Democrat Ilhan Omar Sure Hates Jews — and the Media Sure Are Protecting Her

Posted on | February 14, 2019 | 1 Comment

Ace of Spades calls attention to the fact that CNN “reporter” Manu Raju is a Trump-hating partisan Democrat propagandist, and one of the examples of Raju and CNN’s dishonesty is how they’re making excuses for Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitism:

Freshman Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota is defending her controversial views on Israel as they come under scrutiny in Washington, telling CNN that “it’s not surprising” her positions are generating attention and that she finds it “exciting” to be sparking debate.
“It’s not surprising. I think it is actually exciting because we are finally able to have conversations that we weren’t really willing to,” Omar told CNN on Tuesday. “It is really important for us to get a different lens about what peace in that region could look like and the kind of difficult conversations we need to have about allies.”
Omar along with Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, the first two Muslim women to serve in Congress, are indeed changing the conversation on Capitol Hill over the United States’ long-standing relationship with Israel by speaking out critically against the Israeli government over its treatment of Palestinians.

Yes, her “controversial views” are “changing the conversation,” so now Jew-hating conspiracy theories are OK, according to CNN.

Monday’s press release from the ADL:

The ADL (Anti-Defamation League) today called on the leadership of the House of Representatives to take action in response to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s statements yesterday suggesting that Jewish influence and money was the reason for strong bipartisan support for Israel.
On Sunday night, Rep. Omar tweeted, “it’s all about the Benjamins baby” in response to a tweet from journalist Glenn Greenwald saying that “it’s stunning how much time U.S. political leaders spend defending a foreign nation,” referring to Israel (“Benjamins” is slang for 100-dollar bills). Later, when asked via Twitter by another journalist who she thought was paying American politicians to be pro-Israel, Rep. Omar responded, “AIPAC.”
“As Americans and Jews, we expect our politicians to condemn bigotry, not to fuel it. Words matter. At a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise in the U.S. and abroad, Rep. Omar is promoting the ugly, anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that Jews have an outsized influence over politics. The notion that wealthy Jews are controlling the government is a longstanding anti-Semitic trope and one of the pillars of modern anti-Semitism, a retread of ideas spread by bigots from David Duke to Louis Farrakhan. As the people’s House, the House of Representatives must not tolerate any bigotry against any community in our nation. We call on the House leadership to take immediate action, so that the message is clear: anti-Semitism will not be tolerated,” said Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of ADL.
“Unfortunately, making insensitive statements toward the Jewish community is not new for Rep. Omar. These tweets are part of a disturbing pattern of behavior that must end. The Congresswoman needs to understand that these comments promote dangerous stereotypes and are hurtful to her Jewish constituents and Jewish-Americans throughout the country,” Greenblatt continued.

Omar’s anti-Jewish attitudes were notorious before she was elected to Congress, so much so that when she served in the Minnesota state legislature, local Jews — including Democratic state Sen. Ron Latz — tried to have what they called an “intervention” with Omar:

“We wanted to reach out to her,” Latz recalled. “We were a bit troubled about several things she had said.”
Among their concerns was a 2012 tweet in which Omar wrote: “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.” The language evokes an anti-Semitic trope of Jews as practicers of some type of sorcery that allows them to control others. . . .
“Over the course of about two hours [Latz said], we shared with her our concerns for things, including language that has references and meanings beyond just the meanings of words. Tropes, dog whistles — call them what you will. We explained to her how hurtful, and factually inaccurate, they were.
“Most of us came out of that conversation very troubled by the answers we received. I was not convinced she was going to give a balanced approach to policy in the Middle East, and I was not convinced … where her heart is on these things.
“But we were glad she met with us, and we were hopeful she would be more careful about what she tweeted and she said if she got elected. Frankly, I was hopeful she’d grow in office a little, and understand the media platform she has. Instead, she keeps repeating her mistakes, if you can call them that.”

