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We Will One Day be Judged by the Content of Our Character

Way back in 1972, in a satirical piece celebrating white heritage, National Lampoon magazine listed “demeaning stereotypes” used to describe "persons of Anglo-American ancestry".

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Way back in 1972, in a satirical piece celebrating white heritage, National Lampoon magazine listed “demeaning stereotypes” used to describe "persons of Anglo-American ancestry", including:

Whites have “natural reason”, or extra lobes in their brains, which makes them good aesthetes.

They are adult-like, brooding, and worry a great deal.

They spend all their money on stocks and bonds.

They smell good, talk too softly, and can’t dance.

When they move into a neighborhood, they tear down all the bars and pool halls and put up historical societies and Christian Science Reading Rooms and send real-estate prices sky-high.

And so on. Of course, yesterday’s satire is today’s reality:

(Via John P.)

In other racial developments, that Black Lives Matter statue in Bristol has been taken down and hauled away on a garbage truck:

The cost of removing a sculpture of a Black Lives Matter activist from the plinth where a statue of slave trader Edward Colston once stood will "run into thousands", the city council said.

Contractors removed the statue of Jen Reid on Thursday, a day after it was illegally erected in central Bristol.

Mayor Marvin Rees has asked artist Marc Quinn to contribute, saying the money came from front-line funds.

The activist replicated by the statue possesses FitzSimons-level predictive powers:

Ms Reid, whose photograph from the June 7 protests which saw Edward Colston's statue toppled from its plinth and hurled into Bristol Harbour had inspired the statue, said yesterday she thought the statue would remain in place for some time.

She said: “It's just incredible. This is going to continue the conversation. I can't see it coming down in a hurry.”

It remained in place for fewer than 24 hours.

UPDATE. An attack of the wokens in Chicago:

A large protest erupted at the Christopher Columbus statue in Grant Park on Friday night.

Officers were hit by fireworks and other items as they guarded the statue. Chicago police said 18 officers were injured and 12 protesters have been taken into custody.

The protest started near Buckingham Fountain and marched south.

Officers left the statue as protesters attempted to bring it down. They returned to the statue after reports pepper spray was deployed. Chicago police brought in SWAT officers after the group tried to pull the statue down.

Four civilians were transported to Northwestern Medicine. Their conditions are unknown.

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