Posted on 06/05/2020 7:19:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
The white privilege on display here is on the left, where radical whites play at revolution, often to the detriment of poor minorities.
These rioters aren’t Martin Luther King Jr. or even Malcolm X. They are Alex and his droogs from “A Clockwork Orange” out for a night on the town, albeit with less style and a duller patois. Violence is the point.
Protests responding to the cruel police killing of George Floyd have been turned into nationwide riots and looting. This is not about Floyd anymore. His killing was universally condemned, the cops involved were fired, and homicide charges have been brought against the officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck. More should be done, and what has been done could have been done sooner, but folks are not looting the Nike store in downtown Chicago for greater justice. They just want to smash things and take stuff.
The very real problems of police misconduct and racial injustice have been buried under rubble and broken glass, then obscured in a haze of smoke and tear gas. Progress was possible— in his last State of the Union address, our bombastic Republican president was boasting about criminal justice reform — but that requires basic civil order. The problem with “no justice, no peace” is that although the absence of justice will indeed corrode peace, without peace there is no possibility of justice.
As the violent destruction escalated, much of the press spun conspiracy theories about white supremacist agitators and, of course, Russia. That was nonsense. The outside agitators are the same (mostly local) anarchist goons and Antifa thugs we have watched for years. The white privilege on display here is on the left, where radical whites play at revolution, often to the detriment of poor minorities. The radicals don’t care, because they want revolution, not reform. They want more violence, not less. They want to burn it down, regardless of whether “it” is a police station, an upscale shop, or a minority neighborhood.
Some of those taking to the streets want to protest peacefully, some are determined to incite violence and destruction, and others are somewhere in between. But in a crowd, these categories are fluid, and despite efforts by genuine protesters to maintain order in their ranks, the tendency is toward escalation, especially with the excitement of a righteous cause after weeks of being in lockdown. Mob violence, destruction, and theft are thrilling, especially after being stuck mostly alone and indoors, and Ivy League corporate lawyers can enjoy it just as much as the urban proletariat.
Never before has rioting been so recorded (often by the rioters themselves), and what the videos show is not so much the wretched of the earth rising up against their oppressors as people relieving their boredom through the rush of violence and theft.
Even the self-proclaimed revolutionaries are thrill-seekers. Most are half-cosplaying at revolution, indulging in enough street violence to be thrilling, but not enough to really risk themselves. The young lady in New York who despicably hurled a Molotov cocktail at a cop car with the officers still inside is the exception for treating this like a real life-or-death uprising, rather than a chance to collect some free swag.
Serious attacks on police seem to be increasing, but most of the rioters are not interested in a genuine insurrection against armed agents of the state. They even get indignant when police or citizens defending themselves push back. Real revolutionaries don’t whine about how unfair it is when their enemies and victims retaliate. But the rioters we see expect the law to protect them, even as they wage war on it. They believe themselves entitled to safety, even as they bring anarchy into our cities.
In this, the rioters are fundamentally affirming the authorities. Yes, they denounce them as corrupt, racist, and so on, but they leave the burden of change on them. The rioters are not trying to establish alternative powers and institutions that would assert sovereignty. They may fantasize about a socialist revolution, but they have no plans for seizing power and governing beyond a vague hope that it might happen if they make things bad enough now.
This sterile destruction is intrinsic to rioting, which by nature is a repudiation of politics. It abandons reasoned persuasion, or even targeted factional violence, in favor of generalized destruction that is incapable of establishing anything, even a bad regime (though that may follow when the public demands order at any cost). The rioters are not trying to take over, they just want to pillage, burn, and then go home.
After all, why should they bother to actually smash the system, as opposed to just some windows, when the system wants to be loved by them? Elite institutions, from universities to big corporations, will respond to these riots with more PC tokenism and HR diversity blather.
The legacy media and the Democratic Party have likewise struggled to muster the moral firmness to condemn the rioters. The establishment left has an immune disorder: Its leaders are incapable of standing against radicals who use the rhetoric of social justice as a cover for evil deeds. Thus, many Democratic mayors and governors have let their cities be destroyed, and Democratic leaders have justified violence and looting as conducive to the cause of racial justice.
They are wrong. This violence is not done for justice, and it will not produce any. For most of the rioters, it is just an excuse, and a thin one at that, for a few nights of destruction and looting.
Even the ideologues do not really believe the riots will accomplish anything. Rather, they have abandoned any real hope that injustice might be remedied — note how vague they are about the actual details of their new order once they burn the existing one down.
