The Progressive Utopia of NYC Has a Problem With Hate

I don't remember seeing anything about this in the US press. I must have missed it. Antisemitic hate crimes in New York up 400% in February - NYPD - The Jerusalem Post

You would think that people would take note of a 400% increase in anything, let alone hate crimes.

According to the NYPD, there were 56 hate crimes against Jews in February 2022, compared with 11 in February 2021.

Many of these incidents targeted Orthodox people dressed in distinctive clothing, like the Jewish man who was punched in Bed-Stuy on February 7 while walking on Shabbat. A 15-year-old was charged with assault and committing a hate crime in that attack.

In addition, there were swastikas drawn on a yeshiva school bus in Brooklyn and a dentist’s office in Queens; in Manhattan, expletives about Jews were spray-painted on the dining shed of an Israeli restaurant.

When society abandons the rule of law, then it starts to crumble. And in more and more of the country, and certainly in the Blue Cities, there is no dedication to the Rule of Law. Starting with "defund the police" insanity, and continuing through the "keeping violent offenders in jail is unfair" attitude, the rule of law is gone.

This is where I insert the obligatory mention of Hobbes' Leviathan, and the State of War that ensues when law and order break down.

Western Civilization is built on a foundation of law and order. Without law and order, you can't have nice things. You can't have anything really. Or as Hobbes stated it...

In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

So how long before the people of NYC give up on Woke politicians? I am betting not for a while.