Tribalism: An Audio Monologue
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Tribalism: An Audio Monologue
Politics; Culture; Journalism; Ralph Waldo Emerson; George Orwell
*This is a test to see if people like listening to me monologue. I may lose some people here, I may gain others; who knows. In the end, after waffling back and forth, I decided, perhaps rightly, perhaps wrongly, to turn comments OFF. I just don’t feel ready for ad hominem attacks. Maybe it’s just the nature of the beast. But if people generally like this the numbers will show it and I’ll do more. If not, then I probably won’t. We’ll see. The monologue is 54 minutes. I encourage you to listen to the end.
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Michael Mohr
SOME NOTES, ADDENDUMS, LINKS, ETC
My recorded live conversation (video/audio) with Bowen Dwelle, writer of the stack An Ordinary Disaster, covering manhood, women, feminism, Joan Didion, Carl Jung, mothers and sons, memoir, writing, etc
Apologies for a) the excessive throat-clearing early on, and b) repeatedly saying “One more thing!” and taking forever to finally stop (haha)
Re Orwell and “definitions” being meaningless. A perfect example today would the fraught word “racism.” Some on the far-left say to be white itself is to be racist. On the far-left “racism” seems to mean anything and everything and, therefore, like Orwell suggests about other words, it means nothing. Ditto “Republican talking point,” and yes, perhaps “Woke.”
Bernie Sanders voters in 2016 primary who switched for Trump: Turns out the number was not 14-16%, as I claimed, but 12%
Are most Black Americans and Americans in general centrist? (Yes): “Democratic Mainstays
28% of Democratic-leaning groups, which makes them the largest of the Democratic-leaning groups
older, less likely to have a college degree than other Democratic groups
most identify as moderate
Black Democrats are concentrated in this group, though the group is the most racially and ethnically diverse of all the groups”
Pew Poll on who progressives are: “Nearly seven-in-ten Progressive Left (68%) are White adults, making this group less racially and ethnically diverse than the other Democratic-oriented groups – though still more diverse than the three most conservative groups in the typology.”
Also: Only 6% of American Public identifies as “progressive”
Black Americans on Defund the Police: As of Sept, 2021 only 23% of Black Americans want less police. (38% want more, 38% say stay as is.)
Police Killings of unarmed Black Americans and Americans in general (keep in mind that even if you add quite a bit to the low numbers of killings…it’s still very low for our national population and the level of guns and crime. Yes, even with Black Americans only making up 13% of the population. That number would have to be much, much higher, unrealistically high, for it to mean what BLM claims. CLICK HERE ALSO FOR MY PIECE ON THIS.
Is the New York Times reputable now?: According to Statisa, as of Feb 2022 only a meagre 24% of Americans find The Times “very credible.”
New York Times: Joseph Kahn became the new executive editor in April, 2022
1619 Project re Debunking/Gordon Wood: a) The Atlantic; b) Politico; c) CNN d) Gordon Wood on 1619 Project; Gordon Wood’s book, Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution
Book banning on BOTH SIDES: One of my most re-stacked pieces I’ve done yet.
Filipino writer rejected when agent found out he wasn’t Black