Damin Toell on Twitter - "When Sen. Tom Cotton suggested sending in the National Guard for riots that caused between 1 and 2 *billion* dollars worth of damage, we were told it was dangerous and the NYT editorial editor had to resign. But now that some people are loud at school board meetings, it’s cool."
Academia’s Identity Crisis - "Two months into my first semester as a doctoral student, Donald Trump was elected. A few years later the coronavirus hit. That summer George Floyd was murdered. Each of these events, along with many less seismic ones in between, elicited a similar response from the faculty, students, and administrators around me: we have to do something. And each time some things were done. Mass emails were sent out affirming “community values.” Committees were formed and meetings were held. And there was (and continues to be) great pressure to conduct research that would be “part of the solution.” These reactions are evidence of a trend towards an activist model of scholarship. At the root of this model is academia’s image of itself as the vanguard of social change in America, burdened with the grave responsibility of helping to forge the nation’s future and fight its evils. But this is largely a fantasy. Very little of academic work has a notable influence on society, and when it does, the nature of that influence is very different to what academics profess to believe. A growing number of academics appear to believe that the point of academia is not just to understand the world but to better it. Forced to choose, many would no doubt opt for social change over social understanding as their contribution to society... American scholars’ primary contribution to domestic affairs is not in the arena of policy but of discourse—elite discourse, specifically... The ability of the elite to remake American society is limited in general, thanks to the mechanics of mass democracy and the inherent separateness of elite society. But it is especially true in a political climate characterized by polarization, legislative stalemate, and so on... There are two routes out of the academic identity crisis. The first is a model of scholarship that makes social understanding rather than social change its first responsibility (which it is, by the way). The counter-argument—that social change should be put above social understanding—would only carry weight in a world where (a) greater social understanding was a hindrance to positive social change and (b) a good deal of academic work had a sizable influence on a large number of people’s wellbeing. Neither of these is true."
Indoctrinating students certainly helps
When you remake elite society, you can pretend that you've succeeded and everyone who disagrees is a deplorable
When social understanding undermines the liberal view of the world, one can pretend that the facts are different. This has been going on for a few decades, so the sham can continue
Outrage as gunman rearrested just weeks after judge gave him a break | Toronto Sun - "Just before Christmas, an Ontario judge gave Shaquane Stewart a most unbelievable gift. Despite his tossing a loaded handgun into a school yard while on the run from Toronto Police on his 19th birthday, Justice Jill Copeland said she was required to consider the social context of anti-Black racism and as a result, gave the young Black first offender a conditional sentence of two years less a day rather than sending him to prison. Copeland, now a judge on the Ontario Court of Appeal, said she was satisfied a conditional sentence “would not endanger the community.” So much for misplaced confidence in rehabilitation. On Feb. 3, less than two months later, Stewart, 23, was arrested outside his probation office — and it sure doesn’t look like he took advantage of the chance he’d been given. Police allege he was packing a concealed and loaded Glock 17 5th Generation pistol equipped with a functioning laser pointer and extended high-capacity magazine containing five 9mm bullets, with one bullet in the chamber. A search warrant of his apartment allegedly uncovered another empty .40 calibre Glock magazine and 122.8 grams of suspected cocaine. “The facts of this case are almost too outrageous to believe,” says Toronto Police Association president Jon Reid, “but sadly this is the day-to-day reality for our members who dedicate time and energy to investigating, arresting, and charging those who carry loaded firearms in our communities... Stewart has just become another poster boy for the revolving door of justice. But he’s not even the only one this month. On Monday, Troy Matthews, 36, was arrested by Peel Police Police and charged with possession of a Kodiak Defence WK180C rifle, ammunition and prohibited devices containing ammunition. Police said the Mississauga man was under a lifetime weapons prohibition order as a result of a violent home invasion and aggravated assault. None of the charges against Stewart have been proven in court, of course, but if convicted, he played the system with an expert violin... After convicting him of four gun possession-related charges, Copeland cited the 2021 Morris decision by the appeal court that advises judges to consider the impact and role of anti-Black racism in sentencing. After reading what Stewart told a social worker, she found he was a victim of “systemic bias in the educational system,” grew up in dangerous subsidized housing and was traumatized when his sister’s partner, his only father figure, was shot and paralyzed... Copeland was impressed with his stated commitment to “breaking the cycle” and being there for his three-year-old son. “I do not want him to grow up in a life like mine,” Stewart told the social worker. “I have to teach him that this is not the lifestyle.” The judge bought it all — gave him a conditional sentence to be served at home in addition to a lifetime weapons ban. And the ink barely dry, Stewart is already back behind bars. But for how long?"
