Have you read Darren Wilson’s testimony? The members of that grand jury have zero self – respect if they allowed this load of steamy shit to be poured into their ears.
But notice an interesting thing: a grown man in a very macho profession has no problem whatsoever with publicly self – infantilizing to an extraordinary degree. Wilson offers a spectacle of regression to a childhood stage, hoping that the five – year – old persona he is adopting will help him avoid responsibility for his adult actions.
And the really sad part is that it works. Nobody seems repelled by the picture of an adult man in a very responsible position who starts to speak in a baby voice, sharing his childish fantasies about TV characters, the moment he is asked to account for his actions.
If Wilson can perform this kind of a regression so easily in front of a bunch of strangers in an official setting, chances are, this was far from being the first time. Putting on a spectacle of being a lost and wronged little baby seems like a well – honed skill of Wilson’s. What’s curious is that working as a policeman did not get in the way of him developing this skill. This means that everyone around him must have reacted as if slipping into a childish persona is a normal thing for an adult man to do. And given that nobody is picking up on the deep pathology of his testimony, I’m not surprised.
The burden of adulthood and responsibility is too heavy for many people to carry. This is why they so easily identify with somebody who puts on a show of being a child trapped in an adult’s body. They experience no compassion whatsoever towards actual children. To the contrary, children provoke resentment because of their legitimate lack of adult responsibilities. Observing Wilson on the stand and reading his testimony allows such people to experience a cathartic feeling of symbolically killing an actual child in order to stand in the child’s place and declare their right to continue being children.
The grand jury’s refusal to hold Wilson accountable for his actions – as we know, the jury literally removed the need for Wilson to give public account of what he did – is an official endorsement of immaturity and irresponsibility as an acceptable way of life for an adult. The right of overgrown babies to remain babies for as long as they shall live is deemed even more important than somebody else’s right to keep living.
The time has come for us to ask ourselves: where does this road lead us all? What is each of us ready to sacrifice to allow the perennially infantile to keep sucking on the tit of our society because they refuse to learn to seek adult nourishment and work for it?
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I doubt the dude fails at Jungian stages of psychological development. Rather this seeming regression is part of using the “scary black man trope” to justify his actions to make it seem like a 6’4″ 210 lb guy has such an overwhelming disadvantage to a 6’4″ 290 lb guy. To put it another way, they’d be within the same boxing class and they’re both the size of football players. Also “fear for your life” is part of self defense which is even more ridiculous since the whole grand jury proceeding was to decide if there was going to be a trial.
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I’m from a different culture, so maybe this is why the whole narrative shocks me so much. The image of a police officer saying in public, “I felt like a 5-year-old” is probably one of the most bizarre images I can conjure. My culture is that of extremely infantilized men but even there I cannot imagine a police officer saying such a thing in public for any reason. It’s just not done.
“Also “fear for your life” is part of self defense which is even more ridiculous since the whole grand jury proceeding was to decide if there was going to be a trial.”
– There are different ways of narrating that. Words matter, and this was a very obvious public regression.
“I doubt the dude fails at Jungian stages of psychological development.”
– I agree. I believe this is acting. What is shocking is that he acts it out so easily. And nobody has any reaction.
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My first thought was “I hope no grown men see this performance because they will never stop laughing.” I do hang out with some fairly macho types I guess, Spanish department and all, and they would not be caught dead describing themselves in such weak terms.
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Thank you! Finally, somebody shares my impressions. I was starting to think something was wrong with me. I’m not in a macho profession but I can’t imagine myself saying this in a professional context. Imagine yourself describing a conflict with a student in these terms. It’s just bizarre.
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It’s bizarre indeed, but from his point of view it’s an excellent self-defence. After all, western countries are currently kid-centric cultures. If somebody acts like a kid, people start to protect him at once. I’m sure it was a conscious decision found out either by “Baby” Darren or by his lawyer. I don’t say his behaviour is not annoying, it is, but it is also a very smart tactic. In fact, in today’s society he couldn’t find a better defence method. During the era of gerontocracy kids used to want to be like adults. In the current kid-centric times adults want to be like kids. Baby Darren just adapts. His strategy is great, if I were a criminal I used exactly the same.
