[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com]

Earlier, by Steve Sailer: Nope, No Riot in Chicago Last Night Over Mexican Kid Shot by a Cop

Here's a phrase due for an airing: "asymmetry of indulgence."

That phrase was coined by conservative British journalist Ferdinand Mount. He was writing about how Leftist politicians get a pass, an indulgence, when they speak in the globalist-universalist diction of Karl Marx and Mao Tse-tung; but when a conservative dares to murmur that perhaps rampant multiculturalism is not a great idea, he is denounced as Literally Hitler.

Plainly we have an asymmetry of indulgence in regard to police shooting of civilians. The asymmetry was in exceptionally plain sight this week, after the shooting of Daunte Wright in a Minneapolis suburb.

The tiny minority of us whose memories stretch all the way back to early January could not help contrasting this shooting and its consequences with the death of Ashli Babbitt:

• Possibly armed black male with an arrest warrant already extant is accidentally shot dead by white female cop. Nationwide outrage. Cop is fired and charged with manslaughter. City manager who said the cop was entitled to due process is also fired. Mass rioting and looting. 
• Obviously unarmed white female is deliberately shot dead by black male cop without challenge or warning. [Crickets.]

As Steve Sailer noted, the "Who, whom?" principle doesn't get any more in-your-face than that.

What happened to Ms. Babbitt was a shameful travesty of law enforcement, and the silence on it enforced by the Regime and its media lackeys is outrageous. It tells us all too plainly where we are.

We have, as the late Larry Auster told us, descended into an ersatz religion, with black people as the sacred objects. The emblematic image of our time: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, a white man, kneeling in reverent supplication before the gilded casket of black street thug George Floyd.

White people are bad; black people are good. You didn't know that? The rising generations know it: it's taught to them in kindergarten. [Failure Factory, by Christopher Rufo, City Journal, February 23, 2021] In the world of the mid-21st century, if the U.S.A. is still around—which I increasingly doubt—most Americans will stand on it as the foundation of their social outlook.

Earlier: Rubio, Republicans, “Our New Spanish-Speaking Overlords,” And How To Fight Creeping Bilingualism

Donald Trump’s recent endorsement of Senator Marco Rubio for re-election in 2022 has American nationalists rightly skeptical of what POTUS 45 is thinking [That sigh of relief you’re hearing from Marco Rubio? Trump just endorsed him for re-election, by Anthony Man, South Florida Sun Sentinel, April 9, 2021]. Has he fallen for Jared Kushner’s bad advice: move to the “middle” and appease the Ruling Class? Rubio, although originally a Tea Party candidate, has become a pillar of don’t-rock-the-boat Republicans. And he’s part of the ascendant clique of Hispanic Republicans who all too obviously don’t care about preserving the Historic American Nation.

Granted, Rubio opposes Sleepy Joe’s Amnesty and appears to be reinventing himself as a national populist [Marco Rubio rejects Biden immigration bill, calls it ‘blanket amnesty,’ by Adam Shaw, Fox News, January 20, 2021; Rubio raises profile in pandemic, challenges GOP economics, by Jim Saksa, Roll Call, April 23, 2020].

But that doesn’t mitigate his past role as the ringleader of attempted immigration sell-outs. Look no further than his Gang of 8 Amnesty during the Obama era. Rubio’s change in rhetoric is welcome, but he still can’t be trusted.

Take a look at what’s he pushing now, and at what he’s said about Trump’s MAGA base:

• Rubio wants to disarm “suspected domestic terrorists,” meaning any conservative who goes against the grain and stands up even tacitly for the interests of white Americans [Rubio Reintroduces Legislation to Prevent Suspected Terrorists From Purchasing Firearms, Rubio.Senate.gov, February 2, 2021].
• He claims to want an unworkable multi-racial working-class party [Rubio: GOP must rebrand as party of ‘multiethnic, multiracial, working-class’ voters, by Joseph Choi, The Hill, November 11, 2020].

One of the main arguments being advanced by Eric Nelson, sole attorney for Derek Chauvin in his trial for the murder of George Floyd, is that the hostile crowd itself prevented the officers from attempting to perform CPR in the last minutes of Floyd’s life.

Even the prosecution’s “use of force” experts admitted repeatedly on cross-examination that a hostile crowd would justify Chauvin keeping Floyd restrained until an ambulance arrived. An officer’s duty to provide care is overridden by his duty to keep himself, the suspect and the bystanders safe.

As was evident from the videos (and admitted to by the bystander witnesses), they were shouting obscenities at the police, threatening them with bodily harm and, in a few instances, had to be held back from rushing the officers.

And of course, because of the presence of the angry crowd, the EMTs themselves did not stick around to provide care, but did a “load and scoot,” heaving Floyd into the back of the ambulance and driving three blocks to get away from the mob on the street. They didn’t even want to work inside an ambulance near this feisty group.

As it becomes increasingly obvious that the belligerent onlookers themselves may have gotten George Floyd killed by creating a dangerous situation for the officers, media commentators leap in to do backup work for the prosecutors by sneering at the idea that the officers might have felt threatened by a few rowdy teenagers.

Oh, the big pansies! So, a few teenagers yelled at the officers. Show me just ONE example of disaffected urban youth going from agitation to brawling!

Here’s one! One recent Saturday morning in May 2019, six teens beat the crap out of an off-duty firefighter on the Upper East Side because he stepped in to defend an elderly couple from the youths’ harassment. 

And here’s another: A mob in Chicago attacked an older white man in 2016 for voting for Trump. 

This one is outside a church in Memphis in 2016 after services. The instigating event is entirely unknown.

A video shows a huge brawl breaking out between church members in South Memphis. https://t.co/rYNZDESjHI pic.twitter.com/CApX6Nt4xp

— WREG News Channel 3 (@3onyourside) March 21, 2016

Video: Major brawl erupts in the street outside a church service in Memphis 'after a car came by and ran down a group of people'