Oregon county issues face mask order that exempts non-white people

By Jackie Salo

June 23, 2020 | 2:11pm | Updated

Lincoln County, Oregon, has exempted non-white people from a new order requiring that face coverings be worn in public — to prevent racial profiling.

FBI announced Tuesday its investigators concluded that the noose found in Bubba Wallace's garage stall at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday was not a federal crime. Its investigation determined that the noose had been in the garage stall since at least October 2019, when the NASCAR Cup Series last race at the Alabama track prior to Monday's GEICO 500."

“I have been racing all my life. We have raced out of hundreds of garages. They never had garage pulls like that,” Wallace claimed. “People that call it a garage pull and put out videos and photos of knots being in as their evidence, go ahead. But from the evidence that we have, that I have. It’s a straight up noose. The FBI has stated that it was a noose, over and over again. NASCAR leadership has stated it was a noose. I can confirm that. I actually got evidence of what was hanging in my garage over my car, to confirm that it was a noose.”

Later, when asked if he was worried about backlash, Wallace said, “You get backlash every day. We talked about that. Whatever, I’m used to it. It stings a little bit worse when they are trying to test your character and take something away from me that’s false. But the backlash will always be there. It doesn’t matter if we provide 100% facts and evidence, photo evidence. People are going to photoshop it to make me look like the bad person at the end of the day.”

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People Who Have Nothing To Live For Destroy Everything For The Rest Of Us

Despite our civilization’s wealth and technological prowess, many among us have been dispossessed of what matters most.


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See the Poison for What It Is

Our cultural leaders want to cut us off from traditional sources of identity, purpose, and fulfillment. We are instructed to create our own creeds, regard our embodied nature as optional, sever our connections to the past and future, and retreat from community and family in the present. Social media cannot fill the void this leaves, and in many ways makes it worse. For instead of seeking respect from those who are important in our lives, it encourages us to chase clicks from acquaintances and strangers.
We are being isolated, which makes for easy marks for corporations eager to sell us prepackaged identities and distractions, and for politicians and ideologues who want recruits for a cause. Many people are effectively dropping out of life, with men in particular being sedated by ****, pot, and PlayStations.

Even the current violence has an unseriousness to it. As the philosopher John Gray notes, “Woke activists … have no vision of the future. … [T]hey are infantile leftists, acting out a revolutionary performance with no strategy or plan for what they would do in power. … Rather than aiming for a better future, woke militants seek a cathartic present.” Abolishing the police is not much of a reform plan, and looting, smashing statues, and getting people fired are indulgences of destruction and cruelty for their own sake.

Rarely have would-be revolutionaries been so open about their nihilistic desire to hurt people and break things. This, as much as anything else, demonstrates the toxicity of their movement. The inability to articulate, even rhetorically, a vision of human flourishing reveals a project that is purely negative and destructive. It is societal poison, and those joining mobs are not the only ones our culture has dispossessed.

Unlike the unfortunate ants who trespassed in my kitchen, we don’t have to take the bait. We can recognize the poison we have been given and seek something better. Although the immediate task before conservatives is to stand up to the mobs, our long-term task is to preserve and build.
We must demonstrate that there is a better way of life, rebuilding and reinforcing the relationships and institutions that give us healthy identities and noble purposes. We must ourselves live that which we would protect and restore.