Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t CFACT – in the wake of harsh accusations of greedy corporate collaboration in “Planet of the Humans“, the Sierra club appears to be attempting to reinvent itself as a racial justice movement.
Racism Is Killing the Planet
The ideology of white supremacy leads the way toward disposable people and a disposable natural world
BY HOP HOPKINS | JUN 8 2020
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During the street protests and marches of the past two weeks, many people carried signs that read “Racism Is Killing Us.” It’s no exaggeration to say that racism and white supremacy harm all of us, because in addition to robbing us of our humanity, racism is also killing the planet we all share.
An idea—a long-overdue realization—is growing in the environmental movement. It goes something like this: “We’ll never stop climate change without ending white supremacy.” This argument has entered the outdoor recreation and conservation space thanks to the leadership of Black, Indigenous, and other people of color in the climate justice movement. The idea has taken on new force as folks in the mainstream environmental movement do our best to show up for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and all the Black people still living and subject to police violence.
I know that a lot of people are struggling with the thought that addressing the environmental crises must involve dismantling white supremacy. At Sierra Club meetings, some people hear me say something like that and think, “Damn, fighting climate change wasn’t hard enough already? Now we have to end racism and white supremacy too? Seriously, man?”
I get that feeling of being overwhelmed. It’s a lot to carry. It’s a lot to hold. We all have enough to do without feeling like we’re taking on even more.
But I want to share another lens from which we can view this moment. I really believe in my heart of hearts—after a lifetime of thinking and talking about these issues—that we will never survive the climate crisis without ending white supremacy.
Here’s why: You can’t have climate change without sacrifice zones, and you can’t have sacrifice zones without disposable people, and you can’t have disposable people without racism.
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Read more: https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/racism-killing-planet
Do not underestimate the author, Sierra Club Strategic Partnership Director Hop Hopkins.
Most greens are not very self aware. They usually leave a juicy picture somewhere of themselves doing something stupid or wildly hypocritical, like protesting against fossil fuel while wearing a petroleum plastic jacket.
Hop is different. He is not someone who overlooks small details.
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Hop overlooks LARGE details.
+1000
Hop would have everyone in the West living dirt-poor lives while India, China, Africa and South America use fossil fuels to pull themselves out of poverty.
I wish guys like Hop had some clue about what it takes to make an industrial civilisation work.
Or maybe he does, but makes more money writing about racism and climate change than he would doing something else.
That’s just it, if he’s like most Greens, he doesn’t want industrial civilization to work.
Naw, he doesn’t care either way. He’s found a lucrative calling. As always, just follow the money.
the Sierra club – BY HOP HOPKINS | JUN 8 2020
I wonder if the Sierra Club and/or Hop Hopkins knows of any countries around the world that have a booming economy, are self-supporting, great infrastructure, healthcare, educational services, etc. …… that ARE NOT controlled/governed by …… white supremacy “thinkers n’ doers”?
When it comes to disposable people and disposable regions, nobody on the planet comes close to the damage done by socialists/communists.
Capitalist countries have been cleaning up their environments.
Perhaps more to the point, he misses the fact that only rich societies care about the environment, poor societies concentrate on survival first.
+100
New symptom of COVID-19 observed. It makes one take drugs, pass counterfeit currency and resist arrest.
Scissor
Counterfeit money is a means by which International Drug rings, International Arms Dealers, and International Slave Traders launder money.
Ironic, Huh?…….
He stood over six foot tall and played high school football so he was probably pretty strong and tough. Not the kind of guy you’d want to get into a fight with. He was a career criminal with several previous convictions and five years in prison for armed robbery in a home invasion. And he had drugs in his system when he died resisting arrest.
But I believe everything the mainstream press tells me and they tell me that he was just a poor victim of white racism and a “gentle giant” who was a role model for his community. Meanwhile the policeman, who was doing his job, is in jail on a million dollar bond. And will probably spend the rest of life in prison as a political prisoner for an involuntary man slaughter charge.
What the H is going on in America?
The inmates are running the asylum.
George Floyd’s death. Climate change alarmism. Wind and solar energy. Etcetera, etc…
The more I see relevant science, facts and data in these and other issues being either selectively cherry-picked or suppressed and omitted in politics, the MSM and elsewhere, the more I feel like I’m living in Oceania in George Orwell’s “Nineteen-Eighty-Four.”
This characteristic behavior is exactly what we see in oppressive states where the authorities in charge intend to control and manipulate the dissemination of information to ensure it serves their purposes (power, money and control). The individual doesn’t need to do any thinking, because those who control the dissemination of information are doing it for you. All the people need to do is listen and believe, and they probably do so more often that they should.
