Of all the ways to indulge your fetish for black men...
Mayor Blames Trump For Murder Of 8-Year-Old Girl, Violence In Atlanta - "Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms took no responsibility for the mayhem that has plagued her city and blamed everything, including the recent murder of an eight-year-old girl by armed protesters, on a lack of leadership from President Donald Trump... CNN’s Brooke Baldwin asked Bottoms about eight-year-old Secoriea Turner, who was gunned down on July 4 when the car she was riding in crossed through an illegal barricade manned by armed protesters... Georgia Governor Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency on Monday afternoon and called out the Georgia National Guard to help protect monuments and government buildings after the bloody July 4th weekend in Atlanta.More than 31 people were shot, and five died, eight-year-old Secoriea.Early Sunday morning, violent protesters vandalized and burned the Georgia State Police’s headquarters in Atlanta... the mayor announced that it was time for the protesters around the Wendy’s to disperse after weeks of violence around the memorial to Rayshard Brooks, who was fatally shot on June 12 when he stole an officer’s Taser and fired it at another cop... “We’re doing each other more harm than any police officer on this force,” the mayor said. “We’ve had over 75 shootings in the city over the past several weeks. You can’t blame that on APD.”""
We are told it's the deployment of federal agents who cause the violence, but none got deployed to Georgia.
Amiri King on Twitter - "If Rayshard Brooks had left Wendy’s as drunk as he was and killed a family of 5, then what? Would you all have burned down a liquor store? I didn’t think so. People are really starting to blur the lines between ‘innocent victim’ and ‘reckless asshole.’"
Matt Walsh on Twitter - "“The man who drove drunk, assaulted a cop, stole his weapon and fired it at him, was shot because of racism” is an actual argument that people are making right now, because we live in the dumbest era in human history"
Reply: "Give it a minute...it will also be 'unarmed black man' because he was technically unarmed until he stole the cops taser."
If a criminal shoots a stun gun at a police officer, takes his gun and shoots him... No one would care or notice
Dan Bongino on Twitter - "I am no lawyer, but I do know that a DUI is not a capital offense. Neither is theft.I am no combat expert, but I do know that someone who is running away from you is not a threat."
"When they turn & point a taser in your face & discharge it, after punching you in the face & assaulting your partner, then they are an SPI threat. Until you’ve actually been in a foot pursuit w/a combative subject, who turns towards you w/a weapon, I’d refrain from categoricals."
"What if he had rendered the officer incapacitated with the taser, then walked over and shot the officer with his own gun?"
Extremists Injure Nearly 2 Dozen Seattle Police, Attack Police Station, ‘Explosives’ Used - "The violence against police officers in Seattle followed the violent rioters torching a construction site at a justice center and attacking a Starbucks store that was at the bottom of an apartment complex."
SF Mayor London Breed shreds white progressives for projecting beliefs onto city's Black residents - "Polling from the Pew Research Center has shown that just 22% of African-Americans want police funding "decreased a lot," with the overwhelming majority favoring small decreases, no change, or even increases. Breed's proposal to reallocate some funding was met with pushback from some white progressives who accused her of not going far enough. This prompted protests at Breed's home, protests she was not happy about."The people who came out to my home last time, they were all white and wearing masks and walking with these 'firework sticks' down the street chanting 'Black Lives Matter!'" she said. "But then they get to my house and start shooting these fireworks off and aiming them at my window and banging on the gate and calling me names to come outside... Breed went on to accuse white progressives of projecting beliefs onto African-Americans, and stated that many "progressive policies" historically backed by whites in San Francisco have not worked for the city's Black residents... "half the policies pushed in San Francisco are 'progressive policies' that don’t work for Black people. Because, if they did, why are things far worse for Black people here? In San Francisco, a city where less than 5 to 6% of the population is African American and yet we are disproportionately overrepresented in everything that’s bad: high school dropouts, arrests, homelessness. You name it." Across the Bay, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf found herself accused of white projection after her response to finding ropes that looked like nooses on a tree at Lake Merritt. Schaaf announced that the city was working with the FBI on a hate crime investigation into the nooses, despite a black resident stating he put the ropes up months ago as exercise equipment... Schaaf faced criticism for continuing the investigation, and was accused of virtue signaling by HBO's Bill Maher in a larger monologue about white progressives projecting beliefs onto minorities and taking it upon themselves to "cancel" those they deem insufficiently woke on racial issues."
Killings of Police Officers Are Up 28% This Year: Reports - "Seven of those 32 officers were “ambushed,” the report says.Accompanying the cries for police reform in the wake of Floyd’s death “was a rise in an anti-police sentiment that, experts say, manifested itself in attacks on officers, patrol vehicles and precinct stationhouses, leaving cops around the country feeling under siege”... “Any time the anti-police rhetoric heats up, it sends a message that it’s open season on law enforcement,” he told ABC. “We saw it in 2016 and we’re seeing it now.”"
VIDEO: Mob Calls In Fake Shooting Then Attack Responding Officers In 'Ambush' - "Two Tampa police officers were surrounded and attacked by hundreds of rioters after they responded to a report of shots fired in the Ybor City neighborhood on Saturday"
CNN’s Chris Cuomo, Don Lemon Mock Rising Crime Rates In Democrat-Controlled Cities - "CNN opinion hosts Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo on Tuesday night mocked rising crime rates in major Democrat-controlled cities as President Donald Trump hammers the issue on the campaign trail... The two hosts’ dismissive response comes after Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and New York City have all seen sharp increases in shootings in recent weeks, a surge that has occurred as law enforcement officials have been demonized by the political Left in response to the death of George Floyd."
WATCH: Black Lives Matter Activists Call For Boycott Of Non-Black-Owned Businesses - "Black Lives Matter activists have called for black people, people of color, and allies to abstain from spending any money on non-black-owned businesses, especially on July 7, as well as other days after that date, to send a message about the far-left movement."
Seattle Rioting Leaves 12 Officers Injured, Numerous Businesses Vandalized - "At least 12 police officers were injured by shrapnel after rioters launched fireworks at them inside the police precincts and one officer had to be hospitalized."
Florida sheriff warns protesters he will make 'special deputies of every lawful gun owner in this county' if violence becomes overwhelming - "“If we can’t handle you ... I’ll exercise the power and authority as the sheriff, and I’ll make special deputies of every lawful gun owner in this county, and I’ll deputize them for this one purpose: to stand in the gap between lawlessness and civility," Clay County Sheriff Darryl Daniels, the county’s first black sheriff, said... Another Florida sheriff, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, warned rioters planning on spreading destruction in his county in June that residents will “blow you back out of the house with their guns.""
a href="https://www.facebook.com/153080620724/posts/10165001899830725/?sfnsn=mo">Donald J. Trump - Posts
- "NYC is cutting Police $’s by ONE BILLION DOLLARS, and yet the NYC Mayor is going to paint a big, expensive, yellow Black Lives Matter sign on Fifth Avenue, denigrating this luxury Avenue. This will further antagonize New York’s Finest, who LOVE New York & vividly remember the horrible BLM chant, “Pigs In A Blanket, Fry ‘Em Like Bacon”. Maybe our GREAT Police, who have been neutralized and scorned by a mayor who hates & disrespects them, won’t let this symbol of hate be affixed to New York’s greatest street. Spend this money fighting crime instead!"Louisville Officers Are Calling In 'Sick' After Agency Prohibits Use Of Riot Gear - "Dozens of Louisville police officers called in sick for their scheduled shifts on Tuesday and Wednesday after being ordered over the weekend to remove their protective riot gear while dealing with violent “protesters” at the scene of a deadly shooting at Jefferson Square Park. Officers who voiced concerns that doing so would threaten their own safety were warned that they would be immediately suspended if they refused to comply"
Nearly 3/4 Of DC Police Considering Quitting After City Council Passes Anti-Police Bill - ""It makes it exceedingly more difficult to charge a suspect with assaulting a police officer, it changes body worn camera policy in such a way that [it] can no longer be used as an evidence collection tool, and it changes the language in use of force policy in the most utterly confusing way"... "The allegation that, somehow, police officers should not be entitled to the same employment rights as firefighters or nurses is preposterous"... The independent office tasked with investigation allegations of police misconduct will also be revamped, to include adding civilians to the board, The Washington Post reported.At least one of those civilian members will have to have “personally experienced the use of force by a law enforcement officer.”"
Atlanta PD Day Shift Officers Largely Absent As 'Blue Flu' Spreads - "more than 500 of Atlanta’s 911 calls went unanswered overnight... Howard charged the former police officer with seven felonies, including murder, for fatally shooting 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks who was firing a Taser at him... The police department tried to deny the walkout was happening, but admitted that an unusually high number of officers had called out sick"
Atlanta Residents Complain Armed Activists Are Creating Roadblocks, Threatening Them - "People who live near the burned-out Wendy’s that has become a makeshift memorial for 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks have asked the police to help them because they’re unable to get to their homes safely and have been threatened and harassed... At least one protester was shot during an exchange of gunfire in that area last Friday night, but then violent protesters physically assaulted police who responded to clear the area for paramedics to get in. Residents have reported that armed protesters have blocked them from getting to their homes, WXIA reported. Several have had their homes and vehicles vandalized... Atlanta police officers and International Brotherhood of Police Southeast Regional Director Vince Champion told The Police Tribune that rumors of the walkout were all true.Tens of thousands of people tuned into the police department’s scanner frequency to listen to hours of silence... a roll call assignment sheet leaked out indicating the extent of the “Blue Flu.”"
VIDEO: Man With 103 Arrests Randomly Assaults 92-Year-Old Woman - "A career criminal who has been arrested more than 100 times was locked up on after he knocked a 92-year-old Manhattan woman to the pavement on Friday, leaving her injured and afraid to leave her home... Surveillance video filmed by an exterior security camera nearby captured the moment that a man – later identified as 31-year-old Rashid Brimmage – reached out and hit an elderly woman in the head... Court records showed that the suspect already had three open criminal cases in New York City when he attacked Geraldine unprovoked... So far this year, Brimmage was arrested on Feb. 17 and charged with misdemeanor assault and harassment for an incident that occurred a week earlier in the Bronx.He was released without bail"
VIDEO: Man Arrested After Shooting 'Protester' Hitting Him In Head With Skateboard - "A former Albuquerque city council candidate who was assaulted by an angry mob of rioters and beaten with a skateboard was arrested on Monday night after he shot one of his attackers... Despite his clear retreat, the mob “maliciously” pursued him and yanked him to the ground, police said.Several members of the group began punching and kicking him while he was down on the pavement... The longboard-wielding attacker, later identified as 39-year-old Scott Williams, then slammed the board into Baca’s head yet again.
VIDEO: Teens Allegedly Yelled 'Black Lives Matter, Bi-h' As They Beat Gas Station Customer - "A group of teens viciously assaulted a man as he was leaving a convenience store on Sunday evening... “Black lives matter, b—h!” they allegedly yelled at the victim as they punched and kicked him in the face, the victim’s girlfriend, Kelli Tarwater, said... [Mason] Hatton, 24, who is white, walked over to the store to pick up snacks and cigarettes and was completing his transaction with the clerk when a “group of young black men and women” approached the counter “and demanded to be first”... A suspect in a white tank top suddenly punched Hatton in the face before the group shoved him into the side of a nearby parked car.Hatton slid to the ground as the suspects repeatedly punched and kicked him, the video showed.As the attackers ran off, another suspect emerged from the store and kicked the victim in his face."
