney General , a black Muslim Bernie Sanders supporter , will rig the prosecution nine ways to Sunday … or nine ways to Friday , whatever the Muslim equivalent is .
So forget about self-policing communities .
We need professional cops , with their occasional obnoxiousness , powerful unions , and extravagant benefits .
Guess what : It 's an imperfect world .
And a crazy world .
Listen to this .
That was a rally the other day in Bethesda , Maryland .
All I have of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It 's an open-air scene in some kind of parking lot or plaza outside a library , in what looks like a spacious middle-class suburb a lot like my own .
There are several hundred people present ; so far as I can see , all of them are white—males and females both , with I think a slight preponderance of females .
The liturgical quality of their responses illustrates plainly—more plainly than anything I have seen or heard in a long time—John McWhorter 's thesis that antiracism is a religion .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ '' , Daily Beast , July 272015 ] I ca n't get much of a handle on the appeal of antiracism to Goodwhites , though I see it obviously has great appeal to these Bethesda congregants .
Also to leaders of the big old established religions .
This week the Pope declared that racism is a sin .
[ Pope Francis Prays For George Floyd , Decries 'The Sin Of Racism ' , NPR , June 3 , 2020 ] The Archbishop of Canterbury , not to be out-pontiffed , said that racism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ Racism is an affront to God ’ – Church leaders lament death of George Floyd , Anglican Mainstream , June 3 , 2020 ] At the risk of having my door kicked down by outraged elderly gents in clerical robes , I 'll admit I do n't mind racism , if it is defined as thinking some races are better than others .
It 's a common enough opinion—a well-nigh universal one until about fifty years ago—and harmless in itself .
Racism has of course a lunatic fringe of people who want @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other races .
A lot of ideas have lunatic fringes , though .
There are , however , well-established laws against robbing , persecuting , and killing other people for any reason , and I whole-heartedly support those laws .
If we are going to judge opinions by the lunatic fringe of those who hold them , the zone of acceptable ideas will be awfully small .
Which , of course , where true believers are concerned , is the whole idea .
In the pure world of universal enlightenment , there will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ topic .
For a person like me with a more open frame of mind , the appeal of antiracism is as incomprehensible as the religious observances of Australian Aborigines .
I can only watch and wonder as antiracists wave their arms , chant in unison , and shriek in horror at unbelievers .
And genuflect .
That seems to be a big thing with antiracist believers .
If you do n't know the word , `` genuflect '' is defined at Dictionary.com as : ( 1 ) to bend the knee or touch @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or worship .
( 2 ) to express a servile attitude .
People have been genuflecting all over this past few days in displays of antiracist reverence and to express a servile attitude .
Michelle Malkin wrote a fine spirited article about it : I entirely agree .
But for GoodWhites , it ’ s time to , in the words of Tom Lehrer , to `` Genuflect !
Genuflect !
Genuflect !
… '' .
Genuflecting with tears : Here ’ s the memorial service for the Holy Blessed Martyr Floyd , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Al Sharpton .
Note the Mayor of Minneapolis , a 14-year-old white girl eccentrically named Jacob Frey , sobbing uncontrollably while reverently touching Floyd 's gold casket .
A gold casket !
I 'm sure it 's not solid gold , presumably just gilt , but it sure does look grand and holy .
Any lingering doubts that antiracism really is the religion of Goodwhites like Ms. Frey were dispelled by that image of her kneeling , and of the casket she was kneeling at , which looked like the kind of object @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would have had a basilica built over it .
And , come to think of it , by the time George Floyd 's family are through collecting on the Ghetto Lottery , they probably will be able to afford a casket in solid gold .
Last time I looked , their GoFundMe page was up over thirteen million dollars .
How many family members are there , though ?
We 're told that Floyd had six siblings , is father to five children , and was living with a lady he met three @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Minnesota : A look back at George Floyd 's life , by Alex Jokich , KSTP , June 4 , 2020 ] We do n't know much about the baby-mommas of Floyd 's children , but the youngest child we 've heard about is six years old , so I guess she 's not from the lady he met three years ago .
I do hope there is n't any unseemly squabbling among siblings , children , and baby-mommas over the division of that thirteen million dollars , or however much it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there for everyone—easily enough to buy each of them a house in a nice white neighborhood .
So a feral mob is looting Macy 's .
The police ca n't cope and the Governor wo n't call in the National Guard for fear the Church of Antiracism will excommunicate him .
Why not bring in the troops ?
Surely we could spare a few hundred from the , oh , the four thousand we have stationed in Bahrain , wherever the hell that is ?
Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas made the case @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wednesday .
Sample quote : That ignited a civil war in the Times itself , with staffers tweeting their displeasure that the newspaper had published the piece .
We heard from , for example , Nikole Hannah-Jones , the black female reporter who just won a Pulitzer Prize for her `` 1619 Project '' arguing that blackety blackety blackety-black-black-black .
Tweeted she , : Jazmine Hughes , an editor of the New York Times Magazine , agreed .
Tweet from him , her , or xer : Poor thing !
You can just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black employees at the Times , cowering in fear that the white overseers might at any time bring out the whips and cudgels , waiting in line deferentially in the lunch cafeteria until all the white people have been served first .
Our hearts go out , Jazmine .
A common opinion was that , to quote one much re-tweeted tweet , tweet : Because , you know : First thing the GIs are going to do , once they 've landed in Manhattan , is head up to 41st and Eighth to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Late Thursday the newspaper 's management caved , telling the world that Tom Cotton 's op-ed was the result of a `` rushed editorial process '' and `` did not meet our standards .
`` [ Sources : New York Times not telling the truth about Tom Cotton op-ed , by Dominic Green , Spectator USA , June 5 , 2020 ] All this confirms my view stated above : that in the Brave New World of wokeness , there will be only one permitted opinion on any topic .
Disagreement will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , too , something I 've been hearing for quite a while : That the older staff members at the Times—and some similar institutions—people with the traditional , somewhat open , gentry style of East Coast liberalism , these older staffers have been increasingly at odds with the younger , more `` woke '' cohort , who have a less tolerant , more totalitarian mindset .
Not just at odds , in fact : Some of what I 've been hearing is that the grown-ups are scared of the young radicals .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's op-ed suggests this is indeed the case .
The grown-ups are scared .
You 've probably heard that saying—it dates from the French Revolution—that `` A revolution eats its children . ''
To judge from these events at the New York Times this week , what 's happening over there is more a case of the children eating the adults .
But where are the unbelievers ?
Where is the other side in the Cold Civil War ?
There have been one or two signs of resistance .
A small group of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ town of Yucaipa , in Southern California , but the locals , who look to be well-armed , chased them out without so much as a token genuflect .
[ Antifa ‘ Invades The Suburbs ’ in Yucaipa , Calif… It Does Not End Well For Them , bu Chris Menahan , Information Liberation , June 3 , 2020 ] Here in my neck of the woods , which is to say on Long Island , residents of Merrick , in the county adjacent to mine , protested a march through their town @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were shouting at the marchers : `` Go west ! ''
meaning , to the next town over , which is more … diverse .
Cops negotiated some kind of compromise , and the march went through ; but at least the Badwhites of Merrick put up a fight .
Thanks , guys !
[ Merrick Residents Try To Block Anti-Police Brutality Protesters , by Timothy Bolger , Long Island Press , June 3 , 2020 ] Here in my own bosky town a few miles further out on the island , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Facebook to the town 's small mob of protestors as `` punks , '' `` little animals , '' and `` savages . ''
He further claimed that This gentleman , may his name live in honor , is Luigi Petrone , proprietor of Tutto Pazzo restaurant , where I have eaten many times .
The food is excellent .
Tutto Pazzo has been closed recently as part of the coronavirus lockdown .
Presumably they will re-open at some point .
I 'd like to tell you that I shall be going @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do .
