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Stamp Out Evil White Homophobes!

Posted on May 16, 2016 by Baron Bodissey
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I returned home a little while ago, and am currently catching up. More than 1,700 emails were waiting for me when I got here. About 85% of them were spam, but that still leaves me a lot to go through.
The following photo drew my attention, via the comments that came in while I was gone (and also Vlad):

White People are a Plague to the Planet
The Historical Ties Between Homophobia in Communities of Color & Colonization
By Shahem McLaurin

Two versions of the image seem to exist. Hypeline claims an “exclusive” on the story, but imgur has a copy of the photo that was posted the same day, and doesn’t have the watermark.
The imgur post says, “this was shown at UO today for a class”. UO could be the University of Oregon or the University of Ottawa. However, Hypeline and WCBM say the image is from Towson University in the Baltimore suburbs. The Twitter exchanges on it don’t specify the locale.
The young man who was giving the presentation seems to be named Shahem McLaurin. Based on this CollegeBound Foundation feature from 2013, I would bet on Towson, since Mr. McLaurin was hoping to get into Johns Hopkins University (which is in Baltimore) and the University of Maryland in College Park. So it looks like he didn’t make it into either of his preferred schools, and had to settle for Towson.
A dedicated internet sleuth at Voat/NeoFAG has discovered more information on Shahem McLaurin, whom he describes as a “gay activist”. There are links to Twitter (@Bmoreboy), Linked In, Instagram, and Pinterest.
That’s all I know at the moment about this brilliant young social justice warrior. If anyone has additional information, feel free to leave it in the comments


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What is the state of the world economy - and what does the future hold? Gerald Celente joins Stefan Molyneux to discuss the growing wealth gap in the United States, the rise of negative interest rates, out of control central banks, the Military Industrial Complex, the fall of the political establishment, housing market trends, the role of China, stagflation in Japan, fiat currency wars, replacing income tax with tariffs and how economic collapse often leads to war!

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Smithsonian to Open Palace of Victimization and Perpetual Complaining

This fall The Smithsonian is set to open the 400,000-square-foot (twice the size of the National Air and Space Museum) triangular shaped 'National Museum of African American History and Culture' in the nation's capital next to the Washington Monument. It opens Sept. 24 with its views of the Mall for its tales of African-American achievement.

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The bronze-clad structure on Constitution Avenue, its ugliness capturing the soullessness of 21st century America and with all the charm of a mud hut, represents only about a third of the museum's total space. After entering the central court, visitors will be encouraged to take an elevator 40 feet underground, where the journey begins with the black slave trade.

Having turned white guilt into the national religion, it's a place White liberals can actual have contact with real black people while simultaneously being told they are the problem.

The $540 million project was funded to the tune of $270 million by our spend thrift Congress, the other half is being raised through private contributions. Gustafson, Guthrie and Nichol are the landscape architecture firm, and Ralph Appelbaum Associates is the exhibit designer.

The women are Gustafson, Guthrie, and Nichol. The man is Ralph Appelbaum himself

Yes, white people helped in the design and exhibits and will be a reminder sooner or later to black racists, AND gullible whites just how bad we are not letting them do up their own museum themselves, and giving it only three walls instead of four.

President Obama is expected to cut the ribbon and sure to have a lot of slobbering exuberance to rub in America's face. You will definitely see a number of White politicians from across the political spectrum, making high profile visits as a way to prove their racial bona fides. And it's rather conspicuous that it opens less than 2 months before the general election. You can bet yo ass that Hillary Clinton is going to milk the grand opening for every thing it's worth.

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“The normative concerns of old [classic] books run against the spirit of our present age, not a terrible spirit, but a lost and pathetic one, imagining its greatest freedoms to lie in the anxieties of a moral vacuum. When this poor spirit ventures to raise normative questions, believing them to be analytically unanswerable anyway, it does so without the dialectical commitment necessary for answering them. Its effete morality consists of simply having raised the question or of having discussed the ‘value preferences.’ Consequently, the pursuit of truth, as opposed to fact, proceeds willy-nilly, and in the end, cynically. To raise the moral question seems as preposterous today in some settings as a firm answer to the question would have sounded a generation ago. Most educators, in fact, have given up on such questions, protesting ignorance, saying that they cannot know what ought to be but are quite confident in their ability to teach what is, thanks to the tools of science. But *what is* the human condition appears to grow darker and darker, since man is left without a map to guide his steps. Like a nightwalker who despairs of clearly discerning the objects in his path, the educator first turns his attention to his shoes and then closes his eyes.” David V. Hicks, Norms & Nobility

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Why David Petraeus Wants You To Shut Up About Islamism

Posted on May 18, 2016 by Baron Bodissey
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The Federalist has published an investigative report examining the career incentives behind retired General David Petraeus’ recent efforts to suppress criticism of Islam and Muslims. Some excerpts are below:

