You can add the Manchester Arena bombing to the list. A security guard testified that he hesitated to challenge the bomber because he didn’t want to be thought to be racially harassing him and let him walk away.
The police weren’t in a position to stop it because they were on the other side of town having a kebab, but that’s another story.
Completely agree. Anti-racism has become so all-pervasive that, though poisonous, it is, like air, almost impossible to see. I only notice it when someone less jaded and resigned points it out.
“a magic word which any bad actor can use to their advantage, in many cases without any personal cost.” Living in student accommodation in the 1990s had bunch of British Asian lads above us who were very noisy. (Banging a drum after midnight). Three of us went up to remonstrate with them. Cross words were uttered especially from by drunken Scottish flatmate. Not a racial epithet was uttered though.
Next day one of the three of us that had gone up there said that they were going to accuse us of racism. He rather comically concluded that his mate “knew martial arts” and we’d better watch out - to which my flatmate laughed and said “oh yeah, well my dad was a boxer in the army and he’s bigger than your dad” and laughed. Nothing more came of it after that.
Post script to the story was that one of the Asian lads was on a course in my department and used to boast of dodging classes and papers because “he had a religious festival to attend”.
Idiots gonna idiot I guess, handing some people a magic word doesn’t do a lot for social cohesion.
"As a result of that inquiry, the ideology has become institutionalised in the police force. Since an accusation of racism is far more damaging to an officer’s career than an accusation of incompetence, individuals are hugely incentivised to do everything possible to avoid it, with often tragic or perverse outcomes"
The cultural left truly is embodied by what Jonathan Haidt called "de-tot" or "decentralized totalitarianism". And what makes decentralized totalitarianism more frightening in certain ways than the old fashioned kind is that there is no coordinating command structure that can be easily detached or at least provide accountability.
There is no Tiannammen Square or Berlin Wall that dissidents or freedom fighters can march on. There is no organization of storm troopers or red guards of whom one can simply arrest their leaders and then put them on trial/execute. Like a jellyfish or comb jelly, it has a nervous system but no brain. As Steve Sailer likes to say, "There is no Inner Party."
That’s very true. Spirits exist, almost like egregores. That’s why we can talk about “vibe shifts” or “the public mood”. Humans are odd creatures in the way that we can align ourselves into these disembodied “moods”. One wonders how much constant programming from media also influences us - representation of race and class and religion on TV, the all powerful and highly spiritually and morally stories of the Shoah and the US civil rights struggle, along with the windrush mythology in this country.
Swarmisn . Also, the accretion of decades of far left social policies/laws which so surround us as to obscure how utterly bizarre they are - like the preferring and privileging of foreign cultures and peoples over our own.
“Runaway moralization” is a great description, Ed.
As I’ve repeated here many times, the educated liberal mind has been marinating in social justice theory for decades now, with each generation increasing the concentration of the brine. The effect is the contemporary liberal brain has been warped into believing that prejudice and implicit bias are far worse than gross incompetence.
If someone is dying having been stabbed 5 times, it is obvious, whether or not the wounds are apparent. The police assertion otherwise is a further disgrace, compounding their already craven conduct. Also, the case describes perfectly that there is now an institutionally entrenched caste system in Britain, with the indigenous population firmly anchored at the foot of that - an astonishing subversion of the concept of country - which is rather the point, of course. And finally, the legislation that privileged a Sikh to carry such a weapon (which would otherwise be illegal) goes back to the 1980s, giving a sense of the depth of the rot.
Empress Elizabeth of Austria was stabbed in the heart by a very thin stiletto blade wielded by an anarchist. She did not seem to be seriously injured- yet died before anyone realized that she was.
After stories like this we must admit that it is becoming easier to enter once again into the mind of the composer of the imprecatory psalms in this Kingdom.
A generation ago they were considered baffling, savage and inaccessible. Now we begin to undersand again.
"O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage.
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless."
Every Christian Bible includes the Book of Psalms, several of which call down imprecations on God's enemies, often ferociously.
"O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." [Psalm 137: 8-9.]
