Defund the Thought Police
RSS
Search Text Case Sensitive Exact Words Include Comments
List of Bookmarks
From Black Enterprise:
BLACK LIVES MATTER: CORPORATE AMERICA HAS PLEDGED $1.678 BILLION SO FAR
by William Michael Cunningham June 10, 20203781
What exactly are the the people funded with this corporate largesse going to do, other than try to get canceled independent thinkers? Corporate American has just funded a dagger aimed at the spirit of the First Amendment.
BLM is a DNC money laundering operation:
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/blm-is-a-money-laundering-operation-for-the-dnc/
Nice work if you can get it.
But I could be wrong
I can’t imagine where that money is going to go.
I’ve been thinking a lot about how our 401ks have created a lot of “trust fund baby” corporations — we put in money mindlessly over decades into index funds, and the corporations receive the money essentially independently from whether their business plans are working. This allows for a lot of malarkey and shuts out smaller, more regional businesses. Is there any model for regionally distributed stock markets? I am thinking along the lines of the original structure of the Federal Reserve. There were twelve districts nationwide, each selected for its unique industrial/commercial focuses. They were meant to each have their own monetary policies. Perhaps we could decentralize stock markets in some similar way.
Not following here. The corporations don't have access to money you put in index funds. If an index fund has a weighting of 1 percent (random, made up example) for corporation X, that provides some support for X's stock price but X doesn't acquire the funds spent on the index fund. The price support provided by being part of an index doesn't outweigh corporate ineptitude. There are dozens of examples of companies whose stock lost value to the point that they were booted from one index or another.Replies: @Hibernian
Hard to really define what would go in them too. Is Amazon really much of a Washington corp when it gets 3% of its revenue and has 10% of its employees there?
It also destroys some of the benefit of diversification. The oil bust is disproportionately hurting incomes of Texans. Should it also disproportionately hurt their index funds? Isn’t it a good thing that Michiganders don’t have most of their retirements in weak performing auto stocks?
There are passive and active ETFs that are limited to single foreign countries, ie The India Fund. These tend to have higher fees and higher volatility, and are not very popular.
One type of fund that is limited to certain states are muni bond funds. A Maryland resident who buys a Maryland muni gets it tax free for both state and federal, so it makes sense to have 1-state funds there.
Index funds are free riders for sure. They rely on others to determine what are good investments, but don’t pay them for this work. At a certain point they will start to underperform active funds, but we aren’t there yet.
While index free riding is a minor problem, I hate Big Finance enough I am glad index funds are hurting them and hope the Vanguard non-profit model keeps growing.
Do you mean “…get independent thinkers canceled”?
As in "Let's get that guy." "Yeah, get him!"
It means roughing him up, or worse.Replies: @Nicholas Stix
That’s true but it’s not new. With that much money even if BLM preaches Anti-Semitism, they may be around for a while.
The only thing that the Jewish Establishment and BLM may be able to agree on is getting things shut down. Every last platform. And expect the scrutiny of everyone’s personal life to ratchet up. They need examples of bad people to fire.
Most Americans can’t accept that our major social problem is not police brutality, but black crime.
The answer to every problem is: White men are bad. They need to be humiliated. We need public struggle sessions. Real tears.
If you point to Black criminality, you disrupt the narrative.
Steve has shown the numbers on the increased number of black lives ended after the 2016-era push for BLM. I think it was about 4000 additional killings.
However, police shootings of civilians DID drop as a result, and I would assume this worked for blacks and whites. There's a grim thought that will get you canceled, and it will freak out the BLM crowd. Suppose that 10 fewer white lives end from police shootings as a result of BLM protests in 2016, as a side effect of fewer police shootings overall. Then over 4 years that's 40 white lives saved versus the 4000 additional black lives lost to crime. You'd then have a measure of the number of additional black people who died to save each white person.
Some smartass who doesn't care about cancellation ought to tweet that at BLM for complete meltdown: thanks, BLM, for trading 100 black lives for each white life saved.Replies: @Pincher Martin, @ben tillman
General welfare entitlements are a small part of it. The number of make-work public sector jobs leads to higher taxes and less overall economic productivity. It's a hidden additional form of welfare.
The existence of the police at all -- and the fairly inevitable accompaniment of police brutality -- is largely a consequence of black crime.
We might or might not be able to get by without police in any form if we didn't also have blacks. I'd be prepared to give it a go. I could see it working around here.
...but then, there are few blacks around here. Given blacks, police become an inarguable necessity.
If you don't want the police, specify what you intend to do with the blacks.Replies: @Anonymous
They’ve almost got their hands on the entire endowment left by the Eli Lilly heiress ($200 in 2002, they’re now up to $257, not sure if that was good investments or subsequent money) to promote poetry. Though as others have stated popular poetry is the now massive and varied genre of music know as rap and to a lesser extent since Bob Dylan, almost all other forms of modern lyrical music. (Traditional music had very coherent stories or sentiments)
Live-spoken poetry is now largely dominated by slam style poetry which is just non-melodic rap with overly academic pretensions. So eventually the meek nice old white people in charge who just wanted to fund some poets and the study of poetry were easy prey.
http://www.chicagomag.com/arts-culture/June-2020/Poetry-Foundation-Letter-Resignations/
They literally wouldn’t have been called to resign for ‘racism’ if they hadn’t issued a statement of support for the protests! Never give them an in. Willard Bunn, III has been involved in the world of ‘mergers and acquisitions’ and investment banking for decades and partook in the looting of his society. But it was being loosely affiliated with that statement of support for the protests that got him some bad PR. The new America is gunna be great.
The Academy Awards just announced that movies will no longer qualify for nominations unless they have sufficient “diversity,” in other words, unless you have enough black people in it, your movie cannot qualify for an Oscar!
Here’s the story:
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/awards/oscars-will-add-representation-inclusion-standards-award-eligibility-n1230626
If that’s not bad enough, a transgender performer is now agitating to have Best Actor and Best Actress categories merged into one big gender neutral category, because otherwise it’s discrimination and violence against non-binary individuals like themselves:
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/asia-kate-dillon-billions-sag-awards-open-letter-1234630871/
Let’s hope this leads to the end of the Oscars, a sign of their total irrelevancy, not to accommodation of these zealots in more and more ways.
There are also efforts under way to remove politically incorrect movies like Gone with the Wind from all streaming services and get rid of books from libraries if there are too many white male authors on the shelves! Quite a problem, considering the vast majority of classic books in the past were written by white men. This is the Maoist Red Guard reborn for the 21st century.
Do not stop mentioning the truth about black crime rates and black on white violence. Don’t give them an inch. Never stop mentioning how many technologies, scientific discoveries, and artistic masterpieces were created by whites (almost all of them). If there has to be a “conversation” about race, that can’t simply mean radical leftists screaming at everyone else.Replies: @Charon, @Altai, @Altai
I've been thinking a lot about how our 401ks have created a lot of "trust fund baby" corporations -- we put in money mindlessly over decades into index funds, and the corporations receive the money essentially independently from whether their business plans are working. This allows for a lot of malarkey and shuts out smaller, more regional businesses. Is there any model for regionally distributed stock markets? I am thinking along the lines of the original structure of the Federal Reserve. There were twelve districts nationwide, each selected for its unique industrial/commercial focuses. They were meant to each have their own monetary policies. Perhaps we could decentralize stock markets in some similar way.Replies: @kaganovitch, @Ximenes, @silviosilver, @TomSchmidt, @Lot
we put in money mindlessly over decades into index funds, and the corporations receive the money essentially independently from whether their business plans are working.
Not following here. The corporations don’t have access to money you put in index funds. If an index fund has a weighting of 1 percent (random, made up example) for corporation X, that provides some support for X’s stock price but X doesn’t acquire the funds spent on the index fund. The price support provided by being part of an index doesn’t outweigh corporate ineptitude. There are dozens of examples of companies whose stock lost value to the point that they were booted from one index or another.
The have come to unperson Ronald Fisher now
Extinction Rebellion spray graffiti on Cambridge Uni building, demand removal of memorial to ‘racist’ academic (PHOTOS)
REMOVE WOKE BRAYING BARBARIANS FROM PREMISES WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE.
I’m ready to vote Mussolini.
Contrary to something Steve posted earlier, this revolt does not mark the Numinous Negro leaping back ahead of gays in the PC/SJW hierarchy. BLM is a queer black movement, a rich kid black movement that will make certain that all black politics backs all things queer as long as the Anglo-Zionist Empire lasts.
They are interested in espousing the fashionable answer. Not the actual truth. By the way, it’s not all Americans, just a sizable minority who think this way.
The answer to every problem is: White men are bad. They need to be humiliated. We need public struggle sessions. Real tears.
If you point to Black criminality, you disrupt the narrative.
You need Franco back, why not just admit it?
Message to the entertainers of America (athletes, singers, actors, etc.): Check your celebrity privilege! A high school drop out singer or actor is no more qualified to get up on the public stage and lecture the rest of us on domestic or international policy than any other drop out.
Most of the athletes who feel their self-righteous voice needs to be heard virtue signaling don’t know Schiff from Shinola and should just sit down and shut up. Go play your game and be glad you are wealthy in spite of your room temperature level IQ. Only in America.
MATTERDON'T MEAN SHIT!(It's one of our host's minor failings if you ask me, at least seeming to care that much about celebrities. Is it LA?)
Because of the economic problems caused by the COVID-19 lock-down, a few weeks ago the CEO of the company I work for announced that the annual bonuses for 2020 will not be happening. This is a good portion of my total income.
Now just a few days ago, the same CEO announced that my company is donating millions to BLM.
You know that things are fucked up when large public companies are paying off racial shakedowns instead of rewarding their high-performing employees. But, you know what, THEY HAVE TO DO THIS. The losses of not doing this are enormous. This is what is so frightening.
How in the hell did these extreme leftist bags of shit get so much power? How can they engineer the boycott or smearing of a company for not following the crazy marching orders of the left? How do they get to label someone as Nazi or racist for saying something heterodox to the latest leftist dogma and destroy the careers of the person they just labeled?
Look at the pathetic CEO of T-Mobile saying bye-bye to Tucker Carlson. I’m sure he likes to throw his weight around the executive suite, but he has to do THIS. When it comes to this type of extortion, he has zero power. The leftist mob says kneel and the CEO kneels. That’s power.
No. Power is holding the megaphone and deciding whose voices to amplify.
Big Biz has a large portion of their employees living paycheck-to-paycheck. (I know about this at one very nicely run software company where working yuppie couples, per my source, would still be in a real bind were the Payroll Dept. to have a screw up on one month’s worth of their pay.) As Peak Stupidity has discussed in “More on living paycheck-to-paycheck”, this creates a cowardly population.
Nobody who is in debt to his eyeballs would be willing to speak out about any of this corporate black-sac-hanging nonsense, as much as he doesn’t agree. Some of your examples of people living off the new media are even more acute. When one realizes he could be cancelled in 5 minutes, fear is a big factor in his “workplace environment”. In Big Biz, people can grumble a little bit, or just do some very slight acts of disobedience, something I have seen tons of in my realm. There would at least be a meeting with the nice HR ladies, in which you may be given a chance to stay and STFU the rest of your career there.
If you have 1 or 2 years of F.U. money (OK, maybe it’s just KMA money, at that level). I don’t have numbers on me, but something tells me the America of the 1970’s, before credit was ubiquitous, was better in this sense, not just because there were still more good jobs, but because people saved more of their money.
I never thought I’d say this, as it always seemed a Southern European slack-ass thing, but I would support a general strike. It would be something to behold.
I think it would be a hoot to have, not a general strike, but a white men's strike.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
Management before the 1970s was largely a bunch of people put customers first and politics 10th in priorities.
The Thought Police are literally the only ones being up-staffed and up-resourced these days.
Hey, why don’t we fund the Dream Police?
The road through Implicit Bias goes straight to your dreams. Things are getting quite Dickian.
CHAZ brings us an example of how debates would run under President Abrams:
https://mobile.twitter.com/joshlecash/status/1271322514501726209
her : "dont try to shut the black community out!!!"
him: "I am black!!!!"
Similar to the story of Sarah Parcak using her position as professor of Egyptology at Birmingham (AL) university to suggest optimal ways to pull down an obelisk like the one in Birmingham protestors initially failed to take down. (It was later taken away by the city)
We now have a museum curator, Madeline Odent, who is using her experience to advocate the optimal way to damage and dissolve bronze statues and promises to discuss marble later. She suggest Churchill as one of the targets. Just like Parcak she does the ‘teehee, not that I’m advocating anything but if somebody did want to…’ bit. Unlike Parcak in the US, she has been questioned by the police and deleted her Twitter account. But screencaps were taken.
Pretty shocking to me.
But that isn’t the end of the shock.
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/curator-investigated-for-tweets-on-damaging-bronze-statues
Museum world rallies behind curator investigated for tweets on how to damage bronze statues
What the fuck is going on? Odent is curator of a fairly sleepy museum acting as the historical museum of the town of Royston.
http://www.roystonmuseum.org.uk/collections
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8407725/Hertfordshire-police-arrive-home-museum-curator-tweeted-destroy-bronze-statues.htmlShouldn't that job have gone to a black rower, not the boss's daughter?However her advice on destroying bronze statues with bleach, so appropriate for a museum curator, seems to have been taken by the wrong sort of people - "vandals" rather than "protesters".
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8415203/Vandals-launch-bleach-attack-Bristol-statue-black-playwright-Alfred-Fagon.html
I've been thinking a lot about how our 401ks have created a lot of "trust fund baby" corporations -- we put in money mindlessly over decades into index funds, and the corporations receive the money essentially independently from whether their business plans are working. This allows for a lot of malarkey and shuts out smaller, more regional businesses. Is there any model for regionally distributed stock markets? I am thinking along the lines of the original structure of the Federal Reserve. There were twelve districts nationwide, each selected for its unique industrial/commercial focuses. They were meant to each have their own monetary policies. Perhaps we could decentralize stock markets in some similar way.Replies: @kaganovitch, @Ximenes, @silviosilver, @TomSchmidt, @Lot
If you told an average American that over the next 24 months Amazon would give $1 billion to BLM, and that their stock price would appreciate by 35% over the same period, he would buy as many shares as he could afford. That’s the root of the problem.
Whatever our ‘major social problem’ is, without a doubt the vast majority of people understand that the notion that police brutality is a problem of note is a social fiction. What we’re looking at is a meltdown by the media, Democratic pols, miscellaneous professional-managerial types, and their dependents and hangers-on.
And down with what we grew up being told (and what we thought) America was about.
That’s the agenda now.
I would like to see a list for reference.
A simple law that made it illegal to fire someone for legal speech (made in someone’s own private time, not at work) would solve the issue.
But what is the chance Congress would pass such a law.
Personally, I'd live to speak out but I'm certain I'll get fired for my viewpoint. As a result, I lurk on Unz like some leper. I watch what I write here very carefully knowing that is it ever gets out, I'm fucked and so is my family.
The path to dignified employment and the end thereof is being very good at a marketable trade or craft, saving enough earned income to finance employment transitions, and having principles worth defending.Replies: @Marty
I posted this elsewhere on this site, but the key to understanding the ‘racism’ video may lie with understanding Fentanyl.
Floyd had enough Fentanyl in his system to cause cardiac arrest. The Fentanyl is referenced in the autopsy relative to cause of death.
Fentanyl causes exactly the symptoms witnesses in the video or present in the record; the foaming, unsteady on feet, breathing problems and cardiac arrest. If the struggle in the car or prefatory to entering the car involved Floyd disposing of evidence through ingestion you’d have precisely the events caught on tape and in that exact sequence.
NIOSH (Institute of Occupational Safety and Health) advises first responders dealing with Fentanyl to prioritize avoiding any aerosolization of the Fentanyl which is easy with that substance.
Breathing on others is one way to aerosol the chemical. Dermal contact with the chemical is to be avoided (on Floyd’s hands). Further, in advice referencing a Fentanyl gas attack used by Russian terrorists, first responders were advised that propping up patients in cardiac arrest can worsen outcomes (even though every media doctor is criticizing police for not doing so).
Want to see for yourself? Look up NIOSH Work Group Report 2018 Fentanyl and First Responders.
The officer kept his boot on Floyd's neck for several minutes after Floyd became unconscious. The officer (and his colleagues) was an idiot. This does not make Floyd a hero nor necessarily make the cop a murderer but what the cop did was far from praiseworthy. I understand being a cop and dealing with POS's all day, every day (both black and white but mainly black) can make you cynical about humanity but still you have to apply some common sense. However, what the Somali cop did to the white woman was FAR worse but there were no riots, no worldwide marches.
As our society deteriorates you will see more and more of these encounters where BOTH parties are in the wrong. A pox on both their houses.Replies: @Old and Grumpy, @GeraldB, @TomSchmidt, @Michael S, @Coemgen, @Art Deco, @ben tillman, @Anonymous
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V2W7rDeeM60
Crushing the First Amendment? It’s just The Ruling Class ruling.
As Professor Reynolds likes to say (quoting The Rainmakers), “They’ll turn us all into beggars ’cause they’re easier to please.”
The Past comes at you real fast these days!
$1.67B will buy a nice set of rims
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/blm-is-a-money-laundering-operation-for-the-dnc/
Nice work if you can get it.Replies: @Polynikes, @Erik L, @Buffalo Joe, @SkylertheWeird, @SunBakedSuburb
Correct. It is administered by Act Blue. Anything that doesn’t go to social justice (which is the majority of it) gets redistributed to Act Blue causes. The top ten of which are all the Dem presidential campaigns and big Senate and House races.
This whole thing has been a 1.5B dollar DNC fund raiser.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Washington,_D.C.#LGBT_population
Why does this truncated square still have electors? Whites are on the verge of outnumbering blacks, which defeats the whole point of the 23rd Amendment. And you can bet that 43% comprise well over 50% of the GDP and net worth of the District.
Not following here. The corporations don't have access to money you put in index funds. If an index fund has a weighting of 1 percent (random, made up example) for corporation X, that provides some support for X's stock price but X doesn't acquire the funds spent on the index fund. The price support provided by being part of an index doesn't outweigh corporate ineptitude. There are dozens of examples of companies whose stock lost value to the point that they were booted from one index or another.Replies: @Hibernian
It seems to me that if the stock price is boosted, new issues, if the company wants to issue them, will bring in more money. It’s my understanding that it takes years of poor performance to get booted from an index.
Index funds make sense because few mutual fund managers can pick stocks like Peter Lynch did.
If you want further info:
https://us.spindices.com/documents/methodologies/methodology-sp-us-indices.pdfReplies: @Charon
I have a “friend” who works at a publicly traded company. He can either have a contribution deducted from his paycheck go to BLM, or he can be put on a public list of people who opted out.
Additionally, his hiring instructions have shifted from “hire the black guy if he can do the job” to “hire the black guy.” In a sane world, we would be hiring the person best for the job, but standards have fallen far below that mark.
I don’t see how any of this is legal, and I hope the courts come in to clean things up.
Of course cooperate America is supporting BLM. It’s been a tremendous tool in holding back the far left.
The far left I believe you’re referring too has been gone for thirty years or more and isn’t coming back.Replies: @anon
Black Enterprise usually runs stories depicting African-Americans as successful, dynamic, self-sufficient leaders. I’m not sure corporate shakedowns achieved through the blackmail of rampant street violence is consistent with this, but what do I know. They’d probably call me a naive cracker and laugh in my face.
Our major social problem is lack of purpose, made significantly worse by destructive industrial, trade, and economic policy. I’m not saying they dindunuffin, but they are what they are, and the USG had made them and everyone else in our land worse than they’d otherwise be.
“Police brutality” is a canard. Always was and always will be. This is just a naked power grab. The problem is that this bunch is too stupid to know what to do with it.
Depends on the index. Most are simply in order of market capitalization (S&P 500, Russell 2000) for their market segment. Though there is a committee that sanity checks them, for the most part its simply by market weight. The S&P 500 is updated annually.
If you want further info:
https://us.spindices.com/documents/methodologies/methodology-sp-us-indices.pdf
Floyd had enough Fentanyl in his system to cause cardiac arrest. The Fentanyl is referenced in the autopsy relative to cause of death.
Fentanyl causes exactly the symptoms witnesses in the video or present in the record; the foaming, unsteady on feet, breathing problems and cardiac arrest. If the struggle in the car or prefatory to entering the car involved Floyd disposing of evidence through ingestion you’d have precisely the events caught on tape and in that exact sequence.
NIOSH (Institute of Occupational Safety and Health) advises first responders dealing with Fentanyl to prioritize avoiding any aerosolization of the Fentanyl which is easy with that substance.
Breathing on others is one way to aerosol the chemical. Dermal contact with the chemical is to be avoided (on Floyd’s hands). Further, in advice referencing a Fentanyl gas attack used by Russian terrorists, first responders were advised that propping up patients in cardiac arrest can worsen outcomes (even though every media doctor is criticizing police for not doing so).
Want to see for yourself? Look up NIOSH Work Group Report 2018 Fentanyl and First Responders.Replies: @Jack D, @Buroaker
I don’t think that the cops were aware that Floyd had taken Fentanyl so that does not explain their conduct. In any case, boot on the neck is not a standard protocol for dealing with cases of suspected drug overdose. If they thought he was OD’ing they should have given him Narcan.
The officer kept his boot on Floyd’s neck for several minutes after Floyd became unconscious. The officer (and his colleagues) was an idiot. This does not make Floyd a hero nor necessarily make the cop a murderer but what the cop did was far from praiseworthy. I understand being a cop and dealing with POS’s all day, every day (both black and white but mainly black) can make you cynical about humanity but still you have to apply some common sense. However, what the Somali cop did to the white woman was FAR worse but there were no riots, no worldwide marches.
