More Americans Killed in One Chicago Weekend Than in 2 Years in Afghanistan
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Biden, AOC, and the Democrats insist that the crime wave swamping the country is a “right-wing bogeyman” like critical race theory and the border illegal alien surge.
They might want to tell it to the 88 people shot over the weekend in Chicago.
Fourteen people have been killed and 74 others wounded this long Fourth of July weekend in shootings in Chicago since Friday, including five children shot since Sunday afternoon.
Two people were killed and four were wounded, including a 12-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy... around the same time that a 6-year-old girl and a woman were shot in West Pullman and about four hours after an 11-year-old boy and a man were shot in Brainerd on the South Side.
Late Sunday afternoon, a 5-year-old girl was shot in a leg.
That’s 5 children shot in one weekend in Chiraq.
By way of context, there were no American military combat casualties in Afghanistan in 2021. And there were 4 combat deaths in 2020.
More Americans were killed in one weekend in Chicago than in 2 years in Afghanistan.
That includes one active servicemember
A 19-year-old man shot and killed on Chicago’s Northwest Side this weekend was an active member of the National Guard, his family and a community activist said.
Carvajal’s family said he would have celebrated his 20th birthday on July 9. He wanted to become a Chicago Police officer to support the community.
We withdrew from Afghanistan? Can we pull out of Chicago?
Mark
‘Oikosphobia’ is not the Fear of Mass-market Greek Yogurt
http://www.diogenesmiddlefinger.com/2021/07/oikosphobia-is-not-fear-of-mass-market.html
Exccerpt:
...Benedict Beckeld, a Swedish PhD in Philosophy has written about this combination of insanity, stupidity and self-hatred that is sometimes called ‘Oikophobia.’ In 2004 philosopher Roger Scruton described Oikophobia as, “the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiable ‘ours’”. Part of this has to do with a need by many to feel superior to others.
...As is always the case during prosperity fueled oikophobia, the sins of the society are compared to some imagined utopia, not against conditions as they have existed in most societies for most of history. If the status seeking elite were to compare their culture to the human sacrifice of the Aztecs.....or the oppression of the Cultural Revolution.....or the persistence of modern day slavery in the 3rd world...their pronouncement about the awfulness of their own culture could be seen to be the product of either ignorance or an attempt to mislead. Instead, they have embraced the playbook of Mao’s Cultural Revolution and we now have calls for snitch squads to be created, turning people against each other and creating the platforms to turn each other in as “extremists.
The important thing to remember is that this degrading of one’s own culture, history and people is a status seeking technique. When a young “woke” college student decries White Privilege....…they aren’t offering to make a sacrifice on their part to help elevate some oppressed person. They’re simply pointing out that they’re better than the other guy.
As Dr. Beckeld also pointed out, as oikophobia increases among elites in a society, oikiphilia increases among the lower classes. So the more the elites come to hate and despise the culture, heritage and history of their society, the more the lower classes seek to defend it.
And so Patriots.....here we are.