This story illustrates how far away from sanity the progressive left and their media minions have strayed.
The story sold by media: a young pregnant white nurse decided her best option to get home after a 12-hr shift was to steal a bike from a group of young black men. How is it possible that progressives nodded sagely and said, “of course, that makes sense”?? Did they learn nothing from Jussie Smollett? Apparently not.
Glad you put the footnote about how the attempt to scam a welfare benefit produced the situation. I have seen some people actually use this as a justification for what they did, like “how else could they get the bike that they weren’t entitled to? They had to do what they did.”
There is no learning and there is no reflection (and there never will be) because these aren't rational or reasoned behaviors but sadistic urges cloaked in pseudopolitical theories of oppressed v oppressed or Who/Whom.
It's imporant to remember that urge precedes the event and the event is simply a pretext: as we speak there are millions of lost souls of the internet age who have been programmed by algorithms to believe their hatred and resentment are really righteous anger in the cause of "Justice"; these people wait every day for someone to be the Emmanuel Goldstein du jour and for them to get a socially approved chance to injure and destroy an Evil Other to make their miserable lives slighly less miserable for a few mins.
Our state-run media and media-run state run on hatred and the scapegoating of regime enemies (Bad Whites) to keep the juicy hatred flowing (hatred makes people feel alive) but to keep that hatred aimed anywhere but at them.
I think before the democrats started playing the race card it would be far more normal for people to feel empathetic for a pregnant women coming off a long work shift being bullied by 4 teens, black or white, and her mode of transport threatened. The democrats and their so called pro female stance comes off in this scenario as nothing but bull shit. It is little different then the support they provide men that identify as women who play in female sports causing women to compete with a decided disadvantage. There position lacks any consistency because it is totally political.
It's an ugly game the democrats and the woke left are playing, I have no doubt it will come back to hit them in the face when this country wakes up and has enough of their BS, although I think we may have gone too far already and there will be no turning back.
Theres something seriously wrong with the sort of "lens of privilege" that this story was looked at through.
The one that was used was just surface level "she's white, they're black, therefore she has the privilege". In reality, this is way off kilter. She is someone who is pregnant and working 12 hour shifts at a strenuous job in order to make ends meet (a job that she has now lost, which is pretty despicable). In a just world, she is out on leave and resting at home.
These teens, who are seen by our media as the ones without privilege are actually getting by just fine not working, but rather just hustling some city bike program. And when a pregnant woman tries to interfere with that they first use their male privilege to threaten and harass her, make her feel unsafe, and then use the social capital their skin color gives them to publicly shame her for having the audacity to not want to peddle home after her back breaking 12 hour work shift.
It's bad all around and pretty infuriating/disheartening. Hopefully something good will come out of this and in some way this woman will have some sort of recourse, because nobody deserves what happened to her.
Love this: "a bizarro noblesse oblige where progressive whites signal their identitarian enlightenment." Exactly right. Meanwhile the most egregious and irreversible brainwashing is being done in K-12 schools with all our tax dollars. As if dividing a society into two imaginary groups (because the categories white and poc are imaginary after all) and then setting them against each other with a list of historical grievances was ever a good idea. See also Yugoslavia or Ireland or Rwanda, etc. DEI dogma has percolated down to the youngest, most vulnerable minds thanks to captured state depts of ed, schools of ed and teachers unions. It will take massive deprogramming to undo the damage. Immigrants, who often see through the propaganda out of long practice, offer hope. Thanks for your keen analysis and voice of reason.
The 21st century American ruling class has many crimes to answer for—political enrichment via insider trading, all our new and eternal wars, the stifling of political opposition in the name of "Democracy", the demonization of dissent during their hysterical pandemic as the laptop class sat home admiring their 401ks while screeching about Saving One Life! yet having the serfs still deliver all their goodies, not to mention this same laptop class suddenly deciding that "Racism is the real pandemic!" and allowing mass riots to overtake our cities...the list could be almost endless, but at the same time things like war, corruption and official dishonesty are not exactly exclusive to our time and place.
