If All You See…

By William Teach June 13, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a world flooded because Other People drive fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

IAYS

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on life without police.

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Cancel Culture Comes For Law And Order, Along With Star Character Olivia Benson

By William Teach June 13, 2020 – 10:30 am

See, even though the character is a “good cop”, all cops are bad in the eyes of these nutters. Remember when Rolling Stone used to be counter-culture and about music?

Sorry, Olivia Benson Is Canceled Too

Cancel Culture AlligatorA few days ago, I was scrolling through TikTok and saw one featuring Olivia Benson, the beloved star of Law and Order: SVU played by Mariska Hargitay. The TikTok is captioned “#when I say ACAB,” and the audio is from Fergie’s “Big Girls Don’t Cry.” “I hope you know, I hope you know/That this has nothing to do with you,” the woman in the TikTok lip-syncs, as if pained to even be mentioning Olivia Benson and anti-cop sentiment in the same breath.

On social media, where defunding and abolishing the police has become an omnipresent rallying cry, a similar sentiment also reigns. “The only cop I have any respect for is Olivia Benson,” one tweet reads. “nOt AlL cOpS…you’re right, Olivia Benson from SVU would NEVER,” reads another. Even as fictional cops ranging from The Wire‘s Det. Bunk Moreland to Chase from Paw Patrol come under the microscope, Olivia Benson is in another class altogether. She is the minority, the exemption, the special case. She and she alone, it is generally agreed, is allowed to cloak herself in the mantle of Good Cop.

(lots of paragraphs about how great the character is and how great Hargitay is)

But not everyone who watches Law and Order: SVU interacts with it on those terms. A not-insignificant number of police officers have credited the show with their deciding to enter law enforcement, and it’s safe to assume that an even larger number of viewers watches the show and believe that police officers like Olivia Benson are fundamentally on the side of the vulnerable and disenfranchised. And this trope has significant real-life implications: according to a report from Color of Change (which features a screen grab from SVU) on the cover), crime series “make heroes out of people who violate our rights” and “do not depict the reality, causes, or consequences of [racial disparities in the criminal justice system] accurately.”

See? Even good cops bad

The truth is that, if you agree that the system is broken and great changes need to be made on all levels to fix it, you can’t pick and choose what needs to be changed. No matter how much you love Olivia Benson, you have to be willing to grapple with the fact that she plays a major role in perpetuating the idea that cops are inherently trustworthy and heroic, and that many viewers are unable to distinguish between the gossamer fantasy of how justice should be handled, and how it actually is. If cops are canceled, that means all cops are canceled, up to and including the strong and pretty ones we like to watch break down pedophiles in interrogation rooms. Revolution can’t be built on the backs of the exceptions, and those who perpetuate toxic systems can’t be deemed immune to critique just because we like them. It’s the simplest equation there is: if all cops are bastards, and Olivia Benson is a cop, that means she’s — kind of — a bastard. (Mariska is cool, though.)

Nothing is safe from Cancel Culture.

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Climate Worst Case Scenarios May Be Worst Than Modeled Or Something

By William Teach June 13, 2020 – 7:13 am

Members of the Cult of Climastrology are upset. They’ve mostly been ignored since the start of the world wide Bat Soup Virus pandemic. Even though they tried to hijack it and subsume it and link it and say that the world needs a Green recovery, the news media very much ignored the Warmists, even media darling uber-Warmist St. Greta of Stockholm. So, what to do? Be unhinged and say everything is worse than imagined!

Climate worst-case scenarios may not go far enough, cloud data shows

Worst-case global heating scenarios may need to be revised upwards in light of a better understanding of the role of clouds, scientists have said.

Recent modelling data suggests the climate is considerably more sensitive to carbon emissions than previously believed, and experts said the projections had the potential to be “incredibly alarming”, though they stressed further research would be needed to validate the new numbers.

Modelling results from more than 20 institutions are being compiled for the sixth assessment by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is due to be released next year.

Compared with the last assessment in 2014, 25% of them show a sharp upward shift from 3C to 5C in climate sensitivity – the amount of warming projected from a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide from the preindustrial level of 280 parts per million. This has shocked many veteran observers, because assumptions about climate sensitivity have been relatively unchanged since the 1980s.