Having an incomplete or manipulated picture or view of the issues can often be a product of propagandizing, and seeing it happening in what is supposed to be a free, open and democratic society is disturbing to say the least. This not to say that those responsible for death of George Floyd should not be prosecuted–they obviously need to be. His death was a tragic thing. But if the information on his criminal past and the reason for his arrest are correct, the manner in which he is being characterized in light of his death is another story entirely. If Floyd were a law abiding citizen, might he not still be alive today? Is there not something to be said for being law-abiding?
The amount of residual racism that is still out there obviously must be dealt with and fought. The problem here is the manner in which it is being done. To whatever extent the First Amendment and freedom of thought are coming under threat in the USA today (you can’t say All Lives Matter anymore), it is quite disturbing to suspect that the greed for money, power and control is behind it all.
Love Big Brother.
CD in Wisconsin – June 10, 2020 at 11:11 am
CD in W, it is obvious to me that you should have at least mentioned the FACT that 98% of the “racism” that is being perpetrated in the US of A ……. is being perpetrated by the blacks themselves.
Black men are 6% of the population and they commit half of the murders and 60% of the burglaries. It isn’t racist to say that, but it’s being treated like it is. And they wonder why they tend to be policed more.
Sam:
I readily acknowledge that there are likely a considerable number of African-Americans out there who have a hostile attitude towards whites (and of course the MSM won’t mention it–another verboten topic). I however would be careful about slapping a percentage number on it.
Sam may be exaggerating, but not by much.
CD in Wisconsin – June 10, 2020 at 1:48 pm
CD, why don’t you study all the videos of “looting and burning” that has occurred over the past couple week and then tell me what the percentage of “black verses white” has been.
CD: yer brain washed like all the rest. Love Big Sister.
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what’s confusing you
Is just the nature of my game, mm yeah
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
‘Cause I’m in need of some restraint
Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the Devil
Marty
I have my doubts about Chauvin being convicted, or rather, I suspect he’ll be found guilty of lesser charges. Official Coroners report found no evidence of asphyxiation, so no excessive force was used.
I understand Floyd had a LOT of Fentanyl in his system and was suffering from COVID 19. Too many mitigating circumstances to achieve a straight conviction.
HotScot – Despite what I hear in the news, it looks to me like prosecuting Chauvin is going to be difficult. I wouldn’t want to be the prosecutor in the case.
Just my opinion, but even a second degree murder charge looks like a stretch. At best they might be able to make an involuntary manslaughter charge stick. But I’m not sure that after passions have cooled that a jury would even buy that. He was a trained policeman in the employ of the city of Minneapolis arresting for cause a dangerous and resisting suspect and using a choke hold permitted by the police. Be a hard case to prosecute.
Of course if he is found not guilty we can expect a second round of recreational rioting.
“ Of course if he is found not guilty we can expect a second round of recreational rioting. ”
Shur nuff, by the time the trial is over, quite a few of the burned-out and looted businesses will have had time to replace their doors, windows, shelving, casework and merchandise ……just in time for the aforesaid recreational “looters n’ burners” to be needing a “re-supply” of their last acts of thievery.
Actually, he will probably be found not guilty in a couple years (because he was charged with what the mob wanted him to be guilty of rather than based on what he actually did), just in time to provide more mob outrage to fuel Keith Ellison’s next election campaign.
Hey, if your old beat-Up Woodstock-era Environmentalism VW Van with the psychedelic paint-job died 100 miles ago, and your old beat-up CO2-powered Lada Largus won’t get out of first gear anymore, and the Global Pandemic WW1-era field ambulance only slowed down because it was running out of gas, then you hijack whatever vehicle happens along. Justice be dammed.
Rich
Large details: Whenever I have attended Sierra Club activities in the past, it has pretty much been all loaves of white bread that I have seen. Very little racial diversity.
That’s why the current noise makes for such a tasty opportunity. Think of all the new suckers the Environmentalists can recruit by tying up to the “white supremacy” and BLM busses.
Memo to Sierra Club, you will never stop climate change. Only the terminally stupid think that they can control the climate of the freaking planet. Yes, all who think that are very stupid. There is no science that can change anything.
The whole idea of white priviledge, which is basically saying that white people are more educated, thinking, and practical, has been upgraded to white supremacy. This was a purposeful upgrade to link educated people to the basic, imagined skinhead radical—very typical liberal strategy of assigning labels—nothing behind the label at all. And you can be black and educated and thinking, so they are in this group as well.
