The M$M, academia, and tech .... a litany of lies, bias, and idiocy
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The M$M, academia, and tech .... a litany of lies, bias, and idiocy
Comrade sig believes her voicing a grievance after backing Trump again and again who was doing these things 10 fold, will fly.
Back under your rock comrade.
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New York Times Job Listing Shows How Western Propaganda Operates
A recent job listing for a New York Times Russia Correspondent ... reads as follows:
Vladimir Putin’s Russia remains one of the biggest stories in the world.
It sends out hit squads armed with nerve agents against its enemies, most recently the opposition leader Aleksei Navalny. It has its cyber agents sow chaos and disharmony in the West to tarnish its democratic systems, while promoting its faux version of democracy. It has deployed private military contractors around the globe to secretly spread its influence. At home, its hospitals are filling up fast with Covid patients as its president hides out in his villa.
If that sounds like a place you want to cover, then we have good news: We will have an opening for a new correspondent as Andy Higgins takes over as our next Eastern Europe Bureau Chief early next year.
Does this sound like the sort of job someone with a less than hostile attitude toward the Russian government would apply to? (emphasis in the original)
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/new-york-times-job-listing-sho
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Trump tears into Twitter claiming it makes up 'false trends' and demanding section 230 be repealed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8992363/Trump-tears-Twitter-c
laiming-makes-false-trends-demanding-section-230-repealed.html
Holding Facebook and Google to account is the big story
The Australian
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/holding-facebook-and-googl
e-to-account-is-the-big-story/news-story/6b6cd909c322ed5c7450020d5c230699
Full Fact launches anti-fake news group
https://www.research-live.com/article/news/full_fact_launches_anti-fak
e_news_group/id/5076912
Google and Facebook profit from reliable journalism. They should help pay for it
https://www.vancourier.com/google-and-facebook-profit-from-reliable-jo
urnalism-they-should-help-pay-for-it-1.24241051
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There has been so much idiocy among academics it's been hard to keep up. I haven't posted much of it, but had to toss in these examples to remind people that the "thinking class" is filled with fools
Quote:Not if you have fair elections
Law prof advocates for Black Americans votes to 'count twice'
A Washington and Lee University assistant law professor advocated for the votes of Black Americans to "count twice."
The professor said that doing so would be a "simple, low-cost way" to "address systemic racism."
Jon Street | Managing Editor
Sunday, December 20, 2020 9:16 PM
Washington and Lee University assistant law professor Brandon Hasbrouck says Black Americans and Native Americans should be able to vote twice as a cheaper form of reparations.
Claiming that "Black votes in this country are worth less than White votes,"
Quote:doubtful
Hasbrouck wrote in an op-ed for The Nation, "Joe Biden won the Electoral College because Black voters in Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia turned out in significant numbers. But even with overwhelming Black support—a 94 percent of Detroit voted for Biden!—
Quote:OH, MY! People didn't vote the way he wanted!
the outcomes in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania were worryingly close."
Quote:A premise he hasn't demonstrated
Hasbrouck said these "reparations" should extend to Native Americans as well.
"Slavery is rightly called America’s original sin, but so too was the United States’ genocidal seizure of land from its original inhabitants. Various legal forms of disenfranchisement have applied to them," he said.
The appropriate response to the "core problem" of "structurally racist political institutions" like the electoral college, he said, is to "implement vote reparations by double-counting ballots cast by all Black residents."
Washington and Lee University promoted Hasbrouck's op-ed on its official website.
"One of the largest objections to monetary reparations is the impracticality of implementing them on a scale that would meaningfully address the injustices. Vote reparations, in contrast, would be a simple, low-cost way to begin to make amends,' Hasbrouck wrote.
"Because White votes currently count more than Black ones,
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double-counting Black votes would restore electoral balance. Vote reparations would be a giant step toward remedying our nation’s long history of denying and devaluing Black votes," he continued.
"To address systemic racism, we must transform how we choose our government. Even if vote reparations aren’t instituted, Black voters will keep tirelessly dragging our states toward a more perfect union. But just imagine our country if our votes counted twice,' he concluded.
This is not the first time that Hasbrouck has proposed such a radical idea.
In October, he penned an op-ed for the Richmond Times-Dispatch advocating to "pack the court" with "color-conscious justices."
"To date, commentators have focused their arguments on retaliatory politics rather than redressing the court’s chronic anti-Blackness," he wrote. "We cannot pretend that court-packing alone will lead to a healthy justice system that values Black lives."
Claiming that "even supposedly progressive justices, including the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Justice Stephen Breyer, "frequently have failed on issues of racial justice," Hasbrouck wrote that "courts must account for the differences in the experience of Black and White Americans with police, prosecutors and juries if we mean to even approach the promise — as yet unkept — of equal justice under law."
"If we ever are to realize the goals of Reconstruction and its constitutional reforms, we must have a Supreme Court prepared to advance color-conscious constitutionalism," he contNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
FROM THE SAME WEBSITE
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UCLA prof: Give reparations to Latinos, too
A UCLA professor is calling for the U.S. to provide reparations for members of the Latino community.
The professor suggested that such reparations could be in the form of amnesty or asylum.
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16120
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ALSO FROM THE SAME WEBSITE
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Duke prof proposes $12 trillion in reparations....$800k per eligible Black household
A Duke professor is proposing up to $12 trillion in slavery reparations.
The professor told Campus Reform this can be done without raising taxes.
The proposal amounts to about $800,000 per eligible Black household.
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15473
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
And then there is Dr Rochelle Guiterrez who believes that "all math is political".
Really?
2+2 doesn't equal 4?
What we have here is why you should not take comrade sig seriously. She is admitting she isn't sure if 2+2=4. Trust me comrade it does.
