CRITICAL RACE THEORY, IN PROMOTING RASICT GROUP-THINK, IS A BLACK PERSON’S WORST ENEMY
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION JUNE 25-7, 2021) — Today, THE PLANET presents part two from our abridged dictionary. On Monday, we took on Cancel Culture. Today, it Critical Race Theory.
What is Critical Race Theory?
Again, we begin from perhaps the most reliable objective source out there. From Britannica:
critical race theory (CRT), intellectual movement and loosely organized framework of legal analysis based on the premise that race is not a natural, biologically grounded feature of physically distinct subgroups of human beings but a socially constructed (culturally invented) category that is used to oppress and exploit people of colour. Critical race theorists hold that the law and legal institutions in the United States are inherently racist insofar as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Americans.
Got that?
“Inherently racist.”
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CRT is premised on eight propositions. It …
- … believes racism is present in every aspect of life, every relationship, and every interaction and therefore has its advocates look for it everywhere.
- … relies upon “interest convergence” (white people only give black people opportunities and freedoms when it is also in their own interests) and therefore doesn’t trust any attempt to make racism better.
- … is against free societies and wants to dismantle them and replace them with something its advocates control.
- … only treats race issues as “socially constructed groups.” There are no individuals in Critical Race Theory
- … believes science, reason, and evidence are a “white” way of knowing and that storytelling and lived experience are a “black” alternative. For this reason, science, reason, and common sense — since they are “white — which hurt everyone, especially black people.
- … rejects all potential alternatives (e.g., colorblindness) as forms of racism, making itself the only allowable game in town.
- … acts like anyone who disagrees with it must being doing so for racist and white supremacist reasons, even if those people are black.
- … cannot be satisfied, so it becomes a kind of activist black hole that threatens to destroy everything it is introduced into.
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As you can see, CRT takes as its major premise this unprovable and therefore unsupported assertion: Racism is ordinary, not aberrational. Since CRT “reasons” from this faulty premise, each of its conclusions, while they might be logically valid, are not true. Common sense tells us that if you look for racism in everything, everywhere, by everyone, you will find it. Actually, “find” it, because what you’re actually doing is creating a self-fulfilling, tautological fantasy that to you will seem “true.”
Allow THE PLANET a few comments on the eight premises above.
- No socio-cultural phenomenon, including racism, is in everything, everywhere, every aspect of life. Yes, racism exists, but not in the way identified by CRT.
- CRT was introduced in the 1970s. It remained an obscure and insignificant part of academia not because of racism but because of the inconclusive and ridiculous the way it depicted the social, cultural, and psychological motivations of individuals. It would have died an unmourned death, except the internet and 24/7 cable TV news came along. Social media and a draconian “woke”ness on campus brought CRT into a polluted backwater, where eager social engineers (aka, “activists” … aka “zealots” … aks “gimme groups”) took it into the mainstream through their cheap but pervasive electronic pulpits.
- CRT opposes a free, let along freed, society. It seeks to maintain and increase existing inequities, and where there are none or too few, to create new ones. Examples: identity politics, simplistic world and cultural views, “equity” programs that operate, admit, and hire on the basis of skin color (i.e., CRT is classically racist), affirmative action.
- CRT is against individualism. It does not recognize individuals. Rather, it sees people as first belonging to categorical classifications of race and gender. It can only function by cattle prodding the herd.
- CRT despises reason, common sense, facts, and data. In fact, the theory derides scientific method of inquiry as the product of racist white men and a product of evil Western civilization. Never mind the brilliant discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo, Da Vinci, and all the others.
- CRT inflicts Cancel Culture on anyone who disagrees with its adherents, even if the person is black. A black person who disagrees with critical race theory is an “Uncle Tom.”
- CRT sees everything — literally all the events happening — in racial terms. Its motto is “All race, all the time.” Do you see the supreme irony here? CRT claims to be progressive, but it goes directly against classic liberalism, the kind that drove the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 60s. Classic liberalism found race less important, diminished its role in society, and as a result opened doors for the first time in a serious way for blacks and women. Martin Luther Kind said it best in his remark about the content of character meaning much more than the color of one’s skin. As a result, the individuals in those groups made unprecedented leaps by almost every social measure. CRT is reversing all that, and deliberately. True liberals and progressives should be CT’s greatest enemies. If not, they are being duped.
- CRT will never be appeased or satisfied. That’s not how blackmail works. Experience has shown, now that there is enough evidence, that workplaces, schools, and other institutions that practice CRT experience decline from rot on the inside. The method is roughly the same: (a) The institution, usually through HR, adopts CRT practices … (b) activists make demands. … (c) If the demands aren’t satisfied, the CRTists make trouble. If the demands are satisfied, they are followed by more demands. Example: the equity, diversion, and inclusion nonsense that will add three pricey jobs within the city of Pittsfield. You think it’s going to stop there?
As you can see, CRT is probably the worst social movement for black people since the BLM Movement.
All Lives Matter?
No.
THE PLANET says Decent Lives Matter.
Have a great weekend, everybody.
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“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
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Critical Pittsfield politics Theory: Only a small group of Pittsfield voters participate in state and local governments because most people either don’t care or know all to well that they will face retribution, including losing their job, vicious rumors, false reports to the police, and the like. When there is a state and/or local election in Pittsfield, the fix is always in by the incestuous one political (Democratic) party group of insider political hacks. Wealthy Ward 4 voters in Pittsfield decide each and every election in Pittsfield. The other six Wards don’t matter or are insignificant in citywide elections. The politicians in Pittsfield do NOT live in the real Pittsfield of daily gunfire, Level 5 (or failing) inner city Pittsfield public schools, poverty, underclass, working poor, subsidized housing, homelessness, violent crime, and so on. The Mayor of Pittsfield – the Lovely Linda Tyer – lives in a wealthy gated community near the Pittsfield border with Hancock. Former Mayor Jimmy Ruberto lives in Naples, Florida full time, and upper class Lenox, Massachusetts part time. Pittsfield State Representative Trippy Country Buffet sent her children to Lenox Public Schools. Chrome Dome Adam Hinds recently purchased a $690,000 home in Amherst, Massachusetts, which is NOT in his legislative district. PAC Man Peter “Lobbyist” Larkin lives in a wealthy suburb outside of Worcester, Massachusetts. To be clear, Pittsfield’s politicians – past and present – are DISCONNECTED from the real Pittsfield, Massachusetts! On Boston news, Pittsfield is called Lenox’s “ugly sister”. The New York Times real estate news articles says the Berkshires are hot, but to avoid Pittsfield’s real estate market. North Street is called “Social Services Alley”. Artist Gregory Crewdson shows large photos of post industrial Pittsfield as “A City in Decay” in museums and upscale art galleries in London, England, L.A., and NYC. Pittsfield is one of the most economically unequal areas in the state and nation because there are little to no living wage jobs in Pittsfield for the average working class family. The Boston Federal Reserve Bank did a grant-funded study exploring why inner city Pittsfield neighborhoods are so poor generation after generation. Matt Kerwood is literally sitting on tens of millions in his slush funds and Biden Buck$, but he still raised city and public school spending by the always predictable 5 percent on Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski. Inner City Pittsfield residents fear for their lives because of daily shootings, gangs, drugs, violent crime, and the like, yet they are always paying City Hall higher municipal taxes and fees for ineffective and lousy public services. The Berkshire delegation to Boston’s Statehouse are all useless rubber stamp political hacks who do nothing but DISSERVICES to Pittsfield and Berkshire County. Pittsfield’s U.S. Representative in the U.S. House is called PAC Man Richie Neal because he only represents K Street corporate lobbyist firms that have nothing to do with the people who live in his Western Massachusetts legislative district. Pittsfield’s U.S. Senator Ed Markey really lives in an upscale suburb in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He ran for reelection last year of 2020 promising to save the world from global warming knowing that his $100 trillion Green New Deal was nothing but more hot air that will never pass into law in the Swamp. Pittsfield’s U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren says she wants to save Main Street from Wall Street, but look at who is winning that class war as Wall Street closed at record highs again today (24-June-2024)! Governor Charlie Baker has yet to take responsibility for the Holyoke Soldiers Home debacle where 76 Veterans died of Covid-19, and now he is promoting disingenuous gimmicks like his 2 month long sales tax holiday proposal to bolster his image for next year’s 2022 reelection to the state’s corner office. Joe Biden has spent $6 trillion federal dollars in his first 100 days, and now he is bragging that he will soon pass his $1 trillion infrastructure bill. How many trillions of federal dollars will Joe Biden spend in 2021? I hope that Hunter Biden isn’t managing the federal budget.
All true.I would suggest that it take woke wealthy and very enlightened rich folks to be part of the grassroot change.The Pittsfield I know had alcohol running in its veins.I will say off hand there were a hundred bars and wealthy controlled liquor licenses.The city made its living off the military contracts brought here by Conte…..We are a better city today than that polluted cesspool of East street and the poisoned Lakewood section of our city.Pittsfield has survived and is overall a nice place to live.Pittsfield lost 10,000 union jobs and survived.People are discovering its a beautiful urban environment.Pittsfields biggest problem is the elitist at large seats giving Ward 3 and 4 total control.Get rid of the at large seats and it changes the playing field.The second problem is a lack of leadership.A mayor who does not respond daily to shootings is insubordination.She learned this tactic from Rueberto.Denial is unwoke unenlightened and ignorant to the history of Extreme violent drug business based in Pittsfield that supply our drug addicted Berkshire residents….We need a council of just 7 wards who understand economic ability to pay its taxes.There are 5 wards in Pittsfield who are wasting their time voting…..Mayors through the 1980s had a cash cow in GE and now we need a mayor and council who can do arithmetic.We need leadership in the office of mayor……any FOOL can SPEND money.In many ways our councilors are math denying and Pittsfield needs to be math woke,math enlightened…..Tyer needs to get out in public….Pittsfield residents want street lines painted.Curbing fixed that plows destroy.That just maintenance not done.Pick up all park litter evefyday.Sweep mainstreets all the time……Pittsfield needs 1 high school.Taconic high qualifies by student population in division 3.The expense of running 2 high schools is off the charts an its now time to plan to close PHS building.Pick a date say withing 10 years or 7 years…..
Well spoken, TSC.
School Committee and Jonathan Mele, why don’t the two of you meet for lunch and talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk! That way the rest of us can rest a bit.
Fox media is tiring you out.What did laura sean and tucker say about fascism today.
They said you wouldn’t know it if you stepped in it.
Well done, TSC.
I will put my commentary about Pittsfield politics in JON MELLE terms. Jon Melle grew up in Pittsfield during its decline, but in a nice neighborhood near Egremont Elementary School, while hearing stories about post World War 2 Pittsfield through the 1960s. Jon Melle knows that North Street is called “Social Services Alley” because the local underclass and working poor are dependent on welfare, social services, and disability programs; Jon Melle is a disabled Veteran with his dog who is an Emotional Support Animal. Jon Melle spent his young adult years in a state of mental illness with anxiety and depression because Jon Melle never had a chance to find gainful employment earning a living wage in Pittsfield/Berkshire County. To make matters worse, Jon Melle’s father was a Pittsfield (area) politician when Jon Melle was 20.5 – nearly 25 years of age over from the Spring of 1996 – July 1, 2000. Jon Melle experienced Pittsfield politics first hand, it was (and still is) ugly. In 2021, Jon Melle reads Dan Valenti’s blog and the Berkshire Eagle online about his native hometown of Pittsfield, Massachusetts from his new hometown of Amherst, New Hampshire. Jon Melle reads that inner city Pittsfield residents fear for their lives from daily shootings, violent crime, gangs, drugs, and the like. Jon Melle reads that Matt Kerwood has huge slush funds, along with tens of millions of dollars in Biden Buck$, but he (Matt Kerwood) still raises city spending and municipal taxes and fees by 5 percent per year. Jon Melle knows that the wealthy and politically-connected control Pittsfield politics, especially wealthy Ward 4 voters. Jon Melle knows that Mayor Linda Tyer lives in a wealthy gated community far away from the real economically distressed Pittsfield. Jon Melle understands that Jon Melle will never be able to afford to live in either wealthy Ward 4 or the Lovely Linda’s wealthy gated community neighborhood of millionaires that is close to the Hancock border. Jon Melle understands that Jon Melle would have better odds of winning the lottery jackpot than having gainful employment with a living wage job in Pittsfield; those are horrible odds. Jon Melle concludes that Jon Melle should live and stay in Amherst, New Hampshire along with his relocated family from Pittsfield, Massachusetts because otherwise Jon Melle would have to live in or near inner city Pittsfield and Jon Melle would be right back to square one with recurring mental illness episodes of anxiety and depression because Jon Melle would be unhappy and unsafe in the real Pittsfield.