VIDEO: Detroit Cop Drives Into Protesters Attacking His Vehicle - "the officer had his lights and siren on, and blasted his horn several times.But the protesters in the video appeared to become more agitated and began jumping violently onto the hood of the police SUV.That was when the video showed the police vehicle began moving forward, pushing its way through the protesters blocking its path.As the SUV began to move, more protesters jumped on the hood and the windshield, obstructing the driver’s view of the road... Detroit Police Sergeant Nicole Kirkwood said officers were attempting to redirect traffic because of the protest when the marchers became agitated and began jumping on vehicles... When their rear window was shattered, the chief said the officers thought they were getting shot at and that’s when they accelerated through the protesters blocking their way"
VIDEO: Protesters Occupy DC Target Store, Demand They Stop Calling 911 On Black People - "Black Lives Matter protesters stormed a Target store in the nation’s capital last Saturday and threatened they would shut them down completely if any of the employees ever called the police on a black person again"
If you are against black people committing crimes, you're racist
Black Lives Matter Leader Says They Want To “Burn The System Down” - "“The president of Greater New York Black Lives Matter said that if the movement fails to achieve meaningful change during nationwide protests over George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police officers, it will ‘burn down this system.’‘If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it. All right? And I could be speaking figuratively. I could be speaking literally. It’s a matter of interpretation,’ Hawk Newsome said during an interview Wednesday evening on “The Story” with Martha MacCallum... This BLM leader just confirms what many of us have been saying for weeks: This isn’t about justice for George Floyd, or racism generally. It is about “burning down” the system that is the United States. In order to do so, the BLM mob must destroy America’s history root and branch. Then, they must label those who oppose their utopian ideals as racist and being “part of the problem” if those people don’t cosign their BS agenda... Even George Washington, the father of the nation, hasn’t been spared from the anti-American hordes. In Portland, Oregon, a statue to George Washington was torn down and an American flag was draped over his head and set on fire."
Protest Growing To Demand 'Justice' After Detroit Cops Shoot Man Who Was Shooting At Them - "Protesters have started to gather to demand “justice” for a man who was fatally shot by Detroit police officers Friday afternoon while he was shooting at police."
Melissa Chen - "President Trump's executive order on police reform includes:
- Ban on chokeholds (except if an officer’s life is at risk)
- Co-responders to help police with calls involving drugs, alcohol, homelessness
- Federal grants for training
- Nationwide database to track bad actors
He says Congress can and should go further.
It's a start, and I'm sure some people will say he could've gone further. I personally think curtailing police unions and qualified immunity should be the top priorities, but that's not best achieved with an EO.
He also said during the press conference, "I strongly oppose the radical and dangerous efforts to...dismantle and dissolve our police departments... Reducing crime and raising standards are not opposite goals"
AND
"They ran right into the twin towers on 9/11 - many never returned. New York's finest, never returned."
^My hunch is, this is exactly where most Americans are at."
Damn white supremacist!
Nader Issa on Twitter - "The Chicago Sun-Times will capitalize the "B" in Black when referring to people who are part of the African diaspora, newsroom management just announced.The same will be done for the "B" in Brown, so Sun-Times style will now read "Black and Brown communities."
Another part of @FuscoChris's note to the newsroom: "We will continue to lowercase the 'w' in white, which is a wider descriptor of people of numerous origins.""
Comment (elsewhere): "This makes absolutely no sense. Not all brown people are even from the same heritage. There are brown people in Central/South America and in Asia."
Tim Pool on Twitter - "Trump needs to get the fuck off his ass and do something about all this fucking chaos around the country Cops just got poisoned Leftists are destroying public property and now armed groups are rising up to stop them"
Mayor celebrates BLM protests, then calls them 'domestic terrorism' when her home is vandalized - "Mayor of Olympia, Washington, Cheryl Selby, has been a vocal proponent of Black Lives Matter and backer of the protests that have spread across the country amid the death of George Floyd, but when these same people vandalized her home, she called it "domestic terrorism.""
Mods on JusticeServed: "Any users criticizing the BLM movement, Antifa, or the current protests against police brutality will be immediately and permanently banned." : SubredditDrama
In turn, u/JusticeServedBot got suspended
Comment (elsewhere): "Then be prepared for more and more violence. If we can’t discuss our opinions, they don’t magically go away. You don’t win by default."
This is truly amazing. : PoliticalCompassMemes - "JusticeServedBot:
"No, we are just letting people know they cannot have the wrong opinions"
"Only racists want free speech"
"Yes, exactly. Free speech is only something nazis want so they can be racists.""
Dozens of newspapers stop publishing mug shot galleries, saying they 'reinforced negative stereotypes' - "Several outlets argue the galleries 'disproportionately feature black and brown people'"
Basically a stereotype is something you don't like that is true
More businesses fearing property damage hire private security guards in wake of protests - "“People understand that all of the police resources are geared towards the protests,” he said. “It leaves all of these buildings vulnerable to break-ins and causing problems.”... While Seattle police statistics show they take about six minutes to respond to top priority emergency calls, they’ve conceded their response to lower priority cases — including burglary and property theft — could be better. The median response time for Priority 2 calls — including in-progress property crimes or those that have just happened — was 18 minutes last year, compared with 13 minutes in 2014.For lower Priority 3 and 4 calls — including break-ins that didn’t just occur — the median response time last year was 49 minutes, compared with 35 minutes five years ago. Police have largely attributed the decline to declines in staffing amid increased crime in a growing city."
"Step 1: Liberal elites tell you to #DefundThePolice
Step 2: Liberal elites hire private security contractors
Step 3: Liberal elites tell you to #SocializeSecurity
Step 4: Liberal elites make you #FundThePolice
Step 5: Liberal elites profit?"
No wonder so many Americans are upset over paying taxes. They don't even have a functioning state
The Yaboiposting - Posts - "The fed is upset we burned down buildings and assaulted random people, even though the Mayor, Police Chief and state prosecutor gave us their blessing. we truly live in a fascist country"
Lucas Lynch - "Is it too much to ask that synagogues and Jewish institutions in LA consider it an honor that their buildings have been used as canvasses for the voices of the oppressed?"
<CBS News on Twitter - "Biden to George Floyd's daughter Gianna via video message: “You are so brave... I know you have a lot of questions, honey. No child should have to ask questions that too many black children have had to ask for generations — why, why is Daddy gone?”"
When you try to be woke but end up being racist
GarbageHuman - Posts - "You anonymously reported The Only Good Cops Are Dead Cops for promoting violence."
"Thanks for your report - you did the right thing by letting us know about this. The Page you reported was reviewed, and though it doesn't go against one of our specific Community Standards..."
It's only violence when it harms "minorities"
We all deserve a chance at life irrespective of our colours! Also spotted during the BLM protest. : pics - "We all deserve a chance at life irrespective of our colours! Also spotted during the BLM protest."
"Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/pics."
Karine Covfefe - NPR: "Right-wing extremist are turning cars into weapons, with reports of 50 vehicle-ramming incidents since protests erupted nationwide in late May."
"People are being attacked in their cars trying to go home and if they try to defend themselves, they are called "Right-wing extremists". What a complete shitshow. 🤡"
Rita Panahi on Twitter - "Hey @NPR did you accidentally delete this tweet after getting dragged for spreading verifiably false BS? The driver stopped, was attacked (repeatedly) & then fled. She won’t be charged but 2 of the ‘peaceful protesters’ have been charged. #FactsAreOurFriends"
Protesters arrested following altercation with driver in downtown Louisville - "Police said protesters had blocked the intersection, standing in front of the woman’s car with a megaphone.During a verbal altercation between the driver and the protesters, someone ripped out one of the driver’s dreadlocks.When someone pulled a gun, the driver sped off and struck a protester.When she stopped at a red light a block later, someone pointed a gun at her. Police said that man was 21-year-old Darius Anderson, who allegedly passed the gun off to 19-year-old Brioanna Richards.Both are charged with rioting, disorderly conduct and obstructing a highway.Anderson faces additional charges of first-degree wanton endangerment."
• People shot to death by U.S. police, by gender 2020 - "As of July 29, the U.S. police shot 536 men and 22 women to death in 2020."
Clear evidence of structural sexism!
Korean Beauty Store Employee Attacked for Asking Customer to Wear a Face Mask - "the employee, Younglae Kim, is a recent Albany graduate who was following the New York State’s social distancing guidelines for COVID-19 spread prevention... Kim told WNYT that the situation escalated into one of violent racism when he asked him to “please go out.”... He then spat on Kim’s face, which made him spit back in retaliation. Enraged, he started to punch and kick the employee in the abdomen, knocking him into the metal rods, before Kim fell, bleeding, to the floor.“The doctor said my nose looked broken,” he said.According to CBS 6 News, he told Kim to “go back to your country,” as well as adding a slew of racist comments while he was assaulting him. As a South Korean native, Kim expressed that he wanted to live in the U.S., but after the attack, he’s unsure."
Damn anti-blackness!
Lucas Lynch - "A friend of mine, who happens to be a black woman, and has two black sons, told me an amusing story. Protest swept through her neighborhood, and a “progressive“ thought it was good to slash her tires, which happened to be on a BMW, which she worked like hell to earn. 
She saw this happening in real time, and went out and confronted the white protester. Because her neighborhood tends to be white, the white protester said “I’m sorry, I just assumed you were white.” This friend thought it was interesting that this white anarchist was somehow assuming that BMW could not be owned by a black person. 
Time and again, my black friends have a diversity of opinion, while it is my progressive white friends who insist that a uniformity of opinion on looting, and “defund the police“ is required. 
In reality, they continue to know nothing about the black community on whose behalf they claim to speak."
This psychologist complained about an article that compared white college educated people with people of colour which pointed out that the latter are less woke than the former and claimed that it was comparing apples with oranges (and that the correct comparison should be with college educated people of colour). When I pointed out that the point was to show that the white college educated people were not really speaking for people of colour (as they pretended to), he blocked me
Bill Mitchell on Twitter - "I'm sorry, but if you are still "struggling with slavery," I'm still struggling with when the Vikings invaded England in the 8th Century and enslaved my relatives. They stole our lands, burned our fields and assaulted our women. I blame all my current failures on Vikings."
Being Classically Liberal - Posts - "I don't understand how "liberals" can recognize that it's wrong to malign Muslims as a group of people, but can't be bothered to apply that logic to police officers."
Peter Barrett - "Imagine living in a country that had been torn apart by a terrible war -- one of the most brutal wars the modern world had ever seen up to that point -- but had reunited and knit itself together so strongly that each side honored the other's heroes and respected the other's dead. I was born in a country like that. I'm sad my kids won't get to experience it."
Lucas Lynch - "Even a website as innocuous as babynames.com must put lambs' blood over its doorway."
Paul on Twitter - "The fact that celebrities have raised $20,000,000 for rioters bail and $0 for looting victims speaks volumes about the elite."
Voter Apathy Party - Posts - "George Floyd's childhood dream was to become a Supreme Court justice"
"Impressive teacher, keeping that paper all these years, in perfect condition even."
"Not one faded stroke of graphite on thirty year old paper. No yellowing of the paper, either."
