A self loathing white man asks his readers to partake in his own personal misery.
You hear the term “Black Lives Matter,” and it pisses you off. You think, “What about me? Doesn’t my life matter? Why do we have to say that black lives in particular matter? Makes it sound like theirs matter and mine doesn’t.” I never heard anyone say that outside the sound of loud laughter. You see a company or university going out of their way to recruit non-anglo and female candidates, and you feel overlooked, slighted. “But I have the same qualifications as they do!” You say. “Isn’t giving them that access because of their gender or race just a reversal of the kind of discrimination we’re supposed to be getting away from?”
You hear black people using the “N-word” and are put off by the fact that they can say it, but for some reason, you’re not allowed to. Allowed to? Why would I want to use a racial term? You look for scholarships for your kid and realize they don’t meet the demographic requirements for many of them, despite-passing muster academically.
There are all sorts of specialty scholarships. One of my fosterlings got a full academic scholarship because she had good grades and is half Iranian. White people can qualify for all sorts of scholarships based on religion, sex, ethnic heritage, extra-curriculars, academic interests, or writing a good essay for the Kohls department store chain, just like people who are not white. The writer clearly didn't have to scramble for college money.
You shake your head at banks who offer special loans to women- and minority-owned businesses. Your mouth hangs open in disbelief that the month of February – the whole month! – is dedicated to the celebration of black history.
You feel increasingly invisible, inconsequential, like your
You mean you're. But do go on.
on the receiving end of the kind of denials and silencing you’ve been told is bad.
Welcome to your white fragility.
Then on top of it all, you find out there’s this new term that makes you sound brittle, weak, that suggests to you that you’re not allowed to have feelings about all of this. So “those people” can complain about being disenfranchised, but I cant say anything when I feel like I’m being labeled in a way thats judgmental of how I simply feel? Wut?
You can feel however you want. That’s a fundamental human reality. You can rage, cry, gnash your teeth day and night about the shifting systems of power under your feet. ??
Just don’t expect anyone other than people who look and think exactly like you to feel sorry for you. As a responsible individual, I don't expect anyone to "feel sorry" for me because my own demons are just that: mine.
Don’t like being called fragile? try being called “faggot” or “nigger” for a few years. Try being valued principally for how you look and for your sexual appeal before your intellect or other potential. Try turning on any sports channel and struggling to find anyone who looks like you playing, or opening your history book and feeling like you’re an outlier in a foreign territory. "Those people" call each other by those names. As a personal matter, I don't. You don't get to play two sides of the same argument, no matter how badly you want to press this one.
Don’t like the sound of “black lives matter”? Try being systematically profiled, pulled out of your car or home, incarcerated and beaten because you fit a demographic that people in power believe inherently adds suspicion to anything you do. I'll pass, thanyouverymuch. Besides, you're trying to make it sound as though people are being incarcerated for no reason. There's a reason, but using the printed word you want your readers to believe a Big Lie, the only one that can bolster this pathetic excuse for an opinion piece.
Try being denied heath car or access to a loved one in a hospital. heath car??
The copy editor should be boiled in oil. Seeing so many errors in this text is physically painful.
Or being told you can’t speak or do any number of other jobs, simply because of the sexual organs you were born with. Huh??
Try being told you’d be better suited to do pick up some sort of trade, rather than pursuing your dream of becoming a lawyer. Yes, in a nation which has more lawyers than the rest of the planet combined, become a lawyer. Pursue those ambulances, I mean dreams.
Your world is changing, white people. And there will be times when you feel like you’re being treated unfairly. Sometimes, you’re right, too. I read a story about a white man involved in a car accident with a black woman in Chicago recently, who ended up being beaten by a group of nearby men for being “one of those white boy Trump supporters.” This is wrong, it should be called out as such, and the consequences should fit the crime. How good of you to admit that that was a crime. Yes, some of it may actually be a swing too far for a bit, but bear in mind that, aside from the immediate effects you may see, there are invisible (to you at least) systems at work that have held people back, telling them they can’t ensuring that cycles of suppression, oppression and marginalization perpetuate the myth that, somehow poverty and laziness are cousins, or the insane fallacy that you are a self-made man.
So go have your tantrum. Scream at the wall and shake your fists in the air. Then get on with your life. Be open to the possibility that your world has, in actuality, been revolving around you as the axis for a long, long time. I know of no white person who believes that. I know a lot of kommies who do, however.
What’s more, the fact that this axis is shifting actually will be a good thing for all of us in the long term. It will be different. It may feel scary and uncertain. But just as black lives matter, so do black ideas, inventions, leadership and voices. Just as queer voices do, and women’s voices, those with different ability, identity and ethnicity. If those ethnicities and social ideas matter in a technical setting, we are in deep, deep trouble.
