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Bart Simp writes on board"
When the aim is not to persuade but intimidate
The Helen Keller You Didn't Learn About in School - "However, to some Black disability rights activists, like Anita Cameron, Helen Keller is not radical at all, “just another, despite disabilities, privileged white person,” and yet another example of history telling the story of privileged white Americans"
Mary Vought on Twitter - "You’ve got to be kidding me. The woke mob is now going after Helen Keller for being white. Nevermind the advancements she worked to achieve for those with disabilities."
Chef Stephanie Izard Apologizes for ‘Bibimbap’ Photo on Instagram - "A fellow Chicago chef is once again accusing Top Chef alum Stephanie Izard (Girl & the Goat, Duck Duck Goat, Cabra) of irresponsible cultural appropriation after she posted a recipe for bibimbap earlier this week on Instagram. A photo posted Thursday using Izard’s social media handle showed a bowl with beef and topped with cilantro and mint... In response to Izard’s post, Kim posted an essay on Facebook Friday morning sharing his experiences as an immigrant growing up poor in a small apartment in West Rogers Park. He wrote that he encountered racism, enduring taunts for bringing Korean food to school and while grilling food during picnics in the park. Food gave Kim a sense of pride that he couldn’t celebrate publicly until the white mainstream accepted Koreans... the dish was a mix between a Japanese beef bowl and a Korean bibimbap: “It’s not intended to be an authentic interpretation of either dish. This is my interpretation/homage.”That latter assertion follows the same train of thought Izard offered when she was asked about appropriation before opening Cabra, her Peruvian rooftop restaurant that debuted in April 2019. “I’m not trying to be authentic in any shape or form,” Izard told Eater Chicago. “I’m not Peruvian, I don’t think I can make Peruvian food as well as anyone in Peru.” Later that same year, Mexican-American chef Jonathan Zaragoza (El Oso) criticized Izard when she opened a taco stand at the United Center. Zaragoza questioned how whether, if Izard could land a lucrative deal making tacos at the arena, a Latinx taco maker could find the same opportunities."
White people are not allowed to innovate while cooking food from other cultures. All the Asian immigrants who bastardised their native cuisines need to be condemned too
I thought Asians weren't considered BIPOC
CNN slammed for describing killing of Uber Eats driver an 'accident': 'So dishonest' - "CNN was slammed for using the word "accident" in a tweet reporting on the killing of an Uber Eats driver that was reportedly carried out by two teenage girls.“This is called homicide. The man was killed during the commission of a violent crime,” former New York Police Department Commissioner Bernard Kerik tweeted. His tweet was in response to a CNN post reading, “Police said the girls, 13 and 15, assaulted an Uber Eats driver with a Taser while carjacking him, which led to an accident in which he was fatally injured.”"
John Cardillo on Twitter - "If the two DC carjacking killers were white teens, we'd have their entire social media history, that of their parents, and we'd know that their great great great grandparents once bought something from a guy whose third cousin's wife's second cousin once owned slaves."
"The fact that so little has been reported about these killers by CNN, we can safely say they can’t be white. Without slightest hindrance of “racism” being called by CNN now tells us the complete story. It’s well understood. When CNN’s silent it now tells us everything"
Uber Eats driver ejected from car and killed during carjacking by two teenage girls in DC - "In the video, a black female in an orange hoodie can be seen struggling with the driver before the car speeds off. After the crash, a black female in a gray shirt is pulled from the car by what appears to be military personnel, and the driver can be seen lying on the sidewalk several feet away from the flipped car... The victim has been identified as 66-year-old Mohammad Anwar, a father and grandfather who was originally from Pakistan."
The Progressive Stack!
Meme - "Disgusting lack of diversity *All-black female track athletes*"
"Run faster then."
Ironic.
James Lindsay - Posts | Facebook - "Since zero women & zero people of color weighed in on US constitution when it was written, I assume it may occasionally need a few updates."
"You need to know what they're after. This woman (who is literally never funny) isn't joking here.Start taking them seriously. Now. Not later."
