The Quality of Reasoning From a Highly Prominent Expert in Anti-Racism AKA, A Race Grifter

Where are all these “obviously racist people” *not* in denial?

Trump? who says he’s “the least racist person.”

Slaveholders? who imagined slavery as good for Black people.

Segregationists? who imagined up separate but equal.

Domestic terrorists? claiming they’re “not racist.” https://t.co/aKlMymAD8V

— Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) March 7, 2021

Trump? who says he’s “the least racist person. Trump was accused of racism, a lot. I don't recall a single instance where this was backed up by any evidence. 

Slaveholders? who imagined slavery as good for Black people. Some slaveholders did imagine slavery as good for Black people, but the only reasonable way to interpret this is that they felt superior to Black people, which is more-or-less the definition of racism. 

Segregationists? who imagined up separate but equal. They may have been deluding themselves that separate can ever be equal. But no people have ever wanted to keep superior people away. So again, they are not denying racism. 

Domestic terrorists? claiming they’re “not racist. Domestic terrorism has been done for a ton of non-racist reasons: Anti Vietnam, anti free trade, for conservation, for animal rights, etc.

Alternate McSweeny's Titles, Part 9

 

I’M ALways opposed to book banning, except for books I don't like and when the banning is done by huge corporations instead of by pitchfork weilding mobs.

by REBECCA SALTZMAN

Do I Need a Spacer Post Between Twitter Embeds? OR How It's Made: Ancient India Edition

 Yes, No

Neither, it doesn't help:  The two Twitter embeds are superimposing, even though they are in different posts.

It looks as if I put some text before the embed, it doesn't somehow overlap with the previous post.

Simon Kuestenmacher

@simongerman600

·

Feb 5, 2021

Adam’s Bridge connected India and Sri Lanka before 1480. I had no idea. I suspect if such a geographical feature was located in the US they would've built a huge bridge across it. Just because they can... Source: https://buff.ly/2YNuZnK

David Pecchia

@dpecchia

The Ramayana, describes how the bridge was built. Something like this:

2:18 PM · Feb 5, 2021

No! Not Dr. Seuss!

David Pecchia

@dpecchia

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2h

How can we cancel Dr. Seuss when he was so recently blessed by Saint Barack?

Obama: Everything You Need to Know About Politics You Can Learn From Dr. Seuss

No matter the venue, Sneetches always think they should be in charge.

washingtonmonthly.com

How To Cherry Pick

It took President Biden only 34 days in office to rack-up 100,000 Covid-19 deaths.  Former President Trump took 3 years and 122 days to achieve the same number of deaths.

Totally unfair?  Yeah, obviously.

But what do you want to bet that some form of this headline would have appeared if a Republican president was 34 days into their term and just replaced a Democrat.

Alternate McSweeny's Titles Part Ocho.

 

can someone explain to me why Ted cruz 

is more interested in keeping 

his wife and children happy 

than he is in winning over me, 

a guy who doesn't live in 

texas and will never vote 

republican

by SCOTT BOLOHAN

Luckily The Congressional Democrats Are Not A Brainy Bunch

 You know what would have been really smart?

When the House Democrats impeached Trump, they should have announced that they will only send the impeachment to the Senate if Trump remains in office beyond January 20th.

That way, they could turn his peaceful relinquishment of power into an act of cowardice.  It would have been a total PR win for them.  Sure, they'll try to spin his acquittal into a loss.  But a loss is a loss and they missed their chance.

Cancel Culture Doesn't Exist--Also, If You Speak-Out Against Cancel Culture, You Will Be Cancelled

Gina Carano ought to be the sort of actress that our betters push forward as a role-model. 

In a world where it's controversial for a straight man to play a homosexual character (It's called acting!) why is it that waif-like actresses are regularly starring in roles where they fight beefy-looking men by the bushel and always come out on top and nobody says, "Why don't they cast a woman who could, you know, realistically be able to do that?

Ms. Carano is and looks like the kind of woman who has the size, strength and training to play these roles--without total suspension of disbelief.

But then what happened?  She pointed out the well-documented and apparently not taught anymore, details of how the NAZIs carried out the Holocaust.  The first steps were propaganda campaigns which portrayed Jews as sub-human, devious, etc. This paved the way for discriminatory laws and ultimately, to genocide.

Here is what she wrote:

“Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors…even by children. Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views,”

The parallel is not exact when it comes to political beliefs v. an ethno religious group, but neither is it far-fetched.  People can change their religion as well as their politics, but generally they remain in whatever group they came from.

