UCLA Prof. Placed on Leave After Refusing to Postpone Exams for Black Students

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UCLA Prof gets death threats for refusing to exempt black students from final exams

Judge Argues Trump Tweets Are Reason to Keep Prosecuting Michael Flynn

A great piece by this author whom I do not know.

Glenn K. Beaton:

“…Urban trekking around Denver the other day, I happened across a protest march of maybe a thousand people. Here’s what I observed.

The marchers were almost all white. I saw fewer than a dozen black people and no Hispanics.

Most were young women looking vaguely guilt-ridden. They were well-dressed, well-groomed and well-fed. I’m not passing judgment, mind you, but just reporting the facts.

Some were in small groups of similar young women. Some were with boyfriends, who were neither well-groomed nor well-fed. They were scrawny and scruffy, if you ask me, with thin beards.

Not that there’s anything wrong with a guy with a body and beard that are thin and a girlfriend who’s not. Again, I’m just reporting the facts.

Most wore COVID masks. In virtue signaling, their march and their masks made the day a twofer.

Many carried signs displaying slogans like “Black Lives Matter” and “Justice for George.”

I agreed with those signs, at least the literal words of them. George deserves justice just as everyone does, and black lives matter just as all lives do.

The marchers surely aren’t worried that we onlookers reading those innocuous signs will don our MAGA hats, pull our 9 mm and shout: “No! Black lives do not matter! And no justice for George!”

So why were the marchers there?

It was not to protest the murders of thousands of blacks each year, of which 94% are by other blacks. There were 18 in one 24-hour period last week in Chicago alone.

Protesting that would be politically incorrect. Protesting that would require real courage.

No, it was not real courage that they were displaying. It was cheap virtue. After a morning of mirror preening, they went out for some moral preening.

In that respect, their little picnic walk (I was offered a water bottle) was as harmless as it was pointless. I guarantee that these suburban girls and their girly men aren’t looters.

But one sign troubled me. It appeared in various incantations, but the gist was “Justice NOW for George.”

I’ll be clear. I’ve watched the video of George dying, and it was horrifying. If no exculpatory evidence turns up, then I hope those cops rot in jail. I’m guessing nearly all  people – including other cops – hope for the same.

But notice the “if” in the preceding paragraph. We have a system here in America that is summed up with “innocent till proven guilty.” That proof of guilt is presented, and challenged, at a trial.

Here, the cop has been arrested and is in jail on a million-dollar bond awaiting that trial. Given that, what exactly does the shouted word “NOW” mean in “Justice NOW for George”?

Are the protesters demanding that we bypass the trial and just lynch the cops right now? What kind of justice is that? I thought we reserved that sort of swift and trial-free punishment for Republican judicial nominees.

What about people like me, who think the video looks very bad but the cop still deserves a trial? For that sentiment, would the protesters lynch me too? Or would they lynch me instead for my MAGA hat and 9mm?

What if the evidence shows that the cop was a Democrat who mourns global warming and drives to yoga class in a Prius with a COEXIST bumper sticker, and that George admired Justice Clarence Thomas?

If that’s what the evidence shows, will these protesters let the cop off while spitting on George’s grave?

Here’s the problem. These sheep-like feel-gooders are cowards but nonetheless dangerous in a way they naively fail to grasp. They advocate a world where guilt depends not on a person’s actions but on how the herd carelessly and conveniently perceives his identity.

It’s the very definition of bigotry.

Humanity has tried all this before. The results were like the strangulation of George, but 100 million times over. Let’s not go back there…”

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BLM Vows to Insert ‘Guiding Principles’ Into Schools, Teach ‘Young Children’ How to ‘Disrupt Western Nuclear Family’ And ‘Choose Their Own Gender’

Sierra Club — ‘You can’t stop climate change without ending white supremacy’

There was a time when I admired the Sierra Club. Unfortunately, they have gone full lefty stupid.

HBO censors ‘Gone With the Wind’

And it will soon transition to the time of ignorant as we fail to teach history to our young

WTF https://t.co/rvo40IMyXY

— mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) June 9, 2020

Look at all the virtue signalling paraphernalia. Hard to remember what all the symbols are supposed to mean. Nadler was unable to knee-bend when the virtuous performers completed the submissive kabuki theater earlier in the day.

