BLM -

[Observer II]

Seems are ever active scientists have come up with the suggestion that "bald men" may be at a high risk of dying from Corvid infection - perhaps all slap heads need to get out there and protest - Bald Lives Matter !    😉   😷

[Davy51]

My hair is growing like mad ,i might have to buy a comb.

At times. it seems these scientists cause more problems than they solve with different views pointing Joe Public in varying directions. It's a pity some of them can't find proper jobs.

[asperity]

Bald men going out in the sun have more chance of producing vitamin D which is supposed to help fight viruses like Covid19. I think I'll shave my head tomorrow just in case 😉.

[Evil Sid]

Don't bother asp the forecast is for heavy showers for the next few days.

Cold rain on a bald head is not fun.

Although it IS supposed to make you more attractive to the opposite sex.( although having muscles like a Greek god and an abdomen that looks like you could grate melons on helps as well.).....🏋️‍♂️

Failing that a few milllion in the bank is the next best thing....

[Observer II]

On the subject of BLM -  the mass gatherings of protest at a time of lock down due to the pandemic; isn't just idiotic, it's contrary to the rules.  So where's the condemnation from the politicians, like Mayor Khan, who were first in the queue to condemn Cummings.   These idiots will ensure that the virus continues to spread and that we get a second wave and will be responsible along with Gov lock down easing for the consequent deaths from Corvid19.     😠     😷

[asperity]

BLM is a deeply racist organisation and I'm distressed at the way so many organisations from the police, government departments and private companies are bowing down to it. You cannot appease the likes of these people - history tells us this.

https://youtu.be/nGSdZNaoAMg

[Observer II]

Candice Owens - very good Asp;  she restores one's faith in the black community and in common sense; this should be absorbed by HMG and the Media.    😷

[Evil Sid]

I am just amused at the fact quite a lot were wearing masks against the virus whilst shoving and heaving in the middle of the crush. a bit like jumping in the canal to avoid getting wet because it's raining...🤭

[Observer II]

Well they are mainly youngsters Sid, probably Uni students too.   😉    😷

[asperity]

23 minutes ago, Observer II said:

Candice Owens - very good Asp;  she restores one's faith in the black community and in common sense; this should be absorbed by HMG and the Media.    😷

There are quite a few black commentators - Candace Owens, Larry Elder, Diamond & Silk, Alfonzo Rachel to name but some - who try to get their message across despite the no platforming tactics of their opponents.

[Observer II]

Listening to the BLM apologists for the wanton vandalism of civic statues in Bristol and London,  you'd think slavery only ever involved black Africans around the 18th C.   Slavery has gone on throughout human history and has been inflicted on conquered peoples, regardless of their race; and indeed  continues to this day with so-called modern slavery.   Are we to erase all traces of our history, good or bad, in the light of the affected sensitivities of BLM activists ?   Should we erase all references to the enslavement of British people by the Romans, Vikings and Barbary Pirates ?    The enslavement of Europeans in WW2 by Nazi Germany,  should that mean we ban the use and sale of those firms that used slave labour like VW or the originators of the space and ballistic missile programs, who killed 20,000 slaves in producing the V2 ?    History has happened,  and if you try to forget it or erase it, you consign the future to repeating it's mistakes.  😠  😷

[Davy51]

Indeed, & a good proportion,if not all, Africans sold into slavery were captured by their own African Brothers for that very purpose & to receive a bounty off the slave traders.

At the end of the English civil war even prisoners of that war were sent to work in the American colonies as white slaves, just for being on the wrong side.

[Stallard12]

BLM is a product of the age we live in.  They are a bogus organization born simply out of the fact that, in these times, the crazier your proclamations the more you get on tv.  They have no interest at all in any dialogue, or in thhe preservation of lives of any kind, they just want to March and chant " Kill the police, kill the police" and maybe loot a little on the side.   They exist simply because they can, they are merely anarchists using skin color to avoid being run out of town on a rail. 

There were around fifty blacks killed by blacks in Chicago this weekend over a 48 hour period, where were they then ?   Nowhere, because that doesn't fit their agenda.  In the last year, there were three times more police officers killed in the line of duty by blacks than there were blacks killed by police officers.

