Archive for 2020
July 9, 2020
A FRIEND ON FACEBOOK: “ALL IN ALL YOU’RE JUST ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL.” Cumulus Closing Down Westwood One News Service. Or maybe one less brick now.
DAVID BERNSTEIN: Are We Living in Crazytown? The bizarre reaction to the anti-cancel culture letter. “It seems to me that in a sane world, the Ivy-educated, descendant of kleptocratic Iranian royalty employed by an extremely influential media company would not have the chutzpah to announce that other people shouldn’t be expressing their opinions because they are ‘privileged.’ But like I said, we seem to be living in Crazytown.”
IF YOU THOUGHT YOU COULDN’T TRUST “STUDIES” BEFORE, YOU REALLY CAN’T TRUST THEM WHEN THE STUDIERS ARE TERRIFIED OF THE MOB IF THEY GET THE WRONG RESULTS: Terrified Academics Withdraw Study Showing White Cops Aren’t Killing More Blacks.
I remember when Democrats were yammering about a “Republican War on Science.”
UNLIKE JEFFREY EPSTEIN: “Black [Palmdale,] California Man Found Hanging From a Tree Died of Suicide, Officials Say.”
DEMOCRATS REVEL IN CRUELTY AND PERSONAL DESTRUCTION: Crushing an Inwood eatery just because you don’t like how its owner voted.
OPEN THREAD: Set someone free, break someone’s heart. . . . You don’t have to wait for more instructions.
ENDORSED: Let’s Get Ahead of the SJW Cancel Crowd and Ban Sports Mascots Altogether.
As Bryan pointed out during this week’s VIP Gold Live Chat, it works just fine for European soccer. Prior to this week I would have been loath to take any inspiration from soccer, but it serves my purpose here.
Banning the mascots is just part one of my plan. It suckers the SJWs into thinking that they have scored a major victory. I want them to feel very good about themselves before crushing their spirits.
I’m willing to endorse anything that sees Rowdy being retired for his cisgendered polypropylene macrocephalic privilege.
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HARPER’S VS. VOX – AND THE BONFIRE OF THE LIBERAL VALUES:
The Vox writer Matthew Yglesias got it worst of all. He was rash enough to sign the letter and promptly faced a volley of angry replies from his junior colleagues on the very discrete and private medium of, yes, Twitter. The amusingly named Emily VanderDerWerff, a trans woman ‘critic’ at Vox, went furthest fastest. She penned a hilariously obnoxious letter to her editors, which she then generously excerpted on social media.
‘I don’t want Matt to be reprimanded or fired or even asked to submit an apology,’ she wrote. ‘Doing any of the above would only solidify, in his own mind, the idea that he is being martyred for his beliefs.’
As someone who is sometimes a woman*, Cockburn would like to take their hat off to VanderDerWerff for her absolute masterclass in passive aggression. She should be promoted, perhaps given Yglesias’s job, if only to solidfy, in her own mind, what Vox stands for. VanderDerWerff continued to insist that she really didn’t want Matt to be punished. ‘Some acts require retribution; this is not one of them.’ Such compassion for the man she just threw under the social media outrage bus!
Other Vox staffers piled in against Yglesias. Cockburn can’t help but wonder if Vox shouldn’t rename itself Censura, or Restrictio, since censorship is what most of its staff seem most interested in doing. Where would you rather work – Harper’s, which published the letter, or Vox, which abhors it?
Related: “A signatory of the Harper’s open letter repudiated it. Both of that signatory’s sisters then claimed on Twitter that her name had been added without her consent. Harper’s provides email from signatory: ‘Yes, I will add my signature. It reads well.’”
More: “Which leads to the last reason why this letter is so messed up: It’s signatories don’t seem to have a clue what time it is. They don’t understand that the terrain has shifted beneath their feet. The Left has just scored dozens of wins, including taking down James Bennet at the Times and taking out Woodrow Wilson at Princeton. There’s blood in the water and no one on the Left is stupid enough to give in to these little liberal bribes now. Liberals only have two choices: Either they’ll submit to the neo-Marxists or they’ll try to put together a pro-democracy alliance with conservatives.”
HEY, REMEMBER WHEN THE DNC-MSM PRETENDED THAT BIDEN WAS THE MODERATE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE? Watch: Joe Biden Vows ‘End to the Era of Shareholder Capitalism.’
Earlier:
● Biden Taps AOC to Chair Campaign’s Climate Change Task Force.
● This is Not a Moderate Position: Joe Biden tells boy we should eliminate the use of plastics.
● Joe Biden Just Lost Any Claim to Being a Moderate With His Embrace of the Green New Deal. As Brandon Morse warned at Red State, “At this point, America has two options in 2020. It’s either Donald Trump or socialism. There doesn’t seem to be an option outside of these two.”
