{"id":131207,"date":"2020-05-31T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=131207"},"modified":"2020-05-31T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T00:34:00","slug":"heather-macdonald-the-collapse-of-the-rule-of-law-across-the-country-intensified-by-antifa-radicals-is-terrifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=131207","title":{"rendered":"Heather MacDonald: The collapse of the rule of law across the country, intensified by Antifa radicals, is terrifying"},"content":{"rendered":"

From City Journal<\/a>: <\/p>\n

This pandemic of civil violence is more widespread than anything seen during the Black Lives Matter movement of the Obama years, and it will likely have an even deadlier toll on law enforcement officers than the targeted assassinations we saw from 2014 onward<\/a>. It\u2019s worse this time because the country has absorbed another five years of academically inspired racial victimology. From Ta-Nehisi Coates to the New York Times<\/i>\u2019s 1619 project<\/a>, the constant narrative about America\u2019s endemic white supremacy and its deliberate destruction of the \u201cblack body<\/a>\u201d has been thoroughly injected into the political bloodstream.<\/p>\n

Facts don\u2019t matter to the academic victimology narrative. Far from destroying the black body, whites are the overwhelming target of interracial violence. Between 2012 and 2015, blacks committed 85.5 percent of all black-white interracial violent victimizations (excluding interracial homicide, which is also disproportionately black-on-white). That works out to 540,360 felonious assaults on whites. Whites committed 14.4 percent of all interracial violent victimization, or 91,470 felonious assaults on blacks. Blacks are less than 13 percent of the national population.<\/p>\n

If white mobs were rampaging through black business districts, assaulting passersby and looting stores, we would have heard about it on the national news every night. But the black<\/a> flash<\/a> mob<\/a> phenomenon is grudgingly covered, if at all, and only locally.<\/p>\n

The national media have been insisting on the theme of the allegedly brutal Minneapolis police department. They said nothing as black-on-white robberies rose in downtown Minneapolis late last year, along with savage<\/a> assaults<\/a> on passersby. Why are the Minneapolis police in black neighborhoods? Because that\u2019s where violent crime is happening, including shootings<\/a> of two-year-olds<\/a> and lethal beatings<\/a> of 75-year-olds. Just as during the Obama years, the discussion of the allegedly oppressive police is being conducted in the complete absence of any recognition of street crime and the breakdown of the black family that drives it.<\/p>\n

Once the violence began, any effort to \u201cunderstand\u201d it should have stopped, since that understanding is inevitably exculpatory. The looters are not grieving over the stomach-churning arrest and death of George Floyd; they are having the time of their lives. You don\u2019t protest or mourn a victim by stealing oxycontin, electronics, jewelry, and sneakers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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