2020-05-25 George Floydin kuolema Minneapolisissa ja BLM-protestit ympäri maailmaa

[Paawo]

^+^^Järkevää ei ole mistään järjestymiskuvioihin liittyen mistään aikeista ainakaan tämänkaltaisella laajasti seuratulla avoimella nettifoorumeilla ylipäätään huudella tai kohta ulvotaan jokapuolella PS lähellä_huseeraavan_järjestön^TM uhkaavista_suunnitelmista^TM ja riittää näissä uhkaavissa kirjoitteluissa taas politiikan toimittelijoilla analyyseihin aineista monet vaalit eteenpäin. 

Muita tapoja täytyy vakavissaan miettiä ja toisaalta en jaksa minuakin ympäröivien pottunokkien intoa kaikenlaisten yhdistysten perustamisiin ylipäätään ymmärtää.  Kaikenlainen rekisteröitynyt yhdistystoiminta on turhan helppo tapa ylimääräistä pätemisen tarvetta kantavalle porukalle päästä jankkaamaan oikeita mielipiteitään kuuluville ja toisaalta täysin laillinen alusta melkein kaikenlaiselle kusettamiselle.

Niinkuin yhtiömuotoisessakin toiminnassa pitää "uhkaavan järjestön" ydintoiminta pienen luotettavan joukon käsissä ja rakentaa eri sidosryhmien kanssa joko koordinoidusti tai itsenäisesti toimiva verkosto ympärilleen. Liikkeen toiminta-ajatus huomioiden kaikki julkisuus on pahasta koska kaikki julkisuus painottuu tällä hetkellä vastapuolen hyväksi.

[nochWunder]

^+^^Järkevää ei ole mistään järjestymiskuvioihin liittyen mistään aikeista ainakaan tämänkaltaisella laajasti seuratulla avoimella nettifoorumeilla ylipäätään huudella tai kohta ulvotaan jokapuolella PS lähellä_huseeraavan_järjestön^TM uhkaavista_suunnitelmista^TM ja riittää näissä uhkaavissa kirjoitteluissa taas politiikan toimittelijoilla analyyseihin aineista monet vaalit eteenpäin. 

Muita tapoja täytyy vakavissaan miettiä ja toisaalta en jaksa minuakin ympäröivien pottunokkien intoa kaikenlaisten yhdistysten perustamisiin ylipäätään ymmärtää.  Kaikenlainen rekisteröitynyt yhdistystoiminta on turhan helppo tapa ylimääräistä pätemisen tarvetta kantavalle porukalle päästä jankkaamaan oikeita mielipiteitään kuuluville ja toisaalta täysin laillinen alusta melkein kaikenlaiselle kusettamiselle.

Niinkuin yhtiömuotoisessakin toiminnassa pitää "uhkaavan järjestön" ydintoiminta pienen luotettavan joukon käsissä ja rakentaa eri sidosryhmien kanssa joko koordinoidusti tai itsenäisesti toimiva verkosto ympärilleen. Liikkeen toiminta-ajatus huomioiden kaikki julkisuus on pahasta koska kaikki julkisuus painottuu tällä hetkellä vastapuolen hyväksi.

Niin... kun nyt katsoo USA:n menoa, niin asiat tapahtuvat tosi nopeasti. Siinä vaiheessa kun liikkeitä ryöstetään ja taloja poltetaan anarkomarkojen toimesta on vähän liian myöhäistä alkaa verkostoitumaan. "Voi hitto, ai tämä tapahtuukin oikeasti... voi hitsi, eihän mulla ole edes mitään kättä pidempää. Voikohan naapuriin luottaa."

Koskaan ei tiedä kuinka monet vaalit vielä on edessä. Se tässä on ongelma. Kuinka paljon on aikaa? Kehen voi luottaa, kun asiat alkaa todella mennä pahaksi.

Haluan muistuttaa, että juutalaiset oli juuri näin tumput suorana ja juuri siksi heistä niin moni kuoli toisessa maailmansodassa. He luottivat viimeiseen saakka, että ei tässä nyt niin pahasti voi käydä. Fiksuimmat haistoivat tilanteen ja lähtivät maanpakoon.

Me valkoiset heteromiehet ja kaikki meihin tukeutuvat ja meitä tukevat ollaan nyt niitä juutalaisia. Seuraavan sodan tappolistalla. Tämän on voinut ennustaa jo pitkään feminismin ja radikaalin islamin luonteesta ja suhteesta.


Minä olen vain yksinäinen susi ja ianainainen vastarannan kiiski, te joilla on kyky verkostoitua tehkää se ennen kuin on liian myöhäistä. Se ei tarkoita mitään muuta kuin sitä, että hädän tullen ystävät löytyvät nopeasti. Se jo yksinään riittää pitkälle.  Tiedostakaa se, että jos anarkomarkot saavat vallankumouksensa, giljotiini laulaa ja sen ruokaa olemme me. He haluavat sitä ihan oikeasti!

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Taas yksi rauhanomaisten mielenosoitusten yö...

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Puhumattakaan nyt Vallin mainitsemasta kahden poliisin ampumisesta. Homman säännöt estää jälleen kertomasta, mitä omasta mielestäni noille riehuville, järjestäytyneen yhteiskunnan tuhoamista tavoitteleville paskapäille pitäisi tehdä.

Tämä toi kuitenkin hymyn huulille...

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Edit. Lisätään vielä pari, liittyen vähän alla olevaan Mr.Reesen vastaukseen.

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[Mr.Reese]

Jos ei täältä lue, niin olettaisi, että burn loot murderit kuivui kasaan, kun valemediat ei niistä mitään enää uutisoi.

[Paawo]

Minä olen vain yksinäinen susi ja ianainainen vastarannan kiiski, te joilla on kyky verkostoitua tehkää se ennen kuin on liian myöhäistä. Se ei tarkoita mitään muuta kuin sitä, että hädän tullen ystävät löytyvät nopeasti. Se jo yksinään riittää pitkälle.  Tiedostakaa se, että jos anarkomarkot saavat vallankumouksensa, giljotiini laulaa ja sen ruokaa olemme me. He haluavat sitä ihan oikeasti!

Minä olen myös yksinäinen susi ja se on tähän asti ollut pelkästään edukseni. Osallistun kyllä kaikenlaiseen toimintaan ja teen palveluksia hyviksi listaamilleni ihmisille. Jos joku kokee porukoitumisen hyväksi niin fine ja on ihan tosi että vastarintaan on myöhäistä nousta enää kun väkivalta on tässä. Mutta kysymys tässä on lähinnä siitä että kuinka julkisena halutaan uhkaava järjestäytyminen pitää.
PVL:n järjestötoiminnan torppaaminen ei lopeta PVL:n toimintaa, tämä lienee kaikille jopa valtaosalle poliisihallituksen klemmarinkääntäjistäkin täysin selvää.

Amerikankommarien+-kuukerien hihhulointia seuratessa pitää muistaa että Suomesta vielä joitakin vuosia puuttuu n.20% etnisesti yhtenevä väestönosa joka on verrattain helppo kiihottaa "tekemään ja osallistumaan" osaamallaan tavalla, samoin ei ihan vielä ole vihervasemmisto onnistunut masinoimaan eri kansanosien välille jenkkilän maakuntakaupunkien tapaista vastakkainaseteltavien ja asetelmaa komppaavien joukkojen määrää. On totta että samaan suuntaan on Eurooppa ankarasti masinoidun joutoväestön uustuonnin myötä menossa, mutta huomioikaa nyt että kaikkien mahdollisten "rasisminvastaisten" saaminen samalle puolelle on täällä monin verroin vaikeampaa. Ruotsissa ollaan kyllä paljon lähempänä unelman^TM toteutumista, mutta kriittisen massan ylimääräinen voimavara tuntuu enemmän purkaantuvan porukan keskinäiseen nujakointiin^TM. Kaikenlaisia paikallisia kepposteluja saa täällä räyhävassarit aikaiseksi mutta jenkkityylisen wannabe-kansanmurha-agitaation tekemisessä loppuu jopa valtiolliselta agit-propilta nallekarkit kesken alkuunsa.

