The Progressive Anxiety
Lifted from the comments, Mr Burkett ponders crime and its apologists:
Which means that if police and prosecutors are free to do their jobs in the most basic and obvious way, which is to say that they are free to pursue crime where it exists and allowed to arrest and prosecute those people who actually commit crimes, then those policies will reify disparities that even mainstream liberals agree are unconscionable.
This means that they will always be in tension with any attempt to effectively police crime. This tension is not incidental or tangential or irrelevant. It is core to why liberals must always to some degree be in opposition to criminal justice.
Regarding the consequent conflictedness and anxiety, all that progressive wrongness, these three posts include some fairly vivid illustrations of the phenomenon.
Among which, a claim that more theatre for schoolchildren would somehow deter the kinds of creatures who repeatedly and gleefully sucker-punch elderly ladies for being the wrong race, and a chap who insists that women should allow themselves to be mugged at bus stops lest their mugger, out on probation, come to harm.
Oh, and the belief, expressed tearfully and at length by a Guardian columnist, that when you find your home being burgled in the middle of the night, the real victims, the people deserving of sympathy and indulgence, are the ones breaking into your home while brandishing carving knives and then driving off with your valuables in your car.
In the examples featured in the posts above, the perpetrator is typically black and the apologist white. This recurring racial hang-up is often made explicit – as when the activist and lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, mentioned here, dismissed objections to being burgled as, and I quote, “idiotic attitudes,” while telling Guardian readers that the wellbeing of burglars is more important than the wellbeing of their victims, especially if the burglar is a “young black person.”
Mr Stafford Smith went on to chide and insult the victims of burglary, and the law-abiding generally, while offering implausible excuses for those who break into strangers’ homes and steal their belongings, and who do this over and over again with ever greater boldness. And none of these claims were challenged, at all, in the Guardian‘s fawning interview. Apparently, among many progressives, such contrivance is not only congenial, but terribly high-status.
Perversity as piety.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
“dragging fathers” the media showed ICE dragging a woman out of her car, which got my wife upset, but did not clarify that she rammed agents with her car, a felony, and would not come out voluntarily. Media also love to show citizens/green card holders being arrested but do not show when they are let go later or that there may be some other factor going on. The media, it is not possible to hate them enough.
Speaking of progressive suicide.
Speaking of progressive suicide.
Useful idiots.
Pacifist who left Criminal Minds because it was too violent supports a politician who subscribes to a murderously violent ideology (Communism) and is a member of a murderously violent religion/ideology (Islam). “Religion of Peace”, my arse.
Did he not learn anything from The Princess Bride? That people who go around saying “you killed my father/brother/countryman – prepare to die” actually mean it, and you should take them seriously?
The crocodile may eat you last, if you feed it your fellow humans (the evil Others) first, but it will still eat you.
That’s gonna leave a mark.
Aw, I like it when they stop, abandon the vehicle, and try to run – just to watch as the police release the Fur Missile. I love Fur Missiles. No one ever outruns a Fur Missile.
Wait–I thought an “undocumented father” was a baby daddy.
Remember this Far Side cartoon?
Another “dog bites man” story.
I’d forgotten about Osmos. For those of you who fancy a spot of low-key gaming.
Somewhere in Hell, Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini is smiling.
Looks like someone else studied biology with Pink Floyd in the background.
Unlikely.
Via Darleen Click: Surprise: Oxbridge asshole is still an asshole.
[…] And the nation that plays it is lost!
Ugly American update.
Only 2 years for attempted murder. “Is it them, Yogi?”
What I like to call “Hoist by your own retard.”
Still one of my favorite Fur Missile videos.
“We used to laugh quite a lot.”
“Yes. But not at the same time.”
RIP Prunella Scales.
Unspanked, unsocialised.
On the “poverty causes crime” conceit – or wet pavements cause rain. Or car crashes cause drunk driving, etc:
And,
There’s more in the thread.
The unrealism of the “poverty causes crime” conceit, and the ludicrous assumptions that typically result, have been touched on before, as in the update to this, in which I recount a tale from my schooldays.
Regarding the above, it occurs to me that a not insignificant problem is that so many students are getting their assumptions on this matter from Marxoid pinheads much like Mr Matthews, our Urban Studies lecturer, whose first-hand experience of poverty and social pathology is somewhere between slim indeed and entirely non-existent.
I mean, if you’re getting your worldview, your Grand Solutions, from, say, the Guardian‘s Polly Toynbee, a descendant of the Ninth Earl of Carlisle, and for whom thuggery is best dealt with via the medium of dance classes, then little good will come of it.
Diagrams help.
Every time.
That was a very good thread in general. Despite the Minnow.
We give good thread.
I should put that in the brochure.
Very nearly, certainly. And there’s something deeply obnoxious about having to endure pretentious, status-seeking pseudo-moral lectures from people who are themselves conveniently insulated from the obvious practical consequences of their own pieties, loudly mouthed.
Simon Schama being yet another example. Or Dan Snow.
But we’ll be here all day.
He complains that he needs to get to work, but with his attitude it seems likely he is only marginally and intermittently employed as sooner or later he will piss off anyone he comes in contact with.
Only 2 years for attempted murder.
Why these wackadoo judges are multiplying like rabbits on crack is a mystery and not just on this side of the pond. Over in Derby, no photos as the chap with balding gray hair is ruled to be underage by judicial fiat, and apparently not a one-off.
Liberals are Marxists even when they don’t realize it.
As I said in that thread, it would be entirely just and highly enjoyable to force these leftists to live among violent criminals.
Not seeing John Cleese in that link, though.
It’s the left’s “long march through the institutions”.
[ Schedules tomorrow’s Ephemera, roars in triumph. ]
Tulley Bascombe chuckles.
I don’t think I will ever accept the blue/red color swap. So Orwellian.
Meanwhile in a German court…
Yeah, that will fix the problem.
Do we no longer know how to make fire?
Per the almost all-knowing Grok, Mr. Cleese lives in Bath, Somerset, which was 92.2% White British in 2021. Although that number has declined by 2.4% since 2011. So he fits the pattern of “I can’t see what the problem is, here in an extremely wealthy and homogenous section of Britain. Whatever are the poors talking about?”
And that is why I approve when bystanders kill criminals.
When you find yourself having to restate rather obvious realities, as if it were shockingly new information.
That, as they say. I’ve known people who sermonised on the importance of multicultural enrichment, loudly and at length, while quietly moving house and putting a good few miles between themselves and the vibrancy that’s supposedly so enriching.
As if one wouldn’t notice.
Better make that a few good dozens of miles, if you don’t want to be forced to move again before you die.
Not entirely unrelated.
…it would be entirely just and highly enjoyable to force these leftists to live among violent criminals.
Unfortunately, that would just give us more of this:
at least at first. I wonder how long it would take before even the die hard virtue signalers would get tired of being prey.
Someone should make a reality-TV show.
True, but I would enjoy their suffering. A tiny taste of what they deserve.
I made the mistake of scrolling down the page to other articles and WTAbsoluteF??? The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in Europe are Politicians, Judges, Civil Servants and Police.
Would watch. With extra popcorn.
Is this cutlery-related barbarism true?