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The Poisonous Fruit of ‘Social Justice’

Posted on | November 14, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

Everyone is commenting on this New York Times column in which a black professor offers an argument that could be reduced to a syllogism:

Premise A: Donald Trump got elected.
Premise B: Donald Trump is racist;

ergo,

Conclusion: Black children can’t be friends with white children.

Really, this is the essence of his argument, a bizarre non sequitur rooted in a profound sense of racial paranoia derived from the identity-politics calculations of Democrat Party “social justice” propaganda. Although he tries to marshal evidence in support of his anti-white attitude, the entire argument of his 1,500-word screed is built upon a simple foundation: Democrats, good. Republicans, racist.

Claiming that racism is so pervasive in American society as to be ubiquitous, and then making Republicans the scapegoats for this problem, has been a basic strategy of Democrats for more than 30 years. This reached its apogee during the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election, simply because Democrat operatives feared that Hillary Clinton would not get the strong black support that helped Obama win two terms in office. Anyone who analyzes the 2016 election result must admit that there was good reason for Democrats to be worried about this problem, and it seems obvious that the Black Lives Matter movement (which Hillary endorsed and which George Soros funded) was part of the Democrats’ plan to motivate and mobilize black voters. In other words, it was pure, partisan power politics.

Why should anyone believe that Trump’s victory owes more to white “racism” than to other factors? It will not do to answer this with anecdotes or social-science research demonstrating the mere fact that racism exists. No one denies this. But there is no reason to believe that racism is more prevalent in 2017 than it was in 2007 or 1997 or any other previous year. So why would a law school professor decide that Trump’s election justifies abandoning all hope of racial peace in America?

Because he’s a Democrat, that’s why.

The “social justice” gospel preached by Democrats is believed with pious devotion in academia. Republicans are effectively prohibited from employment in our universities, which have been turned into cult compounds where no one is permitted to question progressive beliefs. Professor Ekow Yankah’s bizarre arguments are representative of the ideology propagated on campuses where dissent is forbidden as “hate.” What happens when these ideas are applied in the real world?

Look no further than Baltimore, where Mayor Catherine Pugh admits that violence is “out of control” since the 2015 “Black Lives Matter” anti-police riots. Michael Walsh at PJ Media comments:

In the aftermath of the Ferguson riots in Missouri and the Freddie Gray fiasco in Baltimore, the decriminalization of crime in the name of “social justice” — long a goal of the cultural-Marxist Left — got fully underway. The result was exactly what anyone not fully invested in Critical Theory would have expected. . . .
Baltimore, a city whose best years ended more than a century ago, is a prime example of what happens when citizens are categorized by skin color or cultural background, and then have differing standards of behavior applied to them by what should be an impartial justice system. Instead of “social justice,” the outcome is social disruption, mistrust, resentment, lawlessness and, if left unchecked, anarchy and civil war.

“Social justice” is an attack on society itself. It is a wholly destructive ideology that incites conflict and unleashes the very worst impulses in human beings. No one’s life and property are safe in cities like Baltimore, yet the identity-politics formula of the Democrat Party (which is taught as gospel at our universities) leads black people who suffer under these policies to blame white people — and especially Republicans — for their problems. So the worse life becomes for black people, the more militantly anti-white the Democrat rhetoric becomes. This is how you arrive at the point where a hatemonger like Ekow Yankah is employed as a university law professor, using his faculty pulpit to preach racial hostility, and the New York Times is willing to publish his work.

 

Democrats should be ashamed of themselves, but if they had any sense of shame, they wouldn’t be Democrats, would they?





 

Category: Democrats, Education, Racism

Late Night With Rule 5 Monday:
Twin Peaks

Posted on | November 14, 2017 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

For reasons best known to their marketing departments, some of the restaurants offering free food to veterans put off actually doing so until today, and one of those was Twin Peaks, one of a number of contenders in the “breastaurant” category of sports bar franchises that includes Hooters, Tilted Kilt, and probably some others I’m not aware of. The ladies at the local Twin Peaks above Planet Hollywood had eschewed their usual plaid tops for some urban camo tops, and I wish I’d had the presence of mind to take some pics. Since I didn’t, here’s one of their waitresses in more traditional uniform.
As usual, most of the following links are to pics generally considered NSFW, and the management is not responsible for any spilled beer, mushy fries, underdone/overdone burgers, wilted lettuce in your salad, or other unfortunate consequences of your failure to click with discretion.

