Actor defaces George Floyd monument

This is only fair. The Left approve of attacks on monuments that conservatives value

New York City's George Floyd statue has been defaced by a struggling actor who has apparently been in small roles on series such as "Parks and Recreation," "CSI: New York," and "That's So Raven." The actor was arrested and charged with defacing a George Floyd statue in the city.

Micah Beals, 37, was charged with criminal mischief in connection with an incident earlier this month involving the George Floyd monument, according to USA Today. According to the New York Police Department's hate crimes Twitter feed, surveillance footage from the area shows "a guy on a skateboard sprayed gray paint over the face and base of a monument of George Floyd." Beals was detained and charged with the offense on October 25, according to the story.

As previously reported by The Daily Wire, the monument was on display as part of Confront Art's "SEEINJUSTICE" exhibition, which also included two other statues and was unveiled to the public last Friday evening. According to the New York Police Department, the Floyd statue was damaged with paint at 10 a.m. Sunday.

“There’s video footage police were able to ascertain,” detective Frances Sammon told CNN. “They show a male ducking down under one of the statues. He then mixes something together, and, as he skates away, he throws a container of paint at the statue.”

Volunteers gathered in record breaking time to remove the paint. By the time Andrew Cohen, co-founder of Confront Art, arrived, the statue had already been cleaned and was ready to be reinstalled.

“They went to the hardware and bought supplies out of their own pockets,” he told CNN. “This is inspiring teamwork and support from the community.”

One of those volunteers, Harmony Seaburg, told the outlet that cleaning the statue was “very emotional” for her.

“It was really hard to see this larger-than-life man like this,” Seaburg said. “We’re trying to get all the paint off his face, but it’s very emotional.”

Floyd became a household name on May 25, 2020, when he was killed by Minneapolis police officers during an attempted arrest. Derek Chauvin, a former police officer, was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for Floyd's murder.

https://dfctoday.com/former-disney-star-charged-with-vandalizing-a-new-monument/

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The Cancel Culture Mob Meets Resistance

There are some notable examples of resistance to the First Amendment suppression mob this week.

One would be in Major League Baseball. After the MLB thugs pulled the All-Star Game from Georgia because that state advocates voter integrity by requiring voter ID, a threat to the Demos’ fraudulent bulk-mail balloting strategy, it turns out the Atlanta Braves and the Houston Astros are now headlining the World Series. In other words, the biggest baseball matchup of the year is now being played in Georgia and Texas, another state that requires voter IDs.

Other athletes, notably the NFL’s Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and the NBA’s Boston Celtics star Enes Kanter, are also hitting back at the cancel culture mob.

Then, after YouTube banned Bryson Gray’s anti-Biden hip-hop sensation, “Let’s Go Brandon,” the kinder-gentler version of “FJB,” it took the top billing on the iTunes chart. And the number two slot went to rapper Loza Alexander for his version of, you guessed it, “Let’s Go Brandon.”

That was followed by an epic “Let’s Go Brandon” correction by The Washington Post.

The flagship of the Leftmedia propagandists, CNN, aired a segment with Bari Weiss, who thoroughly schooled Brian Stelter on cancel culture offenses. I am guessing he won’t invite her back again.

In Hollywood, high-profile director Mel Gibson has fended off the cancellation crowd.

But the most significant of the cancel culture kick-backers this week was comedian Dave Chappelle, who, despite some of his graphically gross “humor,” made the mistake of insisting there are two genders.

For the record, The Patriot Post has suffered significant shadow-banning by the corrupt social media giant Facebook, in part because its so-called “fact-checkers” concluded that our adherence to the science — that there are in fact two genders — constitutes “hate speech.”

Our friend, Rep. Jim Banks (R-IA), found out this week that Twitter will lock your account if you dare call a man a man. Banks said that a gender-dysphoric man — Biden’s Secretary of HHS Rachel Levine, who was declared the “first female four-star admiral” (a ceremonial distinction given to HHS secretaries) — was what he is: a man. Banks was promptly notified by the Twits that calling a man a man “violate[s] our rules against hateful conduct.”

By the way, Banks is still a Naval officer who deployed to Afghanistan twice, before Joe Biden’s surrender and retreat. “Admiral” Levine, on the other hand, has no military service record.

So, what did Dave Chappelle do? He committed the unpardonable sin of insisting men are men and women are women. Chappelle, who lives in Ohio, not Hollywood, has not drifted so far left as to take complete leave of his senses.

In his very popular two-part Netflix stand-up series, “The Closer,” Dave made the grave mistake of asserting: “Gender is a fact. Every human being on Earth had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on this Earth. That is a fact.”

Oh the horrors. He is now the target of relentless condemnation by the heterophobic gender deniers. He is not backing down, yet, and is paying a very heavy price for it.

