A new column published by the Atlantic this week attempts to explain why condemning white people has become popular in American culture.

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Big Journalism  "Atlantic contributor Reiham Salam thoughtfully explained the rise of “white-bashing” in a column that was published this week. Salam explains that “white-bashing” has become increasingly popular with elite whites who want to signal their enlightened views on racial issues.

To state the obvious, Jeong is hardly alone in colorfully expressing anti-white sentiment, and it is this broader phenomenon I find most interesting. Honestly, I’ve been around this sort of talk, most of it at least half-joking, for most of my life. (Years ago, I even affectionately parodied it.) The people I’ve heard archly denounce whites have for the most part been upwardly-mobile people who’ve proven pretty adept at navigating elite, predominantly white spaces. A lot of them have been whites who pride themselves on their diverse social circles and their enlightened views, and who indulge in their own half-ironic white-bashing to underscore that it is their achieved identity as intelligent, worldly people that counts most, not their ascribed identity as being of recognizably European descent.

"Salam is writing in the aftermath of the Sarah Jeong controversy, which erupted last week after the New York Times announced her hiring. Users on Twitter discovered that Jeong had a history of bizarre anti-white bigoted tweets." . . .

Certainly Farrakhan wouldn't like a white son-in-law

Racism against whites "Unless you've been asleep for the past couple of years, you've been aware of a tsunami of racism directed against white people, said racism being stoked principally by whites who are leftists, if not outright communists.  True, there have been some blacks and some Mexicans who have expressed this racism, but it is principally by leftist whites.  Some of these statements by liberals are so bizarre, so disgusting, that one could be excused in thinking they came from certifiable psychotics." . . .

On Tuesday's primary elections

CDN

Ocasio-Cortez Backed Candidate Fails in Democrat MI Gov Primary . . . "Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign to prove Democratic Socialism can win in the Midwest

"El-Sayed’s platform mirrors Sanders’ and Ocasio-Cortez’s. He supports raising the minimum wage to $15/hour, implementing single-payer health care in the state, free college for families earning less than $150,000 a year, universal pre-K, legalizing marijuana, and ending Right to Work. " . . .

Looks like a narrow (yet big) victory for GOP in Ohio’s 12th District race 
. . . The 1,754 vote margin is 0.9% of the vote, and not subject to an automatic recount under Ohio law. Just over 3,000 provisional ballots remain to be counted, but are not expected to change the outcome. The two candidates will face off again in November." . . .

Trump-endorsed John James wins GOP nod for Senate in Michigan  "Political newcomer John James, a local businessman, prevailed handily over Sandy Pensler, a Grosse Pointe financier, in the Michigan Republican primary Tuesday night, setting up a fall U.S. Senate race that may become the sleeper race of the 2018 midterm elections.James will face Sen. Debbie Stabenow in the fall, one of 10 Democrats running to hold their seats in states President Trump won in the 2016 presidential elections that include Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, Florida Sen. Bill Nelson, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly, Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, Montana Sen. Jon Tester, North Dakota  . . ."

PJ Media live blogged on the primaries

Trump, Balderson Declare Victory In Ohio, But Democrat Not Ready To Concede
. . . "Along with an extremely tight Republican primary in Kansas, where a Trump-backed Republican congressional candidate holds a narrow edge over his opponent, the Trump-supported Balderson ended the night ahead by 0.9%, which amounts to just 1,754 votes, CNN reports.
"But with a total of 8,483 outstanding absentee and provisional ballots still to be counted, Balderson's Democratic opponent, Danny O'Connor, isn't willing to concede just yet. (UPDATE: As of 9:15 a.m. EST Wednesday, only 3,300 uncounted ballots remain; Balderson's lead remains 0.9%.)" . . .


Celebrities Trash Ohio Voters After Democrat Loss: ‘This Is an Embarrassment’
. . . "The night wasn’t a total loss for Democrats, as their socialist star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez saw a couple of candidates she endorsed when their primary races.
President Donald Trump appeared to be the night’s biggest winner. Five candidates President Trump endorsed won their respective races." . . .

The massive failure of democratic socialists in yesterday's primaries

American Thinker

Rick Moran  "If democratic socialists are "the future" of the Democratic party they better get used to losing - a lot.

"Every single candidate endorsed by by celebrity democratic socialist politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was beaten by establishment Democrats in yesterday's primaries. And not just beaten - they were, in most cases, slaughtered.

