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Danfromdc's avatar

And the dead kid’s dad raced to Foxnews to forgive the killer and lead the front lash. He didn’t give himself 5 minutes of rage.

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The Last Real Calvinist's avatar

I saw that, too. The first thing he said was that he didn't want to judge. The second was that he already forgives his son's killer.

I don't want to dump on a grief-crazed father, but his two statements are mutually exclusive. True forgiveness is based on judging, i.e. assessing realistically the evil done to you. If you're not judging in the first place, there's no scope for forgiveness.

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Rum Dolphin's avatar

Unreal. A father having no sense of rage at his son being tortured to death (thats what a stab wound is) is simply unreal. The end of a decades-long Jewish campaign of training whites to self-hate.

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Erik's avatar

Ah yes, but you see through our tricks! You're a clever gentile, aren't you? I guess it will have to be the space laser then.

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Yadidya (YDYDY)'s avatar

The end? Winning is such sweet sorrow. What do we next? I mean there are still some dudes without tits so we've got to work on that for a while but if we're truly done with training whites to self-hate well, that was a big project! Anyone have a copy of The Minutes? What's next on the agenda! Can it be something with the Chinese? Can we train them to open their eyes? I'm not sure how it will benefit us but the anti white stuff never benefited us either, we just got stabbed in larger proportion. I guess we're just doing all this stuff to make God laugh.

That was probably Hitler's motivation too, so I guess we've got that in common, Dolph.

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Erik's avatar

I think you just ruined Dolph Lundgren for me. I need time to grieve. We had Fords when I was a kid. Can I still like Rocky IV?

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Bob Thebuilder's avatar

Germany, the most self-hating of all countries, must be so because there are so many Jews there right?

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Paul Rothwell's avatar

But yours is a thoughtful response. Which is the last thing the poor boy's father's was.

It was just another example of fear-based pathological altruism.

The father's response proved, yet again, what the hostile elite and their useful idiots and stabby proxies already know. That men like him fear them more than they love their own children.

What we're witnessing is a slow-motion massacre*, and the elite are gleefully rubbing their hands over this one, as they do with all poc on white crime and the insane groveling "forgiveness" that goes with it.

*I disagree with those who refer to it as a "cultural (or racial) suicide." But stating why would turn a comment into it's own article. But the subject deserves one, even a whole book.

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_ikaruga_'s avatar

When in front of cameras, people — and perhaps Whites eminently among them — have to give a socially appreciated appearance of their selves as absolute priority.

It's play-acting, but I doubt the actors are even aware of that.

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Erik's avatar

""I'm not trying to judge, but what kind of parents did this child have? What was he taught? He brought a knife to a track meet and he murdered my son by stabbing him in the heart. The guy was in the wrong place and they asked him to move and he bowed up. This is murder," Jeff Metcalf said. "You know what, I already forgive this person. Already. God takes care of things. God is going to take care of me. God is going to take care of my family."

Maybe he's just sincerely, seriously Christian, and this is how he deals with the undealwithable.

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The Last Real Calvinist's avatar

You don't forgive that which is already excused.

It's entirely possible he is a devout Christian, but that doesn't make his response in this case consistent with Christian doctrine.

I feel horror and empathy on his behalf, and I do believe, ultimately, God will take care of him. He's not wrong in that sense. I'm just saying that in a different time and different place, his 'Christian' response would also be different.

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Yadidya (YDYDY)'s avatar

You may be the last real calvinist but you sure as hell ain't a follower of Yeshua from Nazareth! 😂

You're right "that in a different time and different place, his 'Christian' response would also be different".

And you're also right to have placed the word Christian in quotes.

I was surprised that Dan didn't give himself 5 minutes before racing to wield the frontlash against a father in grief. I mean, did the guy actually rush to head off the frontlash?

Maybe he did, but in Steve's link I didn't see him, "not all negros", I heard him say (translation) "If I give in to hatred I'll never recover so while I don't give a shit about that piece of shit who murdered my baby, I just can't take the hate and vengeance route, at least not today, so stop poking at me you devil-spawn reporter about what I would say to the killer or how I feel about him. Come the trial you can be sure there won't be any forgiveness. I'll give statements and tears and whatever else necessary to make that SOB suffer, but for the love of FUCK, can you allow me the comfort of God for a moment?"

