Links - 27th February 2020 (1)

SWEDEN: Migrants Beat, Rob, Urinate in Boy's Face
If it'd been the other way around...

Landmark case: Swedish court fines man for not deleting hate speech on Facebook - "Patrik Markström, one of the administrators of the Facebook group Stå Upp För Sverige (Stand Up For Sweden), faced court for not deleting eight "grossly insulting" comments made by other people in the group."

Muslim Officer in Charge of Minority Recruitment Drive Busted in Child Rape Gang Case - "Amjad Ditta, 35, is among 16 men charged with sex offenses against children including rape and child trafficking.
In 2016, the BBC reported on Amjad Ditta’s appointment as a “positive action coordinator” tasked with boosting the numbers of black and minority applicants to the West Yorkshire police force... The men arrested as part of the sex trafficking bust include Vaqaas Abbas, Nadeem Adalat, Sajid Adalat, Vaseem Adalat, Amjad Ditta, Christopher Eastwood, Metab Islam, Mohammed Rizwan Iqbal, Ishtiaq Latif, Asad Mahmood, Arfan Mir, Younis Mohammed aka Younis Khan, Nadeem Nassir, Shahzad Nawaz, Shazad Nazir, and Sohail Zafar."

Ontario school board provided sex work and extreme sex act resources to students - The Post Millennial - "With just a few clicks from the Family Resources section of the UCDSB, someone could access soft porn that included information about anal sex, scissoring, fisting, and sex work among other things. After this meeting, he received a letter outlining why the school board believed that access to such materials was within their mandate... Not to be dissuaded, Kiar responded with a letter of his own and pointed out that Public Health Ontario’s Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee on Communicable Diseases categorizes “Higher Risk Sexual Behaviour” as “sexual practices that may cause bleeding or abrasions, resulting in blood to blood contact between participants.”  He argued that because this kind of high-risk behaviour was being promoted by Youthline, the site was not safe for any child and therefore should not be accessible through the UCDSB website...
"Graphic descriptions of sex are not appropriate in an educational setting involving minors. Topics like consent, contraception, and STIs are important, but it’s inappropriate and unnecessary for children to be exposed to them in the context of sex work.”
A family located in another Ontario school district contacted me earlier in the school year. They were in a state of shock because one of their child’s classmates had presented a book report on the 18+ graphic novel/movie “Blue is the Warmest Colour.” It’s a romance story about two lesbians and contains several sexually explicit scenes. This was in a Grade 5 class; the kids are 9-10 years old. It wasn’t that long ago that minor children with knowledge of sexual activity considered to be “beyond their years” were a cause for concern—even reason for a phone call to child services.What would have happened, I wonder, had the content of the story been a heterosexual romance with, according to the reviews, “lots of explicit sex”? If we remove the opportunity to shame others for being “homophobic” and look at the evidence objectively, what do we learn?... there’s a social cost to these lessons that is only just beginning to be understood, and it’s being borne by kids. In whose best interest is it to promote to children through our public education system that everyone has a gender identity, for example? No one understands why the rate of adolescent girls being referred to gender clinics is increasing at an exponential rate across the western world. Yet teachers are using resources in their classrooms that are known to promote medicalization of gender non-conformity... The purported objective of Ontario’s Inclusive Education Strategy is to create schools that are safe and inclusive for all. There’s growing evidence, however, that Inclusive Education is not at all about tolerance and acceptance of those who are different, but instead is being used to impose a new social justice mandate by stealth or, once parents start waking up, blunt force.  Parents are not informed of these lessons because they’re delivered under the guise of “inclusive education.” Teachers don’t have to document lesson plans because these kinds of lessons are considered “teaching moments.” If the teaching objective is acceptance and “inclusivity,” then the message and teaching resources being used would focus on anti-bullying and kindness. Instead, the lessons and variety of teaching tools used in my daughter’s classroom were clearly designed to reprogram the children’s sense of who they are: their personal identity.  There’s a great deception going on."
Once again, sex education is really sex instruction

Children as young as SIX are to be given compulsory self-touching lessons - "Children as young as six are being taught about touching or ‘stimulating’ their own genitals as part of classes that will become compulsory in hundreds of primary schools.Some parents believe the lessons – part of a controversial new sex and relationships teaching programme called All About Me – are ‘sexualising’ their young children.One couple told last night how they were so disturbed they withdrew their sons from lessons at a school where the programme is already being taught.All About Me is being rolled out across 241 primaries by Warwickshire County Council and could be adopted by other local authorities next year as part of the Government’s overhaul of Relationship and Sex Education (RSE).Family campaigners and religious groups warned that vague guidelines issued by the Department for Education meant schools could soon be providing sexual material to young children that many parents would consider inappropriate. Even politicians who had supported the RSE legislation expressed concern...
The sex education consultant behind the All About Me programme is also likely to raise eyebrows with his views on marriage. On the blog section of his website last July, Jonny Hunt, 37, criticised draft Government guidelines for relationships and sex education for highlighting the importance of wedlock."