What they are really opposed to is anybody who thinks rationally and does not do what they are told ,because they are not misinformed or ignorant of what is going on and often cognizant of the liberals’ goals.
They have to get rid of the educated and practical thinkers who know that what the GND and other agendas seek to do are bad for everybody and the world.
Personally I am extremely offended by the claim that all my success in life is due to the color of my skin; not merit, hard work, or sacrifices I have made. Bullsh*t. Anybody that can’t see how racist the entire idea of “white privilege” is, must either be very ignorant or intentionally deceptive. The same goes for “white supremacy”.
It is interesting to note that the cities with the biggest “race problems” are those that have been run by the left for decades. All the problems they have today are the end result of the policies they have enacted. It’s no wonder they want to blame someone else, but if there is systemic racism in those city and state governments, the failure to wipe it out can be laid squarely at the feet of the Democrat party (and their enablers in the media). For example, Minneapolis has a mayor that wishes he was black, a black police chief, a city council with a black (woman) president and at least four other minority members, in a state with a black Attorney General. And they are all Democrats.
If the color of your skin is the only thing that makes your life matter you are a racist.
Great post, Paul Penrose, my thoughts exactly.
“Yup”, and those policies were first enacted when Democrat POTUS LBJ signed the “Great Society Legislation” into Law.
Black America was far better off before the Democrats started making their lives subservient to the whims of the Democrat Party.
“Black America was far better off before the Democrats started making their lives subservient to the whims of the Democrat Party.’ Oop, there it is, oop there it is, ever’body cabbage patch like you mean it!
The Appalachian Regional Commission is still spending BILLIONS each year and poverty is still running rampant, to wit:
In 1963 President Kennedy formed the President’s Appalachian Regional Commission to assist in advancing legislation to bring federal dollars to Appalachia. This legislation, the Appalachian Redevelopment Act, was enacted by Congress in 1965, creating the ARC as a federal agency.[10] It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on March 9, 1965.[12]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Regional_Commission
Ever guess who funds the Sierra Club?
https://thedemiseofchristchurch.wordpress.com/2015/08/15/the-rockefellers-who-they-fund-from-their-web-site/
The Rockefellers have a lovely website which enables you to scan at least some of the many different donations they have made.
Directions in my link above.
Cheers
Roger
Hard core climate change activists! Proof it was never about the climate! It always was about revolution and throwing out Western Civilization.
Fergie
On White Supremacy and Victim Culture
History is full of horrific stories of persecution against almost every race and culture on the planet – including Europeans, Hispanics, Africans and Asians. We are all the fortunate survivors of many holocausts.
There is no virtue in claiming to be a cultural victim in America – almost everyone else in the world is worse off than we are. There is no credibility in choosing one specific group and saying they suffered more than others.
Blacks in America are ‘way better off than blacks in Africa. Same for whites, Asians and all.
Screw the victim culture – it sucks!
I say it’s time we just get along. 🙂
I agree Allan, horrific personal pain and life experience knows no particular colour, just as no particular colour is devoid of joy.
Leftists of any colour love to hate, their protests are meaningless and in most cases they are protesting to demonstrate their hate.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
CHINESE PROPAGANDA OUTLET PAID MILLIONS TO WASHINGTON POST, WALL STREET JOURNAL
theepochtimes.com/chinese-propaganda-outlet-paid-millions-to-washington-post-wall-street-journal_3381900.html
The brains of leftists are hard-wired to believe any falsehood that fits their anti-American, anti-human narrative. No rational person could believe that Antifa is benevolent or positive, but many leftists do. No rational person could believe that burning down poor neighborhoods in USA cities is beneficial, but leftists do. Leftists believe that USA police are unusually violent, when the evidence clearly shows the contrary.
Leftists are highly irrational. All too often, leftists are being programmed by false propaganda from domestic and foreign Marxist sources. Leftists are simply far too stupid to do rational analysis and make rational decisions – they are easily led by emotional rather than logical arguments. Leftists are at best intensely childish; more likely they are clinically insane.
The real goals of the Climate Cult is frighteningly detailed in a short book, the review of which is here:
https://www.thepostil.com/in-the-green-reich-we-are-all-jews/
An excerpt:
“Hitler famously said that he had planted the seed and no one could now predict how and when it would grow back again.
Environmentalism is that Hitlerian seed, sprouted and flourishing, and which is now so eagerly being nurtured to maturity by people who naively believe that they are doing the right thing. And once the process of evil is locked into place, its mechanisms always follow through to their bitter end. Such is the dire warning of this timely book.”
