VDARE - John Derbyshire: The Ferguson Farce—Derbyshire Speaks! Including comments on Joel Klein, Rand Paul, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Sybrina Fulton - "My own answer to TIME’s header question is: We should promote race realism, spreading the understanding that innate race differences—and black/nonblack differences most of all—are real and socially consequential." (What good is a militarized police force ...)

The Ferguson Farce—Derbyshire Speaks!

I spent the month of August far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife. I therefore missed the Ferguson business, which seems to have featured some seriously madding crowds and strife at a dismal level of ignobility.

Hastening to catch up, I purchased the September 1^st issue of Time magazine, which has a cover story on “The Tragedy of Ferguson.”

Yes, I know: Time is a mouthpiece for the left-liberal Narrative, and has been since whichever week it was in the late 1960s they lurched from ardent support of the Vietnam War to fierce opposition. If I didn't know that, the way they phrased the title of that cover story would have alerted me.

The word “tragedy” has long since departed from its dramaturgical origins; its colloquial usage has spread out to include almost any event involving a human death. Words often tend to lose their specificity like that in the ordinary course of language change, and there is no use complaining about it.

In an organ of the Narrative, however, “tragedy” nowadays always signifies a regression, a stumbling or backsliding in the forward progress of our society towards a radiant future of racial equality and harmony; and to earn the title of a “tragedy” the regression must be, or must be suspected of being, due to the malice of heterosexual white males against some Designated Victim Group, usually blacks.

Once you have learned to parse mainstream-media style and vocabulary like this, outlets like Time can be worth reading. To resist the Narrative, after all, you have to know what it’s saying at any given time, and what the words really mean. Probably North Koreans peruse the Pyongyang News in a similar spirit. ...

http://www.vdare.com/articles/the-ferguson-farce-derbyshire-speaks

     What good is a militarized police force, since it will only be used as a ‘show of force,’ whereupon it becomes a big fat perfect symbolic anti-law-enforcement target for the Multicultural Marxist media and race hucksters like Sharpton, Obama, Holder, the Clintons, the Bushes and Rand Paul? Except for some bizarre set of circumstances, the ‘show’ is all you will get, since a militarized police force, run by PC chiefs and mayors, will stand aside and watch Blacks merrily loot and burn anyway. (Intervening might trigger a bigger riot, doncha know.)