tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post4153149665203883463..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Chaos on CampusStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-89883161106711653452017-04-13T06:06:12.536-07:002017-04-13T06:06:12.536-07:00Ares,
LOL.
"I think the keyword there is &qu...Ares,<br />LOL. <br />"I think the keyword there is "want to kill". I mean I don't WANT to kill squirrels when I drive, but they're just stupid. They run across the road, and they're already past me, and crazily, they jump back into my path. WTF?! If they would just look both ways and cross in the crosswalks, they'd be a lot safer."<br />You're right. But they are not stupid, they are just being squirrels. Which of course applies equally to Libs. They aren't stupid, just being who they are.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-67173845865070351472017-04-12T21:18:20.545-07:002017-04-12T21:18:20.545-07:00Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCD said... Here's a...Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCD said... Here's a statistical comparison I'd love to see: (1) people who believe white cops want to kill black people...<br /><br />I think the keyword there is "want to kill". I mean I don't WANT to kill squirrels when I drive, but they're just stupid. They run across the road, and they're already past me, and crazily, they jump back into my path. WTF?! If they would just look both ways and cross in the crosswalks, they'd be a lot safer.<br /><br />Still, if a situation presents itself and I can tell a squirrel "Go ahead and make my day" as my car approaches, and no one is recording, why not have a little fun? It's just an animal afterall.<br /><br />On the other side, we know "suicide by cop" is a real thing, although I do believe success is easier if you're black.<br />https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=075_1485028629 A man with what it looks like an automatic shotgun begs to get killed by cop.<br /><br />I can't imagine having a job where you have to put your conscience on the line every day on life and death decisions, or where your quick decision will be second guessed by 100 million people on YouTube the next day.<br /><br />This brave new world of "public video of everything" is almost upon us. And even in private you imagine babysitters will soon be videoing their interactions, especially all acts of discipline so the kids won't be able to lie to their parents because the babysitter is mean.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-27081743311088931622017-04-12T21:10:23.547-07:002017-04-12T21:10:23.547-07:00Racism is now so yesterday!
Now it is Fascism 24/...Racism is now so yesterday!<br /><br />Now it is Fascism 24/7.<br /><br />The words change, but the play stays the same.Leo Gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-34014611886510601642017-04-12T17:19:30.119-07:002017-04-12T17:19:30.119-07:00Here's a statistical comparison I'd love t...Here's a statistical comparison I'd love to see: (1) people who believe white cops want to kill black people, and (2) those who believe in anthropomorphic Climate Change. Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-88132390843002066732017-04-12T09:04:28.339-07:002017-04-12T09:04:28.339-07:00p.s. A primary point of Mac Donald's book was ...p.s. A primary point of Mac Donald's book was what she called "Ferguson effect" which basically said overactive projections on police violence causes police officers to back down from confrontation and soon lead to an increase in violent crime as gangs and criminals learn they can get away with more, and presumably can even gain the sympathy of other citizens by claiming persecution.<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferguson_effect<br /><br />Surely this unwanted side-effect must exist, and it doesn't just occur between police and citizens but in any situation between someone exerting authoring and another who is willing to claim victim-status to observers to intervene.<br /><br />Like my brother had a step-son in his marriage, and as the marriage was breaking down, this son, age 11 or so, claimed my brother was being physically abusive while in fact it was just regular discipline. But his foolish wife took the side of her son over her husband, and she was actually encouraged by a neighbor to report my brother's use of physical force to the police, and my brother was actually ordered to stay physically away from the son and wasn't allowed to discipline him at all for the last year of the marriage, before she asked for a divorce. I don't recall any real bad behavior by the stepson, but certainly it makes things backwards, where a child suddenly is given power over an adult. Of course, its also for good reason - because statistically nonbiological parents are more likely to abuse children.<br /><br />And similarly kids even learn school to "tattle" on adults who hit them, even discipline by parents, like this 60 second ad tries to show.<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7PS3SJ8iis It's Discipline Not Child Abuse <br /><br />So "chaos" is the right word. If you make a world where even the smallest act of authority figures is instantly challenged as abusive, you will encourage timit authority figures to withdraw and refuse to do what they think is best, but will cause more problems for themselves than its worth, in the short run. And in this environment, children and immature people will have the run of the town (or home), and no one will stop them.<br /><br />So if Mac Donald could somehow express this in a more generic sense than her "war on cops" expresses to shallow listeners, everyone should see "chaos is not better" and there has to be a middle ground. Of course in the case of police, the middle ground is more police will be shot and killed, if less citizens are killed, and until police are courageous enough to accept that, the war really can't end.