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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Transwoman in Gotham / Transwomen HRT / Changing Pronouns


Dax Martin: "Okay okay oKay. NOBODY FREAK OUT but.... WE ARE GETTING A TRANS BATGIRL!!!!!
"PLEASE, I'M A TRANS WOMAN IN GOTHAM. OF COURSE I HAVE A WEAPON."
Rob Hardy: "That's not a bat. That's his dilator."
Daralynn Strelczik: "A cave batman would never want to enter."


"Transwomen HRT
6mos V.S. 3yrs
*Wolverine with claws* *Wolverine skeleton*"


"CHANGiNG A pronoun COSTS YOUR INTEGRITY

SUICIDE AS A MANIPULATION TACTIC IS CLASSIC NARCISSISTIC ABUSE"

Links - 19th March 2024 (1 - Hamas Attack Oct 2023)

Meme - Terrorism: "7 October" *cheering missiles with arms in air, with one masked terrorist holding rifle*
Victim Card: "16 October" "Save Palestine" "Stop the War" *dead baby wrapped up*

Middlebury Students Tried To Host a Vigil for Victims of Oct. 7 Attack. Administrators Told Them To Remove the Word ‘Jewish.’ - "It was October 10, three days after Hamas had murdered 1,200 Israelis and abducted hundreds more, and Jewish students at Middlebury College were trying to organize a vigil for the victims. They reached out to Middlebury’s dean of students, Derek Doucet, with a draft poster promoting the event, which they invited administrators at the elite liberal arts school to attend.  "Stand in Solidarity With the Jewish People," the poster read. "This will be an opportunity to honor the innocent lives lost in the tragic events that have struck Israel in the past days."  It didn’t go over well.  In an email to students reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, Doucet, who has oversight of student activities, pushed to rename the vigil and strip it of references to Judaism so as to make it "as inclusive as possible."  "Some suggestions that might help are stating that this gathering is to honor ‘all the innocent lives lost,’" Doucet wrote, and including a reference to the "tragedies that have struck Israel and Gaza." He added that calls for solidarity with Jews could trigger "unhelpful reactions."  "I recognize and deeply respect that there has to be a place for purely Jewish grief and sorrow," Doucet said, "and yet I wonder if … such a public gathering in such a charged moment might be more inclusive with edits such as these."  The need to include all groups—in a vigil mourning the losses of one—was selective and short-lived. Less than a month later, Doucet’s office approved a "Vigil for Palestine," hosted by the Muslim Students Association, that began with an Islamic prayer and featured remarks from the school’s vice president of equity and inclusion, Khuram Hussain, who did not attend the Jewish vigil.   "Standing in solidarity," the Muslim student group wrote in an Instagram post promoting the event. "Together, we honor Palestine."  The divergent reaction to the two events is one of the most shocking examples of discrimination outlined in a federal civil rights complaint against Middlebury, one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country. Filed last month by the StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice, a pro-Israel nonprofit that has sued other elite schools over anti-Semitism, the complaint alleges that Middlebury created a hostile environment for its Jewish students by ignoring and at times impeding their efforts to combat campus anti-Semitism...   Colleges across the country have been accused of violating Title VI, the civil rights law governing recipients of federal funds, by turning a blind eye to the harassment of Jews on campus in the wake of Oct. 7. The Middlebury complaint goes further, arguing that the school has not only tolerated anti-Semitism but actively discriminated against its Jewish students, in part by denying them the same accommodations as their Muslim and Christian peers.  Middlebury funds and recognizes six Christian clubs on campus, for example, along with both the Muslim Students Association and Students for Justice in Palestine. But it has refused to recognize Chabad, an orthodox campus organization with chapters across the country, on the grounds that Jewish students already have access to Hillel, the only space at Middlebury with a Kosher kitchen... The school also resisted calls for a police presence at the Jewish vigil in October, citing concerns that the officers could upset students, and asked the organizers of the event not to display Israeli flags, according to meetings described in the complaint.  The Palestinian vigil appears to have faced fewer hurdles. Not only did Middlebury station a police car outside the event, according to a report in the school’s student newspaper, it offered up Middlebury Chapel, one of the largest event spaces on campus, to the Muslim group after interest in the vigil surged. The chapel was not made available for the Jewish vigil, which was held outside, even though it drew a larger crowd than the pro-Palestinian event.  "What makes Middlebury different from our other Title VI complaints is that there’s not just a hostile environment for Jewish students; the administration also seems to be directly complicit," Yael Lerman, the director of the StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice, told the Free Beacon. "The Middlebury administration seems to think they’re off the radar and can get away with disparate treatment of Jewish students because everyone is focused on Harvard, MIT, and Penn." That disparate treatment appears to reflect the ideological sympathies of at least some administrators. On Feb. 16, the same day StandWithUs’s complaint was filed, Middlebury released a statement, "How Middlebury is Handling the Tensions Surrounding the Israel/Gaza War," that appeared to endorse the Palestinian "struggle for liberation."   "Student Affairs, Public Safety, and the Events offices supported a vigil honoring the Palestinian people and their struggle for liberation at Middlebury Chapel on November 9," the statement said.  It also touted an "Anti-Oppression Reading Group Discussion of Islamophobia" with Renee Wells, Middlebury’s director of education for equity and inclusion, and a "teach-in" hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine, the group behind some of the most aggressive anti-Semitic protests nationally.   Middlebury has since stealth-edited the statement to remove those references... The efforts to rewrite history extend to the college’s dealings with students, who have been discouraged from creating a record of their conversations with administrators. After a Jewish student met with Middlebury’s provost, Michelle McCauley, to discuss a slew of anti-Semitic Yik Yak posts, the student sent an email recapping the meeting.  McCauley responded that the recap was "not as I understood the conversation" and, in a follow-up meeting, castigated the student for putting the discussion in writing... She then had Hussain, the diversity official who spoke at the Gaza vigil, produce his own recap of the meeting, which omitted key parts of the conversation and downplayed the student’s concerns, according to the complaint.  "Rather than address its antisemitism problem, Middlebury’s administration has attempted to hide and deny its existence," the complaint reads. "Middlebury is a leading example of a campus where hostility towards Jews and Israelis thrives.""
You're not allowed to show solidarity for "privileged" groups, so you need to All Lives Matter them. But if you try to make support for an "oppressed" group more inclusive, you're a racist bigot

‘Deluded’ Hamas made a ‘catastrophic miscalculation’, say Palestinian analysts - "Palestinian analysts have said that Hamas “catastrophically miscalculated” the balance of the military power between themselves and the IDF and, although the terror group will be hard to destroy, it is a shattered organisation with the hostages their only remaining leverage.   Israeli intelligence estimates that more than 18 of Hamas’s 24 battalions have been dismantled as organised forces and have become smaller guerrilla cells. Approximately half of the group’s 40,000 fighters are thought to have been either killed or wounded. Yezid Sayigh, a Palestinian analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told the FT that Hamas had harboured the “delusion” that Israel’s response to Ocotber 7 would cause mass uprisings against the Jewish state across the Middle East... Ibrahim Dalalsha, head of Horizon Centre, a Ramallah-based think-tank, said Hamas wanting a permanent ceasefire is not “about helping civilians in Gaza but about making the resumption of the war [by Israel] more difficult."   According to Dalalsha, Hamas leaders know that hostages are their “insurance policy” and only means of leverage, which explains why they have become “almost suicidal vis-à-vis the negotiations, with this maximalist position.  “They know that if the war resumes and they’ve released the hostages they’ll be finished.” The bulk of Hamas’s remaining battalions have retreated to the southern city of Rafah and the refugee camps Nusseirat and Deir al Balah in central Gaza, according to Israeli military officials... The Islamist militant group, founded to destroy the Jewish state, is now primarily concerned with survival. Some analysts conclude that Hamas’s desire to sue for a permanent ceasefire as part of a hostage deals is a sign of its desperation.  Regional diplomats and intelligence analysts say Hamas may be realising that its rule over Gaza may be coming to an end and it may be forced to revert to its early roots: a resistance movement providing religious social services with an underground military wing.   Dalalsha added: “Hamas has lost governance in Gaza but they’re still looking for political survival as an organisation. They’re not idiots. They see the needs of Gaza and realise the public and international community won’t accept them again.” According to the FT, Hamas officials have engaged in talks to allow the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority to reassert control over Gaza through an “ad hoc leadership committee” or newly formed technocratic government...   Hamas itself claims that only 6,000 of its fighters have been killed and maintain that it is doing well militarily against the far superior Israeli military."

Terror suspects arrested in Europe had images of Jewish, Israeli targets -- report - "A number of terror suspects arrested in December in Bosnia and Austria had images of Jewish and Israeli targets on their cellphones, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing investigators who said the photos “suggested they were motivated by Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.” According to the report, the suspects were among individuals in two separate groups of refugees from Afghanistan and Syria who were detained on suspicion of terror activities.  The suspects were in possession of arms and ammunition including Kalashnikovs and pistols... these separate incidents suggest that the terror threat in Europe is “not only growing but also coming from new sources,” specifically pointing to “Iran and its proxies in the Middle East, including Hezbollah and Hamas.” In January, Israeli intelligence agencies released details on a network of Hamas operatives in Europe commanded by terror leaders in Lebanon, with the aim of attacking Israeli and Jewish targets in Europe, Africa and the Middle East."
Terror suspects arrested in Europe had images of Jewish, Israeli targets — report : theworldnews - "Pro-Pals are running out of arguments since they both want Israelis to "go back to Europe" but are baying to kill them there too"

Saul Sadka on X - "Consider carefully the words of the not-at-all antisemitic Charlotte Church:
"There is something about the Palestinian cause right now which means 'The freedom and betterment of society and civilization for all of us'."
Seems like a strange equation. Is that the freedom to hold 130 hostages in tunnels? To head out on medieval tribal raids to murder rape and pillage?  This better society is the one where children are raised from the cradle to fantasize about killing?  Would our civilization really be bettered if it were more like Gaza?  With women subjugated, gays executed, mob rule, and genocidal theocrats in power with no elections? Something here doesn't add up. None of this would make society better at all. Maybe she will elaborate...
"If we want to have a different future which isn't completely reliant upon, or completely in submission to, capitalist interests..."
Ah, now we seem to be getting to the point. Why does this war, with minimal impact on financial markets, (what with Israel being 0.6%, and Gaza being 0.005% of global GDP), have to do with "submission to capitalist interests"? Does anyone bring up nefarious controlling capitalists as an issue when talking about Ukraine-Russia? Or any other war... that doesn't involve Jews... hmm...
"If we want to have a society that is built on community and compassion and love, that centers life... that centers children... that centers women and mothers... "
Yes, wow, really Gaza under Hamas is a paradise for children and women, and is a well known hub of compassion and love for all. They particularly love dead raped Israeli girls being paraded like trophies through the market.  We wonder: How can anyone look at the evil that Hamas did and see them as the solution to humanity's ills? It seems totally deranged.   To understand the mindset you need to steep yourself in the cesspit of the Marxist left, where the Jews ("the 0.2%") sit atop the capitalist heap, oppressing the world, crushing everyone else. For some this is conscious, for others its subconscious.   So for these sheep, anything that stands against Jews, however medieval and rapey, has the power to rebuild the world anew, free it from the capitalist shackles, and put humans back at the center, instead of the inhuman You-know-whos.  This is why leftists march arm in arm with Hamas."
Saul Sadka on X - "Some rapscallion has managed to get "Charlotte Mosque" trending, which is unfair, really she is Charlotte Marx."

