ThinkProgress, the influential news site that rose to prominence in the shadow of the Bush administration and helped define progressivism during the Obama years, is shutting down.
Leftist Intimidation Tactics to Silence the Media?
Go Back To Where You Came From
To the extent that I care at all about Israel blocking entry to two U.S. congresswomen who partner with anti-Semites who seek its destruction, I agree with critics who argue that Bibi Netanyahu should not appear to bow to Donald Trump’s tweeted demands and that blocking Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from visiting Israel handed them a short-term propaganda victory. But that’s not the most important part of the story.
The most important element of the story is the fact that two American congresswomen shunned a bipartisan congressional delegation to Israel to go on an independent trip to Israel sponsored by vicious anti-Semites. Another important element of the story is that, as of today, the mainstream media have whitewashed Omar and Tlaib’s vile associations.
Writing yesterday, the Washington Post said that “Omar and Tlaib’s trip to Jerusalem and the West Bank was planned by Miftah, a nonprofit organization headed by Palestinian lawmaker and longtime peace negotiator Hanan Ashrawi.” The New York Times described it as an organization “headed by a longtime Palestinian lawmaker.” In its editorial, the New York Times editorial board identified it as a group “that promotes ‘global awareness and knowledge of Palestinian realities.’”
This is a whitewash. Thanks to a Twitter thread from the Washington Examiner’s Seth Mandel — who pointed to multiple additional sources — I started looking at the articles and views published on the Miftah website, and it was like peeling an onion of evil. There was layer upon layer of vile anti-Semitism.
“The specter of white supremacy haunts America.”
Let us empower the government to crush it.
Don’t Interrupt
The interesting thing about AOC claiming Nancy Pelosi is a racist who is trying to get her killed is that when this accusation was made against Republicans, lefties parroted it. But not now.
It’s almost as if 100% of those accusations were made in bad faith.
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) July 12, 2019
Ed Driscoll: As the man said in the umpteenth remake of Godzilla, “Let them fight.”
Update:
The woke machine has activated within Congress and begun its work of tearing the Democratic caucus apart atom by atom.
— Randy Searle (@SureFireSearle) July 13, 2019
The Libranos: Greenlighting Antifa
h/t B A Deplorable Rupertslander
The Children Are Our Future
“Today’s campus snowflake is tomorrow’s teacher, judge, or elected official,” it continues. “And if that doesn’t scare you, maybe you should reconsider. No matter where you live or what you do, if you don’t think they way they do, they will attempt to silence and punish you.“
When The Commies Show Up To Protest The Nazis
You don’t pick a favourite. You pray for an asteroid.
True, the original Antifa was arrayed against the Nazis, which makes them sound like the good guys. They were not.
When fascism started rising up, its biggest enemy was communism. This was not because they were antithetical ideologies. It was because they were sister totalitarian ideologies, both arising out of socialism, and both appealing for the same mass market. The Antifa of the 1920s and 1930s in Germany, therefore, wasn’t a peaceful democratic movement seeking to stand against all forms of totalitarian socialism; it was, instead, a violent communist group engaged in bloody internecine warfare with Hitler’s fascists.
Addendum: Scott Adams clarifies his position. (7 minute mark)
Visit The Washington Monument While You Still Can
Pushback: I’ve ordered the Arizona Commerce Authority to withdraw all financial incentive dollars under their discretion that the State was providing for the company to locate here.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
They’re not anti-violence. They’re on the other side.
“Of all 15 verified national-level journalists in our subset, we couldn’t find a single article, by any of them, that was markedly critical of Antifa in any way. In all cases, their work in this area consisted primarily of downplaying Antifa violence while advancing Antifa talking points, and in some cases quoting Antifa extremists as if they were impartial experts.” Just remember, turnabout is fair play, and in the words of our last president, don’t think people aren’t keeping score, brother.
