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Douglas Murray on crime, migration and modern dishonesties:
In Germany, friends and readers describe to me how they are learning anew how to read their daily newspapers. When the news says that ‘A person was killed by another person’ for instance, and no names or other identifying characteristics are given, people guess – correctly – that the culprit is probably of migrant background. For the time-being serious crimes are still reported, but the decision has been taken that the public should not really be informed about them.
Related: “Vibrant and diverse.” And of course these items here.
Heather Mac Donald on “diversity” versus merit:
Sometimes meritocracy will yield diversity; sometimes it won’t. The point is that it doesn’t matter. Diversity should not be an end in itself; excellence is the goal. Rejecting the primacy of diversity constitutes a head-on assault on the received wisdom of Washington and elite American culture. Gender and racial quotas have been the order of business for the last three decades… The result: wasted resources, the side-lining of merit, and ever more virulent and irrational identity politics. The rule of the diversity regime is that you’re required to be fanatically obsessed with race and gender until you aren’t — because at that unpredictable moment, whenever it comes, noticing race and sex becomes racist and sexist.
And Roger Kimball on being outraged by the obvious-but-unmentionable:
Professors Amy Wax and Larry Alexander were roundly condemned by their university colleagues. Thirty-three of Wax’s fellow law professors at Penn signed an “Open Letter” condemning her op-ed. “We categorically reject Wax’s claims,” they thundered. What they found especially egregious was Wax and Alexander’s observation that “All cultures are not equal.” […] As William Henry argued back in the 1990s… “Every corner of the human race may have something to contribute. That does not mean that all contributions are equal… It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the moon as to put a bone in your nose.” True, too true. But in a pusillanimous society terrified by its own shadow, it is one thing to know the truth, quite another to utter it in public.
And then Professor Wax mentioned other obvious things, much to the agitation of people who like to pretend.
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O/T, but Easter is now officially Hateful you bigots!
https://twitter.com/splchatetracker/status/980573043180429314
So enriched.
Correction of note.
Douglas Murray on crime, migration and modern dishonesties:
It’s the same in the UK.
It’s the same in the UK.
At risk of sounding unkind, it occurs to me that the alarming levels of violent crime may have more to do with the fact that a creature like Cressida Dick was given a job she cannot do. See also Sadiq Khan. If you appoint people who are habitually, instinctively evasive and schooled in modern dishonesties, what follows should not be surprising.
.. Cressida Dick was given a job she cannot do.
The promotion of the ideologically ‘on-message’ is certainly a contributing factor across all police forces in Britain, but one can’t be honest and ignore changing demographics, of England in particular, as Scotland and Wales haven’t experienced a similar uptick.
but one can’t be honest and ignore changing demographics,
Well, quite.
“Related”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/chinese-airline-in-racism-storm-over-article-warning-tourists-to-avoid-parts-of-london-populated-by-a3338501.html
Leftists clearly don’t think that all cultures are equal: they think Western culture is inferior.
“Vibrant and diverse.”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/938824/Germany-news-duisburg-state-of-emergency-fight-riot-machetes
Meanwhile in France:
https://twitter.com/Arch_Revival_/status/980397014696390658
“When the news says that ‘A person was killed by another person’ for instance, and no names or other identifying characteristics are given, people guess – correctly – that the culprit is probably of migrant background. “
Jonathan is correct, hence the ‘MONA’ meme (‘Men of no Appearance’).
Heather McDonald is wrong about diversity. It is not a desirable, but occasional, outcome of meritocracy. It is pushed as the alternative to meritocracy.
And in health news:
No laughing at the back.
In Germany, friends and readers describe to me how they are learning anew how to read their daily newspapers.
He’s a bit late to the party, isn’t he?
http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/3372/
He’s a bit late to the party, isn’t he?
I’m pretty sure Mr Murray has mentioned this phenomenon before. And given the ongoing creep of coded news and pretending-not-to-notice, it bears repeating.
Regarding the alleged equality of cultures, another one of Tim’s seems broadly relevant.
And given the ongoing creep of coded news and pretending-not-to-notice, it bears repeating.
Indeed it does, and often.
And in health news:
Welcome to the 1800’s.
Welcome to the 1800’s.
I’m being exposed to kinds of beastliness I shouldn’t know about.
I’m being exposed to kinds of beastliness I shouldn’t know about.
My apologies, I never cease to be amazed at the recycled quackery people fall for.
Also somewhat relevant.
Let’s play “Count the Paragraphs” until the NYT finally lets slip the ethnicity of the murderer
The whole ‘MONA’ concept is ostensibly to avoid provoking retaliation or revenge on innocents, I take it. But eventually it will probably invoke what it claims to want to avoid. Then the Progs can say, “See? I told you so!”
That.
That.
A sense of contempt and… betrayal is, I think, hard to avoid. And among the Sadiq Khans, Simon Schamas and Cressida Dicks, maybe there’s an inkling that the damage that’s been done may be irretrievable. And so, instead, we’re expected to pretend.
Sports lovers everywhere will be saddened to learn that the former proprietrix/muse of the Mandela United Football Club, Winnie of that ilk, has left the field for the last time.
And among the Sadiq Khans, Simon Schamas and Cressida Dicks, maybe there’s an inkling that the damage that’s been done may be irretrievable.
What if they know exactly what they’re doing?
On second thoughts: sleep well, everything is fine. Our leaders are keeping us safe.
https://kakistocracyblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/23/the-virtue-inferno/
it occurs to me that the alarming levels of violent crime may have more to do with the fact that a creature like Cressida Dick was given a job she cannot do.
