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In the New York Times opinion section, Bret Stephens makes some excellent points about the outbreak of anti-white racism, if I do say so myself:

Race and the Coming Liberal Crackup
April 26, 2021
By Bret Stephens, Opinion Columnist

… But what about a case like that of Ma’Khia Bryant, a Black teenager who was shot and killed last week by Nicholas Reardon, a white police officer in Columbus, Ohio, at the instant that she was swinging a knife at a woman who had her back against a car?

Ben Crump, the Floyd family’s lawyer, accused the Columbus police in a tweet of killing “an unarmed 15yo Black girl.” Valerie Jarrett, the former Obama adviser, tweeted that Bryant “was killed because a police officer immediately decided to shoot her multiple times in order to break up a knife fight.” Jarrett wants to “Demand accountability” and “Fight for justice.”

An alternative view: Maybe there wasn’t time for Officer Reardon, in an 11-second interaction, to “de-escalate” the situation, as he is now being faulted for failing to do. And maybe the balance of our sympathies should lie not with the would-be perpetrator of a violent assault but with the cop who saved a Black life — namely that of Tionna Bonner, who nearly had Bryant’s knife thrust into her.

That’s a thought that many, perhaps most, Americans share, even if they are increasingly reluctant to say it out loud. Why reluctant? Because in this era of with-us-or-against-us politics, to have misgivings about the left’s new “anti-racist” narrative is to run the risk of being denounced as a racist. Much better to nod along at your office’s diversity, equity and inclusion

C’mon, Bret, in for a penny, in for a pound: call it “diversity, inclusion, and equity.”

sessions than suggest that enforced political indoctrination should not become a staple of American workplace culture.

And yet those doubts and misgivings go to the heart of what used to be thought of as liberalism. The result will be a liberal crackup similar to the one in the late 1960s that broke liberalism as America’s dominant political force for a generation.

You know, I was just thinking about LBJ and “Joe Biden’s Long Hot Spring.”

… Above all, liberalism believes that truth tends to be many-shaded and complex. Anti-racism is a great simplifier. Good and evil. Black and white.

This is where the anti-racism narrative will profoundly alienate liberal-minded America, even as it entrenches itself in schools, universities, corporations and other institutions of American life.

You may have an excessively high opinion of liberals, Bret. This whole John Stuart Mill tradition of having high principles is kind of a drag, and when given the chance to just simplify public life into Good Guys vs. Bad Guys, which you can tell from how many Intersectional Pokemon Points they have, many liberals have jumped at it.

It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil and not see a racist motive in every bad encounter between a white cop and a minority suspect, including the recent shootings of Adam Toledo in Chicago and Daunte Wright in Minnesota. It’s possible to think that the police make too many assumptions about young Black men, sometimes with tragic consequences, and still recognize that young Black men commit violent crimes at a terribly disproportionate rate. It’s possible to believe that effective policing requires that cops gain the trust of the communities they serve while recognizing that those communities are ill served when cops are afraid to do their jobs.

It is also possible to recognize that we have miles to go in ending racism while also objecting to the condescending assumptions and illiberal methods of the anti-racist creed. The idea that white skin automatically confers “privilege” in America is a strange concept to millions of working-class whites who have endured generations of poverty while missing out on the benefits of the past 50 years of affirmative action programs.

Similarly, the idea that past discrimination or even present-day inequality justifies explicit racial preferences in government policy is an affront to liberal values, and will become only more so as the practices become more common. In Oakland the mayor backed an initiative that was to provide $500 a month to low-income families, but not if they were white. In Vermont, the state has given people of color priority for Covid vaccines.

Ibram X. Kendi, the most important anti-racist thinker today, argues that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.” Some liberals will go along with this. Many others will find themselves drifting rightward, much as a past generation of disaffected liberals did. …

Indeed.

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  1. The way this Bret Stephens is appropriating your material, Steve, how can we be sure our donations won’t end up in his pocket too?

    Make sure the local Post Office doesn’t have a forwarding request from your mailbox to his.

    • Replies: @Guy De Champlagne
    @Achmed E. Newman

    I don't know what Steve meant by saying that Bret Stephens went "full isteve". But everything he quoted is just advocating going back to pre-BLM center left civil rights rhetoric.

    Steve's views on race, or anyone's sensible views, are not getting anywhere near the nytimes anytime soon.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Ron Unz

  2. I prefer the really obvious false and hateful BLM style rhetoric to this more nuanced and plausible but actually only marginally less false and hateful kind of pre-BLM pablum.

    • Agree: Alden, Bill, Kylie, Daniel H, Jon
    • Troll: Je Suis Omar Mateen
    • Replies: @SMK
    @Guy De Champlagne

    The US has "miles to go in ending racism" after over half a century of the "illiberal methods of the anti-racism creed": affirmative-action, quotas,, sex-asides, double standards, preferential treatment for blacks, including the systemic and repeated coddling of violent and/or recidivist black criminals, anti-"racist" propaganda, indoctrination, and thought-control, etc.

    Only if one believes that blacks and whites are exactly the same apart from skin color and other superficial anatomical differences, that race "beneath the skin" is an "artificial social construct, and that all disparities between whites and blacks (save for the NFL and NBA and sprinting) are historically, culturally, and politically determined, and thus evidence of "systemic racism" and "white supremacy" after over half a century of the "illiberal methods of the anti-racist creed."

    Ergo, the solution to "ending racism" is to enact and impose "illiberal methods" that are increasingly fanatical, intrusive, repressive, totalitarian, and discriminatory, punitive, baneful, and iniquitous for whites,

  3. Don’t fall for it. This is their semi-monthly “See, we’re not slanted!” piece that also serves as a strawman to eviscerate tomorrow.

    • Agree: Getaclue, R.G. Camara
    • Replies: @SunBakedSuburb
    @Batman

    "Don't fall for it"

    I too am a suspicious SOB. Although Stephens is an elite Jew and Jews in general are becoming mighty alarmed by the lack of love shown to them by the overclass of coloured. They pine for the days of Christian Zionist servility.

    , @anonymous
    @Batman

    Stephens can expect a slew of dissenting columns and letters to The Gray Hag from the usual suspects.

  4. The best solution for POC is to leave the country. The last year proves you have no home here. Remember, the USA does not require exit visas. That could always change.

  5. Just a gentle reminder:

    The Han People in China would never allow themselves to be voted into a Han Racial Minority within the borders of CHINA by Hindu LEGAL IMMIGRANTS…..

    • Agree: Bardon Kaldian
    • Replies: @Desiderius
    @War for Blair Mountain

    Never is a long time.

    And in fact the Han women did just this with the Manchu not so long ago.

    Replies: @Boomthorkell

  6. It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil

    This elite cultural habit of hyperbole when talking about black stuff is just weird. Obviously, the death of George Floyd isn’t the epitome of evil, even if you agree with the jury. If you made a list of the 1,000,000 most evil things to happen in American history, George Floyd’s death wouldn’t even make the list. I’m not sure it would even make the list of the 100,000 most evil things to happen in America this year.

    • Thanks: 415 reasons
    • Replies: @Getaclue
    @Matttt

    Large Black guy 6'4" 240 lbs, convicted Felon and home invader who put a loaded gun to a pregnant woman's stomach, high on 3xs the amount of Fetanyl needed to kill him and hyped on Amphetamines dies while resisting arrest = "epitome of evil" -- they are pathetic -- as someone pointed out above -- I would rather the BLM rhetoric that makes it all obvious even to the stupidest "White" person than this guy who is part of the "Elite" screwing us -- he's a "paid collaborator" against us -- the NYSlimes uses him and he knows it, the NYSlimes wants all "White" people dead or enslaved - - this guy helps them....

    , @Anonymous
    @Matttt

    Yes. This one from just last month beats it.
    https://amp.dailycaller.com/2021/03/16/malik-halfacre-murder-family-stimulus-check

    , @Redman
    @Matttt

    Many have written (some here at Unz) that Chauvin’s conviction is like a human sacrifice. An offering to the pagan gods of wokeism. I’m it that camp.

    In that case he’s more like Jesus than a representative of evil. So you could say Stephens has it completely backwards.

    , @Achilleus
    @Matttt

    Here’s my entry for the “Epitome of Evil”:

    Babysitter, 24, 'killed one-year-old boy with wrestling moves' after becoming angry over a torn pillow - but told cops: 'I didn't hurt his head, I only caused the internal injuries'

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9495417/Babysitter-24-killed-boy-one-wrestling-moves-angry-torn-pillow.html

    Replies: @Gabe Ruth

    , @anon
    @Matttt


    If you made a list of the 1,000,000 most evil things to happen in American history, George Floyd’s death wouldn’t even make the list.
     
    The Holocaust would have to be at or near the top.
  7. Yawn. Bret Stephens is just another minoritarian Jew who doesn’t particularly like blacks.

    Deep down, probably thinks Harvard quotas and the Golfocaust and immigration restriction!!! are sufficient evidence of evil white gentile oppression to justify imposing the minoritarian regime and stealing our nation. Having to drag in slavery and Jim Crow to make the minoritarian case and end up slumming with this tedious blackety, blackety stuff … very unpleasant for Bret’s self-image.

    ~~

    It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil …

    Not really. Floyd wasn’t “murdered”. (We just don’t know if he was drugged up ass was salvageable at all.) And really “epitome of evil”. Someone looking at the video and thinking “epitome of incompetence” … ok. “Evil”, come on.

    The idea that white skin automatically confers “privilege” in America is a strange concept to millions of working-class whites who have endured generations of poverty while missing out on the benefits of the past 50 years of affirmative action programs.

    LOL. What cheek. Immigration has nothing to do with that?

    Stephens has lectured us numerous times–i’ve read a couple, i’m sure there are more–that working class Americans are useless sacks of shit and need to be replaced by harder working foreigners (so Jews like him can have some cheaper services and/or make more money).

    ~

    Again, just a minoritarian Jew who doesn’t like Blacks–doesn’t like being in the boat with Blacks.

    Sorry, that’s the minoritarian boat in America. I know you aren’t loyal to Americans like me, Bret. Blacks are your shipmates–get used to it.

    • Agree: Mr. Anon
    • Replies: @Not only wrathful
    @AnotherDad

    Finding evidence that counters your worldview, but completely ignoring it in order to rant and rave about how some imaginary intention of his actually proves your worldview, is part of a descent into a very dark pit. I wish you luck and godspeed to come out the other side!

    Replies: @ben tillman

    , @ic1000
    @AnotherDad

    > It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil

    In a comment below yours, Jonathan Mason asserts that the NYT publishing Stephens suggests, nay, proves that there is no The Narrative.

    There's Brett clinging to the far-right side of the Overton Window, professing belief that Chauvin is the most worst evildoer in Current Year America. Is that what he actually thinks, or is it what he has to say to keep cashing paychecks? Hardly matters.

    Since Stephens is a wordsmith, let's look at a longer excerpt.

    > It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil and not see a racist motive in every bad encounter between a white cop and a minority suspect

    Parsing the convoluted grammar, Stevens implies that it's not possible to not see the racist motive in the bad encounter between white cop Chauvin and minority suspect Floyd.

    The Narrative's House Conservative agrees in passing that Chauvin is evil because Chavin is racist. And Chauvin is racist because Chauvin is evil. He is doubly deserving of his triple conviction for murder.

    There's no daylight between Brett Stevens and Lester Holt on this point. Further proving that there's no The Narrative.

    , @Jon
    @AnotherDad

    Good post.


    The idea that white skin automatically confers “privilege” in America is a strange concept
     
    He doesn't explicitly say it, yet, but excluding Jews from the "privileged Whites" category is all he is after with rants like this. He is no friend of the rest of the Whites, or especially those Whites in the working class.

    Replies: @gent

    , @Bill Jones
    @AnotherDad


    Not really. Floyd wasn’t “murdered”.
     
    On the contrary, Floyd has the unique (to my knowledge) distinction of having been murdered twice.

    Both times by the same man at the same time.
    Once intentionally (second degree) , once unintentionally (third degree), then for good measure he was man-slaughtered.

    This explains his sainthood. Mere humans like you and I will only die once, him?- Thrice.


    Floyd was desperately unlucky in his choice of State: It is only possible to be third degree'd to death in 3 States. Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Florida.
    New Mexico and Wisconsin decided to save lives by rescinding the laws that made it possible to kill someone that way.

    I'm sure the Soros DA's are paying attention.

    Replies: @Alden

  8. How do you kill a meme, a narrative, an idea? Can this even be stopped? It’s leading us to a very bad place.

    “The Racial Literacy Curriculum begins in kindergarten with 5- and 6-year-olds using Pantone Color Charts to match their skin tone so that they might start to see themselves and one another by skin color. “Recognizing and categorizing color is a foundational skill for early grades, and will be used as a platform for upcoming lessons that discuss skin color.”

    “This curriculum includes a unique view of nearly every educational discipline, such as in sixth grade history where children discover that the essence of Nazism was not the destruction of European Jewry but the rise of “whiteness.” Pollyanna’s main coverage of the Jewish experience is reduced to an odd and passing reference to the “Eastern European Hebrew” race.”

    “By eighth grade, the curriculum’s goal is to create “social justice” action plans that address how “systemic racism provided social, economic, political, and legal advantages to White Americans.” Students devise plans and launch campaigns that seek to overturn white privilege in the “community or city of the student body, or may reach broader, such as to the national level and beyond.”

    https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/ethnic-studies-diversity-consultants-schools-sean-cooper

    • Replies: @El Dato
    @jill

    What the actual fuck.

    BRB buying shares in BASF.

    , @Known Fact
    @jill

    Glad the ol' Pantone has found a way to stay relevant in 2021

  9. Stephen’s gotta learn the secret to a great political coalition marriage:

    A happy marriage
    Unknown
    8/1/02
    Four Steps to a Happy Marriage…

    1. It is important to find a woman who cooks and cleans.

    2. It is important to find a woman who makes good money.

    3. It is important to find a woman who likes to have sex.

    4. It is important that these three women never meet.

    Only then can the coalition of the fringes live in peace.

    • Replies: @gent
    @Kronos


    1. It is important to find a woman who cooks and cleans.
     
    The gays!

    2. It is important to find a woman who makes good money.
     
    The jews!

    3. It is important to find a woman who likes to have sex.
     
    The gays again!

    Replies: @Kronos

    , @indocon
    @Kronos

    LOL

    , @Alden
    @Kronos

    LOL. Or the Englishmen’s toast. Here’s to our wives and sweethearts May they never meet.

    Polygamy is supposed to be ideal for the husband. One for the family business one for homemaking one as governess for all the kids one as trophy or maid of all work

    But it never works out.

    Chinese explanation of why 4 wives is ideal. One wife, whether a farm labor family or wealthy, it’s just too much work for one Woman. Two wives good for sharing the work, but the two wives gang up against the husband. Three wives is the worst. It’s a constantly changing mess of two wives against one with husband as reluctant referee. Four wives is ideal. Two wives against two wives and husband can stay out of it.

    Replies: @Kronos

    , @Ben tillman
    @Kronos

    Is it really that difficult? My wife meets the three criteria.

  10. if I do say so myself

    Now there is something I wouldn’t have expected in an iSteve post.

  11. @Kronos
    Stephen’s gotta learn the secret to a great political coalition marriage:

    A happy marriage
    Unknown
    8/1/02
    Four Steps to a Happy Marriage…

    1. It is important to find a woman who cooks and cleans.

    2. It is important to find a woman who makes good money.

    3. It is important to find a woman who likes to have sex.

    4. It is important that these three women never meet.
     
    Only then can the coalition of the fringes live in peace.

    Replies: @gent, @indocon, @Alden, @Ben tillman

    1. It is important to find a woman who cooks and cleans.

    The gays!

    2. It is important to find a woman who makes good money.

    The jews!

    3. It is important to find a woman who likes to have sex.

    The gays again!

    • LOL: Harry Baldwin
    • Replies: @Kronos
    @gent

    I’d imagine the Democratic Party breakdown is as follows:


    1. It is important to find a woman who cooks and cleans.
     
    Hispanics

    2. It is important to find a woman who makes good money.
     
    Professional class: Whites, Jews, Asians.

    3. It is important to find a woman who likes to have sex.
     
    Blacks, and such other activities that fall under felony Funtime. Blacks are really good at those.
  12. Above all, liberalism believes that truth tends to be many-shaded and complex.

    Huh? Where the eff have you been, Bret? This is basically the opposite of modern liberalism.

    It is also possible to recognize that we have miles to go in ending racism

    Again this talking point is 60 years out of date. (How old is this Bret guy anyway?) Today’s liberalism manifestly seeks to create racism, specifically against whites.

    Ibram X. Kendi, the most important anti-racist [sic] thinker today,

    I.e., professional racist.

    If Bret could recognize the actual meanings of words, he wouldn’t make elementary mistakes like those above.

    • Replies: @Abolish_public_education
    @Almost Missouri

    If Bret could recognize the actual meanings of words ..

    He understands that classical liberalism embraces tolerance of opposing or controversial ideas.

    “Modern” liberalism is just hardcore leftism (i.e. very intolerant).

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    , @Barnard
    @Almost Missouri

    What does Ta-Nehesi Coastes think of Kendi being declared the most important anti-racist thinker today? Neither would approve of Stephens mentioning the reality of violent crime demographics in this column. How does Stephens think sucking up to Kendi is going to end help end racism when Kendi openly calls for racism against whites as payback for past treatment of blacks?

    Replies: @anon

  13. Stephens’s triggered NYT coworkers are going to have him cancelled.

  14. anonymous[422] • Disclaimer says:

    Very striking report from Brookings: “In 2019, for the first time, more than half of the nation’s population under age 16 identified as a racial or ethnic minority. Among this group, Latino or Hispanic and Black residents together comprise nearly 40% of the population. There were about 5 million fewer whites under 25 in 2019 compared to 2010.”

    https://www.brookings.edu/research/new-census-data-shows-the-nation-is-diversifying-even-faster-than-predicted/

    • Replies: @Travis
    @anonymous

    Whites will be a minority in the United States by 2040
    The 2020 census will be the first time the absolute number of whites has declined over the previous census. More Whites have died over the past decade than were born. Births and deaths highlights how the decline is accelerating

    Year- White Births- White Deaths
    2018 - 1,900,000 - 2,250,000
    2019 - 1,854,000 - 2,320,000
    2020 - 1,750,000 - 2,540,000

    White births includes Arabs, Iraqis, Iranians, North Africans, Turks....

    Replies: @3g4me

    , @SaneClownPosse
    @anonymous

    Kids are figuring out that they need to identify as anything other than white to be "in".

    Passing as White is so old school.

    Diverse is the new White.

  15. The trial for the Minneapolis cops starts in August. Looking forward to it. Either Minneapolis will burn or Boomer’s sham republic and muh judicial system will be thoroughly discredited.

    In other news, Nick Fuentes has been put on a no-fly list.

    • LOL: El Dato
  16. All of this is the fault of Bret Stephens, and people like him.

    • Agree: Ben tillman
  17. Bet gold against rocks that they all read iSteve on the down-low, from Douthat to Carlson.

    • Agree: Unladen Swallow
    • Replies: @Mungerite
    @nebulafox

    seems doubtful that carlson needs to be on the down low about it. dude has courage.

  18. @AnotherDad
    Yawn. Bret Stephens is just another minoritarian Jew who doesn't particularly like blacks.

    Deep down, probably thinks Harvard quotas and the Golfocaust and immigration restriction!!! are sufficient evidence of evil white gentile oppression to justify imposing the minoritarian regime and stealing our nation. Having to drag in slavery and Jim Crow to make the minoritarian case and end up slumming with this tedious blackety, blackety stuff ... very unpleasant for Bret's self-image.

    ~~

    It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil ...
     

    Not really. Floyd wasn't "murdered". (We just don't know if he was drugged up ass was salvageable at all.) And really "epitome of evil". Someone looking at the video and thinking "epitome of incompetence" ... ok. "Evil", come on.

    The idea that white skin automatically confers “privilege” in America is a strange concept to millions of working-class whites who have endured generations of poverty while missing out on the benefits of the past 50 years of affirmative action programs.
     
    LOL. What cheek. Immigration has nothing to do with that?

    Stephens has lectured us numerous times--i've read a couple, i'm sure there are more--that working class Americans are useless sacks of shit and need to be replaced by harder working foreigners (so Jews like him can have some cheaper services and/or make more money).

    ~

    Again, just a minoritarian Jew who doesn't like Blacks--doesn't like being in the boat with Blacks.

    Sorry, that's the minoritarian boat in America. I know you aren't loyal to Americans like me, Bret. Blacks are your shipmates--get used to it.

    Replies: @Not only wrathful, @ic1000, @Jon, @Bill Jones

    Finding evidence that counters your worldview, but completely ignoring it in order to rant and rave about how some imaginary intention of his actually proves your worldview, is part of a descent into a very dark pit. I wish you luck and godspeed to come out the other side!

    • LOL: Gabe Ruth
    • Replies: @ben tillman
    @Not only wrathful

    Bret Stephens is an open-borders extremist. We know who Bret Stephens is. It appears that you don't.

    Replies: @Not only wrathful

  19. This is spicy content for the NYT, but it misses the point. Saying “gee golly, Dems have become the real racists” is not good for much. Everyone knows what the Democrats are about: blaming whites for everything and absolving blacks of any responsibility. The only question is: is anyone gonna stop them? If so, how? I don’t think Mr Stephens would like my answer. I don’t think Mr Sailer would print it

  20. Funny that the New York Times should choose to publish this column when it runs against the official “narrative.”

    Maybe there is no official narrative.

    Apart from a few predictable comments by blacktivists nobody has really called officer Reardon a murderer. Most people think he should be promoted.

    When will people realize that with Twitter and suchlike all fringe activists are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to piggyback their schtick on to somebody who is in the news or somebody who has a famous name?

    The obvious example is the defenestration of Richard Dawkins via the feeble move of removing an insignificant award from a quarter of a century ago as a way of announcing that the American Humanist Association is no longer humanist, and getting its name in the headlines when most people had forgotten it existed 25 years ago, being a organization consisting of a few academics who are opposed to organized religion.

    This is about as pathetic as Pat Robertson announcing that a hurricane was God’s punishment for homosexuality.

    The fact is that nobody who uses the term “narrative” actually believes the story that purports to be the narrative. The narrative is always a party political broadcast on behalf of the other party.

    It was funny to see Oprah Winfrey in a recent interview with her voice shaking as she denied realizing that her interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry would cause outrage and that people don’t realize how difficult it is to sell expensive advertising to vaginal douche people.

    Oh, puhlease, Oprah.

    American Humanist Association recruitment video:

    • Disagree: YetAnotherAnon
    • Replies: @gent
    @Jonathan Mason

    Nah, this is an attempt to recapture the public to the Party Line. Too many people in the center are seeking information from outside the prestige media. To allow the reigning narrative to continue to spread and dominate, they need those people to stay within the NYT-CNN corral. Hence Bill Maher suddenly pivotting against sentiments he expressed merely days before.
    It is the same trick they pulled successfully with Biden, putting a lame face on radical policies. All it requires is for people to mistake "boring" for "centrist."

    Replies: @Redman, @Rob

    , @Kent Nationalist
    @Jonathan Mason


    Apart from a few predictable comments by blacktivists nobody has really called officer Reardon a murderer. Most people think he should be promoted.
     
    A police officer who joked about it got fired from his job.
    , @Unladen Swallow
    @Jonathan Mason

    Brett Stephens is part of the acceptable "conservative" narrative that the NYT publishes in order to give themselves cover for claiming to be nonpartisan, just like having Douthat and Brooks write columns accomplishes the same thing. They would never have anyone like Steve who fundamentally challenged their worldview writing in their paper, that is also why they fired Razib Khan right after hiring him ( and before he could write a column for them ).

    Replies: @SafeNow, @Anonymous Jew

    , @J.Ross
    @Jonathan Mason

    Narrative is sometimes used to politely denote a lie, but is also frequently used normally, and it is self-explanatorily useful to be able to discuss an idea or pattern separately from that idea's provable veracity.

  21. She was just a child…

    …with a knife in her hand…
    trying to stab another girl… and a puppy.

    Now, the question is, WHY, having seen a police car approaching and then a policeman with a gun pointing at her telling to “stop”, why didn’t she just stop? Was she so caught up in the act that she didn’t see or hear the policeman? Or was killing the other girl first more important to her?

    Poor girl, but this almost amounts to suicide-by-cop.

    • Replies: @anon
    @Dumbo

    Was she so caught up in the act that she didn’t see or hear the policeman?

    Very likely.

    Or was killing the other girl first more important to her?

    "Killing" is such a harsh word; she was just funnin' aroun', see?

    , @Elli
    @Dumbo

    Why didn't Ma'Khia Bryant's father grab her instead of kicking a girl in the head? Wasn't he terrified his baby would be shot?

    Why did the conflict escalate just when the police arrived? I once bit a sibling and ran off for my parents but I was four.

    , @Alden
    @Dumbo

    Does PETA and ARA animal rights assholes and dog parents know a small dog in mommy pink girls arms was also attacked ? Poor little thing fell to the ground at some point. Reardon praised for saving the life of a dog. Bryant condemned for causing dog to be dropped and traumatized for being in the middle of a chimp out.

    , @Sternhammer
    @Dumbo

    That's a great question, Dumbo. Especially when (apparently) MB is the one who called the cops to complain about a knife assault. And then waited for the cops before actually doing the knife assault.

    Maybe there's some stuff that happened off camera that we don't know about.

    And maybe she didn't mean to kill the other girl, just stab her up a little, and then have the cop break it up before it got too serious. She may have felt like a lot of media commenters that stabbing is not such a big deal, and was surprised that the officer took stabbing so seriously. Sometimes psychologists talk about a "holding environment" where the presence of an authority figure allows people to be more emotionally or verbally aggressive because they know someone will keep it from going too far. I guess she misjudged where "too far" starts. I mean, we saw her dad kick a helpless kid laying on the ground in the head, so I'd assume that she's seen plenty of violence growing up.

  22. “run the risk of being denounced”

    Or being fired. Or having your kid kicked out of school. Go ahead, you can say these. You should. Tucker didn’t. I listened to him last night doing his “speak up!” routine for 15 minutes, failing to address what to do if the ramifications entail more than a denunciation. What’s the plan of procedure, in that case?

  23. @Jonathan Mason
    Funny that the New York Times should choose to publish this column when it runs against the official "narrative."

    Maybe there is no official narrative.

    Apart from a few predictable comments by blacktivists nobody has really called officer Reardon a murderer. Most people think he should be promoted.

    When will people realize that with Twitter and suchlike all fringe activists are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to piggyback their schtick on to somebody who is in the news or somebody who has a famous name?


    The obvious example is the defenestration of Richard Dawkins via the feeble move of removing an insignificant award from a quarter of a century ago as a way of announcing that the American Humanist Association is no longer humanist, and getting its name in the headlines when most people had forgotten it existed 25 years ago, being a organization consisting of a few academics who are opposed to organized religion.

    This is about as pathetic as Pat Robertson announcing that a hurricane was God's punishment for homosexuality.


    The fact is that nobody who uses the term "narrative" actually believes the story that purports to be the narrative. The narrative is always a party political broadcast on behalf of the other party.

    It was funny to see Oprah Winfrey in a recent interview with her voice shaking as she denied realizing that her interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry would cause outrage and that people don't realize how difficult it is to sell expensive advertising to vaginal douche people.

    Oh, puhlease, Oprah.

    American Humanist Association recruitment video:


    https://youtu.be/lcpzS1vddz8

    Replies: @gent, @Kent Nationalist, @Unladen Swallow, @J.Ross

    Nah, this is an attempt to recapture the public to the Party Line. Too many people in the center are seeking information from outside the prestige media. To allow the reigning narrative to continue to spread and dominate, they need those people to stay within the NYT-CNN corral. Hence Bill Maher suddenly pivotting against sentiments he expressed merely days before.
    It is the same trick they pulled successfully with Biden, putting a lame face on radical policies. All it requires is for people to mistake “boring” for “centrist.”

    • Replies: @Redman
    @gent

    Wrong. The NYT is essentially now a combination of wokeista and pro-Israel neocons (Stephens, Brooks, et al.). That’s the identical breakdown of the NY intelligentsia. The outliers are the neocons who refuse to abide the utter insanity of wokeism (e.g. Bari Weiss). And they generally get dismissed unless they’re Brett Stephens who was recruited from the WSJ and must have protectors in high places. And is willing to express negrophillic sentiments.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    , @Rob
    @gent


    Hence Bill Maher suddenly pivotting against sentiments he expressed merely days before.
     
    Interesting about Maher. Can you give an example or two? I sometimes watch him, but haven’t for a few weeks.
  24. @Jonathan Mason
    Funny that the New York Times should choose to publish this column when it runs against the official "narrative."

    Maybe there is no official narrative.

    Apart from a few predictable comments by blacktivists nobody has really called officer Reardon a murderer. Most people think he should be promoted.

    When will people realize that with Twitter and suchlike all fringe activists are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to piggyback their schtick on to somebody who is in the news or somebody who has a famous name?


    The obvious example is the defenestration of Richard Dawkins via the feeble move of removing an insignificant award from a quarter of a century ago as a way of announcing that the American Humanist Association is no longer humanist, and getting its name in the headlines when most people had forgotten it existed 25 years ago, being a organization consisting of a few academics who are opposed to organized religion.

    This is about as pathetic as Pat Robertson announcing that a hurricane was God's punishment for homosexuality.


    The fact is that nobody who uses the term "narrative" actually believes the story that purports to be the narrative. The narrative is always a party political broadcast on behalf of the other party.

    It was funny to see Oprah Winfrey in a recent interview with her voice shaking as she denied realizing that her interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry would cause outrage and that people don't realize how difficult it is to sell expensive advertising to vaginal douche people.

    Oh, puhlease, Oprah.

    American Humanist Association recruitment video:


    https://youtu.be/lcpzS1vddz8

    Replies: @gent, @Kent Nationalist, @Unladen Swallow, @J.Ross

    Apart from a few predictable comments by blacktivists nobody has really called officer Reardon a murderer. Most people think he should be promoted.

    A police officer who joked about it got fired from his job.

  25. Left and right ill-fitting categories for what he’s talking about.

    This is Right:

    • Thanks: al gore rhythms
  26. Steve, I get “page not found” for both of your Coinbase links, although I don’t know if being in the UK (or not being signed up or in to Coinbase) has anything to do with it.

    Anyone else want to check this out? Do you have to have a Coinbase account and be signed in? Wouldn’t want to buy a slice of a Bitcoin and not be able to get it to you.

    • Replies: @Charlotte
    @YetAnotherAnon


    Anyone else want to check this out?
     
    I’m in the US and have a Coinbase account. I tried the first link and got the “page not found” message as well. It didn’t matter whether I was signed in to Coinbase or not.
  27. I hope he’s right, and doubt he is, but, if so, this means that we have had to wait for leftists to become an uncontrolled unpoliced domestic terrorist army and burn down cities, twice, before recognizing them by much cheaper tests like comprehending basic economics.