“Civilization means being able to enjoy a decent beer in comfortable surroundings. Luxury is having a pretty girl to serve it to you.” – Robert Heinlein

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #69, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns; Animal Magnetism brings us Rule 5 Stupid Lyrics Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s heifers this week include Orin Julie, Hope Hicks, Ola Jordan, female Marines, Contessa Bourbon, Cinema Paradiso, Veterans Day Pin-Up, and Melania Pandamonium.

A View From The Beach brings us The Adkins Diet – Niamh Adkins, Stuff Found on the Internet, Chesapeake War on Nutria in Abeyance, Weird Even by Hollywood Standards, I Eagerly Await the Law and Order SVU Episode, You Call That Cold?, Gone Fishing, Juliana Margulies Beat Off Weinstein and Seagal and A Porn Star Takes on the President…

Proof Positive’s Friday Babe is Brandi Brandt, his Vintage Babe is Angela Scoular, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Kelly Le Brock. Also, the Schadenfreude/49ers Report and Women of NCIS! At Dustbury, it’s Size 8 and Alison Doody.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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In The Mailbox: 11.13.17

Posted on | November 13, 2017 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Late Night With Rule 5 Monday will be up later this evening. Thanks for your patience.


OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #72
EBL: Judge Roy Fights Back
Twitchy: “No Woman Is Safe” – Why Hasn’t THIS Political Perv Been Blacklisted?
Louder With Crowder: George Takei Tries To Blame Sexual Assault Allegations On Russia. Yes, Really.


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: COTW – Affirmative Action Is Government Mandated Racism
American Power: Homeless People Cleared From Santa Ana River Trail, also, Ken Follett, The Pillars Of The Earth
American Thinker: Roy Moore Vs. The Swamp
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Clinton Corruption Update For November 12
BLACKFIVE: Thank You For Your Service
Bring The HEAT: The First Naval Battle For Guadalcanal, Nov. 11-12, 1942
CDR Salamander: OHP’s Second Life – The Sins Of The Past Haunt The Present And Weaken The Future
Da Tech Guy: Short Observation About The Two Hollywoods, also, My Narnia Question For The Conservative “Dump Roy Moore” Crowd
Don Surber: Trump’s Magical History Tour
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Geeks Bearing GIFs
The Geller Report: Muslim Stabs Multiple People In Mall Of America Attack, also, Karl Lagerfeld – “One Cannot…Kill Millions Of Jews So You Can Bring Millions Of Their Worst Enemies In Their Place”
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also also, I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Jammie Wearing Fools: Green Beret Discovered SEALs’ Illicit Cash – Then He Was Killed
Joe For America: Woman Says WaPo Reporter Offered Thousands To Falsely Accuse Judge Roy Moore Of Abuse, also, Target To Close Stores In Ten States After 18-Month Struggle Due To Bathroom Uproar
JustOneMinute: Escalation On The Korean Peninsula
Legal Insurrection: Gloria Allred Holds Press Conference With Roy Moore Accuser, also, Don’t Count Hillary Out for 2020
Power Line: What Will Mitch McConnell Do About The Democrats’ Disgraceful Senate Blockade? also, Roy Moore For Senate?
Shark Tank: Does Marco Rubio Walk With The Washington “Wise” Or The “Fools”?
Shot In The Dark: Open Letter To Certain People Being Accused Of Certain Indiscretions [1]
STUMP: Public Pensions And Public Assets – Governments Shouldn’t Be Activist Investors
The Jawa Report: Veteran’s Day
The Political Hat: 100 Years Ago, America Entered The Great War, also, Woke Racial Segregation Comes To Canada
This Ain’t Hell: Oh, Shut Up, Bradley, also, Uniform Correction Turns Violent
Weasel Zippers: GQ Magazine Declares Kaepernick “Citizen Of The Year”, also, Sanctuary City Malibu Wants Church To Stop Feeding The Homeless
Megan McArdle: Surprise! Obamacare Enrollment Is Actually Rising
Mark Steyn: That Sinking Feeling, also, Till There Was You