"The blood on the floor in Democratic precincts across the Midwest is democratic socialist blood. 

"American Mirror:

Cortez held a whirl-wind tour of the U.S., stumping for Abdul El-Sayed for governor of Michigan, Fayrouz Saad in Michigan’s 11th Congressional District, Cori Bush in Missouri’s 1st District, and is backing Congressional candidate Kaniela Ing in Hawaii.

El-Sayed lost his bid for the Democrat nomination for governor to 51.8 percent to 30.5 percent, according to numbers published by the New York Times.
Saad came in fourth in the five-way race, capturing only 18 percent of the vote. . . .  Read more

 Ocasio-Cortez vs. the Trump Economy  ". . . "Many pundits predicted economic collapse when the business tycoon turned presidential candidate won the 2016 election.  Even the so-called "experts" got it wrong.  Economist and NYT columnist Paul Krugman made the bold prediction that markets would "never" recover from Donald Trump being elected president.

"Yet here we are with no sign of an economic collapse.  Quite the contrary, in fact.  The great GDP numbers and record low unemployment rates are just the latest positive example of what has been an objectively successful economy under President Trump." . . ."

Facebook unblocks California GOP congressional candidate’s campaign ad

Legal Insurrection

"If she wins CA-16, and she could, Elizabeth Heng should send Facebook a big “Thank You” note."

. . . "The social media giant’s video team blocked one of her ads, but changed their mind once they received backlash.

"Elizabeth Heng, who is running against Democratic incumbent Jim Acosta, posted an inspiring campaign ad that began with chilling images from the Cambodian genocide in the 1970s while telling about her parents’ survival. The theme of her campaign: “Great things can come from great adversity.”

"It seems that the message may have been too powerful for Team Facebook.

Heng’s campaign said Facebook “revoked approval to advertise” the video last week. According to a screenshot posted to Twitter, Facebook said it was not approved because it does not adhere to its advertising policies.

“We don’t allow ads that contain shocking, disrespectful or sensational content, including ads that depict violence or threats of violence,” the message from Facebook read.

"The ad is compelling, which might explain a bit of the motivation behind Facebook’s decision:"

Identity Politics and Kamala Harris

American Thinker  "The fight for the 2020 presidential nomination is underway within the Democratic Party.  Several personalities are vying to position themselves as far to the left as practical to garner adequate attention and support among the activists and power-brokers.  Among the senators, Kamala Harris has found a unique approach to the internal debate." . . .


"Kamala Harris is trying to separate herself from the many other potential presidential candidates.  She is also demonstrating her ability to argue against members of her party who want to appeal to a broader base and attract traditional working-class voters back to the fold from Trump's conservative nationalist platform.  She has learned from Obama a winning strategy that she hopes to ride to victory in two years."

WATCH: Facebook Blocked This Republican Asian Woman's Campaign Ad

Daily Wire  "Talk about election meddling.
"Facebook has reportedly blocked a California congressional candidate's campaign from using a video as an ad on the social media platform because they deemed it "shocking, disrespectful or sensational."

"The Christian Post reports that Facebook blocked 33-year-old Republican Elizabeth Heng's video which shows "her America immigrant parents, who survived brutalities by the Khmer Rouge communists during the Cambodian Civil War.' "



" 'This is why I wake up every single day with the fight and determination to have a voice 
and make a difference in my community," Heng continued. "Neither Facebook nor any other company in the tech industry get to silence our stories. We’ve seen it over and over again with Republican candidates and organizations. This kind of censorship is an attack on the freedoms that we have as Americans to express what we believe in, and we must hold Facebook accountable."

Tokenism is killing liberalism

https://earloftaint.com/

Don Surber  "Introduced in 1959, the Barbie doll took off like a rocket in sales. Some black people complained about not having a black Barbie. So Mattel injected brown plastic into the mold, and you had a doll with Caucasian looks and brown skin.
"D'oh.
"The New York Times hired Sarah Jeong for its editorial board because she is of Asian ancestry. That she is a racist sexist who is not talented enough to write a grocery list mattered not. She is the board's token Asian Barbie. She thinks just like the rest of the members. Only her skin is different.
"While she complains about white privilege, she sits on the board of the Newspaper of White Privilege Record.
"The left has pushed diversity for decades. Now it pays the price.
"Their goal is the Cabinet That Looks Like America, and not the Cabinet That Gets Things Done." . . .
. . . 
"No more. It went out of its way to hire people based on the color of their skin, and not the content of their character. Elizabeth Warren got her job not because she was a top-notched law professor but because they thought she was an Indian.
"Mattel solved its problem by creating a mold for a doll with African-American features.
"In politics, President Trump broke the mold of tokenism."