Leftists are not deep thinkers. They actually believe that the label defines the product.
AntiFa claims to be anti-fascist. Every one knows that fascists are bad people.
Therefore anyone who is anti-fascist must be a good person.
Don’t actually check what these “good” people are doing. That takes judgement, and every good leftist knows that being judgmental is bad.
The doings of 911 were perpetrated by a group claiming a “right” to do it because of “long time oppression”. This is the same excuse the rioters recently cite and both have their supporters but there is nothing rational about this rationalization.
Affirmative action is the belief that since someone who may or may not have looked like one of my ancestors did something that may or may not have looked like one of your ancestors, that gives you the right to do that same thing to me.
Many of the people who came to the US, did so because they were being oppressed at home.
It wasn’t the rich and comfortable who gave it all up to start over in a new country.
I remember when the Sierra Club actually did things that helped people. That time is long past.
Marxists find an organization that people respect, infiltrate it, and subvert it to push Marxism.
It’s what they do. It’s about all they do.
2hotel9, I fought, and won, a gold exploration permitting battle in California, in the western Panamint Mountains just north of the Briggs gold mine, against the Sierra Club and the Sierra Club Legal Defense Club, in 1989. I can assure, from personal (and very direct) experience that the Sierra Club in 1989 had no interest in helping people, so it was over by then. Stay sane and safe.
By the end of the 1970s they were pushing political agenda and not their stated charter goals.
The 60’s were the death knell for many once noble organizations.
Diversity (i.e. color judgment)? Per chance rabid diversity? #HateLovesAbortion
People on this planet have lost there ever loving minds. My sparkling 2015 GMC Sierra with a 6.6 Duramax engine spits out a hellva lot less garbage that this Sierra Club emits. It’s white in color too, oh no!
Robert J Brown, if you are looking for a cheap thrill, put a confederate flag on your Jimmy and drive it down main street in any major city. Video it for us, please. ps, be sure to wear your MAGA hat!
No doubt ignorance harms far more people than racism.
Anyways, I suppose climate change causes racism and racism causes climate change and the positive feedback will melt all the glaciers by 2014?
We are doomed, DOOMED!!!! All going to die in a fiery flood on March 4th 2016! Didn’t you get teh group email?
“2hotel9 June 9, 2020 at 6:49 pm
We are doomed, DOOMED!!!! All going to die in a fiery flood on March 4th 2016.
I thought that forecast was for 2020.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/06/07/climate-crisis-flashback-2004/
It is a variable date, depends on the audience.
Racism is a sub-category of ignorance.
A further validation of Blair’s Law.
‘ Coined by Australian journalist, Tim Blair as “the ongoing process by which the world’s multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force” ‘.
Good news. Sierra Club sounds foolish. That can only be a good thing.
“We’ll never stop climate change …”
True, no matter what we do the climate will continue to change. That is the nature of a “… coupled non-linear chaotic system …”. Which is why the IPCC said that “… the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.”
+10000
China is populated with white supremacists ?
Who knew ?
Hop on THIS (indicating extended middle finger)!
Are Chinese Communists white?
Their lab created virus has killed more American blacks in a day than Police kill in a year (both unarmed and armed + shooting)… yet, crickets.
What exactly qualifies as white supremacy these days? Consider the concept of microaggressions. Apparently if you say to a Black person, you speak well, this is implicitly racist, as you are expressing surprise that the Black person can speak well. That strikes me as dangerously thin-skinned, since the microaggressive white person is obviously trying to be friendly, and the Black microaggressee is rudely spurning the friendly compliment. I don’t see how it is ever going to be possible to close the racial divide if there is so much Black anger that they will turn on nice white people who are trying to make friends.
Now George Floyd is being extolled as a great martyr to the cause of racial equality, as if he were Martin Luther King Jr. or Medgar Evers. Let us be very clear that Mr. Floyd was cruelly tortured and then killed by Derek Chauvin, and this will almost certainly be found in law to have been a murder, but George Floyd was high on fentanyl and trying to pass counterfeit money when he was arrested. It’s not as if he were Rosa Parks.
Then there is nagging problem of Asian American successes in education and American society in general. White supremacy doesn’t seem to have slowed them down to any noticeable degree, which leads to the awkward thought that race-based outcomes are based, at least in part, on race-based behaviors.
What do IBM, Google, and Microsoft have in common? Their CEOs are brown (of South Asian descent).
