Businesses Sue Seattle for Enabling CHOP Antifa-stan’s Reign of Terror

NASCAR Releases Photo of Fake Racist ‘Noose’ But Will Require Sensitivity Training Anyway

I’d say click over and read it, but it is a story of poor judgement, cowardice, and projection. It is a story for the current times I suppose.

Just a disgrace

NYT ‘1619 Project’ Founder Demonized the ‘White Race’ as ‘Barbaric Devils,’ ‘Bloodsuckers’ in 1995

I posted on this before. It is worth repeating. Hold people to account for their writing and actions. Don’t censor them. Hold them to account.

The Great Awakening: Tidal Wave of Social Media Users Exit Twitter for Free Speech Alternative

Monica Showalter:

“…The attacks on statues and public art in the U.S. are horrible stuff, a Taliban-like effort to erase American history and deprive the nation of its past, its heroes, and the sense of exceptionalism that comes from it.

It’s a vile trend that America’s enemies can only envy for not thinking of first: Erase American heroes, erase the entire American story as its participants told it, and leave only the ignorance, lies, and gibberish of the angry left positing that there’s nothing good about this country.

The latest threat to a statue of Abraham Lincoln in a Washington D.C. park, positioned with a freed slave at his knees, is especially despicable.

The statue has a Victorian sensibility, showing a slave on his knees with broken chains looking up to Lincoln in gratitude, which gets the message out in a literalistic way that the freed slaves were grateful to Lincoln. It’s treacly, it’s Victorian, it’s from the 19th century – a time of storytelling and great novels – it had some controversy even in its own era. It’s fair to say it’s not how we might depict the idea today.

However, it’s heartfelt and in sync with the era it came from and for that reason valuable to us for trying to understand how people felt at the time. There are many good things about it that the cellphone generation might not recognize – the slave is looking up, not down, his path open to rising. He’s down, yes but remember, he’s just been freed of slavery, which was for him, literally chains. This is what it looks like to be just freed of literal chains, and how it felt to many.

It’s very clear that this statue meant something to someone when it was erected – because it was paid for by freed slaves themselves who wanted this to be the way they told their story.

The idea and first donation for this monument was by Charlotte Scott a freed slave from Virginia, who was residing in Ohio. Having heard of Lincoln’s [assassination], she told her employer “colored people had lost their best friend on earth”. She told her employer that she wanted to honor Lincoln with a memorial and to donate the first money for it. Along with the first $5 Ms. Scott had earned as a free woman, the employer forwarded her request on to the Western Sanitary Commission in St. Louis where the suggestion was taken up enthusiastically. The commission then offered Thomas Ball the work for the $18,000, which had taken two years to collect, all from freed slaves. The slave statue was modeled after Archer Alexander, who is said to have been the last man captured under the Fugitive Slave Act.

The great American abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, dedicated it, which means it wasn’t just some old ladies with money trying to control a narrative, it had the imprimatur of the best on it.

His account had some reservations, yet it also acknowledged that Lincoln was in fact a liberator.

He was the white man’s president, with the white man’s prejudices and he had been ready and willing at any time during the first years of his administration to deny, postpone, and sacrifice the humanity of the colored people to promote the welfare of the white people. Lincoln was neither our man or our model”. Addressing the whites in the audience he continued, “You are the children of Abraham Lincoln, we are at best his step children; children by adoption; children by force of circumstances and necessity”. He concluded with, “even if Lincoln was motivated by political expedience by signing the Emancipation Proclamation, he is our liberator”

It was the story from the people who lived it. And it now speaks to us in a symbolic language we don’t completely use, yet leaves us with a sense of how they looked at the world by looking at what they left for us. And that means their voices speak to us, we encounter them directly, we don’t take our history from rabid leftists anxious to enact a socialist hate-America agenda. We don’t need their mediation.

See that statue, see how slaves felt, think about what Douglass felt and did. That’s why we have it. We don’t have to duplicate it in our own interpretations of the topic, but we do have to respect the people who created the monument and told the story in the way they wanted it to be told…”

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Ted Noel:

“…I wore surgical masks daily for 36 years as an anesthesiologist.  Their purpose was to reduce the chance that I would infect an open wound with bacteria from my mouth.  This article of faith has been shown to be false.  If staff who are working outside of the immediate sterile field do not wear masks, there is no increase in wound infections.  And this is in a closed environment where staff will be present for hours.  This casts a very large cloud of doubt on the utility of masks for COVID-19.

