tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post7790684681617169380..comments2024-03-28T12:24:09.005-04:00Comments on Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org : Patterns and IncidentsDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1834623164904653362013-09-18T06:37:55.136-04:002013-09-18T06:37:55.136-04:0010,000 plus muslim terrorist attacks world wide si...10,000 plus muslim terrorist attacks world wide since 9/11 are a pattern moderationisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04545737577902619954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8552290914373174952013-09-16T03:10:55.733-04:002013-09-16T03:10:55.733-04:00"Last Wednesday, Lashawn Marten was playing c..."Last Wednesday, Lashawn Marten was playing chess when he announced, "I hate white people". Then he began hitting random white people who were walking by. By the time he was done, several were wounded and one lay dying."<br /><br />Excuse me,Mr. Greenfield, but I find this claim highly dubious. <br /><br />He was playing chess? I might believe dealing drugs,but it'll be a pretty tall order to convince me there's actually any negroes alive who know the names of the pieces. Nice try, but you'll have to get me drunk before I fall for that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-51970018702025864742013-09-15T18:13:38.195-04:002013-09-15T18:13:38.195-04:00Daniel, you recognize the pattern yet choose to li...Daniel, you recognize the pattern yet choose to live in NYC. Common sense, get away from there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-9751691804603092762013-09-15T14:45:45.965-04:002013-09-15T14:45:45.965-04:00Great post on patterns. I noticed that on televisi...Great post on patterns. I noticed that on television back in the late 60’s—it seemed Hollywood was trying to teach everyone that black people see the world just as do white people. Yet on the news, we saw Malcolm X screaming about Blue-eyed Devils, black people burning down cities during bloody race riots across the country, armed Black Panthers talking about exterminating “whitey”, yet TV shows showed us that the black person was always the smartest and most tolerant guy in the room. Too, he was the most honorable, fair and noble. The black straw men were actually BETTER than all of the white straw people shown in the fictional story. At least one white racist was always depicted, yet the black hero rose above it, without commenting on or complaining about the injustice he had to endure. He just took it in stride. The way white people are supposed to now, as they’re being raped, robbed and/or murdered.. The same approach was seen in the ‘70’s with shows about single mothers who didn’t need a man to help raise their kids, straw women who were always much smarter than the straw men with whom they interacted in the fictional play. Lots of those shows were situation comedies, so that the message seemed humorous, rather than “preachy”. The 80’s had the rise of the evil businessman as played by Larry Hagman, with lots of copycat and spin-off shows to reinforce the idea that rich people are evil, and little people in their lives are always victims. In the late 90’s TV shows showing the moral and intellectual superiority of gays became the rage, with cute slice-of-life comedies like “Will and Grace”, cable TV hit “Queer as Folk”, movies like “The Crying Game” and others ad nauseum. <br />Today, it’s “reality” programs, and competitions for instant fame and stardom like “American Idol” and “Dancing with the Stars” that seem to teach us all to be a lot more shallow, and “real” just like the “normal people” on shows like “Jersey Shore”, while ingraining in society’s collective mind the obvious mental illness of those misfits on “Doomsday Preppers” or “Hoarders”. In fact, “hoarding” of various things has recently become a “crime” again (food “hoarding” was a federal crime in WW II), people in NM have been fined, their property seized and jailed or placed in mental institutions for “hoarding” pets, junk cars and other things that the founders would have never dreamed of giving govt the authority to prosecute…<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-35586435969088791152013-09-14T22:19:22.272-04:002013-09-14T22:19:22.272-04:00After all Illinois is technically flyover country....After all Illinois is technically flyover country."<br /><br />But it hardly represents all of the mid-West or other non-NYC parts of the USA. Your first and last sentences are in complete disagreement.<br /><br />No the sentences are not in disagreement. I said that no place is immune from the problem the urban coastal areas have in terms of politics and I gave a Midwestern example. I also qualified it by saying "technically".Just because Chicago may be anomalous now does not mean it will remain anomalous in the future. You are closer than you think.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-61735904026417466872013-09-14T15:05:10.833-04:002013-09-14T15:05:10.833-04:00I was up early watching Manchester United, one of ...I was up early watching Manchester United, one of the reliable patterns of my life. A easy day ahead. I read this. My day is made uneasy. Twenty years ago, I spent a year's worth of weekends in NYC, from another culture with the view to permanency there with the Jewish love of my life.It didn't stick. NYC that is. Brilliant and unnerving.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-45254400508512677512013-09-14T11:54:24.642-04:002013-09-14T11:54:24.642-04:00"After all Illinois is technically flyover co..."After all Illinois is technically flyover country."<br /><br />But it hardly represents all of the mid-West or other non-NYC parts of the USA. Your first and last sentences are in complete disagreement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-65186171188050154352013-09-14T09:33:50.494-04:002013-09-14T09:33:50.494-04:00I've been observing their pattern for at least...I've been observing <i>their</i> pattern for at least 40 years. They've insisted we're all racists, as though it is the Original Sin that can't be blotted out. I've even seen godly, wise, but younger men succumb to the pattern of it, as ignorantly as fish that don't know they are wet. I am of the last generation that has enough experience to weigh against the tide of the Narrative.<br /><br />Kick, people. Swim! Any dead fish can go with the flow.Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-30627534404323332292013-09-14T01:09:27.941-04:002013-09-14T01:09:27.941-04:00Daniel,
