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Post by soonernvolved on May 3, 2018 17:43:21 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/30240/uc-berkeley-student-government-considers-stripping-hank-berrienOn Thursday, the student government of the University of California, Berkeley, will vote on defunding Berkeley’s chapter of the College Republicans and transferring the funds to the Black Student Union. Senator Rizza Estacio, who proposed the idea, told the student newspaper The Daily Californian that the College Republicans had violated school policy during campus events. Estacio said, “Some of what this organization has done has broken regulations that we uphold to every registered student organization. I want to make it clear that if you break these rules, you are no longer eligible for our funding.” As Ema Gavrilovic of The College Fix notes, the Berkeley College Republicans called Estacio’s proposal , “poorly researched and unscrupulous,” adding that it was “based on a complete falsehood.” They told The College Fix that they the student government “censures Senator Estacio for this poorly researched and unscrupulous proposal … The backdrop of this proposal is based on a complete falsehood.” They also pointed out that the group wqs “not involved in any capacity with the planning and organization of Free Speech Week … It is deeply concerning that the ASUC may strip BCR of its annual allocation due to spurious reasoning and misinformation.” UCLA Professor Eugene Volokh told The College Fix that Supreme Court precedent requires a “content-neutral application of generally applicable and enforced rules is generally allowed; targeting a group because of its viewpoint is not.” But according to The College fix, no explanation of exactly what the College Republicans had done to warrant the punitive action was forthcoming. Ari Cohn, from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, told The College Fix, “De-funding the Berkeley College Republicans because their expression offended others on campus would certainly violate the First Amendment. The Supreme Court has made clear for decades that when mandatory student fees are used to fund student organizations, those funds must be distributed in a viewpoint-neutral fashion. As an agent of the university to which administrators have delegated the responsibility of distributing the mandatory fees that the university collects, ASUC is bound by the First Amendment in its performance of this role the same as the university itself would be.”
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Post by soonernvolved on May 4, 2018 14:26:32 GMT -6
Ok, lot jokes possible with this one: www.dailywire.com/news/30266/huffington-post-lauds-new-movement-feminist-fish-ben-shapiroOn Friday, The Huffington Post led with the most important story of the day: women are now into fish sex. As in nailing the salmon, curing the whitefish, coring the tuna, smoking the sea bass. Yes, ladies are now apparently interested in the motion of the ocean. Why? Because all men are pigs, and hey, if you’ve gotta choose the seafood or the pork, better to sleep with the fishes than feed with the hogs. Even as pathetic, self-pitying men complain about the problem of involuntary celibacy, pathetic, self-pitying women are now supposedly fantasizing about Flipper. Here’s Claire Fallon: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-is-fish-sex-hot-now_us_5ae77ae2e4b04aa23f2618b9Time for the easiest game of “if you loved this movie, read this book” ever: If you loved “The Shape of Water,” a movie about fish sex, you should definitely read The Pisces by Melissa Broder, a book about fish sex. The cover literally shows a woman in an amorous clinch with a fish; the novel actually tells the story of a woman who has a torrid love affair with a merman. Now, one fish-f***ing opus in the space of a year might be a blip. Two seems very much like a trend. (We might even call it three, considering last summer’s Made for Love by Alissa Nutting, in which a male romance scammer, after a fantastical sea-bathing accident, becomes exclusively attracted to dolphins. Though, to be clear, dolphins are not fish.) What explains this sudden love for sexual pescatarians? Men, of course. Horrible, horrible men. Cruel, horrible, evil men. Here’s Fallon: The Pisces and Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar-winning “The Shape of Water” also seem to have arrived during an inflection point for heterosexual relations, as some straight women have thrown their hands up in despair at the prospect of dealing with straight men. These men, who grope us and talk down to us and consistently fail to clean the bathroom ― we’re supposed to make lives with them? Let them touch us? Well, no. You’re supposed to find a man who doesn’t do those things. You’re supposed to have sex with men worthy of your commitment, not make bad decisions about sex with losers, then regret that you made those decisions, then turn to Sea World for some satisfaction. But according to Fallon, such decent, better-than-fillet men are simply not on the menu: Women woke up one day to find that their husbands voted for Donald Trump and their sons have been shitposting on incel boards. Even before we heard the claims about Harvey Weinstein’s history of sexual harassment and assault and the ensuing avalanche of other horrifying Me Too allegations, we heard about our president grabbing women “by the pussy,” Bill Cosby feeding women roofies, and R. Kelly allegedly sexually exploiting young girls. So many straight men, we have been forced to accept, are bad to and for us. Why would we take the enormous risk of loving one of them?
