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In a disastrous interview this week, CNN analyst Areva Martin accused Sirius XM and Fox Nation host David Webb of benefiting from “white privilege,” but she failed to realize that he’s black.

Martin and Webb were having a discussion on Webb’s radio show Tuesday about what makes someone qualified for certain jobs.

Webb explained that when applying for jobs, he considered relevant experience more important than his skin color.

“I’ve chosen to cross different parts of the media world, done the work so that I’m qualified to be in each one. I never considered my color the issue, I considered my qualifications the issue,” Webb said.

Martin thought she had Webb cornered. She thought she could simply dismiss Webb’s point because she believed he was a white man benefiting from “white privilege.”

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“That’s a whole other long conversation about white privilege, the things that you have the privilege of doing, that people of color don’t have the privilege of,” Martin said smugly.

She failed to address Webb’s point about work experience being more important than skin color.

Instead of making an actual argument, she accused Webb of benefiting from “white privilege.” But that was a mistake.

“How do I have the privilege of white privilege?” Webb asked.

“David, by virtue of being a white male you have white privilege,” Martin said.

Then Webb cleared up Martin’s awkward assumption.

“Areva, I hate to break it to you, but you should’ve been better prepped. I’m black,” Webb said.

“I stand corrected,” Martin said.

The CNN analyst silently listened for the next few moments while Webb slammed her for making “insulting” assumptions about him.

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“You come with this assumption and go with white privilege, that’s actually insulting,” Webb said.

Martin attempted to apologize, but it’s hard to get past such an offensive accusation.

“The whole white privilege thing is insulting,” Webb reiterated.

If Martin believed Webb received his position in Fox News because he was “white,” I wonder how she would explain how he got the position after finding out he’s black.

Martin apologized profusely for her mistake, but unfortunately, she failed to explain her points about “white privilege.”

When liberals don’t have real arguments, they accuse you of things like benefiting from “white privilege” — even if you’re not white.

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Another State stepping up to the plate.

Via WNDU:

Some West Virginia lawmakers want to pitch in millions of dollars for President Donald Trump’s wall-building effort along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The GOP-led House of Delegates issued a statement Monday that a bill planned by three delegates would divert $10 million from West Virginia’s current $186 million budget surplus for wall construction.

Trump’s seeking $5.7 billion overall to fund construction of a wall along about 235 miles of the border. The suggested offer from West Virginia would pay for a tiny fraction of the cost.

Trump carried West Virginia by 42 percent points in the 2016 election, and 63 percent of state voters who cast midterm ballots approved of his job performance.

Last week a Republican lawmaker in Montana proposed giving more than $8 million for the wall.

President Donald Trump pointed Wednesday to modern walls built around the world used successfully to secure borders and protect citizens.

“There are now 77 major or significant Walls built around the world, with 45 countries planning or building Walls,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Over 800 miles of Walls have been built in Europe since only 2015. They have all been recognized as close to 100% successful.”

As Breitbart News reported Monday, both modern and ancient walls work to keep the people inside safe. USA Today reported that at least 77 walls have been built since World War II, including barriers in Spain, Saudi Arabia, France, India, Turkey, and Morocco.

The president commented on Twitter as the partial government shutdown continues into its 26th day. Democrats remain resolved not to make a deal with President Trump, despite efforts to compromise and get Democrats to the negotiation table.

“It is becoming more and more obvious that the Radical Democrats are a Party of open borders and crime,” Trump wrote. “They want nothing to do with the major Humanitarian Crisis on our Southern Border.”

Trump continues to advocate a wall on the southern border as a common sense solution to keep drugs, crime, and illegal immigrants from coming into the country.

“We got to get the politics out of this and go back to common sense,” Trump said last week. “You know, they say it’s a medieval solution, a wall. That’s true. It’s medieval because it worked then and it works even better now.”

There are now 77 major or significant Walls built around the world, with 45 countries planning or building Walls. Over 800 miles of Walls have been built in Europe since only 2015. They have all been recognized as close to 100% successful. Stop the crime at our Southern Border!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 16, 2019

It is becoming more and more obvious that the Radical Democrats are a Party of open borders and crime. They want nothing to do with the major Humanitarian Crisis on our Southern Border. #2020!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 16, 2019

In recent days, many online essays have rightly ripped apart Gillette’s ugly new “We Believe” advertisement.  One online critic dubbed it “feel-bad liberalism.”

