Woke Madness

[iturnknobs]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/03/politics/twitter-trump-policy-ban-the-squad-politics-trnd/index.html

Our country pays no mind to racist, hate charged tweets when unfairly directed towards women of color... but is on high alert when people wish that a white man gets what's coming to him after he created it. Our country is beyond the point of return. May it be a better place after the inevitable conflict it brings upon itself. 

Edit: unwoke madness might be a more appropriate thread for this post

 

[scott2000]

Our country pays no mind to racist, hate charged tweets when unfairly directed towards women of color.....
Our country is beyond the point of return. May it be a better place after the inevitable conflict it brings upon itself.

House passes resolution to denounce Covid-19 racism toward Asian Americans

"But the support for an Asian American-centered issue also, in part, speaks to the importance of representation among legislators, Chu said. She said there is a record number of Asian American and Pacific Islander members of Congress, about 20."
"It is significant that it was able to be passed on, but it is also a result of the fact that we do have more representation in Congress," Chu said. "We were able to educate our fellow members of Congress about what was going on to the Asian community with regard to these Covid-19 hate crimes and incidents."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/house-passes-resolution-denounce-covid-19-racism-toward-asian-americans-n1240385

 

[Winston OBoogie]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/03/politics/twitter-trump-policy-ban-the-squad-politics-trnd/index.html

I see multitudinous threats of violence, death, doxing... made every week against some of the folks I follow on twitter.  The same with hate speech, racism, bigotry etc. 

Very rarely has anything been done by Twitter in regard to suspending or deleting the offending accounts. 

 

[iturnknobs]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/06/politics/white-supremacists-anarchists-dhs-homeland-threat-assessment/index.html

Period. Enough of the "law and order" talk out of the racists mouths.

 

[living sounds]

I had been wondering what happened to realclearpolitics.com - with them increasingly linking to articles of a bunch of rightwing fringe outlets in recent years.

Turns out you just have to follow the money, the NYT did:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/us/politics/a-popular-political-site-made-a-sharp-right-turn-what-steered-it.html

 

[ruffrecords]

I had been wondering what happened to realclearpolitics.com - with them increasingly linking to articles of a bunch of rightwing fringe outlets in recent years.

Turns out you just have to follow the money, the NYT did:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/us/politics/a-popular-political-site-made-a-sharp-right-turn-what-steered-it.html

About as right as the Guardian is left then.

Cheers

Ian

 

[living sounds]

About as right as the Guardian is left then.

Do you consider that non sequitor a valuable contribution to the discussion?

As for the Guardian, it will be 200 years old in 2021, it's a serious newspaper, center-left certainly, not perfect, but a good news source.

Whereas some of the publications frequently linked to by realclearpolitics.com have cropped up a couple years ago, have unknown and/or often shady financiers and spout unfiltered proto-fascist drivel that nobody in their right mind will confuse with actual news reporting.

 

[rob_gould]

Do you consider that non sequitor a valuable contribution to the discussion?

As for the Guardian, it will be 200 years old in 2021, it's a serious newspaper, center-left certainly, not perfect, but a good news source.

Whereas some of the publications frequently linked to by realclearpolitics.com have cropped up a couple years ago, have unknown and/or often shady financiers and spout unfiltered proto-fascist drivel that nobody in their right mind will confuse with actual news reporting.

Don't take the bait  ;D ;D ;D

 

[ruffrecords]

Do you consider that non sequitor a valuable contribution to the discussion?

To be frank I was not aware of much 'discussion in this thread; mostly a debunking of people's sources.

As for the Guardian, it will be 200 years old in 2021, it's a serious newspaper, center-left certainly, not perfect, but a good news source.

And the Daily Mail is over 120 years old. Go figure.

Cheers

Ian

 

[scott2000]

"Sex designations on birth certificates offer no clinical utility, and they can be harmful for intersex and transgender people. Moving such designations below the line of demarcation wouldn’t compromise the birth certificate’s public health function but could avoid harm."

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2025974

 

[iturnknobs]

White man with gun. Still alive.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/26/us/shooting-bowling-alley-illinois/index.html

Black man with phone. Dead in 10 seconds.

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/23/949728301/ohio-cops-body-cam-shows-he-shot-unarmed-black-man-within-10-seconds-of-encounter

Woke madness. FTP. N.W.A. There would rightfully be protests and riots if it were warmer. Peaceful protests are great if they actually achieve something, but they are an act of futility in this situation.

 

[scott2000]

White man with gun. Still alive.

Still quite a few armed whites that didn't make it? I know it doesn't matter, but still..

I counted almost 60 since November...

https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings