I thought I'd start a thread showing examples of what happens when we get to the place where BLM and other activist groups who are hell-bent on ensuring that "racism" is addressed in our country. None of these examples will actually show any racism - at least not as any normal or sane individual would classify racism. The reason I won't show when real racism is stamped out is because real racism should be stomped out. No one here could rightly argue it should not be. But during a discussion with "userque", I was asked to show examples of where I believe the left (and lets face it, all of this is coming from the left political spectrum) has taken the drive to stomp out racism behavior too far. Again, calling it "too far" is subjective, as userque rightly points out. This entire argument is about the subjective and drawing the distinction between what is real racism, and what is an overreaction to perceived racism. It is the latter I am trying to point out in this thread. So, lets begin. Feel free to post your own examples of lunatic left wing responses: The first one is professional soccer player Aleksander Katai from Seriba LA Galaxy dumps soccer player after wife’s ‘racist and violent’ posts about George Floyd protesters Feel free to read up on it if you like. In Serbian, Katai's wife wrote some particularly angry tweets calling violent protesters that were burning down Minneapolis "cattle" and essentially said "Kill the shits" (this isn't a literal translation but close). Katai may not even have been aware of the actual tweets (he was in LA, she was in Chicago at the time) but the protesters called for the firing of the player. The player was forced by the Galaxy to condemn and denounce his wife and apologize publicly for her tweets. And then, once he had, they fired him anyway. You can argue whether or not his wife's tweets were "out of bounds". I certainly would agree her tweets weren't something she should have done. But the didn't violate anything based on free speech, and they weren't his fault. Yet the mob came for him and he's done.
Saw that. Pretty crazy. But in all seriousness, why on earth would anyone publicly rant like that and think it would have no blowback? It's not even like Serbia is the principality of Monaco. Serbia's been through a lot of shit and she was just damn lucky to have been here and have a husband with legal, gainful employment. Geez.
UCLA professor Gordon Klein placed on leave and students want him fired (some want him killed) because he insisted all students had to take final exams and did not acquiesce to allowing students of color to postpone their exams based on emotional hardship they experienced as a result of the Floyd murder in Minneapolis. Klein's email: "Thanks for your suggestion in your email below that I give black students special treatment, given the tragedy in Minnesota," the posted email says. "Remember that MLK famously said that people should not be evaluated based on the 'color of their skin,'" the email reads. "Do you think that your request would run afoul of MLK's admonition?" This got him placed on leave and death threats forced him to have police protection. Here is a link from NBC news. I made sure not to include the Fox link because if I had, the link would be discarded because the news would be deemed invalid based on the fact that Fox, a verifiable news organization, ran a story on it. The really ridiculous thing here is that if we start allowing students of color to bypass or postpone exams over excuses like this, then it will become common place that students of color will have done less than white students to achieve similar credentials. Eventually that will lead to a "cheapening" of their credentials in the eyes of the public, because people will start thinking "well he got that degree because of his race" which is precisely what people who do not want racism in society are looking to avoid.
Again, we're not debating the stupidity of comments, or holding people accountable for their comments - professionally. We're now at the point where we are holding family members accountable for comments that others in their family make. This is a dangerous precedent and similar in nature to how totalitarian regimes punish families for the actions of individuals in those families.
This cleansing of thought, speech and action eventually takes us to a place where we are more distant and disassociated from each other more than ever. Everyone will be so afraid of committing the ultimate sin of saying or doing something offensive that we all just clam up and live in our own little bubbles. Big Brother smiles as we will welcome the constant observation to purge ourselves of all our secret and unspoken sins. Where does it end? See North Korea for example. Isn't anyone saying anything that isn't State approved. No hurt feelings ever. No need to think or ask questions, they'll tell you everything you need to know.
