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Feminist Mom: ‘Memes Are Turning Teenage Boys Into White Supremacists!’

Posted on | August 17, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

MORROW COUNTY, Ohio
Saturday morning, we were driving across West Virginia, and my wife asked me to find some Christian music on the radio. So I’m searching down on the low end of the FM bandwidth — between 88 and 92, where such stations are usually found — and I come across an NPR broadcast in which a liberal woman is talking about how MEMES on the INTERNET are turning teenage boys into ALT-RIGHT WHITE SUPREMACISTS!

Joanna Schroeder started getting worried when her sons were coming to her with loaded questions.
“One of my kids said: If you can be trans and just decide what you are then how come you can’t just decide to be a penguin?” said Schroeder, a writer and mother of two sons and a daughter, in an interview with NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday.
It may sound like a normal question a kid would ask, Schroeder admits. But she also knew that their curiosities didn’t mesh with the values that she and her husband share with their children. “We’ve talked to our kids about LGBTQ community, we know trans people personally,” she said.
As it turned out, her son’s question had been inspired by a meme he saw on Instagram. “I knew it was time to start looking at their social media use and figuring out what they were being exposed to,” she said.
When she scanned the social media accounts of her sons, she saw an inundation of memes strewn with racist, sexist, homophobic and anti-Semitic jokes that she says grew increasingly disturbing as she went down the rabbit hole of Instagram’s “Explore” page, or clicked “related videos” on YouTube.
What she found led her to forge a troubling theory about how content disseminated online by extremists can radicalize white teenage boys — and how parents can prepare to handle it — captured in a now-viral tweet thread that took off this week.
“Social media and vloggers are actively laying groundwork in white teens to turn them into alt-right/white supremacists,” she wrote on Tuesday. “It’s a system I believe is purposefully created to disillusion white boys away from progressive/liberal perspectives.”

 

This thread went viral, all right — because liberals have become so paranoid about “white supremacy” in the Trump age that they’re impossible to satirize. Twitchy suspected this might be some kind of Titania McGrath-style parody, but Joanna Schroeder is actually a feminist writer living in the Los Angeles area where she and her progressive husband are raising their sons to hate themselves for being white and male. She writes articles like “18 Easy Ways to Raise Feminist Boys” and “I’m Raising Feminist Boys By Making Them Watch Supergirl (and Read Harry Potter).” She is a clichéd stereotype of the neurotic liberal woman: “In all honesty, I never even imagined myself becoming a mother. My teen years and early 20s were spent just trying to get my act together. I had an anxiety disorder, depression and was married and divorced from my first husband by the time I was 23 years old.” Her sex life? Also a cliché: “Before I met my husband, I dated a bunch of not-nice guys. I peppered in a few nice guys here and there, but I think I was so insecure and unhappy at that time that I either drove those good guys away or grew bored of their niceness.” She and her second husband have already been in “couples therapy.” Not exactly a model of good mental health, and now she’s so paranoid about “white supremacy” that she’s searching through her son’s Instagram account looking for the alt-right memes that might turn him into a 21st-century Hitlerjugend.

It reminds me of fundamentalist preachers 40 years ago who claimed to discover Satanic messages by playing Led Zeppelin albums backwards.

Anyway, that’s what was on NPR this weekend, so I guess all the liberal moms are now poring over their kids’ social-media accounts to find those evil alt-right propaganda memes that will turn their sons into neo-Nazi mass murderers — or possibly even Republicans. The horror!



 

Category: Liberals, Racism

FMJRA 2.0: Stand And Deliver

Posted on | August 17, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Homeko At The Beach
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Apparent Epstein Arkanicide
EBL

Note To Self: Heed Surber
Bacon Time
Animal Magnetism
EBL

Dead Men Tell No Tales
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Slave To The Grind
A View From The Beach
EBL

Never Trust a Bisexual
EBL

What Happened to Patrick Crusius?
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.12.19
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Chris Cuomo: ‘I’ll F–king Throw You Down These Stairs Like a F–king Punk’
EBL

MSNBC Guest: Democrats Must ‘Destroy’ White People Who Voted for Trump
EBL

Verizon Sells Tumblr for Undisclosed (But Almost Certainly Rather Small) Price
Bacon Time
EBL