The Project condones BLM looting with anti-feminist point on Network 10 - "They deserve to be looted for flaunting nice things to poor people,” the hosts of Network 10’s The Project said, condoning looting.The hosts of Australia’s trashy entertainment gossip show The Project have taken it one step further than just supporting the Black Lives Matter protests (BLM) in the USA, they have now condoned the violence and the looting as well. Peter Van Onselen, Lisa Wilkinson, Tommy Little and Susie Youssef were discussing the Black Lives Matter protests... not only did the hosts blame the current U.S. president and all white Americans, they also condoned the violence and looting. The Project is known for it’s far-left takes and they’ve espoused very many divisive political opinions before like ‘all men are rapists’, etc... The show has an abysmal 2.1 star rating on Google with an overwhelming majority of the reviews been 1 star... Before fully condoning the violence and rioting carried forth by the BLM activists and domestic communist terrorist group Antifa, The Project brought on Bejamin Crump, a Black Lives Matter activist that falsely stated that Donald J. Trump had told police to “shoot thugs”.What makes this take incredible hypocritical is that the hosts of The Project have previously used the universally agreed statement, “the way a woman dresses does not give you the right to assault her,” on their ‘all men are rapists’ episode. However, now they are condoning violence and looting alleging that shop owners deserve to be looted because they are ‘flaunting nice things to poor people’."
Louisville Cuban community to rally in support of La Bodeguita de Mima - "Members of Louisville's Cuban community plan to gather Sunday in support of a NuLu restaurant owner who says he was threatened by Black Lives Matter protesters during a recent demonstration.Fernando Martinez, a partner of the Olé Restaurant Group, was one of dozens of business owners in the downtown Louisville district who recently received a letter from protesters laying out demands that aim to improve diversity in the area, which is known for its locally-owned shops and restaurants.Martinez has publicly denounced the demands on Facebook, calling them "mafia tactics" used to intimidate business owners. And on Thursday, a small group of protesters confronted him outside his newest restaurant, La Bodeguita de Mima, on East Market Street. "There comes a time in life that you have to make a stand and you have to really prove your convictions and what you believe in," Martinez wrote in his Facebook post. "... All good people need to denounce this. How can you justified (sic) injustice with more injustice?"... members of the city's Cuban community will meet outside the NuLu restaurant at 4 p.m. Sunday to support the immigrant-owned business, which "has been subject to vandalism and extortion in recent days.""
Sadly for them, blacks rank above latinos in the progressive stack, so their "anti-blackness" will be condemned
ZUBY: on Twitter - "City mayors be like
Homelessness: Neutral face
Knife crime: Neutral face
Gun crime: Neutral face
Terrorism: Neutral face
Robbery: Neutral face
Assault: Neutral face
Rape: Neutral face
Looting: Slightly smiling face
Riots: Slightly smiling face
Anarchist run autonomous zones: Smiling face with open mouth
Opening your business: Pouting face
Man police officer
Not wearing a mask: Pouting face
Man police officer
Going to church: Pouting face
Man police officer"
The Yaboiposting - Posts - "Al Sharpton, Spike Lee, Ave Duvaney, Jordan Peele, Colin Keapernik, black MSNBC/CNN commentators, and that one lawyer that represents all the families of people killed by cops, all got wealthy thanks to "racism". What incentive would they have to ending it?"
Federalist Perspectives - Posts - "Body Cam footage was released from the Floyd Arrest. Things just got even more confusing. TL:DR? The narrative that he was intentionally murdered is now doubtful (which means that I was likely wrong to view this whole thing as a murder). We'll see. The Officers approach Floyd in his car, is slow to cooperate. They draw their guns. He is terrified. He reluctantly begins to cooperate. They holster their guns. He begs them not to shoot him. Floyd is... off (that's the best word I can use to describe it). The Officer asks bystanders why Floyd is being so strange. They say that's the way he is. As they guide him to the cruiser, he complains that he is in pain, claims his mother just died, claims he cannot breathe, claims he is going to die. They ask him if he is on something - he says no. When they put him in the car he says he is claustrophobic... despite being approached in his own car. They spend a long time trying to convince him to get into the car. They give him time to catch his breath. The Officers offer to roll down the windows. He **asks** to be put on the ground several times. During this whole process no racial comments are made. The Officers are professional, if not occassionally using tones expressing frustration. Floyd does appear terrified and scatterbrained. Very very scatterbrained."
How the Media Led the Great Racial Awakening - "In the wake of the protests, riots, and general upheaval sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the United States is experiencing a racial reckoning. The response from America’s elite liberal institutions suggests that many have embraced the ideology of the protesters... The last entry on the list, a lengthy feature on America’s “caste system” in The New York Times Magazine, explicitly compares the United States to Nazi Germany.Countless articles have been published in recent weeks, often under the guise of straight news reporting, in which journalists take for granted the legitimacy of novel theories about race and identity. Such articles illustrate a prevailing new political morality on questions of race and justice that has taken power at the Times and Post—a worldview sometimes abbreviated as “wokeness” that combines the sensibilities of highly educated and hyperliberal white professionals with elements of Black nationalism and academic critical race theory. But the media’s embrace of “wokeness” did not begin in response to the death of George Floyd. This racial ideology first began to take hold at leading liberal media institutions years before the arrival of Donald Trump and, in fact, heavily influenced the journalistic response to the protest movements of recent years and their critique of American society... Starting well before Donald Trump’s rise to power, while President Obama was still in office, terms like “microaggression” and “white privilege” were picked up by liberal journalists. These terms went from being obscure fragments of academic jargon to commonplace journalistic language in only a few years... universally recognizable words like “racism” were being radically redefined. Along with the new language came ideas and beliefs animating a new moral-political framework to apply to public life and American society... What we see over the past decade is a continual dramatic increase in usages of “racism” and its variations. Moreover, the graph shows that this increase occurred a half decade before the arrival of Donald Trump... Over the period in question, starting in the mid ’90s, the Times and Post had always featured these terms more frequently than the Journal but, until recently, the difference was minor. Today, the gap is enormous, which suggests that the explosion in the usage of racialized terminology and ideological constructs isn’t simply a neutral reflection of an increase in racial incidents... the more aspects of social life the media racializes, the more “racism” there is for the media to report on.In 2011, just 35% of white liberals thought racism in the United States was “a big problem,” according to national polling. By 2015, this figure had ballooned to 61% and further still to 77% in 2017. In December of 2006, 45% of white Democrats and 41% of white Republicans reported that they knew someone they considered racist. By June of 2015, this figure increased to 64% among white Democrats, while remaining at a steady 41% among white Republicans. No increases were observed for any of the nonwhite Democrat groups. In fact, what (statistically insignificant) change occurred among Black (52.7% to 47.2%) and Hispanic (41.1% to 33.8%) Democrats were actually in the opposite direction... ascendant progressive notions about race reflected in a steady drumbeat of reporting and editorializing on the subject from leading national media outlets, encouraged white liberals to label a larger number of behaviors and people as racist. In other words, while the world may have stayed more or less the same, elite liberal media and its readership—especially its white liberal readership—underwent a profound change... even the most powerful traditional media outlets—whether that’s The New York Times or cable news—exist within a larger ecosystem that is increasingly shaped by digital actors. The agenda-setting and issue-framing powers that social media platforms like Twitter have provided to progressive activists appears to be a central driver of both the shifts in white liberals’ racial attitudes and the transformations within traditional media. Even the most powerful and storied names in newspaper publishing are increasingly responsive to and influenced by political sentiments percolating on social media, where all manner of racialist ideology thrives... roughly 50% of those reporting single Russian ancestry have bachelor’s degrees or more, while this is true of only 27% of those of French and 18% of those of Portuguese ancestry, respectively. To put this into perspective, these gaps are double and nearly triple the size, respectively, of the degree-attainment gap between aggregate Blacks (16.2%) and whites (27.2%). Would Kendi insist that this, too, is dispositive proof of discrimination?The truth is that unless or until one is able to determine the “baseline disparities” between populations—i.e., disparities that would obtain even in the absence of racism and discrimination—there is no way to quantify or determine with certainty the extent that disparities can be attributed to discrimination and bias... Research shows that how members of advantaged or “privileged” social groups react to group inequality is informed by his/her views of its legitimacy. Those who are inclined or habituated to see it as illegitimate (such as white liberals) are likely to experience feelings of shame, guilt, and/or in-group-directed anger. These aversive feelings, in turn, correspond to needs for moral acceptance and validation vis-Ã -vis members of disadvantaged out-groups. These needs then motivate the adoption of pro-out-group (or “woke”) attitudes and behaviors that both signal one’s moral solidarity with the unjustly disadvantaged out-group while also distinguishing oneself from the undeservingly privileged in-group. In the other direction, group members that don’t perceive that such inequalities are entirely or at all illegitimate are likely to resent being unjustly blamed for them and to consider the maligning of their moral status unfair... What the evidence suggests, is that leading publications have not only vastly expanded the definition of racism and actively promoted a more racialized view of American society—in a period beginning under a Black president and during which many indicators showed slow and frustrating, but consistent, racial progress—but have done so, in part, by normalizing and popularizing the notion of “white people’s” collective guilt... Until just a few years ago, such reductive and Manichaean racial narratives were largely confined to overtly white nationalist and Black nationalist groups and the pages of little-read academic critical theory and sociology journals... The spikes for “white supremacy” and variant terms are remarkable given that they are by no means novel and so started from a higher baseline. Until a few years ago, their usage was likely limited to references to actual card-carrying white supremacists. But as with “racism,” these terms have since been radically expanded by a rapid and ideologically driven concept creep. White supremacy is now a vague and all-encompassing label. Instead of describing the demonstrably discriminatory ideas and actions of particular institutions or individuals, white supremacy is now understood by many progressives to be the fundamental ethos of the American system as a whole. Whatever it used to mean, “white supremacy” is now everywhere and applicable to any context... For decades, the term “racial equality” was the ubiquitous framework for understanding and evaluating racial justice. This is now changing as "equality" gives way to newer concepts such as “racial equity,” which refers to the redistribution of resources from the supposedly privileged to the supposedly disadvantaged as a means to redress claimed discrimination. As Ibram Kendi puts it: "If discrimination is creating equity, then it is antiracist. If discrimination is creating inequity, then it is racist ... The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination." Thus the goal is no longer 'racial equality' or equal treatment under the law. It is, rather, the attainment of a state of the world in which all groups have equal outcomes—even if some are deliberately disadvantaged in the process... For some Americans all of this is surely good news. For them, the rapid proliferation of articles employing the tropes of critical race theory to ascribe racial guilt in the American system represents a reckoning with white supremacy and inequality that is long overdue. There are many possible objections to this line of argument: To start, there’s the fact that dividing a diverse, multiethnic society into oppressed and oppressor categories on the basis of skin color has, as a matter of historical precedent, more often led to sectarian bloodshed than enhanced justice and equity. What’s more, the narratives promoting this new system of racial division are both factually fraudulent—built on false or misleading premises and assumptions—and deeply hostile to any attempts at factual correction. If one points out, for instance, that accounts of white supremacy as an all-powerful force in American society tend to discount that some nonwhite groups like Nigerian Americans, Indian Americans, and East Asian Americans all have more income equity than the average white person, this itself is invalidated as a racist microaggression. The media has actively promoted a theory of racism that misrepresents facts about the world while stigmatizing any effort to criticize those facts as racist... Which brings us to the media’s selective and race-driven reporting on deadly police shootings. If the ultimate goal of such media coverage and the protests they generate is to effect police reform—greater transparency, accountability, etc.—the fetishization of Black victims of police shooting is hard to understand. Indeed, if this objective is paramount, then it would be best served by saturating the newswire whenever a person of any race is unjustly killed by law enforcement. Indeed, the more radical the goal of the movement, the more important it would appear to be that it attempt to appeal to the largest possible segment of the populace. That there is no dispositive evidence of racial bias in police use of deadly force would make this approach even more advisable. However, a recent analysis of mine shows that the opposite is happening... unarmed Black police-shooting victims generated nine times the number of news search results as white victims. What is more, roughly 32% of white victims generated zero search results as compared to just 12% of Black victims... What the data presented here suggests is that editorial decisions made over the past decade at some of the most powerful media outlets in the world about what kind of language to use and what kind of stories merited coverage when it came to race—whatever the intention and level of forethought behind such decisions—has stoked a revival of racial consciousness among their readers. Intentionally or not, by introducing and then constantly repeating a set of key words and concepts, publications like The New York Times have helped normalize among their readership the belief that “color” is the defining attribute of other human beings. For those who adopt this singular focus on race, a racialized view of the world becomes baseline test of political loyalty. It requires adherents to overlook the immense diversity among so-called “People of Color” and “People Not-of-Color” (i.e., whoever is being lumped together as “white” according to the prevailing ideological fashion). In doing so, it has made stereotypes socially acceptable, if not laudable. The same media institutions that have promoted revanchist identitarianism and the radical transformation of American society along racial lines, could instead have focused their attention and influence on improving the quality of life for all. Working to ensure that Americans of any background aren’t unjustly victimized by the police and have access to quality health care, schools, and affordable housing doesn’t require the promotion of a “race-consciousness” that divides society into “oppressed” and “privileged” color categories. To the contrary, it requires that we de-emphasize these categories and unite in pursuit of common interests. This may not suit the media’s prerogatives, and it may not appeal to activists whose desire for cultural “recognition” trumps their devotion to material progress, but it does offer the potential benefit of improving the lives of ordinary Americans."
