The Narcissist’s Priorities
An Antifa mob tried to stop police from responding to an armed man threatening to harm others and himself in downtown Portland on Friday afternoon.
I can’t help feeling there’s something rather telling about what follows:
Officers from the Portland Police Bureau responded to calls to the 300-block area of Southwest 4th Avenue after a 30-year-old man reportedly jumped from the second story window of the apartment complex, pulled out a knife and brandished the blade at people and cars passing by. According to police, the unnamed man is schizophrenic and threatened to kill himself.
Portland Police sent in its Enhanced Crisis Intervention Team but was interrupted and threatened by hostile Antifa protesters who had already been gathering nearby at Powell’s Books calling for Andy Ngo’s upcoming book [on Antifa] to be banned. “The extra noise and distraction made it impossible for the specially trained officers to speak to the man,” said the Portland Police in a press statement. “Officers implored the crowd to stop interfering, but their energy only increased.”
Note that, being our betters, they had to make the situation about themselves. Of course, the Antifa clowns’ self-absorbed screeching and jeering – their refusal to be quiet so that negotiation could be attempted – made the subsequent use of force more likely, not less.
Police say the suicidal man’s mother arrived on scene and pleaded with the mob to disperse but they ignored her.
Because they care, you see.
When I was a younger man, I used to say the title of Metallica’s debut studio album with a smile.
And so, while standing a few feet from a deranged man with a knife, a man threatening to kill himself, the clown-shoe radicals’ priority was to scream abuse at the police officers, making their job harder and the use of force more likely, and to repeatedly screech about how outrageous it was to be touched or asked to move back.
a deranged man with a knife
So they’re saying that he fit right in?
More than one schizophrenic at that scene, I’ll wager.
Pretty sure I’d just tell the guy with the knife that there was “a purple-haired girl over there” who wanted to help him die, and then just let nature take its course.
(There’s a reason the company keeps me locked away with my spreadsheets.)
There’s a reason the company keeps me locked away with my spreadsheets.
I strongly suspect that if any of my employers had ever truly realized exactly what kind of power and access to information a sysadmin/devops engineer actually has I’d be facing criminal charges.
So they’re saying that he fit right in?
Tsk. As we’ve seen, many times, Antifa devotees are the very model of mental health and in no way deranged.
Portland
Oh. *shrugs*
hostile Antifa protesters who had already been gathering nearby at Powell’s Books calling for Andy Ngo’s upcoming book [on Antifa] to be banned
They are protesting about a yet-to-be published book outside a bookshop which, presumably, has nothing to do with the publication and probably won’t stock it anyway (because Portland). Mental as anything.
I wonder how many Antifa will secretly buy the book to see if they are in it? “Ooh, look, that’s me! I was the purple-haired tranny with facial tattoos who spat in his face and screamed Nazi over and over again!”
calling for Andy Ngo’s upcoming book [on Antifa] to be banned.
I’ve got the book on pre-order … nothing makes me hit the “buy now” button faster than these screeching, 2nd rate, bookburner escapees from Fahrenheit 451
2nd rate, bookburner escapees from Fahrenheit 451
Hmm. Can I get one of those helmets?
They keep shrieking that Ngo is Literally Hitler, yet fail to acknowledge that Powell’s will sell you a copy of Mein Kampf right now.
And not only will they happily sell you some Marx & Engel — they’ll sell you a bunch of texts by bitter PoliSci/Philosophy majors helping you understand what Marx & Engel are really all about. (Curiously, citations of the M&E Body Count are very scarce across all of these materials.)
The compassion & humanity of the left/liberal/progressive is a wonder to behold.
The compassion & humanity of the left/liberal/progressive is a wonder to behold.
“Sure, Professor XYZ is a Communist, but he cannot in any way be a bad man: After all, he never raises his voice and he smiles a lot as he talks about the desirability of totalitarianism.”
The saddest line in that article? ‘Police made no arrests.’
Sure, Professor XYZ is a Communist, but he cannot in any way be a bad man
What some probably feared in the Victorian age or have since pretended was the age’s defining goal has come to pass:
“Niceness” and “smartness” have totally replaced true decency and morality. A clever bon mot, an extravagant social posture, and all is forgiven because one is the right sort of person. Combine with a shrinking category of whom one must be nice *to*, and we have the modern left figuratively kicking urchins in a tophat while smoking a cigar and condemning the rest of us for just how terribly backward we are. Letting the side down, we are.
“Niceness” and “smartness” have totally replaced true decency and morality.
Indeed–although I would add that some “conservatives” also take this attitude.