FMJRA 2.0: Jungle Love

Last month, Ms. Wollstein wrote a column in the student newspaper denouncing Princeton’s a cappella singing group the Tigertones for performing the song “Kiss the Girl” from Disney’s The Little Mermaid — an ode to heteronormative toxic masculinity:

Even when gently crooned by an animated crab, the song “Kiss The Girl,” from the Disney hit “The Little Mermaid,” is more misogynistic and dismissive of consent than cute. By performing the song multiple times each semester, the Tigertones elevate it to an offensive and violating ritual. . . .
Lyrics such as, “It’s possible she wants you too/There’s one way to ask her/It don’t take a word, not a single word/Go on and kiss the girl, kiss the girl,” and “she won’t say a word/Until you kiss that girl,” unambiguously encourage men to make physical advances on women without obtaining their clear consent.
The song launches a heteronormative attack on women’s right to oppose the romantic and sexual liberties taken by men, further inundating the listener with themes of toxic masculinity. In trying to motivate Eric to kiss Ariel, the crab, Sebastian, makes use of lines such as, “Looks like the boy’s too shy,” “Don’t be scared,” and “It’s such a shame, too bad/You’re gonna miss the girl.”
Such expressions imply that not using aggressive physical action to secure Ariel’s sexual submission makes Eric weak — an irrefutable scaredy-cat. Applied outside of the realm of the movie, these statements suggest that masculinity is contingent on domination of women. This attitude can catalyze violent tendencies toward, and assault against, women.

It should be obvious that Ms. Wollstein would never want to be kissed by a man — this is “aggressive physical action” inspired by “toxic masculinity” — and she succeeded in getting the Tigertones to remove the song from their repertoire. Ms. Wollstein’s anti-heterosexual rage blinded her to the context of the scene in The Little Mermaid, “that Ariel puckered up and consistently gave clear body language signals,” as Fausta Wertz writes, lamenting “the sad barren emotional lives of the young SJW generation.” But this is the raison d’être of feminism, to destroy every source of happiness in human society. It should go without saying that any male who so much as speaks to Noa Wollstein risks an accusation of “harassment,” and that any man who attempted to kiss her would be accused of sexual assault. This is why Ms. Wollstein’s parents are paying $62,750 a year (including room and board) to send her to Princeton, so that she can vent her anti-heterosexual hostility and prevent the performance of Disney songs on campus.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

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Soros Bankrolled Anti-Israel Democrat Candidate With $225,000 Fellowship

Posted on | December 8, 2018 | Comments Off on Soros Bankrolled Anti-Israel Democrat Candidate With $225,000 Fellowship

The Washington Free Beacon reports:

Congresswoman-elect Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) did not disclose the name of the source of funds for a fellowship that was paid by liberal billionaire George Soros — as required by the House ethics committee — and also disclosed a lesser amount than she received, according to a review of tax and financial disclosure forms.
The Washington Free Beacon obtained the most recent copies of tax forms for a number of Soros’s organizations, including the Open Society Institute, the legal name for the Open Society Foundations, the entity in which Soros pushes millions in funding to a number of liberal causes and organizations.
An expenditure of $85,307 to Rashida Tlaib in Detroit, Mich., from 2017 is shown on page 97 of the 321-page report to “to increase involvement of disenfranchised urban communities of color with their local governance process by creating a community benefits strategy for equitable development and creating a leadership training for impacted residents focused on negotiation skills and identifying leverage at the local level.”
Tlaib did not report any income in the amount of $85,307 on financial disclosure forms submitted as she was running for office, which identified the names of the sources that provided her income in three of four cases. Tlaib received compensation from the Maurice & Jane Sugar Law Center, Wayne State University, and Metro Solutions, the forms show.
However, the fourth reported source of earned income is marked as a “Leadership in Government Fellowship,” but does not identify who provided the payment.
A press release from 2016 shows that Tlaib was chosen for a “leadership in government” fellowship by Soros’s Open Society Foundations along with seven other individuals. . . .
Tlaib was paid $139,873 by Soros’s group in 2016, tax forms show. Between 2016 and 2017, Tlaib received a total of $225,180.

