Food for Thought

 https://x.com/wesyang/status/1965304972557324504?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

"There were many problems with BLM, but the most important was that the movement’s claims weren’t true. The claim that police are more of a danger to black people than black criminality is a danger to black people isn’t true. The claim that white people are a greater danger to black people than black people are a danger to white people isn’t true. The claim that leniency in law enforcement and criminal prosecution and incarceration will help black people more than they hurt black people isn’t true. The claim that living in a society that rejects white norms (punctuality, objectivity, scientific reason, literacy, nuclear families) will be better for nonwhite people isn’t true. None of it is true. Same with transgenderism. The claim that some men are women if they feel they are women or say they are women or feel so deeply that they are women that they will die if you don’t treat them as women isn’t true. The claim that if men threaten to kill themselves if you don’t let them into the ladies room or if you don’t use their preferred pronouns or if they put on a dress or cut off their penises that we are obliged to meet their demand for special privileges and call them rights isn’t true. The claim that there is a body of evidence proving that chemically castrating young children and cutting off healthy body parts is medically necessary and lifesaving isn’t true. None of those things makes anyone a woman. None of those feelings or acts confers any rights on anyone or any duties on anyone else. No amount of bullying, medical fraud, emotional blackmail, totalitarian surveillance, or state coercion will ever make any of it true. Let’s be done with all the falsehoods."

 https://x.com/wesyang/status/1965128527587737780?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "1.) These are statistically rare events. There were 428 black-on-white stranger-on-stranger killings in 2019 -- 3 percent of all murders. 2.) They are far more common than the police killings of unarmed black men that became a national obsession in the 2010's. There were 12 killings of unarmed black men in 2019 as the Black Lives Matter movement ramped up to its crescendo. A narrative can easily be fashioned online by exploiting the "availability heuristic" that causes the subconscious mind to confound the vividness and memorability of events for their incidence. That is what right wing accounts focusing on the black-on-white stranger killings are doing. Which is of course what the whole of the media did from 2015-2020 for police killings of unarmed black men, culminating in a nationwide freakout that put American cities in flames and resulted in the deaths of 30 people. This created a pent up interest in re-establishing the salience of 2.), the goal of which is not a nationwide street freakout but simply the changing of prosecutorial polices that allow the catch and release of repeat violent offenders."