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Ibram X. Kendi's 'anti-racist' constitutional amendment would lead to racial discrimination on a massive scale

Noah Carl
RT
Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:06 UTC
Ibram X Kendi
© Getty Images / Simone Padovani/AwakeningAmerican author and historian Ibram X Kendi attends a photocall during Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019 on August 10, 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland
Ibram X. Kendi's most ambitious policy proposal - that Americans should "pass an anti-racist amendment to the US constitution" - illustrates the problem with treating all racial inequality as evidence of unjust discrimination.

It's been a good week for Ibram X. Kendi, professor of history, best-selling author, and founder of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. On August 20, his nascent research center came into possession of a not-inconsequential sum of money - $10 million to be exact - thanks to the largesse of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. The research center's mission is "to figure out novel and practical ways to understand, explain, and solve seemingly intractable problems of racial inequity and injustice." Or, as the bold message on the website's homepage reads, "BE ANTIRACIST."

Kendi has been interested in racism, and of course its antithesis, "anti-racism" for some time. He is the author of five books: 'The Black Campus Movement', 'Stamped from the Beginning', 'How to Be an Antiracist', 'STAMPED: Racism, Antiracism and You', and - most recently - 'Antiracist Baby'.

Comment: Identity ideologues like Kendi rely upon the presumption that an individual's place in society is strictly determined by society. This is a backward and juvenile assumption that has little to no understanding of the nature of people, growth, or responsibility. As such, there can be no depth of understanding when it comes to ideas or instances regarding justice and injustice. At it's core, identity politics is dependent on the continuation of a coddled child-parent relationship expanded to the citizens dependent role toward their government and the 'authorities'. That doesn't leave room for real ways to move forward in life that provide meaning or value for both the individual and the larger society.

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'You're shameful': Donna Brazile scolds Tammy Bruce while Brian Kilmeade struggles to maintain control

Virginia Kruta
Daily Caller
Tue, 25 Aug 2020 13:43 UTC
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Former DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile and commentator Tammy Bruce got into a heated exchange Tuesday during a segment with "Fox & Friends" host Brian Kilmeade.

What was supposed to be a response to Monday's events at the kickoff of the Republican National Convention quickly spiraled, as Brazile called Bruce "shameful" and insisted that she had ignored "400 years" and refused to "recognize" her existence.

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Best of the Web: The pressing dangers of technocracy

Dr. Joseph Mercola
Mercola.com
Sun, 09 Aug 2020 10:43 UTC
Patrick Wood — an economist, financial analyst and American constitutionalist — has devoted a lifetime to uncovering the mystery of what is controlling most of the craziness we're currently seeing, and which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

He's written two books on this topic: "Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation" and "Technocracy: The Hard Road to World Order." I was intrigued by his work as my own approach is to seek to understand the foundational cause of any given problem.


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"I think that's a really important takeaway for listeners," Wood says. "Don't just confine your view to the microcosm, like what's in front of you. Always try and look for the big picture ... Once you have the big picture, it's hard to unsee it. Once you see it, it's hard to not see it. It guides everything else you do within your life at that point, and that's really important.

It's certainly important in medicine, because if a doctor or researcher doesn't really understand the whole picture, how can he understand a little part of the picture when you get right down into some nitty-gritty detail? It's very difficult."

Comment: See also:

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China's ninth consecutive day with no locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, life returning to normal


Reuters
Tue, 25 Aug 2020 02:11 UTC
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© REUTERS/Tingshu WangFILE PHOTO: People wearing face masks walk down steps near a subway station, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Beijing, China August 18, 2020.
China reported its ninth consecutive day with no new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, as a major university in the city of Wuhan opened for face-to-face classes on Tuesday for the first time in eight months.

The daily update from national health officials, which provided data for Monday, showed the recent streak without any new locally transmitted cases stretched into another day.

