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This Week in Social Justice Warrior-Dom (March 18, 2019 Edition!)
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Monday, March 18, 2019
Sunday, December 13, 2015
This Week in Social Justice Warrior-dom
A fond look back at all the things that had ultra-P.C. jihadists OUTRAGED ... before they forget all about them in just a few days.
By: Jimbo X
JimboXAmerican@gmail.com
@Jimbo__X
Mainstream media is SHOCKED and APPALLED by Donald Trump's Call to Ban Muslims from Entering America
When Republican Presidential frontrunner Donald J. Trump announced he supported temporary immigration restrictions for Muslims in the wake of the 14-corpse Isalmofascist pile-up in San Bernardino last week, left-leaning media outlets collectively shat their britches in
Displaying remarkable impartiality on the touchy subject, New York Times "journalists" Patrick Healy and Michael Barbaro stated the declaration was "an extraordinary escalation of rhetoric aimed at voters’ fears about members of the Islamic faith" and "an idea more typically associated with hate groups [that] reflects a progression of mistrust that is rooted in ideology as much as politics." Such a statement would be brass-balled biased even in an editorial, but ever ethically minded, the Times included such opinion-loaded rancor in an actual "news story" on the front page of its paper. Meanwhile, the founder of the Huffington Post published a lengthy "we're super serious this time, guys!" special op-ed in which she described Trump's declaration as a "vicious pronouncement" and "an ugly and dangerous force in American politics" - and then announced she was moving Trump coverage from the site's "entertainment section" to its "politics section," because nothing says "conscientious moral stand" quite like giving the person you loathe even more coverage than you were before. Elsewhere, columnist Jeffrey Goldberg took to Twitter to express his outrage."Donald Trump is now an actual threat to national security," he stated before trailing off into the most ironic statement in the history of humanity. "He's providing jihadists ammunition for their campaign to demonize the US."
Never one to squander an opportunity to label Trump as a black person hater in addition to despising Arabians, Salon scribe Paul Rosenberg took the questionable findings from a questionable report from questionable authors to go ahead and determine that the only reason white folks vote for ANY Republican candidate is because they are racist with a big, white, capital T. "There’s no reason at all to assume that any form of conservatism in America can be separated from white supremacism," he wrote, no doubt using a brush large enough to broadly paint the suspiciously lily-white democratic stronghold of New England in one twitch of the wrist. That said, I will give credit where credit is due and hand out this week's Internet Is In America "Actually Giving A Shit About Real Reporting" Award to Jannell Ross, whose recent Washington Post piece on why non-college-educated whites are more likely to vote for Trump actually had the gall to state that working class, rural white folks in parts of the nation hit hardest by outsourcing may support immigration measures NOT because they are racist pricks, but because unskilled laborers from abroad represent economic competition in an increasingly shrinking job and housing market ... while labor unions continue to rally for legislative reform that pushes even more American-born out of the workforce.
Of course, if Trump's immigration policies never come to fruition, perhaps he can take a page out of Norway's playbook, where government officials recently announced they would hand out both free plane tickets and $9,300 in cash for refugees to go back to wherever they came from. Proving once and for all that none of the Middle Eastern immigrants are fleeing the Arabian peninsula for economic gain under the guise of a humanitarian crisis, only about 1,000 or so refugees have accepted the Norwegian ultimatum.
Coca-Cola pulls ad offensive to indigenous Mexicans
Back in the 1970s, Coca-Cola found tremendous success with an advertising campaign heralding a multicultural utopia united by a global love of fizzy, obesity-triggering consumer goods. Well, the Atlanta-based soft drink behemoth's latest attempt to capture that "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke" magic backfired something fierce, as the company quickly yanked an online commercial featuring a gaggle of Caucasian Millennials building a Christmas tree out of Coke products in the teeny-tiny Mexican hamlet Totontepec. "Fortunately for Mexico’s Indigenous, white hipsters are here to save them this Christmas with a 'special message,'" stated one irked Twitterer, while another social media critic decried the ad as "out-of-touch racist" and "some genius colonialist branding." Following boycott calls from the Alliance for Food Health, Consumer Power and the National Council to Prevent Discrimination, Coca-Cola Mexico agreed to rescind the commercial and issue a bland apology - complete with the hilariously passive-aggressive promise to never "be insensitive to or underestimate any indigenous group" ever again.
Texas pro-gun group forced to cancel mock massacre protest
Proving that ding-dongs on the right can be just as bone-headed and allergic to reason as those on the left, two "take your guns wherever you damn want" groups announced plans to stage a faux mass shooting - complete with cardboard weapons and gallons of fake blood - at the University of Texas to demonstrate just how useful concealed firearms on campus can be. Unsurprisingly, U of T officials weren't exactly thrilled by the joint Don't Comply Dot Com and Come And Take It Texas request and told them if they even looked at the school they would be charged with criminal trespass. Alas, for all you pro-gunners looking for some ammunition (hardy-har-har) against our regularly scheduled social justice dingbats, take your pick: do you want to target the New York Daily News' disgusting criticism of a man killed in the SoCal terror attack for being an NRA member, or Kashana Cauley for her modern masterpiece of paranoia and ironic racism "A Black Woman Walks into a Gun Show?"
Let's hear it for senseless violence!
You know what I am sick and tired of? All of this political-and-religiously motivated death and destruction going on nowadays. Thankfully, the past few days have given us plenty of examples of non-hate crime and non-terror related mayhem and human depravity. In St. Paul, a teacher's union is threatening to go on strike after a teacher was beaten so badly by a student he had to be treated for brain damage, while in Jolly old England, teens are having a rollicking good time recording themselves punching mentally retarded people in the face for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Want something a little more outlandish? Well, you can always go to Baltimore, where 28-year-old Christopher Harrison, Jr. got so mad at two of his coworkers that he decided to set them both on fire. And yes, if you ever needed your faith in humanity dampened, there is indeed footage of the incident floating around.
