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In The Mailbox: 02.22.21

Posted on | February 23, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.22.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
ImNsho Redux: All Politics All The Time
357 Magnum: More Problems For Texas Infrastructure
EBL: If You Can, Help Zilla Of The Resistance, also, Operation Swamp Fox
Twitchy: Bill Kristol Just Sent What’s Left Of His “Conserving Conservatism” Mask Crashing To The Floor
Louder With Crowder: Coca-Cola Making Employees Complete Online Training To Be “Less White”
Vox Popoli: The Education Offensive, also, If You Want Your Fake Elections
Stoic Observations: Farewell To A Dream Of Baldwin

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Ethiopia’s Looming Insurgency
American Greatness: Is The Biden Administration Stumbling Into War? also, The Muppets & Other Disney Products Receive “Offensive Content” Disclaimer
American Power: Whistleblower Jodi Shaw Out At Smith College
American Thinker: McConnell’s Bitter Turtle Soup, also, How The Biden Administration Is Politicizing The Military
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Mexican Doctors Protest Being Sent To Cuba For Special Training
BattleSwarm: A Californian Moves To Texas, also, Michael Malice On The Biden Chaos
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, NASA Postpones Second SLS Static Fire Test
Cafe Hayek: Courageous Jodi Shaw, also, JP Sears On Occasional Cortex & Other Dishonest & Arrogant Politicians
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, Late Winter LIVE Free For All – On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: Don’t Worry, Facebook Will Cancel You Next, also, Zilla Could Use Some Help
Don Surber: Why Mitch Is A Bitch, also, Trump Saved NYC’s Ice Rink. City Erases It.
First Street Journal: We’re From The Government And We Know Better Than You What You Should Be Driving
The Geller Report: WOKE COKE – Racist Coca-Cola’s New Slogan “Be Less White”, also, Justice Thomas – SCOTUS Refusal To Hear Pennsylvania Election Cases “Inexplicable”
Hogewash: Rule 5 & Trees, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Nick Searcy Adds Gravitas To Reagan, also, SNL Called Trump Fans Nazis But Clutches Pearls Over Gina Carano’s Nazi Analogy
The Lid: Lauren Boebert Tells Democrat Who Whined About Her Gun Display “Do Your Dishes, Hon”
Legal Insurrection: Newsom Recall Petition Hits 1.7 Million Signatures, also, House GOP Circulates Playbook Outlining Pork In $1.9 Trillion “COVID” Bill
Nebraska Energy Observer: Sunday Funnies – Freezing With Renewable Energy, also, Rowan’s Way – 12 Revealed
Power Line: Remembering The Indispensable Man, also, Is Black Lives Matter Killing People?
Shark Tank: Fried To Disobey DeSantis’ Order To Lower Flags To Half-Staff For Rush Limbaugh
Shot In The Dark: Required Listening
STUMP: Mortality With Meep – Digging Into CDC Report On The First Half Of 2020
The Political Hat: New Hampshire Vs. Critical Race Theory
This Ain’t Hell: Another Three Accounted For, also, Stolen Valor – Department Of Offense
Transterrestrial Musings: That 777 Incident In Denver, also, The New Administrator
Victory Girls: Biden Is Making America Last
Volokh Conspiracy: Antisemitism Continues Its March Toward Acceptability On The Far Left 
Weasel Zippers: Biden Cancels ICE Operation Removing Sex Offenders From US, also, Biden’s Energy Department Allegedly Blocked Texas From Increasing Power Generation Because It Would Violate Green Energy Policy
The Federalist: 31 Days In, The Democrats Haven’t Kept A Single COVID Promise To American Workers, also, Twitter Locked Focus On The Family’s Account For Saying Boys & Girls Are Different
Mark Steyn: Galaxy Quest, also, Kathryn In For Rush Today

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Rule 5 Sunday: Niece Waidhofer

Posted on | February 22, 2021 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Niece Waidhofer

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

“Texas model. Kind of a dork.” Well, that’s what it says on her personal web page, and who I am I to disagree? She’s an Instagram/OnlyFans model, has appeared in a couple of obscure films, and doesn’t appear to have indulged in any deranged publicity stunts. So she’s got that going for her. 

One of the pics from her personal site.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1267, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. 

