We Just Don’t Care!
Tough cookies. Get over it.
The American people are not a mean bunch. To the
contrary it could be argued that we are a bunch of sentimental
suckers. We love the “underdog” and the unlikely hero.
But we are not infinitely patient when faced with whining. After
a while it starts to get downright annoying.
This is especially galling when people put themselves in a situation
almost guaranteed to produce bad results, and then whine when
the bad things happen. Or, if it is a particularly bad outcome,
other people whine on their behalf.
Take the “Flying Imams,” please. These guys did just
about everything designed to raise warning flags among their fellow
passengers and flight crew. They were loudly praying to Allah,
sat in separate areas of the plane, asked for seatbelt extenders.
Their action raised such concern on the part of fellow passengers
that they were removed from the flight. Turns out they weren’t
terrorists. Turns out they were just a bunch of obnoxious clerics
stoked by a “religious conference.” But you know what?
I don’t care. Think they were profiled for “flying
while Arab”? Tough cookies. Get over it. We have long since
passed the time when we need to worry about PC deference to anybody
with a gripe. The time has come to put the tender sensibilities
of the whiners waaaay behind basic security on our list of things
to worry about.
In a similar vein, we have the recent shooting of the New York
City groom-to-be that has all the usual race hustlers out in force,
and has Mayor Michael Bloomberg behaving like a complete and utter
idiot, acting as if the number of shots fired has any bearing
on whether excessive force was used. The facts around this one
are still pretty fuzzy. But one thing is perfectly clear. If,
on the night before your wedding, you and the boys are at a sleazy
strip club until three in the morning, then get into an altercation
with undercover police, and then try to run them over with your
vehicle, the odds of bad things happening to you are really, really
high.
Al Sharpton can holler ‘till he’s hoarse, and it doesn’t
change that fundamental fact. Bad things happen to people who
put themselves in bad situations. Act like a terrorist? Prepare
to be deplaned. Act like a cop-killing thug? Prepare to get filled
with lead. Can’t stand the injustice of such a notion? We
don’t care. Get over it.
We had another similar case here in the Minneapolis area, in which
a home invader was surprised to be met by the 73 year old homeowner
with a shotgun. Who shot him. And killed him. It turned out that
the invader was a 17 year old kid who probably assumed that the
rundown house was abandoned. We have already heard the stories
begin to trickle out as to what a fine brother and son he was.
I have no doubt that is true. I also…..Don’t care!
You go breaking into houses in the middle of the night it doesn’t
really matter how fine a brother you are. Act like a burglar?
Prepare to get shot. Tough cookies.
What is interesting is that although the average American easily
manages to separate sympathy for legitimate victims from pandering
to race hustlers and pressure groups, the media and the government
have no such filter in place. The quickest way to get investigated
by the federal government is to throw a few Muslim clerics off
a plane. These folks should have been awarded medals, not investigated.
Mayor Bloomberg has been absolutely appalling in the New York
story, pre-judging the cops and appeasing the thugs. It makes
you miss Mayor Rudy Giuliani. And in the third story, while local
folks are cheering on the elderly homeowner who stood up for himself,
the media is awash with sympathetic portraits of the punk who
burgled him.
So the good news is that the American people as a whole (Red and
Blue state, I may add) have maintained a healthy balance around
idiots getting their comeuppance. The bad news is that we have
not forced that attitude upstream into our institutions. Government,
education, media, and entertainment have hard-wired a bizarre
standard of victimology, in which a member of a “victim
class” is never simply getting what he deserves. Once you
are a victim you can do anything you wish, no matter how horrid
or inviting of disaster, and if “the man” sticks it
to you as a consequence, you become a victim twice over.
Classic white/liberal guilt is almost certainly the source of
this attitude. It is another example of how the liberals’
successful long march through the institutions has complicated
modern life. But We the People can shake that off. Because We
Don’t Care!
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