Chapter 2060: Anti-Dragon Slaying Technique (Please Give Me a Monthly Ticket!!! Please Subscribe!!! Please Recommend!!!)

New York.

After the explosion, New Yorkers suddenly found that the news did not report this... It's not that someone is deliberately covering up these things. It's just... It's not New York's turn at all!

The news has been reporting all kinds of messy events happening in various places recently.

Among them, Chicago is the biggest.

The black-white war... has begun!

At the beginning, the matter started with the sudden outbreak of riots in Chicago. Many Chicagoans suddenly started to attack people around them like crazy. The government also began to react quickly and dispatched the National Guard to suppress the riots.

Things are still controllable here.

After all, Chicago's representative heroes, the three Chicago women, soon found the source of the unrest, a demon called "Dispute". They are a very rare demon. It is not strong in itself, but it can spread a non-lethal "virus". The media named it the "Blood Cross" virus. Once infected with this so-called "virus", the most obvious feature is that the victim will have a cross-shaped sore on the face.

This thing is a bit like the zombie virus in movies and TV shows, but it is different from the zombie virus. After people become zombies, their minds degenerate, so modern military forces can easily contain this thing. But the blood cross is different. It retains human intelligence. Its function is to destroy the moral quality education that people receive in their brains, and infinitely magnify evil.

This thing is simply born to spread chaos and disputes.

There are not too many demons called disputes coming to the world. This is the only thing to be thankful for. The three Chicago women found them and killed them. Then the riots stopped on the third day. But the chaos did not.

This depends on the number of casualties and the proportion of casualties in Chicago that day.

First of all, Chicago suffered heavy casualties... You can't expect those thugs who have lost their reason and moral constraints to restrain themselves. The number of casualties is very large, but the fatality is the proportion of casualties... Among the casualties, blacks account for the largest proportion, and it is overwhelming!

That's fine, the key is the ratio of the rich to the poor... Chicago also has police, they went out at the first time, then retreated quickly, and then protected the rich area! That's right, they retreated directly to the rich area, established a quarantine zone, and directly isolated the center of Chicago.

Then the people inside played a battle royale.

Compared with the city center, the loss of the rich area is a drop in the bucket...

This kind of thing is very common in the United States.

The houses in the rich area are usually in the suburbs, basically single-family villas, with beautiful environment, birds singing and flowers blooming, as if in a paradise. In the ordinary areas close to the city center, due to the relatively developed public transportation, the crowd is more chaotic, but the rent is low, and the property tax is lower if you buy a house. However, the public security problem here is not as good as that in the suburbs. The rich area is different. There are all kinds of supporting facilities there, and there are a large number of police patrols 24 hours a day. The public security is naturally beyond doubt, and it is normal to leave the door open at night. There are also obvious differences between people living in different areas. In the United States, people from different areas rarely move across regions, and their activities are usually in their own circles. The rich areas are mainly white, followed by Indians; while the ordinary areas are mostly black guys, Mexicans and people from other places that cannot be mentioned. The supermarkets and stores in the rich areas have better environments, but the prices are also higher; the ordinary areas are mainly Wal-Mart, which is economical, but the shopping environment is naturally not as good as those high-end supermarkets in the rich areas.

In general, the regionalization and stratification of the American population is very obvious. When you drive to a strange city, you see a beautiful scenery in front of you, all kinds of green plants, birds singing and flowers blooming, and big villas are more beautiful than one another. Strangers on the street will smile at you or take the initiative to say hello to you when they see you. You will think wow, Americans are so friendly; but maybe when you turn a corner on the road ahead, the next area is all kinds of broken houses, and a group of black guys with their pants under their buttocks are wandering on the street, coming to grab your car window and asking you for cigarettes.

There is no way. In the rich areas of the United States, there are police patrolling on every street corner. If you wear a hooded clothes and put on the hood, and walk on the street without driving, if you are still a person of color, the police will come to check your identity in minutes. The police funds in the United States are allocated by local governments. The main source of tax revenue for local governments comes from property taxes, which are paid in proportion to the price of houses. In rich areas, houses are expensive, taxes are high, and police budgets are large, so there are more police. In poor areas, it is the opposite.

In poor areas, if you are shot in the street, you may have to wait for dozens of minutes for the police to arrive after calling the police. After Detroit went bankrupt, if you were shot and fell to the ground in the slums, the ambulance would usually take your body away half an hour later.

Are there any vicious cases in rich areas? Yes. But they are very rare. It is not the America you see in the news. Rich areas in the United States are relatively the safest places in the world. You should know that the United States allows individuals to donate money to the police station. The police station will have a list. For the real breadwinners, the service is not the same. I live in an upper-middle-class community and have been to the police station once. It has an area covered by dense cameras similar to the Skynet system... Can you imagine how bad its public security can be?

This has resulted in few losses in rich areas and heavy losses in poor areas.

As soon as the incident happened, a large number of police officers from the Chicago Police Department gathered in the rich area... well, they were originally around the rich area. So they took control of the situation immediately. After all, if those rich people got into trouble, the police would definitely be in trouble!

The police fired decisively.

For American police, killing a rich man is a much more serious crime than killing ten black men! Of course, more importantly, the situation at the scene meets the requirements for the police to fire!

There are significant differences between the law enforcement concepts in the United States and China. The American police pay more attention to their own life safety when enforcing the law. Influenced by Western culture, American police first consider their own safety when performing their duties. If the police feel threatened or dangerous during the law enforcement process, they have the right to take self-defense measures, which is permitted by American law. Therefore, American police may appear to be more severe when performing their duties, frequently using handcuffs, body searches, and even shooting.