You could ride your mobility scooter on North street and smoke in the bum parks
You could ride around at 3am with Barry and his half wit sidekick Shawshank
I can walk fine. I am a disabled Veteran for my psychiatric condition. I don’t smoke. I am fortunate that I get to avoid North Street and other proverbial “Social Services Alleys”. While I would decline to ride and/or walk with Barry at 3 am around inner city Pittsfield, I would like to hear his (Barry’s) thoughts on Matt Kerwood’s creative Accounting schemes in Pittsfield politics that screws over the proverbial Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski family out of their hard earned money. But, I am sure he (Barry) would take his wife’s side on the issue because his wife is none other than the Lovely Linda Tyer – the best Mayor of Pittsfield EVER!
Pretty sure Kufflinks does not make a journal entry without running it by Barry. But if they are both desiring a full deep dive forensic audit why is it taking so long? Who is holding it up? Who might not want to see one?
JM,
What field of work were you seeking to be in and where did you seek employment during years you describe? You never really mention it ?
I believe at one time, he was a ticket vendor for the Pittsfield Carnival.
The job just got to stressful.
He was Director of North St. Bum smoking.
Thats my first well done Dan.
Were you grilling burgers?
I couldn’t agree more. Well written and it’s nicely spelled out. In today’s day and age, the only thing holding a person back, is themselves.
And for TSC and Flogging Moll….I mean Barry, I’ll give you the Cliff Notes version:
Dan just pulled back the curtain on the Wizard of Oz. Low and behold, behind the curtain was Shirley Edgerton, spewing her racial hatred to the children of Pittsfield Public Schools. This is what she’s teaching. Unfortunately, this isn’t a nightmare. It’s true.
She conned the gullible Linda Tyer into a do nothing job at the tax payers expense. But at least Pittsfield is vibrant, dynamic, and inclusive.
Teach Your Children well, ain’t happening in the PITT
It’s not happening in Berkshire County
Just the opposite is the truth.Pittsfield kids are great.School are good.Testing MCAS levels who cares.
You could do the cliff Nolan and do the cover up
It’s the new dance craze: “The Cliffy Coverup.”
Nilan
Thanks, not sure if it was the fingers or autocorrect, surprised it took so long for someone to correct me
Really sad the direction America has turned to.
Early 60s good progress on getting past hardcore discrimination. MLK had a policy of non-violence, that made people take notice and try to change for the better. Then later 60s turned to what is going on now, riots, that just stirs up more hatred.
We have one race, the human race, but many people refuse to be/can’t be good humans. Good and bad, in all races colors and creeds. Judge people by their actions and deeds, not what they look like.
CRT is just swatting a hornets nest and expecting a good outcome.
They were all shot.That was sixty years ago.Get fn woke. Racism has emerged to become the tool of the fascist war on democracy.You dumb ass fox viewers dont understand that its not whats being taught to children in schools it what is being taught to the Fox viewers at home….Get woke.They just need one white guy to blame blacks for racism.Woke means you see the truth and respect the truth but you are comfortable the way things are….Hows that working out.Hows denying the truth working out for the Catholic church…
Stole this from my wife from her posting on another site.
I don’t see a lot of essential difference between the destruction of liberty based on race and the destruction of liberty based on class. Both seek to destroy unity and tolerance.
You are a woke joke
Trying to make you see that crap being thrown at you by Fox is killing a country.Slowly you will understand the white supremacy nonsence package inside the Republican party.Our fathers fought fascism because a group of people were threatened with extinction.It needs your ok to happen and this board is ok with that message. WOKE means for god sakes history is repeating the past because Fox viewers do not knoe history.
You slept too close to one of those pods from outer space
Yes, the kind Kevin McCarthy tried to warn us about!
Thanks Dan. your explanation of Critical Race Theory is frighteningly true. They don’t want a free society. The far left activists behind CRT want us enslaved to their demands. They can twist everything into being about race and inevitably they make race the only thing that matters. Obama was just bragging that 90% of his administration is now in the Biden administration and will finish the Marxist/Communist agenda begun during his presidency. This is why Obama has been putting down Americans for worrying about CRT. He knows that the teaching of CRT is needed to finish the job of changing everything about our society and Obama and his acolytes do NOT want a free society and this is why CRT must be REMOVED from every aspect of our society which frighteningly even now includes our military.
Dan would’ve made an excellent right-wing philosophy professor.
A left-wing philosophy professor would have presented a very different CRT analysis.
As usual, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
Pat, Obama would never say, or believe, that his administration pursued a Marxist/Communist agenda.
Barry sent race relations 60 years backwards, and embraced Socialism/Communism.
Biden is racist, but can’t remember it.
You simply believe everything Fox teaches you from your lazy boy.
I have no way to watch Fox on my TV, and don’t visit their site online.
So your theory is bunk.
If philosophy had been the subject of my professorship, “right-wing” (or “left”) for that matter, would have had nothing to do with it. Nada. Zilch. The exploration would touch on the the truth of inner human experience, probably a combination of Jung, Nietzsche, and Wally Gator.
Notice that the kltpzyxm doesn’t deat with the arguments by personalizing the argument. What exactly is the “truth that lies in the middle”? The CRT advocates never ever admit a “middle”, they believe that you are either “anti-racist” or “racist” and there is no middle ground. They think that if you argue there is a middle ground you are a “racist”. This is the argument of Ibim Kendi who Dan so clearly summarizes. Kendi says kltpzyxm is a “racist’ for seeking “truth in a middle ground”
Good points, CT!
I do believe that the truth lies in the middle, so if that makes me a racist by Kendi’s definition then I guess I am a racist according to Kendi.
Don’t feel too bad, Mr. K. Today, EVERYONE is a racist. Right?
Middle ground a racism….Nope
Just because Obama won’t say or admit that he is Marxist/Communist doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
and just because trump won’t admit he lost the election does not mean it is not true…why, even Pence is saying it is true now,,McCarthy said it once then changed his mind. McConnel goes back and forth with the wind as well
Ponder this. Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Don’t take that personal Pat but you really should diversify yours news sources. Repeating Fox news drivel can make one appear stupit.
They are scared of Trump.He has built fear in the party.
So, Pat, the claim that Biden “will finish the Marxist/Communist agenda begun during his presidency” is either Obama’s or yours.
Which is it?
Leave Pat alone. You are just spliting to many hares. You talk to much and say vary little.
These are Fox Trigger words to make everyone afraid of healthcare….Marxism is comming….so stupid
Stalin had a term for people like Biden…..useful idiot
Uh, isn’t that what the Russians said about Trump?
Actually it is probably Hannity’s claim. Pat is an echo chamber for the propaganda channel
His birth father , grand parents, mentor and friends were all marxists. But he’s a patriot. Somethings are so absurd only a PhD believes they’re true.
Hey, I resemble that remark.
Obama has a long association with radical groups. He shouldn’t have been elected as president with such a radical background and association with groups that want to overthrow governments. Content of character is more important than race. I wouldn’t vote for any woman just because she is a woman unless I felt she had a good character and wasn’t a member of some crazy organization that wants to take over the world. Character should matter far above race and gender. Look at how many women we have in political office today and the country continue to go downhill under their leadership because they are not good leaders. They were voted into office just because they are women and not because their ideas are any good.
You, as a Donald Trump sycophant, are talking about Obamas content of character? That is nothing short of hilarious Pat. Do you ever reread what you post and have that “walk of shame” feeling?
Donald Trump who wants Americans to retain their freedoms vs. Barack Obama who wants to overthrow the current system for some Marxist/Communist experiment that has done nothing but cause misery to so many people throughout history? In one scenario millions will suffer and die and the entire world will eventually go totalitarian if America goes down. In the other scenario America is still the leader of the world and we avoid one world government. Yes, content of character matters not petty bickering about somebody tweeting too much or the news media destroying a person (Trump) because he isn’t radical enough for them.
You are way overstating your case.
Because he didnt.
PAT
The pushers of CRT have the luxury of wearing a coat they shoplifted from the civil rights movement. They claim the high road of working toward a better society, but they ignore the results. Invariably, movements of this sort are today hijacked by the worse kind of activist, the kind that has as its goal anarchy and destruction for political (that is, power) purposes. It’s not cynical. That I respect. It’s nihilistic.
SEE,You are frightened by the truth.
TSC
C’mon. You’re better than that tired rebuttal. PAT may be many things, but she is not afraid of the truth any more than you are.
Fox viewers are scared of the commie. Could not be more true.Fox lies about Obama and viewers are afraid.Fox lies about software used in the cheat so thats why Trump lost.Who here believes Trump is President because of lies.
If you were black, you’d understand that everything you do – no matter how small or insignificant: work, family, love, socialization, community, economic standing – is measured with a black ruler, no matter the color of the hand holding it.
There is not one aspect of a black person’s existence that is exclusive of being black.
John White is a good Dad. (Period)
Joe Black is a good Dad. (That’s nice knowing how black families are.)
John White is a lawyer. (Awesome)
Joe Black is a lawyer. (Wow, he must have really worked hard to succeed considering his circumstances (being black)).
John White has two girlfriends. (Wow, he must be quite the ladies man)
Joe Black has two girlfriends. (Damn shame, but you know black men are dogs).
John White will never be measured first by being white.
Joe Black will never NOT be measured first by being black.
It does not matter the time, place, community, gender, or wealth. A black person will always be considered in the light of being black before anything else.
You mean like your leader, Joe Biden, describing Obama as being “clean” which therefore means he is a good person. Joe Biden and his family sure act racist in so many things that they say and do especially Joe and Hunter with his recent name calling of his lawyer.
America is a society that voted in an African American president twice, has bi-racial couples throughout the country, and has people of all races in every profession. We are an example to the world of how people of all races can succeed in America. It’s the Democrat run cities in this country that are disaster areas for non-white people because they have been intentionally run that way.
We have done well in the US but there is a lot left to be done, and we can’t do it if we ignore the existence of racism. We can’t do it unless we address the systemic racism that still has such a powerful effect on our country.
Myth perpetuation.
I agree, get rid of affirmative action
It is no joke the Democrats run citys into the ground intentionaly so they can take command and impliment there rascist policys.
I agree with Pats take on democrats. Just the other day I went to Home Depot and bought a refrigerator because mine was old and stopped working. Lost about a hundred dollars worth of food. But after I checked out and was about to leave with my new frig I found out that the guy who was going to load the frig onto my truck was a freakin democrat. So I left the damn thing right there in the parking lot rather than use something a democrat had touched.
I think it should be store policy that all employees identify their political party with badges so that horrifying events like this do not ever happen to anyone ever again.
POINT
The sarcasm drips off the words, but the satire is well done! Actually, your point might be closer to the truth than we can imagine. This is the way of all totalitarian states — Party loyalty first and before all else, including family. That’s how it is in the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea.
Yes, it is true, but the shoe is actually on the other foot: ‘Party loyalty first and before all else’ is actually the MAGA mantra, not the Democrats’.
Yes. Today it’s both sides. You either pass the litmus test or you’re the enemy. Not good. That works in authoritarianism, in dictatorship, and in totalitarianism, but in an alleged democracy, it’s fatal. That’s why I belong to the Pedestrian Party. My political objective is to be able to cross the street safely.
The Democrat would have loaded your frige onto an illegal alien’s truck. You didn’t need the fridge as you would only load it full of cheap beer.
Yeah, but which brand. My vote is the Red, White, and Blue ale.
Democrats are ok for manual labor. They suck running government.
Guess you won’t get anything in Berkshire County then where 85% of the voting population votes blue
If that’s the way you think, you’re a bigot and a racist.
Obviously, none of you are black.
The blackest
I identify as Black. How dare you deny my reality.
Total Unadultered Bull Spit my friend. I never view or measure people by the color of their skin.
Problem is lots of people do, and it’s a double edge knife that cuts both ways.
That is true.
My child didn’t notice when he played with children & he didn’t ask any questions – it doesn’t even concern him. We just love.
Kids don’t notice, on the whole. We didn’t back in the day.
Humans are humans. There will always be prejudices and bias s. Humanity has never been close to perfect and never will be. Some animals do not get along with each other all the time either. Believe it or not there are some whites who do not like some other whites. Also, there may be some black people who do not like other black people. You can’t swing an ocelot without seeing one group of people who don’t have a problem with another group of people.
Perhaps AI will make us all look and think the same, and everyone will be happy.
I do’nt know who Al is, but all Al needs to know is that his black people who do not like other black people might be the bigest problem.
TONY
What’s up with the deliberate misspellings? Have baba contact me.
You wouldn’t think I can’t spell unless you knew it was me! Out me, will you!?!
ANDY
Jeepers, the spelling on this one is fine.
Of course! I’m Andy, not that wretch Tony.
In this case Al Cohol.
I thought it might be Al Jazeera.
AI=ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
I might be wrong in assuming that you are assuming, all white folks look at the color of someone’s skin before they see anything else in a skewed way?
