Uh Oh: The Peace Corps Is Now Considered To Be “White Saviorism”

By William Teach July 29, 2019 – 10:36 am

“Hey, we’ve run out of things to call racist and white privilege.”

“Huh, that’s too bad. So, I was reading a story on the Peace Corps..”

“Stop, that’s it! The Peace Corps!”

Peace Corps’s complicated relationship with the ‘white savior’ complex

A serious “white saviorism” reckoning is afoot. Internet searches for “white savior” have grown steadily over the past decade, following Teju Cole’s searing critique, “The White-Savior Industrial Complex,” in 2012. Commentators such as Cole often target archetypal white saviors — missionaries, voluntourists, celebrities — who make short-term trips to “help.” Also included in the fray are “poverty porn” journalists. Until now, government organizations such as the Peace Corps mostly have been spared. That’s starting to change.

As a former Peace Corps teacher in Malawi, I believe that saviorism is real, pervasive and toxic. The longstanding power imbalance between the Global North and South, including bastions of white privilege in the former and atrocities of colonialism in the latter, makes the white variety of saviorism especially pernicious. I applaud nonprofits such as No White Saviors and the Instagram account Barbie Savior for sparking a long overdue discussion about “decolonizing missions and development work.” While their screeds are difficult to hear, they resonate deep within us and our institutions.

Peace Corps, an institution I hold dear, exhibits hallmarks of saviorism. A prime example is the motto: “Make the most of your world.” The message is clear: The world is yours, go forth and fix it. In fairness, the consultants who likely concocted this messaging faux pas are hired to craft sound bites that resonate. And marketers are acutely aware of how a $173 billion voluntourism industry, which competes with Peace Corps for recruits, has turned white savior mythology into a thriving business.

So, if I’m getting this right, the uber-compassionate folks who join the Peace Corps, and, I think I’m safe in making the generalization that most vote Democrat, are really just white knighting racists. Seriously, this is Wokeness on steroids. Of course, if we got rid of the Peace Corps, that would then be called raaaaacist. There’s just no winning with these nutballs

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Excitable Jay Inslee Says ‘Climate Change’ Is A Winning Issue Or Something

By William Teach July 29, 2019 – 8:13 am

Jay Inslee, currently polling at 0.0% (Real Clear Politics doesn’t even mention him, and CNN said his campaign is pretty much over), has made his campaign all about anthropogenic climate change. And, despite that 0.0%, he says it’s a winning issue in a NY Times op-ed

I’ve heard it my whole career, from pundits, special interests and even political consultants: Just shut up about climate change if you want to be elected. They set up a false dichotomy between the economy and the environment, saying you can’t fight for good jobs and for clean air.

That was bad advice then, and it’s even worse advice now. There is a change happening: Americans really feel climate change in their daily lives — and they are demanding leadership from their politicians like never before.

In my campaign, I’ve seen how climate change — and the coal, oil and gas industries fueling it — have become personal problems for many families.

As he takes lots of fossil fueled travel around the country to push an issue that he really couldn’t get passed multiple times in referendums in the state of Washington, for which he is governor.

The science is clear: We must take major action to reduce carbon pollution in the next decade, or our communities and our children’s lives will suffer dramatic and irreparable harm. The next president will choose whether America leads the world in building a clean energy economy, or we leave our communities facing turmoil and destruction. Climate change cost the United States economy at least $240 billion per year during the past decade, and that figure is projected to rise to $360 billion per year in the coming 10 years. We cannot afford the costs of inaction.

They sure felt like inaction was perfectly fine in his state, eh?

So it is time for Democrats to ignore the standard inside-the-Beltway thinking that talking about the environment risks electoral defeat. The politics of climate change have changed. And the clearest proof point comes from an unlikely source: President Donald Trump himself.

If you’re guessing this is also an anti-Trump rant, you’d be correct.

The days of Democratic fear should end now: We’re not going to win on climate by running the same duck-and-cover campaigns of the past, nor by offering “middle-ground” approaches that fail to confront this challenge. More than ever, Americans want bold solutions to the climate crisis. Democrats can beat Donald Trump if we elect a nominee who will challenge him on this issue.

My candidacy is unique: No other presidential candidate has said that defeating climate change must be our nation’s top priority. My plan will launch a national mobilization to move America to 100 percent clean energy, create eight million jobs, end our addiction to fossil fuels, ensure a just economic transition for fossil fuel workers, assist the communities who are being hit worst by this crisis, and commit to a more ambitious Paris climate agreement.

Zero point zero percent. A lot of people may say they care, may say they are concerned, but, that’s strictly theory. In practice, most do not care, and, again, most aren’t willing to spend more than $10 a month on Hotcoldwetdry.

We will defeat Donald Trump by attacking his failures on climate change, not by running from the issue.

Zero point zero.