As our society deteriorates you will see more and more of these encounters where BOTH parties are in the wrong. A pox on both their houses.
I found Pelosi's words when kneeling particularly striking: "we honor George Floyd." Speak no ill of the dead, they used to say, but there's no need to lionize them either.Replies: @Coemgen, @Art Deco, @Buffalo Joe, @nebulafox
It was always my understanding that officers were not to fire their weapon unless they could identify a target and a threat. Obviously this did not happen in the Houston case or the case of white Dallas lady cop who shot Botham Jean in his own apartment. Noor's incompetence is not that unique and doesn't necessarily indicate racial bias on his part.
The Justine Diamond case was played up as something it wasn't by the WN and Sailerverse. It fit Sailers narrative - all Muslim immigrants are bad and pose an existential threat to the United States. Diamond's killer, Mohammed Noor, received a sentence (12.5 years) not all that different than Amber Guyger (10 years).
https://abc13.com/fort-bend-county-sheriffs-office-precinct-4-deputy-constable-dies-friendly-fire-sienna-plantation/6218753/Replies: @J.Ross, @ben tillman
They’ve pledged it, but will they actually give that much? We’re heading into a recession. People are being laid off. Can you imagine being laid off while your corporation is giving money to BLM?
I don’t have much say over the matter, of course, but I have taken what little opportunity there is to fight back against the donors. We turned on Netflix to get a “Black Lives Matter” screen. Netflix has been cancelled. I go through about 3 pairs of running shoes a year, and for two decades I pretty much bought nothing but Nike. I stopped buying Nike last year. I was about to buy a new iPad and went to the Apple page only to get their BLM nonsense. New iPad cancelled.
The funny thing is that, of course, these corporations are all full of shit. Amazon and Apple and so many other tech corporations lecture us on racism but won’t pay their G.D. taxes. Amazon pays its employees dirt, treats them like dirt, and shifts as much work to “independent contractors” as possible. The irony is that the independent contractor business model is probably a big part of the reason Millenials are so pissed. They can’t find jobs with decent pay or benefits, and can’t afford to buy a house. And we won’t even get into the slave labor companies like Apple and Nike use in China to make their products.
Well, if this election goes to Democrats – and there’s a good chance it will – some of these companies are going to get what they’re asking for good and hard – tax increases, more regulations, abolishment of independent contractors, and the rest. Of course they’ll get some of that money back as the Democrats bring more slave labor into this country, but ultimately they are going to lose.
These corporations are sickening, though. In the rare instances they show a little backbone, like Starbucks yesterday, they always cave the next day.
Boycotting is totally necessary. I was looking forward to taking my son to the Daytona 500 when he turned 5, but that's out now. Kind of depressing, but I just can't stomach NASCAR turning so far left-wing as if the Colin Kaepernicks of this world are going to start being fans.
Are there any corporations not paying tribute to the BLM terrorists? We need to boycott, but we also need to find some good business to actively support. Sigh.Replies: @J.Ross, @Dtbb, @Achmed E. Newman
1) You save a few bucks
2) I doubt it'd be you, after reading you here, but for your family, you may be sparing them a whole lot of indoctrination that they DON'T KNOW they are getting. It's everywhere, and viewers don't always have the inclination or wherewithal to see it coming. "It's just a TV show, no reason to get upset" was what my Dad heard when he was bad-mouthing Mary Tyler Moore and One Day at a Time for their feminism. He was quite right. Father knows Best (OK, that was WAY before my time.)
One more thing: The US Feral government screws us in just as many ways as Big Biz. Cash is king. Pay the tree guy in cash. Pay the car mechanic (the shade-tree guy) in cash. Starve the Beast!
I've been thinking a lot about how our 401ks have created a lot of "trust fund baby" corporations -- we put in money mindlessly over decades into index funds, and the corporations receive the money essentially independently from whether their business plans are working. This allows for a lot of malarkey and shuts out smaller, more regional businesses. Is there any model for regionally distributed stock markets? I am thinking along the lines of the original structure of the Federal Reserve. There were twelve districts nationwide, each selected for its unique industrial/commercial focuses. They were meant to each have their own monetary policies. Perhaps we could decentralize stock markets in some similar way.Replies: @kaganovitch, @Ximenes, @silviosilver, @TomSchmidt, @Lot
Sorry, but this is completely wrong.
Shares trade on the secondary market, and money changes hands solely between the previous owners of the shares and the new owners (ie the buyers and the sellers). The corporations don’t see a cent of it.
As Kag mentioned, companies are routinely removed from indices, and it has everything to do with their financial performance. The stock market is one of the few (and fast disappearing) places where incompetence is punished (rather than rewarded).
Goodness, if rich Woke people keep on giving money to BLM, it’s going to wind up even wealthier than the $PLC.
The officer kept his boot on Floyd's neck for several minutes after Floyd became unconscious. The officer (and his colleagues) was an idiot. This does not make Floyd a hero nor necessarily make the cop a murderer but what the cop did was far from praiseworthy. I understand being a cop and dealing with POS's all day, every day (both black and white but mainly black) can make you cynical about humanity but still you have to apply some common sense. However, what the Somali cop did to the white woman was FAR worse but there were no riots, no worldwide marches.
As our society deteriorates you will see more and more of these encounters where BOTH parties are in the wrong. A pox on both their houses.Replies: @Old and Grumpy, @GeraldB, @TomSchmidt, @Michael S, @Coemgen, @Art Deco, @ben tillman, @Anonymous
It was a knee to the neck.
Someone needs to point out the close ties between corporate America and the NYPD. Both the NYPD Shield and New York City Police Foundation seem to be protection rackets that the NYPD forces businesses into. There’s also the strong arming of businesses to feed the security cameras into the NYPD. JP Morgan is heavily involved in both programs.
It’s a grift by the Democrat party to skirt campaign funding limits. Corporate America can use BLM as an excuse to fund Democrat candidates who will jealously guard corporate interests against the popular will.
After this orgy of mass looting by blacks corporations reward them by shoving money at them. This seems to function as a form of behavioral conditioning. The more they act out, the more they loot, steal and display dysfunction the more they are rewarded. So they are being trained to continue misbehaving as that achieves results. We’ll just get more of what’s being paid for.
As Dr. Martin Luthor King implied, “a man should be judged, not by the color of his skin, but by he basic cargo capacity, and cruising speed of his Lear Jet!”
"A man should be judged by his Basic Operating Weight ... bang .. owwww..." What, too soon?
We may laugh about this, or shrug it off, and think all of this will only help Trump. We would be wrong. I voted in the primary elections in my state (a normally red one) this week, and when I saw the results I could not help but notice that Dem voters outnumbered Republican voters in almost every contested election; sometimes by nearly a 2-1 margin. This was true in my district, in which there were multiple candidates down the ballot on both sides, and which until fairly recently has been reliably red.
Looks more like COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION.
BLM is being used as a fundraising mechanism for the DNC/Biden campaign.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/06/11/exploited-again-financial-contributions-to-black-lives-matter-are-being-funneled-to-biden-campaign/
The Dems are not totally stupid; they can count. They know that they have overtaxed the public and need to make cuts. Here in Illinois, the dems have de funded the Mental Health system because they know workers in this field are dependable Dem voters. They will always vote for the donkey party no matter how many times their pay has been cut or laid off. The Police are dependable voters for the Repubs, so they are next on the chopping block.
The officer kept his boot on Floyd's neck for several minutes after Floyd became unconscious. The officer (and his colleagues) was an idiot. This does not make Floyd a hero nor necessarily make the cop a murderer but what the cop did was far from praiseworthy. I understand being a cop and dealing with POS's all day, every day (both black and white but mainly black) can make you cynical about humanity but still you have to apply some common sense. However, what the Somali cop did to the white woman was FAR worse but there were no riots, no worldwide marches.
As our society deteriorates you will see more and more of these encounters where BOTH parties are in the wrong. A pox on both their houses.Replies: @Old and Grumpy, @GeraldB, @TomSchmidt, @Michael S, @Coemgen, @Art Deco, @ben tillman, @Anonymous
His colleagues were rookies and he was their supervising officer. They all suggested turning Floyd on his side but it’s no surprise that they didn’t vigorously object to the behavior of their boss, and yielded to his extensive experience.
I don’t have much say over the matter, of course, but I have taken what little opportunity there is to fight back against the donors. We turned on Netflix to get a “Black Lives Matter” screen. Netflix has been cancelled. I go through about 3 pairs of running shoes a year, and for two decades I pretty much bought nothing but Nike. I stopped buying Nike last year. I was about to buy a new iPad and went to the Apple page only to get their BLM nonsense. New iPad cancelled.
The funny thing is that, of course, these corporations are all full of shit. Amazon and Apple and so many other tech corporations lecture us on racism but won’t pay their G.D. taxes. Amazon pays its employees dirt, treats them like dirt, and shifts as much work to “independent contractors” as possible. The irony is that the independent contractor business model is probably a big part of the reason Millenials are so pissed. They can’t find jobs with decent pay or benefits, and can’t afford to buy a house. And we won’t even get into the slave labor companies like Apple and Nike use in China to make their products.
Well, if this election goes to Democrats - and there’s a good chance it will - some of these companies are going to get what they’re asking for good and hard - tax increases, more regulations, abolishment of independent contractors, and the rest. Of course they’ll get some of that money back as the Democrats bring more slave labor into this country, but ultimately they are going to lose.Replies: @Morris Applebaum IV, @Mr. Anon, @Achmed E. Newman
My entire family is totally hooked on Apple. We have 6 ipads, 5 iphones, 1 imac, and 1 apple watch. Once the kids get hooked (usually before 2) it’s pretty hopeless! I realize that’s where the really money is, but it’s a battle I can’t win 🙂
These corporations are sickening, though. In the rare instances they show a little backbone, like Starbucks yesterday, they always cave the next day.
Boycotting is totally necessary. I was looking forward to taking my son to the Daytona 500 when he turned 5, but that’s out now. Kind of depressing, but I just can’t stomach NASCAR turning so far left-wing as if the Colin Kaepernicks of this world are going to start being fans.
Are there any corporations not paying tribute to the BLM terrorists? We need to boycott, but we also need to find some good business to actively support. Sigh.
It seems like all parties are there for the love of their young boys. There will be no protests outside or inside as it's too loud inside and everyone is deaf for a little while when they come out.
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/blm-is-a-money-laundering-operation-for-the-dnc/
Nice work if you can get it.Replies: @Polynikes, @Erik L, @Buffalo Joe, @SkylertheWeird, @SunBakedSuburb
The blog post looks incorrect. I’m not an expert on any aspect of campaign law but the blog post seems to be taking the idea that ActBlue is handling donations to BLM and also directs most money to democrats to infer that the BLM money will be given to democrats. My reading, having clicked through those links, is that actBlue is a middle man for a variety of causes dear to democrats. I do not think, based on their terms and conditions, that they are commingling all donations into a pool in the way the blog post implies.
But I could be wrong
The great moral crisis of the hour
(Other than the ones they've already cut off obviously)
I've been thinking a lot about how our 401ks have created a lot of "trust fund baby" corporations -- we put in money mindlessly over decades into index funds, and the corporations receive the money essentially independently from whether their business plans are working. This allows for a lot of malarkey and shuts out smaller, more regional businesses. Is there any model for regionally distributed stock markets? I am thinking along the lines of the original structure of the Federal Reserve. There were twelve districts nationwide, each selected for its unique industrial/commercial focuses. They were meant to each have their own monetary policies. Perhaps we could decentralize stock markets in some similar way.Replies: @kaganovitch, @Ximenes, @silviosilver, @TomSchmidt, @Lot
Look up theMondragon cooperatives. They’re not exchange traded, but the do a lot to eliminate the agency problem in stock corporations.
Is there a good alternative to the ACLU I can donate to to protect free speech?
https://reason.com/2018/06/21/aclu-leaked-memo-free-speech/
You could look into The Institute for Justice among others .
https://ij.org/ . They also have a youtube channel .
As others have suggested, ACLJ and Judicial Watch, both of which have acquitted themselves marvellously in the Flynn and Russia Hoax debacles. A lot of what we know about Obama official attempts to throw a presidential election and defame honorable Americans comes from Judicial Watch FOIA requests. ACLJ was involved in the impeachment and also defends little churches and monuments. They had a recent victory reversing a standard piece of judicial reasoning about religious displays, it was to do with that WWII cross monument.Replies: @John Gruskos
Police brutality and unaccountability has been a minor problem that has not been completely resolved. A lot more black lives are going to end as a result of police pullbacks, but a lot fewer black and white lives are going to end from overactive police.
Steve has shown the numbers on the increased number of black lives ended after the 2016-era push for BLM. I think it was about 4000 additional killings.
However, police shootings of civilians DID drop as a result, and I would assume this worked for blacks and whites. There’s a grim thought that will get you canceled, and it will freak out the BLM crowd. Suppose that 10 fewer white lives end from police shootings as a result of BLM protests in 2016, as a side effect of fewer police shootings overall. Then over 4 years that’s 40 white lives saved versus the 4000 additional black lives lost to crime. You’d then have a measure of the number of additional black people who died to save each white person.
Some smartass who doesn’t care about cancellation ought to tweet that at BLM for complete meltdown: thanks, BLM, for trading 100 black lives for each white life saved.
If blacks only killed blacks during the officially-sanctioned Purge, then your calculations might make some sense. But blacks kill whites, too. There is a spillover effect that cancels any small gains you claim have been made on behalf of whites.
Besides, would police really stop patrolling or responding to crime in white neighborhoods just because they were far more circumspect in minority neighborhoods? Maybe, but I'm doubtful.Replies: @TomSchmidt
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/when-police-stop-policing/
Basically, it looks at what happens when federal or state authorities investigate police departments accused of having a “pattern or practice” of violating civilians’ rights. The good news is that these investigations usually lead to a measurable decrease in crime, including homicides.
The bad news is that, after five of the 27 investigations Devi and Fryer looked at closely, crime went up instead. And it turns out that those five investigations were the ones “preceded by ‘viral’ incidents of deadly force,” specifically “the deaths of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, MD, Laquan McDonald in Chicago, IL, Timothy Thomas in Cincinnati, OH, Tyisha Miller in Riverside, CA, and Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO.” The authors “estimate that these investigations caused almost 900 excess homicides and almost 34,000 excess felonies” in these five cities in the subsequent 24 months. For comparison, American cops kill about 1,000 civilians — in total, throughout the country — each year.
In the US, *everything* has close ties to either some Corporate or TLA or Wall Street or Congressional or THEM cancerous outcropping. Probably all simultaneously. What do you want to do?
MEANWHILE!
Lizzie “Schoolmarm” Warren ready to operate The Great Renaming of Military Bases, Ships, Outhouses, Planes and light weapons. (Enola Gay must Go!) Republicans are onboard with this.
“They train young men to drop fire on people on peasants thousands of miles away. But their politicians won’t allow them to drive out of Fort Bragg because it’s racist!”
The enormity of it all is Black Nuts Mutter aficionados now suddenly find themselves agreeing with politicially “apolitical” generals. That’s the clique operating in Africa where Black Lives Matter less than can be admitted. I hear Petraeus has also come out of retirement to plead for Le Grand Renaming.
Two minutes of skate.
Government Center, the main transit hub in the downtown area, will be closed all weekend. The trains will run as scheduled but will not stop at that station.
https://youtu.be/5dMahDPP8pUReplies: @Mister.Baseball
I imagine they are tracking who and who doesn’t pay tribute very closely.
I don’t have much say over the matter, of course, but I have taken what little opportunity there is to fight back against the donors. We turned on Netflix to get a “Black Lives Matter” screen. Netflix has been cancelled. I go through about 3 pairs of running shoes a year, and for two decades I pretty much bought nothing but Nike. I stopped buying Nike last year. I was about to buy a new iPad and went to the Apple page only to get their BLM nonsense. New iPad cancelled.
The funny thing is that, of course, these corporations are all full of shit. Amazon and Apple and so many other tech corporations lecture us on racism but won’t pay their G.D. taxes. Amazon pays its employees dirt, treats them like dirt, and shifts as much work to “independent contractors” as possible. The irony is that the independent contractor business model is probably a big part of the reason Millenials are so pissed. They can’t find jobs with decent pay or benefits, and can’t afford to buy a house. And we won’t even get into the slave labor companies like Apple and Nike use in China to make their products.
Well, if this election goes to Democrats - and there’s a good chance it will - some of these companies are going to get what they’re asking for good and hard - tax increases, more regulations, abolishment of independent contractors, and the rest. Of course they’ll get some of that money back as the Democrats bring more slave labor into this country, but ultimately they are going to lose.Replies: @Morris Applebaum IV, @Mr. Anon, @Achmed E. Newman
I doubt it. Big companies that support the Democratic Party and its allies will do fine. That’s why they donate money.
We might as well call what’s going on either the “Great shakedown of 2020,” “Reparations, dammit!” or even possibly the “Great Black jizya!” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizya
It’s as if the black community finally got tired of seeing corporate America give so much to the gay community, that they finally upped their game in response. Corporate America is tripping over itself trying to throw money at all things black. I bet their strategy is that these short term payoffs will bring long-term relief. It’s really amazing to see.
The woke mob is getting woker and more mobbish by the minute, you really can see how a totalitarian dynamic develops. Brought to you by people who pretend to fight some "-ism".
Here are my Autonomous Zone level demands going forward:
> Shut down Twitter & al., make communications costly again, especially the local ones.
> Universities non-STEM sections are closed, academics are let go to fend for themselves. No pensions.
> Hollywood actors will not be allowed to promote their political views. You are either in politics or you are acting, not both. Get the fuck off Instagram.
> Conversely, any politicians who puts on an act gets a free ejection into a retirement home on a lone & windy island.
> Everyone in politics or management position must take a yearly IQ test. Not at 90? No dice.
> Stop printing money. This will solve a lot of problems.
> Universal military service is back on the table. Bring the imperial troops home but buy large training grounds in Saudi Arabia to let people have fun with angry seargeants, boom boom and various cancer-causing chemicals.
> All #ethnically-inhabited areas which have demonstrably high criminality rates will be under curfew for the next five years.
The officer kept his boot on Floyd's neck for several minutes after Floyd became unconscious. The officer (and his colleagues) was an idiot. This does not make Floyd a hero nor necessarily make the cop a murderer but what the cop did was far from praiseworthy. I understand being a cop and dealing with POS's all day, every day (both black and white but mainly black) can make you cynical about humanity but still you have to apply some common sense. However, what the Somali cop did to the white woman was FAR worse but there were no riots, no worldwide marches.
As our society deteriorates you will see more and more of these encounters where BOTH parties are in the wrong. A pox on both their houses.Replies: @Old and Grumpy, @GeraldB, @TomSchmidt, @Michael S, @Coemgen, @Art Deco, @ben tillman, @Anonymous
Floyd was one of those people dealt a bad hand in life whose choices made it worse. He didn’t deserve to die in this situation. Of course if a policeman had shot him during his home invasion, we would not have heard his name.
I found Pelosi’s words when kneeling particularly striking: “we honor George Floyd.” Speak no ill of the dead, they used to say, but there’s no need to lionize them either.
If he got a bad start in life, it's because his mother and father elected to divide their income between two households (which, in turn, had six children between them) and settled for a place in a viperous neighborhood (which, given what their living situation was, might have been all they could afford). I'd say nature didn't smile on his visage, either, but that doesn't seem to have harmed him with the ladies.
I donate to Judicial Watch. They do good work.
https://www.judicialwatch.org
There’s also the Foundation to Defend the First Amendment, http://www.fdfa.us, but I hadn’t heard of them until my non-Google search engine found them.
This all has more to do with the weakness of our institutions than the strength of BLM.
We went through the same thing a couple years ago with the transgender stuff and Believe All Women.
Universities are the weakest and most vulnerable. Churches are weak. The D party and a good portion of the R are weak. Corporations are weak, especially consumer products companies and media/tech. None of them can stand up for themselves. It’s like watching a bully torment a kid on the playground: “Say I’m your uncle! Say it!” Institutions that can’t resist these rounds of bullying will soon totally fall apart.
The future won’t be defined by BLM or whatever group attacks next. They have no positive ideas, only a list of things they want to destroy.
The future is institutions strong enough to resist the bullying and that have positive ideas. (By positive I don’t necessarily mean good, just things they want to do, versus things they want to prevent.)
I worked in corporate America for 40 years and at no time did I see the faintest scintilla of evidence that corporations have any more regard for the first amendment, or any other amendment, than does a carnivorous plant.
I was once laid off and the paperwork included an agreement I was asked to sign. In addition to the usual boilerplate about not disclosing company IP etc, there was an additional clause that they would kick in an extra $10,000 in severance if I would agree to never say anything negative about the company to anyone, and “hereby agree to waive my Constitutional Rights”. That exact wording was drafted by a fully paid up, member of the bar, attorney.
I read somewhere that, somehow, if donations to BLM don’t get spent, they revert to the DNC.
I realise that sounds idiotic, but with the accompanying legalese, it seemed plausible. Perhaps someone can chime in with more information.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/exclusive-donations-including-international-funding-blacklivesmatter-com-go-directly-dnc-money-laundering/
He links to supporting info.
You can also dig around the OpenSecrets.org pages on ActBlue. If indeed money from outside the US earmarked for one fund (like BLM) gets sent to US candidates, that's a somethingburger. I can't answer the question of how the organization is structured in terms of its SuperPAC vs 501(c)4 units.Replies: @J.Ross
AWFL mismatch due to fat male tail.
