We Agree This Is Happening -- The Question Is Why
As an Aristotelian, I look for causes. We don't have a whole lot of insight for now into the "final" cause of Darrell Brooks Jr's crashing a very snazzy red Ford Escape into a Waukesha, WI Christmas parade on November 21. It sounds as though he may have been fleeing another crime scene, or a fight, and it's hard not to speculate that drugs may also have been involved. But that's less important for now than the "efficient" cause, for which we have some informed insight. Brooks is the entirely predictable product of a political- and social-media driven effort to address crime by pretending that it doesn’t exist. To present criminals — particularly black criminals — as victims. To pay no meaningful attention to actual victims — who overwhelmingly are black themselves. . . . Brooks, however, is a depressingly familiar type. He had been released on nominal bail Friday after being charged Nov. 5 with domestic abuse, resisting an officer, s...