I ♥ the Hodge twins
They’re not just funny, although they’re that. They also have a succinct way of stating common sense, a quality which is all too rare these days:
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Seattle dispatchers, police, and violence: does anyone have statistics on this?
At a City Council meeting in Seattle recently: The types of 911 calls that Seattle police respond to most are reported disturbances, suspicious circumstances, parking issues, public assistance needs and car crashes, accounting for 41% of all calls. Those are … Continue reading →
Coleman Hughes on Black Lives Matter – and the election
The following is a great video – until the end, when he says he plans to vote for Biden (34:35): How can Hughes say he will vote for Biden after spending about a half hour arguing against the premises of … Continue reading →
Dealing with the NYC public school system: “white adjacent”
One of the benefits of YouTube is that it enables us to hear reasonable people talking reasonably about a host of topics that are usually discussed in a manner so unreasonable as to conjure up associations with the world in … Continue reading →
“Kafkatrap” is the new name for ye olde double bind
A double bind is a social science term for “heads I win, tails you lose.” It goes like this: A double bind is a dilemma in communication in which an individual (or group) receives two or more conflicting messages, with … Continue reading →
Good critique of the anti-racism (White Fragility and others) cult
If someone in your life is pressuring you to be schooled in the white privilege anti-racism (“it’s not enough to not be racist, you must be anti-racist”) cult, you might want to take a look at these. Short and to … Continue reading →
A documentary on the cult of anti-racism in academia: Evergreen
I covered some of the events that took place at Evergreen College in 2017, a situation that catapulted Bret Weinstein into minor celebrity for the brave stand he took there. But although I thought I knew a lot about it, … Continue reading →
Critical race theory is a victimization cult
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 →
Advice for those in academia
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 →
White Fragility
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 →
Mayor Durkan of Seattle is surprised when the crocodile comes up to her door, opens its mouth, and shows its teeth
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 →
Glenn Loury on how we’re being swept along by hysteria about racism in America
Recommended, especially the first half hour or so:
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