Great talk. So many interesting points. I think Glenn made a very good/wise point when he talked about certain ideological groups having a specific interest in certain things being discussed a certain way. George Floyd is a good example. There’s no question Chauvin is an asshole and that he acted terribly and obviously did a horrible, reprehensible thing. Chauvin got what he deserved. No sane person would question this. That said: The notion that from the jump the media and culture labeled it as a racist hate crime: that is much more complex. Someone here mentioned direct life experience for low-income urban black Americans versus The Actual Data. This is very true. Anecdotal evidence affects us all, even if the systemic concept isn’t really accurate. And we know the data re police brutality against black Americans: it’s a very tiny percentage, about 10-20 unarmed black men killed per year. (This should be good news but instead the media on the left creates the false perception of rampant police violence.) We all know Floyd had a complicated past. We all know what happened that day. What happened was wrong. But was it clearly and obviously racism? Harder to say. Enter Tony Timpa, who also complicates the narrative.
One comment: There’s a long history of hostility from blacks against Jews. It’s not everyone, obviously; it’s not totalizing. But it’s there. Thomas Sowell writes about it in Black Rednecks and White Liberals. Hell: James Baldwin writes about it in Notes of a Native Son, in the 1950s.
Like I've written here before, it's what Shelby Steele calls the "Poetic Truth."
The interactions between blacks and the cops has a deep history that relates to America's ugly past. The Left uses modern day tragic events to manipulate their audience into believing narratives whether they are real or not. It's sad that so many people fall for it. They can't distinguish fact from fiction when it comes to blacks and the cops because there is a stigma hanging over both sides.
I welcome you and my fellow subscribers to agree or disagree.
Great talk. So many interesting points. I think Glenn made a very good/wise point when he talked about certain ideological groups having a specific interest in certain things being discussed a certain way. George Floyd is a good example. There’s no question Chauvin is an asshole and that he acted terribly and obviously did a horrible, reprehensible thing. Chauvin got what he deserved. No sane person would question this. That said: The notion that from the jump the media and culture labeled it as a racist hate crime: that is much more complex. Someone here mentioned direct life experience for low-income urban black Americans versus The Actual Data. This is very true. Anecdotal evidence affects us all, even if the systemic concept isn’t really accurate. And we know the data re police brutality against black Americans: it’s a very tiny percentage, about 10-20 unarmed black men killed per year. (This should be good news but instead the media on the left creates the false perception of rampant police violence.) We all know Floyd had a complicated past. We all know what happened that day. What happened was wrong. But was it clearly and obviously racism? Harder to say. Enter Tony Timpa, who also complicates the narrative.
One comment: There’s a long history of hostility from blacks against Jews. It’s not everyone, obviously; it’s not totalizing. But it’s there. Thomas Sowell writes about it in Black Rednecks and White Liberals. Hell: James Baldwin writes about it in Notes of a Native Son, in the 1950s.
Michael Mohr
‘Sincere American Writing’
https://michaelmohr.substack.com/
Like I've written here before, it's what Shelby Steele calls the "Poetic Truth."
The interactions between blacks and the cops has a deep history that relates to America's ugly past. The Left uses modern day tragic events to manipulate their audience into believing narratives whether they are real or not. It's sad that so many people fall for it. They can't distinguish fact from fiction when it comes to blacks and the cops because there is a stigma hanging over both sides.
I welcome you and my fellow subscribers to agree or disagree.