See White males need not apply for this $10,000 social justice journalism grant: Open only to women and journalists of color at The College Fix.PJ Media offers THIS COMMENTARY on the aforementioned essay:
...Once again, we see what matters most to progressives. They don't care about much else other than what's only skin deep. You can be a horrible person and a crap journalist, but if you're a "woman of color" then you deserve a better shot than an excellent and dedicated white male.Read the rest of the commentary HERE and the original essay as mentioned in the first link in this blog post HERE.
Can we ever become one indivisible nation?
Related reading...Activist: 'Light-Skinned' Minorities Don't Belong in 'People Of Color' Safe Spaces.
Journalism was once about research and investigation, perhaps even to understand that which we previously did not.
ReplyDeleteNow it is all about personal experience and the expression of that experience.
Remember Black Like Me?
Cultural appropriation.
__________ School Guerilla __________
DeleteSchools now function more as killing fields.
Careless parents –– cultural decay ––
Hopeless lack of leadership that yields
Only cowardice sure to delay
Overcoming suicidal urges ––
Leading always first to homicide ––
Gives vent to pious hypocrites’ dull dirges ––
Useless noises no one should abide.
Evil flourishes among the lazy.
Recalcitrance must be forever fought.
Indolence and insolence make crazy
Losers. When inadequately taught ––
Legions –– long conditioned to lay blame
Away from Self –– have made our world grow lame.
~ FreeThinke
Indivisible nation?
ReplyDeleteWe need a common enemy to unify around.
We have one.
Unfortunately a large segment of our society is defending that enemy.
I bet if we faced space alien invaders, that same segment would defend them also.
"We must understand why they fled their planet and want to take ours."
Ed,
DeleteJournalism used to follow the model of the the inverted journalism.
About four years ago, however, news organizations (including CNN, which long employed the husband of one of my clients, started dumping journalists trained in the inverted pyramid.
The anecdotal lead has come to prevail much of which purports to be news reporting.
"News" stories today have degenerated into a form of click bait.
If you want good journalism, we have to find some way of paying for it (not just you personally, enough people to support the endeavour). It can't be through advertising, otherwise click-bait is what you'll get.
DeleteJez,
DeleteI'll take a personal tack here....
I pay for subscriptions to several periodicals: Time Magazine (both hard copy and digital), the Washington Post (both hard copy and digital), and the New York Times (digital only). Otherwise, I have a difficult time accessing the material. Apparently, these publications have enough subscribers to stay afloat. For now, anyway.
Honestly, Jez, I don't think that money is the answer to solving the problem of the lack of journalistic integrity. For one thing, the problem lies with the changes in the schools of "journalism."
The brain within its groove
DeleteRuns evenly and true
But let a splinter swerve
'Twere easier for you
To put the water back
When floods have slit the hills
And scooped a turnpike for themselves
And blotted out the mills.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Now, substitute "Our Traditional Guidelines, Mores, and Moral Compass" for "The Brain" in Emily's poem, and you should understand EXACTLY why things are the way they are
To put it simplistically The Left has virtually forced us to throw "The Baby" of Western Civilization out with the "Bathwater" of "Revolutionary Reform" in their manic-overzealous-too-often-malevolent quest to create a NEW WOLRD ORDER out of the whole cloth of their devising.
God is not plaeased with men who dare to try to act in His stead, and so right now we are reaping the whirlwind.
"God is not pleased with men who dare to try to act in His stead, and so right now we are reaping the whirlwind."
DeleteAmen.
News is purely click bait. But I don't agree htta money would help. The media is 100% committed to their progressive agenda.
DeleteThe fringe left is controlling the agenda and the mainstream Democrat Party types are scared witless to tell them to sit down and shut up. The Democrat party mainstream has pandered to the nutball fringe for too long, and that pandering has helped mainstream them.
ReplyDeleteNow, the Democrats are stuck.
On your other question: We will never be one nation, indivisible.