“That is a very deep concern,” Johan Rockström, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, said. “Climate sensitivity is the holy grail of climate science. It is the prime indicator of climate risk. For 40 years, it has been around 3C. Now, we are suddenly starting to see big climate models on the best supercomputers showing things could be worse than we thought.”

Who’s surprised? The CoC always needs to push bigger and bigger scares.

“The more we learn, the more fragile the Earth system seems to be and the faster we need to move,” he said. “It gives even stronger argument to step out of this Covid-19 crisis and move full speed towards decarbonising the economy.”

Let’s start with CoC members. Let them be the experimental group and give up all uses of fossil fuels. Meaning they cannot even purchase any goods that are linked to fossil fuels, cannot live in an abode that was made with fossil fuels, can only cook with “renewables”, can only heat and cool their abodes with renewables, and cannot use fossil fueled transportation. Let’s see how they enjoy this life, and if it makes any difference in “global heating”.

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Bummer: BLM Says Seattle Nutters Have Hijacked Their Message

By William Teach June 13, 2020 – 7:00 am

Well, what did they expect? This is what happens when you have so many hardcore elements within the Democratic Party. You have the climate (scam) cultists hijacking the protests. You have the gender confused trans whatever folks hijacking it. You have uber-white Hollywood nutters hijacking it and being paternalistic, because, let’s face it, so many white leftist elites do not think blacks can succeed without their helpful hands, along with the helpful hand of Government. It’s actually a rather racist attitude. They’re now demanding amnesty of all illegals. So, yeah

Black Lives Matter protesters say Seattle’s autonomous zone has hijacked message

Protesters inside the self-declared autonomous zone in downtown Seattle booed and heckled members of the African American Community Advisory Council Thursday afternoon as the group told demonstrators they had “hijacked” the message of Black Lives Matter.

Booed.

“The thing is, you have hijacked this! You have taken the meaning away!” a woman from the council said, addressing demonstrators inside the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” (CHAZ)– a six-block region, which includes a police precinct— that has been taken over by protesters.

After weeks of protests, Seattle demonstrators successfully ousted police officers from the East Precinct, forcing them to shutter the building and leave, and attempts at negotiating a police presence have been unsuccessful.

“Black lives do matter but there are also black lives that are police lives,” a woman from the council said, according to reports by Komo News. “They feel the same way that you do.”

The woman was booed and demonstraters grabbed other microphones and began talking over her, the news outlet reported.

On one hand, what did they think was going to happen? Just look at Occupy Wall Street, which began as an idea that Wall Street and big companies were being hooked up while Main Street was being ignored, then quickly morphed into pushing ever Democrat issue, devaluing the meaning of OWS and turning people off. Leftists do this with ever issue. They did this the last time, when BLM was created.

On the same hand, when your compatriots are Antifa (big in Seattle), anarchists (who want more and more Big Government, not understanding what anarchy means), Progressives (nice Fascists), Communists, self style Activists, climate cultists, etc, and all of them who vote Democrat think they know what is best for Everyone Else, what did you think was going to happen?

So, do not have much in the way of sympathy for BLM on this. When you align yourselves with nutters, this is what happens. When you align yourself with Cancel Culture, they will cancel you if you aren’t going as hardcore. I mean, a black police chief for Seattle isn’t enough for these folks to start with, now the mostly white elitist CHAZ folks are taking it further. And you know what happens next? Americans start tuning out. Just like the last time. Most Americans were disgusted by what happened in Minneapolis. Most agree we need reform in policing, though, on the details there isn’t exactly agreement. In Real Life, I have people giving me this idea and that idea, while I have my own.

Then you have the defund the police folks

(Fox News) A New York Times op-ed published Friday attempted to make clear what “Defund the police” actually means.

Anti-criminalization activist Mariame Kaba attempted to settle the debate with the op-ed, “Yes, we mean literally abolish the police.”