Smith and Wesson.
Mr. Sailer – there is only one way to fight this and you came down cross-purposes of it here: https://www.takimag.com/article/secession-studies/.
Now I say: “cross-purposes” because you addressed secession – which isn’t the answer. The right answer is state-reorganization. Empires re-organize when their current structure becomes ungovernable. Re-organization should create more autonomy so that regions are strong enough on their own to stand up to each other, to financial titans (corporations or billionaires or NGOs) and to the federal government. Our federal system of government was designed to work for 13 states – not 50.
It may just happen that defund, riots/looting and CHAZ effects a titanic landslide for the GOP in November – which will not be reported by MSM until it happens – but that would just kick the can down the road. The, only, way, you can stop worrying about the thought police, is to make them irrelevant, so you don’t have to listen to BLM or the NYT. Sadly – a lot of people on the right make a living listening and responding, however impotently, to MSM.
The right would do best to invest every penny of political capital into re-organizing states into 7 – 11 large regions – forget every other goal, this is the only way. Then let federalism do its work.
Alaska and hawaii would be kept as states to provide some random oddness to the new sytem.
Probably someone has figured out a good way to do this, but obviously something along these lines is needed.
The officer kept his boot on Floyd's neck for several minutes after Floyd became unconscious. The officer (and his colleagues) was an idiot. This does not make Floyd a hero nor necessarily make the cop a murderer but what the cop did was far from praiseworthy. I understand being a cop and dealing with POS's all day, every day (both black and white but mainly black) can make you cynical about humanity but still you have to apply some common sense. However, what the Somali cop did to the white woman was FAR worse but there were no riots, no worldwide marches.
As our society deteriorates you will see more and more of these encounters where BOTH parties are in the wrong. A pox on both their houses.Replies: @Old and Grumpy, @GeraldB, @TomSchmidt, @Michael S, @Coemgen, @Art Deco, @ben tillman, @Anonymous
Why do you keep mentioning a “boot” that doesn’t exist? You sound like a shill, pushing a narrative without any knowledge of the facts. Obviously you neither watched the video nor read the report, so why are you commenting?
The officer kept his boot on Floyd's neck for several minutes after Floyd became unconscious. The officer (and his colleagues) was an idiot. This does not make Floyd a hero nor necessarily make the cop a murderer but what the cop did was far from praiseworthy. I understand being a cop and dealing with POS's all day, every day (both black and white but mainly black) can make you cynical about humanity but still you have to apply some common sense. However, what the Somali cop did to the white woman was FAR worse but there were no riots, no worldwide marches.
As our society deteriorates you will see more and more of these encounters where BOTH parties are in the wrong. A pox on both their houses.Replies: @Old and Grumpy, @GeraldB, @TomSchmidt, @Michael S, @Coemgen, @Art Deco, @ben tillman, @Anonymous
The officer had his knee on the rear side of Floyd’s neck — nothing worse than what you might pay a chiropractor do to you.
At the same time, the officers were distracted by the antagonistic bystanders.
If the bystanders had instead encouraged Floyd to get in the car peacefully, the officers may have been able to determine that Floyd was OD’ing.
To gain some perspective, I would say watch some episodes of the first decade or so of Cops but Cops has been memory-holed. (how long until that Wiki page is memory-holed too?)
The officer kept his boot on Floyd's neck for several minutes after Floyd became unconscious. The officer (and his colleagues) was an idiot. This does not make Floyd a hero nor necessarily make the cop a murderer but what the cop did was far from praiseworthy. I understand being a cop and dealing with POS's all day, every day (both black and white but mainly black) can make you cynical about humanity but still you have to apply some common sense. However, what the Somali cop did to the white woman was FAR worse but there were no riots, no worldwide marches.
As our society deteriorates you will see more and more of these encounters where BOTH parties are in the wrong. A pox on both their houses.Replies: @Old and Grumpy, @GeraldB, @TomSchmidt, @Michael S, @Coemgen, @Art Deco, @ben tillman, @Anonymous
Why on both? They’d already called an ambulance before they discovered his pulse had disappeared. Is it your contention they should have been doing CPR? Are they trained in CPR and would it ever be effective in that situation?
Is there an upper limit to what percentage of the population can be canceled without collapsing society? Is this something our elites have thought about?
Much higher than today's percentage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge#Moscow_Trials
The Soviet purges of the late 30s are the locus classicus for this. Vast numbers of senior people cancelled with extreme prejudice, including around half the officer corps. Yet with backs against the wall after Germany invaded, it's amazing how people who'd never have got an interview can perform when motivated and united.
Admittedly the US aren't motivated or united. Which is why China will eat their lunch.Replies: @ben tillman
There is F.I.R.E.
I found Pelosi's words when kneeling particularly striking: "we honor George Floyd." Speak no ill of the dead, they used to say, but there's no need to lionize them either.Replies: @Coemgen, @Art Deco, @Buffalo Joe, @nebulafox
Bad hand?
Strapping “male-on-female porn actor” is nothing less than a full house.
The problem is elite overproduction not underproduction. They don’t care about canceling the population, just rival elites. Many of the best and the brightest were weeded out long ago by admission committees and HR.
You are on to something. I have long thought the fix is to redivide America into 40 regions each encompassing around 6.6 million or so residents. I would draw them if possible on lines of latitude. You will have some extremely skinny states cutting through urban areas, with some major cities divided into different states – whatever, figure it out.
Alaska and hawaii would be kept as states to provide some random oddness to the new sytem.
Probably someone has figured out a good way to do this, but obviously something along these lines is needed.
I found Pelosi's words when kneeling particularly striking: "we honor George Floyd." Speak no ill of the dead, they used to say, but there's no need to lionize them either.Replies: @Coemgen, @Art Deco, @Buffalo Joe, @nebulafox
I think the Wiki biography is error laden. His parents were lawfully married from 1969 to 1992 (the marriage license is dated 1969, but their divorce decree says, in error, they were married in 1967). His father evidently returned to North Carolina at some point, obtained a divorce decree there, married someone else, and died in 2002. The mother continues to use the surname ‘Floyd’, so one might guess did not re-marry. It’s not clear when they separated, but it’s difficult to believe they lived apart while legally married for 17 years, which is what the wiki biography implies. The death certificate indicates the old man had some tertiary schooling, btw.
If he got a bad start in life, it’s because his mother and father elected to divide their income between two households (which, in turn, had six children between them) and settled for a place in a viperous neighborhood (which, given what their living situation was, might have been all they could afford). I’d say nature didn’t smile on his visage, either, but that doesn’t seem to have harmed him with the ladies.
One that comes to mind off the top of my head:
BLM has what I often call, referring to multimillionaires, “F*%k you” money now. They can fund a whole Cultural Revolution off of that much cash.
Karl Hess, Goldwater’s speechwriter, predicted this. That the Soviet Empire would become more and more free and the American Empire more and more closed where eventually they would converge. We are past the convergence point.
1.6 Billion for BLM!?!?!?!
How much grape Nihi and mac-an-cheese do these people need?
Funny. I was thinking that we should try to get cancelled independent thinkers.
Greg Glassman, CEO of CrossFit, has been cancelled. Just like John Schnatter of Papa John’s, Brendan Eich of Mozilla, Dan Cathy of Chick-fil-A, Mel Gibson, and how many others? Asking google for a list of cancelled execs/celebs doesn’t exactly work. It pretends to not understand the question.
These are generally people of significant financial and organizational means. Having been cancelled already, twitter can’t really hurt them anymore. Their careers are finished. Some will have been cowed by their experience, but some will have been properly redpilled. Should we not collect them into a group to push back? What could they accomplish working together?
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/blm-is-a-money-laundering-operation-for-the-dnc/
Nice work if you can get it.Replies: @Polynikes, @Erik L, @Buffalo Joe, @SkylertheWeird, @SunBakedSuburb
Howard, The Clintons would not have let an opportunity like this go by without dipping into tha $1.7 Billion. The Obamas are a little late to this show, but still a chance to get on board and tap that money tree.
Well it’s not just corporate America anymore! Sad.
https://apple.news/Aj3tw4YNgRcG9PA9GcnSAjg
Yo Steve, talking about defunding the poh-LEASE, duh man always holding Karen (Turner) down.
But wait, at 6:33 she's "very disappointed", she lived in Tennafly for 20 years, her children....and shocked...and disappointed...and "shut the f up".
Oh, lol! "Badge number 5 4 0".
Stronk 'n independent. Hey, didja know her dawter is a grad student at Yale? Didja? huh?
Bet she has a pink hat in her drawerReplies: @Truth
It looks like it’s finally ‘not essential’ for massive close quarters protests to be had in London over a man being killed in Minneapolis. Good job guys, nobody in America took any notice and you undermined the last 3 months of lockdown! First place does go to the people who marched in Moscow though, not only was the rest of the world unaware, Moscow is currently jostling for contention for worst affected city on Earth, it’s getting closer!
Meanwhile, if you thought that tiny group of guys who stood around the Churchill statue was a tiny side-note to the massive amounts of ethnic provocations, you’re wrong, actually, they were so influential that they ‘hijacked’ the protests. Somehow.
I found Pelosi's words when kneeling particularly striking: "we honor George Floyd." Speak no ill of the dead, they used to say, but there's no need to lionize them either.Replies: @Coemgen, @Art Deco, @Buffalo Joe, @nebulafox
Tom, I am still waiting for Michelle Obama to say…”If I had a son he would look like George Floyd.”
The ACLU has other priorities than free speech .
https://reason.com/2018/06/21/aclu-leaked-memo-free-speech/
You could look into The Institute for Justice among others .
https://ij.org/ . They also have a youtube channel .
You might want to consider a new chiropractor…….
The BezosBus will be provided free of charge. It carries your to your fulfillment duties in the morning and back to your cnoapt in the evening. All for free! They will even throw in a daily surgical mask.
Dave Chapelle weighs in:
Considering the source of this proclaimed “fact” I would doubt that any such large number will be given to BLM, which is itself very sketchy. A publication touting “black businesses” is hardly objective here, nor can ‘pledges’ be assumed to be actual money.
Also, as someone suggested here, the claim that this is all some DNC front is false. ActBlue is a Dem/progressive fundraising conduit, not an arm of the DNC. One may wonder if ActBlue merchandises those BLM donor email addresses to the DNC though.
This is all in service of a huge fundraising scam. While some BLM groups might be sincere and honest, you can bet most are badly run, by unaccountable individuals. Non profit entities are among the worst for being scammed or run by crooks from the inside. So eventually there will be stories about corruption. Who will get the “bail money” once returned? How many CPAs and auditors will be there to assure the public of honesty? Ha!
The best thing about this racket is that money donated here won’t be available to fund Biden’s election.
Wilkey,
Your comment was helpful. There is so little we can do. Do not patronize products that you do not agree with.
It is helpful information that you wrote. Thank you
….nailed it!
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/blm-is-a-money-laundering-operation-for-the-dnc/
Nice work if you can get it.Replies: @Polynikes, @Erik L, @Buffalo Joe, @SkylertheWeird, @SunBakedSuburb
Yep. Defund the Police and give the money to DNC controlled NGOs like ACLU and planned parenthood who conveniently donate a big portion of that money to Democrat Election Campaigns.
We now have a museum curator, Madeline Odent, who is using her experience to advocate the optimal way to damage and dissolve bronze statues and promises to discuss marble later. She suggest Churchill as one of the targets. Just like Parcak she does the 'teehee, not that I'm advocating anything but if somebody did want to...' bit. Unlike Parcak in the US, she has been questioned by the police and deleted her Twitter account. But screencaps were taken.
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/29443060-8405899-image-a-1_1591785972740.jpg
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/29443100-8405899-image-a-2_1591785982404.jpg
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/29440390-0-image-m-12_1591781500473.jpg
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/29446888-8405899-image-a-47_1591795876112.jpg
Pretty shocking to me.
But that isn't the end of the shock.
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/curator-investigated-for-tweets-on-damaging-bronze-statues
Museum world rallies behind curator investigated for tweets on how to damage bronze statuesWhat the fuck is going on? Odent is curator of a fairly sleepy museum acting as the historical museum of the town of Royston.
http://www.roystonmuseum.org.uk/collectionsReplies: @fish, @YetAnotherAnon, @Known Fact, @Buffalo Joe, @donut
White women are second to no one in ostentatious displays of virtue!!
Steve,
Pls DM SCB for me.
AWFL mismatch is the disease.
So what? They have no power.
My, you’re remarkably sanguine. It’s not a meltdown. It’s a power grab. They have literally zero opposition, and don’t mention that blustering buffoon in the White House.
How much of this money will end up in Al Sharpton’s freezer? He may need to get a few extra ones.
Not keeping your leg on the suspect’s neck for that length of time, and especially after he is unresponsive, is police academy 101 level stuff.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/prisoner-freddie-gray-van-claims-smooth-ride-article-1.2205785
From accumulating multiple items on his rap sheet (known to the cops who arrested him) including armed home invasion robbery, passing funny money, being high on drugs to resisting arrest, everything about Floyd screamed uncooperative suspect. Could have simply gone with the cops and saved everyone a bunch of trouble.
I lose track of who around here has been stewed through the police academy.Replies: @ben tillman, @nebulafox
Here’s a great letter on #BLM. The writer claims they are a Professor at UCB. Regardless, I wish I could write something as heartfelt, thoughtful and comprehensive.
Dear profs X, Y, Z
I am one of your colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley. I have met you both personally but do not know you closely, and am contacting you anonymously, with apologies. I am worried that writing this email publicly might lead to me losing my job, and likely all future jobs in my field.
In your recent departmental emails you mentioned our pledge to diversity, but I am increasingly alarmed by the absence of diversity of opinion on the topic of the recent protests and our community response to them.
In the extended links and resources you provided, I could not find a single instance of substantial counter-argument or alternative narrative to explain the under-representation of black individuals in academia or their over-representation in the criminal justice system. The explanation provided in your documentation, to the near exclusion of all others, is univariate: the problems of the black community are caused by whites, or, when whites are not physically present, by the infiltration of white supremacy and white systemic racism into American brains, souls, and institutions.
Many cogent objections to this thesis have been raised by sober voices, including from within the black community itself, such as Thomas Sowell and Wilfred Reilly. These people are not racists or ‘Uncle Toms’. They are intelligent scholars who reject a narrative that strips black people of agency and systematically externalizes the problems of the black community onto outsiders. Their view is entirely absent from the departmental and UCB-wide communiques.
The claim that the difficulties that the black community faces are entirely causally explained by exogenous factors in the form of white systemic racism, white supremacy, and other forms of white discrimination remains a problematic hypothesis that should be vigorously challenged by historians. Instead, it is being treated as an axiomatic and actionable truth without serious consideration of its profound flaws, or its worrying implication of total black impotence. This hypothesis is transforming our institution and our culture, without any space for dissent outside of a tightly policed, narrow discourse.
A counternarrative exists. If you have time, please consider examining some of the documents I attach at the end of this email.
Overwhelmingly, the reasoning provided by BLM and allies is either primarily anecdotal (as in the case with the bulk of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ undeniably moving article) or it is transparently motivated. As an example of the latter problem, consider the proportion of black incarcerated Americans. This proportion is often used to characterize the criminal justice system as anti-black. However, if we use the precise same methodology, we would have to conclude that the criminal justice system is even more anti-male than it is anti-black. Would we characterize criminal justice as a systemically misandrist conspiracy against innocent American men? I hope you see that this type of reasoning is flawed, and requires a significant suspension of our rational faculties. Black people are not incarcerated at higher rates than their involvement in violent crime would predict. This fact has been demonstrated multiple times across multiple jurisdictions in multiple countries. And yet, I see my department uncritically reproducing a narrative that diminishes black agency in favor of a white-centric explanation that appeals to the department’s apparent desire to shoulder the ‘white man’s burden’ and to promote a narrative of white guilt.
If we claim that the criminal justice system is white-supremacist, why is it that Asian Americans, Indian Americans, and Nigerian Americans are incarcerated at vastly lower rates than white Americans? This is a funny sort of white supremacy. Even Jewish Americans are incarcerated less than gentile whites. I think it’s fair to say that your average white supremacist disapproves of Jews. And yet, these alleged white supremacists incarcerate gentiles at vastly higher rates than Jews. None of this is addressed in your literature. None of this is explained, beyond hand-waving and ad hominems. “Those are racist dogwhistles”. “The model minority myth is white supremacist”. “Only fascists talk about black-on-black crime”, ad nauseam. These types of statements do not amount to counterarguments: they are simply arbitrary offensive classifications, intended to silence and oppress discourse. Any serious historian will recognize these for the silencing orthodoxy tactics they are, common to suppressive regimes, doctrines, and religions throughout time and space. They are intended to crush real diversity and permanently exile the culture of robust criticism from our department.
Increasingly, we are being called upon to comply and subscribe to BLM’s problematic view of history, and the department is being presented as unified on the matter. In particular, ethnic minorities are being aggressively marshaled into a single position. Any apparent unity is surely a function of the fact that dissent could almost certainly lead to expulsion or cancellation for those of us in a precarious position, which is no small number.
I personally don’t dare speak out against the BLM narrative, and with this barrage of alleged unity being mass-produced by the administration, tenured professoriat, the UC administration, corporate America, and the media, the punishment for dissent is a clear danger at a time of widespread economic vulnerability. I am certain that if my name were attached to this email, I would lose my job and all future jobs, even though I believe in and can justify every word I type.
The vast majority of violence visited on the black community is committed by black people. There are virtually no marches for these invisible victims, no public silences, no heartfelt letters from the UC regents, deans, and departmental heads. The message is clear: Black lives only matter when whites take them. Black violence is expected and insoluble, while white violence requires explanation and demands solution. Please look into your hearts and see how monstrously bigoted this formulation truly is.
No discussion is permitted for nonblack victims of black violence, who proportionally outnumber black victims of nonblack violence. This is especially bitter in the Bay Area, where Asian victimization by black assailants has reached epidemic proportions, to the point that the SF police chief has advised Asians to stop hanging good-luck charms on their doors, as this attracts the attention of (overwhelmingly black) home invaders. Home invaders like George Floyd. For this actual, lived, physically experienced reality of violence in the USA, there are no marches, no tearful emails from departmental heads, no support from McDonald’s and Wal-Mart. For the History department, our silence is not a mere abrogation of our duty to shed light on the truth: it is a rejection of it.
The claim that black intraracial violence is the product of redlining, slavery, and other injustices is a largely historical claim. It is for historians, therefore, to explain why Japanese internment or the massacre of European Jewry hasn’t led to equivalent rates of dysfunction and low SES performance among Japanese and Jewish Americans respectively. Arab Americans have been viciously demonized since 9/11, as have Chinese Americans more recently. However, both groups outperform white Americans on nearly all SES indices – as do Nigerian Americans, who incidentally have black skin. It is for historians to point out and discuss these anomalies. However, no real discussion is possible in the current climate at our department. The explanation is provided to us, disagreement with it is racist, and the job of historians is to further explore additional ways in which the explanation is additionally correct. This is a mockery of the historical profession.
Most troublingly, our department appears to have been entirely captured by the interests of the Democratic National Convention, and the Democratic Party more broadly. To explain what I mean, consider what happens if you choose to donate to Black Lives Matter, an organization UCB History has explicitly promoted in its recent mailers. All donations to the official BLM website are immediately redirected to ActBlue Charities, an organization primarily concerned with bankrolling election campaigns for Democrat candidates. Donating to BLM today is to indirectly donate to Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign. This is grotesque given the fact that the American cities with the worst rates of black-on-black violence and police-on-black violence are overwhelmingly Democrat-run. Minneapolis itself has been entirely in the hands of Democrats for over five decades; the ‘systemic racism’ there was built by successive Democrat administrations.
The patronizing and condescending attitudes of Democrat leaders towards the black community, exemplified by nearly every Biden statement on the black race, all but guarantee a perpetual state of misery, resentment, poverty, and the attendant grievance politics which are simultaneously annihilating American political discourse and black lives. And yet, donating to BLM is bankrolling the election campaigns of men like Mayor Frey, who saw their cities devolve into violence. This is a grotesque capture of a good-faith movement for necessary police reform, and of our department, by a political party. Even worse, there are virtually no avenues for dissent in academic circles. I refuse to serve the Party, and so should you. The total alliance of major corporations involved in human exploitation with BLM should be a warning flag to us, and yet this damning evidence goes unnoticed, purposefully ignored, or perversely celebrated. We are the useful idiots of the wealthiest classes, carrying water for Jeff Bezos and other actual, real, modern-day slavers. Starbucks, an organisation using literal black slaves in its coffee plantation suppliers, is in favor of BLM. Sony, an organisation using cobalt mined by yet more literal black slaves, many of whom are children, is in favor of BLM. And so, apparently, are we. The absence of counter-narrative enables this obscenity. Fiat lux, indeed.
There also exists a large constituency of what can only be called ‘race hustlers’: hucksters of all colors who benefit from stoking the fires of racial conflict to secure administrative jobs, charity management positions, academic jobs and advancement, or personal political entrepreneurship.
Given the direction our history department appears to be taking far from any commitment to truth, we can regard ourselves as a formative training institution for this brand of snake-oil salespeople. Their activities are corrosive, demolishing any hope at harmonious racial coexistence in our nation and colonizing our political and institutional life. Many of their voices are unironically segregationist. MLK would likely be called an Uncle Tom if he spoke on our campus today. We are training leaders who intend, explicitly, to destroy one of the only truly successful ethnically diverse societies in modern history. As the PRC, an ethnonationalist and aggressively racially chauvinist national polity with null immigration and no concept of jus solis increasingly presents itself as the global political alternative to the US, I ask you: Is this wise? Are we really doing the right thing?