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This strategy only works as long as we allow for it to work. There was an actual kid in this situation and nobody identified with him. Everybody identified with a balding fellow pretending to be a kid. Yes, racism is a huge factor here. However, when a few months ago a white guy “forgot” his small son in a car causing the son’s death, the efforts to paint the father as an immature child were huge. I blogged about it at length when it happened. Nobody feels bad for actual kids, even infants. But the support for adults pretending to be kids is enormous.
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“This strategy only works as long as we allow for it to work.”
I agree with this. It should never happen. The whole kid-centric society is very new to me. I was grown up and have lived almost during my entire life in a gerontocratic society. I still don’t understand how this other one works. Recently I also thought about that the whole kid-centeredness is not exactly about the kids themselves, but about the emotional needs of the parents. The whole system is so skewed that I need more time to understand it. Maybe it’s not the worship of the actual kids but that of a pseudorebellious, infantile behaviour. The actual kids may be just the representantives of this, that’s why the societies themselves seem to be so kid-centric from the outside. My main problem is that the balding Baby Darren knew very well that people will identify with him if he acted like a kid. The guy who cooked his son in the hot car also knew it. They are not those innocent little flowers they pretend to be. If immature/irresponsible/hostile people know they can get away with even murder if they act in a certain way, it is incredibly dangerous. The worship of infantilism has to go, because it’s fucking dangerous. Criminals use it successfully as a defense strategy.
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“My main problem is that the balding Baby Darren knew very well that people will identify with him if he acted like a kid. The guy who cooked his son in the hot car also knew it. They are not those innocent little flowers they pretend to be. If immature/irresponsible/hostile people know they can get away with even murder if they act in a certain way, it is incredibly dangerous. The worship of infantilism has to go, because it’s fucking dangerous. Criminals use it successfully as a defense strategy.”
– Exactly. The grand jury identified with the killer and not with an actual dead kid because they have a secret wish to act just like Darren Wilson. They want to be able to hide their fuck-ups behind the “wha-wha-I-was-scaaaaaaawed-mooooooommieeeeee.” He is the embodiment of their dream. The dream of being liberated from adult responsibility. This was the subject of my book with the only (and insignificant) difference that in the book I talked about women doing this.
And then people say that literary criticism is not a science because it can’t predict anything. Like hell it can’t.
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“– Let’s be careful with terminology. Narcissism is a very concrete personality disorder with a set of very specific symptoms. I wouldn’t use the word lightly to describe “nasty people we don’t like.” ”
To be very clear, I would never use the term to describe a nasty person I didn’t like, but rather someone who wants me to carry their emotional burdens for them and makes me look publicly responsible for problems that are not my own but theirs. Also, I do not agree with maggie thatchers dictum, “there is no society”.
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“To be very clear, I would never use the term to describe a nasty person I didn’t like, but rather someone who wants me to carry their emotional burdens for them and makes me look publicly responsible for problems that are not my own but theirs.”
– As obnoxious as such behavior is, it’s light years away from an actual narcissistic personality disorder.
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Obnoxious? It’s more than that. It’s downright destructive behavior in a mode of extreme self-denial, manipulation and scapegoat creating.
Also, it is extremely common behavior and for reasons I have given, has been socially validated.
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I’m not sure what we are discussing any longer. Child abuse? Manipulation and scapegoating are extremely destructive to a child. In the context of adult relationships, this is nothing but a game.
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I’m a very, very poor player at that game. Very poor indeed.
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Good. Because if you dont enjoy the game, you will not play it.
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Yes, it’s all very nice. Although looking at things in an entirely different way, I am more than happy to concede to weaknesses if it will make others happy too. in the end it is not my concession, but reality we are dealing with.