Meme - "Red Giant ~ Indigenous Star of Size
Binary Star - FIRST OF ALL HOW DARE YOU
White Dwarf - Racist Little Person
Sombrero Galaxy - Cesar Chavez Galaxy
Black Hole - Incredibly dense region of color
Klingons - Austere religious scholars
Uranus - *Tee hee hee*
Milky Way - Soy Milky Way
Spaceship - Vehicle of evil human colonizers of space
Xenomorphs - Peaceful protesters
NASA Guide to More Inclusive Space Terms"
Portland school fears 'Evergreens' mascot tied to lynching - "The adoption of a new mascot for Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School was put on pause, after concerns about potential connotations of lynching. After adopting a new namesake earlier this year, the Southwest Portland high school also wants to ditch its Trojan mascot. A committee comprised of students, staff and community members suggested the evergreens as the school's new mascot. "Evergreens are characterized by the life-giving force of their foliage, the strength of their massive trunk, and the depth of their roots—in an individual tree and as a forest of trees," Ellen Whatmore, a teacher and mascot committee member at Wells-Barnett High School said, reading from a resolution. "They provide shelter and sustenance. They have histories that preclude us and will continue in perpetuity after we are no more." But just before the Portland Public Schools Board of Education's vote to approve the new mascot Tuesday, March 30, Director Michelle DePass shared community concerns of an unwanted correlation between Ida B. Wells—the historic Black activist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who documented and crusaded against lynching—and a tree which could conjure up reminders of hanging people with ropes from branches... Osborne said the committee's idea of the evergreen "had nothing to do with the horrible history of lynching in the United States." "Lynching tress typically are not evergreens," he added, saying deciduous trees with large, lower branches were typically used to hang Black people in the south. The conversation was enough to give the board pause. DePass suggested the school committee reach out to Wells-Barnett's family to make sure they saw no issue with the potential mascot. She also implored her colleagues to weigh in. "Lynching is a really difficult topic to talk about and as a sole Black board member, I invite you, beg you, implore you to join me in disrupting the situations, practices, that are racist. I can't do this by myself," she said."
Might as well get rid of a mascot just to see what new nonsense the virtue signallers come up with
'Worst Cooks in America' winner charged in murder tweeted about white privilege - "The “Worst Cooks in America” winner charged with killing her three-year-old daughter had tweeted about her adopted kids’ “white privilege” days earlier — and how she would “protect” them from “the evil of this world.” Ariel Robinson, 29, and her husband Jerry, 34, are both charged with homicide by child abuse over little Victoria Rose Smith... “In my house, my black children get treated the same as my white children, and my white children get treated the same as my black children,” she wrote. “It’s a shame that when they go out into the real world, that won’t be the case,” she wrote — along with the hashtags #whiteprivilege and #BlackLivesMatter. “I will never have to worry about my white sons and that makes me happy,” she wrote, saying she was “sad” that “every worry I don’t have for them will be multiplied for my black sons.” “It’s a shame that as a proud mom to 4 beautiful boys, I can’t protect them from the reality and evil of this world once they leave the house,” she wrote. “I’m a Mama Bear, & I’ll do anything to protect my children,” she wrote. She vowed to “make sure their futures are equally bright bc they have the same opportunities & are treated as equals the way God made them.” “There should be no #whiteprivilege only American privilege,” she wrote, again including a Black Lives Matter hashtag."
Demonising white people as part of anti-racism has consequences
Ibram X Kendi: when wokes and white supremacists agree - "Some of us have been warning for some time that there is something unsavoury about the new ‘anti-racism’ – sometimes referred to as critical race theory or racial identity politics. Something, well, a bit racist. It was therefore not remotely surprising that the infamous ‘white nationalist’ Richard Spencer was able to find common ground with one of America’s most celebrated anti-racist activists, Ibram X Kendi. Kendi, born Ibram Henry Rogers, is the author of How To Be An Antiracist, which rocketed back up the bestseller list during the summer of Black Lives Matter. His basic thesis is that everything can be divided into two categories: racist and anti-racist. There is, he argues, no such thing as ‘not racist’, because ‘not racist’ means being neutral in the struggle against racism. It is merely, therefore, ‘a mask for racism’.So then what should we make of Kendi’s bizarre tirade against interracial adoption at the weekend? Is it racist or anti-racist? Responding to a picture of Trump’s Supreme Court pick, Amy Coney Barrett, who has adopted two black children from Haiti, Kendi tweeted:
Some white colonizers “adopted” black children. They “civilised” these “savage” children in the “superior” ways of white people, while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial, while cutting the biological parents of these children out of the picture of humanity.
