Posted by William A. Jacobson
on September 15, 201321 Comments
On Friday we asked: Which was worse: Middlebury 9/11 flag-grabbing or Oberlin racism hoax?
It arose from the actions of Anna Shireman-Grabowski, a Middlebury student, who felt compelled to destroy a 9/11 memorial on campus by trashing thousands of small American flags, each one representing a...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on August 12, 201360 Comments
A Rodeo clown at the Missouri State Fair wore an Obama mask.
The crowd did not want the clown to win.
This video killed the rodeo clown's career:
Now the clown has been fired ... permanently after an outcry from Democratic politicians.
https://twitter.com/LynnEva0806805/statuses/366991513969885185
You know what needs to be done:
https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/367066740447920128
Jim Hoft has some background on how clowns were treated when they made fun of Bush.
But this ain't Bush.
In other Obama Mask news:
https://twitter.com/LegInsurrection/status/366992153047617536
https://twitter.com/LegInsurrection/status/366993874058637312
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on August 04, 201344 Comments
Bringing people "out of the shadows" is the newest greatest.
So what about polygamists?
We've addressed this issue before, in a call for intellectual honesty:
Polygamy – another love that now dares speak its name again
“Polygamy would have to be permitted”
Polyamory – at least be honest about it
On...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on April 23, 201350 Comments
Can I call 'em or what?
On Sunday, I wrote about how the media and left-blogosphere were trying to move the Boston Bombing narrative to focus on what is wrong with how we treated the bombers as immigrants and away from the problem of Jihadism, Politically correct...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on April 07, 201315 Comments
We have written numerous times about the depraved "pinkwashing" narrative, that Israel must be condemned by gay rights activists for publicizing the fact that it is the only country in the Middle East where gays are not persecuted.
That simple truth is too much for the...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on April 05, 201317 Comments
The language police are getting crazy. There now no longer are Illegal Immigrants. And as of today at AP, there are no Islamists.
We use the term Islamist here to distinguish the fundamentalists and radicals from the non-radicals. The Muslim Brotherhood is Islamist. Hamas is...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on April 02, 201333 Comments
There has been a political push to remove words like "illegal alien" or "illegal immigrant" from usage as part of political messaging by amnesty/open borders advocates.
The preferred term is "undocumented," as if it's just a question of paperwork. Once the language is redefined, it becomes a much easier sell to treat the breaking of our immigration laws as just a formality.
Not only that, "illegal alien" supposedly is racist, as if illegal alien were a race, as I posted in What race is an illegal alien?
This is all a charade. It’s the typical Color of Change race card shakedown.
The advocates of eliminating the term “illegal” want to alter immigration policies. They can’t win on the merits of open borders, so they smear others as racist.
It’s just a dishonest word game using false accusations of racism as a political lever.
Back to the subversive question: What race is an illegal alien?
Today a major victory was achieved for those seeking political control of the language as AP removed the term "illegal immigrant" from its style book, ‘Illegal immigrant’ no more:
The Stylebook no longer sanctions the term “illegal immigrant” or the use of “illegal” to describe a person. Instead, it tells users that “illegal” should describe only an action, such as living in or immigrating to a country illegally.
AP has no term to replace "illegal immigrant." Instead of the accurate term, we're going to get explanations:
illegal immigration Entering or residing in a country in violation of civil or criminal law. Except in direct quotes essential to the story, use illegal only to refer to an action, not a person: illegal immigration, but not illegal immigrant. Acceptable variations include living in or entering a country illegally or without legal permission.
Except in direct quotations, do not use the terms illegal alien, an illegal, illegals or undocumented.
Do not describe people as violating immigration laws without attribution.
Specify wherever possible how someone entered the country illegally and from where. Crossed the border? Overstayed a visa? What nationality?
People who were brought into the country as children should not be described as having immigrated illegally. For people granted a temporary right to remain in the U.S. under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, use temporary resident status, with details on the program lower in the story.
This is just another step towards linguistically enforced progressive politics.
With what is AP replacing "illegal immigrant"?
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) April 2, 2013
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on April 01, 20139 Comments
Saw this on Twitter.
From Meredith Jessup of The Blaze:
Lego to Pull 'Anti-Islamic' Star Wars Toy Set Following Muslim Furor ow.ly/2vRBWG— Meredith Jessup (@MeredithJessup) April 1, 2013
Surely she jests?
MT @meredithjessup "Lego to Pull 'Anti-Islamic' Star Wars Toy Set" -- apparently NOT an April Fools joke— Legal...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on March 23, 201333 Comments
Boys are getting destroyed at just about every level of the educational spectrum relative to girls, and are keeping away from liberal arts colleges like they're running from the grim reaper (which is not that bad an analogy considering the hard core feminist agenda at...
A couple of days ago I charitably described Andrew Cohen's embarrassingly gushing celebration of Justice Sonia Sotomayor and her new book in The Atlantic as "treacly drool." It is not alone, accompanied now by a full court liberal press (NPR, CBS News, the New York...
