The New York Times has a compilation of testimonials from six different people describing “how George Floyd’s death changed them.” It couldn’t better illustrate how truly horrifying the social justice and “Black Lives Matter” movements really are.
As I describe in my book Privileged Victims, what people are learning from the national media and the public schools, the two biggest agents of social justice, is turning them into paranoid, resentful little monsters with no capacity for critical thinking.
“I’ve been a lot louder these days,” a self-described “indigenous woman,” told the paper. “A lot less keen to let subtle microaggressions slip by for the sake of maintaining the peace. My anger has gotten deeper, more nuanced, and more directed.”
As you can see, it’s exceedingly difficult to decipher any meaning from what the people in the New York Times article are saying. I can only guess that there is no longer any joy in being around this woman, as she is now tortured by anxiety about “microaggressions,” or perceived slights, such as… a white person asking where she’s from. (Ahhh!)
Another person told the New York Times that the death of George Floyd confirmed to him that “Black people are under threat every time they come into contact with an agent of white supremacy, which is often the police.”
That’s interesting, because it’s not true. The vast majority of black people are not opposed to the police and don’t fear them. An Ipsos/USA TODAY survey published in March showed that only 30% of blacks support the “Defund the Police” movement.
In 2018, the latest year for which federal data is available, there were about 3.7 million police-initiated contacts between law enforcement and black people, wherein nonlethal force or the threat of force was used. That same year, according to the Washington Post, 232 black people were shot dead by police. That would mean 0.006% of police-initiated contacts between law enforcement and black people, wherein nonlethal and lethal force was used, resulted in the death of a black person. Only a small fraction of those incidents, about 20 cases a year, involved an unarmed black person being killed.
But, hey, black people, aren’t you scared of all the white supremacists in the police force?
Overwhelming majorities of black people give police high marks for their behavior when it comes to interacting with police. Looking at just traffic stops in 2015, the most recent year for which this type of data is available, 85% of black people said the police behaved properly when they received a ticket during a traffic stop. For black people who just got a warning, 92% said the police behaved properly. Amusingly, even when the stop resulted in a car search or an arrest, nearly 70% of black people said they thought police conducted themselves appropriately.
A South Asian woman said that Floyd’s death “prompted me to realize that my life could be in danger when police officers were around.”
Why would she think such a thing? Is she on fentanyl and meth? Is she using counterfeit bills to purchase cigarettes? Floyd didn’t deserve to die, but he didn’t do himself any favors when it came to eliciting a police response.
Risky, dangerous circumstances reasonably, inevitably create risky, dangerous encounters with the police.
It’s as if these people have either never known or have forgotten what the police are for. They’re law enforcement, not hall monitors. To a degree, their presence should cause some sense of unease. Am I obeying all of the laws? It’s no different than the universal sensation you might feel when exiting a Nordstrom without having purchased anything. Oh God, I hope they don’t think I’m stealing.
Lastly, a self-identified “person of color,” told the New York Times, “They may listen, but they do not truly hear us. They don’t help us make changes. We’re not making progress toward racial justice.”
This is the part where everyone is supposed to drop what they’re doing and ask the person of color, “What is it you want?”
The answer invariably spirals into some hypothetical situation where “society” (white people) are asked to pay reparations and welcome race quotas at every level.
That’s not going to happen. Next.
It’s all maniacal, and it’s all rooted in “social justice.” Pay attention to what they’re saying, and you can see how awful and delusional it really is.
