Thursday, June 04, 2020

compare and contrast

Can someone explain to me why the mayor of NY personally came to make sure the police disbanded this crowd:

But this crowd is 100% OK and is applauded:

 
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4 comments:

  1. micha berger7:04 PM

    Dov Hikind is advertising a protest for this coming Sunday. https://twitter.com/HikindDov/status/1268302279926480898

    But I hear he is making a point of not having Tehillim or Qaddish at the rally. So he avoids violating OU/RCA or Agudah minyan guidelines.

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  2. alonzo maccabi8:08 AM

    "why" crowd A, but not crowd B?

    -- so that crowd A shouldn't be sheep without a shepherd. (crowd B? them ain't sheep; them's rebels with a cause...)

    -- leave B be; a spontaneous mix that will soon burn/play out. 'A' ain't goin anywhere of itself; been at it thousands of years and intends a thousand more...

    -- 'A' 'should know better' (and had been tweetedly pratted out for warning)...

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  3. micha berger9:57 AM

    I had assumed the question was rhetorical, because the difference is obvious.

    Cynically put: No politician wants to criticize "crowd B" because that risks a soundbite in which they denigrate a worthy cause. Or for some politicians, a cause many voters consider worthy.

    Less cynically put, but likely less the actual cause as well: Some of what is making the current protesting so vehement and continue this long is that it came when people were stir crazy from the lock-down. And if it takes adding medical risk to the mix to stop a fundamental problem about how America works, the risk-to-profit ratio is justified.

    (Truth in advertising: Unlike most people who read your blog, I have first-hand experience with what the black community is up against. My oldest son is biracial, but he looks more like his black biological father than his Ashkenazi biological mother. From the time he became a teenager until he moved away to Canada, he got randomly stopped by police every few weeks. I have been called by police officers from our home town of Passaic, adjacent cities, Newark when he went to HS in the IDT building, North Shore when he coached there, various little Catskills towns, Far Rockaway, Queens, Manhattan.... I am speaking from a strong emotional bias on this one. Also had much first- and second-hand pain from the level of racism in our community, the number of us who aren't just indifferent, but actively part of the problem.

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  4. shloma1:16 PM

    jews

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