Who Goes Karen?

I've mentioned the essay, Who Goes Nazi?, here and elsewhere on several occasions.

Doxxing, the knockout game, various ambushes and assassination attempts have become part of the tolerant peaceful Left's stock in trade, much like the SA was to the Nazis.

What we have now is an escalation in violence, particularly assaults, arson, looting, and murder. And it's very hard to buy the idea it's all random; there is no plan to it.

One thing most people have never heard is that the Gestapo was a very small agency, not a lot of guys in black leather trench coats skulking in the shadows. What the Gestapo had was informers, by the thousand; people who would turn their own mother in if they thought it would do them some good.

And that's where we seem to be going, at least in the Blue Zone, nowadays. The people (there are, sort of, men who do this, too) are known as Karens and you get the feeling they would send you to Dachau-on-the-Brazos without turning a hair.

Because they are right. They used to call themselves right-thinking people back in the 60s when they lived in places like Scarsdale. They are doing the work the government can't and know they are right because their intentions are right.

The Karens will drop a dime on anybody not wearing a mask or wearing  a bikini they think is inappropes. Sometimes they will throw hot coffee in your face for it. Sometimes they will harangue you like the harridans they are in front of God and everybody because you did something that traumatized their designer child.

The cost of this is considerable, as this vid which is making the rounds shows. Lost jobs, lost businesses, suicides because the governor or the mayor wants to impose his will on the serfs. The Karens don't care. They are right. But the people on the other side are getting fed up.

This is not a new issue. It goes back to the early days of the Vietnam War. They set themselves up as the arbiters of Right and only they could be in the right. So the grandchildren of the hippies who called Vietnam vets baby killers and told themselves they had the right to break what they considered unjust laws are just following what they learned around the Festivus tree.

The people who get hurt, of course, the no-collar, white-collar, blue-collar working stiffs who make the country go. They're the ones losing money, jobs, businesses, homes, even lives. The Left loves to whine about the working classes, a flexible definition if there ever was one, but everything they've done in the last 4 years has been against them. It's been a long time since anyone was on their side, he's the one fighting back.

Donald Trump may end up being the most consequential President since Andrew Jackson. He has inaugurated a second Era of the Common Man. It's why the Left hates him with such a murderous anger. It's why no overreaching of moral boundaries is too low to persecute his adherents.

The era of Karen means that some Americans have had to learn der Deutsch Blick, the German look, before speaking to ensure prying ears hear that All Lives Matter or social distancing is a crock. Others don't care. They aren't going to follow arbitrary rules made up simply to feed some politician's megalomania. America is still out there, standing tall. They refused to be forbidden from church or to go to their job. Some have been forced out. They are finding ways around it. When they can't, that's when the trouble really starts.

We know sports rating are terrible. People have found they can live without overpaid jerks telling them they're racist. Same with the movie business. There will be a big reckoning in the end.

Some of these issues are being fought in  the courts.

Some, I think. will be fought in the streets The Left asked for it.

St. Louis shooting

An apparently disturbed man is wielding a knife on a St. Louis sidewalk. The odd thing about it is people are walking by him as if nothing much is happening, proceeding as an ordinary day. It is not ordinary. Somebody is recording on their phone. The police have already been called. A police cruiser pulls up and two cops emerge and confront the disturbed individual who paces back and forth, jumps up onto an elevated lawn, approaches the officers, apparently shouts, "shoot me, just shoot me," and they do. They kill the man dead on the spot to the shock of the witnesses who lingered.

I've been thinking about this for days. 

I still cannot comprehend it. 

I suppose the police do not know what we know that people walked right by unharmed, almost as if, "Eh, there goes another nutter," but still unharmed. Witnesses are uncomprehending of the shooting as I. 

Comments to the video are not helpful in understanding. The comments I got through say police are trained shoot to kill not to disarm, not to harm. But that does not answer why the police did not tase and arrest the man. Why did they have to kill the man dead on the spot? Was he so threatening to them in their moment? 

They most likely said, "Drop the knife," and the man disobeyed. Taking just a few steps in the direction of the armed and ready police is all it took to kill him.

Kill him.

It's over. Just like that. Dead on the sidewalk. A life for a simple act of non compliance. 

This is what people of St. Louis mean when they riot to demand justice. This makes sense of their disjointed speeches. Their argument does not make sense in isolation of the riots but it does make sense in context of this larger experience of their whole lives. Justice generally, to treat mental disturbance as such. Not everything is a criminal act deserving of instant death. 

We are shown the video of Michael Brown stealing some small package of come type of cigars and stiff-arming the store proprietor and viewers of that incident outside of this context of widespread unemployment and little hope for advancement and general injustice regard Michael Brown as obviously criminally minded. Not deserving of death for stealing cigars, but later, not interacting with police as we've all been taught. You do not approach cops in a threatening manner, Ever. That's just a plain simple fact. But that is not deserving of instant death either. 

That is how the people there see the whole situation as living inside it. Bashing in the policeman's eye socket does complicate the narrative greatly. Goofs up their grievance. But so does this video complicate the narrative greatly, and I imagine many other incidents too like this that are not recorded but known without video proof, and lived every day, experiences lived and real and then additional narratives imagined, the unknown details filled in by what is known by experience.

By what I see here in this short video, this strikes me as quite slobbish, careless and ruthless police work. This is the injustice that is lived every day and protested. This is what causes rioting. This is what causes what is termed riot tourism, outsiders swarming the town specifically to act out and tear up the place in riot -- make their own justice, absurd as it seems to outsiders they are protesting this and incidents like this that they live and are not recorded, so not known to people who do not live it.

Convince me otherwise. I won't argue.