Posts
Ann Coulter has reminded us not to jump to conclusions about George Floyd's death, as we did with the case of Rodney King, all those years ago. The case is sub judice and a man has been charged with murder. If he is not convicted I hope he makes a fortune suing people who have said he is a murderer. Piers Morgan is one example.
Why this should interest anyone outside the USA it would be hard to explain to Martians, but this quarrel in a far away country holds the attention of the world. It was the same with OJ Simpson, of whom no-one outside the USA had ever heard until he was charged with having tried to murder his former wife.
We know why. America rules the world. Even England is reduced to being a suburb of what was once our suburb.
This means that intellectual fashions that start there spread here, even via the EU apparatchiks to Romania in the end.
Why this should interest anyone outside the USA it would be hard to explain to Martians, but this quarrel in a far away country holds the attention of the world. It was the same with OJ Simpson, of whom no-one outside the USA had ever heard until he was charged with having tried to murder his former wife.
We know why. America rules the world. Even England is reduced to being a suburb of what was once our suburb.
This means that intellectual fashions that start there spread here, even via the EU apparatchiks to Romania in the end.
Give this lady a Nobel Peace Prize & a cabinet position in the White Housepic.twitter.com/pltUCpPsqB— An0maly (@LegendaryEnergy) June 3, 2020
A Democrat Governor oversees a Democrat Attorney General, who oversees a Democrat Mayor, who appointed a Democrat Police Chief, who built the office culture that hired Derek Chauvin, who killed George Floyd.— Tom Dees (@ThomasWDees) June 3, 2020
But it's Trump's fault?
Remember when some Republicans in distant parts of the US broke lockdown to hold protests & we all laughed at how stupid they were. Now not a whisper from any politician, church leader, policeman or broadcaster I can see. They'd rather plague was spread than be accused of racism— Ed West (@edwest) June 3, 2020
Science shows the novel coronavirus doesn’t transmit among crowds protesting for just causes. It’s strange, but researchers believe the virus can somehow sense whether a protest is progressive or conservative/religious — attacking the latter while sparing the former.— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) June 3, 2020
Pass it on.
I miss your commentary on small, geopolitically insignificant but interesting and lesser-known Romania, a society you know much more about. You expressed more original thoughts than just harvesting bumps from Twitter.
ReplyDeleteI must write about Romania, I agree. The nonsensical reaction to this dreadful killing is significant for the whole world though.
DeleteAn American Republican friend says that when I write about America I am always absolutely spot-on. But then he lives in the Far East.
DeleteBut I thank you for saying my thoughts are more original than theirs and think you might be right. The knack isn't, of course, being original but being original and right.
Delete