Carpentered by Grey Advertising for Proctor and Gamble’s razors company, it does not detail product attributes, encourage brand loyalty, instill warm feelings in buyers, or even show basic respect for consumers.  Instead, the grimly lecturing spot declares masculinity itself toxic, a peril to decent society.

“Is this the best a man can get?  Is it?” asks the painfully serious narrator, as a wrongdoing slideshow passes by.  ”We can’t hide from it.  It’s been going on far too long.  We can’t laugh it off, making the same old excuses.”

“I guess the guy at the ad agency missed the lesson about not taking a dump on the people you want to buy your stuff,” cracked comedian Steven Crowder.

“The guy at the ad agency” is actually philosophically unpleasant feminist Kim Gehrig.  Hiring her to court the male market is like expecting to accrue impressive rainbow flag sale numbers with spiels from Farrakhan. 

Jezebel reported an email message Gehrig sent CNBC: “At the end of the day, sparking conversation is what matters.  This gets people to pay attention to the topic and encourages them to consider taking action to make a difference.”

She’d previously made the bizarre ”Viva La Vulva“ spot for Swedish feminine hygiene company Libresse.  In that surreal ad, objects that included a conch shell, sliced orange, papaya, and coin purse stood in as ersatz female intimate parts.  For the ad’s nearly three-minute duration, these items were manipulated as unnatural “singers” of Camille Yarbrough’s “Take Yo Praise.” 

Gehrig’s new Gillette effort states her bias boldly by intercutting allusions to abusive acts with images of romantic heterosexuality.

A black-and-white cartoon scene that flashes past shows men whistling at a woman.  In another scant bit, a guy sees a pretty female pedestrian.  He steps after her but is restrained by a companion.  ”Not cool,” the restrainer admonishes.

Expressions of attraction and related pursuits are natural.  They lead to humans reproducing – which is how Gehrig got here, though she might be horrified to learn that.

Adweek pronounced Gehrig’s group libel the “Ad of the Week.”  Gehrig’s efforts were also recognized by Best Ads on TV. 

Therein lies an issue worth note.  Fox News host Greg Gutfeld tweeted: “the only ones lauding the Gillette ad work in media/advertising. everyone else sees it for what it is: a smarmy, condescending virtue signal aimed at the hardworking decent men they have been price-gouging for years.”

At this writing, Gillette’s YouTube posting of “We Believe” has received 40,000 “thumbs down” votes and only 4,300 positive ratings.  Even when possible manipulations have been allowed for, that ratio does not bode well for the company.

Gillette executives may have hoped their brand would realize market uplift from public mind association with trendy messaging.  That may also once have been the wish of suits at Dodge, the NFL, Target, Lynx, Nike, PepsiCo, and Dick’s Sporting Goods.  They all suffered as a consequence of catering to P.C. prejudices.

The greatest ultimate harm caused by Gehrig’s Gillette advertising maliciousness may be this: irresponsible,”woke” parents bludgeoning their young sons with her message that just being a boy is unhealthy, a wrong for which they should forever hang their heads.

Poor kids.

DC Larson is the author of Ideas Afoot: Political commentary, cultural observations, and media analyses.  His writings have appeared in the American Thinker, the Daily Caller, USA Today, and other newspapers.  His political blog is https://americanscenemagazine.blogspot.com.

In recent days, many online essays have rightly ripped apart Gillette’s ugly new “We Believe” advertisement.  One online critic dubbed it “feel-bad liberalism.”

Carpentered by Grey Advertising for Proctor and Gamble’s razors company, it does not detail product attributes, encourage brand loyalty, instill warm feelings in buyers, or even show basic respect for consumers.  Instead, the grimly lecturing spot declares masculinity itself toxic, a peril to decent society.

“Is this the best a man can get?  Is it?” asks the painfully serious narrator, as a wrongdoing slideshow passes by.  ”We can’t hide from it.  It’s been going on far too long.  We can’t laugh it off, making the same old excuses.”