The war on free expression intolerance continues
Proving what we here at the Internet Is In America has been saying for at least three years now, an unnamed professor at Brown University recently told The Daily Beast that a hostile "protest culture" has transformed one of America's most prestigious liberal arts institutions - which is about to invest a whopping $100 million into a new "diversity" initiative - into an ideological dictatorship, where easily-offended youths break out into tears when confronted by even the simplest of criticisms. "If we're going to have a serious conversation about diversity, it should include intellectual diversity, ideological diversity," the nameless prof said. "There's something about the environment here that people are self-censoring so strongly that people aren't speaking out."
Meanwhile, Emory University - one of the most prestigious (read: ungodly expensive) colleges in the Southeast - has decided to placate its serious underprivileged and underserved minority students (who are still able to afford the university's $44,000 a year tuition, somehow) by seriously considering banning Yik Yak from its campus computer networks because black student activists say the platform makes it too easy to transmit "hate speech."
Rounding out our double-plus-good social justice hilarity for the week: a Slate article actually used the term "apostates" to describe feminists who don't consider male-to-female transfolk women, a comedian is staring down jail time in Quebec for making jokes about a terminally ill child and the chairman of Google said he'd like to see the Internet adopt "spell checker for hate" algorithms that automatically remove videos and social media posts reeking of intolerance before they ever taint the World Wide Web. Granted, he said it's primarily for weeding out Islamic terrorist propaganda, but it's not like technology built to take out violent criminals has ever been manipulated to take out nonviolent criminals and non-criminals just because we don't like what they are saying, right?
The Force Awakens ... and so does perceived bigotry
With the latest Star Wars movie hitting theaters next week, of course the social justice warriors out there would find something to bellyache and moan about. In this case, it comes in the form of the Chinese film poster, which omits two African-English characters (and, for some reason, Chewbecca, who I guess is technically brown.) Although they have no qualms sending people to reeducation camps and making people "disappear" for free speech "violations," even the state Chinese P.R. department fear the dreaded scarlet "R" and issued this hard-to-interpret mea culpa: "The change has nothing to do with racism," the Global Times states. "Since the poster is merely a promotion method and an individual case, it would be unfair to criticize Chinese audiences for discriminating against the black actor." Meanwhile, actress Carrie Fisher said those who are offended by the term "Slave Leia" are a bunch of oversensitive morons and - proving once and for all that Star Wars obsessed dweebs are well-functioning people - a Fox News commentator received death and rape threats because she said she had no interest in "watching space nerds poke each other with their little space nerd sticks."
Supreme Court hints it may strike down affirmative action, so Salon decides to bully college student who filed caseWith the upcoming SCOTUS case Fisher v. University of Texas almost certain to overturn most of the nation's stringent affirmative action higher education policies (as evidenced by Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts' remark "what unique perspective does a minority student bring to a physics class?"at a recent oral hearing), Salon did what it did best when things don't go there way and decided to mercilessly savage the young woman who filed the initial lawsuit. In addition to calling her a substandard student, the author of the incendiary (if not vindictive) column also accused Abigail Fisher - who looks so much like one of my college girlfriends that I flinched the first time I saw her - of being a race-baiter. "Fisher's case only makes sense if you assume that people of color are inherently less worthy than white people," states scribe Amanda Marcotte. "How else do you justify an argument that assumes that every white person should have been given a shot before minority students do?" Interestingly, Marcotte leaves out other examples of affirmative action in play, including Princeton University's tradition of spotting black applicants an additional 230 SAT points on their admissions while knocking off 50 SAT points for Asian American students.
Funny how the social justice warriors of the world are absolutely aghast at "racial profiling" policies. That is, except for when those "racial profiling policies" benefit them and their agendas, naturally.
Sunday, December 6, 2015
This Week in Social Justice Warrior-dom
A fond look back at all the things that had ultra-P.C. jihadists outraged ... before they forget all about them in just a few days.
By: Jimbo X
JimboXAmerican@gmail.com
@Jimbo__X
A tale of two massacres...
On Black Friday, an aggrieved Caucasoid male (whose driver's license, for some reason, lists him as a female) ambled into a Planned Parenthood building in Colorado, opened fire and claimed the lives of three people, wounding an additional nine. The blowback from the mainstream media, as you would expect, was alternately mouth-foamingly caustic and strangely ebullient, as the leftist hit parade reveled in the opportunity to eviscerate that ghastly, hyper-racist, ultra-anti-woman, right-wing, rural-dwelling, Christian ideology that no doubt was the singular catalyst behind the murders. Huffington Post commentator Eric Boehlert railed against the media's "failure" to address conservative, domestic terror of the sort as the grave national security threat it is, while fellow HP commentator Julia Craven said the incident, somehow, represents white America's hypocrisy regarding the #BlueLivesMatter movement and, of course, is emblematic of their own onmipresent, all-encompassing racism. BJ Gallagher penned yet another scathing HuffPo piece about republican rhetoric driving Christians to kill. "When violence erupts, it may be one lone gunman pulling the trigger," wrote yet another Huffington Post scribe Monica Bauer, "but it's an entire country full of anti-choice activists who are offering him ammunition." Slate scribe William Salen - who earlier this year penned an article denying the Chattanooga naval reserve attack was a "real terrorist" incident - had no troubles listing the Colorado Springs shooting as a terror attack, however. In fact, in an incendiary Nov. 30 article, he stated that the Carolinas were a more concerning hotbed of terrorist ideology than the Levant. Well, flash forward just two days later, and what do you know, two Muslim extremists (including a woman) waltz into a Southern California holiday party and brutally gun down 14 innocent people in the deadliest U.S. mass shooting since Sandy Hook. As this helpful Reddit thread demonstrates, how the media covered this particular shooting quickly took a sharp turn as soon as the killers were identified as members of the Islamic community - gone were discussions about murderous ideologies and domestic terror, and of course, here comes the rhetoric about tighter gun control laws in 3, 2 and one. Immediately after the attacks, the New York Daily News (a "journalistic" operation with a vendetta against the NRA so severe, they don't even pretend their publication is about anything else anymore) went after right wing politicians for "offering prayers" in the wake of the shooting, while the media - absolutely reluctant to bring the issue of radical Islam into the arena of national discussion - instead used their Wordpress accounts to go after other media for stating things that are 100 percent factual yet not stated in a soft-boiled, no-assumptions-intended kindergartner teacher's voice and start online logs documenting all the times mosques got vandalized and people posted harsh things about Muslims on Facebook (I suppose a lack of bandwidth is their only excuse for not maintaining a separate log of terrorist attacks perpetrated by self-identifying Muslims, I take it.) Judging from the incredible biases exemplified in coverage of the two events - in which political ideologues have completely, hijacked reality and distorted it to fit their self-serving agendas - I'm beginning to wonder if, at this stage of the game, we really have a "free press" in America anymore. Certainly, we don't have one worth listening to anymore, that's for damn sure.