Firing back at his attackers, Chappelle declared: “They’ve canceled people more powerful than me. They canceled J.K. Rowling. She wrote all the Harry Potter books by herself. She sold so many books the Bible is worried about them. And they canceled her because she said … gender was a fact. And then the trans community got mad as sh*t. They started calling her a TERF. I didn’t even know what that was. But I know that trans people make up words to win arguments.”

Despite a lot of pressure from the Rainbow Mafia, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos says he will not take down Chappelle’s specials: “Some people find the art of stand-up to be mean-spirited but our members enjoy it, and it’s an important part of our content offering.” He even fired some of the Netflix activists who were leading the revolt.

Those employees demanded Netflix “boost promotion … for trans-affirming titles on the platform” and “suggest trans-affirming content alongside and after content flagged as anti-trans.” They insisted Netflix “hire trans and non-binary content executives” and “create a new fund to specifically develop trans and non-binary talent.” Sarandos is attempting to make nice with those employees, given the power the small but vocal LBGTXYZ lobby has in Hollywood. He will find that no amount of concession will ever satisfy the arbiters of gender language.

Whatever else you might say about Dave Chappelle, he does not comport with the party line. A few other leftists, like Bill Maher, are also breaking with the script. It will be interesting to see if he can endure this mob. Soon enough they will show up at his house and go after his wife and kids.

Chappelle’s five-minute 2019 stand-up routine on “Juicy Smoo-yay,” mocking hate-hoax perp Jussie Smollett in front of a mostly black audience, clearly some of whom were still buying into the hoax, is one of the funniest routines I have ever seen. If you are not inclined to subject yourself to Chappelle’s expletives, you can read an excerpt here.

Ultimately, Chappelle’s “offending remarks” are an affront to a much more powerful cancel mob than the Rainbow Mafia. He has offended the entire Biden/Harris regime gender-denial agenda, which is being infused into every federal agency.

The latest chapter in the regime’s gender absurdities is the announcement this week that Biden’s State Department will issue passports with an “X” gender designation for those who are too confused to decide which gender they are. No word yet on how many Americans Biden abandoned in Afghanistan will apply for one of those passports.

Oh, and a final note as Biden prepares for his European G7 confab on “climate change.” Even Vladimir Putin is comparing the woke culture agenda to the political consequences of how “Bolsheviks followed the dogmas of Marx and Engels” after the Russian Revolution.

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/83798-the-cancel-culture-mob-meets-resistance-2021-10-28

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Supply Chain Problems and Prospects

President Joe Biden blames inflation on supply chain problems. He has assured the American people that since supply problems will lift soon so will inflation pressures. He is wrong on both counts. The inflation reflects more than supply chain problems, but even if it were just supply matters, they will persist longer than he claims.

The nation’s supply chain difficulties have many moving parts, but their root lies in the post-pandemic buying surge. Consumers, having spent little during the lockdowns and quarantines and sometimes with generous government checks in hand, have ratcheted up buying since the strictures have eased. Overall consumer spending has grown a powerful 11.6 percent over the past 12 months, a rate of increase only surpassed by the initial, post-strictures buying surge during the summer of 2020. The demand surge has filtered back from retailers to producers who, having stopped or curtailed activity during the lockdowns, have had to scramble to catch up. Delays, shortages, and rising prices are the result.

A worker shortage has exacerbated the strain. Fears of infection have kept many people away from the workplace, while government policies have kept others at home. Until recently, especially generous unemployment benefits made it more profitable for some to avoid work, especially workers with child care responsibilities who collected not only generous benefits, but also saved on child care expenses. As of September, the combined effect of these influences had brought work participation to a mere 61.6 percent of the civilian population, down from the pre-pandemic level of 63.5 percent. The percent change looks small, but it constitutes a 5.5 million decline in the numbers of people available for work.

The extra unemployment payment expired last month, but other generous government benefits remain in place, enough to keep some potential workers at home.

Recently, vaccine mandates have had an additional and detrimental effect on worker participation. Some workers have quit their jobs, rather than comply. Others have been fired or placed on leave. An absence of comprehensive data makes it hard to know exactly how much the mandates will further constrain the workforce. Using as guidance the experience of Washington State, where some 2,000 government workers have left because of the vaccine mandate, it is easy to see mandates across states and businesses taking more than a million more out of the workforce.

Meanwhile, a rise in strike activity has had an independent effect. The latest data from Cornell University’s Labor Action Trackers records almost 200 strikes so far in 2021, more than in years. It is hardly surprising. The worker shortage provides leverage for organized labor and the inflation provides workers ample motivation to seek higher wages. True, striking workers are still technically employed, but they are not producing. So far, the cumulative impact is small compared to other influences on labor availability. But whatever the justice of the strikes, they have made their own contribution to the labor shortage.

