[with thanks, here in 2015, to geoffB for teasing this out of the archives] Late to the party I am, but still. From the AP, “Hate-crime arrests in Quran desecrations at Pace University”: A 23-year-old man was arrested Friday on hate-crime charges after he threw a Quran in a toilet at Pace University on two separate occasions, police said. Stanislav Shmulevich of Brooklyn was arrested on charges of criminal mischief
June 2015
June 15, 2015
If only we’d be warned
“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.” —
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