The language he employs sounds anti-racist – condemning a real historical ill. But the conclusion one surely has to draw from his reasoning is racist. How could anyone support this continued ‘colonisation’ of black children? It turns out that white supremacists share a similar disgust with interracial adoption. ‘Not wrong’, concurred Richard Spencer. Yes, that is the same Richard Spencer who calls for the ethnic cleansing of America and the reconstitution of the European Union as a white racial empire. Of course, Kendi is wrong. Barrett is not a coloniser but an adoptive parent in 21st-century America. Mixed-raced families are now so common as to be mundane. Yet Kendi’s rage is illustrative of how even something so innocent is now viewed by those who claim to be ‘anti-racist’ with suspicion and hostility. While segregationists infamously held obscene placards declaring that ‘race mixing is communism’, perhaps Kendi and his ilk believe that ‘race mixing is colonialism’. Kendi insists that his comments were taken out of context by ‘bots’, and he says he does not believe that white parents of black children are ‘inherently’ racist. But if we were to be charitable and say that Kendi is merely being misinterpreted, he is also being misinterpreted by his woke fans.Back in July, a white New York City education councillor provoked deafening screams of outrage for the perfectly innocent activity of bouncing a black baby on his knee (the baby belonged to his friend’s nephew). ‘It hurts people when they see a white man bouncing a brown baby on their lap’, a fellow councillor screamed in indignation over a Zoom chat. ‘That is harmful. That makes people cry. That makes people log out of our meeting.’ She then reveals where this rage comes from: ‘Read a book! Read Ibram Kendi!’ Whether intentional or not, ‘interracial interactions are bad’ seems to be the takeaway message from one of America’s bestselling anti-racist authors. The logic of segregation lurks beneath so much of what passes as anti-racism today. If a white person were to announce that they believed the hallmarks of ‘whiteness’ are ‘politeness’, ‘hard work’ and ‘objective, rational thinking’, you might suspect they were an old-school white chauvinist. But this list of supposedly ‘white’ traits actually comes from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) as part of a collection of Black Lives Matter-inspired teaching materials. The implication is that black and white people hold different, alien, perhaps even unbridgeable values.These ‘anti racist’ ideas now manifest themselves in racially segregated spaces. Consider the short-lived experiment of the ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’ (CHAZ) which sprung up in Seattle after the George Floyd protests. Some of the protesters set up a ‘Blackout’ area in a field – a segregated, black-only ‘healing space’, which was, ironically, guarded by mainly white activists. Many US universities similarly offer black-only accommodation and recreation spaces. Over 75 colleges offer racially segregated commencement events. Such segregation is, of course, not driven by the same impulses as Jim Crow or the ones that motivate the likes of Richard Spencer. Instead, it is justified on the belief that people of colour are perpetual victims, and white people are perpetual oppressors. What racists and today’s ‘anti-racists’ have in common above all is a belief in the significance of race... We need to reject racial thinking in all its forms and instead aim to transcend race entirely."
Of course, to "anti-racists", transcending race is racist
U.S. Loan Forgiveness Program For Farmers Of Color Is On Hold
On NPR's Facebook, lots of people were upset that this literal racism could not proceed
Meme - "Just like the terrorists in the Middle East surround their hideout with women and children so if you bomb the hideout, you kill these innocent people. The 'Social Justice Warrior' types do exactly the same thing. They find a hypothetically vulnerable group, and they use them as a protective shield while they move incrementally forward. If you object, suddenly you're picking poor, people - Jordan Peterson"
Jenny Slate Apologises For Voicing Black Character In Big Mouth And Resigns From Show - "Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg and the team behind Big Mouth also issued a statement in support of Slate, saying they ‘wholeheartedly agree’, and they ‘sincerely apologize for and regret our original decision to cast a white actor to voice a biracial character’."
Weird. I thought the one drop of blood rule was racist
Here's How The Nation Responded When A Black Militia Group Occupied A Government Building - "When armed militants seized a government building in Burns, Oregon, on Saturday, stating their willingness to “kill and be killed” and promising to stay for “years,” the official response was cautious and restrained. Many onlookers wondered whether this would still be the case if the militants were people of color instead of white people. If you’re not familiar with the history of protest in the U.S., you might not know that the armed occupation of government buildings hasn’t always been just for white guys. In fact, on May 2, 1967, a group of 30 Black Panthers walked into the California state Capitol building, toting rifles and shotguns and quickly garnering national headlines... Nobody tried to stop the 30 Black Panthers — 24 men and six women, carrying rifles, shotguns and revolvers — as they walked through the doors of the state Capitol building on May 2 of that year. This was decades before Sept. 11 or the Oklahoma City bombing, and the protesters were, after all, legally allowed to have their weapons. They entered with their guns pointed at the ceiling. Behind them followed a horde of journalists they’d called to document the protest. As the rest of the group waited nearby, six Panthers entered the assembly chamber, where they found lawmakers mid-session. Some legislators reportedly saw the protesters and took cover under desks. It was the last straw: Police finally ordered the protesters to leave the premises. The group maintained they were within their rights to be in the Capitol with their guns, but eventually they exited peacefully."
