Tag: We-ism
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A Crisis Not To Be Wasted
It’s best to try to engage your opponents’ best arguments; that makes your own arguments stronger. David Sirota’s Salon piece, “Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American“, is not one of our opponents’ better arguments: As we now move into the official Political Aftermath period of the Boston bombing — the period that will determine the…
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Cracker Like Me
The folks at the U of M-Duluth might be glad the whole “flood” thing happened. It’ll draw attention away from their latest squandering of taxpayer money – to draw attention to white privilege: The University of Minnesota – Duluth (UMD) is now sponsoring an ad-campaign designed to achieve “racial justice” by raising awareness of “white…
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Since The Subject Is Education
Ken Burns has a new documentary series, about Prohibition. Lori Sturdevant shows her ability to tease the wrong lesson out of history – or, more accurately, the lesson she wants her less-informed readers to find: [The series] doesn’t pound on the lessons for today that spring from the nation’s disastrous ban on the sale and purchase…
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Reason #258 To Defund MPR: Keri Miller
While driving between meetings yesterday, I listened to the first part of Keri Miller’s interview with Juan Williams. Williams, of course, was the commentator who split his time between Fox News and National Public Radio – even serving as a talk show host on NPR on occasion – before being fired for admitting on the…
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A Day In The Life Of Every Uppity Conservative
ME: Hi! REPRESENTATIVE GROUP OF LIBERALS (RGOL): Conservatism is fundamentally racist! ME: Um – beg your pardon? “RGOL”: Racism oozes from every pore of conservatism! ME: OK, that’s what we call “bigotry” where I come from, but what the hell, I love a good ad-hominem argument. Do tell! “RGOL”: Nixon’s “southern strategy” brought all the racists…
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Maybe My Parents Will Return My Calls Now
I’ve got a bit of a first to report. We’ll get back to that in a moment, here. Jake Mohan has a piece in the Utne Reader about conservatives bicyclists… …which was a concept that took a bit for Mr. Mohan to wrap his brain around: But eventually a few needling questions penetrated my insulated sphere…
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George W. Bush Hates White People
Bob Collins at NewsCut commented on a letter to the editor in the Strib that aroused his ire. Collins’ comments – or, should I say, his sources – are a bit troubling as well. Collins: Are Midwesterners simply better than people in other parts of the country? Do we work harder? Are we less reliant…
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“A Dialog About Race”
Jason Lewis had/has a liner in his promo reel. It goes a little something like…: “Let’s have an intelligent conversation; Jason will talk, you listen”. That’s what I think about when I hear most people who are calling for a “dialog about race” in this county. Dialog. I don’t know that that word means what…