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July 1, 2021
IT’S COME TO THIS: Twitter Suspends NY Times’ Columnist’s Account After He Denounces Equity as ‘Racism.’
[Bret] Stephens’ Twitter account now says merely, “Account suspended. Twitter suspends accounts which violate the Twitter Rules.”
Stephens previously wrote a devastating critique of the New York Times’ 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Pulitzer Prize-winning undertaking to date America’s founding from the importation of the first African slaves. Stephens noted the comprehensive scholarly rejection of Hannah-Jones’ assertions before calling the undertaking a “thesis in search of evidence.”
In February, Stephens penned a column objecting to the way longtime New York Times science reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. “resigned” after public backlash that he had said the n-word while chaperoning his daughter’s field trip — to ask about the context in which it was used. The New York Times ultimately refused to print Stephens’ column, which was published by the New York Post.
Twitter did not immediately respond to inquiries about the reason for the suspension.
Also suspended during the past 24 hours or so, the popular “Journalists Posting Their Ls” Twitter account:
The bannings will continue until morale improves. Flashback: CEO Jack Dorsey Defends Twitter’s #LearntoCode Purges.
UPDATE: “A previous version of this article erroneously claimed that Twitter suspended New York Times columnist Brett Stephens after he denounced equity as racism. Stephens voluntarily deactivated his Twitter account in 2019. The original claim has been removed; the article and its headline have been revised.”
I HAD BEEN ASSURED THAT THE CRIME WAVE WAS A GOP FABRICATION: Just three Northern Colorado jails hold over 100 murder suspects; ‘never numbers like this.’
ROGER KIMBALL: The embarrassing and pathetic Vogue profile of Dr. Jill Biden, EdD.
The really interesting thing is to compare this cover story of Dr Jill with the cover story that Vogue ran of the last FLOTUS, Melania Trump.
Ha, ha, ha. Just kidding. There was no cover story of Melania in Vogue or, as far as I know, any other major women’s magazine, during her time as first lady. Melania, a former model, is elegant and, to continue to speak plainly, gorgeous. She does not have an advanced degree in education from the University of Delaware, it’s true. She has not written a dissertation on ‘Student Retention at the Community College Level: Meeting Students’ Needs’ as has Dr Jill Biden, EdD. But she is what the Bidens claim to admire. A polyglot immigrant who has made good and has contributed much to American society. Somehow, though, she didn’t pass muster with the arbiters of taste in the realm of American fashion. Clearly, they prefer their mutton dressed as lamb just so long as politics of the sheep are the right — which is to say, the left — politics.
Vogue’s profile of Dr Jill Biden, EdD, would be embarrassing if it were not simply pathetic.
No, that is not correct. It is embarrassing as well as pathetic but also utterly predictable and depressing to boot. Welcome to the world of American sycophancy. It’s working overtime to make a laughing stock of us all.
To be fair though, it’s useful to readers for the palace guard media to identify itself as such.
WELL, THIS BUILDS CONFIDENCE: IBM’s 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster, sources say.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. “When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.”
ASK SPIRO AGNEW: Why Is the Buttoned-Up Biden White House Leaking Dirt on Kamala?
AT HELEN’S PAGE: A couple of new books up: Year of the Sheep: A Novel of the Highland Clearances and The Riddle of Penncroft Farm (Great Episodes).
TO BE FAIR, THE CRIMINALS WON’T PAY UP: San Jose To Tax Law-Abiding Gun Owners For The Actions Of Criminals.
ICONIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE FAILS TO DISCLOSE CCP FUNDING IN LATEST PRINT EDITION: Time magazine has taken more than $700,000 from China Daily for sponsored content.
Henry Luce, the son of Presbyterian missionaries to China, who created Time magazine in 1923, and who sided with Chiang Kai-shek during China’s communist revolution, just rolled over many times in his grave.
WHY ARE GAY BARS SUCH CESSPITS OF RACISM AND BIGOTRY? “Like many Asian-American men, Miller was disappointed by gay bars and the bigotry he eventually found in those self-ascribed temples of acceptance.”
