Anarchy, One Rape at a Time

In my last post, I noted that the woke culture’s drumbeat of hate against the United States was certain to have, and in fact is having, consequences.  In part, they are being reflected in the surge of riots, arson and other violent crime that even the Left no longer bothers to deny.  But while the denials have withered, in their place have come the dodges and excuses.  One of the most popular is that (ever heard this one?) “correlation is not causation.”  Hey, look  —  the story goes  —  violent crime has always tended to increase in warmer months.  It’s not the woke culture’s anthem of fury; it’s just correlation with the weather.  So what’s to worry?

What’s to worry is that if we tell people whose stability is none too good to start with that they are justified in their anger and hate, eventually they’ll believe us.  And when they believe us, they’re going to act on what we’ve been telling them.

The story from the New York Post is titled, “Man nabbed for Bronx rape allegedly said she ‘deserved it’ for ‘slavery.’”  It begins (emphasis added):

A black parolee arrested for raping and bashing a white woman on the roof of his Bronx apartment building allegedly told a witness that she “deserved” the brutal attack because of slavery, according to court papers.

“She was a white girl. She deserved it because us minorities have been through slavery,” Temar Bishop, 23, allegedly said to someone who witnessed the bloodied 20-year-old woman after the assaults, according to a criminal complaint.

“This is what they used to do to us. This is what they did to us during slavery. They used to beat us and whip us.”

Temar Bishop, 23, was arrested by authorities on Friday in Virginia on a slew of charges connected to the early morning June 1 assault, which officials have deemed a hate crime, according to authorities.

The 20-year-old met Bishop — who was on parole after serving just over a year behind bars for robbery — around 5 a.m. and joined him on the rooftop of the public housing building on Alexander Avenue near East 137th Street in Mott Haven, police said.

I’ll wager $1000 here and now that this will not be that last bloody crime this month that the perpetrator will “justify” using exactly the mantra the Amerika Stinks movement has been blasting out.  Any takers?

And yes, the rapist was on parole.  Well, why not?  The academic “experts” who’ve been rebuking us for years about “incarceration nation” have always thought that the risks of our policy choices should be borne, not by those who decide that stealing and brutality are the way to a fast buck or a rollicking good time, but by the next victim.  And if it’s a rape victim, well, she’ll get over it.