Footnotes and Scare Quotes

In the words of Bari Weiss, "Curiosity about the wrong topics has become a liability in the legacy press." I appreciate Bari Weiss's old-school, stubborn commitment to asking questions regardless of what kind of narrative it would support. The article below isn't by her, but it's from her newsletter. It's about the BYU volleyball racism event (or, non-event, as it turns out).  I don't think Bari and I would agree on how long ago this phenomenon took hold. And I don't know if she sees it as being as destructive as I do, though she certainly perceives it to be a problem. All I can say is you can't have your cake and eat it too. That is, you can't embrace this kind of activism in your "objective" straight reporting while also wringing your hands about the increasing number of people turning to the dark corners of the internet for their information.   How the Media Fell for A Racism Sham - by Jesse Singal (commonsense.news) "If any ...

 Let's start this with a substantial issue that Democrat and Republican voters agree on, shall we?  COSA-JusticeSystem-Full-Report-0729.pdf (thetrafalgargroup.org) What an issue to agree on. You'd think it would cause us to feel played and unite, or to at least recognize that Government is just another oligopoly on par with the sleaziest corporation you already hate. This is something our founding fathers recognized but that we were progressively persuaded to forget.  But that's not why I signed on today. I signed on because I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be well-read. I have friends and family who would definitely consider themselves to be so. My Dad is proud to tell you that he reads NPR, The Atlantic, MSN, all to get a "fuller picture" and to escape the narrow slant that one is victim to if all he watches is Fox News.  May I please turn your attention below and suggest that if this is what you consider a "good mix," you're sti...

What an excellent job these boys did, delivering astute and well-catalogued compilations of examples to the gatekeepers who pretend to be above it all.   And an excellent barrage of additional examples by Tom Woods afterwards. 

​ https://greenwald.substack.com/p/journalists-attack-the-powerless?s=r

I enjoyed this food for thought from a self-declared nincompoop.  ​ https://rumble.com/vwgrjj-did-we-get-this-wrong.html

​ https://swprs.org/professor-ehud-qimron-ministry-of-health-its-time-to-admit-failure/