The Church of England's Book of Common Prayer traditionally included all the psalms. Preparing a revised edition a hundred years ago the bishops wanted to omit those "imprecatory psalms" as being unsuitable for public recitation, but their plan was rejected by The House of Commons in 1928. There are imprecations in the New Testament, too, but they amount to scolding rather than physical threats, as Jesus let fly at Jews for lying, and St. Paul chastises them for persecuting Christians.
Since 2023 at least three times the children of immigrants have died because someone feared being called racist - more than have been killed by racism.
Fair. A core failure of the right has been its acceptance of the progressive left’s terms of engagement (ie their words, concepts and moral attitudes) which then renders the right’s opposition worse than nugatory.
Actually I should have said two. In 2023 Valdo Calocane was not sectioned because Doctors were concerned that too many black men were sectioned. As a result - three people including Grace O'Malley-Kumar - the daughter of an Irish and Indian immigrant were murdered.
If she had been murdered by a racist there would have been an outcry.
But the fact that fear of being called racist let her killer out - doesn't seem to be an issue.
Truth be told, me neither, but I thought I'd already been spiky enough and LKH's reply was polite, so I decided to drop the question rather than persevere.
The bodycam footage is out now and shocking, obviously. The police clearly sized up the situation all wrong from the off and displayed no common sense/nouse or situational awareness, coupled with sceptical objectivity about the scene they were confronted with, or indeed basic humanitarian prioritisation. In some ways that's more worrying than their heads being filled with notions of being active anti racists (etc).
But they were deliberately lied to by the perpetrator and the fact that he was (bizarrely) hanging around like it was simply the aftermath of a scrap in the street would have meant the normal red flags wouldn't have gone up. The handcuffing is of course utterly shocking.
That's why what's most troubling is the behaviour of the perpetrator and his family (not clear how many of them were on the scene but at least a couple ?) : no attempt to alert the police to his serious injuries, yet no attempt to flee the scene. Surely in that situation a tug of conscience (as well as self-preservatory foresight) would - even if you wanted to keep up the lie that Nowak was the aggressor - lead you say to the police that you stabbed him in self defence.
Then there is just the weirdness (to me) of being able to summon a group of friends / relatives in short order to mob the scene. Who does that? What were they all doing - just sat at home ready to spring out on to the streets at a moments notice? I think it's the clannish aspect of that which really strikes me as quite alien. And - as an aside - one really does see this sort of behaviour from some ethnic minority working class groups in other public realm / public sector contexts where there is some perceived or actual grievance in play.
And then some or all of them must have known or came to realise the kid was injured - why didn't they say something?
The final thought is that the summary in the judge's sentencing remarks does not represent an adequate account of what actually happened at the scene - it goes as far as obfuscating the negligence of the police (irrespective of the survivability question).
If you live in Hampshire, it's worth pressurising Donna Jones, who is the high-profile Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire, with aspirations to be Mayor.
Kemi Badenoch claims the Tories have changed. Ask Donna to prove it. Heads should roll for this - Donna should be in a position to get them rolling, or get out of the way so a real conservative can roll them.
Based on what’s publicly available, unless contradictory medical opinion is brought forward that his wounds were in fact treatable, then dismissal due to gross misconduct with civil proceedings brought against the Force seem the most likely outcome.
According to one report I read, Henry Nowak had also been stabbed in the face. If that is correct the police excuse collapses completely. The release of police bodycam footage would on the one hand be disturbing, as it would show some of poor Henry's final minutes of life, but on the other hand, as Plod maintains there was no visible reason to be concerned (beyond the worry that a waycist might flee the Rule of Law, unless handcuffed) there should be nothing to upset the viewers, should there?
Of course the main irony out of all this will be that the same anti-racists will instead fuel opposition to anti-racism as they continue to double down on their rhetoric.
The police need to release the bodycam video otherwise we conclude that the video showing the actions of the police were completely wrong.
Otherwise yet another cover-up or managed flow of information in the name of 'social cohesion'
You can add the Manchester Arena bombing to the list. A security guard testified that he hesitated to challenge the bomber because he didn’t want to be thought to be racially harassing him and let him walk away.
