It couldn’t happen to a nicer Don Lemon. Bone ignorance is always its own punishment long term.
Saturday, April 20, AD 2024 2:46am
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It couldn’t happen to a nicer Don Lemon. Bone ignorance is always its own punishment long term.
I appreciated Lemon’s stunned pause the most. Followed by a quick ‘let’s move on.’
There should be a content warning on that one.
I have noted that ignorance of History and Geography fuels most of the ignorance of leftists these days. Santayana was correct but most of the Lemons of the world don’t know that either.
PWND!
“Bone ignorance is always its own punishment long term.“
Especially when it’s deliberate.
Thomas Sowell v Trevor Noah on Slavery, the Mother of All Unfair Fights!
Sowell in writing about human society is grounded in empirical observation and in his younger years had a deadly eye for fallacies incorporated into people’s assumptions. Read Vision of the Anointed or one of his collections and you find yourself saying again and again, ‘why didn’t I think of that?’.
Coates landed a position at The Atlantic because he could turn in copy on time. Per Robert Stacy McCain, The Atlantic is a ‘notorious snob shop’ and at the time he was hired he was hired, six of their seven bloggers (Andrew Sullivan, Megan McArdle, Marc Ambinder, Matthew Yglesias, Ross Douthat, and Clive Crook) had Oxbridge and / or the Ivy League on their resume. The exception was Coates, who was a dropout from Howard University. The content of his writing was summarized by John Derbyshire as consisting entirely of musing about “American Blackness”. The quotation there is a word salad that is anything but grounded in empirical observation. Sowell has in the past written about the trouble presented by people who are articulate but not necessarily intelligent. Coates is a made-to-order example.
Hillary said that with the straightest face. His logic is so idiotic- the royal family are rich and the cost of living is high so they need to pay reparation for black slavery. What?
By the way, look up the amount of money, “sorry money”, that the Australian government has poured into improving the plight of the Indigenous Community, and continue to do so. The money paid for land rights, the advantages when applying for tertiary institutions or certain jobs. Yet the indigenous community still has the nations highest social issues- alcoholism, domestic violence, child abuse, low literacy rates, unemployment, poor health etc…You can not throw money at a problem and expect it to go away.
Only God can fix this nation.
The money paid for land rights, the advantages when applying for tertiary institutions or certain jobs. Yet the indigenous community still has the nations highest social issues- alcoholism, domestic violence, child abuse, low literacy rates, unemployment, poor health etc…You can not throw money at a problem and expect it to go away.
Working out land titles is a satisfactory program. Preferential hiring and benefit eligibility is a bad business.
The thing is, human society being what it is, there are few ‘problems’ but many ‘issues’. A co-worker of mine put it this way, “I like problems much better than I like issues. Problems have discrete solutions. Issues go on and on”. (There was in our offices a pair of computer controlled warehouse robots that our IT person wanted to name “issues” and “problems”).
Some things are issues. You can contain and ameliorate the effects of the issue, but the issue will be with you always. Vagrancy is an issue. Alcoholism is an issue. Street crime is an issue. Anomie among aboriginal populations is another issue.
In 1964, American blacks won the civil rights ‘war’ and since have been handed huge dollops of all kinds of pecuniary and other perqs. Look at what it’s gotten them. The largesse in just the 1964 legislation was worth a trillion in today’s inflated fiat green confetti.
Evidently about 99% of the 9% of people that even think about the front end of the slave supply chain take as Gospel Alex Haley’s family mythology that his noble ancestor was kidnapped from a latter-day Eden by a gang of evil white men. They are approximately 90% wrong about that.
Evidently about 99% of the 9% of people that even think about the front end of the slave supply chain take as Gospel Alex Haley’s family mythology that his noble ancestor was kidnapped from a latter-day Eden by a gang of evil white men. They are approximately 90% wrong about that.
The screenwriters for that episode were William Blinn and Ernest Kinoy. Don’t think that nugget came from Haley, much less the family members who provided the lore which was raw material for Haley’s book. Fun fact: Kinoy was the younger brother of red haze lawyer Arthur Kinoy.
Haley was a tyro in the world of genealogy, and conscientious practitioners have pointed out crippling errors in his work. (The identity of his great-great grandfather is readily verifiable. Of the two previous generations and the supposed identification of the ship containing his ancestor, he made a dog’s breakfast. Not sure if anyone has sussed out the real chain of events. His critics do say it’s a reasonable inference he’s descended from people owned by the Waller family of Spotsylvania County, Va.).