Archive for 2018

NOW RADICAL LEFT IS TURNING ON WHITE WOMEN: Tamika Mallory, the radical lefty who was seen at a Louis Farrakhan rally earlier this year, has a Huffpo oped up today, the title of which says it all: “White Women, Stop Waiting for Black Women to Save You.”

LifeZette’s Deirdre Reilly notes that Mallory also issued a tweet touting the oped, saying “We need white women to get comfortable with discomfort, to check their fellow white women when they prop up white supremacy and white male patriarchy.” In other words, being a white woman makes you as much a beneficiary of “white privilege” as being an angry white male.

And then there’s this from Mallory, according to Reilly: “In November, we will replace rape apologists with the women the march inspired to run against them. In January 2019, we’re coming back with an agenda to end rape culture, white supremacy and patriarchy in America.”

Does this tell us that when the radical Left has to choose between gender and race, race will win? And should a reasonable person then conclude that the goal of radical left activists like Mallory isn’t racial reconciliation but racial weaponization on behalf of political power?

THE NEW, WOKE GOP IS AMAZING:

ALBERT MARREWA: The Kavanaugh Smear War Broke My Decades-Long Support For Feminism. “All these years I silently stood by and watched third-wave feminism (with assistance from the radical left) methodically take a sledgehammer to Western society as a whole, and males in particular. Foolishly, I hoped things would eventually turn around, only to see things get worse over time. Yet it wasn’t until I witnessed the Me Too movement snowball into an all-out, anti-male witch hunt that I realized good men were in real trouble. Astonishingly, after having been an advocate for women my entire adult life, I quickly learned I was still considered the ‘enemy,’ simply for being a man.”

Males are still OK; it’s masculinity which feminists have decided is a crime — “castration culture,” Glenn has taken to calling it.

BLUE ON BLUE: South Carolina Democrat Says Sanders Would Be ‘Doing Us All a Favor if He Just Got Lost.’

On Wednesday, only one day after Sanders announced he would be hitting the campaign trail for Democratic candidates on the ballot this year, high-ranking members of the South Carolina Democratic Party made it known that not everyone welcomed the senator’s visit, the Associated Press reported.

Amanda Loveday, a former executive director of the South Carolina Democratic Party, indicated that Sanders’ decision to journey to South Carolina ahead of the midterms struck her as “selfish,” especially as the senator is speculated to be weighing another run for the White House in 2020.

“I just think it’s extremely selfish of Bernie Sanders to think he could walk into South Carolina without an invitation from a candidate and think he’s going to be welcomed with open arms,” Loveday said. “It’s hard for me to think of an actual, legitimate Democratic candidate who would stand on stage with him here.”

There are at least a few Democrats worried about the direction their party has taken.

I’M EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Sandia’s Swerve Could Lead To First-gen Hypersonic Production Line. “The veil of secrecy has lifted over one of the Pentagon’s largest hypersonic weapons programs, revealing new details of a triservice rush to adapt a nearly 40-year-old experimental maneuvering reentry vehicle concept into an air-, sea- or land-launched common-boost-glide weapon.” A rush, huh?

HEALTH: Bogus homeopathy data published in top journal sparks outcry, facepalms. “Editors at a respected scientific journal are reconsidering their decision to publish a study, which claims that a homeopathic dilution of poison oak can reduce pain in rats, after online critics pointed out that the study is rife with bogus, sloppy, and low-quality data.”

DAVID HARSANYI: Yes, Democrats, It’s a Mob.

If Holder had been honest, he would have said, “When they win a presidency via the constitutionally mandated route and the duly elected president nominates a Supreme Court justice with a 12-year exceptional record on the bench and then the duly elected Senate follows all the rules and precedents set by Democrats — offering numerous hearings and investigations along the way — and confirms that nominee, we kick them, because we’re frustrated.”

There’s nothing wrong with “fighting” in politics. We don’t need to be hypersensitive about every metaphorical overindulgence (unless it’s Donald Trump; then we must take it literally, seriously and hysterically). But the problem is that Democrats have a bad habit of acting as if every political setback they experience is caused by some act of criminality. This instigates lots people to act like a bunch of children — or worse.

Democrats do it because they think it’s working for them, but there’s a chance to prove them wrong, peacefully, on November 6.

REIHAN SALAM: Taylor Swift Succumbs to Competitive Wokeness: The pop star has long avoided partisan politicking—but in the culture industries, making a show of social liberalism is increasingly the only option. “The views we typically describe as socially liberal are, by and large, the views of the affluent, college-educated people who lead virtually all of our major institutions, even when these views are actually rather censorious. These women and men can shape culture by incentivizing certain behaviors through their control over, for example, elite college admissions. They normalize some ways of life while stigmatizing others through their informal control of the organs of culture and entertainment. . . . What is new, I would argue, is the second development: that the number of people who are susceptible to elite influence has grown larger. Here is where I must tread lightly, as what follows is necessarily impressionistic. I get the sense that the most aggressively ‘woke’ young people are precisely those who find themselves in the most fiercely competitive environments. Status and prestige matter to everyone, of course, but they matter to some more than others. Most of all, they matter to those who find themselves in precarious industries where one’s reputation counts for a great deal and, just as important, to lonely, unattached people who long to feel valued and desired. Delayed marriage and child-rearing ensure that many more young people spend many more years in the mating market and, by extension, orienting their lives around fulfilling their own social and sexual appetites over the care and feeding of children. This is especially true among children of the culturally powerful upper middle class, who’ve been trained to fear downward mobility in a stratified society as much as our primitive ancestors feared being devoured by toothy predators. The result is what you might call a culture of ‘competitive wokeness.'”