I can already hear the retort:  But they believe hateful things!  We will have to agree to disagree on that. For myself, I'm a lot more threatened by the many prominent members of society who seem sober and yet propose things like "deprogramming", "re-education" and 
"truth commissions" for half the country.  Meanwhile, conservatives propose being left alone, letting us keep more of our earnings and allowing us to keep and bear the means of self-defense.

Added:  My admiration for Ms. Carano being cast into The Mandelorian role was prior to me having any knowledge of her politics.  My assumption, things being as they are, is that unless otherwise ruled-out; I always think every actor is a leftist. 

Is "Only" In There Or Not?

I think we can all agree that black lives matter.  Of course they do, all lives matter and blacks are a subset of all, so it's just mathematics.

Wait!  You can't say "all lives matter".

Why not, it is after all true.  Right? 

Sure, it's true, but when you say it, it's harmful because:---"Reasons" given that require many dubious assumptions...

So, I can't say something which we all agree is true, because it will hurt the feelings of people who are making outlandish assumptions about my motives?  It seems to me as if I am being expected to accept being a second-class citizen.  

The level of aggression given for why you can't say "all lives matter"  convinces me that there is an invisible "only" in front of "black lives matter".

Much like The Emperor's New Clothes , some of us can see it and (well everyone sees it) but some people know it's there but feel as if it's wrong to point it out.

Alternate McSweeny's Articles, Part 7

 

I BELIEVE WE CAN HEAL OUR PARTISAN DIVIDE IF YOU JUST give in and ADMIT that things i think are reaL are not batshit crazy

by DORIAN FOX

Hidden Treasure, Hidden Knowledge

 

I discovered, quite by accident, that McDonald's double cheeseburgers ($2/ea, recently 2 for $3) microwave really well.  How well is really well?  They are exactly like when you first buy them fresh from the store.

You can find 4 of these little beauties in our cheese drawer.  If you happen to want one, put it in the microwave for 30 seconds on each side.  And leave it in the wrapper while you do this.

Alternative McSweeny's Titles Part 6

 I never liked MEDICARE, but I was forced to pay into it my entire working life. I suddenly have to be a socialist to enroll?

by SUSIE AQUILINA

Alternate McSweeny's Articles, Part 5

 

I AM A dissapointed BIDEN VOTER WHO WAS TOLD by the legacy media that HE’d never do all the things he promised he'd do and here he is on day 1 keeping his promises!

WTF, MSM?

by CHANDLER DEAN

1619 And The Arrow of Time

 The idea behind the 1619 Project, is that the "real" founding of the United States was in 1619, when the first slave was brought here.

The problem is that the United States didn't exist until 1776.  We were part of the British Empire and did not rule our own affairs.  Whatever happened 157 years before our founding, has no bearing on what we created in 1776.

But, what if 1776 was itself about slavery?  Like, if the British were about to outlaw it and so we were motivated to be independent because of this, undesirable change.  The British outlawed slavery in 1833.

So we founded a new nation to protect slavery, 57 years before our masters outlawed it?  That is some real thinking ahead, or the 1619 Project is complete bullshit.

L'enfer, c'est les autres

 Sartre:  Hell is other people.

Americans:  Hell is other Americans.

Most Americans believe the biggest threat to America's way of life is other people in the country and domestic enemies

Inauguration Day Markers:

As of today, Worldometer has US Covid deaths at 415,038 and the Bloomberg vaccine tracker says that 35,990,150 vaccine doses have been distributed to the states.

Let's check back every so often and see how it goes from here.

The 7-day average as of the 20th is 912k and the 20th itself had 1.6 million administered.

UPDATE June 2nd

1.5 Million doses administered June  1st

610,438 Deaths

Alternative McSweeny's Titles, part 4

 

A CONSERVATIVE’S GUIDE TO packing for your trip 

to the gulag

by SARAH HUTTO

Piano Sheet Music

I never really learned to play the piano, but I could pick-out a tune if I had music and piano available.  What I just realized, and maybe will try, should I ever have music and a piano, is to turn the sheet music on its side.

The problem with sheet music is that higher and lower notes are arranged along a vertical line, but the keyboard runs horizontally left to right. It seems as if it would be easier if what you saw mapped to the finger positions. You'd have to read the music top to bottom instead of left to right, but I don't think that's a challenge.

An additional advantage would be that the bass cleft would be on the left and the treble on the right, just like the hands which play them.