Related: By Any Means Necessary: It Won’t Stop with Andy Ngo
Getting Their Jollies
What’s interesting about Antifa’s mob assault of the journalist Andy Ngo isn’t that an organisation premised on recreational thuggery has once again indulged in recreational thuggery. That’s why it exists. What’s interesting is that so many left-leaning journalists have been so eager to excuse or diminish that thuggery and to frame Mr Ngo either as the aggressor or as somehow deserving of assault by people with borderline personality disorders.
Antifa Is Trending
As is “Andy Ngo”.
They must be asleep at Twitter tonight.
Bawliwood
The photos show an emotional AOC holding her face and appearing to cry. Her attention appears to be directed towards whatever is on the other side of the fence…
Visit The Washington Monument While You Still Can
The “First Lady of American Cinema” Lillian Gish has had her name removed from a university theater and it’s not sitting well with many movie buffs. More than 50 film industry leaders ranging from Martin Scorsese to Helen Mirren to James Earl Jones are protesting the decision of Ohio’s Bowling Green State University to remove the name of actress Lillian Gish from a campus theater because she appeared in the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation.
The letter accuses the university of making “a scapegoat in a broader political debate.” Lillian Gish is considered a pioneer of film acting. Her career spanned 75 years, beginning in 1912 in silent film shorts. The Whales of August in 1987 was her last film. She was called the First Lady of American Cinema, and for more than 40 years, the theater at Bowling Green has honored Ohio-born actresses Dorothy and Lillian Gish with its name.
Ed Driscoll – [I]if we’re going to banish all the bad people of the past because of hurt feelings, when does early “Progressive” Woodrow Wilson face the memory hole, given that he was an enthusiastic proponent of Birth of a Nation, including screening it in the White House and proclaiming the film “is like writing history with lightning.”
Pleasing Your Enemies Does Not Turn Them Into Friends
An open letter to Lisa Raitt, from Dr. Ross McKitrick.
I, Napoleon
On May 7, two teens opened fire in the STEM School in Highlands Ranch, Colo., injuring eight students and claiming the life of 18-year-old Kendrick Castillo, who heroically sacrificed himself to stop the shooting. Early rumors suggested one of the shooters was transgender, and court documents released Thursday confirm that one of the suspects was motivated to carry out the shooting due to other students rejecting her gender identity.
During a police interview, 18-year-old Devon Erickson said 16-year-old biological female Maya McKinney — who identifies as male and goes by the name Alec — warned him not to go to school the night before the shooting.
Refreshingly, the Tyler O’Neil’s piece refers to the shooter as female throughout. As for her accomplice?
Erickson, a registered Democrat, expressed hatred for Christians who uphold the biblical position on traditional sexuality. He also attacked Donald Trump and praised Barack Obama on social media.
SCOTUS Rules on Bladensburg Cross
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a 40-foot World War I memorial cross can stay on public land at a Maryland intersection.
The cross “has become a prominent community landmark, and its removal or radical alteration at this date would be seen by many not as a neutral act but as the manifestation of a hostility toward religion that has no place in our Establishment Clause traditions,” the court wrote.
Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito said that “contrary to respondents’ intimations, there is no evidence of discriminatory intent in the selection of the design of the memorial or the decision of a Maryland commission to maintain it. The Religion Clause of the Constitution aims to foster a society in which people of all beliefs can live together harmoniously, and the presence of the Bladensburg Cross on the land where it has stood for so many years is fully consistent with that aim.”
RBG is turning over in her grave.
Social Disease
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who they won’t deplatform: If Cusack was anywhere right of Marx, he’d no longer have a Twitter account. Instead, he was given full pardon.
I, Napoleon
An excellent discussion, with Douglas Murray.
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
This has been going on for years at Cdn colleges. It's just that they no longer hide it. It's better this way: whites, blacks, immigrants etc won't waste time applying for a job they'll never get. And no more esoteric debates about meaning of "merit," since merit's left the bldg https://t.co/JnF0zuL0vQ
— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) May 29, 2019
Related: The Death of Merit