Creating a narrative and promoting it for a political agenda

    By artappraiser on Sat, 04/17/2021 - 3:16pm |

    This is how everyone savvy is doing it, yes ALL SIDES now, not just alt-right. It's our new paradigm. How MSM outlets deal with it, whether they filter it and create balance, or end up feeding certain agendas by covering what the aglorithms rule are hot, that's the thing:

    The Social Construction of Racism in the United States

    By artappraiser on Thu, 04/08/2021 - 4:19am |

    The Social Construction of Racism in the United States (Executive Summary, Table of Contents and PDF download at link)

    by Eric Kaufmann, April 7, published at Manhattan-Institute.org

    Foreword by Coleman Hughes

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    Is Texas Going Blue?

    By Orion on Tue, 04/06/2021 - 9:19am |

    Seems more like this is just population growth, although I could be wrong.

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    A Personal Anecdote Regarding the Matt Gaetz Situation

    By Orion on Sat, 04/03/2021 - 5:09pm |

    When I first started blogging here at Dagblog, I had just interned for a major conservative think tank. Blogging here provided a much needed ideological detox. If you dig far enough, some of my posts that got on that think tank's blog are still viewable. I saw warning signs of the rise of the Alt Right while I was there, and posted about that here. 

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    Music in a Woke Time

    By Orion on Tue, 03/30/2021 - 7:36pm |

    There's something really deep about #metoo, "Cancel Culture," and "wokeness" in general. Among it is what I think is a general rejection of the edgelord culture that burst in to the mainstream in the late 1960s with Woodstock and continued on through Generation X, with grunge, gangsta rap, MTV, Lollapolooza, violent video games and reality television.

    Humanities Academia in Crisis

    By artappraiser on Sat, 03/13/2021 - 10:08pm |

    ‘Bad History and Worse Social Science Have Replaced Truth’

    Daryl Michael Scott on propaganda and myth from ‘The 1619 Project’ to Trumpism.

    Prof. Scott of Howard University is interviewed on topic by Len Gutkin for The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 10. The article is free access but requires registration with the site. I have posted two very good excerpts after the jump which were tweeted by Wesley Yang. But I highly recommend reading the entire article as it is a very good summary of the troubles that have been going on in this area.

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    From X-Men to Mutants: Wokeism grows up

    By Orion on Sat, 03/06/2021 - 7:38am |

    Note: I didn't know whether or not to put this in the Creative Corner. It is a clearly a sociopolitical topic, but could go either way. If you need me to change its orientation, please let me know. Thank you.

    It has been a big couple weeks for "Woke" / Cancel Culture / #metoo, or whatever you want to call the pervading left wing zeitgeist, depending on who you are.

    Assistance in understanding those unwoke Hispanics in places like the Bronx

    By artappraiser on Thu, 03/04/2021 - 5:03pm |

    I have scanned the English side of a large campaign postcard I just found on my car's windshield at my home in the Bronx (the other side is in Spanish.) Then I went and put it on a picture hosting website and I looked up the background of family name of the candidate > it is Ecuadorian. The scan is posted after the jump, it's quite self-explanatory.

    The Campaign to Cancel Wokeness: Critical Race Theory Version

    By rmrd0000 on Tue, 03/02/2021 - 7:37pm |

    How the right is trying to censor critical race theory.

    Kimberlé Crenshaw, a pioneering legal scholar who teaches at both U.C.L.A. and Columbia, has watched with alarm the attempts to suppress an entire intellectual movement. It was Crenshaw who came up with the name “critical race theory” when organizing a workshop in 1989. (She also coined the term “intersectionality.”) “The commitment to free speech seems to dissipate when the people who are being gagged are folks who are demanding racial justice,” she told me.

    What the World needs now...

    By PeraclesPlease on Thu, 02/18/2021 - 11:17pm |

    As Belarusian journalists convicted, new human rights evidence re Chinese treatment of Uyghurs, what else?

    Thread for keeping up with the world beyond Cancun.

    ...is love sweet love...

    https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/18/asia/china-xinjiang-teacher-abuse-all...

    Science, Progress: Bill Gates kicks off

    By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 1:00am |

    Is Our Proud Boys Learning?

    By NCD on Sat, 02/13/2021 - 3:02pm |

    That Trump is a coward. Trump is a liar, who told you nothing but lies. Trump is a user who used you. Trump doesn't give a damn about you, when he tells you "he loves you", that too is a lie. He has no respect for you, nor any concern for your fate.

    In his mind you failed, you are losers, he has no pity or remorse about what he told you or conned you into doing. When you "remember that day", remember that.

    500,000

    By artappraiser on Fri, 02/12/2021 - 9:04pm |

    Dr Seuss Canceled

    By rmrd0000 on Fri, 02/12/2021 - 8:14pm |

    BOSTON (AP) — Six Dr. Seuss books — including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “If I Ran the Zoo” — will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author’s legacy said Tuesday.

    “These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises told The Associated Press in a statement that coincided with the late author and illustrator’s birthday.

    Meta message for the clueless:

    By artappraiser on Fri, 02/12/2021 - 7:03pm |

    I note an obsession with traffic on this website. Users should note that THERE IS NO ADVERTISING ON THIS WEBSITE!  Except for this book by the owner of this website: Unreasonable Men Therefore, traffic is not of much import at the current time, unless a few new visitors buy his book. It may actually be the case that more traffic costs the owner money and time. For which he deserves thanks.

    Latest Impeachment Trial

    By moat on Tue, 02/09/2021 - 5:35pm |

    If I was Richard Day, I would give you a link to follow the event and yell as I saw fit.

    But this is 2021, you all follow it as you can. I have run out of chips and salsa.

     

    True blue liberal Democrat Behar shocked to discover the woke likes dividing Americans

    By artappraiser on Mon, 02/08/2021 - 11:05am |

    One month ago, the President of the United States used the power of his office to incite & direct a violent insurrection against our government, based on white supremacy and baseless conspiracies, all to overturn a free & fair election.

    And you all are mad at Bruce Springsteen?

    — Bryan Behar (@bryanbehar) February 8, 2021

    MEET THE PERPS

    By artappraiser on Sat, 01/30/2021 - 4:12pm |

    Just a place to continue collecting information that will help us get to know more about our fellow citizens who decided to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6. Like have done on Moat's thread for the past four days:

    THE FBI WANTS THE PUBLIC TO HELP IDENTIFY CAPITOL RIOTERS An important step toward arresting all the offenders who got away.

    (also welcome: information on interesting folks who attended the rally but didn't join in the stormin')

    Starting after the jump with Mr. David Medina, who wants us all to get to know him--

    A present for PeraclesPlease: Roger Stone video

    By artappraiser on Wed, 01/27/2021 - 12:57pm |

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