Asia reacts to Johnson & Johnson skin-whitening creams’ withdrawal: ‘pure racism … our rights are being infringed’ - "Johnson & Johnson has decided to stop selling skin-whitening creams popular in Asia and the Middle East, after such products have come under renewed social pressure in recent weeks amid a global debate about racial inequality. The company will stop selling its Clean & Clear fairness line of products, sold in India, a spokeswoman told Reuters. It was reported earlier this month that it would drop its Neutrogena Fine Fairness line, available in Asia and the Middle East. Reactions to Johnson & Johnson’s decision on social media ranged from the incredulous to the supportive. “Pure racism and sexism towards Asian women. Our rights as [an] ethnic minority are being infringed [upon],” wrote a commenter based in Hong Kong. “Her body her choice,” wrote a social media user on Twitter, while another said: “A disgrace. If people want to buy them, they have a right to do it.”"
'Anti-Racist' Tech CEO 'Beaten to Death by Black Male Career Criminal Who Was Released Early From Prison by Soros-Funded D.A. on Good-Time Credits' - "EcoMap Technologies CEO Pava Marie LaPere, a self-described "anti-racist" and Black Lives Matter supporter who spoke out against the "criminalization of Black bodies," was allegedly beaten to death in her own home in Baltimore on Monday by a black male who was released early from prison under the criminal justice reform policies she championed... Billingsley was released early on "good-time credits" under Soros-funded State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, the Baltimore Banner reports, citing parole commission Chairman David R. Blumberg... Though police are not stating it outright, the implication appears to be that she was raped in addition to murdered. LaPere touted her anti-racist bonafides on her Instagram. "EcoMap Technologies stand against systemic racism, bigotry, and a police state that criminalizes Black bodies," LaPere wrote. "We stand in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, now and always. We commit to being anti-racist in all aspects of what we do ... We encourage all other startups to speak out and do the same."... "[Delali Dzirasa, founder and CEO of Fearless] said LaPere had recently hit a personal milestone in her company: hiring 50% people of color and 50% women.""
Jason Billingsley, suspected of killing Forbes '30 Under 30' tech CEO Pava LaPere, 26, linked to knifepoint sex attack a WEEK earlier: 6ft 4, 305lb ex-con was let out despite history of sex offenses and violent crimes - "The prime suspect in the brutal murder of Baltimore tech CEO Pava LaPere may have struck days earlier in a knifepoint sex assault and arson attack that left two people fighting for their lives, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal. Police issued an arrest warrant for Jason Billingsley on Tuesday afternoon along with a stark warning to the public that the convicted sex offender, 32, has a history of rape and violence... The 6ft 4, 305lbs suspect had been jailed for 30 years in 2015, was set free in October 2022 - just nine years into his sentence. It is unclear why he was released so swiftly. LaPere was found dead on Monday morning at her Baltimore apartment with blunt force injuries that one veteran officer described to DailyMail.com as 'absolutely brutal – some of the worst I've seen.' Announcing the warrant for Billingsley's capture, Acting Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said the 'repeat violent offender' is a suspect in 'at least one other case,' without elaborating... Billingsley has a long criminal history, dating back to 2009 when he was arrested for robbery and assault in the second degree. He was arrested in 2011, and again in 2013, for multiple charges to include sex offense, 2nd degree assault charges and robbery. In 2015 he was given a 30-year prison sentence, with all but 14 years suspended, and served time at Maryland Correctional Institution in Hagerstown... Mosby is no longer the DA in Baltimore, having been replaced in January 2023 by Ivan Bates, who reversed her non-prosecution policy for low-level offenses like drug possession, prostitution, and trespassing on his first day in office. Mosby ran her reelection campaign on her record of reducing the population behind bars, holding police officers accountable for their actions, and reviewing convictions for potential exoneration. She fired a long list of veteran prosecutors upon taking office, including a 20-year veteran in the middle of an armed robbery trial against a violent repeat offender. She instead hired young, inexperienced lawyers to fill the posts.. In January 2022, Mosby was indicted on federal charges of perjury and making false mortgage applications, having allegedly made false applications to withdraw retirement money to purchase a vacation home in Florida"
Court Docs Reveal 'Extreme' Public Pressure on Prosecutors in George Floyd Case - "New court documents expose the “extreme pressure” prosecutors faced in Hennepin County to charge Derek Chauvin and three other former Minneapolis police officers in the death of George Floyd. Several attorneys opposed charging the “other three” officers and withdrew from the case due to “professional and ethical rules.” Now, hundreds of pages of sworn testimony of Hennepin County attorneys and other county employees that took place this summer have been made public... “He felt like our decision in Chauvin ruined him and ruined the office,” he continued. “He didn’t say those exact words to me … I know he was incredibly angry with me.”... “He called me later in the day on that Tuesday and he told me that there were no medical findings that showed any injury to the vital structures of Mr. Floyd’s neck. There were no medical indications of asphyxia or strangulation,” Sweasy said, according to the transcript. “He said to me, ‘Amy, what happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on?’ And then he said, ‘This is the kind of case that ends careers.’”"