Both American laws and actual operations emphasize the principle of preemptive strikes. According to the gun use regulations of American police, once the police decide to use guns, their goal is to shoot at the vital parts of the suspect to ensure that they kill him. Media comments pointed out that American police strive to kill with one shot when shooting, because the police believe that simply firing a warning shot or injuring the suspect may lead to the other party's counterattack, resulting in more casualties.

In the United States, it has become a social consensus that those who are enforced have the responsibility to cooperate with the police unconditionally. If the public is questioned by the police, they should "do nothing and follow the police's instructions completely". For example, in an incident where a young man was shot to death with 61 consecutive shots, six police officers arrived and asked the young man to put down his air gun. However, the young man did not respond and even pointed the air gun at the police. This behavior was likely interpreted by the police as a signal of attack, which triggered the police's self-defense reaction and led to the shooting and killing.

Those patients with the blood cross virus will not listen to the police, so the police can shoot at will!

This has curbed the chaos!

Not to mention people, even property losses are very serious!

You know, the blood cross virus is not a zombie virus. Zombie viruses are at most deadly. After all, zombies have no other desires except eating people, but the blood cross virus is different. It amplifies everyone's desires, and robbing property is also a kind of desire.

Murder, arson, robbery, and any crime you can think of are saturated.

After waiting for the demon of "dispute" to disappear, many people returned to normal and found that their homes had become physically empty... all valuable things were gone, and some even had their houses set on fire!

This broke the defense of countless people who were still alive.

Countless poor people took to the streets... class riots were about to occur.

Then the old American tradition directly responded.

Identity politics was started again!

This is an old American skill, the anti-dragon slaying technique!

For decades, identity politics has occupied a prominent position on the American political stage and often caused fierce disputes. "Identity" in English is translated as "identification" in some theoretical fields. If these two meanings of identity are combined into one word "identity recognition", it may help to more fully reflect its meaning.

The so-called "identity recognition" is to put it bluntly: everyone belongs to a certain group by birth, for example, black people, Irish Catholics, Jews, etc. When a person grows up in his group, he will experience and inherit its culture, history, and social relations, and develop a sense of belonging and recognition to this group. In this regard, this concept seems to be self-evident and indisputable. But it has theoretical importance and has triggered many practical changes. The founding concept of the United States is a liberal concept based on the individual, which is reflected in the Declaration of Independence drafted by Jefferson: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness; that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."

The founding concept of the United States is a liberal concept based on the individual, which is reflected in the Declaration of Independence drafted by Jefferson: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness; that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."

The concept of identity does not approve of the "atomic" view of the individual, and inserts the level of "group" between the individual and the government. This is different from liberalism in its basic principle of individualism. Individual rights may conflict with group norms. For example, a woman who demands equal rights for men and women is directly opposed to the "family rules and group rules" of her polygamous group. How can she identify with them? However, the more important content of identity politics is that theorists and social activists who advocate this concept reveal that since the founding of the United States, not every individual has enjoyed equal rights or equal treatment. Some groups are discriminated against in various aspects of law or social norms. For example, blacks, women, Native Americans (Indians), certain immigrant ethnic groups (Jews, Irish, Italians, Chinese, Japanese, Latin Americans, etc.), homosexuals... This list can be extended to a long time. This puts forward demands for the government and society to correct historical mistakes and uphold justice.

Generally in the late 1960s, during the climax of the civil rights movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement and the youth rebellion movement, the concept of "identity" began to appear in theory and social dialogue. Various "disadvantaged groups" (self-identified or socially recognized) stood up to show their identities and tell painful stories. The sensational novel and film "Roots" describes the family history of black slaves for generations and is a representative work. Disadvantaged groups demand equal treatment under the law and society, which means improving and expanding their or their status and rights that have been damaged and oppressed in the past and at present. Therefore, "identity" immediately leads to "identity politics". Once identity politics comes on the stage, it naturally becomes a central issue in elections and social activities - people are involved in the understanding, evaluation and dispute of the history, culture and values ​​of various groups, and participate in the legislation and social norms of adjusting and redistributing rights. The greatest achievement of early identity politics was to improve the rights of blacks and women.

In the atmosphere of "political correctness", the influence of identity politics is far-reaching. For example, in the previous paragraph, when talking about the third person plural, the expression "they or they" was deliberately used. This is a specific example of adapting to the requirements of identity politics and political correctness. Feminists argue that in that kind of sentence structure, we cannot follow the convention of referring to men and women as a whole as "they", but should say "they or them". In English, there is no problem with the third person plural, just say they, them, their, but when speaking about the third person singular, we have to say he or she, him or her, his or her over and over again, which is very annoying. This is related to the right to speak, and is an important field or battlefield of identity politics and political correctness.

In recent years, identity politics has been a lively series on the American political stage. The Democratic Party has become the general spokesperson for identity politics of various "disadvantaged groups". Outside of these disadvantaged groups are white people-men-Christians-the "others" of almost every disadvantaged group in identity politics. Trump went against the trend and created a large group of populist followers (including many white people, men, and Christians), using the "they/us" opposition as a call and defeating "them" as a goal to seek political advantages.

Identity politics is not a modern party organization with a strict organization and a clear program. Its members have different tendencies, so it is not a modern party organization established by strict identification with the organizational program. Protest, opposition, subversion and termination have become the main characteristics of identity politics.

However, in the long-term development of civil society, people are dissatisfied with the citizenship formed by the concept of integrating different identity status. This dissatisfaction is transformed into identity politics, making the identity confrontation endless. A person can belong to different identities from different perspectives, so his behavior and ideas can also be divided. This division leads to social division and makes it difficult for the country to maintain basic order.