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Patent Pending Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon

EBL: La Boheme, Falstaff, The White Tiger (Review), Etta James, Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci, Tosca, Jorja Smith, Don Giovanni, The Waifs, Carmen, Turandot, & MAGA CPAC

A View From The Beach: A Master of Sex – Lizzy Caplan, Star Trek Boob Blames Republicans for Texas Weather, Fish Pic Friday – Dana Summers Findley, Free Trees!, Tattoo Thursday, Fairfax County Explores Leaf Bag Ban, Some Wednesday Wetness, Now or Never, Your Monday Morning Stimulus, Happy Valentine’s Day! and I Guess I Need to Buy a Few More

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe of the Week is Valerie Leon. 

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

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FMJRA 2.0: Imperial March

Posted on | February 22, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Imperial March

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Rule 5 Sunday: A Death Goddess For Your Consideration
Animal Magnetism
Harsh Brutus
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

N.Y. Times Doxxes Scott Alexander Because They Hate Free Speech
The Political Hat
Bacon Time
The Pirate’s Cove
357 Magnum
EBL

The Lincoln Project Implodes
Gregor Mendel Blog
Proof Positive
357 Magnum
EBL

Impeachment 2.0 Farce Is Over
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Loser
A View From The Beach
EBL

Get Up And Fight
imNsho Redux
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.15.21
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Why Wasn’t He Already Behind Bars?
Bacon Time
357 Magnum
EBL

The Death of ‘Teflon’
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.16.21
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Rush Limbaugh, R.I.P.
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.18.21 – The Rush Limbaugh Memorial Edition
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Family Demands Answers
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.19.21 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Yes, China Caused This Pandemic
357 Magnum
EBL

Erasing America’s Anglo-Saxon Heritage
Dark Brightness
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.19.21 (Evening Edition)
EBL
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending February 19:

  1.  EBL (15)
  2.  357 Magnum (12)
  3.  A View From The Beach (9)
  4.  Proof Positive (7)

Thanks to everyone for all the linkagery!

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Philadelphia: Carjack City, U.S.A.

Posted on | February 21, 2021 | Comments Off on Philadelphia: Carjack City, U.S.A.

Carjackings increased 80% last year in Philadelphia, when there were 404 carjackings, and January’s numbers show an even further rise:

There has been a surge in the number of these brazen crimes across the city in recent months. Police aren’t quite sure what’s fueling the rise.
In January, there were 59 carjackings, up from 18 at the same time last year, according to the Philadelphia Police Department — a more than threefold increase.
This year’s uptick is a continuation of a disturbing trend that unfolded through last year, when many were out of work or had to work from home because of the coronavirus. There were 404 carjackings in 2020, up from 225 in 2019 and 230 in 2018, according to the department.

Fifty-nine carjackings in a single month — that means there are two carjackings in Philadelphia on a typical day. I learned of this disturbing trend last night after I watched video of a Friday police chase:

Philadelphia police arrested a man late Friday night who they believe carjacked two people, including a pizza delivery driver whose family was inside the car when it was stolen.
Investigators say a driver for City View Pizza was making a delivery on the 3600 block of North Broad Street around 9 p.m. when Marcel Jenkins hopped into his Saturn L200 and drove away.
The delivery driver’s 25-year-old wife and 2 young children were inside the car when it was stolen, according to police. The family was later reported safe.
Jenkins, who police say lives in North Philadelphia, rammed into several parked cars on the 700 block of Race Street and later abandoned the stolen car on Spring Garden Street.
Police say Jenkin stole a Toyota Scion from a 29-year-old woman shortly after ditching the Saturn. Jenkins then lead officers on a high-speed chase through the city during which he ignored traffic signals and drove opposite of traffic.
The chase came to an end when Jenkins drove into Franklin Square Park and eventually came to a stop. He was pulled from the car by officers and taken into custody. He is being held on $750,000 bail.
The District Attorney’s Office on Saturday announced four sets of charges being brought against Jenkins following his rampage through the city. The charges include kidnapping, carjacking, criminal mischief, vandalism and assault.

The District Attorney’s office won’t do anything to stop this epidemic of carjacking in Philadelphia. Lawrence Krasner is one of the “progressive” District Attorneys elected with funding from billionaire George Soros. Krasner has implemented a “turn ’em loose” agenda that guarantees most criminals will be back on the streets within hours of their arrest.

Allowing criminals to terrorize Philadelphia is “social justice,” you see, and if anyone in Philly complains about Krasner’s pro-criminal agenda, these complaints are dismissed as right-wing racism.