Feminists are raving about the realistic depiction of "rape culture" presented in a superhero television series
For those of you not in the know, Jessica Jones is a made-for-Netflix miniseries starring that one dark-haired chick that always wears a ton of red lipstick. No, not that one. No, not that one, either. OK, she kind of looks like that one, but not really. No, not her. OK, yeah, that's the one you are thinking of. Well, anyway, she plays a "retired" private investigator or something along those lines that also has the ability to punch cars in half, but the entire premise of the show revolves around this evil demon guy who can make people do whatever they say by simply asking them. Why yes, that does imply a heavy-handed "rape culture" message, how did you know? Well, per one Slate columnist at least, this program - again, about a poor-woman's Wonder Woman recovering from being raped by a mind-controlling international businessman demon - should completely change the minds of GOP leaders regarding the issue of abortion. Those sentiments were echoed by HuffPo writer Melissa Jeltsen, who wrote a mini-dissertation on how the program - about a fictitious character who can pick up trucks and throw them like a two-year-old slinging a Lego block - so realistically portrays the unpleasant actualities of intimate partner abuse. Well, everything that is, except the part about men in the U.S. being more likely than women to be the victims of domestic violence, naturally.
Who's ready for some holiday hate crime ho-ho-hoaxes?
Wedged snug in-between last week's Planned Parenthood shooting and Wednesday's California terror attack, there was a briefly mentioned mass shooting scare at the University of Chicago. So worried officials were over the online threats that they cancelled classes on Monday. As it turns out, the virtual culprit just so happened to be an African-American student named Jabari R. Dean, who in retaliation for the Laquan McDonald shooting, said he wanted to exact revenge and gun down as many "white devils" as he could. Meanwhile, a series of menacing tweets from someone promising to "shoot any black person I see at Kean University" was revealed to actually be the handiwork of Kean alum Kayla-Simone McKelvey, who said she sent out the online warnings to draw attention to the real world problem of racism that apparently isn't happening on her alma matter's campus. And lastly, a Connecticut police officer has been charged with writing a racist letter to a fellow colleague. Unfortunately, the anti-black screed directed towards Clive Higgins was actually manufactured by him and planted on an innocent officer.
CNN demonstrates incredible racial wealth inequities ... by leaving out several races
Recently, CNN posted an online story exemplifying the horrifying economic inequalities between whites, blacks and Hispanics. As you would expect, the rates of white home ownership and overall net worth for the light-skinned devils was far higher than that of the perpetually marginalized Hispanics and African-Americans, while poverty and unemployment rates were much lower. Of course, the single-mother household rate explains all of these discrepancies in full, but goddamnit, we just have to make this thing about racism, somehow. Of course, the CNN graphs also left out something else interesting about wealth inequity in the U.S. - namely the fact that Pacific Islanders, Asians, Jews and Indians all make more money than white Americans do.
Working class whites don't vote Democratic because they are racist, declares rich white Salon scribe
Proving that entitled, snobby liberal journalists know what's best for everybody beneath them, political commentator Sean McElewee recently penned an article for Salon hypothesizing that the primary reason non-college educated white people don't vote for democratic candidates is because - you guessed it - they are a bunch of hate-filled brown-people haters. Of course, McElewee never once mulls the inverse question about voting against his interests - as a rich, Caucasoid journalist, why doesn't he vote Republican to receive more tax breaks? - but he's oh so quick to criticize non-elite America (in case you didn't know, 59 percent of the U.S. doesn't have a college diploma of any variety) for not aligning themselves with politicians promoting the welfare state - and of course, dropping in the dreaded, although distressingly difficult to actually define and even harder to concretely determine, "r" word to really get the point across. Of course, working class whites would never despise democrats for sending them off to pointless wars, signing free trade agreements that send their jobs overseas, taking over their farms, taxing the crap out of what little income they bring in and enacting policies that deprive them of their self-sustainability, would they? Nope - they just hate blacks and Hispanics, apparently.
Brazilians publicly shamed for their offensive Facebook posts
Portending what is almost certainly the next big thing in online social justice warrioring, a "civil rights" group in Brazil called Criola has decided to use social media geo-caching features to rebroadcast users' insensitive status updates about Afro-Brazilians (fun fact: more black slaves came to Blanka's home country than the U.S., and were exploited for a much longer time than they were here in the states) on digital billboards right where said besmirchers of the P.C. Social Contract live and work. Meanwhile, the gaggle of beta-male cyber-terrorists Anonymous - fresh off listing several politicians as KKK members sans any evidence and posting erroneous "info" on ISIS attacks - has threatened YouTube Sam Pepper for posting a prank video of someone being shot. Their rationale? "The video emulates ISIS executions." Huh - you'd think if these neckbeards were so concerned about terror, they'd get off their Hot Pockets-stuffed asses and join their respective militaries, no?
In Europe, it is NEVER too early to train your children to become unquestioning liberal ideologists ... I mean, crusaders of inclusivity
While an astonishingly high number of pissed-off Muslim youths sprout up across Jolly Old England like Gremlins after a squall, rest assured the Camden Safeguarding Children Board (yes, it is indeed a real bureaucratic creation) is doing all they can to prevent your Billies and Suzies from turning into gay-hating, anti-immigrant rebels. The organization recently started handing out leaflets advising parent to be on the lookout for kids with a "distrust of mainstream media" and a distaste with "foreign policy" decisions. Of course, the big stanky turd in the punch bowl is that the pamphlet goes absurdly out of its way to avoid any discriminatory allusions to "terror" or - Allah forbid, Islamofacism - even though most of the leaflet's warnings - among other things, they tell parents to hid their kids' passports to keep from fleeing the country, for some totally enigmatic reason - seem to be oh-so-daintily dancing around the ISIS issue. More worried about your kid turning into an anti-woman propagator of the global "rape culture?" Well, Sweden has mandated that all 16-year-olds in the country own a copy of the third-wave feminist claptrap We Should All Be Feminists. Interestingly enough, the book was written by a Nigerian author; presumably, the Swedes are going to have an easier time discussing the gender gap than the suspiciously high (and even more suspiciously under-reported) amount of Afrophobia going on in their snow-soaked homeland.