The Antonym of ‘Dignity’: Guys, Never Do What Liam Hemsworth Did
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.13.19
EBL
Proof Positive

Two Illegal Aliens in Maryland Accused of Raping 11-Year-Old Girl
EBL

Further Epstein ‘Mystery’
EBL

Death by ‘Blue Pill’
Dark Brightness
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

Suspect in Mackenzie Lueck’s Murder Now Charged With Child Pornography
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.14.19
EBL
Proof Positive

UPDATE: Max Boot Is Still an Idiot
First Street Journal
EBL

U.S. Attorney Blames Soros-Supported Philly DA for Anti-Police Violence
First Street Journal
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.15.19
EBL
Proof Positive

Media Blames Trump After Democrat Jew-Haters Get Banned From Israel
EBL

Florida Man Planned Stabbing Attack at Elementary School, Police Say
EBL

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.16.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending August 16:

  1.  EBL (23)
  2.  Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the linkagery!

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In The Mailbox: 08.16.19

Posted on | August 16, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

FMJRA links are due tomorrow at noon, Rule 5 Sunday links by midnight. Probably going to squeeze in a short book post this weekend as well, but I’m not promising anything.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Jew-Haters Omar & Tlaib Denied Entry To Israel
Twitchy: Seb Gorka, Others Comment On The Kristol-Scaramucci Partnership To Bring Down Trump
Louder With Crowder: Occasional Cortex Says Racist Trump Supporters Just Don’t Realize They’re Racist
According To Hoyt: What Are They Teaching The Kids? Dark Satanic Mills Edition
Monster Hunter Nation: Another Example Why Facebook Is Super Dumb, Why Facebook Is Super Dumb II – The Freedoming, The Super Dumbness Continues – Mike Glyer Edition, also, Banned Again. Facebook Gets Even Dumber Part III – The Saga Continues
Vox Popoli: Why Is It Taking So Long?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Great Australian Replacement, also, Friday Hawt Links & Chicks – The Don’t Be Evil Edition
American Greatness: Dems Oppose Brexit, Back Chicoms For Fear Of Anglosphere Resurgence
American Thinker: How We Re-elect Trump In 2020
Animal Magnetism: Rule 5 Organ Donor Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban Stows Away In Airplane’s Cargo Hold, Escapes To Miami
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For August 16
Camp of the Saints: The Blood, Plunder, & Hammer Of The Leftist Gods
CDR Salamander: Race Is Not A Social Construct – It Is Targetable, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: The Democrats Own The Philly Cop Shootings
Don Surber: All But Four Of Hillary’s Emails Went To Red China, also, Omar’s District Worst For Blacks
Dustbury: MC 900 Foot Hammer
First Street Journal: Why Is This News?
The Geller Report: Philadelphia Cop Shooter Attended Notorious Mosque, also, “Her Hate For Israel Overcomes Her Love For Her Grandmother”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Protecting Our Elections From Voter Fraud
Hollywood In Toto: Can Joe Rogan Save Journalism Before It’s Too Late?
Joe For America: Truck Plows Through Crowd Of ICE Protesters In Rhode Island
JustOneMinute: Roll, Beta, Roll
Legal Insurrection: Leaked Audio – NY Times Shifts Attacks On Trump From Collusion To Racism, also, Rep. Tlaib Granted Humanitarian Visit To Grandma But Rejects It
The PanAm Post: Turkish Bank Closes Maduro Regime Accounts To Avert Sanctions
Power Line: Thoughts From The Ammo Line, also, Ilhan Unleashed
Shark Tank: Rubio Splits With Trump, Rick Scott, Says Israeli Ban On Omar & Tlaib A Mistake
Shot In The Dark: That Moment When…
This Ain’t Hell: A New Democrat In The Mix, also, Another Valor Thief
Victory Girls: Indoctrination Begins For The College-Bound
Volokh Conspiracy: Two Cheers For Buttigieg’s “Place-Based Visa” Proposal
Weasel Zippers: Nearly 200 House Democrats Sign On To Semi-Automatic Gun, “Large Capacity” Magazine Ban, also, Volunteers Cleaning Up Baltimore Save Two Overdosing Men
Mark Steyn: Trump Returns To New Hampshire, also, Stop Yer Lyin Or Yer Not Comin’ To Zion

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Category: Linkagery, Uncategorized

