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It’s official: New York City is MAGA country.
I state this without qualification and without having to check the facts because Amanda Marcotte, who has never been wrong about anything before, has decreed it to be true.
Before a shred of corroborating evidence was in, Marcotte, who has the most masculine jawline I’ve ever seen this side of 1960s bubblegum star Tommy James, used her powers of righteous divination to discern that when a black stripper accused three white males of raping her in 2006’s Duke lacrosse rape scandal, she wasn’t lying:
Can’t a few white boys sexually assault a black woman anymore without people getting all wound up about it? So unfair.
As things turned out, the black stripper, Crystal Mangum, was lying. Mangum then proceeded to stab her boyfriend to death and get convicted of murder.
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Undaunted by reality and boldly impelled to project her confirmation biases onto the world, Marcotte also knew that when Rolling Stone magazine published a 9,000-word feature in 2014 about how a woman was gang-raped amid bloody glass shards by a group of frat boys at the University of Virginia’s “overwhelmingly blond” campus, the woman who wrote the article was telling the truth.
Don’t pay one bit of mind to the fact that the whole article was a hoax, just like the Duke lacrosse fairy tale.
Marcotte, you see, is fighting the good fight. She’s on the right side of history. And people who are convinced beyond all doubt that they represent the good side refuse to be deterred by facts.
So when stories recently started emerging that suggested men in New York City were randomly running up to women and punching them in the face, Amanda Marcotte was on the case. She knew not only exactly what was happening, but why it was happening.
“Men punching random women in NYC: A desperate last gasp of the male rage fueling MAGA” reads Monday’s reality-eclipsed headline in Salon, where Marcotte is listed as a “Staff Writer”:
Men are punching random women on the streets of New York City. As usual with these kinds of diffuse and chaotic stories, there’s much that is unknown, including how often this is happening, how many people are involved, or whether it’s at all coordinated. . . .
Unleashed by Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, there’s an upswell of loud male entitlement shouting at us from every corner . . . We see it in the male fans of Jordan Peterson, who clamor to his events to hear him croak out a just-so story about how lobsters justify their faith in male dominance. Or the rise of “tradwives” online who make a living pretending they’re unemployed and housebound. Or Ben Shapiro setting fire to a Barbie doll because he can’t stand that a blockbuster comedy starring a woman is about anything but her quest for male affection. Or MAGA pundits telling lies about birth control, in hopes of tricking women into having babies before they’re ready. Or conservatives writing op-eds that blame women for male loneliness, telling women they must self-sacrifice to relieve male pain by marrying Donald Trump voters. . . .
The rise of MAGA is fueled by misogyny. But it’s less a backlash than a tantrum, a rage explosion by men who want to restore their dominance but fear that, this time, women won’t buckle to their bullying. This rash of men punching women in New York City captures this moment in a dark way. We don’t even need to know their names or faces. . . .
Well, here’s one of the suspects’ faces. And here’s another. And another. And, for your viewing pleasure, yet another. Their faces definitely all seem to be capturing the moment “in a dark way.” And here are the faces of some of the women who claim they’re being sucker-punched. And here’s another. And another. And, well, oopsie-daisy, another.
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I command ye to pay no mind to the fact that some of those who’ve been arrested are registered Democrats. Nor to the fact that voters in Manhattan, where most of the reported attacks have occurred, leaned toward Biden 85%-15% in 2020’s election.
The only arrestee so far who can be described as the least bit Trump-sympathetic is the 40-year-old Skiboky (pronounced “Skuh-BOO-key”) Stora, who’s a registered Republican and, like many of the victims, a “TikTok influencer.” Skiboky is one of those “aspiring rappers” and claims to be Marcus Garvey’s great-great-grandson. Last year he ran for the New York City Council but lost to Yusef Salaam, who initially garnered fame as one of the accused rapists in the “Central Park Jogger” case. Supporting Amanda Marcotte’s contention that the recent spate of street attacks is a MAGA thang, here’s a video of Skiboky standing shirtless in front of a TRUMP: Make America Great Again flag and warning that “the whole world would be in darkness without the black man.”