However , it seems that Luigi Petrone is only the co-owner with his brother Joey ; and Joey is a true believer in the Church of Antiracism .
From Joey via his attorney : See , it 's just like a real civil war : brother against brother .
Until the Petrones have come to some kind of terms , I shall withhold my patronage of their restaurant .
So yes , there have been some small scattered signs of resistance .
It 's not much , though ; and of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are all genuflecting to the terrorists and looters .
That includes the Republican side of the Uniparty , whose Senators and Congressmen have been declaring their devotion to the Holy Blessed Martyr Floyd just as loud as they can squeal .
Our useless , ineffectual President has been mostly not present , other than when tweeting pathetically about how he 's reduced black unemployment .
This is part of a subtle scheme cooked up by his son-in-law , Jared Kushner , to win this November 's election by raising the eight percent of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to eight and a half—maybe nine !
—percent .
That Kushner guy is a real political genius , is n't he ?
So I may have to revise my model of a Cold Civil War .
Right now , we look more like an occupied nation , dominated by this bizarre cult of anti-white totalitarianism , dissenters from which have no organization , no leadership , and almost no public voice .
It 's hard to think this will end well .
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He is the author of We Are Doomed : Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books .
He has had two books published by VDARE.com com : FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT ( also available in Kindle ) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II : ESSAYS 2013 .
For years he ’ s been podcasting at Radio Derb , now available at VDARE.com for no charge .
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Earlier: Police Racism: A Manufactured Crisis, by Jared Taylor
When I first came to these shores in August of 1973, I lived down on New York's Lower East Side, with some Chinese friends from Hong Kong. They were fairly recent immigrants themselves, and keen to show me the sights.
One evening they took me to Macy's in Herald Square. I'd been in department stores before, of course; but I had to admit, Macy's was pretty darn impressive. I can still recall riding up those escalators.
Monday this week a mob of looters broke in to Macy's [Nightmare on 34th St.: Videos capture scene as rioters kick their way inside Macy’s flagship store in Midtown, by Catherina Gioino and Larry McShane, NY Daily News, June 2, 2020]. The store had boarded up its windows two days before; and the break-in happened at night, when there was supposed to be a curfew in place.
And they looted Macy's.
Which was a further metastasizing of the disturbances I reported last week, over a black guy dying in Minneapolis while under arrest.
Yes: This is yet another Emmett Till! These things are happening faster than I can keep up. The last one—that black guy out jogging with his tuxedo on, remember that?—was only four weeks ago. Now here's another.
This one concerns George Floyd, a black man who died while under arrest in Minneapolis a week ago this past Monday. Floyd had tried to pass a counterfeit bill at a convenience store. Store employees called the cops, who struggled with Floyd both before and after handcuffing him. He seems to have put up a lot of resistance. Floyd was a very large heavy guy, either 6'6" or 6'7", depending which report you read.
The fracas ended with one cop, Derek Chauvin, kneeling over the perp with a knee on his neck. It's not clear how much weight was on the knee, or the degree—if any—to which this style of restraint led to Floyd's death. He had high levels of illegal drugs in his system, as well as being seriously unhealthy The convenience store employees he'd interacted with thought he was drunk [Autopsy report: George Floyd died from cardiopulmonary arrest, was positive for COVID-19 , by Charlie Wiese, KTSP, June 3, 2020].
It's also not clear to me how unorthodox this knee-on-the-neck style of restraint is. Our own correspondent who posts as "Federale" here at VDARE.com, and who is a law-enforcement professional, says it's pretty routine:
Kneeling on the head or neck is quite common and useful physical control technique. It is also used daily in hundreds of arrests.
Federale supplies a supporting video from an arrest in New York City; and at least one law-enforcement website has said that Officer Chauvin was “compliant with existing policy." [Neck Hold Used By Minneapolis Officer Was Approved By Department Policy, LawOfficer.com, May 29, 2020]
On the famous video clip, Officer Chauvin plainly knows he's being filmed; yet he doesn't have the look of someone aware that he's doing anything wrong.
It's difficult for a lay person to know how to judge this. One of the great truths about human nature is that power corrupts. For a police force to be effective at all, the cops have to have power over civilians; so it's not a surprise that some cops get corrupted.
Looking back over my own interactions with the guys in blue, across several decades and many jurisdictions in half a dozen countries, what surprises me is how few cops go bad. In a broad and general way, I'm pro-cop.
This past few days we've been hearing calls to defund the police [Movement to defund police gains 'unprecedented' support across US, by Sam Levin, Guardian, June 2, 2020]. The people calling the loudest are of course rich celebrity types living in gated communities, but there seems to be some broader support too.
Speaking as the inhabitant of a quiet middle-middle-class white suburb, I'm not totally unsympathetic. If there was no organized police force, myself and my neighbors, many of us armed, could keep order among ourselves with no trouble. Community self-sufficiency is a fine old American ideal.
The problems would arise, of course, when underclass blacks from some nearby ghetto came in to steal our stuff and rape our women. We'd end up shooting a couple, and then we'd quickly be where Officer Chauvin and his colleagues are now, where the three guys in Brunswick, Georgia are, looking at four hundred years porridge on federal "civil rights" and "hate crime" charges.
And that's only to speak of the civilized part of town. Removing police from the ghetto itself would lead to real mayhem. The black-on-black homicide rate would go from the current seven or eight times the white-on-white rate to seventy or eighty times. I wouldn't rule out cannibalism.
And it would all, of course, be white people's fault.
You may say: "OK, but George Zimmerman was doing neighborhood watch, and he was acquitted at trial."
That's true; but what George Zimmerman went through is not an advertisement for community self-policing. In any case, that was before the Great Awokening really got under way. Nowadays the Ruling Class would move heaven and earth to get a conviction.
Derek Chauvin's jury will be stacked with 70-IQ Somalis; and Minnesota's state Attorney General, a black Muslim Bernie Sanders supporter, will rig the prosecution nine ways to Sunday … or nine ways to Friday, whatever the Muslim equivalent is.
So forget about self-policing communities. We need professional cops, with their occasional obnoxiousness, powerful unions, and extravagant benefits.
Guess what: It's an imperfect world.
And a crazy world. Listen to this.
That was a rally the other day in Bethesda, Maryland. All I have of it is a video clip and soundtrack. It's an open-air scene in some kind of parking lot or plaza outside a library, in what looks like a spacious middle-class suburb a lot like my own. There are several hundred people present; so far as I can see, all of them are white—males and females both, with I think a slight preponderance of females.
The liturgical quality of their responses illustrates plainly—more plainly than anything I have seen or heard in a long time—John McWhorter's thesis that antiracism is a religion. [Antiracism: Our Flawed New Religion", Daily Beast, July 272015]
I can't get much of a handle on the appeal of antiracism to Goodwhites, though I see it obviously has great appeal to these Bethesda congregants.
Also to leaders of the big old established religions. This week the Pope declared that racism is a sin. [Pope Francis Prays For George Floyd, Decries 'The Sin Of Racism', NPR, June 3, 2020] The Archbishop of Canterbury, not to be out-pontiffed, said that racism is “an affront to God” [Racism is an affront to God’–Church leaders lament death of George Floyd, Anglican Mainstream, June 3, 2020].
At the risk of having my door kicked down by outraged elderly gents in clerical robes, I'll admit I don't mind racism, if it is defined as thinking some races are better than others. It's a common enough opinion—a well-nigh universal one until about fifty years ago—and harmless in itself.
Racism has of course a lunatic fringe of people who want to rob, persecute, or kill other races. A lot of ideas have lunatic fringes, though. There are, however, well-established laws against robbing, persecuting, and killing other people for any reason, and I whole-heartedly support those laws.
If we are going to judge opinions by the lunatic fringe of those who hold them, the zone of acceptable ideas will be awfully small.
Which, of course, where true believers are concerned, is the whole idea. In the pure world of universal enlightenment, there will be only one permitted opinion on any topic.
For a person like me with a more open frame of mind, the appeal of antiracism is as incomprehensible as the religious observances of Australian Aborigines. I can only watch and wonder as antiracists wave their arms, chant in unison, and shriek in horror at unbelievers.
