this entire Jussie Smollett story is a bummer.
https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/it-looks-like-jussie-smolletts-case-is-headed-to-grand-1832700715
― omar little, Monday, 18 February 2019 19:29 (five years ago) link
what an absurd story
― k3vin k., Monday, 18 February 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/05/us/trump-teacher-fort-worth-anti-immigration-trnd/index.html
I'm putting this here because there isn't a 2019 thread and because I can't get over the fact that this person was a teacher
― Arugula Raccoon (DJP), Thursday, 6 June 2019 13:27 (four years ago) link
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/450757-analysis-black-homebuyers-more-than-twice-as-likely-as-whites
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 June 2019 22:51 (four years ago) link
https://www.rrstar.com/news/20190617/man-arrested-while-attached-to-iv-machine-says-he-was-racially-profiled
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 28 June 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
It's just
Schroeder said the IV was removed by a professionally-trained FHN employee and that police followed the proper protocol when they realized Dukes was having a medical event.
...WHICH YOU CAUSED BY WITHHOLDING HIS MEDICATION THAT WAS LITERALLY FLOWING INTO HIS VEINS AT THE HOSPITAL'S DIRECTION.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Friday, 28 June 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link
good news everybodyhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/james-fields-jr-avowed-neo-nazi-in-charlottesville-car-attack-set-to-be-sentenced-for-federal-hate-crimes/2019/06/27/fcead458-9849-11e9-830a-21b9b36b64ad_story.html?utm_term=.7f7ad220c013
― Οὖτις, Friday, 28 June 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
That is fantastic news
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 28 June 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
re: dude who was arrested for following doctor's orders, I really want the hospital to weigh in on this
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 28 June 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
half expected the cops to claim they mistook the IV for a weapon
― Οὖτις, Friday, 28 June 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
did they think the hospital gown was a disguise?????
― j., Friday, 28 June 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
They thought they had someone they could brutalize who wouldn't fight back.
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 28 June 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
"Police urge people not to rush ‘to judgement against the police without all the information..."
Dukes was ultimately charged with disorderly conduct, after an investigation revealed he had no intention of stealing the IV stand, said Freeport police Lt. Andrew Schroeder.
A full investigation revealed that after coming all this way police were able to determine that the suspect who was by the way no angel was clearly guilty of something because otherwise we wouldn't be here now would we? Case closed!
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 28 June 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
"disorderly conduct" is cop-speak for not being appropriately deferential to the thin blue line that separates us from the savages/not thanking them for hassling you
― Οὖτις, Friday, 28 June 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
Police urge people not to rush ‘to judgement against the police without all the information’
Should I give the site the benefit of the doubt and assume the reason they used this quote to lead the article is out of irony?
― viborg, Saturday, 29 June 2019 00:05 (four years ago) link
Couldn't find a thread for this year; read this awful story tonight: https://www.thedailybeast.com/utah-state-student-jerusha-sanjeevi-suffered-months-of-racist-attacksand-the-school-did-nothing-suit-claims
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 04:09 (four years ago) link
Horrible.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 10:54 (four years ago) link
jesus.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 11:20 (four years ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/12/entertainment/sarah-silverman-blackface-scli-intl/index.html
I think this is a ridiculous overreaction to a great sketch that was a top-to-bottom condemnation of racism and blackface
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 12 August 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
She did a huuuuuuge mea culpa for thatvepisode on her current show (I Love You America) last year, which was interesting
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 01:57 (four years ago) link
What's the word for when someone apologizes for something they shouldn't need to?
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 02:15 (four years ago) link
I was sure Chris Cuomo would figure into this thread revive.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 13 August 2019 02:24 (four years ago) link
Absolutely essential story: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/this-land-was-our-land/594742/
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 10:42 (four years ago) link
This cosmic balance sheet underpins the national conversation—ever more robust—about reparations for black Americans. In that conversation, given momentum in part by the publication of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “The Case for Reparations” in this magazine in 2014, I hear echoes of Mississippi. I hear echoes of Hamer, the Scotts, Henry Woodard Sr., and others who petitioned the federal government to hold itself accountable for a history of extraction that has extended well beyond enslavement. But that conversation too easily becomes technical. How do we quantify discrimination? How do we define who was discriminated against? How do we repay those people according to what has been defined and quantified? The idea of reparations sometimes seems like a problem of economic rightsizing—something for the quants and wonks to work out.
Economics is, of course, a major consideration. According to the researchers Francis and Hamilton, “The dispossession of black agricultural land resulted in the loss of hundreds of billions of dollars of black wealth. We must emphasize this estimate is conservative … Depending on multiplier effects, rates of returns, and other factors, it could reach into the trillions.” The large wealth gap between white and black families today exists in part because of this historic loss.