Time to defund the police, ban guns and reduce sentences even more for black criminals
Did Morgan Freeman Say Black History Month Is 'Ridiculous'? - "FREEMAN: Ridiculous.
WALLACE: Why?
FREEMAN: You're going to relegate my history to a month?
WALLACE: Come on.
FREEMAN: What do you do with yours? Which month is White History Month? Come on, tell me.
WALLACE: I'm Jewish.
FREEMAN: OK. Which month is Jewish History Month?
WALLACE: There isn't one.
FREEMAN: Why not? Do you want one?
WALLACE: No, no.
FREEMAN: I don't either. I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
WALLACE: How are we going to get rid of racism until ...?
FREEMAN: Stop talking about it. I'm going to stop calling you a white man. And I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know me as Morgan Freeman. You're not going to say, "I know this white guy named Mike Wallace." Hear what I'm saying?"
A family wants its 132-year-old donation to the University of Richmond refunded - "In the 1890s, the estate of T.C. Williams Sr. gave the University of Richmond’s law school $25,000. Eventually, UR named the school for Williams. But last year, UR removed the name, citing Williams’ ownership of enslaved workers. And now his descendants are asking for their money back — with interest. The family has asked for $51 million. Two members say the university has not provided documentation proving Williams’ ownership of enslaved people, and has not engaged the family in conversation... Rob Smith said UR has caved to a woke mob and insulted the honor of the Williams family. “T.C. Williams believed that all men were made in the image of God, and his mission was to love and serve others,” Smith wrote. “By the way, this is the South, when you dishonor generations of someone’s family, you basically have started a nuclear war.”"
Meme - *drones dropping bombs* "THEY SAY THE NEXT ONES WILL BE SENT BY A WOMAN!"
"REALLY MAKES You FEEL LIKE You'RE PART OF HISTORY."
"Minimally qualified" usually get preference if they're disabled, court says - "Did you know that three out of four federal appellate courts say that, if a disabled employee needs a transfer as a reasonable accommodation, you must normally give the disabled employee preference over better-qualified non-disabled candidates? In other words, you may not be able to choose the best person for the job?"
"Equality". No wonder the number of disabled people is growing
Meme - "一张在现如今媒体上已经不可能看到的照片。1996年7月刊的VOGUE杂志"
"A photo you'd never see in today's media . 1996 July Vogue Magazine *7 white blondes*"
Why Person-First Language Doesn’t Always Put the Person First - "While lecturing, the professor seemed keen on calling me out, making me feel like a token, and prompting me to agree that when it came to disability, it was PFL or bust. I went along with it, but something didn’t sit well with me. I was born with my disability. It was news to me that calling myself a “disabled person” was an insult. It had always been just a fact of life, a part of who I was. And now, after all these years of calling myself what I am, here was an educator, who doesn’t even have a disability, telling me I had it all wrong... PFL was adopted as a general linguistic rule, moving from use by the people who initiated the movement towards heavy use by those in professional spheres. It essentially became the law of the land. Teachers, doctors, nurses, social service professionals, government officials… everyone was told that they should use only PFL. Using a term such as “disabled person?” A cardinal sin. However, as with almost any major activism movement, PFL sparked a countermovement, known as identity-first. IFL is a linguistic concept embraced and actually preferred by countless people within the disability community. In the ideology of identity-first, “disabled” is a perfectly acceptable way for a person to identify. Instead of going out of your way to say “person with a disability,” when using IFL you would instead say “disabled person.” This is how I personally choose to identify myself. I am a disabled person. And yet, non-disabled people largely tend to greet the idea of IFL with confusion or even anger, deeming it offensive to call someone disabled... Consider how PFL intentionally separates a person from their disability. Although this supposedly acknowledges personhood, it also implies that “disability” or “disabled” are negative, derogatory words. In other words, disability is something society believes a person should try to dissociate from if they want to be considered a whole person. This makes it seem as though being disability is something of which you should be ashamed. PFL essentially buys into the stigma it claims to be fighting. Also, would you ever make a point of describing someone by saying something like, for example, “a person who is Jewish” or “a person who is Asian?”... for so many people, “disabled” is so much more than a descriptor. It is an identity and culture unto itself. It is a source of pride... “Disability” and “disabled” are indicators of culture and identity. Thus, “disabled person” is an accepted term. Within the Autistic community, IFL is widely preferred and often consciously chosen, because Autism is considered an identity... A similar line of thinking is followed by many who are Deaf... These same concepts do not apply when it comes to the use of a term strictly for its medical definition... Likewise when it comes to mobility equipment"
AP did say "The French" is offensive, so
No matter what you say, someone will be offended
R/SG is a cheap imitation of American liberalism, and for a sub that is supposedly "Singaporean", it's embarrassing - "The zeitgeist of r/SG is "I'm smart and educated and if you disagree with me I'll cancel you." Cancel culture is America's greatest rapist on the loose, and while everyone these days seems to have woken up, r/SG remains the slut that screams "harder!" Personally, I am banned on that sub for either my anti-covid19vax beliefs, or an ostensibly 'homophobic' comment (can't rmb which, I received warnings for both and 1 got me my ban)."