Another UCLA professor is being investigated by the Poli Science department for reading the MLK letter he wrote while in jail in Birmingham because it contained the "n" word (which MLK mentions in his letter). The University of California Los Angeles has launched an inquiry into a teacher for reading aloud Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" because the civil rights document includes the n-word. If you are a political science teacher, it is now considered racist to read the speech that MLK - an icon of racial equality in US History and perhaps the most ardent fighter against discrimination in our nation's history - wrote while jailed in Birmingham. Because it has an inflammatory word that is disgusting (it certainly is) but is used regularly in rap music without any issue whatsoever. https://reason.com/2020/06/07/ucla-...birmingham-jail-showing-video-about-lynching/
Dissent will not be tolerated... Paul Krugman, professors seek top economist's removal from influential job for criticizing Black Lives Matter https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pa...se-his-job-for-criticizing-black-lives-matter University of Michigan professor Justin Wolfers and dozens of other academics are leading a massive effort to have an senior faculty member at the University of Chicago removed from his position at the world's preeminent economics journal -- all because he criticized Black Lives Matter's push to defund police departments. The attack on a leading academic at the University of Chicago, traditionally a bastion of free speech and no-nonsense conservative economic theory, comes as swarms of left-wing activists have successfully secured numerous firings across the country for viewpoints they deem politically unacceptable. In one extraordinary case this week, an LA Galaxy soccer player was summarily fired because of his wife's posts on Black Lives Matter. In a petition addressed to the management of the Journal of Political Economy, the professors accuse senior editor Harald Uhlig of "trivializing the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement" and "hurting and marginalizing people of color and their allies in the economics profession." Black Lives Matter advocates for a "collective ownership" economic model, reparations, and the "immediate release" of everyone convicted of a drug offense, in addition to defunding police forces and other left-wing agenda items. The petition goes on to falsely accuse Uhlig, the Bruce Allen and Barbara Ritzenthaler Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, of "drawing parallels between the BLM movement and the Ku Klux Klan." The New York Times' Paul Krugman, an anti-Trump columnist who famously declared that the Internet would prove less important than fax machines, joined in on the attack, writing: "Editor of the Journal of Political Economy, a powerful gatekeeper in the profession. And yet another privileged white man who evidently can't control his urge to belittle the concerns of those less fortunate." Wolfers, who kickstarted the petition alongside Michigan State University professor Scott Imberman, further criticized Uhlig for "disagreeing with the actions of [ex-NFL star Colin] Kaepernick." Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg also opposed Kaepernick's kneeling during the national anthem, but that position has now become retroactively unacceptable in progressive circles. (Ginsburg said Kaepernick's kneeling was both "dumb" and "disrespectful.") Wolfers did not respond when asked by Fox News whether he would seek Ginsburg's ouster from the Supreme Court. According to his biography page at the University of Michigan, Wolfers serves as a member of the ostensibly nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisers. "So revealing how eagerly these fanatics support purging and firing wrong thinkers," wrote commentator Andrew Sullivan, responding to one of the faculty members calling for Uhlig to step down. "It’s their first instinct: punish. They disgust me." Christopher Brunet, an economist and freelance coder, told Fox News: "There are a million screeching Berkeley PhDs on Twitter, but the silent majority of economics professors aren't on Twitter -- they are buttoned up, and they overwhelmingly support Harald and freedom of speech." The drama began when Uhlig wrote on Twitter Monday night: "Too bad, but #blacklivesmatter per its core organization @Blklivesmatter just torpedoed itself, with its full-fledged support of #defundthepolice." Uhlig continued: "Suuuure. They knew this is non-starter, and tried a sensible Orwell 1984 of saying oh, it just means funding schools (who isn't in favor of that?!?).But no, the so-called 'activists' did not want that. Back to truly 'defunding' thus, according to their website. Sigh. #GeorgeFloyd and his family really didn't deserve being taken advantage of by flat-earthers and creationists. Oh well. Time for sensible adults to enter back into the room and have serious, earnest, respectful conversations about it all: e.g. policy reform proposals by @TheDemocrat and national healing." Uhlig's posts came as the movement to defund the police gained traction this week, even though polls show Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of the idea. On Monday, Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender told CNN that people worried about having no one to call during a home invasion were speaking from a "place of privilege." Those comments drew widespread backlash. By way of solutions, Uhlig wrote that police need better training. "Look: I understand, that some out there still wish to go and protest and say #defundpolice and all kinds of stuff, while you are still young and responsibility does not matter," he said. "Enjoy! Express yourself! Just don't break anything, ok? And be back by 8 pm." Separately, in 2017, Uhlig wrote a blog post that asked: "Would you defend football players waving the confederate flag and dressing in Ku Klux Klan garb during the playing of the national anthem?" The post did not draw an equivalency between Black Lives Matter protesters to the KKK; instead, Uhlig took pains to mention that he was arguing only that President Trump, by criticizing players who kneel during the national anthem, was not impinging on constitutional rights. "There are a million screeching Berkeley PhDs on Twitter, but the silent majority of economics professors aren't on Twitter ... [T]hey overwhelmingly support Harald and freedom of speech." — Economist Christopher