Return your solar eclipse glasses and cancel your sun-watching parties, America. According to The Atlantic, Monday’s predicted total solar eclipse is, it turns out, racist.
At first glance, the headline, “American Blackout” appears to be an attempt to one-up the Boston Globe, who claimed that the sun, dastardly conservative that it is, was biased towards Trump supporters, since the swath of the country that will witness 100% coverage, is made up, mainly, of counties that went for Trump in the 2016 election.
But no, the essay, penned, unsurprisingly, by a university professor — Alice Ristroph of Brooklyn Law School — insists that the solar system, which itself exhibits signs of “implicit bias,” has it out for minorities.
On August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse will arrive mid-morning on the coast of Oregon. It has been dubbed the Great American Eclipse, and along most of its path, there live almost no black people. Presumably, this is not explained by the implicit bias of the solar system.
Read more at the Daily Wire.
Get out the straitjacket, what a complete moron!
Is this not proof of the insanity of the left? What serious minded person would subscribe to this nonsense?