SF,
DeleteYou are exactly right about the fringe left being in control. In fact, the client's husband whom I mentioned in an earlier comment to this thread, was a liberal. But he was not the fringe left; therefore, he got canned by CNN. Poor guy! Well into his 50's and out there looking for a job!
To my knowledge, he is still looking for a job. He's of an age that makes it difficult for him to find a job; top off his age with his determination not to be a part of the the prostitution of journalism. The man has integrity.
He did get a decent severance package, however, so both kids didn't immediately have to come home from college. Now his kids are going to a local college here and working (Starbuck's, I think).
AOW,
DeleteLook at what is happening with liberal professors (true liberals, not indoctrinated leftist) who are standing up and trying to restore some sanity. They are marginalized, dogpile, reviled or fired.
Democrats have used the nutball fringe as their shock troops, given them lip service, and used them for propaganda purposes to advance the agenda, but now its out of control. Heh heh heh...
The left is unhinged, and it looks like they veer even further to the left before they "right" themselves.
Are there any credible adults left in the Democrat party who can restore some sanity?
"They are marginalized, dogpile, reviled or fired."
DeleteDarkness at Noon.
or
Mao's Cultural Revolution.
Something is surely afoot in the periodical-publishing industry.
ReplyDeleteFrom the NYT article Rolling Stone, Once a Counterculture Bible, Will Be Put Up for Sale (dated September 17, 2017):
The headwinds buffeting the publishing industry, and some costly strategic missteps, have steadily taken a financial toll on Rolling Stone, and a botched story three years ago about an unproven gang rape at the University of Virginia badly bruised the magazine’s journalistic reputation.
Everything to do with the printed word (including websites) is in trouble. Breitbart, NY Times, WaPo all have rich benefactors propping them up.
DeleteThe entire model is collapsing.
Twitter, limiting deep thoughts to only 140 characters (plus photo-shopped pictures) has more journalistic integrity than the major mastheads.
DeleteI own a newspaper.
DeleteIt's subscription and digital.
It's doing well.
Ed, knowing what we know if you, your newspaper is probably blessedly bereft of the crazed idiocy that stuffs the failing operations.
DeleteAlso, I'm guessing your newspaper is a local, utilitarian affair that provides a real service to real people.
Thanks SF. It's an advertising "shopper" with conservative content.
DeleteI said subscription, but I meant print.
Ed,
DeleteGot a link?
http://courantonline.com/
DeleteThe article is reflective of the same (deeply) flawed thinking that suggests that only a recovering alcoholic, a former junkie, or someone once-convicted of beating his wife can become an effective substance abuse or anger-management counselor. Apparently, these imbeciles are convinced that a white male is incapable of understanding “social justice issues.” Alternatively, the clowns know that white men with more than three working brain-cells dismiss arguments supporting social justice nonsense as being inimical to American values. In a meritocracy such as ours, the genesis of self-esteem is actually accomplishing something. Ours is a society that values equal opportunity and shuns any notion of guaranteed equal outcomes. By now, most of us is aware that the brain-dead left intends to incessantly repeat the social justice drivel because, in doing so, and given enough time, most Americans will become life-time members of our least-intelligent population, whereupon a communist state in America may finally become a reality.
ReplyDeleteLet me add this thought: Imbeciles such as Hank Johnson, John Conyers, Charles Rangel, Jim Clyburn, John Lewis, Keith Ellison, Elijah Cummings, Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Kamala Harris, Eleanor Holmes-Norton, and Corrine Brown actually do perceive themselves as intelligent. I’m sure that all of these people know what they know, they just don’t know why they know it, nor understand a tenth of what they think they know ... which renders 89.9% of everything they think and say moot.
Sam, surely you recall that Hank Johnson’s insight saved the island of Gaum!
DeleteNot exactly, Sam. Your analogy is pretty lame.
DeleteThe premise that ONLY minorities can write on minority issues is absent. If there is an overarching premise I would say that the premise is that minority voices are important and underrepresented.
