“Like those of other North East Asian countries, China’s growth model has relied heavily on the one pursued by Japan after World War II…China’s current problems look eerily similar, and in some ways worse. Demographic problems are an example…China is now at th[e] point as companies are forced to save, its economy will struggle – perhaps more so than Japan’s, and not just because of demographics…The Chinese banking system — and everyone that relies on it — is likely to be crippled for years. Many Chinese banks are already struggling to fund themselves.”
==================
“In many states — including California, New York and Illinois — Democrats control all the levers of power. They run the government. They write the laws. And as we explore in the video above, they often aren’t living up to their values. In key respects, many blue states are actually doing worse than red states. It is in the blue states where affordable housing is often hardest to find, there are some of the most acute disparities in education funding and economic inequality is increasing most quickly. Instead of asking, “What’s the matter with Kansas?” Democrats need to spend more time pondering, “What’s the matter with California?””
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/opinion/democrats-blue-states-legislation.html?fbclid=IwAR1JoQOu8EUSi_vO0szuqhVSikvpvumb9z07n4oQ6mlYeAjsjU8w5nSDIVE
====================
“It is true that the majority of Americans on the right don’t think of climate change as being a very serious issue. It is also true that there isn’t anything happening at COP26 that would change their minds. I am not sure that anybody is going to sell…trans-nonbinary liberation as a fundamental prerequisite of environmental reform — or even on the underlying claim that environmental reform is a matter of justice rather than a largely technical and economic question involving the externalities that result from human material progress.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/trans-nonbinary-liberation-is-eco-justice/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=top-bar-latest&utm_term=first
====================
“…now we’re on to chasing down every woman a famous man has slept with to get a couple of them to say they had a bad time. A piece in Business Insider last week accused Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy of just that. Two women accuse Portnoy of sex they didn’t enjoy. If the era of #MeToo was kicked off with Portnoy instead of Weinstein, it would have been a complete bust. #MeToo caught fire because the accusations against these famous men were so major. The accusations against Portnoy are not.”
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/dave-portnoy-business-insider-metoo-allegations/
====================
"It used to be that stereotyping was seen as the mental crutch of the ignorant and bigoted. But much of the commentariat has now adopted a quasi-Marxist view that every individual always represents the political group of which he is a member. You’re not a real woman if you’re not a feminist. You’re not really black if you don’t share Nikole Hannah-Jones’s politics. Now much political commentary is written as if every event must fit into archetypes. If Kyle Rittenhouse is a white man and crying, he must be exactly like Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who is a white man who once came close to crying in public. … In a strange way, our psychotic commentariat is providing for Kyle Rittenhouse the inverse image of the “black rage” defense that was once employed in the trial of Colin Ferguson, who killed six and wounded 19 others on a train in New York in 1993. Yes, he had committed the killings, but he was driven temporarily insane by a racist society and so he was criminally non-liable, his lawyers argued.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/what-rittenhouses-crying-means-to-psychos/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=top-bar-latest&utm_term=third
====================
"Many leaders are terrified that speaking the truth about Israel will cause them to lose their access to the political and intellectual circles they prize so highly, and in which they pretend to themselves they are accepted as equals just like anyone else"
====================
“So far, anyway (and this brings me to the heartbreaking part of the narrative) all of Durham’s three indictments suggest that, as McCarthy puts it, “the FBI was duped, not that the bureau intentionally lied to the court.” That’s not what I want to hear, nor is it what I think is true. That is, I think that the FBI is an institution that is out of control. I believe it has become thoroughly politicized and is in effect a tool of the Democratic establishment. … It needs to be dismantled and replaced. But that’s as may be. It saddens me to acknowledge it, but I suspect Andy McCarthy is right: “If Durham were building toward an overarching indictment alleging a corrupt conspiracy between the Clinton campaign and the FBI to deceive the court, he would not be charging people with lying to the FBI.””
