YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE SNIDE TO BE A COLLEGE ADMINISTRATOR, BUT IT HELPS. Holy Cross Dean of Students Michele C. Murray, on a talk by WSJ’s Heather Mac Donald: “The subtext of her talk was that discrimination no longer exists, or at least that we should not be bothered by it. Our students understood her message, even dressed as it was in Frederick Douglass quotes and references to ‘Faust’ and the virtues of the Western canon.” The students to whom she refers left en masse 15 minutes into Mac Donald’s talk. For this combination of mind-reading and anti-intellectualism, students and parents pay $69,810 a year.
Archive for 2019
December 17, 2019
‘OUTDATED’ IF YOU’RE UNAMERICAN: Gun Control Advocate Says 2A Sanctuaries Rooted In “Outdated Spirit Of Defiance.”
A CHARACTER JUDGMENT IS NO GROUNDS FOR IMPEACHMENT: That’s the (unsurprising) conclusion my friend and colleague Mario Loyola reaches in this piece in The Atlantic, of all places.
THE TIME IS NOW TO CONFRONT RISING ANTI-SEMITISM:
On Saturday night, British journalist Hannah Partos was on a bus in central London, returning to her home. “(A) group of men behind me just started shouting ‘Are there any Jews on the bus, Jews get off the bus, (expletive) Jews,’ ” Partos live-tweeted. “I was shocked, turned around, thought of saying ‘yes, me, please stop.’ Thought better of it. Never seen anything like it.”
Partos’ ordeal in the middle of the capital of the world’s great parliamentary democracy is sickening to consider, but unsurprising. The most civilized nations, no less than others, are gripped by a tsunami of anti-Semitism, and it grows uglier and uglier, with Jews trapped in a pincer movement from the hard left and the hard right. Any conceit that this cancer has not metastasized in America is fanciful. The Anti-Defamation League’s annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents found that anti-Semitic assaults, harassment and vandalism have reached near-historic levels. Last Tuesday two anti-Semitic ideologues slaughtered innocents in a kosher market in Jersey City.
This is how the New Yorker reacted:
And here’s how Joan Terrell, a Jersey City Board of Education Trustee reacted on Facebook:
“Mr. Anderson and Ms. Graham went directly to the Kosher supermarket,” Terrell wrote. “I believe they knew they would come out in body bags. What is the message they were sending? Are we brave enough to explore the answer to their message? Are we brave enough to stop the assault on the black communities of America?”
Residents with kids in the school system were shocked and dismayed by the posting.
“I was outraged,” said Valeriy Verkhovskiy. “I’m a parent, those remarks are unacceptable should not have been mentioned. What does people moving into a neighborhood with a terrorist attack?”
Josh Sotomayor Einstein, a Jersey City resident, said Terrell is blaming the victims.
“This was anti-Jewish, and Joan Terrell needs to understand that there are extremists in every community, they can be black or white,” he said. “But she appears to be saying it was all right for these bad individuals to do what they did. She is trying to sweep naked bigotry under the rug and pretend to raise questions about gentrification. You can’t have socially acceptable bigotry. These were horrible people who did the killing and conducted a violent attack on a minority group.”
Natalia Loffe, a former candidate for the Board of Education, said there appears to have been unspoken agreement to suppress or acknowledge the antisemitic tensions going on in the city.
“You [InsiderNJ] were the only people to acknowledge the effects of overdevelopment on that area,” she said. “Everybody else seems to either blame the Hasidim or present the tensions don’t exist.”
As Twitchy adds, “Good of her to add that disclaimer at the end that she’s speaking as a private citizen. Otherwise we might think that she’s in a position to influence people with her anti-Semitism!”
USA TODAY: ONLY 63% OF AMERICANS WOULD MISS FREE SPEECH IF IT WERE TAKEN AWAY. I blame Twitter. But these numbers seem weirdly low generally: “nearly half would miss freedom of expression (46%) and the right to equal justice (45%).”
THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Tide Pods, Nazis, and Bees: The Top 10 Moral Panics of the 2010s.
IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE: Try Not to Laugh as Chuck Schumer Silkily Lectures About ‘Fairness’ for the Upcoming Senate Impeachment Trial.
I WONDER IF FLU SHOTS HAVE ANY IMPACT? Infection with flu appears to lower risk of contracting a cold.
READER BOOK PLUG: From MF Thomas, Arcade (1).
HMM: Coast Guard: Russian Surveillance Ship Operating in ‘Unsafe’ Manner of East Coast.
The United States Coast Guard has received reports indicating that the RFN Viktor Leonov (AGI-175) has been operating in an unsafe manner off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia,” read the notice from Coast Guard in Charleston, S.C.
“This unsafe operation includes not energizing running lights while in reduced visibility conditions, not responding to hails by commercial vessels attempting to coordinate safe passage and other erratic movements.”
The notice went on to advise mariners to, “maintain a sharp lookout and use extreme caution when navigating in proximity to this vessel.”
The Russian Navy has had a long history of sending surveillance ships to monitor U.S. naval bases of the East Coast, including Naval Station Norfolk, Va., Naval Station Mayport, Fla. and the nuclear submarine base at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Ga.
The Navy should provide the RFN Viktor Leonov with a very close escort, at least until their seamanship improves.
THE CAYMAN ISLANDS ARE raising their own regiment. “The force will be similar to the regiment in Bermuda, which is part of the community’s post-hurricane response team. British Overseas Territories citizens, British citizens or Irish citizens are eligible to apply. Other Commonwealth applicants may be considered on a case-by-case basis and must be legally resident in Cayman, according to the enlistment requirements.”
COLLUSION, STRAIGHT UP: Europe Ensnared in a Web of Russian Spies.
BRAVEHEART TO GET ALL-FEMALE REBOOT STARRING LENA DUNHAM.
From America’s Newspaper of Record, the Babylon Bee.
ITS APPEAL IS BECOMING MORE SELECTIVE: Dem rep from Trump district faces rowdy town hall, boos after backing impeachment.
DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF 21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS AND THE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARY: The worst dating terms that defined the 2010s.
IF YOU IMPEACH HIM, HE WILL BECOME MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE: Impeachment is Raising Millions for Trump’s Reelection Campaign.
I started that meme as a joke, but I bet the #Resist crowd isn’t laughing.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Why the Left Doesn’t Like Christmas.
A SHIFT OR A BACKPEDAL? In a rhetorical shift, Elizabeth Warren emphasizes ‘choice’ on health care.
Meanwhile, a freshman congresscritter who can’t figure out her own health coverage choices wants to make yours for you.
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: University ditches ‘Women’s Night’ at gym after male student threatens Title IX complaint. “Spears got help from the University of Michigan-Flint economist Mark Perry. The professor has played a leading role in various Title IX complaints against universities that partially or wholly exclude men from certain activities and programs.” Good work, Prof. Perry.
FLASHBACK: Judicial Watch: ‘The FBI Needs to be Shut Down,’ Transferred to U.S. Marshals Service. “Noting some of the major blunders of the FBI, such as failing to follow protocols with the Florida school shooter and failing to follow leads on the Boston Marathon bombers, Judicial Watch’s Director of Investigations Chris Farrell said FBI Director Christopher Wray should be replaced and that the entire FBI should be restructured as a ‘new investigative arm of the U.S. Marshals Service.'”
This was from 2018, before the latest examples of corruption appeared to join the earlier evidence of incompetence.
BUT OTHER THAN THAT, HOW DID YOU ENJOY THE REPORT, MRS. SCHIFF? IG Report Proves Adam Schiff Has Been Lying About Spygate Since The Beginning.