DENVER, CO – According to a report from Breitbart News, an article that was published back in April by a department chair at the University of Denver’s College of Education called on educators across the country to “commit to realizing the death of whiteness.”
‘Dead Honky’ – College of Education Department Chair Commits to ‘Death of Whiteness’ https://t.co/25S3uFrGAW from @BreitbartNews
— Lori Geishecker (@lorigeishecker) July 12, 2022
The article, which was published by D.L. Stewart in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, calls on educators and critical race theorists to join him in committing themselves to the “death of whiteness,” specifically asking them to take up the “verbal effigy, ‘dead honky.’”
In the article’s abstract, the author discusses a 1975 Saturday Night Live skit in which a white character and a black character use racial slurs throughout their conversation together. The abstract states:
“In this paper, I parallel the emotionalities displayed in that sketch to assert that as whiteness pretends to be innocent, flustered, and terrified, it nonetheless creates terror and violence.”
Stewarts article titled, “‘Dead Honkey’ — against technologies of (white) violence,” uses the skit to expound upon a model of “white violence,” which he argues consists of “malicious white terror,” “rhetorical white innocence,” “white contempt and white transmission,” and “pacifying white concession.”
The abstract adds:
“Critical whiteness studies (CSW) in the field of higher education fails to account for these technologies of violence that characterize whiteness and which whiteness employs. I bring a Black consciousness lens that asserts a critical narrative grounded in my own and in the intellectual, cultural, and psychic experiences of Blackness.”
In the article, Stewart contends that “whiteness is itself a violence,” adding that “in its emptiness, white refers to no ethnic group and defines itself only in reference to what it is not — it is not black, disabled, poor, trans, non-Christian.” Stewart claims that “whiteness remains in power even when no white people are in leadership.”
The very last sentence in his abstract, Stewart writes:
“Ultimately, I call for CWS to take up an analysis of technologies of (white) violence in its interrogation of the ways that whiteness operates in postsecondary education, but more so to commit to realizing the death of whiteness, taking up Pryor’s verbal effigy ‘dead honky.’”
Stewart is the Higher Education Department Chair of the Morgridge College of Education at the University of Denver. He is professionally affiliated with the American Educational Research Association and is a “critical and poststructural scholar” whose studies focus on race, gender, and intersectionality.
The International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education aims to “enhance the practice and theory of qualitative research in education.”
The journal publishes articles that focus on “racism (including whiteness, white racism, and white supremacy), capitalism and its class structure (including critiques of neoliberalism), gender and gender identity, heterosexism and homophobia,” in addition to “other issues of oppression and exclusion.”
In a separate report, Breitbart News revealed that the same education journal published an article that called to “eradicate whiteness” and send it to “its grave.” The article’s author, California State University East Bay professor G.T. Reyes made a call to educators, saying:
“We must actively and collectively help to do the work of disrupting, dismantling, and eradicating whiteness.”
Education Journal Publishes Call to ‘Eradicate Whiteness,’ Send It ‘to its Grave’ https://t.co/8wen0KLbMi
— HoustonK (@Houstonkdep) July 9, 2022
The article calls on educators to “fully humanize themselves by abandoning whiteness, destroying it, and sending it to its grave,” quoting another article saying it is the “greatest act of love whites can show.”
Reyes went on to argue that America is currently undergoing a “whitelash,” citing parents who have fought back against the presence of critical race theory in the K-12 school system.
LA Times columnist publishes article with the headline “Is California ready for more black people to legally carry guns?”
June 28th, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, June 23rd, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the state of New York’s concealed carry laws were unconstitutional.
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) June 27, 2022
Shortly after the ruling, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times wrote an article in which she asked if the state of California is “ready” for more black gun owners, suggesting that California gun laws could be in jeopardy.
According to Fox News, the columnist, Erica Smith, had a discussion with Nathan W. Jones, leader of the Bay Area chapter of the Black Gun Owners Association, on how the idea of armed black people could inspire “fear and hatred” in others. Smith wrote:
“On the one hand, [Jones] wants it to be easy for law-abiding citizens to be able to defend themselves ‘if and when the time arises.’ But on the other hand, he’s a 50-year-old realist who knows that fear and hatred of Black people run deep in the United States, especially when we’re armed.”
With the new Supreme Court ruling, Smith added:
“California could be forced to confront a reality that has long made many self-proclaimed liberals uncomfortable: Black people — potentially a lot of us — legally carrying guns in public.”