[ikuturso]

Tämä toi kuitenkin hymyn huulille...

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Jos tarkkaan katsot, niin poliisi taluttaa fillarin tuon tyypin pään yli. Ei aja. Katsoin, että meneepä kevyesti fillari pään yli, mutta kuski jalkautui ja talutti pyörän. No hymyilyttäähän sekin.

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[zupi]

Menee OT ja taitaa olla vanha juttu, mutta huomaako joku toinenkin tiettyjä yhteneväisyyksiä "wokeness"in ja allergian välillä? 

Allergia on elimistön immuunijärjestelmän häiriö, immunologisten mekanismien käynnistämä haitallinen yliherkkyysreaktio.[1] Allergisen reaktion aiheuttaa yleensä jokin elimistöön tullut valkuaisaine, allergeeni, jolle henkilö on herkistynyt. Allerginen reaktio voi aiheuttaa erilaisia oireita iholla, hengitysteissä ja suolistossa.

Allergian ilmenemismuodoista valtaosan muodostavat atopiaan liittyvät sairaudet. Atopialla tarkoitetaan henkilön periytyvää taipumusta herkistyä elinympäristön tavallisille allergeeneille. Herkistyminen tapahtuu yleensä lapsuudessa tai nuoruudessa.

Allerginen reaktio syntyy, kun atooppisen ihmisen immuunijärjestelmä toimii liian voimakkaasti ja epätarkoituksenmukaisesti. Kun elimistö puolustautuu harmittomia aineita vastaan tulehdusreaktiolla, ilmenee allergialle tyypillisiä sairausoireita.[4]

Allergisen reaktion aiheuttaa yleensä jokin elimistön ulkopuolelta tullut aine eli allergeeni, joka on tavallisesti jokin valkuaisaine. (...)

Allergian kehityksessä on kaksi vaihetta, herkistyminen ja allerginen reaktio. Herkistyminen on prosessi, jossa ihmisen immuunijärjestelmä kohtaa allergeenin ja alkaa sen vaarattomuudesta huolimatta tuottaa sille vasta-ainetta (IgE). Näin immuunijärjestelmään jää muistijälki allergeenista, mutta oireita ei vielä synny. Myöhemmin kun sama allergeeni kohdataan uudelleen, se kiinnittyy IgE:hen. Silloin vapautuu myrkyllisiä hiukkasia, jotka sisältävät voimakkaita ärsyttäviä kemikaaleja, kuten histamiinia ja erilaisia entsyymejä. Näiden kemikaalien tarkoitus on normaalisti tuhota elimistöön tunkeutuneet eliöt. Ne aiheuttavat elimistössä kuitenkin nyt hyödytöntä verenkierron lisääntymistä ja nesteiden poistumista pienistä verisuonista, mistä seuraa allergisia oireita, kuten kuumotusta, punoitusta, kutinaa ja turvotusta.

https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergia

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Mellakointia oli taas viime yökin, nyt näköjään BLM-väki on alkanut metsästään jo autojen kanssa niitä, ketkä eivät "seuraa määräyksiä".

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Hienosti toi "Census Cowboy" v...n kusipää vetää.

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Hienosti toi valtamedia vetää.

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Portlandissa taitaa olla taas säpinää luvassa.

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Jotain positiivistakin, on tuo kyllä aika jänskää, että tuolla tavalla joudutaan kikkailemaan, että saadaan vasuripaskat oikeuden eteen.

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Tuckerkin nosti Jake Gardnerin esiin, tuo tapaus kyllä v...ttaa aika pahasti.

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https://hommaforum.org/index.php/topic,130391.msg3223754.html#msg3223754

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Rufo käväisi The Post Millennialin haastattelussa.

https://thepostmillennial.com/chris-rufo-is-fighting-and-winning

TPM: How do you think critical race theory emerged into mainstream discourse? Going back into academia, and the arts, what kicked it off and why?

Rufo: It really didn't even enter the mainstream conversation until recently. I think it started in academia and then spread through the affiliated institutions, whether it's an HR department, or a non profit, or a K-12 education, or corporate diversity programs, bureaucracy. There's kind of a network of aligned ideological institutions that were kind of a natural pipeline for this stuff. But I don't think people were actually thinking or talking about it in a very substantive way except for a very few renegade thinkers like James Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, Helen Pluckrose. There were only a few people who have raised the alarm in the past few years. I think the network around Dave Rubin, and the IDW people were talking about this. But it didn't really elevate into the mainstream until recently and I think there's a couple reasons for that. One is that it's just achieved dominance. It's now it's the dominant ideological idea in our public institutions. The climate that's emerged under the Trump administration enabled a lot of these ideas to come into the mainstream.

Hmm, samaan tyyliin kuin 2015 läpsytulvan ja "väkivaltaisen äärioikeiston" luoma ilmapiiri on mahdollistanut tuon paskan levittämisen Suomessa?

TPM: You were talking about the IDW having brought all these ideas out, and a lot of those people were called white supremacists and racists for even questioning it. Why do you think that was?

Rufo: I think that's a cynical power play where the people on the hyper-progressive deploy these linguistic attacks, whether they're calling you a racist or a white supremacist, or a sexist, or a transphobe, there's a whole vocabulary of these terms that 99 percent of the time that they're deployed don't actually match the reality of the person they're attacking. The people of the IDW are predominantly liberals and progressives. There's no substantive basis for that kind of accusation. But they use it because it has been effective. It's essentially a social deterrent. It's a social attack that carries an enormous amount of linguistic weight. The problem is that it's been so over-used and it's been so degraded that it's almost become meaningless. I've read articles recently where they're saying that square-dancing is white supremacist, that math is white supremacist, that logic is white supremacist, and when you these words in a way that completely demolishes any semblance of meaning, they are reduced in their power. So I think we've come to a point where people will lob these accusations totally unfairly at their political opponents. But I don't think it has the same kind of bite that it did, and the same kind of impact as it did even two or three years ago.

Niin tai kuten se eräs kiinalainen aikanaan totesi, "When words lose their meaning, people lose their freedom".

TPM: Why do you think people have gone along with these ideas?

Rufo: Fear. I think they're scared. And critical race theory is constructed in a way, much like a kind of cult ideology, where if you disagree with it, if you contest the ideas of critical race theory, of the cult, it's just a proof point for your own guilt. So in critical race theory, if you say actually I disagree with this, they'll say "well that's your white fragility, or your internalized white supremacy, or your white privilege speaking." And actually your dissent is really just a sign of your own complicity in your system, and more proof that you need to have your thoughts completely reworked. I think it's been very effective frankly. They've done a good job at using social pressure and intimidation in order to bully the average person who wants to be part of a team, who doesn't want to ruffle feathers, who doesn't want to take a risk. They've preyed on the good nature of people to exploit people and essentially bully people into their cult-like ideology.

TPM: Lots of the anti-racism workshops tout the work that white people need to do to overcome white supremacy, what do you think this work entails, and do you think there is a motivation behind asking white people to do it? Does this work ever end?

Rufo: No, you just have to listen to the people who are running these things because the work never ends by definition. The kind of magical, reductive essence of whiteness can never be overcome. It can never be successfully purged from its own evil. And it is kind of a cosmological force that is a new Platonic universal. In the literature of critical race theory, it's very explicit that people who have internalized whiteness can never truly be purified of this. This is line with classical Cult 101 programming, where you convince someone of an internal flaw, or defect, you present a solution to a it both at the individual and global level, but then you always keep it slightly out of reach in order to maintain control and power. And that's exactly what the critical race theorists are doing. It's deeply cynical, it's deeply pessimistic, and it's deeply destructive to both individuals and society.

Tähän kohtaan lainaus toisesta ketjusta, Eriarvoisuuden tila Suomessa 2020 - raportin johtopäätöksistä...