Remember that Philadelphia rioted last October when police shot a black man, Walter Wallace Jr., who charged at them with a knife. This is what “social means” — black men have a right to stab police, because the knife-wielding criminal is a victim of “systemic racism.”

Walter Wallace Jr. had more than a dozen arrests on his record before he made the fatal mistake of bringing a knife to a gunfight last October. In any sane community, Wallace never would have been released from prison, but Philadelphia is not a sane community. Joe Biden got more than 80% of the vote in Philadelphia, and if you don’t think that is conclusive proof of insanity, I don’t know what will convince you.

Crazy People Are Dangerous and the madness in Philadelphia has had fatal consequences. Skylar Owens-Mooney was one of the victims.

Philadelphia police on Friday [Oct. 9, 2020] identified the 29-year-old man an officer fatally shot in Germantown early Thursday, and said it occurred after the man entered a church around 3 a.m. carrying an assault rifle, confronted a woman he knew who lived in the rectory there, and said he wanted to kill somebody.
The gunman, Stanley Cochran, then made a series of “bizarre” demands for nearly an hour before leaving the church, police said. What he did next cost two people their lives.
One of them, according to Lt. Jason Hendershot, of the unit that investigates police shootings, was 19-year-old Skylar Owen Mooney, who Hendershot said was fatally shot by Cochran when he tried to steal the car she was driving.
The other was Cochran, who Hendershot said had several confrontations with police officers while trying to run away from the area — refusing to drop his gun, firing at at least one officer, and at one point attempting to steal a police cruiser. . . .
Homicide Lt. Norman Davenport said Cochran was a suspect in a double slaying committed in West Oak Lane on Monday, but that police had not developed enough evidence to be sure that Cochran was the killer. . . .
Hendershot said Thursday’s events started when Cochran entered the rectory at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church carrying a rifle and confronting a woman who lived and worked there. Cochran named a person he wanted to kill and asked the woman to bring that person to him. The woman said she didn’t know who Cochran was talking about, Hendershot said.
Over the next 30 to 60 minutes, according to Hendershot, Cochran made a series of demands, telling the woman to give him food and money, and to drive him to Wawa. She declined.
Cochran ultimately fired a shot, missing the woman. But she dropped her car keys, and he stole her Kia Spectra and drove away, Hendershot said. He crashed near Chelten Avenue.
Cochran then approached a woman driving a black Volvo and told her to get out of the car, Hendershot said, causing her to speed away in reverse for several blocks. She saw police nearby and alerted them about Cochran.
Meanwhile, Hendershot said, Cochran fired shots at an Infiniti sedan being driven by Mooney. She was struck in the head, and later taken to Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia, where she was declared dead. . . .
Cochran, according to Hendershot, then encountered several police officers in different parts of Germantown as he attempted to flee. Police said he did not obey commands to put his gun down, and that four officers fired shots at him. Hendershot said Cochran fired at one of the officers and unsuccessfully tried to steal that cop’s patrol car.
After Cochran was shot, he was taken to Einstein, where he was pronounced dead at 4:36 a.m., Hendershot said.
Hendershot said a Mini Draco firearm was recovered at the scene; it was purchased in 2018 in Richmond, Va., but Hendershot said authorities were still investigating how Cochran — who has a criminal record and could not have legally owned the gun — obtained it.
Cochran had several convictions, according to court records, most recently a guilty plea in 2017 to firearms charges. He was sentenced to 11½ to 23 months in jail and five years probation, the records say. In February 2020, his probation was continued, according to the records, which do not provide additional details.
Davenport said homicide detectives received a call Thursday from someone who said Cochran was responsible for a double slaying Monday on the 6500 block of Lambert Street, where a 48-year-old woman and 29-year-old man were found fatally shot inside a house.

Did you catch that? Cochran was a career felon with “several convictions,” including weapons charges, and was prohibited from possessing firearms. Keep this in mind when Democrats try to pass gun-control legislation. Criminals don’t obey existing gun-control laws, and Democrats don’t want to put criminals in prison for violating those laws.

“Social justice” means that Stanley Cochran served less than two years for his most recent conviction, and was then turned loose on the streets of Philadelphia where he killed a 19-year-old woman. If the January numbers are any indication, there will be more than 700 carjackings in Philadelphia this year. How many more people will be killed by “social justice” in Philadelphia and other hellhole cities run by Democrats?




 

Category: Crime, Pennsylvania

Arithmetic Is Now ‘White Supremacy’?

Posted on | February 20, 2021 | Comments Off on Arithmetic Is Now ‘White Supremacy’?

