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In The Mailbox: 01.28.20

Posted on | January 28, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.28.20

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Gunfire In Gun Free UK
EBL: #SoWokeSoBroke – Felicia Sonmez Gets Suspended From WaPo For Koe #MeToo Tweet
Twitchy: Tweeter Holds Up Damning Mirror To #NeverTrump Hacks Like Rick Wilson
Louder With Crowder: Don Lemon & CNN Panel Mock Trump Voters As Stupid Dumb Hicks

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Monaco, Baby
American Conservative: Another One Bites The Dust Of “Cultural Appropriation”
American Greatness: Pam Bondi Blows A Gaping Hole In Democrats’ First Article Of Impeachment
American Thinker: The Democrats And Their Prophetic Failure. Again
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Work Incentive News
Babalu Blog: On This Day, Jose Marti Was Born
BattleSwarm: The Twitter Primary For January 2020
Cafe Hayek: Some Links
Camp Of The Saints: On Perpetuating The False Narrative Of The GOP & The Conservative Establishments
CDR Salamander: Playing The India Card In AFG, also, Vietnam’s Sound Foreign Policy Stance
Da Tech Guy: How Left-Wing Hackery Killed Doctor Who, also, Report From Louisiana – Why No Tort Reform?
Don Surber: Democrats Enter Anybody But Bernie Phase, also, Trump Makes Palestine An Offer Too Good To Refuse
First Street Journal: At Least Some Of The #Davos Elites Understand That Carbon Taxes Make Working People Poorer
The Geller Report: Watch “Palestinians” Violently Riot When Offered Their Own State & Peace Deal, also, New Swedish Islamic Party Wants Special Status For Muslims
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, High Crimes, Misdemeanors, & Felonies
Hollywood In Toto: How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love Local Cover Bands, also, Monochrome Doc Gives Police Officers Their Due
Joe For America: NY Post Bombshell – Giuliani To Go Public With Biden Corruption Evidence
JustOneMinute: Andrew McCarthy On Bolton & Surprises
Legal Insurrection: Lawrence O’Donnell Draws Insane Connection Between Bolton, Soleimani, & Impeachment, also, CNN Panel Mocks Trump Voters As Uneducated, Ignorant Hillbillies
Megan McArdle: The Economic System We’ve Built Is A Superhighway For Viruses
The PanAm Post: How Israel, Poland, & Taiwan Can Help Defeat Maduro, also, On The Brink Of Default, Buenos Aires Launches Gender Inclusiveness Project
Power Line: Joltin’ Bolton & Reckless Romney, also, Insuring Trump’s Re-Election
Shark Tank: Pam Bondi’s Impeachment Argument Blacked Out By ABC, CBS, & NBC
Shot In The Dark: Connecticut Department Of Thoughtcrime
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday Special – State Of The Cities From Truth In Accounting
The Political Hat: Historic Scientific Achievement In The Quest To Create Catgirls
This Ain’t Hell: Tuesday FGS, also, Does Not Bear Close Scrutiny
Victory Girls: HR2474 Kills Right To Work, Takes California’s AB5 Nationwide
Volokh Conspiracy: “To Death They Would Go Alone, Yet With All Mankind For Company”
Weasel Zippers: Ted Cruz Goes Beast Mode When Reporter Defends Hunter Biden By Going After Cruz’ Kids, also, Gallup Poll Shows Race Relations Better Under Trump Than Under Obama
Mark Steyn: I Honestly Love You, also, Going Ape, Four Years On

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‘Credulous Boomer Rube Demo’

Posted on | January 28, 2020 | Comments Off on ‘Credulous Boomer Rube Demo’

 

The word “demo” is, of course, short for demographic:

