INSTANT CLASSIC FROM @MSNBC:

ANCHOR: “Are the people there just not worried about it? Are they not worried about their personal safety?”

REPORTER: “I haven’t met anybody who is… you can see here, nobody’s wearing them [masks].”

GUY ON STREET: “Including the Cameraman.” pic.twitter.com/h9HbbIqNVh

— Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) May 26, 2020

It has come to the point that whatever beneficial objective can be obtained by wearing the mask (speedbump for virus carrying saliva) are destroyed because we have these hypocritical “moralists” pontificating the use and passing judgement on those who don’t wear them.

You cannot do Karen Journalism if you are gonna get caught doing the same stuff your target is doing.

Two years ago we were introduced to “BBQ Becky.”  A white woman who called the cops on a black family grilling in the park.

This is how the Huffington Post covered that.

Woman Calls Police On Black Family For BBQing At A Lake In Oakland
Their crime? Using the wrong type of grill in a barbecue-designated zone.

The details are important.

The family was using a charcoal grill in a no-fire zone during a fire watch in wildfire season.

The woman called the cops to report the fire hazard.

Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney, though the family was detained and questioned for one hour.

“In a city that needs significant policing services, we can’t have those precious expensive resources squandered in a frivolous way,” McElhaney told HuffPost.

She added: “Police are not private security for any white person that’s offended by the presence of black folks in our public spaces.”

This woman was denounced as a racist and a bigot, and the internet attacked her mercilessly.

Now compare that to this case.

The he-Karen gave an interview to the New York Daily News.

Christian Cooper said it was a “stressful encounter” when he asked Amy Cooper to leash her dog Monday and she not only refused but whipped out her phone, called 911 and told police an African-American man was threatening her life.

In a Facebook post, Christian said he started filming after Amy made it clear she had no intention of leashing her cocker spaniel Henry, even though Christian pointed out a sign declaring that was the rule.

Tell me which is worse, an unleashed cocker spaniel or a charcoal grill in a wildfire zone?

Yeah, I think so too.

Two things here.

First, the internet hate mob clearly hates white women.  Congratulations ladies, you are no longer a protected class

Second, this is all about power.

“I can’t see how [her firing] addresses the underlying issues. I think it’s important to move beyond this instance and this one individual. Too much focus has been put on her when it really is about the underlying issues that have plagued this city and this country for centuries. Racial issues,” he said.

It’s always a good time to turn one incident into a broad topic about what is wrong with society and convict people in guilt by associated skin color.

A graduate of Harvard University’s class of 1984, Christian suggested he’s willing to reconsider his assessment of Amy Cooper based on her actions going forward.

That’s not his fucking job to be the master of her life, deciding when she can be redeemed and returned to society after sufficient contrition.

Also, when some wealthy Harvard prick play the victim, he can get fucked.

The destruction of this woman’s life is the result of one thing.

The intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.

It is the same mentality, same moral culpability, and same moral turpitude to go online and harass a person’s employer over a few seconds of edited video as it is to carry a club and cheer on the hanging of a black man over the rumor that he winked at a white woman or carry a torch and cheer on the looting of a Jewish community over the rumor that they drank a Christian child’s blood.

In today’s age where the internet never forgets, ruining a life with an internet hate mob is evil.

Miguel says it’s not as permanent as death.  Maybe.  But if you spent years of your life and tens of thousands of dollars to earn a degree and spent years gaining experience , to because of a hate mob never be able to work in your field ever again robs  you of everything you built your life doing.  They stole the work product of your life from you.

These are the stakes and the seriousness of the issue.

This is why I fear the internet hate mob so much.

Come to my door with pitchforks chanting “get the Jew” and I can deal with that crowd with a couple of mags of 223.

How do I deal with millions of people behind Twitter accounts making sure I never work as an engineer ever again?

But offered no comment My guess is that they just posted the link to a News Radio report (very even handed… nicely surprised here)and wanted to read the reaction of their readers as weather vane to indicate what to write about.