Dutch King defies mosques to attend opening of new Holocaust museum alongside Israel’s president - "The Dutch King has defied protests from mosques in the country to attend the opening of a new Holocaust museum in Amsterdam alongside Israel’s president.  The K7 alliance of over 200 Dutch mosques called for King Willem-Alexander not to participate in the reception given to Israel’s President Isaac Herzog on Sunday. The organisation said Herzog’s presence at the opening was a “huge blow to anyone who cares about the fate of Palestinian people”"
Good luck if you protest a mosque who hosts an extremist preacher

Al-Jazeera Airs Video Criticizing American Aid to Gaza - "Al-Jazeera Network [Qatar] aired a video by Gaza influencer "Abod," on March 7, 2024 that criticized American humanitarian aid to Gaza. He said that America was the "Great Satan" and the number-one enemy of the Palestinian cause. Abod said that the aid was "paltry" and "humiliating." He added that even Satan would be shocked by the small quantities of aid. Al-Jazeera regularly airs posts by "Abod.""
The levels of entitlement are off the chart here

‘Death to the Jews:’ Protester gives Nazi salute at Montreal ex-IDF talk - "protesters can be heard castigating attendees for chanting, "There is only one solution, Intifada revolution."  "Resistance is justified when people are occupied," protesters said in a video posted on Palestinian Youth Movement Montreal's Instagram account.  CIJA and Federation Combined Jewish Appeal said in a joint statement on Tuesday that the Montreal Police failed to maintain a buffer zone around the area, despite being warned about event logistics and possible extremity of the protest. As a result, the Jewish groups said that some community members could not leave the building for hours, and others were prevented from attending."
Pro-Palestinian speech cannot be censored, and criticising Israel isn't anti-Semitic!
When the left approves of your protest, Nazism is good

Canadian politicians have suddenly forgotten how to denounce protestors - "This past weekend, downtown Ottawa was occupied by a huge crowd of protestors. They danced, shouted angry slogans, banged on drums and created a noisy, inconvenient disruption for local residents and businesses. They even set off smoke bombs, creating hazardous air quality for bystanders and law enforcement.  Sound a bit familiar? Yes, there were some obvious parallels with the Freedom Convoy. But there were also a couple of very big differences. There were many more frightening messages directed at fellow Canadians this time, including “All Zionists are racists” and “All Zionists are degenerates.”   Another big difference? Near total silence this time from the politicians. Virtually from the outset of the Freedom Convoy’s rumblings, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave public appearances to loudly denounce their messages and tactics, decrying them, notoriously, as a “small fringe minority with unacceptable views.” It wasn’t just Trudeau who loudly expounded on the limits of acceptable opinions during the pandemic. Progressive Conservative Ontario Premier Doug Ford famously called those protesting against lockdowns outside Queen’s Park “selfish” and a “bunch of yahoos.”   So where, then, are Trudeau and other politicians including Doug Ford, Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow, or Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe now that the protesters are behaving far worse?  I’m not talking about those engaging in peaceful protests... vandalizing Jewish-owned businesses, targeting Jewish hospitals, intimidating Jewish people taking their kids to daycare, blockading overpasses in Jewish neighbourhoods, firebombing Jewish community centres, calling for violence in front of synagogues and protesting in front of the Holocaust Memorial Centre—all of which we have seen continuously since October 7th—must be denounced, publicly, in the strongest terms. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators can no longer plausibly deny that their movement is thoroughly contaminated with hateful antisemitism. Those who naively argue this type of behaviour is benign should read up on some of the events in Germany in 1938.   Most troubling is the complete lack of serious engagement with this obvious growing extremism by many of our supposed leaders, and their refusal to delineate bright lines between acceptable protest and direct incitements to violence.   There hasn’t been a trace of moral clarity from the federal government. Instead, we get statements that seem to have been spat out by a bot programmed with the Liberals’ increasingly dismal electoral math and concern about losing votes from those who despise Israel. It is entirely spineless to mention Islamophobia any time antisemitism is uttered considering that it is only synagogues and Jewish businesses that have been regularly targeted with harassing protests and attacks since October 7th.   Trudeau’s favourite platitude that “this is not what we do here in Canada” rings hollow in the face of consistent and overwhelming evidence that for some Canadians, like it or not, it is. In some instances, the hate has been obviously inspired by Jihadism. Last week, protestors at a Montreal synagogue jeered at pro-Israel counter-protestors declaring that “every single tree and rock that you guys are going to touch will surely be free.” This was a coded call for violence and a reference to a long-standing antisemitic Hadith that is repeated in Article 7 of Hamas’ charter: “The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: ‘O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.”   If Trudeau wants to push back against this hatred and intimidation, he might look across the pond to U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for an example of what a modicum of moral clarity might look like. It took five months of central London being overrun every weekend with protestors calling for “intifada” (violent uprising) and the election of the odious anti-Semite George Galloway as MP in Rochdale for Sunak earlier this month to finally grow enough of a backbone to explain to the public that there are limits to even the most expansive version of free speech.
Jihadist slogans are not even dog whistles, because the left approve of them

dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ on X - "Holocaust. They are calling for another Holocaust. Hey Canada, at what point is enough enough?"
Peter Nelson on X - "Essentially #Ottawa is telling those of us in the Canadian Jewish diaspora that " the convoy was bad but calling for the death of Jews is OK ". That's, you know, in case you were wondering about the depths of depraved #Antisemitism in the nation's seat of govt."
Lisa MacLeod on X - "As an Ottawa resident I am disturbed and horrified of the hypocrisy between the convoy clampdown compared to the tolerated hate speech at the antisemitic demonstrations.    As an area politician (one of the longest serving in the capital) the double standard is dangerous, irresponsible & wrong.   Someone is going to get killed and the passivity will be noticed in plain sight. And it won’t be forgiven."

'Acknowledging Jewish victims will cost him': Jewish creators comment on Jonathan Glazer's speech - "At the 96th Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday night, British-Jewish director Jonathan Glazer, whose film, The Zone of Interest, had just won the Oscar for Best International Feature, made a somewhat garbled statement critical of the Israeli government’s policy, conflating “the Occupation” with “the Holocaust.” Many Israeli officials and Jewish leaders criticized the statement, but some Jews in Hollywood actually cheered it... He mentioned “the victims of October 7 in Israel.”... Simply acknowledging that there were victims in Israel is light years ahead of the prevailing political winds in Hollywood these days, people told me.Typical politically engaged celebrities in Hollywood simply ask for a “ceasefire now,” with no hint of the fact that there are still 134 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza – a number of whom are American citizens, which is rarely mentioned – or  that Hamas has publicly stated, on multiple occasions, that it will commit more, and even bigger, massacres in Israel as soon as it can, and that Israel has an obligation to defend its citizens... Commenting on the confusing phraseology, one insider said, “That was quite a word salad. I’ve met him and he’s usually very clear, very focused on what he’s trying to get across. Writer/directors are generally the most charming, most articulate people in the world because they’re always trying to get people to give them money to make a movie; they’re always pitching. “I think he was tying himself in knots, trying to find a way to acknowledge that there was a massacre, that there were Jewish victims. He wanted to say it without saying it... I think that’s because he did this Auschwitz film, and he’s a British Jew. He knows that the Nazis would have killed him and Hamas would have killed him. For him to say, to acknowledge that there were any Jewish victims at all will probably cost him some dinner-party invitations, probably from intellectuals he respects. That’s the reality.” Would it have been so hard for him to say the word “Hamas”? I asked. “Yeah, it would have,” was the answer I got. “There can be Jewish victims as long as the worst villain, the only real villain, is Israel, the occupier.”  INSIDE THE AUDITORIUM, there were almost no yellow ribbons denoting support for the hostages held by Hamas, save for Avi Arad, the Israeli-American producer of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, which was nominated for Best Animated Feature. Other attendees said they would have worn yellow ribbons but their cars were closely eyeballed by protesters who tried to block invited guests from attending the awards ceremony. But there were many celebrities wearing red pins and calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war...  Spielberg, seen as the most respected Jewish elder statesman in Hollywood – and one with something to say about Jewish suffering, as he directed Schindler’s List and created the USC Shoah Foundation, which collects testimony from Holocaust survivors – remained silent about the October 7 atrocities for months, ignoring direct requests from Holocaust survivors to comment... Non-Jewish Hollywood A-listers who often speak out on causes and have visited Israel in the past, such as Paul McCartney, continue to be silent on this conflict. "
This won't stop the right wing anti-Semites claiming all Jews support Israel unconditionally

He wrote his Liberal MP about synagogue vandalism. She responded lamenting 'atrocities' in Gaza - "When a member of a Fredericton synagogue that had been vandalized wrote to local Liberal MP Jenica Atwin to admonish her for not speaking out about it, she responded weeks later with a long letter about “the atrocities in Palestine” and how dedicated she was to helping Gaza. “Fredericton’s synagogue was vandalized today.. on holocaust remembrance day!! And you couldn’t be bothered to make a statement. Shame on you,” wrote the constituent on  January 27th, the day the Sgoolai Israel Synagogue in Fredericton had been vandalized . In the subject line of the email, the constituent wrote . “ I guess you and Justin only represent certain Canadians.”... Atwin is known for taking positions considered to be hostile to Israel. Shortly before crossing the floor from the Green Party to the Liberals in 2021, Atwin challenged then Green Party leader Annamie Paul’s calls for de-escalation in the Middle East, insisting there was no “two sides” in the conflict but “only human right abuses” by Israel, and referred to Israel as an apartheid state. Atwin’s arrival in the Liberal caucus sparked so much concern amongst both current and former party MPs that the Liberals convened an emergency antisemitism summit to address the matter... Deputy Conservative leader Melissa Lantsman told the National Post that the emailed letter doesn’t surprise her, considering Atwin’s past comments on Israel. “What was surprising is that Justin Trudeau actively recruited her to cross the floor to his party,” she said. “Trudeau’s … blatant refusal to acknowledge the very real concerns of Jewish Canadians is a pattern that we are seeing more and more of from him and the Liberals.”"
Weird. Left wingers keep telling us that criticising Israel isn't anti-Semitic. But if anti-Semitism is just criticising Israel, that suggests that the two are the same thing.

Lior Haiat 🇮🇱🎗️ on X - "The decisions by Canada and Sweden to restore funding to UNRWA - after having received the intelligence-based information about the organization's employees who participated in the 7 October massacre and prior to the completion of the work of the investigative bodies and the publication of their findings - is a serious mistake that constitutes tacit agreement and support by the governments of Canada and Sweden to continuing to ignore the involvement of UNRWA employees in terrorist activity.  The return to funding UNRWA will not change the fact that the organization is part of the problem and will not be part of the solution in the Gaza Strip.  Israel calls on the governments of Canada and Sweden to stop the funding and not to support an organization whose ranks include hundreds of members of the Hamas terrorist organization."