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Post by soonernvolved on May 4, 2018 14:39:21 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2018/05/04/valerie-jarrett-trump-obama-economy/Obama administration senior advisor Valerie Jarrett said on CNN Friday that her old boss should be given credit for the economy improving under President Trump. WATCH: “The breaking news that we just had moments ago were the new job numbers, the lowest in anybody’s memory, 3.9 percent unemployment rate,” Alisyn Camerota said. “It’s been 15 months of Donald Trump’s presidency. Do you give him credit for that?” “Look, I think we have to look at it over a longer horizon than that. If you think about what the economy was like when President Obama took office –we were losing 750,000 jobs a month. And, under his watch the unemployment rate dropped in half and it’s encouraging to see that we’re continuing to make progress,” Jarret said. Flashback: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/8118276/Barack-Obama-warns-of-unemployment-being-new-normal-in-US.htmln an interview with "60 Minutes" on CBS News, his first since the Democratic drubbing in last Tuesday's mid-terms elections, Mr Obama said that he sometimes gets "discouraged" about the poor economy but realised that it was not entirely his fault. "There are times when I thought that the economy would have gotten better by now," he said. "You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?" He insisted he was not worried about another depression or recession but the unemployment rate, stuck at just below 10 per cent, was a major concern. "What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits, but they've learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire," he said.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 4, 2018 19:24:07 GMT -6
www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/8454598/janelle-monae-kanye-west-power-106-interviewThis week has been a turbulent one for Kanye West. On Tuesday, the polarizing MC was slammed for his “slavery was a choice” comment during his interview on TMZ. The latest star to chastise West for the ill-advised statement is Dirty Computer artist Janelle Monáe. During a radio interview with LA’s Power 106, Monáe voiced her disappointment in Kanye and shared her thoughts on the muddy situation. “I come from love. I try not to listen to things to just respond or clap back but really listen to understand,” she began. “I think we just have to be patient with each other. I don’t agree [with Kanye’s comments], and I’ve been very vocal about that.” She continued: “I’m a free thinker and here’s a free thought: I think that if free thinking is rooted in the oppression of minorities, LBGTQ, immigrants and women, then I don’t fuck with your free thoughts. I just think there has to be some balance. I mean, slave masters also thought freely, and where did we get with that?”
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Post by soonernvolved on May 4, 2018 22:46:11 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2018/05/04/media-bias-proof-scott-pruitt-energy-department-obama-administration-communications/The Energy Department spent $1.2 million on a secure communications room during the Obama administration, illustrating just how much it costs to provide government officials with a secure line of communications, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. The secure room, or SCIF, was built near former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz’s office so the agency head could quickly convene or join classified talks, two sources familiar with the matter told The Daily Caller News Foundation. Moniz’s $1.2 million SCIF, however, never made news or attracted Congress’ attention. That’s not to say the Energy Department did anything wrong in building the costly SCIF. Both sources were clear the SCIF, though expensive, was necessary for the department to carry out its mission, which often involves classified communications about nuclear security. The $43,000 Environmental Protection Agency officials spent on Administrator Scott Pruitt’s secure phone booth, or SCIF, however, has become part of a political push to remove him from office, despite costing 28 times less than Moniz’s SCIF. News reports on Pruitt’s SCIF began surfacing back in March. Democratic lawmakers were so incensed by Pruitt’s $43,000 SCIF, they’ve asked for investigations into the matter, including asking the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to assess its legality. SCIFs are sound-proof rooms allowing officials to have secure talks — often regarding classified information. Pruitt’s SCIF violated federal laws by not notifying Congress of expenditures for office furnishings over $5,000, GAO determined. GAO redefined a SCIF as an office furnishing.