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Good for THE NEW YORK POST
Thursday, I was offering up "The press continues its distortion of democracy" and complaining that these various publications -- including THE NEW YORK POST -- would not publish the name of the leaker.
Well Thursday night, THE POST published an editorial which included:
The whistleblower is most likely CIA analyst Eric Ciaramella.
Journalist Paul Sperry reported his name in late October, saying that sources inside the closed-door impeachment hearings identified him. Ciaramella has put out no statement denying these reports. Whistleblower lawyers refuse to confirm or deny Ciaramella is their man. His identity is apparently the worst-kept secret of the Washington press corps. In a sign of how farcical this has become, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said his name as part of a series of names during a live hearing Wednesday night aired on television. He never called him the whistleblower, just said he was someone Republicans thought should testify, yet Democrats angrily denounced the "outing." If you don't know the man's name, how do you know the man's name?
Politico's Jack Shafer has eloquently argued that the press should name the whistleblower. It is not against the law — whistleblower protections are to prevent retaliation in the workplace and apply to his superiors, not the media. Yet while the press eagerly tried to out Deep Throat or the anonymous author of "A Warning," they suddenly lack curiosity.
They've also been hypocritical. In September, the Times reported the whistleblower was a male CIA officer who worked at the White House and was now back at the CIA. Why? Executive editor Dean Baquet said, "We wanted to provide information to readers that allows them to make their own judgments about whether or not he is credible." A cynic might say they were trying to argue that the whistleblower was credible.
But if that's the argument, and if Ciaramella is the whistleblower, isn't it also relevant that he, according to Sperry, previously worked with CIA Director John Brennan, a fierce critic of Trump, and Vice President Joe Biden, Trump's political opponent and the crux of the impeachment inquiry? That he's a registered Democrat and that he was — again, according to Sperry — accused of leaking negative information about the Trump administration and that's why he was transferred back to Langley?
What, if anything, did he leak? Did he work with Biden on Ukraine, apparently Ciaramella's area of expertise? Did he know about Burisma and Hunter Biden? Who told him about the call, and why did that person not complain instead of him? How did Schiff's staff help him tailor the complaint?
This is only the fourth time in our history that a president has faced impeachment. Shouldn't we know the answers to these questions now, and not in two or three years when the inevitable official reports and tell-all books come out? Why must we wait for the truth?
If we're supposed to take impeachment seriously, we need to take it seriously. That means talking about the leaker. That means determining whether or not he is credible.
Good for THE NEW YORK POST.
A shame others publications still struggle to do what THE POST has done.
Friday, December 13, 2019. Joe Biden suffers serious shrinkage as the corporate media continues to ignore JCoe's biggest problem in Iowa (the caucus itself), Tiny Pete has some donors demanding their money back, and much more.
Starting in the US where the race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination continues.
Elaine in Carolina @Elaineplaywrite 6h6 hours ago
Elaine in Carolina Retweeted HailStateForever
I can personally attest to this about Joe Biden. He connects with people through his authenticity, his genuine concern and a wonderful, heartfelt compassion! #Biden2020
Elaine in Carolina added,
HailStateForever @PamChas2
Replying to @CesarBeTweeting @JoeBiden @YvannaCancela
That is what I love about him! He is also humble and you can just feel this connection with him. That's a missing character trait in so many of our politicians. It's one of the most important leadership traits for strong leaders.
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For me, it was the leather fringe vest that Joe wore which put him ahead of both Bobby Sherman and Davy Jones on the dreamy scale. Just looking at the glossy photos of him and those pale blue eyes, I knew he was so sensitive and I said to myself, "Girl, you already missed out on Paul now that he's married Linda. You can't lose out on Joe too."
Thank you to Elaine and Pam above for their worthless contributions since, in fact, we're speaking about a politician hoping to become President of the United States and not some guy on the cover of TIGER BEAT. If we promise to give you the huge color poster of Joe shirtless in this month's issue of TIGER BEAT, ladies, will you promise to leave the public square so that adults can discuss the policies and proposals and voting records and actions of those who want to be president instead of serving up your useless crap? Thanks.
JordanVerified account @JordanChariton 12h12 hours ago
OF COURSE Hunter Biden's drug possession charge was swept under the rug as @JoeBiden was pushing to jail black boys for the same thing
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Jordan, I believe that's "men." African-American men. But regardless of wording, that's the reality. Hunter Biden's drug addiction is long, long, long. It dates back to Joe in the Senate. The whole time Joe was pushing policies that punished African-Americans (men and women) at a higher rate than White Anglos, his own son was doing drugs and Joe knew it. Slap the headline "The Joe You Don't Know!" on it and maybe Pam and Elaine will read it.
Jordan's referring to this report by Alana Goodman and Joseph Simonson (WASHINGTON EXAMINER):
Joe Biden's son Hunter was arrested on Jersey Shore drug charges in 1988 and had his record expunged at a time when his father was pushing for the incarceration of drug offenders drawn disproportionately from minority groups.
Congressional records reveal that Hunter Biden, now 49, was arrested in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, where the Biden family has often holidayed over the years, in June 1988. Hunter Biden, then 18, had just graduated from the prestigious Archmere Academy prep school, which his father had also attended. The former vice president and his wife Jill have often been spotted on trips to Stone Harbor.
The arrest has not previously been reported. Republicans have recently highlighted Hunter Biden's drug abuse, questioning why it was not taken into account when the lobbyist was appointed to a $50,000-a-month post on the board of the Ukraine oil company Burisma in 2014, when his father, as vice president, was the Obama administration's lead official on Ukraine.
A year after the arrest, Joe Biden gave a speech in which he said the federal government needed to "hold every drug user accountable" because, "If there were no drug users, there would be no appetite for drugs, there would be no market for them." He neglected to mention the drug use in his own family.
Joe is such a hypocrite. But he's worse than a hypocrite. The hypocrite across the streets just trashes you while he's doing the same thing. Joe went beyond trashing with words, he actively sought and promoted and supported policies that came down hard on others for doing the same thing that Princess Hunter did -- the same thing that Princess Hunter, because of who his father was, got away with doing.
"As a Biden." Remember that? These last months we've heard that over and over. Joe vouching for himself and insisting he's telling the truth "as a Biden." That family's name is mud and Joe and Hunter are responsible for that.
Sonia Romaih @smromaih 4m4 minutes ago
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Joe Biden is the WORST Democrat running. He is senile from the "Silent Generation" one cannot legitimately say to him "ok Boomer". He spews BS and we laugh, call them gaffes, 'coz it's Joe. His past record, policies are bad, racist. Joe is a hypocrite, has no business running.
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War Hawk Joe is preparing for a loss of Iowa and New Hampshire. His campaign has insisted that, if it happens, it doesn't matter. He's got South Carolina sewn up, they insist. But, as we've demonstrated this week, this same time in 2007, polls said Hillary Clinton had South Carolina sewn up. Then Barack won Iowa and, oops, Hillary's support vanished in South Carolina.
It was mid-month December 2007. Hillary Clinton was the front runner in the national polls. As for South Carolina? CNN put her at 42% to Barack's 34%, SURVEY USA put her at 44% to Barack's 40%, CBS NEWS put her at 34% to Barack's 35%.
January 26, the vote finally took place -- no ranked choice voting options, by the way.
And all the polls that had Hillary with a lead or within 1% of Barack?
Hillary only got 26.5% of the vote. 55.4% of it went to Barack.
South Carolina will decide after Iowa. After New Hampshire. The results of both states prior will cast all the candidates in a certain light. Should Joe lose Iowa, he will be seen as a loser. Should he lose both Iowa and New Hampshire, he will be the ultimate loser.
