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From The Stranger, Seattle’s alternative newspaper:
Seattle’s Africatown Center Vandalized With Swastikas, Racial Threats, and Pro-Trump Graffiti
by Ansel Herz • Mar 26, 2016 at 2:52 pm
Another day, another horrific hate crime in Seattle. Staff at the Africatown Center for Education and Innovation in Rainier Vista came upon evidence of a burglary and racist vandalism today. The center, which operates out of the UMOJA Peace Center, runs educational and arts programs for African-American students as well as women’s and immigrants groups. It is temporarily suspending all activity.
Some equipment was stolen, but more alarming were the messages left scrawled on whiteboards, including swastikas, “N****r babies/Vote Trump,” and “Kell [sic] Wyking”—a death threat directed to Wyking Garrett, a respected community activist who runs the center. The center shared photos of the graffiti and the damage on Facebook.
“Seattle will not tolerate this kind of hate,” Mayor Ed Murray said on Twitter. “We are ready to support Africatown Center as they work to recover, and know they’ll be back stronger than ever.”
Reached by phone, Africatown Development Coordinator Yalonda Allen said she’s not sure when the attack took place and it’s unclear how the vandals got inside. She and other staff are still assessing the damage.
“For me personally,” she said, “it makes me feel even more vigilant in the fight for racial justice.” …
Allen said the vandals may have been “emboldened by a culture that’s allowing hate speech in mainstream media.” …
UPDATE 6:09 p.m.: The SPD says on its website it suspects an East African male of committing the crime. The police have arrested him.
From the Seattle PD’s Blotter:
The initial incident was on Sunday, March 20th, and involved a known East African male who volunteers at the center writing an insufficient funds check to the center, and also the theft of some computers and electronics. The center personnel suspected this volunteer for the theft but couldn’t prove it. He arrived there while the officers were on scene and was interviewed and his father offered to pay for the bad check, and also to pay for the stolen items if he in fact had stolen anything, and the center personnel agreed to this. Officers did not make an arrest due to lack of probable cause for burglary/theft and restitution agreement on the check.
Later in the week the center was burglarized again, but this time there was graffiti targeted at African Americans. The center personnel again suspected the same East African male who was not present. He was located about four hours later, and after being interviewed was arrested for burglary. The racist graffiti was documented in the report and photographed.
The suspect was arrested for the burglary and is a suspect in the bias crime.
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“The horrificness, the horrificness…”
I've told that journo a million times - don't exaggerate.
writingscrawling messages on whiteboards is vandalism now. What would the Vandals think of their legacy?Hate crime charges pending? I’m not holding my breath.
We'll see. ;)Replies: @Jefferson
Steep learning curve= easy as pie.
Flat learning curve= dumb as a box of rocks
It’s nice to see somebody get it right for a change!
“East African” could mean anything from Zululand to Nubia. The bad English (unless deliberate) tends to write off Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, where English is official and taught in schools, and likely Ethiopians and Somalis, who are forced to learn English in Kenyan refugee camps.
Why are they being so vague?
So the “East African male ” Did it? Did the Mayor bring apologize? Feel any need to clarify?
“Seattle will not tolerate this kind of hate,” Mayor Ed Murray said on Twitter. “We are ready to support Africatown Center as they work to recover, and know they’ll be back stronger than ever.”
Oops. Steve, I think it’s probably racist of you to notice this though. Shame on you.
Ed Murray will demand that rural white conservative Christians grovel some more. And there will be a few that will comply in due time.Replies: @Olorin
The memory hole is possibly Orwell’s best concept
Flat learning curve= dumb as a box of rocks
It's nice to see somebody get it right for a change!
"East African" could mean anything from Zululand to Nubia. The bad English (unless deliberate) tends to write off Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, where English is official and taught in schools, and likely Ethiopians and Somalis, who are forced to learn English in Kenyan refugee camps.
Why are they being so vague?Replies: @Rob McX
It’s hard to believe anyone could misspell kill. In his haste he probably neglected to dot the I and it was mistaken for an E. That can happen when you’re committing a burglary-cum-hate-crime on a tight schedule.
One particularly stupid screed we left in the police parking lot for far longer than we needed to because they misspelled the chief's name. That's funny right there.
East Africa is “Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, and Kenya.” As someone noted, this covers a lot of territory.
I just hope the Seattle police are looking for the REAL culprit. Not only is Seattle a hotbed of KKK activity, but its full of white men who like nothing better than to inconspicuously drive into the black part of town for the purposes of spraying painting hate filled graffiti.
Rainier Vista is public housing. Why do the Somalis get to monopolize public housing in Seattle when rents have risen 150% over the last ten years? What about the Americans who have been shoved out by rising costs?
BTW, I used to live a few blocks from there by the Jefferson Park golf course (where Fred Couples learned to golf). It used to be an Italian neighborhood, and parts of the neighborhood are very desirable today.
Me just thinking that refugee status bumps your local Somalis to the head of the line for Seattle public housing. Just a guess. What is not a guess is that they are bottom of the barrel of all immigrants/refugees we get. The worst and for a bonus they are Muhammadans.Replies: @NOTA, @Ivy
Another day, another hoax. Note the hysterical hand-wringing, even though the staff already knew the score. This was not a racist crime, but another attempt to blame that white devil Trump. The man is everywhere, responsible for everything. In times to come, children will be warned to behave “or the Trump will get you.”
Also, seems to be an immigration angle.
NEVER subsequent reports of the hoax.
We need an updated compilation of all the recent (last few years) of black hoaxes.Replies: @res
Sounds like a Bernard Cornwell character.
“The horrificness, the horrificness…”
I’ve told that journo a million times – don’t exaggerate.
By the time I got halfway through the first excerpt, I was waiting for the inevitable punchline.
Aaaand … there it is. Every time.
By the time I got halfway through the headline, I already knew the punchline.
100% of these things are anti-White hatecrimes.Replies: @dumpstersquirrel
Why don’t they just cover the graffiti with black tape and forget about it?
There you go micro-aggressing again....
Yalonda Allen is stepping up her game! Those Seattle haters ain’t got a chance,yo!
Yes, hatecrime-hoax creativity seemed to stall out somewhere down the line, about ten years ago. Self-serious cinematic-hued community organizing is a bit of a hothouse flower nowadays.
Why don’t they just cover the graffiti with black tape and forget about it?
There you go micro-aggressing again….
It’s kind of mind-blowing to call vandalism and theft “horrific”.
"Seattle will not tolerate this kind of hate,” Mayor Ed Murray said on Twitter. “We are ready to support Africatown Center as they work to recover, and know they’ll be back stronger than ever."
Oops. Steve, I think it's probably racist of you to notice this though. Shame on you.Replies: @Maj. Kong, @Big Bill, @TWS, @Trumpenprole
In Seattle, the first party is the Democrats, the second is the Socialists, the Republicans are probably fourth.
Ed Murray will demand that rural white conservative Christians grovel some more. And there will be a few that will comply in due time.
I expended a chunk of my increasingly scarce mortality helping with the fight against his (state) Senate Bill 5737 three years ago. This was a bill that allowed police to conduct searches without warrants of the homes of "assault weapon owners." Citizens who refused to comply would be jailed.
This of course anticipated registration of "assault weapons," which Michael Bloomberg's many millions made de facto law in WA state as part of I-594.
This is the initiative that made it illegal--despite the state's strong pre-emption clause in its Constitution--for any Washingtonian to transact a firearm in any way, including sharing use of them at a range with family members. De facto registration is required in the form of federally overseen transfer, even within families (for instance of family heirloom firearms).
Murray is Absolut Bolsh. He won his mayoral race in part on plump monetary support from rich queers. He should be virtue signalling with a vengeance in hopes of elevation to a Clinton administration position.
He and his "husband" are much loved as exemplars of Christianity among the liberation-theology-type Catlicks of Pugetopolis.
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/seattles-best-christians/Content?oid=14030626
The only “vandalism” pictured is on a white wipe board, the kind that erases easier than a chalk board or etch-a-sketch.
I don't think so.
Real WN/WP 's literally have nothing to say to nonwhites. If they do anything at all, it's to put fliers out in white neighborhoods, and never with threats or intimidating messages.
And as for the Triple K-there IS no KKK as such. Sure there are a few, isolated groups of losers, Feds and stooges calling themselves KKK, but anyone can use the name KKK. It isn't a registered trademark.
