Posted on 01/22/2023 2:53:37 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
On Saturday night a gunman shot and killed 10 and wounded at least another 10 individuals at the Monterey Lunar Festival in the Los Angeles area.
The shooter is still at large hours after the shooting. He is being described by police as an “Asian male.” The police are not releasing many details at this point.
And later this afternoon police identified the shooter’s vehicle.
Police entered a white van today believed to be linked to the shooter.
The killer was dead inside the van.
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Frankly, I don’t believe any initial reports anymore. Nothing is as it seems these days.
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The Oriental mind is inscrutable. It has always been thus.
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Care to explain exactly what an Oriental mind is ?
My kids cringe when I describe someone as being Oriental. A friend of mine used to call them Ornamentals, lol. I’m trying to remember it’s Asian now, but frankly I’m old and can’t keep up with all the changes so I just don’t GAF anymore.
“Montag is dead”
No, not descriptive enough. Asian is Yemen, to Kamchatka to a Siberian Eskimo, down to someone in Java.
And they still call it an Oriental Rug.
I do not ascribe to the language police. A Chinaman is not a Yemeni.
White vehicle supremacy.
The mind of a Chinese, Japanese or Korean. Their thinking is impenetrable to westerners. I am guessing you are relatively young.
What? He WASN’T a white supremacist? Quick Robin! To the memory hole!
Won’t be mentioned except in passing come tomorrow.
That he was A Chinese citizen connected to the CCP?
What do they call the Orient now?
....truly, I could not agree more....just commenting on the way our Language Gestapo thinks these days.... interesting item from Wikipedia about “the Orient”......
“The Orient is a term for the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world. It is the antonym of Occident, the Western World. In English, it is largely a metonym for, and coterminous with, the continent of Asia, loosely classified into the Western Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, East Asia, and sometimes including the Caucasus.”
So I shouldn't eat at our local Oriental Gourment restaurant, owned by an ... Oriental and his wife, also Oriental?
It depends on your mindset. Upper-class British Imperialist use to say that the Wogs begin as Calais.
“Their thinking is impenetrable to westerners.”
I am a “westerner”.
Their thinking certainly isn’t “impenetrable”.
I do have the advantage of having grown up with lots of Chinese, in Asia, but in much of the US these days this is no longer unusual. I have subsequently managed and dealt with plenty of “orientals”, hiring them, managing them, dealing with vendors, clients, management, and our kids friends and schoolmates.
Your opinion comes from unfamiliarity and lack of contact, plus, I gather, a very parochial, defensive and unenterprising outlook.
He doesn’t look like a gang banger to me.
“ He doesn’t look like a gang banger to me.”
No.
Probably domestic thing.
Maybe pro-Chicom anti-Taiwan thing.
Or just crazy.
I call them orientals.
British imperialists, the real ones, were not at all as dismissive as you imagine.
And they certainly didn’t tend to be upper class. Robert Clive, William Jardine, Cecil Rhodes, James Brooke, Stamford Raffles, etc.
Kipling is a really good place to start. His “The Man Who Would be King” is a parable, in a way, of imperialism and imperialists. Danny and Peachey are fascinating characters, but they, egregiously plebian, also make a point, about the sorts that create empires.
The real upper class does not need to leave home and adapt to hardship and alien cultures. Its not the wealthy and comfortable that leave home. Its the hungry, the unhappy, the driven, and often the mad, that do that.
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