But when you seconded the motion I felt like I was being gaslit! Certainly 2 people in a row can't be that judgy against a dad whose son was just murdered! And to make matters worse, you seem to be really into Christian stuff, which is usually indicative of somebody who's made it deep enough into the NT to have come across the little known bit which advanced scholars in the field call The Sermon On The Mount. So why were YOU agreeing?

I TOTALLY get the frustrated-lawyer theology. I expect nothing less from THE. LAST. and especially CALVINIST (unless it's a Hobbes reference).

But seriously bro, Jesus weren't that complicated!

And forget Jesus, EVERYBODY gets the "I can't obsess over vengeance when I'm impotent to act upon it so let me find a philosophy I can dig into that will let me live!"

Adolph's response however was ON BRAND!

He missed a little, but he's aiming in the right direction anyway, Jesus was of course Jewish and is therefore to blame for injecting his Jewish+Bastard Slave Morality into a world that hitherto was all about endless vengeance. And as you can tell by both my and (apparently Erik's) pedigree, the Jews are still at it.

So while his jump over the grand canyon was a bit of a stretch that he didn't quite land, at least his heart was in the right place.

I DO understand the three of you though. You don't give a rectal hair about the grieving father or the dead boy. You're in a race war and you resent the father for not having, as you said, the "Christian" response of another time and place that would boil the blood of the righteous christian soldiery sufficiently to put an end to black excitement via a reign of revenge terror.

I totally get that and don't even disagree. Hell, it's what Israel is doing in Gaza and absent the path of Jesus - which I myself have been advocating for among my people to no avail - Orwell was right: What are you to do if someone drops a bomb on your mother's head other than to drop two bombs on his mother's head?

Truth be told, Society is an evil God with evil rules and evil incentives and in such a world I can not blame for anything. Just living here makes us all complicit.

If you're curious what the OLD Testament has to say about murder (once all is said and done, e.g. once you have a murder-free society built in the ethos of loving your neighbor like you love yourself — a state that may initially require some killing to achieve), here's what the Old Testament has to say. It has to say that our society is so sick that it doesn't even really have advice for us. But for a healthy society:

https://youtu.be/pp7OL1kQ5-M

"Thou Shalt Not Murder"

https://youtu.be/pp7OL1kQ5-M

Dan, Calvin and Dolph, as a yid I'm quite tonally, facially and kinetically expressive — 3 communication colors that the evils of text (which are at at least partially my ancestor's fault 🤷🏻‍♂️ https://ydydy.substack.com/p/is-hollywood-run-by-jews ) deny me, so if you read me as scowling, hating or "mocking with intent to injure" let me ask you to read me again knowing that I'm actually speaking with the jocular friendliness that I would if we were seated at a bar IN YOUR TOWN.

I would say the exact same things but by the visible and interactive circumstances you would know that I'm not judging, condemning or wishing you ill. Trust me, I DO talk this way to strangers, and in bars that I swear to you are a whole lot rougher than any you know 😂.

That's the joy of being Jesus nephew. Sure sooner or later someone who knows you through hearsay is going to start gathering nails and 2x4s, but until then you get to speak your mind with ease knowing that you have no ones ill will at heart and confident that, so long as they can see your face anyway, they'll know that and chuckle along with you considering your point.

Eid Mubarak!

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The Last Real Calvinist's avatar

Thanks for the effusive comment, but you really don't get me or what I believe.

I am not advocating a 'reign of revenge terror'. I'm advocating forgiveness -- genuine Christian forgiveness. And that starts with facing up to the sin, the evil, that one real person has perpetrated on another. Only then can forgiveness -- and, perhaps, repentance -- be possible. Only God's grace, through the cross, can cover this.

I pray for the family of that poor dead boy, and for the killer and his family, too.

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Yadidya (YDYDY)'s avatar

Oh, I'm sure I didn't get ya. You seem to be genuinely interested in deep theology and process. I just thought the whole conversation was getting too dark and wanted to initiate a little levity ☺️.

P.S. I put that comment in AI to spellcheck and - swear to god - within 5 minutes he asked me (I'm paraphrasing) "Sooo... you seem to know a lot and...well...what do you know about the Rothschilds?"

Seriously!

It was a great conversation I just emailed Steve about it. I may post the whole thing on my own newsletter if I have the time.

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Erik's avatar

I didn't make it to the end of your comment but I kinda agree with the beginning of your take in your fifth paragraph. I'm giving the poor guy the benefit of the doubt on this one.

