A psychopathic kid gets a video of a girl using a racial slur when she's 15, holds on to it until she has chosen a college to get her admissions revoked. The NYT celebrates this "reckoning." How many previous tyrannical regimes have gone after the children?nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/…
"Since the racial reckoning of the summer, many white teenagers, when posting dance videos to social media, no longer sing along with the slur in rap songs." This is what separates us from the Chinese. Well, done, free media.
"Ms. Groves was among many incoming freshmen across the country whose admissions offers were revoked by at least a dozen universities after videos emerged on social media of them using racist language." Free country, definitely worth fighting for.
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Nice story of American decline. The CDC has a history of training govt officials in Thailand. When COVID hit, the Thais were much more competent. And look at the date for when China posted the genetic sequence online, compared to what US gov was doing, for the "China lied" idiots
Thailand was nice enough to share what it was doing in a conference call with the CDC on January 13. CDC took its time, expecting "that the strain emanating from Wuhan, while worrisome, would be no worse than two earlier coronaviruses" for no good reason.
Some highlights from the stimulus bill. First, not less than $10 million for gender programs in Pakistan. $50 million for "women's leadership abroad." 1/n
Support for democratization in the former Soviet Union, and $20 million to "strengthen democracy and civil society in Central Europe, including for transparency, independent media, rule of law, minority rights, and programs to combat anti-Semitism." 2/n
No Chinese poultry in the school lunch program. Pork and beef ok? Which lobbyist got this in there? 3/n
People are taking the wrong lesson here. It's not that immigrants don't care about immigration. Trump made the issue the center of his campaign in 2016, and didn't talk about it at all in 2020 (putting aside actual policy). Confirms conventional wisdom. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
This article BTW is why you shouldn't feel guilty about subscribing to the NYT even if you're a conservative. It's great analysis.
Our first report is up @CSPICenterOrg. George Hawley and I take on many of the myths of the Trump era, and take issue with national populism, an ideology that seeks to reorient Republican politics towards working-class concerns. 1/n cspicenter.org/the-national-p…
This view holds that economic concerns explain the rise of Trump, and Republicans moving away from dogmatic free market positions can help them build a working-class coalition and achieve electoral success. We show why data do not support this story. 2/n
The economic explanation of Trumpism is not only popular with national populists, but thinkers outside that circle, such as @charlesmurray and @sullydish. Also, Republican politicians. Here's Ted Cruz from a few days ago, and Rubio from earlier this month. 3/n
"The staff, largely made up of middle-aged and 20-something Black men and women, looked on in silence with their arms crossed as they watched the unprecedented move not to approve the results." washingtonpost.com/politics/michi…
More on the shaming that went into the Wayne County officials changing their minds, this time from a conservative news source. Lots of talk of what will your children think and history will remember. washingtonexaminer.com/news/detroit-a…
I’m going to download Parler and see if it makes me feel like a free man.
I joined and the first thing it did was recommend I follow Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, or Duck Dynasty guy. Is anyone on that site not a Republican tv personality? I like free speech but there’s got to be someone worth listening to.