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BECAUSE THE NARRATIVE ABOUT “ESCALATION” IS CONTROLLED BY PEOPLE WHO HATE ISRAEL: Why is it only ‘escalation’ when Israel retaliates? Israel has every right to respond to Hezbollah’s cruel slaughter of 12 Druze kids.

Let me just also ask, what’s wrong with escalation? D-Day was an escalation. So were the Doolittle Raid and Hiroshima. Escalation ends wars. A “peace process,” on the other hand, keeps them going forever. Which serves the interests of some, sure enough.

TONI AIRAKSINEN: Lawyer: Autistic Students Disadvantaged By Biden’s Title IX’s Kangaroo Courts. “Normal autistic behaviors may be misinterpreted by Title IX administrators. In fact, most of Title IX training involves attributing ‘negative connotations to behaviors which are quite common to autistic people,’ explains Tucker. Examples of this include failure to make eye contact, delay in providing answers during questioning, lack of emotion, and defensiveness or anger if the student feels they are being challenged. The training of campus Title IX administrators often makes no concession for those on the autism spectrum, despite that anywhere from 10-20% of men are on it.”

Report these Title IX administrators to the ADA administrators.

HOW ACT BLUE LAUNDERS DONATIONS:  Smurfing At Work.

TROUBLE: Harris VP Short-Lister Comes Loaded with Baggage. “On the menu today: A new report contends that Minnesota governor Tim Walz is on the short list to be Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate. This is almost laughable when you look at Walz’s record running the state government, which somehow manages to combine the honesty of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, the competence of former Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco, and the sharp-eyed ethical-watchdog instincts of soon-to-be-former New Jersey senator Bob Menendez.”

Add that to Josh Shapiro’s sexual harassment issues and Mark Kelly’s Chinese spy balloon interests, and it’s narrowing the field a bit.

THREAD:

MARY KATHARINE HAM EXPLAINS KAMALA’S NEW RACE-BASED CAMPAIGN GROUPS IN LANGUAGE A KAMALA SUPPORTER CAN UNDERSTAND:

SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION FOREVER: How did we get to the point where the campaign for maybe the most liberal presidential candidate ever is embracing and encouraging a group called “White Dudes for Harris?” In a forthcoming article I write about how the academic left increasingly “supports or adopts the notion that overcoming societal racism requires white American to adopt a white racial consciousness.54 Increased white racial consciousness will give white Americans an opportunity to acknowledge their ‘white privilege.’ In turn, this will allow white Americans to develop a collective critical consciousness, making them into antiracist allies.” But as I explain, the notion “that the primary effect of encouraging white racial consciousness will be to get white Americans to evolve into activists dedicated to combatting systemic racism is optimistic to the point of ingenuousness.” And “society will always be divided by race if our educational institutions and popular culture encourage, even demand, people divide themselves by race.” You can read the whole thing, at this link.

UPDATE: From perhaps the most viscerally annoying woman I have encountered, “influencer” Arielle Fodor, on a Zoom “White Women for Harris” call: “Learn from and amplify the voices of those who have been historically marginalized and use the privilege you have in order to push for systemic change,” she said. “As white people, we have a lot to learn and unlearn. So do check your blind spots.”

OPEN THREAD: Now blast off. I said, blast off.