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National Geographic is slammed for suggesting July 4 fireworks are racist because their smoke 'disproportionately targets communities of color'
Daily Mail ^
| July 5, 2021
| Brian Stieglitz
Posted on 07/05/2021 8:01:40 AM PDT by rickmichaels
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To: rickmichaels
They do disproportionately target animals, though, and I am against them for that reason, if NG didn’t get around to it first.
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posted on
07/05/2021 8:38:58 AM PDT
by
erlayman
(yw)
To: rickmichaels
So many popular publications have been taken over by leftists while conservatives stand by and do nothing but get mad. When the hell was National Geographic infiltrated by wokesters?
To: fwdude
A few years ago they had an article on gender...dumped them that month...
To: rickmichaels
That’s it! The smoke has a mind! It moves away from those eeeeevvvvil Whiteys!
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posted on
07/05/2021 9:08:48 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(The government under democrats is a criminal enterprise.)
To: rickmichaels
"Scientists found..."
No. Propagandists found.
With free grant money.
To: rickmichaels
I quit radical left National Geographic years ago. Go away NG!
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posted on
07/05/2021 9:14:29 AM PDT
by
blam
To: jmaroneps37
Maxine Waters must be on the board of directors.....
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posted on
07/05/2021 9:43:58 AM PDT
by
chopperk
To: rickmichaels
One wonders what mental gymnastics they had to perform in order to reach this conclusion. Where I live (Seattle area), the major public fireworks celebration are held at the Seattle Center (former world's fair site) and Lake Union (from a barge), near the city center. If anything, these are near affluent areas, and are miles away from neighborhoods with a large concentration of minorities.
Apart from very small "fireworks" suitable for children, it's illegal to buy fireworks except at one of the Indian reservations, and I believe it's illegal to detonate any fireworks that go into the air. That applies both to the city of Seattle and surrounding suburbs. But that does not deter some people from detonating firecrackers and other small fireworks in most neighborhoods, regardless of their ethnic makeup.
If the Indian reservations have more fireworks smoke than other areas, it's because they CHOOSE to make money by selling fireworks, and to provide a field away from buildings where they can be legally (and presumably safely) used. No one forces them to do it.
To: Steve_Seattle
It’s pretty damning to those “scientists” that they’ve ignored the simple facts which you presented so well and so easily.
To: fwdude
I cancelled my long running subscription to NG over 15 years ago over its anti-science wokeness. I don’t regret it in the least.
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That does it! From now on the second I see anything related to NG I will immediately dismiss/ignore it in every way possible.
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posted on
07/05/2021 10:57:09 AM PDT
by
fortes fortuna juvat
("It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins." Ben Franklin)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
That strontium will get ya every time.
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posted on
07/05/2021 11:43:55 AM PDT
by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: Libloather
That strontium makes deep reds in fireworks, so it is either honoring Indians or celebrating communism. You’d think they would like that dose of strontium either way.
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posted on
07/05/2021 11:59:45 AM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“I’m not a conspiracy theorist....but, I don’t believe in coincidences, either.” ~ Steve Bannon)
To: SaxxonWoods
“...communities of color...”
What a ridiculous term.
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posted on
07/05/2021 12:04:55 PM PDT
by
myerson
(How much longer?)
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