In the great capitals of Western Europe, thousands of people have been protesting against the death of George Floyd and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

In the Netherlands:

Incredible.

A sea of protesters in Amsterdam right now honoring #GeorgeFloyd. pic.twitter.com/AvFMq1r6zh

— Sarah Abdallah (@sahouraxo) June 1, 2020

In Copenhagen:

this is in copenhagen !! wow im so proud of my country rn #BLACK_LIVES_MATTER pic.twitter.com/OpMHglSLlu

— hadil | BLM (@corbynsgalaxyy) May 31, 2020

And in front of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin:

"Thousands now chanting “black lives matter” in front of the US Embassy in Berlin" — https://t.co/8pG3jOIeWr pic.twitter.com/Th244LhP80

— Memelord (@dailydigger19) May 30, 2020

There is a long history of Europeans shaming Americans for mistreating Negroes. For example, following the bombing of German cities by black American pilots during World War II, the Nazi SS newspaper Das Schwarze Korps published the following cartoon:

“It is a good thing for us Negroes that no Americans live here!”

The downed-and-captured black pilots are made to say that they’d surely be lynched for such behavior against American cities.

We have to appreciate the depths of the psycho-drama that has seized a huge proportion of white people across the world, particularly among women, the “educated” class, and homosexuals.

Their emotional reaction is as though they had personally seen Floyd George murdered in front of their eyes in their own neighborhood. For them, this act is one of conscious sadism by a white racist police officer. This is furthermore not an isolated incident but representative of the systematic persecution against blacks and against people of color generally.

Hundreds of thousands across the West are signaling, either virtually on their social media accounts or physically at protests, their solidarity with black people against a racist system. Some openly quote Martin Luther King condoning violent riots too.

We dissenters would recognize that blacks disproportionately experience police brutality relative to their share of population. However, we would add that this is not necessarily due to systemic racism, but because American blacks commit a massively disproportionate amount of violent crime (about 7 times more than whites) and thus have more run-ins with the police.

No matter the facts. We live in different realities. We all choose what isolated incidents to become indignant about. For xenophilic whites, the mass Pakistani-on-white sexual abuse of Rotherham or indeed the massive daily violence of blacks in the West are of no moral significance, if they are acknowledged at all. However, any violence against blacks at the hands of whites is by contrast intolerable and vicious bullying of “half-devils, half-children,” as Kipling inimitably put it.

These whites are sincere in their indignation. The same cannot be said for assorted Third-Worlders who cite Floyd’s death as a reason to pile on against America.

The former president of Iran., Mahmoud Ahmadinejad quoted the rapper Tupac Shakur:

The scheme of the world powers is to cause disunity in order to keep all societies under control. The killing of #GeorgeFloyd was deeply disturbing & upsetting & is the result of the current world order which we all must unite against.
"Pull the trigger kill a Nigga he's a hero" pic.twitter.com/1giRGxPy68

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (@Ahmadinejad1956) May 29, 2020

The Islamist President of Turkey Recep Erdogan tweeted:

The racist and fascist approach that led to the death of George Floyd in the US city of Minneapolis as a result of torture has not only deeply saddened all of us, but it has also become one of the most painful manifestations of the unjust order we stand against across the world.

— Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (@RTErdogan) May 28, 2020

Chinese media have also been putting out similar content. All this is pretty rich, cringe, and amusing, given how racist all these countries are.

For people across the world, and in particular Western Europeans, experiencing American psycho-drama is much more interesting than anything their homegrown socio-politics could provide. It’s also more interesting to them than, say, the greater police brutality of Brazil or the shocking criminality of South Africa. America provides the greatest opportunity for signaling one’s moral worth.

For companies like Amazon – which thrive from driving out brick and mortar small businesses, which will no doubt greatly profit from the rioters’ destruction of small businesses, which treat unskilled workers notoriously badly, and which prefer hiring high-IQ whites and Asians for their IT departments – signaling in favor of BLM is a cheap way of distracting people from your questionable business practices. However, the demonstrations of whites across the Western world show there is also a spontaneous and sincere motivation for many.

In the past, Europeans’ lecturing Americans about race was particularly lacking in credibility given that they had virtually no experience of blacks in Europe. Today this is no longer the case: every Western European country now has a significant black population. Wherever we have statistics, we see that the blacks commit a disproportionate number of violent crimes, just like their American cousins. In London instance, blacks made up 12% of the population in 2010 but committed a majority of gun crimes, robberies, and street crimes. These figures almost exactly mirror American ones.

The white European protesters have focused on American police brutality. Black protesters in Europe, by contrast, are both protesting against American brutality and the violence they suffer at the hands of European police forces.

Such is the case in France, with huge crowds of black and white protesters gathered in Paris, cheered on by the black French Hollywood actor Omar Sy:

La France qui aime,
La France qu’on aime ✊