Professor Makes Career out of Racism

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-donald-trump-racist-20171010-story.html

Civil rights advocates, social scientists and regular citizens have all called out President Donald Trump as a racist in recent weeks. The president’s supporters have countered with stories about the blacks and Latinos he has hired or befriended, and with personal testimonies: “I’ve known Donald Trump for many years. He doesn’t have a racist bone in his body.”

As a professor who researches and teaches courses on the health effects of race, racism and inequality, I can assure you that the president’s defenders are wrong. Trump is a racist. What he says and does meets the scholarly definition of the term

Scholars break racism into multiple categories:

• Structural racism: Assigning social value to human populations contingent on misperceptions of inherent differences.
• Symbolic racism: Rhetoric that delegitimizes others.
• Institutional racism: Incorporating and formalizing misperceptions of differences into society through public policy.
• Interpersonal racism: Acting on such misperceptions in direct or face-to-face interactions.
• Insidious racism: Unconscious belief in and perpetuation of these phenomena.
• Internalized racism: Among victimized populations, accepting and manifesting negative portrayals.
• Systemic racism: The influence of these phenomena at multiple levels and across multiple dimensions of society.

Trump’s insensitive, disrespectful and mean-spirited statements and actions partake of all these variations.

My comments published:

The Professor has made a career out of "racism". The advantage here is you can make up a universe of "racism" subdivisions which will provide research material for other PHDs in the social sciences. By defining so many sub-sets of "racism" he and his colleagues can find one to fit any behavior by white people. This has become a cottage industry in Academia and "Social Activist" circles. And the best part of all is that his chosen target cannot disprove the "racist" label because you cannot prove a negative (Logic 101).

Comment to editorial

Most hate and violence comes from the alt-left. You overlook this in your editorial. A lot of hate and violence comes from Black Lies Matter. You overlook this as well. You know that Nazi and KKK protestesters are tiny fringe groups but you imply President Trump and the majority of the white population are just as guilty. Your editorial is biased crap.

Bloomington homeless problem just got worse

My comments published in HT:

Attention all addicts, alcoholics and antisocials!!...Bloomington welcomes you with even more services! We are only a bus trip away! "This is a positive step for those experiencing homelessness and others in poverty, in that they will have weekend access to showers, laundry facilities, storage services, mail, breakfast and lunch. It will give people a comfortable place to be for eight hours a day, two more days a week."

Bloomington author favors North Korea

I posted this commentary in response to a letter in the Bloomington paper blaming America for the North Korean problem:

The author said: "Since 1953, the North Korean people have endured privation, hunger and Spartan militarism, to hang tough for the imminent American attack." Mr. Thom shows no understanding of the regime, just a pathological dislike of American policies. In a sense there are no "North Korean people". The "people" only exist to serve the dictator for his personal comfort and safety. To this end, the dictator will abuse, starve and sacrifice millions of his citizens. The son of the previous dictator, he uses Orwellian methods to control the people including state control of media, omnipresent propaganda, arrest of dissidents and a vast prison system of political prisoners. This is the regime Mr. Thom is enamored with and wants to protect from evil America.

Comments on Black NFL Players Protests

Comments I have posted in the Bloomington paper:

The root of the NFL protests is the lie that police are killing black people for no reason whatsoever. Statistics and investigations show this to be false but the NFL players choose to ignore facts and instead absorb the propaganda spouted by BLM (Black Lies Matter).The "harmless protest" is really an expression of hate for America by black people. It is based on lies fed to people who are eager to believe that America and white people are evil.

Trump is right! These player's actions say that they hate America and they especially hate white people whom they blame for everything. The propaganda of 'Black Lies Matter' has this effect. I have enjoyed NFL games but now that it is clear the players hate America and hate me I cannot root for a team and enjoy the sport any longer. Turn off the NFL!

IU Law Prof Lovelace sounds off: Lovelace said. "It's hypocritical for Donald Trump to devalue the First Amendment rights of the NFL's protesting players as he routinely exercises his rights to spread white supremacy. He tweets out these things that are protected by the First Amendment, but when others disagree, he wants to silence those people." 

Another flakey IU faculty member using the current propaganda slogan "white supremacy" to lie about our president. Lovelace also shows his professional incompetence by not realizing that if you are an employee and you are at work your employer has a right and a duty to limit your activitys in that workplace.

America Losing Values War

Great presentation on immigration

https://www.facebook.com/numbersusa/videos/1143224479067579/

Very informative and scary. Regardless of subject this one of the best examples of effective presentation of a data-heavy subject.

Clever tech-savvy Mom manages kids

This is how I feel when Lynda shops.

Politics of Envy

“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. 
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. 
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln