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Some high profile writers at the NY Times are pushing back against the mob

College censors art exhibit with content warning, curtains following Muslim students’ complaint

What the Hell Is Going on With That Trump Grand Jury Foreman?

Morning Joe Declares Free Speech to Be 'Out of Date'

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Heidegger’s Downfall - Richard Wolin’s reappraisal of Martin Heidegger offers both original contributions and a synthesis of critical scholarship. The result is a timely work of enduring importance.

Who is "indiginous"?

America is running out of oppressed classes in need of saviors, so apparently, we must expend every more effort to find people to save.

Victor Davis Hanson: The Ukraine War's Prelude To What?

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I’ve thought for years that left handed people should be a protected group. As should klutzes. I am both. (Mostly to mock all the protected people.

#1 Mark on 2023-02-24 09:19 (Reply)

Hey! How 'bout us Persons of Freckle?

#1.1 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2023-02-24 09:23 (Reply)

Are you a natural lefty? I started life left handed and was 'corrected' by my mother every time I picked up a fork in the 'wrong' hand. My mother had some odd notions of lefties disrupting dinner parties. Being converted makes me extra klutzy.

#1.2 John Fisher on 2023-02-24 14:32 (Reply)

Re Morning Joe and free speech. Apparently Brandon's judicial nominees aren't fans either. https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-judicial-nom-argued-for-outlawing-offensive-speech-suggested-microaggressions-can-kill-you/

#1.3 John Fisher on 2023-02-24 14:34 (Reply)

Lawyers want malleable people on the juries. I have been called for jury duty numerous times but never seated on none. As soon as I answer the question about my education the lawyer asks the judge to dismiss me. They don't want educated or intelligent people on their juries. I am certainly not saying that no intelligent people ever get selected or that all jury members are stupid but if the lawyers could make that happen they would. This young lady was perfect for the jury. She soaked up what the DA's said and bought what all the selected witnesses said. That is why she was selected, i.e. so they could indict a ham sandwich.

#2 OneGuy on 2023-02-24 09:48 (Reply)

As Ace pointed out, the rest of the jurors elected her as the Forman - the best amongst them. Wow. She got her 15 minutes of fame.

#2.1 B. Hammer on 2023-02-24 10:53 (Reply)

She's a typical example of the contemporary public school/television/social media-trained airhead. Nothing in there but slogans and cliches echoing around in the darkness. Maybe a little more giggly than most, but she has lots of company, mostly in the Dimocrat Party.

Fortunately, they have a low reproduction rate.

#2.2 Hairless Joe on 2023-02-24 17:20 (Reply)

QUOTE:

America is running out of oppressed classes in need of saviors, so apparently, we must expend every more effort to find people to save.

Caste discrimination against the Dalits is a very real phenomenon in the United States. More than four million Asian Indians live in United States, and, as with most immigrant communities, Indians form ethnic enclaves where such practices are more likely to occur.

#3 Zachriel on 2023-02-24 09:50 (Reply)

They ought to pass a law.
Yeah, that’s it.

#3.1 Zachinoff on 2023-02-24 10:59 (Reply)

Z. nails it on Indian caste discrimination. I've seen this firsthand at my workplace, one that otherwise goes to great lengths to be diverse and inclusive. All the while, the Brahmins are doing all they can to sabotage the lesser castes among their compatriots. Took me a while to figure it out, until I realized that it was an actual social phenomenon (a "thing").

#3.2 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2023-02-24 14:05 (Reply)

It's obviousness is due to its reality, unlike the elusiveness of the invented persecutions that we continually hear about.

#3.2.1 DeGaulle on 2023-02-25 07:35 (Reply)

"UK Defence Secretary Warns ‘War is Coming’ to Britain, Demands More Military Spending"

Our leaders are complete dunces or traitors, perhaps both. Are you ready for this? It's coming and most people have their head in the sand or are making believe it isn't real.

#4 Anon on 2023-02-24 09:56 (Reply)

It looks to me like the 'Indigenous Peoples' protected-class arguments may be starting to run out of gas. It's happening on two fronts: (a) Too many specialized applicants all struggling to make their case for being 'oppressed' when life as a human being has never been better and continues to advance, and (b) there's been too much 'breedin' goin' on.