By contrast, Hell's Angels is both a registered trademark and a copyrighted symbol. No one calls themselves Hells Angels, with or without apostrophe, unless they are a duly 'patched in' member of a chapter approved by the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club. One, they'll be killed or beaten to a pulp, and two, if they somehow escaped that, they'd be sued and forced to cease and desist in court. There IS a Hell's Angels. But there is no THE KKK.Replies: @Rob McX, @Thomas Fuller, @Harry Baldwin, @ben tillman
Since racism and sexism have been elevated to blasphemy, hate crime hoaxes/Duke Lacrosse type accusations are the modern US equivalent of muslim farmers in Pakistani Punjab accusing their local Christian fellow villager that he burned a Quran.
I can only imagine the totalitarian environment after 8 more years of a Democratic presidency. Sounds bad, but perhaps our only hope is a complete collapse of Western Europe on the altar of political correctness and the realization that the US and Australia are pretty much the only remaining outposts of Western civilization.
Throw Canada in there too. Maybe even England if they can get a Brexit and rejoin the Anglo-community with Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
New Zealand is looking better and better all the time. Nice and isolated.
"Francia" - France, Germany, Italy, Scandanavia - looks utterly lost. Central Europe and Russia seem much sounder.Replies: @jon
Also,
writingscrawling messages on whiteboards is vandalism now. What would the Vandals think of their legacy?From another article:
So the suspect was an immigrant given an “outreach job,” aka no white males need apply. Since it is at a large university, he probably was getting at least 40,000 in salary and very rich benefits. He repays this kindness from the natives of his new country by defaming them as hateful burglars.
Like Africa itself, this story just makes no sense. First, why is a volunteer writing a bad check to a charity? What sort of malfeasence is going on at Africatown Centre? This isn’t like passing a bad check at a store where you get something.
“If you prove my son who passed you a bad check also stole your computer I will pay for it.”
Looks like the Africatown staff at least tried to play down this “Pro-Trump” “hate crime” angle:
Immigrants doing jobs that native-born Americans just won't do!
his father offered to pay for the bad check and also to pay for the stolen items if he in fact had stolen anything
The beauty of chain migration and family reunification!
Has there ever been a single solitary documented case or WN/WPs actually putting Nazi or KKK imagery up in any black or immigrant/mestizo neighborhood except for Chicago in the 70s?
I don’t think so.
Real WN/WP ‘s literally have nothing to say to nonwhites. If they do anything at all, it’s to put fliers out in white neighborhoods, and never with threats or intimidating messages.
And as for the Triple K-there IS no KKK as such. Sure there are a few, isolated groups of losers, Feds and stooges calling themselves KKK, but anyone can use the name KKK. It isn’t a registered trademark.
By contrast, Hell’s Angels is both a registered trademark and a copyrighted symbol. No one calls themselves Hells Angels, with or without apostrophe, unless they are a duly ‘patched in’ member of a chapter approved by the Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club. One, they’ll be killed or beaten to a pulp, and two, if they somehow escaped that, they’d be sued and forced to cease and desist in court. There IS a Hell’s Angels. But there is no THE KKK.
Also, nowadays these hate hoaxes are rarely perpetrated by people who are at the bottom of the social scale. From what I see, they're mostly in middle class jobs or in college, where they're in close contact with whites and are perhaps made to feel inadequate or resentful at being unable to compete with them.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
They also do this with members who leave the group.Replies: @Former Darfur
I don't think so.
Real WN/WP 's literally have nothing to say to nonwhites. If they do anything at all, it's to put fliers out in white neighborhoods, and never with threats or intimidating messages.
And as for the Triple K-there IS no KKK as such. Sure there are a few, isolated groups of losers, Feds and stooges calling themselves KKK, but anyone can use the name KKK. It isn't a registered trademark.
By contrast, Hell's Angels is both a registered trademark and a copyrighted symbol. No one calls themselves Hells Angels, with or without apostrophe, unless they are a duly 'patched in' member of a chapter approved by the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club. One, they'll be killed or beaten to a pulp, and two, if they somehow escaped that, they'd be sued and forced to cease and desist in court. There IS a Hell's Angels. But there is no THE KKK.Replies: @Rob McX, @Thomas Fuller, @Harry Baldwin, @ben tillman
As Steve said in another piece a year or two ago, KKK is the new UFO. There are people around whom MSM would describe as “white supremacists”, but they wouldn’t go around writing graffiti expressing hatred of non-whites. What would be the point? Most of what racially aware whites have to say needs to be addressed to fellow whites, e.g. politicians and journalists.
Also, nowadays these hate hoaxes are rarely perpetrated by people who are at the bottom of the social scale. From what I see, they’re mostly in middle class jobs or in college, where they’re in close contact with whites and are perhaps made to feel inadequate or resentful at being unable to compete with them.
I don't think so.
Real WN/WP 's literally have nothing to say to nonwhites. If they do anything at all, it's to put fliers out in white neighborhoods, and never with threats or intimidating messages.
And as for the Triple K-there IS no KKK as such. Sure there are a few, isolated groups of losers, Feds and stooges calling themselves KKK, but anyone can use the name KKK. It isn't a registered trademark.
By contrast, Hell's Angels is both a registered trademark and a copyrighted symbol. No one calls themselves Hells Angels, with or without apostrophe, unless they are a duly 'patched in' member of a chapter approved by the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club. One, they'll be killed or beaten to a pulp, and two, if they somehow escaped that, they'd be sued and forced to cease and desist in court. There IS a Hell's Angels. But there is no THE KKK.Replies: @Rob McX, @Thomas Fuller, @Harry Baldwin, @ben tillman
Creative approach to copyright infringement, that. It has legs. Sure beats the Berne Convention. Maybe the RIAA should adopt it.
Looks like the Africatown staff at least tried to play down this "Pro-Trump" "hate crime" angle:Replies: @Romanian, @E. Rekshun
Isn’t a bias crime basically a thought crime?
Marine Le Pen gets the Trump treatment in Canada:
http://galliawatch.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-fiasco-for-marine-or-for-canada.html
General tips:
-the militant left isn't particularly mobile (hard core leftists don't usually have cars) hence always host events in the suburbs or small cities and towns. Alternatively, try something left field like a shooting range, golf club, or industrial park - basically anywhere where leftists feel out of place and uncomfortable.
-book hotels and flights at the last minute, and try to avoid hotels in big cities where possible (maybe read a few spy novels for further ideas).
-carefully study the demographics of the region or country you plan to tour and avoid areas with high concentrations of minorities or students.Replies: @Former Darfur
Hey Guys,
The Lib-urr-uhl spokesman, made a slip right at the end, was it Freudian?
The US seems to suffer a grave shortage of white people to paint swastikas, nooses and so on.
OT but I hope this can somehow feed into Trump’s campaign. Please organise a press conference, make it a big deal, invite all of the press and really treat them well. Then state that you are looking for a reset while also calling them on their totally absurd excesses like the Hitler comparisons. They are quite battered enough and now is the time to show them the good cop, to show them the great, charming and fantastic cop in fact.
I’m shocked, shocked, that an African immigrant could in some way be involved in criminal behaviour..
Seriously, who graffitis a white board? Did he at least use a permanent marker? I’m started to feel like all these deja-vu hoaxes are caused by exponentially increasing glitches in the Matrix. Come on Reality, just one more heave!
Maybe Trump should announce that part of his economic plan is for reporters to be paid better?
Trump needs to feel journalists' pain and come up with a solution for them. They are now a class unto themselves but one with their own 1 and 99 percents. He could get a lot more sympathetic reporting by doing a bit of this, it could hardly get less sympathetic anyway.
Perhaps he could declare journalism a public good and say that those working in journalism will have their student debt cancelled. A hiatus while they work would do, if it were combined with a full cancellation after a successful 10 year hiatus?
Maybe a reader might suggest whatever it is that Putin, Orban and others use as carrots for journalists, because the world is only giving them sticks at the moment. They are just as much bitter clingers now as any residents of fish town. They are dispossessed Americans, and need a Trump as much as any others.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Anonymous, @Bill, @E. Rekshun, @Brutusale
Pregnant Australian Blogger Sentenced to 10 Months in Singapore for BAshing Filipinos
The REal Singapore = Vdare?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-24/pregnant-australian-blogger-sentenced-to-10-months-in-singapore
When the neocons shriek, ululate and wet their panties over some "American" arrested for spying in Iran, it is inevitably some Iranian born, Iranian bred dude toting an American passport.Replies: @AndrewR, @Jefferson, @Paul Walker Most beautiful man ever...
