Today's roundup has a decidedly identity-politics flavor to it.
Two gay hotel-industry executives held a meet-and-greet for Ted Cruz at a Central Park South penthouse. They are very pro-Israel and in sync with the Senator on a number of other issues. Didn't take any time for the jackboots to call for a boycott of the hoteliers' business. Broadway Cares, an AIDS charity, has already cancelled an event to be held at one of their properties.
GoFundMe.com has taken down the crowdfunding page of the campaign to raise money for the Oregon bakery Sweet Cakes by Melissa, which has been fined by the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (Soviet ring to name much?) for refusing to do business in violation of the owners' Christian faith. Policy against hate, doncha know.
The Student Government Association at Johns Hopkins approved a resolution demanding that the administration swear it will never allow a Chick Fil-A franchise on campus. "Microaggession," doncha know.
A "community organizer" guest on Melissa Harris-Perry's MSNBC show says that the Baltimore situation, in which a young black male died after several days in the custody of the predominately black police department (predominantly up to and including a black chief), still has white-supremacy overtones because "American policing . . . is founded on anti-blackness, on slave patrols . . . "
Got your mind right yet?
Me neither.
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