As with most things nowadays, politics, the news, activism, it's all a farce and if it wasn't for the media driving it because it suits their ideology and turns them a good profit, it would all die on the vine.

I really didn't want to write this post, not because it isn't true, but because I think that just discussing them just gives credibility to a bad joke.

[asperity]

It is really distressing to find that so many people are falling for the false narrative that African Americans (why do they call themselves that? Why not accept the fact that they are Americans like everyone else in the USA, rather than single themselves out as something different?) are being "hunted down by the racist police and shot in the street". Blacks in the USA are being murdered on an industrial scale, but by other Blacks. Last year 9 unarmed Blacks were killed by police in the US, while 19 unarmed Whites were killed the same way. The media is responsible for so much race baiting and false reporting (yes Piers Morgan I'm looking at you) they should be voluntarily sacking themselves. As for all this "Taking the Knee" nonsense, how about everyone just start treating each other as fellow humans struggling to survive in the world. When I was working in the Merchant Navy I was sailing with people from all over the world, from different cultures, speaking different languages and having different interests but there was always a kinship there. A feeling that we were all working towards a common goal. The likes of BLM are working to drive a wedge between people instead of trying to build bonds, and for that reason I think that the politicians should step back and, instead of calling for support for BLM, should call them out for the disruptive element that they are. They don't want racial harmony, they want racial divide.

[Evil Sid]

Bullies

Looters

Morons

why are these people not treated like in Korea. There the police use water canon with a blue dye added. it takes weeks to get it off the skin. the police then round up any body looking like a smurf and they are charged with incitement to riot. a serious charge there.

Here they just get a slap on the wrist at worst, that is if they are even arrested.

[Observer II]

Having allowed anarchy on our streets by BLM ; it seems HMG is about to get tough with 24hr fast track prison for offenders. Could the real reason be, because they've got wind that the "far right" has now been stirred up; with the lefty Press calling them "hate groups", as if BLM isn't a hate group.  😠😷

[Davy51]

I think a good way to deal with these activists would be to designate a particularly bleak area of the English countryside, similar to a concert/music festival venue ,fence it off with guards on the gates & leave said activists there for 3 months under canvas & at the mercy of the British summer weather. Punishment could be endless Smiths tracks played over the pa system.

 

[asperity]

There was a BLM "activist" on Talkradio this morning who was explaining that the reason why young black men in London are killing each other is because of the ongoing drug turf wars. His solution to the problem? Defund the police and give the money saved to the black "community" and legalise the drugs. Presumably the young black men would be able to buy all the drugs they want and have nothing to fight over. Meanwhile in the real world the rest of us can do one.  He was full of incoherent claptrap which he was allowed to spout, thus showing himself as racist and stupid as the organisation he follows.

[asperity]

This is a long read, but worth it, written by a black History Professor at Berkley University in California:

I am one of your colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley. I have met you both personally but do not know you closely, and am contacting you anonymously, with apologies. I am worried that writing this email publicly might lead to me losing my job, and likely all future jobs in my field.

In your recent departmental emails you mentioned our pledge to diversity, but I am increasingly alarmed by the absence of diversity of opinion on the topic of the recent protests and our community response to them.

In the extended links and resources you provided, I could not find a single instance of substantial counter-argument or alternative narrative to explain the under-representation of black individuals in academia or their over-representation in the criminal justice system. The explanation provided in your documentation, to the near exclusion of all others, is univariate: the problems of the black community are caused by whites, or, when whites are not physically present, by the infiltration of white supremacy and white systemic racism into American brains, souls, and institutions.
Many cogent objections to this thesis have been raised by sober voices, including from within the black community itself, such as Thomas Sowell and Wilfred Reilly. These people are not racists or 'Uncle Toms'. They are intelligent scholars who reject a narrative that strips black people of agency and systematically externalizes the problems of the black community onto outsiders. Their view is entirely absent from the departmental and UCB-wide communiques.

