Everything Is Now ‘White Supremacist’

Posted on | July 12, 2019 | Comments Off on Everything Is Now ‘White Supremacist’

Ever since President Trump was elected, leftists have been pointing fingers at everyone and everything, screaming “white supremacist”!

It’s not just Republicans (“Fascists!”) and Trump (“Hitler!”) who have been targeted by this campaign of screeching hysteria. In their paranoid dementia, leftists now see “white supremacy” everywhere, as if they are surrounded by a continuous Klan rally. The Washington Post now sees “white supremacy” in children’s cartoons:

“The first thing to understand about ‘The Lion King’ is that it isn’t in any way about lions, or any other animal species,” the column reads, adding: “As in every fable, a variety of cute and cuddly figures stand in for human societal organization. Mapping our internalized social hierarchies onto the pristine and ‘neutral’ world of the animal kingdom renders these power dynamics natural, common-sense and desirable.”
Then we come to the money quote…
“But by using predator-prey relationships to allegorize human power, the film almost inevitably incorporates the white supremacist’s worldview, one in which some groups of people are inherently superior to others.”
The piece goes on to explain that this is all really about Trump…
“Doubling down on Disney’s historical obsession with patriarchal monarchies, it places the audience’s point of view squarely with the autocratic lions, whose Pride Rock literally looks down upon all of society’s weaker groups — a kind of Trump Tower of the African savanna.”

See? Popular cartoons beloved by millions of children are actually about “patriarchal monarchies” and “the white supremacist’s worldview.”

The Washington Post columnist responsible for this drivel — headlined “‘The Lion King’ is a fascistic story. No remake can change that.” — is a University of Utrecht assistant professor of cultural studies named Dan Hassler-Forest. He has previously authored such insights as “Star Wars fandom and toxic masculinity” (Nov. 25, 2016) and “Trump Media: A Film Studies Syllabus” (Nov. 22, 2016):

Over the past week, I’ve assembled a long list of films that I thought might be appropriate choices for reflecting on Trump’s presidential campaign, and what I still can’t see as anything but the dystopian nightmare of an actual Trump administration.

Declaring the world to be a “dystopian nightmare” because your party lost an election is . . . irrational. And the fact that this irrationality is promoted in “mainstream” publications will tend to encourage such people to continue living inside their delusions.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump is now defending Nancy Pelosi from accusations of racism, which will only increase leftist paranoia: “These white supremacists are all in cahoots together!” Yes. Yes, we are.

It’s very important to maintain the psychological pressure, to foment fear in the minds of Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers, by cooperating with their paranoid delusions. So the next time these raving kooks point the finger — “White supremacy!” — whatever you do, don’t deny it. Act as if you already knew that such-and-so a historical figure (Kate Smith, Betsy Ross, whoever) was practically a KKK Imperial Wizard.

The Nobel Prize? White supremacist. Walt Disney? White supremacist. Whoever and whatever it is, just nod in agreement. If somebody tells you that Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is a white supremacist? Of course — everybody knows that. Mark Zuckerberg? Also a white supremacist.

Everybody and everything is white supremacist, everywhere, all the time.

Once we’ve helped liberals convince themselves of this, they’ll not only discredit themselves as lunatic wackjobs, but they’ll also deprive the phrase “white supremacy” of any meaningful definition. Next time the Southern Poverty Law Center “exposes” some conservative as a white supremacist, he can reply, “Right. Just like The Lion King.”

Is anyone tired of all this #winning yet?

Category: Racism

The Media Smear Machine (and Why Kamala Harris’s Ancestry Is Relevant)

Posted on | July 12, 2019 | Comments Off on The Media Smear Machine (and Why Kamala Harris’s Ancestry Is Relevant)

This is the headline at CNN:

Trump invites right-wing extremists
to White House ‘social media summit’

In the article, the infamous Oliver Darcy calls the summit a gathering of “far-right internet personalities and trolls, some of whom have pushed conspiracy theories, lies and misinformation.” What kind of “personalities”? James O’Keefe and Charlie Kirk, among others. What kind of “misinformation” is being “pushed” by these “trolls”?