IDF releases recordings of UNRWA teachers taking part in Oct. 7 massacres - "The first call recording is of a Hamas terrorist working as an Arabic teacher at an UNRWA school in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, describing how he broke into Israeli territory and stating that he is holding female Israeli hostages. The teacher was named as Yusef Al Hawajara and is heard stating on a call, “We have female hostages, I captured one.”  During the call, Al Hawajara went on to say, “We will enter Al-Aqsa Mosque.”  He described the massacre of Israelis to his friend, saying, “They shot them in the eyes.” The second recording features an additional terrorist, described by the Israel Defense Forces as Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist Mamduh Ahmed Alkali, an elementary-school teacher at an UNRWA school in Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza, the IDF said. The teacher is heard telling his family that he is inside Israeli territory.  “I’m inside, I’m inside with the Jews,” stated the voice of the UNRWA teacher in response to a man asking him on the phone where he was... Hawajara was heard bragging about seizing an Israeli female hostage. “Sabayya means female captive, a ‘possession.’ Sabayya is exactly the same word used by ISIS to describe Yazidi women they captured and did horrific things to. I want you to hear the tone, how they brag, how they laugh. How they talk about women. How they call her a ‘noble horse.’” The other speaker in the call boasted of capturing a “noble horse” during the conversation... On Sunday, the number of aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip from Israel was the highest since the start of the war, Hagari said. Israel puts no limits on the amount of humanitarian aid that can enter Gaza... an anti-tank missile launched from Lebanon struck a plantation in Margaliot, a moshav in the Galilee panhandle, at around 11 a.m., killing a Thai worker and injuring nine other people, two of them seriously."
I still see terrorism supporters claiming the IDF was responsible for Oct 7th

'I captured one!' -- IDF recordings show more UNRWA staffers bragging of Oct. 7 crimes - "  “I’m inside, I’m inside with the Jews,” Mamdouh al-Qali, an Islamic Jihad terrorist whom the IDF says was employed as a teacher in a UNRWA school, is heard saying in one recording.  “How will you get home?” he is asked in the phone call, and he replies with a laugh: “When I die.”  In another recording, an UNRWA teacher can purportedly be heard bragging about kidnapping Israeli hostages.  “We have female hostages, I captured one!” says Yousef al-Hawajara, a Hamas terrorist who worked as a teacher at a UNRWA school in Deir al-Balah, according to the IDF. “Everything’s fine I hope,” he later says in the recording. “We will enter Al-Aqsa Mosque.”... a Hamas terrorist, who worked as a teacher at a UNRWA school in Deir al-Balah, tells his friend that he captured a “sabaya,” a term used by Islamic State jihadists which means sex slave.  “The most difficult use of ‘sabaya’ was by ISIS terrorists, who called the captured Yazidi women [in Iraq and Syria] this,” Hagari added... The head of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, warned on Monday in a letter to the General Assembly’s president that his agency is at a “breaking point,” as donors freeze funding, Israel exerts pressure to dismantle the agency, and humanitarian needs soar.  UNRWA’s ability to carry out its mandate is “seriously threatened,” Lazzarini said, urging member states to “provide the political support necessary to sustain” the agency. Lazzarini has said that Israel has provided no evidence against his former employees. Last month, Israel revealed the identities of 12 UNRWA staffers who it said “actively participated” in the massacre."

Allowed on Facebook: Condemning "Zionists" and Israelis

These all come from the same person:


"typical Zionist lowering itself to insults because it knows it can't justify it's parasitic infestation of other people's land. I won't even engage further because I don't wrestle in filth with Zionist pigs"

Facebook says it is okay to call people pigs and parasites.

Oddly, Facebook claims that private adults are protected from "Dehumanizing comparisons (in written or visual form) to or about: Animals and insects, including subhuman creatures, that are culturally perceived as inferior." and "Bacteria, viruses, microbes, and diseases."


"Oh god I've forgotten how much I dislike Israeli's they've come out of the woodwork with this post and I've remembered how I hate them with every fibre of my being. If this was a baldurs gate game, my racial enemy would be Israelis. They're all just so disgusting, they can't even hide it, they all get so smug and happy about the murder of Palestinian children and I read all their comments in my head in that awful nasally whiney voice they *all* have. I swear they have to be aliens, there's just something so inhuman about them and honestly I can see the temptation to become deeply anti-Semitic but I have to remind myself that these freaks do not hold the monopoly on semitism or even Judaism and there's still plenty of Jews who oppose them. More so now that the horrors of what they're doing to Palestine are better covered by our media. The Jews scuttling out of those NYC tunnels had me crying in laughter though. Like omg I fucking told you so."


"your zio scum cult took down my 25k page by gathering in large crowds and reporting it hundreds of times per day, I know *exactly* how hasbara shills work hun, I've been dealing with ((your kind)) for decades and thats long enough to know that Galloway was completely right when he said "i dont debate with Israelis, because there's no debating genocidal maniacs." I don't get my hands dirty with filth these days, I don't need to because the world has woken up. anti-Semitism is at the highest peak it's been in decades you should know, your verminous brethren have done nothing but whine about it for weeks"

Here, the mask partially slips again and this person is open that he hates "Israelis" (presumably non-"Zionist" Israelis are bad people too). Not to mention when the masks slips even more and he uses the echo, which the ADL has identified as anti-Semitic, and openly says that anti-Semitism is justified, and Jews are "verminous". Revealingly, in the first comment this person disavows anti-Semitism, but in the second celebrates it. p>Oddly, Facebook defines " a hate speech attack as dehumanizing speech; statements of inferiority, expressions of contempt or disgust; cursing; and calls for exclusion or segregation" and claims that "national origin" (not to mention race and ethnicity) is a protected characteristic, and you're not allowed to post "Dehumanizing speech in the form of comparisons to or generalizations about: Animals and pathogens", vermin being "wild animals that are believed to be harmful to crops, farm animals, or game, or that carry disease". And even more generally, "Content that describes or negatively targets people with slurs" is prohibited ("scum" would fall into this category).

Of course, all this won't stop terrorism supporters from complaining that Facebook is pro-"Zionist", because when they explicitly call for terrorism they get zucced.

Monday, March 18, 2024

Links - 18th March 2024 (2 - Being Black in the US)

African Christian University Dean: 'Black people in America are the FREEST and MOST PROSPEROUS black people in the world' - "Dr. Voddie Baucham, Dean of Theology at African Christian University and former pastor from California, recently made waves when his sermon titled "Ethnic Gnosticism" resurfaced online. He joined Glenn Beck on the radio program Thursday to share why he believes today's social justice, anti-racism movements are "poisonous" ideology steeped in Marxist critical theory, which aim to "redistribute" justice to certain societal groups with no consideration for the individual.  Dr. Baucham argued that left's narrative that black Americans are the most oppressed black people in the world is far from true... "I'm also an American who, as an expat in a foreign country, I've been to dozens of countries in the world. And there are two things I know: One, black people in America are the freest and most prosperous black people in the world. Period. Bar none," he asserted. "And the second thing is this: people outside of America just think that we are the most oppressed people in the world. People actually think that things like George Floyd are happening every day. That they're not an anomaly. But that they're commonplace ... it sickens me. It saddens me ... the reputation that black people have, that somehow we are weak and impotent, and that we can't do or be anything unless white people do it for us. Which, by the way, is kind of racist.""

Can I Please Get My Braids Done Without Hearing Offensive, Conservative Views? - "I once remember wishing I could sink into the water while getting my hair washed because a heated debate started about trans teens competing in sports. A news story came on a midday news broadcast about the national ban on trans athletes in girls’ sports. The news segment told the story of two Black trans girls and most people in the salon agreed with the stance that they had no place competing. Not only do I vehemently disagree with these opinions, they also go against my identity as a Black queer person... I understand that sometimes these views are subconsciously a defense mechanism against white supremacy (especially since Black people providing racialized services are often undermined and not given the proper respect they deserve), but these realities don’t excuse creating insular environments that are only safe for certain customers and not for others, who are usually experiencing equally or more devastating oppression outside of those doors... Going in to get my hair braided gives me a sense of security and has become a constant in my life. Most of the salons I frequent are safe and encouraging places to explore the wonders of my hair. It’s a shame that all salons can’t be this way. I want to be able to go into these cultural institutions without having to hold my breath."
Ironic. These are the same people who hate on others all the time. Of course no one gets a right to have views except them

Meme - "White people don't season they neighborhoods *graffiti on graffiti and shuttered shops*"

End Wokeness on X - "TikTok historian explains how Beethoven and Lincoln were really blacks who got “whitified” by the media"

iamyesyouareno on X - "Black teens laughing and dancing in court after committing serious crimes such as stealing cars. There’s no fixing this."

Sizwe SikaMusi on X - "Black people on average spend 30% more on luxury goods and brands than White people in the same income group. Why? Because wearing designer and luxury brands is necessary for affluent Blacks to gain respect and status in the White world🧵"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "Literally every silly or pathological behavior is "because racism." As a note, btw: the core point here doesn't make sense. Rocking designer, beyond the level of nice luggage or an ancient Vineyard Vines hoodie, is a neutral or parvenu signal TO rich people. The actual data point to take from this, btw, is that Black people waste 30% more money even than WHITE Americans.   That's...saying something, and is clearly one of several hard objective reasons for wealth gaps."
The Dude Abides on X - "In the conversations I have been in with groups of black people it seems more like an in group status thing, having nothing to do with impressing whites. One gentleman was complaining to other black women that black men have to have so much swag just to get their attention."
Brandon on X - "It’s so crazy to put forward the argument that all black behavior is controlled by whites when people like Sowell have documented similar behaviors among non blacks lol. Seeing everything through a prism is poisonous."
i/o on X - "As a kid my family lived in the ghetto twice.  I  saw two main things: (1) Hair-trigger violence, and (2) the juxtaposition of the relative squalor of living conditions with relatively lavish spending on apparel and cars (which regularly got repo'd).  But let's blame whites."
i/o on X - "As a white guy, nothing impresses me more than seeing a black guy wearing top-end $200 sneakers. I immediately think to myself, "Damn, that black guy sure has got it all together.""
MrDawg on X - "Most white ppl I know are not impressed by lavish spending on consumer goods. Wearing a $30K watch or a carrying a $5K handbag just shows you've got more money (or credit) than sense. Anecdotal perhaps, but it's "my truth.""
MystressMinx on X- "As a teen (in the 90s), most of my friends lived in rough neighborhoods. I currently live in Gov housing, although in a small town, and you're spot on. Hearing people bitch about how they're going to cover rent when they just spent $200 on 3 outfits for their one kid gets tiring"
A lot of poor people have poor spending habits
Keywords: luxury products

Meme - "BLACK PRIVILEGE. The ability to break every law in the country and still remain the victim.."

~~datahazard~~ on X - "- 2.34% of black men who turned 25 years old in 1998 had already offed someone by then.
- 1.35% who would have turned 25 years old in 1998... didn't turn 25 years old."
Damn racism!