‘Wokeness’ has made us the laughing stock of the world - "Which of the following headlines is a spoof? “Schools to teach children there are ‘100 genders or more’”, “Boys can have periods too, children to be taught”, “Schools to give happiness classes”, or “Children as young as six are to be given compulsory self-touching lessons”?The answer is, of course, none of them. It’s a lunatic-initiative-a-day here in barmy Britain – with that last one just the latest to be announced... “parents will not be able to withdraw their child from Relationships Education in primary school or secondary school”... the likening of masturbation to “picking your nose” is likely to leave us all bemused... when it comes to lunatic education-related diktats, Britain is leading the charge. In the US – long and unanimously considered to be the epicentre of liberal PC madness – six-year-olds are not being taught about stimulating their genitals. Girls are not being banned from wearing skirts and primary school children are not, by and large, being told that there are “more than 100 genders”. And, by the way, those headlines went around the world. As for Europe, they have rejected all but the odd fleck of gender-mania – leaving us, Britain, to take the PC baton and run with it. Of course, many of the seeds were sown in the US, but they haven’t been unquestioningly and slavishly adopted there as they have here. At my daughter’s French school, where they refuse to get bogged down with such nonsense, there were only two boxes to choose from when it came to describing her gender... it’s also about a fractured, secular country, one that has “banned” both Christmas trees and The Lord’s Prayer (four years ago, three of the UK’s leading cinema chains refused to show an advert by the Church of England featuring the prayer, citing fears that it could “offend” people); one that has lost its moral compass in an attempt at achieving some kind of artificial hyper-morality... At a kids’ party on Saturday, I couldn’t help noticing how many of the discussions on the parental subjects du jour were permeated with pauses. It wasn’t just that people weren’t sure what they were allowed to say, but that they weren’t sure what they were supposed to think anymore."
This is where local autonomy in the US has its benefits - liberal madness can't be imposed on the whole country

Are grade 4 pupils ready to learn about sex and masturbation?
In South Africa. Grade 4 being the year they turn 10

The giant Venezuelan rodent that tastes like fish, and other obscure Lenten delicacies. - "Capybara
Iguana
Beaver
Muskrat
Alligator
Puffin"

Crusader Kings Devs Cave To Outrage Mob, Remove 'Deus Vult' From New Game - "Swedish developer Paradox Interactive told fringe-left internet magazine RockPaperShotgun that they would not be featuring the historical Latin phrase “Deus Vult” in Crusader Kings 3 because of political concerns... Paradox’s decision has drawn backlash from gamers and praise from censorship advocates on social media."