That seems to be the belief of public education bureaucrats:

The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) recently encouraged teachers to register for training that encourages “ethnomathematics” and argues, among other things, that White supremacy manifests itself in the focus on finding the right answer.
An ODE newsletter sent last week advertises a Feb. 21 “Pathway to Math Equity Micro-Course,” which is designed for middle school teachers to make use of a toolkit for “dismantling racism in mathematics.” The event website identifies the event as a partnership between California’s San Mateo County Office of Education, The Education Trust-West and others.
Part of the toolkit includes a list of ways “white supremacy culture” allegedly “infiltrates math classrooms.” Those include “the focus is on getting the ‘right’ answer,” students being “required to ‘show their work,'” and other alleged manifestations.
“The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so,” the document for the “Equitable Math” toolkit reads. “Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict.”

You see? “Objectivity” is now oppression, and the whole idea that there are “right and wrong answers” in math is white supremacy.

So if you flunked algebra in high school, you’re a victim.

John Hoge has a question:

I wonder how many of the education bureaucrats who are promoting the course would object to the calculations on their paychecks being done on the basis of 2 + 2 = 3.

If you wonder what’s wrong with America, start with the schools.




 

Category: Education, Racism

The Media’s Squirrel Patrol

Posted on | February 20, 2021 | Comments Off on The Media’s Squirrel Patrol

For the past two days, the liberal media have been acting as if Ted Cruz’s vacation to Cancun was the biggest news story of the week. As Scott McKay points out, this is a “squirrel” distraction, intended to draw the public’s attention away from the COVID-19 scandal around Andrew Cuomo and other news they don’t want us to notice.




 

Category: Media Bias, Ted Cruz

In The Mailbox: 02.19.21 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | February 20, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.19.21 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual deadlines in effect for the usual weekend linkagery.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

More celebration of the Lunar New Year, with my favorite death goddess.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Nexit – Are The Dutch Next In Line To Leave The EU?
EBL: (some opera stuff, I know some of you are into this, but whatever)
Twitchy: Neera Tanden’s Nomination For OMB Just Hit A Major Democratic Senatorial Roadblack
Louder With Crowder: Five Things I Care About More Than Ted Cruz Going To Cancun
Vox Popoli: The Civil War For Star Wars Is Over, also, Disinviting Baen
According To Hoyt: Again And Again – What Are The Facts?
Monster Hunter Nation: An Open Letter To The Old-Time Fans At Worldcon

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Greasy Pole #16 – The Put It On Paper Episode
American Conservative: Looking Back To Our Realist Past
American Greatness: Nearly 5000 National Guardsmen To Stay In DC Until Mid-March For Fear Of QAnon, also, Retired General Chosen By Pelosi To Head “Independent Review” Of Capitol Riots Under Fire For Partisan, Profane, & Bigoted Remarks
American Power: Lauren Boebert Rips Gun Control Dems Who Mocked Her For “Gun Fetish” On Zoom, also, Joe Manchin (D-WV) Opposes Far-Left Radical Neera Tanden For OMB
American Thinker: Green New Deal Frozen In Its Tracks, also, Our Dire Future Under Biden
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Patent Pending Friday
Babalu Blog: Art World Aghast At 9000 Cubans Who Have Called For Culture Minister’s Removal, also, Rush Limbaugh Stood Shoulder With Elian Gonzalez’ Family When Most Americans & Even Some Conservatives Applauded The Castro-Clinton Kidnapping
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For February 19
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans – SF Publishers Baen Books, also, Bloomberg Editorial – Scrap SLS!
Cafe Hayek: Walter Williams Explains The Simple (Il)logic Of Using The Minimum Wage To “Help” Poor Workers, also, What About Maximum-Work-Effort Legislation?
Da Tech Guy: Be Very Afraid Of The Biden Administration’s Coming Crackdown On “Domestic Extremism”, also, Four Americans, Two Campaigns – Bainbridge, Stewart, Limbaugh, & Palin
Don Surber: Media Thinks Ted Cruz Should Fix Your Furnace, also, National Review Trashes Rush Limbaugh
First Street Journal: Climate Cultist Arrested For “Sedition, Promoting Hatred Among Groups, And Criminal Conspiracy”, also, The Editors Of The Lexington Herald-Leader & Its One-Sided Op-Ed Pages
The Geller Report: Chattering Liberal Elites Encouraged BLM’s Insurrectionary Behavior, also, Sky News – “Never Before Has The Leader Of The Free World Been So Cognitively Compromised”
Hogewash: Sour Grapes, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: How Lynch’s Mulholland Drive Invaded Our Dreams, also, Siskel & Ebert Warned Us About PC Culture, Ideological Conformity
The Lid: Rasmussen Polls Show Voters Convinced That Slow Joe Is Puppet Of Radical Left
Legal Insurrection: House Democrats Introduce Bill To Ban “Twice Impeached Presidents” From Burial At Arlington, also, Trump Doesn’t Rule Out 2024 Run – Polls Show GOP Voters Want Him To Have A Major Role In The Party
Nebraska Energy Observer: Sadness
Power Line: Red States Trounce Blue States, also, Bo Snerdley Recalls Rush
Shark Tank: In Trying To Bash DeSantis, Nikki Fried Humiliates Herself
Shot In The Dark: Indoctrination
This Ain’t Hell: Coast Guard’s Greatest Rescue, also, Valor Friday
Transterrestrial Musings: The Goal Of Black Lives Matter, also, Bill Gates
Victory Girls: Six Capitol Police Suspended Due To January 6 Breach
Volokh Conspiracy: SD Supremes Rule Property Owners Not Entitled To Compensation For Severe Damage Done By Police 
Weasel Zippers: Biden On Red Chinese Death Camps – “It’s A Different Culture”, also, Trump Snubs Nikki Haley
The Federalist: Biden Administration Prepares The Way For Banks To Deny Service To Democrats’ Enemies, also, Chuck Schumer Flips On PR Statehood
Mark Steyn: Corpsing With The Cuomos, also, Born Free & Resting Merry