Ali Alexander, an activist who attempted to smear Sen. Kamala Harris by saying she is not an “American black” following the first Democratic presidential debates.

Except, no, that wasn’t a “smear.” It was a fact.

Neither of Kamala Harris’s parents are Americans. Her mother is from India and her father is from Jamaica. Harris spent most of her childhood in Canada. She thus has little in common with most black people in the United States whose ancestors were slaves here. Before this fact became controversial, it was referenced by such “far-right” personalities as . . . CNN’s Don Lemon.

Yes, in February, Lemon engaged in an on-air debate about whether Harris’s ancestry sets her apart from so-called ADOS (American descendants of slaves). Most white people probably think such discussion is silly, but ADOS activists are calling attention to what is, for them, a very important distinction. Many so-called “diversity” initiatives — e.g., admission at elite universities or hiring at Fortune 500 corporations — assign quota value to “people of color” without regard to their ancestry. The original intent of affirmative action half a century ago was to remediate the effects of historic discrimination against black people. But how is that purpose served by granting preferential treatment to “people of color” whose parents are immigrants? In other words, if “diversity” means that the son of an engineer from Ghana or Pakistan is admitted to Harvard, does this convey any benefit to the children of black Americans? Or is it not a fact that black Americans are being excluded because of favoritism toward immigrant “people of color”? And the issues raised by ADOS activists are quite crucial when many Democrats are advocating reparations for slavery. To whom would such reparations be paid? Would someone like Kamala Harris, none of whose ancestors were ever enslaved in the United States, have a claim to such payments?

All of these considerations are ignored by CNN’s dishonest smear of Ali Alexander as a “right-wing” troll, but CNN has long since ceased to be a legitimate news organization. They are now merely partisan propaganda merchants, “Democratic Party operatives with bylines.”

UPDATE: Let’s not omit this:

Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) is the descendant of an Irishman who owned a slave plantation in Jamaica, according to her father’s lengthy ancestral summary of his side of the family.
Donald Harris, a Stanford University economics professor, revealed in 2018 that his grandmother was a descendant of Hamilton Brown, the namesake of Brown’s Town in northern Jamaica.

Amazing what you can learn from genealogical research. Just yesterday, I learned that my parents were third cousins, once removed.

Category: CNN

In The Mailbox: 07.11.19

Posted on | July 12, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.11.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: July 11, 1969 – Space Oddity
EBL: Epstein, Polanski, & Hollywood – They Love Kids!
Twitchy: Buck Sexton Seriously Rains All Over Megan Rapinoe’s ME ME ME Parade

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: I Gotta Love Me Some Petroleum
American Greatness: Street Smarts In The White House
American Thinker: Sex, Lies, And Clinton/Epstein Flight Logs
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Random Notes News
Babalu Blog: Florida Congressmen Urge Trump To Return Cuba To The State Sponsors Of Terrorism List
BattleSwarm: Puerto Rico Is A Cesspool Of Corruption
Camp of the Saints: JFK, Peacenik
CDR Salamander: NATO In Three Graphs
Da Tech Guy: Fascism On The Political Left Is All Too Common, also, The Government We Deserve In Minnesota & Elsewhere – Thoughts Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Trump The Red Chinese
Dustbury: Almost A Shooting War
First Street Journal: Amy McGrath Henderson Is Already F(ouling) Up!
The Geller Report: Obama Administration Granted Citizenship To 2500 Iranians, Including Families Of Government Officials, also, Massive Protests Outside UK Parliament As Tommy Robinson Jailed
Hogewash: Minute 16 Of Her 15 Minutes Of Fame
Hollywood In Toto: Flashback – Gregory Peck’s Attack On Judge Bork
Joe For America: Ilhan Omar Publicly Accused Of Fraud By MN State Rep
Legal Insurrection: Occasional Cortex Calls Out Pelosi For “Racism”, also, Trump – We’re Not Backing Down In Pursuit Of Citizenship Information
The PanAm Post: U.S. Democrats Hide Their Socialism While Pursuing Hispanic Vote
Power Line: Why Wind & Solar Will Never Work, also, Carlson Vs. Omar
Shark Tank: DeSantis Seeks To Replace Florida’s Confederate Statue At U.S. Capitol
Shot In The Dark: Statement On The Matter Of Megan Rapinoe
The Political Hat: Medical Malpractice – The Hurting Shall Suffer, Whistleblowers Will Be Silenced, & (Almost) Mandatory Abortion
This Ain’t Hell: Candidate For Joint Chiefs Under Scrutiny, also, Coastie Jumps On Drug-Runner Submarine
Victory Girls: Unruly Congressional Freshmen Get On Pelosi’s Last Nerve
Volokh Conspiracy: Must-See BBC Documentary On Antisemitism In The UK Labour Party
Weasel Zippers: U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Cut Star Player For Christian Views, also, Trump Lawyer – Video Shows Former Campaign Staffer Lied About Forcible Kiss
Mark Steyn: The Empire Wokes Back