Smith said that a “truly weird thing is that race is now actually being used as an argument in support of loosening gun laws.”
Why would race have anything to do w/carrying a gun legally? Ccw owners take a class which details encounters with LEOs. It’s simple and straight forward. You always notify police you are carrying if stopped.
The article was intended to bring race into a non racial issue.
— Freedom SoCal Pool (@FreedomSocal) June 27, 2022
In her article, Smith acknowledged that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas argued in his opinion that gun control laws have had a history of limiting black gun owners from exercising their Second Amendment rights.
Smith added that this sentiment was echoed by several progressive organizations. She wrote:
“Their argument? That gun control laws in New York, like California, disproportionately harm Black and Latino people who carry guns for self-defense. They complained of clients who have been ‘stopped, questioned, and frisked,’ and deprived of their livelihoods because they ‘exercised a constitutional right.’”
She concluded her article by writing:
“In our polarized political environment, that’s a dangerous scenario that seems increasingly likely. Just as likely as some Black people wrongly getting shot by police while legally carrying a firearm. When society is armed to the teeth, bad things are bound to happen.”
After publishing her article, many Twitter users were allegedly appalled by the headline which read “Is California ready for more Black people to legally carry guns in public?” Townhall.com editor Rebecca Downs tweeted:
“Ah, the racist columnist who called @larryelder a white supremacists strikes again!”
With the Supreme Court striking down a New York law regulating gun possession, Massachusetts legislators may soon have to rewrite the Bay State’s gun laws to comply with the ruling: https://t.co/VdG9tZdXeW
— GBH News (@GBHNews) June 27, 2022
Columnist David Marcus tweeted:
“Wow. The entire political philosophy of the American left hinges on their opponents being racists. If, as is the case, that’s not true the whole thing falls apart.”
Communications adviser for Sen. Ted Cruz, Steve Guest, tweeted:
“HOLY COW THIS HEADLINE FROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES…”
In her article, Smith wrote:
“I had visions of mobs dragging people through streets, and something just kind of switched, Jones told me. We can’t rely on anybody else to come and save us. It has to be us.”
She added:
“If the Supreme Court’s ruling sticks, Jones believes more Black people could start carrying their weapons in public — particularly if the white supremacists and Christian nationalists in our midst start doing the same.”
Do stricter gun laws really translate into fewer mass murders? Data shows that’s not even remotely the case.
May 28th, 2022
UNITED STATES- In an article at The Liberty Daily, J.D. Rucker cites and discusses several reasons why cities, states, and countries with strict gun control laws actually do not have fewer mass murders.
Its really very simple.
If NO officers are willing to risk their lives for the citizens they are there to protect…no amount of preparation or legislation is gonna matter.
That’s the lesson here. Nobody was willing to act until the Border Patrol heroes showed up.
— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) May 27, 2022
In the wake of two very recent mass shootings, one at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, where 10 people lost their lives and another at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 young children and two teachers were shot dead, the push for gun control has never been more fierce.
Since those shootings, Rucker states that the “leftists and corporate media have been joined by international media to try to paint the United States as being too soft on firearms.” He added:
“It’s an emotional response, which is why it always begins within minutes after a reported mass murder. The left needs to latch onto emotional responses because the facts simply do not support their conclusions. It is their hope that people will step up on the surface logic of ‘fewer guns means fewer crimes’ without digger deeper into the true takeaway.”
On an episode of his podcast, The Midnight Sentinel, Rucker covered a threat posted by Andrew Follett from Club for Growth that laid out how statistically speaking, stricter gun laws are tied to increased violence. Follett tweeted:
“A threat on how the media is telling you two major lies about mass shootings and gun control. 1. Other countries with vastly stricter gun laws than the US have higher rates of mass shootings 2. US jurisdictions w/ gun laws have exponentially higher rates of gun violence.”
Events in the United States seemingly get the majority of the media’s attention, however, Follett tweeted:
“…Mass shootings are clearly a worldwide issue. The US makes up about 1.15% of the world’s mass shootings while having almost 5% of the world’s population.”
He added in another tweet:
“Out of 97 countries with data, the US is 64th in frequency of mass shootings and 65th in murder rate. And rates of mass shootings elsewhere are rising faster.”