CNN’S DON LEMON: Oh as I said, NPR is standing by their reporter after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused her of lying. It is the latest in a growing list of incidents involving Pompeo and journalists.
Joining me now to discuss, CNN Contributor Wajahat Ali and Rick Wilson. . . .
So, Rick, who do you think is a liar here?
RICK WILSON, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Look, Mike Pompeo has become one of the high priests of Trumpism. In the core of Trumpism is a war on the media. And so I think Mike Pompeo is trying to cast himself as this hero and to please Donald Trump. This isn’t about whether or not she could correctly identify Ukraine on a map, this is part of their performative, you know, media hatred that they engaged on the daily.
LEMON: Wajahat, I want to bring you in. Mary Louise Kelly told NPR, an NPR co-host that before ending the interview, Pompeo, quote, leaned in and glared at her and then he tried to give her a pop quiz. I mean, what is with this intimidation mode?
WAJAHAT ALI, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Yes, this is the pathetic insecurity of the spineless amoebas of men such as Mike Pompeo and the other men in Trump’s administration, right? . . .
WILSON: Of course. Of course. It’s — he’s just trying to demean her, and obviously it’s false. And look, he also knows deep in his heart that Donald Trump couldn’t find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter U and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it. He knows that this is, you know, an administration defined by ignorance of the world, and so that’s partly him playing to their base and playing to their audience, you know, credulous boomer rube demo that back Donald Trump, that wants to think that Donald Trump’s a smart one, and y’all — y’all elitists are dumb.
ALI: You elitists with your geography and your maps and your spelling even though —
WILSON: Your math, your reading.
ALI: Yes, your reading, you know. Your geography knowing other countries. Sipping your latte.
WILSON: All those lines on the map.
ALI: Only them elitists know where Ukraine is. . . .

(Hat-tip: Ace of Spades.) Here we have “Republican strategist” Rick Wilson laughing it up with his two left-wing buddies about how only illiterate and uneducated people voted Republican in 2016. Rick and his CNN friends didn’t vote for Trump, thereby proving that they are so much smarter than the 62.9 million “credulous boomer rubes” who did.

Notice that Wajahat Ali uses the phrase “spineless amoeba” to describe Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a West Point alumnus who served five years as an Army officer in the 7th Cavalry Regiment. Oh, what excellent people “Republican strategist” Rick Wilson chooses as his friends.


 

Category: CNN

Hunter Biden Settles Child-Support Arrangement With Arkansas Stripper

Posted on | January 28, 2020 | Comments Off on Hunter Biden Settles Child-Support Arrangement With Arkansas Stripper

 

We have previously discussed Lunden Alexis Roberts, the 29-year-old Arkansas woman who worked (under the stage name “Dallas”) at a D.C. strip club, where she met Joe Biden’s son, who fathered a bastard child with her. Now comes the news that Hunter Biden, 49, has agreed to pay his baby mama child support retroactive to November 2018, with monthly payments thereafter, and also to pay her court costs and attorneys’ fees. The amount of the settlement is undisclosed, but it is almost certainly a few hundred thousands dollars, lump sum, and three or four thousand a month thereafter. You might suppose that this would be considered big news, coming as it does during the impeachment trial of President Trump, whose alleged “high crimes and misdemeanors” were related to his desire to have Ukraine investigate Hunter Biden’s corrupt deal with the natural gas firm Burisma.

Here is one tiny snippet of the story:

Biden, who is a lawyer, originally denied having sex with Roberts.
But a DNA showed that the child was almost certainly his, and he stopped contesting paternity in the case.

So . . . Biden lied. He did not merely lie, but he lied to a court, and what happens to lawyers who lie in court? Isn’t disbarment appropriate? Perhaps there is some loophole for lying about sex, but whatever the case may be in terms of legal ethics, it is now established as a fact that you can never trust a Biden to tell the truth. Dishonesty is a hereditary trait, and yet every “mainstream” (i.e., liberal) news organization thinks we should just accept Joe Biden’s word that Hunter didn’t do anything wrong in accepting an $83,000-a-month “job” with Burisma:

A defense attorney for President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial slammed Hunter Biden’s employment with Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings, saying the former vice president’s son lacked the experience necessary to land the job and its salary.
“Hunter Biden is paid over $83,000 a month, while the average American family of four during that time, each year, made less than $54,000, and that’s according to U.S. Census Bureau during that time,” said Pam Bondi.
Bondi, 54, submitted a list of articles she said shows Biden did not have the background required to sit on the board of Burisma. She suggested it was his connection to his father that helped secure the lucrative gig and shield him from legal and congressional inquiries.
“When speaking with ABC News about his qualifications to be on Burisma’s board, Hunter Biden didn’t point to any of the usual qualifications of a board member,” she said. “Hunter Biden had no experience in natural gas, no experience in the energy sector, no experience with Ukrainian regulatory affairs. As far as we know, he doesn’t speak Ukrainian.”
She added, “So, naturally, the media has asked questions about his board membership. Why was Hunter Biden on this board?”