Now you have grounds to argue the issue that minorities are underrepresented in journalism but you can't argue that the grants mean male voices are incapable of reporting social justice issues.
That has nothing to do with the matter at hand.
Then you go completely off the trolley with your nonsense that "the clowns know that white men ... dismiss arguments supporting social justice nonsense as being inimical to American values."
It's all just a sad ad hominem argument that manages to deflect from the core of the issue and doesn't permit and discussion of the real issue.
I noticed this in the article:
"This past January, seven winners were selected to receive $9,000 grants each, with winners seeking to “give a voice to Native Americans,” and report on “law enforcement and criminal justice,” among other topics."
Wow, 63 grand. Sure is enough to lock whiny whites out of journalism. But I was taken by the idea of "giving a voice to Native Americans" (I know, they're all over broadcast news). We could have used a stronger Native American voice for their issues on the recent Dakota pipeline protest. Other than Democracy Now! there were no outlets reporting it.
If you read this far I'm surprised but now you can go back to getting both sides (as if all issues are binaries) from Fox News.
See, the problem is everyone deserves a chance based on merit only. Only. That's the 'core of the issue,' and your stepping in as if you've got the answers is fun for a laugh but getting tiresome.
DeleteAs for FOX, please PLEASE do your homework and compare CNN to FOX and THEN tell us where you're getting two points of view. It would really help your arguments, which are vapid and obviously incorrect.
Thanks
You make an assumption that the grant recipients aren't qualified.
DeleteNow in a group of QUALIFIED applicants why is it wrong to choose minorities if there is a perceived shortage in the field.
The question of whether that shortage exists is the issue as well as the proposition that minority voices are needed but falling back on the assumption that the grant recipients aren't worthy, well I'll let you think on that.
Who do you consider the "liberal" voices on Fox? They announced hiring Laura Ingraham recently. Maybe she's who you had in mind?
Ducky, that's my point...if they're qualified, they deserve everything. I made NO assumption they were unqualified and ask you to show where I did. If there's a group of qualified applicants they deserve the same chance anybody gets. That should seem clear. But to pick a minority for minority-sake? It's insulting to them and everyone else.
DeleteI know a Black doctor who told me me he was never sure until he'd been in practice a few years if his patients knew he was talented or just got thru school because he was Black.. that is unfair.
FOX? I'm not talking about the hosts....although Shep Smith is NO CONSERVATIVE and he has the 3:00 EST show....Tell me who's conservative at MSNBC or CNN!
But that's when they differ...CNN has a tubby little Hispanic Republican who despises Trump and says nothing but insults toward him the whole time...she's their only regular conservative. Nice choice :-)
FOX seems to have more liberal contributors than all other cables combined....Juan Williams, a couple of very articulate black professors, Richard Fowler and others...they have Jehmu Green, they have Rosen..SO many I don't have the time or desire to list them all for you again and again...we've been through this.
But that's the case and it's indisputable.
Once more, Ducky dances around the theme of the argument. The issue isn’t whether a minority is ultimately chosen ... it is that “no white male need apply.” Leftists have no problem denying an opportunity to a white male, while pretending that they are all for “social justice.” It is similar to the way Ducky and his ilk dances around the issue of abortion, mainly targeted at black communities, while pretending to be disgusted by the so-called racist-right. I have to conclude from this that there is something seriously wrong with a leftist’s ability to establish premises and then, end up with relevant conclusions.
DeleteFor Z ... talking to Ducky is like shouting into the Grand Canyon. Forget trying to reason with him; he’s unreasonable.
On what basis do you argue that minority interests are under-represented? The claim is preposterous on its face since we’ve been plagued with affirmative action programs since 1961. As with Kennedy’s incompetent support of April Gillespie, the net effect of affirmative action has been to cripple the quality of our post-secondary educational programs and undermine workplace efficiency in several important areas. We can only evaluate this abomination in these three areas: the stated intent of the program, the message the program as communicated to the larger society, and the outcome of affirmative action programs.
