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Or the constant, real life, "diversity tax" he's paid, or seen others pay, finally broke through the cognitive dissonance the relentless drone of "diversity is our strength" imposes on him.
I moved away from a "safe" and "diverse" area. The reasons were many. Mostly having to do with the relentless background noise of low and high level crime. And wondering when I would finally draw the short straw. Maybe it was the gas station I always filled up at being robbed at gunpoint for the 3rd time. Maybe it was the shooting in the parking lot behind my townhouse. Maybe it was the playground I can see from my window, that my kid liked to swing at, always being full of "diverse" kids openly doing drugs after school let out, so I couldn't take her.
This was in a supposedly "nice" area! A historic part of town. They village center within walking distance of all this had farmers markets every weekend, and all sorts of bougie artisanal shops. And yet, the subsidized affordable housing nearby, in the name of "equity", cast it's long bloody shadow.
And every single time it's a "diverse" face. Every time. In an incredibly diverse area, where white people may be the slight majority demographic still, never once did I suffer, or was even inconvenienced, by any white criminality, or even witness it, or even hear a 3rd hand account of it. No white people ever tried to rob the bank I made my deposits at. No white person was ever caught breaking and entering. No white person ever randomly shot through the windows of townhomes as a gang initiation.
Sometimes they murdered their wives/husbands/fathers/mothers during lockdown. That was... odd... but nothing to do with me.
There are vanishingly few ways to contextualize these lived experiences. "Diversity is our strength" is not among them. Nor that it's all my fault, and the fault of "systems of whiteness", which just look like pro-social behaviors to me for the most part.
The only conclusion I was able to walk away from that experience with, is that multiculturalism is a failure. It just results in anti-social minorities politically, or literally, pillaging the pro-social majority. The only choice the pro-social majority has is to flee. But only because segregation is illegal.
I'm not sure what would help me draw a different conclusion. Every now again the usual sort of "diverse" person who gets excommunicated for being an "Uncle Tom" helps. But then how they get treated by their "side" usually does more to disabuse me of my hope than their reasonable common sense pleas to return to pro-social norms engenders.
I'm mostly left with the Briahna Joy Gray's of the world insisting, straight faced and deadly serious, that you have a moral obligation to allow yourself to be victimized by her tribe.
The argument that those two get in in the clip you lined is an excellent example of why shows like this are so useless. Once they state their own position, their cohost simply misstates it back to them. It's obvious that the conversation is going nowhere. What is the purpose of subjecting people to the rest of this?
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I don’t think any of that has to do with Scott Adams. Man’s made quite a lot of money off playing an edgy counter-intellectual. This sure looks like more of the same.
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That clip is debating "should lethal force be used to prevent theft of a car" (in the specific instance of a probably black 13yo).
Note that in the US, using lethal force solely to defend property is generally illegal! Although "In basically all states, you can use nondeadly force to defend your property—and if the thief or vandal responds by threatening you with death or great bodily harm, you can then protect yourself with deadly force."
Also, this isn't motivated primarily by ethnic tribalism, it's motivated by wanting to save the downtrodden from harm, hence the 13yo example.
They are confused, but that's still what they're motivated by.
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That's her context. Further context is that city has carjacking up multiple hundred percent, official government policy seems to be to let it happen, and other 13yo carjackers have murdered their would be victims. And increasingly the problems in DC are metastasizing out into the neighboring counties, with people attending venues in DC allegedly being followed out of it by carjackers and jacked in surrounding Arlington, Alexandria, Vienna and Reston. At least that I've heard of.
There is a social contract, where government is supposed to use it's monopoly on violence to keep the peace. If they are willing to abdicate that monopoly to anti-social criminals, it takes some serious chutzpah to whinge about the threat to civilization people protecting themselves from the criminality you unleashed represent.
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Even though I’d seen that clip before, I had to turn it off less than two minutes into it because every time I watch it the urge to [fedpost] becomes overwhelming.
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