What's Causing Baltimore's Crime Spike? (Every left-wing Shibboleth in one handy article)

The Atlantic ^ | June 5, 2015 | David A. Graham

[Verginius Rufus]

I had always thought that "shibboleth" meant "ear of corn" (i.e., wheat), but I just looked it up in Langenscheidt's Pocket Hebrew Dictionary and it lists the meanings as "ear [of corn], point, branch; stream, water-course."

Ancient Greek did not have the "sh" sound so they did not adopt a letter from the Phoenician alphabet to represent that sound. The character for the "sh" sound in the Cyrillic alphabets looks similar to the Hebrew "shin" (which has an "sh" sound). Most of the Cyrillic letters are derived from Greek letters but the inventor of the alphabet must have studied some Hebrew and took a character for "sh" from that alphabet.

[DoodleDawg]

The community says they don’t want them. Give’m their wish and let them kill themselves off.

Then they should quit.

[jsanders2001]

> The community says they don’t want them. Give’m their wish and let them kill themselves off. Then they should quit.

how could anyone disagree with that. I have a dream. A dream where people wake up and realize that their tax dollars do matter; that without them the government will cease to exist. A dream where the people stand and refuse to pay taxes and the leeches learn that without them the government can give them nothing.

[Organic Panic]

Hmm. What’s causing a spike in crime in a black city, run by a black mayor, with a black states attorney, prosecuting cops for doing their jobs? BLACK people are causing the spike in crime. All the moaning and whining that someone has to do something. It’s ALWAYS someone else. It’s like after the riots in Ferguson. The black people were complaining about the piles of rubbish littering the streets waiting for SOMEONE else to do something about it. Heaven forbid they put on some gloves and pick up the garbage. Public housing projects are a disgrace. SOMEONE else should clean them up and maintain them. Never the residents.

Well, that SOMEONE ELSE who maintains some sense of order in these broken cities are being prosecuted and threatened by the people complaining the loudest. That SOMEONE ELSE is called a racist and told to “check your privilege” constantly. So screw the ghettos. I’m tired of paying for them and tired of hearing about it.