  28. @Kronos
    Stephen’s gotta learn the secret to a great political coalition marriage:

    A happy marriage
    Unknown
    8/1/02
    Four Steps to a Happy Marriage…

    1. It is important to find a woman who cooks and cleans.

    2. It is important to find a woman who makes good money.

    3. It is important to find a woman who likes to have sex.

    4. It is important that these three women never meet.
     
    Only then can the coalition of the fringes live in peace.

    Replies: @gent, @indocon, @Alden, @Ben tillman

    LOL

  29. Maybe there wasn’t time for Officer Reardon, in an 11-second interaction, to “de-escalate” the situation, as he is now being faulted for failing to do

    What’s surreal and depressing is the number of people who think that Ma’Khia Bryant’s target, Tionna Bonner, should have been expected to bear a chance of death so that the cop could spare Bryant’s life. That’s not even considering the fact that Reardon would have still had to disarm Bryant at some point, perhaps after Bonner was laying on the driveway, bleeding out.

    What degree of risk should a would-be victim be expected to bear in order to save a perpetrator’s life? A 20% risk of death? A 1% risk of death?

    I frankly don’t care if only 0.1% of knife assaults are fatal. We have no right to expect Bonner or any other potential victim to face risk of death or serious injury in order to save the life of a violent assailant. This has long been the attitude of most Americans of all ages and races towards criminals. A criminal may not deserve death for whatever particular crime he is committing – burglary, passing a fake $20, or whatever – but if he happens to die in the commission of that crime by resisting arrest or because a homeowner or store owner happens to be armed, then most Americans have long felt that the perp made his choice, and no one else but him should be expected to bear the risk of it.

    But now, and without any debate whatsoever, the establishment has determined that both police and innocent civilians (but not congressmen in a Capitol building being swarmed by protestors) should have to accept a significant increase in loss of life and property in order to spare the lives of these thugs.

    Unless and until they decide to name Ashli Babbitt’s killer and charge him with murder, then their arguments aren’t even worthy of consideration.

    • Agree: unit472
    • Replies: @AndrewR
    @Wilkey

    They don't need us to consider their arguments. They have the power, and they're happy to use it to destroy anyone who dissents.

    Btw, the Michigan "Department of Civil Rights" is investigating the vicious hate crime where a white supremacist school employee savagely cut the hair of a quadroon with the child's consent.

    https://www.abc12.com/2021/04/27/michigan-department-of-civil-rights-looking-into-7-year-olds-unapproved-school-haircut/

    Replies: @Wilkey, @Alden, @Alden

    , @The Last Real Calvinist
    @Wilkey


    But now, and without any debate whatsoever, the establishment has determined that both police and innocent civilians (but not congressmen in a Capitol building being swarmed by protestors) should have to accept a significant increase in loss of life and property in order to spare the lives of these thugs.

     

    This is the on-the-ground reality of Substitute Savior Syndrome -- that is, cops are now burdened twice over with acting as saviors on behalf of innocent victimized sacred oppressed PoC:

    First, cops are expected to meekly lay down their own lives as a sacrifice if they are personally threatened with violence by a PoC.

    Second, they are expected to serve as omniscient intermediaries in chaotic situations such as the Columbus fracas. That is, Reardon is being faulted for not having apprehended -- just by being in her presence for an instant -- that M. Bryant was a fun-loving, caring, good-natured, aspiring cosmetologist who merited patience and understanding, not condemnation and violent intervention, as she pulled her knife back into ideal stabbing position. He should have somehow stopped time itself so he could step in to deliver her from her perhaps misguided playfulness. All of this is neatly encapsulated in the term 'de-escalation', which has become shorthand for this congeries of absurd redemptive expectations.

  30. “It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil” if you also consider “Ibram X. Kendi, the most important anti-racist thinker today.”

    • Agree: Buffalo Joe
    • Replies: @SunBakedSuburb
    @JimDandy

    "anti-racist thinker"

    It's a good thing anti-racism doesn't require two-way conversations because Ibram would be exposed as a bonehead. Will Ibram's American success story inspire a rush of short buses at the border?

    Replies: @JimDandy

  31. @Jonathan Mason
    Funny that the New York Times should choose to publish this column when it runs against the official "narrative."

    Maybe there is no official narrative.

    Apart from a few predictable comments by blacktivists nobody has really called officer Reardon a murderer. Most people think he should be promoted.

    When will people realize that with Twitter and suchlike all fringe activists are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to piggyback their schtick on to somebody who is in the news or somebody who has a famous name?


    The obvious example is the defenestration of Richard Dawkins via the feeble move of removing an insignificant award from a quarter of a century ago as a way of announcing that the American Humanist Association is no longer humanist, and getting its name in the headlines when most people had forgotten it existed 25 years ago, being a organization consisting of a few academics who are opposed to organized religion.

    This is about as pathetic as Pat Robertson announcing that a hurricane was God's punishment for homosexuality.


    The fact is that nobody who uses the term "narrative" actually believes the story that purports to be the narrative. The narrative is always a party political broadcast on behalf of the other party.

    It was funny to see Oprah Winfrey in a recent interview with her voice shaking as she denied realizing that her interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry would cause outrage and that people don't realize how difficult it is to sell expensive advertising to vaginal douche people.

    Oh, puhlease, Oprah.

    American Humanist Association recruitment video:


    https://youtu.be/lcpzS1vddz8

    Replies: @gent, @Kent Nationalist, @Unladen Swallow, @J.Ross

    Brett Stephens is part of the acceptable “conservative” narrative that the NYT publishes in order to give themselves cover for claiming to be nonpartisan, just like having Douthat and Brooks write columns accomplishes the same thing. They would never have anyone like Steve who fundamentally challenged their worldview writing in their paper, that is also why they fired Razib Khan right after hiring him ( and before he could write a column for them ).

    • Agree: Desiderius, ic1000
    • Replies: @SafeNow
    @Unladen Swallow

    “They would never have anyone like Steve who fundamentally challenged their worldview.”

    True. And beyond ideology, they would never have anyone, even for an op-ed, who is smarter, more insightful, more fastidious in research, more quantitative, more thoughtful, more witty, than their own writers. I observed this when The Financial Times cancelled Christopher Caldwell. He is really good —like an Unz essayist — and that was too good for them to stomach.

    , @Anonymous Jew
    @Unladen Swallow

    Moreover, Bret Stephens has always been right in line with the ‘invade the world, invite the world’ elite consensus (and with Israel too). The only consensus that really matters. Don’t worry, he’s far from leaving the reservation.

  32. @Jonathan Mason
    Funny that the New York Times should choose to publish this column when it runs against the official "narrative."

    Maybe there is no official narrative.

    Apart from a few predictable comments by blacktivists nobody has really called officer Reardon a murderer. Most people think he should be promoted.

    When will people realize that with Twitter and suchlike all fringe activists are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to piggyback their schtick on to somebody who is in the news or somebody who has a famous name?


    The obvious example is the defenestration of Richard Dawkins via the feeble move of removing an insignificant award from a quarter of a century ago as a way of announcing that the American Humanist Association is no longer humanist, and getting its name in the headlines when most people had forgotten it existed 25 years ago, being a organization consisting of a few academics who are opposed to organized religion.

    This is about as pathetic as Pat Robertson announcing that a hurricane was God's punishment for homosexuality.


    The fact is that nobody who uses the term "narrative" actually believes the story that purports to be the narrative. The narrative is always a party political broadcast on behalf of the other party.

    It was funny to see Oprah Winfrey in a recent interview with her voice shaking as she denied realizing that her interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry would cause outrage and that people don't realize how difficult it is to sell expensive advertising to vaginal douche people.

    Oh, puhlease, Oprah.

    American Humanist Association recruitment video:


    https://youtu.be/lcpzS1vddz8

    Replies: @gent, @Kent Nationalist, @Unladen Swallow, @J.Ross

    Narrative is sometimes used to politely denote a lie, but is also frequently used normally, and it is self-explanatorily useful to be able to discuss an idea or pattern separately from that idea’s provable veracity.

  33. Interesting paragraph here suggesting a cure for our fatal atomization cum conquered division:

    A final observation. It’s a common thing for reactionaries of our stripe, as they read and think themselves deeper into the Right, to show increasing scorn toward what passes for conservatism in modern America–Republicans, National Review readers, Trump voters, and the like. “They’re just embracing yesterday’s radicalism; they don’t really disagree with the Left at all on fundamentals.” That’s true, but they really do think that they disagree with the Left, and that is something quite important. However intellectually compromised they are, they have all thought, spoken, or voted in some way that they were clearly told all reasonable/decent people regard as absolutely unacceptable, and they did it anyway.

    https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/why-is-christianity-in-rapid-decline/

    May or may not even be on topic. Join or die.

    • Replies: @ChrisZ
    @Desiderius

    Thanks Des. I strongly encourage readers to click the link and read the rest of the column.

    , @Ian M.
    @Desiderius

    Nice to see a link to The Orthosphere. Bonald is my favorite reactionary writer. (The original Bonald was pretty great too).

  34. “Joe Biden’s Long Hot Spring.”

    Summer Is Coming.

    • LOL: kaganovitch
  35. Sorry, but just had a mask incident in SF. Walking up a hill, passed a 70-ish white woman who said, “you need a mask.” Told her to f-off. Ten yards further up, another white woman, about same age, but with russian accent. This one says, “was she barking about mask?” I said yes, and she said, “what is it her business?”

    • Thanks: Je Suis Omar Mateen
    • Replies: @S. Anonyia
    @Marty

    The mask police are usually unhealthy and often ugly people who'd like the new fashion trend to continue indefinitely so they can feel like heroes for leading the same boring lifestyles they've always had.

  36. Anonymous[369] • Disclaimer says:

    Hey Steve, there’s a new Netflix series in the works that you won’t want to miss! It’s right up your gearhead alley.

    It’s on
    7-time NASCAR Cup Series champ Jimmie Johnson
    5-time NASCAR Xfinity Series champ Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
    the NASCAR Cup Series 22nd-place one-time finisher and NASCAR Xfinity Series 7th-place one-time finisher, William Darrell Wallace Jr.

    https://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/netflix-produce-bubba-wallace-series/6406481/

    Netflix to produce new documentary series on Bubba Wallace

    The series will follow Wallace in his first season with the newly formed 23XI Racing team, co-owned by NBA icon Michael Jordan and three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin.

    Wallace, 27, became an outspoken voice against racial injustice in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis PD. He successfully advocated for the banning of the Confederate Flag from all NASCAR events. Notably, he wore an ‘I Can’t Breathe’ shirt during pre-race ceremonies at Atlanta Motor Speedway and ran a Black Lives Matter paint scheme at Martinsville Speedway soon after.

    • Replies: @Currahee
    @Anonymous

    Are you implying that his only accomplishment is driving while Black?

    , @Harry Baldwin
    @Anonymous

    Wallace, 27, became an outspoken voice against racial injustice

    Those that can, do. Those that can't, become an outspoken voice.

  37. OT:

    Karens have had enough being aggressed by Blegg “Bird Watchers” and their Disgusting Media Enablers:

    Fighting erupts in eastern Myanmar as Karen rebels attack military base near Thai border

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @El Dato


    Karens have had enough being aggressed by Blegg “Bird Watchers” and their Disgusting Media Enablers:

    Fighting erupts in eastern Myanmar as Karen rebels attack military base near Thai border
     
    LOL. Armed Karen rebels are the worst. Overrunning Burmese military bases and and pummeling Lt. Wai U Ak Sein with demands.


    http://www.shutupandtakemymoney.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/karen-movie-poster-shes-here-for-the-manager.jpg

     

    Btw, Burma-Shave, founded in 1925 in Minneapolis, gets it name from Burma where it got its original ingredients.


    https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/84wAAOSwBF1eQER~/s-l640.jpg

     

    , @Known Fact
    @El Dato

    Karen rebels: Ha-ha, we are the manager now!

    , @Gary in Gramercy
    @El Dato

    If there's fighting in what is now called Myanmar, this is the appropriate background music:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXkZI7WZWOo


    ("Burma!"
    "Why'd you say that for?
    "I panicked.")

  38. @Unladen Swallow
    @Jonathan Mason

    Brett Stephens is part of the acceptable "conservative" narrative that the NYT publishes in order to give themselves cover for claiming to be nonpartisan, just like having Douthat and Brooks write columns accomplishes the same thing. They would never have anyone like Steve who fundamentally challenged their worldview writing in their paper, that is also why they fired Razib Khan right after hiring him ( and before he could write a column for them ).

    Replies: @SafeNow, @Anonymous Jew

    “They would never have anyone like Steve who fundamentally challenged their worldview.”

    True. And beyond ideology, they would never have anyone, even for an op-ed, who is smarter, more insightful, more fastidious in research, more quantitative, more thoughtful, more witty, than their own writers. I observed this when The Financial Times cancelled Christopher Caldwell. He is really good —like an Unz essayist — and that was too good for them to stomach.

  39. “and still recognize that young Black men commit violent crimes at a terribly disproportionate rate.”
    Uh-oh. Dude, that’s noticing.
    You are toast!

  40. @Wilkey

    Maybe there wasn’t time for Officer Reardon, in an 11-second interaction, to “de-escalate” the situation, as he is now being faulted for failing to do
     
    What's surreal and depressing is the number of people who think that Ma'Khia Bryant's target, Tionna Bonner, should have been expected to bear a chance of death so that the cop could spare Bryant's life. That's not even considering the fact that Reardon would have still had to disarm Bryant at some point, perhaps after Bonner was laying on the driveway, bleeding out.

    What degree of risk should a would-be victim be expected to bear in order to save a perpetrator's life? A 20% risk of death? A 1% risk of death?

    I frankly don't care if only 0.1% of knife assaults are fatal. We have no right to expect Bonner or any other potential victim to face risk of death or serious injury in order to save the life of a violent assailant. This has long been the attitude of most Americans of all ages and races towards criminals. A criminal may not deserve death for whatever particular crime he is committing - burglary, passing a fake $20, or whatever - but if he happens to die in the commission of that crime by resisting arrest or because a homeowner or store owner happens to be armed, then most Americans have long felt that the perp made his choice, and no one else but him should be expected to bear the risk of it.

    But now, and without any debate whatsoever, the establishment has determined that both police and innocent civilians (but not congressmen in a Capitol building being swarmed by protestors) should have to accept a significant increase in loss of life and property in order to spare the lives of these thugs.

    Unless and until they decide to name Ashli Babbitt's killer and charge him with murder, then their arguments aren't even worthy of consideration.

    Replies: @AndrewR, @The Last Real Calvinist

    They don’t need us to consider their arguments. They have the power, and they’re happy to use it to destroy anyone who dissents.

    Btw, the Michigan “Department of Civil Rights” is investigating the vicious hate crime where a white supremacist school employee savagely cut the hair of a quadroon with the child’s consent.

    https://www.abc12.com/2021/04/27/michigan-department-of-civil-rights-looking-into-7-year-olds-unapproved-school-haircut/

    • Replies: @Wilkey
    @AndrewR

    In saner times when a America was a nation of communities this sort of nonsense would have drawn a curt call from a parent to the school, at most.

    But now we're all just consumers living in "subdivisions" where no one knows each other and everyone hates each other.

    Ain't globalism and diversity great?

    Replies: @Alden

    , @Alden
    @AndrewR

    California pubbk skoos have the very sensible rule no school employee can touch a student. Not even a school nurse. Call the EMTs and let them get sued and harassed.

    , @Alden
    @AndrewR

    Before anyone claims it was no big deal, take a look at the before and after pictures. The librarian gave a girl with a glorious head of long golden honey brown frizzy curly hair a boy’s hair cut. It’s the exact same hair cut of 1& 1/2 inch fluff that lesbian Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has. Or a boy.

    It’s the kind of hair cut a transgender activist parent gives a little girl on visiting weekend. To the outrage of custodial parent on Sunday night. Or more jobs for Family Court judges, lawyers counselors, consultants, coordinators social workers and mediators. It’s the first step in a
    F to M transition. As bad as growing a boys hair long and putting on pink ribbons to match his pink ruffles dress.

    Girl’s hair is too thick and curly for today’s fashions. But 35 years ago longer than shoulder length, much too thick, frizzy hair was the height of style. Check out Julie Roberts Nicole Kidman and others. A below the shoulders mass of frizz sticking 5 inches up on top 6 inches out on the sides. Like they glued a sheepskin to their head.

    Most schools nowadays have a strict health code that long hair must be in braids or ponytails to prevent lice a major problem in schools.

    School employees have always cut bangs that flop in the eyes for both girls and boys. They’ve always used bands and barrettes to secure girl’s unruly hair specially if other kids made fun of it. They send notes home, get a boys hair cut the other kids are making fun of him.

    But this long girls hair to a boy’s cut is egregious and outrageous. Took a long time. Not cutting bangs or making a ponytail. I believe the school district is not liable because. Cutting off 10 inches of hair to give a girl a boys haircut is way way outside the scope of a librarian responsibilities and duties.

    Librarian neglected duties and responsibilities to the other kids to spend all that time cutting one kids hair.

    The hair cut was way way way outside anything normally done by school employees to kids hair.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

  41. @Almost Missouri


    Above all, liberalism believes that truth tends to be many-shaded and complex.
     

     
    Huh? Where the eff have you been, Bret? This is basically the opposite of modern liberalism.


    It is also possible to recognize that we have miles to go in ending racism
     

     
    Again this talking point is 60 years out of date. (How old is this Bret guy anyway?) Today's liberalism manifestly seeks to create racism, specifically against whites.


    Ibram X. Kendi, the most important anti-racist [sic] thinker today,
     

     
    I.e., professional racist.

    If Bret could recognize the actual meanings of words, he wouldn't make elementary mistakes like those above.

    Replies: @Abolish_public_education, @Barnard

    If Bret could recognize the actual meanings of words ..

    He understands that classical liberalism embraces tolerance of opposing or controversial ideas.

    “Modern” liberalism is just hardcore leftism (i.e. very intolerant).

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Abolish_public_education


    “Modern” liberalism is just hardcore leftism (i.e. very intolerant).
     
    In FDR's words (1939), "new social controls".

    As Orwell might put it, " Illiberalism is Liberalism".
  42. Steve’s hustling for dat hormone blocker surgery……

    J/k brah. I’ll try to send you a money order.

  43. Much better to nod along at your office’s diversity, equity and inclusion

    C’mon, Bret, in for a penny, in for a pound: call it “diversity, inclusion, and equity.”

    D-E-I spells “gods” in Italian. And “God’s” in Latin.

    • Replies: @Jon
    @Reg Cæsar

    Yeah, Steve is always trying to restate it as DIE, but I think the current form, with its implications of this being their new God and new religion, is just as damning.

  44. @Abolish_public_education
    @Almost Missouri

    If Bret could recognize the actual meanings of words ..

    He understands that classical liberalism embraces tolerance of opposing or controversial ideas.

    “Modern” liberalism is just hardcore leftism (i.e. very intolerant).

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    “Modern” liberalism is just hardcore leftism (i.e. very intolerant).

    In FDR’s words (1939), “new social controls”.

    As Orwell might put it, ” Illiberalism is Liberalism”.

  45. @nebulafox
    Bet gold against rocks that they all read iSteve on the down-low, from Douthat to Carlson.

    Replies: @Mungerite

    seems doubtful that carlson needs to be on the down low about it. dude has courage.

  46. In all seriousness, has anyone estimated the odds that Reardon actually saved the second girl’s life?

    Killing someone with a knife is hard. It takes some strength and technique, both of which I doubt Bryant possessed.

    I think there’s only a 5-10% chance that the other girl would have died, had she been stabbed. Bryant was enraged and probably, even at the best of times, no particularly calculating person. It’s most likely that she would have missed entirely, or merely struck a glancing blow.

    But I’m not an expert in these things.

    • Agree: ic1000
    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @pgbh

    Back in 1983 a schoolteacher in Rochester named Peter Castle was stabbed to death by a student in his class. IIRC, it took one thrust of the blade to mortally wound him.

    Replies: @JMcG, @pgbh

    , @Anonymous
    @pgbh


    It’s most likely that she would have missed entirely, or merely struck a glancing blow.
     
    You assume she would have followed through and tried to stab her. It is possible that scaring the other girl and making her submit would have been sufficient for her to hold back.

    Replies: @sayless

    , @ic1000
    @pgbh

    I agree, it sounds like you are not an expert in these things.

    Replies: @pgbh

    , @Buffalo Joe
    @pgbh

    pg, and in Cincinnati, a 13 year old girl kills another 13 year old girl with a slice to the neck using a pocketknife. The MSM gets to stir the pot by pointing out that knife girl didn't stab pink girl. Don't go there.

  47. A meta-problem here is the secularism of our elites, including Bret.

    • Thanks: Abe
  48. I think it is easy to overanalyze these situations.

    Some people including eyewitnesses have said that the cop should have “de-escalated” the situation before shooting, but these are just ignorant people who have heard the word the “deescalated” somewhere, but have never themselves being in a violent situation where the escalation has been attempted, and have no real understanding of the danger of the situation or of the responsibility of the cop.

    You just can’t take the quotations and Tweets from passers-by and commenters and give them credibility.

    That would be like building a newspaper story around a reader comment in the Daily Mail, where nearly all the commenters are naive and ignorant and just reacting from the gut to stories that they see as having perhaps at best some similarity to something that they have them selves experienced at sometime in their life.

    This is a general feature of newspaper comment sections. For example there have been many commented articles in Britain’s The Guardian, which appeals to a fairly intellectual readership (or used to) that have been critical of the quality of care in national health service hospitals.

    However almost none of the hundreds of commenters ever identify as hospital managers, executives, or medical personnel–so are nearly always commenting from the position of very limited expertise.

    That doesn’t mean that comments based on personal experience should be ignored, but comments that weigh up a number of factors and perspectives are inherently more valuable than unsupported first-person narratives about how somebody could not find a nurse to give their relative a pitcher of water at visiting time.

    (Well maybe the relative is on fluid restrictions for medical reasons, or maybe the nurses take meal breaks or go to the bathroom during visiting times so as not to perform medical procedures that interrupt visitation.)

    Some of us will remember the age before the internet, when mass media were much less democratized, and a letter to the editor had to be very good indeed to get published.

    Unfortunately today there are way too many random opinions getting published for no particular reason.

    Part of the reason for this is that whenever a journalist is short of a story, they can just go to Twitter or Facebook and there is a story ready to be written complete with a nice quote and a video.

    There is a story today in The Daily Mail that leads with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle sponsoring a concert in which artists will demand that the US donates unused vaccines to India.

    The story then goes on to discuss vaccine distribution without further reference to the Fresh Prince and his missus, having reeled in readers with a reference to the loose-lipped couple, but there is a serious discussion to be had about these success or failure of the United Nations COVAX program for sharing of vaccines.

    Perhaps there is a need for a global summit of vaccine manufacturers to plan vaccination of the entire planet, not just India, but maybe that is a story that cannot be told in popular (dumbed down) media and unless you use a celebrity as a hook for the story.

  49. Stonewall Jackson [AKA "John Dillinger"] says:

    My neighbor was a DEA agent who worked in about every Central American Country. I believe that the police in Central America have the right tactics to apply to the Colored People… or People of Color.

    When they would show up at a crime scene that was active, they would wait for the activity to stop. Be it shooting, fighting, knifing, macheteing etc.

    They would tell my DEA neighbor when he rode along… No amigo. wait… And after the shooting stopped, they would then call the ambulance if there were any live bodies left… or the morgue if not…

    I believe that is the best way to police the colored folk. Let it run its natural course and then clean up afterward.

    • Agree: 3g4me, Adam Smith
  50. @AnotherDad
    Yawn. Bret Stephens is just another minoritarian Jew who doesn't particularly like blacks.

    Deep down, probably thinks Harvard quotas and the Golfocaust and immigration restriction!!! are sufficient evidence of evil white gentile oppression to justify imposing the minoritarian regime and stealing our nation. Having to drag in slavery and Jim Crow to make the minoritarian case and end up slumming with this tedious blackety, blackety stuff ... very unpleasant for Bret's self-image.

    ~~

    It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil ...
     

    Not really. Floyd wasn't "murdered". (We just don't know if he was drugged up ass was salvageable at all.) And really "epitome of evil". Someone looking at the video and thinking "epitome of incompetence" ... ok. "Evil", come on.

    The idea that white skin automatically confers “privilege” in America is a strange concept to millions of working-class whites who have endured generations of poverty while missing out on the benefits of the past 50 years of affirmative action programs.
     
    LOL. What cheek. Immigration has nothing to do with that?

    Stephens has lectured us numerous times--i've read a couple, i'm sure there are more--that working class Americans are useless sacks of shit and need to be replaced by harder working foreigners (so Jews like him can have some cheaper services and/or make more money).

    ~

    Again, just a minoritarian Jew who doesn't like Blacks--doesn't like being in the boat with Blacks.

    Sorry, that's the minoritarian boat in America. I know you aren't loyal to Americans like me, Bret. Blacks are your shipmates--get used to it.

    Replies: @Not only wrathful, @ic1000, @Jon, @Bill Jones

    > It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil

    In a comment below yours, Jonathan Mason asserts that the NYT publishing Stephens suggests, nay, proves that there is no The Narrative.

    There’s Brett clinging to the far-right side of the Overton Window, professing belief that Chauvin is the most worst evildoer in Current Year America. Is that what he actually thinks, or is it what he has to say to keep cashing paychecks? Hardly matters.

    Since Stephens is a wordsmith, let’s look at a longer excerpt.

    > It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil and not see a racist motive in every bad encounter between a white cop and a minority suspect

    Parsing the convoluted grammar, Stevens implies that it’s not possible to not see the racist motive in the bad encounter between white cop Chauvin and minority suspect Floyd.

    The Narrative’s House Conservative agrees in passing that Chauvin is evil because Chavin is racist. And Chauvin is racist because Chauvin is evil. He is doubly deserving of his triple conviction for murder.

    There’s no daylight between Brett Stevens and Lester Holt on this point. Further proving that there’s no The Narrative.

  51. Neo-Con Warmonger Open Borders Fanatic NY Times Columnist Bret Stephens:

    It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil and not see a racist motive in every bad encounter between a white cop and a minority suspect, including the recent shootings of Adam Toledo in Chicago and Daunte Wright in Minnesota. It’s possible to think that the police make too many assumptions about young Black men, sometimes with tragic consequences, and still recognize that young Black men commit violent crimes at a terribly disproportionate rate. It’s possible to believe that effective policing requires that cops gain the trust of the communities they serve while recognizing that those communities are ill served when cops are afraid to do their jobs.

    I say:

    The NY Times today — April 27 2021 — had some decent columnists and they wrote almost somewhat reasonable things and it was shocking.

    Some Jew broad said her Jew dad said that you just couldn’t let all the Haitians in regarding one of their Camp of the Saints flotillas and this was in the middle of the Jew broad bemoaning Atilla the Nazi Hun treating their blood relations badly.

    Then Krugman called out baby boomer Jew drug addict Larry Kudlow about scare tactics used by rancid Republican Party scum to cover up the fact that the GOP only exists to serve its donors and plutocrats and globalizers and other rancid filth and I agreed with Kruggyman.

    Then that Michelle Goldberg gal bashed the living shit out of donor whore Marco Rubio and that Jew broad even used the word GLOBALIZERS and I bust out laughing.

    A day or so ago I couldn’t believe my goddamn eyes when the sonofabitches at the NY Times admitted that many if not most of the opinion writers would benefit from the Democrat Party’s attempt to put back into place the State and Local Tax(SALT) deduction and they phucking know that states like New Jersey and California and New York and Connecticut have bloated beyond belief state government boondoggles involving government workers and the bastards pay that big fat state tax to buy peace in the valley from the vibrant ones in their states.

    The White Upper Middle Class managerial snot brats want their SALT deductions back and they don’t give a shit if you call them hypocrites.

    The WSJ had a decent bit about Fed-induced inflation but they are for the most part boring Murdoch-controlled crybaby propaganda whores.

    • Replies: @Joe Stalin
    @Charles Pewitt


    The WSJ had a decent bit about Fed-induced inflation but they are for the most part boring Murdoch-controlled crybaby propaganda whores.
     
    This YT video seems decent.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HmGLV46L60

    Replies: @Ripple Earthdevil

  52. @Matttt

    It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil
     
    This elite cultural habit of hyperbole when talking about black stuff is just weird. Obviously, the death of George Floyd isn't the epitome of evil, even if you agree with the jury. If you made a list of the 1,000,000 most evil things to happen in American history, George Floyd's death wouldn't even make the list. I'm not sure it would even make the list of the 100,000 most evil things to happen in America this year.

    Replies: @Getaclue, @Anonymous, @Redman, @Achilleus, @anon

    Large Black guy 6’4″ 240 lbs, convicted Felon and home invader who put a loaded gun to a pregnant woman’s stomach, high on 3xs the amount of Fetanyl needed to kill him and hyped on Amphetamines dies while resisting arrest = “epitome of evil” — they are pathetic — as someone pointed out above — I would rather the BLM rhetoric that makes it all obvious even to the stupidest “White” person than this guy who is part of the “Elite” screwing us — he’s a “paid collaborator” against us — the NYSlimes uses him and he knows it, the NYSlimes wants all “White” people dead or enslaved – – this guy helps them….

  53. “ in the Daily Mail, where nearly all the commenters are naive and ignorant”

    Wrong, DM and its top comments are excellent! So is its mobile app.

    Their combo of celeb news and populist/traditionalist conservatism is great for the ladies, everyone should encourage the women in their life to use their site and app.

    • Agree: Daniel H
  54. Bret Stephens says:

    It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil and not see a racist motive in every bad encounter between a white cop and a minority suspect, including the recent shootings of Adam Toledo in Chicago and Daunte Wright in Minnesota. It’s possible to think that the police make too many assumptions about young Black men, sometimes with tragic consequences, and still recognize that young Black men commit violent crimes at a terribly disproportionate rate. It’s possible to believe that effective policing requires that cops gain the trust of the communities they serve while recognizing that those communities are ill served when cops are afraid to do their jobs.

    Pat Buchanan says:

    What is the real truth about race in America that goes unmentioned in the mainstream media’s endless hunt for encounters between Black men and white cops?

    The main perpetrators of violent crimes against Black Americans — are other Black Americans. Black men, ages 16 to 40, are 3% of the U.S. population but commit roughly a third of America’s violent crimes.

    Defund police, restrict police, remove police and you will get more of what the police prevent — crimes, especially violent crimes, in your community.

    https://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/is-america-led-today-by-anti-americans/

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Charles Pewitt


    Pat Buchanan says:

    What is the real truth about race in America that goes unmentioned in the mainstream media’s endless hunt for encounters between Black men and white cops?
     
    Buchanan doesn’t have the stones to capitalize “White”? Or to refrain from using the disparaging term “cops” for police officers?

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

  55. @Dumbo
    She was just a child...

    ...with a knife in her hand...
    trying to stab another girl... and a puppy.

    Now, the question is, WHY, having seen a police car approaching and then a policeman with a gun pointing at her telling to "stop", why didn't she just stop? Was she so caught up in the act that she didn't see or hear the policeman? Or was killing the other girl first more important to her?

    Poor girl, but this almost amounts to suicide-by-cop.