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 4, 2018 22:48:57 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2018/05/04/scoop-rick-perry-congress-office-furnishings-definition-absurd/Energy Secretary Rick Perry notified Congress he spent just under $10,000 to refurbish his and his deputy’s office, according to letters sent to lawmakers Friday evening, which by The Daily Caller News Foundation obtained. Perry spent $4,652 reupholstering furniture and painting his office, while Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette spent $4,993 doing much of the same to his office. Perry sent the letters to Congress out of an abundance of caution. The Environmental Protection Agency violated federal law by building a $43,000 secure phone booth, or SCIF, and not notifying Congress,The Government Accountability Office (GAO) ruled on April 16. Effectively, GAO redefined a SCIF as office furnishings and improvements, expanding its previous interpretation of federal laws. “In the interest of transparency, this letter serves to inform you of the recent renovations and the Department’s concerns related to the GAO’s opinion,” Perry wrote to Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican and chair of the subcommittee overseeing Energy Department funding. GAO “expanded the scope of this provision to apply to virtually any expense associated with a Presidential appointee’s office space,” to include even SCIFs — not exactly office furniture, Perry said. Before April, federal officials didn’t consider spending on, say, security requirements, like SCIFs, to require congressional notification. A separate letter was sent to Alexander’s House counterpart, Idaho Republican Rep. Mike Simpson. Federal laws require executive agencies to notify Congress of office expenditures of more than $5,000. Perry’s letter also detailed nearly $3.3 million in renovations to the Forrestal building, the department’s D.C. headquarters. Perry did not previously report these expenditures to Congress because they did not meet the definition of office furnishings under federal law — that is, until GAO issued its ruling. “This opinion on Section 710 has created ambiguity and uncertainty on what does and does not need to be reported when updating our building in the future,” the Energy Department said in an accompanying statement. Included were renovations to staff offices, a new reception area and a conference room. The sheer cost of renovating the Energy Department headquarters illustrates the high cost of maintaining older federal buildings in Washington, D.C. However expensive Energy Department renovations under Perry may seem, Obama’s administration spent much more in the eight years it controlled the executive branch. Perry gave a short list of examples of Obama Energy Department projects. A sampling of Obama administration Energy Department renovations to the Forrestal building comes out to more than $10.3 million.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 4, 2018 23:36:25 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/30280/watch-cnns-don-lemon-says-its-his-obligation-ryan-saavedra?ampOn Friday, CNN's Don Lemon said at an event in New York City that it was his "obligation as a journalist" to call President Donald Trump "racist." Lemon, who made the remarks while speaking at Variety’s Entertainment & Technology NYC Summit, said that his decision to call Trump a "racist" was based on "evidence." "If you have the evidence that shows you, that indicates, that leads you to nothing else but this president being racist, then I feel it’s my obligation as a journalist to say it," Lemon said. "On that night I said it, and I don’t regret saying it. I believe that to be true." The CNN host then suggested that Trump must provide "evidence" that he is not racist, and added that saying "I have black friends" isn't enough. “Show me some evidence otherwise, besides I have black friends, I don’t really have any evidence of that either," Lemon continued. "I mean when you say you have black friends, let’s just be honest here, when you say you have black friends, that doesn’t mean it’s people who come over to your office because they want something."
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nocalsooner
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Post by nocalsooner on May 5, 2018 0:46:13 GMT -6
I was sent a survey from the Democratic Party. One question is "Which aspects of the Trump presidency do you find most disturbing? There is a list of 15 choices, but unfortunately, none of them refer to Trump's protectionist rhetoric, threats of tariffs, and withdrawal from TPP. The left wing still has power over the centrist Democratic Leadership Council wing.
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Post by stinger1066 on May 5, 2018 4:49:59 GMT -6
I was sent a survey from the Democratic Party. One question is "Which aspects of the Trump presidency do you find most disturbing? There is a list of 15 choices, but unfortunately, none of them refer to Trump's protectionist rhetoric, threats of tariffs, and withdrawal from TPP. The left wing still has power over the centrist Democratic Leadership Council wing. Can you share the list?
