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Where, for instance, pst314 and Mr Muldoon point us to an “analysis” piece in Scientific American, in which we’re urged to fret about “the violence Black men experience in [American] football,” and in which we’re told that the physicality of the sport “disproportionately affects black men.” This is framed in the article so as to imply some systemic racial wrongdoing – “anti-Black practices” that are “inescapable” – rather than, say, being an unremarkable reflection of the sport’s demographics, in which, at professional levels, black players are a majority.
Or to put it another, no less scientific, way – the risk of injury while playing a contact sport disproportionately affects those who actually play it.
No evidence is offered, at all, to establish that injuries are more frequent among black players compared to their white peers – which is pretty much the article’s premise – or to support the conceit that any such disparity, should it exist, must be driven by racism. And yet we’re told, with an air of satisfaction,
Albeit a plantation with fan mail, lucrative endorsements, and an average salary of around $2.7 million.
And so, the approved line of thinking seems to be that if a sport doesn’t have whatever is deemed a representative proportion of minority participants, this must be construed, and denounced, as damning evidence of racism, regardless of the actual factors involved, including the preferences and priorities of said minorities. And if a sport comes to be dominated by a racial minority, at least at elite levels, this too must be construed, and denounced, as damning evidence of racism.
The author of the piece, Tracie Canada, is a “socio-cultural anthropologist whose ethnographic research uses sport to theorize race, kinship and care, gender, and the performing body.” Ms Canada, an assistant professor at Duke University, should perhaps be thanked for reminding us that in order to propagate a woke premise, and thereby grift, one may have to avoid thinking about fairly obvious things.
Likewise, when you’re the editor-in-chief of Scientific American:
An editor-in-chief whose thought process seems to be:
I paraphrase, of course. But not, I think, unfairly.*
The steep downward trajectory of said publication has been mentioned here before.
*Added via the comments.
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we’re urged to fret about “the violence Black men experience in football,” and in which we’re told that the physicality of the sport “disproportionately affects black men.”
For the same reason that the phenomenon of police officers shooting violent thugs “disproportionately affects black men.”
It never occurred to me in my youth that Scientific American would ever go Nazi.
LOL.
Helmuth is a disgrace to journalism. And that’s a low bar.
Ms Helmuth, formerly of Slate, does seem to delight in scorning those who dare to correct her or to offer critical feedback. As I said in an earlier thread,
She’s a piece of work.
1. Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it.
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.
— David Burge
It never occurred to me in my youth that Scientific American would ever go Nazi.
See the 1941 essay “Who Goes Nazi?” by Dorothy Thompson.
“Mr. B has risen beyond his real abilities…he has done lots of other things for money. His code is not his own…He fits easily into whatever pattern is successful…Nazism as a minority movement would not attract him. As a movement likely to attain power, it would.”
and
“Mr. C is a brilliant and embittered intellectual…he is a very dangerous man. Were he primitive and brutal he would be a criminal—a murderer. But he is subtle and cruel. He would rise high in a Nazi regime. It would need men just like him—intellectual and ruthless.”
There is a lot of overlap in a Venn Diagram of “who goes Nazi” and “who goes Communist”. In fact, it is mostly overlap.
…a “socio-cultural anthropologist whose ethnographic research…”
Therein lies one of the most tiresome things about all this sort of nonsense from the Woke™ crowd, the central conceit that anything they do is any form of “research” other than a modern day searching of the card files for articles that support their pre-conceived notions.
A clown-shoe scholar endorsed by a clown-shoe editor. One whose thought process seems to be: “People are laughing at me and pointing out the errors that I didn’t spot, despite it being my job, therefore they are bad people, and therefore I am correct, and morally unassailable, and no further reflection is required.”
I paraphrase, but barely.
Therein lies one of the most tiresome things about all this sort of nonsense from the Woke™ crowd, the central conceit that anything they do is any form of “research” other than a modern day searching of the card files for articles that support their pre-conceived notions.
