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Have you noticed that the attempt to portray the rioters as white supremacists has kind of fallen by the wayside… — 12 Comments

1. Antifa and BLM are equally vicious and equally destructive, but too many conservatives and too many swamp-creatures of the GOP variety, although willing to criticize the crimes and misdemeanors of the (mostly white) former, are fearful of criticizing equivalent misbehavior from the (mostly black) latter. This cowardice enables BLM to attract fawning coverage in the MSM, as well as the accumulation of tens of millions in contributions from (suddenly woker-than-thou) corporate America.

2. Out of all the bad media behavior that’s happened recently, this might be the most frightening because there pretty clearly was no evidence at all to support this claim and the people who initially made the claim had to know that. And then the rest of the media simply repeated it without stopping for one second to ask even one question about it, and now they won’t in any way hold the people responsible for promoting this lie accountable.

   Mike

3. I assumed they would drop it as soon as I heard they were trying to push such a narrative. It simply was too absurd, even for the most credulous progressive to believe. I have many, many friends, acquaintances and colleagues on social media. An overwhelming majority of them on the left and many of those will share endless progressive memes, talking points, articles and flat-out conspiracy theories. Not a one of them touched the ‘white supremacists are the rioters/looters’ narrative.

   When even the $PLC won’t touch it, you know it’s going nowhere.

4. Every day, we learn that our political class is horrible.

5. The MSM’s ability to drop one unworkable mendacious meme like a hot potato and pivot seamlessly to the next is the reason why they are challenging used call salesmen for untrustworthiness.

   Their deceit has since Cronkite exceeded politicians. But they have proven that you can fool some of the people all of the time.

6. http://www.amerika.org/politics/first-generation-bio-leninism/

7. Thats cause their readers dont do anything..
   One thing teen vogue taught them, if ya aint going to do anything about underage anal leakage from statutory rape and debasement, you aint gonna do a thing but comment on how they do their thing!!

   quite funny actually…

   Just cause the point of criticality cant be exactly predicted dont mean one more grain of sand is forever possible on top of the pile without effect.

   Imagine if people weren’t deaf to the klaxon bells ringing in their ears
   complaining about long posts trying to warn them that weren’t witty enough

   strap yourselves in, Dorothy, we aint in Kansas any more

8. That was about the lamest lame thing I’ve seen from the lamestream media.

   The demand for racism exceeds the supply.

9. This essay, listed this morning at Instapundit (7:00 am) refers not only to these thoughts about anarchy (specifically Occupy Wall Street), but also to MBunge’s appellation in recent posts about an “Elite adjacent class.” Emphasis mine.

   . . . [the lower tier of the new class] who saw themselves entitled to a white collar job in the Virtue Industries of government and non-profits – the helping professions, the culture industry, the virtueocracies, the industries of therapeutic social control

   [snip]

   The lower tier is in a different situation and always has been. It is characterized by status-income disequilibrium, to borrow from David Brooks; it cultivates the sensibilities of the upper tier New Class [MBunge’s elite adjacent], but does not have the ability to globalize its rent extraction.

   [snip]

   . . . they mostly service and manage individuals, the client-consumers of the welfare state. Their rents are not leveraged very much, certainly not globally, and are limited to what amounts to an hourly wage. The method of ramping up wages, however, is through public employee unions . . . . But, as everyone understands, that model no longer works, because it has overreached and overleveraged, to the point that even the system’s most sympathetic politicians understand that it cannot pay up.

   [snip]

   The upper tier is still doing pretty well. But the lower tier of the New Class – the machine by which universities trained young people to become minor regulators and then delivered them into white collar positions on the basis of credentials in history, political science, literature, ethnic and women’s studies – with or without the benefit of law school – has broken down. The supply is uninterrupted, but the demand has dried up.

   {Glenn Reynolds comment] Indeed. Plus, just a reminder: In America, class war is disguised as cultural warfare, and cultural warfare is usually cloaked in talk of race.

   The linked article (author is Kenneth Anderson):

   http://volokh.com/2011/10/31/the-fragmenting-of-the-new-class-elites-or-downward-mobility/

10. This was one issue where the cognitive dissonance exceeded even the capacity of the left.

    https://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/06/101876596_3145938878803040_7956612733305094144_o.jpg?resize=768%2C976&ssl=1

    https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-05-31-at-10.07.23-PM.png?resize=768%2C1141&ssl=1

11. @ T

    Great article. And written in 2011.

    Huh

12. The college grad elite wannabees (adjacents?) have been, since the Finance pop 2008 recession, far less able to become successful elites.

    They are enraged.

    They should be angry at themselves, and at their colleges which supported them in choosing bad majors.

    But instead they’re enraged at … white working class.
    Rednecks.
    Now relabeled, and deliberately mislabeled as “white supremacists”. Many of whom, as normal workers, have been able to buy a house in the suburbs, have a spouse and 2 or 3 kids, enjoy BBQ, and not worry about changing the world. Many even think the song “Imagine” is both stupid AND overplayed, much less believed by gullible college folk.

    There’s an over supply of graduates who want a cushy managerial job telling workers what to do and having coffee in meetings where prior and future meetings are discussed and planned.

    I’d bet very few of the protesters, much less rioters, were STEM grads.

    Virtually none were white supremacists, nor even rednecks.
    Unlike the clean, and peaceful, Tea Party protests, which the Dem media was so strongly against.

    Plus, I’m not “deaf to the klaxon bells ringing in [my] ears”, but there’s always Lenin’s answered question:
    What Is To Be Done?
    (Both L’s have wrong answers for the real world.)

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