Tlaib is “a Palestinian-American who calls for a one-state solution that would spell the end of Israel as a Jewish state, and for gutting US military aid to Israel.” That this pro-Hamas politician was bankrolled by Soros raises a question: “It’s weird that George Soros funds antisemitism and then cries ‘Antisemitism!’ when he’s criticized.”

Category: Democrats, George Soros, Israel

‘White Supremacy’: The Liberal Media’s Racial Narrative vs. Common Sense

Posted on | December 8, 2018 | Comments Off on ‘White Supremacy’: The Liberal Media’s Racial Narrative vs. Common Sense

One of the dishonest rhetorical tricks that liberals have recently played is to substitute “white supremacy” for “racism” as an accusation with which to smear conservatives. You might imagine we were living through a neo-Nazi revival, the way liberals keep finding “white supremacy” lurking everywhere. The use of this scary term, which conjures up images of goose-stepping Nazis and cross-burning Klansmen, became necessary after groups like the SPLC discovered that merely calling someone a “racist” had become ineffective. Liberals have so overused “racist” as to deprive it of any meaning other than “a white person I don’t like.” If you spend much time analyzing political rhetoric, you realize why liberals developed this habit of name-calling. Because they advocate policies that won’t work or which taxpayers can’t afford (the U.S. government is already $20 trillion in debt), liberals must engage in deception to gain support. Identity politics is once such deception: Claim that a policy will benefit a particular group that is disadvantaged or oppressed, and then accuse opponents of the policy of “hate” against the group.

Consider the way law enforcement was demonized by the “Black Lives Matter” movement. The disproportionate prevalence of crime in the black community means that, if police are doing their job, they will arrest a disproportionate number of black criminals. An analysis of crime statistics reveals that black males, who are less than 7% of the U.S. population, commit about half the violent crime in the country.

Most of this is black-on-black crime, so if you want to protect the safety of law-abiding black people, especially women and children, this will involve arresting and prosecuting a lot of black male criminals. Quod erat demonstrandum. Accusing the police of “racism” simply for doing their job is easy. Just wait for an “incident” to happen:

By depicting criminals like Michael Brown as innocent victims of racist police, activists sought to exploit widespread public ignorance about the reality of crime and law enforcement in America. Heather Mac Donald exposed this reality in her book The War on Cops, pointing out that a police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by black man than the other way around (see “Putting Homicide in Perspective vs. the Media’s ‘Atrocity Narrative’ Propaganda,” Oct. 3, 2017).

All that was necessary to discredit “Black Lives Matter” was to cite these facts, but CNN and other liberal media outlets were devoted to stoking anti-white rage in the black community, since such sentiments tend to benefit the Democrat Party. And if you point this out — the partisan aspect of racial politics in American — guess what they’ll call you? Yep, you’re a “white supremacist”! Because Democrats claim to care deeply about black people, any criticism of Democrats is condemned as “white supremacy,” and every time Republicans win an election, “racism” is always blamed. Because intelligent people cannot be forever deceived by political propaganda, however, liberal bias actually contributes to white resentment, as they perceive the racial favoritism involved every time the media mourns a slain criminal suspect as an “honor student”:

SWISSVALE, Pa. — Hundreds gathered in a school auditorium [June 25] to pay respects to Antwon Rose, the unarmed 17-year-old high school student who was killed by a police officer last week.
Rose, a rising senior and honor student, was shot three times after fleeing a vehicle during a traffic stop and running away from officers. . . .
Mary Brookins, a substitute teacher at the school, said she is hurt and confused by Rose’s death and said the teen was always respectful to her.
“I have sons and it could have been my son,” Brookins told NBC News. “I can always remember that smile he had.”
“No one has a harsh thing to say about him because there is nothing harsh to say,” added Lillian McClain, who grew up with Rose’s family.

CNN actually broadcast Antwon Rose’s funeral live, which is remarkable. In a nation where there are more than 15,000 murders annually, how many murders does CNN cover, as crimes of national significance? So far this year, 474 people have been shot to death in Chicago. How many of those funerals did CNN cover? But never mind that. What about the “honor student” Antwon Rose? Why was he “fleeing a vehicle during a traffic stop”?