Claudine Gay Is Why I Never Checked the 'Black' Box | Opinion - "I knew that if I checked the black box, administrators and corporate executives would feel like they owned me. They had opened the doors to their esteemed institutions and, in return, I would be expected to show fealty to their racial politics and ideologies. Checking the "black" box on college applications would have forced me to enter what I call the Minority State of Mind, divorcing myself from my larger American identity to embrace a far narrower identity based on the politics of race. In my case, that meant embracing a racialized and victimized mindset in which everything is defined by slavery, segregation, disparities, and racism.  People have mocked me, saying that I give far too much importance to the black box, but they have no idea what awaits a black student who puts that checkmark next to "black." If I had indicated "black" on my college applications, it would have opened the door to black scholarships, black-only orientations, black fraternities, black housing, black-oriented majors, black student associations, black this and that. How could I have gone through these experiences without becoming beholden to the politics of blackness?  Even at that young age, I knew that to check that black box was to move off the merit track and onto the race track, where people like Claudine Gay excel. She is perhaps the most successful black to walk this path, but she is not a free individual.  Throughout her career, Gay has placed emphasis on her skin color and the politics of the black identity, which we are now learning involved a brew of incompetence, racial essentialism, and plagiarism, all emerging now.  As bad as this all is, the worse thing that the Claudine Gays of America did was lead so many people of their race down this dead-end path of racial essentialism. Today, the focus has been on how Gay hurt Asians and Jews, but it can never be forgotten that people like her hurt blacks far more and for such a sustained period of time, affecting multiple generations. My refusal to check the race box meant that no one could hold a claim over me. I'm a free individual, and the only thing I owe is gratitude to the many people who helped me as I pursued the path of merit.  But if one really wants to know why I never checked the "black" box, the true answer lies in my black grandfather's life. Born to formerly enslaved parents on a dirt floor in Camp Nelson, Kentucky, his parents died when he was just a teen. On his own, he traveled to Detroit and then to Chicago, where he worked odd jobs to fuel his playboy lifestyle. Then one day, he realized his current life would lead to no good. He straightened up and became a founding member of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) where he met my grandmother. He got a job as a truck driver, became a family man, and educated himself by reading every book he could find. In doing so, he lifted his family from poverty to a solid lower-middle class life despite living under segregation.  Why then would I betray this admirable progress for the empty promise of skin color?"

Your thoughts Walmarts and other retailers leaving primarily black residential areas. : askblackpeople - "Without Walmart's volume-discount prices and liberal product return-policies, those of us who live pay-check to pay-check would not make it to the next pay-check. Thank you Walmart for being there.  We are missing an important point here that needs to be said. Stealing is not morally or socially acceptable, if it is allowed, society can not advance in a civilized manner. But among a considerable percentage of blacks, stealing is ok, just as is other socially unacceptable behavior - such as resisting arrest and the like. So much so, now we have two standards for judging social misbehavior, black-standard and everyone-else standard. Historically, when I worked in the retail-world, I personally remember witnessing black children stealing under a number of different social circumstances, while the mother was close by and the mother did nothing to reprimand the children. So you have to assume, the mother has taught the children that stealing is ok. Blacks of all ages openly loot stores (big and small business) and/or routinely shoplift stores in their neighborhoods, all to which results in stores closing/leaving black neighborhoods. When the stores close in black-neighborhoods, the thieves move to non-black neighborhoods. The obvious result, stores close and blacks have propagated their own disparity, even after so much effort to help them by encouraging Corporate America to invest in black neighborhoods. Corporate America is tired of being used to advance what appears to be a hopeless black-America and listening to black-excuse for failing to thrive. Unfortunately, black misbehavior is highly contagious and has rapidly spread to non-blacks, who believe if blacks can get away with it, so can we."

What the lack of premium grocery stores says about disinvestment in Black neighborhoods - "One part of the larger structure of business and commercial real estate devaluation in Black-majority communities is “food apartheid,” or disparities in access to food that have been produced by structural racism in residential and investment patterns, such as supermarket redlining... Premium grocery stores are absent from wealthy Black-majority communities... there is a second component to the different food retail ecosystems in Black and non-Black (especially white) neighborhoods: the prevalence of less-desirable food options. Studies have shown that the prevalence of fast-food restaurants is positively correlated with the percentage of Black residents in urban neighborhoods in the U.S. Similar trends have been found for liquor stores.   Chain dollar stores are one example of food retailers that have targeted Black-majority urban neighborhoods for store locations, often saturating these communities with outlets and making it more difficult for local businesses and other grocery chains to become established. While dollar stores can fill a need in low-income neighborhoods, they are often regarded as predatory businesses that harm communities more than they benefit them, due to very low wages, displacing other grocery options while failing to sell fresh food, store design that increases the rate of armed robberies, and OSHA and FDA violations that put customers and employees at risk."
Food deserts are because poor people don't want healthy food, but sure, blame racism. Greedy companies are more evil than they are greedy, which is why they don't want to open in black neighbourhoods

Eli Steele on X - "I agree with much of this post but the last paragraph bothered me:   “Let's make 2024 the year when we break the back of wokeness so we can focus our efforts and thoughts on improving society instead of just fighting off people who are intent on destroying it.”  One thing that people often don’t understand is that the first thing that post 60s liberalism — which would eventually lead to DEI — did was destroy a significant part of the black community. In creating policies of dependency combined with failing schools, etc., it severed many blacks from the American Dream.   Today, we have black underclasses in every major city. We have city leaders doing everything to keep blacks locked in this underclass by lowering education standards and blaming the bogeyman of white supremacy for every ill.   These blacks were the very first victims of the Left’s socialistic long March through the institutions.   I’m being very general here but my point is that decades before October 7 or Claudine Gay, not too many people saw that what was fermenting within the black underclass would eventually lead to the rot at Harvard and the destabilization of many American institutions.   Those that saw what was happening were black conservatives. There were people like Thomas Sowell and Shelby  Steele who spoke out. Today, many blacks like Pastor @CoreyBBrooks  on the South Side and @IanVRowe  in the Bronx have started monumental efforts to reverse the decline in their neighborhoods. They didn’t wait for the “white man” or the government. It’s all grassroots.  That is why the claim of starting reform in 2024 bothered me — it ignores the great efforts already underway. It is to our shame that too many thought that the rot we saw in the black underclasses would never reach us.  (The photo shows the construction of Pastor Brooks’ new community center on O-Block, one of the most violent blocks. It was Michelle Obama’s first home.)"

Eli Steele on X - ".@chrisrock  once joked, "If a friend calls you on the telephone and says they're lost on Martin Luther King Boulevard and they want to know what they should do, the best response is 'Run!'"  Below is King Drive that runs through the heart of the South Side of Chicago. This section, known as O-Block, is one of the most violent in the city.   But there is a miracle of sorts taking place on this block: the construction of Pastor @CoreyBBrooks ' massive community center, Project H.O.O.D. This center is designed to end intergenerational poverty, intergenerational violence, and intergenerational dependency on the government.   It took the pastor a decade to raise over $30M to build this community center  -- with little to no help from the government. Americans from all over reached out and it was the generosity of their hearts that made the pastor believe all the more in King's Dream for a better America.   King understood the goodness of America and her people. He understood the need for blacks to take responsibility for their lives. I think he would be proud of all of this community for what they are accomplishing today: the chance for the children coming up now to have the best life possible.  After all, just look at the picture below. To the left of King Drive, you see the infamous Parkway Gardens projects. You see a community driven to the ground. But you also see that the pastor is building something new here, something with hope.   King's life was no joke and it is time for us to rise to his level of seriousness and transform America for the better.   Happy King Day! #MLK #MLKDay2024 #MLKDay"

Shaniqua Posting Delusions on X - "Despite overwhelming evidence that O.J. murdered his white ex-wife, black people celebrated the verdict like their team just won the superbowl"

Charles Barkley decries 'you're not black enough' 'brainwashing' - ""For some reason, we are brainwashed to think that if you're not a thug, or an idiot, you're not black enough," the ever-outspoken NBA analyst told SportsRadio 94 WIP's Anthony Gargano and Rob Ellis... Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson was getting just such criticism from teammates.  "Why would you hate Russell Wilson?" Barkley said. "... Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we are never going to be successful, not because of you white people, but because of other black people."  "When you are black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people," Barkley said. "...Young black kids, when they do well in school, the loser kids tell them, 'Oh, you're acting white.' The kids who speak intelligently, they tell them, 'Oh, you're acting white.'"  "We're the only ethnic group that says, hey, if you're going to jail, it gives you street cred," Barkley said. "That's just typical BS that goes on when you're black, man."... Barkley went on to cite former Sixers guard Allen Iverson as another example of a player hurt by "bad people around him."  "You know, one of the reasons a lot of black players go broke is when you're successful, your friends say, 'Oh, you ain't cool, you ain't down with us anymore,' and you end up giving up all your money to these damn losers, and you end up broke again," Barkley said."
Charles Barkley Slams ‘Unintelligent,’ ‘Brainwashed’ Black People for Holding Successful Ones Back (Audio) - "“For some reason we are brainwashed to think, if you're not a thug or an idiot, you're not black enough,” Barkley said. “If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don't break the law, you're not a good black person.”... “There are a lot of black people who are unintelligent, who don't have success,” he continued. “It's best to knock a successful black person down because they're intelligent, they speak well, they do well in school and they're successful … It's just typical B.S. that goes on when you're a black, man.”"

Lo El Cunado on X - "My husband works 3 jobs to support our family.   My black friend banged 3 black dudes who each abandoned her and the kids.   No, I don't think the wealth accumulation will be the same.
To break it down further:  My FIL worked multiple jobs every day of his adult life to provide for his family raised my husband who works 3 jobs to support our family.   My black friend (abandoned by her black father) went on to bang 3 black dudes who each abandoned her & the kids"

Meme - Wilfred Reilly: "Literally dozens of explanatory variables. Three obvious ones: (1) following the downstream effects of 1960s welfare policy, the average Black family is 1/2 as big. (2) The modal age for a Black man is 31 years below that for a white guy. (3) There are fewer Black billionaires - history does play a role here - and the top 1% of the distro. explains half this gap."
Ed Krassenstein @Edkrassen: "How do you explain this, if it has nothing to do with systematic racism?
AMERICA'S RACIAL WEALTH GAP
$17,150 NET WORTH OF A BLACK FAMILY
$171,000 NET WORTH OF A WHITE FAMILY"

John Lewis Helped Win the Civil Rights War; Why Are We Still Fighting It? - "What today's social justice warriors complain about has little to do with "equal rights" and more to do with unequal results. In 1991, Orlando Patterson, a Black Harvard sociology professor, wrote: "The sociological truths are that America, while still flawed in its race relations ... is now the least racist white-majority society in the world; has a better record of legal protection of minorities than any other society, white or Black; offers more opportunities to a greater number of Black persons than any other society, including all those of Africa." There is a crisis within the Black community, and it's the unconscionably high dropout rate at many of our urban high schools. Baltimore, in 2017, had 13 public high schools where 0% of kids could do math at grade level, and another half-dozen where only 1% could do so.  A white friend, who, in the 1990s, taught at the University of Chicago, recently told me a sad but all too common story. In a Borders bookstore, my professor friend saw a Black boy, approximately 10 years old, sitting and reading a book. My friend does not recall the book but said it was a serious book, not a children's book or a picture book.  But another Black kid, about the same age, walked up to him and said: "Why are you reading that? You're trying to be white." The reader promptly closed the book, put it down and began walking away. My friend, however, rushed over to them and said: "Wait. Don't stop reading. Reading is important to be successful in life. You should read as much and as often as you can, if you want to be successful." The Black kid who was critical about reading turned to his friend and, "See, I told you it would make you white." The kid who had been reading nodded in agreement with his friend and continued walking away.   Where is Black Lives Matter when you need them? One cannot pin this on racism. This is Black self-sabotage."
Success is whiteness and reading is white supremacy, after all