If you let them, they might even make your life a little bit richer, opening up new opportunities and perspectives your anglo-centric imagination couldn’t grasp on its own. Unlikely
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Actually, he's perfectly logical.
(a) "Black" people been given a lot of advantages, so they can achieve parity with "white" people.
(b) "Black" people did not achieve parity with "white" people. (Actually, they're worse off than they used to be)
Three possible explanations.
(1) The advantages given are actually counter-productive.
(2) Black people intrinsically different from white people.
(3) White people, unconsciously, sabotage black people.
Since (1) and/or (2) are totally unacceptable to the author ...
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the insane fallacy that you are a self-made man
Aw, Jeez, are we back to that "you didn't build that" crap again?
So 2011.......
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(2) Black people intrinsically different from white people.
The Piripukura, Gaviao, Mattis, and Awa of the Amazon regions would probably have a difficult time if relocated to the hunting and fishing grounds and communities of the Aleuts, Yuit, Tingit, and Haida.
I know this sounds racist and non-inclusive, but perhaps, just fok'n perhaps, it was meant to be this way.
What intervention could have possibly taken place to disrupt what, from all appearances, appears to be....the original plan ?
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My whiteness and average stature and size seems to have hurt me only when I wanted to be an NBA or NFL player and possibly when dealing with government bureaucrats.
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You can feel however you want. That’s a fundamental human reality. You can rage, cry, gnash your teeth day and night about the shifting systems of power under your feet.
Or you can go out and vote has the largest and newest 'special interest' group in the nation. Then watch all the grievance mongers do exactly the same thing. A republic or democracy is different from other forms of government in that its the interests of the overwhelming majority that it represents. The Left has no interest in that form of government.
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"You hear the term “Black Lives Matter,” and it pisses you off. You think," ... only when a cop is involved because looking at black-on-black crime statistics show that the term is a sham.
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If you let them, they might even make your life a little bit richer, opening up new opportunities and perspectives your anglo-centric imagination couldn’t grasp on its own.
Uh... that's a really weird thing to say. My "anglo-centric" imagination grasps all sorts of things. Like, say, when I'm reading self-hating progressive thought speak!
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What’s more, the fact that this axis is shifting actually will be a good thing for all of us in the long term.
Historical determinism has a long history, and an even bigger corpse count. 'will be a good thing for all of us in the long term' was the mantra of the communists and probably every authoritarian regime ever.
What I find disturbing, is these people have no idea how dangerous they are.
[Reuters] A U.S. congressional panel has warned of an "alarming" rise in China's interference in Hong Kong, noting fears over the former British colony's continued role as a global financial hub.
In its annual report to Congress on Wednesday, the bipartisan U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission highlights the "chilling" abduction and detention of five booksellers based in Hong Kong as well as pressure on media and academic freedoms.
Britain handed Hong Kong back to China in 1997 under a "one country, two systems" agreement that ensures its freedoms, independent legal system and wide-ranging autonomy remain intact.
The commission, in a detailed 33-page section, urges a fresh probe from the State Department into Hong Kong's autonomy and freedoms, as well as continued congressional oversight.
"Hong Kong's traditional standing as a global financial hub has significant economic implications for the United States, as U.S. trade and investment ties with Hong Kong are substantial," the report notes.
It says the booksellers' detentions - including two foreign nationals and one who was abducted inside Hong Kong - broadened domestic fears of mainland encroachment and sparked a record turnout in September's legislative election.
"This incident has threatened the maintenance of the 'one country, two systems' framework and led some observers to question Hong Kong's status as a leading global financial hub," the report warns. Con't.
[National Review] Diane Sykes has become a clarion voice for conservative jurisprudence.
For many conservatives, including myself, the decision to vote for Trump was not an easy one. But after a long, nightmarish primary, the calculation came down to a simple binary choice: vote for Trump to stop Hillary and save the courts or vote for Hillary (or a third-party candidate or write-in) and watch the erosion of our courts continue.
In a matter of hours, conservatives went from fretting over whether Senate Republicans should have relented and confirmed Judge Merrick Garland to dusting off Trump’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees. It’s important to note the commitment made by candidate Trump. Part of the deal for many conservatives was that, in exchange for their vote, there was an expectation of strict adherence to relevant commitments.
For those of us who see the future of the courts as crucial the preservation of liberty, Trump’s list must be followed in the spirit of Justice Scalia -- read within the four corners of the document. Con't.