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The Electoral College has confirmed Joe Biden as president-elect.
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PUBERTY-BLOCKERS FOR EVERY CHILD! (BECAUSE THEY CAN'T DECIDE IF THEY WANT TO BE A GIRL OR A BOY OR A PONY OR A UNICORN UNTIL THE GROW UP)
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LGBT Activist Calls For All Children To Be Put On Puberty Blockers
Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,
An LGBT activist has called for ALL children to be put on puberty blockers until a decision is made as to what gender they are going to be.
Yes, really.
Zachary Antolak began as a gay man but now identifies as a lesbian woman named Zinnia Jones and is in a polyamorous relationship with another lesbian named Heather and a ‘trans woman’ named Penny.
What better example of obvious mental stability to decide which chemicals to bombard your children with?
“If children can’t consent to puberty blockers which pause any permanent changes even with the relevant professional evaluation, how can they consent to the permanent and irreversible changes that come with their own puberty with no professional evaluation whatsoever?” tweeted Jones.
If children can't consent to puberty blockers which pause any permanent changes even with the relevant professional evaluation, how can they consent to the permanent and irreversible changes that come with their own puberty with no professional evaluation whatsoever?
— Zinnia, adult demon female (@ZJemptv) December 2, 2020
An inability to offer informed consent or understand the long-term consequences is actually an argument for putting every single cis and trans person on puberty blockers until they acquire that ability.
— Zinnia, adult demon female (@ZJemptv) December 2, 2020
“An inability to offer informed consent or understand the long-term consequences is actually an argument for putting every single cis and trans person on puberty blockers until they acquire that ability,” he added.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/lgbt-activist-calls-all-children-be-
put-puberty-blockers
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What's wrong with zerohedge. I think this needs its own thread. SIG pulls most of her information that she posts here from this blog and stupidly defends it as a reputable source. As she continues to do so I will regenerate this thread to remind all it is a corrupted blog designed to create havoc rather than informing.
Below are the names of those behind zero hedge. Don't miss what I've highlighted in red below. This folks is why comrade troll SIG loves to quote zero hedge.
In addition, Lokey said he faced constant pressure to frame stories in-line with a particular world-view, which he described as “Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry=dunce. Vladmir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft.”
All of this matches SIG's playbook here and Putin's globally; exactly.
The men behind zero hedge
Colin Lokey, a 32-year-old former Seeking Alpha director
Daniel Ivandjiiski, a 37-year-old Bulgarian-born former hedge fund employee who was barred for insider trading in 2008
Tim Backshall, a 45-year-old credit derivatives strategist
Despite its populist tone, Lokey told Bloomberg he recently left Zero Hedge because he didn’t see eye-to-eye with the others when it came to editorial vision.
“Zero Hedge ceased to serve that public service years ago,” Lokey said. “They care what generates page views. Clicks. Money.”
In addition, Lokey said he faced constant pressure to frame stories in-line with a particular world-view, which he described as “Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry=dunce. Vladmir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft.”
Lokey claims Zero Hedge’s focus on traffic and revenue is hypocritical, but Ivandjiiski sees things differently.
Finally, Zero Hedge addressed the accusations of systematic bias in its content.
“We are certainly ok with being the object of other’s conspiracy theories, in this case completely false ones since we have never been in contact with anyone in Russia, or the US, or any government for that matter,” Zero Hedge says.
The site claims it has never accepted a dime of funding outside of advertising revenue and that Lokey was never pressured about how to frame his articles or editorialized.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zero-hedge-unmasked-theres-more-1427301
65.html
According to the Bloomberg article, three men have been churning out all of the content at Zero Hedge, using the joint pseudonym “Tyler Durden” from the Brad Pitt film “Fight Club.” The 1999 cult film, according to Rolling Stone, is “about being young, male and powerless against the pacifying drug of consumerism. It’s about solitude, despair and bottled-up rage.” That ethos is frequently on display at Zero Hedge.
The three “Tyler Durdens” outed by Bloomberg reporters are Colin Lokey, who has now left Zero Hedge in a fit of pique and is responsible for handing over the internal chat sessions from Zero Hedge on traffic-building strategies and other matters. Bloomberg says “the other two men are Daniel Ivandjiiski, 37, the Bulgarian-born former analyst long reputed to be behind the site, and Tim Backshall, 45, a well-known credit derivatives strategist.”
The article notes that “Ivandjiiski has a multimillion-dollar mansion in Mahwah, N.J., and Backshall lives in a plush San Francisco suburb,” suggesting these are “not exactly reflections” of the anti-capitalism reflected in the moniker “Tyler Durden.”
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AND FINALLY... OLD PEOPLE SHOULD NOT GET THE VACCINE FIRST BECAUSE THEY ARE "TOO WHITE"
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Harald Schmidt, an expert in ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, said that it is reasonable to put essential workers ahead of older adults, given their risks, and that they are disproportionately minorities. “Older populations are whiter, ” Dr. Schmidt said. “Society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer. Instead of giving additional health benefits to those who already had more of them, we can start to level the playing field a bit.”
But to protect older people more at risk, he called on the C.D.C. committee to also integrate the agency’s own “social vulnerability index.”
The index includes 15 measures derived from the census, such as overcrowded housing, lack of vehicle access and poverty, to determine how urgently a community needs health support, with the goal of reducing inequities.
In a new analysis of the states’ preliminary vaccine plans, Dr. Schmidt found that at least 18 states intended to apply the index. Tennessee, for one, has indicated that it will reserve some of its early allotments for disadvantaged communities.
Still, some people believe it is wrong to give racial and socioeconomic equity more weight than who is most likely to die.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/health/covid-vaccine-first.html
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