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File this under "They never learn." Or, "How to Finance your own Victimization."
The violence in Minneapolis hasn’t stopped the virtue-signalers. Minneapolis’s mayor, Jacob Frey, earnestly exhorted the rioters to take good care of themselves by social-distancing and wearing masks. This may be the first riot in history that saw a besieged city’s leader urge the rioters to make themselves harder to identify and arrest.
The big money virtue-signaling, though, has come from Hollywood. A raft-load of Hollywood’s finest is promising to pay for the Minneapolis looters’ and rioters’ legal fees. Their preferred vehicle is The Minnesota Freedom Fund:
Even the foul-mouthed Chrissy Teigen pledged $200,000.
These big names are almost certainly born up by the kind of proud virtue-signaling that limousine liberals do best. However, in some part of their little weasel brains there must also be a feeling that, if they pay off the rioters, the rioters will leave them alone. That’s not how rioters work, especially against appeasers. On Saturday, preceded, as always, by a socialist protest, the looters and rioters hit Beverly Hills:
Hollywood stars may find that appeasing the rioters isn’t a working strategy
Winston Churchill famously said, “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” Those Hollywood stars promising all sorts of cash to the protesters are virtue-signaling. However, it’s easy to imagine that t...
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The violence in Minneapolis hasn’t stopped the virtue-signalers. Minneapolis’s mayor, Jacob Frey, earnestly exhorted the rioters to take good care of themselves by social-distancing and wearing masks. This may be the first riot in history that saw a besieged city’s leader urge the rioters to make themselves harder to identify and arrest.
The big money virtue-signaling, though, has come from Hollywood. A raft-load of Hollywood’s finest is promising to pay for the Minneapolis looters’ and rioters’ legal fees. Their preferred vehicle is The Minnesota Freedom Fund:
The chain linking Twitter users to the fund gained even more traction when it was retweeted by the Safdie brothers, two notable independent directors whose recent filmography includes the critically acclaimed 2019 movie Uncut Gems starring Adam Sandler and Idina Menzel.
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After this tweet, other Hollywood heavyweights took notice. Since Thursday, Seth Rogen, Ben Schwartz and Steve Carell have all commented that they matched donations to help protesters make bail.
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As of Friday morning, other celebrities, including actor and singer Janelle Monáe, television presenter and activist Jameela Jamil, actor Patton Oswalt, and actor and former New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon have donated and tweeted out their support for Minnesota protesters.
Even the foul-mouthed Chrissy Teigen pledged $200,000.
These big names are almost certainly born up by the kind of proud virtue-signaling that limousine liberals do best. However, in some part of their little weasel brains there must also be a feeling that, if they pay off the rioters, the rioters will leave them alone. That’s not how rioters work, especially against appeasers. On Saturday, preceded, as always, by a socialist protest, the looters and rioters hit Beverly Hills: