leaving it at that

 I don't get a line after line of periods when I hold down the delete key.  I notice that the period key is nowhere near the delete key, so I have no idea of how that happened. I'm just going to leave it at that.

To read that last sentence it appears that critics of BLM are complaining that the movement does not have enough intersectionality in it, which doesn't make sense to me because it seems that BLM has plenty of intersectionality in the sense of identity politics which I associate with intersectionality but that was an awfully long article and it seemed to take a lot of twists and turns so maybe they mean something else by intersectionality.  I have no idea and I am going to leave it at that.

Certainly you are letting yourself in for a lot of trouble when you try to crash your car into the White House, but it appears that she was trying to flee when she was shot, and the fact that the Secret Service refused to release the video seems kind of suspicious, but then I had a hard time figuring out what was going on in that article and so I am just going to leave it at that.

And I have never gotten a handle on Beagles's concept of mass hysteria.  When is it mass hysteria and when isn't it mass hysteria?  There have been plenty of demonstrations that were peaceful and there have been plenty that were not.  Why does it strike here and not there?  What does it explain?  

I think in most cases of demonstrations that get violent it is instigators, a hard core knot of people some of whom believe it will  help their cause, some who just like violence, and some who just believe they are in the right to do whatever they want because their cause is just.  

Back in the day, maybe eight months ago when the BLM flag was flying high and they were having all those demonstrations that were peaceful until the sun went down and then they turned violent some of the leaders (unofficial of course because BLM eschews top down structures), when asked about how they expected their actions to advance their cause, disdained to answer the question because they thought it was irrelevant.

And this is quite a stretch but here you have an example of the difference between the stoics and the utilitarians.  The stoics believe that an action can be good or evil in itself, and the utilitarians believe that the good or evil of an action lies in the results. Again quite a stretch but the hour grows late and I am going to leave it at that.

I'll just eliminate the white space at the end of this post and be about my business.

How I Got to "Intersectionality"

"In order to get rid of the white space at the end of your post.  Put your cursor at the end of the post and hold down the delete key until all the white is gone." - Uncle Ken

I did that but, instead of making the white space go away, it made all those dots.

Before that, I looked up the 1954 shooting that Uncle Ken mentioned.  From there I went to a 2013 shooting in Washington DC, but this one was different.  A certain mentally ill lady crashed her car through a barrier and was headed towards the White House.  While being pursued by police, she rammed several police cars and also hit a couple of policemen who were on foot.  As she was trying to run down another cop, he and a different cop shot at her car, resulting in her death.  It seems that some people are holding this incident up as yet another example of police brutality against Black people.  Did I mention that the crazy lady was Black?  The last paragraph of the article contained the word "intersectionality".  Being unfamiliar with that word, I clicked on it and ended up at the link I provided yesterday.  I think I know what the word means now, but I'm still not sure what it has to do with the rest of the article.

On May 20, 2015 a vigil was held in Union Square, Manhattan as part of the Say Her Name campaign to recognize the lives and deaths of black women killed or injured by police. Miriam Carey's family attended the vigil and her name was highlighted as one of the women to be recognized.^[36] Carey's name and story has also been featured in the Say Her Name publication "Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women".^[37] Carey has been mentioned by critics of the Black Lives Matter movement as an example of the perceived lack of Intersectionality within the movement, citing the lack of coverage and continued discussion of her death.^[38]

2013 United States Capitol shooting - Wikipedia 

And now, back to our story:

There is often a fine line between a peaceful protest and a riot.  That line may be crossed, either accidently or on purpose, for a number of reasons, not the least of which is mass hysteria.  Whenever a bunch of emotionally charged people are crowded together, it's a recipe for mass hysteria.  I think this is programmed into our DNA because it was a survival advantage for our Stone Age ancestors when they were faced with a dangerous job, like killing large animals, or their fellow humans, with primitive weapons.  Nobody in their right mind would willingly walk into a situation like that, so it became necessary for people to band together with other people and work each other up into a frenzy.  After awhile, the mere act of congregating in a large group induced a frenzy even when there was no external need for one, and it has remained a vestigial trait of human nature even unto this day. 

intersectionality?

I don't know what Beagles did.  What is with all those periods?  Well you can't see them now because fooling with it I took them out with a highlight and delete.  

I'll take the liberty of speaking for Old Dog since he only appears on Mondays and say that is indeed what he means by going down the rabbit hole.  One of the benefits of looking up things that you think but are not sure you know is that you find out so many other things you didn't know.  The downside is there goes a couple hours but what the hell we are retired.

I picked up a copy of the local slowly going out of business alternative newspaper and there was an article about trouble in Boystown, which is the gay neighborhoood.  It had been under fire a couple weeks ago because the lesbians didn't like the name.  Now it is also under fire because the browns and the blacks don't feel they are being treated right, and within say the black lesbian community the yuppie types and the blue collar types are not getting along, and so on and so on.  

It is part of an inherent error in categorizing and identity politics, but I'll wait to hear what Beagles has to say about it because he introduced it without comment.

What's Up With Those People?