Angela Davis just had her Black Panther activist *ss kicked when an interviewer laid down a very old passenger manifest from a trans-Atlantic sailing ship and pointed out the names of her ancestors. Turns out, they were on the Mayflower. Now that genealogy has become computer-based and very accessible, it might just be that fact-checking protected class claims could turn up a few embarrassing connections. She was gobsmacked, on camera.

#5 Aggie on 2023-02-24 10:00 (Reply)

QUOTE:

Who is "indiginous"?

The concept of being indigenous was coined during the colonial period to distinguish the original inhabitants of the Americas from European settlers and slaves. It typically refers to the first inhabitants of a region before the colonial era. While not always precisely defined, it is a useful distinction in many cases.

QUOTE:

the Icelanders, are rarely touted as Indigenous.

Icelanders are primarily the descendants of Germanic peoples. The Germanic people displaced the original inhabitants in Europe, so represent part of the Germanic expansion. By convention and the usual definition, they are not considered indigenous people.

Aggie: It looks to me like the 'Indigenous Peoples' protected-class arguments may be starting to run out of gas.

The struggles of indigenous peoples across the globe don't end because the privileged lose interest.

Aggie: Angela Davis just had her Black Panther activist *ss kicked when an interviewer laid down a very old passenger manifest from a trans-Atlantic sailing ship and pointed out the names of her ancestors.

That's actually quite common. Most African Americans have some European ancestry.

#5.1 Zachriel on 2023-02-24 10:17 (Reply)

Hoss: Indigenous peoples are/were the last conquering tribe left standing.

It would refer to any tribes of the original inhabitants before colonization. So, the Massachusett would be considered an indigenous tribe, even though their culture was lost to disease, war, murder, and assimilation. As with many tribes, the Massachusett left descendants.

#5.2 Zachriel on 2023-02-24 11:39 (Reply)

The problem is that if you go back far enough, nobody is indigenous-- at least outside of sub-Saharan Africa. And in the same way all land is "appropriated land".

So who in practice gets treated as indigenous? Whoever the Left can recruit to advance their cause of driving us apart for fun and profit.

You know, maybe if we just stopped all this "racial discrimination" stuff (the forward and the reverse kind), and just treated people equally under the law, this nonsense would just go away.

Can't let that happen, though! Too much good money to be made here keeping it going.

#5.3 Hairless Joe on 2023-02-24 17:15 (Reply)

HairlessJoe: The problem is that if you go back far enough, nobody is indigenous-- at least outside of sub-Saharan Africa.

QUOTE:

Indigenous or less commonly indigenous : of or relating to the earliest known inhabitants of a place and especially of a place that was colonized by a now-dominant group

Note the definition relates to colonization. The definition would apply to, for instance, the Mayas, Inuit, Saami, Aṉangu , and Maori.

#5.3.1 Zachriel on 2023-02-25 09:58 (Reply)

QUOTE:

Victor Davis Hanson: The Ukraine War's Prelude To What? . . . The Ukraine battlefield is proving a similar laboratory of death.

That's not an unreasonable point to make. However, that doesn't mean the Spanish or Poles shouldn't have resisted fascism.

QUOTE:

Next President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that the third stage will be to eject every Russian from 2013 Ukraine.

Zelenskyy has repeatedly rejected the concept of ethnic hate:

QUOTE:

"We repeat it even more strongly than before: never again to hatred; never again to indifference," Zelenskyy said. "The more nations of the world overcome indifference, the less space there will be in the world for hatred."
. . .
Supporters of Putin's military operation have claimed Ukraine's treatment of Russian speakers in the country is comparable with the actions of Nazi Germany. The claims have been refuted by the Ukrainian government, its foreign partners, and Ukraine's own Jewish community, of which Zelenskyy himself is a member.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-russia-war-zelenskyy-holocaust-putin-neo-nazi-remarks/

#6 Zachriel on 2023-02-24 10:33 (Reply)

Oh, if he denounced it then it's all good. It's funny to see people fall all over themselves for a country considered a totally corrupt kleptocracy just a year and a half ago. Zelensky was a puppetmaster of using fringe groups as proxies to pursue domestic goals. Don't even get me started on Biden and the sweetheart deal of quid pro quos.

