Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
The police use a tactic of psychological tertor, I call, “The “Planet of the Apes” meat-softening approach”.
They let white saboteurs, (right wing fascist and Trump supporters), and black Greedy rioters with SUVs to load up, destroy family owned stores, with no effort to intervene to teach people like me with sympathies for blacks a lesson in “Reality”!
Then, when they respond in overwhelming force, they have already subdued and broken much of the general populations opposition to police excesses.
The police simply demand cowering respect and physical subservience from anyone they stop and address!
From my perspective wearing the, albeit, limited spectacles of a (self-educated), social anthropologist, I see nothing surprising when the Blacks loot and the white and Hispanics to some extent join in.
We are recently-evolved marauding apes with sets of rules for rank and suppression of violence. We have social contracts, where in return for abiding by social rules, we get adequate respect and protection.
But here, when every time a fit black man walks upright, that’s an act of aggression by those in the white neighborhood, then the black sons of black mothers know their lives are on a thin thread!
This fact breaks the social contract. So when there is some spark and possibility for looting, there are no laws to break as the 4 policeMen’s conjoint act of purposefully and continuously, (as a cooperating group), asphyxiating a handcuffed compliant black man shelved all social contracts and abolished a state of societal law.
Mob violence is a demand not just for a share of stored wealth but for rank and recognition!
That’s my view of things. Without burnt police cars and stores, the stakeholders have no need to nehotiate a new compact!
Ashe
They let white saboteurs, (right wing fascist and Trump supporters), and black Greedy rioters with SUVs to load up, destroy family owned stores, with no effort to intervene to teach people like me with sympathies for blacks a lesson in “Reality”!
Then, when they respond in overwhelming force, they have already subdued and broken much of the general populations opposition to police excesses.
The police simply demand cowering respect and physical subservience from anyone they stop and address!
From my perspective wearing the, albeit, limited spectacles of a (self-educated), social anthropologist, I see nothing surprising when the Blacks loot and the white and Hispanics to some extent join in.
We are recently-evolved marauding apes with sets of rules for rank and suppression of violence. We have social contracts, where in return for abiding by social rules, we get adequate respect and protection.
But here, when every time a fit black man walks upright, that’s an act of aggression by those in the white neighborhood, then the black sons of black mothers know their lives are on a thin thread!
This fact breaks the social contract. So when there is some spark and possibility for looting, there are no laws to break as the 4 policeMen’s conjoint act of purposefully and continuously, (as a cooperating group), asphyxiating a handcuffed compliant black man shelved all social contracts and abolished a state of societal law.
Mob violence is a demand not just for a share of stored wealth but for rank and recognition!
That’s my view of things. Without burnt police cars and stores, the stakeholders have no need to nehotiate a new compact!
Ashe