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | August 16, 2019 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty

The crowd gathered by the mountain lake.
The moons were lining up. The tidal force steadily lowered the water to reveal The Ship.
The hint of the hull began to peek out.
It had been centuries since moons and season provided the correct angle.
Waters receded. The hull emerged, covered in plant growth.
Silence gripped the onlookers.
A mild rumbling, a sound of metal creaking along with soggy plantlife squishing about, as a large door opened on the landward side of the hull.
A dozen suited figures stepped out.
“Whoever touched the cryongenics controls is in Big Trouble,” said Braxton.
—
via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

Florida Man Planned Stabbing Attack at Elementary School, Police Say

Posted on | August 16, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Before we get into this latest “Florida man” story, let me ask you a trivia question: Who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance?

If you knew it was Francis Bellamy, congratulations! You’re a winner, and I’ll permit you to contribute $17.76 to the tip jar. You’re welcome.

What? Never mind.

Very few people would recognize the name Francis Bellamy and although I didn’t know much about his biography, I did know he was the author of the Pledge. But here’s a trivia fact that I learned today: Bellamy, a native of New York, spent the last years of his life in Tampa, Florida.

Now, here’s the latest news from Tampa:

Parents of children who attend a Hillsborough County elementary school are breathing a sigh of relief after authorities stopped a man they said was planning a campus stabbing.
According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, Andrew Ivan Aman, 22, was planning to enter Francis Bellamy Elementary School and stab students and staffers. He allegedly told his roommate about his plans around 9 a.m. Tuesday. . . . .
Aman targeted Francis Bellamy because the school’s red, white, and blue colors reminded him of the American flag, and he was against patriotism, authorities said. . . .
Aman, who has been diagnosed with mental health issues in the past, is being held under the Baker Act at a hospital. Investigators found no weapons at his home.
Aman was arrested in May 2018 on an aggravated assault charge.

It should be obvious why a school named after the author of the Pledge of Allegiance would have a red-white-and-blue theme, but what are the chances that this kook knew who Francis Bellamy was?

Aman is a native of Russia who attended a performing arts school in Tampa. He reportedly has a history of severe mental illness and two years ago wrote on Facebook: “Patriotism is not defined by the love you have for your ‘country’. Tis the respect and natural humility you have for the earth and society around us whether that be in our neighborhood or statewide, so yes I can say I am a patriot of god.” Despite his self-declared devotion to “respect and natural humility,” Aman wanted to kill children, according to a police bulletin:

The bulletin says Aman concealed a kitchen knife in a handbag and was headed for the school with the intent to “stab as many children as possible.” . . .
The document said Aman targeted the school because he hates the United States and “the school’s ‘obnoxious pride in America’ as illustrated by the large American flag mural on the front of the building.”

Just another typical Democrat voter in Florida . . .

Anyway, I hate to be rattling the tip jar again so soon — I just got back from Georgia on Monday — but we leave early Saturday morning to take our youngest son off to college. It’s a 566-mile drive, and Mrs. McCain is expecting me to help foot that bill. Selah.



 

Category: Crime, Florida

Media Blames Trump After Democrat Jew-Haters Get Banned From Israel

Posted on | August 16, 2019 | Comments Off on Media Blames Trump After Democrat Jew-Haters Get Banned From Israel

 

Turned over to watch MSNBC for a while this morning and Joe Scarborough is outraged that Democrats who support genocidal anti-Semitic terrorists are not allowed to stage propaganda events in Israel. Breitbart’s Aaron Klein provides background on the Jew-haters’ junket:

An organization run by notorious Palestinian extremist and Israel boycott defender Hanan Ashrawi co-sponsored and organized the planned visit to Israel by controversial Representatives Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
On Thursday, Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri confirmed the two congresswomen would be barred from entry in keeping with a law that allows Israel from denying passage to supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement seeking to delegitimize the Jewish state.
Omar and Tlaib are both prominent BDS supporters who last month introduced a resolution in Congress aimed at supporting the antisemitic BDS Movement, which targets the Middle East’s only democracy and is engaged in economic warfare against Israel.
The cancelled visit was partially organized and co-sponsored by Miftah, an anti-Israel organization headed by Ashrawi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s executive committee and supporter of BDS.
Ashrawi claimed the trip was supposed to be a way for Omar and Tlaib “to engage with the Palestinian people directly and to see things on the ground.”
NGO Monitor, a watchdog on extremist nonprofits, notes that Miftah has accused Israel of committing “massacres,” “apartheid,” “summary executions” of Palestinian youth and “Judaizing” Jerusalem. It has also accused Israel of “ethnic-cleansing of Palestinian-Israeli Arabs.”
Ashrawi was a political leader of the violent First Palestinian Intifada and served as deputy to late PLO leader and arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat. She is known for espousing anti-Israel conspiracy theories and attempting to justify Palestinian “resistance” against the Jewish state.