"Guess who benefits when there is racial conflict? Race conflict destroys class solidarity. It's not a coincidence that the global elite's wealth have accelerated in the past 10 years, the time-frame in this study."
So much for (((journalists))) being responsible for all the race baiting. Tablet has a lot of good stuff on the current madness
More good data on the radicalisation of liberals in recent years - led by the media
Addendum: Also published as "Woke Terms & Media Racism Statistics"
CNN on Twitter - "Hundreds of people gathered and marched on Saturday in Portland, Oregon, marking the 66th night of Black Lives Matter protests in the city, according to the Portland Police Bureau"
CNN on Twitter - "A large crowd of far-right groups gathered for a "sit-in" at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate to protest against the German government's coronavirus restrictions. The march included anti-vaccine groups and some far-right and neo-Nazi organizations."
When the media wants to push an agenda...
Bret Weinstein on Twitter - "Google has enabled a system for identifying “black owned” businesses. This can not be morally or rationally defended. It is obviously a response to a credible threat."
Melissa Chen - "Next up, symbols will be used to mark businesses on Google maps - a black heart for black-owned, a yellow star for Jewish--Uh oh.Yet another step back to a world hyper-focused on race. When the same outcome would delight a white supremacist, it’s time to reflect."
I,Hypocrite - Posts - "*Mugshots of the 3 cops who were unfortunate enough to witness the George Floyd arrest* I know, I'm trying to stay away for a minute, but this is just too glorious not to share. I hope they rot in prison for the rest of their pathetic lives. (But also, we need to abolish prisons and completely reconsider our approach to punitive justice.)"
We're hitting levels of doublethink that should not be possible
James Lindsay - Posts - Authors of study on race and police killings ask for its retraction, citing “continued misuse” in the media
"Referring back to my thread on how under mythologies, all data from the world has to serve the myth, here we have the retraction of all academic papers, no matter how rigorous, that contradict the Critical Race Theory distortions on race and police killing."
When science clashes with the liberal narrative
I Cited Their Study, So They Disavowed It - WSJ - "The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is a peer-reviewed journal that claims to publish “only the highest quality scientific research.” Now, the authors of a 2019 PNAS article are disowning their research simply because I cited it.Psychologists Joseph Cesario of Michigan State and David Johnson of the University of Maryland analyzed 917 fatal police shootings of civilians from 2015 to test whether the race of the officer or the civilian predicted fatal police shootings. Neither did. Once “race specific rates of violent crime” are taken into account, the authors found, there are no disparities among those fatally shot by the police. These findings accord with decades of research showing that civilian behavior is the greatest influence on police behavior.In September 2019, I cited the article’s finding in congressional testimony. I also referred to it in a City Journal article, in which I noted that two Princeton political scientists, Dean Knox and Jonathan Mummolo, had challenged the study design. Messrs. Cesario and Johnson stood by their findings. Even under the study design proposed by Messrs. Knox and Mummolo, they wrote, there is again “no significant evidence of anti-black disparity in the likelihood of being fatally shot by the police.”My June 3 Journal op-ed quoted the PNAS article’s conclusion verbatim. It set off a firestorm at Michigan State. The university’s Graduate Employees Union pressured the MSU press office to apologize for the “harm it caused” by mentioning my article in a newsletter. The union targeted physicist Steve Hsu, who had approved funding for Mr. Cesario’s research. MSU sacked Mr. Hsu from his administrative position. PNAS editorialized that Messrs. Cesario and Johnson had “poorly framed” their article—the one that got through the journal’s three levels of editorial and peer review... The authors don’t say how I misused their work. Instead, they attribute to me a position I have never taken: that the “probability of being shot by police did not differ between Black and White Americans.” To the contrary, I have, like them, stressed that racial disparities in policing reflect differences in violent crime rates. The only thing wrong with their article, and my citation of it, is that its conclusion is unacceptable in our current political climate. This retraction bodes ill for the development of knowledge... The consequences for the policing debate are particularly dire. Researchers will suppress any results that contravene the narrative about endemic police racism. That narrative is now producing a shocking rise in shootings in American cities. The victims, including toddlers, are almost exclusively black."
Chicago-Area Leaders Call for Illinois to Eliminate History Classes - "State Rep. LaShawn K. Ford said current history teachings lead to a racist society and overlook the contributions of women and minorities.Ford and other leaders have asked the ISBOE and school districts to immediately remove history books that "unfairly communicate" history."
So much for promoting education and critical thinking. It's been replaced by indoctrination and critical (theory) thinking
The Oscars Will Add a Diversity Requirement for Eligibility - The New York Times - "the academy could take a page from its brethren in Britain: In 2019, the British Film Institute became the first major awards body to introduce diversity and inclusion criteria into its eligibility requirements"
So much for ars gratia artis
Rutgers English Department to deemphasize traditional grammar ‘in solidarity with Black Lives Matter’ - "Also pledges to decolonize the writing center"
There goes the value of a Rutgers English degree
Escape The Echo Chamber - Posts - "A moment of sanity. Trader Joe’s is refusing to rename their international foods because they show an appreciation for other cultures."“A few weeks ago, an online petition was launched calling on us to “remove racist packaging from [our] products.” Following were inaccurate reports that the petition prompted us to take action. We want to be clear: we disagree that any of these labels are racist. We do not make decisions based on petitions... Recently we have heard from many customers reaffirming that these name variations are largely viewed in exactly the way they were intended—as an attempt to have fun with our product marketing”
Catholic churches across U.S. suffer week of vandalism and arson
Black Lives Matter fundraising handled by group with convicted terrorist on its board - "The co-founder of Black Lives Matter names a convicted cop killer as one of her heroes, and the BLM national organization is fiscally sponsored through a leftist group whose board of directors includes a convicted terrorist.Alicia Garza, one of three co-founders of the Black Lives Matter national organization, has repeatedly talked about how convicted cop killer and wanted domestic terrorist Joanne Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur, is one of her main inspirations. Susan Rosenberg, a member of the board of directors for the left-wing Thousand Currents group, which handles the intake of donations made to Black Lives Matter, is a convicted terrorist who, among other things, was suspected of helping Shakur escape from prison... She was convicted on weapons and explosives charges and sentenced to 58 years in prison, serving 16 years before being pardoned by President Bill Clinton in January 2001... The website for Black Lives Matter is operated under an umbrella group known as the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, chaired by BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors, a self-described Marxist. Black Lives Matter uses ActBlue to raise money... The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has pulled in huge amounts of cash since Floyd’s death, telling the Associated Press it received more than 1.1 million individual donations as of mid-June, with each donation averaging $33 — meaning the group has brought in more than $33 million in less than a month.A 2017 report from Black Lives Matter describes its founders — Garza, Cullors, and Opal Tometi — as “three radical Black organizers.”... The “Hands Up! Don’t Shoot!” slogan that features prominently at most Black Lives Matter protests is based on a myth also debunked by the Obama-Holder Justice Department, which concluded the shooting of Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson was justified."
GitHub to replace "master" with alternative term to avoid slavery references - "This includes dropping terms like "master" and "slave" for alternatives like "main/default/primary" and "secondary;" but also terms like "blacklist" and "whitelist" for "allow list" and "deny/exclude list."The concern is that continued use of these racially-loaded terms could prolong racial stereotypes... Most detractors and the explanation that often resurfaces in these discussions is that terms like master/slave are now more broadly used to describe technical scenarios than actual slavery and that the word "blacklist" has nothing to do with black people, but the practice of using black books in medieval England to write down the names of problematic workers to avoid hiring in the future."
Why Gina Carano is Being Targeted By Trolls on Twitter - "MMA champion and actress Gina Carano has had a tumultuous few days on twitter due to controversy over her recent tweets as the hashtag #Ginacaranoisoverparty began trending... The 38-year-old Haywire and The Mandalorian star has been called "racist" and a "bootlicker" and it seemingly began when she posted the famous black and white photo showing a collective Nazi Salute, where one man isn't saluting... "In my experience, screaming at someone that they are a racist when they are indeed NOT a racist & any post and/or research you do will show you those exact facts. Then I'm sorry, these people are not 'educators'... they are cowards and bullies."... One Twitter user, defending Carano wrote: "Gina Carano is being bullied & harassed by SJW trolls. They're calling her a 'racist bootlicker' & demanding she 'Say ACAB/BLM' to prove she's not racist. Gina is having none of it, calling them cowards for trying to bully her off social media." They added, sharing screenshots of tweets targeting Carano: "Bot accounts harassing Gina Carano will post the same message within 1 minute of each other. Matching profiles with: 'She/Her - BLM/ACAB' bios that change name & layout. Actual proof of someone using bots to bully a female Star Wars actress."... Others are claiming they are trying to "educate" Carano, with one person tweeting: "These aren't trolls, these are people trying to educate you so you can get on the right side of history."Carano responded to say that those tweeting her are not "educators" but "bullies and cowards."However, Carano appears to be unfazed by the attention and address the "trolls" in a tweet yesterday, sharing a photo saying "the trash took itself out" and writing: "Dear trolls.. pssst..(oh but make sure you keep checking in from all of your other 12 fake accounts). Cowards.""