He’s a convert to medieval Irish Christianity. He derives his terrorist philosophy from the doctrine of taqiyya as illustrated in The Book of Kells.
Also, nowadays these hate hoaxes are rarely perpetrated by people who are at the bottom of the social scale. From what I see, they're mostly in middle class jobs or in college, where they're in close contact with whites and are perhaps made to feel inadequate or resentful at being unable to compete with them.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
The real white supremacists are the progressives trying to hector the poor, uninterested African immigrants into their recycling schemes. As if shopping at the thrift store wasn’t enough.
The Reagan Administration was relatively polite to the press. I imagine they hated that more than being stymied by the Democratic administrations.
Yes, reporters have it incredibly tough nowadays. You have to intern for free forever, live in a major city like New York where your cupboard sized bedroom and fridge shelf costs half of your eventual salary, pay off tremendous amounts of student debt and do your work with very scarce resources. He should watch Girls for a perspective on what that is like. It is depressing.
Trump needs to feel journalists’ pain and come up with a solution for them. They are now a class unto themselves but one with their own 1 and 99 percents. He could get a lot more sympathetic reporting by doing a bit of this, it could hardly get less sympathetic anyway.
Perhaps he could declare journalism a public good and say that those working in journalism will have their student debt cancelled. A hiatus while they work would do, if it were combined with a full cancellation after a successful 10 year hiatus?
Maybe a reader might suggest whatever it is that Putin, Orban and others use as carrots for journalists, because the world is only giving them sticks at the moment. They are just as much bitter clingers now as any residents of fish town. They are dispossessed Americans, and need a Trump as much as any others.
And that was before the Internet.Replies: @AndrewR, @Jack D, @Citizen of a Silly Country, @MEH 0910
Just imagine how tough they would have it if politicians and corporate executives were importing tens of thousands of H1-B immigrant reporters each year like they do for IT.Replies: @Carlos Slim
Most journalists are from Belmont, not Fishtown, and I couldn't care less about their lack of income.Replies: @Citizen of a Silly Country, @This Is Our Home
Trump needs to feel journalists' pain and come up with a solution for them. They are now a class unto themselves but one with their own 1 and 99 percents. He could get a lot more sympathetic reporting by doing a bit of this, it could hardly get less sympathetic anyway.
Perhaps he could declare journalism a public good and say that those working in journalism will have their student debt cancelled. A hiatus while they work would do, if it were combined with a full cancellation after a successful 10 year hiatus?
Maybe a reader might suggest whatever it is that Putin, Orban and others use as carrots for journalists, because the world is only giving them sticks at the moment. They are just as much bitter clingers now as any residents of fish town. They are dispossessed Americans, and need a Trump as much as any others.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Anonymous, @Bill, @E. Rekshun, @Brutusale
Right, it’s not unreasonable for Trump to devote some effort to addressing the economic problems of reporters. I can recall, in 1993, getting invited to sit in the press box at a Chicago Bulls game during Michael Jordan’s peak and thinking, wow, look at the rayon sweaters these reporters are wearing … these guys are poor!
And that was before the Internet.
And these weren't just-out-college newbies. They were in their late 20s to late 30s. In today's dollars, that's probably $50k to $70k. Also, the pay seemed to top out around that $70k or so. Basically, average reporters in DC at that time were getting paid about what teachers made. They weren't going to starve, but they were going to struggle living a middle-class live in the DC area. They definitely needed their spouse's income.
What's more, they didn't have much hope for better. My understanding was that mid-level, experienced reporters at the Post - where all of these reporters hope to be someday - only pulled in around $70k to right around $100k ($80k to $120k today).
I told these guys that their profession was crazy. You reach the top of your profession and you're paid $100k. Think of what top lawyers or accountants or business people - or, hell, plumbers - earn.
Many of them agreed and were trying to find new careers. (They talked about how a lot of reporters left the field in their late 20s and early 30s due to pay and not really enjoying the job anymore.) However, many felt that it was worth it to them. That journalism was a noble calling. That's when I realized that any reporter you meet over 40 is a true-believer - or has a spouse/inheritance that can handle the bills. (Either way, the reporter is protected from the real world.) Any normal person has left the profession by that point.
As a result, I'd suspect that reporters fall into two categories: 1) Recent college grads who hopelessly naive/brainwashed and 2) Trotskyites.
Btw, this was all just before the Internet demolished the industry. Everything that I wrote is probably a lot worse now.Replies: @Barnard, @Derek
"Seattle will not tolerate this kind of hate,” Mayor Ed Murray said on Twitter. “We are ready to support Africatown Center as they work to recover, and know they’ll be back stronger than ever."
Oops. Steve, I think it's probably racist of you to notice this though. Shame on you.Replies: @Maj. Kong, @Big Bill, @TWS, @Trumpenprole
SJWs always double down.
And that was before the Internet.Replies: @AndrewR, @Jack D, @Citizen of a Silly Country, @MEH 0910
Journalists as a class have basically burned their bridges with Trump. One barely need to be conscious to see that the media’s treatment of him is not merely a function of his popularity.
Trump needs to feel journalists' pain and come up with a solution for them. They are now a class unto themselves but one with their own 1 and 99 percents. He could get a lot more sympathetic reporting by doing a bit of this, it could hardly get less sympathetic anyway.
Perhaps he could declare journalism a public good and say that those working in journalism will have their student debt cancelled. A hiatus while they work would do, if it were combined with a full cancellation after a successful 10 year hiatus?
Maybe a reader might suggest whatever it is that Putin, Orban and others use as carrots for journalists, because the world is only giving them sticks at the moment. They are just as much bitter clingers now as any residents of fish town. They are dispossessed Americans, and need a Trump as much as any others.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Anonymous, @Bill, @E. Rekshun, @Brutusale
I haven’t seen it yet, but I’ve been reading rumblings that Batman vs. Superman got such terrible reviews by critics because it criticizes and exposes mainstream media bs.
My favorite comment from the Stranger article:
It was somewhat heartening, though, to see that there were only two such comments out of twenty-six. The rest took the author to task.
From the first article: “Another day, another horrific hate crime in Seattle.”
From the second article, after they learned it was an “East African male:” “The suspect was arrested for the burglary and is a suspect in the bias crime.”
When newspapers discover it’s a minority who committed an act like this, it gets downgraded from “hate crime” to “bias crime.” Don’t think that word choice is accidental. “Hate” is a powerful word and reporters are careful where and how they use it.
****
Next comes part two, which I think should be titled “March of the Greybeards.” Who are the greybeards? They’re those elderly reporter/pastor/counselor types who came of age in the ’60s and still think it’s “Mississippi Burning” 24/7.
As a former reporter, I used to see these types after any racial incident. In they rush into newsrooms and courtrooms, arms flailing, ready to explain away any and all bad behavior from minorities. They don’t call their lectures lectures, though. They call them “conversations.” Anytime you hear the word “conversations” beware, because real conversation will actually be the last thing happening.
In this case, I’ll bet they’ll start “conversations” about how “the stress of racism on such a person of color causes this guy to do this and how he needs “counseling.” (The greybeards LOVE “counseling.”)
You can’t win with these people. If it was a so-called hate crime, that would be because of racism. But if it’s a hate hoax, that’s because of racism too, since it drives minorities to do such things.
I wouldn’t celebrate because the greybeards are dying off, either. Their replacements seem even worse and have an even more annoying fashion sense, like ugly horn-rimmed glasses and pretentiously unkempt Dylan hair.
The recent Emory protestors were probably also responsible for the Trump graffiti, given how quickly they mobilized a response.
Another job Americans won’t do.
Uses all the familiar buzz words and phrases: horrific hate crime, racist, alarming, fight for racial justice, will not tolerate this kind of hate, emboldened by a culture that’s allowing hate speech, and yada yada. There must be a manual of language usage that all these people refer to. It’s been determined that Chicago’s absurdly high rate of black violence and homicide is to be referred to as “gun violence” as if they’re animate objects rather than calling it what it actually is, the violence of blacks.
Where does the money for this Africatown Center come from anyway? I’m sure it’s not funded by blacks sending in their own money.
