Archive for June, 2020
7th June 2020
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7th June 2020
The Other McCain points out the hideous nature of David French, at great length.
David French is one of the most egregious of the boils that afflict the Establishment Conservative movement. He’s the sort of cuck that Mitt Romney would like to have the courage to be.
Mrs Jellyby, of Dickens’ Bleak House, demonstrates that the Social Justice Warrior has a long and sordid history.
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7th June 2020
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Black lives matter. Unfortunately, they don’t matter to blacks as much as they should. If they did, the number of blacks killed by other blacks would be much, much lower.
And what about the black lives that have been lost at the hands of protesters and rioters this past week? Willis Krumholz identifies the known cases.
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7th June 2020
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It’s easy to see why parents push coding on their children. What better way to prepare our kids for a future ruled by software than by training them how to build it? If everything is going to be automated, it’s much safer to be the one doing the automating. And if learning to code is good, then learning earlier is better. But while these products may teach kids specific coding languages, they actually have very little to do with the work of creating software.
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Coding is not the new literacy. While most parents are literate and know to read to their kids, most are not programmers and have no idea what kind of skills a programmer needs. Coding books for kids present coding as a set of problems with “correct” solutions. And if your children can just master the syntax, they’ll be able to make things quickly and easily. But that is not the way programming works. Programming is messy. Programming is a mix of creativity and determination. Being a developer is about more than syntax, and certain skills can only be taught to the very young.
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7th June 2020
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One of the many changes is the assumption about where and how work gets done. It used to be that work got done with your hands. And if something needed doing, you rolled up your sleeves and got to work.
Now the assumption is that the only place work gets done is at a computer. And if you’re NOT at your computer, work is most definitely not getting done.
The computer is a powerful machine, and it’s remarkable to think that the smartphone in your hands is more powerful than the computer that put humans on the moon.
But even with all the advances in technology, computers are still just tools.
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7th June 2020
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It is a truth universally acknowledge that when the government hands out ‘free’ money a lot of it will get stolen.
While there’s no exact measure of how many fraudulent claims have been made, states from Washington to Maine say they’ve seen an increase and numerous federal agencies are working to fight it.
“About 10% of (unemployment insurance) payments are improper under the best of times, and we are in the worst of times,” Scott Dahl, the inspector general for the U.S. Labor Department, told the House Subcommittee on Government Operations. Dahl estimated that at least $26 billion in benefits could be wasted, with the bulk of that going to fraudsters.
This forces unemployed workers, already reeling from the loss of a job, to fight for the benefits they need and are entitled to.
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7th June 2020
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7th June 2020
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Do you miss the old New York City? Remember when subway trains were covered in graffiti, a news hour began with six shootings and everyone who lived in the city had been mugged at least once?
Remember when Times Square had more strip clubs than theaters and when you could afford an apartment in the village because it was a drug infested mess?
Remember when the city and everyone living in it were on the verge of bankruptcy and the only people who had money lived upstate or in a small cluster of Manhattan?
Remember when everything was grimy and had a layer of filth, when people moved to the city because they wanted to slum, when nothing worked and no one cared and the only difference between New York and Chicago was that it had taller buildings?
If you miss that classic New York, there’s good news because Bill de Blasio is bringing it back.
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7th June 2020
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The populist party Vox has alerted its supporters about a North African YouTuber who encourages people to come to Spain because with the Universal Basic Income “you earn more” than by working.
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7th June 2020
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The BLM protests about the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis are convulsing Western Europe, just as they are the UK, Canada, Australia, and the USA.
Today in Düsseldorf a supply of cobblestones was placed conveniently near the demonstration site in a construction area where the street had been opened up. The situation provides the paranoid mind with ample food for speculation about how the projectiles came to be placed exactly where they would be sorely needed by the “anti-fascists” later in the day. The directive to open up the street would have to come from at least the level of the municipal government. Who ordered it? Did he or she know the ultimate disposition of the cobblestones?
The thing is, the same convenient placement of bricks and cobbles has been observed and photographed in Berlin, Bremen, Cologne, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Mainz, Mannheim, Wiesbaden, and other German cities.
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7th June 2020
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“Lisa Page is the new Legal Analyst for NBC and MSNBC,” Turley, a self-described liberal, tweeted Saturday in response to news that MSNBC hired former FBI lawyer Lisa Page as a legal analyst. “The problem is not that Page disagrees with the Administration on legal matters but that she is personally involved in the investigations and has shown intense and at times unhinged bias against Trump.”
Turley continued: “It seems like bias has become the coin of the realm for some networks. Why have echo journalism when you can have an analyst simply repeat her position directly? With Page, NBC has crossed the Rubicon and left its objectivity scattered on the far bank.”