    Replies: @anon, @Elli, @Alden, @Sternhammer

    Was she so caught up in the act that she didn’t see or hear the policeman?

    Very likely.

    Or was killing the other girl first more important to her?

    “Killing” is such a harsh word; she was just funnin’ aroun’, see?

  56. @AndrewR
    @Wilkey

    They don't need us to consider their arguments. They have the power, and they're happy to use it to destroy anyone who dissents.

    Btw, the Michigan "Department of Civil Rights" is investigating the vicious hate crime where a white supremacist school employee savagely cut the hair of a quadroon with the child's consent.

    https://www.abc12.com/2021/04/27/michigan-department-of-civil-rights-looking-into-7-year-olds-unapproved-school-haircut/

    Replies: @Wilkey, @Alden, @Alden

    In saner times when a America was a nation of communities this sort of nonsense would have drawn a curt call from a parent to the school, at most.

    But now we’re all just consumers living in “subdivisions” where no one knows each other and everyone hates each other.

    Ain’t globalism and diversity great?

    • Replies: @Alden
    @Wilkey

    If a school librarian cut my daughter’s beautiful long hair into a one inch boys cut, they’d get more than a curt call. A girl under 18 can’t get pierced ears without parental consent. Did you look st the before and after pictures.?

    In some cultures cutting off girls and women’s hair is considered a humiliating punishment. Samoans living in America bring their wonderful culture of harsh, injurious physical punishment to America. One of their punishments is giving a girl a haircut like that. And making sure she doesn’t wear hats or scarves so everyone will know her shame and humiliation.

    It’s easy to discern which commenters are parents and who are not.

    I wonder if the librarian is a trans gender activist.

    It’s not a civil rights violation. It’s assault and battery child abuse Penal Code violation.

    Librarian should just do his her or it’s jib and not spend 45 minutes cutting hair while on the clock

    I admit to being bigoted and prejudiced against public schools anyway.

    Replies: @Abolish_public_education

  57. If the country is saved, does Steve get a mention? A statue?

  58. Ma’Khia Bryant posed a far, far greater threat to Tionna Bonner’s life than Ashli Babbitt posed to any congressman’s life.

    But Officer Reardon overeacted and his name is now public while the officer who killed Ashli Babbitt did the right thing and is still anonymous.

    • Agree: Redman
  59. @jill
    How do you kill a meme, a narrative, an idea? Can this even be stopped? It's leading us to a very bad place.

    "The Racial Literacy Curriculum begins in kindergarten with 5- and 6-year-olds using Pantone Color Charts to match their skin tone so that they might start to see themselves and one another by skin color. “Recognizing and categorizing color is a foundational skill for early grades, and will be used as a platform for upcoming lessons that discuss skin color.”

    "This curriculum includes a unique view of nearly every educational discipline, such as in sixth grade history where children discover that the essence of Nazism was not the destruction of European Jewry but the rise of “whiteness.” Pollyanna’s main coverage of the Jewish experience is reduced to an odd and passing reference to the “Eastern European Hebrew” race."

    "By eighth grade, the curriculum’s goal is to create “social justice” action plans that address how “systemic racism provided social, economic, political, and legal advantages to White Americans.” Students devise plans and launch campaigns that seek to overturn white privilege in the “community or city of the student body, or may reach broader, such as to the national level and beyond.”


    https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/ethnic-studies-diversity-consultants-schools-sean-cooper

    Replies: @El Dato, @Known Fact

    What the actual fuck.

    BRB buying shares in BASF.

  60. I am a globally-recognized expert on Ross Douthat and my expertise has led me to believe that Douthat is a White Upper Middle Class Snot Brat Douchebag of the worst sort.

    If Douthat was in with the Human Intelligence cocksuckers like that Evan McMuffy boy, would it surprise anyone?

    Ross Douthat is a horrible dolt who is nothing more than a nasty propaganda whore for the plutocrat globalizers.

    I will soon be running for the US Senate from New Hampshire and I have begun composing my list of demands to Trump regarding my possible acceptance of Trump’s endorsement. If Trump meets all my demands, I shall consider accepting his endorsement.

    One demand is to have Trump’s New Jersey golf club serve as my campaign headquarters for the mid-Atlantic region and then Van Morrison must be brought into the golf club for a concert and Trump must pay for Morrison and the food and the booze and the ale.

    Only Swiftian Modest Proposals On Unz Review.

    Send Sailer Some Loot Now!

  61. @Unladen Swallow
    @Jonathan Mason

    Brett Stephens is part of the acceptable "conservative" narrative that the NYT publishes in order to give themselves cover for claiming to be nonpartisan, just like having Douthat and Brooks write columns accomplishes the same thing. They would never have anyone like Steve who fundamentally challenged their worldview writing in their paper, that is also why they fired Razib Khan right after hiring him ( and before he could write a column for them ).

    Replies: @SafeNow, @Anonymous Jew

    Moreover, Bret Stephens has always been right in line with the ‘invade the world, invite the world’ elite consensus (and with Israel too). The only consensus that really matters. Don’t worry, he’s far from leaving the reservation.

  62. @Kronos
    Stephen’s gotta learn the secret to a great political coalition marriage:

    A happy marriage
    Unknown
    8/1/02
    Four Steps to a Happy Marriage…

    1. It is important to find a woman who cooks and cleans.

    2. It is important to find a woman who makes good money.

    3. It is important to find a woman who likes to have sex.

    4. It is important that these three women never meet.
     
    Only then can the coalition of the fringes live in peace.

    Replies: @gent, @indocon, @Alden, @Ben tillman

    LOL. Or the Englishmen’s toast. Here’s to our wives and sweethearts May they never meet.

    Polygamy is supposed to be ideal for the husband. One for the family business one for homemaking one as governess for all the kids one as trophy or maid of all work

    But it never works out.

    Chinese explanation of why 4 wives is ideal. One wife, whether a farm labor family or wealthy, it’s just too much work for one Woman. Two wives good for sharing the work, but the two wives gang up against the husband. Three wives is the worst. It’s a constantly changing mess of two wives against one with husband as reluctant referee. Four wives is ideal. Two wives against two wives and husband can stay out of it.

    • Replies: @Kronos
    @Alden

    I’ve never heard of “The Englishmen’s Toast.” Thanks!

    Replies: @Gordo

  63. Even some academics are acknowledging the political downside of constant “racial framing.”

    Abstract

    How do racial attitudes shape policy preferences in the era of Black Lives Matter and increasingly liberal views on racial issues? A large body of research finds that highlighting the benefits of progressive policies for racial minorities undermines support for those policies. However, Democratic elites have started centering race in their messaging on progressive public policies. To explore this puzzle, in this paper we offer an empirical test that examines the effect of describing an ostensibly race-neutral progressive policy with racial framing, as used by Democratic elites, on support for that policy. To benchmark these effects, we compare a race policy frame with class, race and class, and neutral policy frames. We demonstrate that despite leftward shifts in public attitudes towards issues of racial equality, racial framing decreases support for race-neutral progressive policies. Generally, the class frame most successfully increases support for progressive policies across racial and political subgroups.

    Conclusion

    As we have demonstrated, despite leftward shifts in public attitudes towards issues of racial equality, racial framing generally decreases support for progressive policies. Despite increasing awareness of racial inequities and a greater use of progressive race framing by Democratic elites, linking public policies to race is detrimental for support of those policies. Importantly, our results showed that Black Americans were just as swayed by the class frame as they were the race frame.

    https://osf.io/tdkf3/

  64. Anonymous[336] • Disclaimer says:
    @El Dato
    OT:

    Karens have had enough being aggressed by Blegg "Bird Watchers" and their Disgusting Media Enablers:

    Fighting erupts in eastern Myanmar as Karen rebels attack military base near Thai border

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Known Fact, @Gary in Gramercy

    Karens have had enough being aggressed by Blegg “Bird Watchers” and their Disgusting Media Enablers:

    Fighting erupts in eastern Myanmar as Karen rebels attack military base near Thai border

    LOL. Armed Karen rebels are the worst. Overrunning Burmese military bases and and pummeling Lt. Wai U Ak Sein with demands.

    Btw, Burma-Shave, founded in 1925 in Minneapolis, gets it name from Burma where it got its original ingredients.

    • LOL: Charlotte
  65. SMK says: • Website
    @Guy De Champlagne
    I prefer the really obvious false and hateful BLM style rhetoric to this more nuanced and plausible but actually only marginally less false and hateful kind of pre-BLM pablum.

    Replies: @SMK

    The US has “miles to go in ending racism” after over half a century of the “illiberal methods of the anti-racism creed”: affirmative-action, quotas,, sex-asides, double standards, preferential treatment for blacks, including the systemic and repeated coddling of violent and/or recidivist black criminals, anti-“racist” propaganda, indoctrination, and thought-control, etc.

    Only if one believes that blacks and whites are exactly the same apart from skin color and other superficial anatomical differences, that race “beneath the skin” is an “artificial social construct, and that all disparities between whites and blacks (save for the NFL and NBA and sprinting) are historically, culturally, and politically determined, and thus evidence of “systemic racism” and “white supremacy” after over half a century of the “illiberal methods of the anti-racist creed.”

    Ergo, the solution to “ending racism” is to enact and impose “illiberal methods” that are increasingly fanatical, intrusive, repressive, totalitarian, and discriminatory, punitive, baneful, and iniquitous for whites,

  66. @Dumbo
    She was just a child...

    ...with a knife in her hand...
    trying to stab another girl... and a puppy.

    Now, the question is, WHY, having seen a police car approaching and then a policeman with a gun pointing at her telling to "stop", why didn't she just stop? Was she so caught up in the act that she didn't see or hear the policeman? Or was killing the other girl first more important to her?

    Poor girl, but this almost amounts to suicide-by-cop.

    Replies: @anon, @Elli, @Alden, @Sternhammer

    Why didn’t Ma’Khia Bryant’s father grab her instead of kicking a girl in the head? Wasn’t he terrified his baby would be shot?

    Why did the conflict escalate just when the police arrived? I once bit a sibling and ran off for my parents but I was four.

  67. @Dumbo
    She was just a child...

    ...with a knife in her hand...
    trying to stab another girl... and a puppy.

    Now, the question is, WHY, having seen a police car approaching and then a policeman with a gun pointing at her telling to "stop", why didn't she just stop? Was she so caught up in the act that she didn't see or hear the policeman? Or was killing the other girl first more important to her?

    Poor girl, but this almost amounts to suicide-by-cop.

    Replies: @anon, @Elli, @Alden, @Sternhammer

    Does PETA and ARA animal rights assholes and dog parents know a small dog in mommy pink girls arms was also attacked ? Poor little thing fell to the ground at some point. Reardon praised for saving the life of a dog. Bryant condemned for causing dog to be dropped and traumatized for being in the middle of a chimp out.

  68. @Batman
    Don't fall for it. This is their semi-monthly "See, we're not slanted!" piece that also serves as a strawman to eviscerate tomorrow.

    Replies: @SunBakedSuburb, @anonymous

    “Don’t fall for it”

    I too am a suspicious SOB. Although Stephens is an elite Jew and Jews in general are becoming mighty alarmed by the lack of love shown to them by the overclass of coloured. They pine for the days of Christian Zionist servility.

  69. anonymous[166] • Disclaimer says:

    If America swings from liberals to right wing populism, it’s really not good for Jews. With the very notable exception of Trump, right wing populists tend to be harsh on Israel. People like Gaetz and Carlson harbor a loathing for Jews because they feel persecuted by Jews. I don’t know know why conservative Jews want to attack Democrats. It certainly won’t bring back predictable Republicans. The best strategy is to get liberals to pull back on BLM stuff for their own good. That way Democrats can be re-elected as president and pressure on Iran and protection of Israel will remain an unchallengable part of foreign policy.

    • Replies: @Redman
    @anonymous

    Exactly. That’s now the odd Tucker/Hannity dichotomy on Fox. Tucker has an almost Steve Sailerish program every night now. Brilliant. Followed immediately by a healthy heaping of Israel-first Hannity. The Murdoch’s need fo keep the remaining neocon Jews happy with the Hannity pap about Iran and Muzzies. Otherwise, they’d likely get spooked by the gentile Carlson telling too many truths.

  70. @AndrewR
    @Wilkey

    They don't need us to consider their arguments. They have the power, and they're happy to use it to destroy anyone who dissents.

    Btw, the Michigan "Department of Civil Rights" is investigating the vicious hate crime where a white supremacist school employee savagely cut the hair of a quadroon with the child's consent.

    https://www.abc12.com/2021/04/27/michigan-department-of-civil-rights-looking-into-7-year-olds-unapproved-school-haircut/

    Replies: @Wilkey, @Alden, @Alden

    California pubbk skoos have the very sensible rule no school employee can touch a student. Not even a school nurse. Call the EMTs and let them get sued and harassed.

  71. The Bret Stephens’ of the world are looking past peak leftism.

    After Weimar came a strong corrective. When you see it coming, wrap yourself in the flag and establish yourself as a champion of the working class, the police, traditional marriage and all things square.

    • Agree: new Stalin
  72. @JimDandy
    "It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil" if you also consider "Ibram X. Kendi, the most important anti-racist thinker today."

    Replies: @SunBakedSuburb

    “anti-racist thinker”

    It’s a good thing anti-racism doesn’t require two-way conversations because Ibram would be exposed as a bonehead. Will Ibram’s American success story inspire a rush of short buses at the border?

    • Replies: @JimDandy
    @SunBakedSuburb

    Hey, I'm as open-minded as the next guy, but I feel like the prerequisite for being a public intellectual should be that you're not retarded. I just feel like having retarded-public-intellectuals is a bad look for this country. But what do I know? I'm no public intellectual.

  73. Dear ms jarret, it is a “knife fight” if pink girl and knife girl both had knives. Otherwise, you stupid beeotch, it’s attempted murder. obama and his crew still stirring the pot.

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @Buffalo Joe

    Valerie Jarret is one of those people who, if our country's ruling class actually functioned and cared at all about the country, would find herself in an airplane which had been serviced at night by a Quebecker with an indulgent attitude toward telemetry. There are times when Iran works better than Murka.
    This loathesome thing about describing an attack as a fight to make it seem less unfair was used in an NPR story about a white girl who dared to expect classroom rules to be enforced getting jumped by multiple criminal black classmates.
    --------
    Just now on right wing radio: White House Inhabitant Biden will celebrate his first hundred days by meeting with -- Jimmy Carter. Satire, defeated.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @ben tillman

    , @kaganovitch
    @Buffalo Joe

    Dear ms jarret, it is a “knife fight” if pink girl and knife girl both had knives. Otherwise, you stupid beeotch, it’s attempted murder. obama and his crew still stirring the pot.

    Exactly. If that was a 'knife fight' , than Reardon vs. M'ak was a 'gunfight'.

    Replies: @Buffalo Joe

    , @JMcG
    @Buffalo Joe

    Damn right, Joe!

  74. Funny, I thought this might be the same guy that does the amerika.org blog. That guy is “Stevens”, though. Im honestly surprised the NYT even let something this relatively race realist be published.

  75. @Dumbo
    She was just a child...

    ...with a knife in her hand...
    trying to stab another girl... and a puppy.

    Now, the question is, WHY, having seen a police car approaching and then a policeman with a gun pointing at her telling to "stop", why didn't she just stop? Was she so caught up in the act that she didn't see or hear the policeman? Or was killing the other girl first more important to her?

    Poor girl, but this almost amounts to suicide-by-cop.

    Replies: @anon, @Elli, @Alden, @Sternhammer

    That’s a great question, Dumbo. Especially when (apparently) MB is the one who called the cops to complain about a knife assault. And then waited for the cops before actually doing the knife assault.

    Maybe there’s some stuff that happened off camera that we don’t know about.

    And maybe she didn’t mean to kill the other girl, just stab her up a little, and then have the cop break it up before it got too serious. She may have felt like a lot of media commenters that stabbing is not such a big deal, and was surprised that the officer took stabbing so seriously. Sometimes psychologists talk about a “holding environment” where the presence of an authority figure allows people to be more emotionally or verbally aggressive because they know someone will keep it from going too far. I guess she misjudged where “too far” starts. I mean, we saw her dad kick a helpless kid laying on the ground in the head, so I’d assume that she’s seen plenty of violence growing up.

  76. Anonymous[311] • Disclaimer says:
    @Matttt

    It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil
     
    This elite cultural habit of hyperbole when talking about black stuff is just weird. Obviously, the death of George Floyd isn't the epitome of evil, even if you agree with the jury. If you made a list of the 1,000,000 most evil things to happen in American history, George Floyd's death wouldn't even make the list. I'm not sure it would even make the list of the 100,000 most evil things to happen in America this year.

    Replies: @Getaclue, @Anonymous, @Redman, @Achilleus, @anon

  77. Seems to me that democrats have mastered the technique of getting the old whites to vote for them while screwing the young ones. The effects of this will probably be most burdensome to students, much like busing. Obviously, older voters don’t care about students. If they did, the US wouldn’t have been the only developed country to lock schools down for a year.

    If the democrats can win or split the old white vote, they can have their way with our kids. I mean, when I was a kid I remember reading about medieval castration centers and thinking “thank God we’re more civilized now.” Guess I was pretty naive.

    I really think a lot of older voters would have no problem selling poor white kids to Saudi slave dealers if it boosted their investment profile. Why should they care about critical race theory or BLM?

    The only way to rectify this is to give each parent a half of a vote per child under 18. As it is, young families are badly underrepresented, and this is why our schools are at the mercy of people who either don’t like or don’t care about our kids.

    • Disagree: Abolish_public_education
    • Replies: @AnotherDad
    @Bill P


    Seems to me that democrats have mastered the technique of getting the old whites to vote for them while screwing the young ones.
     
    I basically agree with your focus should be on young families point. And in my fantasy republic i'd be all for some sort of voting scheme giving families with kids more power.

    However as with all "the boomers are killing us" nonsense, it actually helps to check against the facts. In this case, how various demographics--including age--vote.

    (Hint: the Democrats actually split whites by getting *young* ones, particularly single young women.)

    Replies: @Bill P

    , @Kronos
    @Bill P

    It’s a big reason why youngsters (especially white males) are getting into either right wing authoritarian and/or Marxist thought. They’re really like their great grandparents in terms of intellectual tendencies. Also, both sides of the divide distrust Boomers.

  78. @Anonymous
    Hey Steve, there’s a new Netflix series in the works that you won’t want to miss! It’s right up your gearhead alley.

    It’s on
    7-time NASCAR Cup Series champ Jimmie Johnson
    5-time NASCAR Xfinity Series champ Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
    the NASCAR Cup Series 22nd-place one-time finisher and NASCAR Xfinity Series 7th-place one-time finisher, William Darrell Wallace Jr.


    https://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/netflix-produce-bubba-wallace-series/6406481/

    Netflix to produce new documentary series on Bubba Wallace

    The series will follow Wallace in his first season with the newly formed 23XI Racing team, co-owned by NBA icon Michael Jordan and three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin.

    Wallace, 27, became an outspoken voice against racial injustice in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis PD. He successfully advocated for the banning of the Confederate Flag from all NASCAR events. Notably, he wore an 'I Can't Breathe' shirt during pre-race ceremonies at Atlanta Motor Speedway and ran a Black Lives Matter paint scheme at Martinsville Speedway soon after.
     

    Replies: @Currahee, @Harry Baldwin

    Are you implying that his only accomplishment is driving while Black?

    • LOL: Buffalo Joe
  79. @gent
    @Kronos


    1. It is important to find a woman who cooks and cleans.
     
    The gays!

    2. It is important to find a woman who makes good money.
     
    The jews!

    3. It is important to find a woman who likes to have sex.
     
    The gays again!

    Replies: @Kronos

    I’d imagine the Democratic Party breakdown is as follows:

    1. It is important to find a woman who cooks and cleans.

    Hispanics

    2. It is important to find a woman who makes good money.

    Professional class: Whites, Jews, Asians.

    3. It is important to find a woman who likes to have sex.

    Blacks, and such other activities that fall under felony Funtime. Blacks are really good at those.

    • Agree: Harry Baldwin
  80. @Bill P
    Seems to me that democrats have mastered the technique of getting the old whites to vote for them while screwing the young ones. The effects of this will probably be most burdensome to students, much like busing. Obviously, older voters don't care about students. If they did, the US wouldn't have been the only developed country to lock schools down for a year.

    If the democrats can win or split the old white vote, they can have their way with our kids. I mean, when I was a kid I remember reading about medieval castration centers and thinking "thank God we're more civilized now." Guess I was pretty naive.

    I really think a lot of older voters would have no problem selling poor white kids to Saudi slave dealers if it boosted their investment profile. Why should they care about critical race theory or BLM?

    The only way to rectify this is to give each parent a half of a vote per child under 18. As it is, young families are badly underrepresented, and this is why our schools are at the mercy of people who either don't like or don't care about our kids.

    Replies: @AnotherDad, @Kronos

    Seems to me that democrats have mastered the technique of getting the old whites to vote for them while screwing the young ones.

    I basically agree with your focus should be on young families point. And in my fantasy republic i’d be all for some sort of voting scheme giving families with kids more power.

    However as with all “the boomers are killing us” nonsense, it actually helps to check against the facts. In this case, how various demographics–including age–vote.

    (Hint: the Democrats actually split whites by getting *young* ones, particularly single young women.)

    • Replies: @Bill P
    @AnotherDad

    I don't think this is only an American boomer issue. Look at Japan, Italy, Greece and now S. Korea -- they're all screwing the young in their own, unique ways.

    It's really a democracy problem. Under-18s are political zeros.

  81. @jill
    How do you kill a meme, a narrative, an idea? Can this even be stopped? It's leading us to a very bad place.

    "The Racial Literacy Curriculum begins in kindergarten with 5- and 6-year-olds using Pantone Color Charts to match their skin tone so that they might start to see themselves and one another by skin color. “Recognizing and categorizing color is a foundational skill for early grades, and will be used as a platform for upcoming lessons that discuss skin color.”

    "This curriculum includes a unique view of nearly every educational discipline, such as in sixth grade history where children discover that the essence of Nazism was not the destruction of European Jewry but the rise of “whiteness.” Pollyanna’s main coverage of the Jewish experience is reduced to an odd and passing reference to the “Eastern European Hebrew” race."

    "By eighth grade, the curriculum’s goal is to create “social justice” action plans that address how “systemic racism provided social, economic, political, and legal advantages to White Americans.” Students devise plans and launch campaigns that seek to overturn white privilege in the “community or city of the student body, or may reach broader, such as to the national level and beyond.”


    https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/ethnic-studies-diversity-consultants-schools-sean-cooper

    Replies: @El Dato, @Known Fact

    Glad the ol’ Pantone has found a way to stay relevant in 2021

  82. @Bill P
    Seems to me that democrats have mastered the technique of getting the old whites to vote for them while screwing the young ones. The effects of this will probably be most burdensome to students, much like busing. Obviously, older voters don't care about students. If they did, the US wouldn't have been the only developed country to lock schools down for a year.

    If the democrats can win or split the old white vote, they can have their way with our kids. I mean, when I was a kid I remember reading about medieval castration centers and thinking "thank God we're more civilized now." Guess I was pretty naive.

    I really think a lot of older voters would have no problem selling poor white kids to Saudi slave dealers if it boosted their investment profile. Why should they care about critical race theory or BLM?

    The only way to rectify this is to give each parent a half of a vote per child under 18. As it is, young families are badly underrepresented, and this is why our schools are at the mercy of people who either don't like or don't care about our kids.

    Replies: @AnotherDad, @Kronos

    It’s a big reason why youngsters (especially white males) are getting into either right wing authoritarian and/or Marxist thought. They’re really like their great grandparents in terms of intellectual tendencies. Also, both sides of the divide distrust Boomers.

  83. Far outweighing Stephens’s residual GoodThink regarding the D-E-I/D-I-E word order is the “It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil…”

    How the autopsy showing 11 Ng/ml of fentanyl, plus another half that much of fentanyl metabolites —several times the typical lethal dose; not mention that the rest of Floyd’s incriminating fentanyl stash was “hooped” up his rectum just minutes before his heart stopped and thus probably wouldn’t have shown up in his bloodwork (which became public knowledge only two days after his death)— was so underplayed in the trial with almost nobody saying “boo!” is both astonishing and appalling..

  84. @El Dato
    OT:

    Karens have had enough being aggressed by Blegg "Bird Watchers" and their Disgusting Media Enablers:

    Fighting erupts in eastern Myanmar as Karen rebels attack military base near Thai border

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Known Fact, @Gary in Gramercy

    Karen rebels: Ha-ha, we are the manager now!

  85. This doesn’t mean Bret Stephens has joined the alt-right (not that they’d have him), but it is a good sign.

    Newspapers these days make money off subscribers willing to pay for premium content, the NYT more than any (and is one of the few to make this work as most of them are folding left and left). If the NYT is starting to back off on wokeness and police-defunding, it means the powers that be have realized they have a revolt brewing (not to mention a growing crime problem) and are trying to signal to the ambitious upper-middle-class people in big cities who read this thing that they are going to have to compromise on this issue.

    It’s not that Stephens is a good guy, it’s that guys like Steve blogging about rising crime rates are starting to scare the media people. (If you notice, he says Ibram Kendi is the ‘most important anti-racist thinker’, and then goes on to say why you shouldn’t listen to him.)

    It’s also possible that rising crime rates in NYC are scaring, well, the New York Times.

    So I’d see this as a sign of enemy weakness and push on it.

    To quote Mao Tsetung (always learn from your enemies! Especially ones who used guerrilla warfare to conquer the most populous nation in the world):
    “The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue.”

    You can argue whether the enemy is tiring or retreating. Anyway, they have a weak point–people of any ethnic background are afraid of crime. Press it. Bombard center-right locales like Fox and Breitbart with data showing rising crime. Meme the heck out of stuff like the Ma’Khia Bryant case where one picture shows where the media’s lying. This is the left’s weak point, and as Stephens says, this is what did them in 50-60 years ago.

    • Thanks: Mark G.
    • Replies: @Alden
    @SFG

    I believe it’s the fact that Biden is making noises about raising capital gains tax to 46%!and higher taxes for high earners. Earners, not financial market scammers and crooks. When it hits rich liberals not us scorned and despised trash it hurts.

    Or the college acceptances for non Whites and rejections for Whites going out end of April.

    If you have White liberal friends and relatives with college age kids it’s so much fun during college acceptance time.

    Ha ha ha that’s what your democrat party and worshipped blacks did to your White son. You voted for it. You donate to it. You advocate it. There’s nothing wrong with Chico state. Beautiful country and not as hot as Fresno state or dangerous as black infested Dominguez Hills

    Replies: @Bill P

  86. @Matttt

    It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil
     
    This elite cultural habit of hyperbole when talking about black stuff is just weird. Obviously, the death of George Floyd isn't the epitome of evil, even if you agree with the jury. If you made a list of the 1,000,000 most evil things to happen in American history, George Floyd's death wouldn't even make the list. I'm not sure it would even make the list of the 100,000 most evil things to happen in America this year.

    Replies: @Getaclue, @Anonymous, @Redman, @Achilleus, @anon

    Many have written (some here at Unz) that Chauvin’s conviction is like a human sacrifice. An offering to the pagan gods of wokeism. I’m it that camp.

    In that case he’s more like Jesus than a representative of evil. So you could say Stephens has it completely backwards.

  87. @anonymous
    Very striking report from Brookings: "In 2019, for the first time, more than half of the nation’s population under age 16 identified as a racial or ethnic minority. Among this group, Latino or Hispanic and Black residents together comprise nearly 40% of the population. There were about 5 million fewer whites under 25 in 2019 compared to 2010."

    https://www.brookings.edu/research/new-census-data-shows-the-nation-is-diversifying-even-faster-than-predicted/

    Replies: @Travis, @SaneClownPosse

    Whites will be a minority in the United States by 2040
    The 2020 census will be the first time the absolute number of whites has declined over the previous census. More Whites have died over the past decade than were born. Births and deaths highlights how the decline is accelerating

    Year- White Births- White Deaths
    2018 – 1,900,000 – 2,250,000
    2019 – 1,854,000 – 2,320,000
    2020 – 1,750,000 – 2,540,000

    White births includes Arabs, Iraqis, Iranians, North Africans, Turks….

    • Replies: @3g4me
    @Travis

    @87 Travis: If you're trying to awaken anyone here, the iSteve commentariat does not want to be nudged from their rut - they've worked hard for it, damn it, and they like exactly where they are - somewhere in the mushy, citizenism middle. If you are trying to weaken morale, again, wrong crowd - half of those here have already miscegenated and are convinced their mystery meat children are the greatest thing since sliced bread.

    But your figures are correct, and if you limit Whites to specifically European Whites who are at least nominally Christian, they will be a minority by 2030 easily.

    Replies: @anon

  88. Certain people running scared now that they realise ‘whiteness’ includes them and SJWism has the potential to run free and possibly notice Israel actually does and is all the things they incorrectly accuse the West of being.

    Israel is committing ‘crime of apartheid,’ Human Rights Watch says
    https://forward.com/news/468473/israel-apartheid-human-rights-watch/

    I know Steve doesn’t mention this as Stephens motivation because he hopes that people like him just ‘knock it off’ but it’s always important to mention this wrt Stephens and Bari Weiss. Never give the possibility of space of neoconism attaching itself to new political coalitions. They almost went away prior to 9/11, they can go away again.

    • Replies: @SFG
    @Altai

    No, that's definitely it too. You can see it on Tablet and the guys like Mounk trying to tone down the wokeness.

    How much of it's Israel and how much of it's 'they'll keep us out of Harvard!' is anyone's guess.

    , @Art Deco
    @Altai

    Israel is committing ‘crime of apartheid,’ Human Rights Watch says

    The 'human rights' lobbies are clownish, with the partial exception of Freedom House. Human Rights Watch has always been the worst of the bunch.

  89. @Altai
    Certain people running scared now that they realise 'whiteness' includes them and SJWism has the potential to run free and possibly notice Israel actually does and is all the things they incorrectly accuse the West of being.


    Israel is committing ‘crime of apartheid,’ Human Rights Watch says
    https://forward.com/news/468473/israel-apartheid-human-rights-watch/

    I know Steve doesn't mention this as Stephens motivation because he hopes that people like him just 'knock it off' but it's always important to mention this wrt Stephens and Bari Weiss. Never give the possibility of space of neoconism attaching itself to new political coalitions. They almost went away prior to 9/11, they can go away again.

    Replies: @SFG, @Art Deco

    No, that’s definitely it too. You can see it on Tablet and the guys like Mounk trying to tone down the wokeness.

    How much of it’s Israel and how much of it’s ‘they’ll keep us out of Harvard!’ is anyone’s guess.

  90. Bret Stephens = ‘useful idiot’, to borrow an old but still vibrant commie label.

    Some Woke print media still have a few token non commies. They are passed off as “conservatives” but they are at best, old fashioned liberal Democrat statists.

    Off topic but future iSteve fodder
    : Per today’s Wall St. Journal, the Oscar telecast was down a whopping 58% from last year’s record low viewership.

    Of course according to reports, it was a Woke Love-in for “films” mainly on streaming services that few if anyone saw in any form or fashion.