Eriarvoisuutta ei pidä lähestyä pelkästään huono-osaisten aseman parantamisena, vaikka se toisinaan saattaa ollakin tehokkain keino erojen kaventamiseksi. Ei riitä, että kaikilla asiat ovat riittävän hyvin; hyvien ja huonojen asioiden on jakauduttava oikeudenmukaisesti. Tasa-arvon tavoittelulla ei ole päätepistettä, mutta sitä kohti voi jatkuvasti pyrkiä.

https://hommaforum.org/index.php/topic,3268.msg3213118.html#msg3213118

TPM: Do you think that critical race theory is being used as a driving force behind the right to riot that we're currently seeing in American cities?

Rufo: I think there's a direct line that connects critical race theory to the pernicious diversity training programs to the street riots that we've seen for the past 120 days. And I think they're all driven by the same core tenets and convictions of critical race theory: that the United State is irredeemably a racist country, that our institutions cannot be reformed but have to be overthrown, and that if we simply burn down the structures of society, some great kind of anti-racist utopia will emerge. This is false both in the premise and in the conclusion. It has no validity as an empirical argument, and I think that it's extremely dangerous because you are essentially having an intellectual class that encourages and then validates rioting—that for the most part hurts the poorest neighbourhoods in American cities, and deprives the poorest people of opportunities. So I think that you just have to listen to the speeches that are happening at these rallies and riots and protests to understand that they're the street translation of academic critical race theory. I think that the intellectuals hold the ultimate responsibility for fomenting this violence and disorder, and pushing an ideology that ends up hurting the very people that they claim to be trying to help. That's really the moral scandal of critical race theory, is that it doesn't do anything to improve conditions for racial and ethnic minorities in America's poorest neighbourhoods. In fact, in actually encourages a world view that demolishes the concept of agency, that demolishes the concept of possibility, and demolishes the possibility of hope.

[Valli]

Minneapolis. 

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This outcome was entirely predictable, and for many who live in Minneapolis, a huge relief as well. The New York Times describes the collapse of the abolish-the-police mission by the city "a case study in how idealistic calls for structural change can falter." It's better described as yet another reminder that sloganeering doesn't replace actual governance, and what happens when politicians react to activists rather than talk to their own constituents:
Over three months ago, a majority of the Minneapolis City Council pledged to defund the city's police department, making a powerful statement that reverberated across the country. It shook up Capitol Hill and the presidential race, shocked residents, delighted activists and changed the trajectory of efforts to overhaul the police during a crucial window of tumult and political opportunity.

Now some council members would like a do-over.

Councilor Andrew Johnson, one of the nine members who supported the pledge in June, said in an interview that he meant the words "in spirit," not by the letter. Another councilor, Phillipe Cunningham, said that the language in the pledge was "up for interpretation" and that even among council members soon after the promise was made, "it was very clear that most of us had interpreted that language differently." Lisa Bender, the council president, paused for 16 seconds when asked if the council's statement had led to uncertainty at a pivotal moment for the city.

"I think our pledge created confusion in the community and in our wards," she said.

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Taas yksi kirjoitus "antirasismin" järjettömyydestä, tällä kertaa enemmänkin käytännön kokemuksiin pohjautuen. Vaikea ymmärtää, miten joku voi kuvitella tuon tien päässä olevan mitään muuta kuin totalitaarinen kommunistivaltio. Kuten Kiiluvasilmäkin kovasti haluaa, tuo sama periaate kun pitää luonnollisesti ajan myötä ulottaa kaikkien eri "ryhmien" välisiin eroihin.

https://quillette.com/2020/09/29/radicalized-antiracism-on-campus-as-seen-from-the-computer-lab/

Radicalized Antiracism on Campus—as Seen from the Computer Lab

The campus battle over what I've previously called the equity agenda has recently shifted almost completely from a focus on gender to a focus on race. This has been accompanied by a series of surreal spectacles at the University of Washington in Seattle, where I teach. In the aftermath of the George Floyd protests, student activists have made new demands upon the school's administration, while scathingly denouncing anyone they perceive as dissenters.

Just consider our university president, Ana Mari Cauce—a Latina lesbian whose activist brother was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. One would imagine that she'd command a certain level of respect from even the most puritanical social-justice enthusiast. But there is little evidence of that: Student protestors have marked the campus with slogans such as "Anti Black Ana," denounced her as a "Poo Poo Pee Pee Head," and a "white woman" (a term of abuse, obviously).

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As at many other institutions in the United States, the public focus of administrators has turned to the idea of antiracism. The highest-ranking diversity officers from our three campuses sent a joint email in late May with the title "Antiracism work is all of our work." (...)

I began by reading Ibram X. Kendi's 2019 bestseller, How to Be an Antiracist, since this is the book so many people are talking about, and since my university's antiracist messaging seems consistent with Kendi's broad denunciations of American society.

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During the 23-year period covered by the available data, black students have scored, on average, about a point below whites and Asians. Scores have been going up over time for all groups, but the gap has persisted. In 1997, the gap between black students and the white/Asian average was 1.09. It has since grown to 1.26, as of 2019. All of this is publicly available information.

By Kendi's definition, AP/CS A is a racist test because it produces unequal outcomes. That makes me a racist because I regularly participate in the annual exam reading. In fact, I was the chief reader when the AP/CS A exam was introduced, which means that I decided how it should be graded and how raw scores should be converted into AP scores.

Is it possible that the course is the problem? I have been teaching a similar course for over 30 years, and have heard a litany of complaints, the most of common which can be paraphrased as follows:

- The focus on computer programming is too narrow, and will fail to motivate women and underrepresented minorities.

- Having students work individually on programming problems gives the wrong impression of computer science, and fails to expose students to the high degree of collaboration required in the field.
   
- Focusing on just programming does not allow students to explore the broad social implications of computing, including how different communities have been impacted by computers.

You might imagine that a different course, one that addressed these concerns, might help overcome the racial performance gap. But why just imagine? A group of computer-science educators has spent years trying to develop exactly such a course. The result is known as AP Computer Science Principles. In this course, programming is just one of several major topics. Other big ideas include creative development, and studying the impact of computing on society. Students work on projects in groups on topics that interest them.

Unfortunately, the results have been underwhelming. The percentage of black students taking the exam went up, but their average relative performance did not. We have just three years of exam data, but in each of those years, blacks scored, on average, a full point below the average for white and Asian students. In 2019, for instance, the scores averaged 2.3 for black students, 3.26 for white students, and 3.47 for Asian students.

The best minds in our field—and the ones eager to remedy the type of inequities that Kendi identifies—have failed to produce a course and exam that can close the performance gap. So what should we do instead? Both AP CS exams test mastery of programming skills and computer-science concepts. Students who fail to master these concepts will have difficulty creating or analyzing computer software. What is the alternative?

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Kendi might consider the elimination of tests—or, at least, this kind of test—as a win for black students, because they will no longer be collectively disadvantaged by what he sees as a racist exam. But in fact, we would be harming individual students, by denying them the opportunity to demonstrate their level of mastery. That includes the black students who receive high scores on these exams, and who can go on to pursue educational and professional opportunities on that basis.

(...) A technology magnet school in Seattle switched to a lottery system for admissions four years ago. Hundreds of colleges and universities dropped their SAT/ACT admissions requirement because of COVID-19, and are considering making the change permanent in order to address diversity concerns. Magnet schools in New York City are considering dropping their entrance exams. Several departments at my university are considering dropping the GRE as an admission requirement to graduate programs, under the same rationale.

The result will be that the competence-sorting function that once was the domain of admissions officials will now be kicked down the road to professors, who, in turn, will be pressured to maintain a racially balanced grade curve. Inevitably, employment recruiters will have to take on the sorting role, perhaps by administering the same kind of basic tests that schools are now shunning.