Amazon Warehouse Deals

Category: Linkagery

Tucker Fishes In Barrels With Nukes

Posted on | July 11, 2019 | Comments Off on Tucker Fishes In Barrels With Nukes

by Smitty

I guess the lack of Twitter is a boon to blogging:

“It’s possible that [Chelsea Clinton’s] entire public persona is a kind of performance art. A subversive, Borat-style parody of mindless lifestyle liberalism. If that’s the case, Chelsea Clinton is utterly brilliant.”

Tucker is spot-on. I can also plug USNA, though. If you’re otherwise qualified coming out of high school, enlist and pursue the Secretary of Defense nomination. Pro tip: they have trouble filling all 80 annually available seats.
—
via Maggie’s Farm

Category: Uncategorized

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot the Tea Party?

Posted on | July 11, 2019 | Comments Off on Whiskey Tango Foxtrot the Tea Party?

by Smitty

Conspicuously absent in Daniel McCarthy’s analysis is any Tea Party mention:

Trump also realized, as Perot should have recognized a quarter-century earlier, that third-party politics was a waste of time, when the same resources could be used to take over the GOP from within. Republican voters, if not Republican elites, still wanted the party to be that of Nixon and Reagan, not just the Bushes — the party of the Rust Belt and Reagan Democrats, not just the party of Social Security privatizers and military contractors. Trump put the politics of Perot and Buchanan together into a winning force on the right and a winning force in the 2016 election.

Granted, the purpose of the article is to contrast Trump and Perot.
However, both Obama’s election and the Tea Party uprising of 2009 are key to understanding 2016.

Perot was certainly a bridge from Reagan, as well as my first Presidential vote.

What’s increasingly clear is that, under the buffoon facade, Trump has been a deep student of politics. Which is why Ryan’s observation: “I’m telling you, he didn’t know anything about government,” is at least partially incorrect. Trump clearly knew how to win an election, even if he wasn’t burdened with the details of the Byzantine train wreck that is the U.S. government.

Trump undertook a great deal of risk and hit a very small target of being sufficiently together to win, while broadcasting an image of continually falling apart. Were Trump to have been a better student of how things are supposed to work, any of the myriad of traps set for him might have been successful. Trump appears to have a “Forrest Gump” touch for failing upward, but his success is more due to pure savvy than deus ex machina.

In the Tea Party case, Trump was nowhere to be seen in 2009, yet I’m confident that the bulk of Tea Partiers voted Trump, modulo a fraction of benighted types who blew their ballots on Evan MuMullen.

Category: Uncategorized

History as Heritage and Legacy (and Something I Learned About My Parents)

Posted on | July 11, 2019 | Comments Off on History as Heritage and Legacy (and Something I Learned About My Parents)

Who are those good-looking young people? That’s my mother and father, as students at the University of Alabama circa 1950. Dad was a World War II veteran attending on the G.I. Bill, and I’m not sure if he met my mother in Tuscaloosa, or if she started going there after he married her. Both of them were from Randolph County, Alabama, and nearly all my ancestors are buried in two cemeteries there, Dad’s family at Ava Methodist Church and Mom’s family at Big Springs Baptist.

