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Post by danvilleshark on Apr 15, 2019 8:44:21 GMT -8
#TDS
Vice President Mike Pence is getting pushback from Taylor University students and alumni after the small evangelical Christian school tapped the former Indiana governor to be this year's commencement speaker.
Over 3,300 people have signed a change.org petition to get Pence's invitation to the mid-May commencement ceremony rescinded, claiming the "Trump-Pence Administration's policies" are "not consistent with the Christian ethic of love we hold dear."
One Taylor grad said the school, "should be ashamed...I am physically shaking...I feel personally attacked," but not all alumni agree and Taylor officials said they are standing by their decision.
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Post by danvilleshark on Apr 15, 2019 8:47:45 GMT -8
More TDS:
CBS All-Access’ "The Good Wife" spinoff series, "The Good Fight," is in hot water after tweeting an image from one of its episodes that shows a list of "target words" including: "Assassinate," "President" and "Trump" in a red column and a second orange column that started with the words: "Mar-a-Lago" and "Eliminate."
The episode itself focuses on the character Diane (Christine Baranski) joining a female resistance group tasked with dragging down Donald Trump's approval ratings.
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Post by danvilleshark on Apr 15, 2019 8:51:13 GMT -8
The madness of the hard left:
A decision to affix an American flag graphic to the side of freshly painted Laguna Beach police cars is dividing residents, who are alternately praising the image as patriotic or panning it as too aggressive.
After hearing the criticism and acknowledging that the image they approved didn’t quite match the final results, officials agreed to reconsider their February decision to paint the Laguna Beach Police Department’s fleet of 11 squad cars. The City Council will take up the issue again at its Tuesday meeting.
“People are screaming that the American flag on a police car is somehow or another ... hurting people’s feelings who might be immigrants or visitors,” said Councilman Peter Blake. “People are actually ridiculous enough to bring up comments about our cop cars having American flags on them.”
Artist Carrie Woodburn went to the podium at the March 19 council meeting and said it was “shocking to see the boldness of the design” when the newly painted Ford Explorers rolled out.
“We have such an amazing community of artists here, and I thought the aesthetic didn’t really represent our community,” Woodburn said. “It feels very aggressive.”
Attorney Jennifer Welsh Zeiter said at the last council meeting that she found the police cars “exceptional” and questioned the loyalty of anyone who objected to the American flag display.
“They are so filled with hatred toward this ... office of the president of the United States and the current occupant of that office,” she said, “that they cannot see through their current biases to realize that a police vehicle with the American flag is the ultimate American expression.”
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Post by carolinasharksfan on Apr 15, 2019 9:08:15 GMT -8
#TDS Vice President Mike Pence is getting pushback from Taylor University students and alumni after the small evangelical Christian school tapped the former Indiana governor to be this year's commencement speaker. Over 3,300 people have signed a change.org petition to get Pence's invitation to the mid-May commencement ceremony rescinded, claiming the "Trump-Pence Administration's policies" are "not consistent with the Christian ethic of love we hold dear." One Taylor grad said the school, "should be ashamed...I am physically shaking...I feel personally attacked," but not all alumni agree and Taylor officials said they are standing by their decision. If you’re “physically shaking” because of a commencement speech, you have way bigger problems than worrying about a speech. |
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Post by danvilleshark on Apr 15, 2019 10:15:36 GMT -8
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Post by danvilleshark on Apr 15, 2019 14:47:47 GMT -8
 The so called community: U.S. Boy thrown from Mall of America balcony still hospitalized Associated Press Associated Press Sun, Apr 14 9:21 AM PDT This undated photo provided by the Bloomington, Minn., Police Department, shows Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda, who was arrested in connection with an incident at the Mall of America where a 5-year-old boy plummeted three floors Friday, April 12, 2019, after being pushed or thrown from a balcony. (Bloomington Police Department via AP) BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — A 5-year-old boy who was seriously injured when he was thrown from a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America near Minneapolis remains hospitalized. Friends of the family have started a crowdfunding effort to help with medical bills. The GoFundMe campaign had raised nearly $400,000 as of Sunday morning. Bloomington Police Chief Jeffrey Potts said Sunday that the boy is "still alive and receiving care," and that the family wants privacy. Children's Hospital Minneapolis had no information to release. Authorities haven't released the boy's name. They say he fell nearly 40 feet after a man threw him off the balcony Friday. Twenty-four-year-old Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda, of Minneapolis, is jailed on a suspicion of attempted homicide charge. Jail records don't list an attorney for him. He could be formally charged as early as Monday. |
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Post by cjelli on Apr 15, 2019 18:54:31 GMT -8
I hope the Republican Party belches out this asshole all the way into the next DNC event.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld on Monday formally declared his candidacy for White House, setting him off on an extreme uphill climb to defeat incumbent President Donald Trump for the Republican nomination. ... Weld, who recently returned to the Republican Party after serving as the 2016 Libertarian Party nominee, launched a presidential exploratory committee in February.
