This story is everywhere right now for obvious reasons, and there are a thousand takes already – some good, some instant and sloppy. My essays take a lot of time, so I greatly appreciate your likes and restacks. Comments are open for a bit, and I look forward to hearing your views; I'll reply in the coming days. And if you're new here, do subscribe. Thanks for reading!
It's a good analogy. Well written. I like Matt Goodwin's take as well.
When the truckers marched nonviolently on Ottawa against Covid mandates imposed by Trudeau, I wrote an opinion piece comparing them to the civil rights marchers in Birmingham, Alabama -- especially the negative reaction they got at the hands of locals. The truckers and supporters who were sick of Canada being run like a plantation and their lives and livelihoods disregarded by unnecessary mandates were like blacks in the 1960s responding to racism. Needless to say, the Ottawa paper I sent it to didn't print it. Instead, the organizers were put on trial (a show trial as it turned out). The media helped the Ottawa elites to demonize and scapegoat the protestors and working class.
The UK is actually ahead of Canada when it comes to protesting mass immigration. Here it's still a taboo subject, but there at least the Reform party has a chance to win, and it's on the table, politically. It's talked about at least. Is there more mass immigration in the UK? No, there's actually more in Canada, but it's a bigger country, so easier to hide. And white people here are not indigenous to Canada, but in the UK they are, and there is a much longer tradition of patriotism in the UK. Canadians are naive. The media in Canada promotes TDS and helps the government sell out to China. Only a few bother to notice. Trudeau is gone, but his party is still in power. I hope Reform wins and takes back the UK. It's long overdue.
Thanks Frederick, very powerfully expressed. There’s not much more to add apart from to wonder how much more of the sneering contempt the ordinary, decent people of this country will take. Enough of the lying, the gaslighting, the whataboutery, the deflection, the instructions not to be angry. We can all see what’s been happening for the past few decades. And that is that the narcissistic arrogance of the people in power has created chaos out of order. All because they are convinced that they know what’s best for us and they will impose it whether we like it or not.
May that poor boy rest in peace and his heartbroken family eventually find some comfort.
This is what happens when corporate HR/marketing types are allowed to have a say in an organisation's core functions, performance evaluation, and pay incentives. People who know nothing about the actual work but who invariably shoehorn the latest virtue signal fad into tasks. The poor workers learn to adapt, on pain of losing promotion, raise, and bonuses. The Nowak tragedy is just corporate hell multiplied millions of times in terms of impact.
For a totalitarian system to work it must impose a complete inversion of reality, the better to keep the population unbalanced, and therefore more easily controlled. This is plainly happening across the West, but the Anglosphere is where it seems to be most concentrated. The society that produced Orwell seems poised to fulfill his most alarming predictions.
You're writing excellent, cogent, relevant stuff. Keep it up. Things are starting to pop, finally. maybe there's time to right this sinking ship after all.
This is what Corbynism does to a formally great nation. Divide, conquer, socialism, victimhood, and hate of certain people in the name of social justice.
Starmer is not Starmer, he is Corbyn wearing a Starmer body costume. The old communist geezer who never left the 70s and believed that the winter of discontent was how Britain should always behave won in the end. Welcome to parliamentary democracy lads!
I go even further, back to Blair. Even during Thatchers time, there was a long, traceable line of "Englishness" or "Britishness". From Blair onwards, that traceable line was - in some cases obviously deliberately - targetted for destruction.
"A young man is bleeding in front of you, lying on the ground, all but motionless, saying with what little life he has left that he can’t breathe. It’s an unambiguous distress signal; a dog would understand it. Consider what it takes, then, to respond first with mockery, then with handcuffs."
It's hard to distinguish these bastards from any run of the mill SS guard a couple of generations earlier.
Thanks Danny, I knew the story but was still too upset to break it down in manageable chunks. You helped. But boy, are we screwed in the West. Short of an all out uprising against the state, what can be done to reverse this?