Missouri politician introduces new restrictive gun control legislation ... but with a hilariously awesome twist
We here at The Internet In America like to pick on the liberal folks, but no means does that mean we're some kind of conservative cheerleaders. In fact, if you actually look around the website, you'd realize that we're just as critical and condemnatory of the comically aggrieved right as we are the comically aggrieved left. Which is why I'd like to congratulate Missouri State Rep. Stacey Newman for pulling off the most hilarious F-U to Red State America in quite some time. In the wake of the SoCal massacre, the Democrat pushed forward House Bill 1397, which, among other things, would require those seeking to purchase firearms to wait 72 hours, meet with a physician to determine his or her "emotional capability" to own a gun and then watch a graphic film displaying the victims of gun violence while a licensed firearms dealer accompanied them. Sound like an absurd overreach of state powers and blunt, compulsory political introduction? Well, it probably should, seeing as how Newman crafted the law around the very same requirements that state imposes upon those seeking abortions.
...and a few headlines that speak for themselves...
Saturday, November 7, 2015
This Week in Social Justice Warrior-dom
A fond look back at all the things that had ultra-P.C. jihadists OUTRAGED ... before they forget all about them in just a few days.
By: Jimbo X
JimboXAmerican@gmail.com
@Jimbo__X
African-American man seeks asylum in Canada to escape warrants police violence
New York-born Kyle Lydell Canty made an appeal to Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board on Oct. 23, requesting the land of Rush, Molson and Gretzky grant him asylum because, in his own words, blacks in the U.S. are being "exterminated at an alarming rate" by police officers and he fears for his own mortality. To woo over the IRB -- which in the past, has been suprisingly welcoming of child rapists, just as long as they don't have Y chromosomes -- Canty submitted two videos, which captured his arrest for trespassing into a bus station to steal Wi-Fi for two hours and another in which police roll past him because they thought he was flagging them down -- only to drive off shortly thereafter, sans incident. Of course, Canty's refugee bid has nothing to do with the fact that he has numerous outstanding charges in multiple states for a whole slew of offenses, ranging from jaywalking to disorderly conduct to issuing terroristic threats. As far as Mr. Canty's black holocaust thesis is concerned, the indisputable data on police violence from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention really doesn't lend it much support. However, had he argued that he was fleeing the U.S. to escape being murdered by other black people, he might have had a winning case, since 2014 FBI data asserts that 90 percent of all homicides involving black victims in the U.S. were perpetrated by other African-Americans.
Because too many white people were on the jury, SCOTUS mulls tossing out conviction of man who brutally raped and murdered elderly woman
Every now and then, we encounter a news story that reminds us that evil, rather than an unflinching absolute, is something that rests along a continuum. While we can all agree that racial profiling is bad (even if it sometimes saves lives), I'd like to think that we can also agree that some things are worse ... like murdering an elderly person. Alas, the upcoming Supreme Court of the United States case Foster v. Chatman very well could vouch for the legally-binding, precedent-setting antithesis, as it appears those no-good, hate-filled prosecutors in Rome, Georgia had the audacity mark the letter "B" next to the names of African-Americans on a list of potential jurors back in 1986. Foster's defense argues that blatant racial bias resulted in an all-white jury, which couldn't have possibly given Timothy Foster a fair shot in his capital murder trial. The end result? There's a very strong chance the highest court in the land, in the name of true equality, can invalidate the conviction of a man who raped, tortured and strangled a 79-year-old woman.
A tale of two toilets demonstrates mainstream media's TOTALLY objective take on transgenderism
Two divergent stories on "transgender rights" reveal exactly where most mainstream media outlets sit (and shit) on the whole "TransAmerica" debate. When Houston voters overwhelmingly shot down a ballot initiative that would allow trans-folks to use which ever gendered public restroom they want, the backlash was ferocious: the New York Times described it as "Houston voters reject broad anti-discrimination ordinance" while the Huffington Post described it as "Houston voters reject measures barring LGBT discrimination." Meanwhile, the Atlantic chided those who voted against the ordinance, P.C.-splaining to us unwashed masses "how bathroom fears conquered transgender rights in Houston" while Vice explained "how Houston is being duped by bigoted zealots." The headlines looked quite a bit different, however, when The United States Department of Education ordered Township High School District 211 in Illinois to allow a male-to-female transhuman the ability to shower alongside biological, non-ding-donged underage female students. "Illinois transgender student must get full locker room access ," CNN reported, while ABC News said "school district violated transgender student's rights." Of course, they could have used the headline "federal government forces girls to be in close proximity to penis" and it would have been just as contextually accurate, but for some reason, they decided to swing the other direction. I've said this before, and I will no doubt say it time and time again: funny how it's democracy in action when it's something you support, but tyranny of the majority when it's something that isn't.
New report alleges man-on-man rape in the military 15 times higher than previously thought
In today's hyper-P.C. wonderland, two of the most prominent narratives are that women are engulfed in a "rape culture" and that LGBT folks, across the spectrum, constantly experience abuse at the hands of the heterosexual patriarchy. That in mind, it's probably not that surprising that a report issued by the American Psychological Association on military sexual assaults earlier this week was completely ignored by the mainstream press -- presumably, because it notes that as many as 180,000 men in the U.S. Armed Forces may be experiencing sexual assaults at the hand of other men, with upwards of 57,000 of the incidents meeting the criteria for "penetrative attacks." Oh well, at least our friends over in China are taking the matter seriously: this past week, they passed legislation that criminalized male rape ... for the first time in the nation's history.