And genuflect. That seems to be a big thing with antiracist believers. If you don't know the word, "genuflect" is defined at Dictionary.com as:
(1) to bend the knee or touch one knee to the floor in reverence or worship.
(2) to express a servile attitude.
People have been genuflecting all over this past few days in displays of antiracist reverence and to express a servile attitude. Michelle Malkin wrote a fine spirited article about it:
America, straighten your spines. Unbow your heads. No home or nation was ever saved by kowtowing to invaders or ransackers. Unless you are praying to God, get up off your knees.
I entirely agree. But for GoodWhites, it’s time to, in the words of Tom Lehrer, to "Genuflect! Genuflect! Genuflect! …".
Genuflecting with tears: Here’s the memorial service for the Holy Blessed Martyr Floyd, conducted (incredibly) by Rev. Al Sharpton. Note the Mayor of Minneapolis, a 14-year-old white girl eccentrically named Jacob Frey, sobbing uncontrollably while reverently touching Floyd's gold casket.
Minneapolis mayor sobs uncontrollably at gold coffin of George Floyd at memorial led by Rev. Al Sharpton https://t.co/8KfVnhCxqE pic.twitter.com/Q1r5lmYxfy — Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) June 4, 2020
A gold casket! I'm sure it's not solid gold, presumably just gilt, but it sure does look grand and holy.
Any lingering doubts that antiracism really is the religion of Goodwhites like Ms. Frey were dispelled by that image of her kneeling, and of the casket she was kneeling at, which looked like the kind of object that, a thousand years ago, would have had a basilica built over it.
And, come to think of it, by the time George Floyd's family are through collecting on the Ghetto Lottery, they probably will be able to afford a casket in solid gold. Last time I looked, their GoFundMe page was up over thirteen million dollars.
How many family members are there, though? We're told that Floyd had six siblings, is father to five children, and was living with a lady he met three years ago [From North Carolina to Minnesota: A look back at George Floyd's life, by Alex Jokich, KSTP, June 4, 2020]. We don't know much about the baby-mommas of Floyd's children, but the youngest child we've heard about is six years old, so I guess she's not from the lady he met three years ago.
I do hope there isn't any unseemly squabbling among siblings, children, and baby-mommas over the division of that thirteen million dollars, or however much it ends up as.
There's plenty there for everyone—easily enough to buy each of them a house in a nice white neighborhood.
So a feral mob is looting Macy's. The police can't cope and the Governor won't call in the National Guard for fear the Church of Antiracism will excommunicate him. Why not bring in the troops? Surely we could spare a few hundred from the, oh, the four thousand we have stationed in Bahrain, wherever the hell that is?
Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas made the case in a New York Times op-ed on Wednesday. Sample quote:
It's past time to support local law enforcement with federal authority. Some governors have mobilized the National Guard, yet others refuse, and in some cases the rioters still outnumber the police and Guard combined. In these circumstances, the Insurrection Act authorizes the president to employ the military "or any other means" in "cases of insurrection, or obstruction to the laws."[Send In the Troops, June 3, 2020]
That ignited a civil war in the Times itself, with staffers tweeting their displeasure that the newspaper had published the piece.
We heard from, for example, Nikole Hannah-Jones, the black female reporter who just won a Pulitzer Prize for her "1619 Project" arguing that blackety blackety blackety-black-black-black. Tweeted she, tweet :
As a black woman, as a journalist, as an American, I am deeply ashamed that we ran this.
Jazmine Hughes, an editor of the New York Times Magazine, agreed. Tweet from him, her, or xer:
As if it weren't already hard enough to be a black employee of the New York Times
Poor thing! You can just imagine the hardships they endure, those black employees at the Times, cowering in fear that the white overseers might at any time bring out the whips and cudgels, waiting in line deferentially in the lunch cafeteria until all the white people have been served first. Our hearts go out, Jazmine.
A common opinion was that, to quote one much re-tweeted tweet, tweet:
Running this puts Black @nytimes staffers in danger.
Because, you know: First thing the GIs are going to do, once they've landed in Manhattan, is head up to 41st and Eighth to shoot up the New York Times building.
Late Thursday the newspaper's management caved, telling the world that Tom Cotton's op-ed was the result of a "rushed editorial process" and "did not meet our standards" [Sources: New York Times not telling the truth about Tom Cotton op-ed, by Dominic Green, Spectator USA, June 5, 2020].
All this confirms my view stated above: that in the Brave New World of wokeness, there will be only one permitted opinion on any topic. Disagreement will be treason.
It confirms something else, too, something I've been hearing for quite a while: that the older staff members at the Times—and some similar institutions—people with the traditional, somewhat open, gentry style of East Coast liberalism, these older staffers have been increasingly at odds with the younger, more "woke" cohort, who have a less tolerant, more totalitarian mindset.
Not just at odds, in fact: Some of what I've been hearing is that the grown-ups are scared of the young radicals. The way the paper caved over Tom Cotton's op-ed suggests this is indeed the case. The grown-ups are scared.
You've probably heard that saying—it dates from the French Revolution—that "A revolution eats its children."
To judge from these events at the New York Times this week, what's happening over there is more a case of the children eating the adults.
But where are the unbelievers? Where is the other side in the Cold Civil War?
There have been one or two signs of resistance. A small group of Antifa communists tried to demonstrate in the town of Yucaipa, in Southern California, but the locals, who look to be well-armed, chased them out without so much as a token genuflect [Antifa ‘Invades The Suburbs’ in Yucaipa, Calif… It Does Not End Well For Them, by Chris Menahan, Information Liberation, June 3, 2020].
Here in my neck of the woods, which is to say on Long Island, residents of Merrick, in the county adjacent to mine, protested a march through their town by the Antifa-looter coalition. The townsfolk were shouting at the marchers: "Go west!" meaning, to the next town over, which is more … diverse.
Cops negotiated some kind of compromise, and the march went through; but at least the Badwhites of Merrick put up a fight. Thanks, guys! [Merrick Residents Try To Block Anti-Police Brutality Protesters, by Timothy Bolger, Long Island Press, June 3, 2020]
Here in my own bosky town a few miles further out on the island, a restaurateur scandalized the local faithful by referring on Facebook to the town's small mob of protestors as "punks," "little animals," and "savages." He further claimed that
They came in and they came out, they saw a bunch of us with a bunch of watermelons we were going to throw at them.
This gentleman, may his name live in honor, is Luigi Petrone, proprietor of Tutto Pazzo restaurant, where I have eaten many times. The food is excellent.
Tutto Pazzo has been closed recently as part of the coronavirus lockdown. Presumably they will re-open at some point.
I'd like to tell you that I shall be going there to eat as soon as they do. However, it seems that Luigi Petrone is only the co-owner with his brother Joey; and Joey is a true believer in the Church of Antiracism. From Joey via his attorney:
Mr. Petrone wants to express his DEEPEST APOLOGY for the reprehensible comments made by his brother Luigi … Huntington restaurant owner under fire over racist remarks, by Deborah S. Morris, New York Newsday, June 2, 2020
See, it's just like a real civil war: brother against brother. Until the Petrones have come to some kind of terms, I shall withhold my patronage of their restaurant.
So yes, there have been some small scattered signs of resistance. It's not much, though; and of course all the real centers of power are all genuflecting to the terrorists and looters.
That includes the Republican side of the Uniparty, whose Senators and Congressmen have been declaring their devotion to the Holy Blessed Martyr Floyd just as loud as they can squeal.
Our useless, ineffectual President has been mostly not present, other than when tweeting pathetically about how he's reduced black unemployment. This is part of a subtle scheme cooked up by his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to win this November's election by raising the eight percent of the black vote Trump got in 2016 to eight and a half—maybe nine!—percent.
That Kushner guy is a real political genius, isn't he?
So I may have to revise my model of a Cold Civil War. Right now, we look more like an occupied nation, dominated by this bizarre cult of anti-white totalitarianism, against which we dissenters have no organization, no leadership, and almost no public voice.
It's hard to think this will end well.
John Derbyshire [ email him] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him.) He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books. He has had two books published by VDARE.com com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (also available in Kindle) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013.
For years he’s been podcasting at Radio Derb, now available at VDARE.com for no charge. His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com.
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vdare--2020-06-06--VDARE.TV's Roving Reporters Go To Washington, Meet People Who Think Looting Is Cool