One of the things about knowing who your ancestors were is that it gives you a sense of personal connection to history. Because I knew that my father was a veteran — he was wounded by German shrapnel while serving in a forward reconnaissance unit in France — I was always interested in World War II. My interest in Civil War history could be traced to sixth grade, when I did a social-studies project about the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. When I was a boy growing up in Lithia Springs, Georgia, Dad used to take us fishing at Lake Altoona, which we reached by driving up past Lost Mountain and Cheatham Hill in western Cobb County, so I was familiar with the terrain. Also, the ruins of the New Manchester mill, burned by Sherman’s cavalry in 1864 and now part of Sweetwater Creek State Park, were the destination of an obligatory field trip when I was in elementary school. I started digging deeper into Civil War history when, as a teenager, I read a multi-part series about Sherman’s Georgia campaign in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It was not until many years later, in 1990, during a visit to the Ava church cemetery, that I saw a plaque on the grave of my great-grandfather, Winston Wood Bolt, that led me to research his service in the 13th Alabama Infantry and discover that he had been captured, along with Brig. Gen. J.J. Archer, in the opening clash of the Battle of Gettysburg.

How many Americans know anything about the lives of their great-grandparents? How many even know the names of their great-grandparents? What happens to a people who know nothing of their own history? “People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors,” as Edmund Burke wrote, conveying the value of our sense of historic tradition as an inheritance, an ancestral legacy that we have an obligation to pass on to our descendants. When we think of how to raise our children, shouldn’t this involve some effort to help them become people that their ancestors would be proud of? Isn’t it a valuable source of self-esteem to a child to know something of the struggles that his ancestors survived? Isn’t a young person more likely to conduct himself with courage and dignity if he thinks of himself as an heir to a legacy, who has a duty to uphold the honor of his ancestors?

For an entire century, from at least the 1840s until World War II, nearly all my ancestors resided in Randolph County, Alabama, which was a frontier wilderness when they arrived as pioneers and which is still largely rural today. My parents were part of a sort of diaspora of rural America in the mid-20th century. After Dad graduated at Tuscaloosa, they moved to Atlanta, where Dad’s brother-in-law helped him get a job with the Southern Railroad. After working a year there, he hired on at the Lockheed plant in Marietta, where he worked the next 37 years.

My brothers and I grew up in middle-class suburbia, but with a strong sense of our roots in rural Alabama. Both of my grandfathers died before I was born, but we spent a lot of time with our grandmothers. Ma Kirby lived in LaGrange, Georgia, where she worked at Callaway’s mill, and lived in a tidy little house on Park Avenue. The tree-lined streets of LaGrange were picturesque, and as a boy visiting Ma Kirby, I loved walking to the store or to the swimming pool with my brothers and cousins. Ma Kirby was a gentle and genial soul, devoutly religious, but full of cheerful good humor. Our father’s mother, Ma McCain, was more stoic in temperament, as she still resided on the family farm near the Little Tallapoosa River, where she drew her water from the well, cooked on a wood-burning stove and didn’t have indoor plumbing until about 1969. To use the bathroom at Ma McCain’s you went out behind the barn.

Having some sense of the hardship of my pioneer ancestors’ life on the frontier — Ma McCain hoed her vegetable garden well into her 80s — conveyed to me the idea that I was the descendant of survivors. Whatever difficulties and challenges I’ve faced in life are as nothing compared to what my ancestors lived through 150 or 200 years ago. Considering that my own father came within an inch of death in World War II, I think of my existence as somewhat miraculous, and therefore I should be grateful to God even to be alive. How many young Americans today grow up with this sense of themselves as a descendant of heroic survivors?

Mom and Dad Were Kissing Cousins?

One of the amusing aspects of having so many generations of my ancestors being from Randolph County is that I’m kin to nearly everyone there. When I attended Jacksonville (Ala.) State University, if I ever met someone from Randloph County, we’d start talking and trying to figure out how we were related, because surely we were cousins somehow. In fact, my Dad used to say that he thought he and my mother must have been distant cousins, which I didn’t believe — until just this morning!

