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From The Forward:

DC Dyke March Bans Jewish Pride Flag

I am not shocked at all by this.  Not even the tiniest bit.

It seems like The Forward is.  That is probably because The Forward is a progressive Jewish magazine and Progressive/Left Jews still haven’t caught on that to be woke and intersectional means to be a Jew hater.

A gay pride parade in Washington, D.C. has been criticized by Jewish and LGBTQ groups for banning Jewish and Israeli symbols from its Friday event.

The D.C. Dyke March is designed to include people of diverse races, religions and gender identities who feel excluded from the more mainstream Pride parade, organizers told The Washington Post.

The march will also ban “nationalist symbols,” including flags that represent what event organizer Yael Horowitz called “nations that have specific oppressive tendencies.”

“This includes Israeli flags, as well as flags that resemble Israeli flags, such as a pride flag with a Star of David in the middle,” march organizer Rae Gaines — who is herself Jewish and a member of the left-wing Jewish group IfNotNow — wrote via Facebook Messenger to would-be participant A.J. Campbell, the founder of the lesbian Jewish group Nice Jewish Girls.

See, it’s not antisemitic to ban the Magen David, a symbol that has represented Jews for at least a thousand years.  It’s just “anti-nationalist” because it represents Israel.

American flags aren’t welcome either, but a Palestinian flag would be accepted, Gaines told the Forward.

Fucking of course they are.  Because the Palestinians are a poor, powerless, underdog, and their desire to wipe Israel off the face of the earth and take the whole area from Gaza to the River Jordan isn’t nationalist at all.

“The issue [with the Jewish Pride flag] is where the Star of David is positioned in a way that looks like an Israeli flag, it creates an unsafe space,” she said.

Some Jew hater’s feelings might get hurt so let’s implement antisemitism.

“It really is a shame that Israel took this symbol of Judaism and turned it into this nationalist symbol….I understand the Jewish pride flag is a symbol that a lot of Jews have come to embrace, but there are so many other Jewish symbols that we can use to express our Judaism, like a Star of David [on a necklace], like a yarmulke, a tallit.”

It’s not that Israel uses the Star of David to represent it’s Judaism, no, that can’t be it.  It’s now a nationalist symbol, not a Jewish symbol.

I’ll say it again, there is no Jew hatred like Lefty Jew self-hatred.

The move is reminiscent of a controversy from 2017 when the Chicago Dyke March kicked out marchers waving pride flags with Stars of David on them, claiming that they were too reminiscent of the Israeli flag and thus “made people feel unsafe.”

“The Jews made us feel unsafe” is what they are going to be saying when they push us into gas chambers.

“I just thought, the Chicago Dyke March is happening all over again — here,” Campbell told the Post, adding, “I’ve been a Jewish lesbian for a long time, and it’s never been a problem. . . . They seem to have very specific ideas about what kind of Jew I’m supposed to be, and I don’t feel like they get to say that.”

Nope, you don’t get to say that anymore.  Haven’t you heard the news?  Jews are now the Uber white supremacists.  Ben Shaprio, the Orthodox Jew, is a Nazi recruiter according to Buzzfeed.  Jews don’t get to be part of the protected Left anymore.  Unless they are anti-Israeli and vociferously defend Ilhan Omar from accusations of antisemitism.

“The DC Dyke March should know better than to stoke the flames of division and pain by driving a wedge between Queer Arabs and Jews at a time we must stand united against homo- and transphobia, anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia,” the statement read. “We hope that they will do better––for the sake and advancement of all of our communities.

Forget it, Jew hatred is the new woke.

We’re only six days into Pride Month and already there are instances of woke, Lefty, antisemitism.

“We’re here, we’re queer, and we’re going to treat gay Jews the way we’re marching against how we used to be treated.”

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a man in a rainbow feather boa and fabulous sparkly heals stamping on a human face – forever.

This story from The Trace popped up on my news feed.

