{"id":89933,"date":"2016-03-13T17:46:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T01:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=89933"},"modified":"2016-03-13T17:52:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T01:52:28","slug":"renew-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=89933","title":{"rendered":"Renew Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* His mother is a functionary in Kasim Reed\u2019s administration in Atlanta. I\u2019d have to guess that denunciations of white supremacy were commonplace in Tommy\u2019s childhood home if for no other reason than practice makes perfect. I\u2019m sure Ms. Dimassimo \u2014 a Caucasian \u2014 has only survived in Atlanta government by making frequent vocal demonstrations of her righteous ethnic self-loathing.<\/p>\n

In this family\u2019s case it MIGHT be heartfelt, but it probably started out as just business. That\u2019s the thing about mantras though. They can really worm their way into the brains of the young.<\/p>\n

* DiMassimo\u2019s mother is charge of the \u201cRenew Atlanta\u201d bond fund that was approved last year. It\u2019s a $250M infrastructure package that is getting the reputation of being a political kickback fund. The fund currently has people riled up because of a bait and switch involving public lighting on a popular trail (the Beltline). Also, one council members, who is almost certainly going to be running in the next mayoral election, got $20M to rebuild a natatorium in his district when most voters would prefer the city fill in potholes.<\/p>\n

Ms. DiMassimo is almost certainly getting some extra benefits and playing ball with Kasim\u2019s friends. Atlanta\u2019s contracting, since the Jackson administration in the 70s, has focussed on maximizing the number of contracts awarded to female and minority owned businesses. As a result, firms that win contracts are almost always very well connected friends of the black political machine and rarely are the most economical choice. The use of identity contracting also provides great cover to obfuscate the bidding process and makes graft that much easier. Graft isn\u2019t as bad as it was in the 90s, but that\u2019s in part because the city uses more legal methods now that have the same effect.<\/p>\n

* In two or three presidential election cycles, live public rallies will be a thing of the past\u2013candidates will remain in secure television studios and their images and speeches will be projected. It\u2019ll be too dangerous to do public appearances in all but the most carefully controlled settings. Something is being lost.<\/p>\n

* This will only encourage more nutjobs. Now you can rush Trump then get a slap on the wrist and a national news platform from which to promote yourself and your views as a consolation prize if you aren\u2019t able to reach Trump.<\/p>\n

And if you can reach Trump? Who knows what would have happened. He could have tackled Trump right off the stage.<\/p>\n

* The left is pretty open about their hatred of free speech. If they\u2019re not talking about \u201cno platforming\u201d \u201chate speech\u201d, they are advocating \u201chate speech\u201d laws exclusively targeting whites (Not making this up at all. I don\u2019t know how to link a PDF but google \u201cmatsuda hate speech\u201d and it\u2019s the second result. She was the first female of Asian descent to become a tenured law professor in the US. Based on her beliefs, one hopes she was the last.)<\/p>\n

LINK<\/a>: A self-described \u201cactivist scholar,\u201d Mari Matsuda was a professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center. There she specialized in \u201cfeminist theory\u201d and \u201ccritical race theory.\u201d Professor Matsuda is an architect of the legal rationale behind campus speech codes, which attempted to outlaw \u201cfighting words\u201d in American universities in the late 1980s and early 1990s before they were declared unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

Along with leftwing law professors Kimberly Crenshaw, Richard Delgado, and Charles Lawrence, Professor Matsuda contributed to the volume Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment, a 1993 text that would become the legal cornerstone of the movement to restrict campus speech. Among other claims, the book argued that \u201careas of law ostensibly designed to advance the cause of racial equality [like the First Amendment] . . . often benefit powerful white men.\u201d Judging the First Amendment to be too lenient with respect to \u201chate speech\u201d — a category that evidently included all statements offensive to groups other than white males — Professor Matsuda argued that such speech was \u201cqualitatively different\u201d from other varieties of offensive speech.<\/p>\n

Arbitrary censorship of hate speech, according to Matsuda, was therefore preferable to the potentially devastating effects it might have on its ostensibly defenseless targets. Racist speech, Matsuda wrote, \u201cis best treated as a sui generis category, presenting an idea so historically untenable, so dangerous, and so tied to perpetuation of violence and degradation of the very classes of human beings who are least equipped to respond that it is properly treated as outside the realm of protected discourse.\u201d Not all hate speech was actionable, however: \u201cExpressions of hatred, revulsion, and anger directed against members of historically dominant groups by subordinated-group members are not criminalized by the definition of racist hate messages used here.\u201d Hence, hate speech leveled by black Americans against whites may be \u201ctroubling,\u201d Matsuda explained, but, in view of the latter\u2019s \u201chistorically dominant\u201d role, permissible.<\/p>\n

As noted earlier, many of the speech code laws advocated by Matsuda were eventually struck down as unconstitutional. But they remain preserved at schools like Matsuda\u2019s own Georgetown, where a broad ban is in effect on any \u201coffensive act which is intentional or persistent\u201d and \u201cwhich is directed at specific individuals or groups of individuals, in such a way as to make an individual or group feel intimidated or unwelcome because of their actual or perceived color, disability, ethnicity, gender, national origin, race, religion, and\/or sexual orientation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matsuda teaches three courses at Georgetown — all of them distinguished by their unmistakable preference for activist recruitment over legal learning.<\/p>\n