Bodycam video released in fatal police shooting of exonerated man in Georgia - "The Camden County, Georgia, Sheriff's Office on Wednesday released the dashboard camera and body camera footage of the fatal police shooting of 53-year-old Leonard Allan Cure. Cure was wrongfully convicted of armed robbery in 2003 and was exonerated in 2020 after spending 16 years in prison... When Cure steps out of the vehicle, the video shows, Aldridge tells Cure to "put his hands back here," to which Cure responds, "I ain't doing s--t." Aldridge continues to tell Cure to put his hands on the back of Cure's truck, and Cure asks: "Who are you?" After a back-and-forth about who the two of them are, Aldridge says: "Step back here now or you're getting Tased." In the footage, Cure can be seen lifting his hands up and moving toward the back of the vehicle at the officer's instruction. Aldridge can be heard telling Cure to put both hands on the back of the vehicle, and then to turn around. Dashboard camera footage shows Cure with his hands on the back of the vehicle; when asked to turn around, he turns his head and upper body toward the car. Cure asks him, "Your name is officer who?" and the officer responds with his name and county. The officer, who can be seen holding Cure with one hand and holding his stun gun in another, tells him to put his hands behind his back, to which Cure can be heard responding: "Do I have a warrant? Wait -- wait, no, no, no," as Aldridge grabs one of Cure's arms and pushes on his back. Aldridge can be heard in the video saying, "Put your hands behind your back or you're getting Tased." Cure responds: "Why? Why am I getting Tased?" Aldridge responds: "Because you are under arrest for speeding and reckless driving." Cure says, "I'm not driving. Nobody was hurt. How was I speeding?" Aldridge then says, "You passed me doing 100 miles an hour." Cure responds, "OK, so that's a speeding ticket, right?" Aldridge says, "Sir, tickets in the state of Georgia are criminal offenses," to which Cure responds: "I don't have a ticket in Georgia." The two argue back and forth, video shows, with Cure's hands appearing to still be placed on the back of the truck. Cure then says, "I'm not going to jail," to which Aldridge responds, "Yes, you're going to jail." Cure lifts an arm up and Aldridge then uses his stun gun against Cure, video shows. As Cure is hit with the stun gun, Aldridge continues to ask Cure to put his hand behind his back, the video shows. Cure turns around and approaches Aldridge. The two then engage in a physical altercation. After a brief struggle between the two, where Aldridge tries to use his baton, Cure appears to push back and holds down Aldridge's face, saying "yeah, b---h." Aldridge appears to pull out his gun and shoots Cure... "My brother was an exceptional individual. He did not harm anyone. In fact, after being wrongfully convicted for 16 years, you know what he did? He forgave the idiots that locked him up," his brother Michael Cure said. "Seventeen years of no Christmases with him, no Thanksgivings with him, no birthdays with him thanks to this injustice in this country." He continued, "It's so sad that this is what we have to endure as a Black man, still worried daily when I'm driving."... "From the time that he was released, he was never set free," his mother, Mary Cure, said. "I would live in constant fear every time the phone rang and he wasn't home -- even if he was at work. Is this gonna be the day that they're going to lock him up, beat him up or kill him?""
