An “auto-antonym” is a word that means a thing and its opposite. This tweet from the Reverend Jesse Jackson:
Mayor Lightfoot is right to be concerned about accurate & fair press coverage & the mayor’s proposal of including people of color in one-on-one interviews is morally justified. She is making a strong & righteous case for inclusion & diversity in the press & its coverage.
(hat tip: Shia Kapos’s Illinois Playbook) suggests that “inclusion” has now become an auto-antonym. What Mayor Lightfoot had said was that she would give interviews on the occasion of her second anniversary as mail only to “black or brown” journalists. That is not inclusion. It is exclusion. Rev. Jackson should know better. When Jesse Jackson is on the same side as George Wallace and Orval Faubus there’s something definitely wrong.
I’m old enough to remember Richard J. Daley (the elder). Whatever you think of his machine politics, he was an intelligent, serious, effective politician. Chicago was Second City, and an important cultural and economic hub. The Democrat Party was once a serious working class party.
Now your mayor, the Groot, is a demented, mutant twit, and her party is a Ruling Class clown show. And Chicago is on the Detroit/Baltimore/Newark highway to hell.
Chicagoans have a lot to answer for. They deserve plenty of blame and no sympathy.
Mayor Daley is a good example of the kind of politician holding back the aspirations of African Americans, women, and homosexual women.
Chicago’s voters see and understand that a little handicapping is in order after 400 years of Chicago building it’s broad shoulders on the backs and the blood of slaves. Slaves and people whose repressed desires greased the machine cities’ growth and now fatten politician’s coffers with gun and drug sales.
The mayor and her predominately white supporters know that when you have taken down The Man, it’s no time to take your knee off his neck.
I don’t follow Chicago politics like I used to, but it seems Jesse J is only marginally relevant anymore. Sounds like attention seeking to me, packaged in the incoherent tripe of wokespeak. Rather pathetic.
Lori Lightfoot isn’t the hill to die on, Jessie.
I don’t follow the corporate/ legacy press anymore, as they seem to report only one-sided news – one that exclusively serves the interests of the social progressive left. For instance, MSM primarily promotes the definition of “diversity†as being a compilation of like-minded ideologies, rigid adherence to politically correct speech, and skin color being more revenant than one’s character or contributions. Nonetheless, just think if a moderate “white†mayor had drawn the same kind of white-inclusive racial lines that Mayor Lightfoot just did, with her brown/black inclusion statements, the press would have hounded such a person out of office! You will not see that kind of media hostility, though, towards the Chicago mayor.
Furthermore, if you’re a subversive arm of the democrat party, looting, setting government buildings afire, one is assured of a gentle arrest and an immediate release, which puts Antifa and BLM hooligans back out on the street to continue creating havoc everywhere they chose to be. However, if you are protesting, what you see as an illegal election process, are caught on facial-recognition cameras (even if seen only congregating outside of the Capitol building), a 50-state search is conducted in order to make an arrest, after which people are held without due process for over a 100 days – some in solitary confinement. Other people, like a 30-year long Navy Chaplain, who was simply milling around the 1/6 chaos, was put on the TSA Terrorist Watch List, making any state-to-state travel tedious and uncomfortable.
Basically, any behavior is acceptable, as long as it’s done by a democrat. Dems can go maskless in Congress without consequences. Maskless republicans are fined $500. Democrats can consort with Chinese spies, but still keep their intel committee positions. Republicans can denounce positions the Democrat-run congress has taken, to only be relieved of their committee positions, with attempts to run them out of congress altogether. A Congress person like Maxine Waters, can call people to action, to aggressively confront political opponents, without even a censor. Trump, however, can rally his side together, calling for a peaceful March in DC, and in short order be impeached.
Republicans can file thousands of affidavits, citing election fraud, with little interest given by the courts, intel departments or DOJ to even properly review these claims, and the evidence supporting them. However, when a ballot audit is finally granted to one county, the media blows up, crying foul at how our democracy is being upended. The DOJ, all of sudden forgets about federalism, and the rights of states to conduct their elections, and sends threatening letters to stop the audit.
Examples of double standard treatments, between the 2 parties and their constituents, are so plentiful that it becomes demoralizing to see a way out of the quagmire of lies, unjust posturing, slimy strategizing that the social progressives seem to constantly get away with.