Tagged: George Floyd

Everything I will ever have to say about the Derek Chauvin verdict

I promised last June that I would waste no further time or energy here in Limbo contemplating a local violence story that should have received no attention whatsoever beyond the town where it happened, but has of course been exploited to hell and back by social justice warriors and myriad other kooks as part of their tribal hate fest. Well, I said what...

A Few Questions on Self-Enslavement

If you are a reasonably intelligent, somewhat politically ambitious man, and you see that the political class in your society is exploiting a crisis as a means of establishing extremely illiberal powers far beyond the legitimate necessities of the current crisis — powers of the sort that no state ever relinquishes once the precedent has been set and publicly accepted — then if...

Everything I will EVER have to say about the George Floyd thing

Let’s get this over with, shall we? I frankly have four million better things to do with my time and energy than spend them on a story that is filled to overflowing with so many of my least favorite things in modern political reality: social justice warriors, Donald Trump, race politics, international progressive activism, white guilt…you get the picture. But a dying nation’s...