Auto Phil; you cannot define “black” since race is a social construct that is loosely define as “African American”. Are Indians or Mongolians black? I work with both and they are highly successful. They don’t whine about benchmarks.
‘Persons of color’ works better.
Legally speaking, “colord persons” is any minority, not even relative to skincolor e.g., disabled persons.
Human being works best.
Same as “colored?”
‘persons of color’ NE ‘colored’
If I say I am a colored person, am I black? Red? Olive? Tan? White? Mixed?….I am very colored so I must be all of the above
SHIRL
Interesting question. Actually, white os the color of all colors, so I guess if you’re called “white,” you’ve got all the bases covered.
John White has crappy food at his restaurant. (Even cousin Pete won’t eat there)
Joe Black has great food at a fair price. Where are you going to eat?
Incredibly well put Dan, outstanding commentary.
Thanks, PAUL.
Touché
You must love Herbert Marcuse.
These are democrats in the background. That being said this photo has nothing to do with CRT.
Actually as a teacher we teach whole units on what’s going on in these pictures. ELA, social studies. It’s a combined course of curriculum.
Can you tell us more, Teacher?
Do you tell your students the KKK was an organization of Democrats?
Democrat/non-Democrat has nothing to do with this. You identify the beliefs and behaviors, not the party. If the KKK was an organization of Democrats, then those Democrats were rats.
Then as now democrats were and are obsessed with race.
Obsessed with race right around election time. An issue that works now just as it worked the last 40-50 years for Democrats.
The question was does teacher communicate this fact to his/her young minds full of mush?
And why would he/she?
Because it’s the truth.
We usually don’t associate political party with such things when teaching high school. Like, we wouldn’t teach them “The KKK was all Republicans (or Democrats)”.
In my life as a white/white American, people have often asked me where I came from. I’ve been asked about my ethnicity. I’ve been asked about my hair, my distinguishing features – I was never offended. Why would I be, I don’t know. It’s normal banter, imo. That is what life is for. If someone can’t be open to selfness, & “I am this person” – reality check – if you’re being treated differently it is because people are ASSHOLES. not because of “person”. “We can’t MAKE people be nice”, so just stop. You get the stink face, it’s not because of you, it’s because of them. Keep it moving. Simple, do not send children the to school, because you know, assholes.
Anyone who cares about their kid, wouldn’t send them off. Not in this day/age.
That’s why we have wings, to keep our kids.
The Adam & Eve thing, when did people start doing “self” as opposed to “unit”/self-consciousness & let’s all go to church ♡
They think they ain’t just like you – but they are.
Literally you can’t call someone [name]/without first being that [name]- otherwise how would you know so well.
If people are so flicking impressionable, my God
Music & lyrics take me away ~
I ain’t tellin’ no lie
Mine’s a tale that can’t be told
My freedom I hold dear
How years ago in days of old
When magic filled the air
‘T was in the darkest depths of Mordor
I met a girl so fair
But Gollum, and the evil one
Crept up and slipped away with her
Her, her, yeah
Ain’t nothing I can do, no
CRT can be traced back to Antonio Gramsci who was the inspiration of the Frankfurt Scholl. Critical theory came from the Frankfurt school. The mission of the Frankfurt school was cultural Marxism. The neo commies at the Frankfurt school figured out that the class struggle angle wasn’t working.. Capitalism was improving peoples lives. They need a new angle. Cultural Marxism was born. They pushed racial strife, sexual strife, In short anything that would tear at Western civilization and Christianity.. The latest incarnation of this insanity is CRT. It is Marxist. It is dangerous.
Look up Critical Social Theory by a guy named Herbert Marcuse. A lot of his work is what’s tapped into when the left tries to repackage Marxism for consumption by
Western nations.
Meant to say looked up Herbert Marcuse!
He was a big part of the Frankfurt school
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/opinion/columnists/fredric-d-rutberg-what-s-on-trial-this-week-is-about-more-than-a-conviction/article_aad0375e-6a38-11eb-8659-1fdea876de6e.html
CRT despises reason? One need look no further than Planet Valenti in order to find a bunch of individuals who despise reason.
Who among the readers of “Planet Valenti” welcomes the challenge of proving that we live on a spinning wet ball, aka, a planet?
Can one imagine that such an individual as myself, espousing the claim that this world is not a spinning wet ball, would not be challenged over the matter, as easy as the “reasonable people” would claim it would be to send me packing?
Planet Valenti is where the so called reasonable people want to be. In fact, these individuals need to be on Planet Valenti, isn’t that right? If they weren’t on Planet Valenti, where would they be? Psychologically speaking, they’d be over the edge, in a state of absolute confusion, anger, resentment and ultimately find themselves completely withdrawn from the sick society which fomented this monumental lie, and of course, Planet Valenti would be a distant memory, for, who among us would look to it for a voice of reason?
The only thing that the reasonable people at The Planet can do, is, point their finger and laugh at individuals like me, because, they certainly don’t have the intelligence, reason and fortitude necessary to prove that we live on a spinning wet ball.
The Planet is a fraud, not wise, whatsoever
The lies that people call truths in order to feel better know no bounds.
I have an uncle who came to my house one day with his mask on. I told him that he didn’t need to be wearing that mask around me or my family. He insisted on wearing the mask because, in his words, “I believe in the science”. I pointed out to my uncle that he wasn’t a “scientist”. I had to inform him, because he apparently didn’t know, that what he meant was that he believed the politicians and the media who were telling him that it was science. He became agitated when I said these things to him. What else could he do? He certainly wasn’t going to dispute what I said, just like nobody on this forum will attempt to prove we live on a spinning wet ball, because, the mere idea is outlandish and doesn’t hold up under the least bit of scrutiny lol
NUT
Thanks for the plug. You moniker speaks volumes!
Dan
Let’s be honest here. I just told you and everyone else who reads, that ad hominem is the go to tactic for avoiding the truth, which incidentally happens to amount to taking the low road, and you wasted no time in proving me correct.
You and most of your readers are really no different than my uncle. You convince yourself whatever you need to, in order to make your way through the duat.
Planet? No, sorry Dan, it’s a nice idea though. Your entire world hinges upon it, am I right? What would you do, where would you be without planet? I’ve already taken it from you, you know it, and I know it, and really, that’s all that matters, because, that’s what it’s all about, right? What we will, or, will not do in order to evolve. You stay where you’re at, ok? But in the end, don’t blame the nut, because, the nut is merely opportunity knocking at your door, and the fear is your issue, not mine.
N
Keep digging the hole for yourself. It’s not yet deep enough for your final resting place, though it soon will be at present rate. “Am I right?” you ask. No, my good friend. No. Sorry.
Actually, I do believe your world hinges upon “planet”
Planet is of such significance to you that you use the word to identify your forum. It’s a knock off of the daily planet, which depicts a ball earth as it’s identifying symbol. You yourself believe that we live on a planet, or in other words, a supersonic spinning wet ball.
You’d defend this notion, if you could, but you can’t, and this fact is troubling to you, although you of course would never admit to that. And why wouldn’t you be troubled by this? Someone like you desires to be seen as intelligent and reasonable, and also to be seen as fairly credible. But how does the upholding of this image jive with “Planet Valenti”, when there’s no such thing as a supersonic spinning wet ball, except in your head?
I asked you to give everyone your number one proof that we live on a spinning wet ball and you said, “Copernicus”.
Copernicus is not here, so, I’m not challenging him on the matter, I’m challenging you. I’m asking you to put your best foot forward and walk with me, so that we can see what the Planet really is. It’s easy to manipulate little children by showing them a model ball earth and sayin, “look here children, this is where we live”. Children, for the most part, are not capable of challenging adults on an intellectual level, so, the adults get a free pass to run them over. It’s shameful, shallow
Spin, and curvature. It’s an uphill battle, Dan. Can we do this? What will we discuss first? The supersonic spin, along with the hurtling along at breakneck speeds as we are dragged along by the sun in a perpetual spiral? Or, the curvature? Maybe you know someone at the college who can give you the mathematical figures? We can figure out how many linear miles it would take for the earths curvature to swallow up a building that’s say, 200 feet tall.
NUT
What you believe is your business. You may believe a pink teapot is orbiting Jupiter right now. No one could ever prove you wrong. Same with your views on the nature of the earth we inhabit. You believe what you want to believe. You believe the earth is a pancake made of rock? Well, then we’ve just unveiled with problematic nature of “belief.”
But I’m not talking about pink teapots, am I? What you’re doing by throwing a pink tea pot into the mix is manipulative.
The pink tea pot has now been firmly planted into the minds of the readers here on your planet. They already know that you think I’m nuts, because you’ve said as much, and pink tea pots orbiting around Jupiter is exactly that, it’s nuts. And since my moniker is nut, and pink tea pots have been planted into the minds of your readers, you get to escape out the side door without making an attempt at proving me wrong. It’s a cheap magic trick, slight of hand, and it only works on dull individuals.
I’m more than prepared to listen to what YOU have to say about the million or so problems associated with spin and curvature. I’d have the same set of challenges for your boy Copernicus, but, he’s not here.
No more slight of hand magic tricks and ad hominem attacks, ok?
And besides, do I truly come across to you as someone who has no intelligence to speak of? No, I think not.
Why respond to the nut? Why insult the nut? Must be that there’s a deep psychological reason why. In fact, it’s all psychologically driven, right? What else would it be, except for spirit? And on that level, the stakes are much higher.
Do you have even the slightest notion of what an individual who’s been led so far astray goes through after coming face to face with such truths? Perhaps you don’t, and you don’t want to either. So, where does that really leave you? Where?
Give all your devoted followers the one absolute proof to demonstrate that spinning wet ball is true. Go for it Dan! That one big one
NUT
Ah, but I DID reply, my good friend.As for your spinning wet ball … that one again? Look under your psychology profiles under “C” for Copernicus, “G” for Galileo. I wouldn’t recommend going past the 17th century. All right, I’ll give you also the 18th and Mr. Newton, and I don’t mean Cam.
How about fig?
If you don’t know what Copernicus would have said about the helicopter scenario (spin), then perhaps you know what he had to say about the curvature aspect of the spinning wet ball.
If the airplane pilot levels out at thirty five thousand feet in altitude, and he aims to maintain that altitude, isn’t the pilot going to be in the constant act of “coming in for a landing”?
For if he was not in the constant act of coming in for a landing ( descending ), then he’d fly straight out into “space”, correct?
So, which scenario do you feel more comfortable with schooling me on, the supersonic spin, or, the curve?
The ball is in your court lol
If he levels out at 35thou ft. and does not run out of fuel, he is not coming in for a landing. But he may get fired for not returning someone’s pane.
https://youtu.be/qdZ5wY9XxdA
Ridicule exposes the buffoon.
Wait – you have kids?
N, It is funny because – you’re here.
Hey Nut, let’s give The Planet a little more credit than that.
It’s true that Planet bloggers are totally ad hominem, because, as you say, they evaluate arguments not by facts and logic, but by the identity of the person who made them.
But The Planet performs a very important function: if they weren’t venting on The Planet, they would be even angrier about getting less and less of a shrinking pie.
That’s why we need to make it to the next, red, spinning ball — Mars — to continue the advance of our civilization. My father recognized this problem, resulting in my arrival on this blue planet.
KAL
Your father, Jor-el, was a great scientist, a man of vision, a person of honor. You have taken after him.
Thank you sir. Just keep that green stuff away from me.
No problem. We have the Kryponite safely stashed away in one of Al Gore’s lead-lined lock boxes.
Hmmmm. That’s the same argument made to your friend Kltpzyxm, Mr. K, from an eminent participant on these pages.
Not only the same argument but he responded in the wrong alias.
Kltpzyxym is a bizzaro version of Myxyzptlm in DC comics.
It’s a basement dwelling fat old guy typing that stuff. Get outta mom’s basement.
You got it all wrong, including the spelling of my name. Kltpzyxm has nothing to do with Bizzaro. Nice try, though. And Kal-el is no friend of mine!
You responded as Kltpzyxm directed to a comment by Kal-El.
So yeah two DC comic characters, and your responding to posts under one of your other aliases.
kltpzyxm
Reply to
danvalenti
16 hours ago
Thank you sir. Just keep that green stuff away from me.
https://superfriends.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Kltpzyxm
On the planet Htrae, Bizarro Junior was tinkering with his father’s duplicator ray and fired it out into outer space. The ray struck Mister Mxyzptlk and created a Bizarro duplicate of him named Kltpzyxm (Mxyzptlk spelled backwards).
Yeah, I screwed up, dammit.
But you did spell my name wrong, and kltpzyxm really doesn’t have anything to do with Bizarro, even if there happens to be a Bizarro version of kltpzyxm.