Maybe to dismiss this, liberals will claim that the US is more racist today than in 1967, so today armed black protesters would be shot
Of course, this doesn't count as trying to intimidate lawmakers - because of who did it
Armed black protesters decry brutality at Michigan State Capitol - "In the last five weeks, three large protests were held at the Capitol against stay-at-home restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19. During them, some participants have openly carried guns, which is legal and has drawn the national spotlight. An April 30 protest featured armed demonstrators inside the Capitol with some of them carrying guns in the gallery above the Senate floor, setting off a debate about whether to continue allowing guns in the building."
From 2020. This doesn't stop liberals from lying that black people who protest with guns get shot and that white people get to protest with guns because of white privilege
The amazing 1969 prophecy that racial preferences would cause the exact grievances of protesters today - "Universities are among the most progressive and anti-racist institutions in American society. Many Americans therefore found it confusing to see dozens of our top universities racked by racial protests since last September. To add to the puzzle, many of the most high-profile actions occurred at universities widely perceived to be the most devoted to social justice and racial equality -– schools such as Brown, Yale, Amherst, Wesleyan, and Oberlin. (Every one of these schools earned a red or yellow light from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, indicating schools that are not recommended for conservative students.) What is going on? A simple resolution of the puzzle is the hypothesis that the anti-racist policies these schools pursue give rise, indirectly, to experiences of marginalization for black students... Amy Wax sent us the text of an astonishing letter written in 1969, at the dawn of racial preferences, from Macklin Fleming, Justice of the California Court of Appeal. Judge Fleming had written a personal letter to Louis Pollak, the dean of Yale Law School. Fleming was concerned about the plan Dean Pollak had recently announced under which Yale would essentially implement a racial quota – 10% of each entering class would be composed of black students. To achieve this goal, Yale had just admitted 43 black students, only five of whom had qualified under their normal standards... Judge Fleming explained why he believed this new policy was a dangerous experiment that was likely to cause harmful stereotypes, rather than reduce them. His argument is essentially the one that Jussim and I made 47 years later...
'If in a given class the great majority of the black students are at the bottom of the class, this factor is bound to instill, unconsciously at least, some sense of intellectual superiority among the white students and some sense of intellectual inferiority among the black students... The black students, unable to compete on even terms in the study of law, inevitably will seek other means to achieve recognition and self-expression. This is likely to take two forms. First, agitation to change the environment from one in which they are unable to compete to one in which they can. Demands will be made for elimination of competition, reduction in standards of performance, adoption of courses of study which do not require intensive legal analysis, and recognition for academic credit of sociological activities which have only an indirect relationship to legal training. Second, it seems probable that this group will seek personal satisfaction and public recognition by aggressive conduct, which, although ostensibly directed at external injustices and problems, will in fact be primarily motivated by the psychological needs of the members of the group to overcome feelings of inferiority caused by lack of success in their studies. Since the common denominator of the group of students with lower qualifications is one of race this aggressive expression will undoubtedly take the form of racial demands–the employment of faculty on the basis of race, a marking system based on race, the establishment of a black curriculum and a black law journal, an increase in black financial aid, and a rule against expulsion of black students who fail to satisfy minimum academic standards.'
If you read Judge Fleming’s predictions after watching the videos of student protests, and then reading the lists of demands posted at TheDemands.org, the match is uncanny. And if you look at the way Brown University responded to these demands (to take one of the most detailed responses), you can see a university doubling down...
'The American creed, one that Yale has proudly espoused, holds that an American should be judged as an individual and not as a member of a group. To me it seems axiomatic that a system which ignores this creed and introduces the factor of race in the selection of students for a professional school is inherently malignant, no matter how high-minded the purpose nor how benign the motives of those making the selection'"
ALL THAT WE CAN BE - "Liberal complaints about cannon fodder to the contrary, there's no evidence that blacks are overrepresented in front-line units, which suffer the greatest casualties under fire. Moskos and Butler characterize the Army as a race-savvy, not race-blind, service that pragmatically subordinates trendy peripheral concerns (ethnic diversity, multiculturalism) to its primary goal of combat readiness. The authors go on to argue that ``the Army does not patronize or infantilize blacks by implying that they need special standards in order to succeed.'' Instead of lowering its standards, they point out, the Army elevates veterans as well as recruits with a wealth of instructional courses and programs. Among the lessons to be learned from the accomplishments of the Army and its black soldiers, they cite the need to focus on opportunity and to link affirmative-action efforts to supply- rather than demand-side exigencies or aspirations."
From 1996. Of course, today...