But money does not define every dimension of land theft. Were it not for dispossession, Mississippi today might well be a majority-black state, with a radically different political destiny. Imagine the difference in our national politics if the center of gravity of black electoral strength had remained in the South after the Voting Rights Act was passed.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 11:00 (four years ago) link
I just watched that clip and loooooooooooooooool
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 11:29 (four years ago) link
straight outta that sopranos episode
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 13 August 2019 12:01 (four years ago) link
I've never heard of "I'll ruin your shit" before
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 12:03 (four years ago) link
I'm simultaneously like "what ridiculous nonsense" and "RUIN HIS SHIT, CHRIS; STRAIGHT UP MURDER HIM"
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 13:18 (four years ago) link
How to solve racism in 'Murica forever:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/15/white-professor-investigated-quoting-james-baldwin-use-of-n-word-laurie-sheck
― pomenitul, Thursday, 15 August 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
Sheck told Inside Higher Education that a white student had objected to her language. According to Sheck, she questioned the student about her objection, who said she had been told by a previous professor that white people should never use the term. At the end of term, the student gave a presentation about racism at the New School.
comedy descending notes played on a muted trumpet
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 15 August 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
or trombone rather
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 15 August 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
Ugh: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/saskatoon-gas-assault-mischief-1.5294412?fbclid=IwAR2WP-FrKOb62cgb0kOrGAsi5eHdTGTL2XfLBRYrfedUMRzqYju9uATB91o
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 02:53 (four years ago) link
That Justin Trudeau is out of control.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 06:49 (four years ago) link
Ugh indeed.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 08:34 (four years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/09/26/newspaper-reported-that-mans-ancestors-were-slaveholders-hes-suing-defamation/
― j., Thursday, 26 September 2019 03:37 (four years ago) link
they really should add on to that lonely slave heritage statue that was an auction block: "the Tayloe family traded slaves here, probably still would if they could" and just let the lawsuits roll
― mh, Thursday, 26 September 2019 04:00 (four years ago) link
that case SLAPPs
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Thursday, 26 September 2019 12:36 (four years ago) link
otm
― mh, Thursday, 26 September 2019 13:37 (four years ago) link
in all the right places
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 26 September 2019 13:38 (four years ago) link
you guys, this story is like a series of racist nesting dolls
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/27/us/carson-king-aaron-calvin-des-moines-register-trnd/index.html
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 27 September 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
I have been actively trying to ignore it, as it gets dumber with every update.This is the best coverage imo: https://deadspin.com/is-beer-money-sign-man-sorry-for-old-racist-tweets-1838457224
― mh, Friday, 27 September 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
ha
I can't wait for the editor's old racist tweets to resurface
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 27 September 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
It's a Gannett paper, so the salary is crap and the majority of the staff is probably below age 25. I give it.. a day or two at most
― mh, Friday, 27 September 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
I can't spare the brain cells to investigate the entire timeline of this but at least one of the racist tweeters involved was 16 at the time? Do I understand that correctly?
Gotta say I'm glad there was no social med when I was 16 to catalog the things I firmly believed at the time bc the evangelical church told me to. o_____O
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Friday, 27 September 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
Not saying 16 yos shouldn't be held accountable, just saying I'm grateful to be old.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Friday, 27 September 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
Yeah I mean, I think this largely played out correctly? Dude raised money, shit was brought up from his past, he gave what I thought was a legit apology, the corporate sponsor did the predictable corporate sponsor thing, the hospital is still getting money, everything is good and golden.
Where it gets funny is when the reporter's shit pops up
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 27 September 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
I feel dumber every moment I hear about this story, and never need to hear coworkers talk about it again, but here we go
1. Guy holds up stupid sign with his venmo address asking for beer money for busch light at state's largest college football event2. Fans send him ridiculous amount of money3. He vows to send money to a children's hospital, beer company says they'll match it and send him a bunch of beer. Dumb ploy makes good for everyone, ok so far4. Local paper reporter decides to check out guy before publishing another article, finds idiot racist teenage tweets5. Paper reaches out to guy saying they found this, deciding what to do with it6. Guy preemptively tells everyone he was an idiot teen, is no longer idiot teen7. Paper writes round-up on all that has happened, tries to make clear they were preempted7a. College football fans go nuts trying to figure out how to cancel their nonexistent newspaper subscriptions8. Beer company still going to donate money, not going to give guy free beer8a. Some fans with poor reading comprehension think beer company is not giving money to hospital, vow to never drink their beer again9. Reporter who initially found racist tweets investigated by roving mob of online college football fans, racist tweets found9a. Fans attempt to destroy reporter in addition to paper, salt earth
I have not worked from the office today and have heard nothing more
― mh, Friday, 27 September 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
xp yeah, everything resolved relatively ok, other than the college football fans who are trying to figure out where to aim the torches and pitchforks still roaming around. apparently the reporter is fired now?
the governor was/is proclaiming a state day after the beer donation guy, but I'm unsure whether it was before or after the racist tweet debacle. I'm assuming after, because the governor is an idiot
― mh, Friday, 27 September 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/from-the-editor/2019/09/26/carson-king-tweet-editor-response-investigation-iowa-childrens-hospital-donations/3780741002/
I'm hoping this dies, but I'm also wondering if the beer guy's going to be outed as the son of a racist cop
― mh, Friday, 27 September 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
you get a milkshake duck! and you get a milkshake duck! everybody gets a milkshake duck!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 27 September 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link