Jamil Jivani: Blackness test for Ottawa grants a throwback to colonialism - "For a government so politically correct it borders on comedy, the Trudeau Liberals find themselves in yet another controversy concerning race.This time, the Support for Black Canadian Communities Initiative is at the centre of the drama. Federal officials sent an email last week rejecting hundreds of organizations that applied for funding. Their email informed some Black community leaders that their organizations are not Black enough to qualify. Specifically, the initiative disqualified some Black groups on the grounds that they weren’t satisfactorily “led and governed by people who self-identify as Black.” According to the Toronto Star, the pool of rejected applicants includes Operation Black Vote, which is operated by a team of Black Canadians and supports the election of Black people... having government officials measure “Blackness” feels like a throwback to colonialism. The dehumanizing act of questioning a Black person’s Blackness remains far too common. I accused The Globe and Mail of engaging in such colonial behaviour last year when they published a story where I was accused of “anti-blackness.”...The rejection letter said nothing about selecting grant recipients based on who can best support Black youth and families. Neither Employment and Social Development Canada, the department behind the program, nor its critics commented on grants going to Black Canadians most in need.Instead, the focus of this controversy has been on the racial identity of leaders applying for funding.With Martin Luther King Jr. Day being Monday, this latest episode of Trudeau identity politics reminds us of how far we’ve strayed from some of the ideas that King lived and died for. Not too long ago, Canadians openly and unapologetically shared King’s vision for a united nation made up of upstanding individuals of strong character.A Toronto Star op-ed from 2007 borrowed from King’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech. The published headline reads: Character, not colour, matters. It’s hard to imagine a mainstream newspaper in 2021 publishing a headline emphasizing character over colour. After seeing how journalists and editors have behaved over the last year in particular, it’s fair to assume any mainstream newspaper publishing a headline inspired by King’s dream would need to hold an emergency Zoom town hall for their staff to express sadness and anger. Twitter mobs would demand an apology, too."
Gad Saad - Posts | Facebook - "If you go through my social media posts you'll see that I post about my love for my children & wife, my wife's glorious cooking, soccer, football, politics, science, pedagogy, humour, self-deprecation, faux-self-aggrandizing, Triumph motorcycles, art, & countless other topics. A person with a healthy mindset has innumerable interests, is multifaceted, multidimensional, etc. What I see on Twitter are angry, unidimensional, myopic, bitter, obsessive individuals unable to extricate themselves from a singular issue that governs their every thought. Here is some life advice: The world is replete with infinite possibilities and life is truly but a fleeting moment. Diversify your interests. Expand your horizons. Enrich your mind & heart."
AWFUL: Leftists Work to Get Seattle Proud Boys 'Toys for Tots' Drive Cancelled, Police Now Involved in Stopping Event
Charity is bad when the wrong people do it
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"these same folks complain about everything being commodified and then bitch about not getting paid for not being a shitty parent."
Conservatives are happier than liberals, but why? Political ideology, personality, and life satisfaction - "Political conservatives are happier than liberals. We proposed that this happiness gap is accounted for by specific attitude and personality differences associated with positive adjustment and mental health. In contrast, a predominant social psychological explanation of the gap is that conservatives, who are described as fearful, defensive, and low in self-esteem, will rationalize away social inequalities in order to justify the status quo (system justification). In four studies, conservatives expressed greater personal agency (e.g., personal control, responsibility), more positive outlook (e.g., optimism, self-worth), more transcendent moral beliefs (e.g., greater religiosity, greater moral clarity, less tolerance of transgressions), and a generalized belief in fairness, and these differences accounted for the happiness gap. These patterns are consistent with the positive adjustment explanation."
Some liberal claimed that right-wingers were the ones who were most into victimhood. Yet victims don't see themselves as having agency and aren't positive. Of course, that liberal laughed at and dismissed the evidence.
Greta Thunberg sparks probe in India with accidental tweet - "Greta Thunberg accidentally shared a message showing she was getting told what to write on Twitter about the ongoing violent farmers’ revolt in India — sparking a police investigation and a political firestorm... The 18-year-old left-wing eco-activist shared — and then quickly deleted — a message that detailed a list of “suggested posts” about the ongoing protests... The list gave a series of tips on what to post, asking her to also repost and tag other celebrities tweeting about it, including pop star Rihanna.As well as the Twitter storm, the “toolkit” she shared also suggested highlighting planned demonstrations at Indian embassies... After deleting the list, Thunberg then shared a supposedly newer “toolkit” and a message saying, “We stand in solidarity with the #FarmersProtest in India.”India’s foreign ministry issued a rare statement accusing “foreign individuals” and celebrities of “sensationalism” and “trying to enforce their agenda.”Delhi police on Thursday confirmed that it had launched “a criminal case against the creators of the ‘Toolkit document'” that Thunberg shared.“The call was to wage economic, social, cultural and regional war against India,” police said of the plot supposedly taken up by the celebs."