With Trump Rallies Returning, the Media Suddenly Remembers the Coronavirus Pandemic

A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress from the 5th Bomb Wing, Minot Air Force Base, N.D., breaks away from a KC-135 Stratotanker from the 100th Air Refueling Wing, RAF Mildenhall, United Kingdom, after receiving fuel during a strategic bomber mission off the northern Norwegian coast, June 3, 2020.

Knee-Benders Cancel ‘Gone With the Wind’ & ‘Cops’ on Same Day to Appease Frothing Rage Mob

BLM leader says group developing highly trained “military” arm for “war on police”

https://twitter.com/FirenzeMike/status/1270573605378818048

Antifa and BLM have broken into Seattle city hall

Despite their mayor @MayorJenny being beyond progressive

They are demanding she resign since she won’t defund the Police

This is the new normal in big cities of America

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— E (@ElijahSchaffer) June 10, 2020

https://twitter.com/RosaRey33120220/status/1270133855845056512

Welcome to America’s Cultural Revolution

Even in the opinion section, only approved thought is permitted.

Yamiche Alcindor wins WH press award — for bashing Trump

I have not seen this woke, social justice warrior do anything that deserves an award. Holding the right opinion and expressing it is enough, I guess.

THE SYMBIONESE LIBERATION ARMY (1973-1975)

WESTON W. COOPER:

“…Coming from the biological term symbiosis, meaning the interdependence of different species, the Symbionese Liberation Army was a radical leftist revolutionary organization that sought to unify all left-wing struggles under one banner. The Berkeley, California-formed group of mostly upper middle class, educated young whites, led by an escaped African American convict, took the seven-headed cobra as their symbol and participated in a series of high-profile crimes between 1973 and 1975. Most notably, they received intense media coverage for the kidnapping of media heiress Patty Hearst, her eventual transformation into a willing accomplice, and the murder of Marcus Foster, a well-respected Oakland school administrator.

The Symbionese Liberation Army was founded in Berkeley in 1973. By the 1970s after years of mass protests, some on the far left called for a political revolution and began to use terrorism to achieve this goal. Out of this environment, a number of organizations emerged including the Black Cultural Association, a black inmate group active at Vacaville prison. The group brought in white students to tutor prisoners in political science, black sociology, and African heritage.

Soon the group became increasingly political with Black Nationalism as its focus. Donald DeFreeze, serving a sentence for armed robbery, formed a splinter group called Unisight. The young white students from UC-Berkeley who saw all black inmates as political prisoners oppressed by the racist and corrupt American society assisted in his escape in March 1973.

By that summer, DeFreeze and his small group of white supporters had formed the Symbionese Liberation Army to oppose what they saw as an oppressive, racist society. With the slogan “death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people,” the SLA adopted a Marxist platform that included ending racism, monogamy, the prison system, and establishing “homelands” within the United States for groups of color.

Armed with stolen weapons and determined to create a violent revolution, the group on November 6, 1973, assassinated Marcus Foster, a popular Oakland superintendent, for his supposed support of an identification system for students. Rather than igniting a revolution, their actions were met with intense scorn from the Berkeley Left. The group then went into hiding, especially after two members were arrested for Foster’s murder.

On February 4, 1974, the group re-emerged, kidnapping the nineteen-year-old heiress to the Hearst family fortune, Patricia Hearst. On February 12, DeFreeze demanded as ransom that the Hearst family provide for the local poor. The distribution site however quickly became a riot scene as people fought over the donated food.

By April, after numerous failed ransom negotiations, Patty Hearst claimed to have denounced her family and joined the SLA. She appeared on April 15, 1974, in security footage robbing a Hibernia Bank in San Francisco. On May 16, the SLA turned up in Los Angeles when two members were discovered shoplifting, and Hearst shot through the storefront to aid their escape. The next day, the LAPD tracked down the SLA to a house in Compton. In a televised, day-long battle with the police, six members of the SLA were killed. The remaining few, including Hearst, vowed that they would continue the fight and went into hiding until their arrest in San Francisco on April 25, 1975, ending the SLA’s short-lived dream of violent revolution…”

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