JOHN LEWIS: Black Lives Matter Movement ‘Must Understand’ the Way of Peace.
I appreciate the sentiment — and I also remember Lewis’ role in racially demagoguing and playing the race card against an actual peaceful protest from the right.
Archive for 2015
November 30, 2015
SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST. Or, two London Independents in one!
● “Paris climate change talks: What the different groups attending expect from these crucial meetings.”
—Headline, London Independent, yesterday.
● “Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past.”
—Headline, London Independent, March 20, 2000.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Marco Rubio Vows to Restore Intelligence Programs Restricted by Obama.
From Roger Simon; article illustration by yours truly.
NEW YORK CITY BANS THE HOVERBOARD: The nanny state stands athwart the future, yelling stop.
New York’s punitive leftists are second only to Sacramento’s in starting each day thinking “What are we going to ban today?”
Related: “Rip Them Out.”
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ALLUM BOKHARI: Everything The World Has Culturally Appropriated From The West.
Cultural appropriation is the idea that adopting elements of a foreign culture, from dressing up as Mariachis to wearing dreadlocks if you’re not black, is oppressive. Ein volk, ein culture. Naturally, the concept was invented by campus progressives.
The consequence of this regressive, segregationist view of culture is the rise of racial identity politics on campus. But that’s not what this article is about. In my research on cultural appropriation, I’ve uncovered a shocking truth, a great, unspoken crime against humanity, hidden in plain sight. It is the greatest, longest-running, and most heinous act of appropriation in global history.
The appropriation of Western Civilisation.
This diabolical act of appropriation has been hidden in plain sight. For centuries, nation after nation brutally, viciously, mercilessly appropriated western culture. Just as they did Rwanda, an uncaring world averted its eyes, and this act of global racism has gone unacknowledged. Until now.
Half-Pakistani in descent, I feel a personal sense of guilt at how non-western countries have unapologetically oppressed their fellow nations. I’ve therefore taken it upon myself to compile a list of all the things the world has culturally appropriated from the west, in hope that this injustice might one day be corrected.
Read the whole thing. (Sorry, attribution was wrong at first.)
WHAT WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY CAN TEACH US ABOUT DONALD TRUMP:
An outspoken and polarizing New York celebrity, who’s a bestselling author and familiar TV presence, decides to run for office even though he has no previous political experience. He’s famously contemptuous of political insiders, a seemingly contradictory stance considering he has an elite education and hails from a wealthy and well-connected family. His campaign ends up having significant impact on the national political conversation, in spite of the fact both the Republican and Democratic establishments are in agreement that his politics are too reactionary for him to actually win.
Sound familiar?
Read the whole thing — and don’t miss the spot-on comparison of Barack Obama to John Lindsay, and the same type of obsequious court stenographers that enabled both men.
SOCIALIST SENATOR WHO BELIEVES CLIMATE CHANGE HAS LED TO THE RISE OF TERRORISM CALLS THE GOP ‘EXTREME.’
Related: Good ideas evolve, so why do leftists such as Bernie Sanders believe in ‘creationist’ government?
THE NEW CAMPUS DISSENTERS: Not everyone is cowed by political intimidation at universities.
Even at the remove of several weeks, it is remarkable to recall that the disturbance at Yale University was over “offensive” Halloween costumes. But amid the protests, some important principles are now at risk, notably free speech. We asked at the time where the adults were on campus—either school presidents or boards of trustees? The answer, so far, is that most have caved like wet cardboard. The most hopeful adult response has come from 18- to 22-year olds—the students themselves.
At Claremont McKenna, where a dean was driven from office over a supposedly objectionable email, the student editors of the Claremont Independent published “We Dissent.”
The editors took themselves to task for not speaking out earlier. But no more. Their editorial ended: “We are not immoral because we don’t buy the flawed rhetoric of a spiteful movement. We are not evil because we don’t want this movement to tear across our campuses completely unchecked. We are no longer afraid to be voices of dissent.”
This political courage may be catching on. At Princeton last week, students under the banner of the Open Campus Coalition sent President Eisgruber their own strong statement of dissent. It describes a student body intimidated to silence by the likelihood of being vilified, in public or on social media. It ends: “Princeton undergraduates opposed to the curtailment of academic freedom refuse to remain silent out of fear of being slandered.” They signed their names and class years, and we hope their professors don’t dock their grades for thinking for themselves.
With campus administrators and faculty cowed by political correctness run amok, these students are shaping a movement of principled, civilized dissent. Let’s hope it grows.
FOR THE TIMES WHEN “THAT’S JUST NOT RIGHT”: Galaxy Quest Wavs.
I ALWAYS SAID THE PROBLEM WAS SPACE LAW: The Return of the Frontier.
STOP LAUGHING: Their “socialist program” will create “a sustainable reduction in deficits and debt.” Because, you know, cheese and also radioactive penguins — which are as likely to cause a sustainable reduction in deficits as socialism is. In Portugal, being a socialist is never having to say you’re sorry.
THEY’RE COATING THEM IN POLITICIANS: Totally repellent: Quick and easy coating process makes surfaces omniphobic.
THEY’RE JUST MESSENGER BOYS PHOTONS: Physicists set quantum record by using photons to carry messages from electrons almost 2 kilometers apart.
SHUT UP, YOU’RE INTERRUPTING THE NARRATIVE: Media Rushes to Call Colorado Shooter ‘Right-Wing Activist.’ Here’s the Evidence For That Claim. They probably know it’s not true, but if they can taint you by association they can make you shut up.
WHAT THE ACTUAL FLAN: Avis Should Try Harder, In Order to Avoid Breaking the Law.
IT’S COME TO THIS: Craft brewers say new FDA mandate will limit beer selection.
STOP SCARING ME: Polling the refugees: getting to know you.