Posted on 04/28/2021 12:34:37 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
When I began my “war on standards” series many years ago, I recognized that the left was trying to tear down core standards of behavior and merit for no other reason than the fact that one racial group was failing, disproportionately, to meet them. I expected the rot to spread far and wide, and it has — to the detriment of society.
However, I never thought it would spread to an attack on the standard against knife fights.
Yet, that now has happened, following the fatal shooting of a black teenage girl who attacked another black teenage girl with a knife. John Kass reports:
One of the more insane developments from the tragic shooting death of knife wielding Ma’Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio, has been the emergence of a desperate fantasy from the political left:
The “Let the kids have their knife fights” coalition that must think “West Side Story” is real life....
But it’s no laughing matter that the war on standards has taken us to the point where teenage knife fights are viewed by some on the left as “girls being girls.” At this point, I can’t help but wonder if any standard that Blacks disproportionately fail to meet, no matter how self-evidently justified the standard, is safe from attack from the increasingly influential Black/left coalition.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
PinkGirl had the opposite of a weapon. She was holding a small dog. That's just one step below holding a month old baby.
Even if both parties have a knife, what if one is bigger than another or has a bigger knife?
What if one is a better knife fighter?
What if one is wearing something like body armor?
I thought the Left was concerned about fairness.
next time, tie their left wrists together and give them BOTH a knife...
the cop should have just refereed.
In Communist countries you had to agree with total nonsense BECAUSE it was nonsense. It was meant to break down self respect and merge individuals into the mob.
My husband and I both attended integrated inner city St Louis high schools during the ‘50s.
St Louis was a tough town, even then, but neither of us remembers a knife fight or gang fight taking place.
There were standards of behavior then and no one was exempt from them. Of course, back then, we still had reform schools.
“In Communist countries you had to agree with total nonsense BECAUSE it was nonsense. It was meant to break down self respect and merge individuals into the mob.”
You are correct, sir.
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.” (Baron Bodissey, Political Correctness—The Revenge of Marxism, Gates of Vienna)
The police shot Bryant BECAUSE black lives matter, namely the life of the unarmed girl Bryant was attacking.
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