A Harvard-educated sociology professor named Crystal Fleming - whose areas of expertise include “critical race theory” and “mindfulness and spirituality” – wishes to share her wisdom. Specifically, that we shouldn’t judge people who smash the windows of local stores and loot multiple pairs of trainers while the owners of said stores are distracted by an oncoming hurricane.
And if you don’t understand why Everything Is Racist, Including You™ and why looting local stores for half a dozen pairs of expensive fashion items is therefore totes okay, it’s “very, very sad.” You see, “white supremacist racism” is all about “hoarding resources.”
She may have attended Harvard but looking at some of that drivel I'm tempted to argue that she wasn't educated there.
Posted by: Bloke in North Dorset | September 12, 2017 at 08:01
So when black scumbags steal trainers it's actually my fault for being white?
#headscratcher
Posted by: dw | September 12, 2017 at 08:04
Dr Fleming is, of course, a fan of the demented and malevolent Jane Elliott.
Posted by: David | September 12, 2017 at 08:08
So when black scumbags steal trainers it’s actually my fault for being white?
If you poke through Dr Fleming’s Twitter feed, the term race-hustling monomaniac springs to mind. Also, moral imbecile.
And it’s hard to avoid the implication that, according to our mistress of “critical race theory,” the people who’ve chosen to exploit a natural disaster to indulge in a spot of looting – for fashion items – are somehow devoid of agency. As if the thieving and vandalism were not only immaterial - even to the people whose businesses have been robbed, stripped bare and vandalised, on top of everything else - but in no way a choice.
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Despite the awful consequences, railing against a hurricane, a force of nature, is pointless. But there’s still something dismaying about watching people exploit that tragedy in order to prey upon their neighbours. Because they think they deserve six pairs of designer trainers. But being so enlightened, and so severely educated, Dr Fleming seems to think we shouldn’t be at all concerned with what that says about the people doing the looting, and how they see others.
Posted by: David | September 12, 2017 at 08:20
Say 'No' to loot-shaming.
#Wokest
Posted by: Jen | September 12, 2017 at 08:45
Is the looting still okay if the people being robbed are black? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Sam | September 12, 2017 at 08:58
Somewhat related:
Good to know.
Posted by: David | September 12, 2017 at 09:05
Oh my! She went ALL CAPS. We're all doomed. There's no defense against the dreaded caps lock key...
[ hides ]
(Oh, so this is where David keeps the good liquor...)
Posted by: Spiny Norman | September 12, 2017 at 09:37
(Oh, so this is where David keeps the good liquor...)
Careful, you’ll set off th…
LIQUORSTASHKLAXON! LIQUORSTASHKLAXON! LIQUORSTASHKLAXON!
LIQUORSTASHKLAXON! LIQUORSTASHKLAXON! LIQUORSTASHKLAXON!
LIQUORSTASHKLAXON! LIQUORSTASHKLAXON! LIQUORSTASHKLAXON!
Sigh. Never mind.
Posted by: David | September 12, 2017 at 09:49
If Dr Fleming should ever find herself being robbed or carjacked or burgled, will she only be affronted if the robber is paler than she is?
Because, you know, white people.
Posted by: David | September 12, 2017 at 10:11
Should the painfully woke Dr Fleming ever be robbed/jacked/burgled by a "PoC", she'll likely get all "Fisky".
Posted by: Spiny Norman | September 12, 2017 at 10:28
This story strikes close to home. As in home town. This isn't a piss poor poverty area. Tons of money sloshes around with low skill service jobs aplenty where tip money flows quite easily. All you have to do is show up on time and be dependable. You will note from this video not only how relatively well dressed these looters are, but the respectable, newer model cars they use for their get away vehicles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emEaZfjCWLs
I was lucky to have power through the storm but sat tv dropped in and out. Thus the news was the only practical thing to have running. Football and movies were too frustrating to follow. What was particularly grating was that practically every time the media reported this story, the warning that "the authorities" would be prosecuting looting to "the fullest extent of the law" this was followed by "as will be done with price gouging ". Because of course. What was really cute was when one anchor woman emphasized "anyone even thinking about price gouging". Heh.