And that was before the Internet.Replies: @AndrewR, @Jack D, @Citizen of a Silly Country, @MEH 0910
Look, nobody forced these guys to choose such a low paying career. 99% of them (even sports writers) are leftists and they chose journalism not as a means to a paycheck but as a branch of the Social Justice Warrior profession, so that they could “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted”. I have no sympathy for them.
Also, nobody forced them to choose that particular low paying career... ...out of all the low paying career options that exist today.
If it were just another way to make a living, you’d see it become less dominated by sjws.
Also, nobody forced them to choose that particular low paying career… …out of all the low paying career options that exist today.
Trump needs to feel journalists' pain and come up with a solution for them. They are now a class unto themselves but one with their own 1 and 99 percents. He could get a lot more sympathetic reporting by doing a bit of this, it could hardly get less sympathetic anyway.
Perhaps he could declare journalism a public good and say that those working in journalism will have their student debt cancelled. A hiatus while they work would do, if it were combined with a full cancellation after a successful 10 year hiatus?
Maybe a reader might suggest whatever it is that Putin, Orban and others use as carrots for journalists, because the world is only giving them sticks at the moment. They are just as much bitter clingers now as any residents of fish town. They are dispossessed Americans, and need a Trump as much as any others.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Anonymous, @Bill, @E. Rekshun, @Brutusale
. . . and Columbia J School will pay for it . . .
Wooooow lotta happy gleeful racists up in here.
Tell me, are all ya’ll so giddy because you’ve finally got this one little straw to cling to?
“Look Ma! This proves racism isn’t really a problem!”
If racism weren’t a problem it wouldn’t occur to anyone to try to disguise a crime this way.
There are whole websites devoted to showing the fake hate crimes. Most crimes like this are hoaxes or perpetrated by other minorities.
You will find more informants and actual government agents at any given kkk meeting than you will actual kkk members. Most white people simply aren't worked up enough about race to commit these crimes. You need to get out more and off the internet but I understand that might be difficult for you.
Graffiti written by an African as misdirection to cover up a theft by said African = also evidence of racism.
Making fun of leftist journalists and politicians who "fall for " (or are all too willing to believe) hate hoaxes = further evidence of racism.
Is there anything in your view that is NOT evidence of racism?
(By the way, it's not one little straw - this is not at all the first time some "horrifying" act of "racism" has turned out to be a hoax. http://www.fakehatecrimes.org/) More like one more straw in an already fat bundle, but EVERY TIME, the media initially accepts that a "horrific" hate crime has occurred. Every time. You would think by the time you got to hate hoax 218, the reporters might say "maybe we should wait to find out if this is real" or "maybe we should mention the possibility that this MIGHT be a hoax and not a horrific hate crime like the last 217 "hate crime" stories we wrote about, but no, they never do - as Steve says, the learning curve seems to be awfully flat. Instead they wait until it has all fallen apart and then print a retraction on p.8. Funny that.)
...then, yeah, I'm a racist.
So what?
Trump’s not Hitler, he’s P.T. Barnum. At Taki’s today, Jim Goad has given us a neologism, “The Chalkening”, to describe the terrorist chalk graffiti flap at EMOry University’s snowflakeology department. All of this nonsense still serves just one purpose, which is the exaltation of the state in the minds of the otherwise non-consenting governed. Voting changes the logo-face on the same old product. Here’s The Onion on a sandwich analogy to politics: http://www.theonion.com/article/arbys-apologizes-for-new-beef-n-bacon-sandwich-271
So, this is an example where we can see the media spinning the facts heavily to fit their narrative. How many other places are there where the media’s doing the same thing, but we don’t see it?
The REal Singapore = Vdare?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-24/pregnant-australian-blogger-sentenced-to-10-months-in-singaporeReplies: @Big Bill
An “Australian” blogger? She looks Chinese to me.
When the neocons shriek, ululate and wet their panties over some “American” arrested for spying in Iran, it is inevitably some Iranian born, Iranian bred dude toting an American passport.
When the neocons shriek, ululate and wet their panties over some “American” arrested for spying in Iran, it is inevitably some Iranian born, Iranian bred dude toting an American passport."
It is like when Pakistani, Sub Saharan, and Arab Muslims commit terrorist attacks in Europe, the mainstream media always refer to them as "Europeans" or even more specific as "Frenchman", "Brits", "Belgians", etc.
They love to racially Whitewash Nonwhites who behave badly.
Looks like a modern average Aussie to me.
There are a lot of problems caused by media sources going broke–it’s often the case that there is now nobody whose job it is to go to all the city council meetings, read the documents, talk to the principals, and inform the public about what’s going on, and that’s a genuine loss. The problem I see with trying to fix this from the government is that it will end up with some kind of official licensing of who’s a real journalist, because you have to have some way to decide whom to give money to. I can’t imagine such a scheme *not* being used to do some viewpoint-policing, around the edges of the Overton window.
That’s why we import cheap labor to do the jobs Americans won’t do.
See, Americans are so shiftless that we need to import our hate-criminals.
And that was before the Internet.Replies: @AndrewR, @Jack D, @Citizen of a Silly Country, @MEH 0910
In my salad days in DC, I knew several reporters. Not big-time NYT or Post reporters, mind you, but your run-of-the-mill reporters working for a smaller paper or a mid-level newspaper family – McClatchy, Hearst, etc. I was amazed at their pay. Granted, this is 15 or 20 years ago, but these guys were making between ~$40k to ~$60k.
And these weren’t just-out-college newbies. They were in their late 20s to late 30s. In today’s dollars, that’s probably $50k to $70k. Also, the pay seemed to top out around that $70k or so. Basically, average reporters in DC at that time were getting paid about what teachers made. They weren’t going to starve, but they were going to struggle living a middle-class live in the DC area. They definitely needed their spouse’s income.
What’s more, they didn’t have much hope for better. My understanding was that mid-level, experienced reporters at the Post – where all of these reporters hope to be someday – only pulled in around $70k to right around $100k ($80k to $120k today).
I told these guys that their profession was crazy. You reach the top of your profession and you’re paid $100k. Think of what top lawyers or accountants or business people – or, hell, plumbers – earn.
Many of them agreed and were trying to find new careers. (They talked about how a lot of reporters left the field in their late 20s and early 30s due to pay and not really enjoying the job anymore.) However, many felt that it was worth it to them. That journalism was a noble calling. That’s when I realized that any reporter you meet over 40 is a true-believer – or has a spouse/inheritance that can handle the bills. (Either way, the reporter is protected from the real world.) Any normal person has left the profession by that point.
As a result, I’d suspect that reporters fall into two categories: 1) Recent college grads who hopelessly naive/brainwashed and 2) Trotskyites.
Btw, this was all just before the Internet demolished the industry. Everything that I wrote is probably a lot worse now.
African Americans targeted. Perpetrator is not African American.
We’ll see. 😉
What? It’s not spelled with a “C” ?
C-I-L-L my Landlord at 2:45 (starts at 2:14)
http://youtu.be/6iCbK3ooekU
Wait, huh? Fix what exactly? The only government behavior that gets reported is cutting of welfare and shooting of African criminals. Occasionally the FBI will get wise to an official corruption case, but that is buried in the next news cycle about #blackliesmatter unless it’s Hillary’s email server. We live in a welfare state where *vast* numbers of people are either direct welfare recipients or indirect (i.e. military-industrial cabal, bureaucrats, state contractors). Our only semi-functional industry is finance with the rest either fully or mostly offshored or dependent on immigrant labor. So who is it that wants to “fix” this “problem” of which you speak?
You do realize that Steve chose such a low paying career writing to oppose the Social Justice Warriors. Steve is afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted with his writing.
It's a stressful pursuit, not only because they risk being made fun of anyway, but also the overhanging danger of their mother's disability checks being cut off, leaving them homeless, and afraid.
You don’t know any young journalists. Media portrayals of the profession are often very glamorous, while most literature students and such like don’t have any other obvious options. Of course they do have many other options but young people get most of their guidance from film and TV anyway and so are often limited in our perspective.
I have a very wonky proposal to fix our information problem. The government sets aside x amount of money a year to fund journalism. Any group can then run to receive that money. Its distribution is then allocated according to the proportion of the vote which each group receives.
I think this might be a prerequisite for a free market and decent society given modern technology.