FT
Mr. Mkyzptlk from DC Comics is an impish being from the 5th Dimension. Here’s what comicvine.com says: “Mr. Mxyzptlk … has powers beyond imagining. Seeking amusement, he routinely challenges and otherwise bothers Superman, the Man of Steel. While often more a nuisance than a malicious entity, Mxyzptlk’s great power makes him a force to be reckoned with.” The only way Superman can get rid of him is to get him to say his name backwards. There is a Bizarro version of him.
Hmmm, no it’s not.
Left wing ideas have little to do with logic. Your post is a good example.
You will never prove that you live on a spinning wet ball by merely stating that you do
Dan Valenti is a gate keeper. His job is to provide a forum where people can discuss issues, which issues are provided by the sick establishment. He’s also in place as an information drag net. Information is a hot commodity, very valuable, and he reports to the front if need be. Dan is not what he seems.
Dan can’t afford to get neck deep in a truly philosophical discussion, because, this society which reared him is anti philosophy. Conformity, or, blind obedience is what makes it all tick, and blind obedience is dangerous and stupid. This is why I can expect ad hominem attacks on his site. Even Dan himself engages in that sort of practice.
Does Dan really believe that by providing the names of people who may or may not existed hundreds of years ago, he’s successfully made an argument? Yes, he does.
Dan believes that he lives on a spinning wet ball because that’s what he was told to believe by the anti philosophical society in which he lives. This society is unraveling now as a natural course, and anybody with half a brain can understand why.
I’m here writing these things down on this forum because I’m moved to do it. I’m the child that says, look, the emperor has no clothes. In Dan’s spinning wet ball world, he’s the emperor, and everyone can see he’s naked.
I’m also here because Dan has for whatever reason tolerated my presence. Only Dan knows why he wouldn’t block someone who makes him look silly. Perhaps he’s a bit conflicted, like most everyone, including myself. I want to do the right thing by people, but I often come up short, human nature.
When the spinning wet ball lie was first brought to my attention, I wouldn’t even consider it, because, I knew where I was, and I was on a supersonic spinning wet ball hurtling through space.
Some time later, for whatever reason, I decided to give it a chance, and that was the official end of my disillusionment.
It’s a cold hard slap in the face when you look at it with an open mind and you discover that you played like a sucker by the least among us. Eventually the anger dissipates, and your newfound perspective aids you in seeing right through all the rest of the filthy bullshit that’s been served up for you to consume. It’s still an awful feeling though, to look around at all the lost souls who are on the receiving end of a good old fashioned spiritual beat down at the hands of psychopathic fiends. When you see everyone wear a mask, and getting the jab, and the children, oh the children, still getting thrown into the proverbial nest grinder called public education, on the receiving end of a fear based society.
Sad, very sad
NUT
I “tolerate your presence” in the name of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the Untied States. You have a right to say and believe what you wish, and I defend that right. Simple as that.
Nut and Jim Beam are quite the 1st A team
Well, I’m just glad you left Johnny Walker, both Red and Black, out of it. He says we don’t live on the spinning, watery ball called a planet, and that it doesn’t orbit the sun, OK. To each his own. Wonder, though, what his explanation is for the world in which we live. Once thing is fur sure. Milt Plum believed in a heliocentric solar system.
Thank you for addressing me.
Nut, which I don’t think you are, I’m trying to come to terms with what you’re trying to say. When you embed it within layers of analogy and discourse, it is difficult to parse out. It is clear you may not be fond of Dan, his bloggers and what he’s doing, and you do seem cynical about our present existence, but I can’t figure out whether you actually don’t believe we are sitting on a wet spinning ball.
When I was 12 I believed that there was never anything behind me until I looked, when it would suddenly appear. I came to conclude that that view was incorrect.
Where do you actually stand?
Right, well, when I was 12, I possessed the knowledge that I lived on a spinning wet ball. I didn’t believe, I knew. But how did I know? I knew because that’s simply what I was told, and I accepted it as the truth, no questions asked. I suppose I didn’t ask any questions because I didn’t care, probably like most kids.
I became interested in digging for truth a short time after 9/11. Like most people, I believed the official narrative, for a short while anyway. I ultimately came across some information about 9/11 which I found a bit alarming, and so, I began to look into the matter further. Whatever happened on that day, who am I to say? What I can say is that we were sold a horrendous bill of goods, and too many people bought that bill, and that fact turns out to be most unfortunate. As far as I can tell, this phenomenon, whereby, most people accept what they are told by those who they perceive to be the authority, is the end result of systematic conditioning.
This 9/11 revelation caused me to delve deeply into many aspects of the world we live in, in which, deceptive practices are employed against the people. I discovered a long time ago that there exists a core group of powerful individuals who are largely in control of the manner in which the affairs of this world are conducted. At the time, I was unaware that it was possible for these individuals to pull off a psyop against the masses so large as the spinning wet ball.
When I first came across the idea that we didn’t live on a spinning wet ball, it was presented as, flat earth. I immediately discarded the idea because I thought it was ridiculous. I didn’t even give it a chance, thought it was just stupid. About six months passed, and it surfaced again, and, this time, just for fun, I decided to listen to this presentation. After approximately 30 minutes, I was no longer laughing. I actually felt a bit aggravated and confused. By the time the presentation was finished, I knew there was a problem, for sure. It also dawned on me, in light of this information, that I had never ever once questioned the spinning wet ball.
I’ve known now for a few years that we don’t live on a spinning wet ball. The scenario is likened unto 9/11. I don’t know exactly what happened on 9/11, but I know we were lied to. I don’t know what this place is where we live, but I know it’s not a spinning wet ball.
It’s not a surprise at all that nobody is gonna truly step up on this forum and provide indisputable proof that we live on a spinning wet ball, because, nobody can, nobody will, because it’s trash. It really speaks to the unconscious condition of humanity at this time.
Mentioning one word, such as, Copernicus, is just absolutely lame and anybody who attempts to take this simple minded approach is dead in the water before they even start. No way, no how, end of story.
There’s always been a core group of individuals who think of themselves as the rightful custodians of humanity. All things considered, they’ve done a good job of keeping the lid on knowledge, particularly knowledge of our true past. Humanity, in the past, lived in societies where deep knowledge of the nature of this world was known, by all. It afforded them to live in a way which was quite different than how humanity lives now. They harnessed electromagnetic energy from the sun, in essence, free energy. They built their world on a grand and exquisite scale. These people would have found the notion that they were hurtling through space on a supersonic wet ball absolutely mad. Their society came to an abrupt end by way of massive environmental upheavals. As to why or how those who emerged out of the ruins managed to conceal the truth, I’m still thinking on that, but, whatever, they decided to try things a different way this time around. These upheavals happen like clockwork, and we’re all gonna go through another one in short order. When humanity get close to the upheaval, humanity’s consciousness begins to change, some for the worse, some for the better. The cause of the upheaval, both in terms of our natural environment, and our conscious mind, is, electromagnetic in nature. It’s all tied together. This world of opposition in which we live, it provides us opportunity, as divine beings, flesh and blood souls. Everyone is now lining up into their prospective conscious mind, of their choosing. Some are shutting down, choosing ignorance and death, and others are lighting up, in preparation for the new world. My role is to reveal, my choice. My boys will survive, they have good strong and brave hearts, even in spite of me.
Supersonic spinning wet ball is ridiculous, ignorant and does not hold up under the least bit of genuine inquiry. Just take a look and see for yourself. Once you know, you can never go back, that’s a fact. Anyone who dares to look best be prepared to have your ass upended, for a while anyway. And if you have kids, if the mask nonsense was not enough for you to pull em out of school, you’ll think hard and consider drawing the line at supersonic spinning wet ball.
I’ll be curious to see what Mr. K and others have to say to this, NUT. Meanwhile, I wish you well.
Remarkable. Thank you for the long detailed response. Now we know where you stand.
And how do you know that you are not the star of ‘The Truman Show’?
It is not the case that it is impossible to provide proof that we are on a spinning wet ball. In the non-distant future, I could hitch a ride on one of the the planned Bezos/Branson/Musk space shots and return with pictures of what we observe. But you would then probably claim that I am part of the conspiracy.
It is possible to interview folks involved with the US moon landings including pictures like ‘earthrise’ and present all of that as evidence. But you would probably then claim that all of that evidence is contrived.
So in one sense you are correct: no one can provide YOU with convincing evidence that we are on a supersonic spinning wet ball.
But you are incorrect in the sense that most others would consider it sufficient evidence.
I like the way you think and write, and hope that your cynicism does not place you in peril. And it is true that there are those in positions of power who are able to perform analysis on brain waves from a distance and figure out more that we can imagine about what our cognitive propensities are.
But turnabout is fair play: can you provide evidence that 9/11 is not what most of us believe it is?
Excellent response, Kal. The preponderance of evidence is overwhelming that the spinning, orbiting, wet ball is the one that best matches the factual reality of what we can observe, test, and confirm. As you say, this likely will not be enough to convince Nut. As the resident house expert on Stanley Kubrick, I can state with confidence that he did not film the moon landings. Here’s one other interesting phenomenon, as discovered by planetary explorers. State sailing or flying west (or east, for that matter) and keep in that direction, and about 8,000 miles later, guess what. You end where you started. That is only possible if you are traversing a round object.
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
—T.S. Eliot, from “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets (Gardners Books; Main edition, April 30, 2001) Originally published 1943.”
Ok, now we’re talking!
Dan, first of all, when one sets out to travel west or east, either by air, sea or land, they do so by constantly referencing their direction against the attractor, or, what you call north. The needle only points in one direction at all times, towards the attractor. This is useful as far as navigation goes, but the presence of an attractor does not indicate a sphere, not at all.
On a flat surface, I can locate the direction of the attractor with a compass, obviously. With that heading known, I can travel directly due east or west while constantly referencing the attractor. At some point, depending upon how far away from the attractor I am, I WILL make a perfect 360 degree circle and end up right back where I started. This is an indisputable fact and one only needs to think it through.
You are wrong about what you claimed. You are correct, in that, you can travel around a ball while maintaining a perfect east or west heading and arrive right back where you started, but the same can be done on a flat surface, so, the idea that it can only be done on a ball is factually wrong.
You don’t know anything about a South Pole, you merely believe in that idea because that’s what was taught to you. The only thing you can know for sure is that the compass needle points to the attractor.
For the sake of argument, your 8000 mile journey, on the ball earth, doesn’t need to be 8000 miles. What if you were very close to the North Pole? Your distance traveled would depend upon your latitude at the onset.
NUT
The 8,000 miles is an equatorial measure. As you say, heading north or south of the equator, the distance gets smaller. Now here is something I share from the University of Las Vegas website, for your edification:
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Do you want to prove that the Earth is round?
Hop on a plane, and fly to Cape Town, South Africa, or Melbourne, Australia — two major cities located in the Southern Hemisphere. There, you won’t be able to see the North Star.
This might seem like an expensive trip, but it’s one part of an experiment that can be done to disprove the Flat Earth Theory — a theory at the center of a popular new documentary — Behind the Curve — that is now streaming on Netflix.
The documentary follows several people who espouse the Flat Earth Theory, which is the belief that the Earth is a plane or a disk, and try to generate support for their cause through Internet videos, social media, podcasts, meetings, and even international conferences.
Jason Steffen, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at UNLV, works in the field of exoplanets (planets that orbit distant stars) and has a history in experimental studies of dark matter, dark energy, and gravity. For more than 10 years, Steffen was also a member of the science team for NASA’s Kepler mission. Discoveries from that mission revolutionized our understanding of planets and planetary systems, Steffen said.
As such, he was able to help us break down reasons why the Flat Earth Theory falls flat.
OK, so how do we know — scientifically — that the Earth is a sphere?
At a very basic level, we can see the Earth’s curvature through satellites that we’ve launched into space. Additionally, through the use of high-powered telescopes, we’ve been able to examine planets both in our solar system and beyond, and all of them are spherical in shape.
There is a very deep, fundamental reason why the Earth is round: the force of gravity depends upon the distance between two interacting objects, and the only three-dimensional object you can make with a single distance is a sphere. We can measure the behavior of gravity in the laboratory with a variety of highly sensitive experiments. Each of these experiments shows that the force of gravity depends only on the mass of the two objects and the distance between them. If, on the other hand, you wanted to form a flattened object using gravity alone, the force of gravity would have to depend upon two, perpendicular distances in two perpendicular directions.
Now, let’s backtrack to the time before satellites and telescopes. Why did people once think that the Earth was flat?
The primary reason that ancient people believed that the Earth was flat was that it looks flat from our vantage point on the ground. Most people throughout history never traveled more than a few miles from their place of birth, so the horizon that they saw was always the same. Moreover, most people were more worried about meeting the necessities of life than they were about the shape of the Earth.
The misconception that the Earth must be flat because it looks flat to us arises simply because the Earth is big. The height of an adult is much less than one millionth of the Earth’s radius. In order to see the curvature of the Earth in a single field of view, you would need to be perched above the surface a sizable fraction of that radius, and one millionth wouldn’t be considered “sizable.”