The claim that the difficulties that the black community faces are entirely causally explained by exogenous factors in the form of white systemic racism, white supremacy, and other forms of white discrimination remains a problematic hypothesis that should be vigorously challenged by historians. Instead, it is being treated as an axiomatic and actionable truth without serious consideration of its profound flaws, or its worrying implication of total black impotence. This hypothesis is transforming our institution and our culture, without any space for dissent outside of a tightly policed, narrow discourse.

A counternarrative exists. If you have time, please consider examining some of the documents I attach at the end of this email. Overwhelmingly, the reasoning provided by BLM and allies is either primarily anecdotal (as in the case with the bulk of Ta-Nehisi Coates' undeniably moving article) or it is transparently motivated. As an example of the latter problem, consider the proportion of black incarcerated Americans. This proportion is often used to characterize the criminal justice system as anti-black. However, if we use the precise same methodology, we would have to conclude that the criminal justice system is even more anti-male than it is anti-black.

Would we characterize criminal justice as a systemically misandrist conspiracy against innocent American men? I hope you see that this type of reasoning is flawed, and requires a significant suspension of our rational faculties. Black people are not incarcerated at higher rates than their involvement in violent crime would predict. This fact has been demonstrated multiple times across multiple jurisdictions in multiple countries.

And yet, I see my department uncritically reproducing a narrative that diminishes black agency in favor of a white-centric explanation that appeals to the department's apparent desire to shoulder the 'white man's burden' and to promote a narrative of white guilt.
If we claim that the criminal justice system is white-supremacist, why is it that Asian Americans, Indian Americans, and Nigerian Americans are incarcerated at vastly lower rates than white Americans? This is a funny sort of white supremacy. Even Jewish Americans are incarcerated less than gentile whites. I think it's fair to say that your average white supremacist disapproves of Jews. And yet, these alleged white supremacists incarcerate gentiles at vastly higher rates than Jews. None of this is addressed in your literature. None of this is explained, beyond hand-waving and ad hominems. "Those are racist dogwhistles". "The model minority myth is white supremacist". "Only fascists talk about black-on-black crime", ad nauseam.

These types of statements do not amount to counterarguments: they are simply arbitrary offensive classifications, intended to silence and oppress discourse. Any serious historian will recognize these for the silencing orthodoxy tactics they are, common to suppressive regimes, doctrines, and religions throughout time and space. They are intended to crush real diversity and permanently exile the culture of robust criticism from our department.

Increasingly, we are being called upon to comply and subscribe to BLM's problematic view of history, and the department is being presented as unified on the matter. In particular, ethnic minorities are being aggressively marshaled into a single position. Any apparent unity is surely a function of the fact that dissent could almost certainly lead to expulsion or cancellation for those of us in a precarious position, which is no small number.

I personally don't dare speak out against the BLM narrative, and with this barrage of alleged unity being mass-produced by the administration, tenured professoriat, the UC administration, corporate America, and the media, the punishment for dissent is a clear danger at a time of widespread economic vulnerability. I am certain that if my name were attached to this email, I would lose my job and all future jobs, even though I believe in and can justify every word I type.

The vast majority of violence visited on the black community is committed by black people. There are virtually no marches for these invisible victims, no public silences, no heartfelt letters from the UC regents, deans, and departmental heads. The message is clear: Black lives only matter when whites take them. Black violence is expected and insoluble, while white violence requires explanation and demands solution. Please look into your hearts and see how monstrously bigoted this formulation truly is.

No discussion is permitted for nonblack victims of black violence, who proportionally outnumber black victims of nonblack violence. This is especially bitter in the Bay Area, where Asian victimization by black assailants has reached epidemic proportions, to the point that the SF police chief has advised Asians to stop hanging good-luck charms on their doors, as this attracts the attention of (overwhelmingly black) home invaders. Home invaders like George Floyd. For this actual, lived, physically experienced reality of violence in the USA, there are no marches, no tearful emails from departmental heads, no support from McDonald's and Wal-Mart. For the History department, our silence is not a mere abrogation of our duty to shed light on the truth: it is a rejection of it.