Nineteen minutes into the movie, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri spouted two anti-American lies within 15 seconds of each other. Who needs that?

"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — another movie I couldn’t watch"

Bookworm Room      

"I very seldom can sit through the movies Hollywood has made of late. Indeed, I think the last movies that I fully enjoyed were Darkest Hour and Paddington 2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is just the latest in a long line of movies I consider unwatchable.

"When I sat down in front of our TiVo to watch HBO’s showing of Three Billboards, I had no preconceived notions about the movie. I hadn’t paid any attention whatsoever to it when it came out and knew nothing about the plot. I was vaguely aware that Frances McDormand won an Oscar for it, but I only knew that because she made some mindless #MeToo speech or something like that at the Awards ceremony."

. . . 

"For me, two big lies in 15 seconds — one that falsely savaged America while aggrandizing Cuban tyranny; and the other that falsely savaged Wyoming and America, while ignoring the victim’s terrible lifestyle choices — was too much. I could feel my blood pressure shoot up, and I headed upstairs for tea, chocolate, and some blogging. Life’s too short to waste on bad British/Hollywood propaganda. The only shame is that lots of Americans did watch the movie and that, while this 15 seconds of dishonest propaganda might have whipped by their conscious, it surely lodged in their subconscious. And that’s how people lose sight of truth."

Pope Francis Rewrites Catholicism ... and the Bible

Dennis Prager  "Last week, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had changed the Catholic catechism. After 2,000 years of teaching that a moral use of capital punishment for murder is consistent with Catholic teaching, the pope announced that the catechism, the church fathers and St. Thomas Aquinas, among the other great Catholic theologians, were all wrong." . . 

. . . "Pope Francis, the product of Latin American liberation theology -- along with many other Catholic religious and lay leaders -- is remaking Catholicism in the image of leftism, just as mainstream Protestant leaders have been rendering much of mainstream Protestantism a branch of leftism, and non-Orthodox Jewish clergy and lay leaders have been rendering most non-Orthodox synagogues and lay institutions left-wing organizations." . . .

West Hollywood Fascists Vote Unanimously to Remove Donald Trump’s Star on Walk of Fame… But Guess Whose Star Remains?

The Gateway Pundit

"Far left actor Kevin Spacey was accused of sexual misconduct by at least a dozen men and several underage teens."

Donald Trump FIRES WARNING to EU: Do trade with Iran and you will NOT do business with US

Daily Express

DONALD Trump has piled pressure on EU leaders by warning them that if they ignore newly imposed sanctions and do business with Iran, they can forget about trading with the United States.

 . . . "In addition, a mechanism has also been set up which would allow EU businesses affected by the sanctions to sue the US administration in the national courts of member states.
"Speaking after the publication of the EU statement, a senior Trump administration official told reporters: “This is completely consistent with what the president has done with other less friendly regimes to keep the maximum pressure until our goals are achieved.”
"Meanwhile, Iran’s President, Hassan Rouhani, praised the EU for its stance.
"He also dismissed the sanctions as “psychological warfare” aimed at helping Mr Trump’s political allies gearing up for November’s midterm elections." . . .

Ms. Joeng, meet the Americans who saved your country from the North Koreans

Silvio Canto, Jr.  "According to what I learned, Sarah Jeong was born in South Korea and came here with her parents.  In other words, her parents grew up in a South Korea made possible by the deaths of 30,000 U.S. soldiers who fought there.  I don't know the statistics, but there's no doubt that most of them were white men.

"Her social media statements were awful, but people are making excuses.  I like this editorial at the Weekly Standard:

. . . "It sounds like a lot of awful vitriol, especially the comments about police officers and white men in general.

"The New York Times should call on this young woman to go down to a police station in New York and explain to the police officers that she meant no harm.

"Then she should explain to the families of Korean War veterans why she does not appreciate the work they did to give her freedom.

"Or maybe we should buy her a one-way ticket to North Korea and let her see what repression looks like."