Fishing For Status
One sudden move and I would be shot.
A student at the University of Minnesota shares his first-hand experience of racial profiling and police brutality:
After multiple questions, they turned off their lights and left me alone: no apology, no explanation, nothing. Just me: mentally and emotionally tormented with an experience that will last a lifetime.
You see,
It was brutal.
Not only brutal, but,
the most traumatic thing I have ever experienced.
And so,
Defund these bastards.
But before you start signing petitions and making placards, you may wish to watch video of the actual interaction:
Update, via the comments:
The mismatch of tearful tale with what actually took place is almost funny, in a pathetic sort of way. And remember, this is how you climb The Great Tower Of Intersectional Status, such that lesser beings may behold you and affirm your magnificence. Think of it as woke morality laid bare. Which is to say, narcissism, status-seeking and eye-widening dishonesty – and an utter disregard for whoever may be imposed upon or wronged as a result of the lying.
I suppose you have to imagine just how self-absorbed you’d have to be, how desperate to be applauded by fools, that you’d lie so dramatically, seemingly oblivious, or indifferent, to the fact that said lie would almost certainly be exposed – as if that didn’t matter. Of course, chappie may simply know his peers quite well and may understand that they, like him, don’t much care whether the Outrage Of The Week actually happened – and will be outraged anyway. The emotional drama, the posturing and self-flattery, being what matters.
Lest anyone assume the above is some kind of anomaly or freakish one-off.
Via Mr Muldoon.
Severian, I forgot to post an additional comment on that blog post of yours:
Keepin’ It Real:
“Note, please, that I don’t actually blame Blacks for believing shit crazy enough to make Q-Anon seem calm and reasonable. Think about what our ‘educational’ system must do to them. There you are, getting set to learn about Plato and Socrates and whatnot in your Western Civ class… only to find out that those guys really stole all their stuff from Black Africans…”
That certainly plays an important role, but the lunacy predates the corruption of the “education” system: Those batshit-crazy “afrocentric” bookstores existed long before the universities started giving tenure to black racialist cranks.
The only surprise here is that Minneapolis still has enough police officers to man a squad car and a radio room.
Oh dear, it seems that David has gone to bed and the spam filter won’t get seen to until the morning. It’s so sad when bloggers get older and getting a good night’s sleep becomes more important than the fact that Somebody On The Internet Is Wrong.
It’s so sad when bloggers get older and getting a good night’s sleep becomes more important than the fact that Somebody On The Internet Is Wrong.
TBF, it is going on tomorrow over in Blighty, last orders are at 2200, and who the hell knows what zany lockdown rules apply to blog pubs. We are all probably supposed to be wearing masks when posting.
Muldoon, that’s right, but I wanted to be unfair and expect David to stay up past midnight dealing with unruly patrons. [ reminds self not to pilfer the good stuff from behind the bar ]
On the other hand, the time zone difference means that when I wake up tomorrow my comment will either have appeared or its head will be nailed to the wall above the bar.
…expect David to stay up past midnight dealing with unruly patrons.
The problem is whether his henchlesbian license allows them to operate after hours, we wouldn’t want him nicked for operating unlicensed henchlesbians.
When I was a boy you didn’t need a gov’ment license to have a henchlesbian. [ mutters into beer ]
When I was a boy you didn’t need a gov’ment license to have a henchlesbian.
Blame Harold Wilson, he rolled them up under the Firearms Act of 1968.
Blacks lie.
Surprise!
Blacks lie. Surprise!
“Thou shalt not bear false witness.”
Sin is eternal, but a society is in serious trouble when its ruling class treats sin as virtue.
Re posting words here, I guess “Energise”! was already taken…!
And Baen Books?! Dammit!!! I’ll have to check on this. But yes, many of my still living favourite scifi authors have either gone woke or gone silent; neither situation satisfies.
Re the original item, Mr. Lewis (above) beat me to it. The “victim” neglected to add that the Police poured bleach on him, draped a noose around his neck, and snarled that this was M.A.G.A. country!
it seems that David has gone to bed and the spam filter won’t get seen to until the morning.
[ Slurps coffee. ]
[ Pokes spam filter. ]
That.
You also have to wonder whether being exposed as a fraud will make any difference whatsoever to the student’s subsequent behaviour and moral compass. Or his standing within his equally woke peer group. By which I mean, will the currency of victimhood, even clearly bogus victimhood, continue to override normal proprieties? Based on others with similar dispositions and their reactions to even basic factual correction – Laurie Penny and Melissa Fabello are among those who come to mind – I’d guess not.
