2/ Hypothetical on what it would be like if the terror campaign happened today:
3/ In 1971 and 1972, there were nearly 5 bombings a day, however the vast majority were non fatal. People just viewed it as a nuisance:
4/ The radical violence was not about the Vietnam war. It was primarily about race:
5/ Description of civil rights movement turning violent:
6/ Black radical Eldridge Cleaver rapes white women as a form of revenge:
7/ Rise in attacks on police officers:
8/ The weathermen were a small group of people, and they were not particularly poor:
9/ Many Jews got into the radical movement because they were worried about another Holocaust:
10/ On the sexual depravity of the Weathermen:
11/ In one gathering, the Weathermen debated on whether or not it would be ethical to kill white babies:
12/ Some Weatherman were angry a policeman survived after a bombing, contrary to what some claim, their intentions were to kill people.
13/ They were supported by the National Lawyers Guild:
14/ Interestingly enough, the NLG still exists today, many rioters write their number on their arms and call them in jail for legal support: amgreatness.com/2020/03/08/ant…
15/ College students were more unfavorable the weathermen than the John Birch society:
16/ By 1971 AP estimated their were 3000 communes that took in 3 million people:
17/ Brutal murder of NY cops by Black liberation Army: Shot in the balls, danced a jig over dead body
18/ Seven police officers killed by BLA in few month span:
19/Around the same time black radical Mark Essex killed nine in New Orleans:
20/ Many in radical scene saw prison inmates as key to America's radical future. Blacks opportunistically spouted marxist rhetoric.
21/ Paragraph about the radical attorney Fay Stender:
22/ Stender later had a falling out with George Jackson. She killed herself after being shot and paralyzed and put in constant pain by a Black Guerrilla Family member:
23/ Weather underground torn apart by "identity politics"
24/ On the Puerto Rican independence movement, the most violent:
25/ More about their history of attacks:
26/ State of the South Bronx in late 70s. By some estimates 40% of buildings were burned out:
1/Short thread on race and Greek life. This legal scholar recently filed some FOIA requests for public universities to get some data on mainstream frats and sororities (IFC/Panhellenic) and this is what the data looks like overall:
2/ The IFC fraternities they looked at were slightly less white at around 72%. Everywhere greeks life was at least 15% whiter than the university population as a whole.
3/ Comparison between % of undergrads who are black vs panhellenic sororities. At the schools that turned over chapter level data almost half of chapters had no black members.
1/ Short thread. The WSJ asked business historians to rank the greatest entrepreneurs and business leaders in American history. Here are the racial demographics:
1/ Short thread. Meadow Pollack was an 18 year old student at Parkland High School with dreams of becoming an attorney. She was fatally shot as she draped her body over a younger student attempting to protect her.
2/ In the aftermath of the shooting, her father tried to figure out what policies lead to her death and teamed up with a researcher to write this book. amazon.com/Why-Meadow-Die…
3/ Here are some excerpts from this book. The book goes through all of the ways in which in which the shooting could have been prevented. If the shooter had a criminal record of one of the serious crimes that he committed he would not have been able to legally purchase a firearm.
1/ Short thread. What was the "best" year if you were to judge it solely by paying to attention to the news and not Pinkeresque metrics like child mortality in Lesotho?
2/ For the purpose of this thread we will look at years 1992 and onwards since this is when the cold war was over. We can immediately exclude years like 1994, 2001, 2004, and 2020 due to major world events.
3/ Next lets exclude every year with more than 100,000 combat deaths. That gets rid of 1999, 2013-2017 and 2021 onwards.