“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.” — George Orwell, 1984 “Blow me, assholes. You backed the wrong PRAGMATIC, REASONABLE horse and look where it’s gotten you.” —
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June 15, 2015
This is sooo NOT a 10-year-old essay on the left’s control of identity politics
An obvious problem with the grievance aspect of identity politics is that the grievance needs to be perpetually maintained in order to justify the identity aspect of the politics. And in an era of academic specialization wherein just about every individual identity group has its own set of researchers and theoretical champions—as well as a widely accepted generic narrative of grievance—the observation that continued relevance (which translates into political power)
June 14, 2015
#RachelDolezal and “How To Be Black” [Darleen Click]
My favorite political picture of the decade so far. pic.twitter.com/Ej83794dlN — Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) June 14, 2015 Best.Photo.Evah! No, that is not Photoshop! Real book.
June 14, 2015
MSNBC Melissa Harris-Perry on Rachel Dolezal: ‘It Is Possible That She Might Actually Be Black?’ [Darleen Click]
Listen for the phrases “cisblack” and “transblack” You just can’t make this stuff up.
June 14, 2015
Teacher argues she won’t teach Shakespeare because #whiteskin is #wrongskin [Darleen Click]
This teacher of pallor, Dana Dusbiber, reveals her inner racist … I am a high school English teacher. I am not supposed to dislike Shakespeare. But I do. And not only do I dislike Shakespeare because of my own personal disinterest in reading stories written in an early form of the English language that I cannot always easily navigate, but also because there is a WORLD of really exciting literature
June 13, 2015
CNN anchor describes gunman who opened fire on Dallas Police HQ as “Courageous and Brave” [Darleen Click]
Where does Fredricka Whitfield live and maybe her local police can just ignore any 911 calls from her home. I can’t even. ************************* The incident in question.
June 13, 2015
#WrongSkin “We’ve raised a generation that thirsts for the sainthood conferred by racial oppression.” [Darleen Click]
Leftists, in their long march through America’s institutions, have used the concept of “Race” and honed it into the fine-art of Balkinizing America in ways to make the KKK green with envy. While Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders rightfully pushed for their seat at the table of America’s Constitutional rights, the Left seized the opportunity to push an agenda of aggrieved identity politics. Are you in the
June 12, 2015
Rachel Dolezal and #WrongSkin [Darleen Click]
Elizabeth Warren, courtesy phone please … An NAACP leader’s parents have made a startling revelation: their daughter, for years a highly visible civil rights activist in Eastern Washington, is white. Rachel Dolezal, Spokane’s NAACP Chapter President and part-time Africana Studies professor at Eastern Washington University, has been misleading people about her ethnicity for years, her parents say. Her mother even offered photographic proof. While today the 37-year-old divorcee currently sports
June 11, 2015
All Your Children Are Belong To Us: 11 year-old plays unsupervised in his own back yard for 90 minutes, parents charged with felony neglect [Darleen Click]
Tar and feathers … One afternoon this past April, a Florida mom and dad I’ll call Cindy and Fred could not get home in time to let their 11-year-old son into the house. The boy didn’t have a key, so he played basketball in the yard. He was alone for 90 minutes. A neighbor called the cops, and when the parents arrived—having been delayed by traffic and rain—they were arrested
June 10, 2015
“Amherst’s Version of Kafka’s ‘The Trial'” [Darleen Click]
KC Johnson writes on yet another episode of Facts be damned, the man is always guilty … Kafka was born too early to write about Amherst College. At campus hearings on claims of sexual assault, procedures are relentlessly stacked again males and evidence of innocence doesn’t count. Amherst expelled a student for committing rape—despite text messages from the accuser, sent immediately after the alleged assault, (1) telling one student that