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Im sorry, this has gotten way too cryptic for me.
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We could have a very long talk about it some day which would touch on the topic of whether there is such a thing as “society”, whether the majority of problems are all in one’s head, the insistence of the contemporary modern person that we are all basically the same and function the same and that society now is pretty much as it has always been, and so on.
Point is, if someone implies I am overreacting to something, I let them go on believing it, because it is, after all a belief and that is all.
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I don’t think a long talk would have worked out :-). I need much more specific questions and concrete definitions of “problems, in one’s head, function, etc.” Without such definitions, people end up talking to themselves.
I do really dislike the word “society.” It’s a convenient stand-in for anything and everything. Of course, people who have achieved an ecstatically happy way of being can afford to wax lyrical about society. Those who aren’t there just yet will be better served to leave society in peace and concentrate on figuring out their own lives.
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Very sharp, very sharp. But your range of meaning, even in terms of your crude, prelimenary outline of what the term, “society” might mean, is already an emotional definition. it ought to be colder, for instance: “the collection of personal forces in such a sense that the whole is much more than (and different from) the sum of the parts.
So it seems we even disagree at the level of your crude, preliminary, definition!
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“The worship of infantilism has to go, because it’s fucking dangerous. Criminals use it successfully as a defense strategy.”
I was on a migrant transitional journey for a long time, where people simply would not believe a word I said about anything. I really felt I had to learn a new language. It was really impossible to fathom. For instance, if I had a problem with public transport and I was late for work one day, I could not simply say, “Sorry I am late because the bus was delayed today.” That was considered “an excuse”, whereas I had assumed it was a “reason”. I had to keep trying to figure it out.
My mistake was in believing it was possible to find a way out. Gradually it has become clear that one cannot calibrate oneself in any way that will satisfy narcissists. If you speak plainly, they say you are cold and unconvincing, while if you try to inject more emotion into your voice, they say, “Look at you! We all know that familiar language. You are just trying to get attention!”
A society that does not face its deep, structural problems, leads to individuals who try to get an emotional hit to feel temporarily better. There’s not adaptation to this. It can’t occur.
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“one cannot calibrate oneself in any way that will satisfy narcissists”
Yes, that’s true. The only way to deal with them is emotional manipulation and constant lying. I made it with my narcissistic mother when I was a teenager and a young adult, not consciously but in an instinctive way. There wasn’t any other route that worked especially in the powerless situation I was in. However my psyche just broke down by the time of my mid twenties because of the constant emotional stress that had begun with my birth. The only way I could have saved my sanity was to cut all contact with her immediately. A healthy psyche can’t tolerate narcissistic abuse for an eternal period of time.
“I was on a migrant transitional journey for a long time, where people simply would not believe a word I said about anything.”
Do you think most people are narcissists? I also concluded it once, but it sounded really bad, so I dropped the idea. However if we approach narcissism from the viewpoint of emotional adulthood, it may be true. Narcissists are kids emotionally, that’s why it’s impossible to argue with them (you can’t argue with a toddler).
“A society that does not face its deep, structural problems, leads to individuals who try to get an emotional hit to feel temporarily better”
I’m not sure that western societies are more narcissistic than the authoritarian one where I grew up. Both favour narcissists over normal people, just in a different way. I wonder if there has ever been a society in human history where the majority of people reached emotional adulthood.
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“Do you think most people are narcissists?”
– Let’s be careful with terminology. Narcissism is a very concrete personality disorder with a set of very specific symptoms. I wouldn’t use the word lightly to describe “nasty people we don’t like.” Narcissists are very sick people who find it very hard to function in society. They are prone to serious paranoid ideation, delusional thinking, persecutory fantasies, fits of extreme rage. Today, many people use the term “narcissism” to stand in for “selfish”, “annoying”, “self-involved.” But as much as we might dislike selfish and annoying people, there is an enormous distance from their personal failings and character faults to an actual disorder.