As a final point, our university and department has made multiple statements celebrating and eulogizing George Floyd. Floyd was a multiple felon who once held a pregnant black woman at gunpoint. He broke into her home with a gang of men and pointed a gun at her pregnant stomach. He terrorized the women in his community. He sired and abandoned multiple children, playing no part in their support or upbringing, failing one of the most basic tests of decency for a human being. He was a drug-addict and sometime drug-dealer, a swindler who preyed upon his honest and hard-working neighbors.
And yet, the regents of UC and the historians of the UCB History department are celebrating this violent criminal, elevating his name to virtual sainthood. A man who hurt women. A man who hurt black women. With the full collaboration of the UCB history department, corporate America, most mainstream media outlets, and some of the wealthiest and most privileged opinion-shaping elites of the USA, he has become a culture hero, buried in a golden casket, his (recognized) family showered with gifts and praise. Americans are being socially pressured into kneeling for this violent, abusive misogynist. A generation of black men are being coerced into identifying with George Floyd, the absolute worst specimen of our race and species. I’m ashamed of my department. I would say that I’m ashamed of both of you, but perhaps you agree with me, and are simply afraid, as I am, of the backlash of speaking the truth. It’s hard to know what kneeling means, when you have to kneel to keep your job.
It shouldn’t affect the strength of my argument above, but for the record, I write as a person of color. My family have been personally victimized by men like Floyd. We are aware of the condescending depredations of the Democrat party against our race. The humiliating assumption that we are too stupid to do STEM, that we need special help and lower requirements to get ahead in life, is richly familiar to us. I sometimes wonder if it wouldn’t be easier to deal with open fascists, who at least would be straightforward in calling me a subhuman, and who are unlikely to share my race.
The ever-present soft bigotry of low expectations and the permanent claim that the solutions to the plight of my people rest exclusively on the goodwill of whites rather than on our own hard work is psychologically devastating. No other group in America is systematically demoralized in this way by its alleged allies. A whole generation of black children are being taught that only by begging and weeping and screaming will they get handouts from guilt-ridden whites. No message will more surely devastate their futures, especially if whites run out of guilt, or indeed if America runs out of whites. If this had been done to Japanese Americans, or Jewish Americans, or Chinese Americans, then Chinatown and Japantown would surely be no different to the roughest parts of Baltimore and East St. Louis today. The History department of UCB is now an integral institutional promulgator of a destructive and denigrating fallacy about the black race.
I hope you appreciate the frustration behind this message. I do not support BLM. I do not support the Democrat grievance agenda and the Party’s uncontested capture of our department. I do not support the Party co-opting my race, as Biden recently did in his disturbing interview, claiming that voting Democrat and being black are isomorphic. I condemn the manner of George Floyd’s death and join you in calling for greater police accountability and police reform. However, I will not pretend that George Floyd was anything other than a violent misogynist, a brutal man who met a predictably brutal end.
I also want to protect the practice of history. Cleo is no grovelling handmaiden to politicians and corporations. Like us, she is free.
The dumb schmuck. He thinks logic and facts are going to make a difference.
lmao!
her : “dont try to shut the black community out!!!”
him: “I am black!!!!”
I found Pelosi's words when kneeling particularly striking: "we honor George Floyd." Speak no ill of the dead, they used to say, but there's no need to lionize them either.Replies: @Coemgen, @Art Deco, @Buffalo Joe, @nebulafox
There is something so Peak Boomer Gentry Liberal about Pelosi donning a dashiki while presiding over pandemic-spurred lobbyist bailouts and corporate mergers. If everybody from Amazon to Goldman is breathlessly embracing your ideology, forcing your message on the populace, and bankrolling you, then sorry, but you are not “speaking the truth to power”.
Of course, if the GOP wasn’t brain-dead, they could politically exploit the whole woke capital thing…
WuFlu news: US senator Steve Huffman fired from his physician job for questioning why blacks seem to be more affected than whites and offering possibly most likely explanation of all regarding the higher infection rates among them, which does not involve racism, and so must be racist: blacks could simply just not be as hygienic as whites.
She’s misinformed. Blacks don’t need to wash their hands. They are holy. Telling them to wash their hands is racist, it draws parallels to brown being the color of dirt and feces, and things. Everyone knows that. Do not tell blacks to wash their hands. Not that he did that, but he still should be fired, because.
Whether they are accurate or not, they are inconsistent with our values, and that’s what matters. I raise the possibility they are still discussing whether saying blacks are more prone to keloids and sickle-cell disease is consistent with their values.
Remember: blacks’ personal hygiene is above questioning, and we all know that blacks being more affected by the colonavilus is due to racism. There is no other possibility. No inquiry should be done into this that does not initially assume blacks are even more hygienic than whites, and that does not conclude blacks indeed are more hygienic than whites.
It just is.
I guess we will have to live with the fact of RACISS-19, a negro-targeting supremacist virus.
Meanwhile, does Biden exist?
Democrats are reportedly HIDING Biden’s economic advisers (as well as Joe himself) - and there is a simple reason for thatWouldn't it be fun if the cherry on top of the Weimar Republic - a senile head of State - could actually be replicated 100 years later?
Old Mom is completely into Biden. I can tell her that he is a suave corrupt asshole and would probably be excoriated for egregious vaginal probing by the Junglefever & Pussybrain Brigade if he were in The Other Party ... all is forgiven because he's the anti-Trump.
Xi Jinping hates bLACK people
Maybe this money will be funneled into offshore bank accounts with only a small amount of it actually spent on shutting down conservative speech. The leadership probably smells a SPLC type racket to make a few activists really rich.
Knowing that suspects are faking it the vast majority of the time doesn’t even require attending a police academy. Freddy Gray is a case in point. He deliberately bounced all over the vehicle. The other person similarly restrained in there with him was completely unharmed.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/prisoner-freddie-gray-van-claims-smooth-ride-article-1.2205785
From accumulating multiple items on his rap sheet (known to the cops who arrested him) including armed home invasion robbery, passing funny money, being high on drugs to resisting arrest, everything about Floyd screamed uncooperative suspect. Could have simply gone with the cops and saved everyone a bunch of trouble.
https://apple.news/Aj3tw4YNgRcG9PA9GcnSAjgReplies: @Escher
People like “Professor” Ray here will make out like bandits.
One thing that I would really love to see is for the alleged “current” Prof. Ray referenced to go through the black community whenever a black kills another black. The black community just yawns at the carnage they inflict upon themselves around the country on a daily basis. If this isn’t neurotic behavior then I don’t know what it is.
LOL
Nobody who is in debt to his eyeballs would be willing to speak out about any of this corporate black-sac-hanging nonsense, as much as he doesn't agree. Some of your examples of people living off the new media are even more acute. When one realizes he could be cancelled in 5 minutes, fear is a big factor in his "workplace environment". In Big Biz, people can grumble a little bit, or just do some very slight acts of disobedience, something I have seen tons of in my realm. There would at least be a meeting with the nice HR ladies, in which you may be given a chance to stay and STFU the rest of your career there.
If you have 1 or 2 years of F.U. money (OK, maybe it's just KMA money, at that level). I don't have numbers on me, but something tells me the America of the 1970's, before credit was ubiquitous, was better in this sense, not just because there were still more good jobs, but because people saved more of their money.
I never thought I'd say this, as it always seemed a Southern European slack-ass thing, but I would support a general strike. It would be something to behold.Replies: @Bill Jones, @Anon
“but I would support a general strike.”
I think it would be a hoot to have, not a general strike, but a white men’s strike.
(OK, I kid, I kid.... but not that much...)
Great Britain seems to be chock full of astoundingly stupid people.
Part and parcel of importing the lowest common denominator of a third world country, who are economic opportunists, and nothing more. They don’t have the same point of reference, the same sense of history, so even if you communicate with them “effectively,” they will continue to reject the host’s value system, despite the costs of how the value system was derived, as well as reject the benefits. They will never speak the nation’s “shorthand.” They will only work to deconstruct it, and rebuild it in accordance to an ignorant, childish third world mentality:
https://twitter.com/jacarandajac/status/1271363464850743298
It’ll be interesting to see the shareholder lawsuits for misuse of corporate funds or some such idea … and I hope the shareholders kick ass on these virtue signalers. This is ludicrous — especially B of A giving One Billion Dollar$ for … what exactly?
Nobody who is in debt to his eyeballs would be willing to speak out about any of this corporate black-sac-hanging nonsense, as much as he doesn't agree. Some of your examples of people living off the new media are even more acute. When one realizes he could be cancelled in 5 minutes, fear is a big factor in his "workplace environment". In Big Biz, people can grumble a little bit, or just do some very slight acts of disobedience, something I have seen tons of in my realm. There would at least be a meeting with the nice HR ladies, in which you may be given a chance to stay and STFU the rest of your career there.
If you have 1 or 2 years of F.U. money (OK, maybe it's just KMA money, at that level). I don't have numbers on me, but something tells me the America of the 1970's, before credit was ubiquitous, was better in this sense, not just because there were still more good jobs, but because people saved more of their money.
I never thought I'd say this, as it always seemed a Southern European slack-ass thing, but I would support a general strike. It would be something to behold.Replies: @Bill Jones, @Anon
People before the 1970s were still living from paycheck to paycheck. The difference is a large proportion of the labor force was unionized, and it wasn’t easy to fire them for their opinions. The union would have raised hell with the management.
Management before the 1970s was largely a bunch of people put customers first and politics 10th in priorities.
OT, but it looks like there’s trouble within the Coalition of the Fringes:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8414429/African-American-Council-Advisory-board-says-Black-Lives-Matter-message-hijacked.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tR6mKcBbT4Replies: @Anonymous Jew, @Morris Applebaum IV
Where’s the part where he makes me laugh? I’ve already invested 7 minutes and I’m wondering if I should just cut my losses.
The officer kept his boot on Floyd's neck for several minutes after Floyd became unconscious. The officer (and his colleagues) was an idiot. This does not make Floyd a hero nor necessarily make the cop a murderer but what the cop did was far from praiseworthy. I understand being a cop and dealing with POS's all day, every day (both black and white but mainly black) can make you cynical about humanity but still you have to apply some common sense. However, what the Somali cop did to the white woman was FAR worse but there were no riots, no worldwide marches.
As our society deteriorates you will see more and more of these encounters where BOTH parties are in the wrong. A pox on both their houses.Replies: @Old and Grumpy, @GeraldB, @TomSchmidt, @Michael S, @Coemgen, @Art Deco, @ben tillman, @Anonymous
It’s alleged that he violently resisted arrest. The fact that the prosecutor is hiding the bodycam footage means the allegations are true.
But what is the chance Congress would pass such a law.Replies: @botazefa, @Brian Reilly
Isn’t it strange a person can be fired in this way, basically for his political beliefs. I’m shocked it’s not already illegal but I think you’re correct.
Personally, I’d live to speak out but I’m certain I’ll get fired for my viewpoint. As a result, I lurk on Unz like some leper. I watch what I write here very carefully knowing that is it ever gets out, I’m fucked and so is my family.
These corporations are sickening, though. In the rare instances they show a little backbone, like Starbucks yesterday, they always cave the next day.
Boycotting is totally necessary. I was looking forward to taking my son to the Daytona 500 when he turned 5, but that's out now. Kind of depressing, but I just can't stomach NASCAR turning so far left-wing as if the Colin Kaepernicks of this world are going to start being fans.
Are there any corporations not paying tribute to the BLM terrorists? We need to boycott, but we also need to find some good business to actively support. Sigh.Replies: @J.Ross, @Dtbb, @Achmed E. Newman
Hopeful note: especially after the avoidable surrender to the plague precaution hoax (considering they normally will not be caught dead obeying a law they don’t like or didn’t write themselves) and the economic fallout, we have unprecedented credibility, room, and energy to further separate patriot republicans from chamber of commerce republicans.
But not the needed money.
Steve King lost his primary, and Jeff Sessions probably will too, though he’s been gaining ground against Coach Toofewmigrants.
In both cases, the patriots were buried by the globocapitalism candidates who had 3 times more money, and had easier times raising it.
One reason we don’t have more Tuckers on TV is that he has zero mainstream big business advertisers.Replies: @Morris Applebaum IV
Ot of the $1.6785 billion. $1 billion is from Bank of America.
Note that it amounts to $250 million per year. There are 8 billion shares of BAC stock outstanding. I could look deeper but the bank is required to do all sorts of community / charity type stuff to maintain its good graces with the OCC and multiple regulators.
I’m pissed off because it is 12 cents per share, but if BAC doesn’t use some of it to offset other community grifts, I will be disappointed.
It is also well known that your free checking is paid for by those racking up fees for overdrafts and similar. Lowest income accounts subsidize the rest. The point being that there is no reason to put too fine a point on social grifting vs virtue signaling vs advertising&PR.
BAC is also fighting off TBTF and efforts to break them up, as they own Merrill Lynch and do investment banking.
Promoting black business won’t work better now than it has for the last 60 years.
The stupid thing is that given innumeracy, $1 million would have gotten the same pr as $1 billion.
But $0 is going to BLM from BAC directly as far as I can tell. I’m modestly outraged.
OT
With Mark Milley’s repudiation of Trump’s White House to church walk I have suddenly realized who the fat lesbian in camo was.
Wow. Breaking Bad was just ruined forever. What’s funny is “Jessie” doing his Jessie shit for the camera. If he had half a brain, you’d accuse him of being cynical…
https://twitter.com/_juliannemoore/status/1271093436872101888?s=20
You’re already there. Unz dot com is a concrete example of what free speech is supposed to look like.
As others have suggested, ACLJ and Judicial Watch, both of which have acquitted themselves marvellously in the Flynn and Russia Hoax debacles. A lot of what we know about Obama official attempts to throw a presidential election and defame honorable Americans comes from Judicial Watch FOIA requests. ACLJ was involved in the impeachment and also defends little churches and monuments. They had a recent victory reversing a standard piece of judicial reasoning about religious displays, it was to do with that WWII cross monument.
They've raked in massive donations from little old church ladies over the years, and Jay Alan Sekulow has certainly been handsomely remunerated.
I am trained in CPR. We won’t perform it anymore. Aspirated fentanyl will kill the rescuer, and both chest compression and blows lead to exhalation. Fentanyl is a gamechanger in myriad ways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6vlu1FRaic&feature=emb_titleReplies: @anon
It took until about 5:20 for her to say “I’m just telling you who I am“, she’s clearly out of practice.
But wait, at 6:33 she’s “very disappointed”, she lived in Tennafly for 20 years, her children….and shocked…and disappointed…and “shut the f up”.
Oh, lol! “Badge number 5 4 0”.
Stronk ‘n independent. Hey, didja know her dawter is a grad student at Yale? Didja? huh?
Bet she has a pink hat in her drawer
What commies have done in the past is to simply bring back the guy whose skills they need but don’t let him have full credit or apologize in any way. If he accepts slavery maybe his official reputation will be Rehabilitated years later. Meanwhile the actions of the megacorps just happen to have the effect of increasing labor flexibility: can you possibly begin to imagine my shock?
We went through the same thing a couple years ago with the transgender stuff and Believe All Women.
Universities are the weakest and most vulnerable. Churches are weak. The D party and a good portion of the R are weak. Corporations are weak, especially consumer products companies and media/tech. None of them can stand up for themselves. It's like watching a bully torment a kid on the playground: "Say I'm your uncle! Say it!" Institutions that can't resist these rounds of bullying will soon totally fall apart.
The future won't be defined by BLM or whatever group attacks next. They have no positive ideas, only a list of things they want to destroy.
The future is institutions strong enough to resist the bullying and that have positive ideas. (By positive I don't necessarily mean good, just things they want to do, versus things they want to prevent.)Replies: @craig
Get this through your heads: universities, churches, and corporations are NOT weak, they’re on the other side. They’re speaking power to truth. When all the powerful, well-funded, socially respected institutions of society are on the side of destroying that same society, it’s not fear at all but the lust to destroy.
The ideas come from the outside activists, not the institutions. In fact, they probably don't even come from the outside activists; they probably come from foreign powers that want to wreck America. The activists are just useful idiots. The Soviets did this for decades.Replies: @ben tillman
Steve has shown the numbers on the increased number of black lives ended after the 2016-era push for BLM. I think it was about 4000 additional killings.
However, police shootings of civilians DID drop as a result, and I would assume this worked for blacks and whites. There's a grim thought that will get you canceled, and it will freak out the BLM crowd. Suppose that 10 fewer white lives end from police shootings as a result of BLM protests in 2016, as a side effect of fewer police shootings overall. Then over 4 years that's 40 white lives saved versus the 4000 additional black lives lost to crime. You'd then have a measure of the number of additional black people who died to save each white person.
Some smartass who doesn't care about cancellation ought to tweet that at BLM for complete meltdown: thanks, BLM, for trading 100 black lives for each white life saved.Replies: @Pincher Martin, @ben tillman
You haven’t thought through this at all.
If blacks only killed blacks during the officially-sanctioned Purge, then your calculations might make some sense. But blacks kill whites, too. There is a spillover effect that cancels any small gains you claim have been made on behalf of whites.
Besides, would police really stop patrolling or responding to crime in white neighborhoods just because they were far more circumspect in minority neighborhoods? Maybe, but I’m doubtful.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6631a9.htm
So apparently if blacks increased kills of whites, whites dropped lower.Replies: @Pincher Martin
But what is the chance Congress would pass such a law.Replies: @botazefa, @Brian Reilly
Emblematic, An employer (unless encumbered by a written contract with an individual person) should be free to discharge any employee at any time for any reason or no reason at all. Just as the employee, unless encumbered by a written agreement with the employer, is free to quit any time for any reason, or no reason at all. If the management of BigCo wants to endorse some organization I detest, I can quit. And vice versa.
The path to dignified employment and the end thereof is being very good at a marketable trade or craft, saving enough earned income to finance employment transitions, and having principles worth defending.
Remember when Steve said he had some good Willie Brown stories? Well, here’s a (sort of) WB story in the wrongful discharge context. In the late ‘80’s the California Supreme Court decided that worker’s compensation should be the exclusive forum for recovery of “pain and suffering” damages from a wrongful discharge. This left economic damages as the only kind recoverable in court. About a year later, Willie Brown’s old law partner from their days defending Fillmore district floozies, John Dearman, was presiding over civil motions in SF. Outside counsel for P.G.&E., knowing that Dearman was an idiot, decided to float the over-the-top notion that economic damages, too, were preempted by Comp. A real Hail Mary, but Dearman bought it, and so the plaintiff had to spend another 18 months in the system to get the ruling reversed.
That’s not it at all. Blacks are just free-riders. It’s whitey who drives this (and a good part of it is female whitey, completely dissolute as usual), with the politicians and academics and the free communication and “free money” sloshing around as accelerators. Some kind transplanted May 68 (which also was mentally deranged mix of Mao+Sex+”Antifascism”), but in John Brunner dystopian setting, with improved multiculturalism. What role the Derp State has in there, I can’t pretend to know.
The woke mob is getting woker and more mobbish by the minute, you really can see how a totalitarian dynamic develops. Brought to you by people who pretend to fight some “-ism”.
Here are my Autonomous Zone level demands going forward:
> Shut down Twitter & al., make communications costly again, especially the local ones.
> Universities non-STEM sections are closed, academics are let go to fend for themselves. No pensions.
> Hollywood actors will not be allowed to promote their political views. You are either in politics or you are acting, not both. Get the fuck off Instagram.
> Conversely, any politicians who puts on an act gets a free ejection into a retirement home on a lone & windy island.
> Everyone in politics or management position must take a yearly IQ test. Not at 90? No dice.
> Stop printing money. This will solve a lot of problems.
> Universal military service is back on the table. Bring the imperial troops home but buy large training grounds in Saudi Arabia to let people have fun with angry seargeants, boom boom and various cancer-causing chemicals.
> All #ethnically-inhabited areas which have demonstrably high criminality rates will be under curfew for the next five years.
Correction: Steve Huffman is merely an Ohio senator, not an US senator. This surely must make him more wrong and even more racist.
And in other WuFlu news, Springfield, Missouri hairstylists who reportedly worked while infected (and symptomatic) possibly did not transmit the virus to any of their many dozens of clients or to their fellow uninfected stylists.
“Anonymous Berkeley Professor Shreds BLM Injustice Narrative”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1271219776606687233.html
Real or not, the email is certainly worth a read.
This is why Fisher has to be cancelled
https://twitter.com/TFats3000/status/1271503043582922752
If you want further info:
https://us.spindices.com/documents/methodologies/methodology-sp-us-indices.pdfReplies: @Charon
Yes, that’s just what I wonder when I look at my stock portfolio.
MarketWatch was a relatively intelligent website until about ten years ago. Now it’s 100% woke. HQ in SFCA now.
They push out multiple Wuflu updates every day.
That's literally the last thing I am looking for from them or any financial app.
Why do you think he (or others) are being pressured? He/They may genuinely agree with the cause he/they is supporting. Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar. More than 80% of protesters seem to be white (it is more than 90% here in Portland, OR). Hard to argue they are doing it to please someone.
Look at what happens to those with heterodox views. Hell, look at what happens to those who don't actively agree. Look at what happened to Drew Brees! Look at what just happened to Starbucks!
Check out individuals and groups (including companies) that don't kowtow to the craziness and see how it plays out. The leftist mob attacks and the individual or group surrenders or loses their job (sometimes even after apologizing in the most pathetic of ways). For some strange reason these leftists have very deep pockets and organizational skills.