“Congressional Democrats want to make it easier to identify and prosecute police misconduct; Joe Biden wants to give police departments $300 million. But efforts to solve police violence through liberal reforms like these have failed for nearly a century,” Kaba began. “Enough. We can’t reform the police. The only way to diminish police violence is to reduce contact between the public and the police.”

Altogether, 64% of Americans are against defunding the police. 55% of Democrats support. So, good luck pushing this notion as we approach the 2020 general election. Regardless, these are your Comrades in the CHAZ, BLMers. Enjoy.

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Hot Take: The Nation Defends Property Destruction

By William Teach June 12, 2020 – 3:00 pm

Who wants to be that all the employees at The Nation, including writer R.H. Lossin, would have a big problem with their own homes and property being trashed

Uh huh

But what if property destruction is more than an understandable lapse of judgment and loss of control? What if it is not a frustrated, emotional reaction but a reasonable and articulate expression in itself? The destruction is too widespread to attribute it to a few bad actors, and in some cases—such as the attacks on the CNN headquarter and the widespread vandalism of Confederate monuments—too precise and symbolically potent to be attributed solely to an opportunistic “criminal” element. The fantasy of outside agitators—a perennial feature of politicians’ responses to radical political action—is a means of presenting the real threat posed by mass actions as something foreign to the action itself…

People are not objects; broken windows and burnt cars are simply not commensurate with the violence of state-sanctioned murder or the structural violence of poverty that has placed people of color at a disproportionate risk of dying of Covid-19. Plateglass windows don’t bleed. They don’t die and leave loved ones grieving. They don’t contribute to the collective trauma and terror experienced by their communities. They just break, and then, at some point, they are replaced by identical sheets of glass.

Yeah, this is one of those “it’s just property,” which is always cool when it is Someone Else’s property, right?

It really doesn’t get any better, but, hey, the Nation would be fine if their offices got trashed, rigth?

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 12, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a paddle needed for when the world floods from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

IAYS

The blog of the day is Knowledge Is Power, with a post on the paramilitary wing of the Democratic Party.

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Cancel Culture: Gyms, Vogue, And Paw Patrol

By William Teach June 12, 2020 – 10:30 am

If you’ve never read the book by Vox Day SJWs Always Lie (there’s apparently a follow up now), read it. Really, you only have to get halfway through to understand how to deal with SJWs, which is what the book was focused on, rather than who they are. One of the important points is to never apologize, because SJWs, who also want easy targets, will use that as a reason to go after you more. To demand more. They won’t forgive you, just use the apology to come after you, your money, your family, your business, your job

André Leon Talley Says Anna Wintour’s Vogue Apology “Came Out of the Space of White Privilege”

Cancel Culture AlligatorAndré Leon Talley is speaking out about Anna Wintour’s message to her staff at Vogue.

In the memo obtained by E! News, the editor-in-chief acknowledged that the publication “has not found enough ways to elevate and give space to Black editors, writers, photographers, designers and other creators.”

“We have made mistakes too, publishing images or stories that have been hurtful or intolerant. I take full responsibility for those mistakes,” Wintour continued, adding that there are “too few” Black employees at Vogue. “It can’t be easy to be a Black employee at Vogue.”

“I know that it is not enough to say we will do better, but we will—and please know that I value your voices and responses as we move forward,” she added. “I am listening and would like to hear your feedback and your advice if you would like to share either.”

Shortly after Wintour’s comments appeared online, Talley—who previously worked alongside Wintour as Vogue‘s editor-at-large and detailed their working relationship in his book, The Chiffon Trenches—spoke out about the apology in a conversation with Sandra Bernhard.

How do you think this went?

Talley then returned to Wintour’s message, saying, “The statement that she made, you know, the world of white privilege is complicated.”

“The statement came out of the space of white privilege,” Talley continued. “I wanna say one thing, Dame Anna Wintour is a colonial broad, she’s a colonial dame. She comes from British, she’s part of an environment of colonialism.”

“I do not think she will ever let anything get in the way of her white privilege,” Talley continued. “That announcement was like the man who made the announcement for the NFL.”