Many Sikhs were attacked and some killed post 9-11 because they were wearing a turban, and mistaken for Muslims (of course also wrong to attack a random innocent Muslim) - it is not surprising that a few cops made this mistake, and believed Digwa initially. The police make deal with about a million violent scenes each year, and many of the police will always be inexperienced, and/or corrupt, or not the brightest (if only because there are 180,000 of them).
This is not what some want to to be - the next grooming scandal police race fail. I am reading all sorts of bad info, bad faith writing on this - that the knife used was a Kirpan; that Sikhs were given special rights that would not be extended to Whites; that Sikhs make bad immigrants; that the MSM is not reporting on the issue; that it is a simple, obvious, egregious case of reverse racism.
That may be the case, but "racism" is rationally well down the scale of crimes compared to grievous bodily harm/attempted murder (which is what it was at the time the police arrived). "Racism" isn't an excuse for a young man to be laying in the street semi-concious. The officers in attendance failed do act in a sensible or principled manner, and failed at basic decency because they have been taught wrongly that "racism" is the pinnacle of offences, and the bloke in the turban, kurta pyjama or whatever is always to be assumed to be the victim.
As far as I've heard, the first thing the police heard from either of them was Digwa saying that he (Digwa) was racially abused and then attacked by Nowak, the police asked him if he was hurt, and Digwa replied in the affirmative and showed an apparent black eye. This was a lie of course, as was the false assumption that Digwa had simply won a fight that he did not start. I'm not sure, but I'd guess that the fact that Digwa remained on the scene made it look like he was a victim rather than the perp - perps tend to run away.
I do not like importing violent people, and seethe at the grooming gang scandal, but let's not also import American style hyper-partisanship, trial by tweet and video etc.
That's a good point about the appearance. I'm still don't think that ignoring a claim of having been stabbed should have been treated in the cavalier fashion the video shows. I'm not hyper-partisan about immigrants (I'd be a bit of a hypocrite if I was), but I am quite partisan about people acting with care, especially those with a duty.
I seem to recall a grand total of one (1) Sikh being killed after 9-11 here in the U.S. Absolutely unjustified and terrible, but just one. In a country of 300 million plus. I lived near Seattle at the time and clearly remember the Somali community there celebrating - Yes, celebrating after 9-11 - the most outrageous and devastating terrorist attack in modern history. And nothing happened to them. Nothing. I just wanted to set the record straight on that.
The US is the most heavily armed country on earth - civilian - that is. And the restraint we've shown says a lot about us.
I’m afraid I have to take issue with your analysis. The cultural training aspect is important but I think there may a more fundamental issue that is not fully addressed in your article - the issue of expectation bias that we are all susceptible to.
In this tragic case, Digwa’s brother called the police to report a racial abuse incident. The police who attended were therefore already primed to expect a racial abuse incident. Expectation bias would have made it very difficult for them to arrive at the scene ready to investigate with an open mind.
As a former anaesthetist I am well aware of the perils of expectation bias. When an operating room crisis occurs, such as the patient’s oxygen levels plummeting, an anaesthetist can call for help from another anaesthetist. If that person is told that the problem is asthma ( the patient is known to suffer from chronic asthma) the second anaesthetist may try different drugs to resolve the “asthma”. However the problem is not asthma- the problem is that the patient’s breathing tube has been inserted too far and is only ventilating one lung. In order to fix such a problem an anaesthetist should always go back to basics, and step by step, figure out what the underlying problem is. That is what we are trained to do in a crisis. And that training is the antidote to expectation bias.
Without specific training about cognitive bias and how to manage it, I believe it would have been psychologically difficult for those police to counter the expectation bias that the brother’s phone call created.
This story is everywhere right now for obvious reasons, and there are a thousand takes already – some good, some instant and sloppy. My essays take a lot of time, so I greatly appreciate your likes and restacks. Comments are open for a bit, and I look forward to hearing your views; I'll reply in the coming days. And if you're new here, do subscribe. Thanks for reading!
It's a good analogy. Well written. I like Matt Goodwin's take as well.
