{"id":1356,"date":"2020-06-14T16:55:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T23:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2020-06-14T16:55:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T23:55:33","slug":"figment-mascots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2020\/06\/14\/figment-mascots\/","title":{"rendered":"Figment Mascots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The anti-fascist that can be described is not the the eternal antifascist<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XmWxan4bFzY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XmWxan4bFzY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A comment below this video had it right. Something to the effect that he can&#8217;t find ANTIFA anywhere, but PROFA is everywhere he turns his eyes. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile: ***<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Author of &#8216;The End of Policing&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DMh_hNPI24A\" title=\"Alex Vitale explains\">Alex Vitale explains<\/a> how much policing communities really need to create a more equitable society.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>This is eleven minutes worth in an easy-to-digest almost mainstream format, and I&#8217;m posting it because I owe Mr. Vitale a good bit of attribtuion, cribbed from the interview he gave Michael Moore, as described in the &#8216;Most Peculiar&#8217; post of two days ago.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They fear that any involvement of the police in their lives will make their lives worse and not better.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Even a  white boy can relate, to wit:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Percentage of my own police encounters that<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Had a clearly negative impact on my life: 58%<br \/>\n(A low estimate that doesn&#8217;t include the simple negative impacts like wasted time, but does include one instance of being detained and handcuffed for reasons that weren&#8217;t even reasons.)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Had a neutral impact on my life: 42%<br \/>\n(Let go with a warning, for instance, because I wasn&#8217;t doing anything to violate the public safety&#8211;flashing some idiot with highbeams on with my own highbeams, and having it turn out that the idiot had a badge)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Had a clearly positive impact on my life: 0%<br \/>\n(One time when I was a brand new homeowner and member of the propertied class, I called them to get an illegally parked car out of my driveway. I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d do that again, but I mention it in the spirit of full disclosure)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If my skin were any browner, the neg percentage, and the raw numbers of encounters overall, would be much higher. There&#8217;s a far too high chance that I wouldn&#8217;t even be alive to write this. <\/p>\n<p>Defund now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anti-fascist that can be described is not the the eternal antifascist https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XmWxan4bFzY A comment below this video had it right. Something to the effect that he can&#8217;t find ANTIFA anywhere, but PROFA is everywhere he turns his eyes. Meanwhile: *** &quot;Author of &#8216;The End of Policing&#8217; Alex Vitale explains how much policing communities really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1357,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}