BTW, I used to live a few blocks from there by the Jefferson Park golf course (where Fred Couples learned to golf). It used to be an Italian neighborhood, and parts of the neighborhood are very desirable today.Replies: @Clyde
Just about all Somalians come here as refugees. Refugees are immediately eligible for every welfare program. They are like impoverished immigrants on steroids.
Me just thinking that refugee status bumps your local Somalis to the head of the line for Seattle public housing. Just a guess. What is not a guess is that they are bottom of the barrel of all immigrants/refugees we get. The worst and for a bonus they are Muhammadans.
Surely, there must be security camera video of the break-in and the fraudulent hate crime vandalism.
And that was before the Internet.Replies: @AndrewR, @Jack D, @Citizen of a Silly Country, @MEH 0910
It used to be normal to buy Champion or Russell Athletic sweatpants and sweatshirts and hoodies in 100% cotton. Now they only come in a polyester blend. Even 10% poly is an abomination! Now you have to pay all outdoors to boutique sellers to get 100% cotton. That in a nutshell illustrates the decline in position of the average American citizen. If Ann Coulter could get the word to Donald Trump to bring back 100% cotton, he’d clinch this election!
I’ve investigated a few scrawled threats like this. They’re not written by the unibomber. Misspellings are more common than not and the perp is usually jacked on adrenaline while he’s doing it.
One particularly stupid screed we left in the police parking lot for far longer than we needed to because they misspelled the chief’s name. That’s funny right there.
Looks like the Africatown staff at least tried to play down this "Pro-Trump" "hate crime" angle:Replies: @Romanian, @E. Rekshun
the suspect was a University of Washington employee who provided outreach to students interested in health-related fields.
Immigrants doing jobs that native-born Americans just won’t do!
his father offered to pay for the bad check and also to pay for the stolen items if he in fact had stolen anything
The beauty of chain migration and family reunification!
"Seattle will not tolerate this kind of hate,” Mayor Ed Murray said on Twitter. “We are ready to support Africatown Center as they work to recover, and know they’ll be back stronger than ever."
Oops. Steve, I think it's probably racist of you to notice this though. Shame on you.Replies: @Maj. Kong, @Big Bill, @TWS, @Trumpenprole
Last time we had a Republican mayor was a looonnng time ago when I was a kid. City’s gone so far down hill since the Californicators have moved in (along with the vile East Coast scum) that it is essentially a different city than when I was a boy.
Trump needs to feel journalists' pain and come up with a solution for them. They are now a class unto themselves but one with their own 1 and 99 percents. He could get a lot more sympathetic reporting by doing a bit of this, it could hardly get less sympathetic anyway.
Perhaps he could declare journalism a public good and say that those working in journalism will have their student debt cancelled. A hiatus while they work would do, if it were combined with a full cancellation after a successful 10 year hiatus?
Maybe a reader might suggest whatever it is that Putin, Orban and others use as carrots for journalists, because the world is only giving them sticks at the moment. They are just as much bitter clingers now as any residents of fish town. They are dispossessed Americans, and need a Trump as much as any others.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Anonymous, @Bill, @E. Rekshun, @Brutusale
reporters have it incredibly tough nowadays.
Just imagine how tough they would have it if politicians and corporate executives were importing tens of thousands of H1-B immigrant reporters each year like they do for IT.
Don’t worry, that stopped the second the hate crime perp was revealed as non-white.
Funny how few of them support Palestine over Israel, then.
Tell me, are all ya'll so giddy because you've finally got this one little straw to cling to?
"Look Ma! This proves racism isn't really a problem!"
If racism weren't a problem it wouldn't occur to anyone to try to disguise a crime this way.Replies: @Alec Leamas, @TWS, @AndrewR, @Jack D, @carol, @Olorin
Fake racism is just more proof of real racism! Lawgic trap, right up there with “the solution to Islamic terrorism is to import more Muslims and treat them extra nice.”
I can only imagine the totalitarian environment after 8 more years of a Democratic presidency. Sounds bad, but perhaps our only hope is a complete collapse of Western Europe on the altar of political correctness and the realization that the US and Australia are pretty much the only remaining outposts of Western civilization.Replies: @Andrew
“the realization that the US and Australia are pretty much the only remaining outposts of Western civilization.”
Throw Canada in there too. Maybe even England if they can get a Brexit and rejoin the Anglo-community with Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
New Zealand is looking better and better all the time. Nice and isolated.
“Francia” – France, Germany, Italy, Scandanavia – looks utterly lost. Central Europe and Russia seem much sounder.
Tell me, are all ya'll so giddy because you've finally got this one little straw to cling to?
"Look Ma! This proves racism isn't really a problem!"
If racism weren't a problem it wouldn't occur to anyone to try to disguise a crime this way.Replies: @Alec Leamas, @TWS, @AndrewR, @Jack D, @carol, @Olorin
Tiny Sick Duck
There are whole websites devoted to showing the fake hate crimes. Most crimes like this are hoaxes or perpetrated by other minorities.
You will find more informants and actual government agents at any given kkk meeting than you will actual kkk members. Most white people simply aren’t worked up enough about race to commit these crimes. You need to get out more and off the internet but I understand that might be difficult for you.
Remember this is the “Stranger” the hook up mag for gay men and other perverts. Don’t expect any great shakes in the journalism department from these guys.
Given the plethora of false flags of late, this could be more of the same – i.e., the hidden motive being to demonize Trump and create more anti-white race hatred?
And the ratchet advances another notch.
Trump needs to feel journalists' pain and come up with a solution for them. They are now a class unto themselves but one with their own 1 and 99 percents. He could get a lot more sympathetic reporting by doing a bit of this, it could hardly get less sympathetic anyway.
Perhaps he could declare journalism a public good and say that those working in journalism will have their student debt cancelled. A hiatus while they work would do, if it were combined with a full cancellation after a successful 10 year hiatus?
Maybe a reader might suggest whatever it is that Putin, Orban and others use as carrots for journalists, because the world is only giving them sticks at the moment. They are just as much bitter clingers now as any residents of fish town. They are dispossessed Americans, and need a Trump as much as any others.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Anonymous, @Bill, @E. Rekshun, @Brutusale
Read your own first paragraph, ask yourself how any recent graduate could live in a major metropolitan area while interning without copious support from home.
Most journalists are from Belmont, not Fishtown, and I couldn’t care less about their lack of income.
Me just thinking that refugee status bumps your local Somalis to the head of the line for Seattle public housing. Just a guess. What is not a guess is that they are bottom of the barrel of all immigrants/refugees we get. The worst and for a bonus they are Muhammadans.Replies: @NOTA, @Ivy
Serious question, if anyone knows the answer: I understand that there are international laws and treaties governing treatment of refugees, and I can see how the U.S. ends up under those treaties taking care of a lot of refugees from Haiti, or El Salvador during their civil war. And this is sorta plausibly a humanitarian thing to do–we’re a nearby rich country and so we take in some refugees. Similarly, we have historical ties to the Phillipines and Liberia, so I can kinda squint and see how maybe it would not be totally crazy to take refugees from those countries. But that doesn’t make sense of us taking refugees from Somalia or Syria or Chechnia. We have no historical ties to those countries, and we are thousands of miles away, on the other side of the globe. So how do we end up taking in refugees from those places? I mean, if you were fleeing oppression in Chechnia, aren’t there a couple dozen functional countries that might let you in that are somewhere reasonably nearby?
As far as I know they have to keep the refugees alfloat only 4 months before they can go on local welfare. That may have changed.
I get most my info from refugeeresettlementwatch.
Most journalists are from Belmont, not Fishtown, and I couldn't care less about their lack of income.Replies: @Citizen of a Silly Country, @This Is Our Home
Yep. The reporters that I knew all went to good to great schools. Not a one had a working class background. The only two that I knew who grew up even middle class were getting out of the business due to pay/ideological issues with industry.
When the neocons shriek, ululate and wet their panties over some "American" arrested for spying in Iran, it is inevitably some Iranian born, Iranian bred dude toting an American passport.Replies: @AndrewR, @Jefferson, @Paul Walker Most beautiful man ever...
Edgy post bro.
Most journalists are from Belmont, not Fishtown, and I couldn't care less about their lack of income.Replies: @Citizen of a Silly Country, @This Is Our Home
Those journalists are from Belmont. You are right. The problem is that they are often barely in work and seeing their peers from growing up far surpass them. They cannot even imagine affording to live where they are from and are bitter-clingers, no doubt. The SJW philosophy is their last chance to maintain some sort of socio-economic status. I think you should empathise with all of your compatriots, even the ones who seem so defensive, insecure and belligerent. Who knows? The journalists might start to see your point of view too.
