The Pentland Problem
How group stupidity invariably seizes defeat from the jaws of victory.
If you haven’t seen the video of Jonathan Pentland shouting at a young black man called Deandre then you should. It’s a fairly good indicator of the state of the nation. It lays bare some of the obvious racial problems that have been quietly percolating in US society for a while.
In the video, Jonathan Pentland, who shouts at people for a living, becomes all alpha-male and bullish about the neighbourhood and his property. Unsurprisingly his go-to approach for removing someone he didn’t want near his property was to go and shout at him.
Half the people who read this are going to expect me to defend Pentland. The received wisdom of the liberal left that Pentland is the embodiment of all evil. I want to bang some heads together.
Heads up. Neither side is going to like this article.
Are you going to defend Pentland?
Not my job. I don’t have all the facts. Like the vast majority of people on the planet, I don’t have any idea of the circumstances surrounding the video. Are there mitigating circumstances? Maybe.
Does it matter? No, not really.