Ian
Interestingly, I saw an interview with someone who knew both the victim and his killer. From his remarks, it sounded very much like this could have been very personal, with race playing little, if any, role. What if it turns out that all the ‘Woke’ whites are projecting and this was just about two people who had personal issues?
No torture!
[Floyd] could be heard pleading that he couldn’t breathe.
If he couldn’t breathe, he COULD NOT HAVE TALKED!!
Why is this so hard for people to understand?? Also, Officer Chauvin’s knee was on top of Floyd’s TRAPEZIUS muscle, which has nothing to do with breathing! Reach back and place your hand on your shoulder blade and feel the muscle there: THAT’S THE TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE! It stretches across your back to both arms and up your neck It is generally used when we lift a heavy load, such as a bucket of water! Anatomically, it holds our arms in place and allows us to lift our shoulders! Being one of the strongest muscles in the body, Officer Chauvin could have placed his entire body weight on top of Floyd and not injured him in any way! Ask a tackled football player how strong that muscle is!!
Floyd died from cardiac arrest compounded by having fentanyl, meth and other drugs in his system! The ME report notes he had 4X a lethal dose of fentanyl!!! Floyd was literally a dead man walking!!!!
Here is Floyd’s ME report, describing his fatal heart problems and drug load. Read it yourself
remove the [ ] brackets
https://www[.]hennepin[.]us/-/media/hennepinus/residents/public-safety/documents/Autopsy_2020-3700_Floyd.pdf.
Of course, Officer Chauvin will be the sacrificial lamb!!!
As you note, Floyd could not possibly have spoken those words had he really been unable to breathe. Why is this obvious fact not more widely known?
Yeah and how can he have possibly have died if he was still able to breathe? It just doesn’t add up. Fake choking I say, just trying to make hard-working cops look bad.
Died from stress of the arrest aggravating heart condition and pail full of drugs.
Likely wouldn’t have died if no arrest
Might even have made it home.
But he surely wasn’t choked to death
Heart attack, you dribbling imbecile. Read the autopsy, or is that beyond your ability?
Strangely enough, you’re quite correct, unless you were trying to be sarcastic.
Apparently Loydo suffers from the belief that suffocation is the only way someone can die.
According to the coroner, he died of a heart attack. That’s how someone can die while still being able to breath.
Tiger, Loydo has a long history of only knowing what her handlers tell her to know.
“Her”? Interesting. I’ve always assumed there were sociopathic female trolls, but it’s good to not assume anything. Wouldn’t want to be sexist.
And if that’s sarcasm, it’s damn clumsy. More subtlety is needed here. Looks like ‘Roid-o is agreeing, just in a duh sort of way.
‘Heart attack, you dribbling imbecile. Read the autopsy, or is that beyond your ability?’
Nah – it just doesn’t fit his narrative.
I just assumed that the guy was expressing difficulty in breathing. If you are short of breath, you don’t try to say “Excuse me, but I seem to be having some difficulty in breathing, would you be so kind as to remove your knee from my neck?” So really, let’s just stop this who meme right now. I think it’s very possible that his existing medical conditions and drug use contributed to his death, but Chauvin, at the minimum, showed reckless disregard for the life and safety of Mr. Floyd and is at least guilty of aggravated manslaughter. If it turns out he had a personal animus for the decedent, then murder charges may be appropriate. But neither of these men were a martyr or a saint; they should both be treated as pariahs in their respective communities.
Or let’s not stop this – well, not sure why you’re calling it a meme, but anyway I don’t take orders regarding my speech or writing, no offense.
Seriously though: he died of a heart attack brought on by severe coronary artery disease, chronic hypertension, COVID-19, and a rainbow of self-administered nasty toxins in his bloodstream. None of us were there (does that really need to be said?), but it seems likely he resisted, given he was seen sitting on the sidewalk at time of arrest, then at some point being aggressively restrained.
How many times does this need to be explained? Apparently quite a few (shrug).
I don’t dispute that he probably had a heart attack. But neither you or I really know what brought it on; usually there are multiple contributing factors. Perhaps the fact that the blood flow on one side of his neck was restricted was one of those factors. That is entirely plausible and all your denials won’t change that. Also Chauvin did not recognize that Floyd was in cardiac arrest. The signs are obvious and LEOs are trained to look for them, but he wasn’t watching. He was negligent and a man died in his custody. How many times does that need to be explained?
Isn’t every death ultimately caused by cardiac arrest?
Many studies have shown that black immigrants and their children are more successful, academically and financially, than other blacks. The differential is now being blamed on the psychological impact of systemic, subtle discrimination (as opposed to verifiable, actual discrimination, like access to loans, housing, and jobs).