His thread continued:
“4 times as many per capita died in mass shootings in FRANCE as in the US. 21 times in Norway. In addition to those fairly nice nations, Finland, Germany, Israel, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland have higher mass shooting death rates. All of those are pretty nice countries which MUCH stricter gun control laws than the US … and all have higher per capita deaths from mass shootings than the US.”
Next, Follett focused on gun ownership. He tweeted:
“The highest gun-ownership state with the loosest gun laws in the nation is Wyoming, where 59.7% of households have a gun (really!) Wyoming gun laws are arguably the LEAST restrictive in the United States.”
Must read from the smartest man himself.#2A https://t.co/Zvs8veJ6Ia
— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) May 26, 2022
He added:
“Wyoming does NOT HAVE a gun homicide problem, with a rate of only 1.4 per 100,000- actually lower than right across the border in more gun-controlled Canada – and only about a third of that of the nation as a whole.”
Follett tweeted:
“The highest murder rate of any jurisdiction in the US is Washington, DC, which has a murder rate of 21.8 per 100,000 … more than twenty times that of most European countries! But, DC also has the most restrictive gun laws in the country … and the lowest rates of legal gun ownership, with numbers less than in many European states!”
The shooter walked into the school thru an unlocked door, then locked himself in the classroom. That bought him 40 minutes to murder 21 people. https://t.co/E7gzoRUavo pic.twitter.com/uP6fGaGGWF
— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) May 26, 2022
He went on to discuss the fact that if stricter gun laws did in fact reduce gun violence rates, then we would expect jurisdictions with those types of laws to have lower rates of gun violence. However, the data show that is not the case. Follett tweeted:
“And blaming this on Republicans (which libs made trend ALL of yesterday) is … stupid. Washington DC hasn’t had a Republican mayor since literally 1933 … and hasn’t had a single Republican on its city council since 2008.”
He added:
“The same thing is true of ALL the cities with REALLY BAD gun homicide rates. In 2019: St. Louis, 64.54 murders per 100k, last GOP Mayor left in 1949. It’s the 9th most violent city in the world.”
Buffalo shooter described himself as left-wing and trashed Conservatism, chose location in part because of strict gun control
May 17th, 2022
BUFFALO, NY — The suspect in the gruesome shooting of victims at a supermarket in Buffalo allegedly wrote a manifesto that outlined three key reasons for targeting the city.
The shooting suspect, Payton Gendron, 18, of Conklin, New York, also appeared to mimic the horrific acts of previous mass shooters.
The MSM lying again.
In reality, Payton Gendron is a self-proclaimed atheist who denounced conservatism, Christianity and Fox News in his 180-page manifesto Buffalo Suspect’s Manifesto Revealed: 5 Statements Proving He Wasn’t a Christian Conservative https://t.co/ZvrojJEP0O
— Elizabeth Salvatore (@ElizabethS7) May 16, 2022
Gendron, who is white, wore body armor and a helmet with a camera attached. He is suspected of shooting 13 people at the Tops Friendly Market, which is located in a predominantly black neighborhood in Buffalo.
“Payton S. Gendron, 18, of Broome County, was arraigned before Buffalo City Court Judge Craig Hannah on a first-degree murder charge. If found guilty, he faces a life sentence in prison without the possibility of parole.”
In his manifesto, he had stated he would plead guilty. pic.twitter.com/PDvvXeWrKS
— Jimmy Simmons (@ArticulateTHGHT) May 15, 2022
Eleven of the victims were black, and two were white. Of the 10 who died, all were black.
The teen suspect reportedly used an illegally modified rifle while livestreaming his attack on the gaming platform Twitch, which is owned by Amazon.
Gendron’s manifesto is reportedly 180 pages long and indicates that he chose Buffalo for three primary reasons.
https://twitter.com/NotSkolSota19/status/1525923225808650240
The Epoch Times reported:
“In the alleged manifesto, the author appears to claim that he chose Buffalo because of the strict gun control laws, because it has a high ‘black population percentage,’ and because it ‘isn’t that far away’ from where he had lived.”
The Epoch Times couldn’t confirm whether the manifesto was written by Gendron, but has contacted Erie County District Attorney John Flynn’s office for comment.
The Epoch Times further reported that the manifesto allegedly stated that New York “has heavy gun laws” and that it would ease the suspect if he “knew that any legally armed civilian was limited to 10 round magazines or cucked firearms.”
