Conservatives programed to trigger at words "Black Lives Matter" by Russian trolls.

hanimmal

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Dickhead rich racist white men like the Dear Leader down in DeSantistan are taking a page out of their segregationist roots In order to rile up their base cult.

 

DIY-HP-LED

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Another reason for Uncle Sam to dance on Vlad's corpse in Ukraine...


Russia In Secret Spent $300M To Influence Foreign Elections, Says U.S. Official
38,171 views Sep 14, 2022 Russia has secretly funneled more than $300M to foreign political parties since 2014 in an effort to influence elections in more than two dozen countries, according to a new U.S. intelligence review. Ret. Adm. James Stavridis joins Morning Joe to discuss.
 

hanimmal

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Looks like the account that is constantly pushing the right wing troll narratives is once again pushing their racist (and lying) narrative that the poor immigrants that were lied to by the Republicans in Texas and Florida in a lame attempt to own the libs, were not treated with the utmost respect and care when they landed in Martha’s Vineyard.

Looks like DeSantistan spent around $600,000 for this racist stunt.


I would find it interesting to find out whose jet it was that they used and how the owners respond to the hate mongering propagandists use of it.

 
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Pop star Lizzo this week got the opportunity to play a 200-year-old crystal flutethat was once owned by President James Madison -- and some conservatives are absolutely furious about it.

On Wednesday, Lizzo visited the Reading Room and flute vault at the Library of Congress's Great Hall, where she got to play multiple flutes archived there, including the aforementioned flute once owned by Madison.

Later that night, Lizzo brought the flute onstage with her at a concert and played it for the audience, while remarking that "history is freaking cool."

While much of the nation found this to be unobjectionable fun, a cadre of right-wing culture warriors immediately took to Twitter to denounce Lizzo playing Madison's flute as a "woke" assault on American history.

"The Library of Congress really took out a 200-year old flute that belonged to James Madison just so Lizzo could twerk with it," fumed right-wing operative Greg Price. "They degrade our history and then call you racist if you actually value it."

"Everyone involved in the decision to allow Lizzo to twerk while playing James Madison’s flute needs to be deported," raged "America First" supporter Andrew McCarthy. "I don’t care if they’re citizens. Deport them somewhere."

Trump-loving author Nick Adams, meanwhile, said that the "Biden Administration is making a mockery of the country" by letting Lizzo play the flute, as he charged that she "isn't talented enough to play music on a $20 Yamaha Plastic Recorder off Amazon."

Matt Walsh, the right-wing Christian culture warrior from The Daily Wire, believed that letting Lizzo play the flute was deliberately intended to antagonize white people.

"Lizzo playing James Madison's flute was a form of racial retribution, according to the woke Left," he wrote. "And I actually have no doubt that this is part of the reason why the Library of Congress facilitated this spectacle."
 

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https://apnews.com/article/social-media-lawsuits-idaho-b659d38a64a221bc24695b586bdd249b
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A drag performer has filed a defamation lawsuit against a far-right blogger he accuses of releasing a doctored video that falsely made it look as if he had exposed himself to children.

Eric Posey filed the lawsuit Monday in a court in northern Idaho, saying his reputation was damaged and his professional opportunities suffered after Summer Bushnell, who runs a blog called “The Bushnell Report,” released the video and falsely told her social media followers that Posey had committed a felony by exposing himself to children during a Pride event in June.

A subsequent police investigation cleared Posey of wrongdoing, and a city prosecutor said an unedited copy of the video showed no evidence of indecent exposure.

Bushnell’s false claims and the edited video quickly spread online, fueling increasing levels of hateful rhetoric targeting Posey and other members of the LGBTQ+ community, Posey’s attorney Wendy Olson said Wednesday.

“When there are outlandish lies that are made public and recirculated and take on a life of their own, the person who the lie was about is harmed,” Olson said. “It has an impact on every single aspect of their life, every day. This disinformation is not true — it just needs to be stopped.”

Bushnell said in a telephone interview Wednesday that she did not have an attorney and couldn’t discuss the case, then went on to deny the allegations.

“I have not defamed him,” Bushnell said. “I did not know his legal name until I got served, and I maintain that he should not have done what he did in front of children in a public venue.”

