Progressivism In ONE MORE Nutshell: Some Writer Who...Well, It's A Longish Story.

This guy says that, because he's black, he's afraid he'll be killed before his book comes out.

   If he knows where he lives, he should know what the odds of that are--but unless he lives in a really dangerous place, it's not likely. And if he is killed, the numbers tell us that it'll likely be at the hand of another black man--one who is not a cop. They also tell us that, unless he's attacking a cop, there is virtually no chance whatsoever that he'll be killed by one. 

   Oh, wait...those are all hatefacts. Actually being reasonable about such things is probably systemic racism or white somethingorother or whatever. I forgot that actual reasoning is NOT OK...

   Anyway.

   He goes on to ridicule his--admittedly, if their texts are any indication, super-lame--white friends, acquaintances, ex-friends and ex-acquaintances for sending him texts filled with anguish about their "white privilege" or some other make-believe thing I can't remember. Anyway, he doesn't seem all that fond of them, honestly.

   He's also mad that his agent put off their meeting by a day because the publisher was having some kind of anguish-filled "day of reflection" or something because of their "white privilege" or whatever. Of course, if they hadn't done that, they'd likely have ended up on the receiving end of the shrieking banshees of the Twitter mob...which is apparently to be feared by good progressive types.

   Incidentally: you do realize that, if the Brett Weinstein incident at Evergreen happened today, there'd be basically no chance he'd be acknowledged to be in the right...right? We've moved on to a whole new level of lefty crazy.

   He goes on to suggest that instead of anguished tweets, his friends and ex-friends and acquaintances and ex-acquaintances should give money to pro-black causes. Which seems reasonable enough. But one of the things he wants them to do is to send:

Texts: To your relatives and loved ones telling them you will not be visiting them or answering phone calls until they take significant action in supporting black lives either through protest or financial contributions.

So at that point just fuck you, dude. My God. I mean, I know I already posted something on that general dumb. shit. idea. But still: fuck you. Psycho.

   Besides, how would this work, anyway? If you aren't going to visit or accept phone calls--from your loved ones, no less--how will you know that they've complied with your demands? Are you permitted to read their texts? Or letters? Or receive singing telegrams? 

   If anyone is considering that kind of emotional blackmail in my case, I certainly hope they know me well enough to simply never contact me again since sending me a text like that would guarantee the end of the friendship anyway. My God. I'd love to know whether anybody has actually gotten such a text...though I'm sure they have. I'm sure that the same progressives that love to wallow in holiday family-conflict pr0n in anticipation of Thanksgiving and Christmas will be sending some of those out to their folks and uncles and whatnot.

   Goddamn everybody's gone batshit crazy.