Even if the CEO or whoever agrees to a degree, they are still dancing to a tune that they themselves are not playing.
What does 80% of protesters being white have to do with any of this?Replies: @anon
Live-spoken poetry is now largely dominated by slam style poetry which is just non-melodic rap with overly academic pretensions. So eventually the meek nice old white people in charge who just wanted to fund some poets and the study of poetry were easy prey.
https://twitter.com/toad_spotted/status/1271221177587990530
http://www.chicagomag.com/arts-culture/June-2020/Poetry-Foundation-Letter-Resignations/They literally wouldn't have been called to resign for 'racism' if they hadn't issued a statement of support for the protests! Never give them an in. Willard Bunn, III has been involved in the world of 'mergers and acquisitions' and investment banking for decades and partook in the looting of his society. But it was being loosely affiliated with that statement of support for the protests that got him some bad PR. The new America is gunna be great.Replies: @Sako, @Buffalo Joe
That’s the least of it. Poetry is just the tip of the iceberg.
The Academy Awards just announced that movies will no longer qualify for nominations unless they have sufficient “diversity,” in other words, unless you have enough black people in it, your movie cannot qualify for an Oscar!
Here’s the story:
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/awards/oscars-will-add-representation-inclusion-standards-award-eligibility-n1230626
If that’s not bad enough, a transgender performer is now agitating to have Best Actor and Best Actress categories merged into one big gender neutral category, because otherwise it’s discrimination and violence against non-binary individuals like themselves:
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/asia-kate-dillon-billions-sag-awards-open-letter-1234630871/
Let’s hope this leads to the end of the Oscars, a sign of their total irrelevancy, not to accommodation of these zealots in more and more ways.
There are also efforts under way to remove politically incorrect movies like Gone with the Wind from all streaming services and get rid of books from libraries if there are too many white male authors on the shelves! Quite a problem, considering the vast majority of classic books in the past were written by white men. This is the Maoist Red Guard reborn for the 21st century.
Do not stop mentioning the truth about black crime rates and black on white violence. Don’t give them an inch. Never stop mentioning how many technologies, scientific discoveries, and artistic masterpieces were created by whites (almost all of them). If there has to be a “conversation” about race, that can’t simply mean radical leftists screaming at everyone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3pk_TBkihUReplies: @Clyde
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIrzZ18K_3k
We now have a museum curator, Madeline Odent, who is using her experience to advocate the optimal way to damage and dissolve bronze statues and promises to discuss marble later. She suggest Churchill as one of the targets. Just like Parcak she does the 'teehee, not that I'm advocating anything but if somebody did want to...' bit. Unlike Parcak in the US, she has been questioned by the police and deleted her Twitter account. But screencaps were taken.
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/29443060-8405899-image-a-1_1591785972740.jpg
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/29443100-8405899-image-a-2_1591785982404.jpg
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/29440390-0-image-m-12_1591781500473.jpg
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/29446888-8405899-image-a-47_1591795876112.jpg
Pretty shocking to me.
But that isn't the end of the shock.
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/curator-investigated-for-tweets-on-damaging-bronze-statues
Museum world rallies behind curator investigated for tweets on how to damage bronze statuesWhat the fuck is going on? Odent is curator of a fairly sleepy museum acting as the historical museum of the town of Royston.
http://www.roystonmuseum.org.uk/collectionsReplies: @fish, @YetAnotherAnon, @Known Fact, @Buffalo Joe, @donut
She’s from a wealthy American family, husband is a City banker. High-low against the middle yet again.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8407725/Hertfordshire-police-arrive-home-museum-curator-tweeted-destroy-bronze-statues.html
Shouldn’t that job have gone to a black rower, not the boss’s daughter?
However her advice on destroying bronze statues with bleach, so appropriate for a museum curator, seems to have been taken by the wrong sort of people – “vandals” rather than “protesters”.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8415203/Vandals-launch-bleach-attack-Bristol-statue-black-playwright-Alfred-Fagon.html
Not two and a half minutes after he was dead. Mostly likely an op with two objectives: keep Floyd from blowing cover on counterfeiting ring while also sparking riots for cover-up + political purposes. Cop knows he’s getting off due to politically motivated overcharge by Ellison.
The Academy Awards just announced that movies will no longer qualify for nominations unless they have sufficient “diversity,” in other words, unless you have enough black people in it, your movie cannot qualify for an Oscar!
Here’s the story:
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/awards/oscars-will-add-representation-inclusion-standards-award-eligibility-n1230626
If that’s not bad enough, a transgender performer is now agitating to have Best Actor and Best Actress categories merged into one big gender neutral category, because otherwise it’s discrimination and violence against non-binary individuals like themselves:
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/asia-kate-dillon-billions-sag-awards-open-letter-1234630871/
Let’s hope this leads to the end of the Oscars, a sign of their total irrelevancy, not to accommodation of these zealots in more and more ways.
There are also efforts under way to remove politically incorrect movies like Gone with the Wind from all streaming services and get rid of books from libraries if there are too many white male authors on the shelves! Quite a problem, considering the vast majority of classic books in the past were written by white men. This is the Maoist Red Guard reborn for the 21st century.
Do not stop mentioning the truth about black crime rates and black on white violence. Don’t give them an inch. Never stop mentioning how many technologies, scientific discoveries, and artistic masterpieces were created by whites (almost all of them). If there has to be a “conversation” about race, that can’t simply mean radical leftists screaming at everyone else.Replies: @Charon, @Altai, @Altai
“Another one bites the dust”
The Marketwatch app is trash too.
They push out multiple Wuflu updates every day.
That’s literally the last thing I am looking for from them or any financial app.
Live-spoken poetry is now largely dominated by slam style poetry which is just non-melodic rap with overly academic pretensions. So eventually the meek nice old white people in charge who just wanted to fund some poets and the study of poetry were easy prey.
https://twitter.com/toad_spotted/status/1271221177587990530
http://www.chicagomag.com/arts-culture/June-2020/Poetry-Foundation-Letter-Resignations/They literally wouldn't have been called to resign for 'racism' if they hadn't issued a statement of support for the protests! Never give them an in. Willard Bunn, III has been involved in the world of 'mergers and acquisitions' and investment banking for decades and partook in the looting of his society. But it was being loosely affiliated with that statement of support for the protests that got him some bad PR. The new America is gunna be great.Replies: @Sako, @Buffalo Joe
Altai,you know “Cultural Capitalist” would look great on a resume’.
It was his knee. And it’s a matter of no consequence if he was not compressing the man’s windpipe or carotid arteries. The question is, could he have done something to buy time until the ambulance arrived.
I lose track of who around here has been stewed through the police academy.
I think they are being pressured because they are being pressured.
Look at what happens to those with heterodox views. Hell, look at what happens to those who don’t actively agree. Look at what happened to Drew Brees! Look at what just happened to Starbucks!
Check out individuals and groups (including companies) that don’t kowtow to the craziness and see how it plays out. The leftist mob attacks and the individual or group surrenders or loses their job (sometimes even after apologizing in the most pathetic of ways). For some strange reason these leftists have very deep pockets and organizational skills.
Even if the CEO or whoever agrees to a degree, they are still dancing to a tune that they themselves are not playing.
What does 80% of protesters being white have to do with any of this?
During the Great Purge in the USSR it was common for former Party members on their way to execution to loudly praise Stalin. Marshal Tukashevsky in particular was one who kept it up right to the moment his executioner shot him in the head. His wife and daughter were also executed because reasons, but I doubt they had any last words.
During the reign of Shaka Zulu, many of his victims being led up the hill would similarly shout loud praises of Shaka, some right up to the moment their impalement began.
It's something deep inside of us, probably related to the "freeze" part of "flight / fight / freeze".
During the Salem witch trials one man refused to confess, because he was not guilty. They piled weight after weight on him, urging him to confess to witchcraft and the weights would be removed. His last words were "more weights".
Make them follow through on their threats. Make them publicly show their hypocrisy to everyone. Plus there's still a fragment of a legal system that can be used, if they follow through, as Patreon and Oberlin College are slowly learning.Replies: @Buffalo Joe
Universities and colleges are where the Thought Police get their training. One UA Birmingham anthropology professor was tweeting suggestions for how to tear down “obelisks,” with no real effort to hide what she meant.
Is there any reason the taxpayers of Alabama should continue to fund her salary? Roughly half the states in this country have both Republican legislatures and Republican governors, including Alabama. There is absolutely no reason why the taxpayers of Alabama or any other Republican-controlled state should continue to fund this crap. The federal government should cut funding to colleges and universities, as well.
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/blm-is-a-money-laundering-operation-for-the-dnc/
Nice work if you can get it.Replies: @Polynikes, @Erik L, @Buffalo Joe, @SkylertheWeird, @SunBakedSuburb
BLM is the caporegime to the DNC’s underboss. The boss is whoever the faux-commie billionaires are currently bankrolling. And that would be the wretched Obama-Holder-Jarrett cabal.
I’ve been thinking about how this BLM/defund the police will go. I see several possibilities.
For those of you who need to know, this is how you do a ‘MORE’ tag
Just throwing this out there, one possibility is that it amounts to nearly nothing. BLM riots are a few black criminals and the organization as a whole is astroturf; the latest in a long line of step 1) we do something step 2) ? Step 3) Trump is no longer President! I think this is partly true, but not relevant.
The black anger is real, but someone else is providing the brains and money. If those disappear again BLM will be defunct until the next election.
There’s also the possibility that the powers that be are getting scared of their golem. The black anger at police may be egged on for someone’s agenda, but the angry blacks don’t realize that. The anger is real. I think the defund the police did not come from the brains behind it. Defunding probably came up through black Twitter. If the establishment regains control, then defunding will maybe mean some more social programs, and maybe sending a social worker or rapid response mental health professional with the cops.
I don’t think that’s the case. Regardless if BLM came from the establishment or radicals who got the establishment and media to swear loyalty, because of Trump, Blacks think cops are the pointy end of the spear of white supremacy. This view is widespread throughout the socioeconomic spectrum. Blacks simply do not believe that the black crime rate is any higher than the white crime rate. They think the cops are targeting them because they are black, and they are angry about it.
It sure seems that blue states are positioned for defunding the police. Media supports BLM. Dem politicians support BLM. At the very least, majority black cities will be depoliced. That means the cities will be much worse places very quickly. We have an anon who is always going on about how cities are no longer viable, and are reduced to importing aliens who hate them. The aliens will stop moving to depoliced cities. As black criminals prey on nearby suburban whites, Whites will flee to the exurbs. If whole states depolice, whites will move to red states. That’s actually not a bad idea, if you were on the fence about relocating to a whiter state, this could be a good time to go, before the market realizes what’s happening and house prices tank.
Will blacks move to depoliced cities? I could see it. At least crime-prone ‘youths.’ If we get YangBucks, so people don’t have to follow jobs, the exodus could substantially lower crime rates other places. If they get reparations under Biden, they’ll go. If whole states depolice, then blacks from across the socioeconomic spectrum will move there. After all, there will be good jobs and great homes on the market, and they won’t have to deal with cops.
Another possibility is whites don’t move as quickly, but stay and fight. This will make the Republicans competitive in states they’ve long written off. New Yorkers voted for Giuliani and Bloomberg because the blacks and mulatto Hispanics went wild. Maybe this is good, if your a Red Team! boomer, less so if you’re a nationalist hbd-er.
Speaking of hbd. Ethnically cleansed whites might be more receptive to hbd messages than before. Take the opportunity to make converts. Express your sympathy, because being driven from your home sucks. Don’t gloat. Don’t try to convert them to the Red Team! Republicans are worthless.
Mention the basics of hbd, stuff that everyone already knows, but doesn’t connect to policy. Tell them that there is variety in all populations, but some groups have more of various types than others, When they object that it’s how they were raised, point out that blacks adopted by whites don’t get smarter. Even if adoption did make a difference, we can’t adopt all the black kids, so as a practical matter culture is heritable. Tell them that after generations, people have the culture that fits their natures. Their parents probably tried to get them to do things they hated, and that didn’t stick. At some point their families stopped going to church, even though they were raised to go, Tell them blacks have voted with their feet for the lifestyle they want in the lawless states. Just like they voted with their feet to live in a whiter-redder state.
I for one would love to see liberals convert to believing in biology and wanting the white population to have a secure future. They won’t be Team Red! but they might become nationalists and populist liberals.
BLM has opportunities, not just dangers, and the dissident right should capitalize on them. If only to help presort America by race for the coming crackup, or return to federalism, if you prefer. Maybe everyone’s been wrong about carving out a rural homeland in the Deep South for blacks. Maybe Black people would prefer urban islands in the Northeast. We can have the South and Midwest, along with any other regions that align on our side of the coming Great Divide. There would have to be border patrols and punitive expeditions when crime crosses the border. But that is a topic for another day.
Floyd had enough Fentanyl in his system to cause cardiac arrest. The Fentanyl is referenced in the autopsy relative to cause of death.
Fentanyl causes exactly the symptoms witnesses in the video or present in the record; the foaming, unsteady on feet, breathing problems and cardiac arrest. If the struggle in the car or prefatory to entering the car involved Floyd disposing of evidence through ingestion you’d have precisely the events caught on tape and in that exact sequence.
NIOSH (Institute of Occupational Safety and Health) advises first responders dealing with Fentanyl to prioritize avoiding any aerosolization of the Fentanyl which is easy with that substance.
Breathing on others is one way to aerosol the chemical. Dermal contact with the chemical is to be avoided (on Floyd’s hands). Further, in advice referencing a Fentanyl gas attack used by Russian terrorists, first responders were advised that propping up patients in cardiac arrest can worsen outcomes (even though every media doctor is criticizing police for not doing so).
Want to see for yourself? Look up NIOSH Work Group Report 2018 Fentanyl and First Responders.Replies: @Jack D, @Buroaker
This video was out almost immediately, allegedly dropping drugs on sidewalk
These corporations are sickening, though. In the rare instances they show a little backbone, like Starbucks yesterday, they always cave the next day.
Boycotting is totally necessary. I was looking forward to taking my son to the Daytona 500 when he turned 5, but that's out now. Kind of depressing, but I just can't stomach NASCAR turning so far left-wing as if the Colin Kaepernicks of this world are going to start being fans.
Are there any corporations not paying tribute to the BLM terrorists? We need to boycott, but we also need to find some good business to actively support. Sigh.Replies: @J.Ross, @Dtbb, @Achmed E. Newman
Physician, heal thyself.
Hey, why don't we fund the Dream Police?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPemyipJzAMReplies: @SunBakedSuburb
“the Dream Police”
The road through Implicit Bias goes straight to your dreams. Things are getting quite Dickian.
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1271466678350725121Replies: @Dtbb, @Lurker
LOL! I’m crying here!
First you cancel them, then you get them.
As in “Let’s get that guy.” “Yeah, get him!”
It means roughing him up, or worse.
I would put black general dysfunction as a higher social ill than crime on the hierarchy of social problems.
General welfare entitlements are a small part of it. The number of make-work public sector jobs leads to higher taxes and less overall economic productivity. It’s a hidden additional form of welfare.
Most of the athletes who feel their self-righteous voice needs to be heard virtue signaling don't know Schiff from Shinola and should just sit down and shut up. Go play your game and be glad you are wealthy in spite of your room temperature level IQ. Only in America.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
# CELEBRITIES LIVES
MATTERDON’T MEAN SHIT!(It’s one of our host’s minor failings if you ask me, at least seeming to care that much about celebrities. Is it LA?)
NYC is going to name one major street in every borough Black Lives Matter, with large signage (Timeout New York actually says massive) in yellow letters.
One of the streets will be near City Hall. They haven’t decided on the rest.
“ Of course cooperate America is supporting BLM. It’s been a tremendous tool in holding back the far left.”
The far left I believe you’re referring too has been gone for thirty years or more and isn’t coming back.
That's how I landed on this website. I moved from Counterpunch to ISteve, with Mike Whitney and Paul Craig Roberts as the bridge.
I've changed my mind somewhat on race issues since coming to this site.
Before I was for equality under the law and equality of opportunity, but against equality of outcomes.
Now I am against equality of opportunity as well.
I still believe in equality under the law.
Wonderful letter to President Trump from Archbishop Vigano – https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/archbishop-viganos-powerful-letter-to-president-trump-eternal-struggle-between-good-and-evil-playing-out-right-now
An excerpt:
“In society, Mr. President, these two opposing realities co-exist as eternal enemies, just as God and Satan are eternal enemies. And it appears that the children of darkness – whom we may easily identify with the deep state which you wisely oppose and which is fiercely waging war against you in these days – have decided to show their cards, so to speak, by now revealing their plans. They seem to be so certain of already having everything under control that they have laid aside that circumspection that until now had at least partially concealed their true intentions. The investigations already under way will reveal the true responsibility of those who managed the COVID emergency not only in the area of health care but also in politics, the economy, and the media. We will probably find that in this colossal operation of social engineering there are people who have decided the fate of humanity, arrogating to themselves the right to act against the will of citizens and their representatives in the governments of nations.”
“We will also discover that the riots in these days were provoked by those who, seeing that the virus is inevitably fading and that the social alarm of the pandemic is waning, necessarily have had to provoke civil disturbances, because they would be followed by repression which, although legitimate, could be condemned as an unjustified aggression against the population. The same thing is also happening in Europe, in perfect synchrony. It is quite clear that the use of street protests is instrumental to the purposes of those who would like to see someone elected in the upcoming presidential elections who embodies the goals of the deep state and who expresses those goals faithfully and with conviction. It will not be surprising if, in a few months, we learn once again that hidden behind these acts of vandalism and violence there are those who hope to profit from the dissolution of the social order so as to build a world without freedom: Solve et Coagula, as the Masonic adage teaches.”
The Academy Awards just announced that movies will no longer qualify for nominations unless they have sufficient “diversity,” in other words, unless you have enough black people in it, your movie cannot qualify for an Oscar!
Here’s the story:
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/awards/oscars-will-add-representation-inclusion-standards-award-eligibility-n1230626
If that’s not bad enough, a transgender performer is now agitating to have Best Actor and Best Actress categories merged into one big gender neutral category, because otherwise it’s discrimination and violence against non-binary individuals like themselves:
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/asia-kate-dillon-billions-sag-awards-open-letter-1234630871/
Let’s hope this leads to the end of the Oscars, a sign of their total irrelevancy, not to accommodation of these zealots in more and more ways.
There are also efforts under way to remove politically incorrect movies like Gone with the Wind from all streaming services and get rid of books from libraries if there are too many white male authors on the shelves! Quite a problem, considering the vast majority of classic books in the past were written by white men. This is the Maoist Red Guard reborn for the 21st century.
Do not stop mentioning the truth about black crime rates and black on white violence. Don’t give them an inch. Never stop mentioning how many technologies, scientific discoveries, and artistic masterpieces were created by whites (almost all of them). If there has to be a “conversation” about race, that can’t simply mean radical leftists screaming at everyone else.Replies: @Charon, @Altai, @Altai
Looks like Tenent just won best picture 2021. Chris Nolan ahead of the curve, fitting, given the subject matter.
You are enticed by -- Blow thangs up- crash cars and and airplanes- few tight women- portentous music - LASTLY smear some disjointed sci-fi goop ontop that makes no sense at all.
“Is there an upper limit to what percentage of the population can be canceled without collapsing society? “
Much higher than today’s percentage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge#Moscow_Trials
The Soviet purges of the late 30s are the locus classicus for this. Vast numbers of senior people cancelled with extreme prejudice, including around half the officer corps. Yet with backs against the wall after Germany invaded, it’s amazing how people who’d never have got an interview can perform when motivated and united.
Admittedly the US aren’t motivated or united. Which is why China will eat their lunch.
The Academy Awards just announced that movies will no longer qualify for nominations unless they have sufficient “diversity,” in other words, unless you have enough black people in it, your movie cannot qualify for an Oscar!
Here’s the story:
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/awards/oscars-will-add-representation-inclusion-standards-award-eligibility-n1230626
If that’s not bad enough, a transgender performer is now agitating to have Best Actor and Best Actress categories merged into one big gender neutral category, because otherwise it’s discrimination and violence against non-binary individuals like themselves:
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/asia-kate-dillon-billions-sag-awards-open-letter-1234630871/
Let’s hope this leads to the end of the Oscars, a sign of their total irrelevancy, not to accommodation of these zealots in more and more ways.
There are also efforts under way to remove politically incorrect movies like Gone with the Wind from all streaming services and get rid of books from libraries if there are too many white male authors on the shelves! Quite a problem, considering the vast majority of classic books in the past were written by white men. This is the Maoist Red Guard reborn for the 21st century.
Do not stop mentioning the truth about black crime rates and black on white violence. Don’t give them an inch. Never stop mentioning how many technologies, scientific discoveries, and artistic masterpieces were created by whites (almost all of them). If there has to be a “conversation” about race, that can’t simply mean radical leftists screaming at everyone else.Replies: @Charon, @Altai, @Altai
Actually I’m wrong, it’s gunna be Antebellum if it gets screened this year.
I can’t even!
Irony Overload: Autonomous Zone ‘Warlord’ May Soon Be Canceled after Old Homophobic Tweets Surface
https://twitter.com/_juliannemoore/status/1271093436872101888?s=20Replies: @fish, @Anonymous
Harold Laski….?
‘Most Americans can’t accept that our major social problem is not police brutality, but black crime.’
The existence of the police at all — and the fairly inevitable accompaniment of police brutality — is largely a consequence of black crime.
We might or might not be able to get by without police in any form if we didn’t also have blacks. I’d be prepared to give it a go. I could see it working around here.
…but then, there are few blacks around here. Given blacks, police become an inarguable necessity.