But the lowest and most unforgiveable crime of all committed by our modern ruling class is the reckless unleashing of racial hatred based on Critical Social Justice, which basically boils down to attacking and demonizing Bad Whites in the name of "Justice" and "Equality".
And for what? So the legacy media can stave off a well-deserved death for a few years by throwing out clickbait like chum for a feeding frenzy of sociopaths? So the Democratic Party axis can play both pyromaniac and Fire Dept and pose as heroic white saviors dampening down all the race hate their own outlets pump into the discourse?
The theory that by promoting racial division we will achieve racial harmony is an evil and dangerous lie and by displaying their absolute cynical recklessness and desire to have us all hate each other so they can stay on top, our ruling elite have shown themselves to be a low dishonest bunch who deserve eternal scorn.
Great post. I'm reminded of the Oberlin incident when black college students (if I'm remembering correctly) tried to rob Gibson's Bakery. It should go without saying that skin color should never be an excuse for criminal behavior.
It cost Oberlin tens of millions of dollars, paid by insurance with the increased premiums made up in tuitions funded by federal government grants for which YOU are paying. The person who did it is now dean of a college in Georgia. The Gibsons that were involved all died while the process went through the horrible government and press induced forever that it took to get the truth out.
We need to do something different than we are doing. Even in this case where the good guys "won" they lost...and so do we all.
Outstanding post Brad. Absolutely superb. I will read this again to absorb and enjoy the insights and clarity. However, it seems to me the essence of this sad tale is the weaponisation of identity politics and victimhood. Along with the lack of any moral compass on the part of the perpetrators and onlookers - whether passers-by or online.
To bring some clarity, a PA is basically an "MD-Light" and has no comparable equivalent in Nursing. She is not a nurse. She's first cousin to a physician.
This story illustrates how far away from sanity the progressive left and their media minions have strayed.
The story sold by media: a young pregnant white nurse decided her best option to get home after a 12-hr shift was to steal a bike from a group of young black men. How is it possible that progressives nodded sagely and said, “of course, that makes sense”?? Did they learn nothing from Jussie Smollett? Apparently not.
Glad you put the footnote about how the attempt to scam a welfare benefit produced the situation. I have seen some people actually use this as a justification for what they did, like “how else could they get the bike that they weren’t entitled to? They had to do what they did.”
There is no learning and there is no reflection (and there never will be) because these aren't rational or reasoned behaviors but sadistic urges cloaked in pseudopolitical theories of oppressed v oppressed or Who/Whom.
It's imporant to remember that urge precedes the event and the event is simply a pretext: as we speak there are millions of lost souls of the internet age who have been programmed by algorithms to believe their hatred and resentment are really righteous anger in the cause of "Justice"; these people wait every day for someone to be the Emmanuel Goldstein du jour and for them to get a socially approved chance to injure and destroy an Evil Other to make their miserable lives slighly less miserable for a few mins.
Our state-run media and media-run state run on hatred and the scapegoating of regime enemies (Bad Whites) to keep the juicy hatred flowing (hatred makes people feel alive) but to keep that hatred aimed anywhere but at them.
I think before the democrats started playing the race card it would be far more normal for people to feel empathetic for a pregnant women coming off a long work shift being bullied by 4 teens, black or white, and her mode of transport threatened. The democrats and their so called pro female stance comes off in this scenario as nothing but bull shit. It is little different then the support they provide men that identify as women who play in female sports causing women to compete with a decided disadvantage. There position lacks any consistency because it is totally political.
It not only lacks consistency, it lacks even a little bit of common sense.
It's an ugly game the democrats and the woke left are playing, I have no doubt it will come back to hit them in the face when this country wakes up and has enough of their BS, although I think we may have gone too far already and there will be no turning back.
Let’s let society just disintegrate, we all deserve it anyway. But some deserve it more than others.
She shouldn't need to work again, after her lawyer gets done with the presstitutes.
You nailed it, good job.
Theres something seriously wrong with the sort of "lens of privilege" that this story was looked at through.
The one that was used was just surface level "she's white, they're black, therefore she has the privilege". In reality, this is way off kilter. She is someone who is pregnant and working 12 hour shifts at a strenuous job in order to make ends meet (a job that she has now lost, which is pretty despicable). In a just world, she is out on leave and resting at home.
