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Politicized Eclipse: Atlantic Magazine Notes Racial Makeup Along Its Path
NewsBusters ^ | August 21, 2017 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 08/21/2017 8:25:36 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

Today is the day of the Great American Eclipse. Those along its path of totality will (if the clouds permit) see an amazing sight that will never be forgotten by those watching. Your humble correspondent knows this because he was once lucky enough to view a total solar eclipse. 

The great thing about watching a total solar eclipse is that it absorbs all of your attention. One big reason is that it is indeed a miracle of nature. The moon is 400 times smaller than the sun but because it is also 400 times nearer to earth, both appear to be the same size which results in an almost perfect match when lined up during a solar eclipse. The odds of this coincidence is estimated to be incredibly small. In addition, total eclipses have only existed for a sliver of earth's history and in millions of years the moon will have moved too far away from earth for it to be happening again. So who could possibly detract from this magnificent celestial event? Atlantic magazine which completely trivialized the eclipse by politicizing it by making it all about the racial makeup along its path.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: eclipse; racisteclipse; solareclipse
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This proves it. Today's eclipse is raaaaacist!
1 posted on 08/21/2017 8:25:37 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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The sun is RAYcist!


2 posted on 08/21/2017 8:26:42 AM PDT by Right Brother
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The moon is 400 times smaller than the sun...

Using some logarithmic scale or something?

By volume, 64.3 million moons can fit into the sun.

1.3 million earths can fit into the sun.

3 posted on 08/21/2017 8:29:00 AM PDT by C210N (It is easier to fool the people than convince them that they have been fooled)
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Remember that 400 times is in one dimension (diameter) as both are spheres you need to scale it up in 3 dimensions. A 2X2X2 cube is 8 times smaller than a 4X4X4 cube in terms ov volume.


4 posted on 08/21/2017 8:35:06 AM PDT by LukeL
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It is really getting to the point where EVERYTHING is about race, sex (gender+orientation), religion, etc. The relentless focus on identity is really wearing thin on most people—me included. Hard to see how this is a winner long term.


5 posted on 08/21/2017 8:38:52 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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All leftist thought is racist at its core.
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6 posted on 08/21/2017 8:40:22 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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But if the eclipse blocks out all light, we all pretty much have the same skin color.


7 posted on 08/21/2017 8:42:35 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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The eclipse is passing over almost nothing but red Trump counties! Trump voters are being rewarded with a celestial show while Hillary voters in NY and LA are wallowing in abject misery.


8 posted on 08/21/2017 8:45:50 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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By the subtended angle of the visible disk? (apogee)
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9 posted on 08/21/2017 8:45:58 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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They must think that every time they talk about the issue of race that it must make us feel real bad.

Sorry, but I don't feel bad.

They got their racist Obama for eight years.

What they are doing now is trying to open up some imaginary wound that none of us caused.

The truth is that more people today have become enslaved by muslins and sex predators than whatever happened a couple of centuries ago.

The people supporting the muslins and sex predators today were all in the Obama administration and were defeated by Donald Trump in the last election.

And they can't stand it.

10 posted on 08/21/2017 8:46:13 AM PDT by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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Only the NAZIs thought so much about race. The dems are 1000% obsessed with race.


11 posted on 08/21/2017 8:46:15 AM PDT by samtheman (As an oil exporter, why would the Russians prefer Trump to Hillary? (Get it or be stupid.))
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This is ridiculous.


12 posted on 08/21/2017 8:46:28 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Women, Children, and Minorities Denied Benefits of Sunshine.....


13 posted on 08/21/2017 8:46:42 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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Because the moon is white.


14 posted on 08/21/2017 8:48:57 AM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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We are all pretty much have the same skin color every day. We are all one shade or another of brown, since there is no true black anywhere in nature. The only folks who are not brown are albinos, since they are pink.


15 posted on 08/21/2017 8:49:41 AM PDT by abclily
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What is this freak’s point? That the eclipse is racist? That the eclipse is a warning to whites? That people who are interested in the eclipse are mainly white? That people should ignore the eclipse because it is a form of white privilege? ???


16 posted on 08/21/2017 8:51:22 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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Smoke from forest fires will obscure the event here over the Humboldt Bay region of Nor-Cal...


17 posted on 08/21/2017 8:53:51 AM PDT by tubebender
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They don’t want the same skin color. They just want white folks dead.


18 posted on 08/21/2017 8:59:00 AM PDT by dforest
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How can the sun be racist, if it turns white people red or brown?


19 posted on 08/21/2017 9:02:26 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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They’re using diameter


20 posted on 08/21/2017 9:02:49 AM PDT by Ray76 (Republicans are a Democrat party front group.)
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