The claim that black intraracial violence is the product of redlining, slavery, and other injustices is a largely historical claim. It is for historians, therefore, to explain why Japanese internment or the massacre of European Jewry hasn't led to equivalent rates of dysfunction and low SES performance among Japanese and Jewish Americans respectively. Arab Americans have been viciously demonized since 9/11, as have Chinese Americans more recently. However, both groups outperform white Americans on nearly all SES indices - as do Nigerian Americans, who incidentally have black skin. It is for historians to point out and discuss these anomalies. However, no real discussion is possible in the current climate at our department. The explanation is provided to us, disagreement with it is racist, and the job of historians is to further explore additional ways in which the explanation is additionally correct. This is a mockery of the historical profession.

Most troublingly, our department appears to have been entirely captured by the interests of the Democratic National Convention, and the Democratic Party more broadly. To explain what I mean, consider what happens if you choose to donate to Black Lives Matter, an organization UCB History has explicitly promoted in its recent mailers. All donations to the official BLM website are immediately redirected to ActBlue Charities, an organization primarily concerned with bankrolling election campaigns for Democrat candidates. Donating to BLM today is to indirectly donate to Joe Biden's 2020 campaign. This is grotesque given the fact that the American cities with the worst rates of black-on-black violence and police-on-black violence are overwhelmingly Democrat-run. Minneapolis itself has been entirely in the hands of Democrats for over five decades; the 'systemic racism' there was built by successive Democrat administrations.

The patronizing and condescending attitudes of Democrat leaders towards the black community, exemplified by nearly every Biden statement on the black race, all but guarantee a perpetual state of misery, resentment, poverty, and the attendant grievance politics which are simultaneously annihilating American political discourse and black lives. And yet, donating to BLM is bankrolling the election campaigns of men like Mayor Frey, who saw their cities devolve into violence. This is a grotesque capture of a good-faith movement for necessary police reform, and of our department, by a political party. Even worse, there are virtually no avenues for dissent in academic circles. I refuse to serve the Party, and so should you.

The total alliance of major corporations involved in human exploitation with BLM should be a warning flag to us, and yet this damning evidence goes unnoticed, purposefully ignored, or perversely celebrated. We are the useful idiots of the wealthiest classes, carrying water for Jeff Bezos and other actual, real, modern-day slavers. Starbucks, an organisation using literal black slaves in its coffee plantation suppliers, is in favor of BLM. Sony, an organisation using cobalt mined by yet more literal black slaves, many of whom are children, is in favor of BLM. And so, apparently, are we. The absence of counter-narrative enables this obscenity. Fiat lux, indeed.

There also exists a large constituency of what can only be called 'race hustlers': hucksters of all colors who benefit from stoking the fires of racial conflict to secure administrative jobs, charity management positions, academic jobs and advancement, or personal political entrepreneurship.

Given the direction our history department appears to be taking far from any commitment to truth, we can regard ourselves as a formative training institution for this brand of snake-oil salespeople. Their activities are corrosive, demolishing any hope at harmonious racial coexistence in our nation and colonizing our political and institutional life. Many of their voices are unironically segregationist.

MLK would likely be called an Uncle Tom if he spoke on our campus today. We are training leaders who intend, explicitly, to destroy one of the only truly successful ethnically diverse societies in modern history. As the PRC, an ethnonationalist and aggressively racially chauvinist national polity with null immigration and no concept of jus solis increasingly presents itself as the global political alternative to the US, I ask you: Is this wise? Are we really doing the right thing?

As a final point, our university and department has made multiple statements celebrating and eulogizing George Floyd. Floyd was a multiple felon who once held a pregnant black woman at gunpoint. He broke into her home with a gang of men and pointed a gun at her pregnant stomach. He terrorized the women in his community. He sired and abandoned multiple children, playing no part in their support or upbringing, failing one of the most basic tests of decency for a human being. He was a drug-addict and sometime drug-dealer, a swindler who preyed upon his honest and hard-working neighbors.

