Tag: White Supremacy

Russ Winter, Bird-Dogging Cutout Operations at Charlottesville Ambush

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Russ Winter  ‘The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.’ ― Lenin Jason Kessler was the organizer of the Charlottesville ambush and is one of the defendants in what is called United the Right damage trial. Jury awards $26 million in Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally civil case The SPLC describes Mr. Kessler as a late comer to “Alt-Right” activism. Indeed, a thinking person looking at his resume might give real pause before attending a rally that he organized. For example, how does an individual who was…

Heather Mac Donald, The Corruption of Medicine

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Heather Mac Donald Guardians of the profession discard merit in order to alter the demographics of their field. The post–George Floyd racial reckoning has hit the field of medicine like an earthquake. Medical education, medical research, and standards of competence have been upended by two related hypotheses: that systemic racism is responsible both for racial disparities in the demographics of the medical profession and for racial disparities in health outcomes. Questioning those hypotheses is professionally suicidal. Vast sums of public and private research funding are being redirected from basic science…

NOW YOU KNOW: Abolishing Police Is a Step Toward Ending White Supremacy and Capitalism

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Kristian Williams PART OF THE SERIES The Road to Abolition Something has come unstuck. The common sense about policing has abruptly changed. This shift was a long time coming: Prison abolitionists — a movement of scholars and activists, notably spearheaded by Black women such as Angela Davis and Ruth Wilson Gilmore — have spent decades organizing toward a goal of abolishing the prison system. The Black Lives Matter movement and a new generation of Black-led organizing have kindled a new moment in which a world without police feels truly possible.…