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Best of the Web: Eight big reasons critical race theory is terrible for dealing with racism

James Lindsay
New Discourses
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 00:01 UTC
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As unlikely as it seems, a highly obscure academic theory known as Critical Race Theory has completely mainstreamed in society, and now everyone is discussing it. While Critical Race Theory has the noble goal of pointing out problems that can be hard to see and that maintain or constitute racism, it turns out to be a remarkably bad way of going about this. A little familiarity with the basic principles of Critical Race Theory and how they go wrong can help with this.

Before I begin, I offer my apologies to the reader. Critical Race Theory has been growing for over 40 years, and it has many deep problems. Therefore, this is long, and still it is not nearly complete. Here, I document just eight of the biggest problems with the entire Critical Race Theory approach. Treat them as eight short essays on specific topics in Critical Race Theory and digest them one at a time. I offer them in the hopes of helping people understand it better so they can decide for themselves if Critical Race Theory is the way we should be dealing with race issues and racism in our society, or if we can genuinely do better.
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Delusional Seattle councilwoman demands police permanently surrender East Precinct building to leftist rioters


Breitbart
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 18:57 UTC
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© David Ryder/Getty ImagesA “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” sign hangs on the exterior of the Seattle Police Departments East Precinct on June 9, 2020 in Seattle, Washington
Seattle Councilwoman Kshama Sawant on Thursday night demanded the Seattle Police Department surrender the East Precinct building to "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" (CHAZ) protesters.

"Our movement needs to urgently ensure East Precinct is not handed back to police, but is turned over permanently into community control," Sawant wrote on Twitter.

Sawant said she would file legislation to convert the East Precinct into "a community center for restorative justice."
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Target

Turning point: US corporate media, controlled by the radical left, has everyone resigning

Emily Jashinsky
The Federalist
Thu, 11 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
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Top editors are rapidly resigning over allegations of racial insensitivity — most of which are correctable or forgivable if they're accurate — legitimizing the radical left's inane policing of our politics and culture.

Media moguls are resigning at a head-spinning rate, an irrational reaction that's setting impossible standards and ceding immense power to an unreasonable group of fringe ideologues. This last week has been ridiculous. It may ultimately prove to be a turning point in our culture, one that will cause much further strife.

Top editors are rapidly resigning over allegations of racial insensitivity — most of which are correctable or forgivable if they're accurate — legitimizing the radical left's inane and counterproductive policing of our politics and culture. And it's their own fault. They've used elite media platforms to embolden these irrational actors for years. They are failing to meet the standards they've promoted. The power transfer is now officially complete. That's more than a little unnerving.

Comment: We are witness to the ramifications of America coming unglued - with accusations bouncing off the walls as frustrations give rise to retribution 'for errors' - whether real, perceived, irrational or imagined. New normal?

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Moral decadence: Israel's execution of autistic man is the norm, not the exception

Ramzy Baroud
MintPress News
Wed, 10 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
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© Mahmoud Illean/APEyad Hallaq's mother kisses his photo, June 3, 2020.
A 32-year-old man with the mental age of an 8-year-old child was executed by Israeli soldiers on May 30, while crouching behind his teacher near his special needs school in the Old City of Jerusalem.

The cold-blooded murder of Eyad Hallaq might not have received much attention if it were not for the fact that it took place five days following the similarly heartbreaking murder of a 46-year-old black man, George Floyd, in Minneapolis, at the hands of American police.

The two crimes converge, not only in their repugnancy and the moral decadence of their perpetrators but also because countless American police officers have been trained in Israel, by the very Israeli 'security forces' that killed Hallaq. The practice of killing civilians, with efficiency and callousness, is now a burgeoning market. Israel is the biggest contributor to this market; the US is the world's largest client.
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Syringe

Melinda Gates: Black people must be vaccinated first for COVID-19 right after healthcare workers

Erin Elizabeth
Health Nut News
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
B&MGates
© Spencer LowellBill and Melinda Gates
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave more money from 2018-2019 to the World Health Organization than any entity except the U.S. government, who recently cut ties with the organization.

Melinda Gates, the wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, has revealed who she believes should be the first to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

In a Q&A with TIME ahead of the 2020 Global Vaccines Summit, Gates stated that black people should be second-in-line to be vaccinated immediately after health care workers.

At the June 4 summit, co-chair Bill Gates announced that the Gates Foundation would give $1.6 billion to the Vaccine Alliance (GAVI) over the next five years.

TIME: The scale of anti-racism protests we're seeing right now is incredible. How does this moment relate to your work in health equity?

Gates: What happened to George Floyd was brutal and horrible and should never happen to anyone, anywhere. This is a moment of reckoning in the United States. We all need to really pause during this time and learn as best we can from it. Even before we saw this senseless death, COVID had already started to show us gaps and structural problems in our country. We are seeing black men die at a disproportionate rate. We know the way out of COVID-19 will be a vaccine, and it needs to go out equitably.

