In Britain, the anti-racist thought police have come for the children
Zero tolerance for thoughtcrime in the young:
#ARRESTED| We were alerted to a series of racist messages sent to a footballer today and after looking into them and conducting checks, we have arrested a boy.
The 12-year-old from #Solihull has been taken to custody.
Thanks to everyone who raised it. Racism won't be tolerated. pic.twitter.com/oFxBUvdtV1
— West Midlands Police – #StayAlert (@WMPolice) July 12, 2020
One thing I know – and have felt from the very beginning, for some reason – is that Twitter is a cesspool. It is responsible for magnifying and encouraging hateful expressions of all kinds, with its rewards for “gotcha” quips and its provision of easy access to the ear of everyone who uses it, both celebrities and obscure folk. Many children growing up in an atmosphere where this is the norm, and where they can compete with adults on the playing field of insult, will be motivated to participate in a lot more than the usual schoolyard bullying.
And a stupid society will arrest them for it.
The young boy’s messages were immature, nasty and worthy of some sort of lecture from his parents about proper behavior and etiquette, but that the police should be involved in any way is further proof of the cultural insanity prevailing in much of the Western world, especially in England, the country in which, for decades, the police (as well as social workers, journalists, and politicians) turned a blind eye, from the fear of being called “racist”, to the violent abuse of tens of thousands of vulnerable young girls, often as young as 12, by Muslim rapists, euphemistically described in the British press as “Asian grooming gangs.”
Britain’s had a ‘conservative’ government in place for 10 years. At least, that’s what I’ve heard.
And I’m with the Twit who said this:
“great work, you locked up a 12-year-old for mean messages online”
The kid should have written PC-approved graffiti on a police station; they don’t arrest people for things like that anymore, at least in America.
That authorities are calling police in for what should be a parental lecture case is indeed indicative of the crazy days — remember the dangerous pop-tart gun? — so maybe there is some merit in sending out social workers instead of the SWAT team in some situations.
BUT that would still be overt governmental tyranny for offensive, but essentially harmless, behavior.
Why, no, I don’t think words are the same as violence; how did you guess?
And, as je reminded us, there are certain privileged groups in the world who don’t get arrested for anything, and the police seem to compensate by virtue signaling against the easy targets.
Wait a minute. That symbol the West Midlands Police are using is Nazi. USA has declared it so:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/07/a-new-low-in-trump-derangement.php
The only significant difference is that the eagle is facing the other way. But that has not been enough to save the early editions of Kipling.
After killing children in the womb became a sacrament, persecuting for ‘hate speech’ is only a baby step forward. Next comes the guillotine for playground infractions.
BTW, you can cruise Twitchy for just a few minutes and see them take apart half a dozen Tweets from people being just as mean and offensive about conservatives — but so far they haven’t been cancelled, much less arrested.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/07/12/no-words-leftists-attack-officer-ismael-chavezs-daughter-for-honoring-her-father-after-his-death-with-bluelivesmatter-thread/
BTW, the story from that last Twitchy should cause people to rethink the idea of sending social workers out to those domestic situations that so obviously don’t call for the armed police, who would only escalate the situation.
We should only send police to arrest unarmed preteens.
Eeyore – “The eagle. The dove. The turkey.” – 1776
Found that story on Twitchy also, with the expected rebuttals.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/07/12/derrrp-usa-today-claims-trump-campaign-shirts-feature-nazi-symbol-trips-spectacularly-over-actual-american-symbol/
A short historical note: The American eagle looks to the right, the German one looks to the left. A right-facing Reichsadler was the Imperial symbol before the Nazis co-opted it when they took over the government, although there are examples of Nazi escutcheons with both of them.
The eagle on the shirt looks to the left, but the shirt printer probably just grabbed the first picture that came up in his browser.
Since no one in America today even remembers what the Bill of Rights says, I doubt that particular heraldic detail influenced USA Today in any significant fashion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsadler
I am now waiting for the first Leftist who will demand we remove the US Eagle from all American sigils because it’s a hate symbol.
The fate of the hooked cross stamped on some of Kipling’s book covers is indeed illustrative. It isn’t on my edition, but I have seen it on other books of that vintage — which was decidedly pre-Nazi. (My Kipling set is in the same bookcase as my collected works of Joel Chandler Harris, BTW).
The German swastika (clockwise-arms) was culturally appropriated from the Ur-Aryans (per the Nazi view), but most of the world continues to use it in the context of its original symbolism.