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Erasing America’s Anglo-Saxon Heritage

Posted on | February 19, 2021 | Comments Off on Erasing America’s Anglo-Saxon Heritage

An inherent problem with the contemporary rhetoric about “white supremacy” employed by the Left is that it is ahistorical. The first time the SPLC accused me of being a “white supremacist,” I was dumbfounded. What does that term even mean in the 21st-century United States? No intelligent person could imagine — certainly, I have never contemplated — that we could revert to something like mid-20th-century Jim Crow. The Left’s rhetoric is about accusing people of secretly harboring such plans, however, and thus is based on a lie.

“White supremacy” has an actual historic meaning, and this term cannot be stretched to cover anything that liberals wish to condemn, as for example restrictionist views on immigration. If we are not allowed to disagree with open–borders enthusiasts without being accused of “white supremacy,” then no debate over immigration policy is possible. And that’s exactly the point, you see. By applying the epithet “white supremacist” to their antagonists, the Left seeks to silence dissent, in effect making it a hate crime to disagree with liberals.

And what does the category “white” signify, historically? For most people, through most of human history, there was little knowledge of racial categories as we now think of them for the simple reason that most people had no knowledge of anyone outside their immediate area. My remote ancestors, living in the British Isles, never in their lives encountered anyone from Asia or Africa, and prior to Columbus’s voyage in 1492, the existence of the Americas was unknown in Europe.

Only with the European colonization of the Americas, and subsequent advances in travel and communication, did the concept of race develop into something resembling our modern ideas of humanity as being divided into several large categories. Prior to this development, Europeans did not think of themselves as sharing any common heredity, but rather the English viewed the Irish as a foreign “race,” and the people of continental Europe also viewed each other as distinct “races” — the Germans, the Italians, the French, etc. — each with their particular characteristics. And these various European “races” fought bitter wars against each other. This is something I addressed last month:

Anyone who thinks the natives of North America suffered a worse fate than other conquered peoples in other places at other times is simply ignorant of history, including the history of England. The original population of the British isles was first conquered by the Belgae, then by the Romans, who made it part of their empire for about 300 years. In the twilight of Roman power, the province of Britannia was invaded by seafaring Anglo-Saxon marauders, from the vicinity of modern-day Hamburg, Germany. The Anglo-Saxon conquest marked the beginning of the Dark Ages of England, two centuries where the light of civilization in the island was practically extinguished. Scarcely had this Anglo-Saxon realm become somewhat of a Christian civilization than England began to be raided by the heathen Vikings from Scandinavia. Once the Viking era had past, and the descendants of those piratical savages incorporated into the population of Britain, England was conquered by the Normans.
By the time William of Normandy crossed the Channel in 1066, his was the fifth conquest of England in the span of about 1,000 years. Every successive wave of conquest was attended by its share of massacres, atrocities and oppression, but this history of our English ancestors is apparently unknown to young Americans, who are taught to despise themselves as perpetrators of heinous violations of “human rights.”