    They even re-jigged the usual Big Finale Award to be the Best Actor, rather than the traditional Best Film award. This was intended to doubly “honor” the now dead but supposed shoo-in black actor who had posthumously won a Golden Globe for that. Poor guy died of cancer before he won.

    But very old white dude Anthony Hopkins upset the watermelon cart by winning the votes instead. About some old white guy suffering from dementia. No one saw that film either. But I think they are going to re-title it as “The Joe Biden Story” and hype the Oscar win.

    Hollywood. Anything for a buck…

    • LOL: Gordo
  91. @AndrewR
    @Wilkey

    They don't need us to consider their arguments. They have the power, and they're happy to use it to destroy anyone who dissents.

    Btw, the Michigan "Department of Civil Rights" is investigating the vicious hate crime where a white supremacist school employee savagely cut the hair of a quadroon with the child's consent.

    https://www.abc12.com/2021/04/27/michigan-department-of-civil-rights-looking-into-7-year-olds-unapproved-school-haircut/

    Replies: @Wilkey, @Alden, @Alden

    Before anyone claims it was no big deal, take a look at the before and after pictures. The librarian gave a girl with a glorious head of long golden honey brown frizzy curly hair a boy’s hair cut. It’s the exact same hair cut of 1& 1/2 inch fluff that lesbian Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has. Or a boy.

    It’s the kind of hair cut a transgender activist parent gives a little girl on visiting weekend. To the outrage of custodial parent on Sunday night. Or more jobs for Family Court judges, lawyers counselors, consultants, coordinators social workers and mediators. It’s the first step in a
    F to M transition. As bad as growing a boys hair long and putting on pink ribbons to match his pink ruffles dress.

    Girl’s hair is too thick and curly for today’s fashions. But 35 years ago longer than shoulder length, much too thick, frizzy hair was the height of style. Check out Julie Roberts Nicole Kidman and others. A below the shoulders mass of frizz sticking 5 inches up on top 6 inches out on the sides. Like they glued a sheepskin to their head.

    Most schools nowadays have a strict health code that long hair must be in braids or ponytails to prevent lice a major problem in schools.

    School employees have always cut bangs that flop in the eyes for both girls and boys. They’ve always used bands and barrettes to secure girl’s unruly hair specially if other kids made fun of it. They send notes home, get a boys hair cut the other kids are making fun of him.

    But this long girls hair to a boy’s cut is egregious and outrageous. Took a long time. Not cutting bangs or making a ponytail. I believe the school district is not liable because. Cutting off 10 inches of hair to give a girl a boys haircut is way way outside the scope of a librarian responsibilities and duties.

    Librarian neglected duties and responsibilities to the other kids to spend all that time cutting one kids hair.

    The hair cut was way way way outside anything normally done by school employees to kids hair.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Alden


    The librarian gave a girl with a glorious head of long golden honey brown frizzy curly hair a boy’s hair cut.
     
    Uh, no. The librarian only got to it at Stage Two. Stage One was the work of a classmate. We do not know what this intermediate condition looked like, only that little Jurnee had asked for it and did not like the result. Lesson learned.

    Both the original do and the final one are a lot easier to stomach than is the name "Jurnee". Sounds like a loaf of white bread from some two-bit regional baker. Or cheap knock-off sneakers from Shenzhen.

    Replies: @Alden

  92. @Buffalo Joe
    Dear ms jarret, it is a "knife fight" if pink girl and knife girl both had knives. Otherwise, you stupid beeotch, it's attempted murder. obama and his crew still stirring the pot.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @kaganovitch, @JMcG

    Valerie Jarret is one of those people who, if our country’s ruling class actually functioned and cared at all about the country, would find herself in an airplane which had been serviced at night by a Quebecker with an indulgent attitude toward telemetry. There are times when Iran works better than Murka.
    This loathesome thing about describing an attack as a fight to make it seem less unfair was used in an NPR story about a white girl who dared to expect classroom rules to be enforced getting jumped by multiple criminal black classmates.
    ——–
    Just now on right wing radio: White House Inhabitant Biden will celebrate his first hundred days by meeting with — Jimmy Carter. Satire, defeated.

    • Thanks: Buffalo Joe
    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @J.Ross


    Valerie Jarret is one of those people who, if our country’s ruling class actually functioned and cared at all about the country, would find herself in an airplane which had been serviced at night by a Quebecker with an indulgent attitude toward telemetry. There are times when Iran works better than Murka.
    This loathesome thing about describing an attack as a fight to make it seem less unfair was used in an NPR story about a white girl who dared to expect classroom rules to be enforced getting jumped by multiple criminal black classmates.
     
    I met Jarrett a dozen years ago up close and personal. She’s very nice, tall, slim, looks Hispanic, very attractive, and is fluent in Farsi (she conversed with a Persian colleague).

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Buffalo Joe, @3g4me

    , @ben tillman
    @J.Ross


    Valerie Jarret is one of those people who, if our country’s ruling class actually functioned and cared at all about the country, would find herself in an airplane which had been serviced at night by a Quebecker with an indulgent attitude toward telemetry. There are times when Iran works better than Murka.
    This loathesome thing about describing an attack as a fight to make it seem less unfair was used in an NPR story about a white girl who dared to expect classroom rules to be enforced getting jumped by multiple criminal black classmates.
     
    Yes, and it was used in Jena, and black criminals used the same language in the Portland riots. They told media they couldn't be in a particular place because it's "where the fights [attacks] happen".
  93. anonymous[381] • Disclaimer says:

    By Bret Stephens, Opinion Columnist

    … But what about a case like that of Ma’Khia Bryant, a Black teenager who was shot and killed last week by Nicholas Reardon, a white police officer in Columbus, Ohio, at the instant that she was swinging a knife at a woman who had her back against a car?

    Every. Single. Time.

  94. @AnotherDad
    Yawn. Bret Stephens is just another minoritarian Jew who doesn't particularly like blacks.

    Deep down, probably thinks Harvard quotas and the Golfocaust and immigration restriction!!! are sufficient evidence of evil white gentile oppression to justify imposing the minoritarian regime and stealing our nation. Having to drag in slavery and Jim Crow to make the minoritarian case and end up slumming with this tedious blackety, blackety stuff ... very unpleasant for Bret's self-image.

    ~~

    It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil ...
     

    Not really. Floyd wasn't "murdered". (We just don't know if he was drugged up ass was salvageable at all.) And really "epitome of evil". Someone looking at the video and thinking "epitome of incompetence" ... ok. "Evil", come on.

    The idea that white skin automatically confers “privilege” in America is a strange concept to millions of working-class whites who have endured generations of poverty while missing out on the benefits of the past 50 years of affirmative action programs.
     
    LOL. What cheek. Immigration has nothing to do with that?

    Stephens has lectured us numerous times--i've read a couple, i'm sure there are more--that working class Americans are useless sacks of shit and need to be replaced by harder working foreigners (so Jews like him can have some cheaper services and/or make more money).

    ~

    Again, just a minoritarian Jew who doesn't like Blacks--doesn't like being in the boat with Blacks.

    Sorry, that's the minoritarian boat in America. I know you aren't loyal to Americans like me, Bret. Blacks are your shipmates--get used to it.

    Replies: @Not only wrathful, @ic1000, @Jon, @Bill Jones

    Good post.

    The idea that white skin automatically confers “privilege” in America is a strange concept

    He doesn’t explicitly say it, yet, but excluding Jews from the “privileged Whites” category is all he is after with rants like this. He is no friend of the rest of the Whites, or especially those Whites in the working class.

    • Replies: @gent
    @Jon

    Exactly, white SKIN, not being a member of the White race.

  95. @Wilkey
    @AndrewR

    In saner times when a America was a nation of communities this sort of nonsense would have drawn a curt call from a parent to the school, at most.

    But now we're all just consumers living in "subdivisions" where no one knows each other and everyone hates each other.

    Ain't globalism and diversity great?

    Replies: @Alden

    If a school librarian cut my daughter’s beautiful long hair into a one inch boys cut, they’d get more than a curt call. A girl under 18 can’t get pierced ears without parental consent. Did you look st the before and after pictures.?

    In some cultures cutting off girls and women’s hair is considered a humiliating punishment. Samoans living in America bring their wonderful culture of harsh, injurious physical punishment to America. One of their punishments is giving a girl a haircut like that. And making sure she doesn’t wear hats or scarves so everyone will know her shame and humiliation.

    It’s easy to discern which commenters are parents and who are not.

    I wonder if the librarian is a trans gender activist.

    It’s not a civil rights violation. It’s assault and battery child abuse Penal Code violation.

    Librarian should just do his her or it’s jib and not spend 45 minutes cutting hair while on the clock

    I admit to being bigoted and prejudiced against public schools anyway.

    • Replies: @Abolish_public_education
    @Alden

    I admit to being .. prejudiced against public schools anyway.

    When I let go of my phone, it will fall to the ground.

    But that’s just me being prejudiced against gravity.

  96. @Desiderius
    Interesting paragraph here suggesting a cure for our fatal atomization cum conquered division:

    A final observation. It’s a common thing for reactionaries of our stripe, as they read and think themselves deeper into the Right, to show increasing scorn toward what passes for conservatism in modern America–Republicans, National Review readers, Trump voters, and the like. “They’re just embracing yesterday’s radicalism; they don’t really disagree with the Left at all on fundamentals.” That’s true, but they really do think that they disagree with the Left, and that is something quite important. However intellectually compromised they are, they have all thought, spoken, or voted in some way that they were clearly told all reasonable/decent people regard as absolutely unacceptable, and they did it anyway.
     
    https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/why-is-christianity-in-rapid-decline/

    May or may not even be on topic. Join or die.

    Replies: @ChrisZ, @Ian M.

    Thanks Des. I strongly encourage readers to click the link and read the rest of the column.

  97. @Reg Cæsar


    Much better to nod along at your office’s diversity, equity and inclusion
     
    C’mon, Bret, in for a penny, in for a pound: call it “diversity, inclusion, and equity.”
     
    D-E-I spells "gods" in Italian. And "God's" in Latin.

    Replies: @Jon

    Yeah, Steve is always trying to restate it as DIE, but I think the current form, with its implications of this being their new God and new religion, is just as damning.

  98. @SFG
    This doesn't mean Bret Stephens has joined the alt-right (not that they'd have him), but it is a good sign.

    Newspapers these days make money off subscribers willing to pay for premium content, the NYT more than any (and is one of the few to make this work as most of them are folding left and left). If the NYT is starting to back off on wokeness and police-defunding, it means the powers that be have realized they have a revolt brewing (not to mention a growing crime problem) and are trying to signal to the ambitious upper-middle-class people in big cities who read this thing that they are going to have to compromise on this issue.

    It's not that Stephens is a good guy, it's that guys like Steve blogging about rising crime rates are starting to scare the media people. (If you notice, he says Ibram Kendi is the 'most important anti-racist thinker', and then goes on to say why you shouldn't listen to him.)

    It's also possible that rising crime rates in NYC are scaring, well, the New York Times.

    So I'd see this as a sign of enemy weakness and push on it.

    To quote Mao Tsetung (always learn from your enemies! Especially ones who used guerrilla warfare to conquer the most populous nation in the world):
    "The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue."

    You can argue whether the enemy is tiring or retreating. Anyway, they have a weak point--people of any ethnic background are afraid of crime. Press it. Bombard center-right locales like Fox and Breitbart with data showing rising crime. Meme the heck out of stuff like the Ma'Khia Bryant case where one picture shows where the media's lying. This is the left's weak point, and as Stephens says, this is what did them in 50-60 years ago.

    Replies: @Alden

    I believe it’s the fact that Biden is making noises about raising capital gains tax to 46%!and higher taxes for high earners. Earners, not financial market scammers and crooks. When it hits rich liberals not us scorned and despised trash it hurts.

    Or the college acceptances for non Whites and rejections for Whites going out end of April.

    If you have White liberal friends and relatives with college age kids it’s so much fun during college acceptance time.

    Ha ha ha that’s what your democrat party and worshipped blacks did to your White son. You voted for it. You donate to it. You advocate it. There’s nothing wrong with Chico state. Beautiful country and not as hot as Fresno state or dangerous as black infested Dominguez Hills

    • Replies: @Bill P
    @Alden

    The local college up here in Whatcom County, Western Washington University, is filling up with white kids from CA.

    My oldest is going straight for a transferrable trade degree. Means he can make $60k right off the bat and then finish a BS in two years if it suits him. My daughter, who somehow came out every teacher's dream, is probably going straight to a four-year program, but if she didn't have resident status in Canada I'd want her to learn a trade, too. It's just that college is soooooo much cheaper in Canada, and it's no worse than here.

    As for my little one, I'll let him grow up some more before we start worrying about that, but he is an EU citizen, so...

    I feel sorry for the upper middle class strivers who have to navigate the American higher education racket, but I'm not going to have to play that game. I hope their disappointments make them better people. Seriously. I'm optimistic on that score, but isn't it sad that pain and disappointment are required to improve a people?

  99. @Buffalo Joe
    Dear ms jarret, it is a "knife fight" if pink girl and knife girl both had knives. Otherwise, you stupid beeotch, it's attempted murder. obama and his crew still stirring the pot.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @kaganovitch, @JMcG

    Dear ms jarret, it is a “knife fight” if pink girl and knife girl both had knives. Otherwise, you stupid beeotch, it’s attempted murder. obama and his crew still stirring the pot.

    Exactly. If that was a ‘knife fight’ , than Reardon vs. M’ak was a ‘gunfight’.

    • Agree: ben tillman
    • Replies: @Buffalo Joe
    @kaganovitch

    Kag, Exactly, and she knows that but it doesn't fit the narrative. Stay safe.

  100. @Almost Missouri


    Above all, liberalism believes that truth tends to be many-shaded and complex.
     

     
    Huh? Where the eff have you been, Bret? This is basically the opposite of modern liberalism.


    It is also possible to recognize that we have miles to go in ending racism
     

     
    Again this talking point is 60 years out of date. (How old is this Bret guy anyway?) Today's liberalism manifestly seeks to create racism, specifically against whites.


    Ibram X. Kendi, the most important anti-racist [sic] thinker today,
     

     
    I.e., professional racist.

    If Bret could recognize the actual meanings of words, he wouldn't make elementary mistakes like those above.

    Replies: @Abolish_public_education, @Barnard

    What does Ta-Nehesi Coastes think of Kendi being declared the most important anti-racist thinker today? Neither would approve of Stephens mentioning the reality of violent crime demographics in this column. How does Stephens think sucking up to Kendi is going to end help end racism when Kendi openly calls for racism against whites as payback for past treatment of blacks?

    • Replies: @anon
    @Barnard

    What does Ta-Nehesi Coastes think of Kendi being declared the most important anti-racist thinker today?

    Suppose Coates hesitated for a moment to get on an escalator and Kendi blurted out "Well, go on!".

    What would happen next?

  101. @Achmed E. Newman
    The way this Bret Stephens is appropriating your material, Steve, how can we be sure our donations won't end up in his pocket too?

    Make sure the local Post Office doesn't have a forwarding request from your mailbox to his.

    Replies: @Guy De Champlagne

    I don’t know what Steve meant by saying that Bret Stephens went “full isteve”. But everything he quoted is just advocating going back to pre-BLM center left civil rights rhetoric.

    Steve’s views on race, or anyone’s sensible views, are not getting anywhere near the nytimes anytime soon.

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @Guy De Champlagne

    Guy, I see the 1st 3 excerpts the same way Mr. Sailer does. Mr. Stephens brings up 3 points that each have been the subjects of one or multiple iSteve posts.

    1) Officer Reardon actually did a crack job, in those 11s of interaction, in preventing a knife murder
    2) There was the sarcastic remark about the D.I.E. bit, though Mr. Stephens could not use that order, as it would be too obviously taken off of iSteve.
    3) That comparison to the 1960's and a liberal "crack up". (I don't personally agree we can make a comparison with the 1960's - America is done for this time around.)

    True, after that, Brett Stephens relays the usual BS about race. He definitely didn't get his admiration of that Kendi guy from this site. That's for damn sure!

    Replies: @Charlotte

    , @Ron Unz
    @Guy De Champlagne


    I don’t know what Steve meant by saying that Bret Stephens went “full isteve”. But everything he quoted is just advocating going back to pre-BLM center left civil rights rhetoric.
     
    I tend to agree with that.

    Also, don't forget that a year or two ago, Stephens boastfully cited the classic Cochran/Harpending paper on the evolution of Ashkenazi intelligence, then fled like a scalded cat when someone noted that Prof. Henry Harpending had been denounced as a "racist" by the SPLC.

    Stephens is just a pretty typical Neocon, and the ur-Neocon was Norman Podhoretz, the longtime editor of Commentary. Podhoretz's most famous piece---published when he was still regarded as a leading leftist intellectual---was that rather candid and personal account of why he's always hated blacks. I tend to doubt Commentary would publish it these days...
  102. @kaganovitch
    @Buffalo Joe

    Dear ms jarret, it is a “knife fight” if pink girl and knife girl both had knives. Otherwise, you stupid beeotch, it’s attempted murder. obama and his crew still stirring the pot.

    Exactly. If that was a 'knife fight' , than Reardon vs. M'ak was a 'gunfight'.

    Replies: @Buffalo Joe

    Kag, Exactly, and she knows that but it doesn’t fit the narrative. Stay safe.

  103. @AnotherDad
    @Bill P


    Seems to me that democrats have mastered the technique of getting the old whites to vote for them while screwing the young ones.
     
    I basically agree with your focus should be on young families point. And in my fantasy republic i'd be all for some sort of voting scheme giving families with kids more power.

    However as with all "the boomers are killing us" nonsense, it actually helps to check against the facts. In this case, how various demographics--including age--vote.

    (Hint: the Democrats actually split whites by getting *young* ones, particularly single young women.)

    Replies: @Bill P

    I don’t think this is only an American boomer issue. Look at Japan, Italy, Greece and now S. Korea — they’re all screwing the young in their own, unique ways.

    It’s really a democracy problem. Under-18s are political zeros.

    • Agree: Desiderius
  104. @pgbh
    In all seriousness, has anyone estimated the odds that Reardon actually saved the second girl's life?

    Killing someone with a knife is hard. It takes some strength and technique, both of which I doubt Bryant possessed.

    I think there's only a 5-10% chance that the other girl would have died, had she been stabbed. Bryant was enraged and probably, even at the best of times, no particularly calculating person. It's most likely that she would have missed entirely, or merely struck a glancing blow.

    But I'm not an expert in these things.

    Replies: @Art Deco, @Anonymous, @ic1000, @Buffalo Joe

    Back in 1983 a schoolteacher in Rochester named Peter Castle was stabbed to death by a student in his class. IIRC, it took one thrust of the blade to mortally wound him.

    • Replies: @JMcG
    @Art Deco

    Yes, exactly. Anyone who’s ever field dressed a deer knows that one slash to the abdomen and everything spills out. Knives are not to be trifled with at all.

    , @pgbh
    @Art Deco

    Interesting, although that student was male.

  105. Charles Blow must be getting annoying…

  106. @Altai
    Certain people running scared now that they realise 'whiteness' includes them and SJWism has the potential to run free and possibly notice Israel actually does and is all the things they incorrectly accuse the West of being.


    Israel is committing ‘crime of apartheid,’ Human Rights Watch says
    https://forward.com/news/468473/israel-apartheid-human-rights-watch/

    I know Steve doesn't mention this as Stephens motivation because he hopes that people like him just 'knock it off' but it's always important to mention this wrt Stephens and Bari Weiss. Never give the possibility of space of neoconism attaching itself to new political coalitions. They almost went away prior to 9/11, they can go away again.

    Replies: @SFG, @Art Deco

    Israel is committing ‘crime of apartheid,’ Human Rights Watch says

    The ‘human rights’ lobbies are clownish, with the partial exception of Freedom House. Human Rights Watch has always been the worst of the bunch.

  107. @Alden
    @SFG

    I believe it’s the fact that Biden is making noises about raising capital gains tax to 46%!and higher taxes for high earners. Earners, not financial market scammers and crooks. When it hits rich liberals not us scorned and despised trash it hurts.

    Or the college acceptances for non Whites and rejections for Whites going out end of April.

    If you have White liberal friends and relatives with college age kids it’s so much fun during college acceptance time.

    Ha ha ha that’s what your democrat party and worshipped blacks did to your White son. You voted for it. You donate to it. You advocate it. There’s nothing wrong with Chico state. Beautiful country and not as hot as Fresno state or dangerous as black infested Dominguez Hills

    Replies: @Bill P

    The local college up here in Whatcom County, Western Washington University, is filling up with white kids from CA.

    My oldest is going straight for a transferrable trade degree. Means he can make $60k right off the bat and then finish a BS in two years if it suits him. My daughter, who somehow came out every teacher’s dream, is probably going straight to a four-year program, but if she didn’t have resident status in Canada I’d want her to learn a trade, too. It’s just that college is soooooo much cheaper in Canada, and it’s no worse than here.

    As for my little one, I’ll let him grow up some more before we start worrying about that, but he is an EU citizen, so…

    I feel sorry for the upper middle class strivers who have to navigate the American higher education racket, but I’m not going to have to play that game. I hope their disappointments make them better people. Seriously. I’m optimistic on that score, but isn’t it sad that pain and disappointment are required to improve a people?

    • Agree: Desiderius
  108. @Charles Pewitt
    Neo-Con Warmonger Open Borders Fanatic NY Times Columnist Bret Stephens:

    It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil and not see a racist motive in every bad encounter between a white cop and a minority suspect, including the recent shootings of Adam Toledo in Chicago and Daunte Wright in Minnesota. It’s possible to think that the police make too many assumptions about young Black men, sometimes with tragic consequences, and still recognize that young Black men commit violent crimes at a terribly disproportionate rate. It’s possible to believe that effective policing requires that cops gain the trust of the communities they serve while recognizing that those communities are ill served when cops are afraid to do their jobs.

    I say:

    The NY Times today -- April 27 2021 -- had some decent columnists and they wrote almost somewhat reasonable things and it was shocking.

    Some Jew broad said her Jew dad said that you just couldn't let all the Haitians in regarding one of their Camp of the Saints flotillas and this was in the middle of the Jew broad bemoaning Atilla the Nazi Hun treating their blood relations badly.

    Then Krugman called out baby boomer Jew drug addict Larry Kudlow about scare tactics used by rancid Republican Party scum to cover up the fact that the GOP only exists to serve its donors and plutocrats and globalizers and other rancid filth and I agreed with Kruggyman.

    Then that Michelle Goldberg gal bashed the living shit out of donor whore Marco Rubio and that Jew broad even used the word GLOBALIZERS and I bust out laughing.

    A day or so ago I couldn't believe my goddamn eyes when the sonofabitches at the NY Times admitted that many if not most of the opinion writers would benefit from the Democrat Party's attempt to put back into place the State and Local Tax(SALT) deduction and they phucking know that states like New Jersey and California and New York and Connecticut have bloated beyond belief state government boondoggles involving government workers and the bastards pay that big fat state tax to buy peace in the valley from the vibrant ones in their states.

    The White Upper Middle Class managerial snot brats want their SALT deductions back and they don't give a shit if you call them hypocrites.

    The WSJ had a decent bit about Fed-induced inflation but they are for the most part boring Murdoch-controlled crybaby propaganda whores.

    Replies: @Joe Stalin

    The WSJ had a decent bit about Fed-induced inflation but they are for the most part boring Murdoch-controlled crybaby propaganda whores.

    This YT video seems decent.

    • Thanks: Achmed E. Newman
    • Replies: @Ripple Earthdevil
    @Joe Stalin

    But note the well-dressed white male/black female couple looking over their statements and pondering their finances.

  109. @pgbh
    In all seriousness, has anyone estimated the odds that Reardon actually saved the second girl's life?

    Killing someone with a knife is hard. It takes some strength and technique, both of which I doubt Bryant possessed.

    I think there's only a 5-10% chance that the other girl would have died, had she been stabbed. Bryant was enraged and probably, even at the best of times, no particularly calculating person. It's most likely that she would have missed entirely, or merely struck a glancing blow.

    But I'm not an expert in these things.

    Replies: @Art Deco, @Anonymous, @ic1000, @Buffalo Joe

    It’s most likely that she would have missed entirely, or merely struck a glancing blow.

    You assume she would have followed through and tried to stab her. It is possible that scaring the other girl and making her submit would have been sufficient for her to hold back.

    • Replies: @sayless
    @Anonymous

    If I had been doing what Makhia was doing to the girl in pink I wouldn't expect to get the benefit of the doubt. "Let's roll the dice with your life, Girl in Pink."

  110. @Barnard
    @Almost Missouri

    What does Ta-Nehesi Coastes think of Kendi being declared the most important anti-racist thinker today? Neither would approve of Stephens mentioning the reality of violent crime demographics in this column. How does Stephens think sucking up to Kendi is going to end help end racism when Kendi openly calls for racism against whites as payback for past treatment of blacks?

    Replies: @anon

    What does Ta-Nehesi Coastes think of Kendi being declared the most important anti-racist thinker today?

    Suppose Coates hesitated for a moment to get on an escalator and Kendi blurted out “Well, go on!“.

    What would happen next?

  111. Anonymous[381] • Disclaimer says:
    @Charles Pewitt
    Bret Stephens says:

    It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil and not see a racist motive in every bad encounter between a white cop and a minority suspect, including the recent shootings of Adam Toledo in Chicago and Daunte Wright in Minnesota. It’s possible to think that the police make too many assumptions about young Black men, sometimes with tragic consequences, and still recognize that young Black men commit violent crimes at a terribly disproportionate rate. It’s possible to believe that effective policing requires that cops gain the trust of the communities they serve while recognizing that those communities are ill served when cops are afraid to do their jobs.

    Pat Buchanan says:

    What is the real truth about race in America that goes unmentioned in the mainstream media’s endless hunt for encounters between Black men and white cops?

     


    The main perpetrators of violent crimes against Black Americans — are other Black Americans. Black men, ages 16 to 40, are 3% of the U.S. population but commit roughly a third of America’s violent crimes.

     


    Defund police, restrict police, remove police and you will get more of what the police prevent — crimes, especially violent crimes, in your community.

     

    https://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/is-america-led-today-by-anti-americans/

    Replies: @Anonymous

    Pat Buchanan says:

    What is the real truth about race in America that goes unmentioned in the mainstream media’s endless hunt for encounters between Black men and white cops?

    Buchanan doesn’t have the stones to capitalize “White”? Or to refrain from using the disparaging term “cops” for police officers?

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @Anonymous

    I agree with your first point, #381, but, sorry, "cops" is not any kind of disparagement. It's in common use. Do cops call themselves "police officers"? Nah, it's just a term for the school kids to use to instill respect for Authoritah!

  112. Anonymous[110] • Disclaimer says:
    @J.Ross
    @Buffalo Joe

    Valerie Jarret is one of those people who, if our country's ruling class actually functioned and cared at all about the country, would find herself in an airplane which had been serviced at night by a Quebecker with an indulgent attitude toward telemetry. There are times when Iran works better than Murka.
    This loathesome thing about describing an attack as a fight to make it seem less unfair was used in an NPR story about a white girl who dared to expect classroom rules to be enforced getting jumped by multiple criminal black classmates.
    --------
    Just now on right wing radio: White House Inhabitant Biden will celebrate his first hundred days by meeting with -- Jimmy Carter. Satire, defeated.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @ben tillman

    Valerie Jarret is one of those people who, if our country’s ruling class actually functioned and cared at all about the country, would find herself in an airplane which had been serviced at night by a Quebecker with an indulgent attitude toward telemetry. There are times when Iran works better than Murka.
    This loathesome thing about describing an attack as a fight to make it seem less unfair was used in an NPR story about a white girl who dared to expect classroom rules to be enforced getting jumped by multiple criminal black classmates.

    I met Jarrett a dozen years ago up close and personal. She’s very nice, tall, slim, looks Hispanic, very attractive, and is fluent in Farsi (she conversed with a Persian colleague).

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @Anonymous

    Oh well at least they're good-looking (glaring at morally superior and/or myopic colleagues). So let's make Lindsey Pelas SecDef and Daniela Lopez-Osorio SecState and nuke Manchuria, is that what you're trying to tell me?

    , @Buffalo Joe
    @Anonymous

    OneOneZero, thanks for her physical describtion, she is still an idiot, but a tall slim one.

    , @3g4me
    @Anonymous

    @112 Anonymous[110]: Well aren't you just so special! Wow, "looks Hispanic" AND "speaks Farsi." Add in vitriolic anti-White envy and hatred and you've got the perfect globohomo trifecta. Perfect outcome of citizenism.

  113. What will really help us is to keep our troops in Afghanistan and to keep bringing Afghanigees her until every black kid in America can spell Afghanistan. Then and only then will we defeat the wokes in a Bret Stephens world.

  114. Ibram X. Kendi, the most important anti-racist thinker today, argues that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.

    How fuckin’ stupid is this Kendi clown?

    • Replies: @Desiderius
    @ben tillman

    Just enough to suit

    , @gent
    @ben tillman

    You should not be laughing at men like him. You should be noting the crowds they draw and preparing accordingly.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    , @anon
    @ben tillman

    How fuckin’ stupid is this Kendi clown?

    Stupid enough to become the director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University.

    Stupid enough that Jack Dorsey gave him $10,000,000 just last year.

    It's a special kind of stupid, for sure.

    , @Anonymous
    @ben tillman



    Ibram X. Kendi, the most important anti-racist thinker today, argues that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.
     
    How fuckin’ stupid is this Kendi clown?
     
    Nothing stupid about it. It relies on fundamental notions of reciprocity, compensatory justice. Basic logic.

    It is also persuasive, because it has a moral aspect to it and it is catchy.

    Probably the best counter is to sidestep it and come up with your own frame. Second best counter is to dispute the premise of past discrimination. You could combine both: dispute Kendi’s accusation (second best) and go on to charge Kendi and his people as being the group that is guilty or privileged and owing in some way (first best).

    Third “best” counter (but maybe worse than silence) is to concede the premise (past injustice) and whine that collective benefit and punishment is “not who we are” or is “counterproductive.”

    Replies: @Ben tillman, @Ben tillman

  115. Anon[337] • Disclaimer says:

    I’m kind of surprised that the New York Times ran this article:

    Officer Who Gave $25 to Kyle Rittenhouse’s Defense Is Fired
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/us/norfolk-police-kyle-rittenhouse-donation.html

    A police lieutenant in Virginia was fired this week after he contributed $25 to a legal-defense fund and expressed praise for Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged with killing two people last year during protests in Kenosha, Wis., officials said.

    Hackers got the list of donors from the GoFundMe-esque website. The donation and comment were private.

    His name appeared on a list of donors obtained by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a watchdog group that said in a Twitter direct message on Wednesday night that it had received the list from an external source. It shared the material with The New York Times.

    Here’s the “egregious comments” that were “not consistent with the department’s values” in full:

    “God bless. Thank you for your courage. Keep your head up. You’ve done nothing wrong. Every rank and file police officer supports you. Don’t be discouraged by actions of the political class of law enforcement leadership.”