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Kendi insists that we look at outcomes. But his reliance on racism as the sole explanation for any disparities in those outcomes allows him to short-circuit the need for argument and proof. Most of us would agree that students who work harder generally get higher grades because the extra effort leads them to greater mastery of the material. And if it could be shown that students from some groups were spending more time, on average, than students from other groups, that would provide an alternative explanation for average differences in group performances. But according to Kendi's logic, this is all just semantics, since we would be required to assume that the differences in lecture-watching rates are, themselves, an artifact of racism.

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Many of the critics who offer this kind of criticism seem far more interested in broad ideological claims than in the data that might serve to support—or refute—their arguments. The author is correct that we do see differences across racial groups on campus. (...)

Should university officials make choices for our students? Should we force more black students to take the course—even though they don't want to? Or should we prevent non-blacks from taking the class, in order to ensure a desired arithmetic balance? (One paradox here is that the Black Student Union petition demands, among other things, an enhanced profile for African Studies. If acted upon, this demand would likely serve to disproportionately draw more talented black students away from STEM, and thereby exacerbate the problem we're supposed to be solving.)

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Clearly, when you give students the option to choose their area of focus, you'll see different outcomes for different groups. As I wrote in my Quillette essay on why women tend to code less than men, "one should never attribute to oppression that which is adequately explained by free choice." The groups that are most overrepresented in my department are Asian students (33 percent) and international students (35 percent), who mostly come from China. It's not clear how this result can be attributed to white supremacy.

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In university discussions, one increasingly hears the subject of race discussed in revolutionary, and even religious tones—with ideologues demanding that their peers declare themselves to be on the right side of history. I got a firsthand look at this in the spring of 2019, when I found myself surrounded by a mob of students while attending an "affirmative action bake sale" sponsored by the UW College Republicans. The crowd burst into laughter when I said that I don't see rampant racism on campus.

(...)

Other black authors, including Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Glenn Loury, Wilfred Reilly, John McWhorter, and Coleman Hughes, present a more traditional and hopeful narrative. They have not given up on Martin Luther King's pursuit of a colorblind meritocracy, one in which his children would be judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. They acknowledge that racism still exists in America, but they believe we have made significant progress, and that it is no longer a dominant factor in determining outcomes. Reilly, in particular, has done research measuring the sources of privilege affecting college students in their lives, and found that racism accounted for just a two to three percent drop in privilege for black and Hispanic participants.

As I worked on this article I found myself jotting down notes in double-column form, to understand some of the differences between these two grand narratives—Kendi's and King's. Someone might be able to find a dialectical synthesis of these two narratives, but it eludes me. As far as I can tell, there is no middle ground to be found.  (...)

(...) For my own part, however, I've set my course. I will continue to use objective measures of student mastery, and will continue to encourage students to make their own choices, even if it leads to unequal outcomes on some diversity dean's spreadsheet. And I am willing to discuss race with anyone on campus who wants to—though I warn that, as part of such a discussion, I will advance the proposition that maybe, just maybe, not everything around us has to do with the color of our skin.

Stuart Reges is a teaching professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington.

[Outo olio]

No niin, jos käytät vääränväristä emojia netissä niin voit joudua jäähylle omasta ammatistasi, koska olet selvästi rasisti. Edes se, että olit maailman paras viime vuonna, ei auta.

Nyt ymmärrän, miksi niitä emojeja pitää olla niin montaa eri väriä, jokaiselle omansa, ettei käy vahinkoja.

Yhden sanan somepäivitys oli liikaa – Trumpia tukeva maailmanmestari hyllytettiin pikavauhtia
Eilen klo 19:12

Maantiepyöräilijä Quinn Simmons, 19, on hyllytetty joukkueestaan Twitter-käyttäytymisensä takia.

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Yhdysvaltalaispyöräilijä Simmons kommentoi tviittiä ytimekkäästi sanalla "Bye" eli "Moikka", mikä osoitti pyöräilijän kuuluvan Trumpin kannattajiin. Simmons lisäsi perään emojin, jossa tummaihoisen henkilön käsi vilkuttaa.

Osa kommentoijista hämmästeli Trumpin kannattamista, mutta suuren kohun aiheutti tummaihoinen emoji. Cyclingtips-sivusto tulkitsi kyseessä olen "internetin blackface, joka osoittaa, että valkoisella pyöräilijällä ei ole tietoa rotuasioista".

Simmonsin talli Trek-Segafredo reagoi välittömästi. Se linjasi Twitterissä, että rasismia ei voi hyväksyä ja Quinnia aiotaan kouluttaa siitä, mikä on urheilijalle sopiva asiallisen keskustelun sävy.

Trek-Segafredo tiedotti myöhemmin hyllyttäneensä Simmonsin.

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Myös Trek-Segafredo on saanut lokaa niskaansa, sillä se myy pyöriä Yhdysvaltain poliisille. Yhdysvalloissa on riittänyt poliisienvastaisia mielenosoituksia muun muassa George Floydin ja Breonna Taylorin kuolemien takia.

Simmons voitti maantiepyöräilyn junioreiden maailmanmestaruuden viime vuonna.

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Anni Saarela
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https://www.iltalehti.fi/muutlajit/a/14075bdb-ed6d-46c4-8416-ee9536bba00a

[WinstonSmith]

No niin, jos käytät vääränväristä emojia netissä niin voit joudua jäähylle omasta ammatistasi, koska olet selvästi rasisti. Edes se, että olit maailman paras viime vuonna, ei auta.

Nyt ymmärrän, miksi niitä emojeja pitää olla niin montaa eri väriä, jokaiselle omansa, ettei käy vahinkoja.

Tässähän ei ole mitään tasa-arvoista kohtelua, jos joku ei-valkoinen kiihottaisi vaikka murhaamaan valkoisia, niin se ei olisi mikään ongelma eikä siitä seuraisi yhtään mitään. Tämä on uusi normaali, mikä tahansa pienikin ele, jonka joku ei-valkoinen tulkitsee häiritseväksi riittää tuhoamaan valkoisen koko uran ja elämän lopullisesti. Kyse on valkoisten dehumanisoinnista ja kansanmurhan esiasteista.

[Eino P. Keravalta]

En ole ehtinyt lukea ketjua kokonaan.. joten kysyn, onko mitään tietoa, koska Floydin kuolema tulee oikeuskäsittelyyn? Silloinhan täytyy jo suomalaiselle roskamediallekin selvitä se, että Floyd kuoli omien valintojensa seurauksena poliisin kohtaamisen jälkeen, koska viisi huumetta elimistössä.

[alussaolisana]

^

Sitä tultaneen pitämään vain todisteena siitä, että "USA:n rasistinen hallinto pyrkii valkopesemään poliisin rakenteellisen rasismin".

Millään määrällä oikeita todisteita ja faktoja ei ole suomalaiselle valtamedialle enää mitään merkitystä.

[zupi]

TAAS yksi tällainen. 

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Voi jeesus...

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[simppali]

Kohta taas blm:t marssivat koska huumehöyryissä olleen kriminaalin, taparikollisen murhasta syytteessä ollut poliisi on vapautettu takuita vastaan.

https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11584050

George Floydin murhasta syytetty poliisi Derek Chauvin on päässyt vapauteen takuita vastaan. Takuut ovat olleet miljoonan dollarin suuruiset.

Floyd, 46, kuoli toukokuussa Minnesotan Minneapolisissa, kun valkoinen poliisi Chauvin painoi häntä polvella maahan. Tilanne kesti minuutteja. Floyd sanoi useasti, ettei pysty hengittämään.

Chauvinia syytetään tahattomasta toisen asteen murhasta ja kuolemantuottamuksesta. Rikosnimikkeet vastaavassa Suomessa suunnilleen tappoa ja kuolemantuottamusta.

[zupi]

Viimeaikaiset tapahtumatkin huomioonottaen, tätä taitaa olla luvassa Suomessakin, kun Kiiluvasilmä häärää sisäministerinä ja koko hallitus (+ministeriöt) koostuu vihavasureista, parilla persehuora-puolueella täydennettynä. Laki ei merkkaa mitään, kun tarkoitus on "hyvä" uuskommunismin edistäminen.