New report reveals middle-aged whites are dying off at a rate five times faster than African-Americans in the same age group
Two researchers, one of whom was the 2015 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Science, released a report earlier this week revealing that the death rate for Caucasians, ages 45-54 with no more than a high school education, has increased by 134 deaths per 100,000 over the last 15 years -- a sum that adds up to half a million untimely deaths. Talking to the New York Times, report co-author Angus Deaton said this stunning mortality rate increase has only one modern parallel - the AIDS crisis in the gay community in the 1980s. Strangely enough, the mortality rate for African-Americans in the same age group has gone down at a rate twice as fast as the death rate for non-educated white people has gone up, while white folks with college degrees are now about three and a half times less likely to die in middle-age than their alike-hued brethren with just a high school degree. Severe alcoholism, opioid drug abuse, obesity, declining job options and lack of medical care access are all being touted as reasons for why the honky death rate has increased so much over such a short period of time. Astonishingly, it looks like the first true ethnic cleansing of the post-globalization era might just be a byproduct of globalization itself.
Texas professor's claims of police victimization undone by dashcam footage
University of North Texas journalism professor Dorothy Bland made quite the commotion on social media last month when she posted photos online of her allegedly being "harassed" by Corinth police for "walking while black." Well, her stories of undue treatment from the po-po appear to have been squashed something wicked, when dashcam footage from the incident was released earlier this week and revealed that all the policemen did was politely ask her to walk on the other side of the road so she could see oncoming traffic better. Knowing that the ... sham ... was up, Bland quickly turned her outrage around and brought up some hitherto unmentioned claims that one of the officers compared her to a dog (the officer in question's response? It was raining at the time of the incident, and he said his dog doesn't like getting wet.) Since she's the dean of the journalism school and all, some folks have started an online petition to have her removed for behavior unbecoming of a professor and a journalist -- as of Nov. 7, circa 3:30 p.m. eastern, it has approximately 4,300 signatures.
Head of San Fran nonprofit says we shouldn't call thieves "criminals" because it hurts their feelings
In an online forum, Center for Media Justice Executive Director Malkia Cyril said that describing people who make the conscious decision to steal things as "thieves" and "criminals" is tantamount to a classist microaggression, further stating that she would prefer individuals use the less-judgmental phrase "the person who stole my belongings" instead. While some online commentators praised Cyril -- who, judging from the Wikipedia profile pic, may or may not be the Notorious B.I.G. -- others were a little less receptive to her idea. After an online commentator who claimed to be a low-income gay white man with AIDS asked who the "real victim" was when someone stole his bicycle that he can't afford to replace, Cyril fired back with this little humdinger: "Our things are not as important as people's lives. I'm asking that we open up the dialogue by acknowledging the immense wealth and privilege in the Bay Are [sic], who is being pushed out, and how that might inform crime patterns." So yeah, if you're ever in San Francisco, please rob the shit out of this asshole.
Trailer for new Spike Lee movie forces people to think about longstanding beliefs through new perspective, promptly draws outrage from black community
Some folks were mighty miffed when the trailer for the latest Spike Lee joint, Chi-Raq, was released. Fully expecting some sort of racially-charged, Do the Right Thing-esque rejoinder to police brutality in the black community, Mr. Lee instead dropped a preview of a ribald satire in which African-American women in the hood decide to curb inner city gun homicides by blue-balling their boyfriends until they agree to stop murdering each other -- making it, technically, an adaptation of the Aristophanes comedy Lysistrata. Chicago rapper Rhymefest slammed it for "exploiting poor people" while HuffPo columnist Ernest Owens decried Lee for "the regurgitation of black lives being coonishly violent and uncontrollably lustful" -- which I believe is actually code word for "how dare someone make a movie that doesn't conform lock-step with my own political agenda!"
Multiculturalism wins as a a rainbow of domestic terror shenanigans befall America
It was a great week for diversity, as people from across the melanin spectrum embarked upon wild, woolly and homicidally vengeful terrorist attacks. In Mississippi, a man with clear anti-corporate sentiments is staring down a potential life sentence for throwing a defective IED inside a Wal-Mart; not to be outdone, a black man in San Diego put the local airport on lockdown for four hours when he pointed his high-powered rifle outside his apartment window and just started rattling off rounds. And proving the Muslims can do bad all by themselves, 18-year-old Faisal Mohammad was shot and killed by police after he went on a stabbing spreed at UC Merced -- all because he was kicked out of a study group. You really have to admire all of this trans-racial, trans-ethnic mayhem going on these days; indeed, these United States truly are the melting pot ... of madness.
...and a potpourri of headlines that pretty much speak for themselves...
Sunday, September 20, 2015
This Week in Social Justice Warrior-Dom
A look back at the things that utterly OUTRAGED P.C. jihadists (before they forget all about them in just a few days.)
By: Jimbo X
JimboXAmerican@gmail.com
@Jimbo__X
Muslim kid builds clock, gets arrested and is promptly invited to White House
On Monday, Sept. 14 -- just a few days after 9/11, it should probably be noted -- Texas high schooler Ahmed Mohamed decided to bring a homemade clock (shielded inside a metal container, with several wires jutting out of it) to show to his engineering teacher (who, it should also probably be noted, never gave him the assignment.) Per reports, this teacher told Mohamed it was cool and all, but it was probably not a good idea to run around showing the device off to everybody else. Mohamed, who clearly knows how to pick up on social cues, decided to lug the thing into math class, where it began ticking. Since this presumably scared the dogshit out of everyone in the room, Mohamed was questioned and arrested by police, which soon sparked social media OUTRAGE, spurring Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and President of the United States Barack Obama to rush to Mohamed's aid. Following a torrent of articles decrying the incident as indicative of widespread anti-Muslim sentiment, Mohamed wound up receiving tons of dinero from online fundraisers, a litany of scholarship offers and a nice segue to an all-new high school, in addition to becoming an overnight celebrity getting free tours of Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. While scores of online crusaders continue to rail against perceived xenophobia and zero-tolerance school policies, hardly any of them seem willing to acknowledge that this arrest is far-and-away the best thing that ever happened to the Mohamed family (whose patriarch had several unsuccessful bids for president of Sudan and once tried to sue Koran-burning pastor Terry Jones), with the positive after-effects of the event completely overriding any of the trauma Ahmed may have experienced while briefly detained. Clearly, the kid who was suspended for chewing his Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun is all shades of envious right now.