Meme - The UnWokable Podcast @UnWokablePod: "L/ Lesbian (homoSEXUAL)
For 5-8 year old children? Little Children? Really? #OKGroomer
L is for LESBIAN. It's love and affection between two special girls who share a connection."
From The GayBCs
If you are a prepubescent girl who has a pillow fight with another prepubescent girl, you are both lesbians
Meme - "*manspreading* *Liberal woman is upset*
'Yeah so then I said to her that she really shouldn't dress like that, it's really slutty. Sometimes they need a man to explain these things.' *Liberal woman is more upset*
'It's a slippery slope. First you let women walk freely and next you get all these gays and sodomites in the open. It's not how God intended.' *Liberal woman is even more upset*
'I don't think schools should teach kids all these atheist ideas. I mean evolution is just a theory but they act like it's a fact but then deny the existence of God.' *Liberal woman is very upset*
'Yeah I'm on the subway right now. I'll be at the mosque in 10 minutes.' *Liberal woman has a neutral look and looks away*"
Meme - l'Afwique: "Maintenant que la Fronce est partle, on va pouvoir devenir comme le Wakanda"
La Russie: *rit*
La Chine: *rit*
La Russie et La Chine: *battent l'Afwique*
Meme - Knife @knifequeer: "you ever think about how "incest is bad because inbreeding leads to deformed children" is a really ableist take? like idk maybe arguing that people with disabilities shouldn't be born isn't the gotcha people think it is"
Meme - "People in America
Did you just insult my culture, I'm 5% Italian !
OMG, I'm so sorry...
People in Europe
you gypsy
you jew"
Toronto neighbourhood group on Facebook struggling with false reports of hate speech - "One of the moderators of the neighbourhood Facebook group The Annex, Shana Ti, recently called out people who are making their life a bit more difficult by falsely reporting hate speech... The number one reason why people report or flag a comment or post is hate speech, she says. She has been a moderator for the group for about a year and rarely sees any actual hate speech."
Clearly this is only the fault of conservative "trolls" and doesn't mean Stasi-esque reporting on others has any problems
Meme - "Saying the Democrats founded the KKK is like saying Nicholas Cage won an Oscar. Technically true, but a whole lot of stuff has happened since then."
Ironic, given that liberals keep bitching about slavery, which was even longer ago. So by their own logic slavery is irrelevant
Portland School Cracks Down on Racist PB&J Sandwiches: “What about Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches?” - "One school administrator began the school year cracking down on exclusive language. Verenice Gutierrez, principal of Harvey Scott K-8 School in Portland, Oregon, hears subtle racism every day. And that's just plain wrong. She explained to the Portland Tribune in September how a simple example of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in a classroom indicated "white privilege". "What about Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches? Another way would be to say: 'Americans eat peanut butter and jelly, do you have anything like that?' Let them tell you. Maybe they eat torta. Or pita.""
Racism is built into KY horse racing’s history. Is industry ready to address injustice?