“I guess the guy at the ad agency missed the lesson about not taking a dump on the people you want to buy your stuff,” cracked comedian Steven Crowder.

“The guy at the ad agency” is actually philosophically unpleasant feminist Kim Gehrig.  Hiring her to court the male market is like expecting to accrue impressive rainbow flag sale numbers with spiels from Farrakhan. 

Jezebel reported an email message Gehrig sent CNBC: “At the end of the day, sparking conversation is what matters.  This gets people to pay attention to the topic and encourages them to consider taking action to make a difference.”

She’d previously made the bizarre ”Viva La Vulva“ spot for Swedish feminine hygiene company Libresse.  In that surreal ad, objects that included a conch shell, sliced orange, papaya, and coin purse stood in as ersatz female intimate parts.  For the ad’s nearly three-minute duration, these items were manipulated as unnatural “singers” of Camille Yarbrough’s “Take Yo Praise.” 

Gehrig’s new Gillette effort states her bias boldly by intercutting allusions to abusive acts with images of romantic heterosexuality.

A black-and-white cartoon scene that flashes past shows men whistling at a woman.  In another scant bit, a guy sees a pretty female pedestrian.  He steps after her but is restrained by a companion.  ”Not cool,” the restrainer admonishes.

Expressions of attraction and related pursuits are natural.  They lead to humans reproducing – which is how Gehrig got here, though she might be horrified to learn that.

Adweek pronounced Gehrig’s group libel the “Ad of the Week.”  Gehrig’s efforts were also recognized by Best Ads on TV. 

Therein lies an issue worth note.  Fox News host Greg Gutfeld tweeted: “the only ones lauding the Gillette ad work in media/advertising. everyone else sees it for what it is: a smarmy, condescending virtue signal aimed at the hardworking decent men they have been price-gouging for years.”

At this writing, Gillette’s YouTube posting of “We Believe” has received 40,000 “thumbs down” votes and only 4,300 positive ratings.  Even when possible manipulations have been allowed for, that ratio does not bode well for the company.

Gillette executives may have hoped their brand would realize market uplift from public mind association with trendy messaging.  That may also once have been the wish of suits at Dodge, the NFL, Target, Lynx, Nike, PepsiCo, and Dick’s Sporting Goods.  They all suffered as a consequence of catering to P.C. prejudices.

The greatest ultimate harm caused by Gehrig’s Gillette advertising maliciousness may be this: irresponsible,”woke” parents bludgeoning their young sons with her message that just being a boy is unhealthy, a wrong for which they should forever hang their heads.

Poor kids.

DC Larson is the author of Ideas Afoot: Political commentary, cultural observations, and media analyses.  His writings have appeared in the American Thinker, the Daily Caller, USA Today, and other newspapers.  His political blog is https://americanscenemagazine.blogspot.com.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro kept his campaign promise by signing a decree ending the good cause requirement for a self-defense firearm purchase.

NPR reports that Bolsonaro’s decree “[removes] the need to prove necessity” when purchasing a gun.

NPR’s Philip Reeves observed that the red tape associated with a gun purchase often meant that Brazilians who needed guns for self-defense had their purchases denied because of their inability to prove the need:

When he was campaigning to be president in front of crowds, Bolsonaro had a signature gesture. He’d hold his hand aloft and make his fingers into the shape of a pistol. That’s how he symbolized his campaign promise to give Brazilians far greater access to guns. Brazil leads the world in the total number of homicides. That promise did a lot to help get Bolsonaro elected.

Today, Bolsonaro took a step towards keeping it. Brazilian law already allows people over 25 to possess firearms under certain conditions. One was that they had to prove why they needed a gun. That sounds easy. In practice, the police frequently turned them down.

Alexandre Coelho is a firearms instructor in Brazil who believes Bolsonaro’s decree may cause criminals to rethink things before invading another home: “It gives me a chance to fight. I think the criminals will think twice to enter your home, to break in your home and harm you and your family.”

On January 2, 2019, Breitbart News reported Bolsonaro’s observation that “hoodlums already have guns” and it was time to level the playing field.  He tweeted: “By decree we intend to guarantee the possession of firearm for the citizen without criminal antecedents, as well as make its registration definitive.”

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.