That’s just it, isn’t it? Her offensive statements aren’t “mistakes,” but expressions of her sincere hatred of Jews. Because she is a Democrat, and because media organizations like CNN are acting as partisan propagandists for Democrats, Omar receives sympathetic media treatment in a way that would not be extended to any Republican who repeatedly engaged in anti-Semitic rhetoric. It is one thing, as Latz said, to criticize Israel or to question U.S. policy in the Middle East, but Omar’s rhetoric goes far beyond that. And although Democrat leaders in Congress forced Omar to issue a half-hearted “apology,” she is still scheduled next month to address a $500-a-ticket “fundraiser for the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a terror-tied organization that was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorist financing case in U.S. history.” Where is the accountability?

Category: Democrats, Islam, Israel, Media Bias, Minnesota, Racism, Somalia

In The Mailbox: 02.13.19

Posted on | February 14, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #530
EBL: Come On, Mitch, Just Do It
Twitchy: President Trump Wants That $3.5 Billion In CA’s Cancelled Bullet Train Funding Back
Louder With Crowder: Hypocrite Alert – Occasional Cortex Prefers Airplanes To Trains, By A Lot

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Boomers Flooding Gyms In All-Out Effort To Avert Old Age
American Power: The Twitter Celebrity Takeover Of Politics
American Thinker: Four Ways Democrats Want To Ruin Your Life
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: California’s High Speed Rail Stops Pining For The Fjords
CDR Salamander: The Expected Pullback From 355, also, Do We Need To Shut Down Our Flag Officers Until We Figure Out What’s Going On?
Da Tech Guy: Non-Tweets Under The Fedora, also, Laugh Off The Green New Deal At Your Own Peril
Don Surber: Private Investigator Clears Covington Boys
Dustbury: All And Tsundere
First Street Journal: Some Very Lame Advice From The Washington Post
The Geller Report: Jihadi Rep Omar Attacks Trump’s Envoy To Venezuela In Libel-Fueled Tirade, also, US Charges Former Muslima AF Officer With Spying For Iran
Hogewash: California Mugged By Reality, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: How Brie Larson Can Really Impact Diversity
Joe For America: James Woods Goes Ballistic On Cory Booker, Dubs Him “Fartacus”
JustOneMinute: Owning The Libs By Voting On Their Proposals
Legal Insurrection: MN Jewish Leaders Tried An Intervention With Ilhan Omar Last Year, also, Sen. Markey (D-Mass) Claims McConnell Is Trying To “Sabotage” and “Silence” Green New Deal
Michelle Malkin: Lost, Buried, Burned – Oklahoma’s Rape Kit Scandal
The PanAm Post: Buenos Aires Mayor Continues Unpopular Persecution Of Uber, also, From Despair To Guaido
Power Line: Ilhan Omar In Action – A Sickening Disgrace, also, Hot Stove League Gives Way To Spring Training
Shark Tank: Senator Cruz Calls For “El Chapo” To Pay For The Wall
Shot In The Dark: Why Does Governor Walz Hate The Environment And Want Rural Minnesotans To Die Flaming Deaths?
STUMP: How To Lie With Budget Statistics, Pritzker & Hynes Edition, also, Geeking Out – Fixing Fullerton California’s Popular Annual Financial Report
The Political Hat: Euthanasia Epidemic In The Netherlands
This Ain’t Hell: He Has A Purple Heart, But The VA Won’t Call Him A Veteran, also, Should Deported Veterans Be Allowed To Come Back To America?
Victory Girls: Ilhan Omar’s Behavior Toward Elliott Abrams Was Despicable
Volokh Conspiracy: LA Demanding That City Contractors Reveal Ties To The NRA
Weasel Zippers: Occasional Cortex’s “Policy Guy” Deletes Tweet Saying Public Option Won’t Pay For Elders’ Hip Replacements, also, New Emails Reveal FBI Tried To Cut Deal With State Dept. To Minimize Hillary Email Scandal
Megan McArdle: Why The United States Will Never Have High-Speed Rail
Mark Steyn: The Windmills Of Your Mind, also, A Valensteyn Special

Category: Linkagery

‘I Gave You a Knife for a Reason’

Posted on | February 13, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘I Gave You a Knife for a Reason’

Julio Cesar-Ortega (left); Tyjanae Allen (center); Govenor Tate (right).