<br /><br />I do think especially in poor communities that everyone needs to practice respectful interactions with police, and learn how to see things from their point of view, their personal risks, and some of things things you don't really learn from a book, but need to role play both sides and see how we see ourselves is different than how we're seen.<br /><br />I'm sure most men learn they are threatening to some women even if they do absolutely nothing, and if we limit the authority of men to only act within the safety margins of the most timid women of the world, you can be sure chaos and greater violence will result because violent people won't be stopped as soon.<br /><br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-72417596348659939822017-04-12T08:26:25.073-07:002017-04-12T08:26:25.073-07:00"But the students currently stewing in delusi..."But the students currently stewing in delusional resentments and self-pity will eventually graduate, and some will seize levers of power more far-reaching than those they currently wield over toadying campus bureaucrats and spineless faculty."<br /><br />Are you kidding? This has been going on for at least 40 years!<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_W._Jones<br /><br />sestamibihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03713681322114049960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-25909560925625572912017-04-12T08:15:41.554-07:002017-04-12T08:15:41.554-07:00A guy I met at the Minnesota State Fair Constituti...A guy I met at the Minnesota State Fair Constitution Party booth really wanted me to read Mac Donald's book "War on Cops". He was sure if I read it, it would convince me that BLM is full of crap and that everything was the fault of black people themselves, rather than the police.<br /><br />Later on he wanted me to go with him to the BLM where he wanted to provoke a conflict, trying to point out the "Hands up, don't shoot" meme for Mike Brown was a myth, and I agreed with him on that, but I was also 100% sure that breaking that myth had nothing to do with other cases like Tamir Rice who was shot within seconds of a police car pulling up to him in a park. But my new friend was sure that no progress could be made unless every BLM supporter admitted the "hands up meme" was a myth, and the facts of Tamir's murder (and acquital of the shooting officer) could not be addressed.<br /><br />Of course the strangest thing of the Tamir murder case, is the officers would found not guilty, YET the police department itself settled the case of out court with the black family for $6 million.<br /><br />Isn't that interesting? If a citizen murders a cop who was looking threatening, do you think any jury is going to acquit that citizen? And if that citizen happens to be Donald Trump (who likes to fastasize about shooting people), and he agrees to pay the family of the police officer $6 million dollars, would anyone consider justice served in this case?<br /><br />Of course in the Cleveland police department's case, the $6 million will be paid for not by the murderer, but through the taxes of citizens of Cleveland. Does that sound like justice was served?<br /><br />So anyway, I'm not overly impressed by Mac Donald's books defending a "war on cops". As long as we live in a world where police officers have the power of life and death and see blacks as guilty until proven guilty, and are willing to use lethal force to protect themselves against imaginary or toy guns because a suspect doesn't react with 1 second of a command, it looks to me that this is not a war on cops, but a demand for justice.<br /><br />And in Minnesota last summer, a nonwhite police officer shot and killed a blackman, Philando Castile, near St Paul, at a routine traffic stop, where the black man told the officer he had a permit to carry a gun, and the black man wasn't smart enough to realize that reaching for a gun to show it to the officer wasn't a way to make the officer feel safe, and cost him his life.<br /><br />We can have sympathy for that cop who cried after killing the man. And he was rightfully convicted with manslaughter. However without the video filmed by the man's girlfriend in the car, probably the officer could have gotten away with it, as long as he could tell a good story about the dangerous black man with a gun.<br /><br />So cases like this are now becoming public because of cameras, and untold previous shootings of blacks by police were deemed justified, based on self-interested testamony of officers on the thin blue line.<br /><br />I don't think Mac Donald is a racist, but I don't think she is unbiased. And the idea that we should accept police killings as okay since more blacks are killed by other blacks, is offensive in the extreme.<br /><br />It's like saying child abuse isn't the problem, because kids abuse each other much more frequently than adults abuse children, and we can't possibly hold adults responsible until we stop the kids from doing it first.<br /><br />So I can understand why people would prefer to try to silence speakers like Mac Donald. I don't approve of censorship by moral self-righteousness, but I understand it.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-85877152164013389562017-04-12T07:04:10.245-07:002017-04-12T07:04:10.245-07:00"Provocatrice"! Great word, SS. I also h..."Provocatrice"! Great word, SS. I also have a fond affection for "aviatrix". And last week I saw a vanity plate I liked belonging on a woman's car in upstate NY: DISTAPH. Clever.<br /><br />I miss the old days when words conveyed information (as opposed to ideological content).trigger warninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06310637474428322994noreply@blogger.com