But there’s no corruption worth investigating when Democrats do it. Just the cocaine-addicted son of the former vice president, impregnating strippers while on the payroll of Ukrainian kleptocrats — you’re promoting a “right-wing conspiracy theory” if you want to investigate.


 

Category: Corruption, Joe Biden, Ukraine

In The Mailbox: 01.27.20

Posted on | January 27, 2020 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: So What Happens When Engineers Get It Wrong?
Ammo.com: The Oregon Standoff
EBL: Kobe & Gianna Bryant, RIP
Twitchy: Mollie Hemingway, Sean Davis Notice What ISN’T In John Bolton & Publisher’s “Oddly Limited Statement” About NYT Story
Louder With Crowder: Wuhan Whistleblower Indicates Coronavirus Is Much Worse Than We Think

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #132 – The Intelligent Women Episode
American Conservative: “Impossible Whopper” Shouldn’t Replace Your Hamburger
American Greatness: The Grubby Corruption Of Our Power Elite, also, Pete Buttigieg Tells Pro-Life Democrat She Doesn’t Belong In The Democrat Party
American Power: Joe Rogan Endorses Bernie Sanders, Chaos Ensues
American Thinker: The Deep State Tapestry Of Deceit Is Beginning To Unravel
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Spain’s Socialists Working With Castro Regime To Destroy Democracy In Latin America
BattleSwarm: Coronavirus Pandemic Update, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Cafe Hayek: Proponents Of Industrial Policy & Protectionism Know No Economics
CDR Salamander: Watching The Surface Force With David Larter – On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: House Democrats Are Trying To Californicate The Country, also, Illinois Red-Light Camera Probe Provides Convincing Evidence Why They Should Be Banned
Don Surber: The Lightness Of Being Peggy Noonan, also, Writing Off Gun Owners
First Street Journal: How The Media Are Ignoring The Truth
Fred On Everything: Sexbots, Robots, Neural Networks, Weird Oriental Games, & The Spores Of Skynet
The Geller Report: Young Muslim Boy Executes Nigerian Christian In Horrifying Video, also, Ilhan Omar Now Being Investigated By FBI For Marrying Her Brother
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, A First Class Villain?
Hollywood In Toto: Critics Go Ga Ga Over Taylor Swift’s Miss Americana, also, Why Joe Rogan Must Fight Cancel Culture Smears
Joe For America: Motion Drafted To Subpoena Schiff, The “Whistleblower”, & The Bidens 
JustOneMinute: Meanwhile, Back In Australia
Legal Insurrection: Democrats “Kavanaughing” Impeachment Trial As Predicted, also, SCOTUS Approves Trump’s “Public Charge” Immigration Rule
Power Line: Terroristic Threats By Omar’s Enforcer, also, Liberalism Causes Achievement Gaps
Shark Tank: DeSantis To Administer Civics Test Similar To Citizenship Test
Shot In The Dark: Pretty Much Any/Every Day On Twitter
STUMP: Retirement Crisis Solution – Kill The Elderly
The Political Hat: Biology Fail
This Ain’t Hell: USAF Captain Convicted On Drug Charges Skips Sentencing Hearing, Kills Himself, also, Fake SEAL Gets Sentenced
Victory Girls: I Was Wrong – They Want War
Volokh Conspiracy: The Montana Blaine Amendment Case
Weasel Zippers: So That’s Why Schiff Won’t Release The Transcript Of The 18th Witness, also, Cindy McCain Admits “We All Knew” About Epstein
Mark Steyn: Impeachment Non-Watch, also, Rope

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Category: Linkagery

The Basketball World Mourns ‘Mamba’

Posted on | January 27, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

It’s been years since I paid attention to the NBA, or to basketball generally. When I was a sports editor in the 1980s, of course, I followed the game, but in my mind, the Golden Age of Basketball was when Larry Bird’s Celtics battled Magic Johnson’s Lakers back in the 1980s. Still, when the news flashed Sunday that Kobe Bryant had been killed in a helicopter crash, I knew that this was a great tragedy.