Speechphobia - "It’s no longer surprising but still has the capacity to shock: an attorney for a state university in Texas lost her job because she quoted a verboten word during a discussion of free speech. In a doomed effort to explain that language widely considered hateful is constitutionally protected, she said: ‘It’s impossible to talk about the First Amendment without saying horrible things. “You’re just a dumb nigger and I hate you.” That alone, that’s protected speech.’She was out of a job in less than 24 hours, despite immediately offering an abject apology... refusing to distinguish between using an epithet and merely quoting one, especially during a discussion of free speech, is not anti-racism – it’s anti-reason, denoting a gross failure of critical thinking. Discussing racist speech is simply not the equivalent of trafficking in it. That used to be obvious, even to left-wing critical-race theorists who helped initiate the current crusade against free speech some 30 years ago. Back in 1993, law professor Mari Matsuda, who advocated banning bigoted speech, suggested making exceptions for people who quoted it for purposes other than ‘hate-mongering’, like ‘news reporters who repeat racist speech in reporting the news of its utterance [or] law professors who repeat racist words in hypotheticals for class discussion of the First Amendment’.  That was then. Today, language phobias abound, making the mere sound of certain words presumptively traumatic, regardless of meaning or context. Is this assertion of extreme emotional fragility sincere or simply a power pose – a tactic framing censorship as an act of virtue, not a self-serving assault on individual rights? Perhaps it’s both. I suspect that many have been convinced by woke culture of the damage done by the mere utterance of certain syllables, but that they also recognise the power of their presumptive fragility. From the always aggrieved Donald Trump to the denizens of woke culture, the self-proclaimed harassed and oppressed effectively employ the political uses of victimhood... I was accused of committing an act of racial violence for quoting the racist language of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn during an academic discussion of free speech, literature and law. I was also condemned for quoting the word ‘cunt’ instead of referencing ‘the c-word’, (which, from my perspective, is ‘censorship’). I exacerbated my sin by defending it, instead of apologising. But if we’re not allowed ever to utter words deemed racist, sexist or homophobic, even to condemn their use or explain free-speech law, why should we be able to say ‘c-word’ or ‘n-word’, calling the unspoken words to the minds of our listeners, effectively asking them to traumatise themselves? Soon, progressive censors may condemn and cancel us for making any coded references to verboten words. Given their speech phobias, and the power those phobias confer, why shouldn’t they?"
Written by a former ACLU board member. No wonder she's no longer with them
Given that the left loves Harry Potter so much (or used to, anyway, until JK Rowling got deplatformed for supporting science and freedom of speech, i.e. being 'transphobic', it's curious that they have contempt for Dumbledore's wisdom: "Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself"
But then, if increasing fear of the thing itself is the object...

Diversity Council: Replace 'Christmas Parties' with 'Holiday Season Drinks' - "Diversity Council Australia is urging employers to drop “Christmas parties” in favour of “holiday season drinks” so Muslims and other non-Christians “feel included at this time of year”... Diversity Council Australia has previously advocated banning the word “chairman” and innocuous expressions such as “you guys”."

How Diversity Council of Australia advocates an end to Christmas parties and words 'mum' and 'guys' - "The Diversity Council has previously called on workplaces to avoid serving alcohol without food as part of 'tackling Islamophobia'... The council's chairman David Morrison, a former Army chief and Australian of the Year, two years ago launched a crusade again the idea of funny signs being put up in workplace kitchens.  In a video, he demanded an end of memos next to dirty dishes that read: 'Clean up after yourself. Your mum doesn't work here.'... He also made another video suggesting calling colleagues 'guys' at work excluded women.  Its Words at Work guide also deems the word 'chairman' to be sexist.   The Diversity Council last year reaped almost $2.6million from corporate sponsors and in membership fees... Mr Latham, a former federal Labor leader, called on the NSW government and public companies to stop paying the Diversity Council of Australia to hold workshops for their staff.  'They're funded not just by big businesses who are wasting their money and should have better regard for their shareholder value - they're actually funded by a whole bunch of government agencies'... Dr d'Abrera said the Diversity Council's identity politics agenda was a threat to the foundations of Western civilisation, which regarded everyone as being equal under the law."

Father Christmas 'should be banned to make it more gender neutral' - "A mother has said that she has been criticised online for saying Father Christmas instead of Santa because it is not gender neutral... 15 per cent – said they felt Father Christmas should become gender neutral."
"The Left: The War on Christmas is a Far-Right conspiracy theory"

Town removes Christmas from its winter celebration due to citizen complaints - "A New Hampshire town will be downgrading their annual Christmas festivities, as the city moves to “remove religious overtones” from holiday celebrations. The event, which will be renamed from the “Annual Tree Lighting” to “Frost Fest” will do away with their lighting ceremony, and St. Nicholas will no longer be driving into town on a local firetruck, as he once did in previous years. Christmas wreaths on city lamp posts will also not be present this year, as they once were.  City councillor Sally Tobias says the changes were made after complaints by people who “had always had a problem with the Christmas tree.”"
Presumably the War on Christmas is still a right wing conservative myth and conspiracy theory

Please don’t wish me ‘Merry Christmas’ - The Washington Post - "It’s impolite and alienating to assume I follow your religion... When you are from a minority religion, you’re used to the fact that cabdrivers don’t wish you an easy fast on Yom Kippur. But it’s harder to get used to the oppressive ubiquity of a holiday like Christmas. “This is always the time of year I feel most excluded from society,” one Jewish friend told me. Another told me it made him feel “un-American.”... “We’ve already got a reputation for being miserable f---s,” one Jewish commenter wrote, “let’s not make it worse.”"
Someone needs to tell the Japanese that they're secretly Christians
I wonder if she gets triggered if in the Middle East someone greets her: "As-salamu alaykum"