“Racism, then, is not the whole story. In fact, racism has never been the whole story. Yet faced with an election year and an uphill battle to retain the House and Senate this November, perhaps it is unsurprising that so many Democrats are keen to turn the Buffalo shooting into another George Floyd moment: an excuse to deflect difficult questions, and to turn politics into a binary realm of Good and Evil. Once again, we’re told, either you’re with us or you’re a racist — even if being on the side of Good means exploiting the misery of others.”
Buffalo and the myth of racist America
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“It is no accident that “critical race theory”, as its defenders like to point out, emerged as a theory of legal interpretation. Whether one thinks this arrangement is desirable is a matter of taste. It is undeniable that the American public — and, increasingly, the Left-wing commentariat — is fed up with the brand of identity politics that has flourished over the past several years, which, though often draped in radical language, ends up finding expression as a corporate-bureaucratic project catering to the petty grievances of the professional class. This may well be describable as a result of “elite capture”, but if so, the project was captured from the beginning. And as the radicals are fond of saying, you can’t use the master’s tools to dismantle the master’s house.”
The twilight of identity politics
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“So since no one else will ask, I will. Did those children die because most of them were Mexican American and the police didn’t give a damn about a school w predominately brown kids? I mean, because it’s Texas..and if you think everyone who isn’t white is illegal.” Butler, an associate professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and an MSNBC contributor, made the shocking claim in a tweet that she later deleted. The charge came amid damning new information about the delayed response of local police, who reportedly waited more than an hour to storm a Robb Elementary School classroom where the shooter was slaughtering children.”
Ivy League Prof Ripped For Claiming Uvalde Police Let Kids Die Because They Were ‘Brown’
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“In addition to serving on the board of an academic journal that has promoted Hezbollah, Mahallati has put forth a narrative of Shi’a supremacism and Islamist expansionism in his native Farsi that seems to contradict the message of friendship, peace, and reconciliation he has promoted to Western audiences in English.”:
Activists to Highlight Oberlin Professor’s Islamism in Graduation Protest
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“Democrats who complain that it easier to buy a gun than it is to vote are lying for partisan political purposes and should be dismissed with contempt.”
The 2 Percent Solution
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“If you want to make a nice vegan progressive with nine cats and a student loan really uncomfortable, tell her what Tibetan Buddhists actually teach about homosexuality.”
The Specter of Christianity
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“How then do the players, especially those in the United Kingdom reconcile their season long, pre match act against racism and support for equality with their ‘bending the knee’ theatricals. Encouraged by the footballing authorities all players before kickoff take a few moments and kneel on one knee as a sign of their stance against racism. Yet these same players and authorities are quite at ease with having the most important competition of their sport played in a country which practices racism as a matter of normal activity. The hypocrisy is nauseating and exposes football and footballers for what most of them are – financially greedy, ignorant, imbecilic, hypocritical and morally indecent.”
Qatar’s human rights record ignored by football chiefs and players
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“In order to push back on the dangerous trends he describes in [his] book, Goldfarb recently founded Do No Harm, a nonprofit whose mission is to “Protect healthcare from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology”…Having finished his career in medicine, Goldfarb has no plans to quiet down now that he finds himself in the crosshairs of his former colleagues. “That’s why I drive them crazy,” he said. “Because they know they can’t hurt me.””
UPenn Med School Leaders Turn on Former Dean over ‘Racist’ Affirmative-Action Criticism
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“…I wonder: How can a poor 18-year-old kid afford not one, but two AR-15s? These are expensive rifles—and he didn’t skimp on his, I’ve seen the pictures. I don’t think I could duplicate that setup for much less than $4,000. Who paid for the Uvalde shooter’s guns? … Why do so many school shootings involve AR-15s? It’s the gun of choice—but who is making that choice? Who is the someone? You don’t get to confiscate my AR-15 just because you think it’ll be easier than answering that question.”
Why Do So Many Mass Shootings Involve an AR-15?
https://amgreatness.com/2022/05/31/why-do-so-many-mass-shootings-involve-an-ar-15/
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“…one of the reasons that we’re seeing this huge uptick in officer ambushes, unprovoked attacks, is because there is this pervasive false information in the media, by activists, by some politicians, that police officers are a danger to the community…false information is one of the biggest, most ignored officer safety components in this country right now.”
Twenty-Four Cops Killed in Unprovoked Attacks in 2021
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“The decision to develop this platform was based on a perceived “acute need for quality programming that does not lecture its viewers or only present one ‘acceptable’ approach to a topic. Entertainers and creators have frequently been agents for change in our society. Large media conglomerates become increasingly monolithic in their views, cancelling those who disagree with the prevailing narrative. TMTG believes that embracing diverse perspectives will differentiate TMTG+ in the current crowded media and entertainment marketplace.””
Donald Trump’s Media Company Plans “Non-Woke” Streaming Service Featuring “Canceled Shows”
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“If one non-Muslim attack on a mosque, which claimed 51 Muslim lives, was enough for the UN to establish an "international day to combat Islamophobia," why have so many Muslim attacks on churches, which have claimed thousands of Christian lives, not been enough for the UN to establish an "international day to combat Christianophobia"? Put another way, why is one immensely reprehensible but lone incident of a Western man killing 51 Muslims of far greater importance to the UN than the countless instances of Muslims killing untold numbers of Christians?”
