An entire generation of children will be set back for life by the insane hysteria of immunocompromised fat cowards:
"The state Department of Education projected 50% decrease in reading proficiency rates and a 65% drop in math among third graders."https://t.co/Z5SgO2FucG
— Saifedean.com (@saifedean) September 24, 2020
It is possible to be pro-police while also recognizing that police need accountability and limits on their power.
It is possible to recognize that a police presence is crucial to the protection of society, while simultaneously recognizing that many cops commit serious crimes while wearing the badge.
It is possible to support police while also supporting the prosecution and punishment of bad cops.
It is possible to support police while also calling for justice for victims of police violence.
It is even possible to support many of the reforms demanded from Black Lives Matter without believing that every single white person is irredeemably racist.
The loudest, most ignorant voices from both sides of the debate, the only voices being heard now, will say that none of these are possible. At one point, there was much common ground between BLM and supporters of police. It was a rare opportunity for both sides to work together. That moment has long since passed.
This is sad, because it means that nothing will change.
This is this virus that so much has been sacrificed to?:
Ages 0-19: 0.003%
20-49: 0.02%
50-69: 0.5%
70+: 5.4%
Even these are probably over-estimates, and I’m skeptical of that last number. The percentage of deaths beyond 80 is very high. I’d like to see their breakdown beyond age 75.
The debate over police misconduct has devolved into the most idiotic spectacle, an endless exchange of insults between Dumb and Dumber, rather than a real debate. Breonna Taylor was murdered while she slept by trigger-happy cops executing a no-knock raid on the wrong apartment. Taylor’s boyfriend, a registered gun owner, believing this to be a home invasion, picked up his weapon and fired at the invading thugs. In return, the police fired wildly into the dark apartment, hitting Taylor eight times. One officer fired his weapon 10 times, with three bullets passing through the walls to the other apartment, coming very close to killing even more innocents during their violence-fueled home invasion. He was the only cop to face actual charges for endangerment.
Unfortunately, BLM rioting has set the police misconduct debate back by years. The rioting has awoken the drones who will blindly defend every action by police, no matter how egregious, and smear every victim of police violence, no matter how innocent. Their past will be dragged into the public eye, and the gaggle of idiots, with their usual air of absolute certainty, will hold it up as some kind of post-mortum indictment: “see, she deserved to die!” It’s pathetic, but those are the voices currently drowning out any sign of intelligence within the police brutality debate.
One good thing has emerged in the aftermath of Taylor’s death: Louisville, Kentucky, has now banned the use of no-knock warrants.
Here’s what blind police worship gets you, a culture where a cop can violently and openly assault a mother over a 3-inch piece of cloth in front of school children with zero repercussions. The hateful disregard for decency or humanity by the flabby enforcer of the Pandemic Police State decrees is ugly and profoundly anti-American. And the profoundly stupid “back the blue”, and equally anti-American, cop worship that is currently taking place in this country ensures that it will continue to occur unimpeded.
Police are the armed agents of the State. They enforce the State’s decrees. When the decrees become authoritarian and fascistic, the police must increasingly act like violent thugs in order to enforce them.