On March 17, a woman named Olivia Brand (she’s the one in the lower left corner) filmed herself claiming that she’d been punched for no apparent reason while walking her dog. Other women soon followed suit, and suddenly you had yourself a trending topic. It seems as if all of the women making these claims pepper their language with endless “literallys” and “likes” — like, they literally do, like, literally all the time — and combined with Skiboky Stora’s numerous TikTok videos of him harassing women on New York streets, I suddenly found myself pondering whether it might indeed be ethical to randomly start punching TikTok influencers.
this is so nuts there are a bunch of women getting punched in the face in nyc rn all over tiktok. i don’t know if it’s all the same guy some of the stories seem slightly different but some of them seem similar pic.twitter.com/2rE7iEudCH
— youngmi mayer (@ymmayer) March 26, 2024
We’ve seen this sort of thing many times before. There was the “Knockout Game,” in which black youths filmed themselves randomly approaching strangers and cold-cocking them just for fun. The official narrative about the “Knockout Game,” despite all the recorded evidence, was that it was only a racist myth. In 2019, gay black actor Jussie Smollett falsely claimed that a pair of MAGA chuds assaulted him one frosty night on Chicago’s streets and placed a noose around his neck. Then there was 2021’s trend of Asians getting sucker-punched on the street, which was blamed on “white supremacy,” despite, yet again, nearly all of the videos revealing that the assailants were overwhelmingly black.
One story that’s not getting much traction is that a 40-year-0ld New York City woman named Lydia Weil has been arrested for a pair of incidents in late March and early April where she allegedly pressed a lit cigarette into one woman’s face and kicked another woman in the leg at a train station. Another story that’s getting lost amid the moral panic about the woman-punching MAGAts of Manhattan is the video of a man assaulting a woman on 14th Street and 7th Avenue, only to be set upon by a large group of other men, all of whom appear to be black, that swarms the assailant and knocks him out as one of them escorts the woman away to safety.
The idea that there’s a sudden trend of women randomly being sucker-punched on Manhattan’s streets may only be due to TikTokers creating a warped and skewed impression through social media. Unless you’re as dumb as Amanda Marcotte is, everyone already knows that New York City is a violent place. The problem is that most people, regardless of their political leanings, are also like Amanda Marcotte in the sense that the ideological blinders that are hard-welded onto their skulls will always dictate “reality” to them far more than facts ever will.
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The thing I can’t believe is that the so-called “knockout game” (and all its retarded variants) has been thoroughly documented and is by no means a new phenomenon at all. Even Fox News has shown knockout game style clips on numerous occasions, and anyone with eyes can see that the perpetrators of these assaults are overwhelmingly black, or at least black-adjacent.
It reminds me of the infamous viral NYC “catcalling experiment” from a few years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XGPvbWn0A
Same thing. The offending parties (and certainly the most egregious ones) were, once again, overwhelmingly black, or at least black-adjacent.
You’d figure that most normies would simply shake their heads at all this, look embarrassed, mutter rationalizations, and ultimately try to change the subject… But not Amanda Marcotte:
Sexist white men are doing it! #metoo! 1-in-4! Blond frat boys! Reeeeeeee!!!
How can one countenance this level of denial? It’s scary, really. If Ms. Marcotte had been at Jonestown, not only would she have chugged a whole pint of cyanide, she would have demanded an entire swimming pool of the stuff so she could swim around in it.
I wrote about the catcalling video 10 years ago. The racial breakdown of catcallers was roughly equivalent to the racial makeup of NYC. The article also led me to look into FBI Uniform Crime Reports stats on interracial rape, but that’s on the second page of the article.
As with everyting on that site, try to forgive the mangled HTML and the easy-to-miss, microscopic “Next Page” link at the bottom of the page. The site’s editor was trying to maximize ad revenue through clicks by splitting every article into two pages, but she didn’t hire a capable Web guy, so I’d reckon that most readers never even see the tiny link.
It’s cool, Jim. I know the story about why they all look like that. Even so, I still go back there to look through the archives anyway. I just pretend that all the bizarre formatting and freaky unicode looking symbols are exotic hieroglyphics that only the big boss’s daughter can truly decipher.
She knows damn well who the culprits are.
I had a friend years ago who was a very attractive, very light skinned mixed girl who told me once that she absolutely hates black men for that reason. She said everywhere she went black dudes would chase her down and literally run through traffic to try and holler at her and act as if they were entitled to her number or a date.
Is there any evidence to support that punching random people in the face has ever benefited the puncher’s favorite political candidate? Do random punchers of people in the face stay abreast of current events? Surprised she didn’t pull something with that stretch.