That's the reality. And, oops, Joe's already losing some support in South Carolina. David Sherfinski (WASHINGTON TIMES) reports:
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden's Democratic opponents are eating into his lead in Mr. Biden's "firewall" state of South Carolina, according to a Post and Courier-Change Research poll released on Thursday.
Mr. Biden was the top choice of 27% of likely Democratic primary voters, followed by Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont at 20% and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts at 19%, according to the poll.
It's the first time since February that Mr. Biden hasn't had a double-digit lead in the state in Post and Courier-Change polls.
Woops. And Andy Shain (POST AND COURIER) notes it as well:
Joe Biden might need to check his firewall.
The former vice president's lead in South Carolina keeps shrinking in Post and Courier-Change Research polls as the 2020 Democratic presidential primary gets closer — and even after a key competitor for Palmetto State votes, U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California, dropped out of the race.
The latest poll released Thursday shows Biden with just a 7 percentage point lead among likely voters in the South's first primary, the first time he has not held a double-digit advantage in seven Post and Courier-Change Research surveys taken since February.
Poor Joe. Suffering from shrinkage. And at his age.
7% is no real lead. It's just beyond the margin of error. Joe's struggling and people still get honest about that.
Here's some honesty they're not offering. Iowa?
It was pointless of Joe and his malarkey to waste time there in the last weeks. His supporters are predominately elderly. In a primary, that doesn't really matter. In a caucus state? In 2008, we were in Iowa for the caucus and the one we were at went on until well past midnight. During that time, we saw tons of people walk out. They were tired, they were disgusted in some cases.
No young people walked out (teens to mid-twenties). That's where Joe is weakest in support.
Start telling the truth in the media. Stop wasting our time with b.s. headlines about how "Joe's ahead!" in whatever state . . . if you use ranked choice voting when, in fact, the state doesn't use ranked choice voting.
Reality: No campaign is weaker in Iowa than Joe Biden's. And that nonsense tour was a waste of time. While he was on the ground there, others were in South Carolina ensuring that his support erodes.
If you're not getting how big Joe's decline in South Carolina is, FITS NEWS offers, "Biden is currently drawing the support of 27 percent of likely South Carolina Democratic primary voters, per the survey – his worst mark since pollsters began tracking the race. Just last month, a CBS News/ YouGuv survey showed Biden backed by 45 percent of South Carolina Democrats."
Shrinkage. Did someone say Tiny Pete? Joe Biden's personal Mini-Me is also having problems. Julia Conley (COMMON DREAMS) reports:
Though they initially viewed South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg as an intriguing and progressive newcomer when he began his presidential campaign early this year, the #RefundPete hashtag began trending Thursday morning on social media as a growing number of former donors started requesting their donations back in the wake of recent revelations about the 2020 Democratic candidate.
Kristen Hill, a volunteer community leader for the presidential primary campaign of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in North Carolina, was one of the first voters to kick off the viral hashtag #RefundPete.
"If Pete Buttigieg fooled you into thinking he was a progressive at the beginning of his campaign and you donated what he thinks is pocket change, you can ask for a refund by emailing your receipt to info@peteforamerica.com," Hill tweeted.
In October, Buttigieg criticized his progressive opponents, Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for running their campaigns on "pocket change" by accepting mostly small donations of under $200.
Buttigieg has raised 52% of his $50 million campaign dollars through large contributions, and has so far been outraised by both Sanders and Warren.
"Just got my refund from Pete's campaign," wrote one social media user as the #RefundPete hashtag took off. "It was just pocket change so he won't miss it."
Another shared the email they sent to the campaign as the hashtag took off.
People want their money back.
I want my money back
I'm down here drowning in your fat
You got me on my knees
Praying for everything you lack
I ain't afraid of you
I'm just a victim of your fears
You cower in your tower
Praying that I'll disappear
I got another plan
One that requires me to stand
On the stage or in the street
Don't need no microphone or beat
And when you hear this song
If you ain't dead sing along
Bang and strum to these here drums
Till you get where you belong
I got a list of demands
Written on the palm of my hands
I ball my fist, you're gonna
Know where I stand
I'm living hand to mouth
You wanna be somebody? See somebody?
Try and free somebody?
"List of Demands (Reparations)" -- The Kills
In Iraq, the protests continue. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq has released a new report which notes:
On December 8, Iraqi judicial authorities said that 2,626 protesters who had been arrested during protests since October 1 have been released through December 8. The statement added that 181 protesters remain in custody pending the conclusion of investigations into their respective charges.
On December 8, unknown gunmen on a motorcycle assassinated activists Fahim al-Taie in central Karbala. Assassins have targeted a number of other activists in recent days. Activists Ehab al-Wazni and Muhannad al-Ka'bi both survived attempts on their lives in Karbala in which militants used silenced weapons and a sticky IED, respectively. Another activist, Basim al-Zubeidi also survived an attack by gunmen in Maysan province. On December 10, activist Ali al-Lami was found dead with bullet wounds to his head about 12 hours after he went missing in Baghdad. Activists and protesters are also facing threats of kidnappings and forced disappearances. On December 11, social media posts said that two young Iraqi activists, Omar al-Amiri and Salman al-Mansouri, went missing that day while on their way to purchase new tents for the protest site near Tahrir Square. On December 11, AFP published a report describing the kidnapping and beating ordeals that to which several protesters were subjected last week as part of what appears to be a systematic campaign of intimidation. Some of these activists were later released alive, while at least one activist was killed by her captors.
On December 9, the office of the Iraqi Human Rights Commission in Dhi-Qar released statistics on the deaths and injuries among protesters in the province between October 1 and December 3. The report found that 88 of the 94 protesters who died in the province were killed by live bullets. The report also found that 71 of those killed were between 16 and 29 years old. In addition to the deaths, there were 1,648 recorded injuries and 600 detentions among protesters during the same period.
On December 11, the UN Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI) published a new report on Iraq's ongoing demonstration covering the period from November 5 to December 8. The report shows that at least 170 people were killed and 2,264 more were injured during that period. The document says that "UNAMI continued to receive credible allegations of deliberate killings, abduction and arbitrary detention carried out by unknown armed men described as: 'militia', 'unknown third parties', 'armed entities', 'outlaws' and 'spoilers'." The report also highlights the fact that the Iraqi government is refusing to allow UNAMI to access hospitals that are receiving demonstrations casualties whether to review their data on casualties or to speak with admitted patients.
On December 12, Iraq's Ministry of Migration reported that it has assisted 65 Iraqi refugees in returning home from Turkey. The ministry routinely helps Iraqi refugees return home through the Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration program, which had supported the return of at least 232 refugees in October and November.
At what point are we going to demand that our candidates for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination offer some comment on what's going on in Iraq right now? Thus far, only Bernie Sanders has taken the time to note the protests.
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Am I the only one bothered by our chicken s**t media? Take this from POLITICO:
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) on Wednesday night publicly named a person that some Republicans and allies of President Donald Trump claim is the alleged whistleblower who first brought the Trump-Ukraine scandal to light.
Gohmert identified the person, who POLITICO is not naming, during remarks at a Judiciary Committee meeting on articles of impeachment against Trump. Gohmert named the person as he ticked through a list of witnesses he said the committee should hear from before voting on impeachment.
Or this from THE NEW YORK POST:
Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert dropped the name of the alleged whistleblower whose complaint sparked the Trump impeachment probe in a nationally televised House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday night.
The Texas lawmaker said the name during his opening statement in day one of the committee's two-day marathon session to debate possible "markups," or amendments to the two articles of impeachment brought against President Trump.
Gohmert incorporated the alleged whistleblower's name into a grouping of "fact witnesses" he claimed House Democrats have blocked from testifying in front of the committees carrying out the impeachment probe.