VDARE Reporters continue their coverage of the George Floyd `` peaceful protests '' in Washington , D.C .
They meet @ @ @ @ @ looting , and a woman who was mugged at knifepoint by two black men , @ @ @ @ @ a problem with is the cops who kept showing her thick books of mugshots of @ @ @ @ @ does n't want to be a `` Karen '' , but you supect she wants @ @ @ @ @ of the DC police .

Earlier: VDARE.TV's Roving Reporters Attend A Protest (Not A Riot—White Liberals Were Involved)
VDARE Reporters continue their coverage of the George Floyd "peaceful protests" in Washington, D.C.
They meet people who try to justify looting, and a woman who was mugged at knifepoint by two black men, and says what she has a problem with is the cops who kept showing her thick books of mugshots of young black men.
She doesn't want to be a "Karen," but you supect she wants to speak to the manager of the DC police.


vdare--2020-06-06--What Will Happen to Urban Real Estate Prices?

Race riots and disease sound like a bad combination .
If there ’ s a long-term rise in crime , @ @ @ @ @ 1960s riots , that would be even worse .
On the other hand , there @ @ @ @ @ these days to catch criminals .
But is there enough will to arrest criminals when @ @ @ @ @ black ?

Race riots and disease sound like a bad combination. If there’s a long-term rise in crime, like there was after the 1960s riots, that would be even worse.
On the other hand, there is a lot more technology these days to catch criminals. But is there enough will to arrest criminals when most of the worst are black?
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-06-06--Did American Cops Learn Kneel-On-Neck Technique from Israel?

Crazy how the same thing happens in Palestine but the world chooses to ignore it pic.twitter.com/7wddf9tUYb The Anti-Defamation League , among others , sponsors a lot of training of American cops by Israelis in the latest techniques Israel has developed over the years for keeping Palestinians down .
A leftist outlet , The Morning Star , wrote : But in a chilling testimony , a Palestinian rights activist said that when she saw the image of Derek Chauvin kneeling on Mr Floyd ’ s neck , she was reminded of the Israeli forces ’ policing of the occupied territories .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Solidarity Movement ( ISM ) said : “ When I saw the picture of killer cop Derek Chauvin murdering George Floyd by leaning in on his neck with his knee as he cried for help and other cops watched , I remembered noticing when many Israeli soldiers began using this technique of leaning in on our chest and necks when we were protesting in the West Bank sometime in 2006 .
“ They started twisting and breaking fingers in a particular way around the same time .
It was clear they had undergone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ use these tactics — two of my friends have had their necks broken but luckily survived — and it is clear that they [ Israel ] share these methods when they train police forces abroad in ‘ crowd control ’ in the US and other countries including Sudan and Brazil.
” The training of US police officials by Israeli forces is widespread .
Even Amnesty was compelled to report that hundreds of police from Florida , New Jersey , Pennsylvania , California , Arizona , Connecticut , New York , Massachusetts , North @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Washington DC had been flown to Israeli for training .
Thousands more have been trained by Israeli forces who have come to the US to host similar events to the one held in Minneapolis .
According to the somewhat selective rights organisation , many of these trips are taxpayer-funded , while others are privately funded .
Since 2002 the Anti-Defamation League , the American Jewish Committee ’ s Project Interchange and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs have paid for police chiefs , assistant chiefs and captains to train in Israel and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it said .

