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I'm curious...

Would Will Smith have responded the same way if a female comedian had made the same joke? If equal is equal and it's the same joke, then the female comic should get the same response, correct?

Should the descendants of abolitionists be forced to pay reparations? What about those of us whose ancestors came to the US decades after slavery had ended or had ancestors who were too poor to have ever owned slaves? And what about the black families whose ancestors never were slaves? Should they be entitled to reparations just because of their ethnicity? And what about those of us who are multi-racial? Do we pay reparations only the fraction of the cost that we are white?

This is far from a black and white issue.

Here's an analogy:

Let's say that I'm trying to build a swim team to compete in the animal Olympics. It would make sense for me to go out into the oceans of the world to recruit the sleekest, fastest swimming creatures, right? So my logical selections might be some dolphins, sailfish, marlins, maybe a yellowfin tuna, etc.

Then the animal diversity, equity, and inclusion committee steps in and says, "No, Mr. Reyes, your team is being speciesist as it only includes creatures whose native habitat is aquatic. You need more participants from other ecosystems to meet our DEI goals."

So I go out into the world and look for other creatures that might be fast swimmers like a crocodile and a jaguar and a water moccasin. Not as naturally fast in the water as my other swimmers, but not too bad. We can make this work.

The animal DEI committee calls me in again and says that my team is clearly biased against birds, insects, and desert dwelling reptiles and that I would have to replace some of my oceanic team members with creatures of these protected classes.

So I have to send my marlin and my tuna home and replace them with a tortoise and a pigeon who both promptly drown.

This sparks an OSHA investigation and a class action lawsuit headed up by PETA and the World Wildlife Fund for my failure to properly train and equip the tortoise and pigeon in OSHA approved water safety protocols and safety equipment.

When I replied that I was forced by the DEI committee to bring on these unqualified creatures, they tell me that that's not their problem; that was between me and the DEI committee and that the lawsuit was moving forward. And that I should go find a good lawyer.

In total disbelief, I return to the DEI committee and tell them that I thought that my task was to build the best and fastest animal swim team in the world...

"It is. While simultaneously meeting the equity requirements set forth by the members of this committee. Good Luck."

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The WH and their minions are contemptuous of parents' rights, just like the Angka. Children are the property of the state, they are not members of a family.

I just saw a teacher who was lamenting the passage of the Florida law protecting young school children from inappropriate sexual content in schools. He was deeply disappointed that he could no longer share details about his personal life with students. Which makes me wonder --

Is 'paddleboarding' a gay metaphor?

Until arrests are made, all of these so-called 'bombshells' about Hunter's laptop are duds.

I was on California's Central Coast last weekend visiting family and, I have to tell you that I deeply wish that California hadn't lost its way. I miss our homestead and the really great people around there - but it is one small oasis in the great cesspool that CA has become, so I'll never permanently return.

If I have learned one fundamental truth about politics it is this fallacy, "Post hoc ergo propter hoc" - After this, therefore because of this. The fallacy of attributing causation to correlation.

It seems that in my lifetime, society, and particularly the 'entertainment' industry, has been very eager to tarnish heroic figures.

The government has already announced that there will be food shortages. If there isn't going to be enough food for the people who already live here, how can we reasonably accommodate the hundreds of thousands crossing the southern border each month?