Now then, I think that what you lot on the other side of the Atlantic need are some robust, no-nonsense rozzers such as these:
[ Slurps coffee. ]
[ Pokes spam filter. ]
Nothing in the spam filter?
[ Stumbles toward coffee maker. ]
no-nonsense rozzers such as these
Would I go to prison if, on my next visit to England, I were to slap a “Ministry of Love” sticker on the side of a police vehicle? 😉
[ Finishes first cup of coffee. Scans blog with slightly less bleary eyes. ]
I see that the comment (“He was a good boy! He dindu nuffin!”) has been retrieved.
Thank you, David!
Via Instapundit: “Latest scientific trend: Woke Quantum Physics“:
An editorial in Scientific American informs us that “The popular term ‘quantum supremacy,’ which refers to quantum computers outperforming classical ones, has inescapable racist overtones.” The editorial concludes: “These kinds of linguistic hotfixes do not reach even a bare minimum for diversifying science…to make it less white and male.”
From the blog comment thread, two examples of how academia is “diversifying” science:
First: Student submits fraudulent paper to doctoral review committee. Committee says he should not be punished because ‘we are not awarding PhDs to enough minorities, so this has to be taken into consideration.’
Second: Med school student discovers that TA’s are giving exam answers to students in minorities-only study session.
“no-nonsense rozzers such as these:”
Here is a better photo:
“no-nonsense rozzers such as these:”
I thought it was just the BBC shows being politically correct, (and I freely admit our own idiocy that every two bit police force over here has a chief wearing four stars), but is every Chief Constable over there female ?
“These kinds of linguistic hotfixes do not reach even a bare minimum for diversifying science… to make it less white and male.”
We are skipping merrily through the Land Of Farce. But then, if you’re employed by a once-reputable science publication and are simultaneously committed to any number of false premises – say, regarding the aggregate distributions of interest, aptitude, and cognitive wherewithal – then tensions will arise, and mental contortions will have to be performed.
[ Added: ]
And so, we get researchers at Yale and New York University spending large sums of public money to howl and agonise over why fan-edited Wikipedia entries on TV programmes tend to be more thorough and detailed when written by men. And inevitably, crying “sexism” and “systematic gender bias.” That men and women may, in aggregate, differ in their interests, perhaps quite markedly, and in their willingness to write lengthy, often bewildering Wikipedia entries on products of pop culture, is apparently shocking and quite literally unthinkable. And so, diabolical forces must be the only explanation.
But this is what happens when social science, such as it is, is increasingly dominated by self-styled activists, i.e., leftists, and the science, such as it is, is effectively downstream of the activism and subordinate to it. Somewhere between a thin rationalisation and a laughable fig-leaf. You end up with narrow, parochial thinkers begging questions at a rate of knots and arriving, reliably, at the same wrong answers, every bloody time.
slurps coffee
Obvious lie, our host has never ‘slurped’ anything in his life. Just saying.
Obvious lie, our host has never ‘slurped’ anything in his life. Just saying.
[ Blushes. ]
I’ll just leave this here for no reason whatsoever.
I’ll just leave this here for no reason whatsoever.
And our taxes paid for that garbage. I prefer Lord Vetinari’s response to fake art.
I dunno. It just seems VERY convenient, and dare I say white, that the police just happen to have a video and a transcript to be released to the public. They will stop at literally nothing to demean a person of color who steps forward with his truth about police brutality. A full investigation of how this video and transcript were created and who handled them must be done immediately by Federal Authorities!
This is unacceptable. The police must be disarmed, defunded, retrained, re-uniformed and reimagined immediately so that this soul and spirit crushing trauma does not happen to any person of color in the future for any reason!! Also, provide a free ride service for all University students of color.
Posted by: Wacko Byrd
By George, I think Xi’s got it!
Also, provide a free ride service for all University students of color.
That was pretty much the icing on the cake:
I paraphrase, but just barely.
“These fucking nicotine lozenges are making me fart non-stop.”
Ahem!: “Being Offensive is an Offense”
Police may no longer attend burglaries, but this…
“Meh. Can you give me a lift home instead? Can’t be arsed to walk.”
Think of it as reparations.
free ride service for all University students of color
My alma mater used to run a “Safety Van” service to ferry female students living off campus home if they didn’t feel like walking. Despite assaults of lone female students being effectively nonexistent, the ridership policy was that male students were only allowed on the Van once every female student who wanted a ride was seated.
