Longing For a New Front In The Race Wars

Its very important to progressives that Asian-Americans feel themselves to be threatened by whites. Far too important an agenda item to be left to mere facts and fate.

From a different direction, Slate chatted with a properly progressive prof who was intent on explaining that any notion of Asian-American tension with Blacks is just lazy thinking. Are you remembering Korean-American shopkeeprs standing on their store rooftops during the LA riots? Or Al Sharpton leading protests against Asian-American deli owners in NYC? Don't be lazy!

And if you use that frame, you make it an Asian-Black thing, you’re focusing on the two groups and taking attention away from the larger structures of power in which they’re embedded—not just racial structures, but also capitalism. Think about the relationship between Korean merchants buying a liquor store in Compton, and their Black customers. This is about capitalism, the way it creates divisions between groups and deems certain people disposable.

Slate closes with solid advice from the professor - even if you're getting assaulted by a Black person, remember the real enemy!

But I think it’s important, when looking at violence against Asian Americans, not to lose that context. When Asian Americans understandably feel fear and anger and sorrow about these attacks on our own communities, I think we also have to ask ourselves, Are we fighting for Black lives as hard as we’re fighting for our own? It’s in moments like this that it’s really difficult to remember, because we’re afraid and upset. But to remember that we are advantaged, compared to Black people, is what it takes to be a good ally—even though it can be very hard, at times like these. But I think these are the moments when it’s the most important to do it.

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[MissMarple2]

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West sanctions China over Xinjiang abuses, Beijing hits back at EU http://reut.rs/3cVoO7L

[Neo]

Unemployment Scammer Spills Secrets: Illinois Easy Target Because ‘They Don’t Verify Anything’
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/targeting-illinois-taxpayers-an-unemployment-scammer-spills-his-secrets/

[Neo]

Blood test could detect Alzheimer's years before symptoms, mouse study suggests
https://news.yahoo.com/blood-test-detect-alzheimers-before-symptoms-102702746.html

Maybe the oldtimer-in-chief could use this

[MissMarple2]

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2021/03/22/understand-that-some-people-love-the-pandemic-n2586599

I think Kurt's hit the nail on the head, at least with that segment of the population which keeps asking me if I have had my vaccination yet, and telling me about theirs.

[Melinda]

Cracks me up::

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/jpm-makes-surprising-discovery-daytraders-are-evolving-and-starting-hedge-their-massive

[Pinandpuller]

I feel like the only type of covetousness I have for other people is related to their USDA Climate Zone.

So like every once in a while I seethe with envy over Kev’s Latitude and Longitude, but then I meditate on California’s gun laws and taxes and I’m completely at peace again.

[Pinandpuller]

Neo

Doctor Savage had a sleep expert on who said Alzheimer’s is correlated with lack of sleep. Your brain basically goes thru a cleaning phase during deep sleep that, if interrupted, leaves behind residue-if you will.

[Jim Eagle]

Thi guy Kimme with Gonzaga reminds me of Bill Walton

[Jim Eagle]

..This guy....

[MissMarple2]

Pinandpulller,

Since President Trump is well-known for sleeping only 4-5 hours per night, I assume this is yet another effort to make him sound mentally out of it, unlike that astute current resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

(Sarcasm intended.)

[MissMarple2]

"They're destroying it with woke. When China looks at woke, and they see the biggest problem we have is Dr Seuss. In the meantime they're building factories and trying to kill us in so many different ways." --
President Trump. pic.twitter.com/JmOI83xJN1

— 🧢Mac (@beingrealmac) March 22, 2021

Video at the link.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

New thread

[MissMarple2]

President Trump hosted some sort of classic car event at Mar-a-Lago today. This thread has 2 1-minute videos. The first is a view of quite a few of the cars, which you car folks will enjoy. The second is President Trump walking through the event greeting guests. (Wearing golf clothes and a red hat, getting his pic taken with guests.)

https://mobile.twitter.com/beingrealmac/status/1373844396731432961

Do not bother reading the rest of the thread, as it's full of nasty leftists whining about how the rich are enjoying themselves while people in the US are suffering, blah, blah.)

[jimmyk]

Holy cow: 42% of Americans report undesired weight gain during Covid 19.

What percent report undesired weight gain in a normal year? :)

[Momto2]

which keeps asking me if I have had my vaccination yet, and telling me about theirs.

OR the ones who go to great lengths to insert it into any conversation. A couple was telling me about their dog's neurological issue and said, "Honey - remember the first time she fell off of the bed? It was the day after we got our 2nd vaccine shot!"

So I guess they expected me to chime in about my vaccine shot but were disappointed.