DeleteHere’s what I know:
(1) At best, affirmative action programs net mixed results, but overall, their impact has been negative. We can say that such programs have increased the number of women and minorities in positions of influence in academia, government, and the private sector—and that this is generally a good thing, but we must also identify the admission and graduation from colleges and universities large numbers of low-performing students, who then enter the workforce to create havoc in important sectors. I have two examples: institutions of higher learned systemically “dumb-down” their academic standards in order to graduate a higher number of minorities —it entitles them to federal money, which is always a corrupting influence. Fact: people have died because of incompetent minority nurses. If this wasn’t bad enough, then we have lawyers in the ilk of Lois Lerner trampling all over the rights of our citizens, and Hillary Clinton, who could not even pass the Washington DC Bar Examination. Police departments are not made more efficient by hiring lazy, incompetent minority women who only increase the burden on their male counterparts.
(2) Affirmative-action students tend to enroll in “easy majors;” their drop-out rates are higher than if they actually had to earn a seat at college or university. The message this sends to our communities overall works against our hopes for a more harmonious society. Of course, this doesn’t matter to the communist left since the last thing they want is an agreeable society.
(3) These programs create winners and losers, breeds racial, ethnic, and gender-based resentment. One can’t help but commiserate with white and Asian men denied their right of “equal opportunity” by government Affirmative Action programs. This is not how most people view “social justice,” but it is how they view reverse discrimination.
(4) Affirmative action programs treat as legitimate the imbecilic proposition that historically victimized groups warrant recompense from individuals who had no hand in the victimization; the implication of this is that women and minorities are so incompetent that they are unable to stand on their own two feet without government mandated special considerations. How insulting is that?
We could have used a stronger Native American voice for their issues on the recent Dakota pipeline protest.
Delete"Our water is sacred. Our land is sacred. Even when it's not our land or water, you must listen to us!"
I think we've heard enough of their nonsense.
WHAT the HELL is WRONG WITH US TODAY?
DeleteHere's a possible answer:
_________ DIAGNOSIS _________
Stopping Racism today is now believed
No harm, but only good could ever do ––
Of Paramount Importance. –– We’ve deceived
Innumerable millions, brought them to
The point where kicking over all the traces
A counterfeit Altruism now prevails:
Zig zags must be viewed as straight, so races
Ill-informed may proudly fill their sails ––
Reject all hope of Mental Elevation ––
Enjoy, instead, White Perquisites unearned ––
Given –– by “The Rich,” whose education,
Goading them to see all Privilege spurned,
Informed them they should not be what they are.
Now, Prehistoric Depths loom not so far.
~ FreeThinke
If you read that correctly, it's a very harsh statement, but I believe it to be the truth. A misunderstandng of the meaning of Fairness, misguided sense of Empathy –– and the lunatic insistence that we CAN and MUST compromise with the DEVIL –– is inexorably bringng us to ruin.
Sam, if you read my reply it's pretty clear that I DO NOT assume that minorities are underrepresented. I simply state that is the question that needs to be argued.
DeleteSam, your reparations argument is specious also.
DeleteThese were grants funded by money from the Ford foundation.
Their absence or existence does NOTHING to decrease opportunities for white journalists.
The question remains whether the purpose of the grant is compelling but that is what needs to be argued not your imagined white injustice.
Now you have grounds to argue the issue that minorities are underrepresented in journalism.
DeleteThey are under-represented, there's no question about it. Now you have to ask, "Why are they under-represented?" Is it because they've been discriminated against? Or is it because they are incapable of meeting a traditional "journalistic standard" of academic achievement, commensurate with their numbers in the general population? If it is the latter, then I have no problem with these grants. If it is the former, then we need to ensure that America's standards of "equal opportunity" are STRICTLY enforced. Unfortunately for ducky, THAT means that these grants are illegal. The question is, will the Left now ADMIT that the LATTER argument IS THE TRUTH?
