Small Incidents can mean a lot

“It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Anytime you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.”

-Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men

Andrew Klavan explained why Pakistani men rape white girls in Britain. He did so unintentionally. He spent some time in a British park with his son, Spencer Klavan.* His son was playing in the sandbox with his toys. In the park, there were upper-class English people and Pakistani people.* *

Little Spencer Klavan had some toys, plastic trucks and bulldozers and such. The only children who stole his toys were the Pakistani kids. Then Papa Klavan had to go to the Pakistani mums to try to get the toys back. The Pakistani mums were not cooperative, so Papa Klavan had to politely get the toys back from the kids.

There was a joke that Chris Rock did in his special: Bigger and Blacker. “If a kid calls his grandma ‘mama’ and his mama ‘Pam,’ he going to jail.” Rock followed this up by saying, “Go take care of those kids before they rob me in 10 years.” <link is NSFW>

He got some heat for those kinds of jokes. If I recall, his critics accused him of being cruel, but not for being untruthful.

Now, I don’t think stealing toys as a child inevitably leads to rape as an adult. Rather, whatever was defective in the culture caused both.

I cannot exactly say what this incident means, but it means a lot.

*In service to an esoteric in-joke, I must mention that Andrew Klavan and Spencer Klavan have no relation.

**He said British people and Muslim people, but he meant English and Pakistani.