    This seems like a statement of personal support that many Americans share, followed by a simple statement of fact that I think is probably true. He didn’t use the n-word or anything like that, and the message was intended to be private.

    His dismissal seems so petty and cruel. Is there nothing short of the death penalty these days? Is there no departmental discipline that could have been meted out”

    I wonder if the Times article was a rogue reporter slipping something through, or if from the standpoint of Times editors they think that all their readers agree this was a bad cop who had to be fired, so it was worthy of an end-zone touchdown celebration? If the latter, that level of delusion in the long run can only be good, since they will be inadvertently red-pilling more and more of their readers.

    • Replies: @AndrewR
    @Anon

    Lol "blue" people are just like white people: too cowardly to really stand up.

    Cops love to act tough against defenseless civilians but they just stick their head in the sand when their bosses act tyrannically. This dude's entire department should strike. Then again, maybe everyone in his department hated him and this was just a pretext.

    People act like the Chauvin verdict is dome watershed, but really it's just another step in a long pattern of politicians throwing cops under the bus. His colleagues will almost certainly all be convicted of every charge too whenever the state decides to try them.

    At this point, any non-black cop who chooses to police a largely black population gets no sympathy from me at all. How many red flags do they need? Blacks don't want to be policed and our demonic elites are happy to ruin your life in order to rile up blacks and white traitors

    , @Alden
    @Anon

    When a black cop drives his car over to one of his girl friends homes and spends entire shifts drinking drugging and **** while on the clock, he gets every possible civil service and labor union protection.

    Remember the black woman cop who robbed a restaurant in uniform and on duty? Her department is probably one of those that hire blacks too dumb to read. I think she killed someone too.

    But a White cop!! They’re watching every word and movement trying to get him fired.

  116. @Anonymous
    Hey Steve, there’s a new Netflix series in the works that you won’t want to miss! It’s right up your gearhead alley.

    It’s on
    7-time NASCAR Cup Series champ Jimmie Johnson
    5-time NASCAR Xfinity Series champ Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
    the NASCAR Cup Series 22nd-place one-time finisher and NASCAR Xfinity Series 7th-place one-time finisher, William Darrell Wallace Jr.


    https://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/netflix-produce-bubba-wallace-series/6406481/

    Netflix to produce new documentary series on Bubba Wallace

    The series will follow Wallace in his first season with the newly formed 23XI Racing team, co-owned by NBA icon Michael Jordan and three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin.

    Wallace, 27, became an outspoken voice against racial injustice in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis PD. He successfully advocated for the banning of the Confederate Flag from all NASCAR events. Notably, he wore an 'I Can't Breathe' shirt during pre-race ceremonies at Atlanta Motor Speedway and ran a Black Lives Matter paint scheme at Martinsville Speedway soon after.
     

    Replies: @Currahee, @Harry Baldwin

    Wallace, 27, became an outspoken voice against racial injustice

    Those that can, do. Those that can’t, become an outspoken voice.

  117. Does Stephens see any contradiction in his call for more Afghanistanees now and his late complaints about racial steife?

    Those women are now being abandoned. So is every Afghan who struggled to make the country a more humane, hospitable, ethnically and socially tolerant place — some by taking immense personal risks to help U.S. troops, diplomats and aid workers do their jobs. As George Packer writes in The Atlantic, there are some 17,000 such Afghans waiting for the wheels of U.S. bureaucracy to turn so they can get their visas.

    If Joe Biden wants to distinguish his immigration policy from that of his predecessor, he should sign an executive order to grant every one of those visa applications. Quickly. It would lift the death sentence that now lies on their heads. It would be in the best American tradition of welcoming political refugees from places like Hungary, Cuba, Vietnam, the Soviet Union and northern Iraq. And it would send the useful signal that helping America when America asks isn’t the dumbest thing a person can do.

    https://www.statesman.com/story/opinion/columns/more-voices/2021/04/23/abandoning-afghanistan-historic-mistake-stephens/7325594002

  118. Anon[337] • Disclaimer says:

    A pretty white girl was booted from the college soccer team when she wouldn’t kneel for BLM. My first reaction: You dodged a bullet, girl. Steer clear of that cesspool of lesbianism.

    Then I read this:

    In the lawsuit, Hening said she “supports social justice and believes that black lives matter” but she said she “does not support BLM the organization.” Hening added that she disagrees with Black Lives Matter’s “tactics and core tenets of its mission statement, including defunding the police.”

    My attitude changed: Go lesbo for all I care.

    Here’s the coach who kicked her off the team, Charles “Chugger” Adair:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Adair_(soccer)

    Why are white athletic coaches harassing white athletes over this blackety-black stuff? He was brought up in Chula Vista, which is lower middle class, if I’m not mistaken. It sounds from the reports like he was totally into this stuff, yelling and screaming at her, and not just doing it for show for his bosses.

    • Replies: @Bill P
    @Anon

    Why dads put their daughters in men's contact sports I'll never know. I discouraged my daughter from playing any team sport that doesn't separate players with a net and so far she's fine, with no permanent injuries psychological or otherwise.

    On the other hand I have a cousin who was on one of the best collegiate women's soccer teams in the country, and now she's in a cult and doesn't talk to her parents. She's also pushing 40 and still no kids.

    Maybe we'd all be better off if the trannies pushed girls out of sports. Maybe that's the point of it anyway. The priests used to say "God works in mysterious ways."

    Replies: @anon

  119. @Anonymous
    @J.Ross


    Valerie Jarret is one of those people who, if our country’s ruling class actually functioned and cared at all about the country, would find herself in an airplane which had been serviced at night by a Quebecker with an indulgent attitude toward telemetry. There are times when Iran works better than Murka.
    This loathesome thing about describing an attack as a fight to make it seem less unfair was used in an NPR story about a white girl who dared to expect classroom rules to be enforced getting jumped by multiple criminal black classmates.
     
    I met Jarrett a dozen years ago up close and personal. She’s very nice, tall, slim, looks Hispanic, very attractive, and is fluent in Farsi (she conversed with a Persian colleague).

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Buffalo Joe, @3g4me

    Oh well at least they’re good-looking (glaring at morally superior and/or myopic colleagues). So let’s make Lindsey Pelas SecDef and Daniela Lopez-Osorio SecState and nuke Manchuria, is that what you’re trying to tell me?

  120. @War for Blair Mountain
    Just a gentle reminder:

    The Han People in China would never allow themselves to be voted into a Han Racial Minority within the borders of CHINA by Hindu LEGAL IMMIGRANTS.....

    Replies: @Desiderius

    Never is a long time.

    And in fact the Han women did just this with the Manchu not so long ago.

    • Replies: @Boomthorkell
    @Desiderius

    Well, the Manchu also swapped wives with the Han, it was a more fluid thing.

    Also, the Manchu weren't a bunch of ungrateful migrants, ha ha. Conquest is understandable. This is insanity.

    Replies: @Desiderius

  121. @ben tillman

    Ibram X. Kendi, the most important anti-racist thinker today, argues that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.
     
    How fuckin' stupid is this Kendi clown?

    Replies: @Desiderius, @gent, @anon, @Anonymous

    Just enough to suit

  122. Valerie Jarrett, the former Obama adviser, tweeted that Bryant “was killed because a police officer immediately decided to shoot her multiple times in order to break up a knife fight.”

    If the officer arrived at the scene few seconds earlier he would have shot Bryant while she was attacking the first girl. At that time Bryant had a knife in her hand when charging the first girl. Police officers have Pavlovian training to shoot to kill (multiple shots) in situation when a knife is spotted. However Bryant did not use the knife and just pushed the other girl who fell. Then Bryant turned around to attack the girl in pink and was shot multiple times in the back. The officer was few seconds too late to stop the attack against the first girl which we know would have been unnecessary.

    If the officer had ability to process acquired information much faster than an average human being and drew conclusion from the first attack and if he was not subjected to the Pavlovian “knife-shoot-kill” training he would not have shot Bryan in the back because there was a high probability Bryant, just like in the first attack, would not have used the knife.

    Valerie Jarrett is correct questioning the decision made by the police officer. However the questioning should not be directed at the officer himself who is just a Pavlovian dog who was successfully trained in shooting to kill but at the police philosophy, training and procedures.

    • Disagree: Buffalo Joe, sayless
    • Replies: @anon
    @utu

    Pavlovian “knife-shoot-kill” training

    No.

    , @Bill P
    @utu

    She took a swipe at the first girl but couldn't reach down far enough because of her belly. With the second girl she squared off and was going to stick her like a pig.

    I saw a black-on-black stabbing once in my life. I was driving through the ghetto on my way to the DMV when I saw a woman make a quick move with her arm and then brandish a shiny, bloody knife above her head. She had just stabbed a man in the upper back, between the spine and left shoulder blade. He started walking away with wet blood on his shirt looking very unhappy. There was a crowd, so after slowing down to rubberneck for a bit, I moved along. I called the cops a couple minutes later at the dmv. They already knew about it. I think the guy was ok, but with a stabbing you never know.

    There's no reason to believe the girl was bluffing. I'm not a cop, so I probably wouldn't have shot the girl in that situation (not my business), but if she had a knife and was ready to strike my kid, I would have smoked her right then and there.

    And that's what you've got to ask yourself: if she had your kid up against a car and was ready to stab, would you have shot her or not? We pay cops to protect us all as we'd protect our own. That's why Reardon did his job right.

    BTW, if you wouldn't shoot someone about to stab your kid, I guess that's your business, but don't expect the rest of us to be so cold-hearted and callous as that.

    Replies: @sayless

    , @Steve Sailer
    @utu

    "The officer was few seconds too late to stop the attack against the first girl which we know would have been unnecessary."

    Huh? It looks to me like the policeman's arrival on the spot saved the first girl from a second stabbing attempt by Ma'K the Knife, who then turned away from them and charged the second girl while her father kicked the first girl in the head. Reardon somehow avoided being distracted by the peripheral vision of a large man kicking a woman in the head right next to him and stayed focused on the most lethal threat, the big knife in Ma'K's hand.

    Replies: @utu

    , @sayless
    @utu

    "a high probability Bryant would not have used the knife"

    The officer told her repeatedly to drop the knife. If she was so out of it she didn't hear him or wouldn't comply then the risk was too great that she was going to use it.

    It isn't hard to kill someone with a knife, either.

  123. @Matttt

    It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil
     
    This elite cultural habit of hyperbole when talking about black stuff is just weird. Obviously, the death of George Floyd isn't the epitome of evil, even if you agree with the jury. If you made a list of the 1,000,000 most evil things to happen in American history, George Floyd's death wouldn't even make the list. I'm not sure it would even make the list of the 100,000 most evil things to happen in America this year.

    Replies: @Getaclue, @Anonymous, @Redman, @Achilleus, @anon

    Here’s my entry for the “Epitome of Evil”:

    Babysitter, 24, ‘killed one-year-old boy with wrestling moves’ after becoming angry over a torn pillow – but told cops: ‘I didn’t hurt his head, I only caused the internal injuries’

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9495417/Babysitter-24-killed-boy-one-wrestling-moves-angry-torn-pillow.html

    • Replies: @Gabe Ruth
    @Achilleus

    Damn that's a depressing story. Why was this character in charge of 3 kids? I want to save the picture of the deceased with his parents for future white privilege claims, clearly this couple didn't get their due.

    Wonder how much longer the DM will be accessible to us.

  124. @Alden
    @Kronos

    LOL. Or the Englishmen’s toast. Here’s to our wives and sweethearts May they never meet.

    Polygamy is supposed to be ideal for the husband. One for the family business one for homemaking one as governess for all the kids one as trophy or maid of all work

    But it never works out.

    Chinese explanation of why 4 wives is ideal. One wife, whether a farm labor family or wealthy, it’s just too much work for one Woman. Two wives good for sharing the work, but the two wives gang up against the husband. Three wives is the worst. It’s a constantly changing mess of two wives against one with husband as reluctant referee. Four wives is ideal. Two wives against two wives and husband can stay out of it.

    Replies: @Kronos

    I’ve never heard of “The Englishmen’s Toast.” Thanks!

    • Replies: @Gordo
    @Kronos

    It’s simply an old joke.

  125. @Jon
    @AnotherDad

    Good post.


    The idea that white skin automatically confers “privilege” in America is a strange concept
     
    He doesn't explicitly say it, yet, but excluding Jews from the "privileged Whites" category is all he is after with rants like this. He is no friend of the rest of the Whites, or especially those Whites in the working class.

    Replies: @gent

    Exactly, white SKIN, not being a member of the White race.

  126. @ben tillman

    Ibram X. Kendi, the most important anti-racist thinker today, argues that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.
     
    How fuckin' stupid is this Kendi clown?

    Replies: @Desiderius, @gent, @anon, @Anonymous

    You should not be laughing at men like him. You should be noting the crowds they draw and preparing accordingly.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @gent


    You should not be laughing at men like him. You should be noting the crowds they draw and preparing accordingly.
     
    Rather, note the crowds and learn from his rhetorical technique.

    Replies: @Anonymous

  127. @ben tillman

    Ibram X. Kendi, the most important anti-racist thinker today, argues that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.
     
    How fuckin' stupid is this Kendi clown?

    Replies: @Desiderius, @gent, @anon, @Anonymous

    How fuckin’ stupid is this Kendi clown?

    Stupid enough to become the director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University.

    Stupid enough that Jack Dorsey gave him $10,000,000 just last year.

    It’s a special kind of stupid, for sure.

  128. @gent
    @Jonathan Mason

    Nah, this is an attempt to recapture the public to the Party Line. Too many people in the center are seeking information from outside the prestige media. To allow the reigning narrative to continue to spread and dominate, they need those people to stay within the NYT-CNN corral. Hence Bill Maher suddenly pivotting against sentiments he expressed merely days before.
    It is the same trick they pulled successfully with Biden, putting a lame face on radical policies. All it requires is for people to mistake "boring" for "centrist."

    Replies: @Redman, @Rob

    Wrong. The NYT is essentially now a combination of wokeista and pro-Israel neocons (Stephens, Brooks, et al.). That’s the identical breakdown of the NY intelligentsia. The outliers are the neocons who refuse to abide the utter insanity of wokeism (e.g. Bari Weiss). And they generally get dismissed unless they’re Brett Stephens who was recruited from the WSJ and must have protectors in high places. And is willing to express negrophillic sentiments.

    • Agree: Ron Unz
    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Redman


    Wrong. The NYT is essentially now a combination of wokeista and pro-Israel neocons (Stephens, Brooks, et al.).
     
    That describes America, or at least the ruling class. Interestingly, if coincides with the strategy of tribal Jews.
  129. @utu

    Valerie Jarrett, the former Obama adviser, tweeted that Bryant “was killed because a police officer immediately decided to shoot her multiple times in order to break up a knife fight."
     
    If the officer arrived at the scene few seconds earlier he would have shot Bryant while she was attacking the first girl. At that time Bryant had a knife in her hand when charging the first girl. Police officers have Pavlovian training to shoot to kill (multiple shots) in situation when a knife is spotted. However Bryant did not use the knife and just pushed the other girl who fell. Then Bryant turned around to attack the girl in pink and was shot multiple times in the back. The officer was few seconds too late to stop the attack against the first girl which we know would have been unnecessary.

    If the officer had ability to process acquired information much faster than an average human being and drew conclusion from the first attack and if he was not subjected to the Pavlovian "knife-shoot-kill" training he would not have shot Bryan in the back because there was a high probability Bryant, just like in the first attack, would not have used the knife.

    Valerie Jarrett is correct questioning the decision made by the police officer. However the questioning should not be directed at the officer himself who is just a Pavlovian dog who was successfully trained in shooting to kill but at the police philosophy, training and procedures.

    Replies: @anon, @Bill P, @Steve Sailer, @sayless

    Pavlovian “knife-shoot-kill” training

    No.

  130. @Wilkey

    Maybe there wasn’t time for Officer Reardon, in an 11-second interaction, to “de-escalate” the situation, as he is now being faulted for failing to do
     
    What's surreal and depressing is the number of people who think that Ma'Khia Bryant's target, Tionna Bonner, should have been expected to bear a chance of death so that the cop could spare Bryant's life. That's not even considering the fact that Reardon would have still had to disarm Bryant at some point, perhaps after Bonner was laying on the driveway, bleeding out.

    What degree of risk should a would-be victim be expected to bear in order to save a perpetrator's life? A 20% risk of death? A 1% risk of death?

    I frankly don't care if only 0.1% of knife assaults are fatal. We have no right to expect Bonner or any other potential victim to face risk of death or serious injury in order to save the life of a violent assailant. This has long been the attitude of most Americans of all ages and races towards criminals. A criminal may not deserve death for whatever particular crime he is committing - burglary, passing a fake $20, or whatever - but if he happens to die in the commission of that crime by resisting arrest or because a homeowner or store owner happens to be armed, then most Americans have long felt that the perp made his choice, and no one else but him should be expected to bear the risk of it.

    But now, and without any debate whatsoever, the establishment has determined that both police and innocent civilians (but not congressmen in a Capitol building being swarmed by protestors) should have to accept a significant increase in loss of life and property in order to spare the lives of these thugs.

    Unless and until they decide to name Ashli Babbitt's killer and charge him with murder, then their arguments aren't even worthy of consideration.

    Replies: @AndrewR, @The Last Real Calvinist

    But now, and without any debate whatsoever, the establishment has determined that both police and innocent civilians (but not congressmen in a Capitol building being swarmed by protestors) should have to accept a significant increase in loss of life and property in order to spare the lives of these thugs.

    This is the on-the-ground reality of Substitute Savior Syndrome — that is, cops are now burdened twice over with acting as saviors on behalf of innocent victimized sacred oppressed PoC:

    First, cops are expected to meekly lay down their own lives as a sacrifice if they are personally threatened with violence by a PoC.

    Second, they are expected to serve as omniscient intermediaries in chaotic situations such as the Columbus fracas. That is, Reardon is being faulted for not having apprehended — just by being in her presence for an instant — that M. Bryant was a fun-loving, caring, good-natured, aspiring cosmetologist who merited patience and understanding, not condemnation and violent intervention, as she pulled her knife back into ideal stabbing position. He should have somehow stopped time itself so he could step in to deliver her from her perhaps misguided playfulness. All of this is neatly encapsulated in the term ‘de-escalation’, which has become shorthand for this congeries of absurd redemptive expectations.

  131. @pgbh
    In all seriousness, has anyone estimated the odds that Reardon actually saved the second girl's life?

    Killing someone with a knife is hard. It takes some strength and technique, both of which I doubt Bryant possessed.

    I think there's only a 5-10% chance that the other girl would have died, had she been stabbed. Bryant was enraged and probably, even at the best of times, no particularly calculating person. It's most likely that she would have missed entirely, or merely struck a glancing blow.

    But I'm not an expert in these things.

    Replies: @Art Deco, @Anonymous, @ic1000, @Buffalo Joe

    I agree, it sounds like you are not an expert in these things.

    • Replies: @pgbh
    @ic1000

    Well, that's why I posted -- because I wanted to see if anyone else had thought about the issue.

    Replies: @ic1000

  132. How callous Colorado cops left 73-year-old dementia sufferer in cell for six HOURS after breaking her arm and dislocating her shoulder over $13 stolen groceries – and laughed as she cried out for a doctor
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9516971/Woman-dementia-73-sat-jail-cell-without-medical-care-SIX-HOURS-cops-laughed.html

    Michigan police cancel PTSD training session with controversial ‘Killology’ speaker after he tells officers ‘best sex’ happens after killing and taking a life is ‘not a big deal’
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9517827/Michigan-police-cancel-training-session-speaker-says-cops-best-sex-killing.html

    Who is Dave Grossman? Enforcement trainer tells cops sex after killing a human ‘is best sex’ in shocking video
    https://meaww.com/dave-grossman-police-trainer-killology-best-sex-after-killing-another-human

    • Replies: @anon
    @utu

    •Troll

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @utu


    Enforcement trainer tells cops sex after killing a human ‘is best sex’ in shocking video
     
    Is this the best book title of the century so far?



    https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51UP9xKdI+L._SX328_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg


    Sex and drugs in hell
    , @Alden
    @utu

    Didn’t Genghis Khan and his army say the same thing?

  133. Can we feed Bret Stephens to the blacks?

    …that doesn’t make any sense, but the thought is appealing.

  134. @anonymous
    If America swings from liberals to right wing populism, it's really not good for Jews. With the very notable exception of Trump, right wing populists tend to be harsh on Israel. People like Gaetz and Carlson harbor a loathing for Jews because they feel persecuted by Jews. I don't know know why conservative Jews want to attack Democrats. It certainly won't bring back predictable Republicans. The best strategy is to get liberals to pull back on BLM stuff for their own good. That way Democrats can be re-elected as president and pressure on Iran and protection of Israel will remain an unchallengable part of foreign policy.

    Replies: @Redman

    Exactly. That’s now the odd Tucker/Hannity dichotomy on Fox. Tucker has an almost Steve Sailerish program every night now. Brilliant. Followed immediately by a healthy heaping of Israel-first Hannity. The Murdoch’s need fo keep the remaining neocon Jews happy with the Hannity pap about Iran and Muzzies. Otherwise, they’d likely get spooked by the gentile Carlson telling too many truths.

  135. @Desiderius
    @War for Blair Mountain

    Never is a long time.

    And in fact the Han women did just this with the Manchu not so long ago.

    Replies: @Boomthorkell

    Well, the Manchu also swapped wives with the Han, it was a more fluid thing.

    Also, the Manchu weren’t a bunch of ungrateful migrants, ha ha. Conquest is understandable. This is insanity.

    • Replies: @Desiderius
    @Boomthorkell

    That’s what happens when legitimate power abdicates and the country is left at the mercy of eunuchs. As for gratitude, that’s a sentiment with a decidedly mixed record vis a vis the human race.

  136. @Guy De Champlagne
    @Achmed E. Newman

    I don't know what Steve meant by saying that Bret Stephens went "full isteve". But everything he quoted is just advocating going back to pre-BLM center left civil rights rhetoric.

    Steve's views on race, or anyone's sensible views, are not getting anywhere near the nytimes anytime soon.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Ron Unz

    Guy, I see the 1st 3 excerpts the same way Mr. Sailer does. Mr. Stephens brings up 3 points that each have been the subjects of one or multiple iSteve posts.

    1) Officer Reardon actually did a crack job, in those 11s of interaction, in preventing a knife murder
    2) There was the sarcastic remark about the D.I.E. bit, though Mr. Stephens could not use that order, as it would be too obviously taken off of iSteve.
    3) That comparison to the 1960’s and a liberal “crack up”. (I don’t personally agree we can make a comparison with the 1960’s – America is done for this time around.)

    True, after that, Brett Stephens relays the usual BS about race. He definitely didn’t get his admiration of that Kendi guy from this site. That’s for damn sure!

    • Replies: @Charlotte
    @Achmed E. Newman


    He definitely didn’t get his admiration of that Kendi guy from this site.
     
    Bret’s a bit cannier than you think. He didn’t actually praise Kendi. He said Kendi was the most important anti-racist thinker of today, which is basically an objective statement that says nothing at all about the quality of Kendi’s anti-racist thoughts. Which he then explains are problematic. Likewise, he cleverly insinuates that he feels St George Floyd’s death is the ultimate evil . . . but he doesn’t actually say he, Bret Stephens, believes that. He just lets his SJW readers assume he must feel the way all good people do.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

  137. @Guy De Champlagne
    @Achmed E. Newman

    I don't know what Steve meant by saying that Bret Stephens went "full isteve". But everything he quoted is just advocating going back to pre-BLM center left civil rights rhetoric.

    Steve's views on race, or anyone's sensible views, are not getting anywhere near the nytimes anytime soon.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Ron Unz

    I don’t know what Steve meant by saying that Bret Stephens went “full isteve”. But everything he quoted is just advocating going back to pre-BLM center left civil rights rhetoric.

    I tend to agree with that.

    Also, don’t forget that a year or two ago, Stephens boastfully cited the classic Cochran/Harpending paper on the evolution of Ashkenazi intelligence, then fled like a scalded cat when someone noted that Prof. Henry Harpending had been denounced as a “racist” by the SPLC.

    Stephens is just a pretty typical Neocon, and the ur-Neocon was Norman Podhoretz, the longtime editor of Commentary. Podhoretz’s most famous piece—published when he was still regarded as a leading leftist intellectual—was that rather candid and personal account of why he’s always hated blacks. I tend to doubt Commentary would publish it these days…

  138. @pgbh
    In all seriousness, has anyone estimated the odds that Reardon actually saved the second girl's life?

    Killing someone with a knife is hard. It takes some strength and technique, both of which I doubt Bryant possessed.

    I think there's only a 5-10% chance that the other girl would have died, had she been stabbed. Bryant was enraged and probably, even at the best of times, no particularly calculating person. It's most likely that she would have missed entirely, or merely struck a glancing blow.

    But I'm not an expert in these things.

    Replies: @Art Deco, @Anonymous, @ic1000, @Buffalo Joe

    pg, and in Cincinnati, a 13 year old girl kills another 13 year old girl with a slice to the neck using a pocketknife. The MSM gets to stir the pot by pointing out that knife girl didn’t stab pink girl. Don’t go there.

  139. @Marty
    Sorry, but just had a mask incident in SF. Walking up a hill, passed a 70-ish white woman who said, “you need a mask.” Told her to f-off. Ten yards further up, another white woman, about same age, but with russian accent. This one says, “was she barking about mask?” I said yes, and she said, “what is it her business?”

    Replies: @S. Anonyia

    The mask police are usually unhealthy and often ugly people who’d like the new fashion trend to continue indefinitely so they can feel like heroes for leading the same boring lifestyles they’ve always had.

  140. In a sane country, a real country, policemen who shoot and kill knife wielding murdering teen-aged maniacs are heroes. And Stephens knows of one such country and admires it.

  141. @Anonymous
    @Charles Pewitt


    Pat Buchanan says:

    What is the real truth about race in America that goes unmentioned in the mainstream media’s endless hunt for encounters between Black men and white cops?
     
    Buchanan doesn’t have the stones to capitalize “White”? Or to refrain from using the disparaging term “cops” for police officers?

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    I agree with your first point, #381, but, sorry, “cops” is not any kind of disparagement. It’s in common use. Do cops call themselves “police officers”? Nah, it’s just a term for the school kids to use to instill respect for Authoritah!

  142. @Anonymous
    @J.Ross


    Valerie Jarret is one of those people who, if our country’s ruling class actually functioned and cared at all about the country, would find herself in an airplane which had been serviced at night by a Quebecker with an indulgent attitude toward telemetry. There are times when Iran works better than Murka.
    This loathesome thing about describing an attack as a fight to make it seem less unfair was used in an NPR story about a white girl who dared to expect classroom rules to be enforced getting jumped by multiple criminal black classmates.
     
    I met Jarrett a dozen years ago up close and personal. She’s very nice, tall, slim, looks Hispanic, very attractive, and is fluent in Farsi (she conversed with a Persian colleague).

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Buffalo Joe, @3g4me

    OneOneZero, thanks for her physical describtion, she is still an idiot, but a tall slim one.

  143. @J.Ross
    @Buffalo Joe

    Valerie Jarret is one of those people who, if our country's ruling class actually functioned and cared at all about the country, would find herself in an airplane which had been serviced at night by a Quebecker with an indulgent attitude toward telemetry. There are times when Iran works better than Murka.
    This loathesome thing about describing an attack as a fight to make it seem less unfair was used in an NPR story about a white girl who dared to expect classroom rules to be enforced getting jumped by multiple criminal black classmates.
    --------
    Just now on right wing radio: White House Inhabitant Biden will celebrate his first hundred days by meeting with -- Jimmy Carter. Satire, defeated.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @ben tillman

    Valerie Jarret is one of those people who, if our country’s ruling class actually functioned and cared at all about the country, would find herself in an airplane which had been serviced at night by a Quebecker with an indulgent attitude toward telemetry. There are times when Iran works better than Murka.
    This loathesome thing about describing an attack as a fight to make it seem less unfair was used in an NPR story about a white girl who dared to expect classroom rules to be enforced getting jumped by multiple criminal black classmates.

    Yes, and it was used in Jena, and black criminals used the same language in the Portland riots. They told media they couldn’t be in a particular place because it’s “where the fights [attacks] happen”.

  144. @Alden
    @Wilkey

    If a school librarian cut my daughter’s beautiful long hair into a one inch boys cut, they’d get more than a curt call. A girl under 18 can’t get pierced ears without parental consent. Did you look st the before and after pictures.?

    In some cultures cutting off girls and women’s hair is considered a humiliating punishment. Samoans living in America bring their wonderful culture of harsh, injurious physical punishment to America. One of their punishments is giving a girl a haircut like that. And making sure she doesn’t wear hats or scarves so everyone will know her shame and humiliation.

    It’s easy to discern which commenters are parents and who are not.

    I wonder if the librarian is a trans gender activist.

    It’s not a civil rights violation. It’s assault and battery child abuse Penal Code violation.

    Librarian should just do his her or it’s jib and not spend 45 minutes cutting hair while on the clock

    I admit to being bigoted and prejudiced against public schools anyway.

    Replies: @Abolish_public_education

    I admit to being .. prejudiced against public schools anyway.

    When I let go of my phone, it will fall to the ground.

    But that’s just me being prejudiced against gravity.

  145. One way to deflect their assault is to simply not give a toot about being called “racist”. My now standard response to the charge is to reply, “Thanks for noticing” (not original, but I forget from whom I stole it).

    • Agree: Achmed E. Newman
    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @MBlanc46


    One way to deflect their assault is to simply not give a toot about being called “racist”. My now standard response to the charge is to reply, “Thanks for noticing” (not original, but I forget from whom I stole it).
     
    One way, I suppose, but not the best way. The best way is to lay claim to the moral high ground in some way.

    You’ve been accused of being bad. Indifference and uncaringness as to being bad turn in general turn people against you.
  146. Anonymous[312] • Disclaimer says:
    @ben tillman

    Ibram X. Kendi, the most important anti-racist thinker today, argues that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.
     
    How fuckin' stupid is this Kendi clown?

    Replies: @Desiderius, @gent, @anon, @Anonymous

    Ibram X. Kendi, the most important anti-racist thinker today, argues that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.

    How fuckin’ stupid is this Kendi clown?

    Nothing stupid about it. It relies on fundamental notions of reciprocity, compensatory justice. Basic logic.

    It is also persuasive, because it has a moral aspect to it and it is catchy.

    Probably the best counter is to sidestep it and come up with your own frame. Second best counter is to dispute the premise of past discrimination. You could combine both: dispute Kendi’s accusation (second best) and go on to charge Kendi and his people as being the group that is guilty or privileged and owing in some way (first best).

    Third “best” counter (but maybe worse than silence) is to concede the premise (past injustice) and whine that collective benefit and punishment is “not who we are” or is “counterproductive.”

    • Replies: @Ben tillman
    @Anonymous

    No, it does not rely on reciprocity or anything else. It is utterly incoherent inasmuch as there can be no way to draw the line between the present and the future or between the past and the present. There is , effectively, no present. But the real problem for a dumbass like Kendi — which I though was too obvious to mention — is that he’s telling everyone that (a) he is discriminating against whites today and (b) whites have the right to return the favor tomorrow. He’s refuting his whole damn raison d’etre.