David Harsanyi at The Federalist:

Presidential hopefuls like Bernie Sanders contend that Israel is showing “enormous disrespect to these elected leaders, to the United States Congress, and to the principles of democracy.”
What principle of democracy states that you have to issue visas to foreigners who are actively engaged in efforts to harm your citizens? . . .
In 2012, the Obama administration denied a visa to Michael Ben-Ari, a member of the hard-right Israeli Kach party. Ben-Ari is no more radical than Tlaib or Omar. . . .
It needs to be stressed that Tlaib and Omar aren’t mere “critics” of Israel, as the media incessantly claims. Critics would find fault with policies of the nation’s government — which, in Israel’s case, has oscillated from left to right, from hawkish to dovish, for more than 70 years. Critics have been traveling to Israel forever. Critics of Israel serve in the nation’s parliament and openly and freely take positions against the ruling government.
Tlaib and Omar actively support a movement with the strategic aim of rallying the world to destroy the Jewish state economically. They aren’t critics, they’re enemies. The boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement (BDS) not only challenges Israel’s right to exist, it relies on age-old antisemitic tropes, conspiracy theories, and blood libels to propel the message. Its most famous champions in the United States are Tlaib and Omar.

The story being delivered by the liberal media ignores this, and asserts that Israel barred these two Jew-hating Democrats under pressure from Trump, but since when does Benjamin Netanyahu need to be “pressured” to defend Israel? At any rate, Israel has now granted Tlaib permission to visit her grandmother and relatives in the West Bank.

On “humanitarian” grounds.

Imagine that — a genocidal hate-monger like Rashida Talib gets humanitarian treatment from the nation she’s determined to destroy.



 

Category: Israel

In The Mailbox: 08.15.19

Posted on | August 15, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.15.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: A Little T&A
357 Magnum: How Much Do Leftists In Education Hate The Military?
EBL: Elizabeth Warren Pulling Ahead In Iowa?
Twitchy: Why Haven’t The Media Reported This Disturbing Info About The Org Behind Omar & Tlaib’s Israel Visit?
Louder With Crowder: New Jeffrey Epstein Coroner Report Suggests Foul Play

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Lessons From My Divorce
American Greatness: #ShutDownICE Protesters Shocked When Pickup Drives Right Through Their Blockade
American Thinker: Worse Than Ever – Government Schools After 35 Years
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Meat Tax News
Babalu Blog: Cuban Escapee & MLB Star Yasiel Puig Becomes An American
BattleSwarm: Max Boot Hits Bottom, Tunnels Down To The Hollow Earth, Falls, Somehow Keeps Digging
Camp of the Saints:
CDR Salamander: We Can’t Leave The Long War – It Won’t Quit Us
Da Tech Guy: Red Flag Laws Are A Stealth Attack On The 2nd Amendment
Don Surber: Drudge Goes All In For Warren
Dustbury: Sandbox Escape
First Street Journal: Max Boot, Bill Kristol, & The Failure Of The Neocons
The Geller Report: Israel Blocks Reps Omar & Tlaib From Entry Over Their Support For Boycotting Jews, also, Stabbing Attack In Jerusalem Near Chains Gate, Policeman Injured
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: How Variety Covers For Woke Hollywood’s China Problem
Joe For America: Deep State IRS Analyst Nailed For Leaking Michael Cohen’s Financials
JustOneMinute: Thursday Afternoon
Legal Insurrection: Israel Bars Entry Of Reps Omar & Tlaib After Trump Pressure, also, Boris Johnson Accuses MPs Of “Collaboration” With EU To Stop Brexit
The PanAm Post: Former Colombian President Santos To Be Investigated For Odebrecht Bribes In 2014 Campaign
Power Line: Cops Keep Getting Shot By Criminals Who Aren’t Supposed To Have Guns, also, Steve & John Make The Climate Blacklist!
Shark Tank: Mucarsel-Powell Outpaces Crist In Fundraising
Shot In The Dark: Conspiracy Theories
STUMP: Mortality With Meep – How Do You Get Lots Of Centenarians? Pension Fraud!
This Ain’t Hell: Guardsman Accused Of Stealing WW2 Dog Tags From National Archives, also, Documents Show Washington Nonprofit Leader Paid Rent With Veterans’ Money
Victory Girls: Beta Reboots His Campaign
Volokh Conspiracy: Why Governments Shouldn’t Bar Entry Based On Political Views
Weasel Zippers: Residents Harass, Throw Things At Philly Police Responding To Shooting, also, Federal Attorney Blasts Soros-Backed Philly DA For Pushing Anti-Police Sentiment After Six Officers Shot
Mark Steyn: Buying Into The Primary, also, ICE Follies, Barstool Brawls, & Corn Dog Karaoke