Opinion | Teaching Black Students That They Can’t Handle Discomfort Is a Form of Abuse - The New York Times - "Many leaders at elite universities seem to think that as stewards of modern antiracism, their job is to denounce and to penalize, to the maximum extent possible, anything said or done that makes Black students uncomfortable. In the congressional hearing, the presidents made clear that Jewish students should be protected when hate speech is “directed and severe, pervasive” (in the words of Ms. Magill) or when the speech “becomes conduct” (Claudine Gay of Harvard).  But the tacit idea is that when it comes to issues related to race — and, specifically, Black students — then free speech considerations become an abstraction. Where Black students are concerned, we are to forget whether the offense is directed, as even the indirect is treated as evil; we are to forget the difference between speech and conduct, as mere utterance is grounds for aggrieved condemnation. It seems to me that, in debates over free speech, Jews are seen in some quarters as white and therefore need no protection from outright hostility. But racism is America’s original sin, and thus we are to treat all and any intimation of it on university campuses as a kind of kryptonite, even if that means treating Black students as pathological cases rather than human beings with basic resilience who understand proportion and degree.  This is certainly a double standard imposed on Jewish students...  the legal scholar Ilya Shapiro, before he was to start an appointment at Georgetown’s law school, wrote a tweet implying that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was an affirmative-action pick for the Supreme Court: “Because Biden said he’d only consider black women for SCOTUS, his nominee will always have an asterisk attached.” Shapiro also said that the Indian American judge he thought best qualified “doesn’t fit into latest intersectionality hierarchy so we’ll get a lesser black woman.” For two tweets, his appointment was suspended pending an investigation. Two tweets, that is, and expressing his assessment of racial preferences in the selection of a Supreme Court justice. Shapiro simply — and rather gracelessly — expressed an opinion. His appointment was reinstated, but only because the tweets were written before he was on the job, with it specified that had he written such tweets while employed, it would likely have been classified as creating a hostile environment. (Shapiro ultimately resigned before assuming the position.) The geophysicist Dorian Abbot was disinvited from giving a talk on climate at M.I.T. when it was discovered that he had spoken against identity-based preferences in the past. The head of the department that had invited Abbot announced that “words matter and have consequences.” But the question is whether the words in this case were so injurious as to constitute abusive action — hardly an open-and-shut case — and more to the point, those were words Abbot was presumably not going to speak in his presentation. This was a medieval-style banning of a heretic. Sometimes Black students must be protected not only from words, but words that sound like other words. In 2020, Greg Patton was suspended from teaching a class in communications at the University of Southern California. The reason was that one of his lectures included noting that in Mandarin, a hesitation term is “nèi ge,” which means “that …” and has nothing to do, of course, with the N-word. Several Black students said they felt injured by experiencing this word in the class. The offense can even be 100 years in the past. In 2021 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, some Black students were upset when walking past a boulder on campus that was referred to as a “niggerhead” by a newspaper reporter in 1925, when that term was common for large, dark rocks. The school had the boulder removed.  In cases like those last two, it seems that Black students are being taught a performed kind of delicacy. If you can’t bear walking past a rock someone called a dirty name 100 years ago, how are you going to deal with life? It surely feels as if being on the right side of social justice these days means shielding Black students even from all-but-nonexistent harms while essentially telling Jewish students, who are being actually assailed verbally, to just grow up. But to train young people, or any people, to think of themselves as weak is a form of abuse... anyone who has made the mistake of thinking that a healthy Jewish soul must endure calls for the extermination of Israel might at least consider that a healthy Black soul can endure a sour tweet, a talk by someone who has opposed racial preferences, and even the Mandarin expression “nèi ge.”"
These are the people who go on about "white fragility"

Steve McGuire on X - "Roland Fryer has no time for DEI foolishness: “You can’t put me on a task force where we’re going to spend a semester talking about the new name for black people.” “You go to my neighborhood and call someone BIPOC, they’ll punch you in the face.”"
Wesley Yang on X - "Easy to see why the black bourgeois elite at Harvard didn't take a liking to Fryer, who grew up fatherless and became one of Harvard's most productive scholars -- he is from the class of the truly disadvantaged they are constantly invoking for rhetorical leverage; his scholarly record vastly outshines any and all of theirs; he can't hide his contempt for their BS"

Meme - "Reels
Black content creator: "POV: Everyone has stolen from a bakery before"
spaghetti.borgar: "I haven't, I'm white.""

Meme - "I can't read it"
"There are few who can. The language is black speech, which I will not utter here"
"WE WUZ KANGZ"

Wage Discrimination in the National Basketball Association: Is There Discrimination Based on Race - "For the 1996-1997 season, veteran black players earned an average of $720,000 (43%) more in wages than their white counterparts. Veteran black players earned a mean salary of $2.41 million, compared with $1.69 million for white players."
Damn structural racism!

Hollywood's New Rules

From 2022:

Hollywood's New Rules

"A few years ago, the editor-in-chief of The Hollywood Reporter pitched a story to the newsroom. He had just come back from lunch with a well-known agent, who had suggested the paper take a look at the unintended consequences of Hollywood’s efforts to diversify. Those white men who had spent decades writing scripts—which had been turned into blockbuster movies and hit television shows—were no longer getting hired. 

The newsroom blew up. The reporters, especially the younger ones, mocked the idea that white men were on the outs. The editor-in-chief, normally self-assured, immediately backtracked. He looked rattled...

After the meeting, a reporter approached another editor about pursuing it. The editor told the reporter to drop it. No one, he said, at The Hollywood Reporter—one of a handful of trade publications that covers the ins and outs of the entertainment industry—was going to risk blowing up their career over this. 

The “explosion of woke,” as one longtime producer put it, didn’t come out of nowhere.

Hollywood had always pushed boundaries—from the 1947 “Gentleman’s Agreement,” which confronted antisemitism, to “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” (1967), which tackled interracial marriage, to “All in the Family” (1971-1979), which grappled with race and women’s liberation. The original run of “Will and Grace” (1998-2006), did more to advance the cause of gay marriage than anything else pre-Obergefell.

And then there were the villains: The vast majority—from the Terminator to Hannibal Lecter to Gordon Gekko—were uber-white: an Austrian (robot), a Lithuanian, a WASPy, pinstriped capitalist. (For the insider’s list, see this from The Hollywood Reporter.)

But it wasn’t until 2015—when the #OscarsSoWhite controversy engulfed the 87th Academy Awards—that studio chiefs and producers really started to rethink how they did business. This gained momentum in 2016, and even more in late 2017, with #MeToo.

Then came George Floyd, and, in the summer of 2020, everything that had been happening in slow motion started to happen much faster. 

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences—the industry’s central nervous system—had been founded in 1927, and now it had 8,469 voting members. It had tried over the years, and especially since Donald Trump’s election, to catch up with the zeitgeist, inviting into its ranks a record number of new members who were black, Latino, women or foreign-born. 

But that wasn’t going to cut it any longer.

So, in September 2020, the Academy launched its Representation and Inclusion Standards Entry platform (or RAISE). For a movie to qualify for Best Picture, producers not only had to register detailed personal information about everyone involved in the making of that movie, but the movie had to meet two of the Academy’s four diversity standards—touching on everything from on-screen representation to creative leadership. (An Academy spokesperson said “only select staff” would have access to data collected on the platform.) 

The Academy explained that movies failing to meet these standards would not be barred from qualifying for Best Picture until 2024...

CBS mandated that writers’ rooms be at least 40 percent black, indigenous and people of color (or BIPOC) for the 2021-2022 broadcast season and 50 percent for the 2022-2023 season. ABC Entertainment issued a detailed series of “inclusion standards.” (“I guarantee you every studio has something like that,” a longtime writer and director said.)...

Privately, directors and writers voiced irritation with DuVernay, who, they said, had exploited the “post-George Floyd moment.” But no one dared to criticize her openly. “I’m not crazy,” one screenwriter said.

Of course, Hollywood, like many industries, does have a clubiness about it. And pretty much everyone on the inside insists it should open up to those who had, for decades, been kept out. But the heavy-handed mandates, the databases, the shifting culture—in which pretty much all white men were assumed to have gotten their jobs because they had the right tennis buddies or ZIP code or skin color—raised the possibility of a new kind of clubiness. When asked whether ARRAY Crew was just replacing one kind of exclusion with another, Tobler sidestepped the question, saying the organization had sought to “amplify underrepresented professionals.”

But the result has not just been a demographic change. It has been an ideological and cultural transformation. We spoke to more than 25 writers, directors, and producers—all of whom identify as liberal, and all of whom described a pervasive fear of running afoul of the new dogma. This was the case not just among the high command at companies like Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu, but at every level of production.

How to survive the revolution? By becoming its most ardent supporter. “Best way to defend yourself against the woke is to out-woke everyone, including the woke,” one writer said. Suddenly, every conversation with every agent or head of content started with: Is anyone BIPOC attached to this?

The old-timers accustomed to being on the inside—and the (non-BIPOC) up-and-comers afraid they’d never get there—were one-part confused, one-part angry, and 10,000-parts scared.

“Everyone has gone so underground with their true feelings about things,” said Mike White, the writer and director behind the hit HBO comedy-drama “The White Lotus.” “If you voice things in a certain way it can really have negative repercussions for you, and people can presume that you could be racist, or you could be seen as misogynist.”

Howard Koch, who has been involved in the production of more than 60 movies, including such classics as “Chinatown” and “Marathon Man,” and is the former president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, said: “I’m all for LGBT and Native Americans, blacks, females, whatever minorities that have not been served correctly in the making of content, whether it’s television or movies or whatever, but I think it’s gone too far. I know a lot of very talented people that can’t get work because they’re not black, Native American, female or LGBTQ.” 

Another writer, who, like most of the writers we interviewed, was afraid to speak openly for fear of never working again, said: “I get so paranoid about even phone calls. It’s so scary. My close friends and my family are just like, ‘Don’t say anything.’ It is one of those things, ‘Will I be able to sleep at night if I say anything?’ Getting jobs in this town is so hard, and I’m very grateful to have a great job. If there’s any so-called ding on my record, that would just be an argument against hiring me.” 

It is, said Sam Wasson, the author of “The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood,” not so different from the McCarthy era, when everyone in Hollywood professed to believe something that they thought everyone outside Hollywood—the country, their audience—believed. “Hollywood was never anti-Communist,” Wasson said. “It just pretended to be. In fact, Hollywood was never anti- or pro- anything. It was show business. There’s no morality here.”

That amorality, coupled with a finely tuned sense of what the audience is hungry for, what’s trending, has left Hollywood more susceptible to the vagaries of the culture war. 

“Now, they’ll just say, ‘Sorry, diversity quotas. We’re just not allowed to hire you,’” said a 48-year-old white, male comedy writer who was recently dropped by his agent.

Zack Stentz, a writer and producer who was a screenwriter on “Agent Cody Banks” and the Marvel movie “Thor,” said, “A really toxic thing that does happen is that agents will tell their clients, especially white clients, when they don’t get a job, ‘Oh yeah, it’s because they had to hire a minority writer.’” Stentz added: “Even if it’s true, it’s not a helpful thing to say.”

One showrunner, afraid to send his emails to us out of fear of them accidentally winding up on the wrong screen, agreed to show us correspondence with agents, writers, and studio chiefs that capture the new thinking at the highest levels of the Hollywood food chain.

Sitting in his office, in a casita behind his house and next to the pool, we scrolled through the emails on his laptop:

“This one a dead end — they are going to limit search to women and bipoc candidates”

“How tied to hiring him are you? There are some internally that don’t like the idea of hiring a white guy. I wish I had a better way to frame it. Hate this shit.”

“Studio now telling us this job must go to a female / bipoc writer. Sorry — it sucks”

When we wrapped up, the showrunner said: “This is all going to end in a giant class-action lawsuit.”