Indeed, indeed. It has been pointed out that “woke” scholarship is almost entirely lies and distortions, and that it looks like scholarship only because they all cite each other in their footnotes. A circle-jerk of lies.
A clown-shoe scholar endorsed by a clown-shoe editor.
A lot of these clowns do not have the IQ or knowledge to be real scholars.
And deep down, they know it.
The rest can do real scholarship but prefer to propagandize for their evil ideology.
One whose thought process seems to be: “People are laughing at me and pointing out the errors…
Speaking of which, Ms. Canada has protected her Twit account for unfathomable reasons.
Meanwhile, Scholarship™: “Anti-Blackness in American Football.” Guest lecture, Black in Blue: The Duke Sports & Race Project, Duke University.
Again, 70% – anti-blackness, you’re doing it wrong.
In the article the author actually acknowledges that she is unaware of any statistics showing black players are injured at a higher rate than white players. I know the age we live in but it is still so weird.to see this published as scientific journalism.
The thinking, such as it is, seems to be that if a sport doesn’t have whatever is deemed a representative proportion of minority participants, this must be construed, and denounced, as damning evidence of racism, regardless of the actual factors involved, including the preferences and priorities of said minorities.
And if a sport comes to be dominated by a racial minority, at least at elite levels, this too must be construed, and denounced, as damning evidence of racism.
To give another US example, many riots are premised on disproportionate murder of black men by cops. However, per encounter with police, a white suspect is slightly more likely to be killed. The vast majority of cop shootings occur when the suspect aims a gun at them. In interviews, the Left and blacks estimate the number shot as 10 to 100 times higher than actual.
Sure, run your mouth with your “feelings” and stoke racial hatred, nothing could go wrong.
Blame the patriarchy.
The vast majority of cop shootings occur when the suspect aims a gun at them. In interviews, the Left and blacks estimate the number shot as 10 to 100 times higher than actual.
Not to mention the pathological thinking behind “he dindu nuffin”.
Keys and some cash in one, phone in the other. Never the twain, etc.
It’s my understanding that the ladies keep their crap in a bag of some sort, or possibly pushed between their breasts. I’m a little sketchy on the details.
The eagerness of Scientific American and other journals to destroy their credibility is a wonder to behold.
Speaking of conceits…
Well if it is according to academia I guess there can be no argument, but I’d like to get some input from diabetics, hypertensives, and amputees before it is carved into the tablets.
Always keep in mind that fascism/nazism are ‘right wing’ only within the context of socialism.
As I said over on Insty regarding this, you can see the scientific rigor in the considerable time taken between Hamlin’s collapse and the publishing of this scientific sciencey science article. Research must have taken seconds…minutes perhaps. Stunning. Likely brave too.
This trend was helped along greatly by the “professional manager phenomenon”, i.e., the concept that it was a good idea to put into authority people who knew nothing to little of the core operations of the organization. You know, project manager-types with MBAs who attend a lot of meetings, count things with spreadsheets and have high status and remuneration.
As was Ms. Thompson herself to some degree (edited…. I was thinking of Dorothy Parker…damn getting old sucks). I get this Thompson piece quite mixed up with Hannah Arendt’s piece on the banality of evil called…I believe…The Banality Evil. In the process of cross checking my memory, I ran across this quote from her:
Was not aware of that one and yet at the same time it’s something I’ve understood since about the 8th grade. Why are such things so hard for “intellectuals” or even many “conservatives” to see? Add this to my points about the dangers of a society consuming too much fiction.
Seems to be a good yet poorly executed point. I didn’t get it entirely at first myself but I think the idea is that girls only make use of the camera, texting, social media, and voice aspects of a phone whereas for boys it’s a multipurpose tool.
It’s my understanding that the ladies keep their crap in a bag of some sort, or possibly pushed between their breasts. I’m a little sketchy on the details.
When I was younger maybe.
It’s my understanding that the ladies keep their crap in a bag of some sort, or possibly pushed between their breasts. I’m a little sketchy on the details.
