If we ever had one. I am finding it difficult to comment on anything I’m reading today because a) I don’t want to defend Trump; and b) I will not defend real white supremacists.
Yes, mass shootings are sometimes domestic terrorism. Sometimes they’re just crazy people, of whom we appear to have a bumper crop these days. DAESH murdered tens or hundreds of thousands of people, burned cities to the ground, beheaded, and enslaved people. Sheesh.
First, leading up to the shootings in Texas and Ohio there were 34 other mass shootings, none as bad, but all committed by underclass blacks. Despite crazy white guys (both leftists), blacks still commit a substantial majority of all gun crime and all violent crime. If control of black crime is not on your agenda, I won’t listen to you. Your pathetic, feeble-minded black mayor and her co-conspirators are a large part of your problem.
On top of that, the Democrat Party, which actually represents a majority of Americans, is actively promoting inter-racial hatred and violence, if not actual race war. Farrakhan is now the voice, if not yet the face, of the Democrat Party. If you’re old enough, you will remember we actually had race war in the 60’s when race riots erupted in dozens of our cities. That happened without the incitement of a major political party. What do you think 2020 will look like after the Democrat Presidential candidates finish their race hate agenda?
And you worry about the half dozen or so white supremacists roaming about the US.
As I have said many times before, there is a social pathology at work among young urban black men. I believe it’s because they’re completely expendable in their community. They have nothing to live for, no hope. They still need social support and, mostly, it comes from gangs.
Of course enforce the law. But gun laws won’t help them. Most of the gun crimes perpetrated on the South Side are done with guns obtained illegally.
The solutions are complicated. “Acting white” (working hard and doing well in school) can’t be a social offense. They need jobs. They need persistent, loving marriages.
White supremacists are a fringe, unorganized rabble, used as a political foil. The vast majority of White men who shoot someone, shoot themselves.
I think young, troubled men of all races have something in common. They want to be someone, have respect of their peers, and don’t know how.
… Farrakhan …
If Minister Farrakhan were running the Democrat Party, almost all the whites and many of the blacks would be run off, but what he wants is an independent country for black people. He has more in common with the white nationalists. They both dislike Catholics and Jews, and they both want black people out of the US.
@Dave Schuler
As I have said …
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… loving marriages.
That could have been written by Minister Farrakhan. Although, he would have a problem with “acting like the white devil”.
Like him or not, you always know exactly where you stand with him. If you are white he most likely does not like you. If you are a white liberal, he likes you even less, and if you are a white progressive, he has no use for you.
It’s obvious to anyone who’s not in denial and who understands the dynamics at work. That said it is not unusual for me to find myself more in agreement with Malcolm than with Dr. King.
Guess I don’t read enough. Had no idea that Farrakhan is the voice of the Dem party. I never see anyone quote him so maybe he has laryngitis at present? Well enough time on Dave’s blog. Need to go put Helter Skelter on the stereo while I help plot out the race war.
Steve
Post-Mecca Malcolm X was closer to Dr. King than the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
Dr. King was one of the greatest strategists of the 20th century. Malcolm was quite the opposite, but his story is still an inspirational one. Elijah Muhammad and Farrakhan were/are little more than cultist despots.
” I believe it’s because they’re completely expendable in their community. They have nothing to live for, no hope.”
This reminds me of an excerpt from the alleged El Paso shooter’s manifesto where he expressed a similar malaise for ever having a satisfying job in this life. He cited the inundation of cheap labor coming illegally across the border, the proliferation of technology, corporate insensitivity, environmental concerns, and was said to have been “triggered” by the radical positions voiced during the recent democrat debates.
It seems to me that it is more the left’s continuing violent haranguing, hyping and finger-pointing that root cause to much of the chaos being experienced for the past couple of years. After all, doxxing, disrupting people in their homes, at restaurants, attacking people for political clothing they wear, beating people up, smearing people with racist, Hitler epithets are mostly Alinsky-like tools used by an ever increasing swathe of democrats, becoming their own normalized behavior. In fact, it has become politically chic to bully anyone who doesn’t think like a democrat does.
A “satisfying job” depends more on what you bring to it rather than the job itself. Read Czikszentmihaly’s Flow. He’s a “happiness researcher” and found that people could be happy with just about any job. It depended more on the individual and less on the job.
IMO young people are being set up for disappointment nowadays. Granting majors in journalism, communications, psychology, etc. when there are very few jobs in those fields is cruel.
I understand your point, Dave, regarding happiness being more internally generated. However, for people subject to depression or mental disparities, the external world has more of an impact on their perception of the world’s well being, as well as their own sense of contentment. The wall of hopelessness closes in on such people who simply have a minimum of coping abilities. These are the individuals who tend to crack, becoming the lone wolves who act out their internal woes and/or demons.
I also think that the relentless political hostility, the pressure of one party to radically transform this country in a way many oppose, only increases the pressure on society as a whole, and on vulnerable people in particular.
“the pressure of one party to radically transform this country in a way many oppose,”
I dont expect the GOP to stop its attempts to transform the country, so we will just have to live with it or vote to oppose the changes they want.
Steve
Clinical depression, sure. But most people colloquially characterized as “depressed” just have never cultivated the internal resources that are necessary to deal with the real world. If your sense of well-being depends on good things happening to you, be prepared for disappointment.