The Ad Execs Who Want to Put Graphic Warnings on Ammunition

Oriel Davis-Lyons and Gustavo Dorietto hope their marketing campaign will prompt states to adopt the kind of graphic labels that adorn cigarette packs in more than 100 countries.

Okay…

Imagine this: You head to your local gun retailer to buy bullets for your hunting rifle, and as you pick up the ammunition box, you are confronted with the image of a bloodied young woman in a hospital bed, the survivor of a near-fatal domestic shooting. A line of text below the photo reads: “In homes where domestic violence occurs, a gun increases the risk of women being killed by 5 times.”

If a pair of advertising executives have their way, this would be the future of ammunition buying in the United States.

Exactly what is the point of this?

The argument for the graphic warnings on cigarettes is that smokers don’t know what smoking does to them.  Showing them gory pictures of tumorous lungs will make them think of they are doing to their bodies and stop smoking.

That is radically different than domestic violence.  Besides the fact that people convicted of domestic violence are prohibited persons, we all know that domestic violence is wrong.

The guy buying hunting ammo is not likely a spousal abuser and the act of buying ammo isn’t going to make him become an abuser.

Also, does the guy who goes to the gun store to “bullets for [his] hunting rifle” not know what bullets do?

Oriel Davis-Lyons and Gustavo Dorietto, creative directors at the New York City-based ad agency Droga5, are developing graphic warning labels for ammunition that are similar to those that adorn cigarette packs in more than 100 countries. Studies have found that such labels, which include close-ups of tumors and people dying of lung cancer, are effective at deterring all but the most nicotine-addicted smokers from buying tobacco.

Davis-Lyons and Dorietto say they want to inform consumers of the dangers that can result from guns, something that’s not currently being done at the point-of-sale.

I’m pretty sure gun owners know what the dangers are a lot better than some ad execs from New York City.

The guy who puts a 168 grain 308 through a deer doesn’t need a graphic ad to conceptualize it.

“Gun violence is a public health crisis, and we need to raise awareness, among both gun owners and non-gun-owners, about the devastating toll it takes on the lives of Americans,” Davis-Lyons told The Trace. Ahead of National Gun Violence Awareness Day on June 7, Davis-Lyons and Dorietto have released a one-minute ad and a website (both of which contain graphic images). They are also promoting the campaign with the hashtag #DontLookAway.

Gun violence is not a public health crisis.  It is a “there is a small percent of criminals who cause all the problems” crisis.  Gun violence does not spread like a disease where anybody who touches a gun has some statistically significant change of becoming infected.

If the campaign reaches a critical mass online, the two hope to leverage its success into a broader push to convince at least one state to require the ammunition labels.

Fucking California.

The warning label idea came to Davis-Lyons and Dorietto after the Parkland shooting, which left them feeling “pretty despondent,” said Davis-Lyons, whose past advertising work also includes spots for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and Amnesty International. “We spend a lot of time thinking about brands and how to make them famous, but how could we do something for this issue?”

Hopefully, this will be like the Hilary campaign, a very expensive loser.

This is what they propose.

The prerequisite for that is that domestic violence already exists in the home.

I have never laid a finger on my wife in anything but affection.  Making ammo companies apply labels that assume that I am a spousal abuser is just offensive on its face.

And for the unconvinced spousal abuser, will that label stop them from buying ammo?

Mark Oliva, director of public affairs at the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade association for the American firearms industry, said that graphic warning labels on ammunition “is not something the industry would support. It would do nothing to contribute to public safety. All these things do is stigmatize gun ownership.”

Joseph Sakran, a trauma surgeon and gun violence survivor who has consulted on the labeling project, acknowledged the likelihood of opposition. “It’s going to be really difficult, because powerful lobbying groups in this country are probably going to make this an uphill battle,” he said.

Because treating law-abiding gun owners like assholes is the real goal here.

