The New Neo

Do you recall that the press seemed okay with ICE before Trump came along? Here’s a video that might remind you; unfortunately, it can’t be embedded but you can view it here.

There’s also this:

2016. Obama’s Press Secretary is asked about reports that during immigration raids, ICE agents were storming into homes, going room to room looking for illegals, and making children tremble with fear.

I thought only fascist Presidents do that sort of thing.

Why was the press so civil? Why weren’t they crying or at least calling Obama a nazi?

How come nobody was shaving their head in protest? Surely there were a bunch of angry white liberal wine moms outside the building screaming at the top of their lungs, right?

Always keep in mind how fake and performative the outrage is.

I don’t think the present rage is fake. I’m basing this on the rage against ICE of some people I know. It’s real, and it’s created, fostered, and nurtured by Democrats and the press coverage as well as social media. It’s no accident at all, it’s deliberately drummed up, but the rank-and-file are for the most part sincere.

Some of the most active protesters seem to not understand that this is serious, and that their actions could be deadly serious – to themselves. For example, there was this:

Ask yourself what [Renee] Good’s partner’s conceptual world has to be like for her to scream [after Good was killed] “Why did you have real bullets?”

This is the outrage of someone who is discovering the hard limits of social construction.

Indeed. It’s also the result of too much reliance on imagology and not enough awareness of reality. Perhaps that’s saying more or less the same thing. But it doesn’t pay to live in a fantasy world where federal agents arresting criminals don’t have real bullets in their weapons, and impeding them – or even trying to run them down in your car – won’t have potentially very dire consequences resulting from the use of very real bullets.

It’s also a reflection of the fact that in this country, protesters are not shot unless they do something very dangerous. Despite the left’s rhetoric about ICE, the officers are not going around murdering people and demonstrations against them would be fine if those demonstrations were non-violent. So based on that knowledge, perhaps demonstrators get into a mindset of “anything goes” because they believe there will never be serious retaliation on the part of ICE. It’s paradoxical, but it makes a certain amount of sense – they hate ICE but rely on ICE’s general tolerance of dissent.

Who’s funding the training of these people? Here’s a piece that attempts to find out.

The left wants martyrs and is happy to have them and to exploit their deaths to fire up even more rage against ICE and Trump. It’s pretty much the Black Lives Matter playbook, only it’s not about race this time.

[NOTE: More from that tweet:

I’m reminded of a news story I read a couple of weeks ago. White couple out on the town, approached by a random black street psycho, random psycho insults the girl and spits at the guy, guy squares up to fight him.

The girl grabs her man’s arm and says “Don’t fight”. While she’s restraining him and his attention is distracted, black psycho stabs him to death.

That girl lived in a universe where everything was head pats and cookies and good intentions. So does Becca [Renee Good’s spouse]. And so, I’m pretty sure, did Renee Good.

I wonder about that analysis of the street fight. If an unarmed person is confronted at close quarters by someone with a knife, it’s very dangerous. I don’t think a fist fight necessarily stops the potential knifing at all – it might be best to try to get away as fast as possible. Knife attacks can be very quick, and even if the victim has a gun the knife often is faster at close quarters or even semi-close quarters.

Looking it up just now, I tried to identify the murder. If it was this one, the facts are significantly different from the description in that tweet:

Carson and his girlfriend were coming home from a wedding when the apparently unprovoked attack occurred, ABC New York station WABC reported.

The suspect walked past the couple while they were seated on a bench at a bus stop, police said. They then begin to walk toward the suspect, who started to damage scooters, police said. The suspect said to Carson, “What are you looking at?” according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.

“Mr. Carson immediately places himself between the male and his female companion to protect her,” Kenny said during a press briefing on Wednesday.

As Carson tried to de-escalate the situation, the suspect swung a knife at him, Kenny said. Carson backed up and tripped, falling to the ground. The suspect then stabbed him three times, with the knife piercing his heart, Kenny said.

“As Mr. Carson laid dying on the sidewalk, the male with the knife kicks him in the chest, threatens to stab the woman companion and spits in her face,” Kenny said.

Awful, horrible, but the woman was not restraining Carson and he was trying to get away, having seen the knife. He was murdered because he tripped and fell, affording the murderer the opportunity to stab him. The perp spitting on the woman occurred afterwards.]