The creatives who embrace this agenda think all of this is laughable, a lie, a rationalization. “HI AGENTS AND MANAGERS of white folks in this industry,” the actor and director Natalie Morales tweeted in November. “For fucks sake, please stop blaming ‘diversity hires’ for why your client isn’t getting a job. It’s either that you’re not working hard enough or that they’re not good enough. Be honest with them. You are harming us.”

Rochée Jeffrey, a black writer on “Grownish,” “Santa Inc.,” and “Woke,” said: “I don’t care if white people aren’t comfortable because black people are uncomfortable all the fucking time. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to bite my tongue so as not to offend white sensibilities, so I don’t give a shit if they’re nervous.”  

The showrunner said that the new politics is making it hard to get work done. He added that Human Resources departments at the studios and streaming services are awash in complaints directed at white, male showrunners just for doing their job. “It’s gotten to the point where I won’t give notes on a script any longer to a woman or person of color.”...

The writers’ room is supposed to be smart, funny, nasty, a little bawdy, the kind of place where people can make jokes and riff and wonder aloud and vomit out ideas that might become an unforgettable scene. Another showrunner in his mid-fifties (white, male, unfortunately) said: “You’re not allowed to pick your staff anymore, and studios won’t let you interview anybody who isn’t a person of color.”

He added that the culture of documenting even the slightest of slights makes him anxious. “I’m sitting in a room trying to run a show with a collection of people I don’t totally trust.”

The politicization of content production, creatives said, was going to be the industry’s death knell. “Especially this past year, ideology has become more important than art,” Quentin Tarantino said in June on Bill Maher’s show. “It’s like ideology trumps art. Ideology trumps individual effort. Ideology trumps good.”

Exhibit A: “Woke.” 

The comedy series, which premiered on Hulu in September 2020, should have been the statement on America right now. It’s about a black cartoonist who is awakened to systemic racism after a run-in with the cops.

The show started off on the right foot: the showrunner, Aeysha Carr, and the writers room she oversaw, delivered a strong batch of early scripts, according to several writers on the show.

Then the producers weighed in. “The notes were all so sanctimonious,” one writer said. “It was never supposed to be as serious as it was. We wanted a thought-provoking show that made fun of woke culture and explored notions of what a black artist’s life would be like in San Francisco among white liberals. But we could only punch down at the safest targets”—white men. 

The irony was not lost on anyone: The black writers, starting with Carr, were more willing to take risks and poke fun at antiracist orthodoxy.

This led to creative differences, and soon, Carr, a black woman, was out. She was replaced by Zander Lehmann, a white man.

Then, Lehman was out, too—replaced by Jay Dyer, who is black. “Jay was brought on toward the end for optics,” a black writer on the show said. “Any black guy would do. That was the energy I got.” (Carr and Keith Knight, a co-creator of the semi-autobiographical show, declined to comment.)

The quality of the scripts suffered, and the show, which premiered in September 2020, landed a 53 percent “green splat” average audience review on Rotten Tomatoes

In late 2020, Hulu renewed “Woke” for a second season. It also replaced Dyer with a fourth showrunner—Anthony King, who is white. (King did not reply to an email seeking comment.)

Kevin Parker, a black talent manager at Artists First, said the skeptics miss the point. “This whole diversity thing—it’s about money,” Parker said... “It’s good business to tell more stories from different perspectives, and that’s all this really is,” Parker said...

“Maybe it’s 15 percent about the belief that it will bring more people into viewing content, and 85 percent about the fear of being attacked on social media or in places like the Hollywood press or The New York Times,” a writer and producer said. “You’ve got to be insane not to have at the forefront of your mind all of these racial and gender and trans issues when you’re writing something. You have to worry about the impact that everything you do will have on your career. And that has an obvious chilling effect on creativity.”...

There was a feeling, among those who didn’t hew to the new orthodoxy, that it was becoming harder not only for certain people to find work but for a certain kind of content—ballsier, more provocative—to get made.

They were scared of what was happening. The fear, one prominent director said in an email, is “the audience stops trusting us. They begin to see us as a community twisting ourselves into a pretzel to make every movie as woke as possible, every relationship mixed racially, every character sexually fluid, and they decide that we are telling stories set in a fantasyland instead of a world they know and live in. If that happens, and they decide to throw themselves instead into video games 24/7, we will lose them.”

Movies and shows that were once widely acclaimed but are now verboten, writers and directors said, included “Blazing Saddles,” even though it was co-written by Richard Pryor; “The Bad News Bears,” even though it featured a multiracial cast; “Tootsie,” because transgender activists; and “Rocky” (“bad guy CANNOT be black,” a director explained in an email). Nor would “The Wizard of Oz” get greenlit. (“The munchkins? Forget it,” the director said). Nor would “All in the Family,” probably the most influential show of the 1970s. (“Archie Bunker”—the main character—“is basically a Trump voter,” a producer explained.) “South Park,” which debuted in 1997, has been grandfathered in. “Otherwise, no way,” another producer said.

All of which may explain the very strange story of the brand new $484 million Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. 

In September, the Academy threw a gala celebrating the opening of the museum. Attendees included Sophia Loren, Guillermo del Toro, Jennifer Hudson, Issae Rae, Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry. Lady Gaga performed. Vogue covered it the way Vogue covers things. Ted Sarandos, a co-CEO of Netflix and the chair of the museum’s board, gave a speech. (In what is now common practice in places like Los Angeles, an elder from the local Tongva tribe kicked things off with a blessing and “land acknowledgement.” The sanitation worker whose job it was to clean the podium between speakers dutifully wore his mask. The speakers did not.)

The museum features an iconic, spherical 33,000-square-foot theater designed by Renzo Piano, stunning exhibitions, and a two-story restaurant called Fanny’s, named after Fanny Brice, the actor and comedienne.

But, oddly, it’s missing any mention of the small band of mostly Jewish emigres from Eastern Europe, who created the film industry. The people without whom there would be no entertainment industry. 

In today’s climate—in which inclusion and diversity are said to be so important—it was an especially ironic omission: The Jews were excluded from almost everywhere. Their success signaled the inclusivity and possibility that only Hollywood could afford them. The rise of the industry’s founding fathers should have been an inspiring origin story around which everyone in the community could rally. The link between then and now seemed obvious.

Most of the media that reported on the museum missed this. (Sharon Rosen Leib, writing in the Jewish newspaper The Forward, did not.) It was as if they wanted to pretend that huge chunks of Hollywood’s past hadn’t been airbrushed out.

More to the point, it was as if they wanted to forget that Hollywood was not the cartoon it was being made out to be, suggested Sam Wasson, the author. “Hollywood, at its best, was meritocratic,” said Wasson, who wrote about the museum for Airmail. “If you don’t believe me, just watch the movies of the great filmmaking eras.”...

For years, the real money in Hollywood came from the television channels that broadcast reruns and old movies; residuals meant creatives were paid handsomely. But with the rise of Netflix, Amazon and other streaming services, that model collapsed. And the vast majority of creatives had to make do with less.

Now, most people in the industry do not earn enough to support a family of four in Los Angeles. As money has gotten tighter, people have gotten angrier, and things have gotten uglier. “I’d say all that probably expedited the radicalization,” a longtime Hollywood creative said of the shifting marketplace.

Mike White said that it is a lot easier for Hollywood to talk about race than class"


Left wingers keep mocking the idea that white men are discriminated against - even as they cheer their being excluded from opportunities in the name of diversity and 1 in 6 hiring managers say they are told to discriminate against them. Some even mock white men, saying they should try harder (good luck telling a "minority" that).

Telling "diverse" stories makes money even if the ratings and viewing numbers are shit. At least someone (diversity hires and consultants) is making money...


Comments:

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I have been running the Oscar website AwardsDaily.com since 1999. I was one of the leaders pushing for inclusion and diversity starting back in 2001 when Halle Berry became the first black actress (and since, only black actress) to win in the category. It is hard to overstate just how hard it it was for actors, writers and directors to penetrate the white wall. I felt it was my moral duty to change that. But then Trump was elected. Then the community and the left became locked in a kind of mass hysteria. For the mostly educated in this country it was a shock that people who would vote for Trump existed. To them, it had to be about race because everything on the left was about race. We watched the witch hunts start on Twitter, then go after people who had done things, then go after people who had said things, then go after people who thought things. Now we are - in total collapse. I have shifted my own coverage (inspired by Bari Weiss) to push back, to speak out, to teach others not to be afraid of the mob and to encourage Hollywood to do the same. This industry cannot survive this moment. Art cannot survive outrage culture. It is killing everything all in the name of social justice. The Golden Globes being canceled was one of the most chilling things I have ever lived through. None of my colleagues would even acknowledge the winners, which trickled out on social media without an audience, without a show.

I myself have been chased around Twitter, called a White Supremacist and had my business threatened. I have a little Netflix show right now that people have tried to get me fired from - all because I speak my mind. It is like the Red Scare which morphed into the Black List which morphed into the McCarthy trials. Eventually it took Eisenhower to stop the madness.

The fear is palpable everywhere you look, and visible in every single one of their films because the ones that push back on that fear don't even their foot in the door.

Those who control the Democratic Party have the same problem as Hollywood right now. They don't realize that they have become an insulated, isolated aristocracy that uses race and social justice as a way to absolve themselves of the crime of success and privilege (like the Catholics before the Reformation). And in so doing is forced to label more than half the country that doesn't support them, racists.

I keep telling people that this, like all episodes of mass hysteria will end. Make sure when that happens that you were on the right side when the worst of it came down. History will not be kind."

 

"“Rochée Jeffrey, a black writer on “Grownish,” “Santa Inc.,” and “Woke,” said: “I don’t care if white people aren’t comfortable because black people are uncomfortable all the fucking time.”

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This is my favorite new phenomenon. It is a combination of pathological narcissism and racism. Maybe call it racissism?

😂😂😂

As a narcissist, this guy thinks that since he feels uncomfortable, everyone else who is black must feel uncomfortable……because he also believes that all black people are the same. Awesome. Good stuff."

