Thread by @_journaling_

@HashtagGriswold Speaking as somebody who lives in Chicago, I'd like to point to the 800 pound gorilla in the room nobody is talking about.

@HashtagGriswold There is, in fact, a lot of racial violence in Chicago, some of it the stuff of nightmares, but it isn't being inflicted BY white people, it is being inflicted ON white people, and it's nothing new.

@HashtagGriswold The city of Chicago is 60% non-white, and home to an ideology that is little more than a role-reversed version of what the Ku Klux Klan wanted for the South. complete with hair trigger violence.

@HashtagGriswold For example ... an El car is waiting on the platform. I rush down to catch it. Somebody decides that by overtaking him as I try to catch the train, I have "dissed" him and his friends.

@HashtagGriswold I go from car to car trying to get away from this maniac and his equally crazy friends, who catch up to me. The manic-in-chief beats me, and tries to shove me out the back of a moving El car, door being held open by his little psycho friends, to my death.

@HashtagGriswold Unfortunately for his plans, at 6'3", I'm big enough something of a fight, and he's not able to get me out the back of the car before it comes to a stop at the next station.

As we struggle, he notices why I haven't been using both hands.

@HashtagGriswold I've got ahold of a sharp object, and am about to plunge it through his eye into his brain, ending his worthless excuse for a life. He sees what I'm about to do, and gets up and out through the car behind us, really quickly.

I'm feeling a little too battered to stop him.

@HashtagGriswold One side of my face was swollen beyond recognition, as it would be for weeks, and there had just been an attempt on my life. Because I passed somebody going down the stairs.

@HashtagGriswold There was nothing subtle about the hate crime nature of what was being done. These guys were spouting out racial abuse during an attempt at murder than didn't end until they noticed that (gasp!) I was ready to kill one of them in self-defense, and knew how.

@HashtagGriswold Bullies do tend to be cowards.

My attackers got off the train, and slowly worked their way along it, loudly taunting me and yelling about what bad.asse.s they were, as they took a few minutes to wander off the platform.

@HashtagGriswold This same wonderful police department that worked so hard to find Jussie Smollett's non-existent white nationalist assailants, made no effort to detain a group of people who loudly announced their presence, had just attempted to commit murder, and were moving with glacial speed.

@HashtagGriswold There was no high speed getaway with these guys. The police had all of the time in the world to stop them, and they couldn't be bothered.

@HashtagGriswold The assailants were black, the cops who couldn't be bothered were black, but dare to suggest that maybe bias could have played just the tiniest role in the fact that a group of people literally got away with attempted murder, and you'll get preached at about YOUR supposed racism.

@HashtagGriswold I went up to the booth at the entrance to that station (we were under the Loop at that point) and asked the agent to call 911. She said that she couldn't do that, but asked me to fill out a report - and then tried to snatch it out of my hands the second I put down my address.

@HashtagGriswold She didn't want me to put any details down. I found that a little strange. She told me that the police would get in touch with me.

They never did, but somebody else came by to visit.

@HashtagGriswold The next day, the thugs who had tried to kill me were waiting outside my building, smiling and waving. I called the cops, and their response was "what do you want us to do about it."

That's how real life really works in the SJW-infested sh.ithole that is Chicago.

@HashtagGriswold Our kind, caring, sensitively progressive overlords who mostly get around by limo (and so don't have to worry much about street violence, themselves) are so committed to the cause of atoning for their white guilt, that they're willing to use other people as cannon fodder.

@HashtagGriswold To put it another way, if they can win some political popularity points by doing so, they're perfectly willing to let innocent bystanders die for the sake of their "sensitivity," as long as the innocent bystanders are "white."

@HashtagGriswold "White" being defined very loosely in Chicago. The klansmen who blew up our place of worship right before I came back home in a hurry would probably quarrel with the idea of a Jewish boy being so labeled.

@HashtagGriswold But here in Chicago, I am expected to be ready to die to atone for my whiteskin privilege, usually by people who would look a lot less out of place at a klan rally that I would, and see nothing strange about this.

And why would they? Self-serving hypocrisy has its own logic.

@HashtagGriswold Even if I had no familiarity with Chicago, I would have had trouble believing Smollett's story, because it was so poorly written. It gives the woke reader exactly what he expects, and that's what real life seldom does. Real life doesn't read like propaganda.

@HashtagGriswold It doesn't toe anybody's party line. It just is what it is.

But in fact, I am familiar with Chicago and what I knew about the place just made the story more glaringly absurd.

@HashtagGriswold Believing that gay black men are being singled out for hate crimes in SJW-dominated Chicago is like believing that being a straight white male would have put a target on one's back in the Reconstruction Era South.

That's just not the direction History took here.

@HashtagGriswold No, Chicago is the kind of place where, if one is poor and at all Caucasian-ish, and a black man who you've never met before stares at you with hate in his eyes, one averts one's gaze and hopes that he will not attack, because if he does, one will see no justice.

@HashtagGriswold And we'd better pretend that's OK, if we know what's good for us.

Think of it as social justice, a la Al Capone.

@HashtagGriswold Please pardon the seeming vanity of this, but I'm going to unroll this, because I don't believe that Twitter is going to like this thread, very much.

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