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Between May 29 and Oct. 5, there were 974 cases brought to the MCDA's office by Portland Police. Many involve repeat offenders though the number isn't published in the report. Nearly 70 percent of these cases were dropped. 543 cases were rejected in the "interest of justice," 44 cases due to "insufficient evidence," 12 cases due to "a legal impediment," and 67 cases are "pending investigative follow-up from law enforcement."

A majority of cases involve suspects who are white and male, constituting 77 and 67 percent respectively. 83 percent of the suspects are young adults aged 18–35. Juvenile data is not included.

https://thepostmillennial.com/portland-d-a-rejects-over-540-riot-related-cases-in-interest-of-justice

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Portlandissa on muutenkin päästy jo pisteeseen, että paskaväen ei tarvitse enää edes salailla todellisia päämääriään. Tilanne tulee vain pahenemaan:

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Longtime Portland community organizer Sarah Iannarone has made no secret of her political sympathies. She declared last year that "I am Antifa" and wryly embraced the "Antifa mayor" label. She and her campaign manager, Gregory McKelvey, were featured in a December article in Playboy with the headline "Antifa in Focus."

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/2/sarah-iannarone-antifa-mayor-eyes-portland-oregon-/

"It's good to oppose fascism," Iannarone told Fox News's Jesse Watters in September when asked why she refers to herself as the "antifa mayor."

"For weeks we witnessed Federal officers commit acts of violence against Portlanders in our streets, including shooting peaceful protesters in the head, arresting protesters without cause, tear gassing moms, and beating a Navy veteran," Iannarone's campaign website says. "Before Trump's secret police left the city, Portland's current mayor failed for months to prevent Portland's police from violently attacking journalists and protestors exercising their Constitutional rights. These failures represent a devastating reality that we must unseat in November."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/portland-mayoral-candidate-spotted-with-skirt-featuring-photos-of-communist-leaders

Sitä minä en kerta kaikkiaan vain ymmärrä, että sellaisetkin ihmiset, jotka tajuavat miten tuo paskaväki uhkaa länsimaista yhteiskuntaa, kuitenkin kannattavat Bidenia. Siis ajatellen, että kaikki muuttuu hyväksi jos vain päästään Trumpista eroon. Kun tuo prosessi on ollut käynnissä vuosikymmeniä ja Trump on ainoa henkilö, joka tuon paskaväen nousun pystyy vielä estämään. Mutta kun se oli valtamedian mukaan puhunut taas niin ikävästi ikävästi... 

[zupi]

Vaikkei nyt BLM-protesteihin suoraan liitykään, niin tuohon "tasa-arvo" ja "rakenteellinen rassismi"-hössötykseen kuitenkin. Voi siirtää johonkin parempaan ketjuun, jos sellainen on.

Mädätystä, mädätystä, mädätystä... Tämäkään kirjoittaja ei ole tainnut tosin vielä täysin sisäistää sitä, että ei tuon toiminnan tarkoitus edes ole tilanteen parantaminen (vaikkakin höpsöt alemman tason toimijat näin varmasti kuvittelevat), vaan uusmarxististen ajatusten iskostaminen mahdollisimman nuoriin ihmisiin. Jos tilanne oikeasti paranisi, niin tuo ideologihan häviäisi saman tien historian hämäriin, minne se kuuluisikin läheisen sukulaisensa natsismin tavoin.

https://quillette.com/2020/08/12/look-whos-talking-about-educational-equity/ (12.8.2020)

Look Who's Talking About Educational Equity

In the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, college presidents scrambled to issue condemnations of racism, police brutality, and white supremacy. They often buttressed those condemnations with promises to expand their institution's administrative bureaucracy. For instance, among other things, the University of Kentucky will institute cultural proficiency and diversity training for faculty and students, and install "diversity and inclusion officers" within each of its 17 colleges. Out west, the University of the Redlands issued an 18-point plan, including an "Activist Residence" program, racial climate surveys, anti-racism workshops, racial healing workshops, and enhanced hiring procedures and performance evaluations that will monitor contributions to "diversity and inclusion." Similar plans are afoot in colleges across the nation.

However well intentioned, these programs will likely increase inequities rather than reduce them, and push the nation's colleges still closer to the low level of its public schools. The reason? As I have explained before, most of the college administrators who work in offices promoting "Diversity and Inclusion" and "Equity and Social Justice" and the like have been credentialed by the same dysfunctional institutions that have monopolized the training and licensure of K-12 (kindergarten through 12th grade) teachers, principals, and superintendents for 50 years—education schools.

A century ago, Harvard president Lawrence Lowell described the university's education school as "a kitten that ought to be drowned," and in the decades since, successive studies have reached the same conclusion: Most of our training schools for K-12 teachers lack rigorous standards for admission, graduation, and research—but they're filled to the brim with ideology.

Worse still are ed school programs in leadership, from which most student-facing college administrators now take their degrees. As early as 1987, when the focus of these programs was almost entirely on K-12 administrators, the National Commission on Excellence in Educational Administration recommended closing more than 300 of the nation's 500 educational-leadership programs due to lackluster academic standards and professional irrelevance. Because these programs raked in tuition dollars, however, that advice was ignored.

Two decades later, a study undertaken by former Teachers College President Arthur Levine discovered that the number of leadership programs had actually increased by 20 percent. Their quality had not. (...)

Remarkably, the less there is to distinguish ed schools from diploma mills, the more power their graduates have been wielding on college campuses—and not just over students. In the fall of 2018 San Diego State took the inevitable next step by creating several faculty positions in "Diversity and Inclusion" and "Equity in Education," positions which will report to the ed-school-trained Associate Vice President for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion. More recently, ed schools at North Carolina State and University of Colorado at Denver launched, respectively, PhD and doctoral programs in "educational equity," just in time to meet a rising demand.

It would be one thing if ed schools had demonstrable expertise in achieving the laudable goal of educational equity. Ideological bias and even low academic standards might be a price worth paying if the institutions had a record of helping low-income and minority students close the learning gap that exists between themselves and their more advantaged peers. But they have no such record—just the opposite in fact.

(...)

The students who suffer most from this rejection of science are the very ones whose interests education schools have long claimed to be serving: black, Latino, and low-income students, whose disproportionate rates of delinquency, poverty, and incarceration correlate with disproportionately high rates of illiteracy. It's these same students who also lose the most in a content-poor, skills-based curriculum. As ED Hirsch showed in Why Knowledge Matters, when students from poor backgrounds aren't given the content knowledge that their more advantaged peers pick up at home, they're often further behind them when they finish school than when they started.

Fortunately, there are schools where educational equity and social justice are matters of record, not rhetoric—where low-income and minority students not only match but often surpass the performance of their more advantaged peers. Their teachers and principals manage this feat, however, not because of their ed school training but often in spite of it. (...)

Another thing they share is a commitment to coherently organized, content-rich curricula—a commitment that's central to New York City's highest-achieving charter schools as well. (...)

There is, then, no small irony in the fact that the very institutions whose putatively "progressive" agenda has for 50 years militated against coherent K-12 curricula, ignored the science of reading instruction, and thus hobbled generations of disadvantaged students, have been sending their graduates to "reform" what has been the one bright spot in the American educational system, its colleges and universities. There, from administrative offices in "Equity and Inclusion" or "Diversity and Social Justice," they promote the view that it's really faculty "microaggressions," or their "implicit bias" and lack of "cultural awareness" which are the real obstacles to educational equity. It's an expensive bureaucratic ruse.

(...)

But college faculty will accede to the latest round of "equity" programming, whether out of ideological sympathy, intimidation, or indifference. Whatever the motives, the educational costs of their acquiescence will be borne by the same group of disadvantaged students who have born it for 60 years in the nation's K-12 public schools. There's nothing equitable about that.