As I explained in that post, the establishment of the English colonies in North America occurred in the context of England’s rivalry with Spain and other European powers. The question was not whether Europeans would settle the area now known as the United States, but rather which of the various European peoples would accomplish this. While in retrospect it may seem impossible that the Spaniards (or the French, the Dutch or the Portuguese) might have beaten out the English in the colonial struggle for North America, the fact is that England faced formidable competition in this struggle. Spain had a powerful navy, and France was far more populous than England, yet nevertheless the English prevailed, and it was this hard-fought English victory against her European rivals that laid the basis for what became the United States of America. What is strange is that it is necessary to remind Americans of this history, which every schoolboy once knew. In their ignorance, our “educated” class now insists that our history can only be understood in terms of white-versus-black (or white-versus-POC), when in fact American history really was more England versus Spain (and France). Again, I remind you:

The oldest permanent settlement in the U.S. is not Jamestown, Virginia, or Plymouth, Massachusetts, but St. Augustine, Florida, founded in 1565 by the Spanish conquistador Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. St. Augustine was founded by Menéndez, a commander of the Spanish treasure fleet, as an outpost against the French, who had sent an expedition to Florida led by Jean Ribault. Shortly after the founding of St. Augustine, Menéndez’s Spanish troops killed Ribault and about 350 of his men in two separate massacres.

This history is inconvenient for the SJW crowd, since the Spanish conquests in America are the heritage of today’s so-called Latinos, who for purposes of political activism are lumped into the category POC (“People of Color”), suffering together under “white supremacy.”

Question: Would America today be a better place if the Spanish empire had conquered the whole of what is today the United States?

Answer: I don’t think so. Nor does anyone else, for that matter.

Why is the southern border of the United States a magical demarcation between advanced industrial democracy, on this side, and that particular sort of squalor we call “Third World” on the other side?

Until you can explain this — i.e., the undeniably superior quality of life in the United States, compared to nearly any place in Latin America — you have no business criticizing the United States for an alleged deficit of “social justice” or anything else, for that matter. The fact that the U.S. quality of life is declining in some places (e.g., California) also calls into question the “social justice” critique, in that there is no evidence that advocates of “social justice” have actually improved the quality of life in those places where their political influence is hegemonic.

Why is it that in the 20th century, the U.S. and Great Britain were victorious as allies in the two most dreadful wars in human history? We defeated Germany twice, and added in Japan for good measure the second time, then as soon as WWII ended, we began the “long twilight struggle” of the Cold War against Soviet imperialism — and won that, too.

The very success of our civilization, however, is an offense to the “social justice” mob, and thus in England a couple of years ago, it was decided that “Anglo-Saxon” must be banned from the language:

Leftists academics are pushing to erase the term “Anglo-Saxon” from the study of history, claiming it is “inextricably bound up with pseudohistorical accounts of white supremacy”.
One such academic is Mary Rambaran-Olm, whose Academia page describes her as an “active member of the Medievalists of Color organization”. Her areas of interest include such topics as “Race and Critical Race Studies in Anglo-Saxon Studies” and “Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Post-Colonial Caribbean”.
Ms Rambaran-Olm claimed in comments to The Times: “Generally white supremacists use the term to make some sort of connection to their heritage (which is inaccurate) or to make associations with ‘whiteness’ but they also habitually misuse it to try and connect themselves to a warrior past.”
“The term ‘Anglo-Saxon’ is inextricably bound up with pseudohistorical accounts of white supremacy, and gives aid and comfort to contemporary white supremacists. Scholars of medieval history must abandon it,” concurred John Overholt, a curator at Harvard’s Houghton Library.

In case you didn’t guess, Mary Rambaran-Olm is a brown person, who is seemingly offended by the very existence of white people. Her desire to banish any reference to the historic origins of England — which, as I have previously explained, involved the Anglo-Saxon conquest of the former Roman province of Britannia — is just the symptomatic tip of a massive iceberg of racial hatred toward white people in general. Do not be deceived as to what is actually involved in this “woke” nonsense.

This is not just a squabble among academics in England. It’s part of the larger project of tearing down Western civilization in general, and this genocidal anti-white crusade — to call it what it is — is intended to deprive Americans of a knowledge of, and love for, our own heritage.




 

Category: Great Britain, Racism
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