PS: "Wondering if you have any thoughts about the speech by the representative from the 51st state, Somalia?" Yes, indeed, Fred. I saw that video just today and will have a post on this.

It's not unexpected for me to know the Gentlelady from Somalia's attitude, but the fact that she didn't have a problem with saying it all out loud is. Or, did she figure nobody else besides "her people" know Arabic - or whatever it was that she was speaking?

PS Wondering if you have any thoughts about the speech by the representative from the 51st state, Somalia? Oops I mean the representative of Somalia who is currently serving as a representative from Minnesota? (OK, I admit to poisoning the well here....)

PS Hate has its origin in fear. I hate that of which I am afraid. I hate those who I fear will harm me or mine.

PS: No, Mr. Hail, that sign from 10 years ago was a "Black Lives Matter" sign only. I think the colorful "welcoming" ones came much later. I will say, this was the first place I remember seeing those other ones (of which you also may have looked up the history) that just say "welcome" or something in 3 languages, including very specifically Arabic.

I can't really tell if this just makes them feel good because they think it means they're good people or because they feel good rubbing "we will replace you" in our faces.

PS

A "We Believe" sign at a church (if a Unitarian-Universalist church counts as a church) makes sense, because churches do believe things (in theory).

But if it was this actual same sign -- the list of creedal statements in that same design, which became so successful in the late 2010s -- if it predates November 2016, that would be quite a story.

Reports credit" Kristin Garvey, a soft-spoken youth services librarian in Madison, Wisconsin, and a mom of two," with creating the sign the week after the Trump election (mid November 2016), which then got huge funding to be distributed in the millions in coming months (and years).

The tie-in with churches is important, because obviously all those statements are a kind of left-wing Wokeness creedal statement similar to what churches have worked out and use over the centuries (see, e.g.: Apostle's Creed; Nicene Creed).

PS: I appreciate the exposition on the origins of these signs, Mr. Hail. When it comes to the BLM signage, I know that a Unitarian Church had one (a cloth banner, actually) for going on a decade, so it must have been put up in that earlier BLM era, Phase I. That was during the Ferguson, Missouri nonsense and that which followed. The banner disappeared within the last year or two, only because it was getting faded out.

I think they've put up another, but I'll check it out soon and report back.

I wouldn't have known that the "In this house, we believe..." part had come from something so high-falutin as Oxford debating. It sounds so much like a lecture and show of virtuousness.

PS

-- more on origins of the "In This House" yard-sign movement --

Even without the trail of evidence we do have on the signs' origins (a well-funded effort starting in mid-November 2016), the phrasing "In this house we believe..." is one of those things that obviously came from a high-IQ, politicized, and plugged-in type, because it sounds so much like the lines used in a common form of formal Debate. In other words, the people who created it perhaps were debaters in school-days.

"This house believes..." is the wording that debaters in the Oxford style (the most common in formal debate) use to propose a 'motion,' which the 'opposition' (the other debating team) then has to oppose. Modelled on British parliamentary debates. The 'house' in that case referring to the parliament itself (House of Commons).

The slight-altering of the wording to "In this house we believe..." is a way of rendering it less formally, and also to make it sound like a "pledge of allegiance" or, what it really is, a statement of faith (though in practice it was used a little like the "Kauft nicht Bei Juden" signs widely distributed in the 1930s by some hotheads in Germany.

Actually the original poster (yard-sign)'s wording reminds me of the "Girl Scout Law" in the U.S. Girl Scouts. Its wording:

I will do my best to be
honest and fair,
friendly and helpful,
considerate and caring,
courageous and strong, and
responsible for what I say and do,
and to
respect myself and others,
respect authority,
use resources wisely,
make the world a better place, and
be a sister to every Girl Scout.

You can see how each of those slogans could be adapted to the actual slogans used in the early 2016-17 versions of the sign. And the original designers, (but not funders) were also White left-wing college-degree-holding women. It all basically fits. The signs are a great symbol of the era.

