Why I Support Justice For George Floyd But Oppose BLM

Black Lives Matter is on pace for hypocrites-of-the-year award.

BLM is silent about black lives taken by black criminals
Over 90% of Black American homicides are by black thugs (<1% by a white policeman).

BLM is silent about those black lives killed by blacks.

Justice? Really?

If to be “silent about injustice” is to be a perpetrator of injustice, then BLM is guilty of a grave injustice by their silence about blacks killing blacks.

If actions speak louder than words, then BLM’s message is that black lives taken by black criminals do not matter.

BLM is silent about blacks killing blacks because it does not suit the political narrative and purposes of the “progressives” who have hijacked the movement. It makes you wonder what those purposes are.

Indeed.

via Why I Support Justice For George Floyd But Oppose BLM | Capitalism Magazine

What a book review looks like when the author is “binary”

The reviewer is relentless in giving the author his wish, as in we-dare-not-call-they-he, how few they is, etc.:

Gessen’s credentials as an observer of autocracy are impeccable. Aged fifty-three, they (Gessen identifies as nonbinary) spent their childhood in the Soviet Union and the US, then moved back to Russia in 1991 to work as a reporter.

In 2012 they were fired as the editor of a popular science magazine for refusing to send a journalist to cover one of Vladimir Putin’s more ludicrous publicity stunts, flying a wobbly motorized hang glider to “lead” a flight of Siberian cranes on their westward migration.

One of the few out gay people in Russian public life, they became a target for homophobic politicians. In 2013 they left Russia after the passage of legislation against “homosexual propaganda” opened the possibility that the state would take away their children.

They is quite a good writer, we (I) suppose.

Putting a black square on your Facebook page means you are ___________

Remarkable comment on two bishops, riots, and a tin ear . . .

Pluot (named for the hybrid fruit, because I switched from food and wine blogging to better things)

I was going to title it “We have two disappointing bishops on our hands,” but then I noticed the Facebook meme for “Blackout Tuesday” and got distracted.

The two disappointing bishops are, pardon me I mean no disrespect but I must say it, Bishop Barron and our own good Cardinal Cupich. The excellent and hardworking Bishop Barron concludes at the end of a longish article, “Pentecost and the fires in our streets,” essentially that all the looting is owing to “400 years of racism,” which by the way is Antifa’s own trope. Yes, so that’s why Antifa would try to burn down a historic Episcopal church in Washington D.C., and that’s why my employer has had at least five stores of its retail chain in Chicago looted, and one essentially destroyed, even to the warehouse, the IT room and all the cash registers.

And our good Cardinal Cupich writes a…

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Liberal Democratic governors and mayors, mugged by reality in George Floyd fallout

In the middle of the John Kass piece:

The looters roll on into the suburbs. And suburban soccer moms, with their guilt and their “Hate Has No Home Here” signs in their front lawns, download police scanner apps and wonder where they can buy a gun.

Yes. On our suburbanly quiet N. Side street was a car parked yesterday with “Abolish the police” sign pasted on the door. And the no-hate signs are common. A shrug is all it takes to resume my stroll in relative contentment. These are voters, however.

via Chicago Tribune

Profane exchange: Lightfoot, chief City Council critic tussle over police tactics during looting

Does she know what she’s doing?

Chicago Newspapers

Ald. Ray Lopez said the mayor told him he was “full of s–t” when he demanded to know her plan to protect neighborhoods. His response? “I told her, ‘F–k you. You don’t know what’s going on.’”

Heated exchange:

By Sunday night, Lopez said neighborhoods were in chaos, and he believed his warnings about a “coordinated attempt to destabilize our city” had proved true.

On a second conference call between the mayor and aldermen, Lopez said several aldermen were “in tears” about the damage done to their communities.

“I asked her point-blank. I said, ‘I told you this was gonna happen in the morning. I warned you. What is our plan for the neighborhoods? How are we gonna stabilize the communities? We need a five-day plan. The assumption that this is all gonna go away because you’ve got a curfew is wrong. We need to stabilize the communities. I want an…

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