If you don’t get a huge SchadenBöner from this little sequence, you are broken.
“But Kim,” you may ask, “why should I get a SchadenBöner from this unhappy tale?”
Read on, Grasshopper (note the date):
All together now:
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Happy Anniversary
We interrupt today’s regular programming to bring you this news:
Nine years ago today, Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, MO.
The actual back story:
Brown was a criminal who strong-armed a local mini-mart then sucker-punched Officer Wilson, who was seated in his patrol car, and reached to steal Wilson’s service pistol, leading to the first shot. When Wilson exited the vehicle Brown made a second charge at Wilson, and who fired the fatal shot.
Just so we’re all clear on the facts of the matter.
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Here’s another one of those “Wow, who’d a thunk?” moments:
The Defense Department’s chief diversity equity and inclusion officer has a history of anti-white tweets. Kelisa Wing is the DEI chief at Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA, which provides K-12 education to the DoD community in the U.S. and all over the world), also wrote books on ‘white privilege,’ defunding the police and BLM.
“I’m exhausted with these white folx in these [professional development] sessions.” Wing wrote in a July 2020 tweet, according to Fox News. This lady actually had the CAUdacity to say that black people can be racist too… I had to stop the session and give Karen the BUSINESS… [W]e are not the majority, we don’t have power.”
“Caudacity” is a slang term to describe “audacity” demonstrated by white people specifically in reference to ‘white privilege.’
Frankly, I think that any job title containing the words “diversity”, “equity” or “inclusion” should be labeled as what it really is: “A Worthless Job For An Otherwise-Unqualified Black Person”.
By the way, Sister Kelisa: Black people not only can be racist — see Jesse Jackson talking about “Hymietown”, and just about every other speech uttered by that equally-foul racist, Al Sharpton — but they are racist; ask any Korean or Indian shopkeeper for examples.
Also: racism doesn’t stem from power, you fucking moron, if you ever gave it a moment’s thought. (“Thought? Wut’s that White-ass shit?) You’re just another of those bullshit artists parlaying their private grievances into a “career”.
And just on a point of order: if it describes a sin committed by Whites, shouldn’t it be “waudacity”, if we’re going to invent words to convey a meaning?
By the way: she looks exactly as you’d expect her to look.
Consistency
So we have this, NYfC’s response to the Florida Child Protection law:
Hmmmm… anyone care to come bail me out if I go there and call their mayor a stupid nigger?
Comply, Or Be Gone
What if your research (involving actual facts as opposed to feelings and/or dogma) shows that your employer’s cultural Zeitgeist is completely wrong?
Silly boy; if the corporation you work for is full of Marxism and Wokedom, you’re going to get defenestrated.
Which is what happened to this guy:
Zac Kriegman had the ideal résumé for the professional-managerial class: a bachelors in economics from Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard and years of experience with high-tech startups, a white-shoe law firm, and an econometrics research consultancy. He then spent six years at Thomson Reuters Corporation, the international media conglomerate, spearheading the company’s efforts on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced software engineering. By the beginning of 2020, Kriegman had assumed the title of Director of Data Science and was leading a team tasked with implementing deep learning throughout the organization.
But within a few months, this would all collapse. A chain of events—beginning with the death of George Floyd and culminating with a statistical analysis of Black Lives Matter’s claims—would turn the 44-year-old data scientist’s life upside-down.By June 2021, Kriegman would be locked out of Reuters’s servers, denounced by his colleagues, and fired by email. Kriegman had committed an unpardonable offense: he directly criticized the Black Lives Matter movement in the company’s internal communications forum, debunked Reuters’s own biased reporting, and violated a corporate taboo. Driven by what he called a “moral obligation” to speak out, Kriegman refused to celebrate unquestioningly the BLM narrative and his company’s “diversity and inclusion” programming; to the contrary, he argued that Reuters was exhibiting significant left-wing bias in the newsroom and that the ongoing BLM protests, riots, and calls to “defund the police” would wreak havoc on minority communities. Week after week, Kriegman felt increasingly disillusioned by the Thomson Reuters line. Finally, on the first Tuesday in May 2021, he posted a long, data-intensive critique of BLM’s and his company’s hypocrisy. He was sent to Human Resources and Diversity & Inclusion for the chance to reform his thoughts.
He refused—so they fired him.
I love the “chance to reform his thoughts” line — straight outta 1984, minus the rat cage strapped to his face. His only mistake was going to HR at all — what did he think was going to happen? Now go and read the rest of it to see the full extent of the rot.
For the umpteenth time, I am truly grateful that I no longer have to work for Global MegaCorp, Inc.
And final thought:
If the wire services continue to promote myths about race, violence, and policing, they will inflict grave harm on their reputations for fairness; they will also help unleash a new wave of destruction in America’s poorest and most vulnerable neighborhoods.
Both have already happened… and I don’t care if it gets worse.
Defunding Consequences
Aaaaaand once again, we see “well-meaning” actions having unforeseen consequences — unforeseen only by those without common sense and / or brains, that is.
Last year, Burlington, Vermont, cut its police budget by nearly 30% through attrition. Now, people are afraid to speak up because they know they’ll be called “racist.”
It’s been more than a year and a half since the city cut its police budget, and now even the city councilor who proposed the cut is unhappy with the consequences.
Oh, and what consequences would those be in sleepy little Burlington VT, home to so many hippies, academics and Lefties? [some overlap]
The move to slash the police budget, however, has led city leaders, as NBC reported, “to reckon with the unintended consequences of that decision, including problems with public safety and quality of life, police and residents say.”
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The unintended consequences of the resolution apparently showed up quickly, NBC reported. The council thought attrition would take years, but it was completed in months, leaving the police department understaffed. Police officers left en masse, leaving only about five to patrol at night. The police have had to shift focus to high-priority crimes and less on quality of life issues. Burglary, vehicle theft, mental health issues, and overdoses all increased with fewer cops on patrol.
You don’t say.
Local business owner Mark Bouchett told NBC that people were afraid to speak out about the problems that have arisen due to the reduced police force.
“If you speak out against defunding the police force, you’re labeled a racist,” he told NBC. “Or at least an idiot that doesn’t understand the problem.”
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of Lefty assholes. It’s just too bad that the good (conservative) folks of that part of Vermont have to suffer the consequences as well.
At least they’re not unarmed…