Indigenous peoples are/were the last conquering tribe left standing.

#6.1 Hoss (Link) on 2023-02-24 10:52 (Reply)

QUOTE:

"We repeat it even more strongly than before: never again to hatred; never again to indifference," Zelenskyy said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-orders-probe-into-russian-linked-church-says-zelenskiy-2022-12-01/

#6.2 Zachinoff on 2023-02-24 11:14 (Reply)

Hoss: Oh, if he denounced it then it's all good.

"The claims have been refuted by the Ukrainian government, its foreign partners, and Ukraine's own Jewish community, of which Zelenskyy himself is a member."

Hoss: It's funny to see people fall all over themselves for a country considered a totally corrupt kleptocracy just a year and a half ago.

The Russian oligarchs were looting Ukraine, just as they are still looting Russia. It will take time to root out Putin's corruption. Before the war, Ukraine had made significant efforts in that regard.

#6.3 Zachriel on 2023-02-24 11:30 (Reply)

Russia, Putin, Russia, Putin….the excuse-line from the left. So weak, man, come on. Never mind that Ukraine’s history is riddled with corruption, or that Zelensky just went on a firing-spree because of it. Keep sending them billions of unaccountable taxpayer dollars…

#6.3.1 Hoss on 2023-02-24 19:48 (Reply)

Hoss: Never mind that Ukraine’s history is riddled with corruption, or that Zelensky just went on a firing-spree because of it.

Yes, Ukraine has struggled with corruption. Russian kleptocracy was the norm before the Maidan Revolution, and the rot is deeply rooted. Notably, Zelenskyy fired a number of top officials for corruption. That's what's supposed to happen.

#6.3.1.1 Zachriel on 2023-02-25 10:49 (Reply)

Quibble-DickZ: Zelenskyy has repeatedly rejected the concept of ethnic hate:

Sure, a regular Martin Luther Kingskyy he is.

Zelensky rules much like his adversary, the universally denounced Putin, does. Zelensky shut down all opposition media in Ukraine, then banned opposition political parties.

https://www.newsweek.com/zelensky-narrative-shifting-opinion-1731875

#6.4 Zachinoff on 2023-02-24 11:35 (Reply)

Ukranian oligarchs robbed the Kraines. A number of them just beat feet out of country to better retain and protect their goods. Unfortunately, for some Ukraine oligarchs, they can not leave Ukraine with land and other property robbed from the state.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/23/ukraine-oligarchs-russia-war-influence

I'm not feeling any pain over the losses of the Ukrainian oligarch class.

#7 indyjonesouthere on 2023-02-24 12:30 (Reply)

Another former Clinton associate dead of apparent suicide

https://www.theblaze.com/news/another-former-clinton-associate-dead-of-apparent-suicide

#8 feeblemind on 2023-02-24 17:16 (Reply)

A PSA from Western Rifle Shooters on ... Fu@k the EU NULAND.

http://westernrifleshooters.us/2023/02/24/psa-68/

#9 indyjonesouthere on 2023-02-24 17:50 (Reply)

Indigenous ? In Israel?
Jews (Yeh, some Canaanites populated the land when the Jews were enslaved in Egypt for 400 years, but Jews were there first/)
N

#10 NS on 2023-02-24 19:09 (Reply)

NS: Jews (Yeh, some Canaanites populated the land when the Jews were enslaved in Egypt for 400 years, but Jews were there first/)

The Canaanites were there before Abraham.

QUOTE:

Genesis 12:6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.

#10.1 Zachriel on 2023-02-25 09:37 (Reply)

Kranian politicians robbing the Ukraine. At the Gateway Pundit

Ukranian politicians wife caught at border with 29 million packed in suitcases.

No final number of dollars tallied yet on what Bidenson, Pelosison, Kerryson, or Romneyson made off with for their "expert" fortunetelling on Burisma oil business.

#11 indyjonesouthere on 2023-02-24 19:46 (Reply)

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