Back in the 1990s, when I was doing historical research into my family tree, there was no Internet, and going through census records and other archival materials involved spending hours scrolling through microfilm records. So I knew that my father’s mother, Perlonia Bolt McCain, was the daughter of Confederate veteran Winston Bolt, and although I researched Private Bolt’s ancestry, I didn’t research his wife, except to note that her maiden name was Chaffin. And while I was familiar with Ma Kirby’s ancestors — her mother was a Fincher, and we used to attend the Fincher clan reunion at Big Springs every August — I’d never done much research into my grandfather Kirby’s ancestors. Well, a lot of records are online now, so I was able to learn that my great-grandfather William Thomas “Tom” Kirby’s wife, née Martha Elizabeth Almon (1872-1914), was the daughter of North Carolina native Elijah R. Almon (1839-1875), whose wife Eliza (1844-1901) — my great-great-grandmother — was the daughter of Nathan Perry Chaffin (1821-1888).

Wait a minute — Chaffin?

Eliza Chaffin Almon’s father was the son of Virginia native Tyre Chaffin (1797-1878), who moved to Georgia, where he became a church deacon and the father of 11 children, one of whom was Eliza’s father, and another was Moses Burris Chaffin (1823-1864), who served in the 8th Alabama Infantry and was killed during the fighting around Petersburg, Virginia. Moses Chaffin’s daughter, Frances Elizabeth, married Winston Bolt.

Therefore, my mother and father were both descendants of Tyre Chaffin, who was my father’s great-great-grandfather, and my mother’s great-great-great-grandfather. (Check my math on that.) My parents were third cousins twice removed, or something like that, and I’ll defer to genealogy experts on the exact terminology. Because Eliza Chaffin Almon died in 1888, 26 years before her grandson (my grandfather) Hermit Eiland Kirby was born, it was highly unlikely that my mother was aware that her great-grandmother was a Chaffin. It was somewhat more likely that my father knew that his grandmother Bolt’s maiden name was Chaffin, although she died before my Dad was two years old, but it would have been almost impossible for him and my mother to have figured out how they were related without access to genealogical records.

Well, my children have the benefit of the research I’ve done, so they know who their ancestors were and they’re unlikely to marry their cousins — not that there’s anything wrong with that, you know. Anything beyond first cousins is what folks down home call “kissing cousins,” and beyond second cousins, the degree of consanguinity is small enough that there’s little risk of hereditary defect, so long as a pattern of in-group marriage is not repeated in successive generations. Because I married a girl from Ohio, to whom I couldn’t possibly be related (except perhaps if you traced our ancestry back to England, or maybe the very earliest colonial era in America), there would be little risk if our children or grandchildren married someone whose parents could trace their roots back to Randolph County, Alabama, and thus are potential distant cousins.

From a knowledge of our ancestors, we gain a sense of our own lives as a bridge between the past and the future. My ancestors lived in a world that existed before I was born, which I can know only from history, and my descendants will live in a future that is beyond my imagination.

“To live for the moment is the prevailing passion — to live for yourself, not for your predecessors or posterity. We are fast losing the sense of historical continuity, the sense of belonging to a succession of generations originating in the past and stretching into the future. . . .
“Narcissism emerges as the typical form of character structure in a society that has lost interest in the future.”
— Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations (1979)

Maintaining our “sense of historical continuity,” as Lasch called it, provides us with a bulwark against the “prevailing passion” of narcissism, which has only grown worse in the four decades since Lasch so brilliantly analyzed it. What inspired me to write this lengthy post was that Gene Wisdom, a JSU classmate, called my attention to a recent reissue of Family and Civilization, a 1947 book by Harvard University sociologist Carle Zimmerman, who died in 1983. In this book, Professor Zimmerman wrote: “The struggle over the modern family and its present rapid trend toward a climactic breakup will be one of the most interesting and decisive ones in all history.” According to one review, Professor Zimmerman “predicted many of today’s cultural and social controversies and trends — including youth violence and depression, abortion and homosexuality, the demographic collapse of Europe and of the West more generally, and the displacement of peoples.”

Religious devotion, when coupled with a knowledge of our ancestors, can be a powerful antidote to the degenerate trends of our age. Remember my ancestor Tyre Chaffin, from whom both of my parents were descended? In 1828, age 31, he was ordained a deacon of what is now Zion Baptist Church in Covington, Georgia, and according to one memorial, the deacon “was a devoted man, to his God, to his church, to his pastor and his family; always taking a decided stand against the fashionable vices of nominal professors, and in favor of the true and second determination to live right.” Until this morning, however, I had never known about Deacon Chaffin, who was such an influential figure in the Christian faith of his community and who sired a remarkably large brood of offspring that included ancestors of both my parents. Speaking of family . . .

