Notable Quotes

Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

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. 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

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

I said, “That’s it, now or never,” and so in 2017, I decided to enroll.

- Giuseppe Paterno, age 96, after graduating with his undergraduate degree in history and philosophy during his graduation at the University of Palermo, in Palermo, Italy, July 29, 2020

The leading cause of death for young black males is homicide. Each of those lives matter.

- Attorney General William Barr during his House Judiciary testimony last week, pointing out that 7,500 blacks are murdered each year – 90 percent by other blacks

You’re a real class act!

- AG Barr to House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) when Nadler refused to let him take a five minute break during a hearing

He was like a blob.

- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who has recently taken to commenting on people’s weight, talking about AG Barr’s testimony

This approach challenges the familiar dogma that writing instruction should limit emphasis on grammar/sentence-level issues so as to not put students from multilingual, non-standard “academic” English backgrounds at a disadvantage.

– From an email by the Rutgers University’s English department announcing that, in an effort to “stand with and respond” to the Black Lives Matter movement, it will no longer enforce rules of grammar

The idea that expecting a student to write in grammatically correct sentences is indicative of racial bias is asinine. It’s like these people believe that being non-white is an inherent handicap or learning disability…. That’s racism. It has become very clear to me that those who claim to be “antiracist” are often the most racist people in this country.

- Leonydus Johnson, a speech pathologist and libertarian activist, The Washington Beacon, responding to Rutgers’ new policy

The primary focus quickly became what Donald Trump was doing (poorly) to address the crisis, rather than the science itself. As new details have become available about antibodies, a vaccine, or how COVID actually spreads, producers still want to focus on the politics. Important facts or studies get buried.

– From a resignation letter by MSNBC producer Ariana Pekar, excoriating MSNBC for only being concerned with politics, not facts

Last week I asked my doctor when she thinks coronavirus might be ended. She said she doesn’t know; she’s not much into politics.

– Argus Hamilton, Jewish World Review

President Trump expressed hope that the vaccines in testing will be approvable by fall. However, neither a virus vaccine nor a treatment will be the end of our daily protocols. After the coronavirus is over, we will have to wear our masks backwards for four months to get our ears back in place.

- Ibid.