Crazy how the same thing happens in Palestine but the world chooses to ignore it https://t.co/7wddf9tUYb
The Anti-Defamation League, among others, sponsors a lot of training of American cops by Israelis in the latest techniques Israel has developed over the years for keeping Palestinians down. A leftist outlet, The Morning Star, wrote:
But in a chilling testimony, a Palestinian rights activist said that when she saw the image of Derek Chauvin kneeling on Mr Floyd’s neck, she was reminded of the Israeli forces’ policing of the occupied territories.
Neta Golan, the co-founder of International Solidarity Movement (ISM) said: “When I saw the picture of killer cop Derek Chauvin murdering George Floyd by leaning in on his neck with his knee as he cried for help and other cops watched, I remembered noticing when many Israeli soldiers began using this technique of leaning in on our chest and necks when we were protesting in the West Bank sometime in 2006.
“They started twisting and breaking fingers in a particular way around the same time. It was clear they had undergone training for this. They continue to use these tactics — two of my friends have had their necks broken but luckily survived — and it is clear that they [Israel] share these methods when they train police forces abroad in ‘crowd control’ in the US and other countries including Sudan and Brazil.”
The training of US police officials by Israeli forces is widespread.
Even Amnesty was compelled to report that hundreds of police from Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, Arizona, Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Georgia, Washington state and Washington DC had been flown to Israeli for training.
Thousands more have been trained by Israeli forces who have come to the US to host similar events to the one held in Minneapolis. According to the somewhat selective rights organisation, many of these trips are taxpayer-funded, while others are privately funded.
Since 2002 the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee’s Project Interchange and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs have paid for police chiefs, assistant chiefs and captains to train in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), it said.


vdare--2020-06-06--How Much More Homicidal Are Blacks Than Whites? 7.4x More Like the Obama Administration Said, or 11.

How Much More Homicidal Are Blacks Than Whites? 7.4x More Like the Obama Administration Said, or 11.7x More?

Earlier , by John Derbyshire : Bring Back Table 42 !
—Time For The Trump Administration To Restore The DOJ 's Black-On-White Crime Statistics Page The statistical fact that African-Americans commit murder at a vastly higher per capita rate than do white Americans is not something you are supposed to mention in the press , but at least dissidents in the comments can cite a PDF issued by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics back in 2011 that found that blacks were , per capita , 7.4 times as likely to be murder offenders as whites , with whites , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all Hispanics .
The Bush Administration posted homicide by race trend graphs in easy to use HTML format .
The Obama Administration memoryholed the more user-friendly version of the report , but at least issued an update in 2011 , even if it is in hard to use PDF format .
The Trump Administration hasn ’ t done anything .
But the black-white gap in murder offending might be worse than the Obama Administration ’ s 2011 report suggests .
One obvious problem with the Bureau of Justice Statistics “ Homicide ” report @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out Hispanics from whites , unlike almost all other government reports since c. 1970 .
Back in 1945-1965 , Latin American pressure groups such as LULAC asked government agencies to lump Latin Americans in as white/Caucasian , which is how they were treated on the 1950 and 1960 Censuses .
Police forces like the LAPD went along with it , in part because having a huge Caucasian category in which to lump Europeans , Latin Americans , Arabs , and Asian Indians reduced the amount of outright error in suspect descriptions .
Crime @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tended to have three racial categories : Other ( East Asians , American Indians , and maybe Polynesians ) , Black , and White ( everybody leftover with some claim to be at least kind of Caucasian ) .
But after the introduction of affirmative action in 1969 , pressure groups reversed course and demanded to shed their new Caucasian Disprivilege in favor of some that sweet , sweet Nonwhite Privilege .
From , a 2011 study that tries to figure out what % of “ white ” murder offenders are actually Hispanic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 1980–2008 : SORTING OUT THE “ HISPANIC EFFECT ” IN UNIFORM CRIME REPORTS ARRESTS , NATIONAL CRIME VICTIMIZATION SURVEY OFFENDER ESTIMATES , AND U.S. PRISONER COUNTS Abstract Recent studies suggest a decline in the relative Black effect on violent crime in recent decades and interpret this decline as resulting from greater upward mobility among African Americans during the past several decades .
However , other assessments of racial stratification in American society suggest at least as much durability as change in Black social mobility since the 1980s .
Our goal is to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ violent crime and incarceration have changed from 1980 to 2008 .
We argue that prior studies showing a shrinking Black share of violent crime might be in error because of reliance on White and Black national crime statistics that are confounded with Hispanic offenders , whose numbers have been increasing rapidly and whose violence rates are higher than that of Whites but lower than that of Blacks .
Using 1980–2008 California and New York arrest data to adjust for this “ Hispanic effect ” in national Uniform Crime Reports ( UCR ) and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ data , we assess whether the observed national decline in racial disparities in violent crime is an artifact of the growth in Hispanic populations and offenders .
Results suggest that little overall change has occurred in the Black share of violent offending in both UCR and NCVS estimates during the last 30 years .
In addition , racial imbalances in arrest versus incarceration levels across the index violent crimes are both small and comparably sized across the study period .
We conclude by discussing the consistency of these findings with trends in economic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ society during the past 50 years .
The researchers come up with a finding that adjusting out Hispanic murderers from whites raises the black/white murder offender ratio from 7.4 X to 11.7 X .
From a press release from Penn State writing up this study : … The rise in the U.S. Hispanic population and the sharp jump in black violent crime during the late 1980s and early 1990s may skew statistics from the FBI ’ s Uniform Crime Reports and the National Crime Victimization Survey that appear to show a recent drop @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , professor , sociology , and crime , law and justice , Penn State .
The researchers , who released their findings in the current issue of Criminology , indicated that studies on black violent crime — a crime that involves force or the threat of force — often fail to account for the rise in the number of Hispanics in the U.S .
Since there is no Hispanic category in the UCR and approximately 93 percent of Hispanics identify themselves , or are identified by law enforcement officers , as white , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ white violent crime rates .
“ The result is that the violent crime rates for whites are inflated and the black rates are deflated in these studies , ” said Steffensmeier , who worked with Jeffrey T. Ulmer , associate professor , and Casey T. Harris , graduate student , both in sociology and crime , law and justice , Penn State and Ben Feldmeyer , assistant professor , University of Tennessee-Knoxville .
When the researchers adjusted for the Hispanic effect , there was little overall change in the black percentage of violent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ statistics from 1980 to 2008 in California and New York , two states that include a Hispanic category , the recalculated national figures indicated that the black percentage of assault increased slightly from 42 percent to 44 percent and homicide increased from 57 percent to 65 percent .
There was a small decline in robbery , from 57 percent to 54 percent .
“ It is the case that violent crime rates are lower today for blacks , as they also are for other race groupings , but the black percentage of violent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 1980 , ” Steffensmeier said .
According to Steffensmeier , studies that purport to show declines in black violent crimes may also rely on timelines that are too short to be effective .
For instance , studies that start in the late 1980s and 1990s cover a period of rapid increase in black violent crime fueled by crack cocaine use in the inner cities .
According to Steffensmeier , the recent decrease is more likely a return to average crime rates .
“ A study that uses statistics from a short time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the mean effect , ” said Steffensmeier .
“ Which basically means , when a trend rises quickly , it can fall just as quickly.
” On the other hand , the researcher ’ s choice of adjusting the national statistics based on arrest statistics in New York and California might exaggerate the amount of Hispanic crime .
Most of New York ’ s Hispanic murderers tend to be mulatto Puerto Ricans or Dominicans , ethnic groups who tend to have higher homicide rates than the more common mestizos from Mexico .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a pretty homicidal Chicano mestizo class back in the 1970s when Mexican-Americans formed some pretty imposing gangs on the streets and in the prisons .
I think Mexican-Americans in California were more crime prone than in Texas .
Since then , the newer Mexican immigrants tend to be smaller and more docile .
Of course , another issue are all the murders that are never closed .
The closure rates tend to be lowest in black neighborhoods , especially in black-run cities .
So , the number of black murder offenders might be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black gangs and other problems .
Finally , counting “ murder offenders ” rather than their victims might drive up the black percentage because , if my suspicion is correct , on average murders committed by blacks tend to have slightly more murder offenders involved than murders committed by whites .
Generally , white murderers tend to act alone .
They generally don ’ t have some friends who might think that helping them commit murder is a good idea .
For example , white mass shooters are almost always lone gunmen ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Black mass shooters , in contrast , are often two guys .
Similarly , as we are seeing in countless videos over the last week , unarmed blacks criminals tend to swarm their victims when they beat them to death .
So , this might tend to exaggerate the percentage of murder victims murdered by blacks .
All in all , I ’ d probably guess somewhere around 10X as the most accurate black / white murder ratio .
So , saying that blacks are an order of magnitude more murderous than whites @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reasonable and safest guesstimate .