I have a lot to say about Mrs. Clinton that has not been said by others recently and that I think needs to be said. I mean I've known her for 40 years. I worked with her, I know her well professionally. I know her well personally. I know her to be a person of high moral character. A reliable person and an honest person, however Mr. Trump may rant and rave to the contrary. So I'm happy to say that. People can make their own choices.
Well I’m here vouching for Mrs. Clinton and I think it’s high time somebody did, and I’m doing it based on my personal experience with her and I think she deserves to have people vouch for her other than members of the Democratic National Committee, so I’m here to do that.
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Post by danvilleshark on Apr 16, 2019 12:05:17 GMT -8
Will this get the same attention from the so called media in Chicago on what turned out to be another in a long line of BS stories? A pro-Trump immigrant from West Africa was pummeled and knocked to the ground over the weekend for wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, Maryland police said. Montgomery County police on Monday announced two arrests in connection with the alleged politically-motivated beat-down. Atsu Nable told FOX5 DC that he was the one in the MAGA hat. He said the two men approached him Saturday in Germantown, outraged he was wearing it. He said one of the men struck him from behind, leaving him shocked. Maryland cops have accused Scott Roberson (l), 25, and Jovan Crawford, 27, with assaulting a West African immigrant for wearing a MAGA hat over the weekend.  (MOntgomery County Police ) “I was like, ‘Why are you doing this?’” Nable said. “They said, ‘No, the hat,’ and they started punching me on my head.” Nable told the station he was proud to wear the hat as a long-time supporter of President Trump. He said he became a naturalized U.S. citizen after emigrating from Togo in West Africa in 2007, attended Trump campaign events and served as a volunteer at Trump's inauguration. |
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Post by danvilleshark on Apr 16, 2019 12:56:30 GMT -8
Where is LeChuck?
The election of Donald Trump didn’t create the left’s hate and intolerance, it just exposed it.
From the day Trump was elected, the unloving, intolerant, and crybaby left went crazy -- Cry-ins, safe spaces, canceled classes, screaming at the sky, pink hat marches, and riots in streets.
That’s how the left handles an election defeat. They freak out, throw tantrums, and lash out at those who support the president.
Since Election Day, there have been countless attacks on Trump supporters -- young, old, male, female, black and white.
We’ve been called racist rednecks, bigots, sexists, and deplorable. Heck, we’ve even got otherwise irrelevant actors allegedly staging hate crimes against themselves to demonize Trump supporters.
There’s also been a concerted effort to drive Trump supporters out of restaurants, social media platforms, and jobs.
Even top NFL draft prospects feel pressured to stop supporting the president, vocally.
But it doesn’t end there.
Now, Daniel Hect, the newly appointed campus police chief at Mount Holyoke College, has been put on administrative leave.
Why? Well, the college claims:
“Over the past few weeks, members of our community have expressed concerns about the ability of Chief Daniel Hect to develop the level of trust required to engage in community policing.
