THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2021
Back to those fourteen minutes: Maybe it's the weather today. Or maybe it's the several hours we lost this morning.
Whatever it is, we're beginning to feel like the Harrison Ford character in Witness.
A bit like the early Plato of the Seventh Letter, the Ford character—his name is John Book—goes into a type of internal exile due to the despair he feels concerning his human surroundings.
(On the other hand, Kelly McGillis is present.)
Witness was a Best Picture nominee at the 1986 Oscars. We've often wondered why it isn't one of our top favorite films. (Notorious, Casablanca, My Brilliant Career. We still remember the way one audience gasped when Judy turned Sam down.)
Concerning Witness, we think we have a rough idea, but we aren't totally sure. In the way it ends, it's a bit too much like a Mannix episode. You shouldn't let the venal figures enter the sacred world of the moral and spiritual retreat.
Regarding Best Picture nominees, we continue to be amazed by the way the mainstream pundit world reacts to this year's Promising Young Woman. We can't say we've ever seen such a systemwide ability to miss the point. But then again, why bother?
Now for today's true shot at erudition:
We recommend this Washington Post news report live and direct from Loveland, Colorado. Especially, though, we recommend the 14 minutes of videotape to which that news report links.
We're not sure we've ever seen such instructive videotape. There's no way to feel good about the instruction offered there, but we're not sure we've ever seen such instructive tape.
Did you hear it pop when her arm came out? If you want to wonder about our human world, we recommend watching that deeply surprising tape.
It hasn't been mentioned on cable news. There may be instruction there too.
And they let her sit there without treatment while they knew the whole time.
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Somerby wonders why this hasn't been on cable television yet. Possibly, it's because the information is just now coming out and becoming public.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Somerby keeps pointing out all of the times that police are violent towards, or shoot white people, then claiming that racism is not why Black people keep getting shot by police. Maybe he's right. Maybe it is not systemic racism in police departments, but just the fact the police are systemically trained to be aggressive and violent in almost every circumstance.
Black people are just the canaries in the coal mine.
Despite my comments yesterday, maybe "Defund the police," is not such a stupid idea after all.
“A lot of people get shot and killed by police officers in the U.S. We'll repeat the points we feel we should make every day:
ReplyDeleteAs far as we know, no police misconduct is involved in the bulk of such cases.”
http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-disappeared-and-dead-why-was.html
But the media needs to get busy reporting on all those white people shot or harassed by the police, then the blacks would know there’s no racism. Problem solved.
On the other hand, reporting on all those white people shot or harassed by the police would make white folks see all the police misconduct, which would disprove Somerby’s contention, and then the whites would join BLM demanding the police be defunded.
Maybe Somerby just needs to admit there’s a problem.
Or maybe BLM, with all its power, needs to realize we're all in this together and talk about specific cases of whites being brutalized too. Instead of just "taking care of their own" they could show empathy for white people too. Shit happens to whites too, not only blacks. Blacks get hit harder, but in no way does that mean we should only focus on blacks. We need to join forces and address police brutality against people regardless of "race."
DeleteIf the problem were only police brutality, this would be a reasonable solution, but there is racism in addition to the other problems with police. Joining forces will do nothing to stop racism, which is real and does exist.
DeleteBoth can be done by joining forces, focus on police brutality of people regardless of skin color, and highlight racism. This is the best solution, as it values human life equally. If the focus is exclusively on people with darker skin color, that implies those lives matter more, which is a heinous idea. A black death is equally tragic as a white one in police encounters.
Deletemh, that’s not an accurate paraphrase of Somerby’s point.
ReplyDeleteSomerby believes that some of the hyperbole about blacks being hunted down by the police has served to literally terrorize people, especially children.
It is possible to be concerned about the effects of conscious and unconscious racism during police encounters with minorities, without engaging in rhetoric that is over the top and bereft of mediating context or information.
Somerby is gracious enough to see that as the media sensationalizing things for gain. I think it’s a political tactic to stoke fear and cynicism in the country.
This is evident by the reaction from partisans to any suggestion that they approach a discussion of the topic in a way that doesn’t sound like a newsreel about the commies circa 1958.