Earlier, by John Derbyshire: Bring Back Table 42!—Time For The Trump Administration To Restore The DOJ's Black-On-White Crime Statistics Page
The statistical fact that African-Americans commit murder at a vastly higher per capita rate than do white Americans is not something you are supposed to mention in the press, but at least dissidents in the comments can cite a PDF issued by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics back in 2011 that found that blacks were, per capita, 7.4 times as likely to be murder offenders as whites, with whites, curiously, being defined to include almost all Hispanics.
The Bush Administration posted homicide by race trend graphs in easy to use HTML format. The Obama Administration memoryholed the more user-friendly version of the report, but at least issued an update in 2011, even if it is in hard to use PDF format. The Trump Administration hasn’t done anything.
But the black-white gap in murder offending might be worse than the Obama Administration’s 2011 report suggests. One obvious problem with the Bureau of Justice Statistics “Homicide” report is that it doesn’t break out Hispanics from whites, unlike almost all other government reports since c. 1970.
Back in 1945-1965, Latin American pressure groups such as LULAC asked government agencies to lump Latin Americans in as white/Caucasian, which is how they were treated on the 1950 and 1960 Censuses. Police forces like the LAPD went along with it, in part because having a huge Caucasian category in which to lump Europeans, Latin Americans, Arabs, and Asian Indians reduced the amount of outright error in suspect descriptions.
Crime statistics, unlike other government statistics, tended to have three racial categories: Other (East Asians, American Indians, and maybe Polynesians), Black, and White (everybody leftover with some claim to be at least some kind of Caucasian).
But after the introduction of affirmative action in 1969, pressure groups reversed course and demanded to shed their new Caucasian Disprivilege in favor of some that sweet, sweet Nonwhite Privilege.
Except in crime statistics …
From Criminology, a 2011 study that tries to figure out what % of “white” murder offenders are actually Hispanic:
REASSESSING TRENDS IN BLACK VIOLENT CRIME, 1980–2008: SORTING OUT THE “HISPANIC EFFECT” IN UNIFORM CRIME REPORTS ARRESTS, NATIONAL CRIME VICTIMIZATION SURVEY OFFENDER ESTIMATES, AND U.S. PRISONER COUNTS DARRELL STEFFENSMEIER, BEN FELDMEYER, CASEY T. HARRIS, JEFFERY T. ULMER
First published: 24 February 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.2010.00222.x Citations: 52 Abstract
Recent studies suggest a decline in the relative Black effect on violent crime in recent decades and interpret this decline as resulting from greater upward mobility among African Americans during the past several decades. However, other assessments of racial stratification in American society suggest at least as much durability as change in Black social mobility since the 1980s. Our goal is to assess how patterns of racial disparity in violent crime and incarceration have changed from 1980 to 2008. We argue that prior studies showing a shrinking Black share of violent crime might be in error because of reliance on White and Black national crime statistics that are confounded with Hispanic offenders, whose numbers have been increasing rapidly and whose violence rates are higher than that of Whites but lower than that of Blacks. Using 1980–2008 California and New York arrest data to adjust for this “Hispanic effect” in national Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) data, we assess whether the observed national decline in racial disparities in violent crime is an artifact of the growth in Hispanic populations and offenders. Results suggest that little overall change has occurred in the Black share of violent offending in both UCR and NCVS estimates during the last 30 years. In addition, racial imbalances in arrest versus incarceration levels across the index violent crimes are both small and comparably sized across the study period. We conclude by discussing the consistency of these findings with trends in economic and social integration of Blacks in American society during the past 50 years.
The researchers come up with a finding that adjusting out Hispanic murderers from whites raises the black/white murder offender ratio from 7.4 X to 11.7 X.
From a press release from Penn State writing up this study:
… The rise in the U.S. Hispanic population and the sharp jump in black violent crime during the late 1980s and early 1990s may skew statistics from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports and the National Crime Victimization Survey that appear to show a recent drop in black violence, said Darrell Steffensmeier, professor, sociology, and crime, law and justice, Penn State. The researchers, who released their findings in the current issue of Criminology, indicated that studies on black violent crime — a crime that involves force or the threat of force — often fail to account for the rise in the number of Hispanics in the U.S. Since there is no Hispanic category in the UCR and approximately 93 percent of Hispanics identify themselves, or are identified by law enforcement officers, as white, most arrests of Hispanics are added to white violent crime rates. “The result is that the violent crime rates for whites are inflated and the black rates are deflated in these studies,” said Steffensmeier, who worked with Jeffrey T. Ulmer, associate professor, and Casey T. Harris, graduate student, both in sociology and crime, law and justice, Penn State and Ben Feldmeyer, assistant professor, University of Tennessee-Knoxville. When the researchers adjusted for the Hispanic effect, there was little overall change in the black percentage of violent crime, said Steffensmeier. Using arrest statistics from 1980 to 2008 in California and New York, two states that include a Hispanic category, the recalculated national figures indicated that the black percentage of assault increased slightly from 42 percent to 44 percent and homicide increased from 57 percent to 65 percent. There was a small decline in robbery, from 57 percent to 54 percent. “It is the case that violent crime rates are lower today for blacks, as they also are for other race groupings, but the black percentage of violent crime is about the same today as in 1980,” Steffensmeier said. According to Steffensmeier, studies that purport to show declines in black violent crimes may also rely on timelines that are too short to be effective. For instance, studies that start in the late 1980s and 1990s cover a period of rapid increase in black violent crime fueled by crack cocaine use in the inner cities. According to Steffensmeier, the recent decrease is more likely a return to average crime rates. “A study that uses statistics from a short time period can lead to a regression to the mean effect,” said Steffensmeier. “Which basically means, when a trend rises quickly, it can fall just as quickly.”
On the other hand, the researcher’s choice of adjusting the national statistics based on arrest statistics in New York and California might exaggerate the amount of Hispanic crime.
Most of New York’s Hispanic murderers tend to be mulatto Puerto Ricans or Dominicans, ethnic groups who tend to have higher homicide rates than the more common mestizos from Mexico.
And my vague intuition is that California developed a pretty homicidal Chicano mestizo class back in the 1970s when Mexican-Americans formed some pretty imposing gangs on the streets and in the prisons. I think Mexican-Americans in California were more crime prone than in Texas.
Since then, the newer Mexican immigrants tend to be smaller and more docile.
Of course, another issue are all the murders that are never closed. The closure rates tend to be lowest in black neighborhoods, especially in black-run cities. So, the number of black murder offenders might be understated due to fears of witness-murdering by black gangs and other problems.
Snitches get stitches.
Finally, counting “murder offenders” rather than their victims might drive up the black percentage because, if my suspicion is correct, on average murders committed by blacks tend to have slightly more murder offenders involved than murders committed by whites. Generally, white murderers tend to act alone. They generally don’t have some friends who might think that helping them commit murder is a good idea.
For example, white mass shooters are almost always lone gunmen (Columbine being a famous exception). Black mass shooters, in contrast, are often two guys.
Similarly, as we are seeing in countless videos over the last week, unarmed black criminals tend to swarm their victims when they beat them to death.
So, this might tend to exaggerate the percentage of murder victims murdered by blacks.
All in all, I’d probably guess somewhere around 10X as the most accurate black/white murder ratio.
So, saying that blacks are an order of magnitude more murderous than whites in the U.S. sounds like the most reasonable and safest guesstimate.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-06-07--Antifa, BLM, and the ChiComs