Gina Carano’s formidable stand against BLM bullies is a much-wanted victory over cancel culture - "MMA fighter and ‘Deadpool’ star Gina Carano has been accused by social justice warriors on Twitter of being “racist” for not showing enough support to Black Lives Matter and daring to express herself... In a world beset by actual racism and real problems, we’ve reached a point where thousands discuss ‘canceling’ someone because they express an opinion they don’t understand. And that’s what it comes down to. Not understanding. This hungry mob scouring social media for people to target feeds off soundbite slogans and trendy, digestible issues. So, Carano making a larger point – or even opening up a discussion – about standing against racism is completely lost on them. Because her point doesn’t fit into the binary politics the US so greedily feasts on, critics push her to a side without her having any say at all in the matter.And of all the people who could be targeted by BLM trolls, Carano is a strange choice. A movement that’s supposed to be about equality targeting a woman who has progressed female standing in culture, both through her fighting and acting career, and worked against sex trafficking to boot, is not the best look. The positive to takeaway here is that Carano didn’t back down. Celebrities and politicians often begin sweating when they see their names trending and connected to controversy. We’re then usually served up a swift public apology, with the person in question reassuring liberal critics that they are, in fact, on their side. This happens for sins as minuscule as asking whether Kanye West would make a good president.Carano’s right to avoid such temptation and to blast her critics as “cowards.” That’s what they are. Anyone who targets a woman over an opinion they’re too small-minded to understand or accept and who veils their attacks in the guise of “education” is indeed a coward.The most extreme arm of the BLM movement and the woke mob is not about education or politics or even progress. It has become about servitude. Say what they want you to say or they’ll find a way to threaten you or our career. Do what they want you to do or you’re ‘canceled.’ But, as Carano showed, if you just stand your ground, you take away the perceived power these leftist authoritarians have been gifted through years of appeasement accomplished through fear-mongering."
The Mandalorian Star Gina Carano Accused of Racism for Sharing Historical Anti-Nazi Photo - "Carano came under fire after sharing the famous photo that many believe is German laborer August Landmesser refusing to give the Nazi salute to Adolf Hitler during a 1936 rally celebrating the launch of the Horst Wessel, a German sail training ship... Despite the outpouring of troll attacks against her, Carano refused to step away from the public sphere... Carano would share a quote from Braveheart, which reads, “Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you’ll live…at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take…OUR FREEDOM?!”"
Bizarro world where praising people who stand up to Nazis is seen as supporting them
Most Americans think ‘All Lives Matter’ is a positive message. Yet why are we being told it’s as good as a hate crime? - "Despite pushback from activists against the phrase “all lives matter” amidst George Floyd protests, a poll suggests the majority of people are not offended by the words and only a small, vocal minority are behind the outrage... Questioning nearly 1,500 people, a YouGov/Economist poll shows that across races, regions, and ages, the majority of people find no comeuppance with the three words.In total, 56 percent of respondents said they saw the phrase as positive. That number remains above 50 for males and females and barely dips below that halfway mark for black people polled... those that think “all lives matter” carries a negative connotation are in the minority almost entirely across the board. Only 23 percent of those polled said it pushed a negative message. For black respondents, only 28 percent saw a negative stance in the words. The highest the outrage goes, according to the poll, is among college grads, adults below the age of 29, and people with incomes of over $100,000 a year. Even in these categories though it was still only 37 percent, 40 percent, and 35 percent who thought “all lives matter” is negative. These numbers don’t quite match up to the outrage we have seen over the phrase, suggesting a vocal minority is pushing the divisive narrative through social media and volatile protests... Anyone who says “all lives matter” to their iPhone Siri feature will get a response encouraging them to read more into the Black Lives Matter movement.Amazon founder Jeff Bezos recently went into a rant against an email from an angry customer using the phrase, affirming his alliance with BLM and ensuring people he won’t change his “stance.” While one would think a billionaire businessman wouldn’t need to waste his time answering angry emails from customers, Bezos’ obvious virtue signaling shows how frightened people are to be attached to a phrase we are told is offensive to the current movement... it becomes clear that there is a serious disconnect with reality... A vocal minority has hijacked a cultural moment and is now using it to simply spread divisiveness by labeling everything from television shows to phrases they don’t like as racist. This progresses no serious conversation and merely opens the door for easy villainization, a favorite hobby of virtue signalers looking to ‘belong’ and ‘be part of’ what they see as a definitive movement in history."
'Perpetuate this inequality': Ilhan Omar says US must begin 'dismantling' economy and 'the whole system of oppression' - "A member of "the Squad," Omar has aligned herself politically with fellow Democrats such as Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, who have railed against capitalism as a system of oppression used by the rich against the poor.Similarly, Black Lives Matter organizers, who are upset with the continued mistreatment of minorities by police and a lack of meaningful action on the part of the government to rectify unequal justice, have threatened to "burn down" the current system of government if elected leaders do not comply with their demands... President Trump has labeled Black Lives Matter as a group with a "hateful" message and threatened to crack down on demonstrations he says unfairly target American ideals and symbols."Make no mistake: This left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution. In so doing, they would destroy the very civilization that rescued billions from poverty, disease, violence, and hunger and that lifted humanity to new heights of achievement, discovery, and progress," Trump said during a speech over the July 4 weekend. "To make this possible, they are determined to tear down every statue, symbol, and memory of our national heritage.""
Dave Rubin on Twitter - "“Black lives matter, you faggot.” Here’s a video you won’t see on CNN or any mainstream media..."
Peace-loving black Trump super-supporter shot dead hours after giving pro-Trump interview - "Marxist Black Lives Matter activists are curiously silent after black Trump supporter Bernell Trammell was murdered in Milwaukee hours after he reportedly gave an interview explaining why he supports President Trump... Last month, a black Trump supporter was bombarded with racist slurs by a black leftist outside President Trump’s Tulsa rally. The leftist slammed the black Trump supporter as a “house n***er” and a “f**got.”The Trump supporter replied: “I’m too educated to be a house n***er. I’ve never been on a plantation, brother. Have you?”The black leftist then told the Trump supporter to shut up and called him a “f*ggot” before driving off."
Sargon of Akkad - Posts - "A terribly sad story. Two young and idealistic lawyers, get wrapped up in the BLM protest movement. In a moment of madness they throw a Molotov cocktail into an abandoned police car and burn it. Now they face a minimum 35 years in a federal prison."
"A moment of madness?As if people walk around with readily prepared Molotov cocktails."
Minneapolis: Solemn by Day, Violent by Night - The New York Times - "At night, though, the space is increasingly a battleground, with shootings and drug overdoses. The area has had an uptick in gun violence similar to what other cities have seen in the wake of protests."
Finally, an admission of the violence
YouTuber Trolls White New Yorkers Who Feel Guilt-Ridden about Race - "During the height of the George Floyd protests, a YouTuber known as Smooth Sanchez released a livestream of himself strutting through the streets of New York City and interacting with random pedestrians... Sanchez approaches a white woman (why he seems to have singled out females is unclear) and falsely identifies himself as a representative of Black Lives Matter. Next, he claims that his BLM manager has instructed him to find white people on the street for his livestream and to bring them to their knees in a show of solidarity with George Floyd. Once the subject is kneeling — an easy thing for Sanchez to bring about in many consecutive encounters— the YouTuber asks her to apologize for her white privilege (an action secured five times) or even to admit to being complicit in crimes against minorities by virtue of being white (secured twice). Finally, Sanchez thanks his unwitting dupe and goes on his way. If, at any point, a white target refuses to follow Sanchez’s directions, he shames her by calling her a bigoted racist or a white supremacist... Sanchez calls George Floyd “George Foreman” throughout the video just for fun. Many subjects daren’t correct him... he had made the video to troll people.Indeed, the unquestioning faith displayed by some in the video is astonishing. Almost no one wonders whether the unknown camera-wielder can be trusted. No one questions Sanchez’s allegiance to Black Lives Matter, nor does anyone find the premise of kneeling and begging pardon for her race on a livestream unsettling. (Incidentally, though Sanchez intends the kneelers in his video to be met with mockery, some white people have been kneeling and apologizing for their white privilege unprompted in an albeit well-intentioned attempt at racial solidarity.) Finally, the notion that whiteness — rather than the action of individuals — is responsible for the death of George Floyd goes largely unchecked among Sanchez’s Caucasian targets. It feels as though many of those whom Sanchez films have transcended the material plane and reached a level of mystical elevation in their political fervor. To them, the woke genuflection of repentance is like unto a kneeling prayer, the renunciation of one’s identity unto devout asceticism, the obeisance of the supposed minister of Black Lives Matter unto humility before divine authority. But this fervor is nothing new; it is astutely captured in Aurel Kolnai’s essay “The Humanitarian Versus the Religious Attitude,” appended at the end of Daniel Mahoney’s exceptionally written The Idol of Our Age. The 20th-century philosopher thus characterizes the phenomenon: “The modern civilization of Western mankind . . . has revealed a trend of evolution towards a society in which, practically speaking, religion as a determining factor of private and public life is to yield its place to a nonreligious, immanentistic, secular moral orientation which may best be described succinctly as “humanitarian.”62Kolnai’s remarks make a great deal of sense; perceiving the abnegation with which Sanchez’s targets launch themselves into the flames of political correctness, one is hard pressed to conceive of any motivating factor but this sort of “immanentistic, secular moral orientation”— a “civil religion,” as Rousseau envisioned... those in Sanchez’s video seem to have taken important virtues — pity for the oppressed and righteous anger toward their oppressors — and to have committed to exercising them as essential even at the expense of dignity and truth."
Meme - "Remember in the Robocop movies when corporate America aids criminals helps incite riots so they can lower property values buy up the city while privatizing that city's police force haha science fiction is crazy"
Radio host mocked Trump by claiming Seattle is peaceful, then rioters torched his apartment building - "Seattle radio host and Twitter-based criminal defense advocate Paul Gallant "dunked" on President Donald Trump last month by denying that the riots are violent, then the radio host was scored on by rioters who trashed his apartment... "Walked through it last night out of curiosity and saw no burning, pillaging, or deaths," Gallant responded in June to Trump's tweet calling out the violent leftists who continue to terrorize Seattle. "Chill dawg," Gallant added sarcastically.Last night, Gallant had a sudden change of heart towards the "peaceful protestors" when he came home to his apartment complex vandalized. He found the Starbucks underneath broken into with graffiti plastered on the storefront. Cops told residents to stay away in case of explosives inside. He was defending criminals before but he's "[r]eally angry right now.'"... "I feel like I need to buy a firearm, because clearly this is going to keep happening. Enough is enough""
How one of Colorado’s smallest protests became its most violent - "A video of the scene shows protesters lurch out of the way. It also shows one protester, a white man dressed in black, pull a gun from his waistband and shoot the driver in the head... James Edward Marshall IV, the 27-year-old shooter, is facing a slew of charges, including attempted murder. He knows a thing or two about what he’s up against because he is a defense lawyer... “We’d run into each other and talk about news, politics, whatever. The conversation would often be around the current political state. He’d say ‘I f—ing hate Trump,’ or something like that,” he said.“James is pretty tightly wound. There’s an intensity you don’t always see around here.” Danny Pruitt, the 49-year-old gunshot victim, spent most of the past three weeks in a coma, the bullet still lodged in his brain... A source advising the probe says detectives have been looking into whether the traffic light was red or green when Pruitt accelerated toward the protesters, and whether any were hit. None of those we interviewed said they were.Tom Metier, Pruitt’s personal injury lawyer, says his client remembers coming to a stop at the intersection and getting shot"
Doubtless another "white supremacist" making the "peaceful protestors" look bad
Looters descend on downtown Chicago; more than 100 arrested - "Hundreds of looters and vandals descended on downtown Chicago early Monday following a police shooting on the city's South Side, smashing the windows of dozens of businesses and making off with merchandise, cash machines and anything else they could carry... Hours earlier, police shot a man after he opened fire on officers Sunday afternoon — an incident that apparently prompted a social media post urging looters to converge on the business district... Brown dismissed any suggestion that the chaos was part of an organized protest of the shooting, instead calling it “pure criminality" that included occupants of a vehicle opening fire on police who were arresting a man they spotted carrying a cash register... Witnesses to the looting described a scene that bore a striking resemblance to the unrest that unfolded when protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis devolved into chaos. Brown suggested that the lenient treatment of people arrested then played a role in what happened Monday."
