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Insouciance Destroyed America

By Paul Craig Roberts

Most Americans have no idea how far gone their country is. We not only have the Biden regime announcing solidarity with BLM and flying the BLM flag at US embassies and consular missions, US military recruitment videos stressing recruitment of lesbian females, men dressing as women, and Americans having their genitals removed so they can become “no gender”, we have Democrat school systems teaching white people self-hate and infusing them with guilt and making them effective agents in reconstructing America as a racial caste system favoring blacks.

In the Spring 2021 issue of City Journal published by the Manhattan Institute, Christopher F. Rufo documents with their own words and deeds how the Oregon public school system has abandoned education for cult indoctrination.

Rufo focuses on the school systems in Tigard-Tualatin, Beaverton, and Portland where white Americans account for 98-99 percent of the population. Using their own documents and official statements, he shows that the purpose of the education bureaucrats is to destroy the confidence of white students and infuse them with “white guilt,” “white shame,” and self-loathing. A hate speech code is institutionalized, the purpose of which is “to pathologize any political opposition to the new order.” The cause of oppression is “whiteness” and white values of color-blindness, individualism, and meritocracy.

In place of advancement by merit there is to be advancement based on “equity,” which means outcomes that favor blacks independently of merit. Color-blindness is denounced as a white trick to uphold a merit-based system. Individualism is to be replaced with group think described by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg as his ideal where everyone complies with group thought controlled by him and a handful of others of the “new order.” https://www.foxnews.com/media/okeefe-project-veritas-hannity-facebook-vaccine-hesitancy

The New York Times’ 1619 Project has allied American media with the attack on the United States Constitution. According to the New York Times and the Oregon public school system, the Constitution is a racist document written for the sole purpose of institutionalizing black slavery in the foundation of the American state.

As Rufo notices, “We have reached the strange reality in which the state, through the organs of education, agitates for its own destruction. Educators have condemned the entire structure of the social order and celebrated those who would tear it down.”

It is clear that white liberals have succeeded in destroying the belief of many Americans in the rule of law and the Constitution by denouncing these historic achievements as “tools of white supremacy.”

Some red states have passed laws prohibiting the teaching of the demonization of white Americans in their states. What is likely to happen is that the presstitutes, the intellectuals, and the anti-white US Department of Justice will overthrow the state laws as a form of McCarthyism that prohibits freedom of expression.

In other words, freedom of expression is limited to denunciation of the founding values of the United States as white supremacist and white Americans as “systemic racist oppressors.”

The message is clear. From the Democrats the message is that white Americans must submit to blacks whom they have wronged. MORE.

Will the 2020 Madness Last?

As Americans sober up, will they reject the frenzy that took the country over the cliff during the most unhinged year in American history?

By Victor Davis Hanson

The COVID-19 pandemic is ending with mass vaccinations. So is the national quarantine. The riots, arson, and looting of the 2020 summer are sputtering out—leaving violent crime in their wake.

The acrimony over the 2020 election fades. Trump Derangement Syndrome became abstract when Donald Trump left office and was ostracized from social media.

In other words, the American people are slowly regaining their senses after the epidemic of mass hysteria and insanity that gripped the nation in 2020.

But Americans will wonder whether what Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and the hard Left wrought last year will last when the nation is no longer gripped by 2020 madness.

Teachers and academics are notorious for furious opposition to administrative bloat. For the last 50 years, administrations have proliferated, while the ratio of non-teachers to teachers has skyrocketed—to the chagrin of teacher unions.

But in the last year, schools and colleges have gone mad in hiring thousands of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” administrators. Their job descriptions may be vague. But certainly, they will not contribute to classroom education. Instead, they will monitor the speech and thoughts of those who do.

How long will mostly left-wing teachers’ unions continue to support such vast diversions of money to armies of new left-wing non-teaching administrators?

Before 2020, the Left demanded “proportional representation” in hiring and admissions. And if minority groups and women were not represented in the workplace according to their percentages of the American population, then prejudice was automatically assumed (“disparate impact”). Reparatory measures were then made to hire by race and gender.

“Affirmative action” was the euphemism for such quotas. It was nevertheless more or less institutionalized because proportional representation was not entirely illogical in a multiracial society. And there was still the common goal to follow Martin Luther King, Jr.’s notion of integration and assimilation to make race incidental not essential to who Americans are.

Not now. The foundations of the new woke race agenda are mostly anti-white. African American Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot recently decided not to call on reporters who were white. The city of Oakland’s entitlement payouts, like those of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, are designed not to be distributed to white people.

A number of black intellectuals now openly envision American life segregated from whites—and far worse. The Nation’s Elie Mystal envisions his life as “whiteness free.” Damon Young, a senior editor of The Root and an occasional New York Times contributor, claims, “Whiteness . . . kills people.” And Barnard College English instructor Ben Philippe recently wrote a novel envisioning mass gassing and blowing up of white people.

Such hatred has never been condemned by Black Lives Matter or other civil rights groups. When the country returns to life after COVID will such 2020 venom still be tolerable? MORE.

Greetings from “New Normal” Germany!

By CJ Hopkins

On April 1, 1933, shortly after Hitler was appointed chancellor, the Nazis staged a boycott of Jewish businesses in Germany. Members of the Storm Troopers (“die Sturmabteilung,” or the “Storm Department,” as I like to think of them) stood around outside of Jewish-owned stores with Gothic-lettered placards reading “Germans! Defend yourselves! Do not buy from Jews!” The boycott itself was a total disaster — most Germans ignored it and just went on with their lives — but it was the beginning of the official persecution of the Jews and totalitarianism in Nazi Germany.

