The latest vacationing white person attacked in Caribbean paradise … by a piece of wood

A prominent Ottawa Jewish woman, Terry Schwarzfeld, has been put in an induced coma to reduce brain swelling after she was struck twice in the back of the head with a piece of wood while walking along a Barbados beach with her daughter-in-law, who was also attacked.

Prediction: At a certain moment in the future, without any discussion having taken place (because discussion requires explicit articulation of prohibited facts and concepts, e.g., “Black countries and black neighborhoods are dangerous to white people”), a consensus will spontaneously and suddenly arise among white liberals that black countries and black neighborhoods are dangerous to white people. This will be understood by all white liberals without any further demonstration, and they will change their behavior accordingly. Until then, the Eloi tax will continue to be paid.

Below is a story about the attack from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Not only is the assailant not described, as is predictable, but the story suggests that the assailant was an inanimate object. A police source is quoted saying: “They were attacked, and reportedly injured by a piece of wood.” That is the only reference in the article to the attacker. There is no mention in the article of any human assailant. Well, we know that liberals think that guns, not people, shoot people, so a block of wood that attacks a woman and causes her severe brain injuries would seem to be a logical development of the same idea. Further underscoring the absence of any human perpetrator is the exclusive use of the passive voice: “[They[ were beaten and left unconscious … They were attacked … they were struck in the upper part of the body … [Cotsman] was knocked unconscious…”

Another oddity in the article, possible only in today’s post-modern journalism (or is it rather feminism at work?), is that the man quoted in the article who is evidently Terry Schwarzfeld’s husband is not identified as such, but only as the father-in-law of Schwarzfeld’s daughter-in-law. I had to go back and forth a couple of times before I figured it out.

The upshot is that Terry Schwarzfeld was attacked by a piece of wood, and her husband is deprived of his identity as her husband. Liberalism constructs an anomic world where savage violence happens to whites, but no human agents make them happen, and where white men are non-entities. There are no human agents attacking whites, and there are no human agents protecting whites. Whites just keep being picked off, by the mysterious, random, tragic, or malevolent forces of the universe. Under liberalism, whites might as well be living under a voodoo curse.

Ottawa woman in induced coma after Barbados attack
Wed Mar 4

TORONTO (CBC)—A prominent member of Ottawa’s Jewish community is in an induced coma in a Barbados hospital after she was attacked Saturday while walking on the Caribbean island’s famous Long Beach.

Terry Schwarzfeld and her daughter-in-law, Luana Cotsman of Guelph, Ont., were beaten and left unconscious.

“They were attacked, and reportedly injured by a piece of wood,” according to an unidentified Barbados policeman.

“The reports indicate that they were struck in the upper part of the body and the injuries have been mostly to the head,” he said.

Cotsman, who was travelling with her husband David and toddler son Benjamin, was knocked unconscious but came out of it while still on the beach, said her father-in-law, Stephen Cotsman. She has been released from hospital.

“She suffered from minor bleeding at the base of her skull close to her spine as well as heavy bruising on one arm. She is sore, exhausted, stressed, but OK,” he said.

Schwarzfeld was knocked unconscious by one or two blows to the back of her head, Cotsman said.

She didn’t regain consciousness and was heavily sedated at the hospital to reduce the chance of any further damage, he said.

Her brain is swelling and bleeding, she has already had several CAT scans and will be kept sedated at least until she can be safely transported back to Ottawa, Cotsman said.

“An incident like this has caused concern to [the] government and people of Barbados,” said Edward Evelyn Greaves, Barbados’s high commissioner to Canada on Tuesday.

“We are concerned about the family, the woman and her family, what has happened. We are concerned about her health,” he said.

Schwarzfeld, past executive director of Agudath Israel Synagogue, was recently named president of the Canadian chapter of Hadassah-WIZO, a charitable, international Jewish women’s organization nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.

Barbados police haven’t made any arrests yet.

“We have strong support here in Barbados by the police, tourism authority, the Canadian high commission, our neighbours and the local people,” Cotsman said.

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March 5

Evan H. writes:

There is an economic theory, called “preference falsification”, that attempts to explain the phenomenon you are describing. The basic idea is simple enough—if enough people publicly espouse a viewpoint that they privately disagree with (due to a fear of the social or economic consequences of holding the ‘wrong’ viewpoint), a false consensus will emerge that is much more vulnerable and subject to rapid collapse than expected. This is an emergent property of large groups of people that can’t be predicted by examining individuals—analogous to the way that ice formation cannot be predicted by examining water molecules. I read about this theory in a book called “Private Truths, Public Lies.”

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