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Notable Quotes “Say What?!”
Be prepared to give up your cell phone and purse/wallet. - From an email by the Minneapolis Police Department to residents about skyrocketing crime and warning them to listen to the criminals and “do as they say”
Do not walk alone. - Ibid.
Lock your doors while driving. - Ibid.
He got rich and became a snob. - Malik Obama, age 62, of Kenya, talking about his frayed relationship with his half-brother Pres. Barak Obama, in a New York Post interview
Walked through it last night out of curiosity and saw no burning, pillaging, or deaths. Chill dawg - ESPN 710 Seattle radio host Paul Gallant tweeting in response to President Trump calling the Seattle protesters anarchists and looters
I feel like I need to buy a firearm, because clearly this is going to keep happening. Enough is enough. - Ibid., several days later, when the anarchists looted a Starbucks in his building and started a fire on his block
Is it funny that the guy who refused to kneel immediately blew out his knee? - ESPN Radio’s Dan Le Batard tweeting after Orlando Magic forward Jonathan Isaac tore his ACL after being the first player to stand during the national anthem once the NBA restarted
The Trader Joe’s branding is racist because it exoticizes other cultures – it presents “Joe” as the default “normal” and the other characters falling outside of it. - From an online petition that 5,000 wokesters signed calling for Trader Joe’s to change its branding because it is “racist”
Americans will figure out that BLM is an org that wants to dismantle the nuclear family, the justice system & the police syst so critical to protecting Black lives, esp women & kids. – Tweet by Megyn Kelly
It’s not just about punishing the sinner; it’s not just about punishing the person for being insufficiently pure. It’s about this sort of secondary boycott of people who would deign to speak to that person or appear on a platform with that person. And we see just very obviously where that kind of politics gets us. If conversation with people that we disagree with becomes impossible, what is the way that we solve conflict?… It’s violence. - Former New York Times opinion writer Bari Weiss, who resigned from the paper due to its horrific cancel culture, talking to Bill Maher on HBO
We hold China as a potential trading partner, as a country that has pulled tens of millions of people out of poverty in a short period of time, and as a country growing into a respectable nation amongst other nations. I deeply believe that. - Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) cautioning against holding China accountable for the coronavirus and calling it “respectable” despite its rampant human rights violations, including putting thousands of Muslims and dissidents in prison camps
