In The Mailbox: 02.15.18

Posted on | February 15, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.15.18

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Fauxcahontas Doubling Down On Her Lie
Twitchy: Media Get Busted For Spreading This Bogus Gun Control Narrative – Again
Louder With Crowder: Parkland High School Student Says “I Don’t Think Gun Control Would Have Prevented This”
Reason: NYC Success Academy Charter Schools Are A Big Success (h/t NeoWayland)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Only Step Left Is To Make The Lies Reality, also, Aaron Clarey – Poor Richard’s Retirement
American Thinker: Wondering Which States Americans Hate To Live In? Ask U-Haul
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Hooray For Capitalism News
BattleSwarm: DNC – “Broke, Stupid & Racist Is No Way To Go Through Life, Son”
CDR Salamander: Don’t Let “That’s A Ford For Ya” Become A Snarky Catchphrase
Da Tech Guy: Pats Fans Sounding As Entitled As Hillary Insiders
Don Surber: Illegal Aliens Boycotting Florida, also, Democrats Have No Message
Dustbury: But It Is What You Said
Fausta: In Brazil, Corruption Rat Wins The Carnival
Fred On Everything: An Impolitic Slumgullion
The Geller Report: Iraqi Muslim Refugee Admits Faking Hundreds of Abuse Claims Against British Troops, also, Almost 100,000 Turn Out For Pro-Israel Rally In Calcutta
Hogewash: NGC 3344, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Joe For America: Political Correctness Is Hurting Our Children
JustOneMinute: Portrait Of A Knucklehead As An Old Man
Legal Insurrection: Canadian University Asks White People Not To Apply For Admin Position, also, Tax Reform Puts Democrats On Defense For Midterms
Power Line: Senate Perilously Close To Passing Liberal Amnesty Bill, also, Thoughts From The Ammo Line
Shark Tank: Another Insane Person Commits Mass Shooting
Shot In The Dark: Resilient!
STUMP: Illinois Idiocy – Scenario-Testing The Pension Obligation Bond Idea
The Jawa Report: He’s Dead Jim, Episode CMLXXXCIV
This Ain’t Hell: Bataan March Survivor Julio Barela Passes, also, Thursday Morning Feelgood Stories
Victory Girls: School Shooter Fell Through Many Cracks
Weasel Zippers: “Grossly Impaired” Illegal Accused Of Crashing Into Ambulance, Killing Three-Year-Old, also, 2006 Flashback – 21 Nork Cheerleaders Imprisoned
Mark Steyn: Too Stupid To Survive (Extreme Sports Edition)

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Tumblr Feminism: Is It Worth $3?

Posted on | February 15, 2018 | Comments Off on Tumblr Feminism: Is It Worth $3?

As a digital property, Tumblr is “effectively worthless,” according to financial analysts. The site’s lack of commercial value, however, does not prevent it from being a major platform for the dissemination of feminist ideology. This quote from Gail Dines, for example, was liked and reblogged nearly 3,000 times, and no one inside this online echo chamber ever considered the possibility that Professor Dines is wrong.

The word “slut” means a promiscuous woman. There are very good reasons that promiscuity is stigmatized, not least among them that the slut’s behavior tends to cause men to disrespect women generally. When feminists are ranting about “harassment,” “misogyny,” “rape culture,” etc., does it never occur to them that men’s bad attitudes toward women might, in some sense, be a rational response to female misconduct? For example, if a young man observes women being praised and rewarded for promiscuity in the name of “empowerment” and “equality,” might he not conclude that all women are disloyal and untrustworthy?

If promiscuity is such an essential trait of women’s sexuality that feminists celebrate it as a basic “right,” why should the young man think that women he meets are capable of chastity or monogamy? If all women are constantly searching for their next casual hookup, and have no interest in long-term relationships — for this is what the feminist message of sexual “empowerment” implies — how do we expect the young man to behave toward women? No one can be permitted to criticize promiscuous women, according to Professor Dines, who promotes an amoral standard of “non-judgmentalism” which means that there can be no basis for praise or respect for chaste women.

Perhaps I could continue this discourse endlessly, but the main point I wish to emphasize is this: You should hit my tip jar today.

This blog is a capitalist enterprise, after all, and readers who believe the work I do has real value — as opposed to Tumblr, which is “essentially worthless” — have managed to pay me enough to keep toiling away at it for a decade now. Yesterday, I spent a few hours mining Tumblr in preparation for exposing a new lode of Third Wave feminist craziness, but was interrupted by the school shooting in Florida that seemed worthy of coverage as actual news. Feminists, predictably, declared that the Broward massacre was about “toxic masculinity.” While it is wise to avoid arguing about politics over the bodies of innocent children, no one expects wisdom from Democrats. Did you know that Hillary Clinton won Broward County by more than a 2-to-1 margin? But I digress . . .