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Post by sheepdog on May 5, 2018 11:35:54 GMT -6
Bill Maher's take on political correctness. Very funny stuff.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 6, 2018 12:43:59 GMT -6
voiceofeurope.com/2018/05/sex-between-a-23-year-old-migrant-and-a-10-year-old-girl-is-not-rape-says-court-in-finland/Finland’s Supreme Court upheld the ruling, rejecting a request from the prosecution to appeal a three-year jail term for a 23-year-old asylum seeker who had sex with a 10-year-old saying it didn’t constitute rape. The man is named as Juusuf Muhamed Abbudin and he was convicted of aggravated sexual abuse, which the prosecution had sought the harsher sentence of aggravated rape. The incident took place in autumn of 2016 in the southern Pirkanmaa region near the city of Tampere. He had sexual intercourse with a girl, 10-years-old at the time, after having exchanged sexually charged messages with her. The Prikanmaa District Court and the Appeal Court, in Turku charged the man with aggravated sexual abuse and a three-year prison sentence in 2017 saying the girl wasn’t forced into the act or overcome by fear.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 6, 2018 16:20:50 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2018/05/06/michelle-obama-female-trump-voters-what-is-going-on-in-our-heads/Former first lady Michelle Obama slammed female supporters of President Donald Trump on Saturday and claimed they voted against Hillary Clinton before they aren’t “comfortable” with the idea of a woman president. “In light of this last election I’m concerned about women, about how we think about ourselves and each other. I think more about what is going on in our heads where we let that happen,” Obama said when speaking at the United State of Women Summit. “So I do wonder what young girls are dreaming about when we’re still there when the most qualified person running was a woman, and look what we did instead,” Obama said. “Women are still suspicious of one another” and hold themselves to a higher standard than men, she claimed. “If we’re not comfortable with the notion that a woman could be president, compared to what?” The former first lady asked, to rousing cheers from the audience. ....... James Woods corrects/schools her:
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Post by soonernvolved on May 6, 2018 16:32:12 GMT -6
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Post by trumped on May 6, 2018 17:39:31 GMT -6
Educating Liberals Educating Liberals @education4libs A radio station in Detroit has banned all music by Kanye West.
This only proves what Kanye has been saying all along - that leftists are a bunch of censorship bullies who can't accept different positions other than their own. 7:43 PM · May 4, 2018
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Post by trumped on May 6, 2018 17:51:44 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2018 4:40:57 GMT -6
Yahoo! Comparing Trump to a Shakespeare’s villain: www.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/tyrant-among-us-shakespeare-say-090041055.htmlIs there a tyrant among us? What would Shakespeare say? ....... A cynical demagogue achieves the height of power through deceit and treachery, and proceeds to rule ruthlessly. Brooding, suspicious, and captive of his own angry whims, he dismisses or alienates the very allies who helped his rise, until he must face, virtually alone, the righteous retribution of those he has exploited and wronged. Sound familiar? It should: It is the plot of one of Shakespeare’s best-known plays, Richard III, which also forms the heart of a new book by the scholar and Pulitzer-prize-winning author Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics. Any resemblance to current events or personalities is strictly intentional. But why consult Shakespeare? What can he tell us about our own situation that we haven’t heard from, say, Rachel Maddow? Nothing explicit, certainly, given the vast difference between the leader of a 21st century republic and the rulers that Shakespeare, and Greenblatt, examine: 15th century English monarchs, Julius Caesar, and the quasi-legendary kings Macbeth and Lear. As Greenblatt stipulates in an interview: “Shakespeare is not great because he’s relevant; he’s relevant because he’s great. The immediate occasion [for writing the book] has to do with our current political climate. But not in a direct way. It’s absurd to think that someone writing 400 years ago is addressing contemporary American politics.” Even so, contemporary American politics is the subtext of almost every chapter. If anything, the comparison between Richard and a certain American political figure — whose name does not appear in the book — is overdetermined. Here is how Greenblatt introduces Richard (the character, not the historical king): “He is pathologically narcissistic and supremely arrogant. He has a grotesque sense of entitlement, never doubting that he can do whatever he chooses. . . . He expects absolute loyalty, but he is incapable of gratitude. The feelings of others mean nothing to him. He has no natural grace, no sense of shared humanity, no decency.”
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Post by imthedude on May 7, 2018 6:18:28 GMT -6
Trump is going to win in a land slide, the Dems have nothing. Their arguments are pure comedy at this point.
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Post by imthedude on May 7, 2018 6:19:44 GMT -6
You’ll never hear Shaw’s name again once he comes out as a Trump supporter.
