IS JOE BIDEN DEMENTED OR JUST DUMB? Joe Biden: ‘People’ don’t distinguish between Chinese and other Asians.
Archive for 2020
July 26, 2020
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Rutgers English Department to deemphasize traditional grammar ‘in solidarity with Black Lives Matter.’
GOVERNANCE IN THE BLUE ZONES: Meltdown: Minneapolis violence nearing annual records — in July.
FINALLY, EDITORS WITH A SPINE: The Wall Street Journal hits back at staff’s ‘cancel culture.’
As Glenn noted in USA Today when Bari Weiss resigned from the New York Times over its stifling uber-woke culture, “The proper response to a bunch of junior staffers complaining about articles that a newspaper publishes is something between ‘Go, write a piece explaining why that piece is wrong’ and ‘Fetch my latte.’ Journalism jobs are hard to come by and, for every troublesome staffer at The Times, there are undoubtedly at least a dozen candidates out there who would do at least as good a job and with less overweening self-importance.”
Hopefully the off-the-record response from the Journal’s editors to their young charges included a similar reminder.
THEY’RE UTTERLY IGNORANT OF HISTORY, BUT THEN AGAIN THEY GO TO DUKE: Saying policing is rooted in ‘slave patrols,’ Duke students demand all campus policing be abolished.
Student “demands” should be ignored, especially when they represent the views of a tiny fraction of students. Which they pretty much always do.
SANCTIONS AGAINST SLAVE LABOR WOULD REALLY HURT NIKE: Calls Growing for Woke Big-Name Fashion Brands to Stop Profiting Off of Uighur Labor.
MEET IGGY DANCHENKO, THE STEELE DOSSIER’S ‘PRIMARY SUBSOURCE:’ Paul Sperry of RealCearInvestigations has a stunningly detailed description of Danchenko, a Russian in the U.S. on a work visa, and his long connections to Christopher Steele, as well as the significant role played by the Brookings Institution’s Strobe Talbot, in funneling the Steele Dossier to the State Department.
Bottomline: The Democratic side of the Washington Establishment was up to its collective neck in the effort to discredit Donald Trump and elect Hillary Clinton as President. When that effort blew up on election day, the discrediting campaign became both an attempt to subvert Trump’s presidency and a defensive coverup of the whole rotten, subversive conspiracy.
Sperry’s fine work should be read in conjunction with the Julie Kelly piece for American Greatness that Glenn linked late yesterday that comprehensively lays out the Brookings role in the conspiracy.
THE THING IS, BASICALLY NOBODY ACTUALLY BUYS THIS WOKE CRAP: “A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 75% of American Adults think the term ‘racism’ refers to any discrimination by people of one race against another.” “Just 15% say it refers only to discrimination by white people against minorities. These findings have changed little in surveys for the past several years…. Eighteen percent (18%) say most white Americans are racist. But 25% believe most black Americans are racist.”
DEMOCRATS ALWAYS TREAT ASSOCIATION WITH THE OPPOSITION AS AN ETHICAL VIOLATION: Democrats Press Trump Appointees to Recuse From Felon Voting Case.
It’s nonsense, of course, but they know the press will back them.
OPEN THREAD: Is it inscribed on human fate that man must grow wicked to seem wise; and the path of politics be forever encumbered with briers and thorns?
Because I am not cruel, I will spare you the confusion that Google may not dispel: This is a departure from the song-lines: This is from the journal of Senator William Maclay of Pennsylvania, deploring the negotiations over the Judiciary Act of 1789. Which actually turned out okay.
SUPPORT FOR SPACE HAS BEEN PLEASANTLY BIPARTISAN: Democratic Party voices support for NASA in 2020 platform. Nothing specifically about private companies, but a policy of benign neglect would be just fine.
WOKE WHITE PEOPLE ARE THE WORST: From Black lives to ‘white spectacle,’ Portland protests have lost focus, civil rights leaders say: “The focus has been moved from where it is supposed to be and made to be a spectacle, a debacle,” said the president of the Portland NAACP.
You turn your protest over to Antifa, this is going to happen.
UPDATE: Black Portlander Changes His Mind About the Nightly Protests After He Attends One. “Gabe Johnson, a 48-year-old African American man who served in the Marines, now says that the Portland Police should use any means necessary, including force, to sweep the riots off the streets and end the nightly violence.”
LIFE IN DE BLASIO’S NEW YORK: FDNY official defends excluding famed 9/11 firefighter from procession for being white. “A top FDNY official says it’s ‘most definitely’ acceptable to exclude a white firefighter from a ceremonial unit based solely on his skin color, The Post has learned. Cecilia Loving, the department’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, is defending a decision to kick Lt. Daniel McWilliams — one of three firefighters in the iconic 9/11 Ground Zero flag-raising photo — off a color-guard procession so it would be all-black. . . . Loving said it’s okay to replace a white member with an African-American to ‘uplift our identities and our separate ethnicities in order to instill a sense of pride and community and support for one another.'”
It’s almost as if the real role of “Chief Diversity Officers” is to justify blatant racial discrimination.
THEY LAUGHED AT ROBERT CONQUEST, BUT NOW THERE’S THIS: How to Prepare for a Communist Coup. In terms of responding, you kill commies, especially the ones at the top, before they get all forted up.
But I sincerely doubt we’re heading that way. It’s more likely that in a year, everyone will be saying they had doubts about BLM and the Wokeness Revolution.
LOONY LOCKDOWN GOVERNORS MAKE A MEAL OF DEFINING WHAT A MEAL IS.
Or as America’s Newspaper of Record put it: Governor Cuomo Orders Restaurants To Put Pineapple On Their Pizza.
WHEN WOKE IS A JOKE: Calls Growing for Woke Big-Name Fashion Brands to Stop Profiting Off of Uighur Labor.
JIM BOVARD: How Intellectuals Cured ‘Tyrannophobia.’ It’s not clear that the intellectual class has been a net benefit to society.
WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE: Nine Lessons Learned from Re-Watching Classic Star Trek.