On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 67 percent of registered voters said medical researchers continue to work with virus mutations and variants in the lab while 33 percent said to stop this type of research. Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss.
Saagar dives into the fall of cable news and partisan media in the Joe Biden era.
A Trotskyist perspective. By David North, World Socialist Website The following letter was sent on June 13 from David North, chairperson of the WSWS International Editorial Board, to the editors of the Chronicle of Higher Education and Jack Stripling, a leading writer for the Chronicle and author of […]
The intra-right and intra-left sectarian battles are often even funnier than the left/right ones.
Tucker Carlson is telling his viewers that a white genocide is coming. Sam Seder and the Majority Report crew discuss this.
Sen. Josh Hawley has slammed the writings of Ibram X. Kendi, a prominent anti-racism scholar. Ibram X. Kendi explains how he is not a scholar of Critical Race Theory, and that in his book ‘How to Be an Antiracist,’ ‘I make the case that we shouldn’t believe that […]
Chris Rufo responds on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ to Joy Reid, WaPo on critical race theory debate.
‘Critical Race Theory’ is explained as neither Marxist nor racist by its leading scholar, Kimberlé Crenshaw, who co-developed this framework of study, and coined this term.
A right-libertarian perspective. By Robby Soave, Reason Alarm about critical race theory—a previously obscure field of study pioneered by far-left legal scholars and sociologists—has suddenly gripped the political right. This development has forced the right’s adversaries on Team Blue to defend a theory that very few people on […]
By David Miguel Gray The Conversation U.S. Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana sent a letter to fellow Republicans on June 24, 2021, stating: “As Republicans, we reject the racial essentialism that critical race theory teaches … that our institutions are racist and need to be destroyed from the ground up.” […]
One of the most interesting things about this article is that it provides another bit of evidence that many of the traditional lines of social conflict are no longer predictable indicators of where someone will be on controversial topics. A sample quote from the article: “Parents have revolted […]
The system will ultimately try to bring gun prohibition in by stealth. If they can’t ban guns outright because of the 2A they will just try to regulate firearms to death. By Jamie Ross, The Daily Beast Just five weeks after last month’s massacre at a San Jose […]
While it’s entirely likely that Trump and his associates have violated all kinds of laws (which is largely normal in “corporate America” and probably unavoidable given the prolificacy of overcriminalization and hyperregulation generally), this seems more like a calculated move to distract Trump from his position as the […]
Some interesting footage of the January 6 riot is available here.
By Sean Gabb We have, for the past eighteen months, lived through a fantasy pandemic. If unpleasant, the Virus is not particularly deadly. The number of cases is a product of testing, the number of deaths a statistical fraud. We have had much worse infections in living memory. […]
By Matt Taibbi Suburban America’s self-proclaimed racial oracle returns with a monumentally oblivious sequel to “White Fragility.” “The ideology of individualism is dependent on a denial of the past as relevant to the present… Individualism denies the significance of race.” — Robin DiAngelo “Individualism is for f*gs.” — […]
An interview with Joseph Cotto recorded on June 25. Watch here.
This is a fairly representative articulation of the mainstream version of Red Tribe ideology and stated fairly moderately. Ryan Grim’s comments about the revolutions that followed the American Revolution are important as well. Emily Jashinsky makes the case for American exceptionalism.
If Roe is overturned, it just means that individual states will have their own policies, many of which will be more liberal than Roe. And if there was a federal ban on abortions, many liberals may well become states’ rights conservatives overnight. Activist, Lauren Windsor of The Undercurrent, […]
Notice how persons of different ethnic backgrounds are on different sides of this issue. This is not a white/black or majority/minority issue. The Blue Tribe and Red Tribe error when they assume every minority is on the “left” and every WASPish white is on the “right.” Team Rising […]
Progressive liberals vs social democrats vs Marxists?
“I’m against cancel culture until I’m for it and I think we should imprison all my political opponents just because I don’t like them.” – Modern Conservatives
Kim on the state of things.
As I said in another post on here yesterday, I generally hold to the view that the central thrust of PC/SJWism/Wokeness/whatever is largely just the latest rendition of bourgeois morality, filtered through the lens of sectarian WASPish Protestant pietism in its “progressive Christian” and “social gospel” forms. It […]
Defund anything being used to harm thousands and millions of people.