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Baltimore Sun: Trump’s Comments On Rats And Filth Are Mean. Also Baltimore Sun: City Is Full Of Rats And Filth

By William Teach July 29, 2019 – 7:55 am

By now you’ve surely heard about Trump taking a shot at Rep Elijah Cummings, noting that his portion of district in Baltimore is pretty bad. Rather than addressing the actual substance of the tweet (which, let’s be honest, is meant to drive Liberals insane), the Usual Characters went with claiming raaaaacism. Which is interesting, since the first thing they think of is skin color. Doesn’t that make them…..racists? Anyhow, how’d the Baltimore Sun cover it? (via Twitchy)

They’ve also noted that Trump was right about Baltimore’s problems back in 2016, and mapped Baltimore’s rat hot spots last August. But, see, now

Better to have a few rats than to be one

In case anyone missed it, the president of the United States had some choice words to describe Maryland’s 7th congressional district on Saturday morning. Here are the key phrases: “no human being would want to live there,” it is a “very dangerous & filthy place,” “Worst in the USA” and, our personal favorite: It is a “rat and rodent infested mess.” He wasn’t really speaking of the 7th as a whole. He failed to mention Ellicott City, for example, or Baldwin or Monkton or Prettyboy, all of which are contained in the sprawling yet oddly-shaped district that runs from western Howard County to southern Harford County. No, Donald Trump’s wrath was directed at Baltimore and specifically at Rep. Elijah Cummings, the 68-year-old son of a former South Carolina sharecropper who has represented the district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1996.

In pointing to the 7th, the president wasn’t hoping his supporters would recognize landmarks like Johns Hopkins Hospital, perhaps the nation’s leading medical center. He wasn’t conjuring images of the U.S. Social Security Administration, where they write the checks that so many retired and disabled Americans depend upon. It wasn’t about the beauty of the Inner Harbor or the proud history of Fort McHenry. And it surely wasn’t about the economic standing of a district where the median income is actually above the national average. No, he was returning to an old standby of attacking an African American lawmaker from a majority black district on the most emotional and bigoted of arguments. It was only surprising that there wasn’t room for a few classic phrases like “you people” or “welfare queens” or “crime-ridden ghettos” or a suggestion that the congressman “go back” to where he came from.

So, see, some equivocation and obfuscation. Fort McHenry isn’t in the 7th. John Hopkins is just barely outside of it. SSA? Depends on which one they’re talking about. But there is that assault on a Muslim city police department employee, which looks to have occurred within the 7th, and made the same editorial board upset.

Oh, and hey, boosters are going to launch a We Are Baltimore website after Trump’s attack! They might want to forget some information

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Calgary Warmists Work Through Their Eco-Grief Or Something

By William Teach July 28, 2019 – 3:36 pm

They could solve their crazy by giving up their own use of fossil fuels and making their lives carbon neutral, as well as giving up a goodly chunk of their money to The Government

‘We Need This’: Calgarians Work Through Eco-Grief Together

Last summer, like so many others around the world, Calgarian Laura Keeth-Rowledge became preoccupied by coverage of a mother whale pushing her dead baby through the ocean for 17 days.

“I was sobbing, in tears,” she said. “I couldn’t function.” For her, it was a devastating reminder of the existential threat facing the planet, its creatures and human society.

Between last October’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report calling for urgent action to avoid the unthinkable, and the subsequent Environment and Climate Change Canada study finding the country is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, many Calgarians are questioning what climate action can and should look like—and how to work through it all.

Grief can be a starting point.

In 2017, Keeth-Rowledge started hosting a bi-monthly Eco-Grief Support Circle in her home—a small, intimate gathering. “As climate realities become more dire, people need to know how to ground, and how to grieve,” Keeth-Rowledge said.

Of course, one the problems here is that these nuts are conflating the environment with a tiny increase in global temperatures, something that has happened many times during just the Holocene alone. This is what’s called negative self talk, in which you make yourself nuts with negativity that really doesn’t exist. And the nuts spread it out amongst themselves, making each other worse.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 28, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon mode of transportation

The blog of the day is Neo-Neocon, with a post on skee-ball cheats.

It’s rollerblading week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach July 28, 2019 – 9:21 am

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in America. The Sun is shining, the lizards are hanging on my deck, and someone is smoking some pig nearby. This pinup is by Greg Hildebrandt, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. PJ Media covers CNN thinking the word infested is raaaaacist when Trump says it
  2. Althouse discusses the purity racquet in the Democratic party
  3. Flopping Aces has proof that Rep. Cummings’ district is, in fact, a sh*thole
  4. Climate Change Dispatch notes AOC’s ploy to mainstream eco-fascism
  5. Jo Nova discusses “hyperwarming weirdness” and the Pause
  6. No Tricks Zone notes CO2 going up in Europe due to the things they are doing to bring it down
  7. Weasel Zippers covers Dem politicians discussing Baltimore’s crime problem (which was OK)
  8. The Right Scoop features Rand Paul telling Ilhan Omar to go back to Somalia so she can be grateful to the U.S.
  9. The People’s Cube notes the Jihad Squad hating America
  10. The Lid discusses kids being taught hate and violence in Chicago
  11. The First Street Journal has a newspaper story from 2025
  12. The Daley Gator notes that Socialism sucks the life from everything
  13. The Crawdad Hole notes that “not exonerated” means “innocent”
  14. The American Conservative discusses insane Jessica Yaniv being the Dem party poster “gal”
  15. And last, but not least, Powerline has this week in pictures, Mueller Time edition

