Friday Ephemera (826)

Oh dear, up-buggered link detected.

Dammit, Muldoon!
Correct link.

“What if our world is just a tiny speck….”

The problem with this is that it’s not some kind of mystery who is committing most of the crime in the United States. This is the most basic, boring, indisputable fact about criminal justice in America. You don’t know anything about crime in America if you don’t know this. You don’t know anything about American social relations, suburbanization, racial polarization. You don’t know anything about American history. You don’t know anything about what’s motivating where people live, where they work, how they perceive cities. You don’t understand the US housing market, what motivates a large share of NIMBYism.

You can’t not know this and be a serious person. 

And of course Hunter does know it. He’s just a member of a social movement that’s committed to obfuscating on this point.

It’s not serious. It’s not honest. And it’s a real blocker to the “real conversation conversations about race” these people are always insisting we’ve never had.

“Oberlin struggle session”

[ Involuntary salivation commences. ]

Do you not have sliced nectarines with Greek yoghurt, honey, and a splash of double cream?

Low-carb diet means I will only have a small serving of blueberries later. I like carbs, but I like not being fat and diabetic even more.
[ Weeps for lost childhood of unlimited fruit, ice cream, noodles, and pizza. ]

The failure of asylum policies:

Denmark has unfortunately granted asylum to the Sharia supporter and Denmark-hater Mohamed Abdi Kahn.

With this post, it is my clear intention to get the politicians to very concretely reassess his case and the legislation that has brought us here. For Mohamed should not be here. I hope that will be crystal clear to anyone who reads this post.

Mohamed came to Denmark in 2015 with his five children and calls himself a political refugee from Ethiopia. He was granted asylum in 2016.

Mohamed is not from Ethiopia, however, but from Somalia. And that’s where it starts to get a bit strange in my head. For sure, Mohamed fled from Ethiopia, where he was a businessman, but why should he be here and not in his home country, Somalia? Especially considering that he visits the country at regular intervals without any problems at all. That points to a defective system.

Actually, Mohamed would have sought asylum in Norway, but he was registered at Copenhagen Airport, with the result that, by his own account, he was granted asylum in this “shit country” against his will.

Since then, Mohamed has shown nothing but boundless contempt for the country and the people who granted him asylum.

“I will never raise my children according to Danish values,” he says one day, while the next he makes it clear that Danes have poor values and suffer from spiritual poverty. Mohamed is far more inclined toward the burqa, homohatred, gender-segregated swimming, and Sharia, which he talks a lot about.

. . .

Mohamed is, of course, also a Hamas sympathizer of the kind who shares dehumanizing, antisemitic rat images of Jews. Moreover, he regards the Taliban as a liberation organization.

Last but not least, he has been charged with inciting violence against a Danish journalist.

Let me make it completely unmistakable: Mohamed is the antithesis of Danish values. Every second that Mohamed spends in Denmark is a self-hating and self-harming insult to Denmark and a mockery of us all.

Mohamed has said that he would always choose Sharia over our “shit country,” Denmark.

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[ Retrieves leftover blueberries from fridge. Removes lid. Sees mold. Screams. ]

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