Will society ever mature to the point of discussing the true causes – a culture that shows no appreciation of education, no personal responsibility of fathers toward their children, and the glorification of drugs, violence, and disrespect of others?
It doesn’t help that one political party relies on the votes of blacks who depend on government support.
Absolutely correct. Currently, the most successful immigrants to the US are Nigerians, even surpassing the South Koreans. Strange how they succeed in an inherently r@cist country like the US. Perhaps they aren’t black enough.
“Strange how they succeed in an inherently r@cist country like the US. Perhaps they aren’t black enough.”
Their problem is they are being held back by the elected Democrats who are supposed to represent them. Schools in minority communities, run by the Democrats, are failing miserably, which means they are failing the Black Community.
Radical Democrats and their hateful, divisive actions are poison for the Black Community, and they are poison for the United States, too.
Domestic Enemies is what they are.
“Will society ever mature to the point of discussing the true causes”
We better, for all our sakes. We can’t allow the Radical Democrats to pit one group against another like they are doing now. We can’t let the Democrats control the narrative. This is the most powerful weapon the Democrats have and it must be blunted if we are ever to get to the truth of the matter.
“What exactly qualifies as white supremacy these days?”
It seems like the race-baiters on the Left want to falsely accuse every white person of being a white supremacist. When they kneel at the playing of the U.S. National Anthem, they are saying all white people are racist.
That’s what the radical Left want Black People to believe, that all white people are racist and black people should not trust them. That way the race-baiters think they can stay in power. It’s worked in the past, and they are hoping it will work this time, too.
The Radical Democrats don’t have much else to offer other than fear and hatred and division with the aim of looking like the savior of the oppressed, when in reality they are the ones who are actually oppressing them by lying to them and making them think every white person hates them and then letting their neigborhoods go to Hell. They are the problem, not the police.
Racial Division is where the radical Democrats want to take the nation. It’s standard operating procedure for these dispicable people on the Left. They have been race-baiting and lying about the situation for years and they are still lying about it.
A lot of people don’t take too kindly to being falsely accused of being a racist just because of their skin color. If the radical Left wants to push this line (and they do), then they can expect pushback from those being lied about.
The Radical Left ruins everything it touches, and if the football players kneel during the National Anthem, then the Left will have successfully ruined Professional Football, and College Football, too, because no college player, or pro player for that matter, is going to stand when everyone else is kneeling, so it’s a certainty if they get it started that it will infect every football team. And anger every person who loves and knows the Truth.
And this will be the death of football. The audience dropped quite a bit over Colin Kaepernik spitting on the National Anthem and the American Flag with his kneeling. Expect a much bigger drop in audience if you use the National Football League to brand all white people as racists.
Maybe a big enough drop that Pro Football can’t afford to continue to operate. Wouldn’t that be a shame.
They can’t survive on TV revenue alone, they are going to have to something to convince people to come back to the stadiums.
Insulting over half your audience isn’t going to help.
I see where the American Soccer League has just authorized their players to take a knee at the next game, and I’m sure the National Football League will be following suit.
I’m going to miss football. It’s demise may be inevitable anyway, if there wasn’t any kneeling, the obnoxious celebrations that take place on the field after every play might end up doing the same thing. I certainly don’t appreciate people acting like clowns on the football field. It is very off-putting to me.
The players have gotten into the habit of going into wild gyrations for making a tackle or catching a pass. Something they are expected routinely to do. That’s why they get paid. Comeon guys, act like you’ve been there before. Now we get the whole team going through ridiculous antics when a touchdown is scored. It’s kind of pathetic. These guys need lots of attention apparently.
Well, I guess I won’t have to suffer through their antics in the future because I won’t be watching them anymore.
I am all for shutting down professional sports, it has metastasized into a very harmful influence on young people, instead of helping them develop into productive and happy citizens as it one time did.
Anybody have a breakdown of Sierra Club membership by race or ethnic group?
Any bets that it’s 97% white?
Toto
I think that you’d be right.
But they are the left white, right white, whatever. Diversity breeds adversity. Be wary of anyone who indulges color (i.e. low information) judgments including race, sex, class, etc. #PrinciplesMatter
What about Asian supremacy? The six countries with the highest IQ in the world are all Asian.
White supremacy is so twentieth century. Some folks haven’t noticed.
And some with high IQ’s are climate believalists, so what’s your point Bob?