Why David Petraeus Wants You To Shut Up About Islamism
Why corporate interests would want to limit speech on Islamist threats.
by Christine Brim
On May 13, the Washington Post published an online op-ed by former CIA director and CENTCOM commander David Petraeus, titled “Anti-Muslim bigotry aids Islamist terrorists.” The op-ed was noteworthy chiefly for Petraeus’ use of rhetorical clichés more commonly expected from the Council on American Islamic Relations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s “Islamophobia Observatory,” including such standards as “inflammatory political discourse against Muslims and Islam,” “blanket discrimination on the basis of religion,” “those who flirt with hate speech against Muslims,” “those who demonize and denigrate Islam,” “who toy with anti-Muslim bigotry,” and the ever-reliable “demonizing a religious faith and its adherents.” Although the op-ed seemed to target Donald Trump, it also admonished all Americans to limit what we say about Islam.
Petraeus’s attack was so over-the-top, no expression critical of Islamic doctrine would escape his censorship. Have you criticized mainstream Islamic doctrine or the laws of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates? You’re demonizing a religious faith. Do you object to authoritative Islamic doctrines justifying jihad, proclaimed by both Islamic governments and non-state Islamic militants alike? Stop toying with anti-Muslim bigotry; you’re just aiding “Islamist terrorists.”
Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch expertly summarized Petraeus’s specious logic: “So the upshot of Petraeus’ argument is that we must not say things to which Muslims might object, because this will just make more of them become jihadis. His prescription for minimizing the jihad against the West is for the West to practice self-censorship in order to avoid offending Muslims.”
Sadly, Petraeus’s attacks primarily undercut the foremost critics of Islamic doctrine: Muslim reformers, the group of Muslims who most need our support. A prominent young Muslim reformer, Shireen Qudosi, responded to his op-ed with this poignant tweet: “Petraeus doesn’t see that for much of the maddening world of Muslims and liberals, hate speech is conflated w/ truth.”
The theme of Petraeus’s op-ed, “Anti-Muslim bigotry aids Islamist terrorists,” was in line with a campaign to blame ISIS on Western critics of Islamic doctrine. For example, The Mirror: ”ISIS wouldn’t be here if there wasn’t Islamophobia”; The Nation: “ISIS Wants You to Hate Muslims”; The Guardian: “Islamophobia plays right into the hands of Isis”; Salon: “After Brussels, far-right Islamophobes are doing exactly what ISIS wants them to do”; and last but not least, Hillary Clinton in The Daily Mail: “‘He is becoming ISIS’ best recruiter’: Hillary Clinton blasts Donald Trump for demonizing Muslims and using ‘bluster and bigotry to inflame people.”
But in the curious case of Petraeus’s op-ed, what was deleted prior to publication is more interesting than what the Post finally published. Sometime early in the morning on Friday the 13th, these six words were deleted from the short Petraeus bio (known to editors as the ID) accompanying the piece: “chairman of the KKR Global Institute.”
Here’s a screenshot from the indispensable Newsdiffs.org website:

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Explaining the deletion, Washington Post Opinion Editor Michael Larabee said, “The ID including the KKR phrase was not the final edited ID for the piece. I had decided on the shorter ID during the editing process, but unfortunately the longer ID was still on the Web text when it was published overnight. It was updated when it came to my attention first thing that morning.” Larabee later emailed, “We didn’t do a correction because there was no factual error to correct — both ID’s were accurate — and I can’t get into the internal process of how it came to my attention.”
Kristi Huller of KKR’s media office unequivocally stated Petraeus had requested the change. “General Petraeus regularly writes in his private capacity about non-investment specific issues and this was one of those instances. The Washington Post erroneously added the KKR affiliation. General Petraeus requested the update. KKR was not involved in the piece or the byline discussion with the Post.”
So why did Petraeus request that his KKR affiliation be removed? After all, he widely publicizes his KKR affiliation elsewhere. His LinkedIn page leads with his dual KKR roles: “General (Ret) David H. Petraeus joined KKR in June 2013 as Chairman of the KKR Global Institute. He was made a Partner in December 2014.”
Money Makes the World Go Round
Perhaps the Post should have let their readers judge for themselves if Petraeus’s financial interests in KKR, and KKR’s financial interests in the Middle East, were relevant to his op-ed demanding an end to criticism of Islam. KKR has been trying for the past seven years to enter private equity markets in Muslim-majority countries, especially in Dubai (part of the United Arab Emirates) and Saudi Arabia. During those same years, the governments of Dubai and Saudi Arabia hardened their laws against criticism of Islam at home, and increased their lobbying spending to shut down criticism of Islamic doctrine abroad.

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Democrat: Ham Sandwiches & Memorizing the Koran Will Defeat ISIS

Posted on May 19, 2016 by creeping
Source: Congressman Seeks Ham Sandwich to Defeat ISIS | Foreign Policy
Brad Sherman (D-Calif.)

A U.S. lawmaker criticized State Department efforts to combat the Islamic State Tuesday, saying American officials suffered from a “Eurocentric” understanding of the world. His suggestion: Instead of propagating videos that expose the group’s brutality, diplomats should catch the terror group’s leadership eating non-halal deli meats and disseminate that footage.
“We have a State Department with people who think that you can show the evil of al-Baghdadi if you can show him personally executing a defenseless Yazidi,” said Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), referring to the Islamic State’s leader. “We need people who understand that if you can just get a picture of him eating a ham sandwich, that would undermine ISIS and its recruiting ability.”
The State Department and Congress have long disagreed about the best methods of fighting the root causes of terrorism. Lawmakers often allocate money for hard security measures, such as law enforcement and border control, while Foggy Bottom emphasizes the importance of programs on prison deradicalization, rehabilitation and good-governance.
In his rather unique critique, Sherman chided the department’s habit of recruiting a workforce with Ivy League credentials.
“We need State Department people to [have] an understanding of Islamic jurisprudence,” he said. “That’s not the kind of knowledge that you can get at Princeton. Woodrow Wilson did a great job. He did not memorize the Koran.”
Wilson, the 28th president of the United States, was president of Princeton University in the early 1900s.
Sherman spoke at a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee ahead of the testimony of Justin Siberell, the State Department’s acting coordinator for counterterrorism.

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Maybe under a Trump administration, the State Dept. could hire someone with “an understanding of Islamic jurisprudence,” like Robert Spencer. Or Bill Warner. Or Andrew Bostom.
Speaking of ham:


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Diversity – a slogan that is attractive on the face of it – has come to mean the opposite of what it appears to mean … In practice, diversity turns out to legitimize a new dogmatism, in which rival minorities take shelter behind a set of beliefs impervious to rational discussion.

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