So much for the 'conspiracy' that she is a tool
Neo-colonialism is good when liberals agree with it
Polyamorous man lauded by progressive media charged with violent abuse of five-week-old baby - "A five-week-old baby was hospitalized in Florida recently after she was violently abused by one of her four fathers, Ethan Baucom. Police were alerted to the abuse by hospital staff, who called officers in to investigate after the baby was found to have severe injuries to her lungs and ribs, as well as “multiple brain bleeds.”... Upon investigation, it was determined that the child was attacked on three separate occasions. Tory Ojeda, the child’s mother, had reported her partner previously to the Florida Department of Children and Families, saying that Baucom told her he had “squeezed” the baby.In late 2019, the world was introduced to Ojeda and her four partners. They lived together in Jacksonville, FL, where they took turns “swapping in and out every night. Each of the men considered her hub of their relationship, and each of the men were spokes."
Rachel Maddow Defends OAN Defamation Suit Re 'Russian Propanda' Claim - "“She’s giving her take in entertaining way,” Boutrous argued. “She’s chuckling — she’s mocking the whole situation for its absurdity.”... Amnon Siegel, arguing for Herring Networks, argued that the interpretation of Maddow’s remark should be left up to a jury. He also stressed that Maddow used the words “really” and “literally” in order to convey a fact, rather than an opinion.“This is a statement that certainly is provably false,” Siegel argued.Herring Networks had submitted a 20-page report from Stefan Th. Gries, a professor of linguistics at UC Santa Barbara, who opined that it is “very unlikely that an average or reasonable/ordinary viewer would consider the sentence in question to be a statement of opinion.”"
Liberals mock Fox News for saying it's entertainment to get around news regulations. And yet when it comes to MSNBC...
Meme - "Actress Charlize Theron complains that the world lacks a real man who is strong enough to marry a 43-year-old woman with adopted African children that she likes to cross-dress."
Gorg🇮🇪🇪🇺 on Twitter - "It doesn't matter if autism isn't a race, and please don't call it a disorder, that's really offensive to me, it's a medical condition, also no the stereotype you described isn't what autistic people are like, it's an infinitely large spectrum, I'm surprised we agree on something"
"It's literally a disorder! Like... LITERALLY!"
"My autism isn't a disorder and if you say that word one more time I'm going to report you, it's extremely offensive, just use condition"
"It's listed as ASD - Autism Spectrum Disorder. Sorry, but that's what it is. You can try to report me, but for what? Saying what autism literally is? Please pull yourself together."
"Please this is extremely uncomfortable for me I know it's called ASD but that was made by neurotypicals who can't understand us, you're making me Extreme upset by saying that word so please just stop"
The euphemism treadmill is really fast
At least we can 100% say this person has a mental illness
New York Times asleep at the switch over journalistic ethics - "the 1619 Project, which posed the hypothesis that 1619, the year that slavery was introduced to English North America, represented the “real” founding date of the United States. That project won all sorts of acclamations, prizes, ribbons and what not.Its only problem appeared to be that it was wrong. It was attacked almost immediately upon publication as inaccurate and overblown nonsense by actual historians. The Times initially tried to defend the project, then started to erase the more egregious falsehoods.What The Times has not done is issue any material or formal correction or apology. Nor have they returned or called for the return of the Pulitzer Prize won by the reporter who wrote the essay that launched the project.That’s all good and well within their rights. But as long as they fail to acknowledge the extent of the mistake and why it was made, it is difficult to imagine The Times as the “paper of record” or as guardians of civic virtue... the leadership of The Times has remained silent as one of its top reporters has posted and then deleted tweets that — without any evidence of any kind — link a specific industry to white supremacy.At the beginning of this month, the reporter, Hiroko Tabuchi, tweeted: “I’ve been thinking a lot about fossil fuels and white supremacy recently. Almost every single oil executive, lobbyist, spokesperson I’ve dealt with is white and male. It’s difficult not to see the link.”In a tweet in June, she observed that the industry is white and, therefore, that’s a problem. In September she linked police violence and the oil and gas industry. Ten years ago, she tweeted that “Toyota sucks.”... Ms. Tabuchi’s Twitter profile indicates that more than 10,000 tweets have been deleted from the account since the end of September. However that happened, it seems contrary to The Times’ own guidelines on the deletion of tweets, which state: “Be transparent. If you tweeted an error or something inappropriate and wish to delete the tweet, be sure to quickly acknowledge the deletion in a subsequent tweet.”... Sen. Tom. Cotton. His crime? The Arkansas Republican wrote a column calling for reestablishment of law and order in those communities in which it had vanished. For that, the guardians at The Times demanded wholesale firings of the opinion side of America’s “paper of record.”Many reporters at The New York Times are friends of mine and professionals at the very peak of their skills and abilities. Their silence in all three of these instances is understandable, but discouraging."
Comment (elsewhere): "Wokism itself perpetuates white supremacy, because enslaves believers minds to think that only white people can ever be in a superior position."
Meme - "LIFE'S FULL OF UPS AND DOWNS
IT MAY FEEL LIKE YOU'RE IN A PIT OF DESPAIR NOW
BUT ONE DAY YOU WILL SOAR HIGHER THAN YOU COULD EVER IMAGINE
JUST HANG SIN THERE
*fish being flown through the air in an eagle's claws*"