If you don’t want the police, specify what you intend to do with the blacks.
Why do people on the right make claims like this - it discredits the whole movement. There isn't a single functioning society in the world, including those with negligible numbers of blacks, that doesnt have a large and invasive police force. The relationship between police and the citizens is fraught everywhere - look at how much thought is devoted to that issue in our own Bill of Rights.Replies: @J.Ross, @Colin Wright, @ben tillman
We now have a museum curator, Madeline Odent, who is using her experience to advocate the optimal way to damage and dissolve bronze statues and promises to discuss marble later. She suggest Churchill as one of the targets. Just like Parcak she does the 'teehee, not that I'm advocating anything but if somebody did want to...' bit. Unlike Parcak in the US, she has been questioned by the police and deleted her Twitter account. But screencaps were taken.
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/29443060-8405899-image-a-1_1591785972740.jpg
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/29443100-8405899-image-a-2_1591785982404.jpg
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/29440390-0-image-m-12_1591781500473.jpg
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/29446888-8405899-image-a-47_1591795876112.jpg
Pretty shocking to me.
But that isn't the end of the shock.
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/curator-investigated-for-tweets-on-damaging-bronze-statues
Museum world rallies behind curator investigated for tweets on how to damage bronze statuesWhat the fuck is going on? Odent is curator of a fairly sleepy museum acting as the historical museum of the town of Royston.
http://www.roystonmuseum.org.uk/collectionsReplies: @fish, @YetAnotherAnon, @Known Fact, @Buffalo Joe, @donut
She is beyond sick. Wonder what she’s really so angry about
She took it badly.
“You can dump me, Monahan, but you’ll never get rid of me!” she cried. “I’ll exact my revenge on you and all the other blond beasts who pumped and dumped me over the years! I’ll tear down all of your statues! Every last one of them!”
Is there any reason the taxpayers of Alabama should continue to fund her salary? Roughly half the states in this country have both Republican legislatures and Republican governors, including Alabama. There is absolutely no reason why the taxpayers of Alabama or any other Republican-controlled state should continue to fund this crap. The federal government should cut funding to colleges and universities, as well.Replies: @Buffalo Joe
Wilkey, a few years ago, in an attempt to become relevant, UAB went big into D-1 football. They also had a 14 year old girl living on campus and starting her college life. The girl became the pass around sex toy of the football team. Find it on line and be shocked. Anyone at UAB, including that professor,is tainted by that crime. Isn’t that how all this works?
Look at what happens to those with heterodox views. Hell, look at what happens to those who don't actively agree. Look at what happened to Drew Brees! Look at what just happened to Starbucks!
Check out individuals and groups (including companies) that don't kowtow to the craziness and see how it plays out. The leftist mob attacks and the individual or group surrenders or loses their job (sometimes even after apologizing in the most pathetic of ways). For some strange reason these leftists have very deep pockets and organizational skills.
Even if the CEO or whoever agrees to a degree, they are still dancing to a tune that they themselves are not playing.
What does 80% of protesters being white have to do with any of this?Replies: @anon
The leftist mob attacks and the individual or group surrenders or loses their job (sometimes even after apologizing in the most pathetic of ways).
During the Great Purge in the USSR it was common for former Party members on their way to execution to loudly praise Stalin. Marshal Tukashevsky in particular was one who kept it up right to the moment his executioner shot him in the head. His wife and daughter were also executed because reasons, but I doubt they had any last words.
During the reign of Shaka Zulu, many of his victims being led up the hill would similarly shout loud praises of Shaka, some right up to the moment their impalement began.
It’s something deep inside of us, probably related to the “freeze” part of “flight / fight / freeze”.
During the Salem witch trials one man refused to confess, because he was not guilty. They piled weight after weight on him, urging him to confess to witchcraft and the weights would be removed. His last words were “more weights”.
Make them follow through on their threats. Make them publicly show their hypocrisy to everyone. Plus there’s still a fragment of a legal system that can be used, if they follow through, as Patreon and Oberlin College are slowly learning.
https://twitter.com/vdare/status/1271471923805868032Replies: @Stan Adams, @Mister.Baseball
That video was shot on Biscayne Boulevard in downtown Miami, near the Bayside shopping mall that was looted a couple of weeks ago.
Government Center, the main transit hub in the downtown area, will be closed all weekend. The trains will run as scheduled but will not stop at that station.
We now have a museum curator, Madeline Odent, who is using her experience to advocate the optimal way to damage and dissolve bronze statues and promises to discuss marble later. She suggest Churchill as one of the targets. Just like Parcak she does the 'teehee, not that I'm advocating anything but if somebody did want to...' bit. Unlike Parcak in the US, she has been questioned by the police and deleted her Twitter account. But screencaps were taken.
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/29443060-8405899-image-a-1_1591785972740.jpg
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/29443100-8405899-image-a-2_1591785982404.jpg
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/29440390-0-image-m-12_1591781500473.jpg
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/29446888-8405899-image-a-47_1591795876112.jpg
Pretty shocking to me.
But that isn't the end of the shock.
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/curator-investigated-for-tweets-on-damaging-bronze-statues
Museum world rallies behind curator investigated for tweets on how to damage bronze statuesWhat the fuck is going on? Odent is curator of a fairly sleepy museum acting as the historical museum of the town of Royston.
http://www.roystonmuseum.org.uk/collectionsReplies: @fish, @YetAnotherAnon, @Known Fact, @Buffalo Joe, @donut
Altai, she is so fucking woke, but you probably have to take your shoes off when you enter her house.”The carpet, the carpet. Mind your footsteps.”
Thanks for sharing and you are absolutely right about “Professor” Ray! It really gnaws at me that a handful of elite-level academics around the country are going to make out like fat rats due to the current furor, but then again, who ever said life is fair?
One thing that I would really love to see is for the alleged “current” Prof. Ray referenced to go through the black community whenever a black kills another black. The black community just yawns at the carnage they inflict upon themselves around the country on a daily basis. If this isn’t neurotic behavior then I don’t know what it is.
Just cut your losses. Self-serious blacks like Chappelle love to lecture audiences, as if they are some great prophet or griot from the past. You see, in situations such as this, they have to prove how truly “black” they are by hyping up and overdoing their outrage.
tldr, continued chaos.
A Jew (presumably this means an identifiable Jew like a Haredi) was part and parcelled in Sadiq Khan’s burg, a black man in California has committed suicide in such a way as to make trouble for white people, and in the CHAZ agricultural collective the plants are wilting.
part and parcel
I've been thinking a lot about how our 401ks have created a lot of "trust fund baby" corporations -- we put in money mindlessly over decades into index funds, and the corporations receive the money essentially independently from whether their business plans are working. This allows for a lot of malarkey and shuts out smaller, more regional businesses. Is there any model for regionally distributed stock markets? I am thinking along the lines of the original structure of the Federal Reserve. There were twelve districts nationwide, each selected for its unique industrial/commercial focuses. They were meant to each have their own monetary policies. Perhaps we could decentralize stock markets in some similar way.Replies: @kaganovitch, @Ximenes, @silviosilver, @TomSchmidt, @Lot
There are tons of ETFs, but unlikely to be any demand for regional US ones.
Hard to really define what would go in them too. Is Amazon really much of a Washington corp when it gets 3% of its revenue and has 10% of its employees there?
It also destroys some of the benefit of diversification. The oil bust is disproportionately hurting incomes of Texans. Should it also disproportionately hurt their index funds? Isn’t it a good thing that Michiganders don’t have most of their retirements in weak performing auto stocks?
There are passive and active ETFs that are limited to single foreign countries, ie The India Fund. These tend to have higher fees and higher volatility, and are not very popular.
One type of fund that is limited to certain states are muni bond funds. A Maryland resident who buys a Maryland muni gets it tax free for both state and federal, so it makes sense to have 1-state funds there.
Index funds are free riders for sure. They rely on others to determine what are good investments, but don’t pay them for this work. At a certain point they will start to underperform active funds, but we aren’t there yet.
While index free riding is a minor problem, I hate Big Finance enough I am glad index funds are hurting them and hope the Vanguard non-profit model keeps growing.
I think it would be a hoot to have, not a general strike, but a white men's strike.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
I don’t see the distinction, Bill.
(OK, I kid, I kid…. but not that much…)
part and parcel
Down with Trump. Down with populists Down with people who oppose globalization and deracination. Down with “the deplorables.” Down with the Constitution. Down with freedom.
And down with what we grew up being told (and what we thought) America was about.
That’s the agenda now.
“ we have unprecedented credibility, room, and energy to further separate patriot republicans from chamber of commerce republicans.”
But not the needed money.
Steve King lost his primary, and Jeff Sessions probably will too, though he’s been gaining ground against Coach Toofewmigrants.
In both cases, the patriots were buried by the globocapitalism candidates who had 3 times more money, and had easier times raising it.
One reason we don’t have more Tuckers on TV is that he has zero mainstream big business advertisers.
If Mike Tyson was brainwashed by a cult into beating up the cult’s enemies, who is strong, Mike Tyson or the cult?
The ideas come from the outside activists, not the institutions. In fact, they probably don’t even come from the outside activists; they probably come from foreign powers that want to wreck America. The activists are just useful idiots. The Soviets did this for decades.
testing
A person belonging to a certain group was stabbed in London, so it will be interesting to see how the case develops, and how the community that person is from reacts to the development. Maybe the most cinematic is over but violent criminal chaos appears to continue in many places.
The officer kept his boot on Floyd's neck for several minutes after Floyd became unconscious. The officer (and his colleagues) was an idiot. This does not make Floyd a hero nor necessarily make the cop a murderer but what the cop did was far from praiseworthy. I understand being a cop and dealing with POS's all day, every day (both black and white but mainly black) can make you cynical about humanity but still you have to apply some common sense. However, what the Somali cop did to the white woman was FAR worse but there were no riots, no worldwide marches.
As our society deteriorates you will see more and more of these encounters where BOTH parties are in the wrong. A pox on both their houses.Replies: @Old and Grumpy, @GeraldB, @TomSchmidt, @Michael S, @Coemgen, @Art Deco, @ben tillman, @Anonymous
Why do you say that what happened in the Justine Diamond case is worse? It is not uncommon for police to shoot innocent bystanders out of fear. In fact, just a couple of weeks ago in a suburb outside of Houston two different law enforcement agencies responded to a call of a suspicious person in a vacant house, As the officers from one agency were clearing the house, an officer from the other agency entered and was shot and killed.
It was always my understanding that officers were not to fire their weapon unless they could identify a target and a threat. Obviously this did not happen in the Houston case or the case of white Dallas lady cop who shot Botham Jean in his own apartment. Noor’s incompetence is not that unique and doesn’t necessarily indicate racial bias on his part.
The Justine Diamond case was played up as something it wasn’t by the WN and Sailerverse. It fit Sailers narrative – all Muslim immigrants are bad and pose an existential threat to the United States. Diamond’s killer, Mohammed Noor, received a sentence (12.5 years) not all that different than Amber Guyger (10 years).
https://abc13.com/fort-bend-county-sheriffs-office-precinct-4-deputy-constable-dies-friendly-fire-sienna-plantation/6218753/
The existence of the police at all -- and the fairly inevitable accompaniment of police brutality -- is largely a consequence of black crime.
We might or might not be able to get by without police in any form if we didn't also have blacks. I'd be prepared to give it a go. I could see it working around here.
...but then, there are few blacks around here. Given blacks, police become an inarguable necessity.
If you don't want the police, specify what you intend to do with the blacks.Replies: @Anonymous
“The existence of the police at all — and the fairly inevitable accompaniment of police brutality — is largely a consequence of black crime.”
Why do people on the right make claims like this – it discredits the whole movement. There isn’t a single functioning society in the world, including those with negligible numbers of blacks, that doesnt have a large and invasive police force. The relationship between police and the citizens is fraught everywhere – look at how much thought is devoted to that issue in our own Bill of Rights.
America, ca. 1780-1850?
Haven never loved her. He was just using her to get his rocks off. She was just another silly girl who bought into his spiel. The day after their torrid encounter, he could barely remember her name.
She took it badly.
“You can dump me, Monahan, but you’ll never get rid of me!” she cried. “I’ll exact my revenge on you and all the other blond beasts who pumped and dumped me over the years! I’ll tear down all of your statues! Every last one of them!”
I lose track of who around here has been stewed through the police academy.Replies: @ben tillman, @nebulafox
Exactly right, from a legal perspective.
>Corporate American has just funded a dagger aimed at the spirit of the First Amendment.
But my Libertarian friends assure me this is OK, because corporate America isn’t the government!
Mack Brown’s brother Watson was the head coach.
Much higher than today's percentage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge#Moscow_Trials
The Soviet purges of the late 30s are the locus classicus for this. Vast numbers of senior people cancelled with extreme prejudice, including around half the officer corps. Yet with backs against the wall after Germany invaded, it's amazing how people who'd never have got an interview can perform when motivated and united.
Admittedly the US aren't motivated or united. Which is why China will eat their lunch.Replies: @ben tillman
But they were reaching back into the same stock. Replacing whites with non-whites will not work the same way.
As in "Let's get that guy." "Yeah, get him!"
It means roughing him up, or worse.Replies: @Nicholas Stix
“We’re not going to kill you, Shane. We’re just gonna rough you up, a little, and run you out of town.”
This isn’t “woke”. It’s simple hygeine. You want that guy just back from a walking tour of San Francisco trampling on your floors?
The Trump administration Health and Human Services department has today said that if you were born with a thing between your legs, well, you were born with a thing between your legs.
SCIENCE!
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/06/12/hhs-finalizes-rule-section-1557-protecting-civil-rights-healthcare.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/us/politics/trump-transgender-rights.html
Dear profs X, Y, Z
I am one of your colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley. I have met you both personally but do not know you closely, and am contacting you anonymously, with apologies. I am worried that writing this email publicly might lead to me losing my job, and likely all future jobs in my field.
In your recent departmental emails you mentioned our pledge to diversity, but I am increasingly alarmed by the absence of diversity of opinion on the topic of the recent protests and our community response to them.
In the extended links and resources you provided, I could not find a single instance of substantial counter-argument or alternative narrative to explain the under-representation of black individuals in academia or their over-representation in the criminal justice system. The explanation provided in your documentation, to the near exclusion of all others, is univariate: the problems of the black community are caused by whites, or, when whites are not physically present, by the infiltration of white supremacy and white systemic racism into American brains, souls, and institutions.
Many cogent objections to this thesis have been raised by sober voices, including from within the black community itself, such as Thomas Sowell and Wilfred Reilly. These people are not racists or 'Uncle Toms'. They are intelligent scholars who reject a narrative that strips black people of agency and systematically externalizes the problems of the black community onto outsiders. Their view is entirely absent from the departmental and UCB-wide communiques.
The claim that the difficulties that the black community faces are entirely causally explained by exogenous factors in the form of white systemic racism, white supremacy, and other forms of white discrimination remains a problematic hypothesis that should be vigorously challenged by historians. Instead, it is being treated as an axiomatic and actionable truth without serious consideration of its profound flaws, or its worrying implication of total black impotence. This hypothesis is transforming our institution and our culture, without any space for dissent outside of a tightly policed, narrow discourse.
A counternarrative exists. If you have time, please consider examining some of the documents I attach at the end of this email.
Overwhelmingly, the reasoning provided by BLM and allies is either primarily anecdotal (as in the case with the bulk of Ta-Nehisi Coates' undeniably moving article) or it is transparently motivated. As an example of the latter problem, consider the proportion of black incarcerated Americans. This proportion is often used to characterize the criminal justice system as anti-black. However, if we use the precise same methodology, we would have to conclude that the criminal justice system is even more anti-male than it is anti-black. Would we characterize criminal justice as a systemically misandrist conspiracy against innocent American men? I hope you see that this type of reasoning is flawed, and requires a significant suspension of our rational faculties. Black people are not incarcerated at higher rates than their involvement in violent crime would predict. This fact has been demonstrated multiple times across multiple jurisdictions in multiple countries. And yet, I see my department uncritically reproducing a narrative that diminishes black agency in favor of a white-centric explanation that appeals to the department's apparent desire to shoulder the 'white man's burden' and to promote a narrative of white guilt.
If we claim that the criminal justice system is white-supremacist, why is it that Asian Americans, Indian Americans, and Nigerian Americans are incarcerated at vastly lower rates than white Americans? This is a funny sort of white supremacy. Even Jewish Americans are incarcerated less than gentile whites. I think it's fair to say that your average white supremacist disapproves of Jews. And yet, these alleged white supremacists incarcerate gentiles at vastly higher rates than Jews. None of this is addressed in your literature. None of this is explained, beyond hand-waving and ad hominems. "Those are racist dogwhistles". "The model minority myth is white supremacist". "Only fascists talk about black-on-black crime", ad nauseam. These types of statements do not amount to counterarguments: they are simply arbitrary offensive classifications, intended to silence and oppress discourse. Any serious historian will recognize these for the silencing orthodoxy tactics they are, common to suppressive regimes, doctrines, and religions throughout time and space. They are intended to crush real diversity and permanently exile the culture of robust criticism from our department.
Increasingly, we are being called upon to comply and subscribe to BLM's problematic view of history, and the department is being presented as unified on the matter. In particular, ethnic minorities are being aggressively marshaled into a single position. Any apparent unity is surely a function of the fact that dissent could almost certainly lead to expulsion or cancellation for those of us in a precarious position, which is no small number.
I personally don't dare speak out against the BLM narrative, and with this barrage of alleged unity being mass-produced by the administration, tenured professoriat, the UC administration, corporate America, and the media, the punishment for dissent is a clear danger at a time of widespread economic vulnerability. I am certain that if my name were attached to this email, I would lose my job and all future jobs, even though I believe in and can justify every word I type.
The vast majority of violence visited on the black community is committed by black people. There are virtually no marches for these invisible victims, no public silences, no heartfelt letters from the UC regents, deans, and departmental heads. The message is clear: Black lives only matter when whites take them. Black violence is expected and insoluble, while white violence requires explanation and demands solution. Please look into your hearts and see how monstrously bigoted this formulation truly is.
No discussion is permitted for nonblack victims of black violence, who proportionally outnumber black victims of nonblack violence. This is especially bitter in the Bay Area, where Asian victimization by black assailants has reached epidemic proportions, to the point that the SF police chief has advised Asians to stop hanging good-luck charms on their doors, as this attracts the attention of (overwhelmingly black) home invaders. Home invaders like George Floyd. For this actual, lived, physically experienced reality of violence in the USA, there are no marches, no tearful emails from departmental heads, no support from McDonald's and Wal-Mart. For the History department, our silence is not a mere abrogation of our duty to shed light on the truth: it is a rejection of it.
The claim that black intraracial violence is the product of redlining, slavery, and other injustices is a largely historical claim. It is for historians, therefore, to explain why Japanese internment or the massacre of European Jewry hasn't led to equivalent rates of dysfunction and low SES performance among Japanese and Jewish Americans respectively. Arab Americans have been viciously demonized since 9/11, as have Chinese Americans more recently. However, both groups outperform white Americans on nearly all SES indices - as do Nigerian Americans, who incidentally have black skin. It is for historians to point out and discuss these anomalies. However, no real discussion is possible in the current climate at our department. The explanation is provided to us, disagreement with it is racist, and the job of historians is to further explore additional ways in which the explanation is additionally correct. This is a mockery of the historical profession.
Most troublingly, our department appears to have been entirely captured by the interests of the Democratic National Convention, and the Democratic Party more broadly. To explain what I mean, consider what happens if you choose to donate to Black Lives Matter, an organization UCB History has explicitly promoted in its recent mailers. All donations to the official BLM website are immediately redirected to ActBlue Charities, an organization primarily concerned with bankrolling election campaigns for Democrat candidates. Donating to BLM today is to indirectly donate to Joe Biden's 2020 campaign. This is grotesque given the fact that the American cities with the worst rates of black-on-black violence and police-on-black violence are overwhelmingly Democrat-run. Minneapolis itself has been entirely in the hands of Democrats for over five decades; the 'systemic racism' there was built by successive Democrat administrations.
The patronizing and condescending attitudes of Democrat leaders towards the black community, exemplified by nearly every Biden statement on the black race, all but guarantee a perpetual state of misery, resentment, poverty, and the attendant grievance politics which are simultaneously annihilating American political discourse and black lives. And yet, donating to BLM is bankrolling the election campaigns of men like Mayor Frey, who saw their cities devolve into violence. This is a grotesque capture of a good-faith movement for necessary police reform, and of our department, by a political party. Even worse, there are virtually no avenues for dissent in academic circles. I refuse to serve the Party, and so should you. The total alliance of major corporations involved in human exploitation with BLM should be a warning flag to us, and yet this damning evidence goes unnoticed, purposefully ignored, or perversely celebrated. We are the useful idiots of the wealthiest classes, carrying water for Jeff Bezos and other actual, real, modern-day slavers. Starbucks, an organisation using literal black slaves in its coffee plantation suppliers, is in favor of BLM. Sony, an organisation using cobalt mined by yet more literal black slaves, many of whom are children, is in favor of BLM. And so, apparently, are we. The absence of counter-narrative enables this obscenity. Fiat lux, indeed.
There also exists a large constituency of what can only be called 'race hustlers': hucksters of all colors who benefit from stoking the fires of racial conflict to secure administrative jobs, charity management positions, academic jobs and advancement, or personal political entrepreneurship.