Antifa, BLM, and the ChiComs

Earlier : Black Disloyalty During World War II—Anti-White `` Activists '' In Harlem Supported Both Germany And Japan I may have missed something ; but given that the internet is the natural home of conspiracy theories , I have n't yet seen anyone suggest that the Antifa-BLM disturbances may be part-organized or -financed by the ChiComs .
They are plainly delighted by it all .
[ US 'vulnerable ' to accusations of hypocrisy , as China and Iran criticize response to George Floyd protests | Chinese and Iranian state media have given the protests extensive coverage , by Guy Davies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 6 , 2020 ] I have this image in mind of the Politburo gathering of an evening to binge-watch the latest riot coverage , chuckling and passing around the after-dinner mints and maotai .
It works for them in so many ways—not least , as showing up what a 纸老虎 Donald Trump is .
If the CCP does n't have people in place here helping the rioters , whoever 's in charge of ChiCom undercover special ops in North America is n't doing his job .
If you want a deeper level of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ elements in our own Deep State are in cahoots with the ChiComs at keeping things burning .
The ChiCom political system—total social control , suppression of all dissent , submissive tech billionaires—is a Deep Stater 's wet dream .
We 're headed that way anyway , it just needs a nudge here and there to speed up the process .
A willing nudger in the Justice Department or intelligence agencies could be dreaming of a handsome reward when the new bosses take charge .
Hey , I 'm just speculating .
It 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ everybody who 's anybody believes in .

Earlier: Black Disloyalty During World War II—Anti-White "Activists" In Harlem Supported Both Germany And Japan
I may have missed something; but given that the internet is the natural home of conspiracy theories, I haven't yet seen anyone suggest that the Antifa-BLM disturbances may be part-organized or -financed by the ChiComs.
They are plainly delighted by it all [US 'vulnerable' to accusations of hypocrisy, as China and Iran criticize response to George Floyd protests | Chinese and Iranian state media have given the protests extensive coverage, by Guy Davies and Conor Finnegan, ABC, June 6, 2020]. I have this image in mind of the Politburo gathering of an evening to binge-watch the latest riot coverage, chuckling and passing around the after-dinner mints and maotai.
Source BBC News
George Floyd death: China takes a victory lap over US protests https://t.co/FAASKQxEAl — Random News From Around The World (@rand_globalnews) June 6, 2020
It works for them in so many ways—not least, as showing up what a 纸老虎 Donald Trump is. If the CCP doesn't have people in place here helping the rioters, whoever's in charge of ChiCom undercover special ops in North America isn't doing his job.
If you want a deeper level of conspiracy-mongering than that you might wonder if elements in our own Deep State are in cahoots with the ChiComs at keeping things burning. The ChiCom political system—total social control, suppression of all dissent, submissive tech billionaires—is a Deep Stater's wet dream.
We're headed that way anyway, it just needs a nudge here and there to speed up the process. A willing nudger in the Justice Department or intelligence agencies could be dreaming of a handsome reward when the new bosses take charge.
Hey, I'm just speculating. It's no crazier than the Russia-stole-our-election stuff that everybody who's anybody believes in.


vdare--2020-06-07--PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER's Wischnowski Only One Victim Of The Purges of 2020

See also : White Male Editor of PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Resigns Over `` Buildings Matter , Too '' Headline The Purges @ @ @ @ @ the Purges of 1937 : one little slip-up in how vociferously you praise blacks / @ @ @ @ @ curtains for your career .
Yet , they haven ’ t taken to shooting nice @ @ @ @ @ not-quite-fawning-enough headlines in the back of the head in the basement of the Lubyanka .
@ @ @ @ @ surprises so far , so we ’ ll just have to wait and see what @ @ @ @ @ store for us .