Trump-Supporting Grandma Outs Grandson as Alleged Portland Bomber - "A 69-year-old Trumper grandma turned her grandson in after watching someone throw a bomb into the Portland federal courthouse, recognizing him and then outing him to authorities... "I bought the vest for him after he found one online after getting hit with rubber bullets the night before at the protest."She even posted a glowing review of the item on Hibbett, saying, "I got this for my grandson who's a protester downtown, he uses it every night and says it does the job." Now, get this ... she ID'd her grandson as the alleged bomber on social media, under the handle @trumpsgirl2020.Her grandson, 18-year-old Gabriel "Rico" Agard-Berryhill, was arrested by Federal marshals and charged with felony arson. He faces years in prison if convicted."
Another "white supremacist"!
BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent Podcast, Black lives in Minnesota - "The fire department and most institutions and corporations in the Twin Cities have diversity and inclusion initiatives. But they remain overwhelmingly white and feel hostile for some African Americans. Companies hire black professionals but struggle to retain them. Felicia *something* is one of many who fled the Twin Cities. She left 10 years ago for Atlanta. She told me through tears that she still suffers from PTSD, from the microaggressions and isolation she experienced working at a large Minnesota Corporation. You can't be your authentically black self and work there. You have to conform to make them comfortable. If you don't, they'll make your work life miserable and push you out...
How conveniently vague (what is being an "authentically black self"?).
Maybe they just want to be around more other black people (ergo Atlanta). If so, presumably it would still be white people's fault
Seattle BLM protesters demand white people ‘give up' their homes - "A second clip purportedly shows BLM demonstrators and Antifa members calling for white people to “get the f–k out” as others in the crowd call for reparations.“Give us our s–t back!” one man yells. Yet another clip apparently shot in the aftermath of the protest also shows demonstrators threatening a business owner who allegedly called cops to report that a window had been shattered at his business.“You’re being racist, you’re being racist,” a protester tells the unidentified white business owner. “Check your privilege, check your privilege.”The protester then tells the man to “go back to his gentrification business” while yelling profanities at him, the clip shows."
Geoffrey Miller on Twitter - "If your 'Revolution' is endorsed & sponsored by America's most powerful corporations, and any dissent against it is censored by Big Tech, it's not a revolution. It's the triumphant lock-in of an ideology that controls citizens' hearts & minds for vested interests."
Sargon of Akkad - Posts - "I wish y’all hated the KKK the way y’all hate BLM"
"Bro, when was the last time you saw a person IRL who supports the freaking Klan? The difference is just one of scale, not principle. If the Klan were burning down cities, then I'd demand the cops stop that, too."
Mirage Brewery Starts Printing Anti-Police 'ACAB' Message On Their Cans - "A Seattle-based brewery expressed its hatred for law enforcement officers by printing “ACAB” on the bottom of its beer cans this summer.ACAB stands for “All Cops Are Bastards”... “I used the markings because I stand against institutional racism, of which modern policing is a militarized arm,” Mirage’s owner Michael Dempster told KIRO in a text message."
Of course, if his brewery is burned down by thugs, he'll be blaming the cops for not responding
Pog on Twitter - "De Blasio admits city skipped permit process to paint Black Lives Matter murals"
9/11 'Tribute in Light' memorial canceled amid COVID-19 concerns
Facebook - "Logic, Empathy, Honesty:
"Society should be restructured to take power away from [whites], who currently hold all the wealth and power, and who use it to control the government, corporations and the media for their benefit, unfairly oppressing those who would otherwise succeed"
- Black Lives Matter
"Society should be restructured to take power away from [Jews], who currently hold all the wealth and power, and who use it to control the government, corporations and the media for their benefit, unfairly oppressing those who would otherwise succeed"
The National Socialist German Workers Party."
McDonald's on Twitter - "They were one of us: Trayvon Martin. Michael Brown. Alton Sterling. Botham Jean. Atatiana Jefferson. Ahmaud Arbery. George Floyd."
Facebook - "Logic, Empathy, Honesty
Have you noticed that the radical leftists, now they have a real example of an unjustified killing of a black man by a white cop, are desperate to put it alongside past justified killings in order to conflate them?
Notice how there is no consideration to circumstance. It's simply black = good and white=bad
There is nothing in the world that will do a better job of making people racist than this sort of propaganda that forces people to choose between stupidity and reality."
Family-Owned Vietnamese Restaurant Looted Again During Wednesday Riots - "A Vietnamese restaurant, which has been owned by the same family for two generations and in business for more than 30 years was looted Wednesday night.“To be honest this hurts a lot,” Toom Nguyen stated to CBS Minnesota... Toom’s brother, Yoom came to check on the restaurant around 9 pm Wednesday night. He tried talking to the crowd of angry protestors and explained they were a family-owned restaurant and didn’t have anything inside of value. The crowd didn’t care and began smashing his storefront windows. Witnesses heard parts of the crowd chant “Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter!” “You know we work hard, we’re all minorities, just don’t do that stuff and thought he could have lost his life or someone could have gotten really hurt—it made me question a lot of things,” co-owner Yoom Nguyen said. The owners of Lotus restaurant said the rioting and looting after the death of George Floyd’s death caused around $30,000 worth of damage to the business. Now, they are unsure how much longer Lotus will be able to stay in downtown Minneapolis... The brothers did acknowledge and showed gratitude the police actually responded quickly this time around and blocked off the business from more damage. "What did we do as a business?” Toom asked. “We didn’t do anything to deserve this.”"
Facebook - "Yoom Nguyen is at Lotus Restaurant
Watching looters bust down our family restaurant is so heartbreaking. Senseless, they’re doing it while laughing and smirking. Not gonna lie, I damn near shot a man tonight. He threw that fucking rock at my family photo and looked right at me. I said “ you motherfucker....” tears immediately rolled down my face. I just can’t no more. I’m thankful I walked away but Fuck y’all."
It's all their fault for their "anti-blackness"!
Kenosha store owner in tears as she sees business burnt to ground - "“It’s all gone … we didn’t do nothing to nobody,” Linda Carpenter said while comforted by her son, Scott, as they surveyed their completely destroyed B & L Office Furniture, which had been in business for 40 years and was “still burning,” she said.“I don’t think it’s justifiable for anyone to destroy anybody else’s property,” she told Town Hall reporter Julio Rosas Tuesday.Her son said that although they were covered by insurance, it “isn’t there so somebody can destroy your things.”“It’s basically theft. Whoever did this stole from us,” he said... Stores were also looted — forcing a local gaming business to announce it was having to close up for good because of it."
Meme - "when I say kill ALL men I really mean ALL"
"even george floyd?"
"literally wtf is wrong with you?"
Facebook - "Escape The Echo Chamber: Rioting and looting kicked off yesterday in Minneapolis when a false story spread that police had shot a black man.It wasn’t true.The man shot himself. He was wanted for the murder of another man.We have approached lynch mob territory when it comes to police involved shootings. Violence is occurring before the facts come in."
PragerU on Twitter - "There are an estimated 375 million annual US police interactions with citizens. In 2019, 999 ended in shooting fatalities by police (0.0003%). 14 of those were unarmed blacks (0.000004%). 1 of those was not attempting to resist or evade arrest (0.0000003%) Cities burn for this?"
Phillip Nieto on Twitter - "Protesters in front of St Johns Church chanting if “we don’t get it (justice) burn it down!”"
Remember When a Democratic Polling Firm Fired the Guy Who Thought Violent Protests Could Backfire Politically? - "Back in June, the sudden firing of data scientist David Shor from the progressive consulting firm Civis Analytics raised eyebrows.Shor had publicized research from the social scientist Omar Wasow showing that violent protests tend to backfire on progressive goals—tipping the 1968 election in favor of the law-and-order candidate, Richard Nixon, for instance—whereas peaceful protests often succeed. In response, Shor was widely derided by the left. On Twitter, the progressive activist Ari Trujillo Wesler accused him of using his "anxiety and 'intellect' as a vehicle for anti-blackness." Employees and clients of Civis Analytics said Shor's statement—which, to be clear, was merely an endorsement of well-grounded social science research that says nonviolent protest is strategically superior—had threatened their very safety... As a result, Shor was terminated. The exact reason for the firing was never specified, but it spoke to concerns among many liberal thinkers—Chait, Vox's Matt Yglesias, and others—that certain sects of the left are unwilling to have difficult conversations about tactics. This is a concern shared by many libertarians, and supporters of free speech culture more broadly. On Wednesday, polling by Marquette Law School showed that support for Black Lives Matter has plummeted among white Wisconsinites. (The poll was conducted before the recent police shooting in Kenosha, and thus does not reflect attitudes toward that event.) "A substantial majority approved of protests in June, but this fell to an even split, 48-48 in August," wrote polling director Charles Franklin. Black and Hispanic attitudes toward Black Lives Matter changed little over the summer, but white approval had fallen and "become net negative."... Joe Biden's lead in Minnesota—whose governor has dispatched the National Guard to quell continuing protest-related violence in Minneapolis—continues to shrink"
'Weimar America' Is Not Just A Slogan - "I mentioned in my earlier post the incident from early summer in which an email list of Democratic party data professionals had driven David Shor, an Obama administration data whiz, out of the group because of his “racist tweet” (Shor had simply linked to an academic paper showing that violent protest helps Republicans but peaceful protest helps Democrats). I brought it up as an example of this bizarre attitude many on the left have of resenting information that doesn’t confirm their preferred narrative about the protests"
RE-EDUCATION on Twitter - "I heard a good question today... Why is murder an appropriate response to property damage But property damage isn't an appropriate response to murder?"
Leftists being obtuse as usual. They claim destroying third party property to "protest" "murder" is good, but defending your property by shooting looters and rioters (even ignoring the self defence angle) is wrong
Associated Press issues erroneous 'fact check' saying there is 'no evidence' of Antifa, BLM violence - "An estimated 32 people have died during the "mostly peaceful" protests following the death of George Floyd. Protests quickly go from marches to riots that see looting, arson, and massive damage to public property, including black-owned businesses.Meanwhile, members of Antifa group Riot Kitchen 206, "a no-charge kitchen serving protestors, activists, movements and those in need in Seattle WA" were arrested by authorities in Kenosha, Wisconsin after police suspected that they were "…preparing for criminal activity related to the civil unrest.""