The View reveals itself as a bastion of anti-woman sexists who hate healthcare workers
For years and years, the long-running estrogen-fest The View has been one of the most prolific and influential left-wing pop cultural constructs in all of media. Earlier this week, however, two cast members got a taste of their own ideological outrage medicine when Michelle Collins and Joy Behar (who, in the past, has made quite a few jokes about Islamofascism) made a couple of cracks about Miss Colorado Kelly Johnson, who donned indigo nurse scrubs during her ill-fated Miss America bid. After Behar asked why Johnson had a "doctor's stethoscope" around her neck, scores and scores of nursing professionals and nursing professional sympathizers took to Twitter and gave The View a thorough lambasting. Apparently, the #NursesUnited consortium has a lot of clout, as they successfully managed to goad two sponsors -- Johnson & Johnson and Eggland's Best -- into dropping their ads for the program. It's so nice to see healthcare providers coming together to battle against discrimination -- with support from a megalith pharmaceutical company that's been illegally hawking dangerous psychotropic drugs to children for decades and an industry notorious for worker maltreatment, naturally.
Batman gives up battling the Penguin and the Riddler to fight back against black-hatin’ policemen
Simply having JFK, Jr. in bondage gear beat up dudes dressed like Matthew Lesko just ain't going to cut it for today's comic book readers. A new Batman comic released last week feature the Caped Crusader taking on an entirely new villain -- institutional racism. In the story arc, Bruce Wayne must grapple with his own white privilege after a prejudiced copper shoots a black kid modeled after Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin to death. Of course, the comic conveniently excludes some of the seedier details about the homicide victims - no reason to muddy such a complex, intricate social issue with burdensome facts, right? The recasting of millionaire playboy Bruce Wayne into a morose, guilt-laden racism-enabler is but just the most recent in a long line of non-white-washing of comic book characters, including the transformation of Ms. Marvel into a Muslim, the flip-flopping of the Green Lantern into a homosexual and the complete Neitzschean transvaluation of Archie comics from being almost exclusively about a high school kid trying to bone two chicks simultaneously to being a series in which the titular character has a mixed race baby and gets gunned-down by a zealot who hates the gay folks.
Doritos announces LGBT Pride chipsHave you ever been chowing down on some greasy, cholesterol-soaked 'tater chips and though to yourself, "you know, I sure do like making my ass fatter with junk food, but by golly, I just wished there was a way to obliquely support the gay rights movement at the same time?" Well, Doritos has answered your inquiry with its all new rainbow-hued chips, a one-and-done novelty product that benefits a nonprofit overseen by a man who once called a gaggle of high-schoolers "pansy asses" for believing in, and I quote, "the bullshit" in the Bible. While the limited-time products aren't nationally available (yet), you can scoop up your own commemorative bag online for just $10. Whether the chips will contain more "trans-fats" to fit the LGBT theme, however, has yet to be publicized.
The NFL corporate leviathan denounced by sportswriter who works for even larger corporate leviathan
In a scathing article published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, columnist Michael Cunningham decried the NFL as an "unstoppable" menace for, among other things, bilking taxpayers out of stadium subsidies, hiding data on concussion risks from players, promoting the U.S. Armed Forces at events and being "a government-supported bread-and-circus show meant to distract us from the massive transfer of wealth to the already-wealthy." Strong words indeed, especially coming from a person who literally makes his living off writing about the same evil empire and apparently has no qualms about receiving money for his services from a mass media-and-auto-sales war machine whose annual revenue actually surpasses the NFL by a good $6 billion a year.
The Atlantic takes on “carceral state” by ignoring two-thirds of U.S. prison population
Earlier this week, The Atlantic unfurled a gargantuan multimedia series titled "The Age of Mass Incarceration," which prominently features the work of Ta-Nehishi Coates. In his miscellaneous articles, Coates repeatedly rails against the 50-year-old work of pioneering social services policy-framer Patrick Moynihan (while simultaneously calling him a covert supporter of affirmative action), gleefully supports reducing sentences even for violent offenders and more or less spends 5,000 words just to say reparations will fix everything. Interestingly enough, in this long-winded diatribe against the "prison state," not once does Mr. Coates or any of his Atlantic brethren mention that African-Americans represent a considerable minority of the U.S. federal prison population; apparently, the other 62 percent of incarcerated America just don't seem to matter, huh?
Racist Muslim assails T.O. on video, media not sure how to handle it
On Sept. 15, probable NFL Hall of Famer Terrell Owens apparently had an altercation outside a Starbucks in Brentwood, California -- an episode which, according to multiple accounts, entailed allegations of tripping and hot beverages to the face. Rather than focus on the possibility that the team-hopping wide receiver who may or may not have attempted to kill himself back in '06 assaulted a man twice, TMZ America has instead latched onto a video recording which shows the allegedly attacked confronting T.O., threatening to "murder" him and describing him as, and I cannot stress just how much this is a direct quote, "a knuckle-running, spear-chucking, monkey-ass looking motherfucker." When grilled by social justice warriors, the man who cursed out T.O. balked at the claims of racism, stating that he was "Middle Eastern, not KKK" and that no matter how much they hated it, saying the dreaded, ghastly, evil and vile "n-word" isn't a crime, while physically assaulting a man with a Pumpkin Spice Latte is.
Friday, April 25, 2014
Malcolm X: Hero of American Conservatism?
Forget the works of Richard Weaver or Whittaker Chambers: “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” may very well be the touchstone of modern conservative politics in the United States
-- Malcolm X,
“The Autobiography of Malcolm X” (1965)
P. 276
For the longest time, I refused to watch “Do the Right Thing,” the critically-revered 1989 film that put Spike Lee on the proverbial Hollywood map. For the most part, I postponed viewing it, because in my mind, I had an idea of what I thought the film would be like -- in essence, just a bunch of whitey-blaming while one-dimensional honky stereotypes do racist things to innocent, 100 percent conscientious black folks for two hours straight.
Eventually, I ended up watching the film, in its entirety, one particularly uninspiring afternoon. And when I finally gave it a shot, it absolutely blow me -- and my preconceived notions -- away. Instead of being a reverse racist film that violently condemned those rascally white devils, the film was a shockingly unbiased glimpse into just how uneasy we still are as a nation about race relations. Perhaps the film’s most iconic scene -- a montage of people, of various ethnic groups, saying various insensitive things about other ethnic groups -- demonstrates this best.