In November 2017, 18-year-old Tyjanae Allen and 19-year-old Govenor Tate “hatched a plan” to rob Julio Cesar-Ortega, 29, by offering that Allen would have sex with Cesar-Ortega for $200. He had $500 cash on him when he picked her up in his car near North 28th Avenue and Sprague Street in Omaha, Nebraska. Allen began texting Tate, who sent her a message: “Get that money. I gave you a knife for a reason.” When he realized she was planning to rob him, he threatened to drive her to the police station. Allen slashed Cesar-Ortega’s arm, severing an artery. The next morning, Cesar-Ortega’s body was found in his car in the parking lot of a police precinct. He had bled to death.

Today, Tyjanae Allen was sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison by Judge Russell Bowie. Tate still awaits trial on murder charges.

Professor Glenn Reynolds says the moral of this story is, “Teach women not to lie about sex and commit murder.” Well, perhaps, but I would offer another suggestion: “Stay away from whores.”

Category: Crime, Nebraska

Mitch the Ninja Turtle Will Force Democrats to Vote on Their Own Plan

Posted on | February 13, 2019 | Comments Off on Mitch the Ninja Turtle Will Force Democrats to Vote on Their Own Plan

Amateur hour in the House Democrat majority — the blundering overreach of freshman Rep. Alexandra Ocasio Cortez — gives Senate Republicans a chance to pounce and seize, so to speak:

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that the Senate would vote on the Green New Deal introduced last week by Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
“I’ve noted with great interest the Green New Deal, and we’re going to be voting on that in the Senate to give everybody an opportunity to go on record,” McConnell told reporters.
The proposal, which is not expected to pass the Republican-dominated upper chamber, could force some Democrats to make a politically awkward calculation.
Democratic liberals, including all of the senators currently running for president, have come out in support of the legislation, which calls for generating 100 percent of the nation’s power from renewable sources within 10 years. . . .
Democratic moderates have been less than enthusiastic about the proposal. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi derisively referred to the House version of the resolution as a “green dream,” while only 11 of the 47 senators who caucus with the Democrats have signed on as sponsors.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) The clumsy attempt by Democrats to distance themselves from the crazy “Green New Deal” FAQ that has now been removed from Ocasio-Cortez’s website showed how the party’s brash young socialist celebrity was Not Ready for Prime Time. Even so eminent a progressive as Jonathan Chait has admitted that the problem with the proposal was not a “botched” roll-out, as some Democrats have claimed, but simply that the plan is a bad idea. And now McConnell, shrewd tactician that he is, will force Senate Democrats to vote on this idea.

In 2020, Democrats will be defending Senate seats in Alabama, Colorado, Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Virginia. Does anyone suppose that “swing” voters in those states would vote for candidates who have endorsed Ocasio-Cortez’s wacky radical scheme?

Assuming that all 53 Republicans vote “no” on this idea, how many Senate Democrats does Mitch need to get to vote “no” in order to make the plan a loser by a 2-to-1 or 3-to-1 margin? Because no fewer than five senators expected to seek the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination — Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) — have endorsed the Ocasio-Cortez plan, what does this suggest the Democrat primary battle looming ahead? The televised debates will be a lunatic carnival of left-wing extremism, which will make it easy for President Trump and the Republicans to play the part of common-sense grown-ups in the upcoming campaign. Wanna buy some popcorn?

Category: Democrats, Global Warming, Mitch McConnell, Senate

In The Mailbox: 02.12.19

Posted on | February 13, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.12.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: National Cheddar Day
Twitchy: Sen. Markey (D-Mass) Say Mitch McConnell Is Trying To Sabotage The Green New Deal By Calling A Vote
Louder With Crowder: Vegan Cory Booker Wants You To Stop Eating Meat. No Wonder He’s Such A Miserable Troll.