What clues changed their thinking?
This state of affairs started to change about 2,500 years ago during the Iron Age, especially with the Greeks. There are two primary reasons that the Greeks knew the Earth was round:
Lunar eclipses. First, they saw that during a lunar eclipse the shadow of the Earth always had a round profile. This happened regardless of the time of night that the eclipse occurred, the season, or the direction that the shadow crept across the Moon’s surface. The only object that casts a circular shadow no matter how you shine a light across it is a sphere. Any other shape would not be able to cast a round shadow under this variety of circumstances.
Star patterns.
The second observation is how the pattern of stars changes as you move north and south. If you were to stand at the North Pole, Polaris (the North Star), would be directly overhead. On a flat Earth, Polaris would always be visible — no matter how far away from the North Pole you moved, it would still be above the horizon. However, by the time you reach the equator, Polaris is on the northern horizon, and it disappears entirely once you move into the southern hemisphere. You can’t see Polaris from Australia. In fact, the ancient Greeks calculated the circumference of the Earth using this effect and produced an answer that was strikingly close to what we measure today.
If you want to prove that the Earth is a sphere, here’s an experiment you can do today:
Quito, Ecuador and Nairobi, Kenya are two cities on the equator. Fly to either and you’ll see Polaris on the northern horizon. Cape Town, South Africa and Melbourne, Australia are well south of the equator. Fly to either and you won’t see Polaris at all. A few minutes drawing the predictions of the two competing models on a piece of paper is sufficient to exclude one of those models. And, this isn’t the only demonstration you can do from the ground.
Flat Earth theorists say that if the Earth is a spinning sphere, why can’t they feel it? How did scientists first prove that the Earth rotates?
Though the shape of the Earth had been settled for over two millennia, a scientist by the name of Leon Foucault designed an experiment in 1851, using a very long pendulum, that showed both that the Earth is round and that it rotates. If you place the pendulum at the North Pole, the direction of its swing changes with respect to the ground and completes a full circle each day. Placing the same pendulum on the equator yields no change at all in the direction of the swing. These facts, and the behavior of the pendulum when it is placed anywhere else, agree with Foucault’s prediction.
Are there other clues that prove the Earth spins on its axis?
We can see the effects of the Earth’s shape and rotation in several other ways:
The six jet streams on the Earth — and how their directions relate to each other — is a consequence of the Earth’s shape and rotation.
Artillery gunners must correct for the rotation of the Earth as the shell flies through the air above the surface.
Modern naval guns can shoot far over their visible horizon due to the Earth’s curvature.
Hurricanes and (most) tornadoes rotate counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere while they rotate clockwise in the southern hemisphere. Fun fact: Toilets and sinks are too small to reliably reproduce this effect, despite the rumors that they flush or drain in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere.
The next time you’re at a party, impress your friends with this enlightening experiment. Hold a pencil in front of you, looking down at the tip. Rotate it so that its tip is spinning counter-clockwise. Keep rotating it with your fingers in the same direction as you slowly turn the pencil over so that you are looking at its eraser. Now, the eraser will be spinning clockwise. Slowly rotate it back, while continuing its spin, will bring the tip to the top, rotating counter-clockwise.
March
11
2019
AUTHOR:
JASON STEFFEN, NATALIE BRUZDA
SECTION:
RESEARCH
MEDIA CONTACT:
NATALIE BRUZDA (702) 895-5132; NATALIE.BRUZDA@UNLV.EDU
Dan, what’s with the inundation of information? Did you do that that on purpose? To the unsuspecting individual, all that information is impressive on its face. To those in the know, it can be considered a manipulative tactical offense used for the purpose of convolution, muddying the water. If you wanted to keep the water clean and clear, you’d respond to my calling out your misinformed claim , namely, the claim that it’s only possible to travel east or west and end up where you started if you were on a ball.
I think a good starting point is a simple concept that can be easily understood by most people, which is, you don’t need to be on a ball in order to travel east or west and end up where you started from. Can you at least admit that you were wrong about that claim you made? I think your readers need to understand that you are just a man, like any other, and you can be wrong, even when you think you’re so right.
NUT
Good heavens, no. I admit no such thing. Fact is, you have avoided addressing the science of the information I presented.
Just so I understand what you’re saying, you’re claiming, again, that the only way you can travel east or west and end up back where you started is on a ball?
And this same scenario can’t be done on a flat plane?
If this is your final position, I’ll again state that you are not seeing the scenario clearly, or, perhaps you have neglected to actually think it through.
Place a fairly strong magnet on your table, or, on your floor. Get your compass out, and place the compass close enough to that magnet, so that, the magnet is the influence on the compass, as opposed to the “North Pole” being the influence on the compass. Once you confirm that you have accomplished this first step, with the needle pointing to the magnet (the attractor), move the compass slightly “east”. Continue doing this in small increments, insuring that you are continually confirming that your compass needle is always pointing towards the magnet. When you’ve made a complete 360 degree circle around that magnet, on your make shift flat plane, can you honestly tell me that this does not constitute as science? And after you accomplish this very simple experiment, are you gonna want to call that magnet the North Pole? And will you still refuse to acknowledge that your claim is false?
And why would I want to start jumping through the many hoops you provided for me? You made a solid claim with regards to the ball earth being the only possible explanation for a traveler to go east or west and ultimately end up back where they started. You appear to be attempting to ignore the fact that you made that claim, and it’s obviously false. Other people are noticing what you’re doing here as well, and not just me. You do realize this, don’t you?
Realize? “Godspeed, John Glenn.” That’s what I realize.
The Truman show and The Matrix serve their purpose. There are those behind the scenes that so want us to know the nature of our reality. But do they want to cast pearls before swine? The truth is not for everyone. It’s only for those who seek it out. And the truth isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be either. Early on, while seeking truth, I figured the truth would set me free, because, that’s what I had heard, and that sounded nice, feeling as though I was lost, or, being held down by some immovable force hell bent against me. At some point along the way, I began noticing that along with some hard truths came much stress, despair, isolation, regret and the feeling of being trapped. Having said that though, there’s big truths that only arrive after coming through the shit storm, and those are the prized truths that make it all worth it. Coming out on the other side, I can say I’m blessed that I’ve walked the path that I’ve walked. So, did the truth set me free? Yes, it has. I wouldn’t want to be anyone else, in fact, that idea to me is scary.
As far as 9/11, I let that go a decade ago. It’s really small time stuff. There’s more important things to discuss when it comes to pulling humanity up out of the gutter. Philosophy is cornerstone. Human psychology is important as well as history. Topics like Critical race theory serve as low lying bait for the suckers who want to run around in circles, unless it can be turned on it’s head and examined with a psychological eye. If not, tomorrow they’ll throw out another meaty bone for them to chew, and they’ll snatch it up too, with the quickness. This forum is the place to be if you want to feed into the madness, as far as I’m concerned. But I’m here, right? I do and say what I’m prompted to do and say, and it’s as simple as that. I’m the Krist, if you understand me here, which I’m certain that you don’t. I can make this claim, and what it means to me is not how such a claim would be received by most to mean. No matter though, my truth is for me and me alone, and likewise for you I’m sure. But I’m still in the flesh, so, I’d be naive to think that I couldn’t fall down and go boom. Keeping this in mind, I got to stay focused, and prepare myself as best I can, so that, when the storm comes, I can sit and be still, in the eye. If one can do such a thing, one can look back at a life that was worth living. It’s the push and pull of the flesh that is the most trying for a soul who serves notice upon the devil, if you understand me here. If you don’t understand, listen to Alan Watts, the theme of the Joker. The Joker is the trick player, who plays the great trick, upon himself, for, what else to do?
NUT
Agreed. Philosophy is a cornerstone. Also, Watts’ citing of the Joker is good stuff. Going back to the source, we have the Jungian archetypes.
As far as Dan goes, I find it difficult to respect him. Dan makes an ad hominem attack upon me by stating that my moniker suits me, but I choose my moniker without the least bit of care or concern as to what people think of me, especially those people who would use it against me, a psychological attack. My moniker makes it easy for ignorant people to make ad hominem attacks upon me, so, I’ll keep it, for them. But that’s what this forum revolves around, mindless garble, good for nothing, except, venting. You’re correct about me being cynical about our present existence. I do however find some measure of joy in life.
I’m no angel either. I can be a real asshole and sometimes it’s fun to be an asshole. If I do something stupid, I’ll curse at myself, call myself a stupid piece of shit, good for nothing retard. I’ll say to myself, why don’t you just go choke yourself and punch yourself in the face, super manic nonsense is what it is. Then ten minutes later I might see a dirty homeless man scrounging through the dumpster, and I feel nothing but compassion for him, so I’ll give him $60, cause it’s all I had in my wallet at the time. I once knocked a guy out cold on the side of the mass pike at 1:30 in the morning, just me and him. I was driving tractor trailer, talking shit on the radio. Another truck driver didn’t like what I was saying so he tried to run me off the road, I had a full load of gasoline, tanker. After that, I told him to pull over so I could kick his ass, (CB radio) and like a dummy, he did. Straight beast mode is where I went, knocked him directly in his left eye socket with a hard overhand right and he was out. But I’m not a violent type of person. That guy had to pay a price for what he did. You can’t get away with trying to run a tanker off the road, sometimes mountain justice needs to happen, and it just so happened that the lot fell on me that night to dole it out. Maybe next time it’ll be me on the receiving end, probably not though cause I’m fifty years old now, and I don’t believe in messing with people, at all, unless it’s warranted. I guess that makes me the judge as to wether it’s warranted or not, right? And maybe I’m not so good a judge all the time lol
Anyway, good luck with the supersonic spinning wet ball. Just don’t be the last to find out, that would be extremely embarrassing lol
Dan knows exactly what he is doing. Exactly. By not respecting him you are making a tactical error.
Your 18-wheeler story rings true. Maybe we are the same person (or are closely related) and don’t realize it. It could happen, given the possible states of consciousness of reality.
Don’t go away. lol.
Thoughts of a fool.
Are you high drunk or both?
Thought we were all living on the 3rd rock from the sun
That’s called, programming.
and the program is called The Matrix.
Yeah, that’s right, The Matrix. Follow the white rabbit, into the bottomless hole
I know I loved that show, hope you didn’t mind the humor
Nope
What’s going on with Fat Barry’s lawsuit? Can you reach out to him between him shoving fistfuls of pasta down his gullet and maybe get him to spill the tea?
He’s busy working on opening up a chain of self service massage parlors.
“Harming our Democracy”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/business/media/denver-post-alden-protest.html
Amherst, the dumbest City/Town in the state.
https://www.gazettenet.com/Amherst-Town-Council-establishes-reparations-fund-41095651
AMHERST — Amherst is establishing a reparations fund that will be used for making restitution to Black residents for past harms against them and leading to a process of reconciliation.
The Town Council Monday voted 12-1 in favor of setting up a special purpose stabilization fund for reparations. No money is yet in the account, though a plan was recently presented by town finance officials that would put $210,000 into the account later this year when free cash is certified.
This is a very good summary of the writings of Ibrim Kendi (“How to be an Anti Racist”) and Robin DeAngelo (“White Fragility”). There is no need to waste your money and time on their books. What is surprising is how a illogical theory that is clearly rejected by the facts has taken root in many places. The best explanation is that it empowers a small group of people who are “diversity, inclusion and equity” specialist. These priviliged people have learned how to embarass and possibly fire those who disagree. Corporate America and Universities are full of cowards who rather give in to this crackpot theory than to point out the illogic and the facts. We should be ashamed of them.
The good news is that people are starting to fight back. The “Lexington-Concord” of the fight back may be the 259 parents in Louden County Virginia who are fighting for their children. Let the battle spread!
Will Berkshire County people fight against Critical Race Theory turning their children into Marxists who believe that everything is about race? Or are most Berkshire County people part of the problem by accepting all they are told by the far left? The fight against CRT is heating up across the country because people care about their children and what they are being indoctrinated to believe by these government run schools.
CRT seems to be emphasizing racial divisions over racial reconciliations. It won’t be moving things further along that way. CRT proponents will get absolutely nowhere until they stop blaming white people for every injury, including getting rained on.
TSC Thought critical race theory had something to do with the Kentucky Derby.
Like Medina Spirit lost the Kentucky Derby because of ‘cancel culture’?
Good one, there, son.
Shelvey/Levinson
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/local/from-assistant-district-attorney-to-department-of-justice/article_0790a97a-aecf-5691-a812-42582af0e3c1.html
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/local/attorneys-to-seek-dismissal-of-teens-drug-charges-amid-egremont-police-evidence-incident/article_cc8b2a22-883c-5572-93f1-2018503fedd6.html
“The case was prosecuted by Berkshire Assistant District Attorney Marianne Shelvey and defended by attorney Lori Levinson”
Reading the articles, it appears that the case was not prosecuted by Shelvey. What happened to the case? Was it thrown out.
