2 June 20
This is what therapeutic progressivism and identity politics gets you: riots and looting without end under the guise of justice seeking.
The justification for anger at the death of a petty black criminal in the hands of Minneapolis police ended two days afterwards. Authorities surrendered to the mob and promised everything short of a swift hanging. But it wasn’t enough. It only whetted the appetite.
There was no justification for demonstrations followed by rioting and looting in other American cities. These are nothing but expressions moral vanity, “Look at me world! I’m demonstrating for justice!” But what justice are they protesting for? I get the emotional release, but not even children can sustain an emotional outburst for over a week.
Therapeutic progressivism holds that white society is strong enough and rich enough to pay any price and bear any burden to succor any aggrieved minority group you can invent; and if it isn’t, it deserves to die anyway.
So strong is the hold of therapeutic progressivism on the mind that even conservative commentators can’t get past the “George Floyd was murdered by police” meme. Even they can’t say that genuine anger over that should have ended in real adults long ago. Even they can’t bring themselves to say that his death is just an excuse to party. They won’t call Childish Moral Vanity for what it is.
Therapeutic progressivism makes children of some adults, and indulgent fools of others.
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