And yet, the regents of UC and the historians of the UCB History department are celebrating this violent criminal, elevating his name to virtual sainthood. A man who hurt women. A man who hurt black women. With the full collaboration of the UCB history department, corporate America, most mainstream media outlets, and some of the wealthiest and most privileged opinion-shaping elites of the USA, he has become a culture hero, buried in a golden casket, his (recognized) family showered with gifts and praise. Americans are being socially pressured into kneeling for this violent, abusive misogynist. A generation of black men are being coerced into identifying with George Floyd, the absolute worst specimen of our race and species.

I'm ashamed of my department. I would say that I'm ashamed of both of you, but perhaps you agree with me, and are simply afraid, as I am, of the backlash of speaking the truth. It's hard to know what kneeling means, when you have to kneel to keep your job.
It shouldn't affect the strength of my argument above, but for the record, I write as a person of color. My family have been personally victimized by men like Floyd. We are aware of the condescending depredations of the Democrat party against our race. The humiliating assumption that we are too stupid to do STEM, that we need special help and lower requirements to get ahead in life, is richly familiar to us. I sometimes wonder if it wouldn't be easier to deal with open fascists, who at least would be straightforward in calling me a subhuman, and who are unlikely to share my race.
The ever-present soft bigotry of low expectations and the permanent claim that the solutions to the plight of my people rest exclusively on the goodwill of whites rather than on our own hard work is psychologically devastating. No other group in America is systematically demoralized in this way by its alleged allies. A whole generation of black children are being taught that only by begging and weeping and screaming will they get handouts from guilt-ridden whites.

No message will more surely devastate their futures, especially if whites run out of guilt, or indeed if America runs out of whites. If this had been done to Japanese Americans, or Jewish Americans, or Chinese Americans, then Chinatown and Japantown would surely be no different to the roughest parts of Baltimore and East St. Louis today. The History department of UCB is now an integral institutional promulgator of a destructive and denigrating fallacy about the black race.

I hope you appreciate the frustration behind this message. I do not support BLM. I do not support the Democrat grievance agenda and the Party's uncontested capture of our department. I do not support the Party co-opting my race, as Biden recently did in his disturbing interview, claiming that voting Democrat and being black are isomorphic. I condemn the manner of George Floyd's death and join you in calling for greater police accountability and police reform. However, I will not pretend that George Floyd was anything other than a violent misogynist, a brutal man who met a predictably brutal end.

  And thanks to the Zero Hedge site that picked it up and published it.

 

[Observer II]

Alas the voice of reason will be ignored by those it's aimed at.   I'm afraid we have to choose sides and act accordingly.   😠

[Observer II]

Seems the lefty Press are calling out Boris, alleging he wrote that Colonialism should never have ended.  I doubt he'll admit to still holding that view, but one clear example of post Colonial African "success" would be Rhodesia (named after Cecil!);  which, under white control was the breadbasket of Africa,  which Magabe turned into Zimbawe, the sick man of Africa, riddled with poverty and corruption.  

[asperity]

An interesting article:

https://cambriandissenters.blogspot.com/2020/06/british-virtue-signallers-are-duped-by.html

[Observer II]

Very good Asp:   Hope HMG take note, this is nothing short of a cyber crime to destabilise societies, so requires a concerted reaction imo.    😠

[Observer II]

Why is it OK to say "Black Lives Matter" but not OK to say "White Lives Matter", presumably ALL Lives Matter ?   Perhaps soccer teams resorting to juvenile virtue signalling by "taking the knee" prior to a match, should stick to football ?    😠

[asperity]

Because "reasons" Obs. A plane flew over the Burnley ground at the start of their game against Man City last night towing a banner reading "White lives matter   Burnley". This has been roundly condemned by all the usual suspects, none of whom presumably have bothered to read the manifesto of the BLM movement which is a deeply racist organisation. I recommend anyone to look into the aims of BLM before condemning anyone opposed to it.

The virtue signalling by footballers is, I suspect, happening because they know that to not do as they are told will lead to ostracisation and probably loss of employment. It's a clever trick, if you don't agree with us then you are an evil racist and deserve what's coming to you. Are there going to be protest marches against Libyan asylum seekers following the murders of three white men in Reading at the weekend? Be ready for a long wait.