Tag: George Floyd

Vinicius Junior

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You might not have heard, but Spain is currently undergoing its own version of a George Floyd moment. Scaled down, of course — nothing can really match American production value — but nonetheless, there is a storm brewing, one resembling what much of American sociopolitics has been reduced to: racism and victimhood grifting.

A storm — although in actual fact, it’s more like a tempest in a teacup, as is often the case with these sort of black grievances. It all started last weekend when the Real Madrid Football Club went to Valencia to play that city’s main football (or soccer, if you prefer) team. (more…)

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The age of any revolution is five years. After that, either its participants have wandered off, dismayed by failure, or else have succeeded and become an establishment, generally more tyrannous than the one they displaced. — Hakim Felix Ellellou from John Updike’s The Coup

Pol Pot borrowed “Year Zero” from the French Jacobins to endow his revolution with the symbolism that says: the past is hereby erased; a new culture and a new people are born — Great Replacement, Southeast Asian style. (more…)

St. Louis Police Chief John Hayden

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June 1-11, 2020

Introduction

Below are the first few entries in a “BLM diary” I started keeping a week after George Floyd died in May 2020, recording events connected with this event and my thoughts about them. The diary’s introduction is here. (more…)

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Seeing the fuss being made about the death of George Floyd in the mainstream media in May 2020, and gathering that it was if anything worse on social media, I started keeping a “Black Lives Matter diary” to record subsequent events and my thoughts about them. Two years later, having concluded the diary, I edited it to make it more readable and, dreaming that it might one day be published, wrote an introduction. (more…)

Noni Olabisi’s mural Freedom Won’t Wait was inspired by the 1992 Rodney King riots.

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George Floyd most likely never met Rodney King. They are both dead. Their lives really “made a difference.” It would be good for them to meet. Comparatively speaking, that is.

The difference these particular agents of the feral underclass made was to turn race-rioting on a colossal scale into a form of “righteous” self-expression — but only for a chosen people. (more…)

Stalin aiming a rifle at the Soviet Union’s Central Committee in 1934. His comrades took it as a joke; it’s doubtful many of them were still laughing a few years later.

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One of the more fascinating spectacles of the twentieth century’s totalitarian smoke and mirrors was the show trial, courtesy of Joseph Stalin. With his Leninist view of history and its underlying theme of the triumphal ascendency of the Socialist Man as the thematic driver, the show trial — a fake legal proceeding with built-in theatrics — would become the national stage for an elaborate morality play and “teachable moment” that affirmed the moral perfection of Big Brother. (more…)

Somalis celebrating their country’s Independence Day — in Minneapolis.

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Until very recently, Minnesota loomed in the public imagination as a state that was so white, you could almost go snow-blind merely looking at it on a map. Possibly due to its dark and endless winters, it has been a magnet for Scandinavians immigrating to America since the 1850s. (more…)

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Volání po spravedlnosti za smrt Trayvona Martina i Michaela Browna bylo jeden velký podfuk. Oba totiž byli kriminálníci, kteří zemřeli kvůli své hlouposti, jež je ponoukala napadnout ozbrojeného muže. Totéž platí i pro Ahmauda Arberyho.

Dostali, co si zasloužili. (more…)

Varg Vikernes

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Norwegian Metalhead Who Murdered Another Norwegian Metalhead in 1993 Tweets about What Lord of the Rings Would Look Like in 2022

The very fact that he was born Kristian Vikernes, performed as Count Grishnackh, is best known to the world as Varg Vikernes, and now has the legal name Louis Cachet is all you need to know that the subject of my opening segment is a musician, and everyone who’s not a musician knows that musicians are the flakiest people on Earth. (more…)

Ahmaud Arbery during one of his numerous encounters with law enforcement. His long, dirty toenails are not visible in this video.

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Black Writer: Kyle Rittenhouse was Birthed Raw & Bloody from His Mother’s Hateful Klangina

Stacey Patton is a balding black woman who writes for a pro-black-woman website named MadameNoire that purports to fight racism and sexism despite, well, openly flaunting its racial and sexual biases by being openly and idiotically pro-black and pro-woman. (more…)

Coming soon to a city near you.

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Three Trials, Three Verdicts, One Racially Insane Nation

When two or more people of different races are involved in a violent incident, is it automatically “racial”? (more…)

The UK being culturally enriched.

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It’s a vital distinction in modern law, but it isn’t defined in any legal textbook or taught in any law school. It doesn’t need to be. If you’re a good person, you’ll understand and apply the distinction without being taught or told.

What is it? It’s the vital distinction between two categories of offense: a very serious category that we can call thought-crime, and a minor category that we can call flesh-crime. Murder, rape, and assault are flesh-crimes. They matter little and don’t threaten our vibrant democracy. Racism, anti-Semitism, and transphobia are thought-crimes. (more…)