Need help with #Medical bills – out of work again for #Health issues, donate and share it's easy #ARMY #VeteransLivesMatter https://t.co/LrSzqnZ20D

— Kirby McCain (@KirbyMcCain) July 11, 2019

My older brother Kirby is currently out of work because he’s got to go through some medical testing as part of federal regulations that require truckers to get their health recertified annually. The doctors want to do a scan on his carotid artery, and that might lead to another surgery, so he’s got a fundraiser going at GoFundMe, and I’d be most grateful if readers could contribute to help him through this situation.

Thanks in advance, and God bless you.

Category: Family, History

SJWs Ruin New ‘Terminator’ Sequel

Posted on | July 11, 2019 | Comments Off on SJWs Ruin New ‘Terminator’ Sequel

Ace of Spades describes the SJW movie formula:

When you’ve got a piece of sh– on your hands, politicize the living f*** out of it, so when it flops, you can blame Toxic White Men.

Nailed it. Question: What is the purpose of a movie? To entertain audiences. To sell tickets. To make money. At least, that’s the purpose of all successful movies — appeal to a mass audience and maximize profit.

Casablanca had a political purpose, to promote sympathy for the Allied cause in World War II, but the producer (Hal Wallis, who later produced all those shlocky Elvis movies) also had a keen eye for the commercial prospects of the story, so that the romance between the cynical hero (Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine) and the glamorous Ingrid Bergman as refugee Ilsa Lund transcends everything else. Even if the 1942 moviegoer had been entirely indifferent about the Nazi occupation of Europe, well, hey, Ingrid Bergman is still a hot number. Let’s face it, even der Führer himself would agree — Nordic chicks are hot.

Oh, wait, guess what the original Terminator had going for it?

Yep, a Nordic blonde playing the damsel in distress, functionally analogous to Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca. It might seem farfetched to compare a schlocky science-fiction thriller to Casablanca, and you might object that Linda Hamilton is no Ingrid Bergman, but from the audience perspective, the theme of the beautiful young woman in peril, with the hero coming to rescue her from danger, is a winning formula. It’s transcendent, the stuff of classics. Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, Han Solo and Princess Leia in Star Wars — all variations on this same timeless theme. In all of these blockbuster Hollywood classics, the damsel in distress is a spunky, resourceful kind of woman, and the hero is a cynical character who does the right thing despite his own selfish nature. If you watch the first Star Wars movie, it’s really sort of lame until Han Solo enters the picture, and the sparks that fly between him and Leia are what gives the film its best scenes.

Han Solo is Rick Blaine is Rhett Butler.

Princess Leia is Ilsa Lund is Scarlett O’Hara.

It’s a formula, see? And the reason it has been repeated so often is because it works — it sells tickets because audiences love it.

Well, what about the new Terminator sequel?

[Variety magazine]: An early “Dark Fate” poster received backlash, calling Davis and her co-stars “feminazis” and other chauvinist hate speech. How do you think she’ll be received in the room at Comic-Con?
[Director Tim Miller]: If you’re at all enlightened, she’ll play like gangbusters. If you’re a closet misogynist, she’ll scare the f–k out of you, because she’s tough and strong but very feminine. We did not trade certain gender traits for others; she’s just very strong, and that frightens some dudes. You can see online the responses to some of the early s–t that’s out there, trolls on the internet. I don’t give a f–k.

You see? The movie is aimed at an “enlightened” audience, so if you’re a sociology major at Oberlin College, you’re gonna love it. But if you don’t want to pay $12.50 to watch this Gender Studies lecture disguised as a science-fiction movie, that means you’re a “closet misogynist.”

Who decided that movies should be a litmus-test of the political attitudes of audiences? When did producers decide it was OK to sink millions of dollars into movies that appeal only to “enlightened” viewers? And why does Tim Miller think insulting “trolls on the internet” is sufficient justification for making a lousy movie with a $200 million budget?