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1. Today’s word of the day:

catastrophize
verb

View or present a situation as considerably worse than it actually is.

en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/cat…

#mentalhealth
3. If you haven’t been following the story:

- Black activist posts to Facebook alleging theater is racist. Doesn’t mention that the people in the confrontation involved her white boyfriend in conflict with two other men they thought were white.

4.
- Theater says that it appeared the fight was between 3 white men.
- Turns out one of the men is white-passing and is actually “a mixed race person whose family is black”.
5. Even though the theater maintains that decisions were not made based on race, the co-owner agrees they were in the wrong, is thinking about putting their staff through “equality training” and offering the offended interracial couple a donation to a charity of the their choice.
6. Meanwhile, people posting negative reviews to Yelp, one saying she will boycott.
yelp.com/biz/laurelhurs…
7. To recap: a white man and a black woman get into an argument with a white man and a mixed race man. An imaginary beer is “thrown”. This is “racism" in 2018.
8. As a result of this “racism”, people are trying to ruin a small independent business, the business owners may pay for training that doesn’t work, and they will literally pay $$ to a charity to signal their commitment to antiracism.

vox.com/science-and-he…
9. This will be declared a victory by the woke left.

Somehow 3 white-looking men get into a fight and a business is declared racist for throwing the wrong people out. This is not what progress looks like.
10. I did a quote thread from @coldxman’s recent appearance on The Glenn Show on @bloggingheads that’s relevant to the Portland @Laurelhurst Theater story. Some black people wouldn’t agree that there was any racism.

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Oct 8, 2018
1. I just saw the footage that’s being spread around from a protest in Portland on Saturday that people are claiming shows antifa directing traffic and yelling a drivers who won’t comply.
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1. A friend was on a jury that tried to convict people who may or may not have been guilty (a doctor and nurse practitioner). She was the lone hold out that resulted in a hung jury despite tremendous pressure from fellow jurors to change her vote.
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husbands
boyfriends
fathers
brothers
sons
uncles
nephews
grandfathers
grandsons
male friends, neighbors & coworkers

to the cause?
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