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #102 – David Hiscox From XYZ Magazine, also, They Were The Most Worthless Of Times
American Power: Ilhan Omar Isn’t Really Sorry For Her Antisemitic Tropes
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Lever Gun News
BattleSwarm: Hard Education Truths From A Veteran Teacher
CDR Salamander: There Will Always Be Smugglers, There Will Always Be War, also, The USN’s Face Mission; Naval Presence, History & Present Use
Da Tech Guy: The Vengeful Tokenism Behind The Current Dr. Who Series, also, Bravo Sierra & Paying Attention
Don Surber: Obama Killed Steel; Trump Brought It Back
Dustbury: Thirst Come, Thirst Served
First Street Journal: Why Should Cities Spend Money To Make Shooting Up Safer For Drug Addicts?
The Geller Report: Linda Sarsour Raises Money For Muslim Who Raped, Killed 15-Year-Old, also, President Trump Calls On Antisemitic Dem Rep Omar To Resign
Hogewash: A Great Leap Backward (TM) Into Paperwork, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Hollywood Stars Mum On Northam, Fairfax, & Omar
Joe For America: CA Train To Nowhere – Gov Newsom Cancels $100 Billion Boondoggle
JustOneMinute: Smoking In The DA’s Room
Legal Insurrection: Senate Finds No Direct Evidence Of Trump-Russia Collusion, also, Democratic Strategists Sour On Potential Biden Candidacy
The PanAm Post: Colombia’s Duque Claims FARC Dissidence Backed By Venezuela, also, Mysterious Turkish Company Helps Maduro Extract Gold To Fund Corruption Networks
Power Line: The Trouble With Solar, also, The Apology This Time (6)
Shark Tank: HUD Provides FL More Funding To Fight Homelessness
Shot In The Dark: Democrats
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Let’s Soak The Rich…Hey, Where Are They Going? also, The Undeniable Corruption Of Chicago & Illinois, Part 4
The Political Hat: Big Brother The Nanny, also, Stop (Terrorist) Hammertime!
This Ain’t Hell: The Loss Of CPO Kent, also, Trump’s Picture On MRE?
Victory Girls: Trump Says “Antisemitism Has No Place In Congress”, Omar Should Resign
Volokh Conspiracy: What’s Wrong With Telling Women Not To Drink?
Weasel Zippers: Sen. Gillibrand (D-NY) Calls Eliminating All Private Health Plans “An Urgent Goal”, also, Stoners Enter Vacant Houston Home To Toke Up, Find a Tiger Inside
Megan McArdle: “We’re Nuts!” Isn’t A Great Pitch For A Green New Deal
Mark Steyn: The Identity Politics Minstrel Show, also, Saturday Night & The Morning After

Category: Linkagery

Meghan Murphy’s Lawsuit: Because Twitter Has Already Lost Its Credibility

Posted on | February 13, 2019 | 1 Comment

You don’t have to like Meghan Murphy to applaud her lawsuit against the corporate SJW totalitarians now running Twitter:

Canadian feminist writer Meghan Murphy is suing Twitter after she was banned for her tweets about transgender people.
Attorneys for Murphy on Monday filed suit in the Superior Court of California for the County of San Francisco, accusing Twitter of deceptive trade practices and breach of contract.
Twitter banned Murphy in November over a series of transgender-related tweets that included statements like “men aren’t women” and “How are transwomen not men?”
“Twitter’s repeated representations that it would uphold the free speech rights of its users and not censor user speech were material to the decision of millions of users, like Murphy, to join,” Murphy’s lawyers wrote in court documents reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Twitter would never have attracted the hundreds of millions of users it boasts today had Twitter let it be known that it would arbitrarily ban users who did not agree with the political and social views of its management or impose sweeping new policies banning the expression of widely-held viewpoints and perspectives on public issues,” the suit states.
“While it is appalling that Twitter would ban a journalist for asking legitimate questions about an incoherent ideology, such as gender identity, and for challenging legislation I believe is a massive threat to women’s rights, this is about more than just gender identity,” Murphy wrote in an email to TheDCNF.
“We cannot allow multi billion dollar corporations to dictate speech. Twitter is quite literally enforcing a 1984-style version of newspeak, wherein we may not speak or name material reality. The fact that it is so-called progressives, by and large, is appalling,” Murphy added.

