When you hear the name Michael Vick, what do you think of?
When you hear the name Jay Fabian, what do you think of?
So, even someone as indifferent to football as I had heard a lot about Vick's animal cruelty and dogfighting. A lot. I am equally indifferent to Nascar but didn't hear a word about it except a mention with Vick in this painful article.
washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/…
There's a wikipedia entry about Vick's animal cruelty but not one about Fabian's. Fabian's top stories are in local & sports blogs, Vick's in national papers
I wonder what is the difference between the media frenzy over Vick's animal cruelty and Fabian's. I mean starving animals to death is a long, slow, cruel death, far worse, in my opinion, than hanging (which is very bad, but not torturously long)
That was a rhetorical question. Vick is Black, Fabian is white. The media heavily promotes stories that feature Black criminality while ignoring white criminality.
americanprogress.org/article/danger…
And please don't think I am carrying water for Vick. It's just this struck me as yet another example of how racism is perpetuated

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8 Nov
So, when I order something delivered, no matter how often, I always specify the color of my apartment complex to differentiate it from the complex with its entrance just a few feet away. ALWAYS! I have never had my delivery go to the wrong place.
But some people who order food delivered all the time who have the same apt # in the next complex do not do this. A few times every month, I have to stop a delivery person halfway down the stairs to tell them it's not for me. Two weeks ago I was not home when they came.
and yesterday I had the bathroom fan and the kitchen fan going and didn't hear them. So much food. They were long gone. When will they start writing the SECOND driveway or the BLACK apartments?

I didn't see the food until a few hours later. Of course, it was 44 F, so food
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5 Nov
Why isn't Jacob Wohl not in prison yet? How many crimes has he racked up?
1) He's banned for life from trading NFA, stealing a man's investments. The man killed himself.
2) Securities fraud
3) Securities fraud
4) Plot to frame Robert Mueller for sexual assault
5. Accused of kidnapping by Merrit Corrigan
6. Felony voter suppression - conspiracy to intimidate voters, telecommunications fraud, bribery
7. Attempted to frame Buttigieg for sexual assault
8. Attempted to frame Warren for having an affair
9. Attempted to frame Harris affair
10 Attempted to frame Fauci for sexual assault
And of course, he has a long series of false claims about everything from the Roger Stone jury to Ilhan Omar and more.

Why is he not in prison?
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3 Nov
I know the punditry and the consultant class will be telling us that Democrats have to withdraw our positions on civil rights, police reform, and more to persuade the white working class to vote with us. To that, I say bullshit.

We do not need to stoop to pandering to racism
We need to identify the white voters who are persuadable. We need not troll for MAGAs but for those who were influenced by lies to swing from D to R. It means being more confrontational, not less. We need to be confrontational with the media that amplifies these conspiracies
In the past, the media did not seek out the John Birchers because they were cranks and they were not newsworthy. Now the media seeks out the cranks and makes them seem mainstream by repeated exposure. They reified anti-mask, anti-vax, and Q conspiracies.
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2 Nov
So I am reading a fascinating book by @jessnordell and it occurred to me that the media broadcasting Trump's rallies and the interviews with the white supremacists functioned like the Hutu radio station in Rwanda changing American cultural norms to approve overt racism & violence
She makes no such claim. It just struck me that the media's fascination with interviewing the extremists in the clown car has normalized clowns. They interview anti-vaxxers and spread anti-vax ignorance. They interview fraud believers and spread that conspiracy.
They are creating an "everybody does it" approval of racist violence, insurrection, vigilantism, and vaccine denial.

Consider this: Image
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1 Nov
I love music and listen to it every day. There are some artists I love who are not as well known as they should be. Ted Hawkins is the top of my list of unrecognized genius. His first major album was only released a year before he died. He was still a street performer.
The LA Times did a story about him two years before he died. He had a rough life. From neglect and abuse as a child, in and out of prison, but he always sang.
latimes.com/archives/la-xp…
This song is a cover of Webb Pierce's "There Stands the Glass." This song gives me chills. No one does it as well.
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29 Oct
When I was attending Macalester College, the Mac Feminists were a small part of a huge counter rally to a group of anti-choice zealots who planned a rally. I went. There were several hundred of us. There were 15 anti-choice protester. The St. Paul Pioneer Press covered the rally
The used a picture closely cropped to show only the anti-choice fanatics. The headline said Pro-Life Protests Draws Big Crowds. The said there were several hundred people there. They did not say the several hundred were counter-protesters giving the false impression of only antis
Since then, when people say, why aren't there people speaking out...I remember how completely the St. Paul Pioneer Press erased our counter-protest, rendering us invisible and unheard while exaggerating and amplifying the anti-choice rally. It was propaganda pure & simple
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