Now we can decide "which" principle should take precedence, proportional representation OR equal opportunity. You can't argue "both".
Deletebtw - If you argue "proportional representation", be prepared to admit a raft of unqualified professionals into the legal, science, medical, and education professional fields.
DeleteNow that the cities are in the process of giving illegals the vote, we certainly shall see in the near future the last gasp of reality governance. Lord of the flies comes to mind as the "white flight" will bring them the promised land they so richly deserve. No more micro aggressions. Just pure barbarism.
ReplyDeleteWhat I originally heard was that Trump would deny federal funds to any government who declared themselves sanctuary cities/states. I have not seen this come to fruition, which is the problem I have with Trump. If he says he’s going to do something, then I expect him to do it. Otherwise, how can we assign any credibility to these elected officials? Along a similar track, I’ve read that Jim Mattis has decided to “reenlist” transgender soldiers and sailors ... at a time when the President Trump has said that transgender orientation is contrary to a viable combat force. What are the facts?
DeleteMustang,
DeleteWhat are the facts?
It is a Herculean task to discern the facts. How can any of us possibly chase down the facts with so much smoke and mirrors in play?
"Trump would deny federal funds to any government who declared themselves sanctuary cities/states."
DeleteIsn't that in the courts now?
Ed,
DeleteIsn't that in the courts now?
I haven't heard. But I admit that I'm behind the curve now that classes have begun again.
I wonder what's happening with Calexit?
My impression is that a number of State Attorneys Generals had filed suit, as well as several cities.
Delete"It is a Herculean task to discern the facts. How can any of us possibly chase down the facts with so much smoke and mirrors in play?
DeleteANSWER: We must learn to dig deep into our Inner Consciousness ––, our innate sense of Right and Wrong ––, our capacity to VISUALIZE both the desirable and undesirable results from our incipient activities.
FACTS per se are relatively unimportant UNLESS we are able to relate them to the basic underlying PRINCIPLES that make up the TRUTH of BEING.
If we get enmired in a plethora of FACTS, we are in grave danger of losing touch with IMAGINATION, INSIGHT and the INSTINCTS that make us fully human. In other words we render ourselves incapable of "seeing the forest for the trees." We also put ourselves in danger of being incapable of experiencing WONDER, EMPATHY and DELIGHT.
Each isolated fact is like one of the single small tiles that make up a gigantic mosaic –– or like the individual leaves that comprise a full-grown tree –– or the indivicual pieces in a jigsaw puzzle –– or the unividual notes that make up a Fugue, a Sonata, a String Quarter, a Symphony, a Tone Poem, or an Opera –– or even a simple folk song.
Isolated FACTS can be misleading. TRUTH is at once far more complex and much SIMPLER than any bundle of ill-assorted facts.
Remember please we must stand at a considerable distance to see what the tiles of a mosaic represent, jst as we must look at tree across a meadow to appreciate its beauty fully.
FT,
DeleteFACTS per se are relatively unimportant UNLESS we are able to relate them to the basic underlying PRINCIPLES that make up the TRUTH of BEING.
That is so.
BUT
When others do not see the big picture, the only hope of convincing those in error of the accurate big picture is via evidence (that is, facts). Otherwise, we are left with battles consisting of feelings:
"You're wrong!"
"No, you're wrong!"
FT,
DeleteAlso, the tiles of which you speak are not, in polity, the building blocks of art or music. Simply put, polity should be left-brained, and art should be right-brained.
I have yet to meet a perfect Analogy or a Parable that tells the WHOLE story in minute detail, AOW, but nevertheless those of us who are not mentally deficient or hopelessly brainwashed by sophists, charlatans, and subversives promoting perverse philosophies usually understand very well without much instruction what Aesop was driving at, and what the the Decalogue, Psalms, Proverbs, and the Gospels have told us for centuries.
