A choice between two equivalent options has come to be known as a Morton’s Fork. Under Henry VII, John Morton was made Archbishop of Canterbury in 1486 and then Lord Chancellor a year later. He justified a King’s benevolence by holding that a man living modestly must be saving money and, therefore, could manage to pay for the benevolence, whereas a man living expensively evidently was rich and, therefore, could also afford the benevolence. Either which way Morton ensured that prospective taxpayers were between a rock and a hard place.
The death of black man George Floyd by asphyxia under the knee of white police officer, Derek Chauvin, is grim watching and not something that anyone sane would ever wish to repeat or emulate. Chauvin is the latest in a long line of policemen in the US who have acted barbarically – often their barbarism has been directed against blacks and ethnic minorities. Allegations of police brutality have been regularly highlighted since the start of the Black Lives Matter movement which began after the acquittal of neighbourhood watchman George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African-American Trayvon Martin in February 2012. Black Lives Matter then morphed into a blatant protest vehicle for identity politics, sowing the seeds of racial division. The deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York in 2014 also sparked huge protests.
The prudent position here is to thoroughly condemn the policeman – making sure his type are never recruited again – and feel deep pity for Floyd and his relatives. However, to support even ideologically the “anti-fascist” protesters in memory of Floyd as they now loot and destroy American cities is as logical as taking part in Extinction Rebellion protests after buying a gas-guzzling Bentley.
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