The police weren’t in a position to stop it because they were on the other side of town having a kebab, but that’s another story.
Very good point
What a surprise, they were let off with a “written final warning “, which is no longer in force.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx032lvg479o
Completely agree. Anti-racism has become so all-pervasive that, though poisonous, it is, like air, almost impossible to see. I only notice it when someone less jaded and resigned points it out.
“a magic word which any bad actor can use to their advantage, in many cases without any personal cost.” Living in student accommodation in the 1990s had bunch of British Asian lads above us who were very noisy. (Banging a drum after midnight). Three of us went up to remonstrate with them. Cross words were uttered especially from by drunken Scottish flatmate. Not a racial epithet was uttered though.
Next day one of the three of us that had gone up there said that they were going to accuse us of racism. He rather comically concluded that his mate “knew martial arts” and we’d better watch out - to which my flatmate laughed and said “oh yeah, well my dad was a boxer in the army and he’s bigger than your dad” and laughed. Nothing more came of it after that.
Post script to the story was that one of the Asian lads was on a course in my department and used to boast of dodging classes and papers because “he had a religious festival to attend”.
Idiots gonna idiot I guess, handing some people a magic word doesn’t do a lot for social cohesion.
Sorry that’s full of typos
"As a result of that inquiry, the ideology has become institutionalised in the police force. Since an accusation of racism is far more damaging to an officer’s career than an accusation of incompetence, individuals are hugely incentivised to do everything possible to avoid it, with often tragic or perverse outcomes"
The cultural left truly is embodied by what Jonathan Haidt called "de-tot" or "decentralized totalitarianism". And what makes decentralized totalitarianism more frightening in certain ways than the old fashioned kind is that there is no coordinating command structure that can be easily detached or at least provide accountability.
There is no Tiannammen Square or Berlin Wall that dissidents or freedom fighters can march on. There is no organization of storm troopers or red guards of whom one can simply arrest their leaders and then put them on trial/execute. Like a jellyfish or comb jelly, it has a nervous system but no brain. As Steve Sailer likes to say, "There is no Inner Party."
That’s very true. Spirits exist, almost like egregores. That’s why we can talk about “vibe shifts” or “the public mood”. Humans are odd creatures in the way that we can align ourselves into these disembodied “moods”. One wonders how much constant programming from media also influences us - representation of race and class and religion on TV, the all powerful and highly spiritually and morally stories of the Shoah and the US civil rights struggle, along with the windrush mythology in this country.
Swarmisn . Also, the accretion of decades of far left social policies/laws which so surround us as to obscure how utterly bizarre they are - like the preferring and privileging of foreign cultures and peoples over our own.
“Runaway moralization” is a great description, Ed.
As I’ve repeated here many times, the educated liberal mind has been marinating in social justice theory for decades now, with each generation increasing the concentration of the brine. The effect is the contemporary liberal brain has been warped into believing that prejudice and implicit bias are far worse than gross incompetence.
RIP Henry Nowak.
If someone is dying having been stabbed 5 times, it is obvious, whether or not the wounds are apparent. The police assertion otherwise is a further disgrace, compounding their already craven conduct. Also, the case describes perfectly that there is now an institutionally entrenched caste system in Britain, with the indigenous population firmly anchored at the foot of that - an astonishing subversion of the concept of country - which is rather the point, of course. And finally, the legislation that privileged a Sikh to carry such a weapon (which would otherwise be illegal) goes back to the 1980s, giving a sense of the depth of the rot.
Empress Elizabeth of Austria was stabbed in the heart by a very thin stiletto blade wielded by an anarchist. She did not seem to be seriously injured- yet died before anyone realized that she was.
After stories like this we must admit that it is becoming easier to enter once again into the mind of the composer of the imprecatory psalms in this Kingdom.
A generation ago they were considered baffling, savage and inaccessible. Now we begin to undersand again.
"O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage.
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless."
Psalm 94
From https://www.johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/Straggler/118.html :
Every Christian Bible includes the Book of Psalms, several of which call down imprecations on God's enemies, often ferociously.
"O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." [Psalm 137: 8-9.]