The irony is that CRT threatens to re-segregate America, the very thing that the Oak Park citizens of the 1960s fought against.
Who cares? Let every tribe have its own narrative.
By Dr. Michael Robillard “Universities are madrassas for woke stupidity.” -James Delingpole When I first encountered the discipline of Philosophy as an undergraduate at West Point some twenty years ago, I was put into a state of awe. Encountering the ideas of Plato and Aristotle, Kant and Hume, […]
–Caller wonders if the far left is turning away centrists from voting for Democrats
“Terrorist” is a label that only applies to people that are engaged in violence. –Voicemail caller asks why the Trumpist Q types aren’t considered terrorists by law enforcement
Team Rising reacts to Right Wing Watch’s temporary suspension from YouTube.
Team Rising debates whether or not New York prosecutors will pursue tax-related charges against Donald Trump and the Trump administration.
Krystal Ball exposes the hypocrites on the left and right on the issue of cancel culture.
The Mindcrime liberty show discusses whether children are overrated with respect to different political groups and outlooks. Why do so many political/social movements across the spectrum seem to be about defending or doing things “for the children.” Are they really doing it for the children or their own […]
I disagree with this author’s claim that Marxism is what is driving the alleged “far-left” in the US, just as I disagree that the alleged “far-right” is driven by fascism. Actual Marxists are rare in US political culture (as are actual fascists). While there are Maoist-like tendencies on […]
An interesting point the speaker makes is that surges in right-wing terrorism tend to accompany international warfare. Whenever the US is waging a major war internationally, a surge in right-wing violence tends to follow. However, I would argue that the main authoritarian danger from the right-wing is not […]
By Jonathan Karl, The Atlantic In the final months of the administration, the doggedly loyal attorney general finally had enough. Donald Trump is a man consumed with grievance against people he believes have betrayed him, but few betrayals have enraged him more than what his attorney general did […]
Journalist, Zaid Jilani, makes sense of the latest controversy over CRT and the military.
By all means, defund the Pentagon. By Peter Weber, The Week Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, defended the U.S. Military Academy’s curriculum from criticism by Republicans at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday. Milley specifically waved off complaints about an elective class at West Point that teaches critical […]
By W. James Antle III, The Week Democrats are grappling with an issue they thought they had largely put to bed in the 1990s: crime. President Joe Biden turned his attention to the wave of gun violence in major cities on Wednesday. The Democratic primary for New York City mayor […]
By Ryan Cooper, The Week A ginned-up moral panic is an excuse to not do anything about racial injustice. JUNE 24, 2021 Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare via Email Many school districts across the country are in the grips of a full-blown moral panic, supposedly over something called […]
By Peter R. Quinones “Oh c’mon Pete, this is a great Tweet. What’s your problem?!” Well, my problem is that I happen to know that the one state where you would think the Libertarian Party (LP) would be based as fuck is instead a bunch of woke-bougie-progs. Yes, […]
Matt Taibbi On December 31st of last year, an 80 year-old Buffalo-area woman named Judith Smentkiewicz fell ill with Covid-19. She was rushed by ambulance to Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital in Williamsville, New York, where she was put on a ventilator. Her son Michael and his wife flew […]
Matt Taibbi provides his perspective to Krystal and Saagar on the censorship of Bret Weinstein by big tech companies and the media in general.
Saagar Enjeti dives into the problems with the military going woke and why the Capitol riot happened in the first place.
Krystal and Saagar break down the newest information disclosed to the public about UFO sightings and what the US government knows.
Krystal and Saagar explore the mysterious circumstances surrounding the alleged suicide of tech pioneer John McAfee.
A debate on CRT from about six months ago. Critical race theory, as both an analytical framework and a movement, is pulling hard at the strands of racism that are supposedly woven into the very fabric of America. For critical race theorists, injustices are ubiquitous, entrenched in every […]
As one whose lifelong goal has been to end US imperialism, I’m all for Republican secession (or Democratic secession or something else secession). By Crawford Kilian, The Tyee Republicans are waging slow-rolling secession, state by state. Tactic: Cancel history. The Republican party, and the U.S. media, have been […]
As a non-Texan, I’d say the Texans can do whatever they want. Besides, given the option, I’d prefer to live in Mexico rather than Texas anyway.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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