Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Good news: epidemic of violence against blacks isn't a threat to Ed Brayton

Ed Brayton reassures us that everything is ok.

It seems to Ed that the Republican outcry against incitement to murder cops and the resulting crime wave in black communities is just a Republican political ploy:
All that is going on here is that the Republicans are pandering to their base. Psych studies show that those who identify as conservative tend to be highly focused on stability, authority and in-group vs out-group morality. That’s why conservative politics is so universally concerned with being anti-minority and anti-immigrant. It’s also why the focus is always on looming and vastly exaggerated threats to our well-being. In short, fear is the primary motivator for the Republican base and so that is what they sell.
Liberals cheer the jailing of a Christian clerk who asserts her First Amendment rights vis-a-vi gay marriage, and then they accuse conservatives of "obsession with authority and in-group vs out-group morality".

Try expressing a conservative opinion on a college campus today, and you'll learn a thing or two about liberal obsession with "authority and in-group vs out-group morality".

The culture of political correctness, which is totalitarianism with a velvet glove, is nothing more than an obsession with authority and in-group vs out-group morality.

And conservative politics is not "so universally concerned with being anti-minority and anti-immigrant". Segregation was a Progressive Democrat social program--social engineering writ large. The first Progressive Democrat president--Wilson-- re-segregated the federal government, after conservative Republicans had desegregated it for the half-century after the Civil War.

Segregationists were part-and-parcel of FDR's New Deal coalition, and even the (few) Democrats who weren't racists themselves prostituted themselves to segregationists to keep hold of power. FDR put Hugo Black on the Supreme Court--Black was a senior-level Klansman from the Alabama Klan who championed FDR's New Deal through the Senate. Black later applied the phrase from the Klan's initiation oath--"separation of church and state" (designed to defund Catholic schools) to the Establishment Clause in Everson.

Most of the major segregationists of the mid-20th century--George Wallace, William Fullbright, Al Gore senior, Orval Faubus--were Progressive Democrats, not conservatives and not Republicans.

Conservatives and Republicans were the most prominent opponents of segregation, and they remain the most prominent defenders of real civil rights--color-blind application of the law in accordance with the 14th Amendment.

Perhaps the most disturbing line in Ed's witless post is this:
It’s also why the [conservative Republican] focus is always on looming and vastly exaggerated threats to our well-being.
The reality is that neither conservative Republicans nor pasty-white liberal Democrats like Ed Brayton face a significant threat to their well-being from violence.

The people who are threatened by the massive Democrat-caused crime wave of 2015 are blacks living in inner cities, who daily have to face the catastrophe of liberal Democrat policies that have decimated their neighborhoods and policies that have now made the police reluctant to pursue effective policies against crime.

Crime has sky-rocketed since the Black Lives Matter "movement", and it is black people who have been paying the price for liberal moral preening and the Democrat party get-out-the-vote drive.

Conservatives and Republicans--the same folks who fought Progressive Democrat segregation a couple of generations ago--are still fighting for black lives and for safety and prosperity in black neighborhoods.

Rudy Guiliani saved thousands of black lives with his remarkably successful policies on crime reduction. What has Al Sharpton saved, besides money?

Ben Carson and Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke are two black Americans who understand the importance of conservative principles and good police work in protecting black lives.

Ed Brayton has dismissed Sheriff Clark with the racial epithet "Uncle Tom".

Ed Brayton is content as long as he is not personally threatened by the massive wave of violence Democrats have caused in black neighborhoods across America. After all, from Ed's perspective, it's not white liberals who are being killed in the streets of Baltimore, and vilifying cops certainly serves Democrats' political ends.

I've worked in inner city hospitals, and I've spent many nights digging bullets out of the brains of young black men raised in a culture that is largely the product of liberal Democrat politics. I've had nights where we had to stack the bodies in a corner of the trauma room because we couldn't get the dead people to the morgue fast enough to make room for the new people who just got shot.

I've worked in abattoirs fed by Progressive Democrat politics--broken families, multi-generation welfare  dependency, liberal approaches to crime control and moronic police policies. I've seen what Democrats do to communities.

But as long as Ed Brayton is safe and able to morally preen, that's what counts.

Ed Brayton doesn't give a shit about black lives.
All that is going on here is that the Republicans are pandering to their base. Psych studies show that those who identify as conservative tend to be highly focused on stability, authority and in-group vs out-group morality. That’s why conservative politics is so universally concerned with being anti-minority and anti-immigrant. It’s also why the focus is always on looming and vastly exaggerated threats to our well-being. In short, fear is the primary motivator for the Republican base and so that is what they sell. - See more at: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/09/09/so-much-for-the-war-on-cops-part-2/#sthash.oHkbEfBW.dpuf
All that is going on here is that the Republicans are pandering to their base. Psych studies show that those who identify as conservative tend to be highly focused on stability, authority and in-group vs out-group morality. That’s why conservative politics is so universally concerned with being anti-minority and anti-immigrant. It’s also why the focus is always on looming and vastly exaggerated threats to our well-being. In short, fear is the primary motivator for the Republican base and so that is what they sell. - See more at: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/09/09/so-much-for-the-war-on-cops-part-2/#sthash.oHkbEfBW.dpuf
All that is going on here is that the Republicans are pandering to their base. Psych studies show that those who identify as conservative tend to be highly focused on stability, authority and in-group vs out-group morality. That’s why conservative politics is so universally concerned with being anti-minority and anti-immigrant. It’s also why the focus is always on looming and vastly exaggerated threats to our well-being. In short, fear is the primary motivator for the Republican base and so that is what they sell. - See more at: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/09/09/so-much-for-the-war-on-cops-part-2/#sthash.oHkbEfBW.dpufAll that is going on here is that the Republicans are pandering to their base. Psych studies show that those who identify as conservative tend to be highly focused on stability, authority and in-group vs out-group morality. That’s why conservative politics is so universally concerned with being anti-minority and anti-immigrant. It’s also why the focus is always on looming and vastly exaggerated threats to our well-being. In short, fear is the primary motivator for the Republican base and so that is what they sell. - See more at: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/09/09/so-much-for-the-war-on-cops-part-2/#sthash.oHkbEfBW.dpuf
It’s also why the focus is always on looming and vastly exaggerated threats to our well-being. - See more at: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/09/09/so-much-for-the-war-on-cops-part-2/#sthash.oHkbEfBW.dpufv

