Minnesota is a weird, wonderful, beautiful place. People on the coasts often underestimate the impact Minnesota has on the culture. The people here are great, we have three weeks per year of the nicest weather you can imagine — great restaurants, and beautiful lakes. Terry Gilliam (Monty Python), Prince, Bob Dylan, Pete Docter (Pixar), HuskerDu, The Replacements, and Jawed Karim (Youtube) are all from here, and so was social engineer Kate Millett.
All of these people had significant impacts on the larger culture. But we will come back to that.
Minnesota (Not So) Nice
In the article, “Mindhive Update: 7 Days to the Great Minnesota Moral Panic,” I predicted that a fast coming moral panic would involve “White Nationalists” and the Minneapolis Group Formerly Known as Anti-Racist-Action, and that it would spread worldwide.
Maybe you’ve heard of Antifa or White Nationalists in the last few weeks, they’ve been in the news a lot lately.
The week after Justine Ruszczyk Damond was killed by Minneapolis Police, I wrote an article comparing media accounts and public attitudes about Australian born Damond’s death and that of Philando Castile, born in Minnesota. I begged readers to ensure Mohamed Noor get a fair and public trial,
“The trial of Mohamed Noor is going to put the U.S. Criminal Justice System on Trial. If there is one thing a system hates, it’s being put on trial. Mohamed Noor deserves a fair trial even if it pops the comfortable bubble that protects the feelers of white women in the United States.”
Jewel Eldora
I spoke to every journalist at the trial and referred to it as “the Trial of the Real Century”, none quoted me.
Mohamed Noor’s trial began on April, 1st, 2018. I attended every day and as predicted, it was a farce. Grown adults pretending that it is reasonable for a person to run up on a Minneapolis squad car, in the dark, after calling them about a violent felony.
No one talked about that, no one even mentioned it, not even the defense. Ask any person in any other precinct, they’ll look over their shoulder and whisper, “Hell no, you never run up to a Minneapolis Squad car, never.”
We must start having honest adult conversations about policing policies, and systemic racism and sexism, or we will all burn. Minnesota is the epicenter of a very dangerous mind virus that makes us blind, and it makes us lie.
We lie about agency and we lie about power. We lie about minorities. We lie about women. We lie about activists, and we lie about police. We lie about the media’s influence.
All have more agency and power than we admit, and we are willfully ignorant to the effects. We call these lies, MN Nice.
MN Nice killed your daughter, Mr. Ruszczyk. You undoubtedly watched MN Nice kill George Floyd. I’m writing this article to warn you that MN Nice is the engine that makes Minnesota the perpetual epicenter for global moral panics, including Australia.
Systems, Pressures, Patterns, Predictions and Moral Entrepreneurs
I am forever grateful to AVFM for publishing my very weird articles with very weird explicit predictions* many of which have come to pass and some that are yet to come. There is something in the water in Minnesota and that something makes us an engine for global moral panics, just like the one the world is seeing now.
In 2017, I predicted cities everywhere would burn again and again with the election of President Donald J. Trump as the catalyst. Since announcing his candidacy, Trump has violated MN’s sacred taboos. He spoke frankly about the downside of immigration, openly discussed ending entitlements, and encouraged police use force against demonstrators. Minnesotans even heard him bragging that women were complicit in their own victimization when he grabbed them.
Hillary Clinton only won in two areas of MN, and those counties immediately became a pressure cooker.
Trump supporters blame the media for the panic we’re experiencing, but mass media can’t create moral panics alone, you need moral entrepreneurs. These typically come in two categories, rule makers and rule enforcers. On November 9th, 2016 Trump became both.
MN has its own powerful, competing groups of moral entrepreneurs and Trump’s rhetoric has joined them together like Coke and Mentos.
Taboos ⇒ Bias ⇒ Stress ⇒
This is not the first time moral panics have spread destruction from our beloved Shangri Las.
In 1980, Ronald Reagan created a similar stir, and for a decade, I watched moral panic after moral panic spring from the diverse middle class of MN, destroying black, minority, and immigrant families, in every English Speaking Country in the world. Exacerbated by the Patriarchy Mind Virus created by Minnesota native, Kate Millett, these moral panics spread like the 1918 flu.
The Duluth Model of Power and Abuse is meant to solve domestic violence by applying Marxist Theory to families. Dads are Oppressors and moms are Oppressed. The Duluth Model claims that women only strike in self defense against their Oppressors. No consideration is given to moms with drug abuse or personality disorders. Minnesota was the first of nearly every state in The United States, red and blue, to make this mandatory training for law enforcement and family counselors. It simplifies something complex and provides and intuitive solution that literally kills several US children per year.
In 1984, a day care center in Jordan MN made national news, with an aggressive prosecutor and police who coerced children into claiming they were assaulted. Sound Familiar? In 1985, Prince’s “Darling Nikki,” about female masturbation, was the Number 1 song on the Parents Music Resource Center’s (PMRC) Filthy Fifteen. In 1983, University of Minnesota visiting professor Andrea Dworkin teamed with a local attorney and a South Minneapolis Women’s Group, and passed the Dworkin Mackinnon Anti Pornography Civil Rights Ordinance that shut down bookstores in cities throughout North America. (The Canadian Supreme Court eventually struck it down as unconstitutional in 1992.) In 1989, Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped and the first sex offender registry was created.