Meanwhile, the spring-summer rise in COVID-19 infections has added its burden on supply chains. The Delta variant has slowed production only marginally in the United States and Europe, but it has had a powerful effect in Asia. China’s strict “zero-tolerance” policy quickly shut down factories and shipping centers at the first sign of renewed infections. Governments elsewhere in Asia have also had to shut down factories, notably in important exporting economies such as Vietnam, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

The loss of this production has cut off product flows to this country, consumer goods in large part, but also parts needed by domestic producers. This interruption has done especial damage to the delivery of computer chips to auto manufacturers and of holiday gifts, notably toys.

Perhaps most significant in this mélange of trouble is the world-wide energy shortage. The post-pandemic demand surge would have strained production potentials in the best of circumstances, but policy actions have made matters worse. Biden has shut down the Keystone Pipeline and stopped the fracking revolution. Whatever the justification for his actions, they have contributed to a 14 percent drop in North American fossil fuel production. Furthermore, the absence of this production has returned monopoly-like power to OPEC and Russia, both of which have every incentive to constrain how much they pump and so keep the price of oil high.

Green initiatives have also contributed. These shut down coal mines and marginal supplies of oil and natural gas. Now with the surge in demand, it has become difficult, if not impossible, to restart the closed operations. It has proved even harder to ramp up alternatives, such as wind, solar, and hydro, to fill the energy supply gap. China has experienced an especially severe shortfall in electricity production. That may seem a long way from the United States, but the factory closures have constrained exports of products needed in this country.

These are not problems that dissipate quickly, whatever the president says. On the contrary, falling temperatures this winter will increase energy demands and intensify shortages that will likely filter through all production efforts. Even if Biden were to reverse his positions on fracking and the Keystone Pipeline, it would take months for the associated energy sources to reach users. It may turn out that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s forecast of no easing until mid-2022 is optimistic.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/supply-chain-problems-and-prospects_4076021.html

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Racist Academic Accidentally Renounces His Life’s Work

In a tweet he quickly deleted, the nation’s leading purveyor of “antiracism” showed that anti-white racism is alive and well.

Kendi, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the nation’s leading proponent of the racist doctrine known as antiracism, inadvertently exposed himself on Friday as a fake, a fraud, a fabulist, and a phony when he tweeted an article citing a study that found 34% of white students falsely filled out the racial bean-counting section of their college admissions applications.

“More than a third of White students lied about their race on college applications,” Kendi complained, “and about half of these applicants lied about being Native American.”

Hmm… why on earth might white students pretend to be that which they’re not? Perhaps the answer can be found in the second sentence of Kendi’s tweet: “More than three-fourths of these students who lied about their race were accepted.”

Aha! If Kendi is correct — and he must be; he’s a college professor, after all — then white people actually get preferential treatment when they claim that their skin color is something other than white. Of course, that would mean that Kendi’s life’s work has been a Big Fat Lie, and that the bestselling author and millionaire is little more than a race-peddling grifter.

Is this a great country or what?

Kendi has thus noted that affirmative action creates unfair and systemically racist policies in our academic institutions — unfair and racist toward whites. Of course, he’ll claim otherwise, but why would Kendi have deleted that suddenly inconvenient tweet without explanation? Why not open it up to discussion? Why not reconcile his seemingly contradictory statements in the marketplace of ideas? Perhaps because he knows there’s no fitting the square peg of what he’s been saying all along into the round hole of what he accidentally admitted with that one bone-headed tweet: namely, that “white privilege” is snake oil. Or, at the very least, that non-white privilege is a thing, too. Unless we’re talking about Asian American college admissions, in which case they’re discriminated against to an even greater degree than whites.

“They imagine White people are disadvantaged while White people are on the higher end of nearly every racial disparity,” complained Kendi after trying to cover his tracks by deleting his tweet. “They imagine Black and Native people have racial advantages at the same time Black and Native people are on the lowest end of nearly every racial disparity. SMH.”

Actually, there’s no imagining here at all. When it comes to college admissions, white people (and Asian people) are routinely discriminated against. And Kendi’s tweet proved it. And his “nearly every racial disparity” straw man doesn’t disprove it. We’re talking about racial discrimination in college admissions, which is precisely the topic Kendi brought up in his since-deleted tweet.

Let’s face it: Anti-racism is simply racism in reverse. Kendi himself admits as much. “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination,” he says. “The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.”

Not in a healthy society it isn’t.

Racism is wrong no matter who’s on the receiving end. And, as Chief Justice John Roberts once put it, “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

This would seem like a sensible approach. Unless you’re a leftist.

https://patriotpost.us/articles/83865-racist-academic-accidentally-renounces-his-lifes-work-2021-11-01

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