The Crowhill Journal

P&C drink and review a double IPA from Bell’s, then discuss the 3-headed hydra of cancel culture: canceling the present, erasing the past, and banning people for the future. We’re starting to see examples of the media editing old stories to change the past. It’s literally Orwellian.

There are new initiatives to erase literal crimes to give someone a fresh start, but thought crimes from decades ago still ruin lives.

This is very funny.

People keep saying the tech platforms are private companies and can choose to whom they provide services. So what if companies that sell guns and ammo decided not to sell to Biden voters?

I’m not in favor of that! But it would be an interesting push back against the nonsense we keep hearing to justify tech censorship.

Heard this today.

Culture is when we’re allowed to disagree. Otherwise it’s just cult.

A friend forwarded this article criticizing Merrick Garland’s views on equity.

Here’s an image people like to use to show why equity is fairer than equality.

Treating everyone “equally” doesn’t work in this situation, since people have different needs. And this is exactly what you would do if you were that dad.

(By the way, why isn’t this image criticized as racist, since it seems to imply that these brown-skinned people can’t afford tickets to the game?)

This is clearly the way we should treat individuals. E.g., Joe doesn’t need any help, so he doesn’t get any. Sam needs a little help, and Ezra needs a lot.

Well and good. The problem is when you start assigning the amount of help that is due based on something other than the amount of help that is needed. If you say, for example, that white people don’t need any help, but all black people do, that’s simply ridiculous. There are plenty of poor white people and rich black people.

The problem with all this “diversity, equity and inclusion” stuff is that it’s not based on individual needs. It’s based on identity politics and group characteristics, and that makes it both racist and foolish.

P&C drink and review 51 Rye by Monument City Brewing, then discuss plastic bans, and the pros and cons of plastic.

Plastics reduce food waste. They make cars lighter, and therefore more fuel efficient. They reduce the costs of many products.

But there’s a negative side, some of which is real, and some has been exaggerated out of context.

P&C try to sort it all.