This tendency is perhaps most pronounced in a course called \u201cOrganizing for Social Change: Anti-Subordination Theory and Practice,\u201d co-taught by Matsuda and fellow law professor Marilyn Sneiderman. \u201cThis class is designed for the lawyer as change agent,\u201d explains a description of the course. Having imbibed \u201creadings from critical race theory, feminist legal theory, anti-colonial theory, peace studies, and other social justice traditions,\u201d each student \u201cis expected to complete a social change organizing project as part of the course requirements.\u201d There are no alternatives to activism, for as the course description cautions: \u201cStudents who take this class should have in mind a social justice project that includes some form of public outreach, education, or institution building.\u201d<\/p>\n

One such project was participation in a 2003 rally of leftwing student demonstrators who convened in front of the Supreme Court Building to condemn a lawsuit brought by several white students against the University of Michigan’s affirmative action policies. In the eyes of the demonstrators, the white plaintiffs were bent on resurrecting segregation: \u201cJim Crow, hell no!\u201d they shouted. \u201cTwo, four, six, eight, we don\u2019t want to segregate!\u201d Regarding the raucous scene with approval from her perch on a nearby barricade was Mari Matsuda. Outfitted in a black cap and gown, she told a Washington Post reporter that affirmative action was essential to her job: \u201cI can\u2019t do my job as a university professor in a monocultural classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

A similarly activist methodology operates in \u201cPeacemaking,\u201d another Georgetown course taught by Matsuda. In her description of this survey course, Matsuda explains that it \u201cevolved from conversations with students who are interested in taking peacemaking seriously\u201d in the aftermath of 9-11. This course aspires to train a new generation of lawyer-activists in the fundamentals of opposing American military intervention, and to \u201cstimulate critical thought … about the role of lawyers in peacemaking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matsuda\u2019s views on war and peace are illumined in a 2003 letter to the Boston Review. With respect to anti-American terrorism, the professor insisted that \u201cOur job is to ask how we [the United States] participated in its creation, and how we feed it still by choosing militarism and global inequality over peace and global justice.\u201d Any discussion of the war on terror, Matsuda declared, must be above all a discussion of American \u201cmilitarism.\u201d She wrote: \u201cMilitarism\u2014choosing arms and battlegrounds and dead bodies before we ask how a coming war will position us yet again as the target of someone else\u2019s unchecked fury\u2014is the big story of how we came to this place of danger in which, we are told, the Bill of Rights is a luxury.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even Matsuda\u2019s one course with a discernible connection to law\u2014an \u201cAsian Americans and Legal Ideology Seminar\u201d\u2014 places \u201cparticular emphasis\u201d on \u201cpolitical theory.\u201d Presented as an exploration of the \u201cAsian American experience,\u201d the course dwells on the \u201crelationship between law and social change, and the limits of liberal legal ideology.\u201d Students enrolled in the seminar also examine how Asian Americans have fared within the American legal system\u2014a subject on which Matsuda has been outspoken. In an address to the Asian Law Caucus in 1990, Matsuda described 20th-century America as a \u201cland where racism found a home,\u201d and where anti-Asian hatred is fueled by the \u201creal villains\u2014the corporations and politicians who put profits before human needs.\u201d It is owing to America\u2019s widespread anti-Asian prejudices, Matsuda concluded, that \u201cwe [Asians] are underrepresented in the real power positions.\u201d<\/p>\n

* One thing you can say about this Trump-related publicity machine is that primary voters are more likely to say \u2018Ted who? Mario who?\u201d when they look at their ballots. Both of the latter would have to spend massively just to make a dent in Trump\u2019s airtime. Have there been headlines about Obama lately? Has everyone forgotten about him in all the Trump-mania? Even Hillary is going to have big problems spending enough to win airtime away from Trump. Trump gets the publicity of a Kardashian. Even the people vaguely associated with him are getting the spotlight these days.<\/p>\n

* They aren\u2019t charging him with much at all, and let him out immediately. One thing government DA types do not like is being the center of criticism and controversy since they often have higher political aspirations. How about a campaign to bombard the social media accounts for the DA responsible, along with bombarding his email address and office phone numbers with protests?<\/p>\n

It would also serve as a warning to future DAs not to let these people off so easily, since there is going to be a large increase in them as pointed out above.<\/p>\n

* That was probably the motivation for putting him on CNN. Now every Leftwing lunatic and fanatic is going to take a whack at Trump so they can get on TV to bloviate.<\/p>\n

* Thomas DiMassimo, 22, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and inducing panic.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hmmm. These must be local charges under Ohio law. People have noted that assaulting the Secret Service is a federal felony, but don\u2019t hold your breath waiting for the DOJ to move on that. OTOH, if \u201cinducing panic\u201d is a crime then Donald Trump should be on Death Row. He\u2019s induced more panic in SJWs than anyone I\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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