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/russia-collusion-hoax-about-to-be-exposed/
====================
“Britney may have had legal success on her own, but the public pressure campaign seemed to speed up the process and make it almost inevitable that Britney would eventually be free of her conservatorship. It was a breath of fresh air from an aspect of celebrity culture that usually trends toxic, especially considering that culture is at least partially to blame for the aggressive paparazzi and tabloid coverage that stoked Britney’s 2007 breakdown. Finally, Britney’s saga exposed the general horror of court-ordered conservatorships…conservatorships give so much power to the conservator that there is little incentive for them to ever allow their subject to be free. Hopefully Britney’s case inspires reform in the system so that other Americans are not subjugated in the same unjust way.”
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/freebritney-spears-redemption-toxic-celebrity-fan-culture/
====================
“The Eighth Amendment forbids cruel and unusual punishment. The scribes at the AMA never got that memo. This surreal emission from two of the nation’s top medical organizations presents an advancing terminal condition. The prognosis for the patient is grim. Fortunately, contagion can be contained by laughter bolstered by doses of ridicule.”
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/the-doctor-mad-american-medical-association/
====================
“Yes, Governor Glenn attended a ball in the Eighties whose theme does not parse well with the lofty standards of the 2020s. And he was pictured “next to” people whose costumes have aged like a fine milk. Never mind the fact that Youngkin himself is wearing…a tuxedo. The only culture the governor-elect is appropriating is Antarctica’s.”
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/glenn-youngkin-non-scandal-oriental-prom-night/
====================
“…there will always be anti-Trumpers so thoroughly conditioned as to refuse to admit that even a broken clock is right twice a day.
“There will always be anti-Zionists for whom the best agreement in the world, if it involves Israel, is null, void, and detestable.
“There are the false friends of Palestine fulminating about treason and abandonment at the hands of their champions.”
https://www.the-american-interest.com/2020/09/05/promising-liaisons-bhl-israel-uae/
====================
“Why else would the Gulf potentates treat with the despicable Yahud who figures as “ape” and “swine” in the Koran? Why would the Hundred Years’ War against the Zionist project pale now? The answer is “Imperial Iran,” which transformed ancient enmities into a marriage of convenience between Muslims and Jews. What was feted as a “miracle” is actually nothing new under the sun. In Christendom, think about the Thirty Years’ War (1618-48) high schoolers learn to view as faith-driven mayhem. Not so. It wasn’t Protestants vs. Papists, but an all-out hegemonic conflict between Catholic France and Catholic Habsburgs. The French had no qualms about allying with the Protestant Swedes and the Lutheran princes of the Holy Roman Empire. Protestant Denmark played both sides of the street. Power beat the pulpit.
Thus again in the Middle East today…Israel looks even better than America, the midwife of this progressive realignment, with foes and friends trading places. The U.S. has proven a fickle protector. Most recently, Obama tried to make nice to Tehran at the expense of Israel and the Arabs, a traumatic turn that along with the JCPOA accelerated the rethink.”
https://www.the-american-interest.com/2020/09/30/a-peace-prize-for-ali-khamenei/
====================
“…to believe the choice is up to him is to believe that his staggering fall in poll numbers is imaginary. It’s to believe that Biden is not facing the largest electoral wipeout in Congress in decades, or that those behind his presidency are not going to pull him aside — particularly Jill Biden, who has been extremely protective of her husband. It’s to wave away his advanced age and possible cognitive decline. Joe Biden is a dead man walking, electorally speaking….Usually a politician would shy away from policies likely to inflict pain on the country. But that all changes if he isn’t planning on standing for reelection. He could inflict real reform — and real harm, the kind of harm we are seeing right now with both an inflation crisis and oil prices spiking.”
