[PJ] This would be hilarious if it wasn’t racist to think so. Delegates from several African nations have requested that the UN Human Rights Council investigate "systemic racism" in the U.S. as well as American "police brutality." They will also examine reports of "violence against ’peaceful protesters"" The UNHRC agreed and will begin hearings soon. Rustenburg, SA, the Marikana mine massacre, which took place on 16 August 2012 resulted in 17 protesters dead, dozens wounded. UN response still pending.
Some of these nations are part of the same crew that demanded the UN investigate elections in the U.S. as leftists invited representatives from some of the most corrupt autocracies in the world to pass judgment on the fairness of U.S. elections.
This time, it’s representatives from nations like Angola, DR Congo, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Qatar who will be judging the United States for human rights abuses.
[Babylon Bee] At a press conference this morning, Democratic leaders were asked a question a lot of creatives are asked: "Where do you get your ideas?" "I pull them outta my ass"
"Oh, yeah, Babylon Bee, totally," said Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "We check The Babylon Bee every morning and get some great ideas for what we're going to do next week."
One time, The Babylon Bee wrote an article where Ocasio-Cortez nearly strangled herself with her shoelaces. "I thought that one was really great -- it reminded me about bootstraps and shoelaces and how they contribute to a less equitable society. So I gave a fiery speech about it in Congress." heh....posted strictly for this quote :-)
John Kerry read a Babylon Bee article about an AR-16 and immediately condemned the rifle, saying he was thankful to the news outlet for bringing it to his attention.
The Bernie Sanders campaign said they weren't sure how to sell their Green New Deal support to the nation, but then read a great article where The Babylon Bee said the deal would include energy-efficient gulags. So, campaign staffers quickly changed their tune and started talking about setting up gulags and rounding up Trump supporters and burning cities if Sanders won.
The Babylon Bee reported "Democrats Warn We Shouldn't Reopen The Country Until We Can Be Safe From Trump Getting Credit For A Good Economy," and a short time later a former Obama staffer said he was really worried that strong economic data going into November would be really bad for them.
Many people thought The Babylon Bee had a crystal ball or were modern-day charismatic prophets, but it turns out there's a much simpler explanation: Democrats checking out the website every morning and stealing all our great ideas!
We promise to only use this newfound power and influence for good, maybe writing that Democrats have all promised to rocket themselves to Mars because the Earth is racist or something.
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At this point the material writes itself.
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[National Review] The U.S. Supreme Court held in a 6—3 decision today — with Justice Neil Gorsuch writing for the majority — that the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s prohibition on sex discrimination in employment also outlaws such discrimination on the basis of transgender identity and sexual orientation.
In his dissent, Justice Samuel Alito writes:
Politco - Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh dissented from the new ruling, arguing that Gorsuch's claimed humility about simply interpreting the law's language was belied by the huge gulf between what lawmakers intended and what the court held.
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I disagree. The law states that sex is what is important, including anything the relates to or is dependent on sex. That is in the law. I know that this is not what people here wanted, but the Court actually gives a solid textual argument for their decision, if you read the text of their decision. It is based on the exact same arguments that have banned discrimination against the pregnant and banned sexual harassment, both of which happened decades ago.
Do I think was a good or bad decision? I'm think this was a good decision because it followed the text of the law, but a bad one because it will have a lot of bad consequences. This wasn't a "betrayal". This was forcing people to confront the law that was written, which was a bad law. People should be allowed to discriminate against whoever they want to in their private businesses. But if we forbid it on the basis of sex and sex-involved decisions, then yes, sexual orientation and gender identity will logically be covered based on a text-only decision.
I personally don't care what the writers of the law intended. I just care what the law says. If the law is stupid, it should be changed, or repealed entirely. Interpreting the minds of the dead is a fool's errand.
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It's also worth noting that proponents of liberty in the 60s knew that the Civil Rights Act would lead to unjust outcomes, but were silenced by the waves of public outcry and the need to "do something". The Act itself is, I believe, in core conflict with the Constitution. Every major religion believes in discrimination against others based on religion and sex, among other things. And forbidding discrimination based on national origin is possibly the stupidest thing I have ever seen put into major legislation, and hampers the operation of the government on every level. It looked good, but unintended consequences always come back to bite us. I've said it before, and I'll repeat. The Supreme Court is not here to save us from our own stupid decisions as a society. They do not stand apart and above from the country. We can't rely on them to see what nobody else does, and intervene, even if we replace Ginsberg and get Thomas to retire voluntarily when Trump almost inevitably wins a second term.
