“The greatest merit of the critical spirit is that it tends to cure fanaticism, and it is logical enough that in our own fanatical times the critical spirit should tend to disappear.”
— Gabriel Marcel, Man Against Mass Society (via philosophybits)
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Photo by @jchauser Jacaré (caiman). Brazil, 2017. This guy was steadily lying and blending in with the riverbank, which made him hard to spot. I dove in to have a closer look, and even thought he was dead… That’s when I went in for an even closer look and he opened his eye and moved it to look straight at me. in the Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul. #Wild #Nature #Wildlife #Crocodile #UnderWater #Bonito #MatoGrossodoSul https://www.instagram.com/p/Byp932KAjW-/?igshid=1g3s0biqp01ju
Oh absolutely Detroit Police Chief James Craig! When a group of neo-nazis threatens to show up with firearms at the Pride festivities to commit terrorist acts “worse than Charlottesville,” 100% the right thing to do is provide them with a free police escort to get them to the Pride event safely instead of warning the people they’re targeting.
I’m completely certain that if any other group showed up at another event in Detroit with guns after threatening to commit violence worse than the act of domestic terrorism that killed one woman and injured 19 others in Charlottesville two years ago, you’d do the exact same thing.
What’s that, Chief Craig? Did you actually say that “both sides” were wrong in this event? And that the people trying to defend a Pride event from the armed gang of neo-nazis who had vowed to commit a terrorist act at the event were “looking to cause trouble?”
How is if that you even have a job with an attitude like this in a city that’s 83% the kind of people the nazis your officers escorted want to murder?
