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Archive for 2020
July 8, 2020
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Princeton faculty letter demands end to academic freedom.
Thus, as Zaid Jilani tweeted, the faculty letter “calls for eliminating academic freedom via a committee that would review all publications for racist thought (racist defined by the committee).”
You can take Woodrow Wilson’s name off the buildings at Princeton, but his brand of race-driven liberal fascism will prove much harder to eradicate.
A POINT LEFTISTS SEEM INCAPABLE OF COMPREHENDING:
Leftists treat disagreement like a case of cooties, because that is the intellectual level on which they function.
ORWELL’S 1984: A WARNING FOR THE REST OF US, A HOW-TO GUIDE FOR THE LEFT: Teacher Blames ‘Western Imperialism,’ ‘Colonization’ for Concept of 2+2=4.
WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? Democrat Congressman Fires Racist Press Aide After National Pulse Investigation. Shelbie Bostedt, “who served as the two-term African-American Congressman’s Press Secretary since June 2019, tweeted the word ‘n*gga’ or ‘n*ggas’ over 20 times, as well as tweeting the hashtag ‘#DirtyMexicans.’”
OLD AND BUSTED: Fight the Power.
The New Hotness? Guns N’ Roses, Pearl Jam, the Eagles, Green Day Among Bands Who Have Received PPP Loans.
‘THREAT TO OUR DEMOCRACY’: GOP SENATOR DEMANDS ILHAN OMAR RESIGNATION. “Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) urged Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to resign after calling for the ‘dismantling’ of the U.S. political and economic systems Tuesday… The clip, which went viral on social media, prompted condemnation from Blackburn, who tweeted, ‘Ilhan Omar took an oath to defend and protect the Constitution, not shred it. Omar and her Marxist comrades are a threat to our Democracy. Omar should resign.’”
BIAS BY OMISSION: Selective Media Reporting Further Fuels Our Racial Divide.
On Saturday, a man drove his car onto a Seattle freeway that had been closed by a Black Lives Matter crowd. The driver killed one person and seriously injured another after going the wrong way up a ramp and then around a barricade. Reports noted that police “don’t believe impairment was a factor.” Over the weekend, news outlets replayed the brutal hit, but there’s one thing you won’t learn from their coverage: The driver was black and his victims were white.
NPR linked this attack to other car-ramming incidents by “right-wing extremists targeting Black Lives Matter protesters.” They quote a researcher about how these right-wingers were “trying to intimidate the most recent wave of BLM protesters, to stop their movement.”
The driver was a Seattle local named Dawit Kelete. But you’ll find scant mention of the driver’s ethnicity in mainstream media coverage. You might have more easily learned that Kelete was black by going to the Australia Broadcasting Corporation. The American national media also doesn’t note that Kelete’s two victims were white. You can find that out over at the U.K.’s Daily Mail.
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THINK OF THE PRESS AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE OPERATION AIMED AT NORMAL AMERICANS AND YOU WON’T GO FAR WRONG:
SOMEBODY’S LOOKING FOR A SWEET ACTING OR NASCAR GIG: Oregon politician wrote racist letter to himself, police say.
Related: 67 Hate Crime Hoaxes. You’re definitely going to need a bigger blog.
SUPER GAFFE-O-MATIC ’76: Why Did Joe Biden Call Police ‘The Enemy?’
SAN FRANCISCO OFFICIAL INTRODUCES ‘CAREN ACT’ TO STOP ‘RACIALLY-BIASED’ 911 CALLS:
A San Francisco city official is taking aim against so-called “Karens” — by introducing an ordinance making it illegal to report bogus “racially biased” calls to cops.
Supervisor Shamann Walton said he introduced the CAREN Act – or the Caution Against Racially Exploitative Non-Emergencies Act – during Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting in response to several high-profile 911 calls involving people of color.
In accordance with the prophecy: De Blasio Announces System For Reporting Social Distancing Violations: Knowledgeable Actors Reporting Edict Noncompliance (KAREN).
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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Fragility of the Woke.
Federal authorities are currently searching thousands of videos to ferret out looters, arsonists and assailants. Perpetrators who are caught are shocked that the evidence that they once posted online in triumphant braggadocio is now being used to charge them with felonies.
What is going on?
Black Lives Matter, antifa and their large numbers of imitators and loosely organized wannabes are mostly made up of middle-class youth, often either students or graduates. They deem themselves the brains of the rioting, the most woke of the demonstrators, the most sophisticated of the iconoclasts. In truth, they are also the most paranoid about being charged or being hurt.
What explains the passive-aggressive nature of these protesters and rioters?
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AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Impressed Military Drops Portland Antifa In Hostile ISIS Territory To Continue Doling Out Justice. “Asked if they had any fear that the terror groups in the Middle East might kill them on site, AntiFa leader Thistle Matrix Harlequin said, ‘we have anti-Trump signs. As soon as we flash those, they’ll realize we’re not the bad type of Americans and will immediately shower us with praise and want to touch our faces.’ Harlequin’s partner, Moonshade Wolflust said he doesn’t want to fight ISIS, only learn their secrets. ‘The way I see it, ISIS is doing what we’re trying to do in Portland, only we use more vegan coconut milkshakes and stuff.’”
CHANGE: June Sets NICS Volume/Gun Sales Record. I was at a local gun shop with Helen yesterday, and the shelves were nearly empty — and that hadn’t been true (except for the ammo shelves) when I was there the week before. The salesman told me that it was mostly first-time buyers.
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