They’ll complain if you don’t speak out (and even defriend you), and then insult you when you do. Expect more to come after Wintour and Vogue now. Lady Antebellum decided to change their name to Lady A because they’ve been assured that the word antebellum, which simply means occurring or existing before a particular war, but was hijacked by people who probably have no clue what it means, is Bad. Now that they’ve surrendered, the SJWs will come after them more, and, really, is this a thing that concerns country music fans in the least? I doubt any even had a thought on it.

On to gyms

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The Protests And ‘Climate Change” Are Connected Or Something

By William Teach June 12, 2020 – 7:16 am

Does this mean the looting and rioting are also connected to the climate crisis (scam)? Or is it just that the climate cultists want to hijack the Black Lives Matter movement?

A Green New Deal architect explains how the protests and climate crisis are connected

Demands for climate action have largely faded into the background as the covid-19 pandemic, the economic meltdown, and widespread protests over police brutality have seized the world’s attention.

But for Rhiana Gunn-Wright, the director of climate policy at the Roosevelt Institute and one of the architects of the Green New Deal, the issues are inextricably intertwined. You can’t appreciate the real toll of the fossil-fuel sector if you’re not looking at it through the lenses of racial justice, economic inequality, and public health, she says in an interview with MIT Technology Review.

In other words, if you can’t look at this from a view of Victimhoodology, well, you just suck, you know

People of color are more likely to live near power plants and other polluting factories, and they suffer higher levels of asthma and greater risks of early death from air pollution. The coronavirus death rate among black Americans is more than twice that of whites. And global warming and factory farming practices will release more deadly pathogens and reshape the range of infectious diseases, Gunn-Wright argued in April in a New York Times op-ed  titled “Think This Pandemic Is Bad? We Have Another Crisis Coming.”

It’s interesting that this tends to happen in areas run by Democrats. It’s almost like the party of the KKK, segregation, and Jim Crow now give poor blacks housing and government funded neighborhoods in less than desirable areas because they still think poorly of blacks.

One critique of the Green New Deal was that it took on too much, multiplying the difficulty of making progress on any one of the deeply polarized issues it addressed. But Gunn-Wright argues that this was its strength: tying together these seemingly distinct causes into a sweeping policy package underscored the connections between them and helped build a broader coalition of supporters behind them.

In the interview that follows, she says everything that’s happened in 2020 has only deepened those convictions.

Of course she does. Perhaps she can explain why every Democratic Party senator voted present on the GND? And why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez refuses to demand a vote on it in the House? Here’s her words in the interview

We were essentially saying that climate change is not just a technical problem. It’s not just an issue of emissions. It’s an issue of the systems that have allowed an industry that essentially poisons people to continue, and to do so even as it further and further imperils our survival, both as a nation and as a globe. It comes down to issues of race and class and place.

And so this moment actually makes me glad that we did that work before. Because it has meant that some groups that are seen solely as climate, like the Sunrise Movement, have invested in this set of uprisings. They’re working with the Movement for Black Lives to get their members out to protest, to connect them to actions, to help them understand how climate is connected to this.

So why are none of these Warmists giving up their own use of fossil fuels and non-renewable energy themselves if it is essentially racist?

Q: What can the climate community do to be more inclusive and more responsive to other social justice issues?

One is hire people of color. And particularly people of color who don’t have the same educational background as I think is common in climate or policy work in general.

What if blacks do not want to work for the climate community as agitators and such? Should they be forced? Because we’ve long known that most of the people involved are overwhelmingly white, upper middle class to rich, and 1st worlders.

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LA Times Boss Deems “Looting” To Be Raaaaacist

By William Teach June 12, 2020 – 7:00 am

The definition of loot from Miriam Webster in this context: something appropriated illegally often by force or violence

As a verb: to plunder or sack in war; to rob especially on a large scale and usually by violence or corruption

Synonyms are: despoil, maraud, pillage, plunder, ransack, sack.

They say the first use was in 1788, but that it goes back to Hindi & Urdu word lūṭ; akin to Sanskrit luṇṭati he plunders

LA Times executive editor says the word ‘looting’ has racist connotation

On Tuesday’s PBS NewsHour, there was a panel discussion about black representation in the newsroom and how recent controversies like at The New York Times would not have happened if black journalists were “at the table.”