In light of this, Chief Hect, who leads campus police at Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges, has been placed on administrative leave.”
By "concerns" do you mean students discovered Chief Hect liked pro-Trump, conservative, and NRA tweets on Twitter? BINGO!
And what were these horrible and triggering tweets?
Well, one was a “liked” NRA tweet wishing everyone a Merry Christmas.
Another “liked” NRA tweet said, “If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.”
And buckle up folks, he also “liked” tweets from our president about the border wall. The audacity!
The student who blew the trigger whistle said, it was "Unacceptable for someone in charge of keeping any community safe, let alone a campus as diverse as MHC's, to be publicly displaying his support for hateful regimes and organizations, as well as for individuals who demonize migrants from Mexico or other Latin American nations.”
After that, the campus went so far as to host a forum in which Hect could be grilled by students as to why he DARE appear to be a conservative.
Hect even APOLOGIZED for liking tweets which showed support for the border wall.
But even that wasn’t enough, he was still forced to take leave.
The man has been serving in law enforcement for over 30 years and now he’s being run out of a well-deserved position because he dared to be a patriot on social media, dared to go against the mob that is the left?
That’s so freakin’ wrong. College campuses are chalked full of liberal BS and indoctrination and it’s celebrated
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Post by cjelli on Apr 16, 2019 13:00:02 GMT -8
Where is LeChuck? The election of Donald Trump didn’t create the left’s hate and intolerance, it just exposed it. From the day Trump was elected, the unloving, intolerant, and crybaby left went crazy -- Cry-ins, safe spaces, canceled classes, screaming at the sky, pink hat marches, and riots in streets. That’s how the left handles an election defeat. They freak out, throw tantrums, and lash out at those who support the president. Since Election Day, there have been countless attacks on Trump supporters -- young, old, male, female, black and white. We’ve been called racist rednecks, bigots, sexists, and deplorable. Heck, we’ve even got otherwise irrelevant actors allegedly staging hate crimes against themselves to demonize Trump supporters. There’s also been a concerted effort to drive Trump supporters out of restaurants, social media platforms, and jobs. Even top NFL draft prospects feel pressured to stop supporting the president, vocally. But it doesn’t end there. Now, Daniel Hect, the newly appointed campus police chief at Mount Holyoke College, has been put on administrative leave. Why? Well, the college claims: “Over the past few weeks, members of our community have expressed concerns about the ability of Chief Daniel Hect to develop the level of trust required to engage in community policing. In light of this, Chief Hect, who leads campus police at Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges, has been placed on administrative leave.” By "concerns" do you mean students discovered Chief Hect liked pro-Trump, conservative, and NRA tweets on Twitter? BINGO! And what were these horrible and triggering tweets? Well, one was a “liked” NRA tweet wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. Another “liked” NRA tweet said, “If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.” And buckle up folks, he also “liked” tweets from our president about the border wall. The audacity! The student who blew the trigger whistle said, it was "Unacceptable for someone in charge of keeping any community safe, let alone a campus as diverse as MHC's, to be publicly displaying his support for hateful regimes and organizations, as well as for individuals who demonize migrants from Mexico or other Latin American nations.” After that, the campus went so far as to host a forum in which Hect could be grilled by students as to why he DARE appear to be a conservative. Hect even APOLOGIZED for liking tweets which showed support for the border wall. But even that wasn’t enough, he was still forced to take leave. The man has been serving in law enforcement for over 30 years and now he’s being run out of a well-deserved position because he dared to be a patriot on social media, dared to go against the mob that is the left? That’s so freakin’ wrong. College campuses are chalked full of liberal BS and indoctrination and it’s celebrated Chief Hect is an idiot. He should've told students to go fuck themselves, if any of them assaulted him or invaded his privacy he should've apprehended them for security violation, sued them in the civic court and prosecuted them criminally. And if the college would do anything against him, sue them on the 1st Amendment grounds.
