Category: Progressives
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The Squire takes a knee for racial e-qual-i-tee!
The Squire is taking a knee — not, like Colin Kaepernick, to protest police brutality toward black people — but to protest the NFL’s brutality toward football players. (Aaron Hernandez, any one?) And the Left’s brutality toward the black community. Police and prisons are how whitey has kept the black man in his place ever…
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Two monuments defaced in Madison: one gets big media play, the vandalism to the police memorial, not so much
False flag operation? A reporter from Wisconsin Public Radio reached out Wednesday (9-20-17) to the Blaska Policy Werkes for a statement on the vandalism done to the Voluntarios Internacionales monument in James Madison Park. The reporter noted that just one month earlier, the Werkes had called for the removal of this monument to Communism, for…
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‘Real action’ is removing statues instead of improving schools or saving black lives
Symbols are important. Symbols communicate more viscerally than words. Think of the Statue of Liberty, the Arc de Triomphe, the Vietnam Wall, or the crucifix. At the other end of the ledger, Lenin’s Tomb, the swastika, and, yes, a triumphant Confederate general astride a prancing horse. If Madison had a symbol, it would have to…
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What’s the matter with the Left? (Hint: socialism, identity politics, and arrogance)
It was said of France’s generals that they were always fighting the previous war. For my old comrade, John Nichols, it is always the Act 10 occupation of the Wisconsin State Capitol in February-March 2011 or (as the Policy Werkes calls it) the intifada. Bullhorns, posters with Hitler references, Hollywood celebs, illegal teacher walk-out, intimidation,…