The son of a former NBA player (his dad played with Dr. J), Bryant was a high-school sensation who turned down college scholarships to go directly into the NBA, and became the youngest player ever to play in a professional game. His second season with the Lakers, he became the youngest All-Star in league history, and his third season — when he was still only 20 years old — “marked Bryant’s emergence as a premier guard in the league.” Imagine being a two-time NBA All-Star before your peers have reached their senior year in college, and yet Bryant was only beginning to astonish the basketball world. In the next three seasons, the Lakers won three consecutive NBA championships, with Shaquille O’Neal and Bryant forming an indomitable scoring duo in the historic “three-peat.” Later, in 2009-2010, Bryant again led the Lakers to back-to-back titles. How many players have ever had five NBA championship rings? Nicknamed “Mamba” by fans, Kobe retired after the 2016 season with a career scoring average of 25 points per game over 20 seasons, having led the league in scoring twice and played in 12 All-Star games.

 

Bryant was married nearly 20 years to his wife Vanessa, whom he first met in 1999, and they had four daughters; the oldest — Gigi, 13 — was killed in Sunday’s helicopter crash with her father. Fans built a makeshift shrine to their hero outside the Staples Center arena in L.A.

While fans were mourning, and as President Trump was paying tribute to the NBA legend, a writer for the Washington Post had other ideas:

A Washington Post journalist has been suspended by the newspaper after she tweeted a link on Sunday to a years-old story about the Kobe Bryant rape case just hours after the basketball legend and his daughter were killed in a helicopter crash.
Felicia Sonmez, who covers national politics for the Post, took to Twitter shortly after the world learned of Bryant’s death along with eight others aboard his private helicopter which crashed outside of Los Angeles.
She posted a link to an April 2016 story from the news site The Daily Beast which carried the headline: ‘Kobe Bryant’s Disturbing Rape Case: The DNA Evidence, the Accuser’s Story, and the Half-Confession.’ . . .
Sonmez deleted the tweets due to the overwhelming backlash, but others on Twitter screengrabbed the posts and responded with disgust.

 

She got the ratio from hell — more than 20,000 negative reactions — on Twitter, and continued digging until she nearly lost her job. I’m sure she’ll be reinstated after her suspension, but what shall we say about this? I remember that 2003 case, and my attitude at the time was that when an NBA player invites a woman to his hotel room, she should know what her acceptance of the invitation implies. I mean, c’mon — when NBA players leave the arena after a game, they are thronged by women desperate to be their companions for the night, and Kobe was an All-Star who had just won three consecutive championships. The fact that Kobe was married, of course, should have restrained his advances, but many high-status married men (famously including former President Bill Clinton) seem to regard their marital vows as non-binding.

The story linked by the Washington Post reporter includes details that highlight the way these “he-said/she-said” incidents so often develop: Kobe was obviously a man who had seldom been rejected. She kissed him and, well, where did she expect this to lead? She’s a 19-year-old Colorado hotel clerk, and he’s a multimillionaire athletic superstar, and certainly we can imagine that Kobe thought any display of reluctance on her part was just “playing hard to get.” Also, we must factor into this equation the matter of race: His accuser was white, and while she evidently was not a racist (she told police she was initially “excited” when she learned the NBA star was staying at the hotel, and apparently didn’t mind kissing him), but what did Kobe think? Did the NBA superstar imagine that this teenage hotel clerk was rejecting his advances merely because he was black? I don’t mean to defend Kobe insofar as what happened was clearly wrong (as he himself later admitted), but rather to explain How Things Really Are, as opposed to How Some People Wish Things Were.

