{"id":7247,"date":"2022-08-25T22:48:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T02:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=7247"},"modified":"2022-08-25T22:48:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T02:48:19","slug":"second-look-at-the-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/second-look-at-the-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Second look at “The Talk”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Derbyshire proven right<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last Sunday, a college couple, 22-year-old Adam Simjee and his 20-year-old girlfriend, Mikayla Paulus, were driving through Talladega National Forest when they were flagged down by a black woman having car trouble. If I tell you the good Samaritans may have been National Review<\/em> readers, you can probably guess that one of them ended up dead.<\/p>\n

As they were trying to fix the car, the woman, Yasmine Hider, pointed a gun at them and demanded they walk into the woods and hand over their phones and wallets. At some point, Simjee pulled out his own gun and started firing at Hider, wounding her. She shot back, killing him.<\/p>\n

The reason I suspect the couple were National Review<\/em> readers is that the \u201cgood Samaritan\u201d ruse was one of the bullet points in John Derbyshire\u2019s famous \u201cThe Talk: Nonblack Version<\/em>,\u201d which got him fired from National Review<\/em> in 2012\u2014standing athwart history and mewling, \u201cPlease like me, liberals.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Derbyshire hadn\u2019t even published the piece in NR.<\/p>\n

He was responding to a spate of lachrymose accounts of black parents describing \u201cThe Talk\u201d they have to give their sons, instructing them to be super<\/em> polite to police officers\u2014smile and say, \u201cYes, sir\u201d\u2014lest the officer shoot them to death for no reason whatsoever. (Ask any police officer, and they will tell you black arrestees, to a man, are the politest people you will ever meet.)<\/p>\n

In the piece, Derbyshire issued exhortations about treating black people with \u201cthe same courtesies you would extend to a nonblack citizen,\u201d but then listed \u201csome unusual circumstances,\u201d requiring extra vigilance due to \u201cconsiderations of personal safety.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cpersonal safety\u201d rules concerned only complete strangers<\/em>. His point was that when you have no other information to go on, you have to rely on statistics.<\/p>\n

Derbyshire\u2019s Rule 10 (h) was: \u201cDo not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in apparent distress, e.g., on the highway.\u201d He appended links to stories like the one that began this column.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Coulter goes on to list a few examples, then quotes one of Derb’s more fierce detractors at the time (Slate’s Will Saletan) before deftly skewering him thusly:<\/p>\n

Thus, his central complaint was: \u201cDerbyshire thinks his data warrant his conclusions. But all his data references include the crucial term \u2018mean\u2019 or \u2018average.\u2019 They don\u2019t tell you about the person walking toward you. They tell you what you can assess about the probability of danger when the only information you have is color.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, exactly, you complete moron. That\u2019s the point, subtly indicated by Derbyshire stating that he was referring only to those occasions when you\u00a0don\u2019t<\/em>\u00a0have any other information about a person. (Do black parents giving\u00a0“The Talk”\u00a0<\/a>remind their sons not to make\u00a0assumptions about any particular cop<\/a>\u00a0walking toward them?)<\/p>\n

Back in the\u00a0halcyon days<\/a>\u00a0of Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, we had one other fact to guide us: Criminals were in prison.\u00a0Unfortunately for black people,\u00a0<\/a>a small percentage of their community commit a\u00a0boatload<\/em>\u00a0of crime. But as long as criminals went to prison, New Yorkers could pass black men with little concern because if they were criminals, they\u2019d most likely be locked up, not standing on a\u00a0subway\u00a0<\/a>platform\u00a0next to you.<\/a><\/p>\n

Not anymore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which, to unanimous shitlib amazement, hasn’t worked out at all well for anybody<\/em>. Go figure, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Derbyshire proven right. Last Sunday, a college couple, 22-year-old Adam Simjee and his 20-year-old girlfriend, Mikayla Paulus, were driving through Talladega National Forest when they were flagged down by a black woman having car trouble. If I tell you the good Samaritans may have been…<\/p>\n

Would you like to know more? Second look at “The Talk”?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17,194,48,88,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-believe-it-or-else","category-big-tsimmis","category-sick-fucks","category-flotsam-andor-jetsam","category-racist","category-savages","wpcat-16-id","wpcat-17-id","wpcat-194-id","wpcat-48-id","wpcat-88-id","wpcat-95-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7248,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7247\/revisions\/7248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}