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Wednesday, September 2. 2020Wednesday morning linksThe Cancel Culture Checklist - Six signs that show you're not being criticized; you're being canceled. Academics Are Really, Really Worried About Their Freedom California To Set Up Task Force To Examine Slavery Reparations Watch Prominent Democrats Call for Violence CNN’s Chris Cillizza: Here’s Why Trump Is Calling The Protests ‘Riots’ (Hint: Because They’re Riots) THE DEMOCRATS EXPLAIN THEIR VOTER FRAUD PLANS Judge Rules 50,000 Iowa Absentee Ballot Applications Invalid The Intense Rules for US Marines Who Protected Mail from Gangsters Dem PAC to use military anti-terror technology to counter Trump’s campaign messages It's a war The Morning Briefing: Media Won't Be Able to Prop Up Drooling Train Wreck Biden for 2 More Months Trackbacks
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Reparations: Note, collective guilt or inherited guilt is not inherently true or universal.
Expecting the Hispanic population of California to ante up for reparations makes no more sense than the pretense that AAs are owed something by the descendants of some Swede, who arrived in say 1880 and busted sod on the Northern Plains. Curious as to why the reparations crusade doesn't include the Dutch, English, Portuguese, Spanish governments etc. I am assuming that reparations would be limited to people who are actually directly descended from the African Americans who actually were slaves in the American South and not Jamaicans or Brazilians who arrived last year. Right? Imagine the squabbling when that realization hits. If the California State Government were actually serious about reparations, they would be looking at the official policies that were aimed at restricting the lives and livelihoods of the Chinese immigrants
Kamala Harris supports reparations for slavery. BLM in Chicago said looting was for reparations. Therefore, BLM should loot Harris' house.
Conservatives are making a big mistake fighting battles on the playing fields of Progressives. Perverting the meaning of words is the first gambit out of the Progressive playbook. Applying new meanings and definitions to words or phrases is successful when the opposition begins responding to them.
So it is with Social Justice. There is no such thing as Social Justice. It is an artificial and arbitrary construct, without sanction or standard, designed to divide culture and then benefit one class of people at the expense of another. This country has one system of justice, under the umbrella of laws codified under the US Constitution. Now, look how much traction the idea of social justice, racial justice, gender justice, reparations, etc etc all have developed for themselves within a few short years, branching from that one successful language perversion - the idea that there is another systemic kind of justice to be sought and secured for ambiguous wrongs against unspecified persons in this country. Reject the premise, articulate why, reject it again and again, each and every time so that the only time the words are heard is when they are being spewed by a radical. The ploy depends upon engagement. Turn it back. Best marketing label of the 21st century (so far) is Black Lives Matter. Social Justice is a distant second, leading Meals Ready to Eat by a nose.
1.2: YAY. MUDBUG!!
Cancel Culture: Not gonna happen to me. Nobody cares what I think. (Dang...) Academics are really, really worried about their freedom: They're deeeeeeep in the swamp, and getting deeper. California To Set Up Task Force To Examine Slavery Reparations: Oooooh those California plantations! CNN’s Chris Cillizza: Here’s why Trump is calling the protests ‘riots’ (hint: because they’re riots) Cilliza/CNN: Two bad bets. The Democrats Explain Their Voter Fraud Plans: And we KNOW they have many, many plans... Judge Rules 50,000 Iowa Absentee Ballot Applications Invalid: Good! No, EXCELLENT. YAY. MUDBUG!!
Thanks Sam! Another angle: Kamala's ancestors owned slaves (we even know their names). Is she going to pay reparations? What about those who are not descended from slave holders? Free persons of color were perfectly entitled to own slaves in slave states.
And so, some of them did. Would their descendants be on the hook for reparations? Only one more reason why reparations is an idiot's idea.
How about the fact that most slaves were bought from black enslavers before they were shipped to their final destination? (In fact most slaves went to Brazil, not the US.) Or that General Sherman tried to give slaves 40 acres and a mule but President Johnson (D) killed the idea? It wasn't white people who wanted to continue slavery, or formed the KKK, or denied blacks the vote, or enforced Jim Crow laws, or filibustered civil rights laws. It was Democrats who did those things. re THE DEMOCRATS EXPLAIN THEIR VOTER FRAUD PLANS
Better story here. QUOTE: Josh Mendelsohn, CEO of Hawkfish, explained his firm’s election night projections in an appearance on “Axios on HBO” in a clip released on Tuesday. Mendelsohn said that a “red mirage” may take place on election night showing an overwhelming victory for President Trump before Democratic nominee Joe Biden wins the election days later. “The reason we talk about a red mirage is in fact because we believe that on election night, we’re going to see Donald Trump in a stronger position than the reality actually is,” Mendelsohn said. “We are sounding an alarm and saying that this is a very real possibility, that the data is going to show on election night an incredible victory for Donald Trump. “That is likely to be what we see when every legitimate vote is tallied, and we get to that final day which will be Sunday after Election Day, it will, in fact, show that what happened on election night was exactly that, a mirage,” he continued. “It looked like Donald Trump was in the lead and he fundamentally was not when every ballot gets counted.” https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-data-firm-says-apparent-trump-election-landslide-could-turn-into-biden-win-days-later-with-mail-in-ballots Looks like cheating will be on an unprecedented scale. re The Morning Briefing: Media Won't Be Able to Prop Up Drooling Train Wreck Biden for 2 More Months
QUOTE: What the media propagandists are tasked with doing now is making the American voters believe that the Joe Biden we’re seeing with our own eyes isn’t really a disaster. In other words, the media's challenge is to gaslight us at a level they have never done before. Between that and the voter fraud, it just might work. "Cancel culture" -- what Hitler tried to do to the Jews, but THIS time his spiritual descendants will get right.
Looks like Pinker is about to reap the whirlwind. To mix metaphors, the crocodile has come for him. So sad. Well, he’s had a good life up till now.
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