These teens, who are seen by our media as the ones without privilege are actually getting by just fine not working, but rather just hustling some city bike program. And when a pregnant woman tries to interfere with that they first use their male privilege to threaten and harass her, make her feel unsafe, and then use the social capital their skin color gives them to publicly shame her for having the audacity to not want to peddle home after her back breaking 12 hour work shift.
It's bad all around and pretty infuriating/disheartening. Hopefully something good will come out of this and in some way this woman will have some sort of recourse, because nobody deserves what happened to her.
As a side note, I just picked up and am in the process of reading "so you've been publicly shamed" by Jon Ronson.
I think it came out around 2015 but it still seems pretty relevant.
Say her name: Sarah Comrie.
It is time for America to wake up and fight against the Satanic behavior of black criminals and the politicians who support them.
Just goes to prove the “news” reported on any platform is mis or dis information.
Love this: "a bizarro noblesse oblige where progressive whites signal their identitarian enlightenment." Exactly right. Meanwhile the most egregious and irreversible brainwashing is being done in K-12 schools with all our tax dollars. As if dividing a society into two imaginary groups (because the categories white and poc are imaginary after all) and then setting them against each other with a list of historical grievances was ever a good idea. See also Yugoslavia or Ireland or Rwanda, etc. DEI dogma has percolated down to the youngest, most vulnerable minds thanks to captured state depts of ed, schools of ed and teachers unions. It will take massive deprogramming to undo the damage. Immigrants, who often see through the propaganda out of long practice, offer hope. Thanks for your keen analysis and voice of reason.
The 21st century American ruling class has many crimes to answer for—political enrichment via insider trading, all our new and eternal wars, the stifling of political opposition in the name of "Democracy", the demonization of dissent during their hysterical pandemic as the laptop class sat home admiring their 401ks while screeching about Saving One Life! yet having the serfs still deliver all their goodies, not to mention this same laptop class suddenly deciding that "Racism is the real pandemic!" and allowing mass riots to overtake our cities...the list could be almost endless, but at the same time things like war, corruption and official dishonesty are not exactly exclusive to our time and place.
But the lowest and most unforgiveable crime of all committed by our modern ruling class is the reckless unleashing of racial hatred based on Critical Social Justice, which basically boils down to attacking and demonizing Bad Whites in the name of "Justice" and "Equality".
And for what? So the legacy media can stave off a well-deserved death for a few years by throwing out clickbait like chum for a feeding frenzy of sociopaths? So the Democratic Party axis can play both pyromaniac and Fire Dept and pose as heroic white saviors dampening down all the race hate their own outlets pump into the discourse?
The theory that by promoting racial division we will achieve racial harmony is an evil and dangerous lie and by displaying their absolute cynical recklessness and desire to have us all hate each other so they can stay on top, our ruling elite have shown themselves to be a low dishonest bunch who deserve eternal scorn.
Great post. I'm reminded of the Oberlin incident when black college students (if I'm remembering correctly) tried to rob Gibson's Bakery. It should go without saying that skin color should never be an excuse for criminal behavior.
It cost Oberlin tens of millions of dollars, paid by insurance with the increased premiums made up in tuitions funded by federal government grants for which YOU are paying. The person who did it is now dean of a college in Georgia. The Gibsons that were involved all died while the process went through the horrible government and press induced forever that it took to get the truth out.
We need to do something different than we are doing. Even in this case where the good guys "won" they lost...and so do we all.
Outstanding post Brad. Absolutely superb. I will read this again to absorb and enjoy the insights and clarity. However, it seems to me the essence of this sad tale is the weaponisation of identity politics and victimhood. Along with the lack of any moral compass on the part of the perpetrators and onlookers - whether passers-by or online.
If you still live in New York then your asking for it. It’s a cess lit. If you don’t vote Democrat then leave if you can.
My punctuation and grammar is awful.
No worries, that's my job!
To bring some clarity, a PA is basically an "MD-Light" and has no comparable equivalent in Nursing. She is not a nurse. She's first cousin to a physician.
Fantastic article Brad!