The Wall Street Journal had the lawsuit story first. When Murphy was banned in November, I reported her story here:

Jonathan Yaniv is a notorious Canadian pervert who has filed 16 human rights complaints against women for refusing to wax his genitals. Yaniv claims to be transgender, using the name “Jessica.”
A week after the feminist blog Gender Trender exposed Yaniv’s history of describing pedophilic and voyeuristic behavior online, WordPress deleted the entire Gender Trender blog and announced a new policy that “deadnaming” (identifying someone by their birth name) is a terms-of-service violation. When people on Twitter began commenting about this egregious situation, Yaniv and/or other transgender activists got those accounts suspended and, apparently, Canadian feminist Meghan Murphy’s Twitter account has been permanently suspended and Twitter announced its own anti-“deadnaming” policy.

That a dangerously deranged pervert like Jonathan Yaniv would be able to get someone as prominent as Meghan Murphy (who runs Canada’s most popular feminist website) banned from Twitter tells you everything you need to know about who’s calling the shots at Twitter HQ. When my @rsmccain account got banned in February 2016, a lot of people were like, “Whoa! What did he do to deserve that?” And there was never an explanation. Wouldn’t you think that, if I was “participating in targeted abuse” sufficient to justify being permanently banned from Twitter, someone would have produced screencaps to show (a) who was targeted, (b) how they were abused, and (c) how I participated? But there was nothing like that, and nobody who followed my account had seen me do anything egregious prior to my account being suddenly shut down.

Oh, but I had called Anita Sarkeesian a “totalitarian ideologue” a week before I got banned. Probably just a coincidence:

Twitter had decided, in an election year, to surrender control of its platform to a crew of feminist social justice warriors (SJWs) designated the “Trust and Safety Council.” This secretive group of Soviet-style commissars included the notorious anti-male hatemonger Anita Sarkeesian, and soon Twitter began purging conservative accounts.

Anita Sarkeesian is a dishonest, selfish, hate-filled monster, and any corporation that would voluntarily associate itself with her could not be trusted to respect anyone’s freedom. Some people urged me to sue Twitter, but I recognized that (a) I would not be the ideal plaintiff, and (b) sooner or later, these Twitter purges would go too far.

Oops. Read Meghan Murphy’s complaint carefully:

Meghan Murphy Lawsuit Again… by on Scribd

What you’ll see is that Murphy has them dead to rights on the breach-of-contract claim. They promised freedom, now they’re anti-freedom, and if this lawsuit withstands a motion to dismiss, I expect Twitter to offer Murphy a multi-million-dollar settlement to avoid discovery. Once that happens, well, it’s gonna be Katy-bar-the-door on such lawsuits.

You go, girl! Burn it down — burn it all down!

Category: Sex Trouble

‘Social Justice’ Is for Homos

Posted on | February 12, 2019 | 2 Comments

Remember my post yesterday about Tumblr? How it’s a money-losing dumpster fire full of pornography and mentally ill LGBTQ activists? In the comments of that post, someone linked to Scott Alexander’s classic 2014 essay at Slate Star Codex called “The Toxoplasma of Rage,” which explains why Tumblr sucks so bad:

Tumblr’s interface doesn’t allow you to comment on other people’s posts, per se. Instead, it lets you reblog them with your own commentary added. So if you want to tell someone they’re an idiot, your only option is to reblog their entire post to all your friends with the message “you are an idiot” below it.
Whoever invented this system either didn’t understand memetics, or understood memetics much too well. . . .
I make fun of Tumblr social justice sometimes, but the problem isn’t with Tumblr social justice, it’s structural. Every community on Tumblr somehow gets enmeshed with the people most devoted to making that community miserable. . . .
Tumblr’s reblog policy makes it a hothouse for toxoplasma-style memes that spread via outrage. Following the ancient imperative of evolution, if memes spread by outrage they adapt to become as outrage-inducing as possible.