Eric Ciaramella is the name that they are refusing to print. Why? Did Chelsea Manning get that special treatment? No. And Chelsea was a whistle-blower. Eric Ciaramella is a biased and partisan attack dog who leaked gossip and nothing more. He has no first-hand knowledge of anything. He is not a whistle-blower. He is a government employee. He is someone making charges that have led to impeachment inquiries so he is of public interest and his name should be public knowledge.
This 'protection' has never been offered to any other whistle-blower.
The way we are distorting democracy and our rules is appalling. An accusation has been made, a very serious one, the American people should know the name and everything else about the leaker. That is part of the process. We don't just consider the accusation, we vet the accuser to determine whether or not we find them reliable.
Thursday, December 12, 2019. As protests continue in Iraq, no one does more damage to Joe Biden's campaign than . . . Joe Biden.
Starting in the US where the race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination continues and where gaffe prone Joe Biden continues to destroy his own campaign.
Link to headline article
If Biden Is Too Old to Serve Two Terms, He Shouldn't RunBiden is telling aides he won't run for reelection in 2024. If that's true, nominating him would be the opposite of pragmatic.
What are we talking about?
Ryan Lizza (POLITICO) reported yesterday:
Former Vice President Joe Biden's top advisers and prominent Democrats outside the Biden campaign have recently revived a long-running debate whether Biden should publicly pledge to serve only one term, with Biden himself signaling to aides that he will serve only a single term.
While the option of making a public pledge remains available, Biden has for now settled on an alternative strategy: quietly indicate that he will almost certainly not run for a second term while declining to make a promise that he and his advisers fear could turn him into a lame duck and sap him of his political capital.
So, follow this, we're going through a bruising primary season and it's so Joe can serve for one term? As the report resulted in various negative reactions, Joe's campaign attempted to dismiss the rumor. THE WEEK notes:
His deputy campaign manager and communications director, Kate Bedingfield, responded to the report by saying "this is not a conversation our campaign is having and not something VP Biden is thinking about."
[Senator Chris] Coons, who has endorsed Biden, also responded by saying "just the opposite" is true and that Biden "has made it clear to me that he is ready and able and willing to serve two terms if necessary," per CBS News' Alan He.
Coons shares pillow talk but it does nothing to end the talk. So Joe himself was sent out to speak. David Gardner (EVENING STANDARD) quotes Joe stating, "I don't have plans on one term." Igor Derysh (SALON) points out Joe "told The Associated Press in October that he would also not commit to running for a second term." William Goldschlag and Dan Janison (NEWSDAY) observe, "There's a strong argument against any presidential candidate saying such a thing out loud. A new president who said four years but no more would be a lame duck on Day One, instantly hemorrhaging the political capital to pursue an agenda." Jordan Weissmann (SLATE) argues:
For starters, if Biden thinks there's a chance he simply won't be able to handle the job in five or six years, he should realize there's a chance he won't be able to do it in two or three either. Being president is hard; it tends to age politicians rapidly, and Biden shouldn't gamble on his ability to fill the role.
But beyond all that, serving as a one-term president will vastly diminish his powers in office and possibly set back Democratic policy priorities. It's not a fix for anything.
One of the most important parts about being a first-term president is running for reelection. It gives you leverage over your party on Capitol Hill, since lawmakers want to help you nab that second term or at least don't want to piss off primary voters by denying you legislative wins and undermining your chances. Plus, you can do more in eight years than four. You get more time to appoint judges. You can implement legislation that takes a while to get up and running. (The Affordable Care Act's exchanges didn't even start selling insurance until Obama's second go-round.) And even if the opposition takes over Congress, you can still use the Justice Department and regulatory agencies to push change. (Donald Trump, for instance, is cutting food stamps at the moment by administrative fiat.)
It's not a good day to be Joe Biden -- but is there ever a good day to be Joe? Cleve R. Wootson Jr. (WASHINGTON POST) points out, "An October AP-NORC poll found a 69 percent majority of Americans said it was 'inappropriate' for Hunter Biden to serve on the board of a Ukrainian energy company while his father was vice president." Wootson also notes that Joe attempted to defend Hunter's actions in an interview by insisting, "Look, the American public knows me."
Do they? Keith Griffith (DAILY MAIL) notes:
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden paid his female staffers less on average than men over several decades, a new analysis finds.
In his 35 years in the Senate, Biden paid full-time female staffers on average just 67 cents for every dollar earned by their male counterparts, according to an analysis of Senate records by the Washington Free Beacon.
The biggest gap came in 1983 and 1984, when women in Biden's Senate office made less than half of what men made, on average — just 44 cents on the dollar.
A spokesperson for Biden's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com.
And yet some self-appointed 'spokerwomen' vouch for Joe on behalf of other women. Speak for yourself and stop trying to act as though you're leading a movement. Joe's treatment of Anita Hill is just the tip of the iceberg on a long anti-woman bias.
Joe as president means the world will be in a lot worse shape after four years of Biden. Jake Johnson (COMMON DREAMS) explains:
Former Vice President Joe Biden must ditch his industry-friendly, "middle-of-the-road" climate policy in favor of an agenda that completely rejects fossil fuels if he wishes to be taken seriously as an environmental leader in the 2020 Democratic presidential race.
That's the message of a petition launched Wednesday by 350 Action. The group charges Biden's centrist approach to the climate emergency "won't cut it anymore" and demands that he "do better."
"Vice President Joe Biden has dragged his feet in responding to the urgency of the climate and environmental crises across the country," Tamara Toles O'Laughlin, 350 Action's North America director, said in a statement. "Stunningly, we've watched a strident Biden attend fundraisers hosted by fossil fuel power brokers and rub shoulders with dirty fuel magnates."
O'Laughlin said Biden's climate plan, which leaves the door open to new fossil fuel development, pales in comparison to the sweeping environmental platforms of leading 2020 contenders Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
350 Action's climate scorecard gives Biden "unknowns" on two of its three criteria: Support for the Green New Deal and opposition to fossil fuel drilling. The group also noted that Biden "has supported demonstrably false solutions like 'carbon capture.'"
"The other 2020 frontrunners, Senators Sanders and Warren, have plans for the people," said O'Laughlin. "They have pursued the gold standard of climate leadership with real commitment to make polluters pay for a just transition and the Green New Deal. We deserve better than Joe Biden's silence in the face of crisis."
Norman Solomon (COMMON DREAMS) surveys the field of candidates and explains:
From three different vectors, the oligarchy is on the march to capture the Democratic presidential nomination. Pete Buttigieg has made big gains. A timeworn ally of corporate power, Joe Biden, is on a campaign for his last hurrah. And Michael Bloomberg is swooping down from plutocratic heights.
Those three men are a team of rivals—each fiercely competitive for an individual triumph, yet arrayed against common ideological foes named Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
The obvious differences between Buttigieg, Biden and Bloomberg are apt to distract from their underlying political similarities. Fundamentally, they're all aligned with the nation's economic power structure—two as corporate servants, one as a corporate master.
For Buttigieg, the gaps between current rhetoric and career realities are now gaping. On Tuesday, hours after the collapse of the "nondisclosure agreement" that had concealed key information about his work for McKinsey & Company, the New York Times concluded that "the most politically troubling element of his client list" might be what he did a dozen years ago for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan—"a health care firm that at the time was in the process of reducing its work force."
The newspaper reported that "his work appeared to come at about the same time the insurer announced that it would cut up to 1,000 jobs—or nearly 10 percent of its work force—and request rate increases."
This year, Buttigieg's vaguely progressive rhetoric has become more and more unreliable, most notably with his U-turn away from supporting Medicare for All. Meanwhile, wealthy donors have flocked to him. Forbes reports that 39 billionaires have donated to the Buttigieg campaign, thus providing ultra-elite seals of approval. (Meanwhile, Biden has 44 billionaire donors and Warren has six. Forbes couldn't find any billionaires who've donated to Sanders; he did receive one contribution from a billionaire's spouse—though that donation was later returned.)
