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If everything else were equal, Japanese and black would trump black and white. After all, they were put in internment camps and had nuclear bombs dropped on them. But Serena Williams starts in with how she’s fighting for “civil rights and stuff”

I remember grocery stores in the old days:

You gave money, got groceries. At Whole Foods and many other businesses today, there is a final step before paying (this has been fodder for South Park): You are asked to donate to The Whales, or what have you.

That's fine, but...more and more we are confronted by social causes in non-traditional venues.

And there isn't just one cancer lapel pin, there are TONS of them. I'm ribboned-out, lapel-pinned out.

And I don't get why a tennis player disputes a line call with shibboleths about "fighting for women's rights" and stuff about her daughter. The ball is in or out, yet there is a high-volume discourse about her family members, somehow.

And that reminds me of Rush's football game predictions based on lib political analysis of mascots; a Titan smashes trees underfoot, but then a 49'er pollutes rivers via gold panning, and if we weight these two against each other, etc...

It seems his humor is not far of the mark, with Serena a former slave, yet Osaka for her part was interned and then A-bombed, etc.

“It seems his humor is not far of the mark, with Serena a former slave, yet Osaka for her part was interned and then A-bombed, etc. “

That’s another weird thing I’ve been noticing for years. Serena has never been a slave. Her grandmother’s grandmother probably was, but that has nothing to do with her. Osaka was never interned. Maybe her grandparents were. And assuming arguendo that she was interned, she would have been better off in an internment camp than escaping and going to Hiroshima or Nagasaki and getting A-bombed, which she also never did. How is it that ancestral victimhood experience gets personalized like that.

We Jews say that we were slaves in Egypt, but to perform that intellectual triple somersault, we believe in reincarnation of souls that originally did go through the Exodus, and also sublimate Egyptian slavery into a spiritual state of being from which we get spiritually liberated every Passover. We don’t show up in modern-day Egypt demanding reparations or revenge or whatever.