DeleteUnfortunately we have fallen into OPPOSITIONISM and even d9wnright ANTAGONISM as our DEFAULT mode in attempts to communicate with one another.
Personally, I dislike persistent and pervasive captiousness, litigiousness, disputatiousness, cynicism and hostility. I seem, however, to be in the minority these days.
I people are going to spend ther time trying to denigrate and get the best f each other, they should at the very least do it with good style, a show of erudition, and a healthy measure of wry good humor.
But you are absolutely RIGHT in saying that arguments without vital information turn almost immediately to
YOU are an ASS!
NO, YOU are an ASS!
And so on down the line. We see this depressing spectacle at unmoderated blogs ALL the TIME. It's beyond tiresome.
Nevertheless, I would still insist the ROOT of the problem is ADDICTION to ENDLESS ARGUMENT purely for Argument's sake.
@ FreeThinke: Unfortunately we have fallen into OPPOSITIONISM and even downright ANTAGONISM as our DEFAULT mode in attempts to communicate with one another.
DeleteBingo!
Most messages emanating from both sides are deliberate provocations designed to piss off the other side.
Launching fusillades of Eff You's and catapult-loads of stinking, in-you-face taunts have replaced reasoned debate and productive dialog.
Was there a news embargo on Explosion in Salford was caused by 'device packed with nails and screws'? The explosion in the Manchester, England, area occurred on September 12 but doesn't appear to have been reported for days on end. And a dramatic chase was involved. Hmmm....
ReplyDeleteThe British tabloids are all over it and all report that it isn't being investigated by the terrorism unit.
DeleteThe chase wasn't very dramatic. A foot chase, no shots fired, arrest and the four unidentified perps are out on bail.
Just like the four Boston College students attacked in France, it isn't always terrorism.
Who is the perp in the Marseilles acid attack? Do we know any more than "a woman"?
DeleteIt seems to me that a shrapnel-exploding device in a public place would be some kind of terrorist attack -- Islamic terror or not.
DeleteAs you can imagine, the attack on the BC students has received quite a bit of coverage here and the victims themselves have stated the woman was mentally ill.
Delete"the victims themselves have stated the woman was mentally ill"
DeleteYes, so what? Moslems and Liberals are axiomatically "mentally ill". What's the point?
SF,
Deleteshe herself was victim of a muslim's acid attack
Did that finally make it into print?
I'd appreciate a link if you have it.
I don't remember where I read it, so I don't have the link. Could be false, but it had the ring of truth to it.
DeleteThe larger issues is the mass importation of turd world pathologies into the west, and seeing them take hold among the natives.
What little I've read about the rise of acid attacks in Europe (especially London) has it pegged primarily to robbery and gang activity because the ingredients are easy to obtain compared to a firearm.
DeleteHow do we find the truth?
I prefr reason to hyperbole, silverfiddle.
DeleteWe still haven't established the reason for the use of acid attacks.
I don't believe it's simply Muslims who understand you can't be pinched for carrying acid in a plastic container and its use doesn't carry an attempted murder charge.
You could probably cut it way down by some changes in law.
Your stove comment is asinine.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/feb/22/ukcrime.gender
DeleteHow do you breathe with your head so far up your arse?
The reasons for acid attacks are the same used by criminals wielding any other weapons.
That is a separate issue of how acid attacks became a popular form of attack in Britain. It came in with the curry.
Graph depicting acid attacks in London, 2010-2016.
DeleteAin't multiculturalism grand?
Looks Anglo to me
DeleteMulticulturism caused the "trend" (scare quotes, because two data points) from 2014-2016? Something special about the 2013 intake?
DeleteClint Eastwood had a character in "the Unforgiven" attack a whore, deliberately causing permanent disfigurement. It wasn't with acid, but I'd say it's the same style of attack -- did he get the idea from a Muslim?
