The Bookworm Beat 8/23/17 — the illustrated edition and open thread
By popular demand, it’s back — the Bookworm Room illustrated edition! You’ll enjoy these pithy images showing all that’s right or wrong with America.
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Tag: Racism
An illustration for Scott Adams’ point about Trump’s alleged dog whistle
A dog whistle, by definition, can be heard only by the intended dogs. Progressives claim to hear all of Trump’s dog whistles. Hmmm…. Scott Adams feels pretty confident that the Trump haters are in the midst of a mass hysteria and that Trump himself is doing well. In the context
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Where I stand on Charlottesville and Confederate monuments
At Charlottesville, Antifa and Neo-Nazis proved to be birds of a feather; and blacks are right to want to remove Confederate monuments from public spaces. I’ve been rather conspicuously silent about events in the South. As you know, I like to wait until the hysteria settles and facts emerge to
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“Confederate”: Both HBO and its doubters double down on racial canards (Edited w/the addition of Part II)
HBO is in trouble for producing “Confederate,” an alternate history in which the South won the war. The irony is that HBO and its foes are both wrong. (Only half of this essay was posted initially. My mistake. I have added the second half below the line. My apologies. [Bookworm
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On race and gender, Democrats have always embraced the Big Lie
For 150 years, Democrats used the Big Lie about race to justify slavery and Jim Crow, and now they’re using the Big Lie technique to challenge gender norms. I want to share a thought with you that starts with slavery and ends with transsexuals. To get from one to the
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[VIDEO] Escaping the groupthink the Left demands, especially from blacks
Unquestioning groupthink is a Leftist hallmark, especially for blacks. Antonia Okafor details how she escaped from that intellectual prison.
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The Bookworm Beat 4/24/17 — “watching as the Left continues circling the drain” edition
This Bookworm Beat has all shades of Progressive insanity (fake data, attacks on free speech, Chelseamania), complete with links and my trenchant comments. Keep circling that drain. Before I get into the meat of this post detailing the worst emanations from the Democrats and their fellow travelers on their Left,
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Progressives, Race And History : The Attack On George Washington
George Washington’s extraordinary accomplishments set the stage for American liberty — so of course Progressives must reduce him to a racist slave owner. No figure was more central to the birth of our nation, first in war, then as a Constitutional Republic, than George Washington. In 1776, with the Revolution
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Whatever happened to the idea that dignity is a virtue?
I’m too young to remember a time when dignity was considered a virtue, not only in individuals, but in entire groups. The other night, I was reminded of what I missed when I watched a 1944 U.S. Army Propaganda film, The Negro Soldier, which Frank Capra directed. The Army commissioned
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[VIDEO] Stupid, racist whites versus entirely competent black people
There are no people more committed to black inferiority than racist whites who flatter themselves that they’re loving Progressives who are taking care of blacks. I figured out this white racism problem after the Rodney King riots, when the media tried to push the “rapture” defense for Damian Williams, one of the
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The Bookworm Beat 9/19/16 — the “we’re still singing” edition and open thread
The miserable sexism of Hillary’s supporters. I’ve agreed with myself to disagree with Jonah Goldberg about Donald Trump, while still greatly respecting and deeply appreciating Goldberg’s take on just about everything else. In the wake of Hillary’s 9/11 collapse, followed by her dehydration, followed by the media castigating as sexist
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A love letter to Hillary Clinton reveals the ipse dixit world in which Progressives live
“Ipse dixit” is one of the more charming Latin phrases you’ll find in legal writing. It translates to “he himself has said it.” (As an aside, Gilbert & Sullivan aficionado’s may recognize that little phrase from H.M.S. Pinafore.) What the phrase means is that the author asserts as authority the
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The Bookworm Beat 9/8/16 — the “my dog is crazy” edition and open thread
The older of my two dogs is very high-strung and she got so frightened by the wind that carried the fog in tonight that I’ve had to sequester her and me in my home office so that Mr. Bookworm, who needs to get up for work tomorrow, can sleep. She shows no
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[VIDEO] Progressives achieve unheard of eugenic success against blacks
The Prager U video below, narrated by and based upon research from, Heather MacDonald is actually titled “Are The Police Racist?”. However, watch it and you will learn that modern-day Democrats have achieved something that the Social Darwinists of the 19th century, and the eugenicists of the 21st centuries could
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The Bookworm Beat 8/22/16 — the “as the world turns” edition and open thread
No wonder 1984 is no longer required reading in high schools. One of the Little Bookworms, after a summer of sloth, decided to read something noteworthy before returning to school. Her choice was George Orwell’s 1984, which I would include in any top 25 or even top 10 reading list.
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