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6th June 2020
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6th June 2020
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6th June 2020
Defund the Police… Because Climate Change
Claim: Global Warming will Increase the Threat of Weeds Women and minorities hardest hit, etc. etc.
‘Collapse of civilisation is the most likely outcome’: top climate scientists Still waiting for those rising sea levels.
Vice: Climate Change is Increasing Violent Conflict Possibly because environmentalists are stirring up trouble.
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6th June 2020
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6th June 2020
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We didn’t need to read Kathy Griffin’s latest Tweets to see Twitter’s liberal bias. But it helps.
The far-left comedian famously curtailed her career when she posed with the faux severed head of President Donald Trump. Even our cynical culture cried foul over the image, one mirroring the atrocities committed by ISIS.
Griffin apologized, melted down and then un-apologized when she realized the Resistance cheered on her visual savagery. All the cool celebrities wished death on President Trump.
She’s been milking that photo’s fallout ever since.
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6th June 2020
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I wrote the Weekly Standard article “Louis Farrakhan’s first congressman” and wrote the companion Power Line post “Keith Ellison for dummies” in October 2006, when Ellison was on the verge of election to Congress representing Minnesota’s Fifth District.
I was provoked to write these pieces by the poor job Minneapolis’s Star Tribune had done documenting Ellison’s troubling past. Indeed, I had been contacted by several prominent Democrats who had dealt with Ellison and were themselves frustrated by the errors and omissions in the Star Tribune’s coverage.
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6th June 2020
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There was an alien race in Larry Niven’s RINGWORLD universe, called the Outsiders, that uses a similar mechanism for their metabolic processes.
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6th June 2020
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From the “all models are wrong, some are completely useless” department. This was originally from May 6th, but it’s so bad, we deserve a reminder just as we are about to emerge from the final phases of lockdown here in California.
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6th June 2020
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I wonder if it will call 911 and provide location info if you are being beaten up by rioters? Or does it check for their color first?
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6th June 2020
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While you’re waiting for the riots to start.
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6th June 2020
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Let’s put Joe Biden in charge, that’ll fix ’em!
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6th June 2020
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I don’t really care about professional sports but I love new technology and this looks especially interesting.
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6th June 2020
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It has a graph, so it must be Science!
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5th June 2020
Emotional debate erupts over anti-lynching legislation as Cory Booker and Kamala Harris speak out against Rand Paul amendment
‘God is Dead’: Leftist Rioters Vandalize Churches and Synagogues Religion is a center of influence outside of government and its academic shills, and so (as in the Soviet Union) it must be suppressed.
Twitter Singles Out Michelle Malkin Tweet for Censorship Leftism will out.
Leftists Are Angry That LEGO Hasn’t Virtue-Signalled Hard Enough
Andrew Cuomo Complains That Looters Are Getting Out Of Jail — His Bail Reform Opened The Door Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.
WashPost Publishes Antifa Propaganda: They ‘Dream of a Kinder, More Equitable Society’ And they’ll hit you with a brick if you don’t agree.
“A Safe Space To Practice Aggression”: Veritas Infiltrates Antifa ‘Fight Club’ In NYC
‘Grim Milestone’: WaPo Seems To Miss Changing Its Twitter Headline Claiming Unemployment Will Be ‘Close To 20 Percent’
Katy Tur: So Many White Americans Have Internal Racism, Don’t Think They Are!
Twitter Hasn’t Censored A Slate Tweet Calling Violence An Important ‘Tool’ For Protests
Genre Gone: Wash Post Says Cancel Cop Shows
“Useful Idiots”, ‘White Privilege’, & Silicon Valley’s “Ministry Of Truth”
Ilhan Omar Calls For Disbanding Of Minneapolis Police Department
Women’s NBA Player Cloud Denounces Racist America, Republicans
Cuomo: Calls for ‘Peaceful’ Protests are ‘Dog Whistle’ for ‘Be Quiet and Go Away’ If you can hear the ‘dog-whistle’, then you’re the dog.
Florida Supreme Court Quashes Amendment That Would Outlaw ‘Assault Weapons’
Lego, George Floyd and the politics of playtime The key characteristic of totalitarianism is that no aspect of life is allowed to be outside of the political Narrative. Mussolini said it best: “Everything within the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.”
Twitter Mistakenly Disables Video Of A GOP Candidate Doing A Pushup Challenge For PTSD Victims, Offers No Explanation Well, he’s a Republican, so he must have been promoting hate or violence or something, right?
Dem AGs Want Congress to Give Authority to Probe Police
Fauci ‘Very Concerned’ Protests Are ‘Perfect Set Up’ to Spread Coronavirus I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.