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Theydo not stand apart and above from the country.
They do. They sit for life. To use their own term, de facto above removal. What it took to be a lawyer in 1800 and a lawyer in 2000 makes it a caste. You have to have the right credentials, approved by the right people, go to the right schools. It is an antithesis to a republic.
You can not in all honesty say that the court hasn't granted itself broad purview and powers in the last hundred years. How many times have they handed down a decision that reads - go follow Article V of the Constitution? There was a reason the founders demanded a super majority to alter the Constitution and it has been 27 times.
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Procopius2k, you are absolutely right in that sense. I didn't mean that they don't sit above and apart in a power sense. They absolutely are a part of the ruling elite. That was poorly stated, I suppose.
I meant that they are not able to view things from a purely objective viewpoint. They're a part of this country, and won't be able to stay out of the fray. I just want to urge people not to think of the court as an answer to all or most things. We have to win in culture before we win anywhere else.
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People should be allowed to discriminate against whoever they want to in their private businesses.
Just like Google banning ads on The Federalist and Zerohedge. When I read that I thought it was a crummy thing for Google to do but, after all, it's their company and they can run it they way they want. Just like I have a right to use DuckDuckGo instead of Google's search engine. Just like I have a right to refuse to click on Google ads. Freedom is freedom - the same for everybody.
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Interesting that when Obamacare got in front of the SCOTUS the same fuzziness was met with ‘back to congress’. If the 1965 law meant sexual orientation it could have been easily amended by Congress during the last 55 years or tomorrow.
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.—Disaster has hit the Supreme Court, as they have reportedly lost their only copy of the Constitution. They aren’t sure who had it last -- Justices Elena Kagan and Clarence Thomas were each arguing that the other did -- but no one can find it now, which means that they have to pretend to know what’s in it for oral arguments and written decisions.
"That’s a great constitutional question," said Chief Justice John Roberts during an oral argument. "Let me check what the Constitution has to say about that." He then looked down at a pretend document behind his desk. "Um... yeah... Article... C has a lot to say about that."
"The Constitution is very clear that liberty is bad," added Justice Stephen Breyer, looking to the others for support, some of whom shrugged while a couple shook their heads. "No, wait, I mean, it says liberty is good. It’s right there in it, and I just read it earlier."
So far no one seems to have caught on that the Justices don’t have the Constitution and are just making things up as they go along, though there was some suspicion when a recent oral argument only cited episodes of Ally McBeal.
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.in African Americans
Perhaps you, like me, were raised essentially to think of the slave experience primarily in terms of our black ancestors here in the United States. In other words, slavery was primarily about us, right, from Crispus Attucks and Phillis Wheatley, Benjamin Banneker and Richard Allen, all the way to Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass. Think of this as an instance of what we might think of as African-American exceptionalism. (In other words, if it’s in "the black Experience," it’s got to be about black Americans.) Well, think again.
The most comprehensive analysis of shipping records over the course of the slave trade is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, edited by professors David Eltis and David Richardson. (While the editors are careful to say that all of their figures are estimates, I believe that they are the best estimates that we have, the proverbial "gold standard" in the field of the study of the slave trade.) Between 1525 and 1866, in the entire history of the slave trade to the New World, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. 10.7 million survived the dreaded Middle Passage, disembarking in North America, the Caribbean and South America.
And how many of these 10.7 million Africans were shipped directly to North America? Only about 388,000. That’s right: a tiny percentage. 3.6%
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Of course it's the ones who came in later from communist trained polities; and murderous tribal gangsters' families from shitholes who taught the blacks of America this wakandan culture.
I think the coloured people of the early 90s were only Americans. Some fine christians too among them. Remember the Azusa street Revival ? It was probably the unchecked influx of Somali and Nigerian bastitches that irrevocably fucked your polity.
I may be wrong of course, it had already happened long before anyone really got up and took notice. I'm surprised at the number of Indians managing and coordinating the insurrection. These are all your H1-B ingrates.
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First slave owner in N.America is attributed to a black man. The Ottoman Empire had more white slaves than the Americas had black slaves. The first african slave was owned by an african. And the only culture that still routinely practices slavery are Arab Muslims.
I think Mr.Kaine is confusing White Guilt with slavery.
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It happens all the time. But then every country does that. The farm boys and certain senators over there try to influence the polity here too. That's routine. So do transcontinental corporations.
