Category: Social Justice!
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Unexpectedly
I wasn’t living here in 1980. I’m not sure how Minneapolis’s Loony Left reacted to the “Solidarity“ protests in Poland – where the Polish “Solidarity“ trade union led a year of demonstrations against Poland’s communist government. The demonstrations – which newly elected President Ronald Reagan supported morally, symbolically and materially – were the beginning of…
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Over The Target
The Center for the American Experiment has had to reschedule a “Critical Race Theory“ event in Duluth. Due to threats. Three times: For the fourth time in a month, a Duluth venue was pressured into canceling the Raise Our Standards event put on by Center of the American Experiment. Within minutes of the announcement yesterday…
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This Ain’t No Foolin’ Around
The sound of gunfire, off in the distance/I’m getting used to it now. That wasn’t off in the distance. It was the scene at 38th and Chicago yesterday, also known as George Floyd Square. Sure, it was the middle of the day, but it’s always a good time to bust a few caps, right? This…
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After Nearly A Year…
…of constant violence that he encouraged not only with as many words but with as many actions, Portland, Oregon mayor Ted Wheeler says people are “sick of” the constant sturm und drang that has made parts of the city unlivable: Portland became a hotbed of civil unrest last summer during demonstrations protesting the police killing…
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Indoctrination
Whatever you do, don’t you dare suggest public schools have become leftist indoctrination factories: According to whistleblower documents and a source within the school, a fifth-grade teacher at the inner-city William D. Kelley School designed a social studies curriculum to celebrate Davis, praising the “black communist” for her fight against “injustice and inequality.” As part…
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Berg’s 20th Law Rules All It Surveys
It’s gotten to the point where hearing about any emotionally charged claim of abuse gets me thinking “deep breath, wait – the odds it’ll be a hoax are just about even, if not better”. I mean, there’s a reason it’s not called “Berg’s 20th Suggestion“. Keep it in mind, and you’re disappointed…well, pretty rarely, to…
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Not An Animal
“Protect” Minnesota has a new executive director. We’ll come back to that. Modern American “progressivism”, like all its many forebears in the past 200 years, has been all about rallying people against boogeymen. From “monarchists” in the French Revolution, to “Wreckers” in Stalin’s USSR to the Wobbly’s “Bosses”, up through “the patriarchy” and “the man”…
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Student Senate Is Haaaaaard
Minneapolis police note that they were kept from the crime scene of a recent shooting near “George Floyd Square“ near 38th and Chicago in south Minneapolis, and that parts of the “citizens committee“ that have turned the area around the intersection into a de facto “autonomous zone“ contaminated the evidence that could be used to…
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When Watching Progressivism Peak…
…it’s important to remember that, being leftists, they will inevitably eat their own.
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Priorities
A friend of the blog emails: I don’t really like having police departments barricaded. But, I understand it. I look at [Saint Paul city councilwoman] Nelsie Yang’s post and I really don’t see a lot of support for her demand that the barricade be torn down, especially from non-White constituents, the very people she claims…
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Orwell Overestimated Minneapolis DFLers
From the never-ending “It depends on what the meaning of the term ‘is’, is” files – after seven months of demanding the defunding of the police, and a week of acting on it, members of the Minneapolis Student Senate…er, City Council claim they’re just misunderstood: In June, Minneapolis city council members Steve Fletcher and Phillipe Cunningham…
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National Slander
I’m particularly proud of the interview I had last weekend with Peter Wood, author of 1620 – A Criticial Review of the 1629 Project. Wood and his book take a hammer to the historical fraud that the NYTimes sicced on the nation… …and, worse, the miseducation of an entire generation about the history of our…
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Obligation
It’s that time of year. I’m receiving exhortations to Give Back such as this one from TCF Bank. They annoy me. Why this time of year, particularly? The message doesn’t explicitly link December to Christmas to Jesus Christ and thence to a duty of Christian Charity, because that would be overtly religious and might offend…
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Prime Gaslighting
Berg’s Eighth Law of Diversity states: “American Progressivism’s reaction to one of “their”constituents – women, gays or people of color – running for office or otherwise identifying as a conservative is indistinguishable from sociopathic disorder.” And given the news that Trump had the highest share of the African-American vote since Richard Nixon in 1960, I’m…
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Blinding Science
The worst part of this pandemic may be how “science” has been turned from a system for analyzing what we don’t know, into a weapon to logroll people into line behind a conclusion. It’s not just Karens karen-ing, or @NPRNews claiming there’s a “Team Science”, a consistant, constant body of knowledge and its high priests…
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Karen Amok
Is Saint Anthony resident got this letter recently, about their Christmas light display: I wonder if the Karen who wrote this realizes they live in… Wait for it… … Wait for it… … Saint Anthony.
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If You Think…
…that there might be some portion of society too inherently based in innate logic and divorces from social subjectivity to get sucked into the madness… …well, you’d be wrong.
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Social Distance Update
Joe Doakes from Como Park tries his hand at one of my patented dramatizations (c): Mitch Berg is walking through Menards, looking in vain for dust masks so he can sand the Sheetrock repairs where he was banging his head against the wall after reading Penigma’s email, when he sees Avery Liberelle wearing a giant hula…
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Urbocentric Problems
A reader emails: Several months ago, when white, urbanist homeowners were busy advocating for rental housing for everyone else, I would ask why. Why would we advocate for renting over ownership? I never got a good answer- it was determined to be mostly racist to ask the question, which to me seems to be more…
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Validated
The New York Times reports that hermit crabs have wealth inequity. It’s settled science. Which proves that wealth inequity is part of the natural order of things, and not the result of capitalism or white supremacy. Therefore, I no longer need to feel bad about it. Good to know. Joe Doakes Watch for hermit crabs to get “canceled.
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Urine Minneapolis Now
So was there a pattern of passive-aggressive abuse in Mayor Frey’s manipulation of the Minneapolis Police Department, ensuring that they would in turn not inconvenience DFL politicians in the crowd and simultaneously not be around when mobs of droogs septuple-teamed, sucker-punched and spat on the elderly and female (but, curiously, rarely if ever young, fit…
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Soon To Be The Subject Of ACLU Litigation
“Black Boys with Guns” teaches afro-american yoots how and why, as well as why not, to use guns: I can only imagine the caterwauling to ensue from the social justice mafia.
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NIMBY = “Not In My Borough, Yo”
New York assemblywoman argues that housing is a right: “Unexpectedly”, she also is a plaintiff suing against affordable housing…in her district: In a Wednesday piece for the New York Daily News, [Assemblymember Yuh-Line] Niou and activist Feliz Guzman argue that the Saturday murder of four homeless people in New York City could have been prevented by more government…
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Minnesota Department Of Predictive Intersectional Hate Hoaxing
Gary Gross, proprietor of Saint Cloud’s Let Freedom Ring blog, noticed something fishy in the Saint Cloud Times‘ coverage of the postponement of a “Dismantling Hate Crimes” meeting being held in Saint Cloud. The Times carried a statement from MInnesota Department of Human Rights commissioner Rebecca Lucero about the postponement. I’ll add some emphasis: “Hate…
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Economic Pauline Kael Syndrome
News Report: BMW dealers in Hollywood report that import car tariffs aren’t affecting sales to their multimillionaire clients at all. Not a big shock, right? The more money people have, the less price points matter to them. It’s Economics 101. Which is why “journalists” and progressives (ptr) never, ever get it. Remember Obama’s 2014 State…