Apologizing to the SJW hongweibings is like cutting your skin open in a pool with piranhas.
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Post by Fugazi on Apr 16, 2019 15:59:43 GMT -8
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Post by cjelli on Apr 16, 2019 16:12:51 GMT -8
NEW YORK -- Hungary’s top diplomat, in an interview with Fox News, praised President Trump’s push for NATO partners to boost military spending -- and said the administration's treatment of Central European countries as allies represents a stark contrast from what he called the “lecturing” of the Obama years.
“Since the current administration has been in power, the relationship has totally changed and the relationship is based on mutual respect which used not to be the case,” Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told Fox News. “So before this administration took office, ‘lecturing’ was basically the right expression to describe our relationship.”
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Post by danvilleshark on Apr 17, 2019 7:18:22 GMT -8
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Post by danvilleshark on Apr 17, 2019 10:00:08 GMT -8
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Post by danvilleshark on Apr 17, 2019 10:22:23 GMT -8
Because everyone wants to see this?
Florida prosecutors said Wednesday they intend to release police surveillance videos of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and 24 other men allegedly paying for sex — through the cases of two women accused of owning and managing the alleged house of prostitution the men visited.
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Post by sharkhaywood on Apr 17, 2019 12:26:08 GMT -8
Something tells me he won't be so popular in Hollywood now.
Now middle-aged, the enfant terrible novelist Bret Easton Ellis, has turned to nonfiction to mock the "childlike fascism" and "demented narcissism" of American liberals that helped put President Trump in the White House and left them facing "mental and emotional collapse."
For good measure, Ellis, 55, also denounces the "legacy media" in his new book "White" — originally due to be called "White Privileged Male" — describing it as "a moral disaster for the country" that had covered Trump in the 2016 with such bias and "absolute cluelessness" that it assisted him. The Washington Examiner obtained a copy in advance of its publication Tuesday.
Already facing a backlash from the liberal intelligentsia he disdains — a Q&A with the New Yorker was intensely hostile — Ellis has also been praised for his devil-may-care contrarianism. Interview Magazine described "White" as containing "searing points about how the national obsession with being liked at all costs and the silencing of opposing voices under the banner of inclusivity can create its own American hellscape."
As the author of the 1991 dystopian novel American Psycho, in which the Wall Street banker — and serial killer — protagonist Patrick Bateman venerates Manhattan real estate mogul Donald Trump, Ellis has a unique perspective on the 45th president of the United States.
He places Trump's 2016 victory and what he sees as the Left's continued refusal to accept his legitimacy squarely in the context of millennials — those who reached adulthood around the start of the 21st century. He brands them"Generation Wuss" and laments their "oversensitivity, their sense of entitlement, their insistence they were always right despite sometimes overwhelming proof to the contrary, their joint tendencies of overreaction and passive-aggressive possibility."
This, he argues, has been fostered by "overprotective, helicopter moms and dads mapping their every move" while "smothering their kids and not teaching them how to deal with life's hardships ... people might not like you, this person will not love you back, kids are really cruel, work sucks, it's hard to be good at something, your days will be made up of failure and disappointment, you're not talented, people suffer, people grow older, people die."
"Generation Wuss," he writes, became consumed by "victim narratives" and "anxiety and neediness." More darkly, and with the help of social media, Ellis diagnoses a growing inability to accept or even listen to viewpoints that differ from a "woke" status quo.
"This is an age that judges everybody so harshly through the lens of identity politics that if you resist the threatening groupthink of 'progressive ideology,' which proposes universal inclusivity except for those who dare to ask any questions, you’re somehow fucked," Ellis writes. "Everyone has to be the same, and have the same reactions to any given work of art, or movement or idea, and if you refuse to join the chorus of approval you will be tagged a racist or a misogynist."
Ellis identifies disgust with this as one of the factors behind the rise of Trump. Born in Los Angeles and now living there again after decamping from New York, Ellis found himself as an almost lone voice in the "Hollywood bubble" who believed Trump could defeat Hillary Clinton.
