Posted on 12/21/2025 5:11:08 AM PST by MtnClimber
One of the most dangerous illusions Americans are living under today is the belief that safety is ambient, existing automatically, everywhere, and at all times, by virtue of laws, norms, or declarations. For decades, we have been trained to assume that public spaces are fundamentally benign and that vigilance itself is somehow antisocial or unnecessary.
That assumption is no longer valid.
A steady stream of viral videos now documents what many quietly sense: sudden assaults in stores, flash-mob robberies, random attacks on public transport, group intimidation in ordinary places. These are not war zones or failed states. They are malls, trains, sidewalks, and parking lots. The common thread is not criminal genius, but civilian unpreparedness.
America has drifted into what security professionals call Condition White: relaxed, distracted, and unaware. In an era when threats are opportunistic and often collective, that posture is no longer merely naïve. Instead, it is dangerous.
Situational Awareness Is Not Paranoia
The argument here is not for panic or permanent fear. There is a critical distinction between situational awareness and hypervigilance, and confusing the two has left many Americans untrained and exposed.
Situational awareness is a calm, teachable skill. It is the ability to notice what is normal in an environment and recognize when something deviates from that baseline. It is relaxed alertness: heads up, eyes open, mind engaged. It is the same mental posture we use when driving: aware of surroundings, ready to respond, but not consumed by fear.
Hypervigilance, by contrast, is a trauma state. It assumes danger everywhere, exhausts the nervous system, and is unsustainable for ordinary life. No one is advocating that.
What America needs is a cultural reset toward Condition Yellow: alert, observant, and prepared to act early before a situation escalates.
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“So you think the way to welcome black Americans to FR is:”
I never did or said anything of the kind. That’s just dirty pool right there.
Don’t ever put words in my mouth.
Good try, though!
My apologies - there should have been a “?” at the end of the examples I gave.
Interesting article here on FR, search “Minnesota fraud media’s racist”
Are you referring to this:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4358438/posts
?
I don’t believe there’s racism involved. Billions of dollars were stolen and arrests and prosecutions will take place regardless of race.
The racism was apprently by the media.
The Minnesota Star Tribune gave up on any semblance of objective news coverage years ago. Powerline has documented very well many examples.
Yes.
Around blacks, don’t relax.
So if you were walking and AJ Thomas was walking towards you, you wouldn’t “relax”?
Allen West?
John James?
Thomas Sowell?
Robert F. Smith?
Alvin Holsey?
Stop posting racism crap.
Grow up.
Under what rock did David grow up?
In my 82 years from Mass to Seattle to Chicago to Atlanta situational awareness has always bee preached. Not aleays practiced.
If youre pro-minority crime, nothing you say in other threads counts. You’re not a conservative. Fk criminals and fk you. And if that’s “racist”, then racism has the moral high ground here.
I’ve reported you for a ban and convinced multiple others to report you as well. You dont belong here, any more than certain groups belong in civilization.
I’m not pro-crime. But you know that.
FR and the US needs all Americans - including law abiding black Americans to be successful as possible.
Posters that make broad brush statements that all or most blacks are less than others in the US, or post memes that depict that black Americans as less than human are going to get called out for that. And those comments go against what FR posting rules are. If that makes you upset, well - okay.
Either people believe that all law abiding Americans are equal or they don’t. Call out the criminal elements but the broad brush statements regarding black Americans is antithetical to both FR and the US. And it’s going to be noted.
Good luck.
I say AMEN to that!
Actually, several posters do. Do some reading.
I’ve posted multiple times that the data is the data. Of course, presenting data often leads to more questions.
No problems with noting the race of someone who is arrested. But there’s a problem when memes or posts claim that it’s -always them-, them being black Americans, etc. It isn’t but it’s a way to juice a narrative that’s being pushed that it is. And you can stop the insults. It detracts from whatever point you’re trying to make.
"Re: situational awareness - I’ve practiced for many years."
Practice and engage in racial profiling for a start.
Kind of like those articles about some individual (or individuals) being arrested for some terrible crime, usually murder, but instead of showing the perps being arrested, they use some generic closeup of some white guy’s hands handcuffed (even though the perp wasn’t white).
Maybe you should report yourself for your post #95 on this other thread. Your posts are vile.
Stop calling them “Americans”, as if their citizenship is the issue. It’s irrelevant. In any case their values are unAmerican as hell. And it IS (almost) always “them” in the specific sorts of crimes being referred to, the general outbursts of public mayhem. If that’s “racist”, then so be it. That is a largely meaningless word. The point still stands.
The stats dont lead to “more questions”, they speak for themselves. Large groups of minorities (and certain whites too) are completely unassimilated into civilized life. This is unchallengeable.
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