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Yadidya (YDYDY)'s avatar

I'm genuinely impressed by this. Peeps don't often rethink themselves - neither online or off.

Anyway, I agree with you ofc about the problem.

That said, before moving to Egypt last year to explore the whole Jew/Arab thing for myself I lived in East New York to explore the whole White/Black thing for myself.

And I've got good news! It's actually ALL solvable.

Black crime has causes that I can solve, Arab terrorism has causes that I can solve, and Jewish power has causes that I can solve.

To be perfectly frank, Jesus (cribbing from the OT) already proposed the solution a few thousand years ago, but I'm here to tell you that he was right.

It's really quite simple: Fear of each other leds to violence against each other.

And we fear each other because that's the core presumption of our society, that: "I am evil, therefore my neighbor must be even more evil, and I must do unto him before he does unto me."

The truth is that you are not bad at your nature. Uou are a child interested in exploring, cavorting and enjoying the Eden you were born into it. All men are. And we find each other interesting and fun to talk to and play with!

Let me pull back from explaining the Eden metaphor to the moment, I am a public Rabbi in Egypt. Before this I was a rather visible White man in all-black (largely Haitian!) Canarsie.

I have met the enemy.and his presumptions and I can tell you that he is no enemy. We did not inherit death from Adam, we inherited an erroneous way of viewing existence, other people and ourselves.

Freeing humankind - all at once - from our paranoid and bilious hearts would indeed bring about a resolution to the problem of death in almost no time at all.

All the messianic stuff on Judaism and Christianity isn't magical, it's the simplest of cause and effect. As Zachariah puts it, והאמת והשלום אהבו -- when humanity openly "loves the truth and the shalom" all problems are solved and happy living will continue forever.

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Danfromdc's avatar

Yes, my comment was overly harsh toward the father. I view it as a missed opportunity as he had a platform to show righteous rage and draw attention to a serious societal problem. Oh well, that’s not his job. Poor guy.

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Yadidya (YDYDY)'s avatar

I'm genuinely impressed by this. Peeps don't often rethink themselves - neither online or off.

Anyway, I agree with you ofc about the problem.

That said, before moving to Egypt last year to explore the whole Jew/Arab thing for myself I lived in East New York to explore the whole White/Black thing for myself.

And I've got good news! It's actually ALL solvable.

Black crime has causes that I can solve, Arab terrorism has causes that I can solve, and Jewish power has causes that I can solve.

To be perfectly frank, Jesus (cribbing from the OT) already proposed the solution a few thousand years ago, but I'm here to tell you that he was right.

It's really quite simple: Fear of each other leds to violence against each other.

And we fear each other because that's the core presumption of our society, that: "I am evil, therefore my neighbor must be even more evil, and I must do unto him before he does unto me."

The truth is that you are not bad at your nature. Uou are a child interested in exploring, cavorting and enjoying the Eden you were born into it. All men are. And we find each other interesting and fun to talk to and play with!

Let me pull back from explaining the Eden metaphor to the moment, I am a public Rabbi in Egypt. Before this I was a rather visible White man in all-black (largely Haitian!) Canarsie.

I have met the enemy.and his presumptions and I can tell you that he is no enemy. We did not inherit death from Adam, we inherited an erroneous way of viewing existence, other people and ourselves.

Freeing humankind - all at once - from our paranoid and bilious hearts would indeed bring about a resolution to the problem of death in almost no time at all.

All the messianic stuff on Judaism and Christianity isn't magical, it's the simplest of cause and effect. As Zachariah puts it, והאמת והשלום אהבו -- when humanity openly "loves the truth and the shalom" all problems are solved and happy living will continue forever.

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Danfromdc's avatar

Thank you. However, the dad is now out there doing multiple interviews about how nobody should make this racial. Days after his son was murdered. I now revert back to my original comment.

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Paul Rothwell's avatar

Long-winded, and boring psycho rant.

But you do prove the ancient Greeks right, "Ugly face, Ugly soul."

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MikeCLT's avatar

Perhaps the father believes that forgiveness should look like that of Christ on the cross. "Forgive them Father for they know not what they do."

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Paul Rothwell's avatar

A supurfluous prayer. Since, if they know not what they do, they don't need to be forgiven.

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Kat D's avatar

It’s a cope. He’s numb right now. It won’t stay this way.

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Erik's avatar

yep. None of us can predict how we we act in the first few hours of such a situation. I'm guessing emotions are overwhelming the logical parts of his brain and his mouth is on autopilot. Actually not autopilot for we now have a better metaphor. His mouth is on chatGPT mode.