Another problem arises when we look at the use of masks by the public.  Even accepting the uncertain premise that masks are useful, “incorrect use and disposal may actually increase the risk of pathogen transmission, rather than reduce it, especially when masks are used by non-professionals such as the lay public.”  Given that most “masks” are simply kept handy for use when required, set aside, and then re-used, most mask-wearing by the public is likely to increase virus exposure, not reduce it.

But do properly used surgical masks reduce disease spread in the general public?  To say there are almost no data would not be overstating the case.  When households with sick kids were examined, even rigorous mask-wearing provided no statistically significant improvement in adult infections.

Let’s put that in plain English.  Even if you did everything to protect yourself with surgical masks, even keeping it on when your kid wants to see your face, it might reduce your chance of getting sick, but we can’t prove it.  And that’s in a well designed study intended to get a meaningful result.  “[H]ousehold use of face masks is associated with low adherence and is ineffective for controlling seasonal respiratory disease” (emphasis added)…”

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MSNBC reporter concerned New Border Wall will inconvenience illegals

You can’t make this up. This should factor in to your future purchase decisions

Juicy Wallace Wrecks NASCAR – A racial hate-crime hoax on the Jussie Smollett model won’t play with NASCAR fans.

I think NASCAR is more responsible than Juicy Wallace. NASCAR thought the noose hoax would go well with the confederate flag banning and improve its standing with the woke crowd. I think it was Glenn Reynolds who said “get woke, go broke.”

A few more tricks like this and NASCAR will go broke.

I think this video should be played on a loop in bars, and airports. I think there is entertainment value here. I love to hear paleo-republicans say they will vote for this man.

In Racist Screed, NYT’s 1619 Project Founder Calls ‘White Race’ ‘Barbaric Devils,’ ‘Bloodsuckers,’ Columbus ‘No Different Than Hitler.’

There are 26 numbered comments. Worth clicking over for the whole thing.

“….1) Judge Rao’s opinion–joined by Judge Henderson–granting Flynn mandamus is outstanding not only for its legal reasoning, but also for how it COMPLETELY EVISCERATES Judge Wilkins’ dissenting opinion.

2) In all my years of appellate practice, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a non-US Supreme Court appellate opinion that so thoroughly demolishes a dissenting opinion as this one. Judge Rao could not have done better in writing the opinion, and it should be required law school rdg.

3) In addition, Judge Wilkins’ dissenting opinion is so off-the-mark that I believe he has shot himself in the foot for purposes of en banc review–in other words, he has ensured that otherwise-sympathetic judges on the DC Circuit will vote against en banc review…”

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Oakland school board votes to defund contract with police, cites disproportionate arrest of black students

Let’s do a thought experiment. What if 99% of the arrests were warranted based on the laws in effect in the local area and the rules and procedures of the local police department. Doesn’t that mean that black students were committing a disproportionate amount of arrestable offences? In this case wouldn’t the proper response from the school board be to implement some program perhaps including police classroom presentations to better educate black students about what is and what is not an arrestable offence combined with a program designed to improve parental involvement with students who may be experiencing difficulty?

God forbid. It must be a racist police force.

I wonder what the racial makeup of the local police force is? I wonder what the racial makeup of the local police and civilian leadership is? Are we allowed to ask those questions? Can you think of additional thought experiments relating to this data?

Do you think the school board considered this? Asking for a friend.

Treasury sent $1.4 BILLION in stimulus payments to dead people

Public university president retracts statement that ‘hate speech’ is punishable ‘by law’ – sort of

“…Nicholls State University President Jay Clune warned the community earlier this month that the taxpayer-funded institution would punish those who commit “hate speech” with the “swiftest, harshest action allowed by law.”

He went even further, implying it was illegal for any member of the community to speak or act “in a manner that does not support our values.” Not just violate those values – failure to support them…”

Mr. Clune has set himself up as the arbiter on what speech is allowable, based on “our values.” You want to guess on what those values are? This is contrary to the first amendment of the U.S. constitution, one of the founding documents of our republic.

This is who is teaching our youngsters.

Students demand segregated ‘Black House’ so they can ‘feel included.’

I blame our education system

Media Immediately Begins Attacking Parler as Twitter Users Make Switch for More Free Speech

I joined Parlor to express my dissatisfaction with social media censorship of conservatives.