The Week in Rearview
Bernie blanks on 'equity,' Black Rifle grunts, Teaching Black men, & more...
Bernie Blanks on ‘Equity’
“Democratic Socialist” Bernie Sanders—the three-term senator, eight-term House rep., and two-time presidential candidate who has regularly advocated for “advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion,” “changing the historical culture of inequity,” encouraging men to “stand with women and fight for full pay equity,” and who called for passage of a bill actually titled, “Health Equity and Accountability Act,” apparently doesn’t know what equity is.
Appearing on Real Time with Bill Maher Friday, Maher asked, “How would you differentiate between equity and equality?” Bernie gave the exact, word-for-word answer that 99.748% of Americans give when asked this very question:
“Uh. I don’t know what the answer is.”
Which is actually pretty admirable. Most people don’t know how to say the words “I don’t know.”
Maher saved the Vermont senator by offering an answer—equality is equal opportunity, while equity is equal outcome—and Bernie agreed. His team will no doubt be issuing a clarification on the definition, since that is not what Leftists mean by equity, and Bernie is still a hypocrite—not to mention a spineless charlatan who spews populist talking points but bends the knee to the globalist Establishment when they’re done letting him parade around like a folk hero in the primary—but at least he’s a sometimes honest hypocrite.
Black Rifle, Scandalized
Black Rifle Coffee really put the grunt in grunt-style this week when an employee filed a lawsuit alleging the uber-masculine pro-gun veteran-owned company is run by a rabid homosexual. The Internet memes were, as usual, completely inappropriate and we do not endorse, but the real scandal is still very much in the closet.
While its packaging is cool—cartoon guns, helicopters, a Big Foot toting a short-barrel AR with a forward grip—Black Rifle’s claim that there’s “ground” coffee inside is understatedly deceitful.
“Flakes,” “shavings,” even “chunks o’ coffee” would be accurate, but “ground” it most certainly is not. You’ll be lucky to get three pots out of a 12-ounce bag—for $15!
Black Rifle’s half-bag of air puts potato chip makers to shame.
Teaching Black Men
The journalistic beacon Good Morning America has settled a long-standing debate over whether Black men are capable of teaching “challenging students.”
"That's a fallacy in itself," Melvin Middleton Jr. said.
There you have it. Case closed.
Only 1.3% of teachers in the U.S. are Black males, according to data, compared to 61.6% who are White females. That’s not basic gender roles evolved over millennia at work. It’s systemic racism.
“One of the obvious things is this assumption that you're living in poverty or on the borderline of poverty, and that's not the case,” Middleton said.
First of all, it’s not obvious, because that assumption has no basis in reality.
Secondly, if you think teachers earn poverty wages, you’re too stupid to be teaching anybody, regardless of your race. The average U.S. teacher’s salary is $59,000—four times the poverty line and enough to feed and house a wife and seven kids without being considered “in poverty.”
Thirdly, for allegedly fearing poverty, Black men sure have a funny way of showing it. Other than Indians, Black males work less than…
(checks notes)
…EVERYONE.
White, Asian, Hispanic, male, female. Even Black women work more than Black men.
Someone should tell Black men who work less because they don’t make enough money that they’ll make more money if they work more.
In fact, this seems like a perfect job for a Black male teacher!
Ticking Away
TikTok’s “Teen Filter” has caused an uproar after ugly women the world over realized they too can be gushed over online as gorgeous goddesses so long as they: A) lie, and B) never leave the house.
The filter is so effective at taking decades off a person’s face that Instahoes, OnlyFan sluts, and similar online catfishing con-artists are appalled at how life-like the illusion appears. There are some truly heart-wrenching videos of old women seeing themselves 40 years younger, tears welling in their eyes.
And then there are men, Black people, and fat chicks.
Because the obese are already calorically enhanced and therefore mostly wrinkle-free, TikTok’s teen filter resorts to converting fat women into fat women covered in face paint.
The filter does not appear to work particularly well on Black people or men in general, one of which may prove to be useful fodder for what will be an endless stream of whinging think pieces decrying AI’s bigoted underbelly next week. Stay tuned.
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