Given the direction our history department appears to be taking far from any commitment to truth, we can regard ourselves as a formative training institution for this brand of snake-oil salespeople. Their activities are corrosive, demolishing any hope at harmonious racial coexistence in our nation and colonizing our political and institutional life. Many of their voices are unironically segregationist. MLK would likely be called an Uncle Tom if he spoke on our campus today. We are training leaders who intend, explicitly, to destroy one of the only truly successful ethnically diverse societies in modern history. As the PRC, an ethnonationalist and aggressively racially chauvinist national polity with null immigration and no concept of jus solis increasingly presents itself as the global political alternative to the US, I ask you: Is this wise? Are we really doing the right thing?
As a final point, our university and department has made multiple statements celebrating and eulogizing George Floyd. Floyd was a multiple felon who once held a pregnant black woman at gunpoint. He broke into her home with a gang of men and pointed a gun at her pregnant stomach. He terrorized the women in his community. He sired and abandoned multiple children, playing no part in their support or upbringing, failing one of the most basic tests of decency for a human being. He was a drug-addict and sometime drug-dealer, a swindler who preyed upon his honest and hard-working neighbors.
And yet, the regents of UC and the historians of the UCB History department are celebrating this violent criminal, elevating his name to virtual sainthood. A man who hurt women. A man who hurt black women. With the full collaboration of the UCB history department, corporate America, most mainstream media outlets, and some of the wealthiest and most privileged opinion-shaping elites of the USA, he has become a culture hero, buried in a golden casket, his (recognized) family showered with gifts and praise. Americans are being socially pressured into kneeling for this violent, abusive misogynist. A generation of black men are being coerced into identifying with George Floyd, the absolute worst specimen of our race and species. I'm ashamed of my department. I would say that I'm ashamed of both of you, but perhaps you agree with me, and are simply afraid, as I am, of the backlash of speaking the truth. It's hard to know what kneeling means, when you have to kneel to keep your job.
It shouldn't affect the strength of my argument above, but for the record, I write as a person of color. My family have been personally victimized by men like Floyd. We are aware of the condescending depredations of the Democrat party against our race. The humiliating assumption that we are too stupid to do STEM, that we need special help and lower requirements to get ahead in life, is richly familiar to us. I sometimes wonder if it wouldn't be easier to deal with open fascists, who at least would be straightforward in calling me a subhuman, and who are unlikely to share my race.
The ever-present soft bigotry of low expectations and the permanent claim that the solutions to the plight of my people rest exclusively on the goodwill of whites rather than on our own hard work is psychologically devastating. No other group in America is systematically demoralized in this way by its alleged allies. A whole generation of black children are being taught that only by begging and weeping and screaming will they get handouts from guilt-ridden whites. No message will more surely devastate their futures, especially if whites run out of guilt, or indeed if America runs out of whites. If this had been done to Japanese Americans, or Jewish Americans, or Chinese Americans, then Chinatown and Japantown would surely be no different to the roughest parts of Baltimore and East St. Louis today. The History department of UCB is now an integral institutional promulgator of a destructive and denigrating fallacy about the black race.
I hope you appreciate the frustration behind this message. I do not support BLM. I do not support the Democrat grievance agenda and the Party's uncontested capture of our department. I do not support the Party co-opting my race, as Biden recently did in his disturbing interview, claiming that voting Democrat and being black are isomorphic. I condemn the manner of George Floyd's death and join you in calling for greater police accountability and police reform. However, I will not pretend that George Floyd was anything other than a violent misogynist, a brutal man who met a predictably brutal end.
I also want to protect the practice of history. Cleo is no grovelling handmaiden to politicians and corporations. Like us, she is free.Replies: @El Dato, @Peterike
Thus written in Heidelberg, 1932
Why do people on the right make claims like this - it discredits the whole movement. There isn't a single functioning society in the world, including those with negligible numbers of blacks, that doesnt have a large and invasive police force. The relationship between police and the citizens is fraught everywhere - look at how much thought is devoted to that issue in our own Bill of Rights.Replies: @J.Ross, @Colin Wright, @ben tillman
Are you joking? You must be. Modern police forces didn’t exist at the time, and almost all police strengthening and militarization in this country was a reaction to uncontrollable absimilationist blacks.
In other words, the police are the armed wing of the government that imposes "law and order" upon citizens who disobey or oppose its edicts. Every functioing society in world history, irrespective of how many blacks live in that society, has had such a force whether or not it was organized as the modern police departments we recognize today.
A lot of which act pink:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Washington,_D.C.#LGBT_population
Why does this truncated square still have electors? Whites are on the verge of outnumbering blacks, which defeats the whole point of the 23rd Amendment. And you can bet that 43% comprise well over 50% of the GDP and net worth of the District.
We’ve reached the point where you can lose your livelihood over a Floydian slip.
Thank goodness such quaint racist notions are a thing of the past.
Hey, if the chiro doesn’t practically take your head off your shoulders, you’re not getting your money’s worth.
It was always my understanding that officers were not to fire their weapon unless they could identify a target and a threat. Obviously this did not happen in the Houston case or the case of white Dallas lady cop who shot Botham Jean in his own apartment. Noor's incompetence is not that unique and doesn't necessarily indicate racial bias on his part.
The Justine Diamond case was played up as something it wasn't by the WN and Sailerverse. It fit Sailers narrative - all Muslim immigrants are bad and pose an existential threat to the United States. Diamond's killer, Mohammed Noor, received a sentence (12.5 years) not all that different than Amber Guyger (10 years).
https://abc13.com/fort-bend-county-sheriffs-office-precinct-4-deputy-constable-dies-friendly-fire-sienna-plantation/6218753/Replies: @J.Ross, @ben tillman
This is inaccurate. Neither example should have been a police officer, but Amber would probably have served as a perfectly good unarmed office supplement or dispatcher. Noor, an #$^!$#-IQ Somali diversity hire, fired reflexively at a non-threat, first thing upon arriving at the scene and not as you depend upon as a reaction to a situation, through a window, and across his partner! Not only should he not have been a cop, he should never have been allowed to carry a firearm.
Amber Guyer fired reflexively at a non threat, first thing upon arriving at an apartment that wasnt even on her floor and had a red carpet in fron of the door unlike her own apartment.She enters the apartment, didnt even sense it wasnt her own (smell, furniture, lighting, etc.) and lit up a guy eating ice cream and watching tv in his own apartment.
Come on man!!!Replies: @J.Ross
The path to dignified employment and the end thereof is being very good at a marketable trade or craft, saving enough earned income to finance employment transitions, and having principles worth defending.Replies: @Marty
Brian, I assume you know that your position on “at-will” employment was the widespread norm for non-union employment in the U.S. before 1980, and that it’s opposite has been the American norm since then (either because imposed by courts or because companies adopt “just cause” in hopes of building esprit de corps. Even as a former trial lawyer representing plaintiffs, I’m ambivalent. On the one hand, since the early ‘90’s finding new employment for someone unfairly dismissed has become so difficult that it seems like the dismissal ought to be challengeable, and well-compensated in damages. On the other, employers and their lawyers have become so clever at blunting the claim that it’s now mostly a paper tiger anyway. Many high $$/hr. litigation boutiques which defended such claims dissolved around 00-‘02 precisely because corporate general counsels figured out that defending was so easy, they could push the work down to cheaper lawyers. But firing someone for holding the wrong political views really is un-American, and ought to be severely dealt with somehow.
Remember when Steve said he had some good Willie Brown stories? Well, here’s a (sort of) WB story in the wrongful discharge context. In the late ‘80’s the California Supreme Court decided that worker’s compensation should be the exclusive forum for recovery of “pain and suffering” damages from a wrongful discharge. This left economic damages as the only kind recoverable in court. About a year later, Willie Brown’s old law partner from their days defending Fillmore district floozies, John Dearman, was presiding over civil motions in SF. Outside counsel for P.G.&E., knowing that Dearman was an idiot, decided to float the over-the-top notion that economic damages, too, were preempted by Comp. A real Hail Mary, but Dearman bought it, and so the plaintiff had to spend another 18 months in the system to get the ruling reversed.
How exactly are comments “inconsistent with our values and commitment to creating a tolerant and diverse workplace”? This is of course, never explained.
It just is.
I guess we will have to live with the fact of RACISS-19, a negro-targeting supremacist virus.
Meanwhile, does Biden exist?
Democrats are reportedly HIDING Biden’s economic advisers (as well as Joe himself) – and there is a simple reason for that
Wouldn’t it be fun if the cherry on top of the Weimar Republic – a senile head of State – could actually be replicated 100 years later?
Old Mom is completely into Biden. I can tell her that he is a suave corrupt asshole and would probably be excoriated for egregious vaginal probing by the Junglefever & Pussybrain Brigade if he were in The Other Party … all is forgiven because he’s the anti-Trump.
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1271466678350725121Replies: @Dtbb, @Lurker
They should cut off the offending body part.
(Other than the ones they’ve already cut off obviously)
https://twitter.com/vdare/status/1271471923805868032Replies: @Stan Adams, @Mister.Baseball
“Come see the violence inherent in the system!”
I got this from our high school in Seattle. It sounds just like the stuff they are spewing at Evegreen State College, and it is now front and center in Seattle Public Schools.
I wondered what in the heck a Building Leadership Team is. I found this on the school website:
Having read this I still don’t know what a Building Leadership Team is.
We now have a museum curator, Madeline Odent, who is using her experience to advocate the optimal way to damage and dissolve bronze statues and promises to discuss marble later. She suggest Churchill as one of the targets. Just like Parcak she does the 'teehee, not that I'm advocating anything but if somebody did want to...' bit. Unlike Parcak in the US, she has been questioned by the police and deleted her Twitter account. But screencaps were taken.
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/29443060-8405899-image-a-1_1591785972740.jpg
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/29443100-8405899-image-a-2_1591785982404.jpg
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/29440390-0-image-m-12_1591781500473.jpg
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/29446888-8405899-image-a-47_1591795876112.jpg
Pretty shocking to me.
But that isn't the end of the shock.
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/curator-investigated-for-tweets-on-damaging-bronze-statues
Museum world rallies behind curator investigated for tweets on how to damage bronze statuesWhat the fuck is going on? Odent is curator of a fairly sleepy museum acting as the historical museum of the town of Royston.
http://www.roystonmuseum.org.uk/collectionsReplies: @fish, @YetAnotherAnon, @Known Fact, @Buffalo Joe, @donut
She’s pissed off about my White privilege .
No. He doesn’t get funny. He’s turning into a preacher. As time goes on, Chappelle will continue to devolve like poor Dr. Eugene Scott. It’s what happens when you develop an unquestioning congregation, so don’t have to earn.your keep onstage anymore.
The far left I believe you’re referring too has been gone for thirty years or more and isn’t coming back.Replies: @anon
The far Left is now the far Right – against middle east wars, against free trade and flooding the country wtih cheap labor.
That’s how I landed on this website. I moved from Counterpunch to ISteve, with Mike Whitney and Paul Craig Roberts as the bridge.
I’ve changed my mind somewhat on race issues since coming to this site.
Before I was for equality under the law and equality of opportunity, but against equality of outcomes.
Now I am against equality of opportunity as well.
I still believe in equality under the law.
During the Great Purge in the USSR it was common for former Party members on their way to execution to loudly praise Stalin. Marshal Tukashevsky in particular was one who kept it up right to the moment his executioner shot him in the head. His wife and daughter were also executed because reasons, but I doubt they had any last words.
During the reign of Shaka Zulu, many of his victims being led up the hill would similarly shout loud praises of Shaka, some right up to the moment their impalement began.
It's something deep inside of us, probably related to the "freeze" part of "flight / fight / freeze".
During the Salem witch trials one man refused to confess, because he was not guilty. They piled weight after weight on him, urging him to confess to witchcraft and the weights would be removed. His last words were "more weights".
Make them follow through on their threats. Make them publicly show their hypocrisy to everyone. Plus there's still a fragment of a legal system that can be used, if they follow through, as Patreon and Oberlin College are slowly learning.Replies: @Buffalo Joe
ThreeFourZero, I am a cradle Catholic and I am still amazed that the Martyrs maintained their belief and faith through the most horrific tortures. A true believer remains a true believer.
I think Tucker Carlson nails it when he describes this “defund” movement as an attempt by the Democrats and their supporters to increase their control of US police departments. In the past, the centre-left was big on defunding the military, but now the left controls the upper levels of the military, so their in no longer a big anti-war movement on the left (as seen in the lack of media interest in Tusli Gabbard’s presidential campaign).
The progressive establishment has no interest in radically changing the funding of police departments, only in increasing their control of them. It’s been a long time since progressive policing was tried and found wanting (back in the 60s and 70s) so they have probably convinced themselves that they will be lucky a second time round.
As for the big internet companies that are backing BLM, they don’t have bricks and mortar stores getting destroyed by rioters, so they don’t have much to lose from virtue signalling.
We need to tax these bastards out of their cozy homes.
I just got my ballot in the mail. There’s a competitive primary race between two establishment Republicans who are competing with one another in a Donald Trump butt-kissing contest but who I’m almost certain will just pursue the neocon tax cuts for woke capital agenda if they get in power. I am considering writing in “drop table,” but even mailing the ballot doesn’t seem worth the effort.
ben, thank you and as an aside to the present topic…no matter how great Mack’s Texas teams were he would be vilified for any loss to Oklahoma. National championship and next year…”What have you done for us lately?”
The Bank of America number, which is two thirds of the total is not grants to troublemaker organizations, as I understand it, but various loan programs for small businesses, scholarships, etc. The other companies would also need to be scrutinized, but I don’t think this is what Steve is implying.
Now, giving a scholarship to a black kid and then auto-hiring him after graduation, as one of the BoA programs does, may lead to problems far down the line as the kid advances in the bank, assuming he does.
Just a thought, but what if the police, nationwide, took off a “Day of Mourning” everytime a LEO was killed by a criminal? There are neighborhoods where no one would venture outside for those 24 hours.
I agree.
I’ve been saying for years that what we need in the US is a Week Without Horrible White Men. Where white men go home and ponder their terrible sins.
Anybody have that long bar-graph of occupations by sex? The one where the clean, indoor, physically easy jobs are majority female and the outdoor, difficult, dangerous, dirty ones are majority male? Trying to find that with a search engine turns up nothing but a bunch of feminist fantasies about “careers.”
FWIW, I view the HoloCough shutdown/lockdown as a global health care industry strike. It masked (ha!) itself with those obviously PR-created “TikTok Nurse Revue” and “Everybody Clap, Flash, and Honk” videos…but it amounts to a literal refusal to allow access to Old Normal health care services.
It’s not clear what Pharma is holding out for, but it appears to be something like a global total corporate fascist technostate controlled and surveilled by themselves in cahoots with Big Tech. And they will tell you what bugs to eat, and when, and where you can travel, and not, and the power to “plunge needles into your arm” at whim (as the charming Alan Dershowitz enthused)…for the good of the Kollektiv of course.
I figure it’s because of how furious Pharma is that the trillions they were expecting through Obamacare got disrupted.
I got the following from one of the /pol/ “Nothingburger General” threads about six weeks ago; my bolding:
I realise that sounds idiotic, but with the accompanying legalese, it seemed plausible. Perhaps someone can chime in with more information.Replies: @Olorin
Here’s what Joe Hoft reported a couple days ago:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/exclusive-donations-including-international-funding-blacklivesmatter-com-go-directly-dnc-money-laundering/
He links to supporting info.
You can also dig around the OpenSecrets.org pages on ActBlue. If indeed money from outside the US earmarked for one fund (like BLM) gets sent to US candidates, that’s a somethingburger. I can’t answer the question of how the organization is structured in terms of its SuperPAC vs 501(c)4 units.
But not the needed money.
Steve King lost his primary, and Jeff Sessions probably will too, though he’s been gaining ground against Coach Toofewmigrants.
In both cases, the patriots were buried by the globocapitalism candidates who had 3 times more money, and had easier times raising it.
One reason we don’t have more Tuckers on TV is that he has zero mainstream big business advertisers.Replies: @Morris Applebaum IV
I don’t want to go through the torture, but I wonder how many major corporations advertise on Rachel Maddow’s show?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tR6mKcBbT4Replies: @Anonymous Jew, @Morris Applebaum IV
I’d rather have a knee to my neck that watch that shit again. I like some of his stuff, but I’m so fricking sick of this crap. In a country this large, it’s mathematically impossible for there not to be a handful of incidents like this. This is just an excuse to attack Whites and extract lots of money.
It seems Dave Chappelle was Carlinesque in his comedy, what, 17 years ago. He really isn't interesting anymore.
As others have suggested, ACLJ and Judicial Watch, both of which have acquitted themselves marvellously in the Flynn and Russia Hoax debacles. A lot of what we know about Obama official attempts to throw a presidential election and defame honorable Americans comes from Judicial Watch FOIA requests. ACLJ was involved in the impeachment and also defends little churches and monuments. They had a recent victory reversing a standard piece of judicial reasoning about religious displays, it was to do with that WWII cross monument.Replies: @John Gruskos
The ACLJ had better get results.
They’ve raked in massive donations from little old church ladies over the years, and Jay Alan Sekulow has certainly been handsomely remunerated.
Boycott everything.
Don’t spend money on anything other than grocery store food and tap water.
What will happen to these corporations when the 25% of the population they consider to be “deplorable” simply stops giving them money?
“blacks’ personal hygiene is above questioning, and we all know that blacks being more affected by the colonavilus is due to racism.”
Xi Jinping hates bLACK people
“I’d rather have a knee to my neck that watch that shit again”
It seems Dave Chappelle was Carlinesque in his comedy, what, 17 years ago. He really isn’t interesting anymore.
Dear profs X, Y, Z
I am one of your colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley. I have met you both personally but do not know you closely, and am contacting you anonymously, with apologies. I am worried that writing this email publicly might lead to me losing my job, and likely all future jobs in my field.
In your recent departmental emails you mentioned our pledge to diversity, but I am increasingly alarmed by the absence of diversity of opinion on the topic of the recent protests and our community response to them.
In the extended links and resources you provided, I could not find a single instance of substantial counter-argument or alternative narrative to explain the under-representation of black individuals in academia or their over-representation in the criminal justice system. The explanation provided in your documentation, to the near exclusion of all others, is univariate: the problems of the black community are caused by whites, or, when whites are not physically present, by the infiltration of white supremacy and white systemic racism into American brains, souls, and institutions.
Many cogent objections to this thesis have been raised by sober voices, including from within the black community itself, such as Thomas Sowell and Wilfred Reilly. These people are not racists or 'Uncle Toms'. They are intelligent scholars who reject a narrative that strips black people of agency and systematically externalizes the problems of the black community onto outsiders. Their view is entirely absent from the departmental and UCB-wide communiques.
The claim that the difficulties that the black community faces are entirely causally explained by exogenous factors in the form of white systemic racism, white supremacy, and other forms of white discrimination remains a problematic hypothesis that should be vigorously challenged by historians. Instead, it is being treated as an axiomatic and actionable truth without serious consideration of its profound flaws, or its worrying implication of total black impotence. This hypothesis is transforming our institution and our culture, without any space for dissent outside of a tightly policed, narrow discourse.
A counternarrative exists. If you have time, please consider examining some of the documents I attach at the end of this email.
Overwhelmingly, the reasoning provided by BLM and allies is either primarily anecdotal (as in the case with the bulk of Ta-Nehisi Coates' undeniably moving article) or it is transparently motivated. As an example of the latter problem, consider the proportion of black incarcerated Americans. This proportion is often used to characterize the criminal justice system as anti-black. However, if we use the precise same methodology, we would have to conclude that the criminal justice system is even more anti-male than it is anti-black. Would we characterize criminal justice as a systemically misandrist conspiracy against innocent American men? I hope you see that this type of reasoning is flawed, and requires a significant suspension of our rational faculties. Black people are not incarcerated at higher rates than their involvement in violent crime would predict. This fact has been demonstrated multiple times across multiple jurisdictions in multiple countries. And yet, I see my department uncritically reproducing a narrative that diminishes black agency in favor of a white-centric explanation that appeals to the department's apparent desire to shoulder the 'white man's burden' and to promote a narrative of white guilt.
If we claim that the criminal justice system is white-supremacist, why is it that Asian Americans, Indian Americans, and Nigerian Americans are incarcerated at vastly lower rates than white Americans? This is a funny sort of white supremacy. Even Jewish Americans are incarcerated less than gentile whites. I think it's fair to say that your average white supremacist disapproves of Jews. And yet, these alleged white supremacists incarcerate gentiles at vastly higher rates than Jews. None of this is addressed in your literature. None of this is explained, beyond hand-waving and ad hominems. "Those are racist dogwhistles". "The model minority myth is white supremacist". "Only fascists talk about black-on-black crime", ad nauseam. These types of statements do not amount to counterarguments: they are simply arbitrary offensive classifications, intended to silence and oppress discourse. Any serious historian will recognize these for the silencing orthodoxy tactics they are, common to suppressive regimes, doctrines, and religions throughout time and space. They are intended to crush real diversity and permanently exile the culture of robust criticism from our department.
Increasingly, we are being called upon to comply and subscribe to BLM's problematic view of history, and the department is being presented as unified on the matter. In particular, ethnic minorities are being aggressively marshaled into a single position. Any apparent unity is surely a function of the fact that dissent could almost certainly lead to expulsion or cancellation for those of us in a precarious position, which is no small number.
I personally don't dare speak out against the BLM narrative, and with this barrage of alleged unity being mass-produced by the administration, tenured professoriat, the UC administration, corporate America, and the media, the punishment for dissent is a clear danger at a time of widespread economic vulnerability. I am certain that if my name were attached to this email, I would lose my job and all future jobs, even though I believe in and can justify every word I type.