A teenage boy has been charged in last week’s drive-by shooting in North Braddock — an incident that happened minutes before Antwon Rose was fatally shot by police.
Zaijuan Hester, 17, of Swissvale, was arrested in the Hill District around 11:30 p.m. Monday for cutting off his ankle bracelet in a prior case, authorities said.
Charges against Hester for the June 19 drive-by were filed Wednesday morning. A criminal complaint shows that he is charged with felony counts of aggravated assault, attempted homicide, receiving stolen property and a firearms violation. . . .
Minutes after the drive-by shooting, a car matching the vehicle’s description was stopped by East Pittsburgh police.
Rose, 17, was shot by Officer Michael Rosfeld as he and a second passenger, later identified as Hester, ran from the car.
Rosfeld was charged with criminal homicide Wednesday.

The drive-by was caught on surveillance video:

The video showed the rear passenger window rolled down before a handgun emerged and fired .40 caliber bullets. Casings from those bullets at the scene of the shooting were later positively identified as having come from a .40 caliber Glock found under the back portion of the Chevy’s passenger’s seat.
Detectives said that the person in the front passenger seat, where Rose had been sitting, did not fire any of the shots, the complaint said. . . .
[Allegheny County Police Superintendent Coleman] McDonough said Rose was unarmed but that two semi-automatic handguns were found on the floor of the vehicle.

So the “honor student” was riding along with his buddy Zaijuan Hester, gunning for somebody in a drive-by and, while Antwon Rose didn’t fire any shots, there were two guns in the car. The officer who shot Antwon Rose has been charged with murder, and clearly violated proper procedures, but where is the “racism” here? If you participate in a drive-by shooting, get caught by police and take off running, what do you expect to happen? But common sense is now “racist,” I suppose, and those who watched CNN’s coverage of the Antwon Rose case were not informed that the “honor student” was an accomplice in a drive-by shooting, because that doesn’t fit the narrative.

What is the effect of the media’s racial credibility gap? If intelligent people see that CNN is deliberately distorting the news, and that these distortions involve a racial bias, isn’t it likely that this will foster resentment toward the beneficiaries of the liberal media’s bias? That is to say, rather than blaming the media, some white people will blame black people, so that media bias has the perverse effect of inciting attitudes that might be called “white supremacy.” Having thus fostered racial division because of their biased coverage, the media will then cover the phenomenon of “white supremacy” as if this was something that developed spontaneously, and in which they were not complicit.

If you don’t want armed teenage hoodlums creating havoc in your community, you’re a white supremacist, according to CNN. And what’s worse, you might even vote Republican.

Category: Crime, Media Bias, Racism

In The Mailbox: 12.07.18

Posted on | December 7, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: It’s Almost Like Putin Didn’t Expect To Be Held Accountable By The Obama Administration
EBL: Sexual Abuse At CBS – Lee Moonves’ Special Perks
Twitchy: Occasional Cortex Backpedals In A Major Way After Threatening Donald Trump Jr.
Louder With Crowder: Jessica Simpson Dresses Down Natalie Portman For Virgin- & Body-Shaming, also, Joy Behar Whines About Fox Being Trump’s Channel – Her Co-Hosts Attack
According To Hoyt: A Lack Of Reading Comprehension
Monster Hunter Nation: Book Bomb! A Star-Wheeled Sky & In Plain Sight
Vox Popoli: Ubisoft Converged