In the summer of 2015, he began to feel that "legacy institutions like The New York Times and CNN [were not] tracking what seemed to me a shifting reality ... the media became so freaked out that they abandoned the hallmarks of neutrality and perspective."
Trump insulted everyone, Ellis argues, "and white men got it first and far more than anyone else, yet as the national press corps explained it, this was not the case."
He continues: "Trump was the poster-boy antithesis of the proud moral superiority of the Left as defined forever by Clinton's 'basket of deplorables' comment, as well as by Michelle Obama's breathlessly condescending 'when they go low, we go high,' both of which were quoted approvingly in the legacy media."
If the media had reported "Trump more objectively he wouldn't have won. ... the way the legacy media was covering the election of 2016 — Clinton as heroine, Trump as villain — would prove to be an utter moral disaster for the country because it helped turn Donald Trump into the biggest underdog in American political history."
For his part, Ellis voted for neither candidate. "I hadn't voted for anyone, not only because I lived in rest-assured California but also because during the campaign I'd realized I wasn't a conservative or a liberal, a Democrat or a Republican, and I didn't buy into what either party was selling. (I'd also thought Bernie Sanders's platform was impractical to the point of absurdity.)"
But Ellis found himself being pilloried merely for failing to be distraught that Trump had won. "When my traumatized boyfriend criticized me for not being angrier about the election (five months after it had happened) I shot back that I didn't want to talk about Trump anymore. I didn't care. He was elected president. Get over it." His boyfriend shot back that "by simply accepting the elections' results I was 'colluding' with the new administration and, by extension, with Moscow."
He began to tune out those who harped on about Clinton winning the popular vote, a mantra that "started reminding me — as the resistance continued — of the complaints of spoiled children at a birthday party when they didn't win the relay race, and who wanted the race rerun with different rules, while stomping their feet, arms crossed, pinched faces crimson and wet with tears."
When he heard people using words like "Hitlerian" and "apocalypse," he writes, he'd "stare at them while a tiny voice in the back of my head started sighing, You are the biggest fucking baby I've ever fucking heard in my entire fucking life and please you've got to fucking calm the fuck down — I get it, I get it, you don't like fucking Trump but for fuck's sake enough already for fuck's sake."
One friend told him that the Electoral College — the agreed rules by which Trump won — was "bullshit" and Los Angeles and New York should choose the president. "I don't want any goddam know-nothing rural hicks deciding who the president should be," Ellis quoted him as saying. "I am a proud liberal coastal elite and I think we should pick the president because we know better."
Ellis found the incident in which White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was refused service in a Virginia restaurant to be especially ominous. "The shunning of others who don't like you had moved past protest and resistance into childlike fascism. ... the differing viewpoints were judged as immoral, racist and misogynist." During the Senate hearings into the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, the Left "had turned into haters, helped by an inordinate amount of encouragement from the mainstream media and now came across as anti-common-sense, anti-rational and anti-American."
On one level, Ellis concludes, this may have been "simply the year of endless low points for a resistance that was spinning epic fails in venting their anger about Trump," the latest episode in the reality show that is the Trump presidency.
"Or maybe when you're roiling in childish rage, the first thing you lose is judgment, and then comes common sense. And finally you lose your mind and along with that, your freedom."
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Post by danvilleshark on Apr 17, 2019 13:25:17 GMT -8
Ha ha Ellis for the win.
TDS well explained.
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Post by cjelli on Apr 17, 2019 13:28:43 GMT -8
Amherst College is one fine place. It cares about its students so much that it created a Common Language Guide for its students. This exceptional document was concocted by Associate Dean of Inclusion and Diversity, one Angie Tissi-Gassoway. For example:
Gender: Socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society deems as masculine or feminine. This social construct is often linked to and confused with sex assigned at birth (see p.19 for definition). Many, if not all, people display traits associated with more than one gender.
