Too Stupid to Survive (Extreme Sports Edition)

Steyn Online ^ | 15 Feb 2018 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

As longtime patrons of SteynOnline well know, every so often I'm minded, after the latest Absurdity of the Day, to caution that "sometimes a society becomes too stupid to survive". The latest example thereof, alas, is too sad and pathetic even for my dismal catchphrase. On Monday the Attorney-General of the United States addressed the National Sheriffs Association thus:

"I want to thank every sheriff in America. Since our founding, the independently elected sheriff has been the people's protector, who keeps law enforcement close to and accountable to people through the elected process... The office of sheriff is a critical part of the Anglo-American heritage of law enforcement."

"We must never erode this historic office," Sessions continued.

After which the world went nuts, starting with a CNN pearl-clutcher of a headline:

Sessions invokes 'Anglo-American heritage' of sheriff's office

The fact that expensively educated but ignorant reporters thought the phrase newsworthy made it even newsworthier - after which its newsworthiness became accusatory. Newsweek:

Jeff Sessions Faces Fresh Racism Charge After Praising 'Anglo-American Heritage of Law Enforcement'

Which prompted the usual professional grievance-mongers to weigh in:

NAACP Critical of Attorney General Jeff Sessions Latest Racially-Tinged Statement

Followed by one of a mere hundred citizens, in a nation of a third of a billion, who gets to sit in the self-described "world's greatest deliberative body". United States Senator Brian Schatz deliberated thus:

Do you know anyone who says "Anglo-American heritage" in a sentence? What could possibly be the purpose of saying that other than to pit Americans against each other? For the chief law enforcement officer to use a dog whistle like that is appalling. Best NO vote I ever cast.

[Rummyfan]

Sir Francis Bacon: Just another boring dead loser you don't need to know anything about.

[Fightin Whitey]

Sessions crawls out from under his desk for this?

He’ll probably recuse himself from all law enforcement activities.

If not, the President should take advantage of the stupidity of the controversy to ask for his resignation.

[Jim W N]

To the Delusional Marxist Lying Left:

America's heritage of individual freedom protected by our Constitution is derived from Anglo-America thought and law. If you don't like it, make like a tree and

LEAVE!!!

[snowsprite]

In Alabama,Sessions is known as the “Silent Executioner”.
Just because he is not in front of the cameras,and looking for a microphone everyday, doesn’t mean he’s not doing his job.

[Eagles6]

Anti-White racism is encouraged by the left, as is hatred of Judeo Christian Western Civilization.

[alloysteel]

So, “Anglo-American” is now a dog-whistle for racial stereotyping, is that it?

The Anglo-American model has been the engine for technological advancement and entrepreneurs all over the world, and we would not have the civilization that exists today without that ethnic mix to drive it ever upward and onward.

For “Anglo-American” is by no means a pure or highly refined example of humanity. Actually composed of many ethnic sources, and operating under the guiding and God-given rights of “Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness”, the greatest accomplishments thus far in the history of mankind have come through the daily applications of those fundamental rights, as guaranteed under the US Constitution, one of the most enlightened documents of the Age of Enlightenment. Freed of hereditary oligarchy, and freed to enjoy the fruits of one’s own labor, through possession of goods and wealth, the sparks of innovation and invention created a blossoming of potential rarely ever seen before in the history of mankind.

[snarkpup]

The fundamental reason why people from all over the world want to leave their homelands and move to the United States is because the Anglo-American legal system has made the U.S. a better place to live than whatever the legal system was in their homeland. It is also no accident that the most peaceful and prosperous countries in the Far East are the ones that have (to at least some extent) adopted the Anglo-American legal system.

I'm not a racist; but I am a culturalist. Some cultures just are better than others.

More here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dud0ujJYh9k.

[aquila48]

Has Sessions apologized yet?

[jeffc]

But they have no problem with the phrase “African-American heritage”........

[subterfuge]

But it was okay for President Urkle Obama to use the exact same phrase in the exact same context. Black privilege I guess.

[moovova]

The Left’s racist bullwhip has turned into a cluster of limp spaghetti.

It no longer inflicts pain upon the crack of it...

[NTHockey]

Offensive to Mohammedans.

[FreedomNotSafety]

Hmmm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/02/07/first-britons-black-natural-history-museum-dna-study-reveals/

Now that the earliest Britons are known to black and have 10% Cheddarman in them. How can being Anglo be racist? B

[Verginius Rufus]

The English system of common law is one of the great achievements of Western civilization. The principles of the "Anglo-American legal system" can be adopted by anyone, just like the ideas in the Declaration of Independence. The English themselves--well, our colonial forebears came to America to get away from them.

Col. Isaac Barre was one of the Members of Parliament who opposed the Stamp Act in 1765. His remarks in Parliament in February 1765 (on why the colonists left England), in response to some patronizing comments by Charles Townshend, are a hoot to read. (Barre, MA, Barre, VT, and Wilkes-Barre, PA, are all named for him.)

[Intolerant in NJ]

What's the point of "debating" with the likes of Schatz and Newsom, men of great eminence who know nothing and who are too stupid to resist advertising their stupidity to the world?...finally - somebody posits the only sensible response to the constant barrage of racist, sexist, I'm offended, Trump colluded, he hurt my feelings type cr*p that bombards us every day anymore.....