3 different articles quoted here, demonstrate a casual connection betwixt Shelvey & Levinson & ……. Rudolph – I am pointing out that the Giuliani situation is not separate.
I sent an ex parte letter to the POTUS.
The media & Giuliani & XII
Point being, Maryann Shelvey from DA office is now at DOJ, this is why complaints from Berkshire get screened out.
S C R E E N E D. O U T I said !
Shelvey was the trip-hom, no ? Adam Hall didn’t do it,, ask Capeless. Another scandal, you wanna talk about it !
Promo to DOJ. I happen to know for fact, that trip-hom is a wrongful conviction!
And, why a BRADY cop, is the lead investigator on the other trip-hom….. you people are fucking sick.
understand how it is to burn alive.
DeSantis – BRADY LIST !
3 BABIES, A WOMAN, A MAN, TWO DOGS – DESANTIS ON THE CASE
F U C K Y O U
Dean Jarvis – why ?
You’re a MURDERER ANDREA
A Bill O’Reilly quote, ” . What critical race theory is essentially arguing is you can’t get ahead because everything is so structurally aligned against you that unless you are — let’s, frankly, be honest here — a white man.
‘Cause that’s what this is really about, right? The attacks on Western civilization are about white men in positions of power who made decisions that have led to the greatest country in the history of the world”
It is being reported that Trump corporation will be indicted this week.Lol It’s worth the indictment just to hear the Fox entertainment reasons why this happens.
Who buys golf courses and turns them into failures ?Trump does.Who sells vodka and loses money? Trump does.Who opens a Trump U and loses money.Who opens a Trump charity for his own benefit?Trump does.Who opens a Hotel in New York and loses money?Trump does.Who opens a casino and loses money? Trump does.Who buys a 48 million dollar house for 45 million and flips it to a Russian Oligarch for a 50 million dollar profit? ….Trump does……Still thinking hes brilliant…..Who screws up a pandemic by lying and telling 1/2 the country not to follow cautious advice on spread of a airborne respiratory virus….who votes for a guy who announces he will be President in 36 days……Who believes he is your messenger from god?Who believes he just a crazy mentally ill scammer lying faker.How many of you thought Trump was cool..How many of you know Putin uses and promotes racism in the US to keep us unstable.How many of you know Putin is the world leader and promoter of white Supremacy…..Im saying Fox viewers do not know this well documented information. Trump has been a well known asset of Putin forever.
The TDS is never ending on this one. This place needs a block and ignore feature
He’s, oh wait a second I can’t use the masculine verse, It’s turning to FDS, Fox Derangement Syndrome, seems like it just can’t break away
TSC is 100 percent on target. You would do well to peel back time and see just where you got caught up in the whole mess and see if you can pull yourselves out of it. ORRRR, you will be left behind as the real world trudges on without you. Just trying to be real with you guys.
I agree with you and TSC, but I think you’re tilting at windmills here.
Actually I feel you are the ones that need to open your eyes to what is really happening. Take off your rose colored Ivy League glasses and see what is happening out in the real world. Stop watching and listening to the garbage that the national news espouse, even uncle Walter was prejudiced in how he told the news, what questions he asked and what ones he didn’t, how he framed them. It continues to this day. Has anyone asked Biden and Harris if the had any knowledge of the election fraud in Georgia, MI, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada? To say it didn’t happen is just a straight out lie and if this is is what you believe you have more issues with your mind then any of us realize
Harris’ visit to the southern border was a disgrace. It was little more than a photo-op, just to be able to say “I’ve been there.” She took no live questions, held no unscripted event, and that includes a press conference.
Trumps trip to Ohio to spread misinformation and further cause division in the country was a model of political excellence? Will that sort of pandering move the country forward in a positive manner?
Uncle Walter may not have been perfect but he had the right take on things. Election fraud did NOT happen in those states. Uncle Walter would be rolling in his grave at the opposition party making such claims.
Yes, if that is what you believe you DO have more issues with your mind then any of us realize
Uncle Walter was tops. He, along with the guy he brought with him to CBS News, were true newsmen — reporters, scribes, ink-stained and radio-stained wretches. They knew how to get, gather, and report on stories. CBS News’ reporting on Vietnam played a crucial role in exposing the folly of U.S. adventurism in that part of the world. Murrow, Walter, Eric Sevareid, Richard C. Hotilet, Douglas Edwards, Martin Agronsky, Richard Threlkeld, Charles Collingwood, Winston Burdette, Howard K. Smith, and the Berkshires’ own William Shirer. They were not pretty faces reading from teleprompter. They got their hands dirty on stories. Other names and giants from that era: Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Frank Reynolds, Nancy Dickerson, Jules Bergman. Of course, this was before 24/7 cable news and, more disastrously, social media.
As for electoral fraud, there is ALWAYS some of it in every election. The perfectly clean ballot has NEVER been conducted. The election of 2020 presented many more avenues for fraud: Some venues mailed out absentee ballot to every voter, not just those who requested them. Security for drop-boxes for ballots presented brand new chain-of-evidence challenges, and we know that whenever something is done for the first time, there will be screw-ups, not all of them innocent. Allowing mobile polling stations — garages, tents, trailers — again introduced massive security problems. I find it interesting that when those defending the integrity of the 2020 ballot speak, they phrase it carefully, that no evidence of fraud was uncovered and presented. That is not the same as pronouncing the elections clean.
Finally, I would ask one question of Mr. K: Did he think the 2000 election, when George W. shaded Gore by a fraction of a razor edge, was legit? I don’t. That election was stolen in Florida, robbing Gore of the presidency. An argument can be made also for 2004, Bush II v. Kerry, and the funny business in Pennsylvania.
Just like in 60 with Kennedy. Nixon had the proof but didn’t want to tear the country apart, to bad Gore opened that Pandora’s box. Now we have Trump and the Republicans digging out all the dirty election deeds, making the US look like a 3rd world country. That is why they need to have voter ID and make Election Day a national holiday so everyone can make it to the polls to vote. They should also make it earlier in the year, maybe Labor Day and make it a 3 day weekend event
I think the 2000 election and the Florida situation was legit, at least in the sense that Gore proclaimed it as such, realizing he had no chance of overriding the supreme court.
Whether there was unethical hanky-panky going on in Florida leading to the ‘hanging chad’ etc. problems, as you note above there was probably some, but it was probably, in my view, miniscule, and it would not have overturned the result.
That is one reason Trump is a sickening example of a human being. He would not acknowledge the result of the election even though it clearly was decided against him. Gore was a class act. Trump is not.
Gore acknowledged the loss, but only after taking it to the Supremes, where he lost 5-4 on a straight party vote. Kerry didn’t fight the result. Nixon didn’t fight when Joesph Kennedy and the Chicago Bosses (Mayor Daley and the mob) stole it for Jack in Cook County.
Hilary never accepted her defeat
Go back to a journalist who wrote a book about the liberal CBS news during that period. Again it was what they asked and didn’t, how the phrased their questions, who they talked to…I bet you don’t believe Uncle Walter pulled a NIMBY with the Cape Wind project because he would see it on a clear day from his porch
This fits perfectly!
If there was any doubt that TSC and a few others are incapable of breaking the rental agreement Donald Trump has had with the inside of his head for more than four years, they put that doubt to rest with the
posts here every day.
False Information
Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Who can take a nothing day, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
Who can take the sunshine, sprinkle it with dew, cover it in chocolate and a miracle or two?
Whose wine? What wine? Where the hell did I dine?
Who the fuck are you, who, who?
TSC, living through Trump in the White House was challenging enough; your play-by-play recap is tiresome.
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/opinion/editorials/our-opinion-das-attack-on-judge-a-deeply-troubling-move/article_47023738-d5b6-11eb-ab64-6f9fcf0b1bc8.html
Incredible. No words.
So the progressive liberal left nut wing like Sanders and A0 C will force employers to raise wages to get people off of the unemployment incentive done in September. It’s a coup by the liberal left pure and simple. McConnell was correct on this one…your making extra money and in many Casey more for staying home,why go back to work?
It never ends !
AOC and others have claimed we would be gone because of climate change like yesterday.
She and Markey are on the case.
Of course only unionized trees planted will work to fight climate change.
AOC calls for a unionized tree-planting force to solve the ‘climate crisis’
https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-aoc-calls-for-unionized-tree-planting-force-to-solve-the-climate-crisis
GRANITE
Good points. I would ask AOC: “Was the Civilian Conservation Corps unionized.” I doubt she knows much about the CCC. If you mention FDR, though, maybe her ears will pick up (even though he was a privileged, wealth, white, male).
As you said, it’s because workers aren’t getting paid enough and so their wages should be raised.
Or unemployment is paying to much, the “unemployed “ also work under the table and they aren’t paying their rent. If they have kids in school meals get sent home for free…I ask why would you work in this scenario? Especially during the summer!
You go to a restaurant and there aren’t enough workers to wait on you. So the business loses customers,it’s insane.
How about impeachment? Or resign? Her office failed to locate a defendant leading to his death for which she blamed a judge. She called a defendant a murderer. She ruined the office and brought shame on the Berkshires. Harrington has no more idea how to do that job than you or I. This was clear from day one.
So the Berkshire Eagle has been told to get rid of this whiny vindictive D.A. That’s what they are doing and it’s about darn time!!!!
“The Berkshire Eagle repeatedly asked Ms. Harrington if she listened to the recordings of the proceedings that gave rise to her letter, but she refused to answer the question. We take her refusal to answer this simple inquiry as a denial, as no other interpretation makes sense.”
“It was shameful and lazy for the district attorney to challenge a judge’s integrity without taking the time to hear exactly what the judge said in the cases that the DA’s screed addressed.”
“ The only matter that Ms. Harrington’s letter spells out is the case involving Lemond Grady and Edward Jennings. Her description ends with the bold-faced italicized statement that “… the victim [Mr. Jennings] murdered Mr. Grady.”
Mr. Jennings has not been found guilty nor admitted his guilt of murder.”
“ Ms. Harrington’s misuse of the term “murdered” betrays a sloppiness that pervades her letter.”
“ More importantly, an examination of the details of the handling of the Lemond Grady case by the DA’s Office displays a similar sloppiness. Ms. Harrington’s letter raises the scandalous inference that the local judge’s failure to grant her office’s request to revoke Mr. Grady’s bail somehow led to his being killed a month later.”
“ It is fair to infer that Ms. Harrington’s office either lost sight of the complaining witness in a case alleging a violent attack or they did not care enough to do the ordinary due diligence of maintaining contact.”
“ Prior to her election, The Eagle editorial board questioned Ms. Harrington’s ability to effectively administer the District Attorney’s Office if she were elected. Ignoring the well-defined avenues of redress and attacking Judge Tyne’s integrity with no evidence to support the attack reinforces the perception of an office that is dominated by a focus on politics over professionalism.”
DA: Get Andy on the phone now and while you’re at it wouldn’t hurt to reach out to Shirl and a few others about what to do about this hit piece.
Speak for yourself. I could run that office better than her.
Harrington sent me direct messages in Messenger: “we will pull your file & and get back to you”, she never did. I’d post what she sent me. EX PARTE. Karen Bell leaving that office 2013 is what I’m talking about. KB knows about the scandal. it is legit. Heed, don’t believe what they tell ya.
So look, here’s how it works. If you’re a victim of a crime, the DA and police have the legal obligation to talk to you. You can refuse but they can try.
da & police have already denied me of my rights. I reported the crime, a proper police interview & police misconduct took place, the recorded interview was mishandled. the da already failed. Yeah, I reported a crime, I’m there on the intelligence scale okay. I’m not here because I’m dumb, I’m here because this is the only way to get shit done around here. I’m that colored woman in the image, that is what it’s like in Berkshire County for me. The court does not accept/file pro se motions. The da won’t prosecute an appointed official that’s called racism & that is Andrea Harrington – documents are en route. I work very hard every single day. Report the crime you said….. hahh
Thought it was Jennings they couldn’t find? He wasn’t a defendant at the time.
“As is often the case, the DA was not present for the hearings in question,”
How can they expect her to be in two places at once? She can’t campaign and be in court at the same time.
Thanks Aerin for posting that editorial.
I always found it incredulous that Harrington won that election without credentials & experience.
Has anyone checked the voting machines for tampering/accuracy up there?
She played on a low turnout coupled with (a) voter ignorance and (b) misinformation.
Are you talking about Tyer, Yuki, Lampiasi, Bouvier, Harrington or all of the above?
But seriously, if anyone thought the answer to bringing integrity and or credibility into politics was to elect more woman they were woefully mistaken. Each of these has actually done a disservice to their gender and certainly are not examples to hold up for our daughters to emulate.
