Ernest Burchell

[Pogwoll @pogwoll]

So it's cool in Austin to commit grand larceny now. . . Got it.
Meanwhile, noone in Austin gives a shit about Andrew James Wimsatt. Butchered as he rested on a park bench in Round Rock (south Austin) after taking his elderly mother who suffers from Alzheimer's for a walk. He was nearly beheaded by his assailant.
We are fucking sick and tired of this shit.

[Ernest Burchell @BurchellErnest]

@catturd2 MTG quit because her poll numbers were awful and she had crossed the threshold to receive her government pension.

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

Democrats hate this.

[Ernest Burchell @BurchellErnest]

Hmm...

[Dr. Mary Bone @drbone4tx]

OPINION: If @bofrench is guilty of the “crime of noticing,” so is a parent in Round Rock ISD.

There is a reason some conversations never start cleanly. There is no polite, committee-approved sentence that makes a hard fact feel gentle.

He looked at a crowd of University of Texas students celebrating a football win and said the campus no longer looks like the Texas many people grew up knowing. He framed it in blunt language about foreigners and displacement. That wording is fair game for criticism. Calling American citizens “foreigners” because of how they look is sloppy and, in many cases, simply wrong. International students are a modest share of UT’s enrollment. Most undergraduates are Texas residents. Appearance is not a passport stamp.

But the ritual that followed was familiar. The reaction was not mainly, “Is the underlying observation true?” It was, “How dare you look.” That is the crime of noticing: treating a visible change as unspeakable, then treating the speaker as the problem.

So pause and ask the only question that matters first. Was what French noticed real?

Yes. There has been a major demographic shift at UT Austin. Some reporting puts White enrollment in the neighborhood of 67% in earlier decades and around 30 percent in recent years. Even using more conservative modern figures, White students have fallen from the low-to-mid 40s a decade ago to roughly 30 percent now, while Asian and Hispanic shares have risen sharply. That is not a rounding error. It is not a seasonal fluctuation. In one lifetime, the racial composition of a flagship public university has changed in a way that would have been treated as historic if any other group had experienced it.

People in America should be able to ask why.

They should be able to ask how much of the change is birth rates, how much is immigration, how much is the children of immigrants who are fully American, how much is the Top 10 / Top 5 percent rule, how much is test preparation culture, how much is family structure, and how much is institutional preference dressed up as equity. They should be able to ask those questions without being told that curiosity itself is a moral defect.

If a campus can celebrate the rising share of one racial group as progress, it cannot treat discussion of another group’s falling share as hate. That double standard is not anti-racism. By definition, it is racial special pleading. A society that may applaud “representation” when the numbers move one direction, and must denounce “noticing” when they move the other, is not practicing equal citizenship. It is practicing permitted speech for some identities and forbidden speech for others.

You can dislike French’s tone and still admit the concern is valid. Style and substance are not the same thing. A clumsy messenger does not erase a real pattern.

That pattern is not confined to one photo from a stadium. Just this week, just north of UT in Round Rock ISD, a parent sent a picture from the monthly board meeting. Students were being recognized for winning a Texas State STEM competition. The parent, like French, noticed something immediate: every student present was non-White, non-Hispanic, and non-Black. Those three groups together make up more than 70 percent of RRISD. In that recognition moment, they had zero representation.

That does not prove a conspiracy. It does not prove those winners were undeserving. Excellence is not a census. Asian American students, in particular, have long been overrepresented in high-end STEM contests relative to their share of the population, for reasons that include culture, selection, and hours spent on the work. Honest people can say that without hatred.

But institutions that spend years preaching Diversity and Equity cannot then shrug when the outcome is this lopsided. If UT or RRISD were truly concerned with those words as principles rather than slogans, they would reflect on what French and that parent pointed out. They would ask whether pipeline, preparation, family expectation, course-taking, and selection effects explain the result. They would ask whether any official practice quietly sorts opportunity by race. They would treat underperformance and overperformance as data, not as sacraments.

Otherwise the public is entitled to a harsher conclusion: that “diversity” is a one-way ratchet. Certain groups may be counted, recruited, celebrated, and statistically engineered. Other groups may only be discussed when their absence is useful. That is not fair and equal opportunity for all children in America. It is racial management.

A free country can survive blunt politicians. It cannot survive the idea that some facts about its own people are too dangerous to name. The decent response to French is not to pretend the campus and the contest look the same as they did a generation ago. The decent response is to tell the truth about what changed, argue about causes in public, and insist that every child — White, Hispanic, Black, Asian, or otherwise — be judged by the same rules.

Hard news does not get easier when we refuse to deliver it. It only gets more distorted. Noticing is not a crime. Refusing to look is.

[Dr. Mary Bone @drbone4tx]

OPINION: If @bofrench is guilty of the “crime of noticing,” so is a parent in Round Rock ISD.

There is a reason some conversations never start cleanly. There is no polite, committee-approved sentence that makes a hard fact feel gentle.

He looked at a crowd of University of Texas students celebrating a football win and said the campus no longer looks like the Texas many people grew up knowing. He framed it in blunt language about foreigners and displacement. That wording is fair game for criticism. Calling American citizens “foreigners” because of how they look is sloppy and, in many cases, simply wrong. International students are a modest share of UT’s enrollment. Most undergraduates are Texas residents. Appearance is not a passport stamp.

But the ritual that followed was familiar. The reaction was not mainly, “Is the underlying observation true?” It was, “How dare you look.” That is the crime of noticing: treating a visible change as unspeakable, then treating the speaker as the problem.

