Accidentally killing an entire family in Afghanistan: small story.
Swinging horse reins at a Haitian guy illegally entering the country: huge story.
Why?
Probably THE academic responsible for the narrative that "systemic racism" infests US police departments just got fired for "incompetence" and falsifying most of his data.
No further comment.
When I rented, my landlord made less money than I did.
The idea that you have a right to live on a small businessman's lands for 18 months without paying him is insane.
As a Black guy from the hood, I have never had 1 friend or acquaintance killed by a "white supremacist." In contrast, I've lost 5+ each to POC gang violence, hard drugs (this across all races), and war.
#RIP
Real numbers, not trendy fantasies, should shape our priorities.
We don't need to "institutionally dismantle" a system that kills <100 unarmed people per year across 35,000,000 encounters, only 15-18 of them Black.
We need to lock up individual crooked cops. That's literally it.
Fatherlessness is the biggest and most under-discussed problem in the USA.
The out-of-wedlock birth rate in the USA is 72% for Blacks, 66% for Natives, 55% for Hispanics (including Caucasian Hispanics), and almost 40% for whites. This seems unprecedented in human history.
A trans woman is a biological male who thinks they are a woman.
The only real moral and legal question here is the extent to which the rest of society is required to affirm this belief.
If all white people are responsible for slavery, all Black people are responsible for Black crime. It simply can't be true that one of these theses is true but not the other.
In reality, of course, neither is.
Rachel Levine: “Black Americans are more likely than white Americans to live in areas or housing that increase their susceptibility to climate related health issues.”
The re-branding of Israel's justified response to the rape-murder of 1200-1400 civilians as "the genocide in Gaza" truly is one of the most astonishing, insane things I have ever seen.
You are not imagining this.
Venezuela just hit an 80% rate of poverty, the first (?) time this has happened - as a fall from a higher starting base - in the modern world.
The true lesson of socialism is that "equality" is most easily achieved by making everyone fail.
The "don't say gay" bill...literally doesn't say gay. It prohibits teacher-initiated instruction about sexual intercourse, sexual orientation, or gender theory for kids under 3rd (?) grade.
Most controversy here is, as usual, the result of direct and open lying.
The famous claim that a home increased in value by $100Ks after a white "front couple" pitched it instead of a Black family was apparently b/s - the 2nd pitch took place 7 moths later, involved new appraisers, and followed a 30% upswing in the market...
Entertainingly - while this dude was a pretty good engineer at one point - his actual job is neither of these.
He is currently a "Chief Inclusion Officer."
Just boarded an early morning flight wearing my
@MIT
gear. A seat mate looked at me and asked, “Basketball?” I said, “No. Engineering!” What about me prompted him to think I was playing or coaching basketball? 🤔
So, after ~a billion man-hours were wasted on this debate, the
#MLB
All-Star game moved from a 51% Black city to a 9% Black city- also in a state which requires voter ID and has "just" 2 weeks of early voting?
We all oppose real racism, but this is what "useless wokeness" means.
Serious question: do people really not KNOW that Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos are also billionaires - or is the open hypocrisy really just this blatant?
From an empirical, non-woke perspective, the "Kill TERFs" movement is pretty astonishing.
It's a bunch of biological males, threatening to brutalize biological females, for saying that female sex is real.
For all their flaws, Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln strike me as significantly better national heroes than Jacob Blake, George Floyd, and Joseph Rosenbaum.
I actually checked this one out: both parents tested positive for meth and fenty, and the kids told caseworkers they were being taken along on drug deals.
The initial "tragic hero" story in US media, especially on the left, is ~never true.
A Black family from Georgia was pulled over in rural Tennessee for driving with 'dark tint and traveling in the left lane while not actively passing'
Within hours, they had lost custody all five of their children, including a nursing baby
via
@TNLookout
The level of dishonesty around this topic is amazing.
There have been 6-7 mass shootings so far this year. The most prominent shooter was a left-wing trans manifesto writer. Two shooters were Asian. One was Black. One was an illegal immigrant. None were particularly right-wing.
There have been over 160 mass shootings in the US SO FAR this year. Almost all involved deranged right wingers. ALL involved guns. ONE involved a Mexican national. So, sure, let’s freak out about the border.
One of the greatest conspiracy theories of all time is that hidden racism pervades our entire society - predicting every single life outcome for Blacks and Hispanics while being so subtle you need a professional Sociologist to see it...and not affecting Asians, Nigerians, or…
Glenn Youngkin asked a pretty obvious question: "If critical theory/critical race theory isn't taught in the schools, what's the objection to my banning it?"