This was 2014, before Tumblr’s inherent stupidity-inducing qualities had made the platform a laughingstock. Five years ago, Tumblr was still considered a happening thing, especially because it was so popular with teenage girls, and social-justice madness was epidemic on Tumblr during the Ferguson #BlackLivesMatter excitement, Alexander explained:

If you’re not on Tumblr, you might have missed the “everyone who does not reblog the issue du jour is trash” wars. For a few weeks around the height of the Ferguson discussion, people constantly called out one another for not reblogging enough Ferguson-related material, or (Heavens forbid) saying they were sick of the amount of Ferguson material they were seeing.

This pressure-cooker of like-mindedness, with everyone seeking to one-up each other in demonstrating their commitment to #BlackLivesMatter, and denouncing anyone who didn’t show sufficient zeal for the sacred cause, did not appeal to healthy minds, especially teenagers.

A normal teenager doesn’t give a damn about politics. Even during times of societal crisis, the normal teenager can’t be bothered to care. When I was a freshman in high school, the Yom Kippur War produced the Arab Oil Boycott, and Watergate led to President Nixon resigning a few weeks before the start of my sophomore year. The next spring, Communists conquered Saigon, and the Khmer Rouge took over in Cambodia. And what was I doing during all this world-historic drama? Playing trombone in the marching band, trying to get to second base with a girl, smoking dope and listening to some awesome rock-and-roll. In other words, I was being a normal teenager, but we didn’t have online social-media then, so who knows what sort of mischief I might gotten into if there had been smart phones and wifi circa 1973-75? But even with the advent of all this technology, the vast majority of teenagers are still sufficiently normal that they are more or less indifferent to politics, just like I was back in the era of bell-bottom jeans, Led Zeppelin and $20-an-ounce weed.

If someone had tried to get us to care about politics when I was a teenager, we’d have called them a “homo,” which was a sort of generalized insult that wasn’t homophobic because the word “homophobia” hadn’t been invented yet. Circa 1974, “homo” (like “queer” and “faggot”) was just an insult slung around among a group of teenage friends, without any actual suspicion of homosexuality. Perhaps a sociology professor or a Gender Studies major would interpret the use of such slang insults as expressions of “toxic masculinity” or whatever, but of course all professors and Gender Studies majors are homos, by the standards of normal teenagers. When I was in high school, all the cool kids were completely cynical about politics and politicians, and considering that I attended high school during the presidencies of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, perhaps you can see why were were so cynical.

Also, we were stoned most of the time. Perhaps my adolescent association with dopehead hoodlums made me somewhat atypical, but there were a lot of teenagers who went through the 1970s in a state of altered consciousness. In high school, I sort of had one foot in the artsy nerd clique — marching band, choir, student theater, literary magazine, etc. — and the other foot in the long-haired rock-and-roll crowd. The prevalence of drug culture in the mid-1970s was such that some of the smartest kids in school also spent a good deal of time wasted on dope, including heavy stuff like LSD, PCP and mescaline. But I digress . . .

We most emphatically did not care about “social justice” when I was a teenager, and I suspect the vast majority of normal teenagers now don’t really care about that stuff, no matter how much Democrats get excited by the idea of young people being “social justice” enthusiasts. But the crew of #BlackLivesMatter maniacs on Tumblr in late 2014 calling each other out for being insufficiently “woke” were not normal teenagers. Scott Alexander quotes an SJW Tumblrina:

“If you’re uneducated, do not use that as an excuse. Do not say, ‘I’m not picking sides because I don’t know the full story’” because not picking a side is supporting Wilson. And by supporting him, you are on a racist side…Ignoring this situation will put you in deep shit, and it makes you racist. If you’re not racist, do not just say ‘but I’m not racist!!’ just get educated and reblog anything you can.”

That was posted in November 2014, after a grand jury investigation found that Officer Darren Wilson had acted in self-defense in shooting Michael Brown. The 6-foot-4, 292-pound Brown attempted to grab the officer’s pistol during a struggle that ensued when Wilson tried to arrest Brown, who was a suspect in a convenience store robbery. Round-the-clock cable TV coverage by CNN and MSNBC distorted the story in Ferguson to such an extent, however, that a false mythology of Brown as an innocent victim of racist police took hold in the minds of “social justice warriors” (SJWs) like the Tumblrina quoted above. This bogus narrative (“Hands up, don’t shoot”) led to violent riots in Ferguson.