    Replies: @anon, @Anonymous

    , @Ben tillman
    @Anonymous

    Ultimately, Kendi is saying that all discrimination — no matter the who/whom — is justified. That’s flagrantly at odds with his actual beliefs, yet he said it. That is really stupid.

    Replies: @Desiderius

  147. Wait, Mr. Stevens, how can there be this liberal break up if all I hear by the Alt Right is that demographics is destiny (by 2040, more non-whites than whites in ‘Murica)? Besides, is not Jewish power in our institutions unshakeable? And I also thought liberalism remained a potent force politically and socially on American college campuses despite the resurgence of conservativism in the 1970’s and 1980’s? What gives, Mr. Stevens?

    Of course, this “with-us-or-against-us politics” is also the result of Fox News and various Alt-Right sites, so to have misgivings about the right’s “cuck” narrative is to run the risk of being denounced as anti-white. In their world, the truth is NOT many-shaded and complex–just ask the acolytes of Fake News. That mantra is a great simplifier. Media bad, Alt-media good. Who cares if the end result is the dumbification of (white) Americans who protect themselves in their confirmation bias enclaves.

    Not that iSteve is part and parcel to it in any way, shape, or form (rolling of eyes).

  148. @Not only wrathful
    @AnotherDad

    Finding evidence that counters your worldview, but completely ignoring it in order to rant and rave about how some imaginary intention of his actually proves your worldview, is part of a descent into a very dark pit. I wish you luck and godspeed to come out the other side!

    Replies: @ben tillman

    Bret Stephens is an open-borders extremist. We know who Bret Stephens is. It appears that you don’t.

    • Replies: @Not only wrathful
    @ben tillman

    "Heads" your crazy theories are confirmed and relevant to the post.

    Same for "tails".

    That is the problem. It is an endless spiral of outrage and fear.

    E.g

    SJW: Boseman losing the best actor Oscar to Anthony Hopkins proves infinite racism

    Me: but look at the other awards, and anyway isn't Hopkins a legend?

    SJW: are you saying that racism doesn't exist?!?!!

  149. Anonymous[312] • Disclaimer says:
    @MBlanc46
    One way to deflect their assault is to simply not give a toot about being called “racist”. My now standard response to the charge is to reply, “Thanks for noticing” (not original, but I forget from whom I stole it).

    Replies: @Anonymous

    One way to deflect their assault is to simply not give a toot about being called “racist”. My now standard response to the charge is to reply, “Thanks for noticing” (not original, but I forget from whom I stole it).

    One way, I suppose, but not the best way. The best way is to lay claim to the moral high ground in some way.

    You’ve been accused of being bad. Indifference and uncaringness as to being bad turn in general turn people against you.

  150. @Alden
    @AndrewR

    Before anyone claims it was no big deal, take a look at the before and after pictures. The librarian gave a girl with a glorious head of long golden honey brown frizzy curly hair a boy’s hair cut. It’s the exact same hair cut of 1& 1/2 inch fluff that lesbian Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has. Or a boy.

    It’s the kind of hair cut a transgender activist parent gives a little girl on visiting weekend. To the outrage of custodial parent on Sunday night. Or more jobs for Family Court judges, lawyers counselors, consultants, coordinators social workers and mediators. It’s the first step in a
    F to M transition. As bad as growing a boys hair long and putting on pink ribbons to match his pink ruffles dress.

    Girl’s hair is too thick and curly for today’s fashions. But 35 years ago longer than shoulder length, much too thick, frizzy hair was the height of style. Check out Julie Roberts Nicole Kidman and others. A below the shoulders mass of frizz sticking 5 inches up on top 6 inches out on the sides. Like they glued a sheepskin to their head.

    Most schools nowadays have a strict health code that long hair must be in braids or ponytails to prevent lice a major problem in schools.

    School employees have always cut bangs that flop in the eyes for both girls and boys. They’ve always used bands and barrettes to secure girl’s unruly hair specially if other kids made fun of it. They send notes home, get a boys hair cut the other kids are making fun of him.

    But this long girls hair to a boy’s cut is egregious and outrageous. Took a long time. Not cutting bangs or making a ponytail. I believe the school district is not liable because. Cutting off 10 inches of hair to give a girl a boys haircut is way way outside the scope of a librarian responsibilities and duties.

    Librarian neglected duties and responsibilities to the other kids to spend all that time cutting one kids hair.

    The hair cut was way way way outside anything normally done by school employees to kids hair.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    The librarian gave a girl with a glorious head of long golden honey brown frizzy curly hair a boy’s hair cut.

    Uh, no. The librarian only got to it at Stage Two. Stage One was the work of a classmate. We do not know what this intermediate condition looked like, only that little Jurnee had asked for it and did not like the result. Lesson learned.

    Both the original do and the final one are a lot easier to stomach than is the name “Jurnee”. Sounds like a loaf of white bread from some two-bit regional baker. Or cheap knock-off sneakers from Shenzhen.

    • Replies: @Alden
    @Reg Cæsar

    I believe Jurnee is the name of one of jossie Smollett’s sisters.

    You didn’t even read the article did you? . The father stated another kid stole a school
    scissors and cut her hair on the bus. Father took her to a hair dresser to get it fixed.

    Weeks later girl came home with 1 & 1/2 inch long boys hair cut. I know Buzz Mohawk has grown kids. But many fertility fanatic Men Of UNZ don’t have kids and it’s easy to tell they don’t. Because they know nothing about kids and not much about human reproduction.

    Long girls hair to a short boys cut is far far far beyond what school employers sometimes do to kids hair. Maybe Jurnee wants to become a boy and that’s her first step. Maybe Jurnee asked the other girl to cut her hair. I thought conservatives like you are all for parental rights over school employees actions. And in favor of little girls looking like little girls and boys looking like boys.

    Replies: @3g4me

  151. @utu

    Valerie Jarrett, the former Obama adviser, tweeted that Bryant “was killed because a police officer immediately decided to shoot her multiple times in order to break up a knife fight."
     
    If the officer arrived at the scene few seconds earlier he would have shot Bryant while she was attacking the first girl. At that time Bryant had a knife in her hand when charging the first girl. Police officers have Pavlovian training to shoot to kill (multiple shots) in situation when a knife is spotted. However Bryant did not use the knife and just pushed the other girl who fell. Then Bryant turned around to attack the girl in pink and was shot multiple times in the back. The officer was few seconds too late to stop the attack against the first girl which we know would have been unnecessary.

    If the officer had ability to process acquired information much faster than an average human being and drew conclusion from the first attack and if he was not subjected to the Pavlovian "knife-shoot-kill" training he would not have shot Bryan in the back because there was a high probability Bryant, just like in the first attack, would not have used the knife.

    Valerie Jarrett is correct questioning the decision made by the police officer. However the questioning should not be directed at the officer himself who is just a Pavlovian dog who was successfully trained in shooting to kill but at the police philosophy, training and procedures.

    Replies: @anon, @Bill P, @Steve Sailer, @sayless

    She took a swipe at the first girl but couldn’t reach down far enough because of her belly. With the second girl she squared off and was going to stick her like a pig.

    I saw a black-on-black stabbing once in my life. I was driving through the ghetto on my way to the DMV when I saw a woman make a quick move with her arm and then brandish a shiny, bloody knife above her head. She had just stabbed a man in the upper back, between the spine and left shoulder blade. He started walking away with wet blood on his shirt looking very unhappy. There was a crowd, so after slowing down to rubberneck for a bit, I moved along. I called the cops a couple minutes later at the dmv. They already knew about it. I think the guy was ok, but with a stabbing you never know.

    There’s no reason to believe the girl was bluffing. I’m not a cop, so I probably wouldn’t have shot the girl in that situation (not my business), but if she had a knife and was ready to strike my kid, I would have smoked her right then and there.

    And that’s what you’ve got to ask yourself: if she had your kid up against a car and was ready to stab, would you have shot her or not? We pay cops to protect us all as we’d protect our own. That’s why Reardon did his job right.

    BTW, if you wouldn’t shoot someone about to stab your kid, I guess that’s your business, but don’t expect the rest of us to be so cold-hearted and callous as that.

    • Agree: sayless
    • Replies: @sayless
    @Bill P

    She was carrying the knife underhand, not overhand. Girl in Pink was at risk for being disemboweled. Therefore, a 5% to 10% (??) "chance" of being stabbed is poor odds.

    Maybe if Valerie Jarrett had been there, and responsible for the scene, she would have asked to see Makhia's birth certificate and academic records before acting.

  152. @Anon
    I'm kind of surprised that the New York Times ran this article:

    Officer Who Gave $25 to Kyle Rittenhouse’s Defense Is Fired
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/us/norfolk-police-kyle-rittenhouse-donation.html

    A police lieutenant in Virginia was fired this week after he contributed $25 to a legal-defense fund and expressed praise for Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged with killing two people last year during protests in Kenosha, Wis., officials said.
     
    Hackers got the list of donors from the GoFundMe-esque website. The donation and comment were private.

    His name appeared on a list of donors obtained by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a watchdog group that said in a Twitter direct message on Wednesday night that it had received the list from an external source. It shared the material with The New York Times.
     
    Here's the "egregious comments" that were "not consistent with the department’s values" in full:

    “God bless. Thank you for your courage. Keep your head up. You’ve done nothing wrong. Every rank and file police officer supports you. Don’t be discouraged by actions of the political class of law enforcement leadership.”
     
    This seems like a statement of personal support that many Americans share, followed by a simple statement of fact that I think is probably true. He didn't use the n-word or anything like that, and the message was intended to be private.

    His dismissal seems so petty and cruel. Is there nothing short of the death penalty these days? Is there no departmental discipline that could have been meted out"

    I wonder if the Times article was a rogue reporter slipping something through, or if from the standpoint of Times editors they think that all their readers agree this was a bad cop who had to be fired, so it was worthy of an end-zone touchdown celebration? If the latter, that level of delusion in the long run can only be good, since they will be inadvertently red-pilling more and more of their readers.

    Replies: @AndrewR, @Alden

    Lol “blue” people are just like white people: too cowardly to really stand up.

    Cops love to act tough against defenseless civilians but they just stick their head in the sand when their bosses act tyrannically. This dude’s entire department should strike. Then again, maybe everyone in his department hated him and this was just a pretext.

    People act like the Chauvin verdict is dome watershed, but really it’s just another step in a long pattern of politicians throwing cops under the bus. His colleagues will almost certainly all be convicted of every charge too whenever the state decides to try them.

    At this point, any non-black cop who chooses to police a largely black population gets no sympathy from me at all. How many red flags do they need? Blacks don’t want to be policed and our demonic elites are happy to ruin your life in order to rile up blacks and white traitors

  153. @Buffalo Joe
    Dear ms jarret, it is a "knife fight" if pink girl and knife girl both had knives. Otherwise, you stupid beeotch, it's attempted murder. obama and his crew still stirring the pot.

    Replies: @J.Ross, @kaganovitch, @JMcG

    Damn right, Joe!

  154. @Art Deco
    @pgbh

    Back in 1983 a schoolteacher in Rochester named Peter Castle was stabbed to death by a student in his class. IIRC, it took one thrust of the blade to mortally wound him.

    Replies: @JMcG, @pgbh

    Yes, exactly. Anyone who’s ever field dressed a deer knows that one slash to the abdomen and everything spills out. Knives are not to be trifled with at all.

  155. @utu
    How callous Colorado cops left 73-year-old dementia sufferer in cell for six HOURS after breaking her arm and dislocating her shoulder over $13 stolen groceries - and laughed as she cried out for a doctor
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9516971/Woman-dementia-73-sat-jail-cell-without-medical-care-SIX-HOURS-cops-laughed.html

    Michigan police cancel PTSD training session with controversial 'Killology' speaker after he tells officers 'best sex' happens after killing and taking a life is 'not a big deal'
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9517827/Michigan-police-cancel-training-session-speaker-says-cops-best-sex-killing.html

    Who is Dave Grossman? Enforcement trainer tells cops sex after killing a human 'is best sex' in shocking video
    https://meaww.com/dave-grossman-police-trainer-killology-best-sex-after-killing-another-human

    Replies: @anon, @Reg Cæsar, @Alden

    •Troll

  156. @YetAnotherAnon
    Steve, I get "page not found" for both of your Coinbase links, although I don't know if being in the UK (or not being signed up or in to Coinbase) has anything to do with it.

    Anyone else want to check this out? Do you have to have a Coinbase account and be signed in? Wouldn't want to buy a slice of a Bitcoin and not be able to get it to you.

    Replies: @Charlotte

    Anyone else want to check this out?

    I’m in the US and have a Coinbase account. I tried the first link and got the “page not found” message as well. It didn’t matter whether I was signed in to Coinbase or not.

  157. @Anon
    A pretty white girl was booted from the college soccer team when she wouldn't kneel for BLM. My first reaction: You dodged a bullet, girl. Steer clear of that cesspool of lesbianism.

    https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/kiersten-hening-21.jpeg

    Then I read this:


    In the lawsuit, Hening said she “supports social justice and believes that black lives matter” but she said she “does not support BLM the organization.” Hening added that she disagrees with Black Lives Matter’s “tactics and core tenets of its mission statement, including defunding the police.”
     
    My attitude changed: Go lesbo for all I care.

    Here's the coach who kicked her off the team, Charles "Chugger" Adair:

    https://hokiesports.com/images/2018/4/20/adair_charles.png

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Adair_(soccer)

    Why are white athletic coaches harassing white athletes over this blackety-black stuff? He was brought up in Chula Vista, which is lower middle class, if I'm not mistaken. It sounds from the reports like he was totally into this stuff, yelling and screaming at her, and not just doing it for show for his bosses.

    Replies: @Bill P

    Why dads put their daughters in men’s contact sports I’ll never know. I discouraged my daughter from playing any team sport that doesn’t separate players with a net and so far she’s fine, with no permanent injuries psychological or otherwise.

    On the other hand I have a cousin who was on one of the best collegiate women’s soccer teams in the country, and now she’s in a cult and doesn’t talk to her parents. She’s also pushing 40 and still no kids.

    Maybe we’d all be better off if the trannies pushed girls out of sports. Maybe that’s the point of it anyway. The priests used to say “God works in mysterious ways.”

    • Replies: @anon
    @Bill P

    Why dads put their daughters in men’s contact sports I’ll never know.

    I'll speculate: these guys have only daughters. No sons.

  158. @Matttt

    It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil
     
    This elite cultural habit of hyperbole when talking about black stuff is just weird. Obviously, the death of George Floyd isn't the epitome of evil, even if you agree with the jury. If you made a list of the 1,000,000 most evil things to happen in American history, George Floyd's death wouldn't even make the list. I'm not sure it would even make the list of the 100,000 most evil things to happen in America this year.

    Replies: @Getaclue, @Anonymous, @Redman, @Achilleus, @anon

    If you made a list of the 1,000,000 most evil things to happen in American history, George Floyd’s death wouldn’t even make the list.

    The Holocaust would have to be at or near the top.

    • LOL: Johann Ricke
  159. Anonymous[167] • Disclaimer says:
    @gent
    @ben tillman

    You should not be laughing at men like him. You should be noting the crowds they draw and preparing accordingly.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    You should not be laughing at men like him. You should be noting the crowds they draw and preparing accordingly.

    Rather, note the crowds and learn from his rhetorical technique.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Anonymous


    Rather, note the crowds and learn from his rhetorical technique.
     
    It isn't his "rhetorical technique" that draws crowds. He is an imbecile and his words are gibberish. He draws crowds because of his skin color. He is Black Privilege personified.
  160. Anonymous[167] • Disclaimer says:
    @Redman
    @gent

    Wrong. The NYT is essentially now a combination of wokeista and pro-Israel neocons (Stephens, Brooks, et al.). That’s the identical breakdown of the NY intelligentsia. The outliers are the neocons who refuse to abide the utter insanity of wokeism (e.g. Bari Weiss). And they generally get dismissed unless they’re Brett Stephens who was recruited from the WSJ and must have protectors in high places. And is willing to express negrophillic sentiments.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    Wrong. The NYT is essentially now a combination of wokeista and pro-Israel neocons (Stephens, Brooks, et al.).

    That describes America, or at least the ruling class. Interestingly, if coincides with the strategy of tribal Jews.

  161. @Bill P
    @Anon

    Why dads put their daughters in men's contact sports I'll never know. I discouraged my daughter from playing any team sport that doesn't separate players with a net and so far she's fine, with no permanent injuries psychological or otherwise.

    On the other hand I have a cousin who was on one of the best collegiate women's soccer teams in the country, and now she's in a cult and doesn't talk to her parents. She's also pushing 40 and still no kids.

    Maybe we'd all be better off if the trannies pushed girls out of sports. Maybe that's the point of it anyway. The priests used to say "God works in mysterious ways."

    Replies: @anon

    Why dads put their daughters in men’s contact sports I’ll never know.

    I’ll speculate: these guys have only daughters. No sons.

  162. @SunBakedSuburb
    @JimDandy

    "anti-racist thinker"

    It's a good thing anti-racism doesn't require two-way conversations because Ibram would be exposed as a bonehead. Will Ibram's American success story inspire a rush of short buses at the border?

    Replies: @JimDandy

    Hey, I’m as open-minded as the next guy, but I feel like the prerequisite for being a public intellectual should be that you’re not retarded. I just feel like having retarded-public-intellectuals is a bad look for this country. But what do I know? I’m no public intellectual.

  163. @Reg Cæsar
    @Alden


    The librarian gave a girl with a glorious head of long golden honey brown frizzy curly hair a boy’s hair cut.
     
    Uh, no. The librarian only got to it at Stage Two. Stage One was the work of a classmate. We do not know what this intermediate condition looked like, only that little Jurnee had asked for it and did not like the result. Lesson learned.

    Both the original do and the final one are a lot easier to stomach than is the name "Jurnee". Sounds like a loaf of white bread from some two-bit regional baker. Or cheap knock-off sneakers from Shenzhen.

    Replies: @Alden

    I believe Jurnee is the name of one of jossie Smollett’s sisters.

    You didn’t even read the article did you? . The father stated another kid stole a school
    scissors and cut her hair on the bus. Father took her to a hair dresser to get it fixed.

    Weeks later girl came home with 1 & 1/2 inch long boys hair cut. I know Buzz Mohawk has grown kids. But many fertility fanatic Men Of UNZ don’t have kids and it’s easy to tell they don’t. Because they know nothing about kids and not much about human reproduction.

    Long girls hair to a short boys cut is far far far beyond what school employers sometimes do to kids hair. Maybe Jurnee wants to become a boy and that’s her first step. Maybe Jurnee asked the other girl to cut her hair. I thought conservatives like you are all for parental rights over school employees actions. And in favor of little girls looking like little girls and boys looking like boys.

    • Replies: @3g4me
    @Alden

    @163 Alden: Why on earth are you so incredibly agitated about a mulatta's hair or her stupid name? I thought you claimed to be pro-White (when you're not being anti-male). This child represents two generations of miscegenation. If she's part of your people, you are not pro-White.

    Replies: @Alden

  164. @utu
    How callous Colorado cops left 73-year-old dementia sufferer in cell for six HOURS after breaking her arm and dislocating her shoulder over $13 stolen groceries - and laughed as she cried out for a doctor
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9516971/Woman-dementia-73-sat-jail-cell-without-medical-care-SIX-HOURS-cops-laughed.html

    Michigan police cancel PTSD training session with controversial 'Killology' speaker after he tells officers 'best sex' happens after killing and taking a life is 'not a big deal'
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9517827/Michigan-police-cancel-training-session-speaker-says-cops-best-sex-killing.html

    Who is Dave Grossman? Enforcement trainer tells cops sex after killing a human 'is best sex' in shocking video
    https://meaww.com/dave-grossman-police-trainer-killology-best-sex-after-killing-another-human

    Replies: @anon, @Reg Cæsar, @Alden

    Enforcement trainer tells cops sex after killing a human ‘is best sex’ in shocking video

    Is this the best book title of the century so far?

    Sex and drugs in hell

  165. @utu
    How callous Colorado cops left 73-year-old dementia sufferer in cell for six HOURS after breaking her arm and dislocating her shoulder over $13 stolen groceries - and laughed as she cried out for a doctor
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9516971/Woman-dementia-73-sat-jail-cell-without-medical-care-SIX-HOURS-cops-laughed.html

    Michigan police cancel PTSD training session with controversial 'Killology' speaker after he tells officers 'best sex' happens after killing and taking a life is 'not a big deal'
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9517827/Michigan-police-cancel-training-session-speaker-says-cops-best-sex-killing.html

    Who is Dave Grossman? Enforcement trainer tells cops sex after killing a human 'is best sex' in shocking video
    https://meaww.com/dave-grossman-police-trainer-killology-best-sex-after-killing-another-human

    Replies: @anon, @Reg Cæsar, @Alden

    Didn’t Genghis Khan and his army say the same thing?

  166. @Achmed E. Newman
    @Guy De Champlagne

    Guy, I see the 1st 3 excerpts the same way Mr. Sailer does. Mr. Stephens brings up 3 points that each have been the subjects of one or multiple iSteve posts.

    1) Officer Reardon actually did a crack job, in those 11s of interaction, in preventing a knife murder
    2) There was the sarcastic remark about the D.I.E. bit, though Mr. Stephens could not use that order, as it would be too obviously taken off of iSteve.
    3) That comparison to the 1960's and a liberal "crack up". (I don't personally agree we can make a comparison with the 1960's - America is done for this time around.)

    True, after that, Brett Stephens relays the usual BS about race. He definitely didn't get his admiration of that Kendi guy from this site. That's for damn sure!

    Replies: @Charlotte

    He definitely didn’t get his admiration of that Kendi guy from this site.

    Bret’s a bit cannier than you think. He didn’t actually praise Kendi. He said Kendi was the most important anti-racist thinker of today, which is basically an objective statement that says nothing at all about the quality of Kendi’s anti-racist thoughts. Which he then explains are problematic. Likewise, he cleverly insinuates that he feels St George Floyd’s death is the ultimate evil . . . but he doesn’t actually say he, Bret Stephens, believes that. He just lets his SJW readers assume he must feel the way all good people do.

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @Charlotte

    I see your point, Charlotte. It's not like I would ever pay attention to this Brett Stephens, were he not being discussed here.

    I will say that his presenting the black man Kendi as an "anti-racist" had me understanding that that means Kendi is basically a black raciest - that's from reading an ∞ amount more of iSteve than Brett Stephens (once you subtract off these excerpts).

  167. @Kronos
    Stephen’s gotta learn the secret to a great political coalition marriage:

    A happy marriage
    Unknown
    8/1/02
    Four Steps to a Happy Marriage…

    1. It is important to find a woman who cooks and cleans.

    2. It is important to find a woman who makes good money.

    3. It is important to find a woman who likes to have sex.

    4. It is important that these three women never meet.
     
    Only then can the coalition of the fringes live in peace.

    Replies: @gent, @indocon, @Alden, @Ben tillman

    Is it really that difficult? My wife meets the three criteria.

  168. Doesn’t matter what he says, Bret Stephens is not my friend or ally. He’s already made quite clear what he thinks of fly-over-Americans and our (in his view) deserved fate.

    F**k him, and I hope he gets cancelled for whatever common-sensical statement he might make that has all of a sudden, just this year, become thought-crime.

  169. @Anon
    I'm kind of surprised that the New York Times ran this article:

    Officer Who Gave $25 to Kyle Rittenhouse’s Defense Is Fired
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/us/norfolk-police-kyle-rittenhouse-donation.html

    A police lieutenant in Virginia was fired this week after he contributed $25 to a legal-defense fund and expressed praise for Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged with killing two people last year during protests in Kenosha, Wis., officials said.
     
    Hackers got the list of donors from the GoFundMe-esque website. The donation and comment were private.

    His name appeared on a list of donors obtained by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a watchdog group that said in a Twitter direct message on Wednesday night that it had received the list from an external source. It shared the material with The New York Times.
     
    Here's the "egregious comments" that were "not consistent with the department’s values" in full:

    “God bless. Thank you for your courage. Keep your head up. You’ve done nothing wrong. Every rank and file police officer supports you. Don’t be discouraged by actions of the political class of law enforcement leadership.”
     
    This seems like a statement of personal support that many Americans share, followed by a simple statement of fact that I think is probably true. He didn't use the n-word or anything like that, and the message was intended to be private.

    His dismissal seems so petty and cruel. Is there nothing short of the death penalty these days? Is there no departmental discipline that could have been meted out"

    I wonder if the Times article was a rogue reporter slipping something through, or if from the standpoint of Times editors they think that all their readers agree this was a bad cop who had to be fired, so it was worthy of an end-zone touchdown celebration? If the latter, that level of delusion in the long run can only be good, since they will be inadvertently red-pilling more and more of their readers.

    Replies: @AndrewR, @Alden

    When a black cop drives his car over to one of his girl friends homes and spends entire shifts drinking drugging and **** while on the clock, he gets every possible civil service and labor union protection.

    Remember the black woman cop who robbed a restaurant in uniform and on duty? Her department is probably one of those that hire blacks too dumb to read. I think she killed someone too.

    But a White cop!! They’re watching every word and movement trying to get him fired.

  170. It really has gotten to be funny as hell lately. Moderates, such as they are, at WashPost, NYTimes, Tucker, they’re all clearly glomming Steve’s stuff, somewhat shamelessly. Steve should have a SAG card and be a talking head, racking up those $5000.00 air shifts.

    Ideas cannot be copyrighted, but you’d think they could reconnoiter the old dialog a little.

    Hey Steve, would you or Ron ever have a notion to send a cease-and-desist on the plagiarism? Actually, thinking back, have you guys ever?

    • LOL: PiltdownMan
  171. @Joe Stalin
    @Charles Pewitt


    The WSJ had a decent bit about Fed-induced inflation but they are for the most part boring Murdoch-controlled crybaby propaganda whores.
     
    This YT video seems decent.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HmGLV46L60

    Replies: @Ripple Earthdevil

    But note the well-dressed white male/black female couple looking over their statements and pondering their finances.

  172. @utu

    Valerie Jarrett, the former Obama adviser, tweeted that Bryant “was killed because a police officer immediately decided to shoot her multiple times in order to break up a knife fight."
     
    If the officer arrived at the scene few seconds earlier he would have shot Bryant while she was attacking the first girl. At that time Bryant had a knife in her hand when charging the first girl. Police officers have Pavlovian training to shoot to kill (multiple shots) in situation when a knife is spotted. However Bryant did not use the knife and just pushed the other girl who fell. Then Bryant turned around to attack the girl in pink and was shot multiple times in the back. The officer was few seconds too late to stop the attack against the first girl which we know would have been unnecessary.

    If the officer had ability to process acquired information much faster than an average human being and drew conclusion from the first attack and if he was not subjected to the Pavlovian "knife-shoot-kill" training he would not have shot Bryan in the back because there was a high probability Bryant, just like in the first attack, would not have used the knife.

    Valerie Jarrett is correct questioning the decision made by the police officer. However the questioning should not be directed at the officer himself who is just a Pavlovian dog who was successfully trained in shooting to kill but at the police philosophy, training and procedures.

    Replies: @anon, @Bill P, @Steve Sailer, @sayless

    “The officer was few seconds too late to stop the attack against the first girl which we know would have been unnecessary.”

    Huh? It looks to me like the policeman’s arrival on the spot saved the first girl from a second stabbing attempt by Ma’K the Knife, who then turned away from them and charged the second girl while her father kicked the first girl in the head. Reardon somehow avoided being distracted by the peripheral vision of a large man kicking a woman in the head right next to him and stayed focused on the most lethal threat, the big knife in Ma’K’s hand.

    • Replies: @utu
    @Steve Sailer


    It looks to me like the policeman’s arrival on the spot saved the first girl from a second stabbing attempt by Ma’K the Knife, who then turned away from them and charged the second girl while her father kicked the first girl in the head.
     
    How the presence of the officer stopped the stabbing of the first girl but not the girl in pink? Was the girl in pink so much greater enemy in Bryant's mind than the first girl that she decided to stop stabbing of the first girl at a mere sight of the policeman and proceeded to kill the girl in pink regardless of his presence?
  173. I wonder what Bret’s gonna do after he gets fired from the NYT?

  174. @Kronos
    @Alden

    I’ve never heard of “The Englishmen’s Toast.” Thanks!

    Replies: @Gordo

    It’s simply an old joke.

  175. @Charlotte
    @Achmed E. Newman


    He definitely didn’t get his admiration of that Kendi guy from this site.
     
    Bret’s a bit cannier than you think. He didn’t actually praise Kendi. He said Kendi was the most important anti-racist thinker of today, which is basically an objective statement that says nothing at all about the quality of Kendi’s anti-racist thoughts. Which he then explains are problematic. Likewise, he cleverly insinuates that he feels St George Floyd’s death is the ultimate evil . . . but he doesn’t actually say he, Bret Stephens, believes that. He just lets his SJW readers assume he must feel the way all good people do.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    I see your point, Charlotte. It’s not like I would ever pay attention to this Brett Stephens, were he not being discussed here.

    I will say that his presenting the black man Kendi as an “anti-racist” had me understanding that that means Kendi is basically a black raciest – that’s from reading an ∞ amount more of iSteve than Brett Stephens (once you subtract off these excerpts).

  176. @Steve Sailer
    @utu

    "The officer was few seconds too late to stop the attack against the first girl which we know would have been unnecessary."

    Huh? It looks to me like the policeman's arrival on the spot saved the first girl from a second stabbing attempt by Ma'K the Knife, who then turned away from them and charged the second girl while her father kicked the first girl in the head. Reardon somehow avoided being distracted by the peripheral vision of a large man kicking a woman in the head right next to him and stayed focused on the most lethal threat, the big knife in Ma'K's hand.

    Replies: @utu

    It looks to me like the policeman’s arrival on the spot saved the first girl from a second stabbing attempt by Ma’K the Knife, who then turned away from them and charged the second girl while her father kicked the first girl in the head.

    How the presence of the officer stopped the stabbing of the first girl but not the girl in pink? Was the girl in pink so much greater enemy in Bryant’s mind than the first girl that she decided to stop stabbing of the first girl at a mere sight of the policeman and proceeded to kill the girl in pink regardless of his presence?

  177. We’re it not for Jewish meddling, there would be no unconstitutional “hate crime” laws, far fewer emboldened opportunists of color and no third world invasion due to rewrites of immigration laws no one asked for.

    Yes, plenty of shitlib whites are also guilty, and most American Jews are likely as oblivious to history as whites, but the overall story arc makes no sense without mentioning the Jewish contribution when recounting how things so quickly devolved.

  178. @ben tillman
    @Not only wrathful

    Bret Stephens is an open-borders extremist. We know who Bret Stephens is. It appears that you don't.

    Replies: @Not only wrathful

    “Heads” your crazy theories are confirmed and relevant to the post.

    Same for “tails”.

    That is the problem. It is an endless spiral of outrage and fear.

    E.g

    SJW: Boseman losing the best actor Oscar to Anthony Hopkins proves infinite racism

    Me: but look at the other awards, and anyway isn’t Hopkins a legend?