 I had to look up the 1954 shooting that Uncle Ken mentioned in his post.  I got to clicking on things in the process and ended up far afield.  I wonder if this is what Old Dog means when he talks about going down a rabbit hole.

Intersectionality - Wikipedia

Nevertheless, I think that Uncle Ken is onto something here and would like to discuss it further when I have more time.  What are those people thinking when they do stuff like that?  For now I'm just going to try that trick about making the white space go away.  

Okay. I tried it and this is what happened.  Got any more ideas?

stupid stupid stupid

 I thought I remembered that assassination attempt, but research revealed that what I remembered was the shootout in the capital of 1954. The whole subject came up again in the 60's with a local gang turned activists The Young Lords who honored those past heroes of theirs.  In the oughts walking from the train to De Diego School (named for Jose De Diego the founder of the Puerto Rican independence movement) I passed by a mural honoring the group that shot up the capitol.  They were eventually pardoned by Jimmy Carter in 1979.

De Diego the grammar school was originally Tuley High School.  This was where Saul Bellow went to high school (also Knute Rockne, which I have just now learned thanks to the joys of research).  You'd think a school would want to boast about that, but in the four or five years that I subbed there I never heard a word about him.

It was a very Puerto Rican school, they talked about Puerto Rico a lot, kids would doodle the Puerto Rican flag on their notebooks, around Christmas they would celebrate Three Kings Day and the school would actually give gifts to the kids.

Seems stupid to me, well not Puerto Ricans who are all God's children like the rest of us, and even US citizens, though not quite with no representation in congress.  The independence movement that seems pretty stupid.  At the time of the capitol hill shooting 90 percent of Puerto Ricans wanted to remain in the United States.  But what seems really stupid stupid stupid to me was that these guys thought that by shooting up the prez or the capitol that they would somehow advance their cause.  That the rest of the people of the United States would, because of those shootings, decide, gee I guess these guys mean business, maybe we should grant them independence.

Kind of the way I feel about those guys who tore down statues for awhile, almost a fad thing, for awhile it was very cool, but now the cool guys have moved on, or the guys in Portland who have wasted any good will they may have had long ago, or the BLM idiots who praised looting as a sort of informal reparations thing.  None of that shit helped their cause at all.  But it was like they didn't care, what was really important to them was that they were in the right, because they were opposing wrong things.  Just opposing wrong things was sufficient for treating others badly.  George Floyd was murdered by cops and I oppose that, therefore I can punch you in the mouth or loot your store.  Stupid.  Stupid.  Stupid.

In order to get rid of the white space at the end of your post.  Put your cursor at the end of the post and hold down the delete key until all the white is gone.

The Total Experience

The problem I have with sheath knives is I lose them.  I don't know where they go, but I've never had one last for more than a few trips.  The folding knife I use for deer hunting is a specialty tool.  It has three blades, one of which I don't use, but the two that I do use are perfect for the job.  One of them is actually a little saw, which I use to split the rib cage and the pelvis. There is more than one way to gut a deer, some people don't split the rib cage and the pelvis, but I prefer to because it makes the insides more accessible.  

Cleaning fish and game is not a pleasant job, but it goes with the territory.  Most people don't clean fish and small game until they get home or back to camp.  That's okay, assuming that you are going directly home, but not if you're going to stop at the bar for four hours on the way home, leaving your prize to ferment in the trunk of your car the whole time.  Deer and other big game are usually field dressed where they fall, and may even be skinned and quartered if they have to be packed out a long distance.  In this area, most hunters drag their deer to the nearest road or trail where they can pick it up with some kind of motor vehicle.  Field dressing reduces the weight, and also helps the meat to cool a bit while you go get your vehicle.  Once their deer is loaded onto their vehicle, many hunters take it to a professional butcher who will process it for a price, but I prefer to do it all myself.  For me, it's not just about killing things, I embrace the total experience.

Uncle Ken:  Like I said, I was not aware that the amount of white space at the end of a post could be controlled.  I know that now, but I still don't know how to do it.  

End of November

Good post about the fat doe, Mr. Beagles, but this city slicker has a question: Why a folding knife and not a proper hunting knife with a sheath?  No judgement, just curious.  Being unable to close the knife seems a little scary to me especially in a field situation.

No hunting in my background, but plenty of time fishing and bonding with my spirit animal, the mosquito.  Nothing fancy, usually just sitting in a boat with a cane pole waiting for the little red and white bobber to bob.  Good times, but scaling and cleaning fish is not a task I enjoyed.

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Another Thanksgiving Day is in the history book but the more I read about history I can see why some folks call it The Day of Mourning.  Anyhow, I felt like an outlaw in defiance of travel restrictions and went to my sister's home.  There were only six of us and there was plenty of social distancing.  It was another turkey-free day, with duck and chicken being the birds of choice.  I brought a couple of pies, alas, nothing home made.  Sara Lee's frozen Dutch Apple pie is surprisingly good.

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Speaking of history, today I learned that there was an assassination attempt on Harry S Truman in 1950.  A couple of Puerto Rican nationalists came damn close and I wonder why I never knew about this before today.  Have any of you guys ever heard about Oscar Collazo?  This was news to me but it's very possible I learned it at one time but it has slipped my memory.