17 comments:

  1. "Liberals cheer the jailing of a Christian clerk who asserts her First Amendment rights vis-a-vi gay marriage..."

    Here, I corrected it for you:

    "Liberals cheer the jailing of a Christian clerk who wrongly asserts her First Amendment rights vis-a-vi gay marriage..."

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  2. How do you feel about the Democrat Crime Wave of 2015? It's killing young black men by the hundreds, and you don't seem to care about it.

    ME

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    1. How can I care about something that doesn't exist.

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    2. Billy:

      So black lives matter so little to you that you deny that fact that blacks are being killed in greater numbers in the US over the past year?

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    3. Billy:

      "As the The New York Times reported, murder is up 76 percent in Milwaukee, 60 percent in St. Louis, 56 percent in Baltimore, and 44 percent in D.C. Blue America is awash in red."

      Blue America is awash in blood, and the blood is coming from black bodies.

      Don't you give a damn?

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    4. Did I deny that violence has not increased? I just deny that that it is caused by Democrats.

      I'm 57 years old and the only time I have seen a hand gun is on a cop's belt and in movies/TV. And the gun violence here is almost non-existent. And we have very strict gun laws. What party in the US is the most vocal about the right to bare arms?

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    5. Billy:

      It is merely a fact that the increase in murders in inner cities over the past year is due to changes in police tactics (no stop and frisk, etc) directly as a result of Democrat policies. New York (where I live) under Diblasio is a prime example.

      You really don't give a shit about reality. You only care about your liberal fantasies, regardless of how many people they kill.

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    6. Sorry, but forgive me if I don't automatically accept your opinion on things. Your track record is not exactly confidence building.

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    7. Vox Day's second rule of Social Justice Warriors: they always double down.

      You are proven wrong, and rather than admit it, you obfuscate.

      Pitiful.

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    8. I noticed that you completely ignored that the guns that are being used in much of this violence is the result of right wing nut jobs and the right to bare arms.

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    9. Billy:

      All of this gun violence takes place in Democrat governed cities with very strict gun control. It's evidence that gun control doesn't work.

      The violence demonstrates the failure of gun control, not the need for more of it.

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    10. " It's evidence that gun control doesn't work."

      Really? It seems to work quite well in Canada. Why is that?

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    11. Canada has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world, similar to Sweden (12th highest) , Norway, France, Austria, Iceland, Germany, and Finland--twice as high as Mexico.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country

      In the US, gun crime rates correlate inversely with gun control: Washington DC and Detroit (draconian gun control) have murder rates orders of magnitude higher than Utah or Vermont (very little gun control).

      Internationally, many countries with nearly universal ownership of assault rifles (Switzerland, Israel) have much lower gun homicide rates than many countries with very strict gun control laws (Mexico, Russia).

      Gun control has no real correlation with gun crime, except that high gun crime areas tend to have more gun control.

      In the US, the highest correlate with gun violence is race and political party--most gun crime in America is committed by Democrats in Democrat municipalities.

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    12. Michael,

      As usual, you're comparing apples with oranges. America has gun violence because of its high ownership of hand guns, often carried concealed. It's difficult to go on a shooting spree with a hunting rifle.

      Switzerland and Israel have a high 'ownership' of assault rifles, because it's part of their citizens' obligations to be members of self defence forces and to be on call for military service at any time if needed.

      It's part of being in a well armed and well trained militia - something that's missing with America's love of the gun.

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    13. "Canada has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world"

      We've been over this before Michael. Most guns in Canada are hunting rifles. And even with that, we are smart enough not to allow automatic and semi automatic.

      You can't have effective gun control on a city or even a state basis if anyone can drive a few miles and buy one. The last time I checked, there are no security checks at city or state boundaries.

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    14. There is no correlation between gun ownership, gun control, and murder rate by nation. Semiautomatic long guns are allowed in Canada--with limitations on clip size.

      In the early 1990's, gun crime plummeted in the US--murder rates went down by 80% over the next two decades. During those two decades, gun control was loosened, and American gun ownership skyrocketed. And gun crime dropped radically.

      What made gun crime drop radically was good policing and reliable punishment of criminals, all driven by Republican efforts by folks like Guiliani, etc.

      Murder rates go down when we stop letting Democrats set policy.

      Now that we are letting BLM and other Democrat tools influence policy, our gun crime levels are skyrocketing again.

      No surprise.

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    15. "There is no correlation between gun ownership, gun control, and murder rate by nation."

      If you account for the type of government and level of systemic corruption there certainly is. The US is around 3 gun deaths per 100,000. No country in the developed western world, most of which have very strict gun laws, come anywhere close to that.

      Also, when you look at these numbers, make sure that you are looking at gun deaths, not gun murders.

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