Returning to the Tumblr mine today (while babysitting my 3-year-old grandson) I’m reminded of my late friend Andrew Breitbart’s famous adage: “Politics is downstream from culture.” This is why I keep digging up these bizarre and obscure characters on Tumblr:

When I started exploring radical feminism in 2014, one of the first phenomena I discovered was SJW Tumblrinas. Tumblr.com is to social media what syphilis is to bacteria — the absolute worst. When I mused here about why Tumblr is so indescribably wretched, a commenter observed that its format is so “user-friendly” that it takes zero skills, and thus attracts a user base characterized by below-average intelligence. . . .
My research into radical feminism focused largely on academia, quoting major feminist authors and Women’s Studies textbooks. What makes Tumblr valuable to such research is that it shows how Third-Wave gender theory — Feminism Is Queer, to invoke the title of Professor Mimi Marinucci’s textbook — is interpreted by the type of young feminists who consider themselves “social justice warriors” (SJWs). Tumblrinas express feminism as they understand it, which may not be what the typical Women’s Studies professor had in mind, but this is what feminism actually is, as it is disseminated into popular culture as a grassroots phenomenon among young women.

Dear reader, I’ve got a real doozy of a specimen in my sights. One of her messages on Tumblr about the evil homophobia of “straight people” got more than 60,000 notes. You could fill a college football stadium with such a crowd. Imagine what a stadium full of young SJW feminists would look like — a nightmare vision of Hell painted by Hieronymus Bosch. Given that they are so numerous, how do they affect our culture?

So how about $3 for a cup of coffee? There’s a lot of fun to be had doing this work, but there’s also a lot of tedious drudgery, screen-capping their SJW rants and archiving links so that the evidence under scrutiny doesn’t disappear when the Tumblrina panics after being exposed.

Somewhere in Hillsborough County, a plump Tumblrina with a pierced nose has no idea that anyone outside the digital feminist echo chamber has noticed her. Eight or 10 hours from now? Fun, fun, fun.

This fun will require hours of actual work, however, and $3 for a cup of coffee doesn’t seem too much to ask. Thanks in advance.

UPDATE: Your Homophobia Is a ‘Direct Threat’ of ‘Potential Violence,’ Says Queer Feminist.

In The Mailbox: 02.14.18

Posted on | February 14, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.14.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Ash Wednesday
Twitchy: The New York Times‘ Bari Weiss Must Be Destroyed For THOUGHTCRIME!
Louder With Crowder: Suck It, Nancy! House GOP Introduces CRUMBS Act
National Review: When Border Searches Become Unreasonable

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Introducing My New Podcast – “The Greasy Pole”
American Power: Chicago Police Commander Shot & Killed During “Tactical Chase” Of Armed Suspect, also, Joy Behar Mocks VP Pence’s Christian Faith
American Thinker: A Democrat Year? Don’t Count On It
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Baldilocks: I Don’t Miss George W. Bush Any More
BattleSwarm: US Blows Up Russian Tank In Syria
CDR Salamander: What The Pros Study
Da Tech Guy: The End of DaTechGuy’s Blog Exile, also, All In A (Valentine’s Day) Work
Don Surber: Trump Recruiting For The Senate
Dustbury: Game of Thrown Up
Fausta: Yet Another Oil Industry Corruption Scandal
The Geller Report: Pro-Refugee Left Wing German Activist Gets #WOKE, also, Obama Cash Traced To Iran-backed Jihadis
Hogewash: R Sculptoris, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Joe For America: Duke Professor Asserts That Libertarians Are Autistic
JustOneMinute: Resistance Terror
Legal Insurrection: Fauxcahontas Doubles Down On Indian Ancestry Claims, also, Judicial Resistance – Another Judge Claims Trump Can’t End DACA On March 5
Michelle Malkin: Science, Secrecy, And Lies In Oklahoma
Power Line: Why Susan Rice Wrote An E-Mail To Herself, also, Pretending Our Way To Decline
Shark Tank: Gillum & Corcoran Face Off Over “Sanctuary Cities”, Immigration
Shot In The Dark: As Long As You Want To Crush The Constitution To “Save Lives”…
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – OHNOES! The Proles Get More Money!
The Jawa Report: Cornhole Watch – Ahmed Khan Rahimi
The Political Hat: The New Academic Soviet
This Ain’t Hell: Gregory Salcido Refuses To Resign, also, LTC Larned Saving The World
Victory Girls: Megadonors To International Abortion Funds Bill & Melinda Gates Worry Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Will Kill Millions Worldwide
Weasel Zippers: Comey Held Secret Obama White House Meeting Before Inauguration, Lied About It To Congress, also, CNN Laying Off Dozens After Missing Revenue Targets
Mark Steyn: Rarefied Airwaves, also, Yuge Luge

