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Nothing to do with Skin Color

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USA Today confirms something I've been saying on Twitter and this blog for awhile now: "whiteness" (and by extension, it's counterpart "blackness") has nothing to do with skin color.  In the past, I have hedged that observation by saying "almost nothing to do" but that seems unnecessary going forward.  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/12/29/fact-check-warnock-sermon-whiteness-condemns-racism/4008303001/  https://web.archive.org/web/20201229212656if_/https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/12/29/fact-check-warnock-sermon-whiteness-condemns-racism/4008303001/ https://archive.is/OIzqx

The Political McSpectrum

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Found on Twitter. Wish I'd thought of it. 

Leftist Headspace: The Beginning

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Scott Adams (the Dilbert guy) tweeted out this morning: Once you see that Democrats can't tell the difference between sarcasm and thinking, you can't unsee it. https://t.co/bMKz2z4kQg — Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) December 2, 2020 Which got me trolling through the Twitter archives to look for the first time I recognized that the Left Can't Discern .  Here is a good candidate. The account I was debating is now suspended, but enough context remains for me to recall that they were posting political cartoons suggesting they were evidence of... something. I love how the Left can't tell the difference between a cartoon and a photograph. — Todd of Mischief (@AndToddsaid) April 2, 2018 But that's more of an early inkling. I found also the moment I first put into words "The left can’t make distinctions." Reproduced below (from Aug 12, 2019 ): ▽  ▽  ▽ @brainfertilizer I’ve been having trouble reconciling the hype-individualist aspects of leftism with th...