Lyell Asher is an associate professor of English at Lewis & Clark College.

Tähän voisi vielä todeta, että Joe Biden kannattaa noiden pienten valonpilkahdusten, eri "charter"-koulujen hävittämistä, ja Trump puolestaan vahvasti kannattaa niitä. Yksi niiden suurimmista puolestapuhujista on muuten Thomas Sowell (onpa jopa kirjoittanut kirjankin niistä), mutta ehkä hän vain on tyhmä tai hänellä on jotain vähemmistöjä vastaan...

[zupi]

Tulee taas tähän ketjuun, kun en parempaakaan tiedä, saa siirtää...

Olipas taas hyvä kirjoitus Quillettella, mutta tuohan on kuin kärpäsen surinaa vihavasemmiston korvissa. Me olemme oikeassa ja hyviä ihmisiä. Ja sitten taas mennään...

https://quillette.com/2020/10/09/how-we-lost-our-way-on-human-rights/

How We Lost Our Way on Human Rights

Sir Roger Scruton died on January 12th. He was a philosopher, public intellectual, provocateur, novelist, composer, lawyer, organist, and Fellow of The British Academy. (...)

In 2017, I joined a small gaggle of admirers from around the world for 10 days of philosophizing with Sir Roger. (...) One afternoon, I found myself alone with our host in his study. Scruton, as I was already aware, was skeptical of the direction in which the human-rights movement was headed. He agreed wholeheartedly with what others would call first-generation human rights—in his terms, "claims for liberty" drawn from natural law. In particular, he defended the idea of individual agency, which invited a wall of rights protecting individuals from the encroachments of state and society. He contrasted these "negative" rights with claimed rights that are associated with the pursuit of equality and social justice. What distinguishes such claimed rights, he argued, is that they depend on positive actions from state actors—often on behalf of groups instead of individuals—rather than the right to be free of state encroachments. In many cases, positive rights are effectively political demands that are expressed in the borrowed language of human rights.

This put me on the defensive, as the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (like Canadian political and academic culture more generally) tends to embrace the idea of human rights in their maximalist form. I drew from Michael Ignatieff's 2007 book, The Rights Revolution, in which the Canadian scholar wrote that "to believe in rights is to believe in defending difference"—and so defending human rights required governments to protect "the ceaseless elaboration of disguises, affirmations, identities, and claims, at once individually and collectively." (...)

While I had (mostly) persuaded myself, I failed to persuade Scruton. His response was predictably gracious, but he also warned that while the effort I had described may be admirable, "you will yet fail." Our time was cut short before he could explain his position more fully. Yet I knew that his reasoning was informed by his own experience being repudiated, and even vilified, according to the shifting ideological tides he'd witnessed. He understood that the noble idea of defending difference requires a permanent good-faith commitment from all parties that they will respect the values of others, even when those values are seen as unpopular. Such a requirement was at odds with the real world he'd witnessed. It may even be in conflict with human nature itself.

(...)

But, as Scruton tried to warn me, such balancing presupposes some commitment among individuals to defend the right to disagree. One Canadian, for example, may value property rights as a fundamental right and at the same time recognize that his or her neighbor may prioritize environmental rights. Or another Canadian may believe freedom of speech to be an absolute freedom, while a second might believe strongly in a need for restrictions. Inasmuch as there are enduring commitments to respect such different values and priorities, there are opportunities to negotiate balance among competing claims. Without that commitment, on the other hand, we get a never-ending zero-sum competition to assert or reassert a hierarchy of rights, an approach hardly in harmony with the principle that all rights are meant to be indivisible, interrelated, and interdependent.

(...)

Until this year, at least. In June, following the same pattern that has played out at numerous other cultural institutions this past summer, the CMHR was hit with a wave of allegations on social media (...) With my five-year term as CEO coming to an end in August, I chose not to seek a second term.

I'm not going to use this space to rebut specific allegations. Rather, I'd like to consider these events in light of Scruton's warning to me back in 2017. What we are observing now is an ascendant movement that asserts social justice cannot be achieved unless we adhere to a specific hierarchy of identity rights and promote intolerance for anyone dissenting from that approach. (...)

The idea of individual agency, which lay at the core of the case for traditional human rights, is now seen as part of the vernacular of oppression, as it interferes with the movement to separate people into racially defined categories. Likewise, the idea of dialogue rested on the idea of a shared language. Instead, we now are required to accede to the belief that we all inhabit mutually impenetrable realms marked by our identity, and that some of these realms confer special insight and intuitive powers that allow one to interpret and identify hidden meaning and concealed bias in the language of others.

Criticism can be just, of course. Yet if it is to have real political meaning, it must be delivered through the rational expression of opinion. As Jonathan Rauch has noted, cancel culture is the antithesis of dialogue. (...)

No matter what one may think of this year's controversies at the CMHR, there is no doubt that the means by which the claims have been prosecuted—a totalizing demand that any accusation of discrimination must be accepted at face value—is in direct conflict with the mandate of the museum and, for that matter, with the concept of human rights. Why would any museum, national or otherwise, having demonstrated its value in expanding public memory to include the lived experiences of different people across time and space, then adhere to a theory of social justice that requires it to be at war with the past?

Surely we should seek to build on the past where possible, improve upon it, and learn from its successes as much as its failures (...) a diversity of perspectives rather than allegiance to a singular, illiberal, gnostic perspective that rejects dialogue itself.

In such an intolerant environment, even those banners hanging on the walls of the museum quoting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will seem toxic. "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights" risks sounding too much like "all lives matter." Such are the wages of allowing particular interests to snuff out dialogue and pluralism.

In his own life, Sir Roger Scruton seemed to carry no enduring ill will against the legions of assailants who tried time and again to cancel his work. That his naysayers caused him injury is clear. Yet he remained committed to the principle of dignity and respect to all, regardless of their ideological convictions- (...)

That's rarely the easiest route to follow, especially when others take a different path. Yet there's no other way forward. And the need for more of us to hew to those principles represents one of the great moral challenges of our day.

John F. Young is a political scientist and former CEO of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

[n.n.]

https://quillette.com/2020/10/09/how-we-lost-our-way-on-human-rights/

How We Lost Our Way on Human Rights

Hyvä kirjoitus, joka saa surulliseksi. Kirjottaja tunnistaa ja verbaalisella osaamisellaan esittelee ja kuvaa mikä ongelma nykyisessä tasa-arvossa on. Samoin, sinällään täysin ymmärrettävistä syistä kertoo lopettavansa museon johtajana. Vaikka kyseessä onkin Kanada, se saa ainakin minut surulliseksi, koska jatkossa jälleen yhdessä vaikuttavassa positiossa on yksi vähemmän, joka ymmärtää tasa-arvon, ihmisoikeuksen ja vapauden tarkoituksen. Tämä yksilö on tuskin jatkossakaan hiljaa ja voi vain toivoa, että hän toimii jatkossakin sellaisessa asemassa, että tämäkin järjen ääni tulee kuulluksi. Ihmisyys ja inhimillisyys tarvitsee puolustajia.

[Urban Moving Systems]

WATCH: Rioters Topple Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt Statues in Portland; Museum Windows Smashed

Rioters toppled statues of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt in Portland, Oregon, on Sunday night — the latest attacks on monuments in several months of left-wing unrest.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/11/rioters-topple-abraham-lincoln-teddy-roosevelt-statues-in-portland-museum-windows-smashed/

ANTIFA Is Compiling Lists Of "Fascist" Businesses For Yelp's New "Racist Behavior Alerts"

It was less than 48 hours ago that we pointed out that "review" website Yelp was getting into the business of social justice by saying it would append a "Business Accused of Racist Behavior Alert" to any businesses page where a company had been accused of racism.

"The bullshit never ends," said Donald Trump Jr., in response to the idea. "What are the odds this isn't insanely abused?" he followed up asking on Friday.

Well, Don, we think we have an answer for you: the odds look pretty long. That's because just 2 days after Yelp's announcement, ANTIFA has already starting compiling the names of businesses that it wants to submit to Yelp and put out of business.

