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Archive for 2020
July 7, 2020
WASHINGTON WARRIORS TO BE DECLARED CRYPTO-RACIST IN 3..2..1..: Report: Washington Redskins Will Likely Change To The Washington Warriors.
FINALLY, A BIT OF GOOD NEWS. Report: In Devastating Blow, Israel Sets Back Iran’s Nuke Program Two Years.
NOT THE BABYLON BEE:
● The Unintentional Racism Found in Traffic Signals.
● ‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’ – do cities have to be so sexist?
I miss the carefree days of 2012, when media leftists only pretended to hear racial dog whistles in words like “golf” and “Chicago.”
A SMALL SIGN OF SANITY AMONG THE LEFT: ‘Stifling Atmosphere’ of Cancel Culture Will Harm ‘the Most Vital Causes of Our Time,’ Leftists Warn.
On Tuesday, Harpers released a powerful open letter denouncing cancel culture and celebrating open debate. Even far-left anti-capitalist Noam Chomsky signed the letter.
“The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted,” the letter warns. “While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture: an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty.”
The signatories lament that “it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought. More troubling still, institutional leaders, in a spirit of panicked damage control, are delivering hasty and disproportionate punishments instead of considered reforms.”
As Iowahawk noted, “Noam Chomsky was a Cambodian Genocide denier who defended Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, and today I learned cancel culture has gotten too wacky even for him.”
Of course, for some of the signers, past performance is no guarantee of future results:
Related: Kanye West and the uncancellables. It’s hard not to admire people who get rich and say whatever they want.
UPDATE: Open Letter Endorsing Free Speech Sparks Civil War at Vox. “Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff tweeted a letter she said she had sent to Vox editors stating that [Matt] Yglesias’s decision to sign the letter—which she said was also signed by several ‘anti-trans’ critics—made her feel ‘less safe’ at the publication.”
Relax! Just because Matt signed something, doesn’t mean he actually agrees with it:
MORE: Ironic: Names are dropping off letter decrying an intolerance of opposing views because of opposing views. “Removing their names after being shamed by the mob shows exactly why the letter exists in the first place. Amazing, really.”
In accordance with the prophecy: “We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.”
TWO MARTINEZ, CA RESIDENTS CHARGED WITH HATE CRIME AFTER ALLEGEDLY DEFACING BLACK LIVES MATTER MURAL.
Meanwhile, in state-approved vandalism: Columbus statue removed from California capitol rotunda.
THEY SHOULDN’T GET FEDERAL FUNDING FOR THIS PARTISAN POLITICAL OPERATION: Oregon School Districts Say White People Should Vote Democrat To Be Less Racist, May Have Broken the Law. “School districts in Oregon have published a letter with resources entitled, Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice. Methods they mention in their easy to follow chart include opposing President Trump, and to vote for and raise money for Democrats and progressive candidates of color. The endorsement of one political party and the opposition to the reelection of any candidate appear to violate state law regarding official communications from a governmental agency and public employees.”
LET ME JUST GET OUT AHEAD OF THE STORY AND SAY THAT GHISLAINE MAXWELL DID NOT COMMIT SUICIDE: Former warden at Ghislaine Maxwell’s NYC jail says she should be on suicide watch.
Earlier, from America’s Newspaper of Record: FBI Hires Top-Rated Italian Bodyguard Hiluigi Clintonelli To Protect Ghislaine Maxwell.
(Classical reference in headline.)
OLD AND BUSTED: Ford versus Ferrari.
The New Hotness? Ford versus Ford: Revealed: Ford Motors Makes Millions from Police Cruisers While the Ford Foundation Donates Millions to ‘Defund The Police.’
DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY: Thomas Jefferson ‘Didn’t Do Anything to Help Create a Free and Equal Society,’ Descendant Says.
NOW OUT FROM KURT SCHLICHTER: The 21 Biggest Lies about Donald Trump (and you!).
Back in our cheery, prelapsarian days—2016, to be exact—a young and photogenic NFL quarterback named Colin Kaepernick chose to express his patriotism by kneeling whenever the National Anthem was played before football games. He kneeled, you see, merely to protest police mistreatment of African Americans. And we knew that Kaepernick actually loved America because he told us so. “I’m not anti-America,” he said. “I love America…. I think having these conversations helps everybody have a better understanding of where everybody is coming from.”
And everyone bought it.
Or at least pretended to to gaslight the right. Read the whole thing.
CNN MORPHED INTO MEDIA MATTERS SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED: CNN’s Brian Stelter Takes Aim at MyPillow for Advertising on Tucker Carlson’s Show.
I’m so old, I can remember when CNN reported on news happening outside of the Fox News Network studios.
FLASHBACK, 2016: Snipers Shoot at Police in Dallas During Protests, Killing Four, Injuring Eight. At a Black Lives Matter event.
CRAZY WOKE: “It hurts people when they see a white man bouncing a brown baby on their lap.”
NYC Education Council local meeting is not parody, it’s an example of the sickness sweeping progressives in the age of “White Fragility”
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Another speaker, council Vice-President Edward Irizarry, in a fury, accuses Broshi of “cosmetic diversity,” in an extended speech about educational opportunities for black and Latino children, in which he lends his support to Maron and condemns “show boating and white fragility and all this nonsense that doesn’t make a child learn.”
Broshi jumps back in: “I want to apologize to you. I want to acknowledge that calling out the one vote was an example of white privilege and it was an example of trying to silence the legitimacy of your space on this council . . . . There’s work — everyone has work to do and I have work to do. I have 40 plus years of white supremacy I need to undo and that was unfair of me to make that point and I don’t want to silence your voice, and your voice has merit, Edward.”
Thomas Wrocklage, the accused racist, then jumps in to defend himself, and Broshi repeats that his action was “racist behavior” and was and instance of “white people exhibiting their power over people of color.” She continues, “if you won’t even read a book about white fragility . . . I can’t sit here in a working business meeting and educate you.”
Further thoughts from Rod Dreher: “This video, which features people (council members) who are Jewish, white Gentile, Latino, East Asian, and South Asian, is an absolute disaster of racialism and ideological policing. If you want to know what post-liberalism looks like in a pluralistic society, there you have it. For all its problems, I can’t see any governing system available to us in our pluralistic, multiracial democracy than classical liberalism. Just drop in on any of the clips I’ve embedded or linked to above, and see what a freaking catastrophe the race-conscience, post-liberal progressives bring about. It is the perfect follow-up to the liberal writer George Packer’s much-discussed piece last fall about how race-conscious progressivism is destroying New York City public schools.”
THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN A SUPERCAR WITHIN MY LIFETIME: New Mazda 3 Turbo Gets 227 HP, 310 lb-ft of Torque, and AWD.