“(REDACTED) has the highest black population percentage (zip code *****) and isn’t
that far away. Plus NY has heavy gun laws so it would ease me if I knew that any legally armed
civilian was limited to 10 round magazines or cucked firearms.”— l by Payton Gendron in his manifesto
— nasty (@nastypilled) May 15, 2022
New York’s laws restrict magazines to only 10 rounds and laws that limit the purchase of certain types of semi-automatic rifles. New York state residents also need to obtain a permit, which can make it take months if not years, to buy a pistol under the provisions of the SAFE Act, according to The Epoch Times’ report.
NATO is arming and training neo-Nazis in Ukraine’s white-supremacist Azov movement, who use the same fascist symbols as the terrorist mass shooter in Buffalo, New York https://t.co/5gYgmU8PFo
— Benjamin Norton (@BenjaminNorton) May 15, 2022
The author of the manifesto allegedly asked rhetorically:
“Won’t your attack result in calls for the removal of gun rights in the United States?”
The author then confirms “yes” and says it is part of an unspecified plan:
“Yes, that is the plan all along, you said you would fight to protect your rights and the constitution, soon will come the time.
“NY has cucked gun laws. Assault style weapons and high capacity magazines are illegal for civilians to own, thus lowering threats from law-abiding civilians.”
Copies of Payton Gendron’s manifesto have been scrubbed from the internet. Supposedly this is to prevent others from being influenced by it. I think the real reason is because he used Azov symbolism. pic.twitter.com/u4B97nRnAu
The suspect also used a visual platform popular with gamers.
Twitch is a site where people can livestream video games while they are playing. Tips and commentary are usually shared while the audience watches.
Associated Press noted:
“The [Twitch] platform has boomed in popularity over the past few years. It played a key role in boosting the spread of ‘esports,’ or competitive video gaming. Popular Twitch gamers can have millions of followers. The platform itself has more than 100 million monthly users.”
Gendron’s livestreamed video was reportedly removed quickly after it was broadcast.
Associated Press reported:
“A Twitch spokesperson said it removed the video in less than two minutes.
“That’s considerably faster than the 17 minutes Facebook needed to take down a similar video streamed by a self-described white supremacist who killed 51 people in two New Zealand mosques in 2019.”
Or:
-That he killed 2 white people, including the 1st person he shot
— Joe Has Dementia (@RokerGlasses) May 16, 2022
There appears to be an unsettling connection between shooting massacres and social media platforms.
In March of 2019, an Australian, Brenton Harrison Tarrant, now in his 30s, livestreamed his shooting of people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. He chose Facebook as his streaming platform and seemed to carefully model his attack for the internet-hooked generation. Tarrant wrote a 74-page manifesto that espoused extremist and racist views that sometimes contradicted themselves, Associated Press reported. 51 people died.
Tarrant livestreamed his massacre for at least 17 minutes, shouted out a popular meme slogan and published a long, rambling manifesto containing inside jokes geared for those into underground internet culture, Associated Press reported.
Then only months later, another shooting suspect, Stephan Balliet, who was in his 20s, allegedly launched a deadly attack at a synagogue in Halle, Germany, and livestreamed it on Twitch in October of 2019.
A security guard confronted alleged Buffalo supermarket shooter Payton Gendron during an apparent reconnaissance trip two months ago.https://t.co/ABIaFa5H0R
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) May 17, 2022
Streaming live with a camera mounted on his helmet, the suspect pushed on the doors of the synagogue, fired several shots at a lock on the door, stuck an explosive in a door jamb and lit it, but could not get in. According to a CNN report, 51 people were barricaded inside.
Since the suspect could not gain access into the synagogue, he allegedly filmed himself killing a woman outside Halle’s synagogue and then a patron at a nearby kebab shop.
During the assault, the suspect reportedly ranted about Jews, feminism and immigration, according to a report by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Like Tarrant and Balliet, Gendron livestreamed his massacre of people. In addition, Gendron allegedly wrote a manifesto, like Tarrant did, that mentioned a racist “great replacement” theory to justify attacking people of other races and cultures.
Kin of alleged Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron roll out COVID defense slaughter https://t.co/ghMG1pGD0T pic.twitter.com/9ZqwOJLgxY
— New York Post (@nypost) May 16, 2022
Gendron’s manifesto reportedly mentioned that all non-white and non-Christian people should leave the country, Associated Press reported.
