I remember writing a piece way back in March about a piece in The Atlantic about the New York City subway system. This was after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced she'd be deploying the National Guard to the subway system, where they'd be doing random bag checks after a man shot a would-be murderer in the head with his own gun. And remember when Mayor Eric Adams introduced those robots that were going to roll around the subway station and keep people safe?
Qian Julie Wang opposed the National Guard idea, saying that it was fellow riders, not cops and soldiers, that made people feel safe on the subway. She wrote:
Ask any New Yorker what they love about the subway—and what makes them feel safest down in those busy tunnels—and they will say the community of their fellow riders. The kindness of the brisk good Samaritans who stop just long enough to carry luggage up the stairs without a word; the infectious energy of dancers who bring showtime to cars and platforms across the city; the laughter exchanged after sharing a very New York moment of dodging a subway rat.
First, when I rode the train to work every day for 10 years, it wasn't to bask in the infectious energy of dancers who brought showtime to cars across the city — it was to get to work. And who hasn't exchanged laughter over dodging a subway rat?
Check out these fellow riders enjoying the infectious energy of the New York City subway:
You could either live in a world with Daniel Pennys or a world with this: pic.twitter.com/JUx0LNr8rQ
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 6, 2024
Or check out this dancer and his infectious energy:
BLM spirit coordinator. pic.twitter.com/R0ORTU2BMj
— 🇺🇸Lionel🇺🇸 (@LionelMedia) December 10, 2024
Councilwoman Vickie Paladino posted that video with the message:
Subway riders have to sit quietly and hope this deranged man doesn't decide to follow through and break someones face with his elbow.
Because if someone effectively stopped him from threatening to murder people, Alvin Bragg would throw the book at him. And progressive politicians would post their deepest sympathies for this lunatic and turn him into some kind of sympathetic victim/martyr.
This is the world progressives have created for all of us. Where a subway car full of innocent people has to live at the mercy of the deranged, and hope today isn't their day to become a statistic.
And they just don't care. Period.
I'd much rather have the infectious energy of a few more cops in the train car than this.
The New York Post reported that murders across the city’s subway system had surged 60 percent so far this year. Murders. And yet Penny's clear case of self-defense has Black Lives Matter trying to reignite the spark of George Floyd.
This clown warns a black dancer that he'd better be careful since they just affirmed the cheapness of black life.
Careful, brother: some random white side may come up and put a fatal chokehold on you. After all, the cheapness of Black life was just affirmed in New York the other day… pic.twitter.com/AIfhcxCWoQ
— Greg Carr (@AfricanaCarr) December 10, 2024
Yeah, that's exactly the same.
Where is the guy threatening to kill anyone here? Where is he menacing women and babies?
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) December 11, 2024
I get that you think innocent people's lives -- particularly women like the one whose face Neely broke or the 7 year-old he tried to kidnap -- are irrelevant, but they aren't. https://t.co/e4bBgWwWMj
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