Clearly, police officers do not have the right to defend themselves when attacked by criminals, since that would be acting as judge, jury and executioner
Naturally the media is spreading fake news as usual
Meme - "SPLC Mourns Death of Leonard Cure, Renews Call for Reimagining of Policing in America
"Reimagining of Policing" *Leonard Cure assaulting police officer*"
Authorities ID man found dead in Minneapolis pawn shop burned in riots - "According to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office, 30-year-old Oscar Lee Stewart Jr. of Burnsville died of "probable inhalation of combustion and thermal injury". The report states the building was set on fire intentionally and ruled Stewart's death a homicide."
From 2020
Of course, there was nothing wrong with "Woke Kristallnacht of 2020" because damaging property isn't violence
Wilfred Reilly on X - "Probably THE academic responsible for the narrative that "systemic racism" infests US police departments just got fired for "incompetence" and falsifying most of his data. No further comment.
It's worth noting, as @ConceptualJames did today, that the "Racial Reckoning" was based ~totally on flat-out lies. The "police genocide," "white-on-Black crime," "Karen," Mike Brown/Ferguson, Trayvon Martin, Jussie Smollett, Yasmin Seweid, Jacob Blake, Canadian Mass Graves, etc story-lines were literally just fiction. You can arrrrgue the George Floyd narrative survived, but about 95% of what people were rioting over was made up out of whole cloth by hustlers. This needs to be tackled honestly."
On Eric Stewart
i/o on X - "A reminder that there have been some weekends in Chicago over the past few years in which more black people were shot and killed by other black people than unarmed black people were shot and killed by police across the entire country in the entire year prior to the BLM riots."
Healey regrets 2020 comment on ‘how forests grow’ - "ON JUNE 2, 2020, eight days after the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, Attorney General Maura Healey gave a speech to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce in which she focused on the lack of progress in addressing racial inequality and the storm of protests churned up by the killing. As she ended her remarks, Healey offered a metaphor for the racial reckoning the country was confronting. “Yes, America is burning, but that’s how forests grow,” she told her audience over Zoom."
Following littering accusation, arrest of 4 teen girls in Hot Springs turns violent - "The chaotic arrest of four teenage girls on Halloween night in Hot Springs turned violent after a cop observed one of the teens littering just minutes before. According to a police statement and body camera video released Friday, the four girls were walking along Park Avenue near Glade Street just before 7:30 p.m. when an officer saw one of them "intentionally throw a beverage can out into the street."... Video shows the girls become confrontational as the officer grabs the jacket of the girl who keeps getting closer to him to move her out of the way... "All of the teens refused to contact their mothers and became increasingly aggressive, cursing, and using slurs and foul language toward him," police said in their release. "Multiple times he warned them against encroaching into his personal space and told them to stay back." May is then seen pushing the girls away from him as they get closer to him. One of the girls then throws another object at him, the video shows. "Back the f**k off of me," May yells while stepping away from the group. "Get the f**k back." One of the girls seen in a black coat is seen attempting to grab, push, and make other physical contact with the officer. At that point, May is seen pushing one of the girls out of the way before tackling the girl in the black coat. "When he does, the other three girls all begin to physically assault him, hitting him about the head and neck area," police described. "He gets back up to his feet and begins to defend himself against the assault and this is when other officers arrive on scene." The backup officers arrive and immediately take the other teens to the ground, video shows. One of the girls is seen struggling to breathe during the chaos, citing an asthma attack, and police called for medical services. Authorities said all girls were taken into custody and charged with second-degree battery."
Of course, police do not have the right to self defence because they are public servants
Meme - Reddit Lies @reddit_lies: "Nooo you can't call out black gangs! You can only criticize the KKK!"
"If the guys attacking the kkk member are actually bloods, im willing to bet they've committed more violent crimes against African Americans than that kkk member has."