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The Last Real Calvinist's avatar

I agree with you completely on this. It's likely the poor man's words were just tumbling out, propelled by a torrent of grief. And the essence of what he's saying is the conventional wisdom, i.e. that we must never judge, and that certain evil acts always have some kind of socially-constructed excuse behind them. You're right that this is just the kind of 'answer' to the excruciating question of why we suffer that ChatGPT would conjure up.

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Paul Rothwell's avatar

"God is going to take care of my family."

Well the punk that murdered your son just refuted that belief pretty soundly.

"Maybe he's just sincerely, seriously Christian, and this is how he deals with the undealwithable."

Exactly! By NOT dealing with it. Nietzsche was right to call it a Slave Morality.

The boy's father is an obedient slave to a system that hates him and his children.

Naturally, he calls blind and unquestioning obedience to that system, "good."

What's that Mill once said, in so many words; If there's a God he's not very good at creation (the murderer proves that) and he's certainly not interested in human beings (the grieving family proves that).

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Erik's avatar

I've always wondered how religious people rationalize that "in his own image" stuff. He created man to at the very least look like him and also gave us the choice to do bad things like murder. Ok, but why did he give us the instinct to do things like murder? Here, you will feel a strong urge to murder someone if they tell you that you are sitting in the place, but don't do it!

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Paul Rothwell's avatar

Thanks for your response. Interesting comment.

For me your comment directs attention to the fact that man is not naturally social, man is naturally asocial. All attempts to impose a system based on the belief that man is naturally social have failed.

But that man is naturally asocial helps us understand anti-social behaivor. Which is a failure to internalize rules, norms, and moral codes. Even the hostile elite knows that much.

Which is exactly why they HAVE TO invert reality.

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Erik's avatar

I don't know that I would go that far. I think it's more man is social in some ways and a or antisocial in others. We are all, for example, subject to public shaming and guilt, but there is a spectrum. A lot of our worst attitudes about how people behave are based on outliers.

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Grand Mal Twerkin's avatar

I’m glad that father lost a son. He doesn’t deserve to be a father

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Erik's avatar

Would you be able to say that to him in person?

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Grand Mal Twerkin's avatar

What’s that got to do with it?

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Erik's avatar

A demonstration of what a horrible thought that is to express.

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Grand Mal Twerkin's avatar

The father is horrible. I suspect you are, too

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Erik's avatar

Oh, I'm the worst.

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Eugine Nier's avatar

Yes, I'm sure he'd forgive me for that as well.

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Bob Thebuilder's avatar

Sadly, ending the era of Jim Crow and the laws of racial segregation made tragedies like this a much more common occurrence in America.

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Steve Lloyd's avatar

It seemed to me that "the tracks" or whatever delineation was used in a particular American towns were effectively a border that the was policed to ensure that the inherent exuberance was contained and managed such that the deaths, woundings and misery that are inevitably associated with immediacy of gratification and more relaxed mores regarding property and both less relaxed and less complex attitudes to personal honour and disrespect were kept within group.

Effectively, a somewhat more relaxed attitudes to murderers and rapists was allowed to prevail in the black community as it was informally recognised that this accorded with the wishes and standards of that community. If the colour line was transgressed though police reaction would be harsh and immediate. This reflected both the standards applied by whites to whites and the additional need to maintain a functional society that enabled two absolutely identifiable groups with different average traits to interact.

This is also reflect of times different to ours where there was far less immediacy of connection. Outside of the big eastern cities (+LA & SF), I imagine that police were very much on their own or at least outnumbered and reliant on the local populace with a citizenry that was divided along racial lines. One would have to deal with these types of events with celerity or things could likely go bad quickly with a heavily armed populace. Excitability and over-reaction with guns involved and the next thing you've got real trouble a la Tulsa

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Ralph L's avatar

That's what Instapundit likes to point out: the police exist to protect the criminals from the populace. Rather apparent on J6.

But with most Europeans and Canadians demoralized and disarmed, who knows what will happen to them when the Muslims and Africans flex even more than they have? We'll have to be careful about the refugees we accept in coming decades.

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Derek Leaberry's avatar

Segregation was a way to separate two wildly different cultures. With the demise of de jure segregation, America has moved to de facto segregation. A city becomes majority black, whites flee the schools first and the city itself for the suburbs. In the rural South, there's at least one hundred black-majority counties in which the whites have abandoned the school systems for religious academies.