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/joe-biden-bucket-list-presidency-progressive-policies/
====================
“Fusionism, properly understood, is not a marriage of two groups. It’s a marriage of two value sets. A fusionist is someone who sees both liberty (in the classical sense of freedom from aggression, coercion, and fraud) and virtue (in the Judeo-Christian sense of submission to God’s commands) as important. Fusionism is therefore a distinct philosophical orientation unto itself. What’s more, it has historically been the dominant orientation on the American right.”
https://reason.com/2021/02/10/is-there-a-future-for-fusionism/
====================
Who needed limited government? By removing the old tripwires, progressives inadvertently left the system increasingly vulnerable to elite thrusts and popular parries. No wonder today’s progressives fear, and contemplate, coups. This year’s news is a welcome reminder that we’re not doomed to live among coups, that the rules of the game are still valid, and that you win some and you lose some.
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/has-america-gone-coup-coup/
====================
“The basic stance of the social justice set, for a long time now, has been that they are 100% exempt from ordinary politics. … Well, sooner or later, guys, you have to actually give a shit about what people who aren’t a part of your movement think. Sorry. That’s life. The universe is indifferent to your demand for justice, and will remain so until you bother to try to change minds. Nobody gives you what you want. That’s not how it works….And for f____ sake, give me a simple term to use to address you. Please? Because right now it sure looks like you don’t want to be named because you don’t want to be criticized.”
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/please-just-fucking-tell-me-what
====================
A movement that fears any name at all for what it proposes to do is, ultimately, trying to smother any sort of democratic debate of its goals, like the darkness itself throwing a blanket over a candle. But this is America. If you won’t offer your own name for your ideas, sooner or later, one will be provided for you.
====================
In 2018 the University of California led the way for the reintroduction of what is essentially a loyalty oath, some 70 years after it briefly required employees to swear they were not members of the Communist Party, and 50 years after it adopted Standing Order 101.1(d): “No political test shall ever be considered in the appointment and promotion of any faculty member or employee.” Nonetheless, all candidates for faculty positions now must submit a statement “that describes the candidate’s past, present, and future (planned) contributions to equity, diversity, and inclusion,” which is deemed “vital information.”
====================
“US officials are curtailing their use of the term “malign influence” to refer to Chinese misconduct abroad, amid progressive advocacy efforts urging the Biden administration to seek common ground with Beijing…Asked about the change in approach, a State Department spokesperson told NR in a statement: “‘Malign influence’ by itself has been used to describe an array of PRC actions that concern the United States and our allies and partners. Its generic nature without specific examples undercuts our goal of identifying specific behaviors of concern, especially those posing serious threats to U.S. national security or the international rules-based order.” This is aimed at “making clear U.S. criticism is not directed toward PRC nationals, the global Chinese diaspora, or U.S. citizens of Chinese descent, as well as citizens of other countries who are of Chinese ethnicity or heritage.””
====================
The passage of the infrastructure bill with Republican support (19 senators, 13 members of the House) is just an example of bad policy becoming law in response to normal political pressures. It would have been better if it hadn’t happened, but it’s something we know we can live with. The intrusions on and alterations in ordinary American life in the proposed “Build Back Better” bill is dangerous policy, and we will be heading down an irreversible path into a bleaker American future if (and I don’t think this will happen) it passes.
====================
“This is not about Bannon, Donald Trump’s formerly estranged White House adviser, who has groveled his way back from presidential punching bag to pardon grantee to Mar-a-Lago courtier. The issue here is the politicization of the Justice Department…Biden ran as the candidate who would bridge America’s deep divide. He has made things much worse, and his Justice Department’s Bannon prosecution will make them worse still.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/garlands-bannon-indictment-a-self-defeating-act-of-politicized-prosecution/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202021-11-16&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart
====================
Opening Night at Carnegie Hall this season was telling….On the program were two new works, including one purporting to be about climate change. There are many of these “environmental” pieces around. About ten years ago, I came up with a term: the “green piece.”
====================
Public officials, athletes, and the media shouldn’t have misled the rioters as to the facts of the Blake case; if they had, maybe the streets of Kenosha would have been calmer. The rioters shouldn’t have rioted; if they had, the Rittenhouse shootings would not have happened.
