PLEASE ENJOY THE POPCORN AND THIS LECTURE WITH OUR FEATURE PRESENTATION: The return of ‘Gone with the Wind.’ “Gone with the Wind, exiled from HBO Max for racism, may return next week with an intro by an African-American Studies scholar explaining that it is not a documentary, reports Steven Zeitchik in the Washington Post. ‘The expert will discuss the movie’s accuracy, its portrayals, and the issues and problems those depictions create’.”

I wonder if HBO will disable fast-forwarding through it.

RELATED: Blockbuster Video at Home.

STACEY LENNOX: In 2020, ‘It’s the Enthusiasm Stupid!’ And Team Trump Seems to Know How to Generate It.

To be fair, the Left seems to have lots of enthusiasm in recent weeks, although admittedly it’s less for Biden and more for burning stuff down.

WHO? BidenWatch for June 15, 2020. “Biden comes out of his basement and sees his shadow, more questions about China and Ukraine, more veepstakes, and questioning just how much of that #BlackLivesMatter money ActBlue is raking in goes to Biden.”

HMM: COVID-19 “Spike”? Or Spin? “Moreover, as regular readers know, I’ve been tracking Missouri’s COVID-19 numbers closely, as well. And, as we’ve reported here at RedState, there have been numerous protests and marches in Missouri (in St. Louis, Kansas City, and even in smaller communities). If we’re experiencing a spike in cases, that should be reflected in Missouri’s numbers, too, right? The average increase in new cases in Missouri between June 1st and June 14th has been 1.5%. Between June 7th and June 14th? 1.4%. Nor has there been an uptick in the hospitalization rate in Missouri in that time period.”

PIVOT TO ASIA: Three US Navy aircraft carriers are patrolling the Pacific Ocean at the same time. And China’s not happy.

BREAKING: Supreme Court Redefines ‘Sex’ in Federal Law in Orwellian Ruling.

NO. JUST NO. Lockdown Fever: CDC Warning of Coronavirus Shut-In #2.

THE REVOLUTION HAS ALREADY DESCENDED INTO PYTHONESQUE PARODY: CHAZ/CHOP Creates Conflict Resolution Council, and the Rules Are SPECTACULAR.

HIJACKED: Black organizers in Seattle autonomous zone doubt sincerity of white protesters.

The Seattle Police Department has so far been unsuccessful in identifying a clear leadership structure to begin negotiations with protesters, and infighting within the six blocks’ perimeters has continued — most recently as some have tried to change the name of the zone from the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or “CHAZ,” to the Capitol Hill Organized (or Occupied) Protest, or “CHOP.”

The Capitol Hill Undercover Menshevik Patrol would like to have a word.

MOSTLY PEACEFUL: CNN Camera Crew Attacked While Filming Rioters Allegedly Burning Down A Wendy’s In Atlanta.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Seattle’s CHAZ/CHOP Is One Long Trump Campaign Ad. “While I am generally a fan of cleaning up hippie filth as soon as it erupts somewhere, I think that CHAZ/CHOP should be left to evolve into all of its dumpster fire potential.”

The Left pretends to enjoy “teachable moments,” and here is one.

SAD: Ivy League Professor Says Intimidation Campaigns Gaining Ground On Campus.

BLM supporters, in a coordinated effort with the Black Law Student Association, Cornell alumni, and law school faculty, are calling on the school to sack Jacobson for publicly critiquing BLM’s ideology. An alumni petition began on June 11 calling on the university to “take immediate action” to drive him out. The professor said his accusers are disingenuously attacking his character to force the school’s hand.

In prior years, people who called on Cornell to fire Jacobson were generally off-campus political and ideological opponents, and the Cornell administrators defended his right to speak publicly. Now those calls are coming from within the Cornell community and the administration has remained silent.

“What we need in this circumstance is strong administrative leadership,” Jacobson said. “It’s a very repressive atmosphere and it’s only getting worse. There appears to be a zero-tolerance for any criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement.”

Cornell did not respond to a request for comment.

Well, what’s there to say when once-respected institutions of free inquiry start caving to the mobs’ demands to enforce goodthink?

DID ANYONE THINK THEY WOULD DO ANYTHING ELSE? EU won’t ally with US against China, foreign policy chief says before Pompeo meeting.

The EU might be an organization of Western states, but it doesn’t often behave like a Western organization.

GOOD FOR PEOPLE OF ALL RACES: IBM CEO’s Letter to Congress on Racial Justice Reform. “IBM has sunset its general purpose facial recognition and analysis software products.”

Trendy “racial justice” boilerplate aside, this is good news.

BATTLESWARM BLOG: Video From War-Torn Minneapolis.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Liberals Still Think Obama Was the ‘Best President Ever,’ Here Are 14 Reasons Why That’s Ridiculous.

TAKE A DEEP DIVE INTO THE COMIC GENIUS OF FAWLTY TOWERS, ‘THE GERMANS’ EPISODE, AND TOTALITARIAN CANCEL CULTURE IN MY LATEST FOR PJMEDIA: Cancel Culture Comes for John Cleese and ‘Fawlty Towers.’

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THAT’S NOT HOW THIS WORKS: Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan Says Anarchy in City Could Be ‘a Summer of Love.’

SHUT UP, KAREN: Teacher Spying on Student During Virtual Class Sends Cops to Search 11-Year-Old’s Home After Spotting a BB Gun.

WHY NOT TAKE A BREAK FROM THE SERIOUS NEWS FOR A FEW MINUTES? Florida Man Friday Challenge: Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Tom Cotton EVISCERATES Cancel Culture in ‘Obelisk of Wokeness’ Speech.

HMM: In new filing, Flynn’s lawyers say judge ‘exceeded his power’ in not dismissing case. “The judge ‘has no authority to gin up his own case or controversy where none exists’.”

ZOOM IS LOUSY SOFTWARE PRODUCED BY A QUESTIONABLE COMPANY: ‘Zoom Bombers’ Are Still Blasting Private Meetings With Disturbing and Graphic Content.

MATT WALSH: The Only Real Privilege In America Is Leftist Privilege.

There is much discussion about “privilege” in our culture. Indeed, the concept of privilege is one of the things fueling these mobs. They would say that privilege is bestowed based on race and gender, and that I, as a white man, have the most privilege of all. Yet I’m fairly sure that if I drove into town right now and threw a brick in a window, or set a retail outlet on fire, or looted a convenience store, or invaded a police precinct, or tried to set up my own “autonomous zone,” or yanked down any statues or monuments I found personally displeasing, I would be arrested on the spot, with little fanfare. And if I resisted arrest and was beaten or killed by police in the process – even if my death was unjust and the result of excessive force – there would be no CNN headlines about it, no riots in my honor, no elaborate displays of performative grief from our elected officials in Washington. Whatever my white privilege gets me, it doesn’t get me that. And it doesn’t provide me a pass that allows me to tear through the city, stealing, destroying, looting, and burning, either.

It seems to me that the greatest privilege on offer in our culture today is the privilege to be utterly immune from the law. This is the privilege exercised by many of the “protesters.” And though some of them are white males, many are not. It is, then, a privilege that is not dispensed based on race, but on ideology. We might call it Leftist Privilege. A person with the “correct” worldview, especially if he is gathered with a group of other correct-thinking people, can do almost anything he wants. The Powers That Be will bend over backwards to accommodate him and meet his demands.

The mob’s demands are right in line with leftist policy so of course the left is happy to appease the mob.

It’s a gross and violent example of “one hand washes the other,” and they’ve been getting away with it for a very long time.

WATCH: Black Man Escorts Police Into CHAZ, Outrage Ensues.