I’ve seen it too often now, in person and online, for it not to be the result of training. I’ve even read someone else online (I don’t recall where) attesting to the phenomenon: as soon as demonstrators engage physically with police, counter-protesters or innocent bystanders, those not in the scrum start chanting “peaceful protest.” OnceContinue reading “Level 5 Peaceful Protest”
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Movement Aesthetic and Action
Standards are necessarily discriminatory. The higher the standard, the more discriminatory. The more standards society maintains the more discriminatory that society is. The idea of discrimination is now discredited, due to the elevation of individual and minority rights. There is no morality above individual self-esteem or the group esteem of favored minorities. Standards of beautyContinue reading “Movement Aesthetic and Action”
Escalation
The proverbial shit got real when demonstraters against President Trump’s “Muslim ban” shutting down Portland’s airport attacked a tiny group of counter-protesters and knocked a man unconscious. The mob was barely contained as they cheered the assault (from Infowars): News accounts are describing the counter-demonstrators as pro-Trump but that isn’t entirely accurate. This is theContinue reading “Escalation”
The Waiting
One more foul emanation of enforced diversity: that morbid interval after an act of mass violence, as we two increasingly divided sides of our split nation wait to learn the identity of the culprit and where the narrative impact will land. Diversity not only divides by placing entire communities of strangers in our midst, itContinue reading “The Waiting”
The Million Menses March
The Women’s March came to Portland yesterday. Tens of thousands turned out. The mood was festive and family-friendly (that is the kiddies’ physical well-being wasn’t immediately threatened), contrasting the march of the day before, which degenerated by late night into countless small standoffs with police who used tear gas and flash bangs to clear streets andContinue reading “The Million Menses March”
Palestinian-Portland Solidarity
One recurring presence among the signs and symbols in any Portland demonstration is the Palestinian flag, of course. Here it is sharing space with one of the more common specific themes of the new Trump-out demonstrations, the upside-down American flag: Portland has an active liberal Jewish community of course (I’ve suffered, and perversely enjoyed, theContinue reading “Palestinian-Portland Solidarity”
Trump Names the Tools
From the new administration’s whitehouse.gov website: Our job is not to make life more comfortable for the rioter, the looter, or the violent disrupter.As if calling rioters rioters and looters looters wasn’t triggering enough to the Establishment, in using the word “disrupter” the administration is calling out one of the pop-ideologies of the opposition that seeks toContinue reading “Trump Names the Tools”
The Vagina Giveth, The Vagina Taketh Away
From Steve Sailer, on Hillary’s awful political instincts: But then Hillary still went ahead with putting the failed cop-killer’s mom on stage at the 2016 Democratic National Convention shortly after the mass cop killings by BLM-inspired terrorists in Dallas and Baton Rouge as part of her “Mothers of the Movement” brainstorm. What’s so deliciously ironic aboutContinue reading “The Vagina Giveth, The Vagina Taketh Away”
portlanarcho-tyranny
“Well, thank you for a most pleasant arrest experience so far.” I said. The petite cop in riot gear smiled. We stood in a line of detainees, each with his own police escort on arm. My flex cuffs were mercifully loose. We chatted a little as we waited. She was holding me firmly by theContinue reading “portlanarcho-tyranny”
Life in Black and White
Does endorsement of the rioting in Charlotte in response to a police shooting, without any of the usual plausible-enough elements of police misconduct–suspect was not “unarmed”, cop is black, etc– represent a Rubicon crossed for supporters of the Black Lives movement? Is it now that any shooting of a black suspect must prompt rioting? HaveContinue reading “Life in Black and White”
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