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Remember if its a woman, black, or gay, if they are not a Prog, then they're not a REAL woman, black or gay. They'll continue to denounce and degrade who ever is the nominee. See - Justice Thomas.
[Wash Times] Navy SEALs, the most glorified warriors in the war on Islamic terrorists, are not a political force in America, but unprecedented victories in this year’s elections have put former frogmen on a political beachhead.
Fifteen years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the first wave of former SEAL politicians has arrived. Four secured significant elected offices on Nov. 8. Colleagues promise to use the new foothold to bring more into the arena.
"The teammates I know who are running for public office are fired up to make a difference in politics," said Brandon Webb, a former SEAL who runs the network Force12 Media and news website SOFREP.
The pathfinder is Rep. Ryan K. Zinke, a Montana Republican and former member of SEAL Team 6 who served in the state Senate. He won election to the U.S. House in 2014 and was re-elected easily last week.
Before Mr. Zinke’s 2014 victory, the last Navy special warfare veteran elected was Jesse Ventura in 1998 as Minnesota governor, and before that Bob Kerrey in 1989 as a U.S. senator from Nebraska, according to a review. Con't.
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Oh dear. Really bright, really focussed, capable of quickly mastering complex data in large quantities and devising an action plan for a team to execute... OODA in the halls of Congress will be a terrifying thought to some. And it's not just SEALS -- my Congressman, who replaced John Boehner, was a Ranger.
[Liberty Alliance] The media’s attempt to destroy the presidency of Donald J Trump before it even fairly begins is purring along nicely. Last week we were told Trump didn’t really expect to win and is unprepared to serve. And this week we have been treated to the hysteria over the leaks and announcements of who may or may not end up in the President Elect’s administration and cabinet.
First and foremost are the lies that Trump’s new strategy man is a "racist, Jew-hating, white supremacist."
When the President Elect announced that he had appointed current GOP Party Chair Reince Priebus as his chief of staff, most in the media gave a collective shrug. Priebus is a member of the GOP establishment, certainly, but Trump rewarded him with this appointment because Reince really took his career in his hands by backing Trump 100 percent during the campaign despite the loud voices of the Never Trumpers in his own party who wanted to put Hillary in the White House.
But it was Trump’s appointment of former Breitbart News chief Stephen K. Bannon to an important role as chief strategist that sent the media into a tizzy of lies, innuendo, and baseless accusations. Con't.
Lacks URL -- original piece? A quick google of a random paragraph does not reveal a source.
Last week the entire world woke up to the rude shock that the United States had elected a newbie. The angered electorate had picked the unlikely candidate. The mainstream media and alternative media, whether print, online, TV, local and international were all awash with news, photos and videos of Hillary Clinton supporters weeping uncontrollably, while supporters of Donald Trump were seen mostly in an ecstatic state, relishing their victory. They could hardly be consoled. An "evil" appeared to have been done. A prank had just been played. It was a truly pathetic scene. The reason was obvious: there was a new sheriff in town, and it was none other than Donald J. Trump! The irony is that the overly partisan mainstream media was entirely to blame for this.
Trump, who had defeated all the Republican candidates to make it as the nominee of the Republican Party, was not going to give up so easily despite the damaging slander and calumny hauled at him by the hate-filled mainstream media. He had been accused of a plethora of things, including: racist comments, Islamophobia, offensive actions towards some women (which he denied over and over again), threat to deport illegal immigrants, threat to build a wall to restrict entry of Mexicans without proper documentation (to be funded by the Mexican government). Many of these accusations had no basis; they were simply manufactured by his opponents trying to destroy his chances of being elected. Yet Trump soared above the bad publicity targeted towards him.
Many had bet on Donald Trump losing the presidential election. The odds were against Donald Trump once he announced his intention to run for the White House in 2015. Several groups – including the Republican National Congress (RNC), the Democratic National Congress (DNC), and President Barack Obama – had completely dismissed the prospects of a Trump victory. In fact, it was so embarrassing to see several well known members of the Republican Party come out to castigate and disown him just hours before his penultimate presidential debate, yet Trump surged on, every new revelation of Clinton's corruption scandal seemed to prop Trump higher.
It became so obvious that all the major media houses had ganged up against Donald Trump. Several well-known dailies consistently published hate-filled articles and op-eds against him. Trump was never even given the chance to defend himself but Hillary Clinton always was. All sorts of spurious claims were brought against him. At some point he was accused of not publishing his tax returns, then he was falsely linked to financial deals with the current Ukrainian Junta, and was accused of being a lackey of Russia's Vladimir Putin.