The Trap The Democrats Walked Right Into - "The truth is: even a few minutes of chaos and violence can contain a universe of confusing events, motives and dynamics that are extremely hard to parse immediately. And yet it is the imperative of our current culture that we defend one side as blameless and the other as the source of all evil.In the current chaos, I’ve come to appreciate Marcus Aurelius’s maxim that “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”... Rioting and lawlessness is evil. And any civil authority that permits, condones or dismisses violence, looting and mayhem in the streets disqualifies itself from any legitimacy. This comes first. If one party supports everything I believe in but doesn’t believe in maintaining law and order all the time and everywhere, I’ll back a party that does. In that sense, I’m a one-issue voter, because without order, there is no room for any other issue. Disorder always and everywhere begets more disorder; the minute the authorities appear to permit such violence, it is destined to grow. And if liberals do not defend order, fascists will... This is how violence metastasizes. And as I’ve watched protests devolve over the summer into a series of riots, arson expeditions, and lawless occupations of city blocks, along with disgusting and often racist profanity, I’ve begun to feel similarly. And when I watched the Democratic Convention and heard close to nothing about ending this lawlessness, I noted the silence.I don’t think I’m the only one, as even the Democrats seem now to realize. And this massive blindspot is not hard to understand. When a political party finds itself so wedded to a new and potent ideology it cannot call out violence when it sees it, then it is walking straight into a trap. When the discourse on the left has become one in which scholars and editors and Tweeters vie with one another to up the ante on how inherently evil America has always been, redescribe it as a slaveocracy, and endorse racist books that foment the most egregious stereotypes about “whiteness”, most ordinary people, who love their country and are mostly proud of its past, will rightly balk. One of the most devastating lines in president Trump’s convention speech last night was this: “Tonight, I ask you a very simple question: How can the Democrat Party ask to lead our country when it spends so much time tearing down our country?” A cheap shot, yes. But in the current context, a political bullseye. The key theme of the RNC was reminding people of the American narrative that once was... All this reassurance played out against a backdrop of Kenosha, which was burning, and Minneapolis, where a suicide led to a bout of opportunistic looting, and Washington DC, where mobs of wokesters went through the city chanting obscenities, invading others’ spaces, demanding bystanders raise fists in solidarity, with occasional spasms of violence. These despicable fanatics, like it or not, are now in part the face of the Democrats: a snarling bunch of self-righteous, entitled bigots, chanting slogans rooted in pseudo-Marxist claptrap, erecting guillotines — guillotines! — in the streets as emblems of their agenda. They are not arguing; they are attempting to coerce. And liberals, from the Biden campaign to the New York Times, are too cowardly and intimidated to call out these bullies and expel them from the ranks. Remember the pivotal moment earlier this summer when the New York Times caved to its activist staff and fired James Bennet? It’s no accident this was over an op-ed that argued that if New York City would not stop the rioting in the streets, the feds should step in to restore order. For the far left activists who now control that paper, the imposition of order was seen not as an indispensable baseline for restoring democratic debate, but as a potential physical attack on black staffers. They saw restoring order within the prism of their own critical race ideology, which stipulates that the police are enforcers of white supremacy, and not enforcers of the rule of law in a liberal society. It was a sign that the establishment left were willing to tolerate disorder and chaos if they were directed toward the ideologically correct ends — which is how Democratic establishments in Minneapolis and Seattle and Portland responded. The NYT, CNN and the rest tried to ignore the inexcusable, and find increasingly pathetic ways to dismiss it. This week, their staggering bias was exposed as absurd... As the far left has indiscriminately smeared the police, and promised to abolish or defund them, they have helped Trump co-opt them in a terrifying dynamic. As Trump was eulogizing a murdered policeman, the leftist mob outside was in the midst of a “Fuck The Police” demonstration. If the Dems want to fight an election on that choice — and some do — they’re engaged on a suicide mission. And let’s be frank about this and call this by its name: this is very Weimar. The center has collapsed. Armed street gangs of far right and far left are at war on the streets. Tribalism is intensifying in every nook and cranny of the culture. The establishment right and mainstream left tolerate their respective extremes because they hate each other so much. The pattern is textbook, if you learn anything from history... Biden, let’s face it, is weak and a party man to his core, and has surrendered to the far left at almost every single turn — from abortion to immigration to race. You’d be a fool I think, to believe he could resist their fanaticism in office, or that if he does, he won’t be toast in a struggle to succeed him... He has indeed condemned the riots, with caveats. But at some point, the caveats have to go. And the sooner the better... [The left has] No real power to institute these changes? The 1619 Project is being taught to high school kids as objective truth. Almost every single corporation has adopted critical race theory in its employment practices, and Americans are being forced to read neo-Marxist texts as a condition of employment; all traditional academic disciplines — even math — are now in the process of being “de-colonized”; every Facebook page has a BLM poster on it, along with slogans rooted in critical theory. Every major cultural institution is being re-made along these “social justice” principles, including vast swathes of philanthropy; the best-selling books in the country argue that all inequality between groups is entirely a function of “systemic oppression”; this fall, California voters will decide whether to allow open discrimination on the basis of race... Pointing out the illiberalism on both sides is partly why I am no longer ensconced in the MSM. But I think the job of a writer is not to back one side or the other reflexively, but to analyze the dangers to liberal democracy wherever they come from."
Obama's Ferguson Sellout - "On November 24, 2014, President Obama betrayed the nation. Even as he went on national television to respond to the grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for fatally shooting 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the looting and arson that had followed Brown’s shooting in August were being reprised, destroying businesses and livelihoods over the next several hours. Obama had one job and one job only in his address that day: to defend the workings of the criminal-justice system and the rule of law. Instead, he turned his talk into a primer on police racism and criminal-justice bias. In so doing, he perverted his role as the leader of all Americans and as the country’s most visible symbol of the primacy of the law... Obama couldn’t have stopped November’s violence in Ferguson with his address to the nation. But in casting his lot with those who speciously impugn our criminal-justice system, he increased the likelihood of more such violence in the future."
Prescient.
NPR promotes insane book celebrating looting and riots - "Vicky Osterweil's new book, In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action, is a social justice justification for property damage and theft. This book promoting riots is a number one new release on Amazon, a mega-corporation that benefits every time a local shop gets torched. Osterweil's book is a celebration of looting in the name of anti-racist action directed at dismantling whiteness and property ownership. Speaking to NPR's Natalie Escobar, Osterweil made the point that looting during the course of riots is a redistribution of wealth, not theft, and that property damage, too, is simply a way to reapportion assets which she deems necessary in an unequal society... This is nonviolent, she claims, no one gets hurt, "it's not a home invasion…"The gaslighting Osterweil wants us to believe is that the "mass shoplifting" events we have seen in Seattle, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, New York, Portland, Kenosha, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, DC, and so many other American cities were not undertaken by force... she believes that the term "looting" is racially based because the word comes from a Hindi root. To those who are in the streets committing mass theft, Osterweil attributes the lofty goals of socialist property redistribution towards a more equitable society. And she has no concern, even remotely, for the people who were hurt during the riots and looting.David Dorn died at the hands of looters and his death was live streamed to Facebook. For Osterweil, Dorn’s death was merely collateral damage in service to a greater cause. His family are suffering a deep loss because criminal thieves believed that their right to property was more important than Dorn's right to life. Osterweil says looting attack on white supremacy, because that’s how the social justice left gives authority and credence to all criminal activity in service to their cause. She claims that "Looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police. It gets to the very root of the way those three things are interconnected."She not only justifies the riots and looting, but lauds them for giving people "an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure." This mass destruction of "riots and looting are experienced as sort of joyous and liberatory." We have lived with a basis of morality in the US, one in which parents, black and white, teach their children not to take joy in the misfortune of others. But that is gone. While mainstream media demanded that the public differentiate between protestors and rioters, Osterweil said that this distinction is only made to make the protestors "appear respectable" to white people, to show their movement as "politically viable." It is looting, which she calls "basically nonviolent," however, that "immediately provides" the ability for "poor people who want to live a better life."In part, she claims that this is the case because "Most stores are insured; it's just hurting insurance companies on some level. It's just money. It's just property. It's not actually hurting any people."... This entire sordid story is a perfect encapsulation of what's wrong in American society today. The author is a privileged member of the chattering class. She advocates for the destruction of hard-working Americans’ businesses. Her book is then sold on Amazon, the mega corporation that benefits the most from the destruction of small, independently owned businesses. Right now, the book is a number one new release on Amazon. The people are frustrated and appalled and it has a rating of one star. But it doesn't seem to matter what regular people want. Amazon gets richer and the author gets to continue feeling superior and she smugly advocates for more destruction.Meanwhile, America burns."
Chicago looting proves Black America deserves reparations — here's why - "“When protesters attack high-end retail stores that are owned by the wealthy and service the wealthy, that is not ‘our’ city and has never been meant for us,” Black Lives Matter Chicago said in a statement after the looting. “These protests can only end when the safety and wellbeing of our communities is finally prioritized.”... Chicago’s Black neighborhoods have also been plundered for decades. An analysis of home loans from 2012 through 2018 by NPR affiliate WBEZ and City Bureau, a local journalism nonprofit, found that for every $1 banks loaned in Chicago’s white neighborhoods, they invested 12 cents in the city’s Black neighborhoods. The Chicago Reporter found that in 2005, Black homeowners earning $100,000 or more a year were more likely to get saddled with expensive mortgages than white homeowners earning less than $35,000... According to a 2017 report by nonprofit Prosperity Now, the average white-owned business in Chicago is worth 12 times more than the average Black-owned business; the median yearly income for a Black household in Chicago is less than half that of the median white household; and a third of Black households have a net worth of $0, compared to 15 percent of white households.All of this amounts to a historic pattern of perpetual, systematic looting of Chicago’s Black community. As of Aug. 13, at least 42 people had been charged with felonies in the alleged looting three weeks ago. How many bankers have been charged for stealing from Black families?... In 2020, the operating budget for the Chicago Police Department hit $1.65 billion, the largest police budget in the city’s history. Most of that money is earmarked for salaries and overtime pay for the 13,000 or so sworn Chicago police officers, giving the city more cops per capita than New York or L.A.Yet despite those record numbers, murder rate spiked again this year to levels unseen since the 1990s"
This doesn't even bother with accuations of "redlining" but moves outright to wild accusations of theft
It's amazing gaslighting to attack and undermine the police and then to use the subsequent spike in murders to claim that the police are useless
One example of liberal doublethink and twisted liberal logic is to, when confronted with explicit statements/actions by Black Lives Matter/BLM leaders, to claim that these are only a "minority", which proves the point that the movement is good (ditto for public intellectuals). But of course, just one example of a "Nazi" is enough to condemn everyone to the right of Stalin as deplorable
This Is How Biden Loses - The Atlantic - "Here is a prediction about the November election: If Donald Trump wins, in a trustworthy vote, what’s happening this week in Kenosha, Wisconsin, will be one reason. Maybe the reason... The authorities are overwhelmed and ineffectual, offering little in the way of information or protection. Within a couple of days, much of the small city is a ruined landscape... [Blake's mother] says that her son would not be happy with the damage to his community... Kenosha has placed Democrats in a trap. They’ve embraced the protests and the causes that drive them. The third night of the Democratic convention was consumed with the language and imagery of protest—as if all Americans watching were activists... voters know that the Democrat means it when he denounces police brutality, but less so when he denounces riots... Harris, a Black former prosecutor and now an advocate for police reform, seems uniquely positioned to speak to the crisis. But she has said little all week, which suggests that there might be things she doesn’t want to say... (Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut deleted a tweet saying that both the Blake shooting and the riots were wrong after commenters accused him of equating the two). So Democrats continue to mute their response to the violence and hope it will subside, even though it has persisted straight through the summer... With some exceptions, the media have been reluctant to shine a bright light on the summer’s violence—both the riots and the concurrent spike in violence. The New York Times ignored or downplayed the subject for weeks... After the 2016 election, the Times admitted that it had somehow missed the story, and it earnestly set about at self-correction. Like many other outlets, the paper sent reporters to talk to Americans who had put Trump in the White House. It was a new beat, almost a foreign bureau—heartland reporting—but that focus soon faded as the president’s daily depredations consumed the media’s attention. This election year, news organizations grown more activist might miss the story again, this time on principle—as they avoid stories that don’t support their preferred narrative. Trump supporters are hoping for it."