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Gil Brooks's avatar

I’m sorry, but what’s the point of your article. What I want to know is what type of culture would produce somebody that is so lacking in basic human values he would murder someone over so trivial a matter? There is a serious cultural divide here.

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Darwinist's avatar

The question isn't about what kind of culture, but what kind of gene pool.

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Gil Brooks's avatar

Great point. We have tried my entire lifetime to change this, and whether affirmation action or DEI, at the expense of white males, and yet here we still are 60 years later. It’s very disheartening.

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Yadidya (YDYDY)'s avatar

Hold up. I lose my Jew card If I don't point out that the white kids seems to have started it. maybe not maybe he was totally friendly or maybe he was a regular high school kid and said hey those are our seats get out buddy. or maybe he was a dick and the black guy "bowed up" like the father said at what he perceived was an insult and it turned into a fight that got the guy stabbed.

Almost certainly Mr. Stabber was in the wrong, but this wasn't a knockout game, it was a big tough athlete and while yhe way to bet is that the black guy is at fault, it's not inconceivable that if their colors were reversed and we knew the full story some folk here would be arguing in favor if knife boy's right to self defense.

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ReadingRainbow's avatar

You make comments like this and yet you dismiss the guy talking about Jewish influence as a nut job. Oy vey.

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Yadidya (YDYDY)'s avatar

Did I?

Oy vey 😂

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The Anti-Gnostic's avatar

Fuck you and your sophistry. Interesting to see what brings you out of the woodwork.

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Yadidya (YDYDY)'s avatar

lol

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Grand Mal Twerkin's avatar

You make a good point. I’m not sure that telling someone to exit a seat that isn’t his is “starting it”, but it depends on how he did it. Regardless, Stabber ought to be presumed innocent, for sure, and I’m not even Jewish

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Yadidya (YDYDY)'s avatar

Neither am I but it's good for business. The nose extension surgery was costly but I made up my financial losses in just one week of being Jewish and my sexual losses in just one day on the island.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Kat D's avatar

Well used to be things were handled with fists even if he was being a jerk which I find difficult to believe nowadays

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Grand Mal Twerkin's avatar

There have been murders since Cain and Abel. There was no Golden Age of Mostly Peaceful Fisticuffs

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Frau Katze's avatar

Yep. You can’t change behaviour that’s genetically based.

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Bob Thebuilder's avatar

The disparate rates of violence between the races has remained pretty constant over the past few centuries despite many changes in the culture, so the problem is genetic, not not cultural.

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Bob Thebuilder's avatar

genetic not <>cultural.

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Ralph L's avatar

You can edit your post by clicking on the three dots in the upper right.

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Grand Mal Twerkin's avatar

Yes, you are sorry

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CHRISTINE EDWARDS's avatar

Per news reports they attended different high schools. They were not teammates. Victim attended Memorial and the accused killer attended Centennial.

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Steve Sailer's avatar

Thanks.

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walter condley's avatar

If this means that white kids would no longer be enriched through close contact with Shvarz, that would be worse.

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Ralph L's avatar

Army Chief of Staff Casey beat you to it over the Ft Hood massacre. That was an early clue the military was rotting from the top.

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Yadidya (YDYDY)'s avatar

Pretty sure that's what he was riffing off of. I can guess that because in my lengthy response above I tried to add in a similar riff to extend the "not all negros" interpretation that folk seem to have read into the bereaved father's words. I didn't quickly find a good natural fit so I let it go.

Glad someone else came up with it.

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The Last Real Calvinist's avatar

'Adolescence' seems to have had a disproportionate impact in the UK, generating some weapons-grade (pun intended) hysteria.

It used to be that UK TV series avoided at least some of the worst of the tiresome social engineering tropes that have plagued US TV for many decades. But in the past 5 years or so they've gone all in.

Here's a good example. Mrs C and I have enjoyed a BBC-produced crime drama called 'Unforgotten'; it's about a cold-case murder investigation team in the London Met. It's not very realistic, but the first few seasons were well-crafted and very watchable.

Last night we just finished this year's Season 6, which was quite a piece of work, and I don't mean that in its positive sense.