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The No Leaders Edition
American Power: Leftists Are Redefining Racism
American Thinker: The Real Beto O’Rourke
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Electoral Reform Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For December 7
CDR Salamander: Japan Does Exactly What We Told You It Would Do, also, USS Oklahoma‘s Final Story
Da Tech Guy: Under The Fedora – Thoughts Not On Twitter, also, Go Ahead & Kiss The Girl – If You Dare
Don Surber: Carlson Has Tuckered Out
Dustbury: Doesn’t Want The D
Fred On Everything: Fred Dworkin Vs. The Sisterhood
The Geller Report: French Academic Stabbed For “Insulting Mohammed” During Lecture, also, U.S. Muslima Stole $85,000 In Bitcoins & Cryptocurrencies To Support ISIS
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Math Is Hard & Facts Are Stubborn
Hollywood In Toto: 25 (Mostly) Delicious Food-Related Lines
JustOneMinute: Climate Change Solutions – Easiest Prediction Ever
Legal Insurrection: Boston Globe Editorial Board Says Fauxcahontas Shouldn’t Run For President, also, Trump To Nominate Heather Nauert As Ambassador To UN
The PanAm Post: Bad News For Argentinian Taxi Drivers Battling To Ban Uber
Power Line: Middle East Disconnect At The WaPo, also, Thoughts From The Ammo Line
Shot In The Dark: A Good Ol’ Gal With A Gun
The Political Hat: The Coming Assault On The Second Amendment In Nevada
This Ain’t Hell: On This Day In 1941 – The Pearl Harbor Attack, also, Settlement Reached In Notorious “Norfolk Four” Case
Victory Girls: Is Heather Nauert Qualified?
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit – A Roundup Of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Weasel Zippers: Feds ID Largest Energy Find Ever – Enough To Cover Seven Years Of Supply Needs, also, Clinton Foundation Whistleblowers Come Forward With Hundreds Of Pages Of Evidence
Megan McArdle: The Weekly Standard May Be Tottering, But Its Anti-Trumpism Is A Model Of How To Stand On Principle
Mark Steyn: The Separation Of State And Candy Cane, also, Little Women At Christmas

Twelve Days Of Deals, Day Six – Fashion
Amazon Warehouse Deals

Category: Linkagery

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | December 7, 2018 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty

“Oh no! Bill, its optical sensors are active.”
“OK. We’re already frozen in place, Mike. It’s 200 clicks to base. Comms are down. What do we do?”
“Do? That EMP was supposed to halt all the droids. How much ammo do you have left?”
“None. You?”
“Same.”
“Bollocks.”
“You remember that machete you were making fun of?”
“Yeah.”
“Well, it’s that and the empty pistol. You think you can take this thing with a butt stroke?”
“That’s a very intimate question, don’t you think?”
“Dude! Here it comes”
The thing emitted a very natural grow and came at them.
“It’s real!”
—
via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

MUELLER BOMBSHELL?

Posted on | December 7, 2018 | Comments Off on MUELLER BOMBSHELL?

Here’s the headline stack from the top of the Drudge Report:

President Goes Off On Special Counsel Hours Before New Bombshells... MUELLER: COHEN HELPFUL... MEMO... SDNY: LOCK HIM UP... 40-PAGE FILING... 'MOTIVATED BY GREED, LIVED DOUBLE LIFE'... Paid More Than $4,000,000 by Promising Access... Claims in touch with Russian seeking 'political synergy'... MANAFORT ACCUSED OF 'DISCERNIBLE LIES'... MEMO... Contacts with admin while under investigation... Details Remain Under Seal... TRUMP TWEETS: Totally clears the President. Thank you! John Kelly questioned in obstruction probe...

What does it all mean? Give me some time to go through this Friday document dump, and I’ll try to figure it out.

UPDATE: Kemberlee Kaye at Legal Insurrection reports:

Friday afternoon, federal prosecutors issued a sentencing memorandum recommending “a substantial term of imprisonment” for former Trump attorney, Michael Cohen.
“As set forth herein, consideration of the factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) weighs heavily in favor of a substantial term of imprisonment. In particular, the nature and seriousness of the offenses and the need to promote respect for the law and afford adequate deterrence are especially weighty considerations,” says the memo.
Cohen pleaded guilty to charges of tax evasion, fraud, and lying to Congress.

UPDATE II: One America News Network:

U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort lied to federal investigators about a payment and contacts with Trump administration officials, the U.S. special counsel investigating whether Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia said in a court filing on Friday.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office submitted the filing to a U.S. District Court judge in Washington who had asked for more details on Mueller’s allegations last month that Manafort had breached a plea agreement by lying.
“In his interviews with the Special Counsel’s Office and the FBI, Manafort told multiple discernible lies — these were not instances of mere memory lapses,” Mueller’s office said in the filing.
According to the filing, Manafort lied about his interactions with Russian-Ukranian political consultant Konstantin Kilimnik, Kilimnik’s efforts to tamper with witnesses, the circumstances surrounding a $125,000 payment to a firm working for Manafort, and Manafort’s contacts with officials in the Trump administration.
Manafort also provided investigators with shifting accounts about information relevant to another Department of Justice investigation.
The filing also said that Manafort, who maintains he has been truthful to Mueller, appeared before a grand jury twice.