How about warning labels in doctors offices that say “Ask your doctor if he washed his hands well enough before he gives you sepsis or MRSA.”

That would also save lives but I assume doctors would hate it.

But Sakran said he feels the concept could prove effective because the focus is on bullets, rather than guns themselves. “I think for a long time no one really thought of focusing on the ammunition piece,” he said. “But if you think about it, the ammunition piece is important, because that’s how people who are either going to commit crimes or are a danger to themselves or others are able to follow through.”

That is some dumb shit.  That is college snowflake liberal “the Constitution doesn’t say you have a right to own bullets, how about a bullet ban” logic.

The concept also approaches gun violence as a public health problem, which is essential for reform, Sakran said, and it requires a multi-faceted approach. “Think of motor vehicle fatalities. In the ‘60s and ‘70s, we didn’t get rid of cars. We figured out how to make cars safer. We came up with seatbelts and airbags and we made roads safer. It’s that same type of approach.”

Again, getting people to wear seatbelts when that was not the cultural norm is different than accusing law-abiding people of engaging in criminal activities for buying a legal product.

Davis-Lyons said he’s consulted with gun reform groups, as well as the American Public Health Association, and believes that attorneys general in each state have the power to implement warning labels on ammunition.

But before he can focus on a trial run, he said he just wants to start the conversation. “People are starting to talk about the need to actually face the reality of what this gun epidemic looks like, but no one has yet found a way to do that in a way that reaches gun owners,” Davis-Lyons said. “So we’re hoping that this is the first step in bringing it to the public.”

How about graphic warning labels against raising boys in fatherless homes?  This is the number one predictor of both gang violence and school shootings.

But I have a feeling feminists groups would protest that.

This proposed warning label won’t save one life, it will just insult law-abiding gun owners to their faces, which really is the point.

I saw the Lee Williams article (go read it)  and checked out the TRAC report. finding this image interesting:

922a6 is what we know as Straw Purchases and 924a1A is lying in the 4473 form, both violations of the Brady Law.  That comes to 238 prosecutions for violations of the Brady Law out of God know how many tens of thousands of background checks performed during that time frame. And these only reflect the prosecution they were willing to take, not the actual violations and not even convictions.  And again, the original article is about how Federal Weapons Prosecutions have actually climbed. 

Kinda makes you just a weenie tiny bit  suspicious that the Brady Law is one big bucket of BS and confetti that they need to say they did it For The Children©.

Basically one in ten Floridians has a license to carry a concealed weapon. Ladies still at 27% of the licensed population.

I shall pour me a small drink later today.

The Honey-Do list had accumulated to the point of near avalanche so I had to take care of some items.

To give you an idea how things are going, I finally decided that the fire extinguisher in my office should  no longe be on the floor but properly mounted. I chose the side of one of the bookcases, measured twice and installed the bracket.

Upside down.

Apparently the stream of profanities ws such that even mom came back inside from her gardening chores to see what happened.

And that is another thing:

It is 11:20 am and the temp is in the low 90s. Yesterday she did the same thing and came back inside flushed and complaining she was not feeling well.  And do you think she learned her lesson? Nope.

I think this has been one of the best tributes made to the soldiers partaking the invasion of Fortress Europa.

We still stand in the shoulders of giant warriors.

I posted back in December about a paper I found online explaining what was legally needed to establish/prove Special Relationship so No Duty to Protect doe not count.  I urge you to read it and to understand what is the law which means it is not the same as we wish we wanted the law to be in this case.

To establish a special relationship, a plaintiff has the burden of proving: (1) an assumption by the municipality, through promises or actions, of an affirmative duty to act on behalf of the party who was injured; (2) knowledge on the part of the municipality’s agents that inaction could lead to harm; (3) some form of direct contact between the municipality’s agents and the injured party; and (4) the injured party’s justifiable reliance on the municipality’s affirmative undertaking. All four elements must be proven, and if not, the claim will fail.