Wait I know, surely you jest! 🙂
“Last year, [Steven] Hawking warned in a BBC documentary that in order for humanity to save itself from the threats of climate change, disease, and overpopulation we need to colonize Mars within 100 years. Released shortly after President Donald Trump’s announcement to withdraw from the Paris Agreement in June 2017, Hawking told BBC News ‘Trump’s action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees, and raining sulphuric acid.'”
https://tinyurl.com/yb2em2tg
IQ is so twentieth century!
Oops. Make that “[Stephen].”
Just like mine. Dangit.
What is it about people who get great adulation for their abilities in one area, believing that they must also be experts in every other subject?
This also applies to actors, performers, athletes, etc.
Yellow Supremacy?
Sierra C is no longer a non taxable charitable org by any reasonable definition. It is a racist organization to boot. Come on Donald, I know you are busy but its time to push back. India took on Greenpeace barring them from brining in funds to India because they are interfering in the nation’s security and development policies (clever because they knew not a lot of money could be extracted locally). A review of the big ‘charitable’ foundations is long overdue.
White doesn’t mean white to Greenpeace and other radical groups. White means anyone of any race, creed, nationality, color, sex, or sexual preference who embraces capitalism, free markets, limited government and American traditional culture and values. By definition these beliefs are irredeemably evil and anyone who aligns with them is “white” in spirit and thus equally guilty of “white crimes”. Under this definition only “whites” can be racists.
John, you stopped your thought thread too soon. Evidently all crimes are now white, so the likes of the Chicago police can be harmlessly disbanded since those 23 black murders there over the past couple of weekends don’t need no stinkin’ European-inspired prosecutions of mostly black executioners, and any formerly convicted for doing the same must also be released from imprisonment forthwith. Thus a great number of black lives appear to matter rather less than they are so prominently proclaimed to. But I guess people can be sold just about anything these days on a slogan.
On the other hand, as others point out above, Mr. Hopkins could have contented himself with the supremacy of his own insight that “We’ll never stop climate change . .” He so nearly stumbled over a truth there that the shock of it forced him to throw in a self-skewering racist irrelevancy. In any case, plainly Hoppy not happy. But I suspect he is bright enough not to be fooled by all that steel, aluminum, petroleum resin, and necessary mineral mining that goes into operation of an electric vehicle that also consumes fossil fuel originated electricity in transit. So I feel sure that Hop is going to lead the way by hand building his own mud hut to eschew all those European sourced conveniences he just hates himself over. Most revealing. Lead on, Hop!
By the way, while I’ve never been attracted to hanging out with low-lifes as such, I must say that in nearly eight decades of living on both U.S. coasts I cannot myself cite an occasion of a personal acquaintance voicing an expression of overall racial supremacy. And I think that very few these days realize that the vast majority in the deep south during plantation slavery days even lacked anything like the resources to own plantations or slaves, while not a few were in indentured servitude themselves. So there’s a lot of broad brush denigration desperately enlisted in shifting attention away from various consequences of latter day self-victimization wherein half of African-Americans conceived this year will be aborted and over 70% of the survivors raised with a 5 fold greater likelihood of poverty in the absence of their own father. These could easily be seen as baby steps to NOT mattering, as pointed out when they were but a fraction of their current devastating proportions half a century ago by Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan (who would later be a U.S. senator from NY state) who was told by black ‘leadership’ to shut up about it because what could possibly go wrong with that jive(?).
In any case our President could quickly nip this reactive asserted racial exclusivity in the bud (not to mention likely assure his re-election demographically) with the simple pointed observation that ‘Hispanic lives matter too’. If he has no such sentient adviser, the nonsense will continue to unfold.
The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on
The Sierra Club goes anti white racist.
Apparently non whites don’t use electricity.
White Supremacy is a prejudicial subjectivist narrative invented by academic second-raters who have taken over all of the Humanities and Sociology Departments. They’ve made it into a self-promotional industry and are advocating systematic racism.
It’s been adopted by the extremely liberal academic management hierarchy as a route to their righteousness mud-wallow and as a sop to the moral swamp of their progressivist guilt.
Half the academic student body has been weaned on it. It has successfully permeated the physical science departments. Case in point StutDownSTEM.
It’s beyond incredible. Physical scientists have lost their grip on knowledge.
These numpties certainly like biting off more than they can chew-
https://www.news.com.au/national/people-only-care-about-indigenous-deaths-if-theres-a-white-perpetrator-jacinta-price/video/651ec1d873649ef3e1fd2cb94e35fc17
Not many problems fit neatly into their victim/oppressor dichotomous world but don’t let that deter them from maintaining the rage against ‘the system’. They’re going to fix it all with uni type social workers in police uniforms apparently.