Tell me, are all ya'll so giddy because you've finally got this one little straw to cling to?
"Look Ma! This proves racism isn't really a problem!"
If racism weren't a problem it wouldn't occur to anyone to try to disguise a crime this way.Replies: @Alec Leamas, @TWS, @AndrewR, @Jack D, @carol, @Olorin
Racism is a problem. It’s just that its primary beneficiaries claim victimhood while projecting their guilt onto their victims.
Always reports of “racism”.
NEVER subsequent reports of the hoax.
We need an updated compilation of all the recent (last few years) of black hoaxes.
I haven’t seen the movie, but I do think that critics had it out for the picture. Loosely based on a story from Frank Miller, who is basically worse than Hitler in the comics industry, and directed by Zack Snyder–who has received political criticism for nearly all of his prior films. Throw in the fact that Marvel has openly embraced the Neo-Moralist agenda and the that so many journos can’t stop fellating the mediocre MCU releases, and I suspect that many had picked their side in the Marvel vs DC movie battle long before the first promotional materials for BvS were released. Maybe BvS really is a bad movie, but media folk have been crapping on it for years, and they hate being shown up more than anything.
I see a lot of these bizzarro world arguments. My own conclusion is that they aren’t meant to convince anybody who has any capacity for objectivity, but rather to keep the faithful in line. The faithful need something they can say in their own heads and to each other whenever certain inconvenient facts come up, to banish the unwelcome conclusions. This is how they do it.
Seriously, who graffitis a white board? Did he at least use a permanent marker? I'm started to feel like all these deja-vu hoaxes are caused by exponentially increasing glitches in the Matrix. Come on Reality, just one more heave!Replies: @BenKenobi
It appears the program “Diversity” has grown beyond their control…
And these weren't just-out-college newbies. They were in their late 20s to late 30s. In today's dollars, that's probably $50k to $70k. Also, the pay seemed to top out around that $70k or so. Basically, average reporters in DC at that time were getting paid about what teachers made. They weren't going to starve, but they were going to struggle living a middle-class live in the DC area. They definitely needed their spouse's income.
What's more, they didn't have much hope for better. My understanding was that mid-level, experienced reporters at the Post - where all of these reporters hope to be someday - only pulled in around $70k to right around $100k ($80k to $120k today).
I told these guys that their profession was crazy. You reach the top of your profession and you're paid $100k. Think of what top lawyers or accountants or business people - or, hell, plumbers - earn.
Many of them agreed and were trying to find new careers. (They talked about how a lot of reporters left the field in their late 20s and early 30s due to pay and not really enjoying the job anymore.) However, many felt that it was worth it to them. That journalism was a noble calling. That's when I realized that any reporter you meet over 40 is a true-believer - or has a spouse/inheritance that can handle the bills. (Either way, the reporter is protected from the real world.) Any normal person has left the profession by that point.
As a result, I'd suspect that reporters fall into two categories: 1) Recent college grads who hopelessly naive/brainwashed and 2) Trotskyites.
Btw, this was all just before the Internet demolished the industry. Everything that I wrote is probably a lot worse now.Replies: @Barnard, @Derek
A few years ago, I read the final column of a newspaper editor from a relatively small daily paper who was retiring. He also used the journalism as a higher calling line and compared it to being the clergy or being a teacher. It was obvious from his work that he was a SJW who felt like it was his place to educate us rubes on how we should be living.
According to police, a transgender woman was raped by a in a single-occupancy bathroom at Stonewall Inn, the historic gay bar that started the riot that started the gay rights movement.
The alleged victim left the bar, came back an hour later and called 911. Went to the hospital.
(I can’t be arsed to remember whether a transgender woman has a penis he/she doesn’t want or wants one she/he doesn’t have.)
http://gothamist.com/2016/03/28/police_transgender_woman_raped_insi.php
Read it and immediately wondered if this is the Great White BAthroom Trans Rape hoax that proves that trans people need to be allowed in whichever bathroom they want.
Can any human utter the phrase “bias crime” with a straight face?
The old conventional wisdom in athletic wear was 100% wrong. The WORST thing you can wear next to your skin is something like cotton that absorbs water and therefore puts your skin in constant contact with moisture. What you want is something that wicks moisture away from your skin. The fabrics that do this are called “tech” (e.g. Under Armour). They are usually made of – wait for it – 100% polyester but they are nothing like the old school polyester fabrics.
Even sportswriters? Don’t you mean especially sportswriters?
My sympathies carry much further towards the poor anonymous folks who are stuck posting comments for no pay on other people’s websites, because they don’t have a website of their own which is of any interest to others, because they’re not very bright, and they know it.
It’s a stressful pursuit, not only because they risk being made fun of anyway, but also the overhanging danger of their mother’s disability checks being cut off, leaving them homeless, and afraid.
I don't think so.
Real WN/WP 's literally have nothing to say to nonwhites. If they do anything at all, it's to put fliers out in white neighborhoods, and never with threats or intimidating messages.
And as for the Triple K-there IS no KKK as such. Sure there are a few, isolated groups of losers, Feds and stooges calling themselves KKK, but anyone can use the name KKK. It isn't a registered trademark.
By contrast, Hell's Angels is both a registered trademark and a copyrighted symbol. No one calls themselves Hells Angels, with or without apostrophe, unless they are a duly 'patched in' member of a chapter approved by the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club. One, they'll be killed or beaten to a pulp, and two, if they somehow escaped that, they'd be sued and forced to cease and desist in court. There IS a Hell's Angels. But there is no THE KKK.Replies: @Rob McX, @Thomas Fuller, @Harry Baldwin, @ben tillman
A few years ago some Hells Angels came across a guy who had their death’s head symbol tattooed on his back. He wasn’t a member. They removed it with a belt sander.
They also do this with members who leave the group.
At least that's what former members (who had a HA tat with start and end dates) said.
Cotton has bad karma and has a connection to the bad old days.
We really need to work on erasing all triggers like cotton.
http://galliawatch.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-fiasco-for-marine-or-for-canada.htmlReplies: @unpc downunder
The margin of error for the nationalist right is very very small. Host an event on the wrong side of town or accidently reveal where you’re staying to the media, and things go pear-shaped very quickly.
General tips:
-the militant left isn’t particularly mobile (hard core leftists don’t usually have cars) hence always host events in the suburbs or small cities and towns. Alternatively, try something left field like a shooting range, golf club, or industrial park – basically anywhere where leftists feel out of place and uncomfortable.
-book hotels and flights at the last minute, and try to avoid hotels in big cities where possible (maybe read a few spy novels for further ideas).
-carefully study the demographics of the region or country you plan to tour and avoid areas with high concentrations of minorities or students.
Really.
Me just thinking that refugee status bumps your local Somalis to the head of the line for Seattle public housing. Just a guess. What is not a guess is that they are bottom of the barrel of all immigrants/refugees we get. The worst and for a bonus they are Muhammadans.Replies: @NOTA, @Ivy
Somalis fresh off the boat in America also need to be taught about fireplaces. The new arrivals in San Diego had been used to campfires, and would build those in the center of their apartment living room floor until found out and shown new ways. The social services contacts didn’t seem to grasp beforehand that refugees didn’t think like they did.
And why the hell do you need a fireplace in San Diego? That's a Sammy Hagar climate-- it can't go below 55.Replies: @Ivy
We'll see. ;)Replies: @Jefferson
African Americans targeted. Perpetrator’s name is Mustafa Kente and he has a chocolate complexion, huge lips, very wide nostrils, and extremely nappy hair, but authorities are still not ruling out the possibility that the perpetrator might be Caucasian.
No foolin’, Ozy, but my immediate reaction to the Seattle story was “the hollol, the hollol.”
Coz I thought that this UMOJA “peace center” was near the Uwajimaya Asian mall between downtown and Sodo.
Me long. Rainier Vista is further south down MLK Blvd/east of I-5, is 40-60% black on a block by block basis, and this “center” receives city levy funding along with 59 other similar operations:
http://www.seattle.gov/education/about-us/community-partners
And speaking of racial punkings…
…I’m peeved that The Stranger didn’t cover hacktivist weev’s printer hacking gambit of last week:
https://storify.com/weev/a-small-experiment-in
Which delivered a Daily Stormer poster to (open port 9100) printers to many Ed Biz campuses (their networks being public and generally badly protected, which is what we taxpayers always want to hear).
