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Ferguson Too Complicated for Easy Allegory
Townhall.com ^ | November 27, 2014 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 11/27/2014 7:35:03 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 11/27/2014 7:35:04 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Odd, Jonah, I found his speech to be spoken in a flat, disinterested manner. Not as far as having flat affect, just disinterestedly.

And as for his statement that their black rage was understandable......
uh NO.


2 posted on 11/27/2014 7:37:40 AM PST by Shimmer1 (Conservative. Because we can't all be on welfare.)
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To: Kaslin
Officer Wilson made a legitimate request of Brown. Brown, in turn, saw no legitimacy in it and behaved recklessly.

Or, just as likely, Brown knew his ass was in a sling having just robbed a convenience store and still had evidence connecting him to the crime so he tried to intimidate his way into getting out of being held responsible for his actions as he was used to doing.

3 posted on 11/27/2014 7:40:40 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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One theme he hit repeatedly, and correctly, was that the passions of many protestors are rooted in something very real. The "frustrations that we've seen are not just about a particular incident," Obama said. "They have deep roots in many communities of color who have a sense that our laws are not always being enforced uniformly or fairly."

Using that same "logic" we conservatives have every right to go out today (Well, OK let's wait until after Thanksgiving!) and burn this entire nation to the ground. We have suffered greater offenses at the hands of the Øbozo regime than the residents of the town of Ferguson have at the hands of their own civil servants.

Let's go riot!

4 posted on 11/27/2014 7:41:51 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Kaslin

Too complicated?
How’s this:
Thug tries to grab cop’s gun after punching cop in face.
Cop shoots thug from restrained position in cruiser.
Thug starts to run away.
Cop pursues assault/robbery suspect.
Thug decides to put beat down on smaller cop.
Cop puts rounds into thug to neutralize threat.
Gibsmedat local community goes tribal over one of theirs getting due justice.
Not very complicated, actually very predictable in Obamas society.


5 posted on 11/27/2014 7:44:58 AM PST by 9422WMR ("Ignorance can be cured by education, but stupidity is forever.")
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To: Kaslin

Ferguson has struck the primordial fear in blacks. Blacks down deep fear that one day whites will rise up and institute massive genocide against the unwanted blacks. That is why blacks respond in this manner when a black is killed by a white especially if the white has an official capacity. Silly and paranoid? Perhaps from the white perspective but not only do blacks believe it but many feel it will happen in their lifetime.


6 posted on 11/27/2014 7:47:22 AM PST by allendale
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To: Kaslin

People on welfare, dependent people, never grow up. They remain infantile, and throw themselves into tantrums and violent behavior in a heartbeat. They are either whining or bashing things. This is true of spoiled white kids or anyone else in a state of dependency on others.

Human nature.


7 posted on 11/27/2014 7:47:27 AM PST by squarebarb ( Fairy tales are basically true.)
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Let's go riot!

Yeah! I'll join you right after we give thanks, enjoy our Thanksgiving feast, and watch some football. Be right there...

8 posted on 11/27/2014 7:47:46 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Kaslin

If only the plantation owners had picked their own cotton! ! ! ! !


9 posted on 11/27/2014 7:48:36 AM PST by DeaconRed (You can't be old & wise until you have been young & stupid First.)
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To: Kaslin
I used to read townhall ... but no more.

If they want to keep asking racist questions, no one can get over it.

I just read a Freeper (sorry .. I forget who) who basically said, ;

White America has done more (and ALL the) changing since the 1960's and black America has refused to do anything about ITself

The time is now ... screw 'em.

10 posted on 11/27/2014 7:49:17 AM PST by knarf
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Seriously? Is that what drives this? Some deeply ingrained subconscious belief that they’ll be wiped out by whites?

They are doing enough to wipe themselves out via abortion, drugs, mayhem, thuggery, and murder.


11 posted on 11/27/2014 7:50:38 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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One theme he hit repeatedly, and correctly, was that the passions of many protestors are rooted in something very real. The "frustrations that we've seen are not just about a particular incident," Obama said. "They have deep roots in many communities of color who have a sense that our laws are not always being enforced uniformly or fairly.",

Only because idiots like Obama, the media, and other leftist trolls are constantly beating that drum. Of course blacks are angry. People who have homosexual sex are getting to an almost black level of anger too because they're constantly being told that everyone hates them and is out to get them. The solution is simple. Stop trying to make a buck and win political points off of fomenting rage.

12 posted on 11/27/2014 7:51:06 AM PST by DouglasKC
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If they’d done that, they wouldn’t have been plantation owners.

They would, at best, have been yeoman farmers.

The economics of the plantation was inherently based on stealing a very large chunk of the value of the labor of the enslaved people and diverting it into the plantation owner’s pockets.


13 posted on 11/27/2014 7:51:33 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: allendale

If that is true, they are insane.


14 posted on 11/27/2014 7:52:45 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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“Ferguson Too Complicated For Easy Allegory”

Yup.

It requires brilliant, intellectual, really-really smart, intensely intelligent analysis by a brilliant, intellectual, really-really smart, intensely intelligent Progressive Democrat who turns the incident into an allegory while saying, at the same time, that it’s too complicated for a simple allegory making it into a simple allegory.

(The dialectic at it’s best, or worst, depending on one’s point of view.)ti

(How about it’s just a story about someone who committed a crime who was apprehended by a policeman?)

IMHO


15 posted on 11/27/2014 7:53:06 AM PST by ripley
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16 posted on 11/27/2014 7:53:06 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: allendale
Blacks down deep fear that one day whites will rise up and institute massive genocide against the unwanted blacks.

Too late. Abortion on demand has already gotten the ball rolling on this one.

17 posted on 11/27/2014 7:54:17 AM PST by randita (Obama entrusted the transformation of the best healthcare system in the world to a scam artist.)
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To: Kaslin

I disagree. In my opinion, the ones who tend to riot and loot do not simply want fair and equal treatment under the law, but rather, special treatment under the law.

They want the right to riot and loot without consequence.

They want the right to ignore legal instructions from LEOs.

They want to behave any way they want and then to not be treated by society as though they are behaving differently from the socially acceptable manner.


18 posted on 11/27/2014 7:54:18 AM PST by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: Kaslin
Perhaps a few examples are called for here, Jonah.

How many black teenagers skipping merrily down the street have been killed by trigger happy white cops in Ferguson?

19 posted on 11/27/2014 7:54:27 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Kaslin

I guess Jonah thinks since the normally reasonable (black) John McWhorter says it, then it is true. It is not. Millions of people throughout history have believed in, and committed evil. That does not make it right, or something we should cater to.


20 posted on 11/27/2014 7:54:35 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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