Jean Charles de Menezes is unavailable for comment
Lindsay Shepherd dissociates from the Left:
@Wolfgang.
https://kakistocracyblog.wordpress.com is obviously crimethink because my ISP blocks it. Must. Use. VPN.
Not entirely unrelated.
When the news says that ‘A person was killed by another person’ for instance, and no names or other identifying characteristics are given, people guess – correctly – that the culprit is probably of migrant background.
Jonathan is correct, hence the ‘MONA’ meme (‘Men of no Appearance’).
A decade ago, when this exquisitely politically-correct phenomenon was also occurring in Sydney, Melbourne and other larger Australian cities, Tim Blair began referring to the (nearly always Lebanese Muslim) perpetrators as “the men of no appearance” aka MONA.
The whole ‘MONA’ concept is ostensibly to avoid provoking retaliation or revenge on innocents, I take it.
There’s an old satirical NYT headline meme: “Muslim Leaders Fear Backlash from Tomorrow’s Terror Attack”.
But eventually it will probably invoke what it claims to want to avoid. Then the Progs can say, “See? I told you so!”
It’s weird — if four murderers and child molesters were freed from prison and moved into a halfway house in a working-class neighborhood, the neighbors would raise hell as soon as they heard about it, and do everything they could to chase the undesirables out of the parish.
But when four hundred murderers and child molesters move into a neighborhood, the neighbors are expected to hush up and look away, lest they cause the murderers and child molesters to have hurt feelings (or worse yet, to make the importers look foolish for bringing them in).
I don’t even begin to understand how such a state of affairs comes to be. I do, however, get the feeling that I should spend more time at the range, poking little holes in pieces of paper from several yards away. For stress relief, dontcha know.
A sense of contempt and… betrayal is, I think, hard to avoid. And among the Sadiq Khans, Simon Schamas and Cressida Dicks, maybe there’s an inkling that the damage that’s been done may be irretrievable. And so, instead, we’re expected to pretend.
What if they know exactly what they’re doing?
Why do you think our political class encourages us, after what happened in Manchester, London, etc., to go around saying “Don’t Look Back in Anger”? The most obvious, understandable, (and I think perfectly valid) reason is to avoid provoking retaliatory attacks on innocent minorities, like the awful London Mosque attack last year. One suspects a tad more cynically, however, that those politicians currently ruling the country encouraging us not to look back, don’t want us to look back at what happened. Because if we do “look back in anger”, we might realise that it’s their policies and their actions that are ultimately responsible for the mess in which we find ourselves, and who would want to be on the other end of the retribution they imagine is coming for them?
Alice,
So enriched.
There’s an internet image meme of what appears to be a gang of Hutus from the Rwandan civil war / genocide, running towards the camera and carrying machetes, and captioned,
Here comes the diversity / You’re about to be culturally enriched
Welcome to the 1800’s.
I’m being exposed to kinds of beastliness I shouldn’t know about.
You haven’t seen “The Road to Wellville”?
Jean Charles de Menezes is unavailable for comment
Quite. A perfect illustration of the establishment’s contempt for the populace. Dick was in charge of an operation that saw an innocent man slaughtered in front of dozens of terrified commuters. A horrific mistake for which Dick, had she an ounce of decency, would have apologised and resigned. Instead, her establishment mates rule that she is in no way responsible. So Dick continues to rise up the ladder, and enrich herself from the public purse. She gains more power and influence (and just wait for her elevation to the legislature and the VAST pension that we’ll all have to pay for).
Meanwhile, the Guardian and BBC etc etc etc all continue to scratch their heads and wonder about the rise in populist, anti-establishment sentiments among the lower classes.
You haven’t seen “The Road to Wellville”?
[ Faints. ]
I can’t help thinking some kind of weapon might have been useful.
I can’t help thinking some kind of weapon might have been useful.
God forbid that the people be allowed to defend themselves. They might get crazy ideas, such as that they are not serfs but citizens, and we cannot have that!
ESR (http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6286) comments on “youth” crime:
What the press is teaching Americans…
Indeed. Reading the news now somewhat resembles what Soviet citizens had to do.
The press is also teaching Americans that it is on the side of the criminals. This is a lesson that can be dangerous to the teacher.
Captain Nemo —
One suspects a tad more cynically, however, that those politicians currently ruling the country encouraging us not to look back, don’t want us to look back at what happened. Because if we do “look back in anger”, we might realise that it’s their policies and their actions that are ultimately responsible for the mess in which we find ourselves….
“Forget Pearl Harbor!”
“The Imperial Japanese are a peaceful people!”
“‘Bushido’ means ‘The Way of Peace,’ and not ‘The Way of the Warrior’ as the bigots say.”
“If we’d not been in The Philippines in the first place, the Bataan death march wouldn’t have happened, so in a way it’s really our own fault.”
“Nothing we can do about Japanese expansion; who are we to judge their culture?”
Why keep reporting on the resulting ash heaps?
When I was in Chicago in the early 1990s, shootings were front page news on the Chicago Sun-Times.
In the mid to late 1990s, they moved to page two, and then page three.
By the early 2000s, they were just “day in the life” articles, in the mid-section of the paper.
Today, the paper publishes a separate paper solely dedicated to the shootings, because they can’t fit them all in the paper any more.
Chicago and Detroit have some of the highest murder rates in the USA, but if you read the local newspapers, you’d barely be aware of it. They aren’t suppressing the news; they’re simply accepting it as the way things are.
In Germany and the EU, they aren’t accepting it. Yet. They’re preparing the population to become accepting of it. They are fully aware of the implications of their policies, and they accept them. They know that the public at large would not, so they simply don’t report it.
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Cajoling now? Dealing with the spam filter is like minding a recalcitrant child, eh?