She said, “fix flawed convictions”
But for The Planet, who would you turn to?
The ‘Brady list’ what a joke of a cover-up that is, do they realize, I read the news. Flat out LIES, you all read, not knowing. It is all a twist on what happened- all of it is lies. Peoples have rights ©️ person does not. n the end….. it’s all the same. My life is rich with joy. My life Matters. I said so. I’m done here.
I think some of these nutcase posts are from fake nuts trying to undermine this blog. They all sound the same like they are trying too hard to sound crazy. Just an opinion.
JAMES
An astute observation. We have noticed it too, and so have our robots (which have some amazing parsing capabilities). THE PLANET will continue to monitor. Again, idiots make the ruling on free speech much more complicated than it should be, that is, if we were all good people and if the jerks would just stay home and ruminate.
let’s be careful about the ruminating jerks. sometimes they have something to say.
Leave Donald out of this
haha.
Did the New Hampshire State Legislature and Governor Chris Sununu’s new state budget turn away federal funds for public education with its budget rider school voucher program? Did they violate the U.S. Constitution’s right to free speech and turn away federal funds with its budget rider ban on student discussions on racism and sexism? Did they violate the U.S. Constitution’s case law for limited abortion rights for women with its budget rider, including making no exemption for rape, incest, and the medical condition of the fetus? Why do state lawmakers use budget riders instead of holding public hearings and public input on legislation? What happened to democracy? Did budget riders take it away?
Why don’t you pose those questions to people in your neck of the woods?
Why don’t you just come out and say your upset about the budget slapping down the wants of what you want and think how it should be?
Hello Patrick Fennell,
On the Governor of New Hampshire – Chris Sununu – signing the new state budget with controversial budget riders, I totally disagree with you today. I still respect you, and I enjoy reading your email letters about politics, but New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu should not pass controversial laws via budget riders. Instead, the Governor should be telling the State Legislature in Concord, New Hampshire to hold public hearings and seek public input from their constituents. Also, as New Hampshire’s Governor, Chris Sununu should be ensuring that the state government is in legal compliance with the state and federal Constitutions, as well as remaining eligible to receive federal funding for public education.
In Massachusetts, Governor Charlie Baker and the Boston-based state lawmakers purposefully underfund public education by one billion dollars per year. In your hometown of Great Barrington, your public middle school is named after a registered Communist who was friends and ally with Stalin, who killed millions of more innocent people than Hitler. I don’t understand how any town could honor someone who openly supported a mass murderer of at least 20 million innocent human beings!
In closing, politicians don’t give a damn about public education. It is all about the federal funds and their political ambitions. Governors Chris Sununu and Charlie Baker are no different.
Best wishes,
Jonathan Melle
Hello Patrick Fennell,
The U.S. Government and state governments should protect free speech, including free speech that hates America. Personally, I love America, but I fear my government. If you go through U.S. History, the government has had many injustices, including the genocide of 50 million native American Indigenous Peoples. Hitler killed between 12 to 15 million innocent or persecuted Peoples, especially the Jewish People, in the Holocaust. The U.S. colonial and federal government and colonial and state governments killed between 3 to 4 times the number of Peoples in U.S. genocides than Hitler’s horrible Holocaust genocides. The Founding Fathers were mostly Slave owners. How could they rationally fight a Revolutionary War against the British Empire and Crown in the name of Classical Liberty, but they themselves owned Slaves? President Abraham Lincoln freed the Slaves, but if he was not assassinated, Abe Lincoln wanted to remove black people from the U.S.A. and relocated them to Africa. Abe Lincoln said that he did not see the U.S.A. being able to stay united if black people stayed here with white people. Abe Lincoln was really a racist against black people and just 4 days before he was assassinated, he spoke of removing black people from the country he led through the U.S. Civil War. In the 1920s, the U.S. Government passed racist immigration laws that openly discriminated against the Jewish People and Italian People from immigrating to our country. Also during that time, the U.S. Government and state government had racist eugenic laws whose aim was to reduce or eliminate minorities and disabled people from society so that white people would ultimately live in white only communities. In the 1920s, Adolf Hitler openly praised the U.S. Government for its systemic racist laws, especially against the Jews. World War 2 was the U.S. Government and Allied Powers finest hours because we took down Hitler’s evil Nazi Germany regime. But post World War 2, the U.S. Government’s armed forces and other agencies fought endless wars where the U.S. Government killed millions upon millions of foreign Peoples. In 2003, the U.S. Government invaded Iraq and through present day controls 85 to 90 percent of Iraq’s second largest oil reserves in the world; Saudi Arabia – the U.S. Government’s close ally – has the largest oil reserves in the world. The U.S. Government’s number one non-farm export are military weapons. The U.S. Government makes its money off of its war machine or military industrial complex. So long as the U.S. Government sells arms to the world, it doesn’t matter how high the U.S. national debt gets. In 2021, the U.S.A. is at its most economically unequal status in 100 years. The U.S.A. is the land of class warfare where only the top 1 percent and underclass grow in the current K-shaped recovery for Wall Street and recession for Main Street. The U.S. middle class is shrinking, while economic inequality is growing. I don’t have children, but if I did, I would tell them that my grandparents and parents had better odd of living in the middle class from 1945 – 1975 than I had from 1975 – 2021 and they have from their birth year though their mid-60s. In 2008, Wall Street’s financial system collapsed because the wealthy gambled and lost trillions of dollars, and then the U.S. Government spent trillions of federal tax dollars bailing them out for causing the worse economic recession since the Great Depression in the 1930s, which was when Hitler rose to power in Germany. Ever since the U.S. Government bailed out Wall Street, the U.S. Government has been mortgaging our country’s future for the benefit of Wall Street. Guess who is paying for the Wall Street’s bailouts and the U.S. Government’s huge national debt? The people at the bottom of the K-shaped recovery/recession. Politicians always say that only a percentage of American people, along with businesses, pay federal taxes, but what politicians don’t say is that we all pay one way or another for the U.S. Government’s huge national debt that benefits Wall Street. In closing, let us put it all together. So-called religious fundamentalists who were of course white and came from Europe arrived in the U.S. over 400 years ago, committed the worst genocide in world history, and wiped out native cultures; our country was founded by white men who mostly owned slaves but did so in the name of classical liberty; we celebrate Abe Lincoln freeing the slaves while not saying the he wanted to deport the black population but was assassinated before he could do it; we passed racist immigration laws against Jews and others and practiced racist eugenic programs that Hitler openly praised; thankfully, we fought and defeated Hitler in World War 2, but then built our own war machine or military industrial complex that killed millions upon millions of foreign Peoples; we invaded Iraq for its second largest oil reserves in the world; we sell arms to the world for billions of dollars in business profits and tax revenues every year; and we exploit the masses by practicing class warfare for the benefit of Wall Street. I love my country, but I fear my government.
Best wishes,
Jonathan Melle
Jonathan you don’t need a lot of money to educate, you just need dedicated students and teachers. Unfortunately in today’s world that is hard to find.
Great point, SHIRL. Improving the dreadful state of public education is not a matter of money. It’s a matter of educators setting a new tone, one similar to many countries in Europe and Asia, where education is taken as a serious matter.
Shirl,
I also believe the administration and bureaucracy side of educational institutions is where monies are funneled and wasted. Those monies taken away from the real process of classroom education is also part of the problem. Shirl you nailed it with self dedication!
My answer would be no they didn’t break any law. States are still in control of their dominion, especially education.
Way past time for Joe to take a cognitive test!!
He’s an embarrassment to the country.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/06/26/gop-rep-carl-calls-on-biden-to-take-mental-cognitive-test-biden-is-not-running-his-office-up-here/
Hey Dan, ‘Awaiting for approval’ is ungrammatical. So says the linguistics major.
So says the troll. He doesn’t write the approval script you moron.
It doesn’t matter that the bot people wrote it, it’s still wrong.
If I corrected all the bot language that’s “backstage” on The Planet, I’d have a time of it indeed. A lot of techies mangle the languag, though not at the Slip Mahoney level. For ordinary purposes, yes, it’s bad English.
Thank you.
It’s a matter of if Dan has the ability to change it, which he doesn’t. Ya troll
FT
I can’t change it, even as an administrator, except to have my IT expert there and go through a bunch of steps. And It’s in code. I don’t mess with code.
Granted. I guess that bot writing is outsourced to a foreign country so their English isn’t so hot.
Interesting question. I’ll ask my tech guru. My guess is that you’re correct.
Granted.
The linguistics major has to realize two things: 1. In the course of an unmatched output of copy, which on THE PLANET consists of a fraction of the words we are producing, there are bound to be hiccups. 2. In the strictest sense, the phrase is NOT ungrammatical. “Awaiting,” the verb form ending in “ing,” aka a gerund when used as a noun, can be used in this instance. Awaiting as a superlative of “Wait” and followed for the prepositional phrase. What’s not to like?
“When -ing forms are used as verbs, adjectives or adverbs, they are often called ‘present participles.’ (This is not a very suitable name, because these forms can refer to the past, present, or future.) When they are used more like nouns, they are often called ‘gerunds.’ In fact, the distinction is not really as simple as this, and some grammarians prefer to avoid the terms ‘participle’ and ‘gerund.'”
(Michael Swan, Practical English Usage, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 1995)
“Avoid running at all times.”(Satchel Paige)
“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”(H. L. Mencken)
“A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.”(Groucho Marx)
“I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.”(Richard Russo)
“The barrel was kept full of cold, running water. Dad said it was best to have the water running in at the top and out an opening at the bottom of the barrel; this way it circulated around and over the copper worm.”
(Sidney Saylor Farr, My Appalachia: A Memoir. University Press of Kentucky, 2007)
“[L]ike so many substantial Americans, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.”
(P.G. Wodehouse, Summer Moonshine, 1937)
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of a little mind. Mr. M take note.
Nice try.
It is either ‘waiting for approval’ or ‘awaiting approval’, so your examples and cited rules don’t take into account the difference caused by the prefix a- on ‘awaiting’.
The prefix a- carries the function of the preposition ‘for’. So in the strictest sense, ‘awaiting for approval’ is ungrammatical.
Tell the truth, would you tell your freshman English class that ‘awaiting for approval’ is acceptable?
I would edit the phrase, truth be told. But if you read “awaiting” in the older English sense, it makes perfect sense.
Here we go awaiting, awaiting, awaiting.
Here we go awaiting, this brai and brimly day.
Jenny was awaiting, awaiting.
Jenny was awaiting, though I rambled not her way.
— Robert Burns
Thanks.
I didn’t say it didn’t make sense!
♡ me some Jenny, Jenny
#1
Here’s one of my all-time favorite poems:
Jenny Kiss’d Me
BY LEIGH HUNT
Jenny kiss’d me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who love to get
Sweets into your list, put that in!
Say I’m weary, say I’m sad,
Say that health and wealth have miss’d me,
Say I’m growing old, but add,
Jenny kiss’d me.
I have had posts that went into the Outer Dimensions and some into the Twilight Zone for a period ,only to appear later on unchanged or edited. It is random. Dan really didn’t call a CODE RED.
YOU’RE DAMN RIGHT I DID!
Thank you, Professor. And I mean it it in the best possible way!
Thanks, GHOST.
The stupidity of the left is never ending.
Kid who is valedictorian was giving a graduation speech. He had an approved speech, went off script and they cut him off.
He kept going. He wore a pride flag over his gown, against the dress code rules.
These rules are in place, students do not have first amendment protections while in school. These rules exist for a reason.
They celebrated him not following the rules because they agree with his political philosophy and his sexual preference/identity. Would they be so encouraging if they didn’t?
If the person spoke about their Christian faith and their personal growth as a Christian (even if that violated the rules)? If the person wore a maga flag wore a simple MAGA hat?
No.
The reason the rules exist is because they protect everyone equally, don’t like the rules? Petition to change them. Don’t violate them and celebrate it. Not at graduation and not because it’s just sadly about you.
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/high-school/2857104/
https://www.scarymommy.com/paxton-smith-dallas-valedictorian-abortion-rights-graduation-speech/
Imagine if the valedictorian went of script to support the right to life, would scary mommy celebrate them as well?
I know the story. I suspect the shoe would be the same if it were on the other foot. Scary mommy would celebrate them if it were her ilk.
Yeah dude you’re a troll on this site posting under multiple names
It’s the bozo accountant.
There’s one thing that the NUT who posted above is correct about, and that is that when the MAGA bloggers have problems using logic and facts they take the low road by name calling.
True of both, fringes of the left and right.
When cowards post they use multiple aliases.
I’ll go face-to-face with you any day, Mr. Phuc off.
Name the place and time
And I’d bet the house on Mr. K, even giving up a ton of points. He’d wipe the floor with PO.