There is no evidence that anybody in the Darren Wilson case suffered from the narcissistic personality disorder. There is a bunch of really shitty people involved. But I have seen no evidence of a psychiatric dysfunction.
“Narcissists are kids emotionally, that’s why it’s impossible to argue with them (you can’t argue with a toddler).”
– All poodles are dogs but not all dogs are poodles. 🙂
“I wonder if there has ever been a society in human history where the majority of people reached emotional adulthood.”
– Not yet. But we are inching forward towards that goal. Slowly and tortuously, of course.
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Oh. I’m sorry to hear about your mother.
Well, I think the society I was in did not favor narcissists simply because we were at war. This took all of the primal energy in a human being and directed it toward war. There was very iittle left over for direct preening. What I conclude from this is that human beings, especially the men, are supposed to be at war. Otherwise they are unhappy and start to compete in an unhealthy manner against their womenfolk.
Also, I do think current Western society is narcissistic. I think we ought to avoid at all costs the notion that what we encounter here is “human nature” and this is how it has always been. As a society moves away from feudal social relations towards validating the consumer, it becomes more and more narcissistic. I am speaking psychologically here, by the way, not directly economically, because I want you and others to grasp that enshrining the most passive role in society as the dominant one will produce a society of infants. It cannot help but do so. When the consumer is given priority over the producer or service-giver, you will end up with the enshrinement of bad behavior as next to godliness.
Lasty, whereas I don’t think all people are necessarily narcissists, I think my origins and cold.British demeanor has caused people to feel their narcissistic injuries. Don’t ask me how I did it, but people react to a reminder of the past. In a way they envy it and in a way they are afraid of it. And I do come from a situation of very, very strong feudal relations.
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You have to remember that Wilson’s testimony was definitely vetted by his legal advisors who probably tested it prior to release with a focus group if they’re smart and I’m sure that his advisors are very smart.
“If you feel that you’re being threatened with great bodily injury or death, theoretically you can kill the attacker; that’s all the law requires in California. If you feel you are in a situation of that kind, the jury instructions and the case law say that you’re allowed to pull out a gun or a knife and do what you need to do. But it really depends on how much the jury likes you, who you killed, what the circumstances were that led up to it, and so forth.”
http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/self-defense-and-the-law
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Let’s not participate in the game of infantilizing Wilson. He is the one responsible for his own testimony, not the lawyers who weren’t even there. He’s an adult. He made statements to the grand jury of his own free will. Ergo, he bears full responsibility for every word he said.
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In fact, it is assumed that a child cannot lie, so if one evinces childish emotions then necessarily one is NOT acting, whereas adults are considered to habituatlly lie or act for their advantage. This is the assumption of a culture that has no psychology — that has totally lost its psychological bearings. I think, though, it is also religious. The older you get the more sin and self-deception you are considered to harbor. To speak smoothly and in an in-control manner is to reveal your adulhood, which is bad, but to speak in jerky, reflexive manner, is considered to be getting to the real, underlying truth.
Once again, this is why I said yesterday that it can be hard to figure out how to speak to people in a convincing manner in a crisis.
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The image of this balding huge killer saying in a lisping voice, “I felt like a 5-year-old” to justify the murder of an unarmed teenager will haunt me forever.
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The face of Western culture which is unmasked to you and to me, but not to those who keep it going.
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But I do know this is the real face of the culture and it fills me with despair, for I have seen versions of that face many times before. Bad bosses do this face as well, and make out that their customers intimidated them and that it is your fault as a new hireling.
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Have you heard about Tamir Rice?
// Tamir Rice died in hospital early Sunday after two police officers, responding to a 911 emergency call, confronted the African-American youngster at a recreation center.
// Cleveland Cop Shoots and Kills 12-Year-Old Boy Holding Toy Gun
A Cleveland police officer shot the youth Saturday after witnesses claimed that he was brandishing a gun on a playground.