Wikipedia:
Twitchy reminds us again that their principles and definitions are one-sided.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/07/13/is-it-vandalism-or-a-form-of-protest-black-lives-matter-mural-in-front-of-trump-tower-splashed-with-red-paint/
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/07/12/so-much-this-matt-walsh-sums-up-double-standard-of-left-and-right-in-just-1-tweet-about-tucker-carlson-writer-resigning/
I wasn’t censored, just didn’t get the excerpt into the block-quote!
Twitchy reminds us again that the Left’s principles and definitions are one-sided.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/07/13/is-it-vandalism-or-a-form-of-protest-black-lives-matter-mural-in-front-of-trump-tower-splashed-with-red-paint/
I think the appropriate “edit” of the BLM in front of Trump Tower would be to stencil in the names of the several dozen urban dwellers shot and killed since July 4 weekend.
What is deBlasio going to do? ERASE those names?
AesopFan:
I remember my father telling me for some reason, when I was young, that police were very much at risk in answering domestic disturbances. My father was a lawyer, and he also told me he never took divorce cases because they were so messy.
It has always interested me that the UK and Commonwealth countries–our closest political and cultural cousins in the world–have no legacy of free speech.
They certainly have no Constitution to fall back upon, and are left only to their sense of “fair play”.
This history is proving inadequate these days. Tommy Robinson would undoubtedly agree….
A lot like another period in European history where social pressure insured compliance preventing the prevention of war…
Had a bunch of of Muslims running a kebab joint kept that kid on their sodomy rotation to give the goat a rest every now and then, the Police (sic) would have been far slower to act.
Britain is finished.
Search “Adam Goode racist girl”
Sydney Swans AFL player heard someone shout “monkey” or some-such…hunted her down in the stands…had security remove her from game…absolutely monstered her in the press…she was about 12-13…Goodes became a “hero.” She was crucified.
Is this not why we distinguish between juvenile and adult? So that stupid adolescent behavior does not mark one for life?
Our society is willing to throw a 12 year-old boy under the bus. Shameful…
The law enforcement culture in the UK has been coming for the children for some time now – they just used to outsource the task to immigrants from Central Asia.
It’s hard to respect a culture that criminalizes the idea of self-defense and then targets the young as a capper.
The UK has been in the early stages of its transformation into a police state for some time. Arguably since Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech. Orwell’s 1984 was not fiction but prediction.
Tommy Robinson is far from the only individual who has suffered the State’s boot, he’s just the most prominent.
The arrest of a 12 year old is an excellent barometer of just how far the UK has fallen. Will he be sent to a reeducation camp? If not, its not far off as the State will not tolerate disagreement.
Remember the Covington kids.
“My father was a lawyer, and he also told me he never took divorce cases because they were so messy.” – Neo
AesopSpouse started out practicing law with a general-purpose firm.
He decided to move into corporate work soon after the father of a woman filing for divorce rampaged through their offices with a gun looking for the soon-to-be-ex-husband.
As one of the partners said one time, “People don’t come to us until after they have everything screwed up.”
It’s pretty much official what many have been saying for years, albeit half in jest–“racism” is now the worst crime in the Western world, worse than murder.
Contrast the arrest of this 12-year-old (who we assume is white, as I can’t see them going after and locking up an “asian” kid for making the same comments) with one of the convicted 14-year-old murderers of Tessa Majors in Manhattan this past winter. At most, the murderer will only have to serve 6 months in a juvenile detention center before he is free as a bird. This “racist” kid in England will probably have to serve double or quadruple the time in such a facility with many more years of reeducation to follow.
Our society is willing to throw a 12 year-old boy under the bus. Shameful…
There’s a substantial constituency for doing so here, but the West Midlands is the West Midlands and West Virginia is West Virginia. Thousands of miles separate the two.
Note how the most histrionic and megalomaniacal among Britain’s black population are being succored. The soccer player in question was sent via instagram a couple of images, one of which was a pickaninny on a cereal box.
Art Deco –
The West Midlands may be the West Midlands, but the West Midlands (and England in general) are more than willing to allow Muslim gangs to rape young women without consequence because enforcing the law is “racist” or something.
Britain has been over the last 30 odd years the canary in the coal mine foreshadowing America’s recent decent Into madness
I’m old enough to remember when gossip was a vice.
Orwell’s 1984 was not fiction but prediction.
The same can be said of Ymarisms, GB. Predictions, not fictions. Although if people wish to believe my words are fantasy, they are free to do so, if that makes them feel better.