Ray Epps, your gateway to Jan. 6 conspiracy theories

See Rogan Drops Major Jan 6th Truth Bomb. (It’s Joe Rogan, so language alert.)

Why hasn’t Ray Epps been arrested?

This is the kind of story that makes people wonder if they’re being played.

I haven’t looked into this myself, except at a very superficial level.

As much as we like to decry conspiracy theories, there are often weird, unexplained, under-reported details about stories, and those become the gateway to believing in conspiracies.

There has been reporting on Ray Epps. It’s still not clear to me why he hasn’t been called to testify, or held, or whatever. He was clearly one of the agitators.

I’m not endorsing any view here, but some things seem beyond question.

  • Some of the Jan. 6 protesters should be in jail.
  • Law enforcement sometimes does tricky stuff, and there should be more accountability about that.
  • Politicians will abuse their power and use events like this for partisan gain.
  • People on the wings of the left and right will develop their own theories.
  • The mainstream media will be mostly useless.

Disproportionate impact does not = racism

This story is almost too dumb to believe.

The most common type of case federal prosecutors bring is against illegal immigrants who try to reenter the country after having been ousted — and almost all of those charged are Hispanic.

Now federal courts are grappling with whether that imbalance means the law itself is racist.

Most of our illegal immigrants are Hispanic. It’s therefore likely that most of the illegal immigrants who try to reenter the country are also Hispanic. That’s not racism, that’s just the way the numbers work.

Are all bad ideas French?

I recently heard a British historian make that claim, but it seems to me the French are doing better than a lot of the western world in opposing Wokeism. Not that it’s all rosy, of course. But there are some signs of hope.

See Where Wokism Is a Oui Bit Different, which includes this great quote.

A black actress is supposed to be anti-colonialist. But just as I’m not obliged as a black actress to play a cleaning lady or a prostitute, I’m also not obliged as a black person to be ‘anti-colonial.’

How dare she have her own opinions! Get back in your place!

I never thought I would say this, but maybe there’s a glimmer of hope coming from France, where their “most prominent public intellectuals have taken positions against” wokeism.

It’s still bad. There’s still a lot of idiot ideology in the schools. A lot of people are still more concerned about things that happened centuries ago (colonialism) and not about what’s happening right now. But it sounds as if the French might be fighting back better than we are.