Category: Race
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Calvinball, Big Balls, and the Age of Balls
A couple of ballsy articles for your cojonic delectation. Jonathan Turley, The Judicial Calvinball of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson An excellent piece that ends on a weak and decidedly unmanly note: "I truly believe that Jackson can leave a lasting legacy and bring an important voice to the court." I'm guessing that the erudite and…
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Slop Talk
'Due process' is a term of legal shop talk. Those of us who know something about the law — I know a little — know how to use it correctly. And those of us who think that words ought to be used responsibly in serious discussions should take offense at the 'slop talk' use of…
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A ‘Progressive’ Paradox
How 'progressive' is it to be stuck in the past? Substack latest.
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George Floyd Five Years Later
This article covers many of the essential points.
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Trump’s Gaza Proposal
Donald Trump seems incapable of qualifying his statements, a fault that may be connected with his tendency to exaggerate. And so he needlessly inflames his enemies, who, given their biases, naturally took him to be advocating ethnic cleansing with his talk of "taking over" Gaza. Anthony Flood here skillfully rebuts the suggestion. I…
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The Roots of STEM Excellence
An important WSJ article by Charles Murray. I wish Murray were more direct and less worried about being called a racist and a white supremacist. An excess of prudence and a deficit of courage? It is interesting how these two cardinal virtues pull in opposite directions. Related: Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race
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Michael Anton on “Celebration Parallax”
Here: More tellingly, this charge is an example of something I call the “celebration parallax,” which is explained here. In brief, the celebration parallax holds that the same fact pattern is either true and glorious or false and scurrilous depending on who states it and, crucially, the perceived intent of the speaker. So if someone says…
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Imprudent Behavior
Depicted here.
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Black Lives Maga!
The South Bronx comes out for the Orange Man. The video is about eight minutes long and puts me in mind of the old "Joe and Eddy" tune from the early '60s, There's a Meeting Here Tonight. Black support for Trump makes perfect sense. These black citizens understand that an endless influx of illegal aliens…
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Lee’s Lunar Lunacy
Another example of a dumb-as-dirt Dem. No Sheila dear, the Moon is not a planet, but a natural satellite of the Earth, the only one in fact. Its singularity is why, in correct orthography, we write 'the Moon' and not 'the moon.' Jupiter has a number of moons, whereas the Earth has exactly one. Our…
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Race and Reportage
A trenchant addendum to a 14 March post.
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Old Commie Update
Remember Angela Davis? Here she links the 'war on Gaza' with the 'racist lynching of George Floyd.'
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Creative Play with the Race Card
This takes the cake! Update 4/2: The latest example. Routine, not creative.
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On Taking Abuse
A re-post from 1 August 2013. Slightly redacted. …………….. Everyone gets abused verbally in this world and one had better learn how to take it. There are bigots everywhere — leftists and wokesters the most vile, their tendency to project psychologically rendering their bigotry invisible to them — and sooner or later you will encounter…
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Is Trump a Racist?
This morning at The New Yorker: At this point, we know everything there is to know about Donald Trump. His diehard admirers—not all seventy-four million people who voted for him in the 2020 election but his immovable base, maybe thirty per cent of Republicans—admire him still, now more than ever. Is he a racist? Sure,…