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After a Puerto Rican couple is brutally shot in Chicago by black gang, Democrat activist claims they had it coming

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43rd Annual Puerto Rican Day parade in Chicago, Illinois, June 19, 2021

Conservative columnist Ann Coulter shared the video and commented that it will be ignored by national media, since African Americans gunning down Puerto Ricans in Chicago simply doesn't fit the Democrat narrative about racism in the US. A Democrat activist named Richard Taite snapped back that the couple had it coming.

"I'm sorry is that a confederate flag they're flying from their car? Trolling that neighborhood? Yeah I don't give a s**t," Taite tweeted at Coulter. When corrected - the flag on the car was Puerto Rican - he backtracked and called the shooting a "horrible incident," but refused to apologize.

"Had these people been white supremacists trolling a neighborhood primarily of color, I would have been agnostic," insisted Taite, founder of the Democracy Preservation Initiative (DPI), a political action committee (PAC) fundraising for President Joe Biden.

The reason Arzuaga and Perez had a flag on their car was the annual Puerto Rican Day parade earlier. "There was no shortage of excitement, enthusiasm and pride in Humboldt Park Saturday. You couldn't turn down any neighborhood street without seeing the Puerto Rican flag," is how WLS, the local ABC affiliate, described it.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot marched in the parade herself. After not commenting on the shooting the entire weekend, on Monday Lightfoot condemned it as "horrific" and insisted the perpetrators would be brought to justice. Chicago PD has "promising leads" from the community and have identified the shooter, who should be in custody "relatively soon," she said.

"I don't believe they are typical by any stretch of young black men in our city. But it's horrific nonetheless," Lightfoot said, urging the perpetrators to turn themselves in as police will do everything to "make sure that these people who created such brazen chaos and harm are held in custody 'til they see their day in court."

Meanwhile, Taite's Twitter account showed up as deleted, presumably due to the backlash. His PAC, a California-based outfit, describes itself as "a team of impassioned citizens who feel democracy and liberty are at the core of our values" and wanting to "leave our children and their children a more inclusive and compassionate America."

The DPI also boasted of receiving an award for "best new and unusual tactic" in "leveraging values" to identify and target voters in the 2020 election.

We're extremely grateful to @TheAAPC & all the judges who awarded us Best New & Unusual Tactic Gold Pollie Award for Leveraging Values to Identify and Target Persuadable Voters in the '20 Pres. election. And thank you @resonatetweets who helped us strategize & deploy our campaign pic.twitter.com/VgzQ6Tta3n

— Democracy Preservation Initiative (@DPI_PAC) June 16, 2021

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Eight major producers of German-language news content are to use a bag of linguistic tricks to make their products more gender-neutral. Critics view the policy change as ridiculous catering to identity politics.

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The agencies will use various linguistic tricks to make their news sound less masculine, such as putting two gendered forms side by side with the feminine in front ('Schülerinnen und Schüler' - '[female] pupils and [male] pupils') or replacing gendered words with gender-neutral phrases ('those who smoke' instead of '[male] smokers').

However, they stopped short of adopting a more radical change, the so-called "gender star", which requires putting a special character such as an asterisk or a colon before the feminine ending of a word - for example, 'Schüler*innen'.

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The reaction to the announcement from the news agencies was understandably full of mockery. Froben Homburger, the head of DPA, was lampooned on Twitter for failing to stick to the new rules even while announcing them. He used the masculine word 'Medienkunden' to explain that he and his colleagues would closely monitor their subscribers' reaction to the changes. "Medienkunden and Medienkundinnen, please!" one of the responses was.

Gender-neutral language is not a particularly popular idea even among the intended beneficiaries. A recent opinion poll in Germany showed that 65% of the public rejected the proposal - up from 56% last year. Even among voters who supported the Green Party, a champion of the reform, a narrow majority was against it. Those who favor them accuse conservative naysayers of defending the patriarchy.

[...] experts also weigh in on the pitfalls of 'whiteness,' including psychologist Rebecca Toporek, who said white people go through a "racial awakening" when they witness such events. They must understand their "white racial identity" to be "self-aware" as a white person, interviewer Nicole Ellis argues. This process, though, is a lifelong process, viewers are told.

One white woman appears in the video to claim she has identified daily racist thoughts as part of her journey. Another says she felt "deep shame" at being white after "unpacking" racist histories she had been taught her whole life.

Menakem and others go on to recommend white people creating "accountability groups," which equates to a place to "process" racism, a group whose "responsibility" it is to "call out" white people when they are being racist and do not know it.

The Post's video ran on their homepage before being noticed by conservative critics, who blasted the video's central conceit that "whiteness" equates to racism on its own and accused the project's 'experts' of pushing "neoracist" points about skin color.

With its embassies around the world flying the rainbow colors for Pride Month, the US State Department will display the 'Progress' flag at home, which features extra stripes for transgender, intersex and people of color.

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The ever-expanding list of categories rolled into the flag has been criticized online. Writing for RT earlier this month, author Chris Sweeney described it as "essentially morphing into a symbol for anyone who's not white and heterosexual."