Pearlstein then shed light on a debate that occurred at his own paper.

“One of the active debates we had over the past week was about the use of the word “looting” to describe the destruction of property,” Pearlstein said. “The feeling among the black journalists at The Los Angeles Times who frankly educated the rest of us to the fact that looting had a pejorative racist connotation and that comparing it to the kind of behavior of the police and the kind of behavior that we witnessed really was a false equivalency and yet it was one that we were making as journalists if you picked up a copy of our paper.”

National Association of Black Journalists president Dorothy Tucker called the conversation “interesting,” adding that the word “riot” falls in a “similar” category as the word “looting.

Would they be OK with using the word “pillaging”? How about plundering? But, you know, everything is now raaaaacist if it shows blacks in a negative light. If we were talking about whites looting and rioting, would that be OK? What about Hispanics? Asians? There were definitely a bunch of whites involved in the George Floyd riots and looting.

What would they have us call the systemic theft of of property from stores that occurred during so many of the protests turned violent? Riot: “a violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd”.

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Cancel Culture Today: UCLA, LivePD, And Disney World

By William Teach June 11, 2020 – 3:00 pm

Will organizations ever learn that feeding the alligator never works, that appeasing Mobs of SJWs just means you’ve surrendered and they will demand more and more?

George Floyd protests: UCLA lecturer suspended after refusing lenient marking for black students

Cancel Culture AlligatorA lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has been placed on leave, after students criticised his response to a request that asked for him to provide leniency to black students during final exams, amid the George Floyd protests.

Accounting lecturer, Gordon Klein, was put on leave and placed under police protection, after his emails were posted online and subsequently angered students, according to The Daily Mail.

Mr Klein has been suspended for three weeks, and his “classes have been reassigned to other faculty”, according to a statement by the School of Management on Tuesday.

Got that? He’s suspended for 3 weeks for doing his job (if he isn’t getting paid, expect a lawsuit). Further, he needs police protection from the “peaceful” protesters

The incident occurred after a group of students, who described themselves as “non-black allies”, wrote to Mr Klein, and asked him to extend deadlines for projects, and to provide leniency to African American students, during their final exams.

They wrote that because of the trauma black students have faced in the last couple of weeks, “we have been placed in a position where we must choose between actively supporting our black classmates or focusing on finishing up our spring quarter”, according to Inside Higher Education.

Don’t you love how “non-black allies” have to protect blacks? This isn’t too patronizing, is it? Isn’t it rather racist to think that blacks can’t do things on their own?

Why Disney fans want to change the theme of Splash Mountain

Disney fans and some employees are calling for the company to change the theme of its popular Splash Mountain ride, which is based on the 1946 movie “Song of the South” that critics say is one of Disney’s most racist films.

An online petition calls for the Splash Mountain ride, which has been a longtime staple at Disney World and Disneyland, to be re-themed to the 2009 Disney movie “The Princess and the Frog,” which features Tiana, Disney’s first black princess.

“There is a huge need for diversity in the parks and this could help fill that need,” the petition reads. “Princess and the Frog is a beloved princess movie but has very little representation in the parks. Tiana could be one of the first princesses with a thrill ride, as well as giving her a much deserved place in the parks.

What’s the over/under on Disney caving? And once they cave, there will be more demands. Will they come after Disney owned networks like ESPN if they do not have enough minority representation?

‘Live P.D.’ Canceled By A&E Amid Nationwide Protests Against Police Brutality

A&E Network has decided to cancel Live P.D. amid the nationwide protests against police brutality. In a statement given to ET, the network says it will cease production and try to find ways to better tell the stories of the community and police officers.

“This is a critical time in our nation’s history and we have made the decision to cease production on Live P.D. Going forward, we will determine if there is a clear pathway to tell the stories of both the community and the police officers whose role it is to serve them,” the statement reads. “And with that, we will be meeting with community and civil rights leaders as well as police departments.”

There will now be a call for A&E to put more SJW/BLM programming on, to genuflect to the Cancel Culture mob.

What’s next? Law and Order? Chicago PD? 911? Brooklyn 99 All cop shows, which are big hits and money makers for networks?

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