When Being “Woke” Is Bad For You
Putting security tags on items that are frequently stolen is now “openly racist,” apparently, and “quite evil.”
As with an earlier example, note how the pious, “woke” approach is to howl at the effect, in public, ostentatiously, while carefully ignoring the cause. And so the politically corrected line of thinking stops abruptly, prematurely, in order to avoid arriving at a more probable, but unthinkable, conclusion. It’s a pretty good illustration of how “social justice” posturing so often inhibits realism by pre-emptively disallowing certain, fairly obvious inferences and observations. The range of possibilities one is allowed to consider before rushing to Mount Umbrage is dogmatically reduced. Resulting in a person who’s learned, with some effort, to be quite stupid.
Continuing to be in the market for baby formula, my wife and I are periodically inconvenienced by the locked cases used by most stores. The local Walmart also insists on escorting me to the register or holding it there until I complete my other shopping.
It all seemed a little overboard compared to 8-10 years ago until this month we read of an attempted theft. A few days later news reports noted 3 attempts/arrests in the same week, all by people travelling to our not-so-small town from the neighboring metropolis.
A quick look around and it sounds like
1. most likely local/regional black market.
2. possibly a Chinese black market due to contamination issues they had with local stock.
3. mentioned but never explained is that is is used to cut or mix with illegal drugs.
I never cease to be amazed at nonsense people like her can believe in the face of contrary evidence, but, to steal a quote from upstream, “…if you pull at that thread, the whole thing might come unravelled.” Indeed, and the whole Munchausen by Internet is undone.
Or, as Buckaroo Banzai said, “Don’t pull on that. You never know what it’s attached to.”
It looks about right and is safe enough that you won’t kill people with it – not out of any grand concern for their fellow man, but because having someone die due to something you cut your drugs with is an excellent way to get far more attention from the law.
although in fairness, people actually sought out their “wisdom.”
They used their position to change the culture. Anytime someone wrote in, expressing disapproval of someone’s counterculture behavior, the sisters unfailingly told the writer to butt out and shut up.
@dicentra
It was interesting to watch their metamorphosis over the years from voices of no-nonsense, relatively conservative, Midwestern sensibility to advocates for progressive causes. My guess is a lot of that was driven by editorial demands from the various papers which ran their columns in syndication.
“Abby” (Pauline Phillips) stopped writing in 2000 & the column was taken over by her daughter
“Ann Landers” (sister Eppie Lerderer) died in 2002
The sisters were competitors and estranged because of the rivalry. IMHO they were more concerned with popularity and showing up the other sister so may have contributed to the progressive drift so as survive in urban newspapers.
she explains it, calmly, clearly, and not looking at all as pained as she says she is
Watching the video again, years later, I see I misremembered a detail. It was a son and a daughter. Though that scarcely alters the vileness of it.
It was interesting to watch their metamorphosis over the years from voices of no-nonsense, relatively conservative, Midwestern sensibility to advocates for progressive causes.
They enjoyed being celebrities, and socializing with other celebrities. Spend enough time on the cocktail circuit, and it’s inevitable that you should abandon your traditional mores and adopt those of the people you now count as peers.
“I should point out I was a particularly awful example of the thing I’ve just described.”
Me too, which is why I remain optimistic that most of these youngsters will turn out just fine when they get some life experience under their belts. The harder we laugh at them, the faster that will happen.