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.Where are all these “obviously racist people” *not* in denial?
— Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) March 7, 2021
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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