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Netflix’s Will Smith-Helmed ‘Amend’ Wants To Up-End The Constitution, Not Improve It
The Federalist ^ | March 10, 2021 | Matthew Garnett

Posted on 03/10/2021 5:34:18 AM PST by gattaca

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1 posted on 03/10/2021 5:34:18 AM PST by gattaca
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To: gattaca

There really is a long history of communism in Hollywood.


2 posted on 03/10/2021 5:36:29 AM PST by Sixgun Symphony (uie)
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To: gattaca

2019 FBI Uniform Crime Reports, breakdown of arrests by race:

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/table-43

Blacks make up over 50% of homicide and robbery arrests.


3 posted on 03/10/2021 5:38:52 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: gattaca
In their quest for power Hitler and all the other despots also attempted to quell speech and change the meaning of language.

1984.."Hate is Love, War is Peace"!

4 posted on 03/10/2021 5:39:45 AM PST by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: gattaca
In particular, the documentary holds up the issues of racial equality, the feminist movement, LGBTQ preferences, and immigration policy as examples of how the equal protection clause can be used to revise American traditions, institutions, values, and laws.

These don't seem to have anything to do with law.

5 posted on 03/10/2021 5:40:09 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: PapaBear3625

That’s “equity”


6 posted on 03/10/2021 5:40:23 AM PST by Skywise
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To: gattaca
Cases such as Michael Brown, George Floyd, and Treyvon Martin are cited as instances of how racial minorities are being robbed of their rights.

Ah yes, these heroes or martyrs .... robbed of their rights.

7 posted on 03/10/2021 5:41:28 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: PapaBear3625

Since most crimes are committed near where the criminals live, releasing or even ignoring black criminals means a lot more innocent blacks will be killed, beaten or robbed. “Equitable” justice for the criminal means unequal justice for the victims.


8 posted on 03/10/2021 5:47:22 AM PST by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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To: gattaca

And here they are again with their very petty and narrow minded way of handling things. Just as they thought they could control and manage economies with Keynes and Galbraith style wage and price controls (and that was a failure everywhere it was tried), here they are trying to control who gets charged or arrested for crimes based on race or gender or what overall role in society they assume based on the two aforementioned things. Really shows the rotten and shallow underbelly of wealthy Hollyweird celebrity culture.


9 posted on 03/10/2021 5:48:11 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: gattaca; Impy; BillyBoy; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; LS; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; ...

“Heil, Stalinazism !” “Heil, Satan !”


10 posted on 03/10/2021 5:48:46 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: Rummyfan

The Michael Brown case was not “arguably” a justified use of force. The facts are beyond dispute by any person of reason, and proven in court.


11 posted on 03/10/2021 5:48:52 AM PST by I-ambush (From the brightest star comes the blackest hole; you had so much to offer, did you offer your soul?)
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To: I-ambush

Disagree. Had he had personal discipline and impulse control he’d be walking the earth today.


12 posted on 03/10/2021 6:25:33 AM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: gattaca

“According to the latest data from the Pew Research Center, black Americans represented about 12 percent of the U.S. population in 2020, yet made up 33 percent of those incarcerated in U.S. prisons. “Equality” in this instance would demand that at least 27 percent of those prisoners be released.”

Is that equity math?


13 posted on 03/10/2021 6:39:29 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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It’s all shuck and jive from a 1%er

“I’m a black man who didn’t go to college, yet I get to travel around the world and sell my movies, and I believe very firmly that America is the only place on Earth that I could exist,” Smith begins. “So I will pay anything that I need to pay to keep my country growing.”

But when the interviewer informs Smith that the new president of France, Francois Hollande, has proposed a 75 percent income tax on earnings above 1 million Euros, the actor balks.

“Seventy-five?” asks Smith. “Yeah, that’s different. That’s different. Yeah, 75. Well, you know, God bless America!”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/will-smith-men-in-black-3-french-tax-rate-326252


14 posted on 03/10/2021 6:54:12 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: mrmeyer

I think we actually agree. My point was that the police officer was justified in shooting Brown, and the court record proves it.


15 posted on 03/10/2021 6:55:52 AM PST by I-ambush (From the brightest star comes the blackest hole; you had so much to offer, did you offer your soul?)
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>> the feminist movement, LGBTQ preference... can be used to revise American traditions, institutions, values, and laws.

The origin of NOW from the founder’s sister.

https://mallorymillett.com/?p=37

...And so began my period as an unwitting witness to history. I stayed with Kate and her lovable Japanese husband, Fumio, in a dilapidated loft on The Bowery as she finished her first book, a PhD thesis for Columbia University, “Sexual Politics.”

It was 1969. Kate invited me to join her for a gathering at the home of her friend, Lila Karp. They called the assemblage a “consciousness-raising-group,” a typical communist exercise, something practiced in Maoist China. We gathered at a large table as the chairperson opened the meeting with a back-and-forth recitation, like a Litany, a type of prayer done in Catholic Church. But now it was Marxism, the Church of the Left, mimicking religious practice:

“Why are we here today?” she asked.
“To make revolution,” they answered.
“What kind of revolution?” she replied.
“The Cultural Revolution,” they chanted.
“And how do we make Cultural Revolution?” she demanded.
“By destroying the American family!” they answered.
“How do we destroy the family?” she came back.
“By destroying the American Patriarch,” they cried exuberantly.
“And how do we destroy the American Patriarch?” she replied.
“By taking away his power!”
“How do we do that?”
“By destroying monogamy!” they shouted.
“How can we destroy monogamy?”

Their answer left me dumbstruck, breathless, disbelieving my ears. Was I on planet earth? Who were these people?