In a separate report, Jewish Telegraphic Agency noted:
“An online manifesto attributed to Payton Gendron, 18, explains that the attack was spurred by the theory that a tide of immigrants is crowding out white populations in western countries. The manifesto also says that Jews are the real problem but that ‘they can be dealt with in time.’
“The Tops supermarket, located just a few miles from the Canadian border, was chosen because it is in an area with many black residents, the manifesto says. Eleven of the 13 people shot there were black, local law enforcement officials said.
“Law enforcement authorities are working to verify that the manifesto was written by Gendron, who was arrested at the scene and later charged with first-degree murder. The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the shooting as ‘a hate crime and an act of racially motivated violent extremism,’ Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.”
Just learned of the #Buffalo shooting. My first response is to track down parent data. His: Married, upper-middle class, both engineers. Question: what is it about American life where parents don’t know their children’s values (like they think they do)? https://t.co/v98oKjo7tH
— Anthony B. Bradley, PhD (@drantbradley) May 15, 2022
Associated Press reported that Gendron’s livestream video spread quickly to other platforms, which were slow in removing the violent content:
“But versions of the Buffalo shooting video still quickly spread to other platforms, and they haven’t always disappeared quickly.
“In April, Twitter enacted a new policy on ‘perpetrators of violent attacks’ to remove accounts maintained by ‘individual perpetrators of terrorist, violent extremist, or mass violent attacks,’ along with tweets and other material produced by perpetrators of such attacks.
“On Sunday, though, clips of the video were still circulating on the platform.”
For example, one video clip on Twitter reportedly showed the gunman moving through the supermarket and firing upon people. Associated Press reported that video remained on Twitter for several hours.
Azov removed the sun from its official symbol in August 2015 (after lawmakers banned Nazi symbols), but the image still has its admirers in Ukraine’s armed forces, as a recent scandal on NATO’s Twitter page demonstrated. https://t.co/dzBRyyQSXM
— Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) May 15, 2022
On Sunday, Twitter said in a statement it was working to remove material related to the shooting that violates its rules:
“We believe the hateful and discriminatory views promoted in content produced by perpetrators are harmful for society and that their dissemination should be limited in order to prevent perpetrators from publicizing their message.”
However, Twitter’s actions did not appear consistent. Associated Press reported:
“But the company added that when people share media to condemn it or provide context, sharing videos and other material from the shooter may not be a rules violation. In these cases, Twitter said it covers images or videos with a ‘sensitive material’ cover that users have to click through in order to view them.
“But later Sunday, Twitter changed course on how it was treating material related to the shooting. In a subsequent emailed statement, the company said it is ‘removing videos and media related to the incident’ and ‘may remove’ tweets disseminating the shooter’s writings. Earlier, the company’s statement said it ‘may’ remove material produced by perpetrators.”
New York’s Gov. Kathy Hochul said social media companies must be more careful in monitoring what happens on their own platforms and said the livestream should have been removed “within a second.”
On Sunday, Hochul told ABC’s “This Week” that social media companies are responsible for allowing the growth of “white hope” racist ideas and then allowing people to share them:
“The CEOs of those companies need to be held accountable and assure all of us that they’re taking every step humanly possible to be able to monitor this information.
“How these depraved ideas are fermenting on social media – it’s spreading like a virus now.”
Hochul also noted:
“People are sharing these ideas. They’re sharing videos of other attacks. And they’re all copycat. They all want to be the next great white hope that’s going to inspire the next attack.”
A deep Daily Mail dive into his family and previous (school) threat of violence…https://t.co/6xy6Uo19WI pic.twitter.com/MvdZJOqzkc
— Jimmy Simmons (@ArticulateTHGHT) May 15, 2022
Another disturbing aspect is that Gendron allegedly had made previous threatening comments that brought police to his high school last spring.
However, officials said Gendron was never charged with a crime and had no further contact with law enforcement after his release from a hospital.
According to a report by Breitbart:
“The revelation raised questions about whether his encounter with police and the mental health system was yet another missed opportunity to put a potential mass shooter under closer law enforcement scrutiny, get him help, or make sure he didn’t have access to deadly firearms.
“Authorities said they were investigating the attack on predominantly black shoppers and workers at the Tops Friendly Market as a potential federal hate crime or act of domestic terrorism. Saturday’s mass violence in Buffalo was the deadliest of a wave of fatal weekend shootings, including at a California church and a Texas flea market.”
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