For UN, A Single Mosque Attack Outweighs Countless Church Massacres
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“…like most propaganda masquerading as "Palestine" studies, the[se] book[s] really mounts an argument about Israel as a "settler-colonial occupier”… exemplify[ing] the privileging of style over substance and preconceived conclusions over evidence. These tendencies are now endemic in some sectors of academia, especially in Middle East studies. The hours spent reading these books amount to wasted time.”
Wasting Time on "Palestine" Studies
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"The Post drama spilling out publicly onto Twitter has upended the newsroom, where there’s no shortage of opinions on the continued fallout. “I think Felicia initially was right—that was a gross Dave Weigel tweet, and we were all grateful she called attention to it,” one Post staffer told me. The problem, the staffer added, was in “continuing to make it an issue and go after more and more colleagues.” And as a reporter said of Lorenz: “Taylor is very talented, but her personal antics frequently overshadow her journalism.”
“Clusterf--k”: Inside The Washington Post’s Social Media Meltdown
https://apple.news/AXFMCPl9jR9OUKiOwoPoCZg
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“…we also have to ask whether green energy is even good for the environment. Some environmentalists are pointing to a little-noticed study by the World Bank showing that moving toward 100 percent solar, wind and electric battery energy would be just as destructive to the planet as fossil fuels. This was precisely the conclusion of a story in Foreign Policy magazine, hardly a right-wing publication. According to the Foreign Policy analysis, moving to a “carbon-free” energy future “requires massive amounts of energy, not to mention the extraction of minerals and metals at great environmental and social costs.””
Downside to Green Energy Agenda — It Could Destroy the Planet
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“The reduction of individual choices to mechanical abstractions, shootings to guns, individual acts to society, is the mark of elites who want to rule the world, yet can’t understand people…Tell people that they’re morally worthless and they just might come to believe you.”
Uvalde and the Problem of Evil
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“Democracy, you see, simply means the Approved View. If the Approved View is somehow unpopular, that must be a problem of propaganda, which is in turn a problem for democracy. The only solution is to ban such propaganda, thus leaving a monopoly on behalf of the Approved View. If the echo chamber isn't strong enough to drown out the outsiders, simply silence those outside the chamber, then declare democracy safe. There's only one problem: it won't work. Democrats have siloed themselves into an increasingly progressive universe, one in which the most controversial imaginable propositions are utterly uncontroversial. In this universe, the other side doesn't exist. Unfortunately for the Left, the other side does exist. And they vote. And come November 2022, the ostrich strategy of the Democratic Party and its media apparatchiks is likely to bear devastating electoral fruit.”
Is Ignoring The Other Side A Winning Strategy For The Left?
https://www.jewishworldreview.com/0622/shapiro060822.php
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“The problem is that a lot of Joe Biden’s “A Team” was Barack Obama’s “E Team.””
The President Needs to Stop Complaining
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-president-needs-to-stop-complaining/
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““It was a brief moment and an excessive swing,” Will Marshall, the president of the Progressive Policy Institute, a centrist Democratic think tank, says of the push to reduce incarceration and reimagine, or even defund, policing. After Floyd’s murder by the Minneapolis police, Marshall says, “we had this progressive reaction, and a lot of utopian thinking crept in. But the problem was to view a strong response to crime and public disorder through the narrow lens of racial politics. That missed something big, which is that low-income and minority communities are on the front lines of crime—they are the No. 1 victims. They don’t want police beating up on their sons, but they also don’t want to be ignored.””
Is This the End of the George Floyd Moment?
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“The main practical demand that wokeness places on society is a massive expansion of managerial intermediation in previously independent social and economic processes. … Seen in this light, wokeness is not a mere scholastic ideology. Indeed, the woke tend to be uninterested in any form of Socratic dialogue regarding their suppositions [, but i]f woke ideology has little use for academic discussions, it is quite adept at asserting control over institutions. One cannot separate woke controversies from struggles over hiring and firing privileges inside institutions. What appears to be a fight over principles is simultaneously a fight over institutional prerogatives and access to resources.”
Wokeness, the Highest Stage of Managerialism
https://www.city-journal.org/wokeness-the-highest-stage-of-managerialism
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“Once the province of pretentious professors and their captive students, the cult has leaked out of the cannabis-scented halls of academia to infect an astonishing number of people in power. … In the scope and rapidity of institutional embrace, nothing like it has transpired since the conversion of Constantine.”
The Identity Cult
https://www.city-journal.org/the-identity-cult-and-the-mass-conversion-of-our-institutions
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“Chesa Boudin is, by any reasonable measure, a nut job. Conservatives could not grow a more picture-perfect political villain in a petri dish, even if they tried; Boudin really is that caricaturable.”
The Chesa Boudin Inflection Point in the Fight for Civilizational Sanity
https://spectator.org/the-chesa-boudin-inflection-point-in-the-fight-for-civilizational-sanity/
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“Airing internal workplace disputes in public like this is not okay, even when you are right on the merits. My statement isn’t just obvious, it’s how almost all organizations work. If you think your coworker sucks, you don’t tweet about it. That’s unprofessional. If you disagree with management’s personnel decisions, you don’t decry them to the public. That’s insubordinate. Organizations full of people who are publicly at each other’s throats can’t be effective. Your workplace is not Fleetwood Mac.”
Are There Any Adults at the Washington Post?
https://www.joshbarro.com/p/are-there-any-adults-at-the-washington?s=r
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