As if throwing rocks through their windows and stealing from them wasn't enough.

The list is being prepared by the same ANTIFA group is that "responsible for organizing the violent Portland riots," according to the Post Millennial. In fact, Tweets from the group compiling the data suggests that ANTIFA members submit "non-friendly" businesses, "AKA any company that's hanging blue lives garbage in their store or anything else that's anti the BLM movement".

So, in essence, Black Lives Matter is now being granted the power to shut down whatever businesses it doesn't like. And remember, this is supposed to be the anti-fascist group.
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Hollywood Beverage and Liquor was also targeted by the group. The "oldest liquor store" in all of Oregon, which has been around since 1934, drew the ire of ANTIFA when a Trump flag was spotted hanging in the office of its owner. Its owner, Dan Miner, had posted on social media over the summer: "The sole redeeming aspect of the oppressive mandate to wear a mask is the great number of times a day I pull it off and appreciate the smell of freedom."
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/antifa-compiling-lists-fascist-businesses-yelps-new-racist-behavior-alerts

[zupi]

Taas yksi Quillettelta. Jutun opetus: Jos aiot julkisesti nostaa esiin sen, että kulttuurilla on vaikutusta tiettyjen vähemmistöjen "tulosten epätasa-arvoon", sinun on parempi olla itse vähemmistöön kuuluva, kuten Thomas Sowell. Tällöin selviät vain täydellisellä vaikenemisella.

Tämä on tosin ehkä vähän kärjistetympi tapaus ja enemmänkin kommentti, eikä todisteita ole sisällytetty kirjoitukseen (kuten Sowellilla). Mutta tuskinpa vähän tasoitellumpi ilmaisu ja todisteiden esittäminen olisi muuttanut lopputulosta yhtään mihinkään.

Elämme hienoja aikoja! Ja vielä hienommiksi ne muuttuu jos Trump häviää...

https://quillette.com/2020/10/13/the-lawrence-mead-affair/

The Lawrence Mead Affair

Lawrence Mead, a long-time proponent of welfare reform, is a professor of politics and public policy at New York University. On July 21st this year, an ill-advised article he had written, 'Poverty and Culture', appeared in the academic journal Society.

The article began by asking, "Why do so many Americans remain destitute... even when jobs are available?" According to Mead, the answer is not "social barriers, such as racial discrimination or lack of jobs," but rather "cultural difference." Noting that "the seriously poor are mostly blacks and Hispanics," he argued that such individuals have not internalised Western norms of individualism. As a consequence, he maintained, "they are at a disadvantage competing with the European groups—even if they face no mistreatment on racial grounds."

Regarding the claim that "black social problems" are due to "white oppression," Mead argued, "By that logic, the problems should have been worst prior to the civil rights reforms in the 1960s." Yet in his reading of events, "The collapse of the black family occurred mostly after civil rights rather than before." Hence Mead not only suggested that Western culture is better than non-Western culture, at least when it comes to getting ahead in America, but also that higher poverty rates among blacks and Hispanics are attributable to factors other than racial discrimination. As you can imagine, this message was not warmly received.

By July 24th—three days after the article was published—a Twitter mob had begun to form. In a tweet that got more than 2,400 likes, one commentator offered the following points of criticism: "F**K LAWRENCE MEAD! F**K WHOMEVER ALLOWED THIS TO GET PUBLISHED! F**K THE EDITORS! F**K THE REVIEWERS!" [asterisks not in original]. The next day, an account currently under the name "bring back misandry" wrote, "Tbh f**k academia. Violent anti-Blackness cloaked in bs intellectualism."

(...)

By July 26th, there were two separate petitions calling for Mead's article to be retracted. The first, which eventually garnered 1,053 signatures, described the article as "unscholarly" and "overtly racist." The second, which garnered an impressive 3,510 signatures, went even further. According to the petitioners, Mead's article expressed "racially violent narratives directed at the Black and Latina/o/X community." Not only that, but the ideologies he espoused "are reflective of the racist, anti-Black, patriarchal, hegemonic doctrines perpetuated in society, PreK-12, and in higher education."

(...)

On 31 July, Mead's article was retracted. In accordance with this decision, Springer Nature issued an update to its statement of 30 July, which noted, "We are deeply sorry that this commentary was published in one of our journals". (The company apparently felt that its earlier apology had not been sufficient.)

(...)

Likewise, Society's editor-in-chief said, "I deeply regret the pain that this has caused." He also explained that his original intent had been to publish Mead's article alongside two critical reviews "that identify flaws in Mead's arguments."

Mead himself refused to give any ground, telling Campus Reform that "his argument was entirely non-racial and only had to do with cultural differences between Western and non-Western groups." He also affirmed, "There is no evidence" that serious multigenerational poverty is caused by racism.

(...)

However, just because I was unconvinced by Mead's arguments does not mean that his article should be ceremonially denounced by half the people in his field, nor that it should be retracted from the journal where it was published. Indeed, the criticism I made above could also be made of the claim that racism causes poverty (Asians too have been subject to racism), and I wouldn't want papers putting forward that theory to be retracted either. Another consideration is that Mead's paper was a "commentary," rather than a "research article," so there was presumably more scope for him to defend his own perspective on the subject matter.

(...)

One particularly interesting aspect of the Mead affair is that many academics now consider it "racist" to invoke culture as an explanation of group differences. Back in 2009, the psychologist Richard Nisbett noted that he had gotten "remarkably little criticism" for his work on group differences in IQ because he was "saying genetics plays no role." However, Nisbett did argue there are subcultures "that discourage academic achievement." One wonders if he could make the same argument today.

Noah Carl is an independent researcher based in the UK

Jos Noah haluaa todisteita kulttuurin vaikutuksesta "tulosten epätasa-arvoon", niin kannattaisi lukea niitä Sowellin kirjoituksia. Joita Lawrence Mead  lienee varmasti lukenut.

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Rufolla taas asiaa.

https://nypost.com/2020/10/18/state-enforced-racial-segregation-by-progressives/

State-enforced racial segregation — by progressives

State-sanctioned racial segregation ended with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 but has recently returned in an unlikely place: government agencies in Seattle. According to new whistleblower documents I've reviewed, at least three public agencies in the region have implemented race-segregated diversity trainings.

At the King County Library System, a private consulting firm called Racial Equity Consultants recently held racially segregated "listening sessions" to root out "institutional privileges and systemic inequities." Apparently, there is widespread "institutional racism" in the libraries, and employees who reject that premise are accused of "internalized racism." When reached by e-mail, the firm said it wasn't authorized to comment.

At the federal Veterans Administration Puget Sound facility, the local leadership has launched a series of racially segregated "caucuses" for "individuals who identify as white" and those who identify as "African-American or black" or as "people of color."  (...)

Finally, at the King County Prosecutor's Office, the chief prosecutor, Dan Satterberg, and senior staff have recently required employees to sign an "equity and social justice" pledge and assigned "continued training for white employees," who must "do the work" to "learn the true history of racism in our country."

White employees are encouraged to participate in racially segregated "anti-racist action groups," as well as agency-wide "cultural-competency" training that teaches them to how to adopt "a new non-oppressive and non-exploitive attitude."

According to a leaked memo I've reviewed, Satterberg recently wrote a letter to staff suggesting that the "privileged, white, male cohort" in his office should "shut up and listen." The prosecutor's office confirmed the authenticity of the equity pledge and staff-wide memo but didn't offer further comment.

Oh, the irony: Seattle's white elites are instituting a policy of racial segregation in the name of social justice. In all three of these institutions, white executives have explicitly implemented these policies, arguing, in one case, that holding segregated training sessions mitigates "any potential harming of staff of color that might arise from a cross-racial conversation."

(...) These training sessions aren't only offensive, but possibly illegal. (...)

