Daniel Aldridge

College Professor, Rock Soul and Blues fan.

[Daniel Aldridge @daaldridge]

@drboycewatkins1 It’s shame-driven. Being Big Mad at White people is psychologically easier than admitting the bundle of pathologies that plague Black Americans.

[Brandon Warmke @BrandonWarmke]

The fact that apparently many faculty think it's more likely that attacks on academic freedom are due to "fascism" than it is that they might have screwed up a pretty good deal is indicative of how eager they are to take responsibility and fix things, which is to say not at all.

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

No one who was actually alive back then would describe the 1970s as an era of such unchecked national abundance versus the 1980s as a national economic hellhole. Just more meme-driven, ahistorical silliness to make a lazy partisan point.

[Corey Walker 🇺🇸 @CoreyWriting]

An underdiscussed phenomenon in our culture is how women are absolutely dominating the music scene and men are being pushed out. Very few top male artists under the age 35 anymore.

[Daniel Aldridge @daaldridge]

@CoreyWriting Young women are the core pop music audience. The sort of boys who used to be rockers now play video games and online sports betting.

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

What about this is remotely embarrassing? She's dancing and laughing and having a great time, which are very normal things to do if you're not an online incel. If this is foreign to you, all you're telling people is that you're uptight and miserable.

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

The problem with progressive “empathy” is that progressives project themselves onto the world rather than approaching it with curiosity and seeking to understand new things.

Their “empathy” is narcissistic and psychopathic, because when they look at other people, all they see is themselves and their ostensible love and compassion for others is really just self regard.

This is why they end up being wrong about everything.

They look at a problem like theft and say: “I would only do that if I was really desperate, so therefore, these people must be really desperate. If we alleviate the desperation, no one will steal.”

But thieves don’t steal because they are desperate, they steal because they can, because they know nobody will stop them and any consequences they may face will be trivial.

If you want to know this, all you have to do is ask a thief why he does what he does.

But progressives will never understand this, because they are not people who ask these kinds of questions; they are people who write self-insert “Les Miserables” fan fiction and then try to enact policy based on the story they made up.

[Eli Steele @Hebro_Steele]

Whites who perform self-flagellation for “whiteness” seek moral innocence through white guilt.

True imagination, true freedom, never belongs to any race.

[Corey Walker 🇺🇸 @CoreyWriting]

Those 5 white dudes aren't the reason my local CVS had to lock up all the candy and laundry detergent behind a plastic case.

[Benjamin Domenech @bdomenech]

"Hot Swedish women like America, here's why that's bad."
- @TheAtlantic

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[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

Allllll of the countries that benefitted?

[Daniel Aldridge @daaldridge]

@wil_da_beast630 Everyone likes free money. If reparations are paid they will be quickly wasted and embezzled and these countries will remain as poor as before.

[Armond White @3xchair]

A history lesson and a lesson in "choice." Thanks @kimbrownnfl32 #Juneteenth

[Daniel Aldridge @daaldridge]

@3xchair @kimbrownnfl32 My understanding is that Black Texans had barbecues, picnics and parades on Juneteenth. They treated it like July Fourth, not like Festivus Airing of the Grievances. I barbecued for Juneteenth.

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

MLK III keeps invoking his father’s legacy while defending the political machinery that has governed many Black neighborhoods into decline.

Dr. King demanded dignity, safety, work, strong families and equal treatment under the law. What have decades of Democrat control delivered in places like Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and Buffalo? Broken schools, concentrated poverty, weakened policing, shrinking opportunity and communities where residents are told to keep voting the same way while expecting different outcomes.

A famous name does not excuse failed policy.

If your politics cannot produce safer streets, literate children, intact families, functioning neighborhoods and economic mobility, then wrapping those failures in Dr. King’s memory is not leadership. It is camouflage.

The question is not whether Democrats claim to care. The question is what their policies have produced.

Results are the verdict.

#AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks

[toddstarnes @toddstarnes]

The Obama Presidential Death Star is disenfranchising blacks and newly married women. Visitors are not allowed to enter without showing government-issued ID. And we all know how difficult it is for blacks and new brides to get ID. I hope you are just as disgusted as I am!

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

This is basically true, and interesting as a reminder of how recent the idea of large, genuinely linked races is.

Vikings trading in Irish women or captured Slavic fighters did not see themselves as "selling brothers." Neither, almost certainly, did Mansa Keita or King Ghezo.

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

We would have no true orphans in America if every church had one family/person that did this. America has about 325K Christian churches. There are only about 35K true orphans in the foster care system. James 1:26-27. Ex: Out of 75M evangelicals, we can’t find 35K? (0.047%).

[Carl @HistoryBoomer]

People can argue capitalism sucks, but claims that indigenous peoples lived more prosperous, peaceful lives are nonsense.

The Cherokee were warriors who kept captives as slaves. Pre-industrial and stateless societies were far poorer and more violent than ours.

Ethnographic and anthropological studies suggest that in small-scale and non-state societies, 5-20% of deaths came from violence. In America, that number is less than 1%.

This chipper ninny sells the popular leftist idea that it's Western society that causes harm, when the reality is that, with our flaws, human society is far better off today than it was in the past.