So pause and ask the only question that matters first. Was what French noticed real?

Yes. There has been a major demographic shift at UT Austin. Some reporting puts White enrollment in the neighborhood of 67% in earlier decades and around 30 percent in recent years. Even using more conservative modern figures, White students have fallen from the low-to-mid 40s a decade ago to roughly 30 percent now, while Asian and Hispanic shares have risen sharply. That is not a rounding error. It is not a seasonal fluctuation. In one lifetime, the racial composition of a flagship public university has changed in a way that would have been treated as historic if any other group had experienced it.

People in America should be able to ask why.

They should be able to ask how much of the change is birth rates, how much is immigration, how much is the children of immigrants who are fully American, how much is the Top 10 / Top 5 percent rule, how much is test preparation culture, how much is family structure, and how much is institutional preference dressed up as equity. They should be able to ask those questions without being told that curiosity itself is a moral defect.

If a campus can celebrate the rising share of one racial group as progress, it cannot treat discussion of another group’s falling share as hate. That double standard is not anti-racism. By definition, it is racial special pleading. A society that may applaud “representation” when the numbers move one direction, and must denounce “noticing” when they move the other, is not practicing equal citizenship. It is practicing permitted speech for some identities and forbidden speech for others.

You can dislike French’s tone and still admit the concern is valid. Style and substance are not the same thing. A clumsy messenger does not erase a real pattern.

That pattern is not confined to one photo from a stadium. Just this week, just north of UT in Round Rock ISD, a parent sent a picture from the monthly board meeting. Students were being recognized for winning a Texas State STEM competition. The parent, like French, noticed something immediate: every student present was non-White, non-Hispanic, and non-Black. Those three groups together make up more than 70 percent of RRISD. In that recognition moment, they had zero representation.

That does not prove a conspiracy. It does not prove those winners were undeserving. Excellence is not a census. Asian American students, in particular, have long been overrepresented in high-end STEM contests relative to their share of the population, for reasons that include culture, selection, and hours spent on the work. Honest people can say that without hatred.

But institutions that spend years preaching Diversity and Equity cannot then shrug when the outcome is this lopsided. If UT or RRISD were truly concerned with those words as principles rather than slogans, they would reflect on what French and that parent pointed out. They would ask whether pipeline, preparation, family expectation, course-taking, and selection effects explain the result. They would ask whether any official practice quietly sorts opportunity by race. They would treat underperformance and overperformance as data, not as sacraments.

Otherwise the public is entitled to a harsher conclusion: that “diversity” is a one-way ratchet. Certain groups may be counted, recruited, celebrated, and statistically engineered. Other groups may only be discussed when their absence is useful. That is not fair and equal opportunity for all children in America. It is racial management.

A free country can survive blunt politicians. It cannot survive the idea that some facts about its own people are too dangerous to name. The decent response to French is not to pretend the campus and the contest look the same as they did a generation ago. The decent response is to tell the truth about what changed, argue about causes in public, and insist that every child — White, Hispanic, Black, Asian, or otherwise — be judged by the same rules.

Hard news does not get easier when we refuse to deliver it. It only gets more distorted. Noticing is not a crime. Refusing to look is.

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

🤣🤣🤣. SOOOOOOO TRUE.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

How can you claim to be doing journalism when all your coverage is negative? All the time? Year after year.

[Ernest Burchell @BurchellErnest]

https://t.co/j0axfJobZU

[Ernest Burchell @BurchellErnest]

https://t.co/DlwUrmXaM4

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Political operatives & co-conspirators in a treasonous conspiracy put all journalists at risk. If the media wants the protection of the 1st amendment, they have to behave like journalists. Propagandists have no part in a free press. We have to guard our profession against those who would discredit us, not give them safe haven. It is our job to stand for the truth & when the media found out the truth about Covid & Hunter Biden’s laptop & Russia collusion & the climate BS, they ignored it & continued to push lies that have caused real harm. This is not journalism.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

They treated the President with contempt & thought they could get away with it. They were wrong. They were also wrong about mass migration as a weapon of invasion. And they were wrong about Democrats unleashing a wave of crime. The evidence of this is right in front of their eyes today - have they corrected the record? No. And they never will - because they are not acting as journalists but rather as partisan political operatives whose goal is to discredit the President & prevent him from carrying out the mandate that he was handed legally by the majority of American voters.

[Aaron_ @BeRSeRKeRAaron]

@PeteHegseth It's all the have is lies. Hope the guilty media is tried for treason

[FreeThinkerFitness @FreeThinkerFit]

@adamcarolla Never forget.

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

This is absolutely nuts.

[Ernest Burchell @BurchellErnest]

🚨Happening now in Spain, the Bishop was right:"They are not refugees, they're invaders who want to Islamize Europe. They want to destroy Europe's religion and culture" ✝️
https://t.co/bTUZdoyyPX

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Hey Palm Beach County School….care to explain this?

[John K. Amanchukwu Sr. @REVWUTRUTH]

🚨 THEY CUT MY MIC! 🎤

While speaking at the Palm Beach County School District(President Trump's District), I was reading from a book available in a school library, LET’S TALK ABOUT IT, and my microphone was cut off.

Think about that.

If this material is appropriate for students to access in a school library, why can’t an adult publicly read what’s inside it?

What exactly are they trying to hide?

I’m not backing down.

Parents deserve answers.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Well…there you have it.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Who really thinks the people who did this, knowing they were harming people, should just get away with it?

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

Pete is going to be here - and you’re the one going bye 😂