"A conclusion Daniels stresses from cases like this is that those in this milieu are not stupid. He notes that he rarely had to alter the way spoke to be understood. When faced with those who claimed their criminality resulted from having “fell in with the wrong crowd”, Daniels would note how curious it was that he met so many such people and never any of the crowd itself. His interlocuter would always see the point and laugh."
There's a deal of evidence that the majority of the criminal class of anywhere is around the 80-to-90 I.Q. range. Comfortably above mentally retarded, and more than smart enough to know good from evil and to make an honest living.
The refusal of left-o'-centrists to recognize that material conditions are at best a secondary motivator of crime has been catastrophic for the Free World. It's allowed a degree of social predition that would be unthinkable for our peoples a century ago, back when we were all significantly poorer, and even our richest lived under conditions of deprivation not even the impoverished would tolerate today.
This explains a great deal of the background to "non-crime hate incidents" and the use of police to harass women with unacceptable views on "gender" in the UK. Thanks!
"A conclusion Daniels stresses from cases like this is that those in this milieu are not stupid. He notes that he rarely had to alter the way spoke to be understood. When faced with those who claimed their criminality resulted from having “fell in with the wrong crowd”, Daniels would note how curious it was that he met so many such people and never any of the crowd itself. His interlocuter would always see the point and laugh."
There's a deal of evidence that the majority of the criminal class of anywhere is around the 80-to-90 I.Q. range. Comfortably above mentally retarded, and more than smart enough to know good from evil and to make an honest living.
The refusal of left-o'-centrists to recognize that material conditions are at best a secondary motivator of crime has been catastrophic for the Free World. It's allowed a degree of social predition that would be unthinkable for our peoples a century ago, back when we were all significantly poorer, and even our richest lived under conditions of deprivation not even the impoverished would tolerate today.
This explains a great deal of the background to "non-crime hate incidents" and the use of police to harass women with unacceptable views on "gender" in the UK. Thanks!
"Theodore Dalrymple, the pen name of Anthony Daniels"
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