That’s what progressive DEI hustlers are doing!
A great many Madison liberals got off the Woke crazy train when the University of Wisconsin-Madison loaded up that 42-ton glacial rock because it was accused of racism. Now that Old Fighting Bob La Follette is just another dead, cisgendered white man, The Capital Times is racing to keep up with BLM community organizers, the drag queen lobby, and Red Guard socialists.
Instead of demanding the return to campus of the naturally occurring geology lesson and the reinstatement of NAACP hero Fredric March’s good name, my former newspaper employer is doubling down on diversity, equity, and inclusion (aka DEI). As with Pavlov’s dog, it’s a reflexive bow-wow against Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos for demanding an end to $16 million worth of race hustling (as we first reported here). No, “the speaker and his colleagues should use the state’s massive budget surplus to steer more resources” to the task at hand, that being to rinse the racism from one troubled student — out of 44,640 enrolled on the Madison campus — who posted a vile message on social media. (See “Fragile flowers.“)
An ‘air of insensitivity’
In the same edition today, the CT posts an op ed from “a faculty member of color at UW-Madison who teaches undergraduate students about racism, anti-blackness, and the ideology of white supremacy,” as Professor Anthony Hernandez describes his day job. The university brass who met with the campus BLM chapter, the professor indicts, “displayed an air of insensitivity.” (“UW needs to fast-track anti-racism efforts.”) An “air of insensitivity”! The Klan rides again!
Which is why the mainstream news media is playing the death of a black man on the New York City subway as another “I can’t breathe” at the hands of yet another probably racist white man. (Maybe one of Althea Bernstein’s “classic Wisconsin frat boys“?) Burn, Kenosha, burn!
At the National Review, author and professor Wilfred Reilly walks through the facts you won’t get elsewhere.
USA Today referred to the deceased Mr. Neely as a “beloved subway performer” who hailed from “a whole family of musicians.” The spin from CNN was that he was a “Michael Jackson impersonator” … performing unsolicited but charming dance numbers on the train. …
In reality, the tragic struggle that killed Neely began when he went nuts on a subway car packed with riders, screaming violent threats: “I will hurt anyone on this train . . . I don’t mind going to jail and getting life in prison!” He was restrained by three men … including a black guy.
At the time of the fatal struggle, he had an active criminal warrant, earned for punching a 67-year-old grandmother, breaking her nose and fracturing her orbital bone. On another occasion … Neely tried to kidnap a small child. … There exists a decade-old Reddit thread … that consists of New York taxpayers documenting the subway crimes of Jordan Neely. The title? “Try to stay away from the Michael Jackson impersonator.” Simply put: Neely was seen as a disturbed and dangerous man — because he was. …
In 2018, a not-atypical year, there were 547,948 violent black-on-white crimes versus only 59,778 white-on-black crimes. That’s out of well over 10 million total crimes, to be sure — but still a real-life ratio of 9.2 to 1.
— “The false Jordan Neely narrative”
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Keep it up, Woke progressives, and you’ll turn Madison Republican yet!
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I like the Squire’s “bottom line.” Pray it comes true.
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Anthony Hernandez, and others who do what he does, should be the first ones in the UW system sent to the unemployment line. His entire screed in TCT is a load of woke-worded claptrap. It reads like an essay from an underachieving HS sophomore who thinks that stringing together big words makes them sound smart, when it actually comes out as a load of gibberish.
“…train all students to develop an equity-minded lens that includes a thorough understanding of the hurtful impacts of racism and discrimination…” is otherwise written as “brainwash”. Or perhaps “wokewash”.
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And he is only one of scores of UW professors who use their cushy jobs as platforms for indoctrinating students in racist hate under the guise of “equity” and “social justice.” And most if not all are in the humanities and social sciences. Along with eliminating the overpaid DEI drones, Vos should be pushing to eliminate tenure in all non-STEM departments. It’s time to let the taxpayers of WI know about the purveyors of toxic sludge they’re subsidizing.
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We all RECALL the fuzzy, intentionally lightened, picture of a young, innocent-looking, victimhoodied, 12 year-old Trayvon Martin, and the ages old, 70 pounds heavier, orange jump suited George Zimmerman.
Current pictures of either (a heavily tatted, angry, middle-finger proffering Martin, and a slimmer, better dressed Zimmerman) would’ve never furthered despicable Lefty’s pre-determined narrative.
So if you’re wondering why despicable Lefty prefers to show the above misty water-colored memories image rather than a more current, accurate depiction of a toothless, disheveled, scumbag extraordinaire Neely, wonder no more.
