"Racial profiling is wrong, demanding, doesn't keep us safe or help solve crimes.
But when things go wrong, demands grow for the government to step in and make them right.
It's therefore a bitter irony that in the attempt to prevent history from repeating itself, European leaders imposed what amounts to a new gold standard — and when things went wrong, demanded that afflicted nations impose Chancellor Bruening policies.
"The plausibles," he called them — viewers who, rather than enjoying one of his stories about two ordinary people caught up in some sort of sinister affair, would nag at minor details or ask, "Why don't they call the cops?" To narrative filmmakers, the plausibles ask the wrong questions and make the wrong demands.
And that's where you see the derangement — Leigh Alexander wrote a column pointing out that these guys and the culture they represent don't represent gaming because gaming isn't a monolithic culture and they went about with maximum zeal trying to prove her wrong, demanding to stay the "core demographic" at all costs.
But do I want tiny "tweets," bitelets of what is arguably information, frequently trivial and not infrequently wrong, demanding my attention at any moment?
Threats to mosques across the country, hoax bombs left at doorstep of an Islamic institution in Virginia, vile headlines, calling for registering of Muslims in a database, closing borders to Muslim Syrians but open to Christians (how will they know, I don't know, it's just wrong), demanding unwarranted surveillance of mosques (um, we are already under surveillance).
Is it wrong to demand criminal charges brought against her for hate speech/ inciting violence?
She realises the party was wrong to demand ideological compliance from kindergarten teachers.
