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It is wrong to tear asunder the bonds of society by assaulting the property of others or their persons. The primary reason not to loot, riot, and burn is that, no matter how aggrieved the rioters are, it is wrong to hurt innocent people by destroying the places where they work, or gather, or live, to vent a grievance. I’m sorry, but honoring the memory of George Floyd is primarily a concern for those who actually knew him, not the principal reason to avoid rioting. Time and again, we are told, the riots are wrong because they dishonor the memory of George Floyd. Striking, too, is the way that politicians condemning the riots have voiced their condemnations. Kentucky most of the juries convicting black defendants contain black jurors. The unshakable belief in the persistence of systemic racism also ignores the fact that there is no empirical evidence showing that police are more likely to use deadly force against blacks than whites, that most if not all of the disparities in the criminal justice system can be explained by the unfortunate fact that black men commit nearly 40 percent of all violent crime and half of all homicides, that there are more policemen killed by blacks than there are blacks killed by policemen, and that, thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision in Batson v. We’re a long way from Jamestown 1619, Montgomery 1963, Cicero 1966, or any other racial flashpoint one cares to remember. Whites have accepted these measures largely without complaint and have come to enjoy the company of Americans of different races in a variety of contexts. Not to mention hundreds of billions spent to alleviate black poverty, both in the form of taxes and charitable contributions, as well as the implementation of affirmative action laws that discriminate in favor of blacks and against whites. This, despite that fact that Americans elected and then reelected a black man as president, regard black athletes and entertainers as among the most popular of all Americans. Part of this theater of the absurd is the widespread conviction, repeated with dogmatic fervor, that America is a country indelibly stained by systemic racism. Those protesting lockdowns that have resulted in mass unemployment were treated as bad people using bad tactics to achieve a bad end those protesting the death of George Floyd were depicted as good people motivated by a righteous cause, even after the protests became riots. Indeed, it is safe to say there was more media outrage at the hundreds of protestors showing up in a handful of state capitols toting guns they had a legal right to carry than over the rioters emptying stores and torching police cars, even though the armed visitors to the state houses never committed any acts of violence at all.
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It’s a stark contrast between the media opprobrium directed at ordinary citizens for standing too close to each other or not wearing masks in public, and the excuses offered for those who ignored the conventions of social distancing to smash shop windows and passersby. It is hard not to read those words without thinking of Americans being arrested for taking their children to the park, going to church, or strolling on the beach followed a few weeks later by entire police forces becoming passive spectators as rioters burned, pillaged, looted, maimed, and killed.
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This condition, which in some of my columns I have called ‘anarcho-tyranny,’ is essentially a kind of Hegelian synthesis of what appear to be dialectical opposites, the combination of oppressive government power against the innocent and the law-abiding and, simultaneously, a grotesque paralysis of the ability or the will to use that power to carry out basic public duties such as protection of public safety. As I began to contemplate the theater of the absurd that we Americans have been living through in recent days, I found the most useful place to begin was an essay by Sam Francis published in Chronicles 26 years ago, “ Anarcho-Tyranny USA.” In this long, thoughtful piece, Francis contrasts the eagerness to criminalize what had been innocent behavior with a reluctance to confront genuine criminality and undoubted threats to public order.
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