Not surprisingly, the political orientations of the leading candidates match up with the spread of average donations. The latest figures reflect candidates' proximity to the class interests of donors, with wealthier ones naturally tending to give more sizable amounts. Nearly two-thirds (64.9 percent) of Biden's donations were upwards of $200 each, while such donations accounted for a bit more than half (52.5 percent) of the contributions to Buttigieg. Compare those numbers to 29.6 percent for Elizabeth Warren and 24.9 percent for Bernie Sanders.
Rebecca Traister surveys the media landscape for how it portrays the candidates.
Rebecca Traister @rtraister 32m32 minutes ago
I wrote about Morning Joe, Steve Schmidt, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, which candidates get tagged as dishonest, which ones get anointed as straight-talkers and how it doesn't actually correspond to their truth-telling history:
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At THE CUT, she offers:
The week before the last Democratic primary debate of 2019, a panel of pundits on MSNBC's Morning Joe gathered to make an explicit critique of one of the candidates. Citing a "whiff of fraudulence," political writer John Heilemann talked with host Joe Scarborough, former Missouri senator Claire McCaskill, and former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt about the perception that there's something dishonest and untrustworthy about Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren.
"Is this woman who she says she is?" asked Heilemann, citing controversies over her claims of Native American heritage, her consulting work on bankruptcy, and her recent assertion that her children attended public schools when in fact her younger son Alex also was enrolled in private schools, as not being about those issues, but rather reflecting the larger concern of voters: "Is she a phony? Is she a fraud?"
"I'm not saying she's any of those things!" Heilemann made sure to say.
Then came Schmidt, who said those things. Claiming that Warren has a "tremendous talent for self-righteousness and hypocrisy," Schmidt said that "over and over again she has misrepresented herself" and argued that he was just telling hard truths: "Why is it that Elizabeth Warren checked the box as a Native American on the Harvard Law School application? I know why she checked the box; she was trying to game the system."
In fact, extensive reporting has shown that Warren did not identify as Native American through the hiring process at Harvard, though the law school, then under sharp criticism for not hiring women of color, later claimed her as one.
There are extremely valid criticisms to be made around Warren's handling of her past claims of Native American ancestry; none of them are about whether she was qualified to teach at Harvard Law School on the merits. But the most compelling thing about the Morning Joe critique wasn't the bevy of specific charges against Warren, some of which were false and some of which, including her answer on her son's schooling, are rooted in real unforced errors. Warren, like scores of presidential candidates before her and alongside her, has a decent but imperfect record of accuracy when it comes to how she's told her own story.
What's really fascinating is whose imperfect record gets cast as fatally phony and whose does not — to whom perceptions of untrustworthiness stick and to whom they do not and to what end. Who gets called to correct the record and who permits lies to get repeated? It's not always just the candidates.
While the media was nailing Elizabeth Warren to the cross, they were giving many other candidates a pass. Here's Rebecca on how Joe got waived through without questioning:
Take Joe Biden, who left the 1988 Democratic primary after being charged with plagiarism both on the campaign trail and back in law school, as well as with inflating his own academic record: Biden had claimed to have graduated in the top half of his law-school class, when in fact he graduated 76th out of 85 students. In 1987, when pressed by a reporter on his academic record, Biden had angrily responded, "I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do" (an exchange he would recall in a later memoir as "so stupid," yet repeated just last week with a voter who asked him about his son Hunter's work in Ukraine). Back then, Biden told the New York Times, "I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me." But, just as a point of fact, he had told people — lots of people! — things that weren't true about himself, not just about his school years, but in borrowing details about the life of the British politician whose speeches he'd plagiarized.
Early in this campaign season, Biden's campaign was again found to have lifted language; his climate and education plans initially included phrases taken from other publications without attribution. He's also been caught out telling a false story about traveling to Afghanistan to award a Navy Captain a Silver Star, apparently a conflation of several different events. Back in 2007, he claimed to have been "shot at" in Iraq; this was not true. Anita Hill has recalled that back when he was in charge of Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Biden initially assured her that she would be able to testify first, but that after negotiations with Republican colleagues, Thomas had been permitted to go first. "I leave you to say whether he lied or not," Hill said to a New York Times reporter earlier this year.
Yet despite his career-long penchant for exaggeration and misleading recollection, Biden gets regularly presented by the mainstream political media as a man of deep integrity, a trustworthy guy; he's currently on his "no-malarkey" campaign tour.
A similar advantage seems to have been accrued by Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who has been pushing the view of Elizabeth Warren as deceptive — the same view expressed vocally by the Morning Joe panel on Tuesday — for months. In October, Buttigieg said that his opponent has been more "forthcoming about the number of selfies she's taken" than about how she planned to pay for Medicare for All (Warren has since released her detailed plan on how to pay for Medicare for All), and his campaign has recently hit her hard with the suggestion that she's hiding something regarding the bankruptcy expert's past work as a "corporate lawyer." But Buttigieg has significantly changed his positions, including on Medicare for All, during his time on the campaign trail, and until pressed by the Warren campaign, had not permitted press into his fundraisers, released his list of donors, or the list of clients he'd worked for as a McKinsey consultant, a lot of which he did this week. Buttigieg also recently rolled out a list of black supporters in South Carolina, some of whom had never in fact endorsed him, and felt they had been misled by his campaign.
We included Tiny Pete. The whole column has to be read.
In Iraq, the protests continue.
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About an hour after gunmen began attacking a protest encampment in Iraq's capital at the weekend, Mustafa — who had slept there for weeks — went offline.
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As protests in Iraq enter their 3rd month, the numbers of arrests, abductions & killings of protesters continue to rise.
Security forces should be protecting the demonstrators.
Instead, some security forces are the ones doing the killing.
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Human Rights Watch's Belkis Wille writes:
As protests in Iraq enter their third month, the numbers of arrests, abductions, and killings of protesters continue to rise. But instead of protecting the demonstrators mostly peacefully protesting on Iraq's streets, some security forces are the ones attacking and killing them. Prime Minister Adil Abd Al-Mahdi had promised in a letter to Human Rights Watch that security forces would no longer use live ammunition against protesters, before announcing his own resignation on November 29. But killings and abductions of protesters have continued.
Since the beginning of these protests, Human Rights Watch has also documented unidentified armed men attacking protesters while the state security forces apparently stand by. Last week alone, these unidentified actors abducted one protester in Baghdad and opened fire on another in Karbala, killing him.
Early on December 6, Zaid Mohammed Abd Ali, 23, a photographer who attended the protests daily in Baghdad's Tahrir Square, was abducted from outside his house, his brother said. The family's CCTV camera footage from that morning shows four men, one with a gun, get out of a car and grab Ali as he was arriving home. They hit him, put him in the car, and drove away. The family went straight to the police, but officers said they needed to wait 24 hours after the incident before they could open a missing persons complaint. The police opened a complaint the next day and told Ali's family they are reviewing the CCTV footage but have provided no other information on their supposed investigation.
On December 8, a gunman on the back of a motorcycle shot and killed Fahem al-Tai, 53, a protester in Karbala. Timestamped footage from a street camera showed the entire attack unfold. Human Rights Watch reviewed the footage and spoke to a friend who was with al-Tai at the time of the attack. He said the police had not yet contacted him, despite his presence at the scene.
Reports emerged on December 11 of another two activists – one a well-known environmentalist – who have gone missing.
The Iraqi government needs to start protecting its citizens, by ending its own security force's unlawful violence against protesters, and taking effective action against the groups now attacking them. This means taking urgent action to find anyone abducted by these groups, and arresting and prosecuting anyone responsible for murder and other crimes. Otherwise, the death toll will continue to climb, and Iraq's next prime minister and cabinet will face a Herculean task in restoring the rule of law.
