Gun Free Zone

Safer?

DE BLASIO: “We now have fewer people in our jails than any time since WW2 and we are safer for it and better for it” pic.twitter.com/isOM3P8yZ4

— Poso (@JackPosobiec) July 16, 2020

At least 17 people were shot in New York City on Monday — a tally that would be considered high for a weekend day, but is “astronomical” for early in the week, law enforcement sources said.

No borough was spared from the gunplay, but Brooklyn saw the most violence with 10 shooting incidents and a total of 12 victims, sources said.

“Those numbers would be high for a Friday or Saturday, but for a Monday they are astronomical,” said one high-ranking Brooklyn cop.

At least 17 people shot in NYC on Monday as gun violence continues to soar

Where does de Blasio comes with that load of … never mind. Not even political pandering is that cynically stupid.

From NPR:

Amid Protests And Virus Fears, Firearm Background Checks Hit All-Time High

The FBI reported that Americans set a new record of 3.9 million background checks to purchase or possess firearms in June. That eclipsed the previous record set in March of 3.7 million background checks.

The actual number is 3,931,607.

That’s a lot of guns.

To put that in perspective,the two largest militaries in the world are China (2 million) and India (1.4 million).

Last month Americans bought more guns than it would take to provide a firearm to two largest militaries on Earth, combined.

Good job America.

This one is weird even for South Florida standards.

A runaway kangaroo that was seen hopping around the streets of Fort Lauderdale on Thursday morning has been captured by police. https://t.co/89EX1pqzG9 pic.twitter.com/4qy3WNqrld

— CBS4 Miami (@CBSMiami) July 16, 2020

I don’t condone violence like this but it’s also Spirit Airlines.

WE FLY IN THIS COUNTRY! $save https://t.co/W3zpT6RRhX

— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) July 16, 2020

Their customer service motto is “you paid $45 for this ticket so fuck you.”

The only suitable punishment is to make these women fly Spirit cross country, middle seat, last row by the engine that doesn’t recline.

I’ve had that seat.  I’d rather spend a week in solitary.

The muse was not in the best of moods today and then we bumped into this bit of old news from 1912 while doing research.

I know there is nothing I can do about something that happened over a century ago, but damn it, it still punches me in the gut hard.

Please Lord, don’t let an asshole like that fall into my hands because it is gonna take him a long fucking week to go meet you.

The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture has a webpage about whiteness.

It is the most racist thing I have seen since the Daily Stormer.

Whiteness and white racialized identity refer to the way that white people, their customs, culture, and beliefs operate as the standard by which all other groups of are compared. Whiteness is also at the core of understanding race in America. Whiteness and the normalization of white racial identity throughout America’s history have created a culture where nonwhite persons are seen as inferior or abnormal.

This white-dominant culture also operates as a social mechanism that grants advantages to white people, since they can navigate society both by feeling normal and being viewed as normal. Persons who identify as white rarely have to think about their racial identity because they live within a culture where whiteness has been normalized.

This infographic is what they declare to be oppressive whiteness.

The nuclear family, rational thought, the scientific method, planning for the future, hard work, delayed gratification, avoiding conflict, all of these things are bad and white supremacist.

The Woke Left is made up of the most disgusting white supremacists on the planet.  The Woke Left thinks lower of people of color than any Klansman calling a black person “mud people.”

This isn’t soft bigotry of low expectations, this is hard and fast bigotry.  It tells black people that they can never expected to work hard, be rational, or be on time, because that is a white trait for white people.

This all but tells POC to openly reject white behavior, which is a recipe for disaster.  The greater predictor for criminality is the absence of a father in the home, regardless of race.  Saying that the nuclear family is white supremacism only serves to ensure more black fatherlessness and social problems.

Then there us the hypocrisy of this.  I constantly hear about the lack of black people in STEM, but this openly rejects the scientific method as white supremacist and will make it harder for black people to get into STEM.

White supremacy is an ideology where white people are believed to be superior to nonwhite people. This fallacy is rooted in the same scientific racism and pseudo-science used to justify slavery, imperialism, colonialism, and genocide at various times in throughout history. White supremacist ideologies and their followers continue to perpetuate the myth of white racial superiority.

How can something be pseudoscience of we reject rationality and the scientific method?

Also, just as a side note: who said “bland is best.”

The British conquered the world on the hunt for spices that were not native to the European continent.  Today, England is the second highest consumer of curry per capita in the world.  Not to mention central European dishes drowning in garlic and onions, with a side of horseradish.  European cuisine is the product of peppers and spices being native to tropical climates, not some arbitrary preference for bland.

If you wonder if white people like bland food, ask yourself if you are willing to send your son into the deepest darkness jungle, half way around the world, with nothing but a black powder rifle, to battle tigers and parasites, just for a little crushed up dried seed to sprinkle on your food?  Because Europeans did that shit.

The worst part about this screed is that it’s taxpayer funded.  If this were put out by some radical fringe group, they have that righ . But for this to be said for by you and me is grotesque.

This is absolute, socially destructive evil that is made possible by our paycheck.

As a taxpayer I want this obscenity removed.  I should not be paying for racist propaganda.