The service was ultimately retired when it became too obvious to ignore that female students were much more likely to be assaulted by the driver of the van than a random miscreant while walking home.
Severian – when’s that Basic College Girl book going to print? Sorry to say but no future historian is ever digging up the pixels spilled discussing how we suicided the West, so you might as well entertain in the present, right?
Sam,
the problem with my Basic College Girl stories is that, while they’re all true, nobody believes me. Like the time one of them took her complaint about my refusal to give her a “make up” exam all the way up to the Dean. The thing was, this lovely lass *started* by admitting, in writing, that she’d simply forgotten what day the exam was due. Everything subsequent to that — the wailing and gnashing of teeth about her GPA, her scholarship, her law school acceptance, and, of course, the granny that died right before it was due that she just now remembered — was attached in a series of replies to the original email. You know, the one that said “hey, I just spaced on the date, can I take a make up?”
My response to all of this, at every administrative level, was simply to forward the email chain on to the relevant authority. All of them passed the buck, so that the Dean eventually got it (the civilian equivalent would be, I dunno, something like appealing a traffic ticket all the way up to the Supreme Court). I don’t know what happened after that, since I made it clear in my email to His Excellency that I would be happy to give Snowflake a make up exam — or, indeed, simply mark down any grade at all for her in the grade book — provided he gave me explicit instructions in writing.
For all I know, it’s still in appeal, and do you see what I mean? I was there, and I hardly believe it myself.
the problem with my Basic College Girl stories is that, while they’re all true, nobody believes me.
Oh, I would probably find all your stories very believable. The one you just mentioned certainly is, sad to say.
Speaking of unbelievable stories that ought to be believed, here are a few from the CWBChicago blog (on Twitter):
Bond court –
Prosecutor begins presenting complaint against man accused of shooting another at a West Side #Chicago gas station…
State: “On September 25….”
Defendant: “Nah. It was September 11!”
Public Defender: (GIF of man banging head repeatedly)
Felony bond court —
Private defense attorney argues that she can’t believe her client, charged with attempted murder, is guilty of the crime because his mother runs an anti-violence organization. #Chicago
Today’s felony bond court highlight:
Prosecutor: The defendant attacked his barber, which caused the barber’s eyeball to hang out of its socket.
Defendant: I definitely knocked his eye out.
Public defender: Siiirrrr! Don’t say anything!
Man stole tow truck, then called 911 to complain because victim pulled a gun on him.
Today’s bond court highlight —
Judge: Sir, you are charged with aggravated robbery…
Defendant: Yeah, I do that, so what?
Judge + Public Defender: Sir! Sir! Sir!
Judge: We’re gonna do you a favor and press this ‘mute’ button.
There is often hilarity to be found on CWB. But it will all be much funnier in a few months when I am no longer a resident of Chicago.
@ Severian: “… provided he gave me explicit instructions in writing.”
It’s amazing how recalcitrant and/or lazy bureaucrats become effective on specific issues when explicit instructions in writing are demanded of them or they are faced with incontrovertible written documentation/advice from an independent specialist on some serious issue. Learning to report up in writing is an essential part of functioning safely in any bureaucracy: document or be damned.
You’ve been lucky, then. I’ve been fired for asking for requests in writing.
But it will all be much funnier in a few months when I am no longer a resident of Chicago.
Yes! Best of luck!
no-nonsense rozzers such as these:
The police have been forced to back down, albeit in a mealy-mouthed way:
“Merseyside Police was forced to clarify that ‘being offensive is not an offence’ after a local policing team shared an ‘incorrect’ statement stating the opposite on the side of a van in Wirral…Superintendent Martin Earl later released a statement in which he explained the ‘well intentioned’ poster was part of a campaign drive encouraging people to report hate crime. He said the force apologises ‘for any confusion this may have caused’.”
I doubt there was any “confusion” about what the police meant.
Superintendent Martin Earl later released a statement in which he explained the ‘well intentioned’ poster was part of a campaign drive encouraging people to report hate crime.
Y’all are becoming quite the Stasi state over there. Wasn’t that a feature of the old East Germany – rat out your neighbor before they can rat on you? We’ve got it here too, what with masks and “social distancing” and other Covid-related crimes.
And yet there’s that story in the new thread on the guy with 28 convictions and 70 violations, also in the UK. I want to be on the side of law and order, but this is ridiculous.
Apparently University of Minnesota has no honor code.
Honor codes are racist, of course.