Just as importantly, the chaos could — and should — have been stopped by a firm law-enforcement response. In a summer of George Floyd riots and calls to “defund the police,” Democratic politicians were all too often eager to pander to the rioters and hit the brakes on using shows of force to clear the streets…Here’s the thing: The alternative to police is not social workers. It is not, in the long run, violence run wild, either. It is vigilantes and lynch mobs. …When the proper authorities fail to keep order, private citizens will one way or another take the law in their own hands. “
====================
“As [Hemingway] notes in her first paragraph, “the last time Democrats fully accepted the legitimacy of a presidential election they lost was in 1988.” And there are many other instances of “situational thinking.” Democrats downplayed the danger of the novel coronavirus prior to March 2020, at which point it served their political interests to reverse course and become COVID hawks. They also shared concerns about Dominion electronic voting systems with Republicans until November 2020, when they suddenly abandoned those concerns.”
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/are-fair-elections-possible/
====================
“The concern was not that Catholics might look to the gospel as a guide for their actions in the public square. …for a very long time in America, adherence to Biblical ethics was the cultural norm and the presupposition of politics.. Instead, as Breidenbach shows, the “main driver” of early American anti-Catholicism was the presupposition that all Catholics are “papalists” or papists—i.e., that they believe the pope has infallibility in spiritual teaching and authority to intervene in the affairs of nations. If true, this would make the Church a veritable “state within a state.” The misapprehension that Catholicism always amounts to papalism branded every Catholic as presumptively disloyal and a fit object of discrimination. …[A]llegiance to only one temporal sovereign,” writes Breidenbach, implied that “those with foreign allegiances, including those to the pope, [were] ineligible for full civil and religious rights.”
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/old-religion-in-the-new-world/
====================
“After 1989, when Communism collapsed and progressivism morphed into identity politics, conservative discipline frayed but politeness remained—until the very-impolite Donald Trump rudely confirmed that movement conservatism had little to say about our present crises….That is why Trump won in 2016. We can argue about what Trump did or did not achieve for the country, but inside the conservative movement he clearly accomplished two things: he ended the “free market veto,” clearing the ground for new thinking about how to salvage the American working class; and he finished off any illusions that democracy could be implanted in distant lands through foreign wars. In short, Trump closed the era of both Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.”
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/the-end-of-fusionism/
====================
“The charge of gaslighting is over-deployed in politics these days. But I can’t think of a better description of a line of argument that says: “If you’re so worried about inflation then why aren’t you voting for the $1.75 trillion of spending in social welfare?” Meanwhile, Pete Buttigieg blithely says America needs to “walk and chew gum” at the same time: exactly the sort of smarmy debate-club defense you’d expect from the Rhodes scholar turned transportation secretary. It sounds good. But it doesn’t actually mean anything.”
https://spectatorworld.com/newsletter/white-house-thinks-stupid-11-17-21/
====================
“One need not ever forgive the Saudi regime its many heinous sins to recognize that the Obama-Biden era in Saudi history has been an unmitigated diplomatic and military disaster. The main accomplishment of the realignment so far has been a reduction of U.S. influence in Riyadh without any gain in leverage over Tehran…If the White House wants to boycott [MBS’] de facto leadership in a fit of self-righteousness, it quite obviously can, but its invocations of Jamal Khashoggi and the tragedy in Yemen are unconvincing, even offensive….the humanitarian disaster about to engulf millions of Afghans has not elicited a fraction of the outrage accorded to the murder of a Washington Post contributor. The more relevant question now is which horn of an increasingly urgent dilemma Biden will choose: Put the Iran deal on the back burner, or lose what leverage the United States has over the world’s swing oil producer. As winter approaches, and talks with Iran resume in Vienna, the only thing that seems certain is that one of the most consequential regimes in the world has also become one of the most frightened, because it believes its sworn enemy to be on the brink of a nuclear breakout—aided by Washington.”
