NYPD officers try to keep control on the streets as they clash with protesters in Brooklyn during a march against the death of George Floyd, May 30, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)
Jim Geraghty, National Review: The Backlash Is Coming
On the menu today: Some of the protesters in the streets seem quite convinced that violence will intimidate the rest of society into giving them what they want. That is as historically ignorant as their decision to deface the statues of abolitionists in the name of racial justice.
The Backlash to Violent Protesters Will Come — We Just Don’t Know What Form It Will Take
The Nineties were a different time, kids. It was the kind of era where, in the aftermath of horrifying riots in Los Angeles, David Alan Grier and Jim Carrey could appear in a sketch on the comedy program In Living Color as beating victims Rodney King and Reginald Denny, and declare, “Staying in school and staying off drugs is fine, but it ain’t gonna do you any good at all if you don’t have sense enough to stay in your car. See, we were stupid! We got out of our car. We didn’t use our heads and look what happened. We may have won the battle, but the early bird got the worm.”
You Millennials and Generation Z kids wonder why we in Generation X can be so tasteless and shocking in our humor and tastes? Try having your formulative years shaped by sketch comedy shows, National Lampoon’s, Gary Larson’s Far Side, and comedians like Sam Kinison, George Carlin, Eddie Murphy, and Richard Pryor, and see how many sacred cows emerge unscathed. I am sure that to the politically correct, my generation looks like it was raised by wolves.
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WNU Editor: You can take this to the bank. There will be a backlash. The vast majority of Americans are law-abiding citizens. If a protester or a police officer has committed a crime, there is universal agreement that the rule of law must be uphold, and those who are guilty must be punished. I know enough about the U.S. that Americans do not support the fire-bombing of a church in front of the White House, the destruction of entire neighbourhoods in cities, the destruction of statues, vandalism of the Lincoln and World War II memorials, the vandalizing of the flag, and definitely not de-funding the police. Even Trayvon Martin's mother believes we need more police .... Trayvon's Mom, Sybrina Fulton: 'I Think We Need More Police' (PJ Media). Bottom line. The focus is on Antifa, BLM, and the progressive groups and politicians who support them and their anger. But there is a different anger out there that is also deep and unforgiving. We will be seeing this back-lash when Americans go to the polls this November. And they are going to punish en masse those who supported and/or turned a blind eye to the mayhem and destruction that has happened in the past few weeks.
