linguoboy wrote:Ordinary criminal street violence and the only sometimes violent actions of BLM and Antifa are completely different things. They have different causes, different purposes, and different consequences. (Quick question: How many people have been killed in "BLM and Antifa riots" [not counting those shot dead by a 17 year-old terrorist in Kenosha]?) There's no inherent contradiction in calling for the National Guard to quell one type of violence and resisting calls for its deployment against another; to imply that there is--as this author does--is a textbook example of a false equivalence.
That's awfully peripheral to the thrust of the article. But I guess nitpicking a strained comparison is easier than coming to grips with the fact that the progressive criminal justice movement you support is getting scores of people killed. As Gerard Baker recently
wrote,
"Specific Democratic policies have clearly played a significant part in the retreat from what had been perhaps the most important social advance of the past 50 years—an unprecedented decline in almost all categories of crime.
Defunding the police—or the threat to defund the police—has yielded sharp declines in law-enforcement capabilities in major cities.
Bail “reform”—applied not selectively in the least dangerous cases, but willy-nilly—has resulted in the inevitable horror we
witnessed in Waukesha, Wis., last month. Its close relative, mild sentencing and lax supervisory arrangements, produces terror like we
saw in New York City last week.
Only a really committed progressive or an idiot—but I repeat myself—could believe it’s a good idea that men charged with committing violent crimes should go back out on the streets and reoffend until they take their savage ambitions to their logical and tragic conclusion."
Ein Buch muß die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns. - Kafka