    SJW: are you saying that racism doesn’t exist?!?!!

  179. @El Dato
    OT:

    Karens have had enough being aggressed by Blegg "Bird Watchers" and their Disgusting Media Enablers:

    Fighting erupts in eastern Myanmar as Karen rebels attack military base near Thai border

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Known Fact, @Gary in Gramercy

    If there’s fighting in what is now called Myanmar, this is the appropriate background music:

    (“Burma!”
    “Why’d you say that for?
    “I panicked.”)

  180. @Achilleus
    @Matttt

    Here’s my entry for the “Epitome of Evil”:

    Babysitter, 24, 'killed one-year-old boy with wrestling moves' after becoming angry over a torn pillow - but told cops: 'I didn't hurt his head, I only caused the internal injuries'

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9495417/Babysitter-24-killed-boy-one-wrestling-moves-angry-torn-pillow.html

    Replies: @Gabe Ruth

    Damn that’s a depressing story. Why was this character in charge of 3 kids? I want to save the picture of the deceased with his parents for future white privilege claims, clearly this couple didn’t get their due.

    Wonder how much longer the DM will be accessible to us.

  181. @Anonymous
    @pgbh


    It’s most likely that she would have missed entirely, or merely struck a glancing blow.
     
    You assume she would have followed through and tried to stab her. It is possible that scaring the other girl and making her submit would have been sufficient for her to hold back.

    Replies: @sayless

    If I had been doing what Makhia was doing to the girl in pink I wouldn’t expect to get the benefit of the doubt. “Let’s roll the dice with your life, Girl in Pink.”

  182. Jan6 was Thousand Flowers

  183. @utu

    Valerie Jarrett, the former Obama adviser, tweeted that Bryant “was killed because a police officer immediately decided to shoot her multiple times in order to break up a knife fight."
     
    If the officer arrived at the scene few seconds earlier he would have shot Bryant while she was attacking the first girl. At that time Bryant had a knife in her hand when charging the first girl. Police officers have Pavlovian training to shoot to kill (multiple shots) in situation when a knife is spotted. However Bryant did not use the knife and just pushed the other girl who fell. Then Bryant turned around to attack the girl in pink and was shot multiple times in the back. The officer was few seconds too late to stop the attack against the first girl which we know would have been unnecessary.

    If the officer had ability to process acquired information much faster than an average human being and drew conclusion from the first attack and if he was not subjected to the Pavlovian "knife-shoot-kill" training he would not have shot Bryan in the back because there was a high probability Bryant, just like in the first attack, would not have used the knife.

    Valerie Jarrett is correct questioning the decision made by the police officer. However the questioning should not be directed at the officer himself who is just a Pavlovian dog who was successfully trained in shooting to kill but at the police philosophy, training and procedures.

    Replies: @anon, @Bill P, @Steve Sailer, @sayless

    “a high probability Bryant would not have used the knife”

    The officer told her repeatedly to drop the knife. If she was so out of it she didn’t hear him or wouldn’t comply then the risk was too great that she was going to use it.

    It isn’t hard to kill someone with a knife, either.

    • Disagree: Sean
  184. @Anonymous
    @ben tillman



    Ibram X. Kendi, the most important anti-racist thinker today, argues that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.
     
    How fuckin’ stupid is this Kendi clown?
     
    Nothing stupid about it. It relies on fundamental notions of reciprocity, compensatory justice. Basic logic.

    It is also persuasive, because it has a moral aspect to it and it is catchy.

    Probably the best counter is to sidestep it and come up with your own frame. Second best counter is to dispute the premise of past discrimination. You could combine both: dispute Kendi’s accusation (second best) and go on to charge Kendi and his people as being the group that is guilty or privileged and owing in some way (first best).

    Third “best” counter (but maybe worse than silence) is to concede the premise (past injustice) and whine that collective benefit and punishment is “not who we are” or is “counterproductive.”

    Replies: @Ben tillman, @Ben tillman

    No, it does not rely on reciprocity or anything else. It is utterly incoherent inasmuch as there can be no way to draw the line between the present and the future or between the past and the present. There is , effectively, no present. But the real problem for a dumbass like Kendi — which I though was too obvious to mention — is that he’s telling everyone that (a) he is discriminating against whites today and (b) whites have the right to return the favor tomorrow. He’s refuting his whole damn raison d’etre.

    • Replies: @anon
    @Ben tillman

    t (a) he is discriminating against whites today and (b) whites have the right to return the favor tomorrow.

    No, it's "anti-white discrimination now and until equity is reached". This means forever, or until distinct white people cease to exist, whichever comes first.

    , @Anonymous
    @Ben tillman


    But the real problem for a dumbass like Kendi — which I though was too obvious to mention — is that he’s telling everyone that (a) he is discriminating against whites today and (b) whites have the right to return the favor tomorrow.
     
    Are you not familiar with the well established moral and game theory principle known as “tit for tat” (or, an eye for an eye)?

    Replies: @ben tillman

  185. @Anonymous
    @ben tillman



    Ibram X. Kendi, the most important anti-racist thinker today, argues that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.
     
    How fuckin’ stupid is this Kendi clown?
     
    Nothing stupid about it. It relies on fundamental notions of reciprocity, compensatory justice. Basic logic.

    It is also persuasive, because it has a moral aspect to it and it is catchy.

    Probably the best counter is to sidestep it and come up with your own frame. Second best counter is to dispute the premise of past discrimination. You could combine both: dispute Kendi’s accusation (second best) and go on to charge Kendi and his people as being the group that is guilty or privileged and owing in some way (first best).

    Third “best” counter (but maybe worse than silence) is to concede the premise (past injustice) and whine that collective benefit and punishment is “not who we are” or is “counterproductive.”

    Replies: @Ben tillman, @Ben tillman

    Ultimately, Kendi is saying that all discrimination — no matter the who/whom — is justified. That’s flagrantly at odds with his actual beliefs, yet he said it. That is really stupid.

    • Replies: @Desiderius
    @Ben tillman

    Kendi is merely saying good luck stopping me and mine.

    The combination of the good old Leninists with the Bremer-style few brains and less scruples corrupt right does on the surface appear formidable.

  186. @Ben tillman
    @Anonymous

    No, it does not rely on reciprocity or anything else. It is utterly incoherent inasmuch as there can be no way to draw the line between the present and the future or between the past and the present. There is , effectively, no present. But the real problem for a dumbass like Kendi — which I though was too obvious to mention — is that he’s telling everyone that (a) he is discriminating against whites today and (b) whites have the right to return the favor tomorrow. He’s refuting his whole damn raison d’etre.

    Replies: @anon, @Anonymous

    t (a) he is discriminating against whites today and (b) whites have the right to return the favor tomorrow.

    No, it’s “anti-white discrimination now and until equity is reached”. This means forever, or until distinct white people cease to exist, whichever comes first.

  187. @Bill P
    @utu

    She took a swipe at the first girl but couldn't reach down far enough because of her belly. With the second girl she squared off and was going to stick her like a pig.

    I saw a black-on-black stabbing once in my life. I was driving through the ghetto on my way to the DMV when I saw a woman make a quick move with her arm and then brandish a shiny, bloody knife above her head. She had just stabbed a man in the upper back, between the spine and left shoulder blade. He started walking away with wet blood on his shirt looking very unhappy. There was a crowd, so after slowing down to rubberneck for a bit, I moved along. I called the cops a couple minutes later at the dmv. They already knew about it. I think the guy was ok, but with a stabbing you never know.

    There's no reason to believe the girl was bluffing. I'm not a cop, so I probably wouldn't have shot the girl in that situation (not my business), but if she had a knife and was ready to strike my kid, I would have smoked her right then and there.

    And that's what you've got to ask yourself: if she had your kid up against a car and was ready to stab, would you have shot her or not? We pay cops to protect us all as we'd protect our own. That's why Reardon did his job right.

    BTW, if you wouldn't shoot someone about to stab your kid, I guess that's your business, but don't expect the rest of us to be so cold-hearted and callous as that.

    Replies: @sayless

    She was carrying the knife underhand, not overhand. Girl in Pink was at risk for being disemboweled. Therefore, a 5% to 10% (??) “chance” of being stabbed is poor odds.

    Maybe if Valerie Jarrett had been there, and responsible for the scene, she would have asked to see Makhia’s birth certificate and academic records before acting.

  188. Speaking of dangerous Karens, both WaPo & The Paper Of Record are covering the Loveland Police violent apprehension of demented, 80 pound, 73-year-old Karen Garner, nabbed whilst picking flowers on the side of a road, having absent-mindedly walked out of a Walmart with $14 worth of goods. (How did she do that?)

    Now that those two have covered the story, it happened. Before, it didn’t.

  189. Fascism is lack of restraint in the use of force. I think we all know this what would be being said by this pundit and others of his stamp if Trump had been reelected.

    But what about a case like that of Ma’Khia Bryant, a Black teenager who was shot and killed last week by Nicholas Reardon, a white police officer in Columbus, Ohio,

    Apparently black girls are so lacking in female qualities that it is better to think of them as generic African Americans, and if they happen to be 16 years old well, whose counting? Go Epstein style: not by legal paperwork or forensic concepts of adulthood, and call them a “teenager”. Just another 16 year old girl shot dead by a policeman, its only unique. But Reardon reacts in a way that was unique, we know this because another cop (bald in shades) is visible as Ma’Khia comes to rest, and he clearly had not drawn his gun. He may have been further away than Reardon but not by much and he saw it all.

    Ma’Khia may have been able to see the bald cop and that he hadn’t drawn; she certainly could not see Reardon, whose once repeated “Get down” did not communicate that he was about to shoot her for having a knife in a catfight. Bald in shades cop looked at Reardon with a WTF expression, and has some trouble getting him to stop pointing his gun at the cadaver that had been Ma’Khia so CPR could be tried.

    at the instant that she was swinging a knife at a woman

    She took her time deciding to do, having being in contact, certainly well within knife range for someone with her telegraph pole arms, tussling one-armed with a 20 and then 22 year old for multiple seconds (4 subtracting the second that Reardon had ahold of her knife arm at the wrist, which he managed easily because Bryant’s knife arm was being held back and stationary) .

    https://heavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/bodycam2.png?resize=782,420
    The slo mo makes clear that at the point the above frame is from Ma’Khia brought the knife between her legs because she was deliberately avoiding cutting the fat girl. Meanwhile, Officer Reardon told her to get down (where she would get beaten by two much older women–look how close Pinkie was) twice. He’d time to warn she be shot if she didn’t lose the knife or stop. Instead he doubled down on a vague command. Anyway, you are pushing and pushing– back and back–a woman who just ran over to blindside you, and like being unable to choose which hair care products to buy for a Tick Tock, can’t make up your mind what to do; at the very instant you reach a decision … you get shot dead. Don’t you just hate it when that happens?

    • Replies: @anon
    @Sean

    Fascism is lack of restraint in the use of force.

    No.

    Replies: @Sean

    , @Anonymous
    @Sean

    D'Sean - instead of spewing thousands and thousands of words second guessing cops'
    split second decisions go join a police force somewhere and report back.

    Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach post on iSteve as "Sean".

    Replies: @Sean

  190. @gent
    @Jonathan Mason

    Nah, this is an attempt to recapture the public to the Party Line. Too many people in the center are seeking information from outside the prestige media. To allow the reigning narrative to continue to spread and dominate, they need those people to stay within the NYT-CNN corral. Hence Bill Maher suddenly pivotting against sentiments he expressed merely days before.
    It is the same trick they pulled successfully with Biden, putting a lame face on radical policies. All it requires is for people to mistake "boring" for "centrist."

    Replies: @Redman, @Rob

    Hence Bill Maher suddenly pivotting against sentiments he expressed merely days before.

    Interesting about Maher. Can you give an example or two? I sometimes watch him, but haven’t for a few weeks.

  191. @Ben tillman
    @Anonymous

    Ultimately, Kendi is saying that all discrimination — no matter the who/whom — is justified. That’s flagrantly at odds with his actual beliefs, yet he said it. That is really stupid.

    Replies: @Desiderius

    Kendi is merely saying good luck stopping me and mine.

    The combination of the good old Leninists with the Bremer-style few brains and less scruples corrupt right does on the surface appear formidable.

  192. @Boomthorkell
    @Desiderius

    Well, the Manchu also swapped wives with the Han, it was a more fluid thing.

    Also, the Manchu weren't a bunch of ungrateful migrants, ha ha. Conquest is understandable. This is insanity.

    Replies: @Desiderius

    That’s what happens when legitimate power abdicates and the country is left at the mercy of eunuchs. As for gratitude, that’s a sentiment with a decidedly mixed record vis a vis the human race.

  193. @AnotherDad
    Yawn. Bret Stephens is just another minoritarian Jew who doesn't particularly like blacks.

    Deep down, probably thinks Harvard quotas and the Golfocaust and immigration restriction!!! are sufficient evidence of evil white gentile oppression to justify imposing the minoritarian regime and stealing our nation. Having to drag in slavery and Jim Crow to make the minoritarian case and end up slumming with this tedious blackety, blackety stuff ... very unpleasant for Bret's self-image.

    ~~

    It’s possible to look at Floyd’s murder as the epitome of evil ...
     

    Not really. Floyd wasn't "murdered". (We just don't know if he was drugged up ass was salvageable at all.) And really "epitome of evil". Someone looking at the video and thinking "epitome of incompetence" ... ok. "Evil", come on.

    The idea that white skin automatically confers “privilege” in America is a strange concept to millions of working-class whites who have endured generations of poverty while missing out on the benefits of the past 50 years of affirmative action programs.
     
    LOL. What cheek. Immigration has nothing to do with that?

    Stephens has lectured us numerous times--i've read a couple, i'm sure there are more--that working class Americans are useless sacks of shit and need to be replaced by harder working foreigners (so Jews like him can have some cheaper services and/or make more money).

    ~

    Again, just a minoritarian Jew who doesn't like Blacks--doesn't like being in the boat with Blacks.

    Sorry, that's the minoritarian boat in America. I know you aren't loyal to Americans like me, Bret. Blacks are your shipmates--get used to it.

    Replies: @Not only wrathful, @ic1000, @Jon, @Bill Jones

    Not really. Floyd wasn’t “murdered”.

    On the contrary, Floyd has the unique (to my knowledge) distinction of having been murdered twice.

    Both times by the same man at the same time.
    Once intentionally (second degree) , once unintentionally (third degree), then for good measure he was man-slaughtered.

    This explains his sainthood. Mere humans like you and I will only die once, him?- Thrice.

    Floyd was desperately unlucky in his choice of State: It is only possible to be third degree’d to death in 3 States. Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Florida.
    New Mexico and Wisconsin decided to save lives by rescinding the laws that made it possible to kill someone that way.

    I’m sure the Soros DA’s are paying attention.

    • Replies: @Alden
    @Bill Jones

    3 different murderers. Does it have something to do with the Holy Trinity? Or pagan earth sky and underground gods?

    He’s the ugliest icon I’ve ever seen.

  194. @ic1000
    @pgbh

    I agree, it sounds like you are not an expert in these things.

    Replies: @pgbh

    Well, that’s why I posted — because I wanted to see if anyone else had thought about the issue.

    • Replies: @ic1000
    @pgbh

    Earlier, you wrote:


    Killing someone with a knife is hard. It takes some strength and technique, both of which I doubt Bryant possessed. I think there’s only a 5-10% chance that the other girl would have died, had she been stabbed. Bryant was enraged and probably, even at the best of times, no particularly calculating person. It’s most likely that she would have missed entirely, or merely struck a glancing blow.
     
    Take away "5%-10%" and "most likely," and you are most likely correct (or there's at least 5%-10% odds you're right). There is some unknowable chance that Knife Girl's attack would have been effective, and some other unknowable chance that her intended victim would have died.

    Stabby people stab other people with some frequency, and they do kill some of their targets.

    Aside from "be perfect" and "make the split-second decision that is unquestionably correct with benefit of hindsight," what do you want the cops to do?

    On an earlier Knife Girl thread, another commenter posted a short YouTube video showing how fast a motivated attacker could close the distance between them and a cop, compared to the cop drawing and firing his pistol. It referred to The Tueller Drill. Search, or ask for them to repost.

    Replies: @pgbh

  195. @Art Deco
    @pgbh

    Back in 1983 a schoolteacher in Rochester named Peter Castle was stabbed to death by a student in his class. IIRC, it took one thrust of the blade to mortally wound him.

    Replies: @JMcG, @pgbh

    Interesting, although that student was male.

  196. @anonymous
    Very striking report from Brookings: "In 2019, for the first time, more than half of the nation’s population under age 16 identified as a racial or ethnic minority. Among this group, Latino or Hispanic and Black residents together comprise nearly 40% of the population. There were about 5 million fewer whites under 25 in 2019 compared to 2010."

    https://www.brookings.edu/research/new-census-data-shows-the-nation-is-diversifying-even-faster-than-predicted/

    Replies: @Travis, @SaneClownPosse

    Kids are figuring out that they need to identify as anything other than white to be “in”.

    Passing as White is so old school.

    Diverse is the new White.

  197. @Sean
    Fascism is lack of restraint in the use of force. I think we all know this what would be being said by this pundit and others of his stamp if Trump had been reelected.

    But what about a case like that of Ma’Khia Bryant, a Black teenager who was shot and killed last week by Nicholas Reardon, a white police officer in Columbus, Ohio,
     
    Apparently black girls are so lacking in female qualities that it is better to think of them as generic African Americans, and if they happen to be 16 years old well, whose counting? Go Epstein style: not by legal paperwork or forensic concepts of adulthood, and call them a "teenager". Just another 16 year old girl shot dead by a policeman, its only unique. But Reardon reacts in a way that was unique, we know this because another cop (bald in shades) is visible as Ma’Khia comes to rest, and he clearly had not drawn his gun. He may have been further away than Reardon but not by much and he saw it all.

    https://youtu.be/k0YZ38XAZyQ?t=104

    Ma’Khia may have been able to see the bald cop and that he hadn't drawn; she certainly could not see Reardon, whose once repeated "Get down" did not communicate that he was about to shoot her for having a knife in a catfight. Bald in shades cop looked at Reardon with a WTF expression, and has some trouble getting him to stop pointing his gun at the cadaver that had been Ma’Khia so CPR could be tried.


    at the instant that she was swinging a knife at a woman
     
    She took her time deciding to do, having being in contact, certainly well within knife range for someone with her telegraph pole arms, tussling one-armed with a 20 and then 22 year old for multiple seconds (4 subtracting the second that Reardon had ahold of her knife arm at the wrist, which he managed easily because Bryant's knife arm was being held back and stationary) .

    https://heavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/bodycam2.png?resize=782,420
    The slo mo makes clear that at the point the above frame is from Ma’Khia brought the knife between her legs because she was deliberately avoiding cutting the fat girl. Meanwhile, Officer Reardon told her to get down (where she would get beaten by two much older women--look how close Pinkie was) twice. He'd time to warn she be shot if she didn't lose the knife or stop. Instead he doubled down on a vague command. Anyway, you are pushing and pushing-- back and back--a woman who just ran over to blindside you, and like being unable to choose which hair care products to buy for a Tick Tock, can't make up your mind what to do; at the very instant you reach a decision ... you get shot dead. Don't you just hate it when that happens?

    Replies: @anon, @Anonymous

    Fascism is lack of restraint in the use of force.

    No.

    • Replies: @Sean
    @anon

    I am confident that if Reardon had not been there first, but that bald cop in sunglasses who was almost as close as Reardon to Bryant when she was shot and who saw the whole thing but did not draw his gun, then no one would have died. Any other cop but him; it is not just lack of experience, Reardon is bereft of the common sense and self control to be a police officer, as his colleagues were administering CPR, Reardon got into it with bystanders about why he shot Bryant and one of those doing the CPR told him "don't argue with them" and Reardon shut up, but not for long. A cop is supposed to be a cut above that kind of behavior. He is an over-reactive undersized idiot.

    Civilization is restraint in the use of force then, and civilization is more efficient, in the age when everything is recorded and certain groups take note that their lives are considered less important than the qualified immunity fiction that someone get any more capable than they are by donning a uniform. The alternative to restraint by police is rioting. Or
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSDOcc5aH5s

    Or worse like hit and runs on cops directing traffic of which there was one the other day.
    If Trump were president then rely on it Bryant's death would have been reported by Stevens as a sign of accelerating fascism, I don't understand how anyone can think Stop Trump movement star Stevens who was brought into the NYT in 2017 is sincere. In a prepared lecture Stephens compared Trump to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Whatever he might have said about political correctness at the NYT, he was soft on the BLM riots because he saw them as a offering a way to get rid of Trump, which is doubtless the same reason that he opposed a national coronavirus lockdown .

    It's bad tactics to forget who is president, because Stevens did not do so for one second while composing the Bryant story about how everything is working again now that the elite are back in control of the White House. For Stevens (a follower of the Leo Strauss school of thought) this is just another move in a power game played by innately superior minds (amusingly, Diamond not Cochran had priority on with the Jewish geniuses/ diseases hypothesis) guided by the argot ridden texts of great philosopher Strauss.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @anon

  198. @Travis
    @anonymous

    Whites will be a minority in the United States by 2040
    The 2020 census will be the first time the absolute number of whites has declined over the previous census. More Whites have died over the past decade than were born. Births and deaths highlights how the decline is accelerating

    Year- White Births- White Deaths
    2018 - 1,900,000 - 2,250,000
    2019 - 1,854,000 - 2,320,000
    2020 - 1,750,000 - 2,540,000

    White births includes Arabs, Iraqis, Iranians, North Africans, Turks....

    Replies: @3g4me

    @87 Travis: If you’re trying to awaken anyone here, the iSteve commentariat does not want to be nudged from their rut – they’ve worked hard for it, damn it, and they like exactly where they are – somewhere in the mushy, citizenism middle. If you are trying to weaken morale, again, wrong crowd – half of those here have already miscegenated and are convinced their mystery meat children are the greatest thing since sliced bread.

    But your figures are correct, and if you limit Whites to specifically European Whites who are at least nominally Christian, they will be a minority by 2030 easily.

    • Replies: @anon
    @3g4me

    @87 Travis: If you’re trying to awaken anyone here,

    Ok Boomers!

    What does "awaken" mean in this context? Is there some kind of action item, or just more whining?

  199. @Anonymous
    @J.Ross


    Valerie Jarret is one of those people who, if our country’s ruling class actually functioned and cared at all about the country, would find herself in an airplane which had been serviced at night by a Quebecker with an indulgent attitude toward telemetry. There are times when Iran works better than Murka.
    This loathesome thing about describing an attack as a fight to make it seem less unfair was used in an NPR story about a white girl who dared to expect classroom rules to be enforced getting jumped by multiple criminal black classmates.
     
    I met Jarrett a dozen years ago up close and personal. She’s very nice, tall, slim, looks Hispanic, very attractive, and is fluent in Farsi (she conversed with a Persian colleague).

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Buffalo Joe, @3g4me

    @112 Anonymous[110]: Well aren’t you just so special! Wow, “looks Hispanic” AND “speaks Farsi.” Add in vitriolic anti-White envy and hatred and you’ve got the perfect globohomo trifecta. Perfect outcome of citizenism.

  200. @Alden
    @Reg Cæsar

    I believe Jurnee is the name of one of jossie Smollett’s sisters.

    You didn’t even read the article did you? . The father stated another kid stole a school
    scissors and cut her hair on the bus. Father took her to a hair dresser to get it fixed.

    Weeks later girl came home with 1 & 1/2 inch long boys hair cut. I know Buzz Mohawk has grown kids. But many fertility fanatic Men Of UNZ don’t have kids and it’s easy to tell they don’t. Because they know nothing about kids and not much about human reproduction.

    Long girls hair to a short boys cut is far far far beyond what school employers sometimes do to kids hair. Maybe Jurnee wants to become a boy and that’s her first step. Maybe Jurnee asked the other girl to cut her hair. I thought conservatives like you are all for parental rights over school employees actions. And in favor of little girls looking like little girls and boys looking like boys.

    Replies: @3g4me

    @163 Alden: Why on earth are you so incredibly agitated about a mulatta’s hair or her stupid name? I thought you claimed to be pro-White (when you’re not being anti-male). This child represents two generations of miscegenation. If she’s part of your people, you are not pro-White.

    • Replies: @Alden
    @3g4me

    I’m very pro White. I’m also familiar with what schools do with kids hair. Long hair must be in braids or ponytails to prevent lice. Sometimes teachers do cut long bangs that get in kids eyes. Teachers often give girls with neglect ful mothers barrettes and elastic bands combs and brushes if their hair is messy.

    Librarian didn’t cut off a couple inches Gave the girl a boys cut. Unlike some MEN OF UNZ fertility fanatics I’m a parent and I know any parent would react the way Hoffmeyer did at that radical girl to boy hair cut. She’s not my kid. Hair will grow back. I was really defending her parents reaction to the girl’s boy hair cut.

    In some states and school districts school
    employees are forbidden to touch a student for any reason.

    If you had a White daughter with less frizzy glorious golden brown long thick hair and she came home from school with a boys cut wouldn’t you be angry?

    We have hundreds of employees. We’d fire a worker who cut someone’s hair while being paid. Strange, a school librarian cutting kids hair. Who knows what the librarians reason was. My first thought a transgender activist
    Of course. I’m a parent and react as a parent would. You’re not a parent. If you are you’d object to what the school librarian did. If a school librarian shaved your son’s head, or cut your kids pants into shorts or cut off the sleeves of a shirt or jacket do you think it was within the scope of the school’s duties and responsibilities?
    It’s not

  201. anonymous[330] • Disclaimer says:
    @Batman
    Don't fall for it. This is their semi-monthly "See, we're not slanted!" piece that also serves as a strawman to eviscerate tomorrow.

    Replies: @SunBakedSuburb, @anonymous

    Stephens can expect a slew of dissenting columns and letters to The Gray Hag from the usual suspects.

  202. The rootless cosmopolitan elite known as “Bret Stephens” is more like it.

  203. @anon
    @Sean

    Fascism is lack of restraint in the use of force.

    No.

    Replies: @Sean

    I am confident that if Reardon had not been there first, but that bald cop in sunglasses who was almost as close as Reardon to Bryant when she was shot and who saw the whole thing but did not draw his gun, then no one would have died. Any other cop but him; it is not just lack of experience, Reardon is bereft of the common sense and self control to be a police officer, as his colleagues were administering CPR, Reardon got into it with bystanders about why he shot Bryant and one of those doing the CPR told him “don’t argue with them” and Reardon shut up, but not for long. A cop is supposed to be a cut above that kind of behavior. He is an over-reactive undersized idiot.

    Civilization is restraint in the use of force then, and civilization is more efficient, in the age when everything is recorded and certain groups take note that their lives are considered less important than the qualified immunity fiction that someone get any more capable than they are by donning a uniform. The alternative to restraint by police is rioting. Or

    Or worse like hit and runs on cops directing traffic of which there was one the other day.
    If Trump were president then rely on it Bryant’s death would have been reported by Stevens as a sign of accelerating fascism, I don’t understand how anyone can think Stop Trump movement star Stevens who was brought into the NYT in 2017 is sincere. In a prepared lecture Stephens compared Trump to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Whatever he might have said about political correctness at the NYT, he was soft on the BLM riots because he saw them as a offering a way to get rid of Trump, which is doubtless the same reason that he opposed a national coronavirus lockdown .

    It’s bad tactics to forget who is president, because Stevens did not do so for one second while composing the Bryant story about how everything is working again now that the elite are back in control of the White House. For Stevens (a follower of the Leo Strauss school of thought) this is just another move in a power game played by innately superior minds (amusingly, Diamond not Cochran had priority on with the Jewish geniuses/ diseases hypothesis) guided by the argot ridden texts of great philosopher Strauss.

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Sean

    You've been watching Ma'k the Knife in super slo-mo over and over and have taken to fantasizing on the question of What Would Batman Do? Try watching it in real time without all your fantasies.

    Replies: @Sean

    , @anon
    @Sean

    Civilization is restraint in the use of force then,

    Sometimes.

  204. @Anonymous
    @gent


    You should not be laughing at men like him. You should be noting the crowds they draw and preparing accordingly.
     
    Rather, note the crowds and learn from his rhetorical technique.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    Rather, note the crowds and learn from his rhetorical technique.

    It isn’t his “rhetorical technique” that draws crowds. He is an imbecile and his words are gibberish. He draws crowds because of his skin color. He is Black Privilege personified.

  205. @3g4me
    @Alden

    @163 Alden: Why on earth are you so incredibly agitated about a mulatta's hair or her stupid name? I thought you claimed to be pro-White (when you're not being anti-male). This child represents two generations of miscegenation. If she's part of your people, you are not pro-White.

    Replies: @Alden

    I’m very pro White. I’m also familiar with what schools do with kids hair. Long hair must be in braids or ponytails to prevent lice. Sometimes teachers do cut long bangs that get in kids eyes. Teachers often give girls with neglect ful mothers barrettes and elastic bands combs and brushes if their hair is messy.

    Librarian didn’t cut off a couple inches Gave the girl a boys cut. Unlike some MEN OF UNZ fertility fanatics I’m a parent and I know any parent would react the way Hoffmeyer did at that radical girl to boy hair cut. She’s not my kid. Hair will grow back. I was really defending her parents reaction to the girl’s boy hair cut.

    In some states and school districts school
    employees are forbidden to touch a student for any reason.

    If you had a White daughter with less frizzy glorious golden brown long thick hair and she came home from school with a boys cut wouldn’t you be angry?

    We have hundreds of employees. We’d fire a worker who cut someone’s hair while being paid. Strange, a school librarian cutting kids hair. Who knows what the librarians reason was. My first thought a transgender activist
    Of course. I’m a parent and react as a parent would. You’re not a parent. If you are you’d object to what the school librarian did. If a school librarian shaved your son’s head, or cut your kids pants into shorts or cut off the sleeves of a shirt or jacket do you think it was within the scope of the school’s duties and responsibilities?
    It’s not

  206. @Sean
    Fascism is lack of restraint in the use of force. I think we all know this what would be being said by this pundit and others of his stamp if Trump had been reelected.