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Khak Shahi (, also Romanized as Khāk Shāhī) is a village in Rezvan Rural District, Jebalbarez District, Jiroft County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 39, in 9 families.

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Populated places in Jiroft County

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Hi everyone… Thanks so much for checking out my food blog! My name is Taylor Maving I am originally from Buffalo, NY but I now live in sunny Naples, Florida with my husband Mitchell and our amazing two year old son Weston.
I have always loved to eat, growing up in an Italian family it was a constant discussion of what our next meal would be. I learned to cook with the help of my parents, my father is a huge fan of olive oil and garlic and has definitely passed that on to me, and my mother has exposed me to fine dining which has opened up my palette and imagination.
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This is very exciting. Can always use a new recipe.
You look like a natural for Food Network! You go girl!
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I would appreciate a mention in your bio.. considering i taught you everything you know.
Taylor…loving your site. I am always trying to find healthy recipes for bri and I. Such a cute idea!!
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The gift of time. I wonder how many troubled marriages that seem to be flat-lining or limping along on life support with no hope of reconciliation could be brought back from the brink if only we would give the gift of time so that God could do His work? How many struggling Christians who give up on their church and maybe even on God would be given new life and vitality if they just gave themselves and others the gift of more time. Friendships, jobs, family relationships, church ministry-- sometimes what we need is to give ourselves and others the gift of time so that God can heal and restore.
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Sunday Morning, New York City Release Info
January 16, 201601/16/16
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Who: Jen Schaffer and The Shiners
What: Sunday Morning, New York City on a Saturday Night
A single and video release party for Sunday Morning, New York City, an original song written by Jen Schaffer and Simon Law, produced by Simon Law.
When: Saturday January 23rd, 2016 – Doors at 8:30pm and Show at 9:00pm
Where: Burdock, 1184 Bloor Street West. Toronto (near Dufferin)
If you're not familiar with Jen Schaffer and The Shiners:
Website: www.jenschaffer.ca/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/jenschafferandtheshiners/
Bandcamp: www.jenschafferandtheshiners.bandcamp.com/
This past Fall the Shiners recorded Sunday Morning, New York City, an original song written by Jen Schaffer and Simon Law – a love song to the city they adore. It was inspired by a Sunday morning walk through Chelsea, when the city's manic vibrations seemed to slow to a peaceful hum. To accompany the song, Kristin Briggs has directed a video about its inception featuring a dance performance by Jen's daughter, Hannah Szeptycki, a member of the acclaimed Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre (who performed at the Joyce Theatre in NYC this past Fall).
For the release party, the band has invited some special musical guests and friends, to celebrate the song and city. They'll perform a fave New York tune of their choosing. It is sure to be an eclectic compilation that includes Blair Packham's rendition of "Shattered," Mia Sheard's PJ Harvey New York centric song "Good Fortune" and Arlene Bishop's best Leonard Cohen – "Chelsea Hotel, No.2." The other guests include Steven Foster, Ryan Granville-Martin and Lain Gray. Lain will be visiting from Houston, Texas but is a former NYC and London, UK resident. Lain is Simon's longstanding songwriting partner who last performed in Toronto in the musical production of "The Harder They Come." (One of Jen's desert island discs!)
Montreal-born and raised, lawyer and mediator Jen Schaffer spent several years living in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio before finally settling in Toronto. She discovered songwriting in the middle of a career focused on social justice and giving voice to the marginalized in society.
Jen says, "As a state public defender in Ohio, I worked on a battered woman homicide case that not only changed self-defence law in that state but, unbeknownst to me at the time, my musical trajectory."
This experience resulted in her first song, For Teresa, and the recording of an EP released in 2009 called Angel Ridge.
Her musical incarnation as a singer-songwriter came suddenly and with great passion. She formed The Shiners seven years ago and has been writing and performing since. The band released their first full-length album, Fate Line, in November of 2014. The 12 songs are all Jen Schaffer originals, showcasing depth and insight as a songwriter, as well as the band's eclectic talents. There's a duet on Fate Line with indie pop songstress and Juno nominee Emm Gryner, and contributions from Blair Packham, Arlene Bishop, Bob Foster and Sarah Foster.
Jen's style evolved out of a childhood steeped in The Band, Ry Cooder and Jimmy Cliff, and a later immersion into the world of bluegrass and alternative country.
Simon Law, the drummer and keyboardist in the Shiners (Grammy winning songwriter of Back to Life and a member of the UK's Soul II Soul), produced the album, giving it a soulful 70's sound with rich harmony singing, deep bass and funky beats.
The Shiners include Law on drums and keyboards, Astrid Foster on bass, John Teshima on guitar, keyboards and bass, and Jonathan Marks on violin, viola and mandolin. All sing background vocals.
Internationally-known Canadian songwriter Ron Sexmith says the new material on Fate Line is "very strong" and counts himself a fan of Jen's songwriting."
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So the SBLGNT omits the possessive pronoun. Given the way SBLGNT was constructed, is this an artifact of the editor's method, or is there a minority textual variant here?
M is 0121(a) and is a uncial of Paul's letters.
67 is 424, looks like it a lectionary minuscule.
Thanks for the quick responses, on Christmas Day, no less.
So NA27 seems to be the best single source of variant readings?
And where would I find a discussion of the cause of such a variant?
More than likely NA28 contains the same list. Unfortunately not at home to check on that.
I would hazard a guess that the ECM of the Epistles will be the best (future) source, however if you go to http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/nt-transcripts and put in a verse (eg, Heb 1:3), then click on "Unedited Real-time Collation" (URTC), you'll get a list of manuscripts and their variant readings from the main text used.
Ah geez, about a bagillion books on Textual Criticism!
Personally, I'd start with the UBS' A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament, which explains the editorial committee's decisions regarding variant readings etc. This usually has a discussion on certain "Scribal habits" that feature in the decision-making.
You should also definitely have on your bookshelf a copy of James R. Royse's Scribal Habits in Early Greek New Testament Papyri - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Scribal-Habits ... 1589835220, which discusses the scribal habits of several early NT manuscripts (including P46 mentioned above). A hugely dense book (mainly due to Royse's abundant footnotes!), but worth its weight in gold (it's also literally heavy).
Both. The editor of the SBLGNT has a noticeable tendency to prefer the shorter reading when it is attested in early witnesses.
Oh yes, absolutely an option.
I was basing my comment on how the NA27 apparatus indicated the variant, which puts it down as an omission of the possessive, rather than addition of the preposition.
This is mainly due to the fact that the majority text reads δι' ἑαυτοῦ. So in this case, we could have two variants (rather than just one) in P46: omission of the first possessive, followed by change of the reflexive to personal possessive (though personal possessive could also be used to be reflexive in nature).
The reading of P46 is supported by Bezae's original reading, and a few minuscules (236 263 2005 2127) according to the NA apparatus.
In A textual Commentary, B. Metzger says the committee "thought it more likely that δι' αὐτοῦ or δι' ἑαυτοῦ (Dc K L M 614 1739 Byz Lect al) was added in order to enhance the force of the middle voice of ποιησάμενος, than that the phrase was present originally and then omitted in good representatives of the Alexandrian text (א A B 33 81) as well as in Western witnesses (it81 vg)."
Bezae actually has the reading ῷ ῥήματι τῆς δυνάμεως αὐτοῦ, δι' αὐτοῦ καθαρισμὸν (again, per B. Metzger), which I would argue is actually the more likelier to be the original.
The shorter readings can easily be put down to either omission of a deemed "unnecessary" personal pronoun (αὐτοῦ), and a feature of P46 (see Royse), or with those omitting δι' (ε)αυτου, a case of homoeoteleuton (αὐτοῦ ... αὐτοῦ).