As far back as the 70’s I would encounter complaints that women’s jeans had tiny pockets because of sexism. The leftist complainers never considered the idea that manufacturers make what women want to buy, and that women put less of a priority on roomy pockets than on details that maximize styling.
That’s just one more data point in my “Marxists are stupid, lying asswipes” thesis.
Seems to be a good yet poorly executed point. I didn’t get it entirely at first myself but I think the idea is that girls only make use of the camera, texting, social media, and voice aspects of a phone whereas for boys it’s a multipurpose tool.
No, I think the point is not about how boys vs girls use cellphones but rather that boys carry lots more of stuff in their pockets. (And how many times have you watched a woman fumble in her purse for keys, where a boy would just quickly grab his keys from his pocket?)
the risk of injury while playing a contact sport disproportionately affects those who actually play it.
13% of football players account for 52% of all injuries?
Well, wallet and keys, yes. But I’ve never carried a diesel locomotive nor Portugal, including its outlying archipelagos in my pockets. But I’m kinda weird about what I keep in my pockets.
A lot of these clowns do not have the IQ or knowledge to be real scholars.
And deep down, they know it.
It’s entirely the same phenomenon as HR, marketing and project management filling up with women with no discernable skills who resent the actually productive – and overwhelmingly male – employees.
I’ve said it before: the 19th amendment was a mistake.
“annnnnd the replies to any tweet about systemic racism prove the existence of sytemic racism”
As the Church Lady would say, “How convenient.”
“obesity” hurts feelings: the two biggest predictors of mortality during covid were/are being over 80 and obesity. To avoid hurting feelings the media kept saying “pre-existing conditions” to include obesity without ever letting people know that fact. Obesity kills in this case even without diabetes, so obese people went happily on their way unaware of their risk. Just like they won’t describe the current rapist in your neighborhood because he is black, so you don’t know your danger.
Girls and pockets. Obviously retailers can only sell what women buy. Why no pockets? Because women want to show off their butts and nice legs. In the US currently women are walking about in yoga pants or leggings that are as revealing as a coat of paint. No room for pockets in those. I am not complaining you understand…except for the bruises from walking into things.
Perhaps beating an old dead horse here but the IQ thing is IMNSHO greatly exaggerated as a factor in these matters. Much, much more important is discipline, the ability to tolerate and self enforce discipline which itself is a factor of curiosity.
On a similar offshoot of IQ…so the boys (mostly boys still I presume) at Google are hard at work doing all sorts of newy fancy googley stuff, yet some of this simplest things get f’d up. For example…
Went down a rabbit hole due to curiosity regarding Google location tracking…Then on a side issue of wanting to change, just for a little while, my default search engine to Qwant. Futz around on the specific settings screen, trying to figure out htf to add a new search engine option to the list…not for the search bar specifically mind you, but in general. Click the little “Add” button at the bottom only to discover that my new item did not get added to the list of search engine options but to the category below. Yet that was the first “Add” button on the screen. Try anyway. No. No no no no no…OK..Nothing changed. OK, so how about I edit an existing search engine entry to change from Bing’s URL,etc. to Qwant? OK..now select that Qwant as my default….now reload Chrome and….Bing has now become my default/open tab search engine.
How do they f something like this up? It’s so bloody simple, relative to everything else that they do. These are not low-IQ people. But they do lack the discipline to do their jobs correctly and to thoroughly test their shit before it goes out to the world. We’re not getting stupider, we’re getting lazier and resentful of having to address our flaws. Hence back around to the response from the SA editor to the criticisms.
Well, kinda. The question I ponder is are yoga pants a blessing or a curse? Unfortunately the curse thing seems to have more traction in my local experience.
…currently women are walking about in yoga pants or leggings that are as revealing as a coat of paint.
To your point, during my four-and-a-half hour wait at the passport office last week a young woman came in to pickup her passport. I had to do a triple take. She was wearing, what can only be described as nude-colored, leggings. They were so tight that, indeed, nothing was left to the imagination.
