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The number one trending hastag at 1:23 pm, on 12/13/14, is #ThingsACrazyPersonWouldSay If you are familiar with contemporary logic, the tweets will come as no surprise.
@thePatriciaRae I’m not worried. The Government is gonna take care of me
@Thomasismyuncle I’m a Liberal Democrat… … and I’m here to help.
‏@cmclymer “Police brutality and structural racism don’t exist.”
@chamblee54 I have read all of #ThingsACrazyPersonWouldSay
There is a comment above in the twitter feed. ‏@RobinDGKelley READ @NaomiAKlein ON Why #BlackLivesMatter Should Transform the Climate Debate via @thenation
The linked article is a doozy. “The annual United Nations climate summit is wrapping up in in Lima, Peru, and on its penultimate day, something historic happened. … The historic event was the decision of the climate-justice movement to symbolically join the increasingly global #BlackLivesMatter uprising, staging a “die-in” outside the convention center much like the ones that have brought shopping malls and busy intersections to a standstill, from the US to the UK.”
The rest of the article is an orgy of overblown rhetoric. “What does #BlackLivesMatter, and the unshakable moral principle that it represents, have to do with climate change? Everything. Because we can be quite sure that if wealthy white Americans had been the ones left without food and water for days in a giant sports stadium after Hurricane Katrina, even George W. Bush would have gotten serious about climate change.”
Really? Hurricanes have happened for years. A channel was created to help shipping in Louisiana, and took out barrier islands that would have absorbed the impact of Katrina. George W. Bush, and his arab oil industry buddies, are not going to let a few lives get in the way of their profits.
The debate on carbon pollution is not going away. We may already be past the tipping points, with an unstoppable slide into disaster. Alternative energy is a long way away from being able to satisfy our needs. None of these realities is going to change because protesters in Lima, Peru, staged a die in. These are #ThingsACrazyPersonWouldSay. Pictures today are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.