Philly Food Market Offers Free Lunch To Cops Then Apologizes For Being ‘Insensitive’
UN Human Rights Officials Condemn US, Refer to Black Deaths as ‘Modern-Day Racial Terror Lynchings’
Leftwing White Women Are In Some Contest To Prove They’re the Most Hysterical Lunatics On the Planet and No One Else Is Even Competing for Second-Place
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5th June 2020
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5th June 2020
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5th June 2020
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5th June 2020
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Good luck with that, seeing how you encouraged the ‘protesters’ to loot their stores. They may be crazy, but they’re not stupid.
Is it just me or does the Mayor of Chicago look like a character from Zombie Apocalypse?
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5th June 2020
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Remember: Fredo Cuomo, Don Lemon, Jim Acosta, Jeff Zucker and CNN support violent terrorist revolutionaries.
They simultaneously demand that you never even criticize them for their support of violent attacks on citizens because the chance that that might encourage violence against them is just intolerable!
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5th June 2020
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After initially defending publication, the Times now claims the op-ed “did not meet our standards.” The op-ed was the result of a “rushed editorial process,” the paper adds.
But James Dao, the Times’ deputy editorial page editor, says that several editors saw the op-ed before it was published — “including one on the masthead: me.” Dao also says the op-ed was fact-checked. Thus, claims about a “rushed editorial process” and failure to “meet standards” are rubbish.
Dao gets to the heart of the matter when he states he is “sorry” that the op-ed had “this kind of impact on my colleagues.” This, then, is the Times’ new standard for op-eds: They must not offend lefty staff members.
My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
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5th June 2020
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The entire 57-member squad of the Buffalo Police Emergency Response Team resigned Friday in protest, after two of their officers were suspended without pay for pushing a 75-year-old man, according to the Investigative Post.
And so it starts.
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5th June 2020
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Did you know that The Science now says that coronavirus is not contagious in protests of 100 people, but is extremely contagious in non-protest outdoor gatherings of 12?
You didn’t?
LOL, what a deporable Science-Hater you are.
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5th June 2020
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Democrats and media outlets like the Washington Post were among the hardest hit by the news, with the WaPo having to rewrite their pre-canned headline once the news broke.
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5th June 2020
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Must be the tail end of that Obama Economy we’ve been hearing so much about.
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5th June 2020
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5th June 2020
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5th June 2020
ZMan does his weekly podcast.
In a week of left-wing riots, it seemed logical to do a show on the left-wing riots, so that’s what we have this week. There is so much material here that I could probably do ten hours and not cover everything. What we are seeing is the orchestrated suicide of the country by the ruling class. This is a not a revolution from above, so much a suicide from above. The new world these people imagine is less plausible than what libertarians imagine or even what anarchist imagine.
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The thing is, this system cannot survive a month without the cops. Take the cops off the streets and the mob consumes the beautiful people neighborhoods. The usual suspect will be swallowing their jewelry and racing to the borders. All of the petty tyrants that have been pushing us around for the last two months over the ridiculous virus panic will be swinging from lamp posts. Not only will the mob lay waste to the people in charge, the normal people quietly seething will be suddenly unconstrained.
If you don’t subscribe, you really ought to.
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5th June 2020
Charlie Cooke lays it out.
Defending their lives and their property as they see fit is exactly what those who have been abandoned by the authorities are doing in droves.
‘Only the cops need guns” simply could not live forever alongside, “The cops are racist and will kill you.” And so, at long last, the two circles of the Venn Diagram have filed for an amicable divorce. In the end, the differences proved irreconcilable.
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5th June 2020
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Coverage that American news media just won’t do.
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5th June 2020
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Junk science has a lot of friends in the Lamestream Media.
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5th June 2020
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That is what officials in cities that have been devastated by rioters, looters and arsonists are saying to businesses whose investments in those cities have gone up in smoke. Steve touched on this earlier, but I want to amplify the point. The following are just three examples of many that we will see in the coming weeks.
If I were in one of the Blue cities that got hit by riots and had to watch the police stand by while buildings burned and livelihoods were destroyed, I’d beat feat at the first opportunity.
What is a “food desert”? A food desert is an area where crime, shoplifting and, as here, looting and arson have made it unprofitable to operate a grocery store. There is no such thing as a food desert in a law-abiding neighborhood. Here’s a news flash: If you burn down the grocery stores near where you live, you might have a hard time buying groceries.
Actions have consequences.
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5th June 2020
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Gotta love Australians.
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5th June 2020
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Dozens of officers from the Louisville Metro Police Department walked out on the city’s Mayor Greg Fischer (D) on Wednesday as he tried to address them.