"When's your next Klan meeting?"
"your not wrong but he still deserved it"
"Yes, the kkk are a bunch of shit talking bitches, I agree."
Ted Cruz Puts Coca-Cola on Blast After Company Attempts to Hide Massive BLM Donation - "the company recently scrubbed its website of any mention of a $500,000 Sprite donation to Black Lives Matter in 2020 after social media pages affiliated with the group recently expressed support for Hamas following the barbaric Oct. 7 terror attacks against Israel."
Em on X - "Lots of schools took a very strong stance on BLM & narratives even though BLM is a Marxist political action committee which not everybody wants to join. Somehow schools didn't think BLM was complex enough to stay neutral. Now, schools have anti-cop BLM steering committees."
On Hamas and Gaza
Meme - ""I WANT TO PLAY A GAME"
"... YOU TRIED TO BUY A BANANA WITH A COUNTERFEIT BILL... WHAT YOU FEEL ENTERING YOUR SYSTEM RIGHT NOW IS FENTANYL, IN ORDER TO SURVIVE YOU MUST SURRENDER TO THE AUTHORITIES PEACEFULLY. HOWEVER, IF YOU RESIST ARREST & SUCCUMB TO A OUT YOUR ELEVATED HEART RATE MIXED WITH THE COCKTAIL OF DEADLY NARCOTICS FLOWING THROUGH YOUR VEINS WILL TRIGGER A CARDIAC ARREST AND YOUR DEATH. THE CHOICE IS YOURS. LIVE OR DIE""
Yes, This Is a Revolution - "We tend not to recognize the revolution for what it is—first of all because it seems to lack a proper paramilitary element. Popular notions of insurgency involve images of AK-47s, organized bands of armed men, and the general flavor of war. But in truth, the current revolution has drifted much further into this territory than the media care to admit. The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), the anarchist territory formerly established in Seattle, boasted a provisional armed “security” force. Weeks after CHAZ was dismantled, Seattle police responding to a riot uncovered a cache of weapons including explosives, bear spray, spike strips, and Tasers. Antifa members not only routinely dress in similar black garb but have come to rely on a crude but dangerous arsenal of improvised fire bombs, fireworks, rocks, bricks, and frozen water bottles. In New York, three rioters were arrested for throwing Molotov cocktails at police vehicles. Revolutionaries in cities around the country have shown up to “protests” with rifles and assorted arms. The revolution lacks martial discipline but not a body count. Three weeks in, some 20 people had been killed during riots alone. The number has climbed steadily since. Within the brief life of Seattle’s CHAZ, there were four shootings and two deaths. You can add to these the hundreds dead (overwhelmingly African-American) in major cities due to new policing restrictions. And this is to say nothing of the multitude of nonfatal injuries, including hundreds suffered by law enforcement. Among these is the likely permanent blinding of three federal agents in Portland whose eyes were targeted with high-power lasers. The cost of revolutionary violence in destroyed property and ruined livelihoods has been gargantuan, somewhere in the billions of dollars and climbing ever higher. And if you don’t think vandalism is a sufficiently revolutionary act, you’d do well to note that the term “vandalism” itself was coined during the French Revolution to describe the ruination of the country at the hands of the sans culottes. But more important than all this, a revolution should not be understood as synonymous with an armed insurgency. It is the transformation of popular ideas and beliefs and, most important, of a country’s national character that marks the advent of revolution. The French Revolution was inaugurated by the non-violent creation of the National Assembly, years before the Terror. The Russian Revolution was preceded by 12 days of protests kicked off by a Women’s Day March. By clinging to the colorful notions of revolution in our shared imagination, we dangerously underestimate the significance of what has transpired in the U.S. this summer... It mattered not at all that in 2019, police nationwide had killed 15 unarmed black people in a country that 42 million blacks call home. Nor did it matter that multiple studies have shown that police are decidedly trigger-shy when confronting unarmed black suspects. In revolution, symbolism trumps reality. On July 14, 1789, when the French stormed the Bastille, the foremost symbol of Bourbon persecution, they found exactly seven political prisoners inside. The erroneous charge against police has been a popular argument since 2013, when Black Lives Matter was formed... In