05/17/21 Mon: AAPI Mess; Rilke's Mama; White Jeopardy Drama
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The Hake Report, Monday, May 17, 2021: AAPI Heritage Month. (What happened to Charles Hurt?) Twitter, UN, State Dept "celebrate" International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia (IDAHoBIT). GREAT CALLS! There's some odd background on Rainer Maria Rilke who wrote a "Book of Hours" — translated and described as "Love Poems to God." A three-time-winning white male Jeopardy contestant faced a blind raging mob because his 3-fingered hand gesture was reminiscent of "hate."
Also check out Hake News from today.
CALLERS
Keith in IL talks about the 1619 Project and the truth left out.
Russ in Hampton, VA fights with James about truth JLP tells.
BC in NJ talks about the University of California not using SAT for admissions.
Joe in FL talks about the illogical term "homophobia" that's mindlessly embraced.
Anthony in Brooklyn, NY, a Syrian Christian, talks about the Israel-Palestine conflict.
TIME STAMPS
0:00 Mon, May 17, 2021
0:57 Sorry Excuse, Vroom
6:31 Hey, guys!
7:12 Tease: woke Space Force
9:04 CA Governor recall
13:04 AAPI month
20:17 Charles Hurt hurt
25:40 Keith in IL
33:34 Another Hake rant
38:30 IDAHoBIT
49:07 Russ, Hampton, VA
59:06 25 Years, Vroom
1:02:41 Music reaction
1:03:33 Chris explains Emo
1:07:39 Super Chats
1:09:58 Rainer Maria Rilke
1:19:35 BC in Jersey
1:28:43 Joe in FL
1:33:30 Men's Conference
1:35:42 Space Force drama
1:43:08 DOJ vs Integrity
1:45:37 Anthony, Brooklyn, NY
1:51:42 Jeopardy fake drama
1:58:42 Thanks, all!
SHOW NOTES
Mess…
PICS / TOPICS:
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month… Asians being used by libs (and lame conservatives) for politics
What happened to Charlie Hurt? Reminds me of Harry Reid, etc.
Extreme-left publisher Twitter Celebrating International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia
Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke from Book of Hours
TOMORROW: Romans 8…
ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN FIGHT
US Ready to Help Israel, Palestinians If They Seek a Ceasefire (The Epoch Times)
STUPID ANTI-WHITE SUCKERS
(NY Slimes) ARCHIVE - How a Jeopardy! Contestant's Hand Gesture Became Part of a Conspiracy (which is a fake and completely misused use of the word — good English NY Slimes!)
How hundreds of “Jeopardy!” contestants talked themselves into a baseless conspiracy theory — and won’t be talked out of it. By Ben Smith, May 16, 2021
A contestant on one night’s show, a big white guy with a red tie, Kelly Donohue, make an odd gesture with three fingers of his right hand.
So a in a private FB group, I guess of former contestants, a person wrote: “Based on the evidence we’ve seen being bandied about elsewhere, there is a real possibility he was giving either a white power or a Three Percenter hand gesture,” wrote one moderator, a middle-school teacher who was on the show about five years ago. About 50 viewers had tweeted about it too, crying “Ku Klux Klan” or “QAnon.” (The anti-Q people are as nutty as the Q people.)
STUPID LYNCH MOB.
“Jeopardy!” contestants searching Mr. Donohue’s personal Facebook page saw what they considered other, damning evidence, including a picture of Mr. Donohue in a red MAGA hat. One leading member of the group wrote up a public letter. Another emailed the Anti-Defamation League to report the incident.
A full 595 former contestants eventually signed on to the final draft of the letter, asking why “Jeopardy!” hadn’t edited out the moment. It went on to proclaim: “We cannot stand up for hate. We cannot stand next to hate. We cannot stand onstage with something that looks like hate.” STUPID!
Mr. Donohue works as a bank examiner for the MA state government and the CBS local news called it a “social media firestorm.”
A headline on the EXTREME-LEFT, ANTI-AMERICAN “fact-checking” website Snopes got much less attention: “No, ‘Jeopardy!’ Champ Kelly Donohue Didn’t Make the ‘White Power’ Hand Gesture.”
The writer points out “the mastery of facts and trivia” is no guard against falling for dumb prejudice against innocent people. And what if he were for whites? That’s not hate. They’re the haters! Hate blinds you. They’re blind.
HIS EXPLANATION
Mr. Donohue’s three fingers, Snopes pointed out, symbolize the number “three.” After his first victory, he waved one finger. After his second victory, he raised two. And after his third, he showed three fingers. He awkwardly folded his index and forefingers into something that looks as if it could be some kind of sign, but doesn’t resemble the “OK” signal that white supremacists have sought to appropriate.
Mr. Donohue had tried to explain himself after the episode aired and accusations of covert white supremacy began turning up on his personal Facebook page. “That’s a 3. No more. No less,” he wrote. “There wasn’t a hidden agenda or any malice behind it.”
NEVER HAPPY (REASONABLE STAY QUIET)
His fellow former contestants responded harshly in their letter to his attempt to explain himself. “Most problematic to us as a contestant community is the fact that Kelly has not publicly apologized for the ramifications of the gesture he made,” they wrote. That prompted him to “reject and condemn white supremacy” in a second statement.
Inside the Facebook group, the sort of argument you’ve seen in pretty much every Facebook group in America ensued. The group had already been roiled by complaints from contestants of color that they were being effectively silenced when other members “blocked” them, meaning the other members couldn’t read their posts. In January, administrators of the Facebook group changed the rules to outlaw blocking. They also made an exception to a ban on talking politics for “human rights.” The discussion of Mr. Donohue fell into that category.
Several members of the group who thought the reaction to Mr. Donohue’s hand was “unhinged,” as a 2020 contestant, Shawn Buell, told me, stayed silent. Mr. Buell said he assumed he would be shouted down. (He said he had initially considered membership in the group “an honor,” but had learned to stay silent this January after [another incident]).
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