Excellent piece. John Derbyshire got cann...Daniel,<br /><br />Excellent piece. John Derbyshire got canned at NRO for writing about one of the patterns you've described here. Sometimes--actually, lots of times--the truth hurts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-84284548439615723642013-09-13T18:28:33.848-04:002013-09-13T18:28:33.848-04:00Most thinking people intuitively know of what Mr. ...Most thinking people intuitively know of what Mr. Greenfield writes. Very few of us can articulate it. Nearly every Greenfield column I read is an "ah ha!" moment for me, like my all my scrambled thoughts coalesce into a coherent understanding. This is one of those columns.Tritonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17258845510769057144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-34939588182819036982013-09-13T14:25:56.256-04:002013-09-13T14:25:56.256-04:00I grew up in NYC and have lived elsewhere. I don&...I grew up in NYC and have lived elsewhere. I don't think flyover country is as alien to NYC as people think nor is NYC as really different as many people suppose.<br /><br />What makes a city work is the middle and working class and when there is a disparity between the interests of those classes with corporate interests and the political interests that supposedly represent them you have a problem. The five boroughs became alien territory to Manhattan. Manhattan was where monolithic corporations fell into a bubble and believed they could run their businesses into the ground for an easy buck by outsourcing labor, using advertising as a substitute for quality and promoting a form of equal opportunity employment which meant less opportunity for all and a "victim" elite which had a lot more wealth than real victims usually have.<br /><br />Then you have the Democratic political machine which came down from the immigrant gangs and opportunities for graft that used racial politics and threats of gang violence as cover. Prohibition didn't help.<br /><br />Flyover country isn't that honest and its politics inherently conservative. Plenty of Obama loving hipsters from the Midwest in Brooklyn now helping the most Leftist and most corrupt "represent" oppressed minorities. The more they help the more expensive and whiter the neighborhoods get.<br /><br />All the Midwest needs is to marry that attitude with entrenched interests and it will be no different than the coast. After all Illinois is technically flyover country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-9820022966542144412013-09-13T10:39:00.645-04:002013-09-13T10:39:00.645-04:00Every day, on her way to work, a woman passes a pe...Every day, on her way to work, a woman passes a pet shop, where a parrot sits on a perch outside the door and every day, as the woman passes, the parrot screams: “you’re ugly, you’re stupid”<br /><br />This goes on for some weeks until the woman decides to confront the pet store owner<br /><br />The pet store owner hears her complaint and understands that her self esteem is being diminished by the parrot says: Don’t worry ma’am, I’ll have a talk with him”<br />So he has a talk with the parrot about civil discourse, courtesy, self esteem, feelings etc.<br /><br />The next day, the woman walks by, the parrot looks her in the eye and says: “you know”<br /><br />We know.<br />Willy Ruffianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00995536905699748062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-405353416646072552013-09-13T00:11:06.777-04:002013-09-13T00:11:06.777-04:00You have the ability to make the inchoate suddenly...You have the ability to make the inchoate suddenly, blissfully choate. King Choate!<br /><br />Thanks!Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-10940237761137244402013-09-12T23:44:25.325-04:002013-09-12T23:44:25.325-04:00urbanization is transformative
it changes the way...urbanization is transformative<br /><br />it changes the way that people live and interact<br /><br />We could have the left without cities, but not the brand of elitist liberalism we have todayDaniel Greenfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-90520570478943178622013-09-12T23:37:02.791-04:002013-09-12T23:37:02.791-04:00Your description of NYC life is so foreign to that...Your description of NYC life is so foreign to that we have out here in fly-over country. I look out my window and see a quiet street and my neighbor's homes and cars. If I go 'downtown', I see a business here, a restaurant there, maybe a few homeless wandering aimlessly toward something only they know of. There are no congregations of the mentally ill, no Occupiers, nothing like that at all. Our business districts are in 'parks' that have huge parking lots. Our streets are clean, uncluttered with trash, kids and adults ride bikes without incident.<br />Your world isn't mine, it's so foreign that it might as well be in another country.<br />NYC, and most big northern city, is unlike the rest of the country. Even LosAngeles is unlike NYC.<br />It's not like we don't have any crime, because we do; what we don't have are hundreds of witnesses that see it happen. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-49517554727352025132013-09-12T23:31:05.786-04:002013-09-12T23:31:05.786-04:00You are swiveling the panopticon's viewfinder ...You are swiveling the panopticon's viewfinder dangerously in the direction of the Cathedral.<br /><br />Surely you're not going to drift any further?<br /><br />The Dark Enlightenement beckons...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-27530729661789717392013-09-12T18:07:49.435-04:002013-09-12T18:07:49.435-04:00To Common 'Tater and Undine,