Phuc off – there’s metadata. Aliai’s just for fun, not for lack of integrity. We know we ain’t hiding.
There’s no available metadata stored for your viewing or IPs either.
Name the time and place K and you’ll learn a very very harsh lesson in very quick fashion.
Exactly. Thanks, Yellow.
So Phuc off is the only one you use?
I do have multiple aliases (as if you don’t) but I’m not a troll. I have found a comfortable home here.
You are a troll. You should stick to one alias.
Oh, and I guess we are to assume that this is only your second comment under any alias.
I doubt it.
Glad to provide that home, Mr. K.
Thank you!
How would that kid feel if everyone there were to remain stone cold quiet while he did his retarded little skit, and then when he was finished, they still sat there stone cold, silent, as he made his way off the stage and everyone just watched him, moving about, while he began to feel uncomfortable with the silence, wondering about all the stone cold expressionless faces, and the deafening silence, the silence. He could have his free speech, and everybody could let him, and he’d never think about pulling a stunt like that again.
And there’s something a bit off about when people feel the need to always be controlling, micromanaging. I say, let the free speech be, and sit and be still, and watch lol
June 27, 2021
Hello Dirty Bird (Berkshire Eagle) Editors:
I read your editorial criticizing Berkshire District Attorney Andrea Harrington’s letter to the Administrative Judge against Judge Jennifer Tyne. The editorial made many valid points, especially that Andrea Harrington is more interested in politics than doing her job as Berkshire County’s chief law enforcement officer. I was surprised, however, that the editorial’s focus on Andrea Harrington’s heavily criticized letter and subsequent actions overlooks that a man was shot dead in cold blood and in broad daylight on North Street, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. If I was in Andrea Harrington’s shoes as Berkshire D.A., I would be in disbelief, too. She lashed out in a letter at the Judge in this tragic case instead of looking at her failures as Berkshire D.A. I understand her emotional state here, but I do think that her letter and actions are still wrong and unprofessional. I am concerned that inner city Pittsfield is so distressed with daily shootings, a gun murder in broad daylight, violent crime, drugs, gangs, and the like. Andrea Harrington became emotional and wrote an unprofessional and misguided letter, but I believe her heart is in the right place here because inner city Pittsfield is at rock bottom of society’s ills, inequities and injustices.
Personally, I spent many years of my then young adult life fearing that I would end up on North Street or another proverbial “Social Services Alley” rundown slum similar to North Street and the ring of poverty that surrounds North Street. I am very fortunate and grateful that our country honors me as a disabled Veteran. I may not have much in my life, but my wish has came true that I didn’t end up in the ditch that my native hometown’s inner city Pittsfield is in and probably always will be in. But, I still care about Pittsfield and Pittsfield politics all of these years later because I like to root for the underdogs of the world.
In Truth!
Jonathan A. Melle
The only thing gaining momentum is her third chin
Talk about “taking it on the chin(s)!”
She is so seductive.
Hasn’t done a darn thing for the tax-payers of Pittsfield. But, like a good pawn to the ruling masters of Boston, she will make sure all illegals have DL’s. To drive? Heck no. It’s so they can vote.
What good is a DL for the driver who is driving with no car insurance and the car isn’t even registered?
Just pray they don’t crash into you. If so, thank Tricia Farley-Country-Buffet (D).
Also there are still tens of thousands of people in this state who do to post- carceral consequences, were left out of the restoration of driver’s licenses when Boston changed the laws around that a few years ago.
I think we need to prioritize current American citizens before we start handing out licenses to illegals.
And I don’t know how one would go about finding every registered voter who has lost their license due to an incarceration( and remember incarceration includes probation even if you never set foot in a prison or jail), but these are the people who will be able to help effectively disrupt the give driver’s licenses to illegals movement
How
“How” Injun,you made me laugh, I haven’t heard that one since I was a kid!
The how is first to locate the people,and that would have to start with word of mouth but I I would bet every single one of us knows at least two or three people who don’t have their driver’s license right now, have paid the fines ( for which they will now have to be reimbursed of course), but still do not have their license back.
And we would have to look to the DA’s offices in the state to share the data on people who lost their license and weren’t included in the reinstatement.
Someone would have to cross reference and verify that info, and right here is where we potentially lose the fight, because right here is where we llose the interest of the men and women who want their licenses restored before illegal aliens get theirs because you know how this goes:
someone’s going to suggest forming a committee, the committee is going to suggest bringing in outside consultants and two, three years later those consultants *might* recommend that the state prioritize restoring licenses to the registered voters who lost them through incarceration over licenses for illegals.
Committees and consultants are the SCUD missiles of wars of attrition, but they’re effective in silencing marginalized people who have begun to organize around an issue.
BUT, in a perfect world, etc.etc.
Yes. TFB has been worthless to Pittsfield but “old reliable” when it comes to the Bosses in Boston.
She does what she is told so her stance probably comes from someone higher up who has something to gain from her pushing for this. that is her thing. Do as she is instructed and do it when and where she is told. A veritable marionette if you will.
Hello Editor of the NH Union Leader, et al,
New Hampshire doesn’t have a sales tax like Massachusetts does, but it is a known fact that New Hampshire has the highest property taxes in the nation. New Hampshire should be known as the state of regressive taxation. Talk about screwing over the peasants, New Hampshire takes the cake!
Governor Charlie Baker is the WORST Governor in the over 400 year history of Massachusetts because 76 of our nation’s heroes – our Veterans – died of Covid-19 in the Holyoke Soldiers Home under his watch, including Veterans from New Hampshire. Governor Charlie Baker should have taken full responsibility for this tragedy, and then apologized to all of the families of all of the dead Veterans, but he has no decency to do so.
Talking about having no decency, Governor Charlie Baker is sitting on billions of stimulus funds, along with state slush funds, while the peasants in Massachusetts are struggling to survive in the K-shaped economic recession for the hard hit working class families – while Wall Street is at record highs in the K-shaped economic recovery. It is disingenuous of him to sit on all of the billions in state taxpayer dollars, and then propose a 2 month sales tax holiday to help the peasants save a few hundred dollars. I believe it is really a campaign strategy to boost his image for the 2022 gubernatorial election.
In Truth!
Jonathan A. Melle
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“Baker’s sale: It’s still not NH, Charlie”
The NH Sunday Union Leader, Opinion: Editorial, June 27, 2021
Gov. Charlie Baker proposes giving Massachusetts consumers two whole months of freedom from that state’s 6.5 percent sales tax. Atta boy, Charlie. Only 10 more months and you will be where New Hampshire is (and always has been): sales-tax free.
The liberals who run the Bay State legislature were aghast at the Republican governor’s modest proposal. Some fainted dead away at the thought of returning taxpayer revenue (of which the state has a surplus) to the taxpayers. They called it a “political gimmick” that merely extends the two-day tax-free holiday that Massachusetts has been granting its peasants for several years. Either option reminds those consumers that for a few gallons of highly-taxed gasoline, they can shop in tax-free New Hampshire the year round.
Baker may be hoping that spiking the tax for two whole months would give real relief to businesses that lose significant revenue from that border-hopping. It might. But consumers are unlikely to compress a year’s worth of shopping into just two months.
We hope Gov. Chris Sununu will follow former Gov. John Lynch’s example and promote the New Hampshire Advantage during these tax “holidays” whatever their length. We would suggest Sununu do so through some Massachusetts media advertising. This would have the added benefit of irritating his New Hampshire foes. Every time the governor makes an effective pitch for the Granite State, they cringe.
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I thought the VA was federal?
Racist clown
When you finish third and are an idiot
Ms. Berry is going to the Olympics?
If so, why should taxpayers foot the bill for someone who disrespects her country?
Send her back.
Shame on you.
It reminds me of the black-fisted salute of Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 olympics. I don’t know why Berry did what she did, but Smith and Carlos did it to protest the lot of the black man in the US, kind of like Colin Kaepernick.
If so, she doesn’t disrespect her country, she is looking to make a statement.
If you want to make a statement, there are better ways than that. The Smith/Carlos salute was done in a far different time, under far different circumstances, for far different reasons. I remember the 1968 salute well and supported it. The upright fist, heads bowed — THAT was a statement. Berry is just standing there nonchalantly, like she’s too good to show some class. Despicable.
dumbass event
Shouldn’t the Olympic Committee do something about her outrageous behavior? Take the 4th place finisher instead of Ms. Berry!
Right now, the whole CRT convo strikes me as performative.
Given how we are using the words “evidence-based” and “data driven” as the new gold standard for implementing new social programs, I’m wondering why we’re not hearing those words used around CRT.
Why aren’t all the woke helicopter parents asking for the long term independent evidence and data around the effectiveness of implementing CRT into our public schools?
Is it because they are too afraid that if they were to ask they will be painted with the broad brush of racism?
Or is it that because there is no data from the target population about how effective CRT is, or if it even is effective?
So instead of asking meaningful questions about the efficacy of CRT, and it may well be really effective; we don’t yet,
BECAUSE WE DO NOT HAVE LONG TERM DATA.
So we’re just going to avoid the whole thing because somebody might call us a racist?
We’re supposed to just rubber stamp a social experiment.
That’s a wicked bad policy to live by.
When will people understand that it is okay to hit pause and take a deeper dive into this before we say yes or no?
Thanks for the comment, FOX. There are so many aspects of race that no one dares touch these days because of alleged “racism.” One example: Why is the NBA more than 80% black? Why is the NFL more than 70% black? Objectively, these are neutral questions, but if anyone tries to actually research the reasons, they risk touching the third rail.
Dan,
Don’t know if you recall but a few years back on this blog I recommended to you the sportswriter Dave Zirin. He frequently writes about race and professional sports. Whether or not your politics align with Zirin, his research is thorough, and he’s a damn good writer. Definitely worth reading his stuff!
Also, I can’t help but wonder what Howard Cosell would have to say about all of this.
I miss that guy!
Just to recap. With regards to the ball earth, Dan has claimed that if one were to travel directly east or west, one would ultimately end up right back where they started, which is true, but he claimed that this is only possible on a ball earth, and this particular claim is false.
Dan is talking about spinning ball and he’s talking about east and west, and of course, north and south. But instead of thinking about it in terms of north, we think of north as the attractor. You can call the attractor north, if you want to, and then you can make up words like, east, west, and south.
These terms are fine, very useful, and they work essentially the same wether you are on a ball, or, a flat plane.
On a flat plane, you can locate the attractor with your compass. With that information, you can can use your compass to travel due east or west. As you travel, you’ll constantly be locating the attractor so that you can maintain your east or west heading. By doing this, on a flat plane, YOU WILL ultimately get back to where you started. This is a fact.
There is no South Pole, because, we don’t live on a ball. South is just a term used to describe any direction which goes away from the attractor, again, useful wether you live on a ball, or, a flat plane.
If all habitable areas are located around the attractor, as in, the attractor is essentially in the middle, it’s easy to convert this situation into a spinning ball earth simply by fabricating a South Pole. But the compass only points to the attractor, so, South Pole is an act of faith.
Dan, please review your claim, and when you discover that you were mistaken, perhaps you could retract the claim.
Sorry, NUT. No retraction. Still waiting for you to refute the claims from the UNLV site, that is, the claims of science and of all common sense.
Attractor, huh!
Thank you so much for CRT explanation. I already made two Public Records requests about “new” Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Got a reply from Personnel Dep. Boss, Michael Tyler –” Scope of the job for DEI department employees is not determined yet.” So, Mayor Tyer “organized” a “study group” to get her needed conclusion for creation of DEI Department; City Council already approved $90K+ for 6 months DEI budget with 2 “Officers”( one will be Alisa Costa) and 1 secretary, but no actual description “yet” about specifics those “Officers’ will be doing!
When I asked in Personnel Department: ” Can I -Conservative Republican- apply for DEI job openings?” Secretary replied: “Yes, you can, but later–since it is not posted yet and we don’t know time for posting yet. We also don’t know education and experience qualification for those 2 Officers positions.” (!!??) Meanwhile-
city failed to give me exact copy (Public Records) of that group finding.
Instead, City Clerk Michell referred me to city’s web site about DEI, which was installed by IT programmers, not “study group”. By MGL, approved in 2016, new fines for failure to provide Public Records are from $1,000-to $5,000. I sincerely believe that Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is pure violation of the fiduciary duties of Municipality to run City as efficient as possible with min Departments and min employees, Violation of Federal and State Constitution since DEI advocates for hiring more black teachers and more black employees as Mayor’s “Information Officer” Roberta told me, which is pure RACISM in reverse. I am deeply aggravated why nobody else is concerned about those obvious violations of Constitution and Civil Rights. Hiring more people because they belong to any race is a Racism. Why do we need to tolerate that injustice? Why people became so afraid to oppose Dem/Liberal Fascist propaganda? I will file a Lawsuit as soon as I get all necessary replies from City. If you with me: blum037@yahoo.com