Last week, here in “New Normal” Germany, the government (which, it goes without saying, bears no resemblance to the Nazi regime, or any other totalitarian regime) implemented a social-segregation system that bans anyone who refuses to publicly conform to the official “New Normal” ideology from participating in German society. From now on, only those who have an official “vaccination pass” or proof of a negative PCR test are allowed to sit down and eat at restaurants, shop at “non-essential” stores, or go to bars, or the cinema, or wherever.

Here’s a notice from the website of Prater, a popular beer garden in Berlin:

Of course, there is absolutely no valid comparison to be made between these two events, or between Nazi Germany and “New Normal” Germany, nor would I ever imply that there was. That would be illegal in “New Normal” Germany, as it would be considered “relativizing the Holocaust,” not to mention being “anti-democratic and/or delegitimizing the state in a way that endangers security,” or whatever. Plus, it’s not like there are SA goons standing outside shops and restaurants with signs reading “Germans! Defend yourselves! Don’t sell to the Unvaccinated and Untested!” It’s just that it’s now illegal to do that, i.e., sell anything to those of us whom the media and the government have systematically stigmatized as “Covid deniers” because we haven’t converted to the new official ideology and submitted to being “vaccinated” or “tested.”

Protesting the new official ideology is also illegal in “New Normal” Germany. MORE.

Biden Administration Terminates Inquiry into Coronavirus Wuhan Lab Leak

Via The New American

The Biden administration reportedly shut down an inquiry into a possible connection between the origins of the novel coronavirus at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology over concerns about the “quality of work” or evidence — raising additional concerns of a potential whitewash.

The State Department launched the previously undisclosed inquiry last fall under then-President Donald Trump — but the effort was terminated this spring, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing three unnamed sources close to the matter, with the story confirmed on Wednesday by Fox News.

The secret investigation is said to be launched by the allies of then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and was “an honest effort to probe what many initially dismissed: that China’s biological weapons program could have had a greater role in the pandemic’s origin in Wuhan.”

The inquiry quickly contributed to internal interagency discord amid concerns that it was part of a broader politicized effort by the former Trump administration to blame China and cherry-pick facts to prove a theory, says the report. In other words, the domestic opposition to Trump was so great that his opponents had more trust in Chinese scientists whom the United States had grounds to believe were secretly engaged in biological weapons development than the American president.

The decision to terminate the inquiry, which was run primarily out of the State Department’s arms control and verification bureau, was made after Biden officials were briefed on the team’s draft findings in February and March of this year, a State Department spokesperson said. Questions were raised about the legitimacy of the findings and the project was deemed to be an ineffective use of resources.

However, the sources involved in the inquiry rejected criticisms over the quality of their work and told CNN their objective had been “to examine scientific research and information from the U.S. intelligence community which backed the lab leak theory and shone more light on how it could have emerged in the lab.”

In a statement to Fox News, David Asher, a contractor leading the investigation, said that at the time, some State Department colleagues “were deliberately playing down possible links to China’s biological weapons program.”

“It is U.S. law to engage in effective arms control and nonproliferation, not facilitate it via ‘scientific cooperation’ in the name of threat reduction or refusal to engage in effective compliance with Communist countries that openly aim to incorporate synthetic biology into the future of warfare (apparently with our naive material and scientific assistance),” Asher said.

“We don’t know for certain what happened in Wuhan but we had every reason to investigate and ask questions,” Asher continued. “As the State Department’s Jan. 15 statement said – and as additional disclosures and expert analyses of the last few months have underscored – there is probable cause for deep suspicion.”

The State Department statement notes the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) collaborated on “secret projects” with China’s military, and claims that “despite the WIV presenting itself as a civilian institution, the United States has determined that the WIV has collaborated on publications and secret projects within China’s military” since “at least 2017.” MORE.

New York Times Reporter Wants To Kill Plausible COVID Lab-Leak Theory Because Racism

Via The Federalist

New York Times coronavirus reporter Apoorva Mandavilli fantasized on Twitter Wednesday the world would stop discussing the plausible theory that COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese lab because it’s racist.

“Someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots,” Mandavalli wrote in a since-deleted tweet, as if the idea COVID-19 emerged from the Chinese eating bats was much better. “But alas, that day is not yet here.”

The lab-leak theory, that COVID-19 came from the Wuhan Institutes of Virology (WIV) conducting gain-of-function research, was given life this week among legacy outlets which initially dismissed the idea as a conspiracy after the Wall Street Journal reported on U.S. intelligence of three lab workers hospitalized with COVID-like symptoms in the weeks preceding its first outbreak in the same area. Republicans and conservative media who gave credence to the idea from the beginning, including The Federalist, were smeared by the legacy press as amplifying a racist conspiracy theory in an election year.

Alternative theories suggest the novel Wuhan coronavirus, named for the site of its first outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan, came from bat-to-human transmission either in the wild or at a local wet-market. The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) however, with a reputation for subpar safety protocols was conducting research on bat coronaviruses which could infect humans with funding from the U.S. Institutes of National Health (NIH), the umbrella organization of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). MORE.

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