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Post by heff on May 7, 2018 6:49:08 GMT -6
Yahoo! Comparing Trump to a Shakespeare’s villain: www.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/tyrant-among-us-shakespeare-say-090041055.htmlIs there a tyrant among us? What would Shakespeare say? ....... A cynical demagogue achieves the height of power through deceit and treachery, and proceeds to rule ruthlessly. Brooding, suspicious, and captive of his own angry whims, he dismisses or alienates the very allies who helped his rise, until he must face, virtually alone, the righteous retribution of those he has exploited and wronged. Sound familiar? It should: It is the plot of one of Shakespeare’s best-known plays, Richard III, which also forms the heart of a new book by the scholar and Pulitzer-prize-winning author Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics. Any resemblance to current events or personalities is strictly intentional.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2018 10:37:10 GMT -6
Yahoo! Comparing Trump to a Shakespeare’s villain: www.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/tyrant-among-us-shakespeare-say-090041055.htmlIs there a tyrant among us? What would Shakespeare say? ....... A cynical demagogue achieves the height of power through deceit and treachery, and proceeds to rule ruthlessly. Brooding, suspicious, and captive of his own angry whims, he dismisses or alienates the very allies who helped his rise, until he must face, virtually alone, the righteous retribution of those he has exploited and wronged. Sound familiar? It should: It is the plot of one of Shakespeare’s best-known plays, Richard III, which also forms the heart of a new book by the scholar and Pulitzer-prize-winning author Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics. Any resemblance to current events or personalities is strictly intentional. Nice reference to Dragonballbr Super,(last fight was animated perfectly).
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2018 11:43:28 GMT -6
www.theamericanmirror.com/maxine-meltdown-waters-shouts-damn-this-president/Video: youtu.be/EX7D_B2HjqUAuntie Maxine Waters: “We’re almost at a constitutional crisis in the United States of America. We’re at a constitutional crisis because we’ve got a president, the likes of which we’ve never seen before. You know, some people think his antics sometimes are funny, sometimes cute, sometimes unusual. And to say, ‘Well, you know, he’s going to learn to become presidential,’ That’s a lie!… Whether it’s issues about whether or not our government and our elected officials are going to support the right to organize and support the right to bargain. It has not been Republicans. It is always Democrats. We’ve been there for you. We’re gonna stay there for you. And damn this president! We’re not going to let him destroy organized labor.”
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2018 11:45:57 GMT -6
Actors cold read a script addressing real & myths about feminism: youtu.be/CQ4h-lVyaP8Other issues covered: 76% suicides are men 85% of homeless are men 70% of homicide victims are men 40% of domestic abuse victims are men Men are majority of victims of violent crime. Men on average are 3.4X more likely to be imprisoned than women who both committed the same crime. Men on average serve 64% longer prison sentences than women for comparable crimes. Women commit more than twice as much unprovoked domestic violence against men than men commit against women.
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Post by trumped on May 7, 2018 14:14:27 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 7, 2018 14:54:42 GMT -6
Major narrative fail here: www.dailywire.com/news/30330/plot-twist-teen-called-racist-chinese-prom-dress-amanda-prestigiacomoTurns out, only privileged Americans are outraged over a teenage girl wearing a Chinese-themed dress to prom. Keziah Daum, an 18-year-old from Utah, became the target of a social justice warrior who deemed her an undercover racist for allegedly appropriating his culture. "My culture is NOT your goddamn prom dress," he wrote in a viral tweet. Here's the dress, which, according to the South China Morning Post, "symbolised a silent protest to promote gender equality after the fall of the dynasties and the beginning of the republican period in the early 1900s, and was worn during the 1919 reformist May Fourth Movement." www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2144207/qipao-us-prom-wins-support-china-after-internet-backlashBut throwing a wrench into the SJW's perpetual offense-taking scam is the reaction of Chinese internet users, who heaped praise on Ms. Daum. “Very elegant and beautiful! Really don’t understand the people who are against her, they are wrong!” one person commented on an article by Wenxue City News, according to SCMP. “I suggest the Chinese government, state television or fashion company invite her to China to display her cheongsam!” “It is not cultural theft,” wrote another. “It is cultural appreciation and cultural respect.” "Weibo users added that Daum looked beautiful and criticised those who have accused her," notes the SCMP. “Culture has no borders,” read one post. “There is no problem, as long as there is no malice or deliberate maligning. Chinese cultural treasures are worth spreading all over the world.” Upon learning about the background of the dress, the 18-year-old told the SCMP, "One person commented it represented female empowerment. If that is the case, then it is a wonderful message for any young woman my age to learn, regardless of culture and background." She has unapologetically kept the "offensive" prom post up on her account and told The Daily Wire last week that if she had to do it over, she'd wear it again. “I thought it was absolutely beautiful,” she told The Washington Post, adding, it “really gave me a sense of appreciation and admiration for other cultures and their beauty.” www.dailywire.com/news/30120/sorry-not-sorry-girl-who-wore-chinese-dress-says-ryan-saavedrawww.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/05/01/its-just-a-dress-teens-chinese-prom-attire-stirs-cultural-appropriation-debate/