Brunet "Don’t get me wrong," Uhlig wrote in the post, apparently to no avail. "Of course, these football players have the right to express their views about the treatment of blacks by the police, they have the right to protest President Trump and they have the right to kneel during the national anthem. Club owners have the right to fire them because of it, by the way: so Trump actually did not attack the constitutional rights of football players, but what an annoying and pesky detail, right?" On Tuesday, Uhlig's comments were deemed problematic -- and worse. "Racists shouldn't be allowed to gatekeep our profession," charged University of Victoria economist Rob Gillezeau. (Even Wolfers had stopped short of calling Uhlig a racist.) Amid outcry from faculty members are left-leaning institutions, Uhlig offered something of an apology -- but it wasn't good enough for Wolfers, who called it "a-- covering." "I'm no fan of twitter pile-ons, or call-out culture," Wolfers said, despite available evidence. "A single tweet won't get me upset. But reading through @haralduhlig 's public writing reveals a pattern that's a bit too revealing. I don’t think it’s just or fair that Uhlig, as an editor at the @JPolEcon is an important gatekeeper for economists trying to make their mark. I don’t think the profession’s resolve to look more deeply into racial justice will get a fair hearing under his editorship." Jennifer Doleac, an economics professor at Texas A&M University, gleefully tweeted that she hopes Uhlig won't have his job for "much longer." Doleac didn't respond to a request for comment concerning whether she typically threatens students and colleagues with professional consequences for disagreeing with her. However, she tweeted: "I just got an email from Fox News asking why I am trying to hurt this man's career. Folks, I don't have the power to fire him. I do hope he resigns, because he has lost my confidence to be an objective gatekeeper of high-quality research at one of our discipline's top journals." The petition to secure Ulrig's removal is slated to be delivered to the journal's management on Wednesday. Unrestrained outrage in the midst of the in-custody death of George Floyd was apparent in other spheres late Tuesday, as the long-running show "Cops" was abruptly canceled, and HBO Max announced it had pulled the Oscar-winning Civil War epic "Gone With the Wind." ScreenRant and The Wall Street Journal were the first to report that the newly-launched streaming service yanked the 1939 film, which takes place at an Atlanta plantation. Critics in the modern era have criticized "Gone With the Wind" for its depiction of black people. The film won eight Oscars including Best Picture and made history when Hattie McDaniel became the first black American to win an Oscar for her performance. "As @JerryDunleavy noted, Hattie McDaniel was the first African American to win an Academy Award for her performance in Gone With the Wind," observed commentator Stephen Miller. "The woke race mafia is **actually** erasing social progress, right in front of us." The newsroom at the Times, where Krugman works, also staged an internal revolt because the opinion section published an op-ed by a sitting Republican senator calling for the use of troops to quell widespread rioting in some cities. The paper initially stood by the opinion piece, but amid a wave of Twitter complaints from the newsroom claiming that the op-ed was literally "violence," opinion editor James Bennet resigned and top brass apologized. "The notion that only one viewpoint is acceptable, and no contrary words should be published, even on an opinion page, gets at the heart of why journalism has lost so much credibility," wrote Howard Kurtz, the host of Fox News' "MediaBuzz."
How far do you think we are from the bots scanning every single website for offensive words and phrases? First you'll be warned, then suspended temporarily from posting, finally publically outed for the mob to enforce social justice. Who will do the deciding? All you need to know is it won't be you.
Michael Dykes, the founder of Parkside Cafe in Avondale, called Floyd a “thug” (for his criminal record) and said protesters were “idiots” in a text message that was sent on Friday morning to Robert Bagwell, co-owner of the bar, and one of Parkside's employees. In his texts, he also said Floyd did not deserve to die. Immediately his cafe was besieged by protesters attempting to drive his business under. One would argue that posting stupid shit to social media should have its consequences and if you are going to do this, don't be surprised when your business suffers. OK. But these messages were in private texts - which only goes to show what a fool Dykes was to think they would be private. Even up to this point, I am OK. But african american conservative political activist Candace Owens saw this and tried to assist by starting a GoFundMe page for Michael in efforts to help his business. GoFundMe, however, saw this as racist and immediately shut down the page despite the fact that Candice was able to quickly raise $200k from people who obviously agreed with both of them. But this doesn't matter, because dissent must be squelched, and it must be squelched immediately. To GoFundMe's credit, they did give the funds raised to that point to the cafe owner.
You know there is some complicated shiite going on that should be a watch-out for lefties. I mean everyone knows that conservatives, moderates, and traditional liberals are in the lefties crosshairs bigtime but this will and is spreading to some of the far left too. Lefty schools and professors have been sitting pretty with the lefties thinking that their leftiness will protect them and they can keep using their cerebral cortexes to come up with leftier and leftier theories and ideas and then they will be all set and protected. But those who are familiar with history will know that at a certain point in the revolution the intellectuals have to be purged. The enemy of the state becomes thinking of any sort, not just holding non-progressive views. You are required to enter the trance state and even if you are a far lefty if you appear to need to think about things rather than just follow the script, you are the enemy. You already see a pile of far, far, lefties that are in trouble for not being woke enough and for taking three to four seconds to assess something when the script requires them to be on their knees kow-towing to the mob. Watch out tards. You are not all that smart.