It’s all fine and good to avow “color-blindness,” and to denounce as racism — there are five A’s in “RAAAAACIST!” — any deviation from such an ideal, but not everyone thinks that way. Even people who disavow racism will often behave in ways that are race-conscious. This is true of people of every race, and if Kobe felt he was being disrespected because a white woman spurned his romantic advances, he would certainly not be the first black man to feel that way. What we need, as a society, is more license to discuss our feelings on such subjects without fear of being swarmed by a mob of Social Justice Warriors if we deviate from whatever the official “progressive” attitude is supposed to be.

Live long enough, and you’ll see liberals do a 180-degree turn on many issues, and the way Kobe was treated in the aftermath of that 2003 rape accusation is certainly such a case. Once upon a time, liberals would have defended a black man accused in any similar circumstance, but nowadays the feminists have decided that lynch mobs are “progressive” and defending due process of law makes you a right-wing extremist. Liberals have also done a 180-degree turn on free speech. I’m old enough to remember when liberals adamantly defended all manner of things — including Communist professors and federal grants for pornographic art — on First Amendment grounds. Today’s progressives, however, act like the Thought Police, vigilantly on the lookout for any evidence of racism, sexism or homophobia. Even I, who laugh at being hate-listed by the SPLC, must carefully weigh my words when writing about these issues, lest I offend some of my conservative friends who are eager to avoid any guilt-by-association with a Thought Criminal.

We should remember Kobe Bryant for what he accomplished as one of the greatest basketball players in the history of the game. I loathe the tendency to inject politics into every aspect of our lives, and if Felicia Sonmez learns anything from her experience, let us hope she learns that sports fans don’t want her “woke” attitude anywhere near their games.

Hey, Felicia: Why do you think we elected Donald Trump, anyway?


 

Category: Racism, Sports

Rule 5 Sunday: Ayako Kawasumi

Posted on | January 26, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Much like David Weber’s Honor Harrington novels, which have expanded in size and number to the point where I despair of ever catching up on all the damn books, the Fate/Stay Night franchise of games, manga, and anime has exploded all over the place and mutated in several directions, many of which aren’t available in English. Still, one can appreciate the art and the voice actresses involved in the series, most notably Ayako Kawasumi, who provides the voice for Saber, the face of the franchise. Kawasumi is a veteran voice actress, with an extensive list of credits in classic anime such as Angelic Layer, Mahoromatic, the ./Hack series, and Ai Yori Aoshi. Here she is posing as Saber, and I’ve included the actual Saber for comparison. And cuteness.

Kawasumi-san as Saber.

Saber in full fig

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #874, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Second Secession Friday and the return of the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s heifers this week include Wisconsin Cheese Babes, #TargetTori, Black Guns Matter, Coronavirus, Tulsi Vs. Hillary, Norma Gale, Bonnie McKee, Michelle Lewis, Lonia Haeger, and Corona Outbreak.

A View From The Beach presents Beach Bunny – Kara del Toro, Fish Pic Friday – Marissa Everhart, Tattoo Thursday, EPA Weighs in on Bay Striper Regs, Another Wet Shirt Wednesday, Hail to Thee Our Alma Mater – OSU Girl Goes All Pro, Skynet Just Giggled, A Muddy Monday Morning and Palm Sunday.

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe of the Week is Janet Leigh. Don’t shower alone!

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: I’ve Got The Brains, You’ve Got The Looks

Posted on | January 26, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Governor Northam Couldn’t Be Setting Up A “Reichstag Fire” Event, Could He?
Bacon Time
The Political Hat
Dark Brightness
A View From The Beach
EBL

Rule 5 Monday: Stacey Dash
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

You Heard It Here First, Folks
EBL

Stoners and Stalinists: Sanders Campaign Staff Is Exactly What You’d Expect
EBL

In The Mailbox: Sunday Leftovers Edition
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Disintegration
A View From The Beach
EBL

Is Noah Berlatsky a Pedophile?
EBL

Be Careful in Richmond, Please
Dark Brightness
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.20.20
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

A Mass Shooting CNN Won’t Notice
357 Magnum
Bacon Time
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.21.20
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Another Crisis for the Wombat?
A View From The Beach
EBL