The supporters of Kamala just went on, knowing she's a loser. They must've found someone else, or they'll wait and cultivate a new asshole. Men like Trump are only good for those people who want accountable, working systems less crooks can feed off from. As you well know, there are many of the other kind, most of them rich.
The Critic via Instapundit
They had to make it all about themselves, didn’t they? No sooner had black Americans started protesting the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis policeman, than the whites took it over. They pushed the protests towards fighting the police. They denounced the incorrigible racism of their nation and families. They ’took a knee’ at every opportunity, even though the posture looked oddly like the one struck by Officer Derek Charvin when he had taken a knee on George Floyd’s windpipe.
The killing was the spark and the coronavirus the accelerant — when one of the Four Horsemen is around, the other three are sure to turn up sooner or later — but the dry tinder came from all over. We have seen racial protests on a scale last seen in the late Sixties. This is strange. By every index, racial equality has improved since the reforms of the Great Society. White American disgust at racist violence by the police has risen sharply since Black Lives Matter began in 2014. In late May, a Pew Research survey found that nearly two-thirds of whites believe that the criminal justice system treats blacks unfairly. Meanwhile, the number of unarmed black men killed by the police has declined.
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Why do I get the feeling that somebody means to say 'the black protesters were just wishing to protest, and the white anarchists led them to violence'?
If that's what people want to believe, the day is not far when you'll see tribal flags and countries with strange names planted in the north American sub-continent.
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^I posted it because I thought that the author gives a good explanation of the college educated revolutionaries phenomena. They're revolutionaries because there's no place in the economy (you can only have so much welfare/regulation business) for them.
It's just this newfound pûssyfooting that cripples everyone's conscience, even when writing. I mean their mind wants to be heard, but the the new Id has been trained by a set of conventions to beat around the bush ineffectively. Talk around black racial prejudice, call spades pink horses. That is what generations of imposed guilt have done.
The fact is, the aim of the constitution or the governments must never have been to 'produce' racial equality or some such inane humanist imperative. The aim of the State must only be to make sure no individual instance of assh0lery goes unpunished. Everything else would sort itself out as society advances.
[Politico] Amid ongoing demonstrations against racism, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said America needs to stop being offended about everything and "grow up."
On ABC’s "This Week" on Sunday, Carson was asked whether it was appropriate for President Donald Trump to give his convention speech on Aug. 27 in Jacksonville. That date is the 60th anniversary of "Ax Handle Saturday," when a white mob organized by the Ku Klux Klan attacked mostly black civil rights protesters in the Florida city.
"We’ve reached a point in our society where we dissect everything and try to ascribe some nefarious notion to it," replied Carson, the only black member of Trump’s Cabinet. "We need to move away from being offended by everything, of going through history and looking at everything, you know, of renaming everything."
He continued, "Some of our prestigious universities have a relationship with the slave trade. Should we go and rename those universities? It really gets to a point of being ridiculous after a while. And, you know, we’re going to have to grow up as a society."
Activists have argued that monuments and buildings honoring the Confederacy, slavery and white supremacy should be removed or renamed. Statues, like ones of Christopher Columbus and Jefferson Davis, have been toppled. The Clemson University Board of Trustees voted to remove the name of slave owner and secessionist John C. Calhoun from its honors college.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PJ] This would be hilarious if it wasn’t racist to think so. Delegates from several African nations have requested that the UN Human Rights Council investigate "systemic racism" in the U.S. as well as American "police brutality." They will also examine reports of "violence against ’peaceful protesters"" The UNHRC agreed and will begin hearings soon.
[Babylon Bee] At a press conference this morning, Democratic leaders were asked a question a lot of creatives are asked: "Where do you get your ideas?"
[National Review] The U.S. Supreme Court held in a 6—3 decision today — with Justice Neil Gorsuch writing for the majority — that the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s prohibition on sex discrimination in employment also outlaws such discrimination on the basis of transgender identity and sexual orientation.
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.—Disaster has hit the Supreme Court, as they have reportedly lost their only copy of the Constitution. They aren’t sure who had it last -- Justices Elena Kagan and Clarence Thomas were each arguing that the other did -- but no one can find it now, which means that they have to pretend to know what’s in it for oral arguments and written decisions.
The needle is pegged as intended. 
[Politico] Amid ongoing demonstrations against racism, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said America needs to stop being offended about everything and "grow up."