Links - 18th March 2024 (1 - General Wokeness)

Richard Hanania on X - "If you spend time around educated liberals, you can conduct experiments to show that their commitment to wokeness is unusually only skin deep. This is why leftists are always angry. They can't win in the realm of everyday life."
Anti-Woke as Autism - "One thing I’ve always been struck by is how little congruence there is between what educated Americans say and what they do on matters of race, sex, class, and other sensitive topics. I’m not talking about the normal conservative critique of “oh, you believe in racial equality but live in an all-white neighborhood and send your kids to private school.” That’s an old argument, and it’s true. But I’m talking about personal interactions, sources of self-esteem, and how individuals understand their social roles. Next time you’re around a highly educated young woman who has views and attitudes typical of her social class, imply that something about her is stereotypically masculine. It could be her gait, her jawline, her voice, whatever. If your understanding of humanity is based on how people answer survey questions, you might expect her to shrug it off. But trust me, unless she’s a fully committed pronoun person, she will not. You can try the same thing with the typical cis-hetero male of the same educational background, and call him effeminate. I admit to having conducted versions of these experiments, and people generally react with anger or distress, since they still desire to be perceived as someone representing traits associated with their biological sex. Or picture a male academic, who would pay lip service to the ideas that gender is a spectrum, beauty is socially constructed, that you shouldn’t judge women by their looks, and everything else that goes into the PC package of things you’re supposed to believe about human sexuality. He meets young undergrads for office hours. One who looks like a young Kate Upton is going to get treated a lot better than a young Lizzo. Depending on which one he is talking to, the professor will adjust his tone, generosity with his time, interest in the student’s personal life, and sensitivity to her concerns about the class, all to the benefit of the attractive student. In my experience, this is true for all academics except those who most deeply internalize woke ideology, but they are a minority and usually miserable due to how much cognitive dissonance it takes to act so contrary to human nature... Society gives Lizzo a consolation prize. She gets her own academic departments that praise her race and sex, and maybe can even take fat studies classes. The university administration will hire dozens of bureaucrats to affirm various facets of her identity throughout her college experience. The wider culture will affirm “black is beautiful,” while nobody but the most anti-social lunatics will dare proclaim that “blond hair and blue eyes are beautiful.”  Does this mean Lizzos have higher status than Kate Uptons? I could see how a ChatGPT whose understanding of our society was developed through text alone can come to that conclusion. But for individuals who gain their understanding of human society by being embedded in it as active participants, the idea is absurd.  A lot of anti-wokeness strikes me as a kind of autism, mistaking social desirability bias for underlying reality. The most committed wokes are angry because they’re more directly perceiving that reality, which is stacked personally against them or the groups they feel sorry for... One entertaining piece of anecdata:
'A year after Caitlyn Jenner announced her new name and gender, the popularity of the name Caitlyn plummeted more than any other baby name, according to Social Security’s annual list of the most popular baby names.      In fact, the four names that dropped the most were all variations of the same name: Caitlin, Caitlyn, Katelynn and Kaitlynn.'
See also the OkCupid race statistics, which they don’t release anymore because they hurt too much to look at. HR taking your side in personnel disputes and nice statements from the dean of diversity aren’t going to get you a desirable partner. Height, symmetrical facial features, money, and yes, whiteness (or Asian girlness), still will, no matter what the political climate is like."

Meme - Libs of TikTok: "Indiana Department of Child Services (CPS) claim it's appropriate for 0-8 year-old kids to m*stur*ate. They also say 9-year-olds will need information on s*xu'l materials (p*rn). They recommend discussing gender with all ages. They're setting the stage to get CPS involved if a parent doesn't conform to radical left-wing gender ideology. We saw this play out in various scenarios in other states. Most recently in Montana where CPS took a kid away to transition her after her parents opposed it. They're embedding this ideology at every level in every institution and every Government agency. They will use the government and lawfare to go after your kids and force you to fall in line."
Why do left wingers want to sexualise children so much?
Keywords: masturbate

pagliacci the hated 🌝 on X - "a travelvlog couple trying to visit every country in the world decided to go to India as their latest destination. 11 hours ago they announced they were at the hospital because he had been beaten up and she had been gang raped by 7 men."
Anjali Lobo on X - "I’m originally from the state of Goa in India. Most people there were Roman Catholic. Most Goan parents hesitate to send their daughters to other states in India. They would tell them to work in Goa or go to US or UK."
Will Spencer | Renaissance of Men on X - "I spent 6 months backpacking alone through India in 2018 & 2019, traveling primarily by overnight bus.   As a 6-foot tall tattooed white man I was monetarily taken advantage of many times, and viewed alternately as a walking ATM or photo opportunity wherever I went. But by God’s providence I was never physically assaulted nor meaningfully threatened.   However, I also traveled for 3 years in preparation to visit the country. I had learned hard lessons of situational awareness and personal security. Despite that, it took all my strength to complete the journey through India. It was the conclusion of my travels for a reason.   Many times I did see malice in the eyes of moto-taxi drivers, though. And I heard stories of tourists being driven to remote locations and blackmailed out of their belongings by cab drivers, which is why taxi security at New Delhi airport is such a huge deal.   India is not a safe country to travel in. While not “dangerous” like a country at war, it is a nation of unimaginable corruption at levels that would shock an average Westerner. And it is barely civilized even in many popular locations, like Agra where the Taj Mahal is. Especially because your skin color marks you as a target in ways you can’t hide.   Liberal Americans have this view of the rest of the melanated world as one big song of Kumbaya, crying out against the oppression of the white West.   This could not be further from the truth.   Violence, bigotry, and hatred are standard operating practice of the residents of many countries. Members of foreign nations express racism to and about each other that make our “micro aggressions” look like a sneeze. Such people laugh at our naive ignorance of the way the world really is, which is why Westerners are often such easy marks. (Not suggesting this couple.)  America, Aus/NZ and Europe are the safest regions on Earth in part because the Christian West regards each human being as made in the image of God. We are not mere fantasies suffering through the illusion of Samsara, as in Hinduism and Buddhism.   Human rights came from the Christian tradition for this reason.   And no religion on Earth has ever honored women as much as Christianity does. Christ spoke with and healed women (Luke 8, John 4), even appearing to them first in His resurrected form in all four Gospels. (Matt 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, John 20)  This was a profound affirmation of the innate value of women, in a Jewish and Roman culture that regarded them far lower in value than men.   So when feminism demolished the Christian West under the banner of “smash the patriarchy” it actually invited a level of barbarism towards women that they had previously been largely sheltered from, by God’s decree.   Yes there were and are abusive men in the West. Just as there were and are many, many good people in the East.   But life as a woman in Europe and America far surpasses the safety and security of life of a woman in the East. The British ended the Hindu practice of Sati (widows burning themselves on the pyre of their husbands) during colonization, for example. And look up what Gandhi said about women and how he treated them, sometime. And then there’s Islam.   The great blessing of my solo travels was that I got to see many beautiful things about the more than 30 countries  I visited, including India. But I also got to see them for what they are.   I firmly maintain that true global travel will turn anyone into a raging conservative. It did me.   I pray for the speedy recovery for this couple and that it does not make them bitter. It easily could.   I would prefer it make them honest, which I imagine it will."

Aimee Terese on X - "Liberals aren’t “tolerant”, they just have different values. They are enthusiastic to annihilate anything or anyone who threatens them."
Meme - Lumpen space process: ""You cannot coexist with this trash, you have to expunge it mercilessly" - Billy assures this shall be our motto if we want to
*adjusts glasses
*in the mic, hushedly: "it says 'avoid' here, you sure?"
* shrugs at director
...we want to, er, avoid last century's atrocities."
Will Stancil @whstancil: "The only bulwark against reliving the nightmares of the past is a complete, uncompromising unwillingness to tolerate the horrible ideas that caused those nightmares. You cannot coexist with this trash, you have to expunge it mercilessly"
Meme - Thucydides @thyucidides: "Not all cultures are the same. I used to live in Minneapolis and would not feel safe around some of the Somalis. Dress is not the same as ideology."
Will Stancil @whstancil: "Wild to just confess this out loud. Somalis are just part of the urban fabric here in Minneapolis, you see Somali people at the mall, at the gym, at the grocery store. It literally could not be less remarkable or terrifying. It's being scared of people wearing hats"
coltello2024 @coltello2024: "Not really that shocking of an opinion. I haven't googled the tourism industry of Somalia, but I don't imagine that many Americans care to go there. Some cultures are just garbage, and it's okay to admit that."
Will Stancil @whstancil: ""Some cultures are just garbage" - you are talking about my neighbors you slime. It is insane we have normalized this. It is disgusting and offensive. If you said this to my face I would spit in yours"

‘Free From The White Gaze’: London Play Featuring ‘Game Of Thrones’ Star Invites Black-Only Audience - "A London play starring “Game of Thrones” star Kit Harrington will host two performances where only black audience members, or those identifying as black, will be permitted to view the play, “free from the white gaze.” “Slave Play,” which received 12 Tony nominations in 2021, but won no awards, will run at the Noël Coward theater in London’s West End from June 29 to September 21 and feature performances on July 17 and September 17 with “Black Out nights.”  “Blackout nights are the purposeful creation of an environment in which an all-Black-identifying audience can experience and discuss an event in the performing arts, film, athletic and cultural spaces — free from the white gaze,” the theater noted... “I understand the subject matter of the show may have particular resonance for some but would simply question the legality of this? In other circles it would be illegal and racial discrimination. I don’t understand why this isn’t,” one member of Parliament told The Daily Mail.  The play’s producers told The BBC the “intent is to celebrate the play with the widest possible audience. We want to increase accessibility to theatre for everyone.” “The Broadway production conceived of Black Out nights and we are carefully considering how to incorporate this endeavour as part of two performances in our 13-week run. We will release further details soon. To be absolutely clear, no-one will be prevented or precluded from attending any performance of Slave Play.” Playwright Jeremy O. Harris told BBC Sounds:     'One of the things we have to remember is that people have to be radically invited into a space to know that they belong there and in most places in the west, poor people and black people have been told that they do not belong inside the theatre… For me, as someone who wants and yearns for black and brown people to be in the theatre, who comes from a working class environment, who wants people who do not make six figures to feel like theatre is a place for them, it is a necessity to radically invite them in with initiatives that say “you’re invited.” Specifically you'... The play itself focuses on three modern-day interracial couples who attempt to mend tensions in their relationships by engaging in “antebellum sexual-performance therapy,” according to The New Yorker. The black characters in the play no longer experience pleasure in their relationships with their white partners and attempt to recapture it through the racially-charged sexual roleplaying."
Liberals pushing segregation again
Once again, liberals are the only ones who can hear the dog whistles