● Biden ‘100 percent’ supports nationwide plastic bag ban.
● Biden Obliviously Tells Press that Fossil Fuel Execs Should Be Jailed.
After the Democratic presidential candidates’ apocalyptic-themed “climate change” town hall on CNN last year, PJM’s Bryan Preston wrote, “If you like Venezuela, voting for any of them will bring you a whole lot of Venezuela. Thank you, CNN, just for letting these people talk. Do it again next week? Please?”
Actually, maybe not: How Joe Biden might avoid debating Trump.
A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE from a Princeton Professor. “The Black Justice League, which was active on campus from 2014 until 2016, was a small local terrorist organization that made life miserable for the many (including the many black students) who did not agree with its members’ demands. Recently I watched an ‘Instagram Live’ of one of its alumni leaders, who—emboldened by recent events and egged on by over 200 supporters who were baying for blood—presided over what was effectively a Struggle Session against one of his former classmates. It was one of the most evil things I have ever witnessed, and I do not say this lightly.”
SPACE FORCE: “The U.S. Space Force Pentagon headquarters will have a leaner staff structure than traditional military service headquarters and some senior staff posts will be assigned to civilians, according to a draft proposal.”
MORE ON THE MARQUETTE WEASELS. “We have now learned that yesterday, Mike Lovell, the President of Marquette, sent the following email to Marquette’s Board of Trustees. I will interpolate comments on the email.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Academics Seek to Retract Study Disproving Racist Police Shootings After Conservative Cites It.
A study finding that police shootings are not racist may be retracted because it was cited by a conservative in the Wall Street Journal.
On June 2, Heather MacDonald, a conservative legal scholar, discussed the study in a widely-read Wall Street Journal column, “The Myth of Systemic Police Racism.”
That publicity resulted in an enormous backlash against the academics who conducted and discussed the study, by progressive academics angry about its conclusions.
The first casualty of the backlash was Stephen Hsu, the vice president for research at Michigan State University. He was forced to resign because he publicly discussed the study, as The College Fix notes in the article “Scholar forced to resign over study that found police shootings not biased against blacks.”
Read the whole thing.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Why Do So Many White Women Hate Themselves?
Earlier: Master Cleanse: Why social justice feels like self-help to privileged women.
ROGER SIMON: No, Mr. Durham. We Need Your Report Before Election Day.
ADULT IN THE ROOM: Ford CEO Responds to Employees’ Demands to Stop Making Police Vehicles.
Ford CEO Jim Hackett has a strong response:
“By taking away our Police Interceptors, we would be doing harm to their safety and making it harder for them to do their job. Again, this is why, given our insights, new capabilities and leadership, I believe these unfortunate circumstances present Ford with an even greater opportunity to not only innovate new solutions but also leverage our unique position to support the dialogue and reform needed to create safer communities for all.”
Shorter version: No. We’re not going to stop making police cars. Now get back to work.
CONTEMPLATING A FUTURE FOR BARS. “I don’t know where, don’t know when, but the world will need us again someday, I promise.”
CITY OF NEW YORK PAINTS ‘BLACK LIVES MATTER’ MURAL OUTSIDE TRUMP TOWER:
The list of reasons George Floyd was killed just keeps growing and growing. First it was blamed on a lack of police reform, which seemed reasonable. But it didn’t stop there. Now, lots of things that liberals have always hated are to blame for that man’s death. Confederate monuments, or any other monument to any other dead white guy, up to and including Abraham Lincoln. White actors playing fictional characters who are African-American. TV shows about police officers. The word “master,” as in “master bedroom” or “Mastercard.” All sorts of stuff that has never bothered a normal person is now responsible for a multiracial group of Minnesota cops killing a black guy. Everything except, y’know, the actual killers.
Now we can add another reason to the list: the lack of a #BlackLivesMatter mural outside Trump Tower.
Jonathan Dienst, Melissa Russo and Hilary Weissman, WNBC:
New York City will start painting “Black Lives Matter” on Fifth Avenue directly in front of Trump Tower on Thursday, picking up a delayed project that President Trump blasted as a “symbol of hate.”
Related: “‘We are not denigrating anything. We are liberating Fifth Avenue,’ de Blasio said outside Trump Tower. ‘Who built this nation?’”
“Liberating,” eh?
https://youtu.be/O4NZrFxjnUI?t=143
JOE ROGAN INTERVIEWS JAMES LINDSAY ON THE RELIGIOUS SIMILARITIES OF RETROACTIVE CANCELLING AND WOKENESS (VIDEO):
The whole interview is here if you have the time.
THINK OF THE PRESS AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE OPERATION AIMED AT REPUBLICAN VOTERS AND YOU WON’T GO FAR WRONG:
But note these responses:
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WHY DID CONSTANTINOPLE GET THE WORKS?