China, few dared criticize violent Red Guard gangs for fear of seeming unsympathetic to the revolution. In the United States, rioters are furnished with every excuse the elite can muster. And the broad acceptance of the revolution in liberal institutions has resulted in a widespread pressure campaign of accusation, confession, and reeducation. Mao sought to eradicate what he labeled the Four Olds: old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas—the established mental life of the country. Our own pressure campaign is shaped by similar goals. The revolutionaries have deemed American customs, culture, habits, and ideas racist. And instead of Mao’s Little Red Book to guide them in the ways of the proletariat, they have Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility, which shows them all the hidden places where racism is to be found and rooted out... “White feelings,” “white silence,” “white fragility”—these are quotes from a government document. The entire process mimics the notorious Maoist struggle sessions... In revolutions, however, the purpose of confession is not to elicit forgiveness but to further the purge... For those not being re-educated by the state or canceled by the media mob, that is, for ordinary low-profile Americans, there are other channels of coercion. In the New York Times, writer Chad Sanders recommends interfamilial blackmail. In a June 5 op-ed, he suggested to white people: “[Send] texts to your relatives and loved ones telling them you will not be visiting them or answering phone calls until they take significant action in supporting black lives either through protest or financial contributions.” This, too, is straight out of the Cultural Revolution, during which Chinese were compelled to shun and turn against any family members with even the most remote connections to the wrong ideas... as more Americans endure the noxious consequences of the unraveling, elected officials responsive to their needs will be compelled to change course. Let us not forget that after the immediate upheavals of the 1960s, busing, quotas, and spiking crime all came under attack by the American public—despite an elite atmosphere that sought to discredit the response as an explosion of racist rage. Even with the strength of that criticism, busing was ended, the use of quotas in hiring was curtailed, and punishment for criminal action became tougher."
From 2020. It's only dangerous and unacceptable to be armed if the left disapproves
Did Portland Protesters Burn Bibles and American Flags? | Snopes.com - "Rating: True"
Weird. I thought burning books was wrong and something only the right did
Activist admits assaulting bar manager following melee outside club - "Black Lives Matter activist Taylor McNallie pleaded guilty Wednesday to a single charge of assault after several staff members from a Beltline nightclub testified they were attacked by her... an agitated McNallie had to be escorted from the club after she became angry the club’s Asian DJ was playing music in which the N-word was used. And once outside Malik said McNallie uttered racist comments towards him, calling him a name derogatory to Pakistanis. But following her sentencing, McNallie, a staunch anti-racism proponent, vehemently denied making the comments. “It was a very interesting thing to hear. Racial slurs were not said from my end,” McNallie told Postmedia. “Obviously when I’m speaking out against racism all day every day of my life it’s kind of … it’s definitely a shock to hear that,” she said. During cross-examination by Haggerty, Malik insisted he was called by the slur and denied knowing who McNallie was, or her standing in the community as a Black activist, at the time of the altercation. “You told her that you knew who she was … and then you told her that she was the racist and the terrorist,” Haggerty suggested. “I didn’t say that,” Malik replied. The witness said when he was called the derogatory name he told McNallie she was being a racist and she came up to him and slapped him in the face... Bar manager Brad Drobot testified he attended the scene after the initial altercation ended and went up to McNallie with a hand extended to shake hers when he was slapped in the face. McNallie, 32, pleaded guilty to assaulting Drobot... McNallie is currently awaiting sentencing on a charge she assaulted an off-duty sheriff with a megaphone during a protest outside the Calgary Courts Centre over the light sentence handed a Calgary police officer who body-slammed a handcuffed Black woman to the floor."
