Post-Woke Culture

Slope Of Hope ^ | 2-18-2022 | Tim Knight

[blam]

Let’s kick it off with this:

Now, in this cancel culture of ours, even I’m not stupid enough to weigh in with an opinion on such things. I will report, however, an item from my own fair city of Palo Alto.

You see, this is a fairly low crime area, but the crimes that do take place tend to happen over and over and over again, by the exact same people, without any consequence. One quick Google search of “Palo Alto lululemon theft” will yield scads of results from many different time periods. About every three or four weeks, a couple of folks walk in with giant shopping bags, FILL them with merchandise, and then leave. It’s pathetic. Whenever my wife or daughter buys products from that company, I wonder to myself how much of the price is to compensate for lululemon getting ripped off so regularly.

What’s of concern to my fellow residents of this super-liberal, hand-wringing, bleeding heart enclave is that the crime is going beyond shoplifting, thanks to, shall we say, misguided good intentions. I realize San Francisco has become a cesspool, but the 30 miles between the city and Palo Alto could just as well be a million miles. In spite of this, crime that has nothing to do with overpriced athletic wear is on the rise.

I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it didn’t take fifty years of unadulterated theft for the City Council members to wake up to the fact that maybe the police are our friends.

Back in the pre-Covid, post-Floyd era where people could not WAIT to loudly virtue signal, the City Council made one of their top priorities to be “Social Justice“. To that end, they commissioned a huge mural to be painted on the street directly in front of city hall, celebrating the lives of various black people including one – – and I am not making this up – – who murdered a police officer. (This was so outrageous to the police that they actually sued over it).

So let that sink in. The police officers are headquartered in the same building as the city council. So let’s say you’re an officer. On the street at your place of work, which you will pass every single work day, is a giant painting of a police murderer, paid for by the city for which you work. Wrap your head around that, officer!

Well, even the Palo Alto City Council isn’t totally idiotic. Kindly note that when they compiled their list of four priorities for this year, a few changes were made.

So “Social Justice” has been shit-canned and CRIME (in red letters) has become the hot issue (for those of you who read the entire list, let’s just set aside the fact that somehow this tiny town has something to do with climate change).

As for lululemon, I actually have a great idea of how they could eradicate their problem completely, but like I said, even I’m not stupid enough to offer strong opinions on anything but the Fed. I will offer an idea, though, that I don’t think will offend anyone: require shoppers to leave their BAGS at the front! You see this in plenty of other venues. Got a couple of giant shopping bags? Great! Please leave ’em here and pick ’em up on the way out. M’kay? Great, thanks! Otherwise, we’ll have this in perpetuity:

[Behind the Blue Wall]

Palo Alto’s where I grew up and I still live on the Peninsula. That really is remarkable, “social justice” replaced by “crime” in red letters. Palo Altans are basically defenseless against the kind of violent lawlessness that has become commonplace just a 45 minute drive away. It’s a well-policed, law-abiding town, but I doubt hardly anyone has a gun in their home or even a competent guard dog. They’re certainly not carrying, and the minimum wage retail clerks are certainly not going to risk their lives trying to save fully insured merchandise.

There aren’t enough police to prevent or intercept very many crimes. Mostly the good citizens of Palo Alto will just have to hope that the crime wave recedes back to the north and east before it fundamentally changes their way of life.

[fieldmarshaldj]

[17th Miss Regt]

Mostly the good citizens of Palo Alto will just have to hope that the crime wave recedes back to the north and east before it fundamentally changes their way of life.

It will change their way of life. It must. There is no resistance to the looting. Weakness breeds more looting.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

45 minutes away? I thought East Palo Alto was much closer.

[DesertRhino]

“As for lululemon, I actually have a great idea of how they could eradicate their problem completely, but like I said, even I’m not stupid enough to offer strong opinions on anything but the Fed. I will offer an idea, though, that I don’t think will offend anyone: require shoppers to leave their BAGS at the front! You see this in plenty of other venues. Got a couple of giant shopping bags? Great! Please leave ’em here and pick ’em up on the way out. M’kay? Great, thanks! Otherwise, we’ll have this in perpetuity:”

Oh YEAH! That would totally foil them. Put it right next to the “No Firearms Allowed” sign that stopped all the armed robberies.... moron.

[arthurus]

Robbery is not a crime in California. Crime is not a crime in California.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

True, there are impoverished areas in East Palo Alto, Redwood City, San Jose . . . all much closer than 45 minutes, but from what I can tell, and obviously it’s just one view, what’s going on in Oakland right now is on a whole different level than any of those places. Large parts of Oakland are just lawless, ruled by street justice. Everywhere else in the Bay Area, except maybe a couple of square miles of downtown San Francisco, that kind of thing seems a lot more episodic.