When the truckers marched nonviolently on Ottawa against Covid mandates imposed by Trudeau, I wrote an opinion piece comparing them to the civil rights marchers in Birmingham, Alabama -- especially the negative reaction they got at the hands of locals. The truckers and supporters who were sick of Canada being run like a plantation and their lives and livelihoods disregarded by unnecessary mandates were like blacks in the 1960s responding to racism. Needless to say, the Ottawa paper I sent it to didn't print it. Instead, the organizers were put on trial (a show trial as it turned out). The media helped the Ottawa elites to demonize and scapegoat the protestors and working class.
The UK is actually ahead of Canada when it comes to protesting mass immigration. Here it's still a taboo subject, but there at least the Reform party has a chance to win, and it's on the table, politically. It's talked about at least. Is there more mass immigration in the UK? No, there's actually more in Canada, but it's a bigger country, so easier to hide. And white people here are not indigenous to Canada, but in the UK they are, and there is a much longer tradition of patriotism in the UK. Canadians are naive. The media in Canada promotes TDS and helps the government sell out to China. Only a few bother to notice. Trudeau is gone, but his party is still in power. I hope Reform wins and takes back the UK. It's long overdue.
Thanks Frederick, very powerfully expressed. There’s not much more to add apart from to wonder how much more of the sneering contempt the ordinary, decent people of this country will take. Enough of the lying, the gaslighting, the whataboutery, the deflection, the instructions not to be angry. We can all see what’s been happening for the past few decades. And that is that the narcissistic arrogance of the people in power has created chaos out of order. All because they are convinced that they know what’s best for us and they will impose it whether we like it or not.
May that poor boy rest in peace and his heartbroken family eventually find some comfort.
This is what happens when corporate HR/marketing types are allowed to have a say in an organisation's core functions, performance evaluation, and pay incentives. People who know nothing about the actual work but who invariably shoehorn the latest virtue signal fad into tasks. The poor workers learn to adapt, on pain of losing promotion, raise, and bonuses. The Nowak tragedy is just corporate hell multiplied millions of times in terms of impact.
For a totalitarian system to work it must impose a complete inversion of reality, the better to keep the population unbalanced, and therefore more easily controlled. This is plainly happening across the West, but the Anglosphere is where it seems to be most concentrated. The society that produced Orwell seems poised to fulfill his most alarming predictions.
You're writing excellent, cogent, relevant stuff. Keep it up. Things are starting to pop, finally. maybe there's time to right this sinking ship after all.
Are you sure the police aren’t sociopaths?
I would have said their actions ‘I know, but we have to check, don’t we?’ and ‘I don’t think so mate’ more than prove they are.
It’s well known that the people who want power are the least fit to wield it.
My thoughts exactly. They may have been indoctrinated, but at the end of the day, we are still responsible for our own actions.
Eva, university indoctrination happened, unlike other countries where police are typically working class:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/dec/15/new-police-officers-face-degree-requirement
In the past, a black man was lynched and people said, "He probably had it coming."
Today, a white man is stabbed and people say, "He probably had it coming."
Something brings to mind Enoch Powell's prophetic "Rivers of blood" speech.
This is what Corbynism does to a formally great nation. Divide, conquer, socialism, victimhood, and hate of certain people in the name of social justice.
Starmer is not Starmer, he is Corbyn wearing a Starmer body costume. The old communist geezer who never left the 70s and believed that the winter of discontent was how Britain should always behave won in the end. Welcome to parliamentary democracy lads!
I go even further, back to Blair. Even during Thatchers time, there was a long, traceable line of "Englishness" or "Britishness". From Blair onwards, that traceable line was - in some cases obviously deliberately - targetted for destruction.
"A young man is bleeding in front of you, lying on the ground, all but motionless, saying with what little life he has left that he can’t breathe. It’s an unambiguous distress signal; a dog would understand it. Consider what it takes, then, to respond first with mockery, then with handcuffs."