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/biden-middle-east-dilemma-saudis
====================
“In an effort to do damage control, the FBI released a statement arguing the practice is standard and compared parents to drug dealers and human traffickers”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2021/11/17/after-targeting-parents-fbi-attempts-damage-control-and-makes-things-worse-n2599238?utm_source=thdailypmvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=272301c8f377cb4769525192b29cae221c10bb65c600b80a9e95a953d91ba2a2&recip=28870245
====================
“So why is a man who has researched terrorism for more than four decades and worked at the higher levels of the American national security apparatus telling the Jewish community that they are helpless against millions of their own fellow citizens, who should now in fact be considered their enemies? Because Hoffman is messaging on behalf of a shameful and deeply un-American push by the Biden administration to criminalize the regime’s political opponents—an initiative in which Jews are being positioned as, and told they are hopeless to avoid being, targets…But there’s no evidence from the past 25 years to show that white nationalism has become a mass movement, never mind a force controlling one of the country’s two major political parties. When a prominent researcher of far-right terror tells the press that Jan. 6 was The Turner Diaries come to life, all it means is that academic reference points haven’t changed much over the last quarter-century, during which white nationalism has only become a movement even further out on the fringe.”
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/counter-terrorism-bruce-hoffman
====================
“…the traditional scientific manner of engaging in such criticism is that other scientists present alternative proposals, and explore other data sets, to search for possible flaws in the original analysis. That is how science should be done. Those who claim in advance, without new analysis or data, that someone else’s research results are “harmful” or threatening, without challenging its accuracy, should consider another profession.”
https://quillette.com/2021/11/10/an-astronomer-cancels-his-own-research-because-the-results-werent-popular/
====================
“When you post a tweet that a) contains numerous obvious falsehoods in the area in which you claim expertise and b) negates every core contention about American society on which your entire career is based. … An astounding feat by
@DrIbram”
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1454444761314648071?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
====================
“If I were Kendi, I would have simply removed the tweet. He’d still be excoriated by people who captured the screenshot, but he’s going to get into more trouble if he tries to debate. I’ve given him some material to defend himself in this post, but there’s simply no doubt that there is no “inequity” in college admissions for blacks or Hispanics. The tweets may reflect reasons why Kendi doesn’t engage in live debates.”
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2021/10/31/deconstruction-of-a-twitter-fracas-involving-ibram-kendi/
====================
“For over a year the media enforced falsehoods about the pandemic’s origins, never evaluated the evidence, never apologized, and was never held accountable…we are likely to conclude that the false narrative around the pandemic’s origins represented a tipping point—a comprehensive failure in journalistic quality and mores in a time of national emergency, caused in large part by an overconcentration of corporate power in media, decades of economic and technological turbulence, and a disturbingly supine approach to an authoritarian hegemon. We might also discover that public trust in an institution essential to democracy was damaged beyond repair.”
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/lab-leak-fiasco
====================
“Aaron T. Beck, the developer of cognitive behavioral therapy who died last week, took a Jewish approach when he battled the orthodoxies of psychoanalytic theory…Precisely because human beings are disorderly, nonlinear, and happily subversive, psychoanalytic treatment and its attendant mysteries and discoveries will likely thrive and be with us forever. Freud aimed to convert frantic agonies into ordinary human unhappiness. To put it simply, Freud distrusted happiness. Beck did not.”
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/taking-on-freud-aaron-beck-psychoanalysis
====================
"Last week's five-day drill in the Red Sea was intended to enhance interoperability among the countries, but also sent a strong message to Tehran: There's now a large, organized bloc of countries opposed to its ambitions of regional hegemony. The bloc's nexus is Israel."
====================
“While NBA players and attendees have been free to advocate for their pet causes on and off the court, addressing China’s treatment of the Uyghur people has been off-limits. The NBA has a large market in China — roughly 10 percent of its revenue in 2019. …mentions of Chinese oppression in East Turkestan, Hong Kong, and Tibet are effectively off-limits now. Broadcasts of the Boston Celtics game have been scrubbed from Chinese channels because center Enes Kanter steadfastly supports Uyghur, Tibetan, and Hong Konger rights. Live feeds are cut and ticketholders are ejected for showing any apparel or messaging that could insult the Chinese Communist Party. That is exactly what happened on Monday, as courtside protesters were ejected from Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. (ironically in Chinatown). Salih Hudayar, the current prime minister of East Turkestan in Exile, was one of those removed. “Security came and then the police, they pushed us out,” Hudayar told The American Spectator, in what he said was an “attempt by the NBA to appease China.””