The expansion of power was hidden behind the sacred values of MN’s middle class and in order to keep them, we spread destruction throughout the entire English Speaking World.
Stress Replaces Deliberation with Intuition
On Memorial Day 2020, the killing of George Floyd ignited cities around the world.
Attorney General Ellison has been assigned to the case. He’s an amazing politician, but Minnesota will continue to be the center of an ongoing panic unless we begin to have adult conversations about law enforcement, systemic racism, and oppressive sexism. Men and women of all races need to speak openly and honestly about these issues, without fear of being canceled.
“White Fragility,” a book educating white people on how to speak about race, topped best seller lists this week, yet left some wanting something deeper. Might I suggest a recent paper from Kinsey Institute’s Dr. Tania Reynolds. It delves into victim sanctification taboos, and was published last month in the Academy of Management Perspectives.
https://journals.aom.org/doi/full/10.5465/amp.2018.0144
Women’s agency and power are topics viciously held behind rigidly enforced taboos. Men don’t notice it because they’re not the victims of this social bullying, other women are.
Watch as former prosecutor Sonny Hostin interviews former Hennepin County District Attorney, and Moral Entrepreneur, Senator Amy Klobuchar about the case of Myon Burrel, whom Klobiuchar convicted as a black teenager.
Sonny’s characterization of the faulty nature of the case was perfectly acceptable, however, when the conversation turned to Senator Klobuchar’s power, Joy Behar immediately admonished Hostin’s taboo violation, accusing her of “prosecuting Amy Klobuchar”.
Let’s be realistic for a moment and consider that Senator Klobuchar is indeed a very powerful and influential woman, by any standard. Her former employee, Mike Freeman, recently served as President of the National District Attorney’s Office. She is a US Senator, and until recently, the co-chair of her political party was former Congressman Keith Ellison, MN’s current Attorney General. It’s laughable to think that Amy Klobuchar couldn’t make a phone call to get Myon’s case reopened, yet, the night Sen. Klobuchar was “attacked” by Hostin, she shot up in the national polls to take 3rd in the New Hampshire Primary. Huh.
Another MN Moral Entrepreneur is Lisa Bender. City Planning Graduate from UC Berkeley and President of the Minneapolis City Council, shown here protesting the 2015 Police Shooting of Jamar Clark.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jamar_Clark
There have been hundreds of City Council meetings since she was sworn into office in 2014. At any time, Bender could have proposed a resolution to ban the lethal choke holds policy, yet she blamed, and then promptly voted to defund, the Minneapolis Police Department after the death of George Floyd. Was this to distract from her own agency?
When her neighbors expressed concerns about this decision, their fear was quickly attributed to their white privilege.
https://bombardsbodylanguage.com/2020/06/09/body-language-minneapolis-city-council-dismantle-police/
I genuinely believe Lisa Bender’s response is intuitive, and made with no deception. In order to understand why, we have to go back and look at the cultural impacts of another famous Minnesota export.
Two Things Can Be True at the Same Time
Right now, half the country thinks the problem is activists. The other half thinks the problem is corrupt police and court systems. The death of George Floyd brought these two filters together because in Minneapolis, like cities everywhere, two things can be true at the same time.
I believe what we’re witnessing is a script written by Minnesota author Kate Millett. In a 1970, Time Magazine cover story, Millett was credited with “putting Marxism in the Women’s Movement,” with her book “Sexual Politics” and the idea of Patriarchy Theory.
This theory framed women and men in a class struggle with men as oppressors and women as victims. This has created a blindness because this political script exploits a cross-cultural male perpetrator / female victim typecast, discovered by Kinsey Institute Researcher Dr. Tania Reynolds in 2019.
This framing of men as perpetrators and women as victims sticks with religious fervor, replacing all other logic, reason, or ethics. It’s persuasive as it absolves women of their responsibilities, justifies their actions, and helps them gather others to throw stones at their enemies. Women’s agency and perpetration are hidden behind victim sanctity taboos.
Kate Millett changed Minnesota politics and the women’s movement forever.
This idea effectively sticks to other victimhood modalities. Take Kimberele Williams Crenshaw’s “Intersectionality Theory,” which I believe extends these taboos and affords these same victim sanctity protections and blindness to the agency of minority outgroups.
The Minnesota Nice Mind Virus has spread worldwide, notably in countries where Target Stores advertise, by women more powerful than they could ever imagine.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-buck-starts-here-accounting-for-womens-spending-power-11567864800
Some women bully other women who threaten to reveal how powerful women can be. This taboo enforcement is likely to burn down our civilization if women can’t accept the consequences for openly telling the truth about each others’ agency, and encouraging men to do the same.
*As for my predictions, no model is perfect and not all of my predictions have come true. For example, I twice predicted Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson would be the only presidential candidate to fix this if women wouldn’t.
As of last week, he still hasn’t declared.