Healthy masculinity: An aspirational concept that poses the question: “What does masculinity look like if it’s done at no one’s expense?” People who embody healthy masculinity work in solidarity with marginalized gender identities to end gender-based oppression. They have an understanding of how their masculinity is impactful, and do the work of healing, undoing and preventing harm.
Patriarchy: A sociopolitical system in which cisgender heterosexual men have authority over everyone else. Also, the way we describe society as fundamentally based on heterosexism, sexism and male dominance. This is also known as cisheteropatriarchy. Here, all actors are presumed to be heterosexual and should align with strict gender binary roles. Patriarchy is reliant upon ideologies of domination and the exploitation of all things related to the feminine.
The college was quick to rescind the document, but it should've been to gass away that dear Angie. What an education she has, too. A double Masters Degree in nothing. I wonder if the entire "Department of Inclusion and Diversity" is axed, how much would it be possible to save on tuition at Amherst College. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2019 13:52:32 GMT -8
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Post by Fugazi on Apr 17, 2019 14:11:23 GMT -8
That sucks. Those poor kids future is ruined |
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Post by danvilleshark on Apr 17, 2019 14:11:32 GMT -8
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Post by Fugazi on Apr 17, 2019 14:49:36 GMT -8
Ha ha Ellis for the win. TDS well explained. He sure did. I wonder how long he'll work in Hollywood before they blacklist him |
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Post by danvilleshark on Apr 17, 2019 15:13:23 GMT -8
A guy I have known since high school must be losing it. He is a big time D supporter and that is fine with me as I could care less. Today he is mad about redactions on the report. He won’t accept the findings. I reminded him I still have a copy of my txt to him saying i will fully accept the conclusion of the report and if Trump colluded with the Russians he should go to jail. We would not allow this even when i offered to resend it to him. He then said anyone that supports Tru p is a dick. I said we have nothing then to discuss and said bye and blocked him.
What the fuck is wrong with people?
I am not kidding when I say TDS is a real thing
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Post by danvilleshark on Apr 17, 2019 16:39:07 GMT -8
Where is LeChuck to tell us colleges are not full of hard left activists?
New York University journalism professor Talia Lavin once again grabbed headlines when she took hefty jabs at leading figures in the conservative movement.
Lavin, who will teach a course called "Reporting on the Far Right," called former Navy SEAL and newly-elected Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, "captain s---head" on Friday. She was deriding Crenshaw for discussing criticism he received after blasting Rep. Ilhan Omar's, D-Minn., controversial comments about the attacks on September 11.
"[T]he real victim, captain s---head, speaks," Lavin tweeted above a video of Crenshaw and his comments on the backlash. In an archived version of that Twitter thread, Lavin seemed to double down amid criticism and called Crenshaw "lieutenant commander s----head."
"[O]h see the right-wing pearl clutchers are here. orry, it's my right to criticize a political hack who was also once a troop," she tweeted.
Crenshaw was just one of many to criticize Omar after she referred to the events on 9/11 as "some people did something."
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Post by Fugazi on Apr 17, 2019 16:51:31 GMT -8
Where is LeChuck to tell us colleges are not full of hard left activists? New York University journalism professor Talia Lavin once again grabbed headlines when she took hefty jabs at leading figures in the conservative movement. Lavin, who will teach a course called "Reporting on the Far Right," called former Navy SEAL and newly-elected Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, "captain s---head" on Friday. She was deriding Crenshaw for discussing criticism he received after blasting Rep. Ilhan Omar's, D-Minn., controversial comments about the attacks on September 11. "[T]he real victim, captain s---head, speaks," Lavin tweeted above a video of Crenshaw and his comments on the backlash. In an archived version of that Twitter thread, Lavin seemed to double down amid criticism and called Crenshaw "lieutenant commander s----head." "[O]h see the right-wing pearl clutchers are here. orry, it's my right to criticize a political hack who was also once a troop," she tweeted.
