... is that your favorite race will get bitten in the end.
Earlier this week, an Asian was attacked by a black. The motive was racial. Given the stats on hate crimes, that's likely to be an evergreen statement.
If you decide to racialize everything and your preferred race is committing a lot of crimes, leading the league in crimes-per-person, you're doomed to get blown up by your own set of rules. This was perfectly predictable if the racialists had assumed that the people around them possessed free will and an intellect. Judging from the arguments on Twitter, they did not. No surprise there. They have no idea how anything works.
So now both sides are racializing things and there's plenty of ammo to go around. Critical race theory is being shoved down our throats in more and more ways and all that's doing is increasing the caliber of the rounds. Again, this was perfectly predictable if you treated your intellectual opponents like peers. Again, they did not. Again, no surprise.
The only counter I can think of is this.
I have a black friend at work. We'll call him Danny. Danny is a lot of fun. He and I share several interests and he likes my cooking. For that reason alone, Danny should be considered a stellar fellow. Danny is a sweet guy. Danny wouldn't ever hurt anyone. Danny would come to your aid if he saw you attacked. Is he guilty of the hate crime linked above? Should he be linked to it in any way?
Am I guilty of hate crimes linked to people of my "race," whatever that means? Heck, I don't want to be judged by the actions of my siblings, much less people who have similar melanin. In fact, I don't even want to be judged by the actions of our kids. They're all 24 or older and making decisions on their own. Why am I involved in that? There's no logic to any of this.
The whole strategy of racializing things was doomed to backfire from the start. That it's starting to happen in earnest online is no surprise.
The only way out is to see each other as individuals.
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Black people are not the leftists' "favorite race"; they are, generally willingly, their catspaws. That the leftists' policies promote racial animosity and racist violence is no accident.
Twitter is turning into Stormfront vs Black Lives Matter. To borrow from Henry Kissinger, it's a pity they can't both lose.
As I understand it, Twitter was always something like that.
KT - remember when we tried Twitter at work? I came to the conclusion that it was worthless (particularly since the character limit was ridiculously small). Everything I have seen since has convinced me I was right. Same goes for Facebook and all the other asocial media.
I deleted facebook years ago. It provided no value for me. And insisted on filling my page with things of people that I vaguely remembered from High School. But never anything from people I identified as relatives. Yes, it was probably my fault. Don't care, it was useless.
I dropped Instagram a couple years ago, never used it, and I guess I didn't have follow a lot of people that were active on it. It was useless.
I'm an old man who yells at clouds, therefore I'm not allowed on Snapchat. Something, like that. At least that's my understanding from my son. :-)
I deleted my twitter account last year. I found it just made me mad. It was nothing but hate and advertising.
I don't feel I'm missing out on anything good.
Yeah, I still mainly just use an RSS feed to follow blogs I like (two of which in particular, "ScienceDaily" and "Atlas Obscura", have a lot of content), and do web searches whenever a topic comes to mind that I want to know more about. You know, the way the Web used to work back when I was a mere youth and the world was bright and new.
I use "The Old Reader" (https://theoldreader.com/) as my RSS reader, subscribe to the local paper (hard copy and electronic) and read a lot of technical papers and webcomics.
From the glimpses I get of Facebook and Twitter, I don't believe I am missing anything important.
K T Cat,
Am I guilty of hate crimes linked to people of my "race," whatever that means?
For a person who recently complained that I didn't respond to your posts on your terms, this highly distorted depiction of critical race theory comes across as quite hypocritical. We could discuss some of the notions of racism involved in this attack, but it's hard to discuss things you deny the existence of.
I've also shunned Facebook, Twitter, et. al. As it is, I probably spend too much time just reading blogs.
I'll just leave this here.
Michigan man pleads guilty to smashing teen's face with bike lock because he was Black
In what *sane* world does it matter a damn whether the thug did it because the kid was black or because he just gets his jollies assaulting persons smaller and weaker than himself?
Ilion,
In a world where everything and everyone is connected.
Ah! So, had the thug said that bashing people in the face with a bike lock is simply how he "sexually identifies", then his behavior wouldn't have been so bad ... and might even have been laudable.
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Ilion,
Oddly, when conservative Christians see a Christian in Pakistan being subjected to a hate crime (such as a young girl accused of burning pages from the Koran), they seem to understand that we are all connected and crimes against fellow members of their religion affect them as well; but for many, when it comes to hate crimes, they fail to have the same understanding that said crime affects other people who experience the same type of hate in that same city. It's a curious failure of empathy.
Oddly, conservative Christians and other rational and intellectually honest persons don't try to pretend (*) that "hate" (**) makes an actual crime "worse" than that same crime sans the "hate".
To repeat myself: "In what *sane* world does it matter a damn whether the thug did it because the kid was black or because he just gets his jollies assaulting persons smaller and weaker than himself?"
'One Brow' has not (and never will) engage that question, because he is a leftist, and *all* leftists are intellectually dishonest. 'One Brow' has not (and never will) engage that question, because the leftists' invention of the concept of "hate crimes", and anti-justice (***) assertion that a "hate crime" is somehow worse than the very same crime if the criminal and victim could be reversed is absurd on its face, and to actually engage the question would high-light the anti-justice and absurdity of the whole "hate crime" charade.
(*) the purpose of which leftist pretense is to spook the general populace into rolling over for the leftists' continuing power-grabs
(**) but, of course, only some "hate" matters to lying, hypocritical leftists, such as 'One Brow'
(***) To repeat myself again: "Ah! So, had the thug said that bashing people in the face with a bike lock is simply how he "sexually identifies", then his behavior wouldn't have been so bad ... and might even have been laudable."
After all: #LoveWins
Our Western, Christianized societies have spent *centuries* working toward the goal of enacting *true* justice -- which goal, by the way, was commanded by God thousands of years ago, as recorded in a certain infamous "Bronze Age religious text" -- whereby all persons are equal before the law, whereby the law is not "a respecter of persons".
Throughout most of human history, the most pertinent question when punishing a crime -- indeed, when determing whether there even *was* a crime -- was, "Who did what to whom?" Or, in Lenin's more succinct formulation: "Who, whom?"
Leftists *hate* justice, but they do love "Who, whom?"
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