The Church of England's Book of Common Prayer traditionally included all the psalms. Preparing a revised edition a hundred years ago the bishops wanted to omit those "imprecatory psalms" as being unsuitable for public recitation, but their plan was rejected by The House of Commons in 1928. There are imprecations in the New Testament, too, but they amount to scolding rather than physical threats, as Jesus let fly at Jews for lying, and St. Paul chastises them for persecuting Christians.
Since 2023 at least three times the children of immigrants have died because someone feared being called racist - more than have been killed by racism.
That's quite shocking.
Fair. A core failure of the right has been its acceptance of the progressive left’s terms of engagement (ie their words, concepts and moral attitudes) which then renders the right’s opposition worse than nugatory.
I didn't understand that. Could you expand?
Actually I should have said two. In 2023 Valdo Calocane was not sectioned because Doctors were concerned that too many black men were sectioned. As a result - three people including Grace O'Malley-Kumar - the daughter of an Irish and Indian immigrant were murdered.
If she had been murdered by a racist there would have been an outcry.
But the fact that fear of being called racist let her killer out - doesn't seem to be an issue.
Does that make sense?
Only as a weak version of wokeism, where we can only understand the horrors going on in our country by invoking immigrants as avatars.
Yep, now I get it.
I really don’t as per response given.
Truth be told, me neither, but I thought I'd already been spiky enough and LKH's reply was polite, so I decided to drop the question rather than persevere.
The bodycam footage is out now and shocking, obviously. The police clearly sized up the situation all wrong from the off and displayed no common sense/nouse or situational awareness, coupled with sceptical objectivity about the scene they were confronted with, or indeed basic humanitarian prioritisation. In some ways that's more worrying than their heads being filled with notions of being active anti racists (etc).
But they were deliberately lied to by the perpetrator and the fact that he was (bizarrely) hanging around like it was simply the aftermath of a scrap in the street would have meant the normal red flags wouldn't have gone up. The handcuffing is of course utterly shocking.
That's why what's most troubling is the behaviour of the perpetrator and his family (not clear how many of them were on the scene but at least a couple ?) : no attempt to alert the police to his serious injuries, yet no attempt to flee the scene. Surely in that situation a tug of conscience (as well as self-preservatory foresight) would - even if you wanted to keep up the lie that Nowak was the aggressor - lead you say to the police that you stabbed him in self defence.
Then there is just the weirdness (to me) of being able to summon a group of friends / relatives in short order to mob the scene. Who does that? What were they all doing - just sat at home ready to spring out on to the streets at a moments notice? I think it's the clannish aspect of that which really strikes me as quite alien. And - as an aside - one really does see this sort of behaviour from some ethnic minority working class groups in other public realm / public sector contexts where there is some perceived or actual grievance in play.
And then some or all of them must have known or came to realise the kid was injured - why didn't they say something?
The final thought is that the summary in the judge's sentencing remarks does not represent an adequate account of what actually happened at the scene - it goes as far as obfuscating the negligence of the police (irrespective of the survivability question).
why cant Sikhs wear a small symbolic kirpan like Christians wear a cross
If you live in Hampshire, it's worth pressurising Donna Jones, who is the high-profile Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire, with aspirations to be Mayor.
Kemi Badenoch claims the Tories have changed. Ask Donna to prove it. Heads should roll for this - Donna should be in a position to get them rolling, or get out of the way so a real conservative can roll them.
Based on what’s publicly available, unless contradictory medical opinion is brought forward that his wounds were in fact treatable, then dismissal due to gross misconduct with civil proceedings brought against the Force seem the most likely outcome.
According to one report I read, Henry Nowak had also been stabbed in the face. If that is correct the police excuse collapses completely. The release of police bodycam footage would on the one hand be disturbing, as it would show some of poor Henry's final minutes of life, but on the other hand, as Plod maintains there was no visible reason to be concerned (beyond the worry that a waycist might flee the Rule of Law, unless handcuffed) there should be nothing to upset the viewers, should there?
Of course the main irony out of all this will be that the same anti-racists will instead fuel opposition to anti-racism as they continue to double down on their rhetoric.