// Police chief defends Ohio cop who shot 12-year-old boy holding replica handgun: ‘Guns aren’t toys’
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Oh God. This will only get worse until these hysterics start going to jail for murder.
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\\ An audio recording of the 911 emergency call made by the man who reported the incident reveals that on two occasions he said that the pistol was “probably a fake” and on another occasion that the person holding it “was probably a juvenile”.
One can see the picture of this toy gun here:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30172433
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Some people are allowed to be entitled murderous babies. And to riot when their sports teams wins/loses, or there’s a pumpkin fest or in support of a football coach who serially sexually molested children. And tonight ABC will interview this murderous baby who will let everyone know that he would shoot Michael Brown again and that he sleeps like a metaphorical baby. We will all be asked to feel sorry for him because his mother was a fucking thief who got probation and it’s been so hard not being on active duty, sob sob.
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“yet those who do paint a portrait of a well-mannered, relatively soft-spoken, even bland person who seemed, if anything, to seek out a low profile — perhaps, some suggested, a reaction to a turbulent youth in which his mother was repeatedly divorced, convicted of financial crimes and died of natural causes before he finished high school in 2004”
– A classic description of a serial killer. I won’t be watching the interview because my health can’t withstand that much outrage. What Michael Brown’s parents must be feeling cannot even be contemplated without horror.
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“reaction to a turbulent youth in which his mother was repeatedly divorced, ”
Life wasn’t perfect and mummy let me down?
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“Life wasn’t perfect and mummy let me down?”
– I’m sure everybody will get many chances to drown in snot as he recites his stories of his bad mommy.
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It fits in with the religious narrative that life was meant to be perfect but sin and corruption entered the picture and this contaminated everything permanently.
Certainly the religious view is not a robust view of life, since “sin” can attack us from any side at any time, and as we are mere humans we are powerless to help.
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I live very close to this dangerous killer. I don’t feel safe going about when he is on the loose. This is such a travesty.
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This is precisely what I meant when I said in the previous post that I didn’t know which emotions to evince to get Westerners to take some of my problems seriously — childlike ones obviously.
I apologise for not addressing the topic of the baby darren directly, but we do not get that news, at least not in the same way in Australia.
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Here’s the video of the first interview of Wilson after the grand jury decision.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2014/nov/25/ferguson-officer-darren-wilson-interview-to-screen-on-abc
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This animal is now walking around like a movie star, giving interviews and collecting fans. How absolutely disgusting. ABC should be ashamed of itself.
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The thing that I don’t like is ABC doing the set up to the interview by showing pictures of the burnt out cars and buildings in Ferguson. This prejudices the piece in favor of the officer before he even speaks by suggesting that police action in Ferguson is, in the words of some of the conservative blogosphere, animal control.