https://spectator.org/uyghur-protest-silenced-by-the-nbas-corporate-greed/
====================
“The media has become an annex of the Democratic Party. That is the fundamental reason for its uncritical treatment of the Steele Dossier.…the media, even as it pretended to fret over foreign election interference, became a conduit for Steele’s form of it. He meddled in the election on Hillary’s behalf to great effect. It was his collusion with Hillary that introduced Russian disinformation into the race, sparking not only an FBI investigation of her opponent but also a probe that marred the beginning of Trump’s presidency. It was the Democrats, not Putin, who wreaked this havoc on our democracy. Rep. Adam Schiff hawked Steele’s lies for years. Yet the media rolls out the red carpet for him as he promotes his book on threats to democracy. Most of the propagandists for the Steele Dossier remain on television, which shows that the media has no remorse for its role in disseminating it. John Brennan frequently turns up on MSNBC to comment on the very scandal that he caused. That the New York Times and Washington Post won Pulitzer prizes for serving as stenographers to Steele tells you all you need to know about the meaninglessness of those awards. They are simply rewards for liberal propaganda. They go not to the skeptical but to the credulous — reporters who rely almost exclusively on the word of Democratic sources.”
https://spectator.org/christopher-steeles-stenographers-in-the-press/
====================
“There is no denying that as a neurologist Sigmund Freud was a failure, if not an outright fraud. At the very least he was, in Henry de Montherlant’s characteristically well-aimed assessment, an “obsessive who, as is the case in such vulgar cases, wished to communicate his own obsessions to everyone else …Yet Freud the social scientist is a different figure altogether. Many of his theories, though outlandish when applied to individuals, become (using Claude Lévi-Strauss’ felicitous phrase) “good to think with” when considering society writ large. Freud … provided a potent lens through which we can view any number of psychogenic or sociogenic mental disorders or phenomena. … most of us have become justifiably dubious of the theory of “screen memories,” but the picture looks very different at the societal or civilizational level. … The self-destructive spasms of iconoclastic violence and the invidious spread of critical race theory in recent years can be seen as a collective outbreak of afterwardsness, a more virulent variant of that wide-ranging affliction known as presentism. …We are now seeing what happens when, as Freud wrote in Totem and Taboo, “the restrictions of deferred obedience [are] no longer held,” and how the need to “repeat the crime of parricide again and again” arises “as a result of the changing conditions of life.””
https://spectator.org/freud-liberalism-american-spectator-fall-print-2021/
====================
“The wait for the Rittenhouse verdict is therefore just another chapter in a story that keeps repeating itself….when those who side with last year's rioters don't get their way, mayhem is a possibility. That's a terrible state of affairs in and of itself. What makes it doubly infuriating is that the widely acknowledged possibility of left-wing violence doesn't seem to factor into conversations about responsibility for our emerging culture of political violence. As it turns out, one end of the political spectrum is responsible for most of the political violence in America. But the real "big lie" is that that side is the Right rather than the Left.”
====================
"It's the same reason when they boarded up storefronts in major metropolitan areas prior to the November [2020] election. It wasn't in the event that Joe Biden got elected. So the threats of violence primarily, not all the time, but primarily come from the left and of course the mainstream media won't admit that."
====================
“Harris ticks off all the right demographic and political boxes (for the Democrats) on paper — but she doesn’t quite work in person. This is good news for those of us who feared that Harris might eventually ascend to the presidency. Instead of being Biden’s heir apparent, Politico reported, “Harris is currently not scaring any prospective opponents.” As one Democratic operative told the publication: “She’s definitely not going to clear the f—ing field.””
https://spectator.org/we-warned-dems-about-kamala/
====================
“If white supremacists are racist because they put race at the center of all human interaction, what are the woke? Today, white supremacy is tolerated in [no] institution[]. That is a huge milestone. But wokeism is embedded in almost every institution. Anti-racism is the disease that it purports to cure. Its narratives of resentment are dividing us once again by race, weakening our hard-earned freedom and mutual trust, and threatening our children’s future. We have no option but to fight it as we once fought white supremacy.”