Posey has been a drag performer since he was 18, according to the lawsuit, and uses the stage name Mona Liza Million. He hadn’t performed in about five years when friends who were board members of the North Idaho Pride Alliance asked him to perform at the Pride in the Park festival in Coeur d’Alene in June.

Posey performed three times wearing a long-sleeved leotard, black shorts and tights, with a shiny metallic boa around his waist. Posey did not remove clothing, and his genitals were always covered, Olson wrote in the lawsuit.

The Pride event made national news at the time — not because of Posey’s performances, but because 31 members of a white supremacist group called Patriot Front were arrested near the park and charged with conspiracy to riot. Many have pleaded not guilty.

In the lawsuit, Posey contends Bushnell decided to boost her own profile by seizing on the attention surrounding the Patriot Front arrests.

“To do so, she fabricated a sensationalist story that Posey exposed his genitals in public, including in front of children,” Olson wrote in the lawsuit. “Bushnell started by posting on her public Facebook page a video of herself talking to the camera. She stated that a man in a dress flashed his genitalia to the crowd, including minors. She said she would put up blurred video to prove it.”

In a second post, Bushnell said Posey’s actions were felonies and urged people to call law enforcement and ask to have Posey arrested. She also posted an edited video of one of Posey’s performances in which his groin area was blurred, an effect that made it appear as if he exposed his genitals, Olson wrote in the lawsuit.

“Bushnell’s lies had the intended effect,” Olson wrote, noting that the blogger’s popularity on Facebook soared and that the video had been viewed more than 19,000 times. That was a huge jump compared with previous videos on her page, which drew 235 to 1,400 views, according to the lawsuit.

The doctored video was also shared across other accounts and platforms. The Coeur d’Alene Police Department received complaints, though none from people who saw the performance firsthand, the department noted at the time. They investigated and sent the unedited video to the prosecutor, who found no evidence of indecent exposure.

Still, flyers with an image from the doctored video were posted around town, according to the lawsuit, and the images and Bushnell’s statements helped fuel misinformation about a kids drag show performance at the Boise Pride Festival in September.

Many people believed Posey “had committed a serious crime and sexually abused children,” Olson wrote, adding that Posey was exposed to hatred, contempt and ridicule and that photos of the doctored video still circulate online.

Posey’s reputation has been tarnished, he has suffered distress from harassment and the police investigation, has suffered consequences with his employer, and has lost professional opportunities, Olson wrote.

Posey is seeking damages exceeding $10,000, as well as attorneys’ fees.

Misleading rhetoric aimed at LGBTQ people has escalated in recent months, and events featuring drag queens are frequent targets. Experts have warned that some extremist groups may see the rhetoric as a call to action.
 

hanimmal

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https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-fashion-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-49161316fb2c119055784f4db127b982

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — America slammed the door in the face of Black progress time after time, and time after time African Americans responded by thriving in a society of their own making.

When Black doctors were excluded from the American Medical Association, they formed the National Medical Association in 1895. Black colleges, businesses, social groups and even fashion shows grew as alternatives to whites-only institutions and activities.

The result was a parallel “sepia world” in which Black lives and culture could flourish despite entrenched racism, says filmmaker and scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., who celebrates a history of resilience in “Making Black America: Through the Grapevine.”

The four-part series debuting Tuesday on PBS (check local listings) and PBS online was produced, written and hosted by Gates, a steady chronicler of Black history and culture whose more than a dozen documentaries include 2021′s Emmy-nominated “The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song.” He’s also the host and producer of PBS’ “Finding Your Roots.”

“Making Black America” is infused with Gates’ self-described optimism. But he considers it his “most political” series yet because it shows the “true complexity of the African American experience,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press.

“We need to have our self-image, our self-esteem affirmed, because so many actors in our society are trying to tear down our self-esteem, trying to tear down our belief in ourselves,” he said.

Gates said the series is a rebuttal to what he calls the stereotype of a Black America consumed with white people and devoting all of its energy and imagination to fighting white supremacy.

“What you do with most of your imagination is you fall in love, you raise a family, you have children, you build social networks,” said the Harvard University professor. “This is a demonstration of Black agency, the way we created a world within a world.”

Gates compared the Black havens to those established by Jewish Americans and other ethnic groups when they were barred from employment, cultural institutions and other elements of U.S. society.