That.
Heh. I see what you did there. But the word disproportionately does seem to be used quite freely, as a reflex, as if that were where the thinking should stop. Indeed, must stop.
Perhaps we can expect an article by Ms Canada, published by Ms Helmuth, in which professional hockey is denounced as systemically racist too, a hotbed of anti-white sentiment, on grounds that the players being injured tend to have pale skin. Or does that seem unlikely?
But they do lack the discipline to do their jobs correctly and to thoroughly test their shit before it goes out to the world. We’re not getting stupider, we’re getting lazier
I agree to a certain extent. But that’s just half of the issue. We’ve been an all carrot/no stick culture for too long. Most people don’t exercise self-discipline via natural inclination just as good-to-excellent musicians are ‘born that way’. It’s a learned trait that needs to be instilled early and regularly practiced.
The measure twice, cut once mantra of building, sewing, etc, is reality beating you about the head & shoulders when you eff-up “X” because you were too lazy & thought you could ignore the requirements “this time” and now you’re out of time, money and possibly even future gigs.
There are few consequences to using consumers as beta testers for software. Consumers fuss, shake their fists but will stick with X as ‘bugs are worked out’. And that template has moved into a lot of other trades and professions. Just getting work done around the house, you are in the position of ‘trust but verify’ even the most mundane of jobs. Pay for 2 coats of paint? Better show up after the first one to make sure they do the 2nd and check, too, if they got all the areas contracted for.
Honor in doing a job correctly is just not ‘a thing’ anymore. There are few, if any, consequences to effing up.
To add to the anecdata, I just looked in my purse. Wallet, makeup, pens, coupons, pocketknife, flashlight. No Latinate countries.
They were so tight that, indeed, nothing was left to the imagination.
Think, then, of the alternative – saggy-bottomed tights.
She was wearing, what can only be described as nude-colored, leggings. They were so tight that, indeed, nothing was left to the imagination.
And yet she and many other women would dishonestly claim that she did not dress with the intention of making an explicit sexual display and that the visibility of a camel’s digit was unintentional. I wonder what happened to all the liars I used to know.
Perhaps beating an old dead horse here but the IQ thing is IMNSHO greatly exaggerated as a factor in these matters. Much, much more important is discipline
I agree that it is exaggerated, although I remain unsure how much. Certainly a person with slightly lower natural gifts but who is more conscientious will, in the long run, do better. On the other hand, there are rough yardsticks for IQ’s needed to do various sorts of jobs–higher IQ needed to be a software engineer than a coder, or to be a research scientist than an instructor.
Other attributes, too: I strongly suspect that part of Isaac Asimov’s intellectual reputation was due to his phenomenal memory which served him well in school and career. But he admitted more than once in his autobiography that he was a mediocre research chemist. (He remarked, during a dispute with his department head, that while on the one hand he was a mediocre research chemist, he greatly benefited Boston University by being a superior lecturer and science writer.)
Edit: “and Boston University didn’t need yet another mediocre scientist”.
Think, then, of the alternative – saggy-bottomed tights.
There is a happy medium. When I say nothing was left to the imagination, you could see the tendons and divots in her knee as if there were nothing there. And pst314 is correct, a camel’s digit was on full display and in great detail. I’m quite sure she had a piercing. Each of her buttock cheeks was lovingingly lifted and separated from the other, again as if she were wearing nothing. (I had a lot of time on my hands waiting for my passport). In her case she was young and physically attractive, but it seems a good number of women who dress like this are vomit inducing.
“God invented spandex but the Devil put it on fat chicks”
Never a truer phrase invented (by myself far back in less p.c. days obviously)
Mind you these days, it would also apply to men of the awful road cycling MAMIL clan and probably trans-gagas too.
Then on a side issue of wanting to change, just for a little while, my default search engine to Qwant
What you’re missing is that that isn’t incompetence, it’s by design. Embedded ads in the search pages are how Google and others make money. They want it to be as difficult as possible for you to change it without making it too obvious that’s what they’re doing.