Comment: With the world as their petri dish, Bill and Melinda Gates are playing an 'end game'. They just call it 'vaccination'.

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Bullseye

Kailee Scales, Managing Director for BLM, roasted for dodges on finances and antisemitism

Allum Bokhari
Breitbart
Wed, 10 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
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© Black Lives MatterKailee Scales, Managing Director BLM
Kailee Scales, managing director for Black Lives Matter Network Action Fund and Black Lives Matter Global Network, Inc., has been universally panned for her performance in an online Q&A where she dodged simple questions about where donations to the movement actually go.

Scales was the subject of an "AMA" or "Ask Me Anything" discussion on Reddit Monday. Over the course of 17 total answers, she explained the group's advocacy for defunding police departments and addressed issues of crime, violence, and the Wuhan coronavirus as they relate to Black Lives Matter protests. However, the reactions to many of her posts were overwhelmingly negative, with users complaining about vague and tone-deaf answers to basic questions.

Finances was one particular focus of Scales' critics. Black Lives Matter has been the recipient of millions of dollars in the past few weeks, as a string of corporations and celebrities announced massive donations for her organization to establish social justice bona fides for themselves.
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Paso Robles, California: Suspect dead after shootouts with the police, 3 officers injured

Elinor Aspegren
USA Today
Thu, 11 Jun 2020 07:36 UTC
Mason James Lira
© APMason James Lira, from surveillance camera, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's office.
A man suspected of shooting a California deputy in the head during an "ambush" attack was killed Thursday following separate shootouts that injured officers from three agencies, police said.

Mason James Lira, a 26-year-old transient man who has battled a long history of mental illness, according to this family, was identified by law enforcement late Wednesday and authorities' search for him ended in a riverbed in the central California city of Paso Robles, about 200 [miles] northwest of Los Angeles.

An Arroyo Grande police officer helping with the search was wounded when Lira engaged in a shootout about 3 p.m., police said.

When additional officers arrived at the scene, Lira again opened fire, wounding two of them, before he was shot while attempting to escape the riverbed toward the U.S. 101 highway, according to press release from the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The three injured officers were "in good condition," San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson said at a press conference on Thursday night.

Lira had been at-large since he allegedly shot [opened fire on] at the police station in Paso Robles around 3:45 a.m. Wednesday and killed a 58-year-old transient man while eluding law enforcement.
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Donations to Black Lives Matter are funneled through a Democratic fundraising group

Daniel Payne
Just the News
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 05:24 UTC
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Nearly 4% of all donations go to a third-party progressive organization.

Financial contributions to Black Lives Matter are first processed through a Democratic and progressive fundraising group, one which takes a cut of all donations before passing it along to the racial justice organization.

Donations to Black Lives Matter have been skyrocketing in recent weeks amid ongoing protests in response to the killing of George Floyd, a black Minneapolis resident. Floyd died after a police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes; bystander video of the incident captured Floyd screaming, "I can't breathe!" as the officer kept his knee on Floyd's throat.

Major corporations have been scrambling to donate huge sums of money to Black Lives Matter as the sometimes-violent protests have continued. Some of the donations have been astronomical: The Korean pop band BTS donated $1 million to the group earlier this month, and their fans quickly matched that amount with another $1 million donation.

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Light Sabers

Instant Karma? 'Warlord' of Seattle Autonomous Zone struggles to be the police he hates as real cops have 2nd thoughts


RT
Thu, 11 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
Seattle Autonomous zone
© REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson
A self-styled "warlord" of the Seattle Autonomous Zone (and local rapper) is quickly learning that policing is a tough job, struggling to maintain safety and order amid the newly minted commune's post-revolutionary hangover.

Raz Simone, self-appointed "warlord" of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), attempted to clear up some misunderstandings about the protest community, explaining to the Post Millennial on Thursday that his only goal for the moment was "to keep the peace and unity, honestly, that's it." Sort of like a police officer.
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Cost of Riots: Mayor Lightfoot pleads with Walmart, Other Retailers to not abandon Chicago

Craig Dellimore
WBBM News Radio
Thu, 04 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
Mayor Lightfoot said she's hopeful major retailers will reopen the Chicago stores that were looted or otherwise damaged during protests surrounding George Floyd's killing by police in Minnesota. Woman Attacks Cop At Brickyard Mall
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
© Stephen J. SerioChicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
Mayor Lightfoot said she's hopeful major retailers will reopen the Chicago stores that were looted or otherwise damaged during protests surrounding George Floyd's killing by police in Minnesota. But, she's unsure of one of the biggest.

Mayor Lightfoot said she was on a conference call with Walmart and other major retailers that had stores looted or heavily damaged during the unrest in Chicago. She said she pleaded with them to not abandon Chicago.

Comment: Chicago sees deadliest Memorial Day weekend in years amid coronavirus lockdown

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