PS

-- Origin of the 'In This House' political signs, and history, 2016 to 2024 --

I once tried to track down the exact origin of those "In this house we believe..." signs, which became highly conspicuous parts of the cultural-political landscape of white-Blue America by 2018. As best I was able to find, it was a well-funded campaign by Leftist organizations that mass distributed the signs to politicized Regime supporters, going from "idea" stage in mid-November 2016 to fairly wide coverage already by the time of the Trump inauguration, Jan. 20, 2017.

Variant signs on this one proliferated in 2017. By the time of the anti-Trump election-surge of mid-late 2018, these signs felt like a long-established tradition, and were everywhere in white-Blue America. In the midterm elections, the Democrats "took back the House" as they say, in part because of the kind of full-on political-galvanization symbolized by these signs.

seeing those signs was then, and remains now, a political signal that you were around politicized and 'class-conscious' White-Christians (or post-Christians, very often), Jews, and elite-Immigrant types of the kind we now recognize well enough. In other words, the high end of the Regime coalition. The low end of the Regime coalition, Blacks and most Wherever-Migrants, generally wouldn't put up those signs at all and would think doing so a little strange. It was mainly a "White" phenomenon.

I'd also note that the signs included the empty-slogan "Black Lives Matter," keeping thee slogan alive in a time -- late 2016 to May 2020 -- when the "Black Lives Matter Movement" was essentially entirely forgotten, until it proved useful again. I recall well that by 2018, seeing the "Black Lives Matter" slogan on some of these signs felt like a strange anachronism, like spotting someone in a "hippie outfit" in the early 1980s. But then the Regime whipped up a Black Lives Matter campaign during the lockdowns, after a near-four-year-long absence.

PS: Glenn Reynolds did have one comment, I just noticed:

#JOURNALISM above Mr. Kirkpatrick's tweet which says the following about a Daily Mail article that goes into big detail about the nitrogen-based execution of an Alabama murderer. (I thought nitrogen was just for coffee...)

"You could cure cancer while simultaneously saving a baby from a burning building and you will never get the boundless love, devotion, and compassion a journalist will show to a murderer."

PS: Completely O/T, so I could make it a post, but then, people may not have believed me:

Look at Instapundit right now - www.instapundit.com (not his substack). Glenn Reynolds (The long-term "Instapundit, site owner) himself has a tweet by VDare's James Kirkpatrick with no comment. That is, he agrees. Granted, this one has no racial angle, but I am very surprised. I thought Instapundit was too Establishment, well, basically, that Prof. Reynolds was too scared, to ever link to VDare.

Very good.

PS: Agreed with all. Hate is an emotion. There's a time when it's healthy to have that emotion. Of course, it's not healthy to live off that emotion for long.

Yes, Mr. Blanc, those signs (not this one) are put in people's yards to begin with not to really welcome strangers onto their lawn but to show their hatred for those "intolerant" people who hate having their country destroyed in front of their eyes.

I get it, Alarmist. It's one of a few dozen of my favorite Fleetwood Mac songs.

PS -

“ 'Hate Has No Home Here' signs. Whenever I see those, I think, 'Hate has a home there. They Hate Me'. I don’t hate them. I just want to separate from them."

HOW TRUE, MBlanc46! The mark of a free and open society is the ability to live separately from those who bother you. That's why early utopian communities in the US moved out in the woods away from everyone else. It's also the mark of "domestic tranquility."

Hate is an emotion...it resides in everyone, just like greed, lust and gluttony. Society shouldn't try to make it (or any other emotion) illegal or punishable in some way. Individuals, not communities, should navigate such personal matters. Teaching your little kids not to hate is fine (and genuinely good) but when the collective attempts to extinguish "hate" from society, something worse is the result.

PS

Cue the theme from Barney...

🎶
I hate you
You hate me
This is our reality....


@Mr Blanc, they need you and your money more than you need them, so that’s why they won’t let you go your own way.

Cue Fleetwood Mac ....

PS Those virtue-signalling signs are all over the place in the toney railroad suburbs to the south of our Cook County, IL, um, compound. Also “Hate Has No Home Here” signs. Whenever I see those, I think, “Hate has a home there. They Hate Me”. I don’t hate them. I just want to separate from them.