The News Thread

[CiG]

Sacramento PD Arrest 12-Yr-Old Black Child, Place Bag Over His Head - Black Main Street

After they arrested him and began to walk him to their vehicle, he started kicking and spitting so they put one of those spit bags over his head. Big ol' nothingburger story.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

"blackmainstreet.com"

When will American politicians admit that black nationalism is a bigger thing than white nationalism?

 

[Einherjar86]

This is cringe-worthy. Also, looks to me to be a consequence of institutional nepotism and hand-shaking. Someone should have checked facts on this (beyond the author, who clearly missed a crucial one), and it should have been peer-reviewed. But when someone as illustrious as Wolf brings a book to the table, publishers rush to secure the contract. Too bad.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019...S0GAJ_pVfLAC-Q3FLKvBjY_B89oLY-5efQ3ONM_a0YTXE

When she went on BBC radio on Thursday, Wolf, the author of Vagina and the forthcoming Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love, probably expected to discuss the historical revelations she’d uncovered her book. But during the interview, broadcaster Matthew Sweet read to Wolf the definition of “death recorded,” a 19th-century English legal term. “Death recorded” means that a convict was pardoned for his crimes rather than given the death sentence.

Wolf thought the term meant execution.

 

[Dak]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/...tion=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

 

[CiG]

Snippet of the audio here. The interviewer also points out that one of the examples she's using of a man being executed for homosexuality was actually "death recorded" for an indecent assault on a 6 year old boy, not because he was a homosexual.

...awkward as fuck.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Don't forget that the "gay community" only began disavowing NAMBLA in the 80s.

 

[Dak]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/opinion/california-housing-nimby.html

Reading opposition to SB 50 and other efforts at increasing density, I’m struck by an unsettling thought: What Republicans want to do with I.C.E. and border walls, wealthy progressive Democrats are doing with zoning and Nimbyism. Preserving “local character,” maintaining “local control,” keeping housing scarce and inaccessible — the goals of both sides are really the same: to keep people out.

"We've got a live one!"

 

[Dak]

https://marginalrevolution.com/marg...s-been-an-american-male-culture-collapse.html

At the same time, the labor-force participation rates of men without a college education have steadily declined. While wage and participation trends are often linked for this population, we have argued that this connection cannot solely be the result of an inward labor demand shift across a stable and elastic labor supply curve.

Currently reading Men to Boys, so this is unsurprising.

 

[rms]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michae...sive-since-thats-always-been-the-greens-goal/

 

[CiG]

Trump Administration Flying Migrants Out of Texas to Ease Overcrowding at Border.

 

[CiG]

Just heard that somebody set themselves on fire in front of the Whitehouse.

 

[The Ozzman]

Just heard that somebody set themselves on fire in front of the Whitehouse.

BLUMPF IS DONE!

 

[CiG]

Self-immolation works, just look at Tibet, it's free now oh wait.

 

[Dak]

I'm sure the US lost an important contributing citizen. Press F for respects.

 

[The Ozzman]

I'm sure the US lost an important contributing citizen. Press F for respects.

More like press S to spit on his grave

edit: he died

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7086559/Man-set-fire-outside-White-House-dies-hospital.html

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Jurassic park ! ! !

According to Scientists, They Can Recreate Real Dinosaurs In 5-10 Years

 

[Dak]

 

[Einherjar86]

Not lying when I say that's an interesting contrast, but what's it supposed to tell us? Also, why the focus on NYT and the Guardian? Are we supposed to believe that FOX and Infowars report more about lower respiratory disease and cancer than the NYT?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

It's obviously not a particularly high-resolution data set. E.g. I'd bet that of the ~12% of suicide reported on in the media, the vast majority is of celebrities and subsequent suicide awareness. Off the top of my head, I can think of one non-celebrity suicide I saw in random news, and it was of a recent Harvard graduate ("She had so much to live for her life was just beginning how could this happen yadda yadda"), so not exactly a prole either. There's also the fact that heart disease and cancer largely effect those that should expect it (smokers, fatties, old people, etc); if anything cancer is probably over-discussed in the media.

EDIT: Actually I take back the suicide anecdote, now that I remember, I overheard a conversation at my school's lab where a student was talking about how her old friend who graduated Harvard committed suicide, so I still had to actually find the story. Though I might be a biased observer in that I largely just go after the front page stuff; if they're counting obits and minor columns then I could imagine suicides being more discussed.

 

[Dak]

Not lying when I say that's an interesting contrast, but what's it supposed to tell us? Also, why the focus on NYT and the Guardian? Are we supposed to believe that FOX and Infowars report more about lower respiratory disease and cancer than the NYT?

Intellectuals don't take either outlet seriously. They do consider the NYT, if not the Guardian, "quality reporting."