What’s Your Type?

Ever since the Starbucks bathroom crisis in April, America has been going through a media moral panic in which a white man (or, more often, a white woman) who commits a Type I error at the expense of a black person may lose his job and be permanently keelhauled in the press.

A black student at Yale was napping in a common area, and someone called the police. It’s the latest instance of a police response to a minor complaint involving people of color.

A California woman called the police after she saw people she didn’t recognize in her neighborhood. They were just black Airbnb guests. One was Bob Marley’s granddaughter.

The president of Nordstrom Rack flew to St. Louis to apologize to three black friends who were falsely accused of trying to steal clothing at one of the company’s stores.

A white woman who in a widely shared video appeared to call the authorities on an 8-year-old black girl for “illegally selling water without a permit” claimed on Monday that she had acted out of frustration, not racial animus.

Adam Bloom, seen in a video posted on Facebook, was fired from his job after he called the police on a black woman at a pool in a private community.

First, there was BBQ Becky. Then came Permit Patty. Now, a South Carolina woman has been nicknamed Pool Patrol Paula after a widely shared video showed her accosting a black boy and his friends at a neighborhood pool, telling them to “get out” or she would call the police.

This kind of anti-white hysteria has been a long time building. At a company I worked at in 1997 a white engineer was blamed by a black floor worker for saying something racist. Did he really say it? I knew the guy and he was occasionally obnoxious, but I never remember him saying anything that sounded racist. They fired him. But, later, a higher level employee was accused and the company did nothing. Not even an “investigation” and I was in a position to know.

Similarly, at the next company where I worked, in the early 2000’s, which also had a preponderance of low-skilled black floor workers, an accusation was all that was required to get another white worker fired without so much as somebody asking around for witnesses. Similarly, an accusation about a white management employee was ignored.

Whether you were vulnerable to being fired depended very much on where you were in the hierarchy. I didn’t know the term virtue signaling then, but that appears to be what it was. In a couple of recently published events, somehow, the accusing black managed to have a video of what happened. This smacks of a setup. Incidentally, the woman who hid a recorder in her son’s backpack to document what was happening at school got her arrested. In Florida, it is against the law to record somebody without their knowledge, but, similar to how the company’s I worked for acted, no blacks have been arrested for this crime.

We are in a period of political correctness where the crime is to be white and say almost anything to a black. After the HR manager warned me that a black employee had turned me in for “politically incorrect thinking” I stopped talking to people I hadn’t known for a long time. These new thought crimes and political correctness will do as much damage to our culture as the Salem witch trials did to theirs. And, that is exactly what we are dealing with, witch trials.

My only Type I error story is second hand. A girl I knew in college had a dad who was a Chicago cop. He saw a black guy trying to break into a Porsche with a coat hanger.

After he found out that the guy locked his keys in his own car, her dad said, “I’m sorry Mr. Payton”.

Walter Payton was a class act and did not so much as complain to the police department about it. And the cop had a story to tell.

I don’t see an end to this. The bar is constantly being raised, without any announcement. Every time we hear another story, it seems that the standard for indictment has been loosened.

Essentially, there is no bar and no standard. It’s whatever the black accuses the white of. It can be absurd and preposterous, but that doesn’t matter. ANY interaction between white and black can be used as a reason to bring the white to his knees in abject submission.

I’ve said it so many times:
Hate crime laws were created to criminalize anything a white says or does, or doesn’t say or doesn’t do.

Not only black/white. If a woman accuses a man of anything that her hysterical head tells her to accuse him of, she is believed and he is fired/jailed.

Also muzz/human. If a muzz accuses a human of thinking of pulling her hijab off, she is believed and he is fired/jailed.

U Miss goes into hysterical panic because someone saw a banana peel on a bush. Students rush to safe space after seeing TRUMP written in chalk on sidewalk.

Do you see a favorable outcome for all this?

“After the HR manager warned me that a black employee had turned me in for “politically incorrect thinking” I stopped talking to people I hadn’t known for a long time.”

Companies are hiring lesbians in HR departments, and blacks as “diversity managers”. Believe me when I say there are thought police, and they are leftists. They are out to stifle the white man.

I would expect a passing cop to investigate anyone opening a car door with a coat hanger.

So many of these news events are like that. Someone is doing something, and any reasonable cop would investigate, or any reasonable store manager would be concerned. Of course, in some cases the authority figure might over-react, but most of the time, simple sensible caution is being deployed.

BUT if the "someone" doing something happens to be black, then it's "racial profiling" and a "hate crime" to investigate.

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