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Anthony Bradley, conflicted apologist for bad Juju, November 15th, 2023.

He does not know it and almost certainly would never admit it, but Anthony Bradley wants to live

in a world where black men can get lynched because of white women's tears.

He has what should be considered the mother of all woke intersectionality problems.

But because it is an intersectionality thing, there's another logical option for him, one that is every bit as bad.

This would be him wanting to live in a world where he turns callously away from a rape victim in tears,

refusing to countenance their story at all because the political

cost would be far too high. This is because her accusations involved a couple of black

men and the summer was already hot and volatile. Either way he goes, it is bad Juju.

Now it goes without saying that he would hotly deny having this intersectionality problem,

but he still has the intersectionality problem.

Math doesn't care about your feelings.

Now I don't have the same problem that he does, but I can't see it, and I do have some receipts

that I would like to hand around.

I'm sure he doesn't understand how he got there, but that doesn't change the fact that he has, in fact, managed to get there.

The butterfly flits on wings of gold, the June bug wings of flame. The bed bug has no wings at all, but gets there just the same.

American folk song.

Let us frame the discussion, shall we?

This last weekend, a discussion between Karen Swalloprier and Joe Rigney broke out on X,

and things look promising there for a minute.

It started as a discussion of empathy, but Karen diverted it into a fracas over a sexual

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