Time to ban rap, since it is racist
The new inequality - The Spectator World - "The question ‘How can the black community dismantle a problem that they didn’t create?’ has a number of obvious responses. For many people that includes the claim that America’s current problems were not created by black people, they were created by white people. Since that is an assumption which is doing very well these days, it is also an assumption that we ought to interrogate. For even if we agree on what ‘the problem’ is, or was, there is a rejoinder waiting to raise its ugly little head. Which is that if black people are not to blame, neither are white people. Because there is not a person alive today, white or black, who can be said to have any serious culpability for any great evils you can identify in America’s past. And to play the game of apportioning blame by hereditary characteristics is to enter the same territory that makes the idea of reparations such a nonstarter. Which is that at this stage we are not even talking about a vast wealth transfer from one group of people who are alleged to have benefited to another group alleged to have suffered. What we are talking about is the suggested transfer of funds from people who look like people who did something in the past to other people who look like the people to whom the thing was done. If anyone honestly thinks that will lead to racial harmony then I should like to hear from them... It is a version of the ethic which emerged three years ago with the #MeToo movement. In that case, the calculus was that women had suffered and were suffering still, and so men — as a sex — should apologize for past behavior and otherwise make up for, and improve, their behavior. When the #MeToo movement overreached, as it did very quickly (going for people who had been on bad dates and circulating anonymously compiled lists of alleged wrongdoers), there was considerable support for actions that should have been condemned. At the height of the #MeToo overreach, when some brave voices (particularly women’s) were beginning to get nervous, one female CNN presenter even said on air that she was fine with it: ‘We’re due an overcorrection.’ Events of recent weeks appear to be another attempt at American overcorrection. This time the idea is that if a specific group has suffered an inequality then another group, perceived to have perpetrated the inequality, should abase themselves for a period in order that the moral barometer should afterwards right itself and become level. Overdoing it is part of the point... Watching the scenes of nightly protest, rioting, violence and looting, it was striking to see just what many Americans were allowing people to get away with in the name of righting a historic wrong. The networks were almost uniformly unwilling to identify and condemn these actions outright. When the headquarters of CNN in Atlanta was attacked by a mob, the network still didn’t seem able to find it in itself to condemn the assault. Ordinarily, when somebody or his or her place of work is attacked, it is not deemed healthy for the victim to find excuses (such as ‘frustration’ or ‘a sense of not being heard’) for the attacker. But in this case, staying silent or not objecting to the further immiseration of America, city after city, was viewed as a price that it was necessary to pay — part of the grand swing into overreach that would inevitably at some given point allow the needle to settle back at true equality. Of course there are whole conferences to be held on the unhealthiness of this attitude toward racial politics. But America appears to be more than up for the idea that race and racism are a zero-sum game in which for one group to benefit another group must suffer. So it is that almost absent from the debate of recent weeks have been people of any skin color willing to raise the fact that the racism of which so many protesters are complaining is alleged to be ‘systemic’ in districts with black mayors and black police chiefs... white Americans have become deeply fearful of saying anything about black Americans, and specifically that they have become strangely terrified of ever saying anything that any black American would deem wrong. But here is the thing, as Weinstein put it: ‘If I can’t tell you that you’re wrong, you’re not my equal.’... Whenever I see the new slogans about ‘whiteness’ or even that unopposed one ‘Black Lives Matter’, I am reminded of Vaclav Havel’s store owner. Havel’s description (in ‘The Power of the Powerless’) is of a store owner forced by the state to have signs like ‘Workers of the World Unite’ in his shop window. He does not need to agree with the slogan, but in order to continue in business he must keep it there. For this to be possible the slogan must be very specific. It must be one of ‘disinterested conviction’, which allows the store owner to say ‘What’s wrong with the workers of the world uniting?’ It must, in other words, allow him some apparently logical mental escape from the lie he’s made complicit in and the demeaning situation in which he finds himself. Everybody knows why the slogan hangs there, and knows that if it didn’t, the shopkeeper would be in trouble. And this ends up making the sign not just a visible demonstration of the ease with which store owners can be subjugated but a daily reminder to the store owner of his subjugation. He will grow to hate the slogan he is expected to proclaim. The slogans of our era are all around us"