Impeachment Circus Update
Dark Brightness
A View From The Beach
EBL

Eric Ciaramella Is the ‘Whistleblower’ and Other Things You’re Not Allowed to Say
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

I AM NOT WORTHY
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.22.20
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL

McCain Killed in Shootout
357 Magnum
EBL

Jonathan ‘Jessica’ Yaniv in Jail?
Wizbang Blog
EBL

Hint: They’re Not ‘Supreme’
Dark Brightness
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.23.20
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Why Does @Victoria_Spratt Hate Men?
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.24.20
357 Magnum
A View from The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending January 24:

  1.  EBL (22)
  2.  A View From The Beach (12)
  3.  357 Magnum (9)
  4.  Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the linkagery!

 

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Category: FMJRA Award

White Guilt at 28°F: $50,176 a Year

Posted on | January 26, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

Let’s begin with the obvious question: If you wanted to send your children to a not-very-prestigious private liberal arts college, why would you choose to send them to one in Moorhead, Minnesota? Concordia College doesn’t even make the top 100 list at U.S. News, and the annual cost of attendance is $50,176 including room and board. Supposing that you are an affluent parent with a kid too dumb to get into Duke or Dartmouth, but you still want to blow $200,000 on your child’s college education, why send them to a campus in Minnesota where the high temperature today will be 28°F? Aren’t there better bargains?

 

Consider, for example, Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) where, even with out-of-state tuition, the annual cost is $31,280 including room and board, and your child could spend their leisure hours under the palm trees on the beach at Sanibel. Even in late January, the high temperatures in Fort Myers are about 70°F, and I can’t imagine that a degree from Concordia has so much more prestige than an FGCU diploma that you’d spend an extra $80,000 to send your kid to frosty Minnesota where they can be lectured about their “white privilege”:

For this past Monday’s Martin Luther King Day, Minnesota’s Concordia College offered a racially segregated seminar titled “How to Embrace Your Inner Racist: A Session for White People.”
One of many “concurrent sessions” offered throughout the day, Professor Ahmed Afzaal’s “Inner Racist” discussion noted that participants would be able to “recognize and acknowledge that there is a nasty little racist inside them, and to do so without becoming angry or defensive.”
In addition, attendees would then “describe the skills of psychological flexibility that they must develop in order to make authentic choices in defiance of their racist tendencies.”
While the workshop included a special note that it was for whites only, the school wouldn’t stop “people of color from attending.” Nevertheless, non-whites needed to be aware “that their presence in the room [was] likely to interfere with the effectiveness of the session.”
Afzaal is a professor of religion at Concordia.
According to the college’s “MLK Day 2020 Theme” page,

they [sic] year 2020 marks the 401st anniversary of slavery in the US. On this day, we ask that you reflect on the progress that has and has not been made in eliminating racial and economic injustices in the U.S. We ask that we be intentional in examining 1) the social systems of race and economics, 2) the role that whiteness plays in keeping us stuck in the space of “negative peace”, and 3) the role that white moderates/Dreamers play in being “obstacles to change.”

Keynote speakers for Monday’s celebration included Ijeoma Oluo, whose writings calling for white people to “find themselves” were part of a 2018 Humboldt State racial identity workshop. Also featured was Janaya Khan, a black, queer, gender-nonconforming activist [and] staunch Afrofuturist and social-justice educator.”
In addition, a “Tunnel of Oppression” was available on January 20 and 24 which “call[ed] attention to the unarmed black and brown lives lost to police violence.” It also “highlight[ed] information about each life lost, as a way to emphasize the impact of police violence.”

Really? Does your child need this? Does anyone need this? How much of a fool do you have to be to pay more than $50,000 a year so your kid can experience the “Tunnel of Oppression” and be taught to “recognize and acknowledge that there is a nasty little racist inside them”? And you’re subjecting them to this in Moorhead, Minnesota? Nah, man — send your kids to Florida and let ’em be nasty little racists under the palm trees.

Bonus: Florida Gulf Coast University is in Lee County.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)


 

Category: Education, Racism
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