It's hard to distinguish these bastards from any run of the mill SS guard a couple of generations earlier.
Horrible!
Thanks Danny, I knew the story but was still too upset to break it down in manageable chunks. You helped. But boy, are we screwed in the West. Short of an all out uprising against the state, what can be done to reverse this?
Many Sikhs were attacked and some killed post 9-11 because they were wearing a turban, and mistaken for Muslims (of course also wrong to attack a random innocent Muslim) - it is not surprising that a few cops made this mistake, and believed Digwa initially. The police make deal with about a million violent scenes each year, and many of the police will always be inexperienced, and/or corrupt, or not the brightest (if only because there are 180,000 of them).
This is not what some want to to be - the next grooming scandal police race fail. I am reading all sorts of bad info, bad faith writing on this - that the knife used was a Kirpan; that Sikhs were given special rights that would not be extended to Whites; that Sikhs make bad immigrants; that the MSM is not reporting on the issue; that it is a simple, obvious, egregious case of reverse racism.
That may be the case, but "racism" is rationally well down the scale of crimes compared to grievous bodily harm/attempted murder (which is what it was at the time the police arrived). "Racism" isn't an excuse for a young man to be laying in the street semi-concious. The officers in attendance failed do act in a sensible or principled manner, and failed at basic decency because they have been taught wrongly that "racism" is the pinnacle of offences, and the bloke in the turban, kurta pyjama or whatever is always to be assumed to be the victim.
As far as I've heard, the first thing the police heard from either of them was Digwa saying that he (Digwa) was racially abused and then attacked by Nowak, the police asked him if he was hurt, and Digwa replied in the affirmative and showed an apparent black eye. This was a lie of course, as was the false assumption that Digwa had simply won a fight that he did not start. I'm not sure, but I'd guess that the fact that Digwa remained on the scene made it look like he was a victim rather than the perp - perps tend to run away.
I do not like importing violent people, and seethe at the grooming gang scandal, but let's not also import American style hyper-partisanship, trial by tweet and video etc.
That's a good point about the appearance. I'm still don't think that ignoring a claim of having been stabbed should have been treated in the cavalier fashion the video shows. I'm not hyper-partisan about immigrants (I'd be a bit of a hypocrite if I was), but I am quite partisan about people acting with care, especially those with a duty.
I seem to recall a grand total of one (1) Sikh being killed after 9-11 here in the U.S. Absolutely unjustified and terrible, but just one. In a country of 300 million plus. I lived near Seattle at the time and clearly remember the Somali community there celebrating - Yes, celebrating after 9-11 - the most outrageous and devastating terrorist attack in modern history. And nothing happened to them. Nothing. I just wanted to set the record straight on that.
The US is the most heavily armed country on earth - civilian - that is. And the restraint we've shown says a lot about us.
I’m afraid I have to take issue with your analysis. The cultural training aspect is important but I think there may a more fundamental issue that is not fully addressed in your article - the issue of expectation bias that we are all susceptible to.
In this tragic case, Digwa’s brother called the police to report a racial abuse incident. The police who attended were therefore already primed to expect a racial abuse incident. Expectation bias would have made it very difficult for them to arrive at the scene ready to investigate with an open mind.
As a former anaesthetist I am well aware of the perils of expectation bias. When an operating room crisis occurs, such as the patient’s oxygen levels plummeting, an anaesthetist can call for help from another anaesthetist. If that person is told that the problem is asthma ( the patient is known to suffer from chronic asthma) the second anaesthetist may try different drugs to resolve the “asthma”. However the problem is not asthma- the problem is that the patient’s breathing tube has been inserted too far and is only ventilating one lung. In order to fix such a problem an anaesthetist should always go back to basics, and step by step, figure out what the underlying problem is. That is what we are trained to do in a crisis. And that training is the antidote to expectation bias.
Without specific training about cognitive bias and how to manage it, I believe it would have been psychologically difficult for those police to counter the expectation bias that the brother’s phone call created.
I believe the brother was an accessory to murder.