Posted by: WTP | September 12, 2017 at 11:15
You will note from this video not only how relatively well dressed these looters are, but the respectable, newer model cars they use for their get away vehicles.
Yes, I did wonder if the employees of the stores that are being robbed, and whose livelihoods are being jeopardised, can afford similar cars.
Posted by: David | September 12, 2017 at 11:47
A swarm of locusts.
Posted by: Joan | September 12, 2017 at 12:04
White supremacist racism is sociologically (re)produced for a specific economic purpose: hoarding of resources for socially defined whites.
OK, If Persons of Pallor such as Rachael Dolezal, Shaun "Talcum X" King, and Elizabeth "Shooting Bull" Warren can "socially define" themselves as Persons of Color, all the Persons of Color have to do is "socially define" themselves as white and the problem is solved.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | September 12, 2017 at 12:34
"socially defined whites"
This is the most racist thing I've read in a while.
Posted by: Arkadiy | September 12, 2017 at 12:49
Whenever someone invokes “critical race theory,” you might as well burst out laughing straight away. It’ll save a lot of time.
Posted by: David | September 12, 2017 at 13:05
It's one of the best (or worst) examples of 'whataboutery' I've seen.
Posted by: Rafi | September 12, 2017 at 13:45
It’s one of the best (or worst) examples of ‘whataboutery’ I've seen.
I suppose it’s a feature of Dr Fleming’s chosen environment. In that, most of us have said dumb things at one time or another and have possibly been challenged by our peers as a result. But the Clown Quarter is where dumb things, at least of a certain kind, aren’t challenged at all, and are actively affirmed as markers of in-group piety. There’s little, if any, mechanism for correction.
Posted by: David | September 12, 2017 at 13:52
All you have to do is show up on time and be dependable.
All sounds a bit like fascism to me. Are *all* the bosses Nazis, or just most of them?
Posted by: Tim Newman | September 12, 2017 at 13:54
I can't hear myself think with that darned liquor klaxon blaring.
*Bang!*
Good thing we Americans go armed.
Hey, everybody, David has a whole closet full of shoes! And 12 jars of pickled eggs!
At least, I think they're eggs...
Posted by: Pogonip | September 12, 2017 at 14:34
Hey, everybody, David has a whole closet full of shoes!
Heh.
Posted by: David | September 12, 2017 at 14:36
Although you should have had the forethought to stock multiple sizes...
Posted by: Pogonip | September 12, 2017 at 14:45
She's a sociologist, so this is perfectly normal.
Posted by: Rob | September 12, 2017 at 15:40
Speaking of crime and responsibility, this old nugget came to mind:
It’s woke, you see.
Posted by: David | September 12, 2017 at 15:51
Winnie the Pooh photographed:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/i-knew-christopher-robin--the-real-christopher-robin/
Posted by: Pogonip | September 12, 2017 at 15:53
These Nice White Ladies always sound like they've never talked to an actual black American.
Posted by: Pogonip | September 12, 2017 at 15:56
Question: Why is everything about racism with these regressive kooks?
Answer: When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail...
Posted by: champ | September 12, 2017 at 17:19
Despite the awful consequences, railing against a hurricane, a force of nature, is pointless.
But, apparently, some people think it useful to shoot guns at the hurricane..
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/09/10/florida-sheriffs-office-warns-people-not-shoot-hurricane-irma/650909001/
Posted by: champ | September 12, 2017 at 17:27
Never shoot hurricanes. You will only make them angry.
Especially the ones with women's names.
Posted by: Jeff Wood | September 12, 2017 at 17:53
So, it's not enough to merely criticize bourgeois values. One must advocate for their antithesis. Wherever he is, George Orwell is feeling pretty smug right about now.
Posted by: R. Sherman | September 12, 2017 at 18:12
I often see the argument that the United States was on theft and murder of Native Americans with the aid of enslaved Africans. Those making the argument seem unwilling to acknowledge these practices were not exclusive to Europeans and so not solely the purview of evil white people.
