Indeed. Actually – beware of all theories that contain the word “critical.” I’ve also been thinking lately that we’ve come a long way since 2008 in Obama’s program to fundamentally transform America, haven’t we? He kept it purposely vague, but … Continue reading →
Please read this thread. I doubt it would work everywhere, but it’s well worth contemplating. And it may only be possible for people with tenure, or those who have the ability to find work elsewhere. Whether it would work in … Continue reading →
People are susceptible to hucksters. And so we have a newly-popularized cult of racism masquerading as anti-racism, and one of its most bizarre examples is a book called White Fragility. Not only does it lump white people together in a … Continue reading →
Be Mayor Durkan fool, be she knave, or be she both? Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant joined a large group of protesters outside the CHOP zone who marched to [Seattle Mayor] Durkan’s house on Sunday afternoon. You mean, they didn’t … Continue reading →
Recommended, especially the first half hour or so:
Continue reading →The NY Times and the left (but I repeat myself) would have you believe that America’s founding principle of the most basic kind was slavery, and that all along slavery and racism have been the driving forces behind the US. … Continue reading →
What’s the war on statues about? It’s a case of “venting,” of course, in the emotional sense. But it’s much much more than that. The pulling down and/or defacing of statues is not some emotional spur-of-the-moment impulse, although I suppose … Continue reading →
From a speech Reverend Martin Luther King delivered at DePauw University in September of 1960: Black supremacy is as dangerous as white supremacy, and God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown men and yellow … Continue reading →
…in Madison, Wisconsin. And no one seems to have the will to stop it: In Madison, statues of Wisconsin’s motto “Forward” and of Col. Hans Christian Heg were dragged away from their spots guarding the statehouse. Heg was an anti-slavery … Continue reading →
Most people who have watched this video of one of the founders of BLM focus on the fact that she says that she and one of the other three founders of BLM are Marxists. And although that’s certainly of interest, … Continue reading →
Last night I was talking on the phone to a friend on the right (I have one or two). I mentioned something I’ve been thinking about quite a bit lately, which is that the current BLM/Antifa movement brings to mind … Continue reading →
That is, according to Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters. You can read a lot more at the link. I actually saw the accusation early on, long before Waters was spouting it. It was inevitable, was it not? Is there nothing the … Continue reading →