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Robin DiAngelo and “White Identity”

Aug 3, 2020 | Politics

According to the racist "anti-racist" author Robin DiAngelo:
"A positive white identity is an impossible goal."
I agree such a goal is impossible, but not because of anything inherent in being "white," but because there is no such thing as a moral identity based on skin color.Any kind of  "identity" based on skin color is impossible as a moral goal. In terms of evaluating one's identity morally, what matters is one's ideas and actions ("the content of one's character") and not one's skin color.Embracing "race pride" is just as unhealthy as embracing "race guilt." Basing your "pride" on skin color undermines real pride, leading to real guilt if one fails to pursue the real causes of pride.More important than being an "antiracist" is to be an individualist: to see each person as a unique individual with a kaleidoscope of traits -- with race being morally insignificant. This is the ethical meaning of being "colorblind."Individualism is the answer to racism, and that is the goal so-called "anti-racists" should be aiming for.

Seattle City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant Wants a Socialist World

Aug 1, 2020 | Politics

https://youtu.be/MwNL-5oBDTISays Sawant:
“I have a message for Jeff Bezos and his class. If you attempt again to overturn the Amazon tax, working people will go all out in the thousands to defeat you, and we will not stop there, because we are fighting for far more than this tax. We are preparing the ground for a different kind of society. And if you, Jeff Bezos, want to drive that process forward by lashing out against us in our modest demand, then so be it, because we are coming for you and your rotten system. We are coming to dismantle this deeply oppressive racist, sexist, violent, utterly bankrupt system of capitalism – this police state. We cannot and will not stop until we overthrow it and replace it with a world based instead on solidarity, genuine democracy, and equality – a socialist world.”
According to Professor Richard Salsman:
Another elected official brazenly invites and threatens violence against innocents. Seattle City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant [above] vows to destroy liberal Jeff Bezos, his class, his company, and capitalism. In her view, capitalist lives don't matter. FYI, her "Amazon tax" is an unconstitutional "bill of attainder" which violates not only Article I, Section 9, Clause 3 of the U.S.C. but the charter's Equal Protection Clause (14th Amendment) - because it singles out and targets punitively. Such discrimination is the inevitable result of the egalitarian approach, which demands equality of results even though people and firms left free are diverse in their talents, work ethics, productivity, and earnings.

Antitrust Assault on Big-Tech

Aug 1, 2020 | Business, Politics

Here is the video for the House Antitrust Subcommittee hearing featuring testimony from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.Compare the above CEO's response to that of Howard Hughes under similar circumstances, when Howard Hughes testified before a Senate Subcommittee investigating war contracts in August 1947.Yaron Brook's excellent analysis:https://youtu.be/_i1ngPI-y2Y

John Kass: BLM Inc. More Concerned with November Elections Then The Murder of Black Children

Jul 23, 2020 | Politics

Black lives don't matter to black thugs who are responsible for over 90% of black American homicides -- most recently 2 young black children -- 7-year-old Natalia Wallace and 3-year-old Mekhi James. What do you here from BLM Inc.? Crickets.
Writes John Kass, on "When Black children are killed, where’s the outrage?" Columbus Dispatch (13 July 2020):
As street violence spikes in big cities across America run by Democrats, as parents grieve the loss of their children in the street gang wars, two things become terribly clear: BLM isn’t a movement as much as it is a political and fundraising arm, founded by neo-Marxists and currently aligned with the Democratic Party. BLM sees no percentage in pressuring big-city mayors to stop street violence. Its outrage is select and reserved for white police officers who kill unarmed Black men.But it’s the second thing that hardly gets attention from media that skews left, and from Democratic Party politicians: Those young, white and woke BLM supporters who filled the streets, masked, chanting and angry, in legitimate protests over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd by a white police officer, aren’t venting much public organized outrage over Black children being slaughtered.[...]They don’t live in neighborhoods where car doors open and guns come out and children are killed almost every day. And so from them, we hear nothing but summer crickets. Then the bullets start flying again, in cities across America, in Chicago, Atlanta, New York and Milwaukee and elsewhere, and babies are cut down. In Chicago, there were some 90 people shot over the Fourth of July weekend, including 7-year-old Natalia Wallace, who was killed when armed hitters jumped from a car and began spraying gunfire into a crowd.

Romer: The FDA’s Massive Damage To People’s Health and Wealth

Jun 26, 2020 | Politics

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer provides "a recap with links about how the FDA responded to just a couple of issues since the start of the pandemic."Writes Romer:
It might be time to review the massive damage that the FDA is doing by restricting the supply and use of tests for the SARS-CoV-2 virus.Massive? With enough tests, the US could have avoided the enormous cost that this virus is imposing – at least 200,000 excess deaths and $8 trillion in lost output.[...]Many accounts have noted how the failure of the virus test developed by the CDC delayed the US response to the virus. The fact that has not gotten as much attention is that although the FDA promptly approved the broken test from the CDC, it took an excruciatingly long time to approve tests that actually worked.
Read The FDA's Perpetual Process Machine. Related articles:

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