Tea at Trianon: Hate Crimes in America

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Friday, August 5, 2022

Hate Crimes in America

From The Daily Mail:

Two black teenage girls responsible for attacking a woman on a Queens MTA bus were arrested and charged with hate crimes, police say. The unidentified suspects, aged 15 and 16, were arrested on Tuesday morning after bonking a 57-year-old on the head on July 9 after she said she's a big fan of former President Donald Trump. A third individual was involved in the incident, but it's unclear whether another arrest will be made soon.
The three teenagers were on the southbound Q52 MTA bus in Woodhaven, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, earlier this month at around 7.00pm when they approached the female passenger and slammed her on the head while making 'anti-white statements.' Before the arrests, the NYPD shared a video of the three suspects walking down a street in broad daylight. Two of the suspects had green-colored hair while another had light pink. The girls were wearing shorts with crop tops and sneakers while holding various items. (Read more.)