Category: Urban Progressive Privilege
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I Don’t Want To Speak Too Soon
I was debating whether to call this episode…. …”Peak ‘Urban Progressive Privilege” – 100+ overschooled/badly educated, middle-on-up class, likely 20/30-something junior members of “the elite” media who have experienced so little struggle and dissonance in their lives that they consider publishing a Ben Shapiro column a mortal threat, and feel entitled enough to whine about…
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Open Letter To “A Wide Swath Of Liberal And Progressive Organizations”
To: The above-mentioned SwathFrom: Mitch Berg, irascible, deplorable peasantRe: Your Offensive I couldn’t help but notice this from (where else) NPR the other day: Oh, I can help. For starters, you can beg for forgiveness for having appropriated a bit of culture – the term “Resistance” – you never earned. For starters, you were a…
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#Progsplaining
Kendall Qualls was the GOP endorsed candidate for the 3rd Congressional District seat in this past election. Having lost that time, he’s on to something potentially bigger – starting a conversation with the black community about…itself. The DFL’s brain trust needs to stomp on that idea, but quick: I raise you this, Zach: Imagine an…
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Planet Of The Humans, Part 3: Steam
Democracy can’t survive if we can’t trust our institutions. We’ll come back to that. Steamed In Tom Wolfe’s 1987 satire Bonfire of the Vanities, a young black man is run over by a car driven y a millionaire bond trader. A Bronx DA and couple of New York cops investigate. In one part of the…
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Progsplaining Orwell
The left’s urge to control thought has gotten to none other than George Orwell himself – a push that is positively… …well, you know where I’m going. The piece is an object lesson on how American education has failed society in completely abrogating the teaching of critical thinking. How can we tell? The gaping irony…
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My Thoughts About Election-Related Violence?
I was against it back when many of you were for, or at least pretty blasé but tacitly approving of, it. Oh, I’ll have much more to say about it next week – and most likely on tomorrow’s show as well. (H/T to
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The New Dacha
A friend of the blog emails: I would love it if the pandemic caused developers to incorporate more parking into their apartments. The sky is the limit- we don’t have to use more land just to build out parking. I think of the benefits this could have on lower and middle class neighborhoods in regards…
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You Ain’t A Human Being
Dennis Prager has a great line – “Relationships can survive a lot, but no relationship can survive contempt” When parties can’t see one another as human, forget about reaching common ground on differing ideas and ideals, can there be any point to trying to live together? I wouldn’t work for couples – why would it…
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Adding Insult to Injury
I believe a blogger of our acquaintance predicted this was going to happen. c”A Minnesota court recently agreed to an uncommon approach to resolve criminal charges filed after the statue of Christopher Columbus was toppled at the Minnesota Capitol on June 10, 2020. Ramsey County Chief Judge Leonardo Castro accepted the restorative justice approach proposed…
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Oppressing From Below
Our stereotype of the banana republic dictator is that he/she does their oppressing from above – with the military, the secret police, the “legal system” and so on. And that’s all true – the KGB, the Gestapo, the Pasdaran, were or are all pretty effective at making life miserable, nasty, brutish and short for those…
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And The List Goes On
Nancy Pelosi’s haircut and blowout was more important than the public health measures whose jamdown she supported – after which the speaker and masses of her droogs took it upon themselves to try to defame the stylist for apparently fooling the hapless speaker of the house and Powerful Woman into acting like Marie Antoinette. Chicago…
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My New Project
I maaaaaay just have to raise some money to start distributing a few thousand of these: And, of course, coating them with a caustic chemical.
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And Now The Mensheviks Must Pay
When “progressives” win, two things happen: Drunk with power, they overreach. They start eating their own. They won’t be able to try Phase 1 for a bit yet. But here’s hoping we’re seeing the beginning of Phase 2.
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Unity
Just a further reminder… …for those who may need it… …(and “those who may need it” in are pretty much invariably Democrats)… …that when the left jabbers about “unity”, they mean “everybody who isn’t united with us shuts up”. At the, er, very least.
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Wealthy Heir Syndrome
Sarah Hoyt makes an interesting observation: the “mostly peaceful” rioters and looters are suffering from Wealthy Heir disease. You know what she means. She means the kid who got his trust fund money for his 18th birthday, bought a Camero, got drunk and wrapped it around a tree. She means the kid whose parents paid his tuition,…
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Don’t Go Plath
If there’s anyone in the world not entitled to call Jonathan Chait “wound emotionally too tight and intellectually too loose”, it’s David Corn. Words to live by: Don’t go Full-Bore Sylvia Plath. Corn: He went Plath. I’m convinced most of the American Left stopped growing emotionally at around 14.
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The Fix
Macalester students, forced to “study” remotely, get not a dime’s worth of break on their tuition. Their institutions’ president has other priorities: Now might be a fine time for conservative entrepreneurs to start getting into the higher ed business.
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Our Cuturally-Illiterate Elite
I may owe Ryan Winkler an apology. I mean, growing up in rural North Dakota back when only Al Gore had access to the Internet, even I knew what “uncle Tom” meant when applied to a black man – so naturally I figured someone in his position, Harvard grad and all, would as well. Clearly,…
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Democracy Can’t Survive…
…if citizens can’t trust their institutions. And we can’t trust our institutions. And they know it, and don’t care. So what choice does that leave us?
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“Mitch, What Does Urban Progressive Privilege Look Like?”
Well, sit on down and I’ll show you the most concentrated two minutes and twenty seconds worth of Urban Progressive Privilege you will ever see: I suspect you could get a similar performance in Crocus Hill. Kenwood or Saint Anthony Park.
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The NYTimes‘ Memory Hole
The NYTimes is trying to disappear some of their own paper’s history in re the “1619 Project”, which claimed that, based on the premise that America was founded primarily to exalt slavery, the nation was really founded when the first slave arrived. Or…so they said. For a while: Editors recently removed (without explanation or acknowledgment) the provocative…
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Watching The Defectives
Am I the only one watching the various prosecutions underway from the riots a couple weeks ago, and wondering which ones are the “white supremacists?” Any guesses? I’m sure stumped.
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Look Into The Gaslight
During the Bush years, as many as a third of Democrats had some level of belief that 9/11 was an inside job. Today, a significant number – on social media, it looks like a supermajority – believe that Trump colluded with Russia, that Kavanaugh raped someone, that “white supremacists” started the riots, that “Anti”-fa is…
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The Worst Thing Ever
Ryan Winkler, the House Majority Leader, isn’t thrilled with President Trump stealing Joe Biden’s thunder: Then the Majority Leader has had a pretty sheltered life. Know what’s the worst thing I’ve ever heard? Other than the Holocaust, the Great Leap Forward, the Gulag, the Holodomor, the Rape of Nanking, the subjugation of Tibet, the history…