Happy New Year people, and here's something to give you an idea of how Tropical Soulvangical doesn't forget, and how neither anyone else should do so, even after the war is over. The protests stopped getting talked about shortly after the new year was rung in because they didn't stop the ball-drop. There was apparently unprecedented security. That's not to stay the protests stopped happening, but the sticky side of the protests is not lost on TSV. That's about the antisemitic incident at that school basketball game in Yonkers, and TSV's pretty sure that it probably wouldn't have happened if the protests weren't so culturally dominant. Like with Ed Snowden, TSV saw a relative minority speak out, and yet it's the majority that must consider themselves "wrong" just because they don't swear fealty to the minority. Even worse than that is TSV finding claims that somehow the incident actually didn't occur, which he finds inexplicable, and just as reprehensible as that One Percent Claim we talked about. Everyone was in earshot of any comments that were made, since we're talking about possibly just over 100 people all told, as opposed to an NBA game. TSV's pretty sure that if you play back -any- smartphone recording of the event, you -will- hear actual chants. He's also sure that the high school itself made a recording of the game mainly for the benefit of the local school media for people wanting to keep up on how well their school's teams are doing. TSV's also hoping that the school doesn't try to claim that the incident didn't happen and then get caught having tampered with the recording, and he's also hoping that the protest community didn't put undue pressure on the school to both tamper with the recording and claim the incident didn't happen. He's thinking it's possible that maybe the recording was made with an auto-swear-word-blanking-bleeping system, so slurs and epithets he's pretty sure are included in the list of words that might get auto-bleeped out. So he doesn't think the school should look at a bleeped tape and then say well how can anyone say any slurs when they got bleeped out anyway? He thinks you have to use common sense and say that the slurs -were- there to begin with if they had to get bleeped out. But worst of all is him seeing it being the "progressive" thing to do these days to turn a blind eye to antisemitism of pretty much any kind. Apparently that's what you're expected to do if you believe in things like affordable care and a living wage. He thinks they'll actually make that conflation, and that's because he didn't forget either Ed Snowden or the progressive politics of 2006, or how he previously had to lose a job partly because he didn't swear fealty to either.