I don't think Metzger's comment that the apparent "conflation" in Bezae therefore makes the δι αυτου reading "considerably weakened" is justified. Too much Lectio brevior application for my liking!


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AWAY WITH THE GATEKEEPERS!
My latest column for Al Jazeera English on the the controversies over 'cultural appropriation' and what they reveal about the degradation of contemporary campaigns for social justice. It was published in AJE under the headline 'The bane of cultural appropriation'.
Another week, another controversy about 'cultural appropriation'. The latest has been the furore over Justin Bieber's dreadlocks. The Bieber furore followed similar controversies over Beyoncé's Bollywood outfit, Kylie Jenner's cornrows, Canadians practicing yoga, English students wearing sombreros and American students donning Native American Hallow'een costumes.
Many of these controversies may seem as laughable as Bieber's locks. What they reveal, however, is how degraded have become contemporary campaigns for social justice.
Cultural appropriation is, in the words of Susan Scafidi, professor of law at Fordham University, and Law author of Who Owns Culture? Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law, 'Taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else's culture without permission' This can include the 'unauthorized use of another culture's dance, dress, music, language, folklore, cuisine, traditional medicine, religious symbols, etc.'
But what is it for knowledge or an object to 'belong' to a culture? And who gives permission for someone from another culture to use such knowledge or forms?
The idea that the world could be divided into distinct cultures, and that every culture belonged to a particular people, has its roots in late eighteenth century Europe. The Romantic movement, which developed in part in opposition to the rationalism of the Enlightenment, celebrated cultural differences and insisted on the importance of 'authentic' ways of being. For Johann Gottfried Herder, the German philosopher who best articulated the Romantic notion of culture, what made each people – or volk – unique was its particular language, history and modes of living. The unique nature of each volk was expressed through its volksgeist – the unchanging spirit of a people refined through history.
Herder was no reactionary – he was an important champion of equality – but his ideas about culture were adopted by reactionary thinkers. Those ideas became central to racial thinking – the notion of the volksgeist was transformed into the concept of racial make-up – and fuelled the belief that non-Western societies were 'backward' because of their 'backward' cultures.
Radicals challenging racism and colonialism rejected the Romantic view of culture, adopting instead a universalist perspective. From the struggle against slavery to the anti-colonial movements, the aim was not to protect one's own special culture but to create a more universal culture in which all could participate on equal terms.
In recent decades, however, the universalist viewpoint has eroded, largely as many of the social movements that embodied that viewpoint have disintegrated. The social space vacated by that disintegration became filled by identity politics. As the broader struggles for social transformation have faded, people have tended to retreat into their particular faiths or cultures, and to embrace more parochial forms of identity. In this process, the old cultural arguments of the racists have returned, but now rebranded as 'antiracist'.
But how does creating gated cultures, and preventing others from trespassing upon one's culture without permission, challenge racism or promote social justice? Campaigners against cultural appropriation argue that when 'privileged' cultures adopt the styles of 'less privileged' ones they help create stereotypes of what such cultures are like, and assert racial power. 'By dressing up as a fake Indian', one Native American activist told white students, 'you are asserting your power over us, and continuing to oppress us.' The trouble is, in making the case against cultural appropriation, campaigners equally perpetuate stereotypes. After all, to suggest that it is 'authentic' for blacks to wear locks, or for Native Americans to wear a headdress, but not for whites to do so, is itself to stereotype those cultures.
Cultures do not, and cannot, work through notions of 'ownership'. The history of culture is the history of cultural appropriation – of cultures borrowing, stealing, changing, transforming.
Nor does preventing whites from wearing locks or practicing yoga challenge racism in any meaningful way. What the campaigns against cultural appropriation reveal is the disintegration of the meaning of 'anti-racism'. Once it meant to struggle for equal treatment for all. Now it means defining the correct etiquette for a plural society. The campaign against cultural appropriation is about policing manners rather than transforming society.
This takes us to the second question: who does the policing? Who gives permission for people of other cultures to use particular cultural forms? Who act as the gatekeepers to gated cultures?
Most black people could probably not care less what Justin Beiber does to his hair. Inevitably, the gatekeepers are those who are outraged by Bieber's locks. The very fact of being outraged makes one the arbiter of what is outrageous. The gatekeepers, in other words, define themselves, because they are ones who want to put up the gates.
The debates around Justin Bieber's hair or Beyonce's Bollywood outfit are relatively trivial. But, in other contexts, the creation of gatekeepers has proved highly problematic. In many European nations, minority groups have come to be seen as distinct communities, each with their own interests, needs and desires, and each with certain so-called 'community leaders' acting as their representatives. Such leaders are frequently religious, often conservative, and rarely representative of their communities. But they wield great power as mediators between their communities and wider society. In effect, they act as gatekeepers to those communities.
Their role as gatekeepers is particularly problematic when it comes to policing not fashion styles or cuisine but ideas. Community leaders often help define what is acceptable to say about particular communities, and what is 'offensive'. And notions of 'offence' are often used to police not just what outsiders may say about a particular community, but to shut down debate within those communities – think of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie or the shutting down by Sikh activists of Sikh playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's play Behzti, which explored the role of women within Sikh communities.
The campaign against cultural appropriation is, in other words, part of the broader attempt to police communities and cultures. Those who most suffer from such policing are minority communities themselves, and in particular progressive voices within those communities. The real fight against injustice begins with ridding ourselves of our self-appointed gatekeepers.
by Kenan Malik on April 14, 2016
Categories: Free Speech, Justice & Liberties, Race & Immigration • Tags: anti-racism, cultural appropriation, cultural ownership, herder, identity politics, justin bieber, racism, romanticism
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That the gatekeepers define themselves, and that they become the reactionary guardians of those factors that divide communities is a given. The question remains, should the gatekeepers of the opposite extreme, demanding no differences whatsoever, not look long at the landscape they promote? That one looks universally beige to me.
What human achievements should be celebrated and promoted? I suggest we accept that there are, in fact, differences between people – in their skills, desires and degrees of creative exuberance. There are differences that flow organically across groupings of people. Some of the variations hit against extremes of behaviour – my university anthropology professor, self-identified as a Maori, highlighted the unusual behaviour of women in the Chimbu tribe of Papua New Guinea of 60 years ago, where they waited over the year for the Chinese trader to come by with a mill bastard file to file down their teeth to points.
To be tolerant of behaviours that do not conform to one's range of expectations is to allow for creativity to flourish. But to remove the grinding capability of one's teeth for life, may not be of benefit to anyone but the person accepting payment for wielding the file.
At this point some may fall into the trap of being prescriptive. Let us set up, they say, the parameters by which we can define the conditions that specify personal and cultural benefits. That Book of Specifications will be quite large, and will continue to grow as those with special interests find loopholes to their own benefit.
The other path depends on critical thoughtfulness. Admittedly that is an aptitude with a varying degree of expression. Perhaps you will agree that it is one that, when done with aplomb, shows itself to be a rare and precious gem.
Can we give over to these reluctant, thoughtful gatekeepers the power to say, "You may wish to rethink the consequences to your future self – one that is less dependent on the vagaries of fashion and sexual appeal – of having to gum your food during the declining years of your life."
No. That would be, well, rational!
Great article. Gatekeepers are the self appointed proclaimers of why they are different. Almost never in these discussions does it arise that across all cultures we are in fact we are much more the same than we are different. The personality types that define all humans cut across all racial and cultural boundaries. The kind, the gentle, the angry, the xenophobes, the activists, those that long for a bygone era that never existed (a substantial majority) all appear in all races and cultures.