The Gotch
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The ludicrous part of this demand to punish the student who made the video, is their contention that the student has yet to pay a price for her racism. Oh really? My guess is that she has already paid dearly. Do you think she’s had more than a couple of phone calls, messages or threats? Do you think that perhaps people who used to consider her a friend, might now be denying they even know her? Think she’s had a few thoughts about changing schools, or dropping out altogether? Think her life has changed much in the past week?
That’s the great part about free speech. You are free to say whatever you want, but that does not mean you are free of consequences. These things take care of themselves.
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Latino savior alert!
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Call me out of the loop, but I had no idea about this Neely guy. Thanks for your column…always something fishy behind the bloody headlines. Grrr!
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Really sad to see so many Americans are ok will killing people over words. So every time a crazy person rants it’s ok to murder them? Wow… the White interpretation of self defense I seems to be “I was momentarily uncomfortable”
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I guess a broken nose and fractured orbital bone could be considered “momentarily uncomfortable” but that sure is a long moment.
Your potrayal of what happened is dishonest. You do realize a black person was involved in Neely’s restraint? It’s racist to think this is black vs white. People of all races are sick of this shit.
Check your luxury beliefs.
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Heh! Luxury Beliefs should be right up there with First World Problems!
The Gotch
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Term is from Rob Henderson. Example is being a rich person advocating to defund the police while your gated community is free from the rabble. The poor pay the price for defunding the police. Or of course the Madison progressive who is dictating what is murder in NYC.
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Ha! I’m definitely not separated from “the rabble”. I live in Milwaukee right around all those scary homeless people. Funny thing, I’ve never been driven to kill one of them.
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So the dead guy first fractured someone’s orbital bone, then they killed him? What shit are people or all races sick of? And I don’t know what you mean by luxury beliefs either, do tell 🙂
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Oh, I see. He had a warrant out for punching someone. So it is ok to kill people who have warrants out for their arrest, even if when you killed then you had no idea of the warrant, so long as they are screaming crazy rants? Just trying to understand the ok vs not-ok line for murder in the mind of the American Right…
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Murder huh? I must’ve missed the trial.
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And by the way I will tell you with 100% certainty…. I don’t know if it was a murder or not. I also don’t have the right to judge any of them having not been there and never been to NYC let alone ridden the subway. So I’ll defer to the legal system.
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So, the UW teaching faculty, Anthony Hernandez, refers to himself as a person of color.
Referring to question on the federal form 4473…there’s a question 18a. Hispanic or Not Hispanic?…then 18b. American Indian or Alaskan Native, Asian, Black or African American, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and WHITE.
I wonder what boxes he would check? Not that this loon should own a firearm.
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I usually check all the boxes. That makes someone else guess.
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I’m sure he referred to himself as a person of color on his CV–that’s how he got his job.
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Rollie, a question: you’re on a packed Subway with a crazed individual ranting up and down the aisle threatening your life and the life’s of everyone on the train. What do YOU do?
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Here is another question: You are the Vice-president of the US on January 6th, waiting to certify the 2020 presidential election. You are surrounded by crazies wanting to hang you. And the crazies are being encouraged by your boss. What do YOU do?
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Ignore it. Dude, this happens literally all the time. There are crazy people ranting on subway cars all the time. It is even more crazy that you are trying to frame it as if it’s ok to kill people who talk crazy. Just wow…
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Look up the definitions of “rant” and “threaten.” Notice any difference?
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Ignore it. Dude, this happens literally all the time. There are crazy people ranting on subway cars all the time. It is even more crazy that you are trying to frame it as if it’s ok to kill people who talk crazy. Just wow…
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I think most people do ignore it and NYC subway users likely have a very high tolerance level for this kind of thing. My gut feeling is something about this guy’s behavior that day caused danger signals to flash. Or not. We don’t know.
Tell you what Rollie you seem to know exactly what happened so tell us. I want verbatim statements and full background on all participants. You have this right?
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“Ignore it.”
Wise advice, and that which despicable Lefty does WITHOUT FAIL…with but one tiny caveat…which would be when the victim happens to be Melanin Deficient
Where’s The OUTRAGE> When bLack People Commit RAYcist Killings Against White People?
And to head off any anticipated hyperbolic slobbering, The Gotch DOES NOT believe RAYcism was a factor Nelly’s death.
Anywho, your estimable, if comically…um…focused SJW White Lefty Savior/Messiah Complex is on full display, here.
Funniest thing; The Gotch doesn’t recall you displaying any Gosh I’m Nice Lapel Ribbons, I’m Dialed In Wrist Bands, or Look At Me Bumper Stickers for the OTHER 27 NYC Subway murder victims (a number of them, as you put it, defensive) since March 2020…
Where’s The Lefty OUTRAGE 2.0 When 27 Others Were Killed On The Subway?
Ah Lefty; so MUCH crushing hypocrisy, so little time!