I imagine it was not what they were expecting. By a far majority in Facebook and Twitter, the comments were on support of the nurses arming themselves and bashing the few naysayers that dared to post the same old and worn slogans and tripe

It was easier to collect the anti comments since they were the fewer and I am feeling lazy today.

I saw this over at the Feral Irishman.

If they were trying to go for “caring” by now it feels like unimaginative pandering. It is mind numbing and they are just pissing me off.  It also doe snot help when the streaming services have not heard about rotating the ads  and play the same ones at every frigging break. I am gonna melt the mute button I push it so many times.

So now, officially I have fish in my backyard again

We are scheduled for a couple of days of normal weather activity, so I guess the water level will drop back to normal.

I am tempted to call  on the neighbor and ash if they are having issues with their Comcast  cable & internet. No reason.

This is another followup to the Battle of the Karens.

From the New York Post:

Civic association calls on de Blasio to ban Central Park ‘Karen’ for life

The woman shown in a now-viral video calling the cops on a black man in Central Park after he asked her to keep her dog on a leash should be permanently banned from the green space, a neighborhood activist said Tuesday.

Michael Fischer, president of the Central Park Civic Association, called Amy Cooper’s actions in the widely shared video “a disgusting display of intolerance” that should “never, ever be accepted in the City’s public domain like Central Park.”

“The Central Park Civic Association condemns this behavior and is calling on Mayor [Bill] de Blasio to impose a lifetime ban on this lady for her deliberate, racial misleading of law enforcement and violating behavioral guidelines set so that all can enjoy our city’s most famous park,” Fischer said.

The NYPD is not charging this woman with a crime so a member of the Central Park Civic Association wants the Mayor to declare this woman guilty and punish her for life by banning her from a public place she pays for with her tax dollars.

Bills of attainder are expressly forbidden by the Constitution.  The legislature or executive cannot establish guilt and impose punishment independent of the judiciary.

But here we are in 2020.  A viral video of a Karen pissing match has led to a call for one of our most sacred protections in the Constitution being thrown away.

I’ve seen what comes next, struggle sessions.

Honestly, this story has me so mad that I am ready to start ventilating people.

I’m not defending what this woman said.  What I’m saying is that a few seconds of cellphone video, edited by one party to remove him being a provocative asshole, has cost this woman her job, made her name into a hashtag, has gotten several public officials to condemn her by name, and is getting her harassed ceaselessly online.

How will this woman every find a job ever again?  Who will hire her and risk the wrath of the Twitter mob?  Her life is over.

Miguel warns about the dangers of lynch mobs.  I’d argue that these are worse.  A lifetime of unemployment because of a viral video is a death sentence.  At the height of lynching, a lynch mob may have been a few dozen to a hundred people.  Even the New Orleans lynch mob of 1891 was only a thousand people.

Today’s Twitter lynch mobs number in the millions, and they are from all over the world.

There is no escaping them.  You can’t outrun a global group.  You can’t change your name and hide when they will track you down with facial recognition and metadata.

I believe that every person who joins an internet lynch mob should be treated like people who join an actual lynch mob.  If you destroy a person’s life online, you should face the consequences in the meat space.

Maybe one day I will take my children to see the plaque at the mass grave of Twitter uses who harassed a woman to death over a few seconds of deceptively edited viral video, as a warning not to join the internet dog pile.

Update:

NYC Human Rights Commission Opens Investigation Into Viral Central Park Confrontation

“At a time when the devastating impacts of racism in Black communities have been made so painfully clear—from racial disparities in COVID-19 outcomes, to harassment of essential workers on the frontlines—it is appalling to see these types of ugly threats directed at one New Yorker by another,” said Sapna Raj, deputy commissioner of the Law Enforcement Bureau at the NYC Commission on Human Rights. “Efforts to intimidate black people by threatening to call law enforcement draw on a long, violent and painful history, and they are unacceptable.”