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Dear Clarissa, There are people in Ferguson and around the country burning down buildings and looting stores motivated by the same sentiments you express. I am glad you do it with words, which are incendiary only metaphorically. God bless America for your right to speak out. But in a late at night, loosely jointed sort of way, I would like to express some disagreement with your point of view, without resorting to scatological analogies, which I stopped finding compelling my freshman year. As a man myself, I was a little uncomfortable with Wilson’s admission of childlike fear. How would Clint Eastwood have handled it? How would I react in that situation? Would I wait for the man to be on top of me, to wrestle for my gun, and try to shoot him at close quarters, before he could shoot me? Would that be better? And what if he shot me? Would that be better? Your contempt for Wilson concerns me, thinking as I do that you are a person with human understanding. I also wonder why you disparage a group of grand jurors of whose age, sex, racial, social, education and moral background you know nothing, without your having been privy to the evidence they heard over 3 months time, without your having heard the testimony from black witnesses who came forward after the initial, and now admitted, lies about Brown being shot in the back, or having his hands up. These witnesses said, I am told, that Brown charged Wilson. I did not hear them, nor did you, so let us not judge things we do not know about. Let’s not disparage a grand jury for doing its job, unless we know, know, they were corrupt. You may have wished that Wilson were indicted, but you did not hear the evidence. Your attack on the prosecutor shows lack of understanding of our legal system. It is frequently said cynically that any prosecutor worth his salt could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. True, but that is an unethical prosecutor. Unlike most of the world, the United States demands that prosecutors be neutral, not adversarial. The power of the government is such that, if they tried to get you, you would have no chance. The prosecutor is not supposed to try for an indictment; he is supposed to present all the evidence fairly. Does it always work that way? Of course not. But thank your freedom, that is the rule. I distrust government completely. Corporations, much despised by so many, do not tax away your income, do not put you in jail, do not send you to wars you disbelieve in, do not do present the enormous threat to our liberty that the government does. The government is what we need to watch, because the government is the biggest threat to my freedom, and yours. So be thankful that the government–buffered by twelve citizens of Missouri, who heard evidence you and I did not–does not listen to the chants of bomb throwers. I want the government to punish criminals, of course. But it’s juries, not you, not I, who decide who are criminals. When the government declines to exercise its vast power to ruin lives, I do not think we should throw bombs, real or verbal. Sincerely, your friend, Tom
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“Your contempt for Wilson concerns me, thinking as I do that you are a person with human understanding.”
–Like I say, the modern types always over-universalise.
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Honey, the full transcripts are available online.
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“From: Clarissa’s Blog Toxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx”
Do you really posted your (or your wife’s) personal data AND the CSS settings of your email client here? Maybe next time it would be a better idea to use the display: none; rule for the whole comment :-D.
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So once again. Did you really post … ?
I know I shouldn’t make fun of others till my grammar is that poor.
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I edited out the personal information and edited it out of aglaonika’s comment, too.
WordPress has really been acting up lately. I’ve had at least 4 people complain that weird things are happening. I apologize to everybody for the inconvenience.
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Hi Tom, it’s great to have you here! I live very close to Ferguson, and I can say that the stories about the vandalism and the looting in the area that the media so love are vastly exaggerated. The protests were overwhelmingly peaceful but the footage that was run on TV was edited and presented very carefully to show things as far more violent than they are. I’m quite shocked to see articles titled “St. Louis is burning” and things of the kind. I drove all the way through St. Louis yesterday, and nothing was burning, everybody is outside, shopping and enjoying the last sunny days of the winter.
I really appreciate your perspective on the role of the government and the jury. I love it when people work out passionate, consistent systems of belief, irrespective of whether they coincide with mine.
“When the government declines to exercise its vast power to ruin lives, I do not think we should throw bombs, real or verbal.”
– This is very beautifully said.
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TL;DNR:
We have tone policing, a misunderstanding of how the grand jury process normally works, how indictments normally occur, and the nature of the American justice system, and an incoherent insistence that even though you “completely” distrust the government that we should definitely trust the government in this case.
The American system is adversarial. You want an inquisitorial system, head to France.
Anyways, Clarissa is free to have all of the contempt she wishes for Darren Wilson and the jurors because the court of public opinion is not the court of law, which Darren Wilson is never going to see the inside of, thanks to this grand jury and prosecutor and police department. Feel sorry for the poor rich man who said he’d do it all over again and sleeps well at night, if you wish. I don’t.
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\\ There are people in Ferguson and around the country burning down buildings and looting stores motivated by the same sentiments you express.
Clarissa, you have once written a post about London riots:
Would what you have to say about rioters in Ferguson be different? If yes, how?
Most people in Ferguson don’t burn anything, right?
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“Would what you have to say about rioters in Ferguson be different? If yes, how?
Most people in Ferguson don’t burn anything, right?”