The undeniable beauty of “Do the Right Thing,” to me, was the fact that Spike Lee didn’t even attempt to tell us what the titular “right thing” was supposed to be. The film concludes with an incinerated pizza parlor and young black man choked to death by the police, and the only commentary the film feels necessary to send us home with are two completely contradictory quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. In a world desperate for easy answers, I had to applaud Mr. Lee for having the testicular fortitude to come right out and say that there aren’t any real answers -- it’s that unashamed, and shockingly unemotional, honesty that quickly catapulted “Do the Right Thing” into my pantheon of all-time favorite movies.
I believe it was for those very same reasons listed above that I was so reluctant to pick up “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” the 1965 book penned by “Roots” author Alex Haley. For years, I had heard about the book, and although I hadn’t seen the 1992 film adaptation (coincidentally, directed by Spike Lee himself, and perhaps just a bit ironically, spun-off from a screenplay penned by Jewish playwright Arnold Perl), I certainly recall the controversy surrounding the film when it was originally released -- by the way, I was just six-years-old at the time, and proud to say that much of my worldview had been shaped by that great 1990s institution, “In Living Color.”
As an elementary schooler, I remember spending half of February each year listening to my teachers drone on and on about MLK and Rosa Parks -- almost always giving us the sanitized, fit-for-mainstream consumption version of their respective life stories, of course; meanwhile, Malcolm X’s name was mentioned only in passing, if it all. In middle school, “Letters from Birmingham Jail” was required reading, but I’m not even sure my library even had X’s autobiography on the shelves. By the time I was in high school, the narrative passed down to me was that Malcolm X was basically the Magneto to MLK’s Charles Xavier, and the former’s autobiography was nothing more than hate-filled, antagonizing anti-white propaganda for the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Even in college, the multicultural, inclusiveness uber alles experience it was, not once did I hear a lecture on Malcolm X, or even faint words of praise for his works, from even my most liberal of professors.
I was oblivious to the fact that so many people didn’t seem to want me to read the damn book (almost always a sign that the contents therein are generally worth reading) until I was almost 30, and when I finally decided to pick up a copy and read it for myself, I had yet another “Do the Right Thing”-like reaction. Not only was the book not what I expected it to be, it was almost the complete night-and-day opposite.
I always wondered why white folks -- in particular, the super-liberal and super-guilty types -- championed Martin Luther King Jr. and always seemed to pretend that Malcolm X never existed. I always kind of assumed it was because of that whole “By Any Means Necessary” stuff, but as it turns out, their peculiar aversion to Malcolm X most likely stems from altogether different political reasons. Simply put, modern liberals don’t shun X because he “encouraged violence,” but simply because he called them out on their bullshit and backed political remedies to urban black plight that sound dangerously close to conservative talking points.
The not-quite-socialistic-but-definitely-not-capitalistic perspective of Martin Luther King, Jr. seems a perfect ideological foil to Malcolm X’s socioeconomic doctrine, which at times, seems to both condemn government entitlements and vaunt private sector wealth generation. Indeed, the entire civil rights discussion seems to ignore the reality that Martin Luther King Jr. was born into an already-wealthy family, an individual who, in every sense of the word, was about 100 times more “privileged” socioeconomically than a majority of white folks in the southeast. While King lived a relatively pampered existence -- hardly fraught with any of the adversities most regional blacks had to face at the time -- Malcolm Little was clearly a man of the soil, a poor kid from Michigan who grew up eating dandelion weeds while King cosplayed as a migrant worker in Connecticut and was told he was too good to marry a white lunch lady. By all traditional liberal measurements, it seems as if the school-of-hard-knocks trained, self-made X would be the progressive poster boy of the Civil Rights era, but wouldn’t you know it, lefties for half a century have instead been championing a man who refused to leave a will to his own family [*].
[*] To be far, neither did Malcolm X, but considering all of the money MLK made/inherited during his lifetime, X’s “oath of poverty” excuse, I surmise, is just a tad more defensible than King’s.
The story of Malcolm X is really a permutation of two time-tested tales; the ascension of the unlikely and the classical Greek tragedy. The tragedy part is quite evident, even to X himself, who many times throughout his own autobiography, predicts his own imminent, violent early death; that he saw this coming from a mile away only heightens the inherent tragicomedy -- with the ultimate swerve, of course, being that his death came not at the hands of the vile “white devils” he spent literally his entire life railing against, but the very Nation of Islam “brothers” that he once said he would die for himself.
Malcolm Little has inconspicuous roots. He grew up in abject poverty, with a mentally ill mother, whom more than likely, was driven insane by her husband’s grisly murder at the hands of racist whites. From a young age, Little was aware of “white oppression,” but he saw it as something a little more abstract than obvious displays, such as cross burning vigils and lynchings. You see, in Little’s eyes -- and remember, these are the thoughts of a relatively young child -- white oppression wasn’t just a tangible social edict, it was a psychological state. The society itself, he thought, was responsible for fostering in the American Black a sense of inferiority, which the black community itself mindlessly propagated through criminal enterprise shortcuts, drug running, vapid materialism (then it was conks and zoot suits, today its iPhones and hair extensions) and playing the “numbers” game. Whitey had imposed his superiority upon the blacks, and the blacks responded by immersing themselves in a culture that -- inadvertently -- proved the points of racist whites. When confronted with prejudiced allegations of laziness, shiftlessness and moral impieties, Little saw a black society that responded with greater investments in drinking, gambling and other vices; ever the astute youngster, Little also observed how Christianity was being used as a literal deus ex machina for blacks to self pardon themselves for their excesses and general aimlessness.
And so, Malcolm Little lived the life he was expected to live: he became a porter in New York and Boston, spending his weekends at clubs in Harlem and buddying up with numbers runners and cat burglars. Funnily, Little’s escapades in home invasions is manifested in a sardonic safety tip; if you want to keep would-be robbers out of your house, try leaving the bathroom light on all day and night.