There were really only three able-bodied, heterosexual, white male characters:

***One was the murder victim himself, who (spoilers now begin . . .) was a vicious jerk whose bad behavior escalated as he embraced right-wing ideologies (this is carefully explained), rendering him an adulterer, a wife-beater, and a predatory slumlord whose damp-ridden rental flat caused the death of an innocent asylum-seeker toddler. The whole point of this series is that this gammonesque monster richly deserved being slaughtered like the pig he was.

***The second is a Catholic priest who carries on an affair with a female character (who goes in for this because she works for a right-wing news station), and impregnates her, leaving her to abort her baby (later on she's made out to be strong and courageous for doing this). He then betrays her confessional outpourings to the police, and throws her out of his life and his church because 'people are talking' and he can't have that.

***The third is the feckless husband of one of the main characters, a DCI. He's just a serial womanizer/adulterer who lies and gets unceremoniously dumped when his dastardly doings are exposed.

Multiple suspects in the story -- two white women, i.e. the murder victim's wife and mistress, plus an autistic white man and a gay white man -- are painstakingly portrayed as being influenced to do BAD THINGS in response to being exposed to right-wing ideas, but then all of them are enlightened, recognize the error of their ways, and are redeemed into the Establishment UK leftist light.

It'll be interesting to see if the big UK media producers (especially the BBC and ITV) will follow the retreat-from-wokeness path it seems Disney and other American producers are going down.

The problem with this UK stuff is that its quality is still quite high. The acting, writing, and pacing of 'Unforgotten' remain strong. By all accounts, Adolescence is compelling viewing, too, although I haven't watched it. This makes these products more pernicious than their more typically-clumsy American equivalents, many of which have been degraded into self-parody by decades of theme-pushing.

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Steve Lloyd's avatar

It seemed to start with Law and Order, great acting, excellent production standards and every criminal tended to be a rich WASP. I guess we could believe it as they managed to revisit the weirdest crimes from the big city. SVU is frankly as ridiculous as anything from the UK (and I will admit a soft spot for Rookies as it is strangely watchable with all the male police being believable and all the female police being stunning and about 5 foot 2)

But with the BBC and pretty much every UK media producer as you suggest, the switch is just a kick in the face with its woke nonsense.

Every Home Office pathologist is black-in reality it seems like there are none.

Most couples are mixed, the female is usually white

The criminals are usually white-particularly the really nasty ones

Large numbers of the Met senior office ranks are black or women or both

The Armed Offender/SWAT officers are often women or black and led by women

Bomb squad-majority female, Asian and black.

The last series that didn't have this was Endeavour, in so far as all its main leads were white (and even then you would have thought 1960s Britain was at least half black and Asian)

Line of Duty, Unforgotten, Karen Pirie, the Harlan Coben adaptations. All as you say have very high production values, include good acting and excepting that the storylines always skew ludicrously woke and the characters are outrageously unrepresentative are still watchable if teeth-grindingly so.

It is as you say pernicious, and there seems to be a balance between pointing this out to people for their benefit and seeming like a loonie-I try to walk the fine line.

PS Perhaps Vera managed the balance-it definitely pushed representation but its focus on the banal, sad and miserable nature of most crime and criminals, it had a sense of gritty realism.

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The Last Real Calvinist's avatar

The sad thing is that this turn toward wokeness happened so quickly and comprehensively in the UK media. Your list is spot-on, to adopt the vernacular of the genre.

Vera was great --- I agree, less woke than most.

The three Morse series -- Inspector Morse, Lewis, and Endeavour -- are all very good in surprisingly different ways. Although the original Morse and Endeavour had very high highs, we Calvinists concluded that Lewis might be the best of the three -- it was wound up just before the woke turn, and Laurence Fox is electric as Hathaway.

Haven't watched Karen Pirie, and I won't touch anything that has anything to do with Harlan Coben. I read one of his books many years ago, and found its plot 'twists' unbelievable to the point of stupidity. But I'm sure he's fabulously rich at this point, so who's stupid in the end . . . ?

You haven't even mentioned contemporary series such as McDonald and Dodds (although that one is quite fun, actually), Grace, and many more.

BTW, I sometimes try to point this stuff out to people, too, and I know exactly the reaction of which you speak.

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Ralph L's avatar

The bodies drop like flies on Morse and Midsomer Murders (where they try to be fun about manner of death). The detectives seem to work by the process of elimination. Endeavour is so much more likeable than a-hole Morse, they can't be the same man.