The response to that suggestion is invariably to write dumb things like you just did and/or call people racists for even suggesting it.
Somerby has declared there is no racism. Specifically: “the (largely imagined) intersections of "race" and crime and punishment.” [http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2020/09/how-and-why-do-unarmed-women-get-shot.html]
DeleteAnd the quote about the rarity of police misconduct.
So, no, he isn’t just criticizing the media for sensationalizing things. He is saying there is essentially no problem with policing in America. How much clearer can he make it for you?
And as more and more videos come out showing how wrong he is, he continues to ignore this. His position is incoherent.
No he’s not saying that. You have people here expressly saying that all cops are corrupt and you can’t tell the difference between saying that racism is nonexistent, from saying that the narratives that stem from the concept of what is called intersectionality are often hyperbolic contrived crap.
Delete“the narratives that stem from the concept of what is called intersectionality are often hyperbolic contrived crap.”
DeleteThat’s just a fancy-ass Harvard professor way of saying there’s no racism. That’s all it is.
So you have less regard for the intelligence of Harvard professors than Somerby. He wouldn’t accuse them of thinking that.
DeleteSo, you have no rebuttal, then.
Deletemh 6:46 - too bad for you you reason so stupidly.
Delete(just because it causes you to miss out on a lot of interesting things.)
DeleteI have a rebuttal: you didn't connect the two statements (your and his) with any logic, facts or sources.
DeleteIt’s very simple: either there is racism in crime and punishment, or there isn’t. Either race does intersect with crime and punishment, or it doesn’t. It is double talk to suggest otherwise.
Deletemh was quoting Somerby and there is no doubt what Somerby was saying. Calling mh an idiot changes nothing about what Somerby said.
Delete"You have people here expressly saying that all cops are corrupt..."
DeleteDo these clear-eyed, common sense people have names, or do they all post as "Anonymous"?
Hey, dear mh is extremely upset about certain thoughtcrimes. Do you mind?
DeleteAnd may we remind you that dear mh is a Very Virtuous Person ™ who is sending every cent they can lay their hands on to India, the largest provider of pharmaceuticals in the world, to save the people of that unfortunate country.
BTW- the horror going on India is a scene straight out of The Plague by Albert Camus.
ReplyDeleteI can’t recommend that book enough, for both its realism and allegory.
Thank God we have Joe Biden, who wants to help. Your guy Trump wouldn’t have cared less.
DeleteIs that all you got?
DeleteIt’s enough, and it’s more than you got.
DeleteNo, I had a point. You had a polemic.
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DeleteWhat was your fucking point? That the horror in India reminded you of a book? Does that make you educated that you read a book by Camus? Are we supposed to be impressed? Do you give a shit about the horror in India? If you did, you seem like a sick fucking hypocrite for voting for Trump, who unleashed a similar horror here through negligence and outright anti-public health policies that allowed thousands to die needlessly here in the US. So I’m going to say you don’t really give a damn about India.
DeleteOf course. That’s true of everyone who isn’t you. That’s where you live now.
DeleteSo you have no rebuttal, then.
DeleteBTW- TDH recommended The Plague which was the way I came to read it and why I referenced it here.
DeleteI had never heard off the book before his mention of it.
So you have no rebuttal, then.
DeleteYou don’t rebut this sort of tirade. Doing that assumes certain traits in your accuser that aren’t realistic.
DeleteIn other words, you have no rebuttal. Your concern for India extends to noting how it reminds you of a book, just like Somerby.
DeleteYou don’t rebut this sort of tirade. Doing that assumes certain traits in your accuser that aren’t realistic.
Delete“You” don’t rebut? Are you talking to me? I was asking if YOU had a rebuttal. Do you always refer to yourself in the second person?
DeleteShe does not always.
DeleteI read Camus in high school and I don't think it has anything to do with covid.
DeleteInteresting. I just read Animal Farm, and I don’t think it has anything to do with politics. Can’t people just let a nice story about a bunch of talking animals be a nice story about a bunch of talking animals?
DeleteAnd mh, wow. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen anybody as totally bested in an exchange, as Cecilia just bested you. And the cherry on top is that you don’t even know it happened.
"as Cecilia just bested you."
DeleteGood luck trying to beat that insult.
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