There were 14 new imported cases, involving travellers returning from overseas, down from 16 the previous day. There were also 16 new asymptomatic cases - patients who are infected with the coronavirus but not exhibiting any symptoms - compared with 27 a day earlier.

In the central city where the virus was first detected, Wuhan University opened its doors to more than 9,100 students on Monday.

Comment: China is returning to normal life while in the West a 'new normal' is coming into force amidst unsupported claims of a 'second wave': And check out SOTT radio's:

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22 civilians killed by Western backed GNA mercenaries in Libya during protests over living standards

Joanne Moriarty
Libyan War The Truth
Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:49 UTC
Libyan Flag
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August 23, 2020 Tripoli, Libya Protestors took to the streets of Tripoli and surrounding cities to protest the untenable living conditions in the city and in the whole of Libya. The city of Tripoli that has been under the control of the so called Government of National Accord (appointed by and supported by the UN) since 2015. Since that time the GNA has not done one government like activity in Libya. The GNA is made up of radicals, mostly Muslim Brotherhood but some Al Qaeda and LIFG. The Libyan people would have never agreed or voted to put such people in charge of their banks, government ministries or other such institutions. The criminals in the GNA were appointed by someone in a meeting in Tunisia. The elected government of Libya - the HOR (House of Representatives) rejected a group of men appointed in a foreign country to rule in Tripoli so the UN sneaked them in by the dark of night by boat to Tripoli. Once they landed they were under the protection of Belhaj, the terrorist leader of the LIFG in Tripoli. The GNA having put their feet on Libyan soil were immediately recognized as the legitimate government of Libya by the UN. This recognition was to last for 2 years, but since the GNA has not complied with one article of the so called Shkirat agreement, why should they be bound by the 2 year time limit. The corruption of the GNA regime knows no bounds. The first principle of the Shkirat agreement was to "Ensure the democratic rights of the Libyan people". Serraj, the man appointed to head the GNA by God only knows who; was a furniture salesman, I am pretty sure he cannot even spell the word democracy. Serraj is of Turkish decent and a full blown PUPPET of the Turkish madman "Erdogan".

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Eight in 10 poorer UK families feel worse off since lockdown, selling possessions to make ends meet

Kevin Rawlinson
The Guardian
Mon, 24 Aug 2020 19:01 UTC
buying food
© Andy Buchanan/PAMany families are having to spend more on food and utilities than before.
Some families have abandoned balanced meals for lack of money during the coronavirus crisis, while many have faced physical and mental problems, according to a report.

Researchers from the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) and the Church of England (C of E) spoke to parents who said they had been forced to sell possessions to protect their children's quality of life, and found that 80% of poorer families surveyed felt they had become worse off financially since the lockdown began.

The findings underline the disproportionate strain being placed on the poorest households as the UK struggles to deal with the pandemic. In June the Resolution Foundation said that while many low-income families were turning to credit cards to get by under lockdown, many higher-income households were able to save more money as their costs fell.
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New Zealand shooter Brenton Tarrant told police he wanted to kill more, planned to attack a third mosque

Marine Lourens
stuff
Mon, 24 Aug 2020 23:02 UTC
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© JOHN KIRK-ANDERSON/STUFFThe gunman in the High Court in Christchurch on Monday.
The terrorist who massacred 51 people and injured 40 others in Christchurch last year told police he had hoped to kill more people and burn the mosques down.

He said he wanted to instil fear in non-Europeans and had planned attacks on other New Zealand mosques before deciding on Christchurch.

The last close people he contacted before starting his massacre on March 15 was his family in a text message sent at 1.31pm, telling them of his plans. Police received the first 111 call from the Masjid An-Nur (also known as Al Noor mosque) 10 minutes later.

Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 29, who was led into court with his arms and legs shackled and flanked by at least four Corrections officers, is being sentenced in the High Court in Christchurch this week on 51 charges of murder, 40 charges of attempted murder and a charge of committing a terrorist act. He could become the first in New Zealand to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.

Justice Cameron Mander confirmed with the shooter if he was going to represent himself during the sentencing. "Ah yeah," he said.