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UPDATE: Suspect in Florida School Shooting Identified as Nicholas Cruz; Death Toll 17 in Broward Massacre

Posted on | February 14, 2018 | 2 Comments

A 19-year-old former student went on a shooting rampage today at a high school in Broward County, Florida. At least one person was killed and more than a dozen others injured.

UPDATE: The suspect, Nicholas Cruz, was a known threat:

The former student suspected of opening fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland may been identified a potential threat to fellow students in the past, according to one teacher.
The 19-year-old ex-student, who has been detained by Broward police, has not been publicly identified as a suspect. But a law-enforcement source identified him as Nicolas Cruz.
“We were told last year that he wasn’t allowed on campus with a backpack on him,” said math teacher Jim Gard, who said Cruz had been in his class last year. “There were problems with him last year threatening students, and I guess he was asked to leave campus.”

UPDATE II: Nicholas de Jesus Cruz had posted pictures of himself holding guns and knives on his Instagram account.

UPDATE III: “Everyone predicted it,” one student said in a TV interview. Cruz seems to have been rather notorious:

“I stayed clear of him most of the time,” said one teen, who spoke to WSVN, but didn’t give his name.
“He’s been a troubled kid, and he’s always had a certain amount of issues going on,” the boy explained. “He shot guns because he felt it gave him, I guess, an exhilarating feeling. He showed me [his guns] personally through his phone.”
The alleged shooter == identified as Nikolaus Cruz, 19 — had even “joked” about taking out his schoolmates on several occasions, the student said.
“He played around with the joke multiple times,” the teen said. “You know, he knows the layout of the school. He can actually go ahead and he can pinpoint where all the students would be. He’s been through the drills multiple times.”

The death toll is 17, according to Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, who said Cruz had been expelled from the school “for disciplinary reasons.” Israel said law enforcement has begun to investigate the suspect’s social media and described it as “very disturbing.”

"Everyone predicted it," a student said about the #Parkland shooting. pic.twitter.com/mbzBIw8iUa

— Vic Micolucci WJXT (@WJXTvic) February 14, 2018

Category: Crime, Education, Florida

In Praise Of Obama’s Portrait

Posted on | February 14, 2018 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

The newly unveiled Presidential portrait of BHO affords this blog a rare opportunity to praise the “fundamental transformation” that His ‘Pretty Sharpness’ wrought:

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The Left’s Make-Believe Victimhood

Posted on | February 13, 2018 | 1 Comment

Does everyone remember “TrigglyPuff,” the obnoxious feminist who repeatedly disrupted a 2016 event at the University of Massachusetts? While claiming to be a victim of oppression, Cora Segal was attending elite private Hampshire College ($63,512 a year, including room and board) and is, in fact, the daughter of a Harvard professor. Her sole claim to victimhood is her evident inability to say “no” to second helpings.

The phenomenon of privileged young people claiming to be oppressed by social injustice is a product of what Robert Hughes called the Culture of Complaint, “in which seemingly everyone claims victim status.” Since the election of President Trump, liberals have ludicrously compared Trump to Hitler, claiming that America is now a “fascist regime.” The absurdity of these claims is apparent to anyone with two eyes and a brain, so why do liberals keep playing this make-believe game?

The left is playing at being oppressed and being brave resisters because they know they aren’t. They know they’re not in any way threatened, even if they’d probably rather die than admit it to themselves. They know they can go around sloganeering and screaming and calling a freely elected president a tyrant and the equivalent of Hitler, and no one will do anything. People won’t even be rude to them. They certainly won’t be as rude to them as they’d be to anyone who so much as dares to express a conservative opinion in liberal circles.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.) What these spurious claims of oppression do is to justify the Left’s efforts to deprive their opponents of freedom of speech. Feminists are absolutely the worst in this regard. As I have said, feminism is a synonym for “shut up”:

A major goal of feminism is to silence opposition. Because their ideology cannot withstand informed and articulate criticism, feminists therefore require a dishonest vocabulary of jargon that functions to disqualify and discredit their opponents. A man expressing disagreement with a feminist will invariably be accused of “sexism” or “misogyny,” and if he persists in his criticism, he will be accused of “harassment.” . . .
Feminists have used this kind of dishonest rhetoric for so long that it is seldom recognized as what it is, a propaganda tactic of psychological warfare.