Almost every one ...To Common 'Tater and Undine,<br />Almost every one of the Sultan's columns has been "one of his best" It is a "pattern". God watch over you Daniel.<br /><br />-RurikAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-20657213829541715962013-09-12T17:47:03.385-04:002013-09-12T17:47:03.385-04:00This is at once obvious and brilliant, like much o...This is at once obvious and brilliant, like much of your writing. I recently came to the conclusion that the nightly news is in fact a Potemkin village made just for us. Unfortunately for the regime, too many of us have realized just how farcical the narrative has become. A word of warning: remember that the last recourse of the left, after all their utopian plans fail, is violence. A hundred million souls are there to remind us of the final play of the leftists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3289808418218238802013-09-12T16:51:42.833-04:002013-09-12T16:51:42.833-04:00For those interested, I wrote a bit more on the pa...For those interested, I wrote a bit more on the pattern breaking effect of political correctness here<br /><br />http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/04/terrorism-without-motive.html<br /><br /><br />"Investigations consist of connecting the dots. If you can't conceive of a connection, then the investigation is stuck. If you can't make the leap from A to B or add two to two and get four, then you are dependent on lucky breaks. And lucky breaks go both ways. Sometimes investigators get lucky and other times the terrorists get lucky. <br /><br />Federal law enforcement was repeatedly warned by the Russians that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was dangerous, but operating under the influence of a political culture that refused to see Islam as a motive for terrorism, it failed to connect the dots between Chechen violence in Russia and potential terrorism in the United States, and because it could not see Islam as a motive, as a causal factor rather than a casual factor, it could find no reason why Tamerlan was a threat not just to Russia, but also to the United States."Daniel Greenfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-65380760303449056222013-09-12T16:48:53.791-04:002013-09-12T16:48:53.791-04:00Anonymous, indeed a discontinuity, who are you goi...Anonymous, indeed a discontinuity, who are you going to believe us, or your lying eyes<br /><br />David, thank you<br /><br />meema, common sense is essentially trusting your own experiences to guide youDaniel Greenfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-25260176869246895552013-09-12T16:37:13.571-04:002013-09-12T16:37:13.571-04:00I've been a fan of your blog for years and hav...I've been a fan of your blog for years and have read some truly brilliant posts, but this one tops them all. Ever had one of those moments of true clarity? I just did-thanks! I will hit the tip jar for this "beauty!"David Spencenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-30903506011469165262013-09-12T16:33:09.954-04:002013-09-12T16:33:09.954-04:00Brilliant, Daniel! On the one hand it is encouragi...Brilliant, Daniel! On the one hand it is encouraging to see that you and your readers get it. On the other hand, it is frustrating and depressing to know that those who prefer to keep the patterns obfuscated do so because they choose to believe that patterns and truths are irrelevant. <br /><br />The best tool for recognizing patterns is plain vanilla common sense. Unfortunately, that’s a rapidly declining attribute nowadays that is being replaced with a glittery feel good self-righteous meme. I fear my generation started it in the sixties. Took me a long time to realize that. We were young and foolish and easily duped. <br /><br />“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.” Thomas Paine, Common Sensemeemahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09104303592278897991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-83798367919795283382013-09-12T16:19:38.002-04:002013-09-12T16:19:38.002-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09518677967627217789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8206985453440984572013-09-12T15:59:36.188-04:002013-09-12T15:59:36.188-04:00Brilliant! We as humans are always attracted to p...Brilliant! We as humans are always attracted to patterns. As an artist, I know this and make it part of my work. The brain will always seek to fill in the missing bits to create a pattern and thus a feeling of understanding and satisfaction. If one wants to obscure an obvious pattern one must leave out the bits it hinges upon and force ambiguity, ( ie Obama, no terrorist attack at Benghazi ). Then write an artist statement (ie Susan Rice on 5 talk shows), telling the viewer anything you like. Just use "artspeak" ie (plain old lies repeated often using big words). Curators (media) will love it. No wonder Americans are confused. Their brains "see" the pattern but the propaganda makes them doubt themselves. It takes courage to look past the propaganda and then the pattern smacks you in the face. Thanks for doing so. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-14017456472006286502013-09-12T14:06:16.656-04:002013-09-12T14:06:16.656-04:00There are many obvious things that people don'...There are many obvious things that people don't want to see, mostly because they distract from the already trying problem of making a living.<br />Unfortunately, history shows that "PAIN" usually gets their attention, and it a pity that's what it will take, once again.<br />The question is how much.<br />Regards,DenisOnoreply@blogger.com