“Hmmm. The mentally ill. What can I do with that?”
I get this article and the idea of opportunists who always jump on the band wagon to draw attention and promote their twisted agendas. False propaganda and accusations made easy by political fashions has become dangerous.
As for misandry, interestingly Marcotte also managed to write this controversial article;
“While embittered feminists claim to speak for women, their rhetoric may be just as bad for women as it is for men.”- Amanda Marcotte
One of the weirder developments of the online publishing era is the way a loose confederation of embittered feminists has formed, across social media and the blogging world, under the banner of “women’s rights.” Feminism is an attempt to reframe old-fashioned man-hating as if it’s some kind of human rights movement, much like organized racism has periodically tried to reframe itself as a “white pride” movement. Feminists, who spend most of their “activist” energy roaming around the Internet, harassing anti-feminists and men’s rights activists and pushing misandrist myths that women never lie about rape and never marry men for financial exploitation, are clearly bad for men. But while they claim to speak for women, their rhetoric is just as bad for women as it is for men. Here are some of the reasons why.
Embittered feminists discourage women from actually making their lives better. A lot of young women discover the “women’s rights” community through a subset calling themselves “radical feminists.” Radical feminists advertise themselves as offering advice and support for women to improve their lives, but instead they trot out the same paranoid nonsense about how men are to blame for everything. Instead of teaching women to be better people and take responsibility for their own actions, radical feminists encourage women to focus their efforts on blaming men for their drunken hookups in bars. To achieve this, they argue, women need to learn to be callous and nasty to men—the way feminists imagine “attractive women” acting.”
(Morgan Stanley and Fortune magazine claims after 2030 over 50% of woman between ages 35-40 will be childless and single as part of future market study planning)
We should also be careful when it comes to understanding motives, as someone stated here mental illness may play a primary role, targeting and attacking woman on a city street is less consequential than attacking big men even to a sick person. Since mental illness is on the rise, (more prominently among the poorest first) the reasons may be found in a broader study
“America’s high standard of living, combined with its permanent threat of unemployment, is enough to make any man’s life miserable. In no country with a comparable standard of living are jobs so tenuous; in no other country with a comparable rate of unemployment are the demands made by the standard of living as high. The difference between a “success” and a “failure” is nowhere so clearly defined as in the U.S.A. Added to these external difficulties is the fact that no other man is so thoroughly manipulated as the American male.”—Esther Vilar
And, in response to misogyny and the grand majority of responsible traditional dads who are now painted as cruel controlling bastards; “Under today’s precarious laws if a woman can’t get the man she wants, God help the man she gets”. (Reflection)
“Hmmm. That guy who horribly murdered that nice lady died. How can I use that?”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-host-suggests-maga-trump-supporters-defended-oj-simpson-murder-trial
Ain’t abidin’ this former Biden staffer, either.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/oj-simpson-supported-black-community-because-white-people-killed-former-biden-staffer-hints
The knockout game has been around forever and comes and goes. In 2007 I was targeted for it by some 11 or 12 year old black kids as I came home late one night during a blackout (it wasn’t a famous one, just one confined for a brief time to my neighborhood). The block was so dark that I saw something in the distance that was a white light bobbing. I kept looking at it, wondering what it was. It turned out that one of the kids was wearing a brand-new white T shirt that hung down to his knees (this was a ghetto fashion then; blacks would wear these blindingly white oversized T shirts and throw them out after one wear because they were so cheap, and the shirt would lose its shinyness after a wash). Once I realized it was black kids, I stopped and stood with my back to a wall and waited for them to pass. They looked at me as they passed by and didn’t do anything, but one said to another “he heard your sneakers, fool.” It was true, one of the kid gang member’s sneakers squeaked loudly, but it was the white shirt that tipped me off, you retard.
I remember the giant white T-shirt trend. Around 2005, a friend in Baltimore called them “T-skirts.”
ghetto gowns
“It seems as if all of the women making these claims pepper their language with endless “literallys” and “likes” — like, they literally do, like, literally all the time”
Jim, you should consider expanding further on your observation here. The use of “like” has been well documented for some time. But the constant use of “literally” is a new phenomena that must be explained. Literally, it needs exposure in a literal sense.
Great piece that ought be circulated widely. The segue from defamatory statements against white guys followed by photos of the culprits is one of the more compelling examples of the madness of modern times.
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