Feminism is always a lecture, never a debate. Accusations of “harassment” are automatic as soon as anyone tries to engage a feminist in debate. However, when a feminist like “TrigglyPuff” deliberately disrupts a conservative event, this is justified as a protest against sexism, so that the claim of oppressed victimhood — the premise of the feminist syllogism — always serves the same rhetorical function: “Shut up!”

Without fat girls, there would be no protests. pic.twitter.com/Qmd7XE0CJC

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) November 10, 2016

You might think that’s just a joke, but fat feminism is a real thing:

So-called “fat-positive feminism” is a movement that “addresses how misogyny and sexism intersect with sizism and anti-fat bias.” While feminists blame “anti-fat bias” on male supremacy, the health risks of obesity are serious, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): “Obesity is a national epidemic and a major contributor to some of the leading causes of death in the U.S., including heart disease, stroke, diabetes and some types of cancer.”
Obesity is such a serious problem among lesbians that the National Institutes for Health funded a $3 million study to determine why “nearly three-quarters of lesbians are overweight or obese.”
When that study made headlines in September 2014, Mari Brighe wrote at the lesbian blog Autostraddle that lesbians “tend to be less critical of their bodies than straight women,” because they don’t “suffer the incessant, unreasonable pressure of the male gaze.”

Their victimhood is tautological, both the first premise and the conclusion of their circular argument, and there is thus no hope of persuading a feminist that she is not a victim. Her cult mentality — her fanatical devotion to “social justice” ideology — makes her incapable of comprehending such a possibility. By obverse implication, if you are male (particularly if you are a heterosexual white man) the feminist automatically categorizes you as “privileged,” and deserving of hatred as a perpetrator of oppression. Feminists hate all males. Your mere existence as male is sufficient to condemn you, according to feminist ideology.

You see, then, that the feminist’s claim of victimhood is necessary to justify her hatred of the demonized male enemy. Feminists treat men — yes, all men — as scapegoats, to be blamed for everything.

Donald Trump is a perfect symbol to such people, and it doesn’t matter what he actually does (or doesn’t do), they will continue to demonize him, because they have a psychological need for a scapegoat.

Category: Sex Trouble

‘Anglo-American’? RAAAAACISM!

Posted on | February 13, 2018 | Comments Off on ‘Anglo-American’? RAAAAACISM!

Generation Woke has a habit of substituting suspicion for knowledge. Indoctrinated to believe that sexism, racism and homophobia are lurking everywhere, the juvenile social justice mobs have a predictable habit of pouncing on anything that looks like evidence of Thoughtcrime.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave a speech Monday to the National Sheriffs’ Association in which he made these comments:

I want to thank every sheriff in America. Since our founding, the independently elected sheriff has been the people’s protector, who keeps law enforcement close to and accountable to people through the elective process. The office of sheriff is a critical part of the Anglo-American heritage of law enforcement. We must never erode this historic office.

This was a statement of historical fact. The word “sheriff” is a compound of “shire” (the English equivalent of a U.S. county) and “reeve,” meaning a representative of the king. The sheriff was originally the local agent of royal authority, charged with keeping the peace. This term crossed the Atlantic with the English colonists and, as the American democratic tradition developed, the sheriff became a locally elected official. So to speak of the office of sheriff as “a critical part of the Anglo-American heritage of law enforcement” is simply to state a fact.

Jeff Sessions Let His Racism Peek Through
a Little More Than He May Have Intended To

Facts don’t matter to SJW journalists like Emma Roller, senior politics reporter at SplinterNews.com, who took this as an opportunity to accuse Sessions of “pushing an industry already imbued with its fair share of white supremacist sentiment in an even darker direction”:

When you are Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, and are viewed as a racist by a wide variety of people, one would think you might consider the optics of praising “Anglo-American heritage” in front of a largely white crowd of cops.

Ms. Roller makes the “Republican = racist” connection the premise of her suspicion, for which she offers no actual evidence.

Being a liberal journalist means that you simply assume that every Republican is “viewed as a racist by a wide variety of people,” and expect your readers to share that assumption. Like all other white liberals, Ms. Roller considers herself equipped with radar that enables her to detect evidence of racism in everything a Republican says or does.

Don’t deny it, cracker. You voted Republican because you’re a white supremacist. Emma Roller is a professional journalist, and she knows these things. https://t.co/FlrAqJETVj #AngloAmerican pic.twitter.com/FUksyyRusJ

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) February 13, 2018

Remember: There are five A’s in “RAAAAACISM!”

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)