The NYC Commission on Human Rights has the authority to fine people who violate the law and can award damages to victims, including for emotional distress.

COVID affects black people more so this woman has to pay for her outburst.

This woman will suffer for the COVID crisis in NYC more than Cuomo and de Blasio combined.

And what crime did she commit?  The NYPD didn’t arrest her.  Her threat to call the police was overblown but arguably not a false report given what the man dad trying to bait her dog.

The video drew swift reaction and condemnation from elected officials.

“The video out of Central Park is racism, plain and simple,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Twitter. “She called the police because he was a black man. Even though she was the one breaking the rules, she decided he was the criminal and we know why. This kind of hatred has no place in our city.”

The Mayor of New York City called her a racist and says she has no place in the city.

“This apology is totally inadequate,” posted Mark Levine, whose district covers the Upper West Side, Washington Heights, and West Harlem near the section of Central Park where the encounter took place. “She was attempting to weaponize the race of Mr. Cooper.”

This is a New York City Councilmember.

What act of genocide did this woman commit?

Who did she murder?

Thugs beat the piss out Jews randomly on the streets of NYC for months and nobody said shit.

This was two Karens in a pissing match and politicians are talking like she lead a new Tuskegee experiment.

This is so fucking unbelievable it’s making my head swim.

This woman’s life is over.

I fail to understand just how much of a piece of shit Democrat leaders can be.

It’s shocking to me that people can be such human garbage and not feel bad about it.

According to the New York Daily News:

Congress must give New York at least $61 billion in federal aid as part of the next coronavirus stimulus bill or the state will have to slash funding for schools, hospitals and first responders, Gov. Cuomo said Tuesday.

The governor delivered the dire warning during a briefing in Binghamton, saying state and local governments across New York will have no choice but to enact the “devastating” budget cuts unless federal lawmakers step in.

Once again, a Democrat governor holding critical services hostage.

Now this from the New York Post:

Yoga czar for NYC schools touts meditation, pricey Berkshires retreats

While Chancellor Richard Carranza plans to cut hundreds of millions from NYC classrooms, his little-known yoga czar — the school system’s first “Director of Mindfulness” — makes nearly $200,000 a year while organizing retreats for educrats in the Berkshires.

Barnaby Spring, the Department of Education’s chief yogi, is trying to expand yoga and meditation for students, staffers and execs, deeming the contemplative practices and body-bending postures like the Downward-Facing Dog as important as academics.

Spring’s salary is $183,781, but he collected $194,947 last year as a principal on special assignment.

One of the first steps Spring took as mindfulness director was to forge a partnership with the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, which Forbes in November named among “the best meditation retreats in the world.”

Spring helped arrange for top DOE administrators, including principals, managers, superintendents and deputies, to undergo “leadership resiliency training” at the Berkshires retreat.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a yoga practitioner and ally of Watson-Harris, awarded the DOE a $111,000 grant in April 2019 to train Brooklyn educators in yoga and mindfulness.

The DOE said it spent $57,075 from that grant to send 30 administrators to Kripalu at a cost of $1,900 each. Kripalu offered free classes to 480 other staffers, officials said.

City comptroller records show DOE schools spent $101,000 at the Kripalu Center in the 2018-19 school year and $18,000 this school year.

Your kids won’t be taught math, and the police will have an hour-long response time when you cal 911 but school administrators will get junkets to take a yoga retreat to one of the most exclusive luxury yoga spas in the country on the taxpayer dime.

This is on top of Cuomo killing your kid’s grandparents in a nursing home.

I wonder how all those out of state first responders who went to New York City to help, just to find out that they will have to pay New York State income tax on any salary they collected in their home state while volunteering in New York feel about the fact that they are funding bureaucrat mindfulness retreats while their fellow New York first responders get laid off?

I feel like guillotines should be working round the clock in New York.