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  1. Diversity [dogma], not limited to racism.

    Social (i.e. relativistic) justice anywhere is injustice everywhere.

    A Rainbow of inclusive exclusion or politically congruent (“=”), yes.

    Equity, not equality, of course.

    Progress is an unqualifiied monotonic process: one step forward, two steps backward. Principles matter.

    Lose your Pro-Choice religion.

  2. I’m trying to figure out this line:
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    Charlottesville is void of a moral compass. It’s as if ole tj is cleverly whipping its inhabitants into submissiveness.
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    “ole tj” — Thomas Jefferson?

    Typical sort of poem, I regret to say.

  3. We’ve come a long way, baby, since a Democratic President dazzled the nation with this witty, intellectual and patriotic (how can these three adjectives be conjoined in the same sentence?) bon mot:
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    I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

    –Extract from John F. Kennedy’s Remarks at a Dinner Honoring Nobel Prize Winners of the Western Hemisphere April 29, 1962

  4. There was a time, back when our daughter was at UVA, that we looked forward to visiting Charlottesville. Of course at that time Virginia, or at least most of it, was a pleasant place to live. My wife and I have often commented about how we miss both since moving west. Not so much of late.

    The core question, however, is how do politicians get away with this despicable behavior?
    Why do voters tolerate officials who use this sort of insulting language? Is it just that Charlottesville, being the home of a major University, has a woke image to maintain? Or is this tolerance of gratuitous race based insults now endemic across the country? Or should I say systemic? Please excuse reference to those hackneyed and over used terms. I couldn’t help myself.

  5. What utter garbage. Imagine a “White” person writing this and the backlash.

  6. C Ville has changed immensely in recent times, as has UVa. Both now have a huge “woke” element. I am an early 80s grad with a daughter who graduated in 17 and a father in late 50s. The tragic incident in 17 probably accelerated the trend. Jefferson, who is intimately associated with the town and the University, was properly revered for so long; now, the University seems not to know what to do with him. He did found the place in every sense of the word, in his “retirement “. However, obviously the current ( ignorant shortsighted) perception is diametrically opposed to “woke”.

  7. Chville has degenerated severely since I was there in the 70s. Then, it was a civilized town, with civil and courteous people of all races. It was not then prosperous in contrast to the horsey estates of the county; about 50 % of houses still had dirt floors. People spoke of “Mr. Jefferson” as if he’d just gone away for a weekend and would return momentarily.

    It is what happens when you do not slam the door on Leftist BS, but instead let it gain a foothold. It is what is happening to the USA right now. It will get worse and worse and worse.

  8. I came down to C’Ville twelve years ago to get away from the SJW of the Upper West Side where I lived for 15 years. But those same people seemed to have followed me. Virginians are wonderful people, but they resent the recent influx of rich Northerners into the area, with their political correctness and virtue signaling. The political map of VA is changing as a result, hence the Mayor of C’Ville, who should but won’t resign for her racist comments. The local media barely covered this story.

  9. This is what happens when a talentless self-gratifying angry narcissist (but I repeat myself) gets the chance to “speak truth to power.”

    As I (too often) do these days, I think of H.L. Mencken’s observation that “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

  10. FOR AMERICA
    I’m very proud of
    My company.
    As you too know, I know
    I built a very great company.
    But if I become president,
    I couldn’t care less about
    My company.
    It’s peanuts.
    I want to use that same
    Up here, whatever it may be
    To make America rich again
    And to make America great again.
    I have Ivanka, and Eric and Don sitting there,
    Run the company, kids, have a good time.
    I’m going to do it for America.

    Bigly – Donald Trump in Verse: “Make Poetry Great Again.”
    Selected and arranged by Rob Long

    #StillMyPresident

  11. Enforced equity is by definition injustice…
    It can only be achieved by forcibly taking the possessions of those who work for them and giving them to those who refuse to work.
    Of course, “social justice” is injustice as well.

    So her (as with all leftists) entire agenda is based on creating and perpetuating injustice.

  12. As best I can tell from the link, the wordage was first described as a “poem” by the author after it had been removed from Facebook. I’m puzzled as to what made her call it that. Apart from Its crudity, in form it’s indistinguishable from any other bit of social media snarling.

    This would do as an entry in my not-to-be-composed list of Women and MInorities Making the World Worse. One of the lesser annoyances of the current climate is the pervasive treatment of Women And Minorities as the people who are working idealistically and against great opposition from the white male to make the world a better place.

  13. What has happened to the black voters that they choose this sort of ignorant racist fool? Maybe it is white leftists trying to make black voters look stupid. Adam Clayton Powell made much of “sticking it to Whitey” in his day. Maybe that is part of it but it does make those voters look stupid or corrupt.

  14. Politics makes more sense if you recall the early scenes of “2001” with the two ape packs snarling and gesticulating at each other.

  15. I’d rather Walked didn’t call her unpleasant rant poetry, but the bar for poetry isn’t that high. I’m fond of this definition from the Encylopedia Britannica:
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    POETRY, literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.

    https://www.britannica.com/art/poetry
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    Walker is going for a specific emotional response, however repellent, via language with minor effects of meaning, sound and rhythm.

    So, sigh, a poem, if she wants to call it that.

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