The state’s ethnic studies framework, approved in March, promotes “a social consciousness” and will address “institutionalized systems of advantage” and forms of bigotry including anti-Blackness, xenophobia and anti-Semitism.
That sounds *spectacular.*
Remember a few years ago when a student from Covington High was set upon by the media, the political class, celebrities, activists and so on due to libelous claims that he was a racist mocking a “native American Elder?” Remember how that initial fraudulent narrative was all over the national news for a few days until more video came out to prove that the “elder” was the actual aggressor and that the kid did nothing, absolutely nothing, wrong?
Well, Covington High and its students and their interactions with elders is back in the news. But it’s not the same Covington High. And there is actual racial violence, with actual injuries, involved. Let’s see if the national news media covers *this* story with the enthusiasm they covered the earlier Covington story:
A wheelchair-bound 64-year-old teacher was injured in an attack after the bell rang…
Covington High School, LA: Student punches 64 year old teacher to the ground in unprompted attackpic.twitter.com/QOc0KELmUg
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) October 7, 2021
Here is the smirking face of *this* Covington student:
How long until she gets a statue?
Exciting new developments in the field of pre-crime:
Mostly it looks like if you do Google searches on things what go kerblam, the FBI might start taking an interest in you.
The original Forbes article on the subject focuses on a slightly more sensible – yet still creepy – use of the concept:
There are, I suppose, a *few* good reasons why you’re want to look up information on a crime victim. One, you’re a journalist covering the story. Two, you’re the defendants lawyer. Three, you’re the victim and you want to know what’s out there about you. Four, you run a “fake hate crime” database and your story sounds fishy. But beyond that, valid reasons beyond generalized curiosity get kinda thin. Still, putting someone under surveillance for doing so seems… ahem, unwarranted. Unless that someone is an actual suspect, I suppose.
I’m glad these geniuses are here to tell us these things.
Last year, the US’s murder rate spiked by almost 30 percent. So far in 2021, murders are up nearly 10 percent in major cities. The 2020 increase alone is the largest percentage increase ever recorded in America — and a reversal from overall declines in murder rates since the 1990s.’
Gosh I wonder why that might be.
There remains one solution to the problem of violent crime that would doubtless be highly effective:
Small issue being that stargates to penal colonies on distant worlds remain firmly fictional. But if distant worlds are unattainable, it certainly seems that a penal colony in, say, Nunavut should be achievable.
When Biden gets 25th’ed offstage, Harris moves up in unearned rank, and like as not Nancy Pelosi will become the new VP. Behold what we have to look forward to:
Ugh.
You know how in the movies when there has been an earthquake or a flood or a kaiju outbreak, the National Guard or the cops show up and someone issues an order to shoot looters on sight? Yeah, in the US that ain’t gonna happen unless things have *really* broken down. Such an order would be *monumentally* illegal.
Still and all, though…
I can’t get enough of these brazen looting videos 😂
This one at the Jantzen Beach Center Target in Portland, OR 👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/m6pVytF0R8— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) October 1, 2021
Live from NYC pic.twitter.com/9UVlokFnBr
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) September 30, 2021
Live from Chicago pic.twitter.com/eski5R3rJZ
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) September 27, 2021
A pity more of them don’t end like this one:
I understand the argument that it’s not worth it for a lowly employee to try to stop a criminal in order to save a billion dollar corporation some money. But if the corporation loses money, said employee will be out on his ass, getting no pay whatsoever. And what’s more, the message given to the criminal is that criminality is acceptable. This will incentivize *more* criminality, inevitably leading to crimes against individuals, their properties and bodies. It would of course be best for society if the looters here are found and thrown into the same speedy justice system that has seen some of the January 6 folks imprisoned for *months* in solitary without trial. The home addresses of these looters should be published; if that leads to their homes being robbed while they’re in the hoosegow… well, we sure wouldn’t want that to happen.
Of course, the politicians and activists who promoted policies that decriminalized theft and defunded the cops should be remembered.
… I say this looks like modern-day entitlement.
Yes, she’s clearly having some sort of problem. But the things she says… they are things said *commonly* by those seeking attention and political power and to destroy innocent lives.
Despite what the media ran with, the results of the Arizona election audit demonstrated *serious* issues that should be investigated and resolved.
Will they be, though? Given that a rational examination of the facts show that Arizonas “election” of Biden should be decertified, putting the current resident of the White House in jeopardy of being shuffled off to Shady Pines, it seems unlikely.
I would 100% get behind “cancel culture” to end the careers of any celebrities who advocate for the release of this guy.
A reboot? Meh. JMS at the helm? Hmm, ok. On the CW, home of “Batwoman?” No thanks.
I’d love to be proven wrong, but I bet that the villains will prove to be thinly veiled white supremacists. Half of the characters will be gay/trans. The actors will all be largely in their 20’s and Hollywood-attractive (i.e. pretty but generic and forgettable). The production value will probably be good, but the acting will make original B5 Season One look Shakespearean. Lots of women with blue hair, shaven on one side of their heads, shrieking about patriarchy.