UPDATE III: Fox News:

The White House responded to the filing by distancing itself from Manafort.
“The government’s filing in Mr. Manafort’s case says absolutely nothing about the president,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said. “It says even less about collusion and is devoted almost entirely to lobbying-related issues. Once again the media is trying to create a story where there isn’t one.”
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani told Fox News the memos show prosecutors “have nothing” on the president and “we are very happy about it.”

That’s the bottom line, really. For the past couple of days, the liberal media have been hyping up anticipation that finally, Mueller had found “Russian collusion,” but he hasn’t found it and, after nearly two years of looking, it doesn’t seem likely he ever will. Just now on Fox News, Anthony Scaramucci said it was as “very good day for the president,” because it doesn’t appear that Mueller has gotten anything from either Cohen or Mueller that hurts Trump.

Category: MuellerGate

Transgender Totalitarianism: Virginia High School Teacher Fired Over Pronouns

Posted on | December 7, 2018 | Comments Off on Transgender Totalitarianism: Virginia High School Teacher Fired Over Pronouns

The insanity of adults encouraging confused teenagers to “transition” has reached rural King William County, Virginia:

The West Point School Board has fired a high school French teacher following an ongoing transgender controversy issue at the school.
Peter Vlaming, a teacher within the school system for seven years, was fired from his position Thursday night after a five-and-a-half hour public hearing with the school board.
Vlaming’s attorney fought the Superintendent’s recommendation to dismiss the teacher based on claims of insubordination and repeated refusal to comply with directives made by WPPS administrators. . . .
“Tolerance is a two-way street,” said Shawn Voyles, Vlaming’s attorney. “My client respects this student’s rights; he is simply asking that his rights be respected as well… The student is absolutely free to identify as the student pleases. The school board adopted one viewpoint and required Mr. Vlaming, at the cost of his job, to repeat that ideology, repeat that viewpoint. That’s where it’s compelled speech. That’s where it violates his First Amendment right he still retains as a public employee.”
This issue came to a crux during a virtual reality exercise back in October, where Vlaming said he called out “don’t let her walk into the wall” as the transgender student walked in that direction.
Vlaming claimed it was a slip of the tongue.
“I’m totally happy to use the new name,” Vlaming said. “I’m happy to avoid female pronouns not to offend because I’m not here to provoke… but I can’t refer to a female as a male, and a male as a female in good conscience and faith.”
“That was in fact discriminatory because all the other students were being used pronouns, but this student was not being used pronouns,” Superintendent Laura Abel testified.
On Oct. 31, Vlaming was placed on paid administrative leave after West Point High School Principal Jon Hochman said Vlaming did not obey his directive to use the proper identity pronouns for the student (“he”, “him” etc.). . . .
Voyles said his client was sent a letter Nov. 6 by {Superintendent Laura] Abel stating: “My expectation is that you will treat [the student] the same as other male students, including using his preferred name and using male pronouns to refer to him. If you refuse to comply with this directive or if you have any further instances of using female pronouns or of avoiding the use of male pronouns to refer to [the student], it will be considered insubordination and will result in termination of your employment.” . . .
“The policy speaks not one word about pronoun usage,” Voyles said. “There is absolutely nothing in the policy, as the witnesses admitted from the school division, that speaks to that issue. Which makes that policy so problematic that it leaves it up to the individual for interpretation.” . . .
“This is a new issue in this country,” Voyles said. “These administrators had just two words, ‘gender identity’, that were added to their policies and they decided on their own what it means to discriminate against gender identity.”

Here’s an idea: If your child is delusional — in this case, a girl who believes she’s a boy — maybe don’t send them to school. Maybe you should put them in a lunatic asylum. But instead, what is being done in the name of “inclusion” is requiring everyone to participate in the psychotic teenager’s “gender” delusions. You can be fired from your job for refusing to cooperate with this coercive insanity.

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