Tell me, are all ya'll so giddy because you've finally got this one little straw to cling to?
"Look Ma! This proves racism isn't really a problem!"
If racism weren't a problem it wouldn't occur to anyone to try to disguise a crime this way.Replies: @Alec Leamas, @TWS, @AndrewR, @Jack D, @carol, @Olorin
Graffiti (OK, actually writing on a dry erase board with a dry erase marker) written by ACTUAL white racists = evidence of racism.
Graffiti written by an African as misdirection to cover up a theft by said African = also evidence of racism.
Making fun of leftist journalists and politicians who “fall for ” (or are all too willing to believe) hate hoaxes = further evidence of racism.
Is there anything in your view that is NOT evidence of racism?
(By the way, it’s not one little straw – this is not at all the first time some “horrifying” act of “racism” has turned out to be a hoax. http://www.fakehatecrimes.org/) More like one more straw in an already fat bundle, but EVERY TIME, the media initially accepts that a “horrific” hate crime has occurred. Every time. You would think by the time you got to hate hoax 218, the reporters might say “maybe we should wait to find out if this is real” or “maybe we should mention the possibility that this MIGHT be a hoax and not a horrific hate crime like the last 217 “hate crime” stories we wrote about, but no, they never do – as Steve says, the learning curve seems to be awfully flat. Instead they wait until it has all fallen apart and then print a retraction on p.8. Funny that.)
And these weren't just-out-college newbies. They were in their late 20s to late 30s. In today's dollars, that's probably $50k to $70k. Also, the pay seemed to top out around that $70k or so. Basically, average reporters in DC at that time were getting paid about what teachers made. They weren't going to starve, but they were going to struggle living a middle-class live in the DC area. They definitely needed their spouse's income.
What's more, they didn't have much hope for better. My understanding was that mid-level, experienced reporters at the Post - where all of these reporters hope to be someday - only pulled in around $70k to right around $100k ($80k to $120k today).
I told these guys that their profession was crazy. You reach the top of your profession and you're paid $100k. Think of what top lawyers or accountants or business people - or, hell, plumbers - earn.
Many of them agreed and were trying to find new careers. (They talked about how a lot of reporters left the field in their late 20s and early 30s due to pay and not really enjoying the job anymore.) However, many felt that it was worth it to them. That journalism was a noble calling. That's when I realized that any reporter you meet over 40 is a true-believer - or has a spouse/inheritance that can handle the bills. (Either way, the reporter is protected from the real world.) Any normal person has left the profession by that point.
As a result, I'd suspect that reporters fall into two categories: 1) Recent college grads who hopelessly naive/brainwashed and 2) Trotskyites.
Btw, this was all just before the Internet demolished the industry. Everything that I wrote is probably a lot worse now.Replies: @Barnard, @Derek
I’ve, umm, “met” a couple of young female journalists who were supplementing their income by being sugar babies with men they met on the internet.
When the neocons shriek, ululate and wet their panties over some "American" arrested for spying in Iran, it is inevitably some Iranian born, Iranian bred dude toting an American passport.Replies: @AndrewR, @Jefferson, @Paul Walker Most beautiful man ever...
“An “Australian” blogger? She looks Chinese to me.
When the neocons shriek, ululate and wet their panties over some “American” arrested for spying in Iran, it is inevitably some Iranian born, Iranian bred dude toting an American passport.”
It is like when Pakistani, Sub Saharan, and Arab Muslims commit terrorist attacks in Europe, the mainstream media always refer to them as “Europeans” or even more specific as “Frenchman”, “Brits”, “Belgians”, etc.
They love to racially Whitewash Nonwhites who behave badly.
NEVER subsequent reports of the hoax.
We need an updated compilation of all the recent (last few years) of black hoaxes.Replies: @res
http://www.fakehatecrimes.org/
Tell me, are all ya'll so giddy because you've finally got this one little straw to cling to?
"Look Ma! This proves racism isn't really a problem!"
If racism weren't a problem it wouldn't occur to anyone to try to disguise a crime this way.Replies: @Alec Leamas, @TWS, @AndrewR, @Jack D, @carol, @Olorin
Whoa, you came over here from the Stranger just to repost that comment?
When the neocons shriek, ululate and wet their panties over some "American" arrested for spying in Iran, it is inevitably some Iranian born, Iranian bred dude toting an American passport.Replies: @AndrewR, @Jefferson, @Paul Walker Most beautiful man ever...
“An “Australian” blogger? She looks Chinese to me.”.
Looks like a modern average Aussie to me.
I don’t know the exact answer to your question, but refugee resettlement has become a lucrative “faith based” business with contractors like Lutheran Services and Catholic Charities. They don’t care where they come from. It’s become a self-perpetuating racket and there is always a local attention-whoring Lady Bountiful who needs a gig and decides we should open our arms and wallets…and our pastors are always there to guilt us into it. My state was refugee-free until it expanded Medicaid, so now we’re right in the crosshairs.
As far as I know they have to keep the refugees alfloat only 4 months before they can go on local welfare. That may have changed.
I get most my info from refugeeresettlementwatch.
I wonder what percentage of Somali men in The U.S are neither cab drivers nor on welfare?
Rock solid!
It was somewhat heartening, though, to see that there were only two such comments out of twenty-six. The rest took the author to task.
Ed Murray will demand that rural white conservative Christians grovel some more. And there will be a few that will comply in due time.Replies: @Olorin
He’ll also demand more gun control.
I expended a chunk of my increasingly scarce mortality helping with the fight against his (state) Senate Bill 5737 three years ago. This was a bill that allowed police to conduct searches without warrants of the homes of “assault weapon owners.” Citizens who refused to comply would be jailed.
This of course anticipated registration of “assault weapons,” which Michael Bloomberg’s many millions made de facto law in WA state as part of I-594.
This is the initiative that made it illegal–despite the state’s strong pre-emption clause in its Constitution–for any Washingtonian to transact a firearm in any way, including sharing use of them at a range with family members. De facto registration is required in the form of federally overseen transfer, even within families (for instance of family heirloom firearms).
Murray is Absolut Bolsh. He won his mayoral race in part on plump monetary support from rich queers. He should be virtue signalling with a vengeance in hopes of elevation to a Clinton administration position.
He and his “husband” are much loved as exemplars of Christianity among the liberation-theology-type Catlicks of Pugetopolis.
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/seattles-best-christians/Content?oid=14030626
Tell me, are all ya'll so giddy because you've finally got this one little straw to cling to?
"Look Ma! This proves racism isn't really a problem!"
If racism weren't a problem it wouldn't occur to anyone to try to disguise a crime this way.Replies: @Alec Leamas, @TWS, @AndrewR, @Jack D, @carol, @Olorin
If by “racist” you mean someone who accepts that geographic isolation of a population over time yields to differential allele frequencies, and corresponding morphological and behavioral characteristics…
…then, yeah, I’m a racist.
So what?
Throw Canada in there too. Maybe even England if they can get a Brexit and rejoin the Anglo-community with Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
New Zealand is looking better and better all the time. Nice and isolated.
"Francia" - France, Germany, Italy, Scandanavia - looks utterly lost. Central Europe and Russia seem much sounder.Replies: @jon
The US will be majority-minority in our lifetimes. Canada has the same policies of Western European countries, they are just to cold and remote to be overrun (as quickly). I’ll give you Australia and New Zealand, but don’t kid yourself that North America is some kind of “outpost” of Western Civilization. Those two plus Eastern Europe, and that is all.
In San Francisco, a Chinese kid at a high school called Lowell was suspended for putting up pictures of thuggish Blacks behaving badly on a wall that celebrates Black History Month.
Before the racial identity of the kid was revealed and everyone assumed the student who did this was White, local newspapers in the city also used terms like horrific hate crime. The few Black students in the school walked out of class that day because they said they fear for the safety of their Black bodies.
I knew right off the bat the kid who was trolling Black History Month was not White, because Lowell is a predominantly Asian high school.
I wonder how many Chinese Americans are familiar with the term Dindu Nuffin? Or this a term that is only known among Whites.
I thought that it was pretty good and far better than many of the Marvel films with their stupidly childish and plasticky feel.