We have a few thousand forced marriages each year in the uk, and a few hundred of those involve under-16s -- I won't bother to quote official figures because so many of these crimes go unreported, but I think this gives a reasonable idea of the scale of the problem.
DeleteMore could and should be done to stop them, but it is already illegal and a lot less prevalent than curry.
Jez,
DeleteClint Eastwood had a character in "the Unforgiven" attack a whore, deliberately causing permanent disfigurement.
It's been ages since I watched that movie. Did the character learn how to brutalize women from the Comanches? The Comanches were notorious for savagery. See this index of information about the Comanches.
Addendum.
DeleteThe above said, I caution against learning the history of the Old West from Hollywood films.
DeleteJez, That is weak tea, especially coming from you.
DeleteDo you deny South Asia is one on of the geographical areas of the world where this is most prevalent?
Do you really discount the possibility they introduced this into the thought-stream of Britons and contributed to this trend? It's a possibility.
Having said that, there were a few contemporaneous accounts of such attacks in the 1800's in London.
Also, disfigurement attacks are as old as mankind. Although not common, a women throwing a pan of scalding grease on an abusive husband has been known to happen in Latin America.
If you don't see this as one more point of societal retrograde, I can't help you further, moreso if you are comforted that "only" a few thousand barely-pubescent girls are enslaved in marriages to 7th century child rapists, and that this is enabled by thousands of "British" families.
If only such practices were carried out not by muslims, but by rightwing fundamentalist Christians. NPR and BBC would be investigating and inveighing night and day about how such people have no place in the modern west, and they would be right.
DeleteSF,
DeleteYou are spot on with your comment of 7:32:00 AM EDT!
SilverFiddle, haven't you figured out YET that attempting to reason with doctrinaire leftists is tantamount to makng an attempt to civilize a MULE using religious dgma and sophisticated philsophical precepts?
DeleteIn their own peculiar way these people are very like committed rellgious fanatics who would literally rather DIE than ever admit the beliefs that have been instilled in them by the despotic Masters of Deceit, Corruption and Depravity could be wrong.
And of course, THEY would not be correct in accusing those who oppose them of acting congruently even though it be in an opposing vein.
"Aye, theres the rub."
};^)>
FreeThinke:
DeleteYES. I HAVE figured that out. The audience you and I and other speak to is LARGER than just doctrinaire leftists.
How do we reduce these acid attacks?
DeleteDecriminalize carrying knives and guns };^)>
Even in South Asia, it seems like quite a recent choice of weapon (late 60s). I don't know that the idea wouldn't have spread without migration.
DeleteIt's certainly not progress, but I don't know if we're any more violent overall than we used to be; and we should not be comforted by the scale of forced marriage in the west, but neither should we abandon our sense of proportion. BTW I heard an item about this on BBC radio about a week ago; I'm sure it gets covered on TV fairly regularly too.
"it isn't always terrorism."
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely; it's quite often a LOVE FEST!
Love Hurts!
DeleteBINGO, Ed!
Delete];^}>
there goes my dream of having that highly marketable degree in social justice warrior studies. Unless I pull a Shaun King or a chelsea manning.
ReplyDeleteDaBlade,
DeleteThe opportunities might be endless, but only if you play your cards right.
"there goes my dream of having that highly marketable degree in social justice"
DeleteHey,Hey, now if it wasn't for "social justice" Henry Ford would never got the first one out!
Jon,
ReplyDeleteThe Sub-Saharan paradise? Hahahahaha!
Slavery there, too, I think.
We'll be 'indivisible' again when whites are so far in the minority that they'd dare not speak up. That they're not speaking up now is that slippery slope.
ReplyDeleteALL PEOPLE DESERVE WHAT THEY HAVE AND WHAT THEY GET ON MERIT ONLY. What's so hard to understand?
When we started abusing ourselves of that common sense, we started going down hill....thanks again to the 'nice, big hearted' left which is killing our country in their 'niceness.'