What's interesting to me is that the folks making the argument also never seem to grasp that they themselves are beneficiaries of these acts for which they try to condemn all white people. Has Professor Fleming ever considered that she is living on that "stolen" land herself? Or that, assuming she's a descendant of slaves, she might not have been born at all if not for the practice? Being an American offers numerous privileges only dreamed of in other parts of the world. For good or ill, the history of the United States facilitated where we are now. It's odd to see a person condemn others for actions of people in the past while said person is simultaneously enjoying the same benefits.
On the other hand, introspection sounds like a lot of work.
Posted by: False Profiteer | September 12, 2017 at 18:41
Prof. Fleming is not averse to the 'hoarding of resources' for herself. Her Twitter page identifies her, inter alia, as a Speaker and gives the contacts for Bookings and her Agent. I guess she can justify her bit of $$ hoarding? (Assuming anyone actually does pay her for speaking.)
Posted by: Lisboeta | September 12, 2017 at 20:04
In case you were wondering...
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6zk8fp/this_just_in_from_floridano_work_boots_were/
Posted by: WTP | September 12, 2017 at 21:36
Those making the argument seem unwilling to acknowledge these practices were not exclusive to Europeans and so not solely the purview of evil white people.
Here in Canada, we have a large lake named "Great Slave Lake". It's called that because its shores were the highways for the native slave trade before the British Empire showed up and put a stop to that.
The native race hustlers hate it when you point that out.
Posted by: Daniel Ream | September 12, 2017 at 21:53
More likely they pay her to stop speaking.
Posted by: Pogonip | September 12, 2017 at 22:15
I don't care what she says. They're still going to be shot if they take advantage of a disaster and come into my place to steal, or worse.
And then we can weep about why their generations-out-of-slavery parents couldn't teach them to be decent.
Posted by: bobby b | September 12, 2017 at 23:50
"Never shoot hurricanes. You will only make them angry."
One has to wonder, where do these idiots come from?
See Instapundit for regular postings of items tagged "Florida man".
Posted by: pst314 | September 13, 2017 at 00:49
Reading is Fun-da-mental.
Posted by: WTP | September 13, 2017 at 02:43
See Instapundit for regular postings of items tagged "Florida man".
Florida Man even has his own Twitter.
https://twitter.com/FloridaMan__
Posted by: Spiny Norman | September 13, 2017 at 02:54
So, it's not enough to merely criticize bourgeois values . . .
Why yes, after noting that The Problem Of All Humankind is the hipster variety utterly frantically lowest middle class and their vehement demands to be the ultimate practitioners of the latest random tweetstorm of the moment, then obviously to bring this to an end one must completely oppose such by instead being the . . . . . . . Um . . . . . being instead the . . . but it is all very sincere . . . we are the ones with the coolest face masks . . . really we are . .
---Jean-Pierre Cassel's Louis XIII comes to mind; Oh, this hawk is hurting my arm---Oh, look Cardinal, see the tears? See the tears?
Posted by: Hal | September 13, 2017 at 07:55
What's interesting to me is that the folks making the argument also never seem to grasp that they themselves are beneficiaries of these acts for which they try to condemn all white people.
So obviously the solution is to give it all back to a aborigines.
Posted by: Hal | September 13, 2017 at 08:04
We usually call that either looting or thieving. It is never condoned because it is a crime in civilised society. What is wrong with these sociologists? Mind you we have our idiot academics in the UK too. I know what I would do with them.
Posted by: Dr Evil | September 13, 2017 at 12:13
The looting has already been mocked here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6-xokjS4PE
It's an alternative viewpoint, I suppose ...
Posted by: Phil B | September 14, 2017 at 06:34
The origin of Winnie the Pooh:
http://fortgarryhorse.ca/wp/winnie-the-bear/
Cheers
Posted by: J.M. Heinrichs | September 16, 2017 at 06:16