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The Queer State of California

Posted on | November 13, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

News from the Left Coast:

The Palm Springs, Calif., City Council now has transgender and bisexual members — and is entirely LGBT or queer.
Lisa Middleton made history as the first openly trans candidate elected to a nonjudicial office in California (Victoria Kolakowski was elected an Alameda County Superior Court judge in 2010). She and Christy Holstege, a bi woman, won the two open seats on the City Council in a field of six candidates in Tuesday’s election. Their election means that the desert city’s council is 100 percent LGBT or queer, according to Equality California, with representation from across the spectrum of those identities.

This consolidation of LGBT power was celebrated by Equality California and the Victory Fund. The latter group spent more than $600 million during the 2012 election campaign. In politics, a highly organized (and well-funded) minority can always defeat the disorganized majority. This is why the preferences of lobbyists matter more in Washington than do the interests of average Americans. The success of the LGBT lobby in gaining complete control of Palm Springs government demonstrates this, and also demonstrates that demographics is destiny.

The media age of the population of Palm Springs is 51, substantially older than the U.S. median age of 37. Why is this? Well, Palm Springs attracts a lot of retirees, and has very few children. Those under age 15 are only 11% of Palm Springs residents, whereas nearly 20% of the U.S. population is under 15. If the residents of Palm Springs are having very few children, and the elderly residents don’t work, where will they find the workforce to provide all the services necessary to maintain this affluent community of nearly 50,000? Oh, yes — immigrants. Twenty-five percent of Palm Springs residents are Hispanic, and another 5 percent are Asian. Who do you think will be working behind the counter at the Petsmart store in Palm Springs when the rich white gay people go shopping for Christmas gifts for their cats? Who collects their garbage and hauls it to the landfill? What is the ethnicity of the housekeeping staff at the Palm Springs hospital where the white old folks go when they’re sick?

There is an obvious correlation between support for “gay rights” and advocacy of an open-borders immigration policy. Rich white liberals (gay or otherwise) tend to have few children if any, and are in favor of importing brown people to work in menial service jobs. The lesbian sociology professor flatters herself that she is supporting “diversity” as she buys her $3 Starbucks latte from the Salvadoran barista.

The Kakistocracy points out that white liberals often ride to power on brown horses, so to speak. Yet this is always a transient phenomenon, as eventually the riders will be tossed from their saddles. Herb Stein famously observed, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop,” and the kind of demographic trend exemplified by the election of an all-LGBT city council in Palm Springs is ultimately unsustainable.





 

Category: California, Gays

God and Man in the Information Age

Posted on | November 12, 2017 | 1 Comment

“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”
— Daniel 12:4 (KJV)

One of the basic proofs of the Bible’s truth is the accuracy of prophecy. As every Christian knows, Jesus was the Messiah foretold by Old Testament prophecy, His atoning sacrifice prefigured in the story of Genesis 22, where God requires Abraham to prove his obedience by the sacrifice of Isaac, only to spare the boy at the last minute. The ultimate significance of this was understood by Jesus, of course, in a way that the scribes and Pharisees did not. As Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, he came to fulfill the law of the Old Testament, not to destroy it (Matthew 5:17) and by delivering Him up to be crucified by the Roman authorities, the Jewish leaders unwittingly brought about that fulfillment.

Before His death, Jesus prophetically foretold the coming destruction of Herod’s Temple at Jerusalem, which was fulfilled in 70 A.D. His disciples responded to this prophecy by asking Him about the future. Jesus then warned them not to be deceived by false prophets and referring to the Second Coming said, “of that day and hour knoweth no man.”

Not even Jesus could predict to His disciples when the final Judgment Day would come, because this was known by “my Father only” (Matthew 24:36), yet speculation has flourished. Many have offered their own interpretations of the Apostle John’s Book of Revelation, which baffles every attempt to translate its mysterious symbolism into definite meaning. Especially since the the 1960s, various doomsday prophets (including dangerous cult leaders like Charles Manson and David Koresh) have claimed to possess the secret meaning of Revelation.

