According to the new book of racism, people who respond to accusations or insinuations of racism by responding, “I have friends who are black,” are just proving their racism. That’s quite a feat of mind reading on the part of the accuser. I think it’s much simpler than that. People who say they have black friends are most often grasping at straws to defend or justify something they took for granted. Most people just see people and make friends, or not, based on the same fundamentals as always: chemistry, commonalities, like interests, affable personality, trust, and likability. They never…
All lives matter = racism
Well, this was fairly easy to predict, and here we are. Suddenly, #asianlivesmatter is trending. So let’s recap: Black Lives Matter = good Asian Lives Matter = good Hispanic Lives Matter = good Muslim Lives Matter = good Greek Lives Matter = good Italian Lives Matter = good Indian Lives Matter = good Female Lives Matter = good Jewish Lives Matter = good (though, depends who you ask) All Lives Matter = racist I think there’s an actual math problem here. I wonder, through process of elimination, who’s lives don’t matter.
Human zoo
The longer animals live in a zoo, the more they lose the ability to fend for themselves. The more dependent they become on their captors. There’s no difference between the zoo and a government that seeks to make its citizens dependent on it. The more people who rely on the government to feed them, clothe them, give them money, and put a roof over their heads, the more we develop a citizenry who can’t fend for themselves. Those people will become more and more comfortable sitting back, taking it easy, and waiting for the morsels they need to get…
Love makes you say some harsh things
One of the harsh truths of life is that you say the harshest things to the ones you love the most. The equation is a simple one: You care the most about what they think. Of all the people you know, you care most about what those you love think about you and about things, in general. Consider how often those closest to you vent about people they know at work or casual friends. They rage on with plenty of thoughts and suggestions about what frustrates them or what could be done better. But how often do they share…
Critical thinking 101
If I could get Americans to just do one thing, it would be to take nothing at face value. Everything in our society has been reduced to a sound bite, and too few of our fellow citizens have any curiosity beyond it. What a difference it would make if our citizenry would take the time after seeing a headline or watching the 30 seconds devoted to a story on the nightly news to explore the dynamics that led up to the story and consider what the motivations may have been by the people involved. You can take it to…
Being conservative is a curse
I can’t think of too many things more frustrating than being a conservative. There’s no political party representing your views, and the one you think does may actually damage your cause more than the opposition as they cower in fear and do nothing to represent you. Democrats, the media, popular sports figures, and popular cultural icons all carelessly call you a white supremacist and racist. You rarely see any signs that the United States is headed in the right direction. Everything you believe seems perfectly obvious, and yet is incoherent nonsense to far too many of your fellow citizens….
Sunday digest: 3-14-21
Thank you for sharing some of your valuable time to read The Bubbler. The Bubbler now contains more than 700 thought-provoking posts about conservatism. While there are hundreds of sites that report or comment on the news from a conservative perspective, this is the only place the explores who conservatives are, what they think, and why they think it. With so much great content that may have preceded your arrival, Sunday’s are going to feature past posts. With so much great content that may have preceded your arrival, we’ve decided to start dedicating our Sunday post to a digest…
Conservatives should only appoint black judges
At this point, I think it’s a fair statement that conservatives are really bad at appointing judges who will follow the Constitution – which his the same as saying will support conservative principles. They’ve had plenty of chances in the recent past with little to show for it, especially on the most visible Supreme Court. One of the most reliably conservative judges on the Supreme Court is Clarence Thomas. And I think I know why. Justice Thomas has had to fight for his conservatism every day of his life. He’s a self-made man who didn’t rely on affirmative action…
Working as a dream extra
Last night, I had a dream in which I was sitting in the waiting room for a staffing agency that places people as extras in other people’s dreams. When you’re experiencing a dream, and there are people – extras – in your dream who aren’t the focal point of your story but still visually critical, someone has to staff those roles. This agency placed people to play those back up roles in other people’s dreams. I’m confident there’s a solid business idea in there, though I’m not quite sure what it is right now.
Wisconsin road friendly
I spent the past week in the homeland of Wisconsin. Each day, I took two long walks through the neighborhood. Without exception, every single car that drove by moved to the other lane to give me safe space and waved to me. I’ve been in Seattle for 10 years, and essentially no one is willing to cross the yellow line into the oncoming lane to give me space, and it’s rare for anyone to wave. In my experience, this contrast pretty much describes the difference between living in Wisconsin and living in Seattle.