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

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Can’t Move On: Democrats Want Grand Jury Material For Mueller Report

By William Teach July 28, 2019 – 7:59 am

Democrats have had their little narrative on Russia Russia Russia since even before Trump was elected, but ramped it up to a Category 5 hurricane the minute he was elected, as you all know. The constant screeching. Elected Nutters like Swalwell and Nadler proclaiming that they have the evidence, but never showing it. All sorts of hearings, for which nothing came from them. Getting this whole idiotic Mueller investigation, which came to nothing. Demanding, DEMANDING, that Mueller himself testify. All for nothing. So, now

House panel seeks grand jury material underlying Mueller report

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) announced Friday that his committee is filing an application in court to obtain the grand jury material underlying former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference and possible obstruction of justice by President Trump.

Nadler said that the panel is seeking the material in order to decide whether to recommend articles of impeachment against Trump — perhaps the Democratic chairman’s most significant and public acknowledgement that his committee is considering impeachment as a possibility.

“Because Department of Justice policies will not allow prosecution of the sitting president, the United States House of Representatives is the only institution of the federal government that can now vote President Trump accountable for these actions,” Nadler said at a press conference Friday afternoon, quoting from the application his committee was about to file in court.

Strange, because the majority of Democrats voted against impeachment the other week.

“To do so, the House must have access to all the relevant facts and consider whether to exercise its full Article I powers, including a constitutional duty power of the utmost gravity — recommendation of articles of impeachment. That duty calls in the first instance to the House Committee on the Judiciary,” he continued.

The case was filed in the Washington, D.C., District Court Friday afternoon. The filing argues that the committee needs the grand jury material in order to determine whether to recommend impeachment articles, and it equates the committee’s position to the one Congress was in during the Nixon era when a court disclosed grand jury information from the Watergate investigation.

The Justice Department has allowed Nadler and other Democrats to view a less-redacted version of Mueller’s report that still restricts grand jury material. That information is subject to secrecy under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e), unless a court rules otherwise. (snip)

Roughly 10 percent of Mueller’s public report is redacted to conceal details related to ongoing investigations, classified information, details that could infringe on the privacy of third parties and grand jury material. According to The New York Times, about one-fifth of the redacted portions restrict grand jury material.

Nadler is attempting say this is just like Nixon and Watergate, but, really, this is just Trump Derangement Syndrome, and easy to recognize for even the most partisan of judges. It’s a fishing expedition.

Legal experts have told The Hill that Democrats are unlikely to win a case for the grand jury material unless they launch a formal impeachment inquiry. Rule 6(e) generally provides that grand jury proceedings be kept secret, with a few exceptions allowing a judge to grant a court order to release them.

All these Democrats are doing is making it easier for Trump to win re-election in 2020.

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Climate Insanity Today: EU Commission Blames Earthquakes On Climate Scam

By William Teach July 27, 2019 – 4:41 pm

This isn’t just some minor group making this unscientific link

Insane.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 27, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean soon to rise up and swamp all the land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day Weasel Zippers, with a post on Guatemala reversing course on asylum agreement, giving Trump a win.

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Eco-Apartheid: The Climate Crisis (scam) Is Intersecting With Housing And We’re Doomed

By William Teach July 27, 2019 – 10:48 am

Here’s one more thing that the Cult of Climastrology is attempting to hijack

Eco-Apartheid Is Real
The climate crisis is converging with a housing crisis. We need to tackle both with a Green New Deal for Housing.

The heat is on. A heat wave is breaking records across much of Western Europe. And this weekend sweltering heat baked half the United States. For some media outlets and climate advocates, the heat waves were a chance to remind people: This isn’t normal. This is what the climate emergency feels like, and this is how it kills. We also saw some media outlets publish recent maps that show which parts of cities are heat islands. Of course, those converge with low-income and racialized neighborhoods, while greenery that cools the air is found disproportionately in white and affluent areas.

To top it off, we learned on Monday that New York utility Con Ed intentionally cut off power to the majority-black Canarsie neighborhood to avoid risking broader blackouts. Amazingly, the utility wasn’t prepared for a major heat wave and sacrificed low-income black customers to ride out the crisis. Eco-apartheid, which I define as a regime of greening affluence for the few at the expense of the many, is the path of business as usual.

And yet there was something frustratingly superficial about all this coverage, even when it focused on inequality.

In the era of the Green New Deal, journalists and activists still struggle to convey just how profoundly the climate emergency, our political economy, and social inequalities are connected. As a result, they’re still missing how much egalitarian green investment—like a Green New Deal for Housing—could address social, economic, and environmental crises at the same time. And while this policy idea is specific to the US context, an intersectional analysis here could enrich global debates about what effective and equitable green investment could look like around the world.

Strange that what is supposedly a science issue always seems to dovetail in perfectly with every other Modern Socialist complaint, eh? See, if we could just pass a Green New Deal, and one for housing, we could fix all these problems with taxes, fees, and controlling citizen’s lives, limiting freedom and choice.

Also strange is that so many of these problems appear to happen in cities run by Democrats.

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