BLM mob shows up at suspended officers' home, tries to kill him - "If you want an example of how off the rails the war on police has gone, look no further than Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.“Last night, protesters came to my girlfriend’s house while I was there and tried to kill me. I was unarmed and tried to defend m property and the property of my girlfriend. We were both assaulted, punched and ultimately shot at several times.”... Despite the fact that Anderson’s death has already been investigated four times by different entities, that doesn’t seem to be enough for the detractors. Jonathan Cermele, who is representing Mensah said that the Milwaukee Police Department, the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and the Wauwatosa Police Department had all investigated the shooting and found Mensah’s actions to be justified... "The irony in all of this is that they chanted Black Lives Matter the entire time but had zero regard for any of the black children that liver there or me, a black man.”... This is an attempt by Marxist revolutionaries to take control of the narrative and use the so-called “systemic police racism” as a means to emasculate the police.It has gotten to the point where even justified police shootings are no longer an acceptable response for police officers."
America’s ‘mostly peaceful’ riots - "In a remarkable act of woke doublethink, a CNN report has described Black Lives Matter protests in Wisconsin as ‘fiery, but mostly peaceful’, while burnt-out cars and a building in flames were visible in the background. This is not the first time mainstream media outlets have sought to downplay the violence and rioting that has often followed or gone hand in hand with BLM protests. Over the past few months, the US has experienced its worst riots in decades, but this has been largely glossed over. In May, an MSNBC reporter commented on what was apparently ‘mostly a protest’ and ‘not generally speaking unruly’, while standing in front of a burning building.In June, in the UK, the BBC ran an astonishing headline: ‘27 police officers injured during largely peaceful anti-racism protests in London.’These absurd and transparent attempts to downplay the chaos the BLM movement has unleashed show just how devoted to woke identity politics much of the media have become. That journalists are prepared to openly deny obvious truths in this way is a worrying indication of the collapse of impartial reporting. If the violence was committed by right-wing thugs, would they report it in the same way? Thankfully, viewers can see with their own eyes what is really going on"
Charlottesville was a "mostly peaceful" protest. But if anyone dares call it that, liberals will explode
Gavin Newsom Assures Californians Wildfires Are 'Mostly Peaceful' | The Babylon Bee - "Newsom also pointed out that fires were here before humans, and so in a way, we stole the land from fires, and the indigenous infernos are just taking the reparations they are due. "If a peaceful fire approaches your home, do not fight back. That would be racist. Allow it to consume your home -- peacefully, of course -- if you are a true ally of indigenous blazes everywhere.""Just remember -- this is fine.""
Facebook - "Your Privilege Is Showing:
“The history of Nazis holding rallies in left-wing areas of Weimar Germany, instigating street fights, and then telling the press that only they could save Germany from the "violent communists" seems like an important thing for people to be studying right now.”"
Amazing gaslighting. Strange how there have been riots for months in multiple cities in multiple states before that one "rally"...
FactCheck: did Israeli secret service teach Floyd police to kneel on neck? - "Amnesty International told the New Statesman: “the precise nature of the training offered to US police forces by Israeli officials is not something we’ve documented”.They added: “Allegations that US police were taught tactics of ‘neck kneeling’ by Israeli secret services is not something we’ve ever reported”... Micky Rosenfield, the national spokesman for Israeli police, tweeted on 9 June: “There is no procedure that allows an officer of the Israel police dept to carry out an arrest by placing a knee on the neck of a suspect.”... The conference hosted by the Israeli consulate for US police officers took place in July 2012. We’ve seen evidence that “neck restraints” involving an officer’s leg were permitted by Minneapolis Police in 2010, and perhaps even as early as 2002... In the Independent interview, Ms Peake says the training was conducted by “Israeli secret services”.According to Minnesota Public Radio, the 2012 conference was led by “top-notch professionals from the Israeli police”, including a “police chief” and a “bomb tech specialist”. There is no mention of “secret services” in their report... Israeli forces are not unique in offering training sessions to American officers.In 2015, a delegation of US law enforcement officials travelled to Scotland for classes on nonviolent policing... other countries, including the UK and Germany, have also run training and exchange schemes with American officers."
Jews are "white" anyway, so anti-white racism becomes anti-Semitism easily
Media Shamelessly Advances 'Trump's America' Lie From Biden Campaign - "For months, the national media has largely ignored the sustained violent activism plaguing Democrat-run cities. When they do cover these events, it's portrayed the same way Democratic lawmakers—and the Biden campaign—have chosen to describe them: as "peaceful protests."But after four effective days of coverage from the Republican National Convention (RNC), shining a spotlight on what's actually happening, suddenly Democrats are striking a different tone.Now, the Biden-Harris ticket, along with their surrogates, claim the violence in Portland, Kenosha, Seattle, Chicago and the nation's capital are President Donald Trump's fault. This is happening, they argue, in "Trump's America."... Literally all of the sustained rioting and other violence has occured in Democrat-run cities. The federal government does not have jurisdiction to always send in the feds to wander rioting streets and quell the civil unrest. If Trump did always have such authority and if he acted upon it, he'd be called a fascist. Indeed, Democrats already call him just that. Trump has offered help many times to cities and states that are dealing with these issues.In Portland, feckless Mayor Ted Wheeler bragged about smugly rejecting Trump's assistance in an August 28 letter that he posted to Twitter. He told the president, "We don't need your politics of division and demagoguery." That night, activists gained entry into Wheeler's condo, where they occupied the lobby. The next night, after trying to forcibly stop Trump supporters from protesting, a man in a conservative Patriot Front hat was shot to death.This is Trump's fault?After the president's RNC speech, mobs of far-left activists harassed and assaulted cops and conservatives leaving the White House. Other mobs spent Saturday night harassing D.C. diners who are supporting restaurants struggling to stay open amidst a pandemic... His offers of help have been met with insidious claims that Trump is really just practicing a dry-run for martial law, in the event he were to lose the election. And the media has been there to dutifully forward that dangerous claim. To be fair to national outlets, not everyone got the memo that Biden-Harris is shifting from "peaceful protests" to "Trump's America." Naturally, there will be some lag and confusion... When Trump has gotten involved, there have been results. That is Trump's America. After a deadly night in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Governor Tony Evers finally accepted Trump's offer of help. The result? Peaceful protests and a mayor who credited federal law enforcement for its help. But it's not just about federal law enforcement. It's about prosecutions.Many areas, including Portland and Seattle, have local prosecutors who seldom prosecute crimes associated with anarchist criminal activism. Under the Department of Justice (DOJ), U.S. attorneys have stepped up. In Seattle alone, there have been five recent federal charges (two in the last week) brought against criminal rioters in a county and city that almost never prosecutes activist crimes... Voters are smart enough to realize that Trump and Republicans were virtually the only ones decrying the rioting, looting, property destruction and murder. Biden-Harris and almost every Democratic politician completely ignored it. The few who didn't—like Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA)—encouraged more unrest. As for the media? It pretended it wasn't happening even as the American people saw endless footage on social media"
Facebook - "Steve Horwitz: Destroying a small business is akin to destroying an artist's studio, a scholar's library, or a chef's kitchen. It is not just a matter of the loss of material goods, and insurance isn't the point. It's a loss of the space in which they make meaning in their lives and for others, and in which their life projects are pursued. It is primarily the critics, and not the defenders, of markets who can only see economic activity in material terms, and that is one of their great failings." When you consider that the Communists want private enterprise destroyed so the government can take over everything, you understand why they cheer the destruction of small buinesses
Jason Howerton on Twitter - "The left has created a monster that they have lost complete control of... I never thought I'd see people chanting "death to America" in the streets of America."
Of course, we are still told that liberals don't hate their countries
Police helicopter hit with LASERS by rioters is forced to make emergency landing with crew member hospitalized - "The helicopter had been circling in Washington D.C. on Saturday evening when the chopper was hit by a laser, leading one of the crew to be admitted to hospital due to vision loss in one eye. Washington DC was just one city which saw unrest on Saturday.A video released yesterday showed a demonstrator encouraging crowds to "burn down the White House"... He said he wants to "take the fight" to senators and members of Congress – and if they "don't hear us," they will "burn them the f**k down."The organizer said he "f**ks cops up" in different cities where demonstrations are held."
Facebook - "Sargon of Akkad:
"Trump's efforts to label what is happening in major cities as "riots" speaks at least somewhat to his desperation, politically speaking, at the moment"
"There is literally a burning building in your post CNN.""
Police investigate White Lives Matter banner flown over Burnley game as thug ‘behind idiotic stunt’ is unmasked - "POLICE today announced they would investigate after a "White Lives Matter" banner was flown over their clash against Manchester City - as a thug claiming to be behind the stunt was today unmasked... Lancashire Police Chief Supt Russ Procter confirmed they were investigating if a criminal offence had taken place.He said: "We recognise that this banner will have caused offence to many people in Lancashire and beyond"... He could face a racially-aggravated public order offence related to the message. Such offence carries a maximum of two years in prison."
Equality is discrimination
Burnley fan Jake Hepple SACKED by engineering firm over ‘White Lives Matter’ banner flown over Etihad - "Jake Hepple, 24, has had his employment at engineering firm Paradigm Precision terminated after police said "no criminal offences" were committed by his stunt... "The police told me that I haven't committed any crime and haven't done anything wrong."In fact, they asked me if I was OK and wanted any protection, just in case people try to target me.""
Bids to demolish riot-damaged buildings stun property owners - "Like dozens of other investors whose properties were severely damaged in the May riots, the Kim family was stunned to discover that the money it would collect from its insurance company for demolition won’t come close to the actual costs of doing the job. Most policies limit reimbursement to $25,000 to $50,000, but contractors have been submitting bids of $200,000 to $300,000. In many cases, the price of the work is not much lower than the actual value of the property, records show... Contractors acknowledge that prices for riot-related work are far higher than usual, but they said that is because government regulations require them to treat all debris from a burned-out building as hazardous. Industry veteran Don Rachel said those rules can double demolition costs... Demolition costs are so high that many rebuilding projects remain stuck in neutral, leaving large sections of Minneapolis and St. Paul with scorched buildings and piles of rubble that will linger for months.“It’s been a big barrier to getting the street cleaned up,” said Allison Sharkey, executive director of the Lake Street Council. “I am becoming really concerned that people who want to reinvest won’t be able to.”... Islam decided to move forward on a $125,000 bid; insurance will cover just $50,000 of those costs.“Our neighborhood looks like a war zone,” Islam said. “As a property owner, it is my moral responsibility to somehow get it done.”The move will leave him with almost no money for rebuilding. Most of the money he got from his policy went to pay off his mortgage.Other immigrant property owners are facing the same situation"
Damn racism preventing rebuilding! Insurance covers everything!