One article published on September 14, 2016 that particularly exposed the double-dealings of the mainstream media was the beautiful piece written by Johannes Wahlstrom, an investigative journalist and filmmaker. The article was titled "An Obituary of The New York Times". In this article, Wahlstrom accused the New York Times of "Working with the government to suppress stories, covering up election fraud in the ruling party and ruthlessly campaigning against the main US opposition leader". He further noted that, "The New York Times has sentenced itself to wither away into irrelevance. Remembered only in history books as a relic of the Cold War, much like its sister newspaper Pravda of the Soviet Union. The New York Times R.I.P."
Wahlstrom's analysis was right. Many media agencies including CNN, BBC, Huffington Post, Washington Post to mention a few had particularly taken this ignominious route of defamation.
Another troubling fact was that people got to hear about the daily Wikileaks bombshell revelations of Clinton's DNC scandal from foreign media (Russia Today), alternate media and Trump's debates and speeches only. As far as the mainstream media was concerned these new scandalous revelations, which Trump used to his utmost advantage, were nonexistent. Things got so bad that the US Department of State even arm-twisted the Ecuadorian Embassy officials to temporarily unplug Julian Assange's internet connection, hoping it would serve to deter Wikileaks from further revelations. Fortunately, Assange had made alternative plans to keep publishing from a different location.
Then again, in October, CNN was nabbed allegedly rigging its own polls to claim Clinton won one of the debates. The Democrats had done this by oversampling. These fake polls contradicted by consensus that Trump won big at the same debate.
It's pitiful that the press had worked so hard to misinform their audience in a bid to defame Donald Trump. They became so obsessed and consumed with attacking him rather than reporting objectively about the growing numbers in support of Trump. Lately, The New York Times public editor has criticized the paper for Its "dishonesty". I expect other news houses that spent all their time confusing their readers to send apologies for this crime.
Trump's victory should be used as case study in many schools of political science across the world. It is truly amazing how he won with only about a tenth of Hillary Clinton's campaign donations. Trump has simply sailed to the Oval Office on the back of speaking out and not appealing to political correctness. He came through as a man who simply spoke the truth about what he saw rather than be blinkered. He called things by their names, addressed issues that were personally affecting a good deal of Americans, specifically the working class. The shameful mainstream media must learn from Donald Trump. His boldness in the face of these pathetic accusations won him the price. I hope CNN, New York Times, the Washington Post and the rest of the lying ‘presstitutes' learn from this fatal error.
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As long as politics and media are co mingled no fair objectivity will occur. Vietnam body counts and Woodward Bernstein deal with the Democrats are too good to pass up. Then you have Medicare programs where politicians have insider information. Windmills,solar power, I believe you will find politicians. Next self driving vehicles. Government could really control you. Permits, drive approvals, what days. Is your trip environmentally friendly.
[The Federalist] The movement’s philosophy qualifies it as a popular delusion similar to the multiple-personality craze, and the ’satanic ritual abuse’ and ’recovered memory’ hysterias of the 1980s and 90s.
Consider the remarkable phenomenon of transgenderism. A disorder of gender identity that afflicts a minuscule number of Americans has become a polarizing cultural cause celebre. Its influence--in capturing public attention and demanding social change--has been extraordinary, out of all proportion to the numbers of the gender-dissatisfied.
While the political left has fully embraced the transgender agenda as a "civil right" opposed by only the bigoted and hateful, many people see the movement as a concerted attack on traditional social mores and customs, an "in your face" assault on conventional standards, practices, and morality.
Clearly, the transgender phenomenon is the tip of the spear of the LGBT movement, greatly energized by the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage that includes in the definition of liberty the right of people to "define and express their identity." For the LGBT movement this literally includes the right to decide one’s gender, to claim the rights of an alternative gender (since gender is malleable, there are choices other than simply male or female), have the choice acknowledged by society as a civil right, and ultimately become accepted as a conventional lifestyle.
However, transgenderism as a normative lifestyle may be a hard sell. While fair-minded people can agree that gays or people with gender confusion should not be discriminated against, the general public doesn’t appear to be ready to accept gender as simply a social construct or that people can be whatever gender they choose. These contentions, the conceptual foundation of transgenderism, fly in the face of reality: the biological difference between the sexes. Con't.
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The very definition of Delusional is an individual who cannot or will not intellectually or emotionally reconcile themselves to physical reality. More simply what's actually happening trumps your feels.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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(2) Black people intrinsically different from white people.
[Reuters] A U.S. congressional panel has warned of an "alarming" rise in China's interference in Hong Kong, noting fears over the former British colony's continued role as a global financial hub.
[National Review] Diane Sykes has become a clarion voice for conservative jurisprudence.