Crenshaw was just one of many to criticize Omar after she referred to the events on 9/11 as "some people did something."
You fucking bitch, I like Crenshaw. |
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Post by cjelli on Apr 17, 2019 17:43:09 GMT -8
Where is LeChuck to tell us colleges are not full of hard left activists? New York University journalism professor Talia Lavin once again grabbed headlines when she took hefty jabs at leading figures in the conservative movement. Lavin, who will teach a course called "Reporting on the Far Right," called former Navy SEAL and newly-elected Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, "captain s---head" on Friday. She was deriding Crenshaw for discussing criticism he received after blasting Rep. Ilhan Omar's, D-Minn., controversial comments about the attacks on September 11. "[T]he real victim, captain s---head, speaks," Lavin tweeted above a video of Crenshaw and his comments on the backlash. In an archived version of that Twitter thread, Lavin seemed to double down amid criticism and called Crenshaw "lieutenant commander s----head." "[O]h see the right-wing pearl clutchers are here. orry, it's my right to criticize a political hack who was also once a troop," she tweeted.
Crenshaw was just one of many to criticize Omar after she referred to the events on 9/11 as "some people did something."
A university that teaches a credited course "Reporting on the Far Right" should lose its accreditation at the moment the first student is enrolled. |
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Post by galtfan on Apr 18, 2019 4:56:04 GMT -8
HOT TAKE
Why the Notre Dame fire is getting the attention America's burned black churches never could
We shouldn’t allow our emotions to be monopolized and influenced by the systems that continue to protect white empires.
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Flames rise from Notre Dame cathedral as it burns in Paris on April 15, 2019.Thibault Camus / AP
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The past few weeks have seen several high-profile churches damaged by fire on the world stage. The tragic fire that engulfed France’s Notre Dame Cathedral on Monday — by far the biggest news story — resulted in an international outpouring of support for what many consider one of the most beautiful buildings on earth. Notre Dame has received nearly one billion dollars in donations from companies like Gucci, Chanel and Apple, as well as an offer of support from the United States.
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But Notre Dame is not the only church that has been damaged recently. Indeed, the authors of the dozens of American think pieces mourning the loss of sacred spaces would be wise to look a little closer to home for material. On March 26, April 2 and April 4, three predominantly black Baptist churches were burned down — very much on purpose — in a rural Louisiana parish. Now, a 21-year-old white man by the name of Holden Matthews has been charged with the arsons, which police allege are hate crimes. Matthews also happened to be the son of a deputy officer, who turned him in. Given the history of white supremacy and it’s ties to law enforcement, this connection did not surprise everyone.
It took several days for these Louisiana arsons to gain national traction. President Donald Trump has certainly not offered his support to the citizens of St. Landry Parish who have been deprived of their places of worship because of their black identity. Neither has Trump — or Congress — rushed to offer resources to the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, a building that is over 1,800 years old and which also caught on fire on Monday. (The mosque was not seriously damaged, luckily.)
Symbolism and imperialism keep the wheels of capitalism going, something France and the U.S. know very well.
Symbolism and imperialism keep the wheels of capitalism going, something France and the U.S. know very well. The massive reaction to Notre Dame is the result of many things; the building was an architectural masterpiece and an important space for Catholics around the world. But we can learn a lot from the things we consider important — or which we have been conditioned to think are important. We travel the world, often without truly understanding the historical damage of the sites we’re exploring.
Because France and the U.S. share a lot more than a mutual appreciation for Judeo-Christian landmarks. Colonialism has destroyed black and brown people for centuries, much of it perpetuated by France and the U.S. (among others.) Many of France’s most culturally relevant institutions are filled with artifacts stolen from African nations, never to be returned. If you’re looking for the continuing consequences of France’s colonialism, look no further than Haiti. In 1825, France required the island nation to pay billions in “reparations” to French slaveholders in order to retain its hard-won independence. Haiti’s economy has never truly recovered.