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Post by trumped on May 7, 2018 19:52:55 GMT -6
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Post by trumped on May 7, 2018 19:54:51 GMT -6
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Post by sheepdog on May 7, 2018 20:08:36 GMT -6
Major narrative fail here: www.dailywire.com/news/30330/plot-twist-teen-called-racist-chinese-prom-dress-amanda-prestigiacomoTurns out, only privileged Americans are outraged over a teenage girl wearing a Chinese-themed dress to prom. Keziah Daum, an 18-year-old from Utah, became the target of a social justice warrior who deemed her an undercover racist for allegedly appropriating his culture. "My culture is NOT your goddamn prom dress," he wrote in a viral tweet. Here's the dress, which, according to the South China Morning Post, "symbolised a silent protest to promote gender equality after the fall of the dynasties and the beginning of the republican period in the early 1900s, and was worn during the 1919 reformist May Fourth Movement." www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2144207/qipao-us-prom-wins-support-china-after-internet-backlashBut throwing a wrench into the SJW's perpetual offense-taking scam is the reaction of Chinese internet users, who heaped praise on Ms. Daum. “Very elegant and beautiful! Really don’t understand the people who are against her, they are wrong!” one person commented on an article by Wenxue City News, according to SCMP. “I suggest the Chinese government, state television or fashion company invite her to China to display her cheongsam!” “It is not cultural theft,” wrote another. “It is cultural appreciation and cultural respect.” "Weibo users added that Daum looked beautiful and criticised those who have accused her," notes the SCMP. “Culture has no borders,” read one post. “There is no problem, as long as there is no malice or deliberate maligning. Chinese cultural treasures are worth spreading all over the world.” Upon learning about the background of the dress, the 18-year-old told the SCMP, "One person commented it represented female empowerment. If that is the case, then it is a wonderful message for any young woman my age to learn, regardless of culture and background." She has unapologetically kept the "offensive" prom post up on her account and told The Daily Wire last week that if she had to do it over, she'd wear it again. “I thought it was absolutely beautiful,” she told The Washington Post, adding, it “really gave me a sense of appreciation and admiration for other cultures and their beauty.” www.dailywire.com/news/30120/sorry-not-sorry-girl-who-wore-chinese-dress-says-ryan-saavedrawww.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/05/01/its-just-a-dress-teens-chinese-prom-attire-stirs-cultural-appropriation-debate/ This shit is out of control. If a black man decides to straighten his hair is that cultural appropriation? Of course it is but who gives a jheri curl! If a lesbian adores a strap on does that constitute gender appropriation? Of course it does but who gives a dildo! Like society needs another thing to complain about.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 8, 2018 5:09:27 GMT -6
freebeacon.com/uncategorized/april-ryan-melania-trump-not-culturally-american/CNN White House reporter April Ryan said Monday that First Lady Melania Trump is "not culturally American" during a conversation about the first lady's unveiling of the "Be Best" campaign against bullying and addiction. CNN host Erin Burnett said that the first lady faces a "painful reality" by taking on cyber-bullying, referencing President Donald Trump's tweets castigating his opponents. Ryan agreed that it was hard for the first lady. "She's well aware of his cyber-bullying," Ryan said. "He's considered by some, well many I would say in different sectors, one of the biggest bullies. He will call you out in a moment's notice and she stood in front of him and basically said she wants to show young people how it's done and do it right and they will pick up those habits." She went on to say that the first lady is facing many challenges partly because she is "not culturally American," even though she is a U.S. citizen. "This is a first lady who is not culturally American, but she is learning the ways," Ryan said. "This is not just an American issue. These are not just American issues. These are international issues. Cyber-bullying is an international issue. Social media is international and also the opioid addiction issue, so it's not just here." Melania Trump was born in Slovenia but has been an American citizen for over a decade. She has been in the United States since 1996 and became an American citizen in 2006. Video: youtu.be/9QyMX3ci01c
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Post by soonernvolved on May 8, 2018 5:15:53 GMT -6
This one aged perfectly:
Followed by this:
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Post by soonernvolved on May 8, 2018 5:33:04 GMT -6