In their ideological catechism, the problem of sin persists without any hope for overcoming it. Without hope and without love, violence becomes an end in itself. There is only power and exploitation and struggle, world without end, amen.
No, they want Trump removed from office. This is a coordinated effort and I hope the feds are putting together all the coordinating links - funding, organization, etc. No doubt it will lead back to Democrat organizations with strong ties to the Democrat-Communist Party.
Great picture!
Wow - the irony.
Nah that’s too much like work...and it would involve nasty guns...
They just want free everything ...
but sorry...your homies stole everything....
The end goal of the Soros Riots is the take down of Trump and his brand of the US Government. Draining the swamp has left exposed the writhing mass that feeds off humanity.
Huntington Beach Locals Beat the Crap Out of Antifa Terrorists and Send Them Running For Their Lives (VIDEO)
“Black Lives Matter and Antifa terrorists in black bloc have taken over PCH and Main Street in Huntington Beach for the last several days and the locals are fed up.
Huntington Beach, dubbed Surf City USA, is known for its surfing and counter-culture.
A huge brawl broke out between Huntington Beach locals and Antifa.
The locals beat the crap out of Antifa and sent several of the black-clad cowards running across the street.”
From the comments:
“The Huntington PD were outstanding in using rubber bullets, that the crowd went from ‘I can’t breathe’ to “I better get my sorry azz outa here’. Also hats off to Santa Monica PD who brought in the water canon to clear the streets Sunday. Antifa deserves nothing less.”
We must encourage each other. Norski
The Left is in the streets tearing our cities and more than a few suburbs apart.
The Right is engaged in thoughtful cogent analysis.
And not much else.
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Correct.
Actual reformers would make a beeline for Minneapolis and ask the Mayor and the Police Commissioner “Just what the f*** are you guys doing when you hire and train cops?”
It is beginning to look like they will either achieve that, or get some protesters killed probably this weekend. If protesters assaulting the White House are killed trying to burn it down, they will become martyrs. Who knows? Maybe a few of them are willing to give their lives to get it going. Obviously, no conservatives are willing to give their lives to get it stopped. Remains to be seen.
Interesting article on MLK and rioting....
I don’t understand why so many minorities are so unhappy, they have stayed on the plantation like their democrat bosses told them to do, the democrat bosses have been controlling their cities,police and education for 50 years straight, they should be living in Utopia.
Maybe they should think about leaving the Democrat Plantation, what do they have to lose??
Yes, it says it all.
1921: the year rampaging white Democrats last burned down a black community.
2020: the year white Democrats returned to burning down black communities.
You nailed it. A revolution would take too much work.
Democrats were losing the black vote. So now, several months before an election they were sure to lose, racism has suddenly exploded. Everyone knows this is about the Democrats trying to destroy Trump. They are succeeding in turning this into an issue of you’re either for Trump or against racism. Of course, many people see through this, but the dnc/deepstate/media doesn’t care about them. They just want the rest whipped up into a frenzy. Even they are probably surprised by how little opposition they are receiving.
Riots are not about outrage. They’re about opportunism.
~~ Daniel Greenfield.
2020: the year white Democrats returned to burning down black communities.
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Great point. But actually white democrats (Antifa) are smarter now. They provoke and instigate black people into burning down their own communities.
Look at the protestors. All young white people. IN THE DAYTIME! Yet they are smart enough to get the hell out of there before the sun goes down. Before the blacks show up and finish the job of burning down the place.
Meanwhile, these young white people have retreated back safely home to the suburbs.
Good for them
This is all just a far left anarcho-communist hissy fit. They know they won’t win in November so they’re just making it painful. The real idiots are the Antifa foot-soldiers, they actually think ‘revolution’ is here and they’re going to be the glorious hero’s to make it happen.
As for the BLM folks, it’s actually sad, they don’t seem to realize that black people are just being used as usual by white liberals. If BLM can help their cause then great, the left will pour fuel onto their fire to amplify their pain - but they don’t give a sh*t about them, quite the opposite.
It’s just black people being used by white liberals the same way they’ve been using them for decades, if you don’t vote democrat “you ain’t black!”. Too many black people are still blind to this, although many have awakened to it. There’s still many young, angry, opportunistic black people that’ll just take the ‘free stuff’ and not have a single thought toward how they’re being used.
...all so they can say “this is Trump’s America”. No, this is OBAMA’s America and probably largely still his doing.
After the sting of reality sets in they find their revolution was all for nothing and it came at a hell of a price.
Coffin lid closed on democrat party and no flowers.
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