“By promoting promiscuity, eroticism, prostitution and homosexuality!” they resounded.

They proceeded with a long discussion on how to advance these goals by establishing The National Organization of Women. It was clear they desired nothing less than the utter deconstruction of Western society. The upshot was that the only way to do this was “to invade every American institution. Every one must be permeated with ‘The Revolution’”: The media, the educational system, universities, high schools, K-12, school boards, etc.; then, the judiciary, the legislatures, the executive branches and even the library system.

It fell on my ears as a ludicrous scheme, as if they were a band of highly imaginative children planning a Brinks robbery; a lark trumped up on a snowy night amongst a group of spoiled brats over booze and hashish.

To me, this sounded silly. I was enduring culture shock after having been cut-off from my homeland, living in Third-World countries for years with not one trip back to the United States. I was one of those people who, upon returning to American soil, fell out of the plane blubbering with ecstasy at being home in the USA. I knelt on the ground covering it with kisses. I had learned just exactly how delicious was the land of my birth and didn’t care what anyone thought because they just hadn’t seen what I had or been where I had been. I had seen factory workers and sex-slaves chained to walls.

How could they know? Asia is beyond our ken and, as they say, utterly inscrutable, and a kind of hell I never intended to revisit. I lived there, not junketed, not visited like sweet little tourists — I’d conducted households and tried to raise a child. I had outgrown the communism of my university days and was clumsily groping my way back to God.

How could twelve American women who were the most respectable types imaginable — clean and privileged graduates of esteemed institutions: Columbia, Radcliffe, Smith, Wellesley, Vassar; the uncle of one was Secretary of War under Franklin Roosevelt — plot such a thing? Most had advanced degrees and appeared cogent, bright, reasonable and good. How did these people rationally believe they could succeed with such vicious grandiosity? And why?

I dismissed it as academic-lounge air-castle-building. I continued with my new life in New York while my sister became famous publishing her books, featured on the cover of “Time Magazine.” “Time” called her “the Karl Marx of the Women’s Movement.” This was because her book laid out a course in Marxism 101 for women. Her thesis: The family is a den of slavery with the man as the Bourgeoisie and the woman and children as the Proletariat. The only hope for women’s “liberation” (communism’s favorite word for leading minions into inextricable slavery; “liberation,” and much like “collective” – please run from it, run for your life) was this new “Women’s Movement.” Her books captivated the academic classes and soon “Women’s Studies” courses were installed in colleges in a steady wave across the nation with Kate Millett books as required reading.

Imagine this: a girl of seventeen or eighteen at the kitchen table with Mom studying the syllabus for her first year of college and there’s a class called “Women’s Studies.” “Hmmm, this could be interesting,” says Mom. “Maybe you could get something out of this.”

Seems innocuous to her. How could she suspect this is a class in which her innocent daughter will be taught that her father is a villain? Her mother is a fool who allowed a man to enslave her into barbaric practices like monogamy and family life and motherhood, which is a waste of her talents. She mustn’t follow in her mother’s footsteps. That would be submitting to life as a mindless drone for some domineering man, the oppressor, who has mesmerized her with tricks like romantic love. Never be lured into this chicanery, she will be taught. Although men are no damned good, she should use them for her own orgasmic gratification; sleep with as many men as possible in order to keep herself unattached and free. There’s hardly a seventeen-year-old girl without a grudge from high school against a Jimmy or Jason who broke her heart. Boys are learning, too, and they can be careless during high school, that torment of courting dances for both sexes.

By the time Women’s Studies professors finish with your daughter, she will be a shell of the innocent girl you knew, who’s soon convinced that although she should be flopping down with every boy she fancies, she should not, by any means, get pregnant. And so, as a practitioner of promiscuity, she becomes a wizard of prevention techniques, especially abortion.

The goal of Women’s Liberation is to wear each female down to losing all empathy for boys, men or babies. The tenderest aspects of her soul are roughened into a rock pile of cynicism, where she will think nothing of murdering her baby in the warm protective nest of her little-girl womb. She will be taught that she, in order to free herself, must become an outlaw. This is only reasonable because all Western law, since Magna Carta and even before, is a concoction of the evil white man whose true purpose is to press her into slavery...


16 posted on 03/10/2021 6:57:35 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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>>Finally, the documentary’s concept of “love equality under the law” stretches the Fourteenth Amendment once more in the mission of redefining the word “love.” Smith proposes the following hypothetical: “If someone was trying to tell you what you and your partner do in your bedroom is illegal … I mean … I’d bet you’d feel some kinda way about that.”

Including incest?

And we were told that homosexuality was about consenting adults in private. So why are there beastly femmefaces drag queens in horrific pancake makeup reading to kindergartners in public libraries? There have been convicted sex offenders identified within the “drag queen story hour” groups in violation of the terms of their convictions.


17 posted on 03/10/2021 7:02:24 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: a fool in paradise
The goal of Women’s Liberation is to wear each female down to losing all empathy for boys, men or babies.

They should get used to the smell of cat urine. That is their future.

18 posted on 03/10/2021 7:17:35 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (If your home doesn't reek of Hoppe's, you ain't paying attention.)
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To: Don Corleone
..the left believes women must be unfettered from burdens like pregnancy, marriage, and family life
that might hinder their access to power in the workplace and politics.

In short, women must not be allowed to reproduce. This will not work out well.

19 posted on 03/10/2021 7:17:48 AM PST by Thommas (The snout of the camel is in the tent.)
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To: gattaca

So, Will Smith is an idiot. Did not know that.


20 posted on 03/10/2021 7:34:59 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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