Oh that D’Souza, Mike why am I not surprised. Your kinda guy?
Dinesh Joseph D’Souza (/dɪˈnɛʃ dəˈsuːzə/; born April 25, 1961) is an Indian-American right-wing[2][3][4] political commentator, provocateur, author, filmmaker, and conspiracy theorist.[16]
The End of Racism
In 1995 D’Souza published The End of Racism , in which he claimed that exaggerated claims of racism are holding back progress among African Americans in the US; he defended the Southern slave owner, and said that “The American slave was treated like property, which is to say, pretty well”.
[48] D’Souza also called for a repeal of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and argued: “Given the intensity of black rage and its appeal to a wide constituency, whites are right to be nervous. Black rage is a response to black suffering and failure, and reflects the irresistible temptation to attribute African American problems to a history of white racist oppression.”[49]
Paul Finkelman commented on D’Souza’s trivialization of racism, and said, in a review article called “The Rise of the New Racism”, that much of what D’Souza says is untrue, and much is only partially true, and described the book as being “like a parody of scholarship, where selected ‘facts’ are pulled out of any recognizable context, and used to support a particular viewpoint”.
In Finkelman’s opinion, the book exemplifies a “new racism”, which “(1) denies the history of racial oppression in America; (2) rejects biological racism in favor of an attack on black culture; and (3) supports formal, de jure equality in order to attack civil rights laws that prohibit private discrimination and in order to undermine any public policies that might monitor equality and give it substantive meaning”.[59]
The conservative black economist Glenn Loury severed his ties with the American Enterprise Institute over the organization’s role in the publication of the book. Loury wrote that the book “violated canons of civility and commonality”, with D’Souza “determined to place poor, urban blacks outside the orbit of American civilization.”[60][61]
American Enterprise Institute - why am I not surprised.
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CLAIM: At least 2,000 “mules” were paid to illegally collect ballots …
THE FACTS: True the Vote didn’t prove this. The finding is based on false assumptions …
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CLAIM: In Philadelphia alone, True the Vote identified 1,155 “mules” who illegally collected and dropped off ballots for money.THE FACTS: No, it didn’t. The group hasn’t offered any evidence of any sort …
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CLAIM: Some of the “mules” True the Vote identified in Georgia were also geolocated at violent antifa riots in Atlanta …THE FACTS: Setting aside the fact that the film doesn’t prove these individuals were collecting ballots at all, it also can’t prove their political affiliations. …
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CLAIM: Alleged ballot harvesters were captured on surveillance video wearing gloves because they didn’t want to leave their fingerprints …THE FACTS: This is pure speculation. It ignores far more likely reasons for glove-wearing in the fall and winter of 2020 — cold weather or COVID-19. …
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CLAIM: If it weren’t for this ballot collection scheme, former President Donald Trump would have had enough votes to win the 2020 election.THE FACTS: This alleged scheme has not been proven, nor do these researchers have any way of knowing whether any ballots that were collected contained votes for Trump or for Biden. There’s no evidence …
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