If you can look at the situation in Palestine and not be on the side of Palestinians, then you are on the wrong side of apartheid and history will show that in time
What's happening in Gaza is actually extremely simple. A literal, internationally recognized terrorist group runs a small country. After launching a war via one of the sickest attacks in recent memory, the leadership and fighters of this terrorist group refused to surrender.…
Hamas started a dumb war and lost.
Leftists are cheering for these incompetent terrorist rubes because they hate this society and will cheer for literally any opponent (see: USSR, Taliban, Venezuela).
A lot of shit is not that complicated.
I'll probably catch some fire for this, but: where was this dude's family before?
They're clearly stable - multiple members know how to book media, hire expensive lawyers, etc. The poor guy's been living in an mf Safeway box for what...10 years?
The idea that there is an epidemic of ongoing violence between Black and white Americans - especially one driven by attacks from the WHITE side - is one of the most extraordinary examples I have ever seen of a mass public hysteria driven by no empirical data whatsoever.
This is one of the more interesting narrative collapses I've seen.
The 200 body-sized "mass grave" at a former Native Residential School was detected by LIDAR-style techniques that likely just found tree roots. "Zero" actual bodies have been unearthed...
I don't mean to keep harping on this, but violent inter-racial crime involving Blacks and whites is like 3% of serious crime...and it's 80% Black-on-white.
Selective, biased media coverage is the ONLY reason you did not know this.
It's worth noting the obvious. To truly believe that "SLAVES built this country," you would have to believe that ~10% of the population of the USA...concentrated in the poorest region of the country...only until 1865...was wholly responsible for American national development.
The pro-Hamas argument, in a different context, would be that the USA should have stopped seeking revenge for Pearl Harbor after killing 2,400 Japanese people.
In reality, if you start a war - which is what a casus belli or a declaration of war...DOES - the other side fights you…
Actual racism has declined 80-90% since the 1960s, but the level of media/activist focus on this problem has remained stable or even increased, largely for economic reasons.
One of the wildest stories of all time is that the UK media and police covered up the sexual abuse of something like 15,000 girls because they thought reporting on the demographics of the rapists would be un-PC.
@NeYoCompound
Look at the comments, dawg.
You're a legendary R&B singer with a 70% female audience. Who do you think objects to what you said, in the real world?
There is no purely medical explanation for why the percentage of high school kids who ID as transgender has increased 20,000% (.01% to 2%) over the past two decades or so.
I really don't get oversights like this. We actually had a female four-star Admiral, who was a "person of color," and commanded warships.
Except for her/our group's slide down the Progressive Stack, why so few shout-outs HERE?
The "stripped down" prisoners in Palestine are, in reality, ~all fighting age men associated with Hamas - most of whom surrendered after escaping flooded terror tunnels or being captured in cities in an active war zone.
Partial disrobing - which also, I mean, happens in jail -…
San Francisco Board of Supervisors Rep.
@HillaryRonen
Begs for More Police After She Personally Worked to Defund Them in 2020
2020: “I believe strongly in defunding the police”
2023: “We’ve been begging for more officers”
While no prude, I think that allowing people to have public anal sex and worship demons inside your government buildings is a sign of societal decline.
#hawt_take
From a theoretical perspective, it is very difficult to coherently explain how 7-8 of the ten richest groups in an "institutionally racist" society are non-white.
Let's be real: the hyper-partisan New York DA indicting an out-of-district former President for a 2016 potential misdemeanor is some 3rd world, banana republic shit.
The 1619 project may be the first example of a country telling kids a "noble lie" about history that is WORSE - not better - than the reality. The USA did have slaves, but we did NOT fight the Revolution to keep them, or get rich only because of them, or hold them for 400 years.
Nicole Hannah-Jones calling Thomas Sowell an unserious scholar and writer is really just a one-sentence summary of where we are right now as a society.
President Camacho looms.
#debate_him
Whatever your take on Chauvin's guilt, the extent to which a nation of 350,000,000 people went into hysterics because a drug addict who happened to be Black died/was killed during an arrest was completely insane.
Counting the surge in murders, perhaps 10,000 people died as a…
Just to be clear: to the extent the U.S. government is encouraging Spotify or any other platform to modify its content to be more pro-Biden, pro-vaxx, woke, etc....that's a pretty classic challenge to the 1st Amendment.
I am again reminding you that Hamas started the war, by gang-raping x murdering 1,400 people (and beheading babies), and the bog-standard military response is not a "genocide."
NYC Mayor Eric Adams signed an order to restrict buses from Texas.
So now Texas is dropping the illegals off in New Jersey right next to a train that goes straight to New York City.
This happened almost a decade ago, and mainstream academia apparently- and rather literally - did everything but assassinate bro to prevent this knowledge from spreading.