We need mature adult leaders again and a media that believes in fairness, real information, not 'niceness'...niceness brings the stupidity of socialism, all in the name of 'nice'..
By the way, the country leftists will get isn't quite what they expect..."How did THIS happen?" will be their poor little mantra.
DeleteJon,
DeleteI'm glad that I'm as old as I am.
In many respects, the time period of my childhood and early through middle-age adulthood was a period of halcyon days for America.
A perfect time period? No. But compared to now? Much better.
Jon, I know what the media are telling us about the percentage of “white Christians” ... but I would caution your acceptance of this at face value since pollsters have cleverly changed the way they collect information. For example, does being a Christian mean that you actually see yourself as part of the Judeo-Christian framework, or does it rather mean that you attend an Assembly of God church on a regular basis. The term “white evangelicals” has the connotation of being “radical Christians,” and most people simply do not identify themselves in this way. Many Christians do not attend regular church services and so do not identify themselves as “regular Christians.”
DeleteAnother example, “white” is a distinction we give ourselves. When pollsters ask us questions, they allow us to choose whether we are white, black, or something in-between. A Caucasian Christian may have a mother from Indonesia, and because they are not altogether white skinned, may identify him or herself as “Asian.” Here’s a fact: 82% of Americans identify themselves as Christians, some of these as “unaffiliated” with any particular church organization.
To back up what Sam is saying:
Delete"White" is a social construct, and what frustrates the leftwing tribal councils is the phenomena of the "disappearing Hispanics."
A high percentage of Hispanic people assimilate and intermarry into larger society, as do a dangerously pernicious percentage of East Asians, and they check the "white" box on government forms, damn them...
Believe it or not, even in this age of insanity, there are millions of people who refuse to participate in the tribal warfare and victimology sweepstakes gripping the Progressive State of Amreeka.
______ Death to Defeatism ______
ReplyDeleteHas life defeated you? I rather hope
Defeatist rhetoric will die aborning,
Though seen by many merely as a warning,
Each bitter word will serve to weave a rope
By which we’ll hang ourselves when the despair
We manufacture with denunciation
Of all the grievous faults that plague the nation
Convinces us our world’s beyond repair.
What good could we expect to come from that?
Affirmation is the only answer
To the questions posed by social cancer.
Get up and dance –– don’t bellow through your hat.
Although The Axe inevitably must fall,
Cringing will produce no good at all.
~ FreeThinke
_________ On the Floe __________
ReplyDeleteThe sun is setting in the east these days.
The north pole traveled southward long ago.
The penguins in the tropics now wear leis.
The roses in the tundra sweetly blow.
The tides receding come in nevermore.
The geese now migrate from the south to north.
The ocean vast is nothing now but shore.
The semen towards the egg will not come forth.
Negativity we worship now as god.
Perversity is wholesome; Virtue’s vile.
Normality’s regarded now as odd.
Whatever’s queer is welcomed with a smile.
Darkness has become the Guiding Light.
To stay alive we must not fight the Blight.
~ FreeThinke
I'm with you AOW.... we lived in the best of times. I cannot imagine people putting up with this who are in the majority as of this moment. I just don't get it.
ReplyDeleteIf you think that black men are more likely to become the victims of "police" violence, it's time to think again.
ReplyDeleteJoe,
DeleteInteresting article.
Excerpt therefrom:
Let’s start with the question of fatal violence. Last year, according to the Washington Post’s tally, just 16 unarmed black men, out of a population of more than 20 million, were killed by the police. The year before, the number was 36. These figures are likely close to the number of black men struck by lightning in a given year, considering that happens to about 300 Americans annually and black men are 7 percent of the population. And they include cases where the shooting was justified, even if the person killed was unarmed. Of course, police killings are not the result of a force of nature, and I’m not claiming these are morally equivalent. But the comparison illustrates that these killings are incredibly rare, and that it’s completely misleading to talk about an “epidemic” of them....