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Steve Lloyd's avatar

I enjoyed Endeavour and thought the final episode where they sought to link it with Morse was well done. Can't say I've watched Morse for a long while but I also enjoyed it at the time although I won't argue that Morse could be somewhat supercilious and bitter. I haven't seen Cuffs and it seems quite surprising that homosexual representation hasn't been higher on the screen in police shows. I'd imagine that there's a higher percentage of homosexuals, particularly lesbians, in the real police than there are blacks.

An oddity, given that gay is pushed pretty hard in film and tv generally

As for Midsomer, beautiful scenery but you'd be brave to go on a walking tour

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Steve Lloyd's avatar

I've watched Grace and took the opportunity to check out McDonald and Dodds. Again, typical BBC/ITV high standard police procedurals. Excellent quality acting and high production standards but the racial casting is as insidious here as always. For example Grace is set in Sussex where apparently in real life there are 11 black police officers out of 2700.

I shall endeavour to enjoy watching them on their own merits and take some comfort that I am not the only one who is at least aware that this is being done to us.

I do sometimes wonder though whether things are going very badly wrong if so many people are engaged in obfuscating reality to such an extent

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Ralph L's avatar

I assume "Cuffs" was reasonably realistic--and frightening--about UK policing, possibly why it only lasted one season. Or was Britain not ready for a gay lead character in an ensemble show?

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Frau Katze's avatar

I predict no retreat from wokeness in either the UK or Canada. Its tentacles run deep.

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air dog's avatar

"Can you guess the stabber and stabbee at a Frisco, TX track meet?"

This is an unfair question. It is impossible even to guess which is the stabber just from the photos.

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B. King's avatar

execute the orc

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42itous's avatar

Something is wrong. I'd say the something is football. You cant really field a competitive team without black players. So sports crazed Frisco was inclusive. Population characteristics played out in a predictable way. Fatal encounters like this are rare...but the population of the perp and that of the victim are depressingly predictable. At least it wasn't for something frivolous...ya know...Texas Football. Coincidently, I re-watched The Last Picture Show last week.

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Ralph L's avatar

And I reread Derbyshire's The Talk on Sunday. Too bad the parents hadn't.

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Steve Lloyd's avatar

Oh Steve, you're such a kidder. It's April the second now and you're stilling trying to play the man bites dog card😏

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Lucky Ned's avatar

Murder is as natural as breathing to blacks, Steve. Never relax.

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E. H. Hail's avatar

What was the motive for the killing?

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Ralph L's avatar

The stabber was told he was sitting in the wrong spot.

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Guest007's avatar

For those who refuse to do a second of research (from Niche):

Memorial High School, Frisco Texas, Ethnic breakdown.

White 39.9%

Asian 20.3%

African American 17.5%

Hispanic 17.2%

Multiracial 4.4%

Native American 0.7%

Centennial High School

Asian 48.4%

White 30.2%

Hispanic 10%

African American 7.6%

Multiracial 3.5%

Native American 0.3%

Do the non-Hispanic white victim attended a high school that is 17.2% black whereas the black perp attends a high school that is 7.6% black. Maybe everyone needs to reconcile actual data with their preconceived notions. The entire Frisco Independent School District is 31% white and 11% black.

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Lisa Swinney's avatar

H1B’s

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Guest007's avatar

One might want to provide a cite.

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Ralph L's avatar

I guess Asians in Texas tend to collocate.

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Guest007's avatar

Asians always co-locate with upper middle class and higher whites. Since Asian-Americans are horrible at running volunteer or community service organizations, they can leech off of whites by living in the same area.

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Rum Dolphin's avatar

2 of the 3 citizens interviewed were heavily accented pajeets https://youtu.be/aOZldN-R0Zc?t=145

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SJ's avatar

Let’s remember that the moral of Joe Biden’s “Corn Pop” story (confirmed by Richard ‘Mouse’ Smith) was that a young black dude thought it was ok to pull a knife on Biden when asked to move from the diving board.

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Rum Dolphin's avatar

It's always sad to see parents responding to a tragedy separately because of divorce. Same thing we saw with Riley Strain the Missouri boy who went missing and died on a Nashville fraternity trip. How could you have two beautiful twin boys like that and split up over some selfishness. And alas they never had a sister.

BTW which group in America brought us their "blessing" of "no fault" divorce? Or did it just randomly happen because it was such a good idea??

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Rum Dolphin's avatar

The murderer-baby had a 3.9 GPA according to one of these stories. Must have been DEI grading. Look at these photos: https://x.com/ada_lluch/status/1907848169112633826

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