    But what about a case like that of Ma’Khia Bryant, a Black teenager who was shot and killed last week by Nicholas Reardon, a white police officer in Columbus, Ohio,
     
    Apparently black girls are so lacking in female qualities that it is better to think of them as generic African Americans, and if they happen to be 16 years old well, whose counting? Go Epstein style: not by legal paperwork or forensic concepts of adulthood, and call them a "teenager". Just another 16 year old girl shot dead by a policeman, its only unique. But Reardon reacts in a way that was unique, we know this because another cop (bald in shades) is visible as Ma’Khia comes to rest, and he clearly had not drawn his gun. He may have been further away than Reardon but not by much and he saw it all.

    https://youtu.be/k0YZ38XAZyQ?t=104

    Ma’Khia may have been able to see the bald cop and that he hadn't drawn; she certainly could not see Reardon, whose once repeated "Get down" did not communicate that he was about to shoot her for having a knife in a catfight. Bald in shades cop looked at Reardon with a WTF expression, and has some trouble getting him to stop pointing his gun at the cadaver that had been Ma’Khia so CPR could be tried.


    at the instant that she was swinging a knife at a woman
     
    She took her time deciding to do, having being in contact, certainly well within knife range for someone with her telegraph pole arms, tussling one-armed with a 20 and then 22 year old for multiple seconds (4 subtracting the second that Reardon had ahold of her knife arm at the wrist, which he managed easily because Bryant's knife arm was being held back and stationary) .

    https://heavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/bodycam2.png?resize=782,420
    The slo mo makes clear that at the point the above frame is from Ma’Khia brought the knife between her legs because she was deliberately avoiding cutting the fat girl. Meanwhile, Officer Reardon told her to get down (where she would get beaten by two much older women--look how close Pinkie was) twice. He'd time to warn she be shot if she didn't lose the knife or stop. Instead he doubled down on a vague command. Anyway, you are pushing and pushing-- back and back--a woman who just ran over to blindside you, and like being unable to choose which hair care products to buy for a Tick Tock, can't make up your mind what to do; at the very instant you reach a decision ... you get shot dead. Don't you just hate it when that happens?

    Replies: @anon, @Anonymous

    D’Sean – instead of spewing thousands and thousands of words second guessing cops’
    split second decisions go join a police force somewhere and report back.

    Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t teach post on iSteve as “Sean”.

    • Replies: @Sean
    @Anonymous

    That is great thinking for police recruitment. Of late fewer capable people, the ones who could easily go into other types of employment for similar or better money, were inclined to chose the police as a career because the high regard and status in society has declined for some strange reason. Holding up Reardon as an example of exemplary police work with the promotional video of his impressive performance will really reverse that trend. Who doesn't like the idea of killing a 16 year old girl and being a hero?

    And I know you and every single one of those who comment like you do about Reardon would, were you in a nice job with the option to stick your neck out like a giraffe, actually stake your livelihood on Reardon's good judgment and stability by going beyond cheap talk to actually hire Reardon as a police officer and sending him back out on calls with his trusty S&W 9mm and also something a little heavier (Remington shotgun) in case the next person he decides to shoot is not a 16 year old girl with her back to him.

    You could even show the aftermath of the shooting in which Reardon displays his de-escalation skills by getting into an an argument, and then a shouting match with bystanders, even as his colleagues were performing CPR.

    Replies: @Anonymous

  207. @Bill Jones
    @AnotherDad


    Not really. Floyd wasn’t “murdered”.
     
    On the contrary, Floyd has the unique (to my knowledge) distinction of having been murdered twice.

    Both times by the same man at the same time.
    Once intentionally (second degree) , once unintentionally (third degree), then for good measure he was man-slaughtered.

    This explains his sainthood. Mere humans like you and I will only die once, him?- Thrice.


    Floyd was desperately unlucky in his choice of State: It is only possible to be third degree'd to death in 3 States. Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Florida.
    New Mexico and Wisconsin decided to save lives by rescinding the laws that made it possible to kill someone that way.

    I'm sure the Soros DA's are paying attention.

    Replies: @Alden

    3 different murderers. Does it have something to do with the Holy Trinity? Or pagan earth sky and underground gods?

    He’s the ugliest icon I’ve ever seen.

  208. @Sean
    @anon

    I am confident that if Reardon had not been there first, but that bald cop in sunglasses who was almost as close as Reardon to Bryant when she was shot and who saw the whole thing but did not draw his gun, then no one would have died. Any other cop but him; it is not just lack of experience, Reardon is bereft of the common sense and self control to be a police officer, as his colleagues were administering CPR, Reardon got into it with bystanders about why he shot Bryant and one of those doing the CPR told him "don't argue with them" and Reardon shut up, but not for long. A cop is supposed to be a cut above that kind of behavior. He is an over-reactive undersized idiot.

    Civilization is restraint in the use of force then, and civilization is more efficient, in the age when everything is recorded and certain groups take note that their lives are considered less important than the qualified immunity fiction that someone get any more capable than they are by donning a uniform. The alternative to restraint by police is rioting. Or
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSDOcc5aH5s

    Or worse like hit and runs on cops directing traffic of which there was one the other day.
    If Trump were president then rely on it Bryant's death would have been reported by Stevens as a sign of accelerating fascism, I don't understand how anyone can think Stop Trump movement star Stevens who was brought into the NYT in 2017 is sincere. In a prepared lecture Stephens compared Trump to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Whatever he might have said about political correctness at the NYT, he was soft on the BLM riots because he saw them as a offering a way to get rid of Trump, which is doubtless the same reason that he opposed a national coronavirus lockdown .

    It's bad tactics to forget who is president, because Stevens did not do so for one second while composing the Bryant story about how everything is working again now that the elite are back in control of the White House. For Stevens (a follower of the Leo Strauss school of thought) this is just another move in a power game played by innately superior minds (amusingly, Diamond not Cochran had priority on with the Jewish geniuses/ diseases hypothesis) guided by the argot ridden texts of great philosopher Strauss.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @anon

    You’ve been watching Ma’k the Knife in super slo-mo over and over and have taken to fantasizing on the question of What Would Batman Do? Try watching it in real time without all your fantasies.

    • Replies: @Sean
    @Steve Sailer

    The police did not release the slo mo first, it was a single carefully chosen frame which gave the impression of forward momentum, especially because it looks like Bryant's left foot was not yet touching down. But she actually had stopped and was planted both feet flat in a wide stance if you look carefully, so Reardon had a stationary target (makes sense he'd fire then, eh?). What did did Deadeye Dick and Ma’k the Knife have in common? Neither used their right hand, the strongest one, for what they were supposed to be trying to do.

    https://youtu.be/Q3TPl45ODEA?t=131

    Bryant had a reach advantage and a long knife, she would have already cut the faces, lit either of those women up like a Christmas tree, gutted them like a fish or whatever other way one can put it. They did not get so much as a scratch. I think Reardon hurt his already injured wrist in the tussle, in which he did in fact grab Bryant's right wrist. Batman didn't have one hand on his gun when he was trying to do stuff.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @anon

  209. @3g4me
    @Travis

    @87 Travis: If you're trying to awaken anyone here, the iSteve commentariat does not want to be nudged from their rut - they've worked hard for it, damn it, and they like exactly where they are - somewhere in the mushy, citizenism middle. If you are trying to weaken morale, again, wrong crowd - half of those here have already miscegenated and are convinced their mystery meat children are the greatest thing since sliced bread.

    But your figures are correct, and if you limit Whites to specifically European Whites who are at least nominally Christian, they will be a minority by 2030 easily.

    Replies: @anon

    @87 Travis: If you’re trying to awaken anyone here,

    Ok Boomers!

    What does “awaken” mean in this context? Is there some kind of action item, or just more whining?

  210. @Anonymous
    @Sean

    D'Sean - instead of spewing thousands and thousands of words second guessing cops'
    split second decisions go join a police force somewhere and report back.

    Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach post on iSteve as "Sean".

    Replies: @Sean

    That is great thinking for police recruitment. Of late fewer capable people, the ones who could easily go into other types of employment for similar or better money, were inclined to chose the police as a career because the high regard and status in society has declined for some strange reason. Holding up Reardon as an example of exemplary police work with the promotional video of his impressive performance will really reverse that trend. Who doesn’t like the idea of killing a 16 year old girl and being a hero?

    And I know you and every single one of those who comment like you do about Reardon would, were you in a nice job with the option to stick your neck out like a giraffe, actually stake your livelihood on Reardon’s good judgment and stability by going beyond cheap talk to actually hire Reardon as a police officer and sending him back out on calls with his trusty S&W 9mm and also something a little heavier (Remington shotgun) in case the next person he decides to shoot is not a 16 year old girl with her back to him.

    You could even show the aftermath of the shooting in which Reardon displays his de-escalation skills by getting into an an argument, and then a shouting match with bystanders, even as his colleagues were performing CPR.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Sean


    option to stick your neck out like a giraffe, actually stake your livelihood on Reardon’s good judgment and stability by going beyond cheap talk to actually hire Reardon as a police officer and sending him back ou
     
    We're not talking about Reardon, we're talking about you - the ninny known as "Sean" who is an expert on all things police-related. Sean who could disarm the obese knife-wielding negress in an instant, Sean who could single-handedly fix George Floyd.

    Its time for you to stop commenting from the bleachers. I would like to see you join a police force and practice what you preach, instead of second-guessing people with your inane theories like "maybe it was a rubber knife", like a woman. Instead of bravely commenting on the internet, go out of your basement and be a man - don't just talk, DO.

    Less talk more action.

    Replies: @Sean

  211. Anonymous[329] • Disclaimer says:
    @Ben tillman
    @Anonymous

    No, it does not rely on reciprocity or anything else. It is utterly incoherent inasmuch as there can be no way to draw the line between the present and the future or between the past and the present. There is , effectively, no present. But the real problem for a dumbass like Kendi — which I though was too obvious to mention — is that he’s telling everyone that (a) he is discriminating against whites today and (b) whites have the right to return the favor tomorrow. He’s refuting his whole damn raison d’etre.

    Replies: @anon, @Anonymous

    But the real problem for a dumbass like Kendi — which I though was too obvious to mention — is that he’s telling everyone that (a) he is discriminating against whites today and (b) whites have the right to return the favor tomorrow.

    Are you not familiar with the well established moral and game theory principle known as “tit for tat” (or, an eye for an eye)?

    • Replies: @ben tillman
    @Anonymous

    Are you not capable of reading English? His "tit for tat" proposal explicitly contemplates future retribution against the race he favors. In fact, his "tit for tat" proposal is a perpetual war of all against all.

    Replies: @Anonymous

  212. @pgbh
    @ic1000

    Well, that's why I posted -- because I wanted to see if anyone else had thought about the issue.

    Replies: @ic1000

    Earlier, you wrote:

    Killing someone with a knife is hard. It takes some strength and technique, both of which I doubt Bryant possessed. I think there’s only a 5-10% chance that the other girl would have died, had she been stabbed. Bryant was enraged and probably, even at the best of times, no particularly calculating person. It’s most likely that she would have missed entirely, or merely struck a glancing blow.

    Take away “5%-10%” and “most likely,” and you are most likely correct (or there’s at least 5%-10% odds you’re right). There is some unknowable chance that Knife Girl’s attack would have been effective, and some other unknowable chance that her intended victim would have died.

    Stabby people stab other people with some frequency, and they do kill some of their targets.

    Aside from “be perfect” and “make the split-second decision that is unquestionably correct with benefit of hindsight,” what do you want the cops to do?

    On an earlier Knife Girl thread, another commenter posted a short YouTube video showing how fast a motivated attacker could close the distance between them and a cop, compared to the cop drawing and firing his pistol. It referred to The Tueller Drill. Search, or ask for them to repost.

    • Replies: @pgbh
    @ic1000

    I don't expect cops to be perfect or to know everything, obviously. I do think taking what is known into consideration would make them more effective.

    Here you can see a study of stab and gunshot victims: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140102112039.htm

    7.7% of stab victims (who lived long enough to make it to the hospital) eventually died.

    This is the sort of thing I was curious about, but it doesn't look like there are a lot of studies available.

  213. @Steve Sailer
    @Sean

    You've been watching Ma'k the Knife in super slo-mo over and over and have taken to fantasizing on the question of What Would Batman Do? Try watching it in real time without all your fantasies.

    Replies: @Sean

    The police did not release the slo mo first, it was a single carefully chosen frame which gave the impression of forward momentum, especially because it looks like Bryant’s left foot was not yet touching down. But she actually had stopped and was planted both feet flat in a wide stance if you look carefully, so Reardon had a stationary target (makes sense he’d fire then, eh?). What did did Deadeye Dick and Ma’k the Knife have in common? Neither used their right hand, the strongest one, for what they were supposed to be trying to do.

    Bryant had a reach advantage and a long knife, she would have already cut the faces, lit either of those women up like a Christmas tree, gutted them like a fish or whatever other way one can put it. They did not get so much as a scratch. I think Reardon hurt his already injured wrist in the tussle, in which he did in fact grab Bryant’s right wrist. Batman didn’t have one hand on his gun when he was trying to do stuff.

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Sean

    What Would Batman Do?

    Replies: @anon

    , @anon
    @Sean

    The police did not release the slo mo first,

    Ok, Boomer!

    Srsly, take any mpeg, load it into a player on a phone / tablet / laptop / grandma's Dell desktop with Windows 2000, whatever...and forget slo-mo, frame-by-frame is there for you.

    "Release the slo mo", lol!

    C'mon, man, get real. Troll harder than this.

  214. @Sean
    @anon

    I am confident that if Reardon had not been there first, but that bald cop in sunglasses who was almost as close as Reardon to Bryant when she was shot and who saw the whole thing but did not draw his gun, then no one would have died. Any other cop but him; it is not just lack of experience, Reardon is bereft of the common sense and self control to be a police officer, as his colleagues were administering CPR, Reardon got into it with bystanders about why he shot Bryant and one of those doing the CPR told him "don't argue with them" and Reardon shut up, but not for long. A cop is supposed to be a cut above that kind of behavior. He is an over-reactive undersized idiot.

    Civilization is restraint in the use of force then, and civilization is more efficient, in the age when everything is recorded and certain groups take note that their lives are considered less important than the qualified immunity fiction that someone get any more capable than they are by donning a uniform. The alternative to restraint by police is rioting. Or
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSDOcc5aH5s

    Or worse like hit and runs on cops directing traffic of which there was one the other day.
    If Trump were president then rely on it Bryant's death would have been reported by Stevens as a sign of accelerating fascism, I don't understand how anyone can think Stop Trump movement star Stevens who was brought into the NYT in 2017 is sincere. In a prepared lecture Stephens compared Trump to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Whatever he might have said about political correctness at the NYT, he was soft on the BLM riots because he saw them as a offering a way to get rid of Trump, which is doubtless the same reason that he opposed a national coronavirus lockdown .

    It's bad tactics to forget who is president, because Stevens did not do so for one second while composing the Bryant story about how everything is working again now that the elite are back in control of the White House. For Stevens (a follower of the Leo Strauss school of thought) this is just another move in a power game played by innately superior minds (amusingly, Diamond not Cochran had priority on with the Jewish geniuses/ diseases hypothesis) guided by the argot ridden texts of great philosopher Strauss.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @anon

    Civilization is restraint in the use of force then,

    Sometimes.

  215. @Desiderius
    Interesting paragraph here suggesting a cure for our fatal atomization cum conquered division:

    A final observation. It’s a common thing for reactionaries of our stripe, as they read and think themselves deeper into the Right, to show increasing scorn toward what passes for conservatism in modern America–Republicans, National Review readers, Trump voters, and the like. “They’re just embracing yesterday’s radicalism; they don’t really disagree with the Left at all on fundamentals.” That’s true, but they really do think that they disagree with the Left, and that is something quite important. However intellectually compromised they are, they have all thought, spoken, or voted in some way that they were clearly told all reasonable/decent people regard as absolutely unacceptable, and they did it anyway.
     
    https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/why-is-christianity-in-rapid-decline/

    May or may not even be on topic. Join or die.

    Replies: @ChrisZ, @Ian M.

    Nice to see a link to The Orthosphere. Bonald is my favorite reactionary writer. (The original Bonald was pretty great too).

  216. MB says: • Website

    Ibram X. Kendi, the most important anti-racist thinker today, argues that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.

    And that, boys and girls, sums up the caliber of what passes for contemporary political discussion in the good ole United Socialist States of Amerika. If IXK is what he says he is, I’m a monkey’s uncle, Chas. Darwin to the contrary.

    In other words, while we may not have struck rock bottom, we is definitely circling the toilet bowl in the flush mode.

    Only way, he could have made it worse, i.e. sucked up to the zeitgist, is said something about St. Robin whats her name, the white fragility witch.

    Meanwhile the Revolution continues at a merry pace with the promise of race war just to keep the peasants on their toes. (Thanks IXK. Your services are appreciated.)

  217. @Sean
    @Steve Sailer

    The police did not release the slo mo first, it was a single carefully chosen frame which gave the impression of forward momentum, especially because it looks like Bryant's left foot was not yet touching down. But she actually had stopped and was planted both feet flat in a wide stance if you look carefully, so Reardon had a stationary target (makes sense he'd fire then, eh?). What did did Deadeye Dick and Ma’k the Knife have in common? Neither used their right hand, the strongest one, for what they were supposed to be trying to do.

    https://youtu.be/Q3TPl45ODEA?t=131

    Bryant had a reach advantage and a long knife, she would have already cut the faces, lit either of those women up like a Christmas tree, gutted them like a fish or whatever other way one can put it. They did not get so much as a scratch. I think Reardon hurt his already injured wrist in the tussle, in which he did in fact grab Bryant's right wrist. Batman didn't have one hand on his gun when he was trying to do stuff.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @anon

    What Would Batman Do?

    • Replies: @anon
    @Steve Sailer

    What Would Batman Do?

    https://img0.etsystatic.com/046/0/8266573/il_fullxfull.714780930_4uus.jpg

    Replies: @Sean

  218. anon[346] • Disclaimer says:
    @Sean
    @Steve Sailer

    The police did not release the slo mo first, it was a single carefully chosen frame which gave the impression of forward momentum, especially because it looks like Bryant's left foot was not yet touching down. But she actually had stopped and was planted both feet flat in a wide stance if you look carefully, so Reardon had a stationary target (makes sense he'd fire then, eh?). What did did Deadeye Dick and Ma’k the Knife have in common? Neither used their right hand, the strongest one, for what they were supposed to be trying to do.

    https://youtu.be/Q3TPl45ODEA?t=131

    Bryant had a reach advantage and a long knife, she would have already cut the faces, lit either of those women up like a Christmas tree, gutted them like a fish or whatever other way one can put it. They did not get so much as a scratch. I think Reardon hurt his already injured wrist in the tussle, in which he did in fact grab Bryant's right wrist. Batman didn't have one hand on his gun when he was trying to do stuff.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @anon

    The police did not release the slo mo first,

    Ok, Boomer!

    Srsly, take any mpeg, load it into a player on a phone / tablet / laptop / grandma’s Dell desktop with Windows 2000, whatever…and forget slo-mo, frame-by-frame is there for you.

    “Release the slo mo”, lol!

    C’mon, man, get real. Troll harder than this.

  219. @Steve Sailer
    @Sean

    What Would Batman Do?

    Replies: @anon

    What Would Batman Do?

    • Replies: @Sean
    @anon

    If you look at how stuntmen advise on how to film a knife fight they say a rubber fake is essential because there will always be accidental touches with the stunt knife. Clearly, there is a greater probability that something like this incident could happen without an egregious performance by the officer who fired the shots, if it emerged from a background of previous incidents in which police officers attending a call witnessed a teenage girl murdering, or attempting to murder someone, which would entail the the assailant doing so in the knowledge it was right under the noses of the police.

    Ought to be easy to Google up a previous occasion n which an American police officer has deliberately shot dead a teenage girl to stop her killing someone, or been criticized for failing to do so. I am increasingly confident that Reardon's shooting of a 16 year old girl dead on the assumption she was about to kill is very far from having near precedents, and being such an extreme outlier makes the plausibility of it having stemmed from faulty decision making by Reardon rather strong. There is also the strange fact that it happened minutes after the Chauvin verdict was announced.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @anon

  220. @anon
    @Steve Sailer

    What Would Batman Do?

    https://img0.etsystatic.com/046/0/8266573/il_fullxfull.714780930_4uus.jpg

    Replies: @Sean

    If you look at how stuntmen advise on how to film a knife fight they say a rubber fake is essential because there will always be accidental touches with the stunt knife. Clearly, there is a greater probability that something like this incident could happen without an egregious performance by the officer who fired the shots, if it emerged from a background of previous incidents in which police officers attending a call witnessed a teenage girl murdering, or attempting to murder someone, which would entail the the assailant doing so in the knowledge it was right under the noses of the police.

    Ought to be easy to Google up a previous occasion n which an American police officer has deliberately shot dead a teenage girl to stop her killing someone, or been criticized for failing to do so. I am increasingly confident that Reardon’s shooting of a 16 year old girl dead on the assumption she was about to kill is very far from having near precedents, and being such an extreme outlier makes the plausibility of it having stemmed from faulty decision making by Reardon rather strong. There is also the strange fact that it happened minutes after the Chauvin verdict was announced.

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Sean

    So, Ma'K the Knife was, according to your theory, must have been using a rubber knife?

    But what if she weren't?

    Replies: @Sean

    , @anon
    @Sean

    If you look at how stuntmen advise on how to film a knife fight they say a rubber fake is essential because there will always be accidental touches with the stunt knife.

    If you look at the old vid Surviving Edge Weapons you can see pix of actual corpses with multiple stab wounds.

    There is also the strange fact that it happened minutes after the Chauvin verdict was announced.

    Do you have a newsletter we can all subscribe to?

  221. @Sean
    @anon

    If you look at how stuntmen advise on how to film a knife fight they say a rubber fake is essential because there will always be accidental touches with the stunt knife. Clearly, there is a greater probability that something like this incident could happen without an egregious performance by the officer who fired the shots, if it emerged from a background of previous incidents in which police officers attending a call witnessed a teenage girl murdering, or attempting to murder someone, which would entail the the assailant doing so in the knowledge it was right under the noses of the police.

    Ought to be easy to Google up a previous occasion n which an American police officer has deliberately shot dead a teenage girl to stop her killing someone, or been criticized for failing to do so. I am increasingly confident that Reardon's shooting of a 16 year old girl dead on the assumption she was about to kill is very far from having near precedents, and being such an extreme outlier makes the plausibility of it having stemmed from faulty decision making by Reardon rather strong. There is also the strange fact that it happened minutes after the Chauvin verdict was announced.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @anon

    So, Ma’K the Knife was, according to your theory, must have been using a rubber knife?

    But what if she weren’t?

    • Replies: @Sean
    @Steve Sailer


    So, Ma’K the Knife was, according to your theory, must have been using a rubber knife?
     
    Or being very careful to keep a real one away from the thrashing antagonist and not make any stabbing motions with it.

    But what if she weren’t?
     
    Assume the knife is real, apply fast and dirty heuristic: a guy is probably going to use it so instantly draw and shoot him, a girl is most likely not going to so get control of the situation with forceful restraint (Reardon actually did this and grabbed Bryant's knife arm at the wrist during the tussle over fat girl seconds before the shots). Not using both his hands was his only mistake. Lack of determination due to thinking about the Chauvin verdict perhaps?
  222. @Steve Sailer
    @Sean

    So, Ma'K the Knife was, according to your theory, must have been using a rubber knife?

    But what if she weren't?

    Replies: @Sean

    So, Ma’K the Knife was, according to your theory, must have been using a rubber knife?

    Or being very careful to keep a real one away from the thrashing antagonist and not make any stabbing motions with it.

    But what if she weren’t?

    Assume the knife is real, apply fast and dirty heuristic: a guy is probably going to use it so instantly draw and shoot him, a girl is most likely not going to so get control of the situation with forceful restraint (Reardon actually did this and grabbed Bryant’s knife arm at the wrist during the tussle over fat girl seconds before the shots). Not using both his hands was his only mistake. Lack of determination due to thinking about the Chauvin verdict perhaps?

  223. Anonymous[206] • Disclaimer says:
    @Sean
    @Anonymous

    That is great thinking for police recruitment. Of late fewer capable people, the ones who could easily go into other types of employment for similar or better money, were inclined to chose the police as a career because the high regard and status in society has declined for some strange reason. Holding up Reardon as an example of exemplary police work with the promotional video of his impressive performance will really reverse that trend. Who doesn't like the idea of killing a 16 year old girl and being a hero?

    And I know you and every single one of those who comment like you do about Reardon would, were you in a nice job with the option to stick your neck out like a giraffe, actually stake your livelihood on Reardon's good judgment and stability by going beyond cheap talk to actually hire Reardon as a police officer and sending him back out on calls with his trusty S&W 9mm and also something a little heavier (Remington shotgun) in case the next person he decides to shoot is not a 16 year old girl with her back to him.

    You could even show the aftermath of the shooting in which Reardon displays his de-escalation skills by getting into an an argument, and then a shouting match with bystanders, even as his colleagues were performing CPR.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    option to stick your neck out like a giraffe, actually stake your livelihood on Reardon’s good judgment and stability by going beyond cheap talk to actually hire Reardon as a police officer and sending him back ou

    We’re not talking about Reardon, we’re talking about you – the ninny known as “Sean” who is an expert on all things police-related. Sean who could disarm the obese knife-wielding negress in an instant, Sean who could single-handedly fix George Floyd.

    Its time for you to stop commenting from the bleachers. I would like to see you join a police force and practice what you preach, instead of second-guessing people with your inane theories like “maybe it was a rubber knife”, like a woman. Instead of bravely commenting on the internet, go out of your basement and be a man – don’t just talk, DO.

    Less talk more action.

    • Replies: @Sean
    @Anonymous


    Its time for you to stop commenting from the bleachers. I would like to see you join a police force and practice what you preach ...
     
    Being a police officer is an order of magnitude safer than working in forestry or a fishing boat, maybe even construction. Police are well paid because they are expected to have a certain amount of wisdom plus the composure and confidence under conditions of risk to act decisively.

    ... instead of second-guessing people with your inane theories like “maybe it was a rubber knife”, like a woman
     
    A 16 year old female would have even sillier ideas.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI7uosvU8G8

    Sixteen, but a he. That makes all the differance
  224. anon[891] • Disclaimer says:
    @Sean
    @anon

    If you look at how stuntmen advise on how to film a knife fight they say a rubber fake is essential because there will always be accidental touches with the stunt knife. Clearly, there is a greater probability that something like this incident could happen without an egregious performance by the officer who fired the shots, if it emerged from a background of previous incidents in which police officers attending a call witnessed a teenage girl murdering, or attempting to murder someone, which would entail the the assailant doing so in the knowledge it was right under the noses of the police.

    Ought to be easy to Google up a previous occasion n which an American police officer has deliberately shot dead a teenage girl to stop her killing someone, or been criticized for failing to do so. I am increasingly confident that Reardon's shooting of a 16 year old girl dead on the assumption she was about to kill is very far from having near precedents, and being such an extreme outlier makes the plausibility of it having stemmed from faulty decision making by Reardon rather strong. There is also the strange fact that it happened minutes after the Chauvin verdict was announced.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @anon

    If you look at how stuntmen advise on how to film a knife fight they say a rubber fake is essential because there will always be accidental touches with the stunt knife.

    If you look at the old vid Surviving Edge Weapons you can see pix of actual corpses with multiple stab wounds.

    There is also the strange fact that it happened minutes after the Chauvin verdict was announced.

    Do you have a newsletter we can all subscribe to?

  225. @Anonymous
    @Ben tillman


    But the real problem for a dumbass like Kendi — which I though was too obvious to mention — is that he’s telling everyone that (a) he is discriminating against whites today and (b) whites have the right to return the favor tomorrow.
     
    Are you not familiar with the well established moral and game theory principle known as “tit for tat” (or, an eye for an eye)?

    Replies: @ben tillman

    Are you not capable of reading English? His “tit for tat” proposal explicitly contemplates future retribution against the race he favors. In fact, his “tit for tat” proposal is a perpetual war of all against all.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @ben tillman


    Are you not capable of reading English? His “tit for tat” proposal explicitly contemplates future retribution against the race he favors.
     
    No it doesn’t. He is proposing a tit (present discrimination) to compensate for the tat (past discrimination). It needn’t be more than that.

    Replies: @ben tillman

  226. Anonymous[164] • Disclaimer says:
    @ben tillman
    @Anonymous

    Are you not capable of reading English? His "tit for tat" proposal explicitly contemplates future retribution against the race he favors. In fact, his "tit for tat" proposal is a perpetual war of all against all.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    Are you not capable of reading English? His “tit for tat” proposal explicitly contemplates future retribution against the race he favors.

    No it doesn’t. He is proposing a tit (present discrimination) to compensate for the tat (past discrimination). It needn’t be more than that.

    • Replies: @ben tillman
    @Anonymous

    He meant to say what you pretend he said, but he didn't. He said something that contradicts that intended meaning, which is why it is correct to call his words stupid.

  227. @ic1000
    @pgbh

    Earlier, you wrote:


    Killing someone with a knife is hard. It takes some strength and technique, both of which I doubt Bryant possessed. I think there’s only a 5-10% chance that the other girl would have died, had she been stabbed. Bryant was enraged and probably, even at the best of times, no particularly calculating person. It’s most likely that she would have missed entirely, or merely struck a glancing blow.
     
    Take away "5%-10%" and "most likely," and you are most likely correct (or there's at least 5%-10% odds you're right). There is some unknowable chance that Knife Girl's attack would have been effective, and some other unknowable chance that her intended victim would have died.

    Stabby people stab other people with some frequency, and they do kill some of their targets.

    Aside from "be perfect" and "make the split-second decision that is unquestionably correct with benefit of hindsight," what do you want the cops to do?

    On an earlier Knife Girl thread, another commenter posted a short YouTube video showing how fast a motivated attacker could close the distance between them and a cop, compared to the cop drawing and firing his pistol. It referred to The Tueller Drill. Search, or ask for them to repost.

    Replies: @pgbh

    I don’t expect cops to be perfect or to know everything, obviously. I do think taking what is known into consideration would make them more effective.

    Here you can see a study of stab and gunshot victims: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140102112039.htm

    7.7% of stab victims (who lived long enough to make it to the hospital) eventually died.

    This is the sort of thing I was curious about, but it doesn’t look like there are a lot of studies available.

  228. @Anonymous
    @ben tillman


    Are you not capable of reading English? His “tit for tat” proposal explicitly contemplates future retribution against the race he favors.
     
    No it doesn’t. He is proposing a tit (present discrimination) to compensate for the tat (past discrimination). It needn’t be more than that.

    Replies: @ben tillman

    He meant to say what you pretend he said, but he didn’t. He said something that contradicts that intended meaning, which is why it is correct to call his words stupid.

  229. @Anonymous
    @Sean


    option to stick your neck out like a giraffe, actually stake your livelihood on Reardon’s good judgment and stability by going beyond cheap talk to actually hire Reardon as a police officer and sending him back ou
     
    We're not talking about Reardon, we're talking about you - the ninny known as "Sean" who is an expert on all things police-related. Sean who could disarm the obese knife-wielding negress in an instant, Sean who could single-handedly fix George Floyd.

    Its time for you to stop commenting from the bleachers. I would like to see you join a police force and practice what you preach, instead of second-guessing people with your inane theories like "maybe it was a rubber knife", like a woman. Instead of bravely commenting on the internet, go out of your basement and be a man - don't just talk, DO.

    Less talk more action.

    Replies: @Sean

    Its time for you to stop commenting from the bleachers. I would like to see you join a police force and practice what you preach …

    Being a police officer is an order of magnitude safer than working in forestry or a fishing boat, maybe even construction. Police are well paid because they are expected to have a certain amount of wisdom plus the composure and confidence under conditions of risk to act decisively.

    … instead of second-guessing people with your inane theories like “maybe it was a rubber knife”, like a woman

    A 16 year old female would have even sillier ideas.

    Sixteen, but a he. That makes all the differance

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