– There have been no riots. Seriously, I live in this area. I would have noticed riots if there had been any. So far, the protesters have shown remarkable self-restraint and a great commitment to maintaining peace. The night when the grand jury decision was announced, people marched. It is true that a police vehicle was overturned and some windows were broken. There was some old shed that caught fire as well. Other than that, things have been peaceful. I know many people who went to the protests, both back after the murder and this week. These are students, other professors, acquaintances. Everybody is completely peaceful and completely unafraid of “the rioters.” Because there are no rioters. People organized and trained literally for months (since the murder) to ensure that the protests after the grand jury decision would be peaceful. And they are! But nobody is paying attention to this really great achievement because the media are sensationalizing the hell out of the situation.
A lot more damage in the region is being done by shoppers who run around in stampedes. 🙂
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There were riots as there were tons of small businesses burned and people’s lives ruined.
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Musteryou / SB / anybody acquainted with a not-Western culture, this post contains a question to you, if you read.
Femeniste published “Important things people have said about Ferguson”:
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2014/11/26/important-things-people-have-said-about-ferguson/
I liked the tweet:
\\ When Darren Wilson says he saw Mike Brown as “a demon,” the problem isn’t with his eyes, it’s with what America told him demons look like.
Began thinking on a somewhat unconnected question: the symbolism of colors in Western vs other cultures. In f.e. English “fair” means both “light” (=/= dark) and “good, beautiful,” while the color black is associated with the devil and evil in general. Brown is earthy and neutral.
How is it different in African cultures? May be, musteryou knows something about the matter. It seems strange for people with black skin to have the same color symbolism.
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Darkness is associated with negativity because primeval people were terrified of the dark times of day. Americans are so obsessed with skin that they see it in everything. Small children everywhere are afraid of the dark not because they are racists but because they can’t see.
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Darren Wilson was clearly innocent and Michael Brown deserved what he got. That is abundantly clear from all the evidence. The so-called testimony of the witnesses claiming that Michael Brown was executed completely fell apart. There were six black witnesses whose individual testimonies all corroborated each other, Officer Wilson’s testimony, and were in line with what the forensic evidence showed.
The story here is simple. A young punk strongarm-robbed a convenience store, then attacked a police officer, and got shot in the process.
As for the “babying” of anyone, it has been of Michael Brown. You’d think he was eight years-old the way the media narrative has been. He was eighteen. That is old enough to vote, old enough to own guns, old enough to serve in the military, and definitely old enough to know the difference between right and wrong.
Much of the narrative claims Michael Brown was an “unarmed teenager,” but this is meaningless for numerous reasons:
1) He was a huge teenager. And teenagers commit plenty of violent crimes. They can be even more dangerous than adults because they can have equal or superior physical strength and power yet their brain isn’t fully-developed and thus they may not think through fully what they are doing.
2) Officer Wilson may not have even known whether he was a teenager or not. At that age, someone could easily be eighteen or twenty-eight. It just depends. Happens with girls too. You have some women in their twenties who look like teenagers still and others who are sixteen who look like they are in their twenties.
3) Officer Wilson had no way of knowing he was unarmed.
The reason it never went to trial is because:
1) There was no way on Earth the prosecutor could have won it at trial, as the evidence was so clearly in Officer’s Wilson’s favor.
2) The black witnesses who corroborated Officer Wilson’s testimony were in fear for their lives if their identities were revealed. Going to trial would have required that their identities be revealed.
3) It really never even had to go to a grand jury in the first place. There is a saying in American law, that a prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. So the evidence clearly was in Wilson’s favor for them not to indict. The prosecutor only took it as far as a grand jury to try and appease the mob.
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“Darren Wilson was clearly innocent and Michael Brown deserved what he got.”
– Kyle: you are now being banned from this blog for being a disgusting, stinky little fuck. Insects who say that people DESERVE to die are not welcome to remain in the company of normal human beings. Go away and reflect on how abnormal and vicious it is to say such horrifying things and on how much you DESERVE to be spat on by anybody who, unlike you, is actually human.
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