www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/ta-nehisi-coates-attacks-kanye-west-views-on-freedom/Coates to Kanye: Stop Thinking Outside the Box, or I’ll Call You White By BEN SHAPIRO May 8, 2018 6:30 AM ....... It’s not West who’s got a hidebound view of freedom. Are you an individual? Or are you a cog in the great machine of race? Are your achievements your own, or do they belong to that machine? That’s the big question bubbling up over Kanye West, and The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates has finally brought it to the surface. Yesterday, Coates tore into West in brutal fashion, alleging that West had bowed to the power of whiteness, leaving behind his own people. Coates stated that West had acted as an apotheosis of blackness, the apex of black cultural history: “When [Michael] Jackson sang and danced, when West samples or rhymes, they are tapping into a power formed under all the killing, all the beatings, all the rape and plunder that made America. The gift can never wholly belong to a singular artist, free of expectation and scrutiny, because the gift is no more solely theirs than the suffering that produced it.” West’s music is not his own — it is the collective property of black people across the world. West is not a creator; he is merely a conduit for black history and culture. And so West has broken faith with that role by thinking for himself. By embracing Trump — or at least expressing openness to him — West has given way to white history going back to “before there was an America, when the first Carib was bayoneted and the first African delivered up in chains.” West, Coates wrote, has “chosen collaboration.” Here’s Coates: What Kanye West seeks is what Michael Jackson sought — liberation from the dictates of that “we.” . . . West calls his struggle the right to be a “free thinker,” and he is, indeed, championing a kind of freedom—a white freedom, freedom without consequence, freedom without criticism, freedom to be proud and ignorant; freedom to profit off a people in one moment and abandon them in the next; a Stand Your Ground freedom, freedom without responsibility, without hard memory; a Monticello without slavery, a Confederate freedom, the freedom of John C. Calhoun, not the freedom of Harriet Tubman, which calls you to risk your own; not the freedom of Nat Turner, which calls you to give even more, but a conqueror’s freedom, freedom of the strong built on antipathy or indifference to the weak, the freedom of rape buttons, [p***y] grabbers, and [f***] you anyway, [b****]; freedom of oil and invisible wars, the freedom of suburbs drawn with red lines, the white freedom of Calabasas. Put aside the innate racism of linking all of these elements — as though living in a suburb puts one in league with John C. Calhoun, as though supporting Stand Your Ground laws (which were not implicated in the Trayvon Martin shooting, by the way) somehow makes you an advocate for “antipathy or indifference to the weak,” as though support of the Iraq war comes naturally along with rapist tendencies, as though all of these variegated positions and tendencies fall under the rubric of “white freedom.” Put aside the fact that white people aren’t the only “proud and ignorant” people in American politics — there are plenty; put aside the fact that white people aren’t the only people to brag about grabbing women by the genitals (listen to some top-40 rap). Put aside the fact that Trump hasn’t bayoneted any Caribs or enslaved any Africans, and that his supporters haven’t either. Focus instead on Coates’s argument that the “we” of Kanye is more important than the “I.” He returns to that theme at the end of his 5,000-word screed: “I wonder what he might be, if he could find himself back into connection, back to that place where he sought not a disconnected freedom of ‘I,’ but a black freedom that called him back — back to the bone and drum, back to Chicago, back to Home.” In attacking West in this fashion, Coates actually proves West’s larger point. Imagine that the races were reversed. Imagine that this were Kevin Williamson writing about Garth Brooks endorsing Barack Obama, or at least expressing openness to Obama’s political viewpoint. Imagine that Williamson had written that Brooks’s “free thought” actually represented “black freedom,” or that Brooks’s music obviously owed something to a particular legacy of folk music predominant in the white community — that Brooks was the apotheosis of whiteness, and could not simply leave his whiteness behind on behalf of his individual politics. Imagine Williamson writing that Brooks ought to return “back to the fiddle and the bagpipes, back to Texas, back to Home.” No doubt he’d have been run out of work at The Atlantic. But Coates is the sort of fellow who can, with a straight face, write those words after chiding himself for having briefly stood up in Williamson’s favor: “I feel like I kind of failed The Atlantic in that advice. I feel like I failed the writers of color here in that advice.” In attacking West in this fashion, Coates actually proves West’s larger point. West argued that he was an individual, capable of making individual decisions and thinking individual thoughts; he argued that there were many Americans who wanted to box him in, deliberately prevent him from thinking outside that box. Coates’ response: Stop thinking outside the box, or I’ll call you white. It’s not West who’s got a hidebound view of freedom. It’s Coates, whose view of freedom is ethnic loyalty — ethnic loyalty apparently defined by willingness to fight more traditional definitions of individualism and freedom on behalf of a racial collective.
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