See also: White Male Editor of PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Resigns Over "Buildings Matter, Too" Headline
Philadelphia Inquirer top editor forced to resign after publishing piece with 'Buildings Matter' headline. Was with paper 20 years; led team to Pulitzer; doubled minority staff. Apologized for 'Buildings Matter, Too' headline. 'Deeply offensive.' https://t.co/eY0sOsgfiG — Byron York (@ByronYork) June 7, 2020
The Purges of 2020 are reminiscent of the Purges of 1937: One little slip-up in how vociferously you praise blacks/Stalin and it’s curtains for your career.
Yet, they haven’t taken to shooting nice white liberal editors who approve not-quite-fawning-enough headlines in the back of the head in the basement of the Lubyanka.
So far.
But 2020 has had many surprises so far, so we’ll just have to wait and see what else this year has in store for us.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-06-07--White Male Editor of PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Resigns Over "Buildings Matter, Too" Headline

Earlier : Black Philly Councilwoman Wants To Ban Bulletproof Plexiglass In Korean Stores Because It 's An `` Indignity '' To Black People The Woke Wars of 2020 has another casualty : the top editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer , a white man named Stan Wischnowski .
He just resigned .
Philadelphia Inquirer Apologizes for ‘ Buildings Matters , Too ’ Headline : The paper seemingly equated the loss of property and the loss of Black American lives , The Wrap , June 4 , 2020 The Philadelphia Inquirer issued an apology to its readers Wednesday night over a headline @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : “ Buildings Matter , Too.
” The headline was a reference to the destruction caused by the unrest that has broken out across America since the Memorial Day killing of unarmed black man George Floyd by Minneapolis police .
It was deemed “ unacceptable , ” according to executive editor Stan Wischnowski , editor Gabriel Escobar and managing editor Patrick Kerkstra , who bylined the apology as a unit .
“ The Philadelphia Inquirer published a headline in Tuesday ’ s edition that was deeply offensive .
We should not have printed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and regret that we did .
We also know that an apology on its own is not sufficient , ” the editors wrote .
“ The headline accompanied a story on the future of Philadelphia ’ s buildings and civic infrastructure in the aftermath of this week ’ s protests .
The headline offensively riffed on the Black Lives Matter movement , and suggested an equivalence between the loss of buildings and the lives of black Americans .
That is unacceptable.
” The editors went on to explain the process by which headlines @ @ @ @ @ @ @ case , they said , the story was really about the future of infrastructure in their city post-unrest .
The paper ’ s editing process involves the story being submitted for review by copy editors , then given a headline by those copy editors , not someone directly involved in the creation of the piece .
“ This incident makes clear that changes are needed , and we are committing to start immediately , ” vowed the apology .
They finished their apology by directing it not only at readers and the community @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the paper “ whose work selling advertising , printing the paper and developing Inquirer.com enables ” the journalism it provides .
Then , they apologized directly to the journalists at the Inquirer , especially those of color .

Earlier: Black Philly Councilwoman Wants To Ban Bulletproof Plexiglass In Korean Stores Because It's An "Indignity" To Black People
The Woke Wars of 2020 have another casualty: the top editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, a white man named Stan Wischnowski. He just resigned.
Why?
Philadelphia Inquirer Apologizes for ‘Buildings Matters, Too’ Headline: The paper seemingly equated the loss of property and the loss of Black American lives, The Wrap, June 4, 2020
The Philadelphia Inquirer issued an apology to its readers Wednesday night over a headline that caused a stir on publication Tuesday: “Buildings Matter, Too.”
The headline was a reference to the destruction caused by the unrest that has broken out across America since the Memorial Day killing of unarmed black man George Floyd by Minneapolis police. It was deemed “unacceptable,” according to executive editor Stan Wischnowski, editor Gabriel Escobar and managing editor Patrick Kerkstra, who bylined the apology as a unit.
“The Philadelphia Inquirer published a headline in Tuesday’s edition that was deeply offensive. We should not have printed it. We’re sorry, and regret that we did. We also know that an apology on its own is not sufficient,” the editors wrote. “The headline accompanied a story on the future of Philadelphia’s buildings and civic infrastructure in the aftermath of this week’s protests. The headline offensively riffed on the Black Lives Matter movement, and suggested an equivalence between the loss of buildings and the lives of black Americans. That is unacceptable.”
The editors went on to explain the process by which headlines are applied to stories. In this case, they said, the story was really about the future of infrastructure in their city post-unrest. The paper’s editing process involves the story being submitted for review by copy editors, then given a headline by those copy editors, not someone directly involved in the creation of the piece.
“This incident makes clear that changes are needed, and we are committing to start immediately,” vowed the apology.
They finished their apology by directing it not only at readers and the community the paper serves, but employees of the paper “whose work selling advertising, printing the paper and developing Inquirer.com enables” the journalism it provides. Then, they apologized directly to the journalists at the Inquirer, especially those of color.


vdare--2020-06-07--Fewer Than 1-In-5 Blacks Think Race Relations Have Improved Since the Civil Rights Act Was Passed in

Fewer Than 1-In-5 Blacks Think Race Relations Have Improved Since the Civil Rights Act Was Passed in 1964

More than fifty years after the civil rights revolution and opening the country up to immigration from all over the world , we have a progress report on how citizens of the empire think things are going .
In short , not particularly well : Among no racial group does a majority perceive American race relations to have improved over the last five decades .
It is only among whites that a plurality even feel that way .
Nearly half of blacks view things as having gotten worse since Selma and the death of Martin Luther King .
A modest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the races have improved over the last half of a century .
To affirm this , they want people of all colors and creeds to stand for the national anthem .
As American patriots , we all bleed red , white , and blue !
Expressing that attitude is on the way to becoming a hate crime , as New Orleans Saints ’ quarterback Drew Brees recently discovered .
The modest majority of Republicans who think things have improved will soon become a silent minority even among conservatives if they know what ’ @ @ @ @ @

More than fifty years after the civil rights revolution and opening the country up to immigration from all over the world, we have a progress report on how citizens of the empire think things are going. In short, not particularly well:
Among no racial group does a majority perceive American race relations to have improved over the last five decades. It is only among whites that a plurality even feel that way. Nearly half of blacks view things as having gotten worse since Selma and the death of Martin Luther King.
A modest majority of Republicans do think relations between the races have improved over the last half of a century. To affirm this, they want people of all colors and creeds to stand for the national anthem. As American patriots, we all bleed red, white, and blue!
Expressing that attitude is on the way to becoming a hate crime, as New Orleans Saints’ quarterback Drew Brees recently discovered. The modest majority of Republicans who think things have improved will soon become a silent minority even among conservatives if they know what’s good for them.
[Comment at Unz.com]