Asiaan liittyen:

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/christopher-rufo-king-county-racism-cultural-revolution/

Cultural Revolution In King County

This is how soft totalitarianism is coming to us. Along those lines, today I received an e-mail from a reader whose Chinese-born wife who grew up during the Cultural Revolution saw me on "Morning Joe" on Friday, arguing with the black Princeton professor Eddie Glaude, who denied that there is any such thing as the illiberal left, and said people like me who say there is are really racist. The reader wrote:

    She pointed out immediately that [Princeton professor] Dr. [Eddie] Glaude was doing EXACTLY the same thing that Chairman Mao and the Red Guard, initially a far left left-wing group of college-aged students,  did during the early phases of the Cultural Revolution.  The technique is hauntingly familiar to her.

    First it was done in debates and speeches on campus and the local and university newspapers.  Then it progressed to "struggle sessions" in public forums.  Eventually, at the end, it led to repeated public executions.

    The tools in the initial phases of the Cultural Revolution are exactly the same we are seeing now, and were demonstrated perfectly by Dr. Glaude the other day.  Indeed, in early Cultural Revolution China, prominent university faculty were always the voices of choice.  Facts are pesky details to be brushed aside.  Minimize any legitimate issues with the official narrative as "tawdry little trifles."  If your debate opponent continues down the road of facts, make sure you begin tarnishing him with one ad hominem attack after the other. In Cultural Revolution China, it would be that you didn't pay taxes, your mother was a Nationalist whore, your family members were proven enemies of the People etc. Today, in America,  of course, you are a racist.  Everything you say comes from your privileged status. Or better yet: you are being supported by Putin and his Russian hackers.

    She also had some words of warning for folks like Mika Brzezinski who sit and lap this all up, act offended on cue, and see every issue through the lens of "the official narrative."  You may think you are righteous in what you are doing.  But please note: when the time came in the worst of the Cultural Revolution, after years of percolation, it was the non-radical liberals like Mika who were taken out and shot first.

    She wants to urge anyone with eyes to read to go and look at the history of the early Cultural Revolution. The issues and narrative are completely different to ours in America now, but the techniques and the groups involved are disturbingly familiar. And she and thousands  upon thousands of Chinese immigrants to this country are struggling with the same question: WILL THE RESULT BE THE SAME?

    She wanted me to let you know that this is EXACTLY how the Chinese Red Guard did business — and despite years of trying, the other side never could figure out a way to combat it. She lamented that this will soon spread into families here in America, and family members will begin turning on each other. Everything will be about politics — including the most sacred holidays and the most private family issues.  There will be no place or no relationship that will be truly safe.

Edit. Tämä voisi sopia tähän yhteyteen...

Cult of Intersectionality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUG5r5sD0Mo

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Marxist Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors Signs Production Deal with Warner Bros.

Leftist activist and Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors has inked a production deal with Warner Bros. Television Group to produce content across the company's many multimedia platforms.

The contract includes every sort of production from animation, to scripted and unscripted projects, as well as digital projects to be aired on Warners' streaming services, TV, and film, according to Variety. Cullors promised to push the Black Lives Matter principles into her projects.

"Black voices, especially Black voices who have been historically marginalized, are important and integral to today's storytelling. Our perspective and amplification is necessary and vital to helping shape a new narrative for our families and communities. I am committed to uplifting these stories in my new creative role with the Warner Bros. family," Cullors said. "As a long time, community organizer and social justice activist, I believe that my work behind the camera will be an extension of the work I've been doing for the last twenty years. I look forward to amplifying the talent and voices of other Black creatives through my work."

Cullors is a hard-core leftist, admittedly, who espouses a Marxist ideology. Indeed, before striking a massive production deal with Warner Bros. Cullors was calling out the biggest entertainment industry stars, saying that actors and producers should have gone on strike to protest the police-involved shooting of Jacob Blake.

Cullors has also pushed for the Democrat Party to add defunding the police to its official, national party platform and said her purpose is to lead the United States to a "true American revolution."

Along with her defund the police advice, Cullors also wants to eliminate all federal police agencies, including the DEA, the FBI, ICE, Border Patrol, and others. Cullors has also been a big advocate of the extremist "Breathe Act," which would close all federal prisons and immigration detention facilities.

The Black Lives Matter co-founder is no nouveau Marxist, either. For more than a decade, Cullors was the protégé of Eric Mann, an American communist and domestic terrorist, and she spent years training in left-wing political organizing while inculcating a radical Marxist-Leninist ideology.
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https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/10/18/patrisse-cullors-signs-deal-with-warner-bros/

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Taposen bestikset olleet taas vauhdissa. Tämä nyt on tietenkin vain yksi tapaus, mutta noitahan tapahtuu tuolla jatkuvasti. Esim. Andy Ngo twitter-tililta lisää. En sitten tiedä, onko tuollakin Soroksen palkkaama DA, joka päästää tällaisista pikkurikkeistä kiinni jääneet saman tien vapaaksi. Ja tätä valkoisten marxististen paskapäiden ja neekeririkollisten sekasikiötä USAn demokraattinen puolue kannattaa ja tukee kaikin mahdollisin tavoin, niin kuin myös Kiiluvasilmä ja hänen hurttansa. Voi että kun mahtaa olla poliisikollegat ylpeitä rakkaasta virkatoveristaan poliitikko Taposesta. Opetusministerin erityisavustajankin mielestä tässä on varmasti sellaista hyvää pöhinää.

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https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/n-c-officer-airlifted-to-hospital-after-brutal-beating-caught-on-camera/

North Carolina officer airlifted to hospital after brutal beating, which was filmed by bystanders

ROBESON COUNTY, NC – An officer with the Rowland Police Department had to be airlifted to a hospital Oct. 17 following a vicious attack lodged against him when he tried to make an arrest during a disturbance call.

The brutal beating was captured on video by a bystander who encouraged the suspect to continue attacking the police officer.

Rowland Police Chief Hubert B. Graham identified the officer who was attacked on video as 27-year-old Michael Sale. The officer was reportedly responding to a disturbance call when he encountered Jamel Alphonso Rogers.

While it's not clear what Rogers was initially suspected of, at some point during that response Officer Sale attempted to place Rogers in handcuffs.

The entire video runs about 11 minutes and shows the suspect constantly resisting arrest and intermittently throwing punches at Sale.

During the physical altercation, Sale calls for help from the bystander filming the altercation.

In response, the unidentified man instead mocks the officer, saying he has no intention of helping him out – and then goads the suspect into continuing the attack on the officer.

According to Graham, Sale was the only officer on duty that evening in the rural town about 50 miles south of Fayetteville, which is why backup hadn't arrived on scene as quickly as one might expect.

Jutussa on video tapahtumista, Youtubessa kirjautumisen takana:

https://youtu.be/ArM5D38GAG0

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Onneksi meillä on täällä Suomessa vähän parempaa väkeä päättämässä asioista... Tuo brittiministerikin on varmaan Kiiluvasilmän mielestä valkoisen patriarkaatin aivopesemä tyhmä neekeriressukka.

Mitenköhän muuten Taponen pärjäisi briteissä...

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Onneksi meillä on täällä Suomessa vähän parempaa väkeä päättämässä asioista... Tuo brittiministerikin on varmaan Kiiluvasilmän mielestä valkoisen patriarkaatin aivopesemä tyhmä neekeriressukka.

Mitenköhän muuten Taponen pärjäisi briteissä...

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Jumalaut, pelkkä like-napin klikkaus ei nyt riitä!!

Kuka tämä brittien Equalities Minister on, ja mistä Suomeen saisi edes yhden noin selvää järkipuhetta tuottavan ministerin?? Äkkiä tämä musta ministeri Suomeen vääntämään intersektionaalisen punaviher-hallituksemme ministereille ja kanistereille rautalangasta mitä tasa-arvo ihan oikeasti on, ja että intersektionalistien fanittamat BLM ja CRT ovat anarkistien uusmarksilaista propagandaa.

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Philadelphiassa tapahtuu. Melko tuttu tarina.

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