A remarkable arrogance was required to denounce as “uneducated” anyone who didn’t take the side of the Ferguson rioters. The facts of this case, and the reality of race and crime in America, were examined by Heather Mac Donald in her 2016 book The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe. Considering that she got her B.A. from Yale and her J.D. from Stanford Law, Heather Mac Donald certainly cannot be called “uneducated.” Yet such is the climate created by the media’s social-justice propaganda that, unless you are sufficiently mature and well-informed to resist this kind of myth-making operation, you might easily believe that anyone who doesn’t share your belief is intellectually and/or morally inferior to you. So, who was this Tumblrina who declared, in November 2014, that anyone didn’t support the #BlackLivesMatter rioters in Ferguson was an “uneducated” racist?

Say hello to Abby, a 19-year-old lesbian who lives in New Jersey.

At the time she posted her Ferguson rant in November 2014, Abby was a high-school freshman, still a couple of months away from her 15th birthday. Abby was born on Jan. 20, a fact I know because she also had a sideblog about astrology, describing herself as a Capricorn/Aquarius cusp. So the person lecturing everybody on Tumblr on how “uneducated” they were was a ninth-grader who believes in primitive superstition about how the movements stars and planets control our earthy fortunes.

And also, perhaps not coincidentally, she’s a homo.

At the time of her ninth-grade rant about how everyone who disagreed with her was an “uneducated” racist, Abby still identified as bisexual. Having spent way too much time scrolling through her Tumblr blogging about her personal problems, I’ll spare you the details, except to say that Abby’s family seems to be so tolerant and progressive that, in order to obtain the customary adolescent thrill of teenage rebellion, she’d probably have to knife them in their sleep. Or vote Republican.

In 1975, Midge Decter wrote a book called Liberal Parents, Radical Children that explained how the extremists of the 1960s New Left originated in misguided permissive parenting styles that prevailed among who thought of themselves as “enlightened” in the Eisenhower era. (You can read Abby Schacter’s review of Decter’s book published on the occasion of its 40th anniversary in 2015.) Parents have to realize that children require structure and discipline, a system of rules and consequences, with no tolerance for disrespect or impudent resistance to parental authority. You cannot be an effective parent by trying to “be your child’s best friend”; this kind of absurd egalitarian approach to parenting produces spoiled, selfish brats. But I digress . . .

What sort of 14-year-old thinks of herself as qualified to lecture others about how “uneducated” they are for disagreeing with her? What is it that inspires teenagers to pronounce judgment on people they’ve never met, and about whom they know nothing? Well, consider that Abby mentions being in therapy, and her “coming out” as bisexual at age 15 didn’t seem to provoke any parental reaction, so that a year or so later, after deciding that boys were just too boring to merit her romantic interest, she declared herself a lesbian, and her parents actually invited Abby’s girlfriend to accompany them on their family vacation.

Without getting too deep into the etiology of homosexuality, permit me to observe that Abby is a familiar type — sexually precocious, she’d had both boyfriends and girlfriends before she was old enough to get a driver’s license and, while she’s reasonably attractive, she’s somewhat pudgy. Speculative discussion of why Abby (or anyone else) engages in homosexual behavior would be a waste of time, but what I wish to call to the reader’s attention is that Abby is a recognizable type, both in terms of her personal backstory and her physical appearance including (a) her purple-dyed undercut hairstyle and (b) her pierced nostril. When you factor in her Tumblr blogs devoted to (c) “social justice” politics and (d) astrology, Abby is a 21st-century stereotype.

There are a lot of things I could say about this observable pattern, but I’ll leave readers to draw their own conclusions, except to channel the voice of my teenage hoodlum buddies circa 1975, who almost certainly would have said, “Social justice is for homos.” Pass the bong.