The left’s deathly embrace of Islamic identitarianism - "So the House of Commons now has an MP for Gaza. His name is George Galloway. Last night, the fedora-sporting left-wing malcontent won a stunning victory in the by-election in Rochdale. ‘This is for Gaza’, he said in his victory speech. Not for Rochdale’s poor, then. Not for its struggling families. Not for its working-class girls who suffered so terribly at the hands of Pakistani grooming gangs. No, for a small patch of land 2,500 miles away. Rarely has the British left’s penchant for deserting its own working class in favour of cosying up to more ‘glamorous’ causes overseas been so brutally illustrated... Second place went to the independent candidate, David Tully, a local businessman, who won 6,638 votes, more than the combined vote of the Tories and Labour. It is a sign of the kindling discontent in towns like Rochdale that they would not only return to parliament a famed firebrand like Galloway, but also take a punt on a political unknown like Tully, rather than give their X to one of the establishment parties... But it was also a bad night for those of us who wish ‘left behind’ voters who are sickened by the technocratic blancmange of 21st-century politics had something better to vote for. Galloway described the by-election as a ‘referendum on Gaza’. Other candidates agreed, especially Azhar Ali. He was on the ballot for Labour but he’d actually been suspended by Labour following the leaking of recordings from a local party meeting in which he indulged Israelophobic conspiracy theories and ranted about the ‘Jewish’ media. Ali likewise advertised himself as ‘a strong voice for Palestine’. What about a strong voice for Rochdale? Who will do that? The people of Rochdale were essentially invited to pass comment on Palestine rather than to pass comment on their own needs and interests. This represents a serious erosion of the entire purpose of democracy. The vote is one of the few means working people have of stating and pursuing their self-interest. That right is utterly upended when an election is ‘for Palestine’, when it’s a ‘referendum on Gaza’ rather than, say, on local unemployment levels, poor schooling, community tensions or any other issue the good people of Rochdale are worried about. Making Rochdale all about Gaza is another form of working-class disenfranchisement... Rochdale was famously the site of the Gillian Duffy scandal in 2010, when then Labour leader Gordon Brown was overheard referring to the elderly Mrs Duffy as a ‘bigoted woman’ after she asked what he would do about immigration levels. The working class of Rochdale was once silenced by the sneering insults of the Westminster elite; now they’re sidelined by agitating lefty upstarts who seem to think a foreign war is more pressing and more interesting than any of their northern nonsense. This cuts to the heart of the Islamo-left, that neo-Bonapartist alliance between Britain’s middle-class leftists and radicalised Muslims. The Islamo-left springs, fundamentally, from the left’s desertion of the working class... Enter Muslim identitarianism. To the post-class left, the zealous Islamist in a keffiyeh is a more alluring figure, more oppressed, than an old lady like Gillian Duffy.   Galloway’s own career sums up the left’s turn from class and its embrace of the fake revolutionary thrill that comes from hanging out with angry Muslims. There’s a telling moment in his 2004 autobiography, I’m Not the Only One, where he describes being a 21-year-old political activist in the Labour Party office in Dundee in Scotland in the 1970s. He would often ‘let the doorbell ring’, he says, because he felt there was little he could do for the ‘hard-luck cases’ who came looking for help. Then, one day, a young Palestinian came knocking. He spent two hours telling Galloway the story of Palestine. It was ‘one of the most important [meetings] of my life’, Galloway says. Before long he was visiting Palestinian militants in Beirut where he became transfixed by this ‘different world I had entered’ – it was ‘bliss’, with ‘exotic Arabic music in the cafés and the whiff of revolution in the air’. Not like dull Dundee, then. This is a perfect distillation of the dynamics behind the Islamo-left. The modern left seeks refuge from the pesky ‘hard-luck’ problems of its own society in the ‘exotic’ politics of Arab radicalism. Their feverish embrace of the Palestine issue is really a flight from class, a flight from the drudgery of trying to improve life at home in preference for the easy ‘exotic’ kick of mingling with non-white men with guns. And some are more than willing to turn a blind eye to Islamism’s deeply reactionary nature. Witness the very same chattering-class leftists who reached for the smelling salts over Gillian Duffy’s ‘bigotry’ now marching with Islamists who gleefully chant about the massacre of Jews. To be fair to Galloway, he hasn’t entirely abandoned class. He is not like the flapper-girl socialists of Novara Media or the phoney Remoaner left of the Guardian. He supported Brexit. He isn’t woke. He even knows what a woman is. Yet he has moved towards Muslim identity politics... He seemed to be appealing to Muslim voters less as British citizens than as members of an angry ummah; less as residents of Rochdale than as religionists whose grief over Gaza trumps all else...Galloway switched it up for non-Muslim voters, true. To them he said, ‘I believe in Britain’ and ‘I have no difficulty in defining what a woman is’. ‘There will be no grooming gangs on my watch’, he continued. Then came his cleverest line: ‘MAKE ROCHDALE GREAT AGAIN.’ Yet such populist cries felt like an afterthought to the main show, which was Gaza... Some in the Islamo-left march alongside Hamas fanboys, turn a blind eye to misogyny and homophobia when it comes from Islamists, failed to denounce the fascistic pogrom of 7 October and engage in the most unhinged denunciations of the world’s only Jewish state, and then they have the gall to call us bigots?"
People get what they vote for
By appealing to dual loyalty, he fits the definition of Islamophobia. Ironic

The birth of the culture wars - "Many pundits and politicians seem to blame UK prime minister Boris Johnson for provoking the latest installment of the culture wars that now dominate Anglo-American public life. Sections of the media, from the New York Times to the Guardian, have claimed that Johnson wants to argue over statues to distract from his poor handling of the Covid pandemic. Others, such as Labour’s David Lammy, reckon Johnson’s defence of the statue of Winston Churchill, against those who would deface or dismantle it, was a deliberate attempt to stoke the culture wars, and deflect attention from the Tories lack of progress on ‘racial injustice’... Until recently, most commentators would insist that talk of the polarisation of culture is exaggerated; some went so far as to deny the very existence of a culture war. Those who denounced the cultural politics of Sixties’ radicals were often simply dismissed as backward-looking traditionalists – social conservatives trying to justify their prejudices by attacking new ways of thinking and speaking.  But the culture war is real. Historically, it was set in motion in Western societies by a powerful impulse to detach the present from the past, which emerged at the turn of the 20th century. This project of liberating the present from the cultural values of the past was most clearly formulated by the Progressive movement in the US, and by the New Liberals in Britain. But it was the experience of the First World War that gave this sentiment real momentum. For the war fundamentally undermined the cultural continuity of the West. Disconnected from the past, post-war Western societies found it difficult to develop a compelling narrative through which to transmit their cultural legacy to young people. One outcome of this development was the phenomenon known today as the ‘generation gap’. It emerged in the aftermath of the First World War precisely because it was not simply a generational gap, but also a cultural one – a gap, that is, between the pre- and post-war eras. In the decades that followed, these generational tensions would come to be experienced as the problem of identity... many commentators at the time, and in the decades to come, were blind to this cultural conflict. They focused on the ideological conflict between communism and capitalism, and the rise of fascism, rather than the loss of cultural authority of Western values. One reason why Western ruling elites failed to address the loss of their moral authority was because of the difficulty they had in acknowledging that their own way of life was being unravelled by powerful corrosive influences internal to it... McCarthy’s anti-communist crusade can be seen as one of the earliest attempts (and failures) after the Second World War to revitalise traditional values in the face of their rapid demise... anti-communist ideology on its own could not contain the corrosive outcomes of the moral depletion of Western culture. Kirkpatrick asserted that McCarthy’s demise and the victory of his critics was a ‘precondition of the rise of the counterculture in the 1960s’...   Since the interwar era, capitalism as a social system has found it increasingly difficult to justify itself against its critics. Matters were made worse by the reluctance of conservative and liberal thinkers to confront this problem directly...   Since the 1970s, the representatives of traditional America have been constantly on the defensive. Instead of initiating debates and attempting to set the agenda, they have been continually forced to react to the latest blow directed at their way of life. This cycle of defensive responsiveness can be seen on many issues, from gay marriage or trans rights to claims about white privilege. The pessimistic diagnosis offered by Moynihan and Brittan was widespread among conservative thinkers. Periodic attempts to promote ‘back to basics’ campaigns in the 1970s and 1980s proved to be singularly ineffective. At this point in time, the mainstream conservative and right-wing parties attempted to evade the consequences of their cultural isolation by emphasising their ability to achieve economic success. The high point of this strategy arrived during the Thatcher-Reagan years, when their brand of economic liberalism gained hegemony over public life. However, what the supporters of Thatcher and Reagan failed to notice, or acknowledge, was that despite the electoral success of their parties, their opponents were winning the culture war. Paradoxically, it was during the Thatcher and Reagan years that what came to be known as political correctness gained ascendancy and identity politics became institutionalised, first on campuses and later in the public and private sectors. Today, when the reality of a culture war is widely recognised, it is worth noting that until recently almost all sides of the political divide were reluctant to draw attention to it. That is why supporters of political correctness went out of their way to deny there was such a thing as PC. Similarly, until recently, advocates of identity politics insisted that identity politics was a dishonest invention of their opponents...   One reason why Buchanan’s speech caused such a stir was because, by 1992, the old traditional elites had more or less been entirely sidelined by their adversaries. The countercultural movement had been institutionalised, and its representatives dominated institutions of culture, higher education and the public sector. And, since then, businesses and the private sector have also come under its sway.  Having gained hegemony, members of this countercultural establishment are now less and less afraid to impose their own values on the rest of society. From their standpoint, Boris Johnson is an elite outlier, and his defence of Churchill offers them a reminder that there are still obstacles to the realisation of the project of detaching society from the legacy of its past. They now constitute the cultural establishment, and people who wish to defend the statues of Churchill or Abraham Lincoln are their countercultural adversaries."

Is the myth of left-wing authoritarianism itself a myth? - "Is left-wing authoritarianism (LWA) closer to a myth or a reality? Twelve studies test the empirical existence and theoretical relevance of LWA. Study 1 reveals that both conservative and liberal Americans identify a large number of left-wing authoritarians in their lives. In Study 2, participants explicitly rate items from a recently-developed LWA measure as valid measurements of authoritarianism. Studies 3–11 show that persons who score high on this same LWA scale possess the traits associated with models of authoritarianism: LWA is positively related to threat sensitivity across multiple areas, including general ecological threats (Study 3), COVID disease threat (Study 4), Belief in a Dangerous World (Study 5), and Trump threat (Study 6). Further, high-LWA persons show more support for restrictive political correctness norms (Study 7), rate African-Americans and Jews more negatively (Studies 8–9), and show more cognitive rigidity (Studies 10 and 11). These effects hold when controlling for political ideology and when looking only within liberals, and further are similar in magnitude to comparable effects for right-wing authoritarianism. Study 12 uses the World Values Survey to provide cross-cultural evidence of Left-Wing Authoritarianism around the globe. Taken in total, this large array of triangulating evidence from 12 studies comprised of over 8,000 participants from the U.S. and over 66,000 participants world-wide strongly suggests that left-wing authoritarianism is much closer to a reality than a myth."
More evidence that liberals are more racist than conservatives. Of course, Salon pretends there's no such thing (besides talking a lot of nonsense as usual, like pretending the right's policies are unpopular so lying is the only way they win), because left wingers just define away their authoritarianism
"there is a hypothesis that right wingers generally want to be left alone and mind their own business while leftists want you to adopt their religion. so over time institutions, unless they explicitly curb drift will creep left"

Meme - Ezra Levant: "Orban is unequivocally pro-Israel and expressly pro-Jewish. The World Jewish Congress says Hungary is the best country in Europe to be Jewish. For a Trudeau lobbyist to call anyone else in the world antisemitic is what psychologists call projection."
Norman Spector @nspector4: "If @RobSilver is concerned about antisemitism, you'd think he'd have a word with @telfordk about the PM talking out of both sides of his mouth on Hamas- Israel leaving Canadians to fight it out in the streets while stoking hatred in our country."
Rob Silver @RobSilver: "Amongst many other things, Orban is an awful Anti-Semite. He of course hates many other people besides Jews. We should never, ever normalize what's going on here. We live in awful times."
Acyn @Acyn: "Trump: Theres a great man in Europe. Viktor Orban... He's a very strong man. It's nice to have a strongman running your country"

Meme - "When you've read even a little bit of U.S. history..."
*US Flag* "Ugh! Put that horrid thing away!"
We're still told that liberals don't hate their countries
Let's say it again. Studying history will sometimes delight you. Studying history will sometimes please you. Studying history Will sometimes make you proud.  If studying history always makes you feel ashamed and upset, you probably aren't studying history

James Carville thinks the Democratic Party has a “wokeness” problem - "According to Carville, Democrats are in power for now, but they also only narrowly defeated Donald Trump, “a world-historical buffoon,” and they lost congressional seats and failed to pick up state legislatures. The reason is simple: They’ve got a “messaging problem.”... Wokeness is a problem and everyone knows it. It’s hard to talk to anybody today — and I talk to lots of people in the Democratic Party — who doesn’t say this. But they don’t want to say it out loud... large parts of the country view us as an urban, coastal, arrogant party, and a lot gets passed through that filter. That’s a real thing. I don’t give a damn what anyone thinks about it — it’s a real phenomenon, and it’s damaging to the party brand... we can’t say, “Republicans are going to call us socialists no matter what, so let’s just run as out-and-out socialists.” That’s not the smartest thing to do. And maybe tweeting that we should abolish the police isn’t the smartest thing to do because almost fucking no one wants to do that."
It's hilarious that he claims that climate change hysteria "refuses to use emotion"

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