HOW’S THAT “WELCOME WAGON” PROGRAM COMING ALONG? Californians are fueling Austin’s housing frenzy: ‘We’ve never seen migration like this.’
I hope they know what they’re in for: In addition to the feral hogs and the “neanderthal” order by Gov. Abbott to stop enforcing mask orders, ‘Douche’ father-of-seven sales exec who moved his family from California to Texas then BACK again is blasted for complaining about Austin’s ‘rude locals, bland culture, oppressive heat and Yelp’s bad food choices’ in scathing Op-Ed. “Alder described Texas with its lower income taxes as a ‘conservative dystopia’ and said he felt cramped – even though his house was twice the size.”
HMM: University Of Miami Appoints Acting Law School Dean; Faculty Demands Investigation Into Firing Of Tony Varona. Neither the university, nor Varona himself, has been very forthcoming about what was going on here.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Virginia Gov Candidate Unveils Plan To Stop Standards-Lowering, Ideology In Schools.
TWO BIG SUPREME COURT DECISIONS: “First up was Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee concerning Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Justice Alito wrote for the Court’s conservatives, concluding that Arizona’s laws prohibiting ballot harvesting and limiting out-of-precinct voting did not violate the VRA and that these provisions were not enacted with a discriminatory purpose. The implication of this decision is that Section 2 claims against state voting laws must be based upon disparate treatment claims, and the evidence of disparate impact on minority groups is insufficient. Justice Gorsuch wrote a brief concurrence joined by Justice Thomas. Justice Kagan dissented on behalf of the Court’s liberals. The final opinion of the term came in Americans for Prosperity v. Bonta. Chief Justice Roberts wrote for the Court, concluding that California’s donor disclosure requirement is facially invalid because it burdens donors’ First Amendment rights and is not narrowly tailored to an important government interest.”
I SEE HIM MORE AS MEPHISTOPHELES: Xi Jinping’s Faustian moment.
YET ANOTHER INSTITUTION SEIZED BY A CABAL OF ITS ENEMIES: Tolkien Society Goes Woke, ‘Finds’ Transgenderism, ‘Antiracism,’ and Queer-ness in The Lord of The Rings.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: ‘Flippin Gigantic’ Biden Mexico Deal Revealed.
Plus:
- Karen explains racism to self-made black man
- Lefties gaslighting crime wave away
- JAMA concludes masks are basically child abuse
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
THAT ’70S SHOW: The Looming Stagflationary Debt Crisis.
In April, I warned that today’s extremely loose monetary and fiscal policies, when combined with a number of negative supply shocks, could result in 1970s-style stagflation (high inflation alongside a recession). In fact, the risk today is even bigger than it was then.
After all, debt ratios in advanced economies and most emerging markets were much lower in the 1970s, which is why stagflation has not been associated with debt crises historically. If anything, unexpected inflation in the 1970s wiped out the real value of nominal debts at fixed rates, thus reducing many advanced economies’ public-debt burdens.
Conversely, during the 2007-08 financial crisis, high debt ratios (private and public) caused a severe debt crisis – as housing bubbles burst – but the ensuing recession led to low inflation, if not outright deflation. Owing to the credit crunch, there was a macro shock to aggregate demand, whereas the risks today are on the supply side.
We are thus left with the worst of both the stagflationary 1970s and the 2007-10 period.
Obama’s third term, Carter’s second.
SAY ANYTHING: Biden’s Energy Sec. Suggests Climate Change Caused Florida Building Collapse. “Granholm’s suggestion that the condo collapse is due to climate is utterly ridiculous. There is no reason to believe that anything other than faulty construction and/or failed maintenance is the proximate cause.”
JIMMY LAI’S STORY AND WHAT’S AT STAKE IN HONG KONG: Christopher Bedford of The Federalist has a compelling read on the life of the Hong Kong billionaire/publisher jailed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). How many of us have the grace-bought fortitude to endure what this man — and millions of other Catholic and Protestant Christians in China — are enduring?