2019-05-21

Durka, Durka, Durka: Manhattan's Wokeness; All My Children's Subtle Anti-Trump Messaging

Was walking the streets of Manhattan this past week-end and came across an ad where the Statue of Liberty had a burka with a captain alluding the magic of 'diversity'.

The use of this word grates because it's meaningless. We're already a diverse continent. The idea we should strive for it for its own sake is wrongheaded nonsense. If you have nothing to bind - ie values - the diversity you just have a hodge-podge of different people. Diversity is a quota system by other means basically.

In any event, I saw this on the heels of having just returned from the 9/11 memorial which I found poignant. It struck me as somewhat unfortunate NYC would place a burka on one of the world's great symbols to score a cheap political and vapid social-signal point; especially considering it was Islamic terrorists who killed 3000 innocent Americans in their own city.

But hey. That's me.

Then again, this is a city that turned the One World Trade Center pink when it introduced an infanticide law. I literally don't understand what was the point of that.

Pink for who? The system that permits a mother to kill a new born? Pink for woman's choice? Pink for the daughters that will never be?

Quite a ghoulish set of values New York has.

I read Cuomo is annoyed about all the people throwing their names on the Democratic presidential ticket (and what a ticket of characters it is!), might a suggestion where he personally places a burka on Lady Liberty?

Woke harder!

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Speaking of 'diversity' this time on the immigration front. Once again, another day another conflation of illegal immigration with lawful immigration. This time from the show All My Children.

Now, it's worth mentioning I only happened to catch this scene because my wife watches it on PVR while eating dinner sometimes.

This past week I was doing some work at the table (unlike some of you) while my legal squeeze watched ‘All my Children’ on PVR. There’s a plot in the show where a couple are running for some town office and are anti-immigrant (note, not anti illegal but just plain irrational anti-immigrant). Naturally, they’re portrayed as evil and their stance leads to an Asian girl being threatened with deportation. Along the way, her boyfriend is angry and says, ‘my idiot father and his idiot voters’ (hmmmm) while her mother whips out a pistol (don’t they all?) threatening to kill the Mayor elected. Gee, now that’s passive aggressive if you ask me on the part of the writers, no? And I find it hilarious that in this obvious shot at Trump they arm a distraught mother ready to murder an elected official given they’re probably for gun control.

A variation of those 'deplorables' voting 'against their interests' and plotting to kill an elected official.

In prog talk, this means 'why don't these inferiors vote as we say or else."

Gee, what message are the writers trying to send with that, eh?

But here's the thing. Trump is right. The border needs to be secure. Immigration reform is needed. And the courts have supported three times already - never mind his policies are nothing out of the ordinary and have been actual proposals going back decades by both parties.

As for Canadians who lazily just assume he's an anti-immigrant President, his merit based idea is modelled on the Canadian system. Canadians should think twice and more critically before they criticize Trump on illegal immigration.

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