The vast majority of violence visited on the black community is committed by black people. There are virtually no marches for these invisible victims, no public silences, no heartfelt letters from the UC regents, deans, and departmental heads. The message is clear: Black lives only matter when whites take them. Black violence is expected and insoluble, while white violence requires explanation and demands solution. Please look into your hearts and see how monstrously bigoted this formulation truly is.
No discussion is permitted for nonblack victims of black violence, who proportionally outnumber black victims of nonblack violence. This is especially bitter in the Bay Area, where Asian victimization by black assailants has reached epidemic proportions, to the point that the SF police chief has advised Asians to stop hanging good-luck charms on their doors, as this attracts the attention of (overwhelmingly black) home invaders. Home invaders like George Floyd. For this actual, lived, physically experienced reality of violence in the USA, there are no marches, no tearful emails from departmental heads, no support from McDonald's and Wal-Mart. For the History department, our silence is not a mere abrogation of our duty to shed light on the truth: it is a rejection of it.
The claim that black intraracial violence is the product of redlining, slavery, and other injustices is a largely historical claim. It is for historians, therefore, to explain why Japanese internment or the massacre of European Jewry hasn't led to equivalent rates of dysfunction and low SES performance among Japanese and Jewish Americans respectively. Arab Americans have been viciously demonized since 9/11, as have Chinese Americans more recently. However, both groups outperform white Americans on nearly all SES indices - as do Nigerian Americans, who incidentally have black skin. It is for historians to point out and discuss these anomalies. However, no real discussion is possible in the current climate at our department. The explanation is provided to us, disagreement with it is racist, and the job of historians is to further explore additional ways in which the explanation is additionally correct. This is a mockery of the historical profession.
Most troublingly, our department appears to have been entirely captured by the interests of the Democratic National Convention, and the Democratic Party more broadly. To explain what I mean, consider what happens if you choose to donate to Black Lives Matter, an organization UCB History has explicitly promoted in its recent mailers. All donations to the official BLM website are immediately redirected to ActBlue Charities, an organization primarily concerned with bankrolling election campaigns for Democrat candidates. Donating to BLM today is to indirectly donate to Joe Biden's 2020 campaign. This is grotesque given the fact that the American cities with the worst rates of black-on-black violence and police-on-black violence are overwhelmingly Democrat-run. Minneapolis itself has been entirely in the hands of Democrats for over five decades; the 'systemic racism' there was built by successive Democrat administrations.
The patronizing and condescending attitudes of Democrat leaders towards the black community, exemplified by nearly every Biden statement on the black race, all but guarantee a perpetual state of misery, resentment, poverty, and the attendant grievance politics which are simultaneously annihilating American political discourse and black lives. And yet, donating to BLM is bankrolling the election campaigns of men like Mayor Frey, who saw their cities devolve into violence. This is a grotesque capture of a good-faith movement for necessary police reform, and of our department, by a political party. Even worse, there are virtually no avenues for dissent in academic circles. I refuse to serve the Party, and so should you. The total alliance of major corporations involved in human exploitation with BLM should be a warning flag to us, and yet this damning evidence goes unnoticed, purposefully ignored, or perversely celebrated. We are the useful idiots of the wealthiest classes, carrying water for Jeff Bezos and other actual, real, modern-day slavers. Starbucks, an organisation using literal black slaves in its coffee plantation suppliers, is in favor of BLM. Sony, an organisation using cobalt mined by yet more literal black slaves, many of whom are children, is in favor of BLM. And so, apparently, are we. The absence of counter-narrative enables this obscenity. Fiat lux, indeed.
There also exists a large constituency of what can only be called 'race hustlers': hucksters of all colors who benefit from stoking the fires of racial conflict to secure administrative jobs, charity management positions, academic jobs and advancement, or personal political entrepreneurship.
Given the direction our history department appears to be taking far from any commitment to truth, we can regard ourselves as a formative training institution for this brand of snake-oil salespeople. Their activities are corrosive, demolishing any hope at harmonious racial coexistence in our nation and colonizing our political and institutional life. Many of their voices are unironically segregationist. MLK would likely be called an Uncle Tom if he spoke on our campus today. We are training leaders who intend, explicitly, to destroy one of the only truly successful ethnically diverse societies in modern history. As the PRC, an ethnonationalist and aggressively racially chauvinist national polity with null immigration and no concept of jus solis increasingly presents itself as the global political alternative to the US, I ask you: Is this wise? Are we really doing the right thing?
As a final point, our university and department has made multiple statements celebrating and eulogizing George Floyd. Floyd was a multiple felon who once held a pregnant black woman at gunpoint. He broke into her home with a gang of men and pointed a gun at her pregnant stomach. He terrorized the women in his community. He sired and abandoned multiple children, playing no part in their support or upbringing, failing one of the most basic tests of decency for a human being. He was a drug-addict and sometime drug-dealer, a swindler who preyed upon his honest and hard-working neighbors.
And yet, the regents of UC and the historians of the UCB History department are celebrating this violent criminal, elevating his name to virtual sainthood. A man who hurt women. A man who hurt black women. With the full collaboration of the UCB history department, corporate America, most mainstream media outlets, and some of the wealthiest and most privileged opinion-shaping elites of the USA, he has become a culture hero, buried in a golden casket, his (recognized) family showered with gifts and praise. Americans are being socially pressured into kneeling for this violent, abusive misogynist. A generation of black men are being coerced into identifying with George Floyd, the absolute worst specimen of our race and species. I'm ashamed of my department. I would say that I'm ashamed of both of you, but perhaps you agree with me, and are simply afraid, as I am, of the backlash of speaking the truth. It's hard to know what kneeling means, when you have to kneel to keep your job.
It shouldn't affect the strength of my argument above, but for the record, I write as a person of color. My family have been personally victimized by men like Floyd. We are aware of the condescending depredations of the Democrat party against our race. The humiliating assumption that we are too stupid to do STEM, that we need special help and lower requirements to get ahead in life, is richly familiar to us. I sometimes wonder if it wouldn't be easier to deal with open fascists, who at least would be straightforward in calling me a subhuman, and who are unlikely to share my race.
The ever-present soft bigotry of low expectations and the permanent claim that the solutions to the plight of my people rest exclusively on the goodwill of whites rather than on our own hard work is psychologically devastating. No other group in America is systematically demoralized in this way by its alleged allies. A whole generation of black children are being taught that only by begging and weeping and screaming will they get handouts from guilt-ridden whites. No message will more surely devastate their futures, especially if whites run out of guilt, or indeed if America runs out of whites. If this had been done to Japanese Americans, or Jewish Americans, or Chinese Americans, then Chinatown and Japantown would surely be no different to the roughest parts of Baltimore and East St. Louis today. The History department of UCB is now an integral institutional promulgator of a destructive and denigrating fallacy about the black race.
I hope you appreciate the frustration behind this message. I do not support BLM. I do not support the Democrat grievance agenda and the Party's uncontested capture of our department. I do not support the Party co-opting my race, as Biden recently did in his disturbing interview, claiming that voting Democrat and being black are isomorphic. I condemn the manner of George Floyd's death and join you in calling for greater police accountability and police reform. However, I will not pretend that George Floyd was anything other than a violent misogynist, a brutal man who met a predictably brutal end.
I also want to protect the practice of history. Cleo is no grovelling handmaiden to politicians and corporations. Like us, she is free.Replies: @El Dato, @Peterike
“ The writer claims they are a Professor at UCB”
The dumb schmuck. He thinks logic and facts are going to make a difference.
Ok – how about this
Amber Guyer fired reflexively at a non threat, first thing upon arriving at an apartment that wasnt even on her floor and had a red carpet in fron of the door unlike her own apartment.She enters the apartment, didnt even sense it wasnt her own (smell, furniture, lighting, etc.) and lit up a guy eating ice cream and watching tv in his own apartment.
Come on man!!!
Why do people on the right make claims like this - it discredits the whole movement. There isn't a single functioning society in the world, including those with negligible numbers of blacks, that doesnt have a large and invasive police force. The relationship between police and the citizens is fraught everywhere - look at how much thought is devoted to that issue in our own Bill of Rights.Replies: @J.Ross, @Colin Wright, @ben tillman
‘There isn’t a single functioning society in the world, including those with negligible numbers of blacks, that doesnt have a large and invasive police force.’
America, ca. 1780-1850?
https://youtu.be/5dMahDPP8pUReplies: @Mister.Baseball
That was very much suppose to be the Monty Python Holy Grail clip and not whatever that caravan of garbage thing is– but caravan of garbage sort of works too.
https://twitter.com/_juliannemoore/status/1271093436872101888?s=20Replies: @fish, @Anonymous
They should pledge to make a movie about Nakba.
.
No. Power is holding the megaphone and deciding whose voices to amplify.
I lose track of who around here has been stewed through the police academy.Replies: @ben tillman, @nebulafox
Ah, yes, the knee! If you apply your knee instead, that makes applying pressure on an unresponsive suspect’s prone neck not a stupid idea at all.
>I lose track of who around here has been stewed through the police academy.
Well, Artie, there’s a thing called empirical reality that tends to come into clearer focus outside the library. You’ll find that if you use a limb to keep an object on the ground, you apply something called “force” to that object. And that in real life, if applied for long enough, force tends to impact that object. If that object is another human being already dealing with cardio conditions and (possibly) flooded with intoxicants…
Strange. It looks like a massive GOTV for the Republicans from my neck of the woods…
The ideas come from the outside activists, not the institutions. In fact, they probably don't even come from the outside activists; they probably come from foreign powers that want to wreck America. The activists are just useful idiots. The Soviets did this for decades.Replies: @ben tillman
Not from “outside activists” but from outside. Many of the formerly “outside” activists are in fact within the institutions. Moreover, in regard to indoctrination/brainwashing from outside activists, the susceptibility to it has absolutely nothing to do with weakness.
It was always my understanding that officers were not to fire their weapon unless they could identify a target and a threat. Obviously this did not happen in the Houston case or the case of white Dallas lady cop who shot Botham Jean in his own apartment. Noor's incompetence is not that unique and doesn't necessarily indicate racial bias on his part.
The Justine Diamond case was played up as something it wasn't by the WN and Sailerverse. It fit Sailers narrative - all Muslim immigrants are bad and pose an existential threat to the United States. Diamond's killer, Mohammed Noor, received a sentence (12.5 years) not all that different than Amber Guyger (10 years).
https://abc13.com/fort-bend-county-sheriffs-office-precinct-4-deputy-constable-dies-friendly-fire-sienna-plantation/6218753/Replies: @J.Ross, @ben tillman
I’ve never heard of it, so I’d say it’s extremely uncommon.
It’s not obvious. What the hell are you talking about? Your story doesn’t even mention an innocent bystander.
Why do people on the right make claims like this - it discredits the whole movement. There isn't a single functioning society in the world, including those with negligible numbers of blacks, that doesnt have a large and invasive police force. The relationship between police and the citizens is fraught everywhere - look at how much thought is devoted to that issue in our own Bill of Rights.Replies: @J.Ross, @Colin Wright, @ben tillman
There were no police forces in this country before 1838, so you are wrong.
http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/sheriff/ch8.htm
Don't spend money on anything other than grocery store food and tap water.
What will happen to these corporations when the 25% of the population they consider to be "deplorable" simply stops giving them money?Replies: @J.Ross
THIS, ALL OF MY THIS, LASTING LONGER THAN THREE HOURS
Amber Guyer fired reflexively at a non threat, first thing upon arriving at an apartment that wasnt even on her floor and had a red carpet in fron of the door unlike her own apartment.She enters the apartment, didnt even sense it wasnt her own (smell, furniture, lighting, etc.) and lit up a guy eating ice cream and watching tv in his own apartment.
Come on man!!!Replies: @J.Ross
Nice attempt at defeating site rules and board culture. Nope, nope, and nope. I notice you lowered your sights to equivocating (besides lying). You’re still left with examples which are not representative of actual police officers. Come on, thing!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/exclusive-donations-including-international-funding-blacklivesmatter-com-go-directly-dnc-money-laundering/
He links to supporting info.
You can also dig around the OpenSecrets.org pages on ActBlue. If indeed money from outside the US earmarked for one fund (like BLM) gets sent to US candidates, that's a somethingburger. I can't answer the question of how the organization is structured in terms of its SuperPAC vs 501(c)4 units.Replies: @J.Ross
Nevertheless, prediction: Republicans will do nothing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3pk_TBkihUReplies: @Clyde
I just saw the trailer you provided.
You are enticed by — Blow thangs up- crash cars and and airplanes- few tight women- portentous music – LASTLY smear some disjointed sci-fi goop ontop that makes no sense at all.
I claim no expertise, but this site says the first sherif in the colonies was appointed in 1634 (and it sounds like it evolved to law include law enforcement pretty quickly). So what do you mean?
http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/sheriff/ch8.htm
Stop being obtuse. An “innocent bystander” in my comment is someone who is near or enters a conflict scenario that is not posing a threat that requires the use of deadly force. The deceased uniformed officer in my example meets this criteria. The officer of the Fort Bend Sheriffs Office shot a Fort Bend Constable without identifying who he actually was or whether he posed a threat. The uniformed officer could have just as easily been a landlord checking on the property or some teens using the vacant house to throw a “party”. In none of those scenarios was the use of deadly force appropriate. The original 911 call wasnt even related to a deadly threat – a neighbor saw someone running from a vacant house with its back door open. Sienna Plantation is a master planned community with homes well into the six figures. Not exactly a high threat “urban” war zone.
Stop being pedantic- my definition of police is the armed force of a national or local government, responsible for the prevention and detection of “crime” and the maintenance of “public order”, however such government decides to define those two terms. Using my definition, the “police”in the Boston Massacre (Tea Party) incident of 1776,would be the British soldiers who fired upon rioting colonists (yes white folks riot) protesting the expansion of the Stamp Act.
In other words, the police are the armed wing of the government that imposes “law and order” upon citizens who disobey or oppose its edicts. Every functioing society in world history, irrespective of how many blacks live in that society, has had such a force whether or not it was organized as the modern police departments we recognize today.
If Trump and Johnson were interested in fighting the culture war they would take a look at these corporation, send in the tax inspectors and squeeze them.
Only one side is fighting.
I don’t have much say over the matter, of course, but I have taken what little opportunity there is to fight back against the donors. We turned on Netflix to get a “Black Lives Matter” screen. Netflix has been cancelled. I go through about 3 pairs of running shoes a year, and for two decades I pretty much bought nothing but Nike. I stopped buying Nike last year. I was about to buy a new iPad and went to the Apple page only to get their BLM nonsense. New iPad cancelled.
The funny thing is that, of course, these corporations are all full of shit. Amazon and Apple and so many other tech corporations lecture us on racism but won’t pay their G.D. taxes. Amazon pays its employees dirt, treats them like dirt, and shifts as much work to “independent contractors” as possible. The irony is that the independent contractor business model is probably a big part of the reason Millenials are so pissed. They can’t find jobs with decent pay or benefits, and can’t afford to buy a house. And we won’t even get into the slave labor companies like Apple and Nike use in China to make their products.
Well, if this election goes to Democrats - and there’s a good chance it will - some of these companies are going to get what they’re asking for good and hard - tax increases, more regulations, abolishment of independent contractors, and the rest. Of course they’ll get some of that money back as the Democrats bring more slave labor into this country, but ultimately they are going to lose.Replies: @Morris Applebaum IV, @Mr. Anon, @Achmed E. Newman
First of all, NICE JOB, Mr. Wilkey! As far as just the Netflix bit goes, I want to add that there are 2 more benefits besides the “screw you” you gave them, one minor and one maybe even more important.
1) You save a few bucks
2) I doubt it’d be you, after reading you here, but for your family, you may be sparing them a whole lot of indoctrination that they DON’T KNOW they are getting. It’s everywhere, and viewers don’t always have the inclination or wherewithal to see it coming. “It’s just a TV show, no reason to get upset” was what my Dad heard when he was bad-mouthing Mary Tyler Moore and One Day at a Time for their feminism. He was quite right. Father knows Best (OK, that was WAY before my time.)
One more thing: The US Feral government screws us in just as many ways as Big Biz. Cash is king. Pay the tree guy in cash. Pay the car mechanic (the shade-tree guy) in cash. Starve the Beast!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ8MFIglvqUReplies: @Achmed E. Newman
You got it.
“A man should be judged by his Basic Operating Weight … bang .. owwww…” What, too soon?
These corporations are sickening, though. In the rare instances they show a little backbone, like Starbucks yesterday, they always cave the next day.
Boycotting is totally necessary. I was looking forward to taking my son to the Daytona 500 when he turned 5, but that's out now. Kind of depressing, but I just can't stomach NASCAR turning so far left-wing as if the Colin Kaepernicks of this world are going to start being fans.
Are there any corporations not paying tribute to the BLM terrorists? We need to boycott, but we also need to find some good business to actively support. Sigh.Replies: @J.Ross, @Dtbb, @Achmed E. Newman
3 words for you, Applebaum: Monster Truck Show
It seems like all parties are there for the love of their young boys. There will be no protests outside or inside as it’s too loud inside and everyone is deaf for a little while when they come out.
But wait, at 6:33 she's "very disappointed", she lived in Tennafly for 20 years, her children....and shocked...and disappointed...and "shut the f up".
Oh, lol! "Badge number 5 4 0".
Stronk 'n independent. Hey, didja know her dawter is a grad student at Yale? Didja? huh?
Bet she has a pink hat in her drawerReplies: @Truth
One thing that seems universal over my 50+ years of life is, that I can’t remember a single instance in which someone benefited from the “Do You Know Who I Am?” tactic.
https://foxsanantonio.com/news/local/dont-you-know-who-i-am-man-shoots-up-northeast-side-bar-injuring-eightReplies: @Truth
If blacks only killed blacks during the officially-sanctioned Purge, then your calculations might make some sense. But blacks kill whites, too. There is a spillover effect that cancels any small gains you claim have been made on behalf of whites.
Besides, would police really stop patrolling or responding to crime in white neighborhoods just because they were far more circumspect in minority neighborhoods? Maybe, but I'm doubtful.Replies: @TomSchmidt
This graph shows an increase in the black murder rate and a flat line in the white murder rate:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6631a9.htm
So apparently if blacks increased kills of whites, whites dropped lower.
Pelosi is descended from inner city Italians. I have to guess her family was particularly based, living in Baltimore. We need someone from the old ward to talk about her back in the day.
Heart disease makes that not worth much. Otherwise, LOL, yes.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6631a9.htm
So apparently if blacks increased kills of whites, whites dropped lower.Replies: @Pincher Martin
You’re talking about ten white murders a year (i.e., 40 over 4 years). You won’t see that kind of spillover on that kind of graph.
Wow – I read your post just before I saw this news item from San Antonio:
https://foxsanantonio.com/news/local/dont-you-know-who-i-am-man-shoots-up-northeast-side-bar-injuring-eight
1.5 Billion at time of printing…
https://foxsanantonio.com/news/local/dont-you-know-who-i-am-man-shoots-up-northeast-side-bar-injuring-eightReplies: @Truth
…Right on cue.
You didn’t say who did the shooting. Pay attention to what you write.
The only thing that the Jewish Establishment and BLM may be able to agree on is getting things shut down. Every last platform. And expect the scrutiny of everyone's personal life to ratchet up. They need examples of bad people to fire.Replies: @Marty T
If only we had an effective, aggressive conservative party, we could put teeth in the First Amendment by making political speech as protected as race, religion, etc.
Only one side is fighting.Replies: @Pincher Martin
Agreed.
Trump talks a big game, but he doesn’t deliver. He’s a great salesman. He has an excellent feel for how to tap into large segments of the electorate who’ve been ignored for years. But he’s a terrible administrator, and he can’t seem to work well with anyone.
No one who was helping Trump in the 2016 campaign is around to help him now, except for some family members and a staff member or two. He hires countless Washington drudges who hated him in 2016 and who never last long in his administration. Then after they’re fired or quit, they predictably come out guns a blazing at Trump and undermine his presidency. What was Trump thinking hiring Mattis and Bolton in the first place?
Steve has shown the numbers on the increased number of black lives ended after the 2016-era push for BLM. I think it was about 4000 additional killings.
However, police shootings of civilians DID drop as a result, and I would assume this worked for blacks and whites. There's a grim thought that will get you canceled, and it will freak out the BLM crowd. Suppose that 10 fewer white lives end from police shootings as a result of BLM protests in 2016, as a side effect of fewer police shootings overall. Then over 4 years that's 40 white lives saved versus the 4000 additional black lives lost to crime. You'd then have a measure of the number of additional black people who died to save each white person.
Some smartass who doesn't care about cancellation ought to tweet that at BLM for complete meltdown: thanks, BLM, for trading 100 black lives for each white life saved.Replies: @Pincher Martin, @ben tillman
Roland Fryer has another paper out, and this time it addresses the Ferguson effect.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/when-police-stop-policing/
Basically, it looks at what happens when federal or state authorities investigate police departments accused of having a “pattern or practice” of violating civilians’ rights. The good news is that these investigations usually lead to a measurable decrease in crime, including homicides.
The bad news is that, after five of the 27 investigations Devi and Fryer looked at closely, crime went up instead. And it turns out that those five investigations were the ones “preceded by ‘viral’ incidents of deadly force,” specifically “the deaths of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, MD, Laquan McDonald in Chicago, IL, Timothy Thomas in Cincinnati, OH, Tyisha Miller in Riverside, CA, and Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO.” The authors “estimate that these investigations caused almost 900 excess homicides and almost 34,000 excess felonies” in these five cities in the subsequent 24 months. For comparison, American cops kill about 1,000 civilians — in total, throughout the country — each year.
Comments are closed.