I mean, UX design is also a holocaust, but in this specific case it’s intentional.
Nobody here games, I don’t think, but D&D nerds everywhere are melting down over the fact that the company that makes D&D has actually started acting like a company.
But I’ve never carried [..] Portugal, including its outlying archipelagos in my pockets
Well, how else are you supposed to establish trade routes to India?
But I’ve never carried [..] Portugal, including its outlying archipelagos in my pockets
Well, how else are you supposed to establish trade routes to India?
If the trade route to India goes through Daniel Ream’s pants then I’m staying home, dammit.
…And pst314 is correct, a camel’s digit was on full display and in great detail. I’m quite sure she had a piercing…again as if she were wearing nothing…In her case she was young and physically attractive, but…
I occasionally see pretty young women who dress like that, and my reaction is “She’s very pretty, but she’s a slut and a skank–Men should avoid her like the walking disaster that she is–and avoid all her friends, too.”
Mind you these days, it would also apply to men of the awful road cycling MAMIL clan and probably trans-gagas too.
I tend to laugh at those men: They don’t need expensive, brightly colored lycra racing outfits; it’s all fashion and status.
Mind you these days, it would also apply to men of the awful road cycling MAMIL clan
True, but if they’re actually cyclists, their lyrca “outfit” has a sewn in chamois that is going to hide all the nasty bits unless, of course, you’re massively endowed or so active in the saddle that your nasty bits migrate oustide the chamois.
That’s some next level shit, because I’ve seen the Duke University football team. And it is exactly the racial mix you would expect from North Carolina.
I wonder if the The Duke Sports & Race Project ever wander down to the football field and tell Mike Elko, who the university pays over $2,000,000 a year, that he’s racist.
Duke is primarily a basketball university. Their coach, Mike Krzyzewski, was paid a touch over $9,000,000 a year. I wonder if the The Duke Sports & Race Project have any words about him “exploiting” young black men.
Duke Provost Sally Kornbluth must have been having a laugh.
Oops.
I love a happy ending.
I think we can dare to say that, with his departure from this world, little of value was lost, and in terms of future victims, considerable good was done.
There are of course those who would insist otherwise.
That.
It’s a manoeuvre we’ve seen many times – for instance, here, in the closing paragraphs:
Maybe there’s a word for it. Seems there ought to be.
Duke University. Rings a bell. Three white lacrosse players falsely accused on the word of a Crystal Magnum a black strumpet and since a murderess. All three thrown under the bus by faculty and admin. None of the latter ever brought to account. Ideal place then for Tracie to find refuge and spout garbage.
They only hire the best, you know.
To answer the initial question, yes, I do read the comments. Religiously. And I enjoy indulging in my mind’s eye of guessing what you all look like (with the exception of those who have their faces – or, at least, someone’s – in their avatar).
[ Passes Stephanie a cup of tea. ]
[ Rummages under bar, flicks single Custard Cream in her general direction. ]
My eyes are more green and I usually don’t wear the God-awful hat.
Added: I must say your crown is absolutely fabulous!
More Science High School brings us more science:
I wonder what the explanation might be.
However, we will do it anyway.
People who are on cardiac meds have more heart attacks than people who aren’t.
This is cutting edge stuff, but of course it is climate change (hot or cold), fossil fuels, red meat, and plastics.
Duke University. Rings a bell. Three white lacrosse players falsely accused on the word of a Crystal Magnum a black strumpet and since a murderess. All three thrown under the bus by faculty and admin.
The scandal was covered extensively, from start to finish for 8 years, by this blog.
And that blogger eventually wrote a book about it.
My liberal “friends” could not see anything wrong in how those students were railroaded.
I love a happy ending.
Note the two teardrop tattoos below his eye, telling us that he has been in prison–maybe twice–even if a newspaper won’t tell us.
Yes, I’m glad he’s dead. But never forget about the liberals who try to keep monsters like him out of prison: They, too are enemies of civilization.