The Gotch
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Dude, I’m not advocating for anything I was simply asking you what you would do. I think Rollie, that you’ve lost your moral compass if you think it’s okay to behave that way threatening others.
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“Ignore it” and “This happens all the time” are flippant responses to to a problem that has been getting increasingly out of hand in the last few years especially. And that problem is random, occasionally lethal assaults by the mentally ill homeless, in NYC in particular and in other large cities in general. Felony assaults on NYC subways were up 25 percent in 2021 from 2019 despite ridership plummeting due to COVID. Remember the nurse who was, without warning, thrown in front of an oncoming NYC subway by a mentally disturbed guy a few years back? There have been over 40 of those since. How about the guy who was randomly stabbed to death by another vagrant while in his own car with his young family? I’m sure regular commuters on public transit are acutely aware of these trends, are in more fear for their safety, and thus aren’t content to “just ignore it”. As for whether Neely was murdered, I will wait for the facts to come out. If subway riders already accustomed to the ranting homeless reacted like this, then there’s probably more to the story.
If Neely had been committed to a mental institution and given help like he should have been, this never would have happened. Unfortunately, progressives and their ACLU cohorts did away with involuntary commitment and a lot of mental institutions back in the 70s and the rest of us have been forced to deal with the mess ever since. The NYC mayor is a proponent of committing the homeless mentally ill, and that needs to happen everywhere. Unfortunately, it was too little too late for Neely.
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Ha, talk about some revisionist history. Yes, the decision was made to de-institutionalize, but it was hardly the fault of progressives that it wasn’t successful, Conservatives have never adequately funded anything that was to replace the asylums. The conservative position is to starve and shrink government to the size that it can be drowned in a bathtub. Are you advocating an expensive big government fix to our mental health problems? Good luck getting that passed.
The deeper problem is us ourselves. Our society, our culture, US. I was talking to a recent acquaintance from Colombia. He remarked that he didn’t understand what we mean by “mental health” – he said his country has lots of poor people, but they don’t have nearly the issues we do with mental health problems….
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I notice you didn’t address my first paragraphs, so I take it you concede those points. But if not, consider that I have a lot of experience riding public transit in Chicago where I do a lot of business before replying. I am highly familiar with the problems with the mentally ill homeless and roving gangs there, and I’ve seen my share of thefts, verbal harassment and violence they perpetrate.
No revisionist history here. De-institutionalization took off with the Kennedy administration. It was made worse by the Donaldson vs. O’Connor decision by a liberal Supreme Court in 1975, making it even harder to involuntarily commit the mentally ill. And you should be aware that mental institutions are not purely federal entities—they are jointly created, funded and controlled by states and municipalities. Guess who’s been in charge of those states and cities that have the biggest homeless problems?
It’s not purely the fault of the states and locals though. More than a few have tried to go back to involuntary commitment of the mentally ill, such as California with Proposition 63 in the early 2000s and more recently NYC. But the progressives in the ACLU have fought this every step of the way and largely succeeded. Their leaders have gone on record saying that the ultimate goal is no involuntary hospitalization for anyone, ever. If we don’t allow the mentally ill to sign legal documents, stand trial, or purchase firearms, on what planet does it make sense to allow them to make their own healthcare decisions? Small wonder we’re at this point.
Claiming conservatives want to starve the government is ludicrous and you know it. Anarchy is a Noam Chomsky fantasy and he’s so far left that I’ve heard liberals call him a crackpot. Yes, I am advocating for a government fix to this problem. Put more treatment facilities for these people in the places where they need it the most. Bring back involuntary commitment with a low threshold—one police encounter due to disorderly conduct or worse and off you go.
As for government solutions to other problems, I want those kept in check. I have little incentive to give the government more of my tax dollars when they already mishandle the ones I give them—mass proliferation of DEI programs headed by academic misfits, billions to Ukraine with no demands for Europe to own the Putin problem, funding of anti-police activists like Freedom Inc. so they can lower public safety standards, having to raise the debt ceiling every couple years with no plans to manage spending, bailouts for major corporations and banks due to their fiscal stupidity, student loan forgiveness to buy votes with no Congressional approval, and on and on. Treatment for the mentally ill, by invitation if possible and by force if necessary, is one area where I break with that because I and many others who get exposed to it aren’t content with just ignoring it.
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Good comments today, Peanut Gallery. (Not great, but above acceptable.) Occurs to me, maybe the 24-year-old Marine veteran was “triggered.” In which case, give him a card that reads “get out of jail free.”
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Or PTSD.
Here’s a thought…maybe most of the “crazies” are just “assholes”.
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So nice the high school fights have resumed seeing they removed the resource officers. Great move. Let’s see who wins
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