My favourite stupid cultural resurgence is the desire for people to learn some long dead language to discover "who they are". Its not language that defines us but how that language is used to express the ideas and thoughts we have. The world is poised to have unprecedented peace and stability through the use of increasingly common languages. History shows international disputes between common language states rarely end in military actions because it is too difficult to demonise people who similarities are too hard to ignore.
Monty Python put it best in Life of Brian. "Yes we are all individuals….". Each person genuinely believing they are special without ever stepping outside their own frame of reference. Gatekeepers have this in common with each other right across the world.
Debates like this have always interested me, but is there really a 'furore' taking place? White musicians have worn dreadlocks for decades, for instance Rage Against the Machine (90's) or Boy George (80's). Dreads ceased to be purely a signifier of black cultural pride once crusties adopted them in the late 70s. I think any sense of distaste the pictures have generated is more to do with a performer widely seen as lacking authenticity, suddenly adopting the style of a more 'credible' subculture. Basically, he's trying to look like a skate-punk.
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A thoughtful, enlightening comment upon cultural appropriation. The comments, too, have clarified the issue greatly for me.
I would love to hear some non-white male opinions. Being a white male in Australia, there are tens of thousands of years worth of cultural knowledge woven into our First Nation people that I certainly don't have a right to appropriate as my own. I think the article presents some valid points, but is too sweeping in its conclusions, undervalues the importance of respecting difference in creating a harmonious society, and selects not to discuss cultural homogenization.
Being a white male doesn't mean you're incapable of seeing reality for what it is, unlike what SJWs have been screeching over the last few years to decades.
You're not missing out on anything. There is no 'special knowledge' that non-white people have that you don't, in the here and now.
(And even if we accepted the premise privileged people are missing out on anything, it would be straight white females that are on top, anyway.)
I can't say this enough: Cultures alone are not something inherently valuable in and of themselves.
lexxie rae
i am a pansexual half black woman and i absolutely am not capable of caring less whether someone 'appropriates' a hairstyle. if that helps.
Bazompora
So long one doesn't goes around calling it an "afro", this half black male would add.
Actual cultural appropriation is taking something that existed all along within a maligned culture and selling it as a novel creation of one's own. Think rock and Elvis taking the credit. Justin Bieber doesn't appropriate, but merely imitates locks.
Another thing that is left to be said, is that like gatekeeping, appropriation has come to conflate culture and identity. As the privileged seize, redact and caricature the identity of marginalised groups, it reinforces their racism and other prejudice.
i don't obviously know firsthand since i'm too young but i would guess that instead of elvis knowingly taking credit, other people ignorantly ascribe it to him
since he was the one to get famous because of racism preventing black success
I'm not sure what the big deal is about calling it an afro either. Not so etymologically accurate, but that's it.
I was watching this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwoSYWIgV9Y Basically, Japanese people love foreigners wearing kimono, and don't care one bit if you wear it wrong or in 'offensive' contexts.
The pattern seems to be that "cultural appropriation" is something offensive to either: guilt-ridden whites, or some children of immigrants. The latter seems to be because they're caught in between cultures, and aren't as secure in their identity the way a Japanese person living in Japan is.
The offence is in the appropriation of identity: claiming blackness by pigeonholing all appropriation through culture. An 'afro' is Afro-textured hair worn long in its natural state; a racial trait. Usurpation of the marginal drives the archetype into the margin of the margin. And with the colonisation of colored bodies, we are compelled to run from our physical selves.
Also, imbalance of power makes cultural appropriation a potential aggression: I can imagine the humiliation of the Native American, who may feel forced to "appropriate Western culture", lest he have cultural stereotypes forced upon his person.
"Appropriation of identity"
So now we're encouraging black people to define themselves by their hair texture.
"Potential aggression" is BS. If a culture has been washed away by colonialism or otherwise actual aggression, it's the colonialism to be opposed then.
Digging up artifacts and reconstructing languages for historical, descriptive study of cultures is one thing, but to claim that the descendants have some special claim over it is racist and reactionary.
And if anyone is forcing cultural stereotypes upon Native Americans, it's you, if you think all NAs are humiliated over seeing a white person in a headdress. Because all NAs must be emotionally attached to headdresses.
Noor, I nowhere said 'all' Native Americans. Nor did I say that those who would feel humiliated, would be so because of emotional attachment to headdresses. See, when people dress up as Native Americans, they are making a statement about the ancestors of present Native Americans. Descendants are thereby under a burden to prove how much they are civilised away from the stereotype.
Descendants have a stake in their ancestor's legacy. That is why European history is expounded to everyone. Even the unrelated shall know that the ancient Germanic ancestors of West Europeans had crop rotation and kingdoms. Western history is viewed through idealised imagery, with masonry and as the rule rather than the actual exception for most of it. Compared to that, the Native American and African legacies are still displayed as little more than the trophies of Western conquerors, rather than placed within the historical contexts of Native American and African civilisations. Given this record, who are the real racists here?
And where would it get the New World natives to instead declare opposition to projects of colonialism that have been completed and become physically irreversible, namely the white settler states Canada, the United States, Australia, Argentinia, etc, that absorbed them?
Nomatter what they do to it afterwards, black people have afro-textured hair growing out of their scalp and the term 'afro' is attached to that racial trait and not African culture. The issue here is with people trying to make blackness cultural, which also deracialises afrophobia.
What "statement" is being made here, exactly? That certain headdresses are/were commonly worn by a tribe/its leaders? That's a fact. Most white people know very well that modern NAs don't wear that in every day life. If they do think that, they're uneducated and can be corrected, but that's it.
"Descendants have a stake in their ancestor's legacy."
And here we go again with the Volksgeist talk.
"That is why European history is expounded to everyone. Even the unrelated shall know that the ancient Germanic ancestors of West Europeans had crop rotation and kingdoms. Western history is viewed through idealised imagery, with masonry and as the rule rather than the actual exception for most of it. Compared to that, the Native American and African legacies are still displayed as little more than the trophies of Western conquerors, rather than placed within the historical contexts of Native American and African civilisations. Given this record, who are the real racists here?"
You do realize that much of that has to do with that we have no written record of a lot of Native American or African civilizations? There are entire millenia lost to history because of the lack of a writing system for entire language families. Most of what we know about these civilizations' history comes only from the written observations of European conquerers. A writing system for the Cherokee language was invented only in the early 1800s, so how do you expect us to know anything about their ancestors' civilizations 2000 years ago, while we can still read records in Latin from that time?
That being said, I don't deny that history is often taught around an unnecessarily Eurocentric perspective. If you want to research the history of these kingdoms lost, by all means do it.
You can't hold descendants of colonialists today, at all responsible for what their ancestors did. People that did unfair things are long dead. You can't change that. The most you can do is point out the hypocrisy if white people today claim people should go back to where their ancestors came from. (Though, that claim is probably more likely to come from a so-called 'anti-racist' today.)
You originally said "appropriation of identity" in regards to white people wearing afros (or rather, for accuracy, afro-inspired hairstyles). Which would mean black people should view their hair texture as a fundamental defining trait, as black first and foremost, over other things like their social roles, profession, politics, etc.
Also, there are black African peoples with naturally straight hair. So are you erasing them by equating being black with kinky hair? Not necessarily, and those that are not too invested in their identity as a "black with straight hair" won't take offense either. That's what I mean by encouraging people to not be overly invested in an identity based on physical traits.
Russell Burn (@burnculture)
Yes, got the impression that most people did not mind the Gap 'racist' kids advert pic, which very clearly exposed how simply an agenda is projected onto things. I hope the day comes soon when the extremist gatekeepers of religious piety are sent packing, when the regressives are replaced by progressives, and universal values set differences dancing, as they do at music festivals already anyway.
A very astute post.