“The President has a decadal vision, to get to a commercial fusion reactor within 10 years,”
Why how completely ridiculous.
Doesn’t the Resident know that we are facing a global burn-up of climatic proportions? If only the Resident had the vision to “get a commercial fusion reactor within the week” we could immediately rescue humanity from it’s overburden of cheap, efficient, reliable fossil fuelled electricity.
Seattle schools sue social media companies for having ‘exploited the vulnerable brains of youth’
Compensation demanded. Don’t those fuckers know that’s the schools’ job?
Given that climate is always (slowly) changing, it is better for humanity if it gets warmer rather than colder for a whole host of reasons.
Our betters in the corporate media never seem to be curious about this, why is that?
“The President has a decadal vision, to get to a commercial fusion reactor within 10 years,”
Well, OK, then. “Let it be written, let it be done” – these are not serious people.
I love a happy ending.
Another happy ending, achieved however in a problematic way.
Did you know the average male head in the Netherlands is about an inch and a half, but lower legs are about 5′ 2″?
This graphic proves it.
Yes, unfortunately for the fine upstanding citizen who defended his fellow diners from a violent criminal, under Texas statutes it’s legitimate to shoot someone who’s robbing people (yes, even in the back), but the law frowns upon putting one in the thug’s head while he’s lying dying on the floor afterwards.
Stoopid laws.
Don’t those fuckers know that’s the schools’ job?
Indeed, the schools don’t like the competition.
Meanwhile, a thief with a sound legal argument.
these are not serious people
I think that room-temperature net-positive output fusion is an engineering challenge, so a Manhattan Project or Apollo Program equivalent might be able to get us there.
But those projects were military projects, and the US believed it faced an existential threat. Absent that all that would happen is trillions of dollars going to government cronies and scam artists.
So business as usual, really.
I picture 2am at the bus station in the rough part of town.
And yet the vast majority of people, including the vast majority of conservatives…”conservatives” lack the logic skills to understand. Most people are not serious people, including the most seriously educated. There was even this recent article in a scientific (so-called) magazine…
Duke U: there was a single act of justice in the lacrosse player’s case. The DA (Mike Nifong?) much later was brought up on charges of misconduct and disbarred. One of the things that brought him down was that one of the white kids was on video at a cash machine across town at the time of the “rape” and he still brought charges.
“Today In Racism™”, in this exciting episode, “Field Work”…
Because wypipo never worked in fields, I guess.
Meanwhile, mysterious goings on in The Levant…MOO7.
Oddly. I believe the rough part of town is by law where the bus station is located.
I can’t help thinking the phrase “slavery” might have connotations for the descendants of slavery?
Yes, unfortunately for the fine upstanding citizen who defended his fellow diners from a violent criminal, under Texas statutes it’s legitimate to shoot someone who’s robbing people (yes, even in the back), but the law frowns upon putting one in the thug’s head while he’s lying dying on the floor afterwards.
There’s nothing illegal (or immoral) about shooting an armed robber in the back and without warning: That ends the threat with the least risk to innocent people. There is no reason to give the robber a chance to shoot anyone. To hell with all that Hollywood Western movie garbage about fair fights.
On the other hand, the law on self defense does not allow you to execute a robber once he is no longer a threat.
At the risk of beating that poor dead horse: heat waves kill fewer than cold waves. Excessive cold kills via both respiratory and heart attacks. Even in S China, relatively cold weather (no snow obv) kills.
On the news they were covering houses falling into the ocean in NC (not Duke unfortunately) and went on at length about climate change. Sea level in NC is rising more than the global average–but how could that be? After glaciers left Canada, the NE Can region has been rising, but since it is all rock down there, this is causing the NC region to tip downward. Not climate change. Every other thing they said was false too. More storms? No. More hurricanes? No. But they scare people to death.