Worlds gone barking mad-
https://medium.com/@trueblueline/nt-police-constable-zach-rolfe-faces-court-as-new-concerns-over-nt-police-mismanagement-raised-a6da3a97d0a4
And the press and usual suspects are stony silent over the deaths of 4 aboriginal teenagers in Townsville in a stolen car at 4.30am in the morning and here’s another one Jacinta is talking to the hand about-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/sydney/man-declines-to-front-court-after-being-charged-with-alleged-murder-of-his-sister/ar-BB15grJC
Selective colour blindness but perhaps Covid lockdowns has affected them all and now the lefties have to let it all out.
Well they were warned so can we open the State borders and all go about our legitimate business and off to the footy again?
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/melbourne/attendee-at-black-lives-matter-protest-in-melbourne-tests-positive-for-covid-19/ar-BB15jDtl
Folks couldn’t visit their loved ones in aged care or attend funerals or weddings etc and we had to pay people to stay home but lefty demos and confected outrage were suddenly fine against all the medical advice.
The far-left really do have problems with their innate, built-in victimhood and lack of self-worth, don’t they !
This must be where the money is these days.
Not exactly. In South Africa, we’ve got a good idea that ‘the money’ is most likely in Dubai, that being the favourite place for those who “captured the State” to take their semi-licit gains. Look up President Zuma and “the Gupta brothers” to find out more.
The result of all this ‘moving’ of state money is that just about every state-owned entity in the country (power generation, railways, post office, SA Airways, our diamond mine, etc) is DEAD BROKE!
“racism and white supremacy harm all of us, because in addition to robbing us of our humanity, racism is also killing the planet”
Does that mean we can keep our fossil fuels and still save the planet from climate change by giving up white supremacy?
Also, what can us little darkies do to save the planet since it is not possible for us to give up the white supremacy that is not possible for us to have?
The assumption by the Sierra Club that only whites can save the planet is itself racist.
Chaamjamal,
Beautiful. Perfect.
Love It!
“Also, what can us little darkies do to save the planet since it is not possible for us to give up the white supremacy that is not possible for us to have?”
And then we have to figure in all the mixed-race people, like Barack Obama, who is half white. Does this equate to Obama only being half of a white supremacist? Does he only practice his White Supremacy half the time?
I, personally, am about 80 percent caucasion (Irish), and about 10 percent Cherokee Indian, and about 10 percent God Knows what.
So how do I prorate my white supremacy index? Can I claim to be only 80 percent white supremacist? Will that stand me in good stead with the Radical Race-baiting Democrats?
I saw an estimate of the number of white people in the U.S. the other day which was given as 76 percent white. I don’t think that number is correct, it’s more like 65 percent.
But of the 35 percent who are not 100 percent white, a large percentage of them have some caucasion blood in them, so the Radical Democrats might be smearing a lot of people with their “White Supremacy” tag.
Radical Democrats spewing racial hatred to the nation.
”Here’s why: You can’t have climate change without sacrifice zones, and you can’t have sacrifice zones without disposable people, and you can’t have disposable people without racism. ”
This sounds to me like a high school level of debate.
Mike, you may be too generous. A grade school level debate may be a better example or, kindergarten.
The irony is that it is these racist greenies who, without any conception of poverty, have put people into poverty and/or made more people much poorer with their sky high energy prices which have made heating, cooling, driving etc. a luxury commodity for them and that’s in the First world.
That not being enough for them, they have persisted in denying the third world of 24/7 cheap, reliable electricity and a grid to deliver it to peoples homes, schools, work places and even hospitals. While doing that, they want the very poor to not use GMOs or pesticides for their crops resulting in lower food production and less nutritious food choices. These are people who face famine with a poor season.
They don’t even want Vitamin D fortified rice to prevent blindness in black children in Africa and God help them if they want to use DDT to prevent malaria.
They have their nerve calling any white person a supremacist or racist when those people, evil though they may have been, have done far less damage to and killed and/or sickened and maimed far fewer black and brown people here and abroad in the past several centuries than than they have done to them in the last 20 years.
Personally, after they bankrupt and destroy the West with their idiotic Marxist schemes, given their behavior thus far, I don’t see black and brown people ever benefiting from their transfer of wealth schemes. Rather, I see enormous bank accounts for the few, the “special” and the privileged, regardless of color, in Switzerland and the Cayman’s. They are true evil cloaking themselves in robes of sanctity and piety.
Isn’t that why Planned Parenthood was founded, to get rid of black people?