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When Thought Crimes Become Speech Crimes [Dan Collins]

European Union mental hygienists making the world a better place: 

As the British conservative philosopher and author Roger Scruton said in a speech in Antwerp last year, the charge of racism and xenophobia in the EU countries “has become the equivalent of a charge of heresy in medieval Europe, of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts, or of ‘deviationism” in the Stalinist state.” However, as Mr. Scruton pointed out, “we have a duty to brave the charge of ‘racism and xenophobia’, and to discuss every aspect of immigration.”

Charles Johnson comes in for a little . . . repudiation.

Charles responds: They’re dreaming of a white Europe

Not exactly an Oreo.  Maybe something caramelly over nougat?

Clearly, more off-fucking needs to be done.

Catholic prisoners sue after being offered ham sandwiches on Fridays during Lent.

Estrich Has Epiphany:

They call it a documentary. Fred Wiseman it isn’t. Ken Burns it isn’t.

There, on HBO, between the animated “Happy Feet” (PG rated) about the penguin who can’t sing, and Inside the NFL, which I assume is about sports, is an advertisement for prostitution. Work for two years on your back, see a doctor once a week, retire forever.

Right. And I can sell you a bridge in Brooklyn.

I am in St. Louis with my friend Elizabeth, helping her strategize with her brilliant physician client, Dr. Padda, about his new process to help women and men look their best, using minimally invasive procedures. Which is a long way of saying that we’re no prudes, we’re all for sex appeal, but we also have five kids ages 12-17 between us (not to mention six dogs and three cats), and we’re doing something neither of us ever has time to do at home.

We’re watching television, just for fun, in our hotel suite. Maybe a trashy movie, she suggests. Our turkey club has just arrived.

We don’t have a clue.

Dispatcher earns designation

Undiagnosed Brain Injury–The Hidden Legacy of College

Cockslapping goes international

Amy Alkon + See Through + Halloween

Glenn Reynolds Channels Andy Rooney

Preston Taylor Holmes acquires advance copy of TNR

George Washington publicly executed

12 Replies to “When Thought Crimes Become Speech Crimes [Dan Collins]”

  1. mark says:

    Yes, that’s all well and good but what about sex with bicycles?!

    Sorry…..time to get out of the house.

  2. B Moe says:

    “It’s negative diversity — where the group is abandoned for individual glory.”

    That is some world-class stupid, right there.

  3. happyfeet says:

    When you see a person of color, you expect someone with similar values, views, beliefs — someone in touch with the emerging new majority.

    That’s the most scary-assed herrenvolky shit I’ve read in a while I think.

  4. happyfeet says:

    AsianWeek is on a roll with the crude racism by the way. They are headquartered in Nancy Pelosi’s district.

  5. psychologizer says:

    I don’t have good race-dar, so I may be mistaking other, similar dudes for Indians (or whatever they and the other same-kinda-dudes-from-near-India are called now), but is there any basis in reality for a projection of race-leftism onto them?

    All the ones I (probably) know are inactivist, 2600-style dork-libertarians, Rockefeller Republican finance sharks, or pancake-breakfast-lady think-Republican-vote-Democrat types (with weird pancakes).

    Wait. Never mind.

    I get stupid sometimes — the first time I hear some new “herrenvolky shit” (high five for that) — and I start to think that it matters whether these things are reasonable.

    It’s not about that.

  6. Pablo says:

    Which is a long way of saying that we’re no prudes, we’re all for sex appeal, but we also have five kids ages 12-17 between us…

    So…does this mean that someone has been schtupping Susan Estrich in the relatively recent past?

  7. happyfeet says:

    the emerging new majority

    Hold that in your head. You can picture a Bantu tribesman cupping his hands about an ember from which he is bravely nurturing the village campfire if it helps…

    Tell Me More” is also about reaching out to blacks, Hispanics and others who have remained persistently underrepresented in NPR’s audience.

    “It’s really a tricky thing,” says Marie Nelson, the show’s executive producer. “We want to have conversations that people of color would want to hear, but we also want to create opportunities for other people to hear about these issues. We both happen to be African American, but we live in connection with all kinds of groups.

    Martin’s regular features include a group of mothers known as the Mocha Moms who talk about everything from relationships to politics, and a “Barbershop” segment in which a mostly black cast of men hashes out topical issues. But Martin mixes in white voices and tries to maintain an alluring intimacy while steering the show clear of the exclusive “just us” tone that dominates black commercial radio.

    Seeking a broad audience doesn’t inhibit Martin from speaking frankly about race or other touchy topics. Interviewing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s longtime friend, Armstrong Williams, about the justice’s new autobiography, Martin asks questions you wouldn’t likely hear on TV: “Would Clarence Thomas like to be known as a race man? Is it possible he doesn’t recall events from [the time before he was nominated to the court] because of his drinking?” (In his book, Thomas writes that from his college years until 1982, “I sought comfort in the bottle” and was “definitely drinking too much.”)

    Martin wants the show to speak to “those who are not being spoken to,” something she hopes her erstwhile colleagues in television will once again find the courage to do.

  8. happyfeet says:

    Hah. Whiff! I forgot the nut graf that most resonates with the “emerging new majority” meme.

    The big white board that tracks plans for upcoming segments in the show’s tight warren of cubicles at NPR’s Massachusetts Avenue NW headquarters portrays a program that focuses heavily on black life in this country and African, Latin American and Asian stories from overseas.

  9. happyfeet says:

    Whiff!

    ok, I guess maybe a less wonderbread idiom would have worked better there. not my day.

  10. Additional Blond Agent says:

    Well, either Ms. Estrich has had a lot of work done or her photo has. As for the HBO show, give me a [bleeping] break. Liberals like her whined for channel locks, ratings, etc. and that’s *still* not good enough for her, to read the Foxnews article.

    Note to Ms. Estrich: Hypocrite, heal thyself.

  11. andy says:

    ““has become the equivalent of a charge of heresy in medieval Europe, of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts, or of ‘deviationism” in the Stalinist state.””

    And what is now the equivalent of hyperbole?

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