Donations flood in after Notre Dame fire
APRIL 16, 201901:22
A similar legacy is shared by the United States, where the question of reparations for descendants of Africans continues to be a topic of discussion. (Adding insult to injury, Trump reportedly called Haiti a s------- country in 2018.) While the United States is quick to give money to France to support the rebuilding of Notre Dame, its own infrastructure continues to suffer at the hands of greed and white supremacy. Flint still doesn’t have clean water, something that crossed over from the last administration. Puerto Rico still has yet to be fully rebuilt following Hurricane Maria — a humanitarian crisis which saw the death of more than 3,000 U.S. citizens. And the three destroyed black churches — symbolic and sacred in their own right — have not been offered a single federal dime. In fact, up until Tuesday the churches had only raised a few hundred thousand dollars, in comparison to the hundreds of millions pledged to Notre Dame. Happily, Notre Dame seems to have inspired further giving in Louisiana, and they are nearing their $1.8 million goal, which will be split between the three.
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Observing the groups who have been blamed for the church burnings is equally revealing. In France, the Notre Dame fire quickly sparked a series of Islamophobic conspiracy theories. In 2016, Muslims made up over eight percent of the population — and they have faced immense amounts of discrimination under President Emmanuel Macron’s regime. France’s National Assembly passed a rule banning members of parliament from wearing or displaying religious garb, directly effecting Muslims, an issue Macron remained silent on. Macron also pushed for the idea of creating a “French Islam” which would be a top-down attempt to integrate Muslims into the very secular French society. It was a move some felt was a way to assimilate Islam to the point of invisibility.
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France, a country known for creating a “colonial system of justice, originally from the late 19th century, which created an inferior legal status for subjects in North Africa, West Africa and Southeast Asia,” has continued to oppress black and brown folks at the intersection of religion, much like the United States. It is not lost on anyone that Islamophobia as a global issue intersects with anti-blackness.
Of course folks are allowed to be upset and to feel loss about more than one event at a time. But we shouldn’t allow our emotions to be monopolized and influenced by the systems that continue to protect white empires. The world does not mourn Notre Dame equally — and that’s OK. To some, it was simply a building — a building tied to systems that have harmed so many ancestors. A building that will be rebuilt at tremendous cost while nearly 15 percent of people in France live in poverty, Haiti continues to be bankrupt, Puerto Rico struggles to rebuild, and Flint still has no water.
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Post by danvilleshark on Apr 18, 2019 8:02:34 GMT -8
The so called community
CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago police were dealing with hundreds of teens running through downtown Chicago Wednesday night, yelling, stopping traffic and running in the streets.
A huge police presence did not deter the rowdy behavior at Millennium Park.
The crowd then moved to State and Lake, where Chicago police were preparing to hold a press conference about the chaos. Police said they told most of the teens to go home, and directed them towards public transportation. Officers arrested those who disobeyed orders from police.
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Post by sharkhaywood on Apr 18, 2019 8:25:17 GMT -8
A guy I have known since high school must be losing it. He is a big time D supporter and that is fine with me as I could care less. Today he is mad about redactions on the report. He won’t accept the findings. I reminded him I still have a copy of my txt to him saying i will fully accept the conclusion of the report and if Trump colluded with the Russians he should go to jail. We would not allow this even when i offered to resend it to him. He then said anyone that supports Tru p is a dick. I said we have nothing then to discuss and said bye and blocked him. What the fuck is wrong with people? I am not kidding when I say TDS is a real thing I caught a brief moment of Barr's press conference. Reporter: Why would you call this investigation unprecedented? Barr: Can you name a previous investigation like it? Reporter: No. Barr: So it is in fact unprecedented. CNN's Jeffrey Toobin tweeted out today: So Trump being upset over being investigated over something he said didn't happen (collusion which has now been absolutely established it didn't happen) means he is guilty? This is a legal analyst? |
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Post by sharkhaywood on Apr 18, 2019 8:28:53 GMT -8
Side note: Nixon was never actually impeached.
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