And so, Little continues to smoke reefers and drink heavily and run afoul of some particularly nefarious crime folks. All the while, his hatred for the white devil increases, especially after he comes into contact with New York’s underground sex trade; bet you didn’t think diaper fetishism would be a prominent plot point in his autobiography, did you? And then, Little’s luck runs out, and he’s sent to the slammer for about a decade; according to himself, the extra time was tacked on because of his “unofficial” crime of hanging out with white women.
In prison, Malcolm Little makes a statement fairly similar to Mike Tyson in his autobiography, saying that his time in the clink was more or less his equivalent of attending college. After converting to Elijah Muhammad’s super racist version of Islam, Little starts reading like a motherfucker, and begins having scholarly debates with his cellmates. Given time to think, Malcolm Little more or less read his way to intellectual -- and eventually, physical -- freedom.
The communiqué between X and Muhammad reminded me a lot of the camaraderie between Philip Seymour Hoffman and River Phoenix’s brother in “The Master” -- albeit, with Malcolm X serving as a much more lucid and cognizant protégé than Joaquin's character. In hindsight, you kind of have to wonder how X was unable to see just how full of shit Muhammad was, but then again, X’s story is a tragic ascension; he needed Muhammad’s eventual betrayal to goad him into realizing the abject racism -- not to mention the batshit madness -- of the Nation of Islam, and why it wouldn’t be until he rejected the Man-God he formulated for himself that he would be able to truly grasp the “reality” he had sought since elementary school.
Oh, there’s some irony to be found here, of course. For one, Malcolm X himself acknowledges that if it hadn’t been for the white devil produced “The Hate that Hate Produced,” he never would have taken off as a national spokesman. Similarly, it was the financial contribution of the white devils in academia and the press that eventually allowed X to travel to Mecca, and keep him from becoming insolvent after being blacklisted from the Nation. Still, that didn’t prevent X from criticizing MLK for his own collusion with liberal whites, at one point referring to the March on Washington as an orchestration of the white devils themselves. Alas, many today seem to overlook the veracity of X’s “by any means necessary” call-to-arms; while the peaceful demonstration and integration policies praised by King worked, we tend to overlook the fact that those policies worked only because the maestros behind them were a.) wealthy as fuck, and b.) already had backing from the political elites. What X promoted, then, was a policy for the truly downtrodden black American: that, in the absence of socioeconomic political power, the only just response to externalized force until that socioeconomic political power was obtained was to physically defend oneself. In that, X’s highly-criticized “By Any Means” platform was actually a ways to a means, and not the intended destination point at all.
Throughout the book, it’s quite obvious that Malcolm’s disdain of the white man stemmed from perpetual cultural indoctrination. Daddy Little was a faithful adherent of segregationist pioneer Marcus Garvey -- so profound an influence on Malcolm’s upbringing, Garvey’s name is mentioned literally on the first page of his autobiography. That ideology ultimately led to Malcolm developing an intense hatred of all whites, which was effectively sublimated into the unabashedly racist teachings of Elijah Muhammad -- and thus, kick-starting X’s own career as a political firebrand. Of course, Muhammad’s jealousy would lead to X being ousted from his own social movement, and later on, be the catalyst for his own death; peculiarly, it wasn’t until X traveled to Mecca that, like a ton of proverbial bricks, the error of his whitey-hating ways bopped him on the head:
Funny how today, on both sides of the political spectrum, hardly anyone at all has taken X’s advice against blindly following personalities and other social movements to heart, no?
One of the thing that X keys in on in his autobiography, and its something Ossie Davis somewhat rephrases in the paperback’s epilogue, is that the most insidious form of racism imaginable isn’t blatant prejudice, clearly visible in social policies and folkways, but rather, institutionalized paternalism, in which the whites reiterate their “superiority” over the black man by preventing them from becoming self-sufficient. Indeed, X’s own cries for voluntary segregation was less an attempt to escape racial hostilities than it was an attempt to allow the black man to build his own society, create his own industries and businesses to generate his own income, and become a self-made man without the constant oversight of white bureaucrats. Segregation, per X (at one point in time, anyway), was the only viable alternative to permanent dependency upon “the man.” Indeed, X called the efforts of Northern Freedom Riders to “rescue” imperiled blacks in the south a “ridiculous” endeavor:
If all of this sounds eerily similar to the perpetual anti-welfare tirades from the right, it’s because, fundamentally, X is espousing the exact same ideological premise. Indeed, he even touches upon Goldwater-era conservatism as a far superior alternative to LBJ’s sprawling social services reform:
Granted, it’s not exactly great praise heaped upon contemporary conservatives, but just a few sentences later, X drops this little atom bomb on us…
In the eyes of X, even the most brutal forms of southern-conservative racism was less oppressive than the liberal policies imposed upon the black community; indeed, whereas the empty promises and token gestures of northern liberals merely cemented African-Americans into poverty, the unabashedly aggressive policies of the southern conservative forced the black community into taking action and seeking self-sufficiency. At the end of the day, Malcolm X’s big call to political arms within his autobiography is really no different than the central thesis of the work of someone as far right as Charles Murray: it’s not until the black man is economically independent and capable of living his life without the assistance of the government and other paternalistic whites that he can call himself truly free.
Of course, it’s a hard sell to most arguing Malcolm X as a modern conservative pioneer -- especially to Tea Party contemporaries, who would almost certainly blackball him on grounds of being a “moose-limb” alone -- but even then, it seems as if X has more in common with modern neo-cons than today’s leftists. Even as a Muslim, X’s religion mandates a vaunting of asceticism, the traditional family construct and considerably conservative-sounding fiscal principles, which are all near anathema to the Democratic Party’s current platform. And hell, X is a clear cut ally of the NRA if there ever was one, and as an appeal to the conspiratorial libertarian crowd, he also seemed to have a thing against Jews and the Freemasons, too.
While “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” may not exactly be “Atlas Shrugged” or “Road to Serfdom,” there’s no denying the unexpected similarities between X’s sociopolitical values and those of Red State America. Of course, X himself would probably hate the ever-loving shit of today’s hardcore conservatives, but odds are? He would probably hate today’s hardcore liberals even more…which, to some degree, probably explains why his autobiography remains one of the nation’s most celebrated -- yet seemingly unread -- nonfiction works to this very day.
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