What you say is true of athletic use of athletic wear. But adopted to casual use, cotton is superior. Cotton is a cool, breathable fabric that doesn’t pill (unlike cotton/poly blends). It’s more comfortable for everyday use. It’s not for no reason that boutique sellers are commanding top dollar for 100% cotton “athletic” wear. I would wager that the majority of athletic wear is used for casual purposes. That’s a lot of potential voters you could swing your way by signaling a change in the market for cotton fabric. It could make the margin of difference in an election.
"Seattle will not tolerate this kind of hate,” Mayor Ed Murray said on Twitter. “We are ready to support Africatown Center as they work to recover, and know they’ll be back stronger than ever."
Oops. Steve, I think it's probably racist of you to notice this though. Shame on you.Replies: @Maj. Kong, @Big Bill, @TWS, @Trumpenprole
Tom Wolfe needs to update his 60’s piece Mau-Mauing the Flack Catchers;…Flack Deflectors Mau-Mauing the white folk.
I wonder why journalists didn’t just go to work for a Gov agency or NGO? Seriously, why not? Is Gov work above them or beneath them? It’s not like they don’t agree with the narrative.
All cotton-picking joking aside, blacks (and everybody else) would be better off if Trump could get behind bringing back affordable breathable 100% cotton “athletic” casual wear for American citizens.
Anybody else here besides me notice that it is mostly blue state Blacks that stage hate crime hoaxes? These things happen way more often in states like Washington, Massachusetts, New York, etc than they do in states like Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, etc.
The blue state Negroes are more obsessed with the KKK than the red state Negroes are.
SS’s UPI newspaper articles that I’ve read are excellent. They have the high quality and tone of the New York Times, just not the awful agenda.
“Stupidly childish and plasticky” describes most of the Marvel films pretty well, in my opinion. It seems the people behind them are so enamored with snappy banter and faux-cleverness that they deliberately avoid any sense of weightiness or stakes. Movies are becoming increasingly like amusement rides, and it’s not a trend I particularly enjoy.
Add me to the chorus chuckling at “bias crime”
nothing to see here folks, move along.
Wow — talking about damning with faint praise! I’d like to think Steve does quite a bit better than the NYT.
The blue state Negroes are more obsessed with the KKK than the red state Negroes are.Replies: @ben tillman
You’re probably right, but Texas’s hate-crime law is on the books because a Black preacher vandalized or torched his church the night before the big vote in the state legislature.
But faux hate crimes still mostly take place in blue states. The SUNY hoax hate crime took place in Albany, not Atlanta. Tawana Brawley took place in New York City, not New Orleans.
Remember the faux hate crime at Harvard over black tape being put on portraits of Black professors.
Blue state Negroes are the worst.
“All-minority”, not “majority-minority”.
I don't think so.
Real WN/WP 's literally have nothing to say to nonwhites. If they do anything at all, it's to put fliers out in white neighborhoods, and never with threats or intimidating messages.
And as for the Triple K-there IS no KKK as such. Sure there are a few, isolated groups of losers, Feds and stooges calling themselves KKK, but anyone can use the name KKK. It isn't a registered trademark.
By contrast, Hell's Angels is both a registered trademark and a copyrighted symbol. No one calls themselves Hells Angels, with or without apostrophe, unless they are a duly 'patched in' member of a chapter approved by the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club. One, they'll be killed or beaten to a pulp, and two, if they somehow escaped that, they'd be sued and forced to cease and desist in court. There IS a Hell's Angels. But there is no THE KKK.Replies: @Rob McX, @Thomas Fuller, @Harry Baldwin, @ben tillman
I couldn’t agree more.
Those aren’t Somalis in San Diego, they’re Bantu. Somalis take over your taxi fleet. Bantus struggle to open the cab door. They’re practically different species.
And why the hell do you need a fireplace in San Diego? That’s a Sammy Hagar climate– it can’t go below 55.
It was actually a pretty good movie. While it was heavy on the tie-ins to upcoming DC films, I’ll forgive that. Batfleck was good: bulked up, grim, pissed off, and morally ambiguous, very much in the Frank Miller mold.
It did play up the Superman-as-a-metaphor-for-Jesus angle, including the Easter weekend release. Maybe the critics were all pissy about it because it mentioned Christianity in a non-derogatory way.
I haven’t been following the actual books since the 90s but is this perception really out there, viz. that the Disney/Marvel Studios flicks conform to that publisher’s famous rep for politically correct imperialist/R2P futurist fables? Whereas Warner Bros/DC is pursuing a grittier ars-gratia-artis aesthetic (again harking back to the contrast between the two companies’ print offerings at end of the century). I don’t see this as a cut-and-dry rule as much as an accreting stereotype, reinforced by Joss Whedon’s shticky scripts but not obviously applicable to, say, Netflix’s Daredevil. Over on the DC non-Universe side the Wachowski sisters’ V For Vendetta was a liberal-idiotic misfire, stemming from just having no fluency with the source material (cf. the What’s The Difference vid on YouTube); meanwhile the Fox Marvel movies are less afflicted with the hipster moralism of the mainline franchises, and the Nolan Batmans were arguably reactionary but still acclaimed by all except the stuffiest comics-hating critics. Perhaps Marvel’s stable is just cornier in general and thus tends toward a modish cosmopolitan product on screen.
“You’re probably right, but Texas’s hate-crime law is on the books because a Black preacher vandalized or torched his church the night before the big vote in the state legislature.”
But faux hate crimes still mostly take place in blue states. The SUNY hoax hate crime took place in Albany, not Atlanta. Tawana Brawley took place in New York City, not New Orleans.
Remember the faux hate crime at Harvard over black tape being put on portraits of Black professors.
Blue state Negroes are the worst.
Aaaand ... there it is. Every time.Replies: @dumpstersquirrel
“By the time I got halfway through the first excerpt, I was waiting for the inevitable punchline.”
By the time I got halfway through the headline, I already knew the punchline.
100% of these things are anti-White hatecrimes.
By the time I got halfway through the headline, I already knew the punchline.
100% of these things are anti-White hatecrimes.Replies: @dumpstersquirrel
Okay, okay, I will admit that not 100% of these hoaxes are anti-White hatecrimes. A small percent of them are done by teenagers looking for attention and notoriety, and they know the best way to get their vandalism covered by the media is to paint a few swastikas and anti-(insert sainted victim group here) slogans. Which, if nothing else, shows that they are fully aware of and steeped in The Narrative.
I live among the SWPL SJWs. They rarely acknowledge the Right’s humanity, never mind veracity. So I should listen to them complain about their peers who actually took steps to make themselves economically relevant to society instead of “following their passion”?
Your average journalist is exactly the same as a modern-day burger flipper; there’s a logical disconnect between the value of what they do and what they THINK the value is.
Because then journalism majors would have to work with social workers, a few steps down on the IQ ladder from those ink-stained geniuses.
Thank You.
Just imagine how tough they would have it if politicians and corporate executives were importing tens of thousands of H1-B immigrant reporters each year like they do for IT.Replies: @Carlos Slim
Brilliant! Why didn’t I think of that?
And why the hell do you need a fireplace in San Diego? That's a Sammy Hagar climate-- it can't go below 55.Replies: @Ivy
The ones in our apartments were Somali. They cooked over an open flame, which sometimes involved the subfloor.
They also do this with members who leave the group.Replies: @Former Darfur
Former members who leave in good standing are not abused, they do have to have an end date put on their tattoo or have it otherwise obscured or removed. Members who are kicked out or sneak off and are busted may have it sanded off, burned off, etc., along with other unpleasant sanctions.
At least that’s what former members (who had a HA tat with start and end dates) said.
General tips:
-the militant left isn't particularly mobile (hard core leftists don't usually have cars) hence always host events in the suburbs or small cities and towns. Alternatively, try something left field like a shooting range, golf club, or industrial park - basically anywhere where leftists feel out of place and uncomfortable.
-book hotels and flights at the last minute, and try to avoid hotels in big cities where possible (maybe read a few spy novels for further ideas).
-carefully study the demographics of the region or country you plan to tour and avoid areas with high concentrations of minorities or students.Replies: @Former Darfur
Covington is always exhorting his homies to read John Le Carre novels for practical tips on opsec.
Really.
Liberals ready to execute judgement once again…. WRONG! This wasn’t a hate crime by some Trump fan, it was a black person and they have been arrested. I believe most hate crimes are fake, since most are proven to be.