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/wokeness-is-the-return-of-white-supremacy/
====================
““Culture wars” are not characterized by two approximately equal sides who play by the same rules. They are, at this moment in our history, stand-offs between an entrenched leftist establishment that has nothing to gain from real debate, and an upstart movement of skeptics (usually parents) who have nothing to lose by challenging the left’s premises. Conservatives win if they succeed in pressing their questions. They lose when they are silenced, excluded, or encouraged to accept a “compromise,” which is just defeat by another name.”
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/nothing-phony-about-culture-war/
====================
“As the "not guilty" verdict came in for Kyle Rittenhouse on Friday, many were so quick to rush to react that they ignored key facts of the case. This included an Instagram video, filmed by Deaquan Nichols, at James Madison University, during which he claimed Rittenhouse was charged "with murdering and taking away two beautiful Black lives." The video appeared on the Instagram account of James Madison University (JMU), though it was ultimately taken down.”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2021/11/20/in-now-deleted-video-james-madison-university-miscategorizes-rittenhouse-verdict-n2599393
====================
“…the defining tactic of the Obama–Biden administration [] has become the MO of the Biden administration: threats to take unconstitutional actions and exploitation of investigative processes. When the president and his minions warn that they are about to do something they are not allowed to do — essentially saying, “We dare you to stop us,” because they calculate that Congress has no such will and courts have no such means — it changes the facts on the ground. It paralyzes people in the exercise of their rights — which are rights rather than aspirations because they are supposed to be immune from government abuse…This is how progressive government suffocates a vibrant society.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/did-merrick-garland-commit-perjury/
====================
“Is Democrats' plan to label half of Black voters white supremacists?…more often than not, white progressives' newfound obsession with opposing white supremacy isn't helping. It's coming at Black people's expense. Reverend Jerry McAfee of New Salem Church in Minneapolis has described white supremacy as a situation where white people are defining your reality and then forcing you to live under that definition….Take the Rittenhouse trial…,with some even misreporting the facts and writing that he killed Black people. There is a mass effort underway to gaslight Blacks into believing Kyle was a threat to us and that he came to Kenosha to shoot us, when the facts tell a very different story, one of white on white crime…In other words, progressives are using Black people to get elected—and then push policy that doesn't comport with our preferences.
Promoting policies that Black people are against, engaging in riots in support of those positions and then buying up the neighborhoods that were destroyed as a result sounds a lot like the Reverend's description of white supremacy.
It's time for Democrats to start listening to the Black community and catering to us where we're at—or they can expect to see a lot more losses like they did in Virginia.”
https://www.newsweek.com/white-elites-are-using-black-trauma-abandon-black-america-opinion-1651649
====================
“My intent here is not to discredit CRT directly. Reading CRT scholarship discredits itself….There is no one who is against teaching about racism. Rather, people oppose telling our children that America is irreparably broken. People oppose using race as the only means to understand, interrogate, and, in some cases, condemn American history. People oppose rejecting enlightenment ideals such as objectivity and equality before the law. My students learn of America’s sins, yes, and they also learn about their country’s truly exceptional cultural, literary, and philosophical contributions to world history.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/heres-what-i-teach-instead-of-critical-race-theory/#slide-1
====================
"I object to extreme trans activism for the simple reason that its goal is to do away with women’s hard-won sex-based rights and women-only provision, such as domestic violence refuges, rape crisis services and prisons. Women-only spaces have historically been critically important to feminists because they provide a space for women to share their common experiences of growing up female and of enduring male violence. A space to freely discuss this without a fear of offending the men in the room is crucial for women’s safety and sanity."
====================
No comments:
Post a Comment