Video obtained by the Courier-Journal showed the Louisville, Ky., mayor standing in the middle of a room as officers and detectives walked out without a word.
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4th June 2020
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Another obscure legal term in the news.
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4th June 2020
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When Jeffrey Zucker’s CNN settles on a narrative, they flood the zone with employees singing from the same sheet music; seeing as how they have a President to hate.
Such was the case on May 22 when CNN shows spent 90 minutes and 54 seconds heralding a now-debunked study that originally claimed taking hydroxychloroquine while battling COVID-19 could be fatal. Over on MSNBC, the total clocked out at a smaller but still sizable total of 19 minutes and 19 seconds.
For this count, the MRC looked at every hour of live programming from CNN and MSNBC May 22, and, in the case of CNN shows and MSNBC primetime, backed up by Nexis transcripts. Since the study went live just before 9:00 a.m. Eastern, each of the 10 subsequent CNN shows covered the study. On MSNBC, nine shows featured it.
How about coverage of the retraction? As of this study’s publication, MSNBC has ignored it while CNN has only given it one minute and 45 seconds during The Lead with Jake Tapper. So much for Jim Acosta’s claim last week that journalists correct their mistakes.
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4th June 2020
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George Will is just another pseudo-conservative pundit at The Washington Post. He’s Jennifer Rubin with shorter hair. His latest column seals this image, explicitly calling for a rout of congressional Republicans, much to the delight of the liberal media.
Joe Biden isn’t the only senile duffer in Washington.
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4th June 2020
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U.S. Navy veteran Michael White stepped out of a Swiss government plane in Zurich, Switzerland, and back into American freedom, Thursday, after spending two years in an Iranian prison on charges of allegedly insulting the supreme leader. In an interview with Fox News, White thanked President Trump for his release and for making America great again. But neither his release nor his thanks were covered by ABC’s World News Tonight and the CBS Evening News.
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4th June 2020
US black-white inequality in 6 stark charts CNN. Carefully slanted to get the Narrative across.
Why Ben & Jerry’s statement on white supremacy is so extraordinary CNN. Actually, if you know anything at all about Ben & Jerry’s, their ‘statement about white supremacy’ is the least extraordinary thing you’ll see this year.
Looters flee in luxury SUVs after ransacking NYC stores: video
Rand Paul holds up anti-lynching legislation as he seeks changes to bill CNN. Proglodytes love to live in the past — this is just another example. Nobody has been ‘lynched’ for at least half a century, much less any black people.
Disney Donates $2 Million To NAACP Following George Floyd’s Death Hoping to be the last one the tiger eats. The only permissible explictly-racist organizations are those that are anti-white.
Six Racist Cops Arrested in Atlanta! Of which only one is white.
NYT Writers Say NYT Put Their Black Colleagues ‘In Danger’ By Running Tom Cotton Op-Ed Puzzle that one out, if you can.
Which black lives matter?
‘This Is Not Genocide’: Tucker Carlson Breaks Down Every Police Shooting Of Unarmed Black Suspects In 2019
Gov. Ralph Northam To Announce Plans To Remove Robert E. Lee Statue Amid Calls From Protesters
Is Black Lives Matter a religion for woke white people?
This Woman Thinks the Chicago Police Are Shirking Their Duty to Disarm Store Owners, So That Black People Can Loot Safely
Ellison enters stage left
Drew Brees Apologizes for ‘Hurtful’ Remarks And, oh, by the way, he loves Big Brother. Just so you know. (Nets Outraged by ‘Controversial’ Pro-Flag Comments from NFL’s Drew Brees)
The Ethnicity of Looting
Women Chastised For Removing Graffiti: ‘Not A Great Way To Use Your White Privilege’ Yeah, that whole cleanliness thing is So White.
Twitter Founder Will Donate $3 Million To Colin Kaepernick’s Activist Group
Why is Ben & Jerry’s lecturing us about ‘white supremacy’? Because that’s what they do.
CNN: White Children “Don’t Deserve Innocence” The commenter is, of course, white.
STUDY: 99.3% of Broadcast Networks’ Protest Coverage Ignores Mob’s Murder Victims
Memorial To Civil War Black Abolitionist Leader And Black Regiment Desecrated
“A Protester Shot My Sister”: Teenager Records Gut Wrenching Message After Deadly Riot Judging by the picture, I suspect that the victim ‘identified’ as black, although she wasn’t any more black than Megan Markle.
Former ‘Bachelor’ Contestant Victoria F. Addresses ‘White Lives Matter’ Involvement They could just set up kiosks where white people could go to apologize.
Snowflakes: Liberals, NYT Employees Suggest Cotton Op-Ed Puts Black Lives ‘In Danger’
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4th June 2020
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