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Category: Linkagery

U.S. Attorney Blames Soros-Supported Philly DA for Anti-Police Violence

Posted on | August 15, 2019 | 2 Comments

Maurice Hill shot six cops in Philadelphia.

Two years ago, left-wing billionaire George Soros wrote a $1.45 million check to Larry Krasner’s campaign for district attorney of Philadelphia. This is a gigantic sum to spend on a local election, and enabled Krasner to defeat six rivals in the 2017 Democrat primary, then coast to a landslide victory in the general election. Krasner ran as the anti-police candidate, and has made it his official policy to turn dangerous criminals loose on the streets of Philadelphia. One of the beneficiaries of Krasner’s policies, Maurice Hill, had an extensive criminal record — drug charges, aggravated assault, perjury, fleeing and eluding, escape and weapons offenses — before he engaged in a shootout Wednesday in North Philadelphia that wounded six cops. This incident resulted in a statement from Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney William McSwain:

What I witnessed last night was true heroism by the Philadelphia police. But the crisis was precipitated by a stunning disrespect for law enforcement — a disrespect so flagrant and so reckless that the suspect immediately opened fire on every single officer within shooting distance. Only by the grace of God did they survive.
Where does such disrespect come from?
There is a new culture of disrespect for law enforcement in this City that is promoted and championed by District Attorney Larry Krasner — and I am fed up with it.
It started with chants at the DA’s victory party — chants of “F*** the police” and “No good cops in a racist system.”
We’ve now endured over a year and a half of the worst kinds of slander against law enforcement — the DA routinely calls police and prosecutors corrupt and racist, even “war criminals” that he compares to Nazis.
This vile rhetoric puts our police in danger. It disgraces the Office of the District Attorney. And it harms the good people in the City of Philadelphia and rewards the wicked.
The alleged shooter last night, Maurice Hill, is a previously convicted felon with a long rap sheet. We have plenty of criminal laws in this City — but what we don’t have is robust enforcement by the District Attorney. Instead, among other things, we have diversionary programs for gun offenses, the routine downgrading of charges for violent crime, and entire sections of the criminal code that are ignored.
The criminal laws in this City — and especially the existing gun laws and drug laws — should be aggressively enforced in order to protect the public and the police. My Office is doing all that we can. We have prosecuted 70% more violent crime cases this year than we did last year, in response to the District Attorney’s lawlessness. But it is now time for the District Attorney and his enablers to stop making excuses for criminals. It is time for accountability. It is time to support law enforcement and to put the good people of this City first.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office, in conjunction with the Philadelphia police and our federal partners, is investigating the horrible events of last night and we are considering all options at our disposal. We will do everything that we can to support our brothers and sisters in the Philadelphia Police Department and ensure justice is done.
To the officers involved last night — those who were wounded and those who rushed to defend them — and to their families, I say thank you. The whole City thanks you. We owe you more than we can ever repay.

(Hat-tip: Ace of Spades.)

What do you think will happen if Democrats win the next election? Don’t you think it’s likely that criminals will be turned loose all over America? Because that’s what George Soros wants, and he’s got billions of dollars to spend to help elect more Democrats like Larry Krasner.



 

Category: Crime, George Soros, Pennsylvania
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