The victims were worshippers at Masjid An-nur Masjid and the Linwood Islamic Centre (Linwood mosque) in Christchurch.

New details emerged as the summary of facts was read in court on Monday morning, including the gunman's planning of the attack and graphic accounts of the "systematic" shootings he carried out, including of young children.

Comment: For some impact statements of survivors delivered at the hearings, see here.

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Assange's partner says he is in 'a lot of pain' and 'a lot thinner' after visiting him in Belmarsh prison with their two children

Faith Ridler
Daily Mail, UK
Tue, 25 Aug 2020 23:05 UTC
Stella Moris with children Gabriel and Max
Stella Moris with Gabriel and Max
Julian Assange's partner has said he is in 'a lot of pain' after she visited him in Belmarsh Prison for the first time in almost six months.

Stella Moris took the couple's two children Gabriel, three, and Max, one, to meet their 'much thinner' father at the south-east London prison today.

The WikiLeaks founder, 49, is awaiting an extradition hearing on behalf of the US government, which is due to start at the Old Bailey on September 7.

Ms Moris said the visit was 'incredibly stressful' but expressed relief at being able to visit her partner for the first time since March 22.

She added the family had to wear face masks and visors during the 20-minute meeting, and Assange was not able to touch his children.
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Let there be light... so long as it's decolonised. Right-on academics condemn the science of illumination as 'white male dominated'

Rob Lyons
RT
Tue, 25 Aug 2020 20:43 UTC
light, prism, rainbow, light refraction
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According to a new Canadian university project, physics is "a mirror of colonial patterns and social inequality," particularly "in the context of light." This is all not just baffling, but dangerously bonkers.

In the light of Black Lives Matter and the decision by Oriel College at Oxford University to move its statue of Sir Cecil Rhodes, the idea of "decolonising" education has made serious headway, with many institutions now reworking curricula to better reflect diversity and black and ethnic minority concerns.

There are plenty of problems with that outlook. It suggests that ethnic minority writers and thinkers should be included in college courses because of the colour of their skin, rather than the brilliance of their ideas. It also suggests that students can only really learn if education is "relevant" to them. After decades of fighting for equality, it seems we are now re-racialising society. Worse, this re-racialisation is seen as progressive.

Comment: It is impossible to build anything of lasting substance based on lies and delusions, but those "fighting against the colonially oppressive blah blah blah" in the hard sciences are determined to try. Unfortunately, they're trying to drag the rest of society into their delusions and if they win it will put the world back several hundred years in terms of scientific and technological development.

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Full stops are 'intimidating' Gen Zers and are being 'revised', linguists say... just like 'racist' maths & proper spelling

Helen Buyniski
RT
Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:29 UTC
Eternity in an Instant
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A full stop - ending a sentence with a period - is a sign of 'aggression' to the hyper-sensitive generation raised with cell phone in hand, according to linguists who presumably prefer we communicate in emojis.

Ending a message with a period has come to "signify an abrupt or angry tone of voice" to Generation Z, some linguists claim, arguing that in the era of ubiquitous texting and instant messaging, full stops are no longer necessary to merely indicate the end of a sentence.

An idea's conclusion is implied by the end of the message, they insist (because nobody communicates in more than one sentence at a time anymore, apparently - you just hit 'send' and start a new message). When full stops are used, they're supposedly interpreted as "ominous" or emotionally charged by the hyper-sensitive young people reading the message.

The full stop's use is being "revised in a really fundamental way," Professor David Crystal, billed by the UK Telegraph as "one of the world's leading language experts," alleges. It's no longer about ending a sentence but about an "emotion marker," he says. This is even "backed up by science" - a 2015 Binghamton University study found college students perceive text messages ending in a full stop as being "less sincere" than those without one.


Comment: It appears we are close to reaching peak millennial. Even a dot on a page can hurt, apparently. Talk about micro-aggression. . . . . . .

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