Archive for 2021

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I WAS ON FOX NEWS LAST NIGHT: Americans hate the ‘woke mob,’ so why are they getting their way? I was the guinea pig for UT’s new online studio using ReadyCam. I think the lighting and the sound treatment in the room need a bit of work, but it went smoothly and the staff was, as always, totally helpful and professional.

FROM THE COMMENTS TO THIS POST:

Misinformation. What a crooked propaganda word it is.

No one can define it. It’s a nonce word designed to stop people from thinking. The liberal herd uses it all the time like a cowbell all the cows can orient to, but they don’t define it. For example one Charlie Warzel recently used it in an essay in the NY Times, but failed to define it for his readers.

In truth “misinformation” is just some assertion a political group says is false and bad. It’s a weasel word, a political word no one uses in real life, like the word ARYAN in Nazi newspapers. Aryan=good, you know. Misinformation=bad.

A less crooked word, a real word people use, would be “error” or maybe “mistake.” “You printed something on your website that is misinformation” simply means “you printed something on your website that is in error.”

In America we are allowed to print errors, and we have a legal bias that encourages the publication of mistakes and errors. Who is going to judge in advance whether something is in error or not? The puffed-up woke mokes? I don’t think so.

The tech giants, and their moronic defenders, keep acting as if “misinformation” was some difficult-to-understand conceptual error that they’re in a position to understand and control on our behalf. That’s self-serving BS. The reader decides what’s in error after reading it and thinking about it. If you set out to prevent the publication of error, you prevent people from knowing what’s true.

If I publish an error, like 2+2=17, am I going to be de-platformed for misinformation? It is certainly an error to assert that. Who has the right to squash my error at the outset? No one. In truth, publishing 2+2=17 makes it all the more clear that 2+2=4 is the truth.

So this crusade against “misinformation” is blather pure and simple, as you will find if you ask the crusaders to define what they are talking about and explain to normal people why the publication of mistaken ideas is so destructive.

“Misinformation” even sounds like a CCP code word, because it is.

OH: Amazon delivery drivers must consent to invasive new surveillance or be fired. “The company announced in February that it would install artificial intelligence-powered cameras in its fleet of around 75,000 branded vans. It has said the move is intended to improve health and safety by alerting drivers when they’re exhibiting risky behavior.”

IN THE LATEST EXAMPLE OF “THIS COUNTRY HAS GONE COMPLETELY INSANE”: There was a horrific mass shooting, with ten people murdered. Photos emerged of the shooter, who is obviously Caucasian/white.

Leftist identitarians on Twitter gleefully(!) proclaimed that the shooting was an example of at best white male toxicity, and likely white supremacy. Then in turned out that the shooter was a Muslim immigrant from Syria. The identitarians beat a hasty retreat, embarrassed for jumping to the conclusion he was white, because Muslims from Syria aren’t white. Even when they are.

Digging a bit deeper, note that the Trump Administration had two cabinet officials of Lebanese descent (Azar and Espy) and virtually none of the wokesters suggested that they were non-white members of the cabinet. Jews much swarthier than the shooter are, unlike white Muslims, deemed to have “white privilege” because reasons. And official (legal) racial classifications in the U.S. have deemed Arab-Americans to be white forever.

I wish I could say this insanity was limited to the U.S., but a few years back a white woman of Algerian heritage was deemed (and deemed herself) the “first black president” of the British student union.

It’s all about weaponizing identity for left-wing political ends, of course. But it’s still insane.

IN CHURCHILL’S WORDS, SO FAR HAVE WE COME, SO FAR HAVE WE LEFT TO GO: