Sometimes a mob is just a mob

Friday, August 28, 2020

If you ain't a member of some oppressed minority you ain't cool.
This is part of why so many pathetic white kids go out and pretend like their GI Joe and burned down in public buildings and throw bricks at cops.
The white guilt they feel is the fact that they foolishly believe their ancestors did not suffer the way blacks did when they arrived in the United States, and feel deprived. So, they act out this fantasy of rebellion in order to make up for what they missed.

It is a cult like disease far worse than COVID-19 because there will never be an anti-virus to cure it, and the masks these people put on aren’t designed to show respect for fellow human beings, but to spread terror.

It is a disease that gives these fools license to tear down statues of people whose beliefs differ from theirs, to burn down businesses, loot, even murder in the mistaken notion they are serving the higher cause of social justice.

A huge portion of the blame for this goes to Democratic politicians, desperate to regain power and so cast unsubstantiated aspersions on their opponents, shaping debates not as differences in policy, but as good and evil, right or wrong. This immediately turns a mob into a crusade in which any atrocity is justified.

Even some of the older people have latched onto this new black movement in which everybody is black if they go out and destroy things.
A former colleague not much younger than I am posted something about being one of the brothers and that they are doing right.

This so-called objective reporter who hobnobs with the governor and pretends like he's important is desperate to be part of this new Society because he feels like he has accomplished nothing in his life.

His is a particular variation on the disease that has turned the journalism profession into a joke.

The fact that so many white people are so desperate to belong suggests that they have missed the common experience that most of us have had growing up being a part of a society which embraces people rather than alienates them and so they decide to destroy the system they feel alienated from.

While it is cool to support this new black power movement, it is racist to support white nationalism – often equated with white supremacy (an outdated term from the pre-Civil War south). Democrats are always searching for white supremacy, even under their own beds at night.

The fact that the new black power movement burn cities without hearing the evidence first shows just what kind of knee jerk reaction.

This week we have a protest over a rapist with a knife who is shot by police for resisting arrest even as he reaches again for his knife.

This movement has made a hero of George Floyd who supposedly died from a cop’s boot on his neck, when in fact, he had consumed a lethal dose of illegal drugs and was bragging to the cop that the cop was going to make him famous. Floyd and the cop were no strangers. They had worked in a bar as bouncers together and had conflicted there before the death scene the black movement has reshaped into the crucifixion of Christ.

We have a  right wing kid  with a criminal record with a rifle defending his gas station against  armed rioters, who shot at him, and he shot back killing two – now charged with murder because the local government is scared shit of what might happen if they don’t charge him – even when evidence shows he acted in self-defense. Media being media broadcast widely his criminal record but neglected to publish the criminal record of his victims.

We have elitist overpaid egotistical sports players who suddenly get the urge to be part of the same club and walk out on their games, games nobody is watching because of previous symbolic acts and the fact that COVID-19 bans them from being at games in person.

We have Mayors and senators and even presidential candidates who ignore the obvious because it is politically to their advantage to not respond to the riots or even call them riots.
We have corporations who decide to change the names of their products for fear of a black backlash, a kind of rehash of A Tale of Two Cities  in which someone may get their head get chopped off if they get targeted by the mob.
We see new riots pop up overnight because a guy who had killed somebody kills himself when the cops get to him and then everybody blames the cops for killing him then go out and burn down even businesses with signs that say black lives matter.
I won't say this is the end of the world it's just the world twisting around on itself to justify things that can't be justified this belief that slavery was unique to black people and for some reason we have built a mythology around that fact when in fact we all came over in pretty much the same conditions and suffered many of the same things if not for as long as the black people do but at least as intensely.
There is this void in the public Consciousness about exactly how much we have already done to help make amends, the blood spilled to free the slaves in the massive amount of money put into the US economy to help make everything right ignored because it's convenient to be ignored because the fact is that people are greedy and they always want more even when they don't deserve it.
Of course some of these radical groups are intensely jealous of the payouts that the American Indians got and the Jews God for the atrocities that were committed against them and assume they want to get their pieces of the gold the way those other groups did and perhaps build their own casinos and perhaps live high on the hog the way some of these groups have started to.
Perhaps that's why we see a rise in anti-Semitism among these groups because they are envious of the fact that if you belonged to oppressed minority and make it look as if society is stacked against you, you can get paid off, too.

I keep thinking of my colleague who put it out that bit of tripe on the Twitter saying help these brothers in arms were all right and doing what they were doing and is it is an objective reporter and this is symbolic of the kind of reporting we are getting this in-group out-group mentality that if you're not with them then you're against them if you don't have the same opinions they have than your evil and they have a right to destroy you.