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Category: Celebrities, Hollywood, Politics, Religion, Scandal, Sex Trouble

FMJRA 2.0: See Red

Posted on | November 12, 2017 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: See Red

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Whatever Happened To…
Animal Magnetism
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL
Ninety Miles From Tyranny

TEXAS CHURCH MASSACRE: ‘Creepy’ Atheist Was Stopped by Armed Citizen
Today Politics News
Conservative Theory
Open Comments
Freedom Daily
EBL

Professor Explores How K-12 Education ‘Can Help Kids Turn Out Queer’
Welcome To My Playpen
The Daley Gator
Adam Piggott
A View From The Beach
EBL

The Sexual Harassment Apocalypse: More Accusations Against Kevin Spacey
A View From The Beach

Best. Headline. Ever?
A View From The Beach

FMJRA 2.0: Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

MASSACRE: 26 Killed at Texas Church; Gunman ID’d as Devin Patrick Kelley
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.06.17
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL

Crazy People Are Dangerous
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.07.17
Proof Positive

Gillespie Defeated in Virginia as Huge Democrat Turnout Devastates GOP
The Pirate’s Cove
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.08.17
Proof Positive

REPORT: Charlie Sheen Raped 13-Year-Old Actor Corey Haim on Film Set in 1986
Adam Piggott
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.09.17
Proof Positive
EBL

Can Roy Moore Still Win?
EBL

The Catfish Sports Writer: ‘Ryan Schultz’ Is a Lesson in Social-Media Deception
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.10.2017
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers this week:

  1. EBL (12)
  2. (tied) A View From The Beach and Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!



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The Wages of #FakeNews?

Posted on | November 11, 2017 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

I find it difficult to believe that respectable news publications would buy stories.


No, wait: I don’t find it difficult at all.

Category: Uncategorized

A Little Due Process For Roy Moore

Posted on | November 11, 2017 | Comments Off on A Little Due Process For Roy Moore

by Smitty

The allegations of impropriety alleged in the WaPo against Roy Moore are a big deal. We can rehearse the power arrangements, the difficulties that victims face in pursuing justice against people in positions of power. But let’s throw in a word for due process.

Twice in my life I’ve had allegations levelled at me. Once, on active duty, I returned to a training installation where I’d previously had a girlfriend. Some months after I had departed on orders, I got a “Dear Smitty” letter. I’d left an item with her as an “do wait for me” token, and did retrieve it, along with a “Leave me alone” note. I also got a warning call from the police, informing me of her allegation that I was “stalking” her. I doubt that any reasonable observer of either gender (or any of the more recent ones) would in any way fault the substance of any of my conduct any toward her at any time. More likely, I would have drawn laughter. I also got to explain the entire embarrassing situation to my training command. It was somewhere between embarrassing and humiliating. Hopefully, her life has gone well in the decades since.

The other time, fresh off of active duty, a pregnant minority female on an IT project alleged in an email to HR that she had gone into labor and delivered her baby prematurely due to stress brought on by the harassment she received from me (the assistant project manager). Again, I don’t think that any reasonable jury would have found the slightest substantial (or even stylistic) quibble with our interaction. Nevertheless, our legal system is not about justice. I immediately sought a professional transition. Subsequently, I guess she did take the company to court. I’m not sure of the final details, but the company is pretty much a memory now. Hopefully her life is a good one and her family is healthy.

The point of those tales is that allegations are stressful, even when groundless. If there was a crime in Roy Moore’s past, it should be brought to light, and let the voters of Alabama judge whether this Judge merits a Senate seat. On the other hand, there is a non-zero possibility that, even though Roy Moore went to West Point and not UVA, the WaPo story is sheer hogwash of Rolling Stone proportions.

Were it true that the WaPo allegations against Roy Moore were unfounded, the unfounded allegations would be about as despicable as the crime Moore is alleged to have committed. I do hope Roy pursues legal relief from the WaPo if he is innocent.

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