Cassandra’s Revenge
Cassandra has always been a heroine of mine. So I can’t help but enjoy stories such as this: http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/16/11729795-greeks-withdraw-894-million-in-a-day-is-this-beginning-of-a-run-on-banks?lite
Yes I know the collapse of the European economy will be bad for all of us. But watching the Euro-Socialists run out of other people’s money is so much fun I want to munch popcorn while reading Drudge. In the end of course we will all be better off for socialism’s demise. In the meantime we must take our pleasures where we can.
Hemorage of Hate
If you aren’t reading Caroline Glick, the internet is wasted on you. http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0412/glick042012.php3
Free Speech: Endangered Species
So the Brit at NR http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/296004/derb-and-discourse-john-osullivan has joined the Canadian at NR http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/295591/re-derb-mark-steyn in condemming the firing of John Derbyshire.
That’s not surprising. Canada and Great Britain have jettisoned free speech for Political Correctness. Mark Steyn was actually prosecuted for committing the heinous offense of writing his opinions in public. Of course they would take threats to free excerisice of speech more seriously; they know what it is to lose it. You may say “well that will never happen here.” But if you had told the British people 10 years ago that people would soon face arrest for insulting soccer players on the internet they would have scoffed and said how ridiculous. And yet: http://www.kenilworthweeklynews.co.uk/news/national/footballer-twitter-abuse-probed-1-3692538
If Steyn and O’Sullivan sound paranoid about free speech, I say look around. It isn’t paranoia to notice the left is out to get you.
Profiling
Many are shocked to discover that a black President has made race relations worse in this country. http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/140594/ I predicted this four years ago. It is not the color of the President’s skin that matters it is the content of his politics. Liberals have been dividing this country up for so long I can’t imagine how anyone ever thought a liberal would help to bring us together.
The internet is abuzz with discussion of the “new” racial tensions. While strolling through the articles I came across this test for racism. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/featuredtask.html I took it because I was curious about the test itself. I found out I am not a racist, which I already knew. Actually the exact words are:
Your data suggest little to no difference in implicit preference between White People and Black People.
This didn’t surprise me, I know who I am and what I believe. I am immune to white guilt because I know I am not a racist. I often wonder about those “tolerant” liberals who make every political decision based on race. What goes on in their bleeding, liberal hearts that gives them so much guilt.
As far as my own neutral about race heart. Let me tell you about the time I deliberately, carefully profiled a group of black males, and felt relieved and even safer.
I was in Detroit for the 1997 Skate America competition. I would have gone to the back of the moon to see Michelle Kwan debut her Lyra Angelica Program. Usually I traveled around the city with my skating buds, but for some reason I was all alone on the city’s People Mover, taking a 25 min. route around the city to the arena. I was in a city with a lot of crime all by myself, and yes feeling a bit nervous about that. There was no one but me on the train when three black males, each taller than my own 5’4″self, came aboard and I felt relieved.
Why? Because the group was two teenage boys, and their dad. They were carrying shopping bags and looked like a Norman Rockwell painting “back to school shopping with dad.” They were one of Burke’s “little platoons.” All I knew about these men was their skin color was different than mine, and their family status was the opposite of the one I had growing up. Two teenage boys under the supervision of an involved father and a father living up to his responsibilities, that is as safe as you can get in America. I had no reason to fear any of these black males. Furthermore I was sure the presence of the rather large dad, would act as an impediment should any thug, white or black, board the train.
Crime in America is not a matter of color but lack of fathers. Growing up without a father, watching many fatherless, white boys become criminals, I learned at a very young age, what it has taken social scientists decades to find out. Every study ever done shows that lacking a father is the greatest predictor to whether a child will turn to crime. If either of the two teenagers on that train with me had ever thought of joining a gang I am sure their father put a stop to it ASAP! That’s why I never thought for a moment that any of those black males would harm me.
Being free of all the liberal platitudes about one family type being equal to other family types, I am free to make judgments based on experience. It is upbringing and nurturing that makes a child a public threat, not skin color. In refusing to admit that illegitimacy is a plague on our society, liberals, who always cause what they claim to condemn, force everyone to make judgments based on other factors, like the color of one’s skin.
Ahah you say what if it had just been the two teenage black boys without an adult supervisor, then would you have been scared. Probably not, they were neatly dressed, polite and quiet. Loud, rowdy teenagers, dressed in the sloppy, oversized clothing of our day alarm me, whether they are white, black or purple.
I never spoke to the three men in Detroit though they were on the train as long as I. In fact when they came aboard they deliberately sat as far away from me as they could. I was a tiny, white woman in a silk sweater riding around downtown Detroit. The dad probably thought I was looking for drugs and he didn’t want his sons around me. If the dad profiled me as trouble, I don’t mind. He was doing his job. That’s why I knew I had nothing to fear.
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