In the interests of the same desire for cultural purity which is at the heart of the 'cultural appropriation' issue, I'll hereby be boycotting any African-American jazz musicians who have appropriated such white European instruments as saxophones, trumpets or pianos. The turntable is not an African-American technology and non-white proponents of hip hop culture should refrain from using them – banjos are African-American in origin however, so let's hope respect for the purity of differing traditions prevails, and Kanye West rerecords his back catalogue on one.
Also any non-white, non-American who appropriate jeans and t-shirts – or the British-originated lounge suit for that matter – in their dress, will receive a rather stern glare from me. And don't get me started on white anti-Zionists sporting keffiyehs.
If respect and honesty play the major role in our cultural interactions*, authentic, human, meaningful creativity will emerge. Strict controls based on ethnic identity and cultural practise and wielded by cultural authoritarians have never, to my knowledge, turned out well.
*And even this suggests that human cultures have the kind of specific borders which, particularly in this day and age of connectivity, they very rarely do.
tom george – the furore against dreadlocks is a relatively new development, starting in the mid 00s. since then, outrage has been manufactured against yoga, kimonos, and even learning another language


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Q: Establish ConnectionString using a list as a source I have a field named "classes". I need to fetch data from the database and bind it to the classes field.
But the requirement is, instead of using connection string directly I need to store the connection string in the SharePoint list and then need to call it in the place of connection string.
ex: suppose title and connection are two fields in a SharePoint list. Based on the title field I need to fetch the connection string in connection column and bind it as a connection string.
Can anyone help with this please?

A: For connecting fields to external data you can best use Business Connectivity Services (BCS). This way you can store your connection in a secure and central place in Cental Admin.
With Business Connectivity Services, you can use SharePoint and Office clients as interfaces into data that doesn't live in SharePoint 2013 itself.
For example, this external data may be in a database and it is accessed by using the out-of-the-box Business Connectivity Services connector for that database. Business Connectivity Services can also connect to data that is available through a web service, or data that is published as an OData source or many other types of external data
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A: Instead of storing the connection string in a list, I would suggest storing it in the Secure Store service application. The Secure Store will store the connection in an encrypted state in the database. Your code can then use the Secure Store API to retrieve the connection string.

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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott visits the Houston Chronicle editorial board on Thursday. Abbott is running against Wendy Davis in the Nov. 4 elections.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott insisted on Thursday that the state's voter ID law has not adversely affected turnout, a day before testimony in a federal court case challenging the legislation is slated to end.
"There is absolutely zero proof, zero proof, that there is any suppression of the vote whatsoever because of voter ID laws," Abbott, the favorite to win November's gubernatorial race, told the Houston Chronicle's editorial board.
The 2011 law, which took effect the following year, requires voters to show one of seven kinds of photo ID in order to vote, with or without a voter registration card. It was initially blocked after a federal court ruled that it discriminated against minorities.
However, in 2012, the Supreme Court struck down the portion of the federal voting rights act that requires states with a history of discrimination to seek approval from the federal government before changing legislation dealing with elections.
The Justice Department, voting rights and minority groups came together, filing a federal lawsuit against the state, claiming that the voter ID law does in fact discriminate against minorities and suppresses voter turnout.
Abbott's office is arguing against the suit in the case. The trial began about two weeks ago before U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos in Corpus Christi.
Abbott also outlined to the Chronicle's editorial board several other policies he would like to implement if elected governor, including plans to improve higher education and the state's health care system.
"I'm focused on what I call the issues that impact the most lives in the state of Texas that will ensure that 20 years from now, if my policy plans are passed, that Texas is going to be a better state than it is today," he said.
Closing arguments in the voter ID lawsuit are expected to be heard on Sept. 22. However, a ruling is unlikely before Election Day, meaning about 13.6 million registered voters in Texas still would have to produce a photo ID before voting.
While he could not give an exact number of cases prosecuted by his office, Abbott maintained on Thursday, as he has in the past, that voter ID laws prevent in-person voter fraud. He added that proof of "rampant" voter fraud is not necessary to enact voter ID laws.
"We're not trying to disenfranchise anyone," Abbott said. "We want more people to turn out and vote."
Matt Angle, Democratic strategist and director of the Lonestar Project, one of the groups helping finance the plaintiffs' case in the suit - said he believes Abbott's pursuit in court "is an action of hostility toward minorities."
In a prepared statement, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis' spokesman Zac Petkanas, echoed a similar view. "It's one more example of how Greg Abbott just isn't working for Texas families," he stated.


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On Dave Chappelle's "The Closer": Picking The Low-Hanging Fruit
by Max S. Gordon
"An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times. I think that is true of painters, sculptors, poets, musicians. As far as I'm concerned, it's their choice. But I choose to reflect the times and situations in which I find myself. That to me is my…
Witnessing the Blues: The Black Body In Perpetual Motion
("Run to You" by Kerream Jones, used with permission from the artist)
(This essay originally appeared in "Imagining: A Gibney Journal, #5", published by the Gibney Company Community Center on May 5, 2021.)
I got the key to the highway,
Billed out and bound to go
I'm gonna leave here running
Because walking is most too slow…"
— Sonny Terry and Brownie…
Published in Human Parts
Approach This World With Wonder: A Black Son Remembers His Father
I could tell you he was a bully, but that wouldn't be the whole story
Photos courtesy of the author.
"Friends depart, and memory takes them to her caverns, pure and deep."
— Thomas Haynes Bayly
The last time I visited my father, I said goodbye to him at the airport in the town where he lived. …
Aftermath: Surviving As A Nation After Donald J. Trump
Look down, look down that lonesome road,
Before you travel on.
–That Lonesome Road, Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915–1973)
This is America.
— Childish Gambino
I suppose it was inevitable that one day it would come to this, that racism would meet itself traveling down that lonesome road.
Witnessing it has…
Past Is Prologue
How We'll Get Over: Going to the Upper Room With Donald J. Trump
White America may be meeting Donald Trump for the first time, but Black people have known him for centuries
Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images
"Wade in the water, wade in the water, Children. God's gonna trouble the water." — Traditional
"My soul looks back and wonders, how I got over." — Mahalia Jackson
Months ago, I turned on the TV and saw a white mom at a protest in Portland dragged across the pavement…
·Jul 20, 2020
The Eroticism of Brutality
On Mary Trump's 'Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man'
Photo illustration courtesy of the author.
1.Several years ago, after a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous, I took a walk in Central Park with a woman I'd met only a few weeks before. We were mourning a mutual friend who had recently died of alcoholism.
She and Alan had been friends since childhood; I'd only known him…
On Mayor Bloomberg and The Republican National Convention
(This essay was originally published on September 10, 2004 as
"An Open Letter to Paul Wellstone". It was written in response to the arrests made during the Republican National Convention in New York City)
Senator Wellstone: I will not go on about the curious timing…
Dear Kim and Kanye, Stop F**king With Us: On Cultural Appropriation and the Commodification of Black Pain
Messin' round with the best of them
Digressing with the rest of them,
He's a stranger.
But his mama still knows his name.
"Sylvester", Sly & The Family Stone
The day after it was announced that the president of the United States had been impeached, I awoke to an image…
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This Boy Wonder: On Race, Homosexuality, and the Buttigieg Dilemma
As a gay man, I can appreciate what it means for an out gay man to be a real Democratic contender — but as a black man, things are much more complicated.
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This essay contains spoilers from James Baldwin's 1962 novel, Another Country.
1. For months I've hesitated to write about Pete Buttigieg because I wasn't sure how to articulate exactly what I felt. My ambivalence toward him is based on my own racial and sexual identities. I asked myself at one…
Where We're Going, Where We Are: On Harriet Tubman, Wal-Mart and The North Star
(The piece premiered at the First Person Plural Reading Series: What Just Happened? Writers Respond to Our American Crises — 2019 Edition, Harlem, New York, November 10, 2019.)
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