And I enjoy indulging in my mind’s eye of guessing what you all look like
Given the reference to “more science high” I am guessing geezers. But good looking geezers. (perhaps is an americanism)
Oddly. I believe the rough part of town is by law where the bus station is located.
Or does the bus station location tend to always become a rough part of town? At least in the absence of serious law enforcement?
When I was young, the downtown bus station was perfectly safe. I used it now and then to visit friends in the country and to go to and from college for Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks.
On the other hand, from what I have read it seems that the New York Port Authority bus station was a bad locale even in the 70’s. And some intellectuals liked it that way.
“field work”–oh, look at the cow out grazing in its practicum. What a lovely practicum of flowers.
How about let’s make communication impossible?
Oh, and “field work” can mean going out to the mall to survey people or going out on a boat to take water samples. A “field” need not even be involved.
But good looking geezers. (perhaps is an americanism)
In UKish English, is just a bloke, not necessarily an insult; in ‘Murkan English, an antediluvian bloke, generally an insult.
And to my continuing point regarding the idiocy of the smart people, so called, drop down this Twitter hole. This is how these people live. The ones who mock flyover people for living in their own private Idaho now live in their own private China. Personally, I’ll take Idaho. Every time.
This graphic proves it
Pity all those poor unsatisfied Indonesian ladies
All the videos that I have seen, like three or four, cut out the supposed execution shot. I see references to it, I see cut video, but I have not seen that specifically. Has anyone? I certainly would not put it past the media or anyone else to invent that “fact”. In fact…ahem…somewhat like God if it did not exist I would expect it to be invented.
But good looking geezers. (perhaps is an americanism)
In UKish English, is just a bloke, not necessarily an insult; in ‘Murkan English, an antediluvian bloke, generally an insult.
But geezer means elderly man, while bloke means a man of any age.
I see references to it, I see cut video, but I have not seen that specifically. Has anyone?
Scroll down for full video.
For reference regarding Dutchmen (if it ain’t Dutch it ain’t much) relative to Indonesians…I had to find the original source material. Because I had to.
https://patient.info/news-and-features/whats-the-average-height-for-men
Added, even that feels off. Is the average height of men in the UK as close as they say (even taller than) to men in the US? And Canada and Oz as well? Having been to all three countries I certainly felt like I stood out much more in the UK than the other two.
All the videos that I have seen, like three or four, cut out the supposed execution shot. I see references to it, I see cut video, but I have not seen that specifically. Has anyone?
There are two separate posts of the video in my link:
“Another happy ending, achieved however in a problematic way.”
And those do have audio so you can be sure of when the shots are fired.
I had certainly thought so, however many hours of fruitlessly hanging around in the early hours hoping to score, disabused me of the notion.
Mind you, I did get mugged a couple of times, so maybe you’re on to something…
OK, that one had the full thing. Looks to me like the shooter was still not sure the perp was dead and no longer a threat. Even after he appears to have emptied the clip (magazine, whatever) he seems quite cautious. Anyone who has has to dispatch a dangerous animal on occasion or seen real video of such things should be aware that even severely wounded creatures can still be a threat. Anyone who has been in a gunfight or has spoken to any degree of detail with those who have should also be aware that bullets fired in the heat of a life-or-death moment don’t land as close to target as you think. I spoke with a cop once who was witness to a firefight in which both men were fairly close to each other, fired multiple shots but only one or two landed. My father concurred that such was similar in battle scenarios where both units were surprised to be on top of each other.
Male ht: 50 yrs ago, the average in US was 5ft 9in. For men in their 20s today it is 5ft 11in. It was 5ft 7in back in 1900.
@WTP: ‘Anyone who has has to dispatch a dangerous animal on occasion or seen real video of such things should be aware that even severely.’
As any PH (professional hunter) will tell you, it’s the dead ones that get up and kill you.
Shooting muggers: I blame the lone ranger for the idea that you can shoot the gun out of someone’s hand. If you shoot someone and they fall they may not be dead and can easily shoot you. IRL of course but not in clown world where the impossible is demanded if a magic minority person is involved.