During a Q&A with TV critics, Gates delighted in pointing out that the “grapevine” in the series’ title pre-dated the Motown hit song “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” by about two centuries: He said founding father John Adams wrote about the grapevine concept in 1775, and it was referred to by Booker T. Washington in 1901. Washington founded what is now Tuskegee University.

The vivid word broadly describes “the formal and informal networks which, for centuries, have connected Black Americans to each other through the underground, not just as a way of spreading the news, but ways of building and sustaining” Black communities, said Gates.

Shayla Harris, who produced and directed the series with Stacey L. Holman, said that the Black experience is often sorted into either “the struggle” or abundant creativity. But business drive is also a notable part, she said.

“The Negro Motorist Green-book, ” a 1936-67 guidebook to businesses that would serve Black travelers, is generally discussed in the context of the restrictions that people of color faced under Jim Crow segregation.

That ingenuity also was testament to the Black entrepreneurs who exemplified the saying that “Black people make a way out of no way,” Harris said. The guide was “a document of 7,000 Black businesses across the country, from restaurants to hotels to beachfronts and just any little stand that people could put together.” (The guide was central in the 2018 Oscar-winning interracial road trip movie “Green Book,” which won best picture and best supporting actor for Mahershala Ali.)

Other aspects of African American perseverance highlighted by the series and its creators:

—The barbershops and hair salons that serve as community centers. Gates said he still delights in going to the Nu Image Barbershop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard’s home town. The talk is about “what you’re anxious about, your kids, what’s in the news, of course. And you talk about LeBron (James) and Steph Curry and the Celtics. The full gamut of human emotions.”

— Excluded from professional, trade and even recreational associations, African Americans formed their own. In naming the groups, they used “national” in the titles as a “polite” way to signify the membership was Black, Gates said. That included the National Dental Association and the National Brotherhood of Skiers.(In 2008, the American Medical Association formally apologized for decades of racial discrimination.)

—The robust number of sororities, fraternities and fraternal orders that contribute to Black social life and networking. One had roots in today’s Prince Hall Freemasonry. It began with a Massachusetts lodge initiated in 1775 by Masons from Ireland after Colonial whites rejected Hall and a handful of other Black men for membership.

—The innovative Black women who stood out in business. They included early 20th-century business mogul Madam C.J. Walker, inventor and philanthropist Annie Malone and Maggie L. Walker, who was among America’s first female bankers and who focused on the needs of the working class. To see these women succeed despite a society “that’s pushing against you and a society that’s predominately male ... was enlightening, encouraging and just empowering,” Holman said.

—The Ebony magazine-sponsored Ebony Fashion Fair runway shows that countered the industry’s overt discrimination by featuring Black models and designers for an audience that dressed for the occasion. The annual event, which was staged nationally and outside the U.S. for five decades, raised millions of dollars for charity.


 

hanimmal

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A California teacher praised Adolf Hitler's leadership qualities after a Jewish family asked why she posted a portrait of the Nazi dictator in her seventh-grade classroom.

The portrait was placed among a group of world leaders from history in the classroom at Carmel Valley Middle School, and a 12-year-old student who is Jewish told his father about it, reported KFMB-TV.

“We're sitting at the dinner table and he says to me, ‘Hey dad, my teacher has a picture of Hitler on the wall,’” said Dr. Roy David, the boy's father, who asked his son to send him a photo the next day. "There's Adolf Hitler, a big, portrait-size picture of Hitler, and right next to Hitler is Gandhi and Martin Luther King and JFK, and each one of these people has some kind of inspirational quote written underneath them."

David emailed the teacher seeking explanation and asking for the image to be taken down, but he didn't get a response.

“My son went back the next day and basically asked her why she had this picture of Hitler on the wall and he actually told her, you know, you're trivializing the Holocaust," David said. "She tells my son, well, Hitler may have done some bad things but he had leadership qualities."

The portrait wasn't part of any history lesson on World War II and had been up since the beginning of the school year, David said, but the teacher eventually took it down after an uproar erupted on social media, and the school principal issued an apology.

"We have recently experienced one of those times that had a hurtful impact, particularly to our Jewish community, and to others, and for this we are sorry,” said middle-school principal Vicki Kim.
 
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