Watch out Cambridge. Free thinking is back in vogue - "The birth of a new university was announced by journalist and media disruptor Bari Weiss. The University Texas at Austin would pursue the “north star” of “truth” and other such grandiose missions... UATX raised millions easily and quickly from thrilled billionaire donors, and claimed to be flooded by applications from staff and students. The university launched last week in Austin with the first of its Forbidden Courses (on topics like gender, identity and empire). Lectures and seminars came from affiliated big-hitters including women’s rights activist and critic of Islam, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, historian Niall Fergusson, playwright David Mamet and Bari Weiss herself. Classes are also on offer from Peter Boghossian, who quit his post as a philosophy professor at Portland State after being hunted by the university’s woke stasi, and Kathleen Stock, hounded out of her post at Sussex for insisting on the reality of biological sex. It’s easy to mock the Austin project – indeed, most American media coverage of it has done nothing else. But then, it would, saturated as it is with the very distortions in thinking that made the new university necessary. Universities should take note. Especially British universities, which have been steadily sliding into the morass of woke madness. For too long, universities, particularly prestigious ones like Cambridge (one of the worst offenders) have assumed they will automatically attract students, and that – being full of all those terribly clever people – they’re morally superior to the rest of the world, and that what they say and do is what goes. What they don’t seem to realise is that not every student is in love with the deadening strictures of woke thinking, even at Oxbridge or Yale. Some feel the education they pay through the nose for has been sacrificed to an anti-learning ideology cooked up by a loony cabal. And some, as demonstrated by the first set of courses in Texas, are taking their business elsewhere. Universities should watch out: UATX won’t be the last of its kind."
Kevin Bolk (K-Bo.) on Twitter - "Agitators will claim all art is “political” in the broadest possible sense of the word to justify making all of it political in the most narrow, partisan sense."
Meme - "A poor, heartbroken parent posted this with the caption "Two years at University, and they taught my beautiful daughter to hate everything."
2 years ago: *beautiful*
Now: *scowling blue and green haired*"
Gord Miller 🌻 on Twitter - "1. Ivan Provorov had the right to refuse to participate in the Pride Night activities in Philadelphia. 2. The Flyers should have responded by not allowing him to play in the game. 3. Freedom of expression doesn’t give you freedom from the consequences of your words or actions."
Marcus Taylor on Twitter - "Explain to me why the “consequence” of expressing his Freedom of Religion is missing the game. Seems dangerously close to workplace discrimination"
Fr Matthew P. Schneider, LC on Twitter - "In the USA, that is not just dangerously close, but probably a solid case of workplace discrimination."
Pius on Twitter - "2015: Gay marriage legalized
2023: Christians should not be allowed to participate in public life"
Of course, liberals got very upset when Kaepernick was not allowed to protest at work. The only freedom you have is the freedom to be a liberal. It doesn't apply in reverse
Meme - burntoakboy: "Imagine if a white British boy ran away to join a neo-Nazi movement that was massacring black people in their thousands. Imagine if a media outlet in the UK then conducted a sympathetic interview with this racist extremist and played sad music as he talked about how hard his life with the Nazis had been. There would be uproar, right? Well, the BBC did the moral equivalent of that this evening with its Shamima Begum documentary."
Fear Is Deadlier Than Viruses - "Irrational fear is also a major source of hatred. People hate what they fear. It was Germans’ irrational fear of Jews — people who made up under 1% of the German population — that led to the unique evil known as the Holocaust. Given the awful power of fear, what can you do to be less fearful? The first thing you must do is determine whether your fears are rational or irrational. And that can only be accomplished by thoroughly studying the issue — whatever it happens to be: global warming, a pandemic, racism or any other divisive subject... Most fears are stoked by governments and their allies in mass media and in Big Tech, who in turn suppress contrary opinions. Therefore, please understand that when you hear only one opinion, and that opinion is designed to make you afraid, there is a good chance that your fears are irrational."
Voice Actor Steve Blum Doubles Down On Support For Disney's Reparations Call, Exposes Own Ignorance Regarding Current State Of Political Activism - "Blum then interjected to defensively swing, “Teaching actual history so evil is not repeated is ‘cucked?’ So you support the ignorance and hate fueled by book banning? What’s the MAGA buzzword for that?” Taken aback by his accosting, @ChrisChanBoi2 replied, “I didn’t mention books, but since you did. When it comes to things like this being in F–KING GRADE SCHOOLS, yes I am okay with book banning.” Alongside his tweet, @ChrisChanBoi2 shared an excerpt from Maia Kobabe’s graphic novel Gender Queer: A Memoir – a book regularly stocked in grade school libraries and recommended to children – wherein Kobabe offers an explicit-language-filled recount of their first sexual experience with a strap-on sex toy. However, this respoonse would lead Blum to reveal his own woeful ignorance of the current state of political activism – so much so that if confirmed, it wouldn’t be a stretch to believe that he regularly receives all of his information from only the most partisan of left-wing outlets. “That’s just porn,” the voice of Final Fantasy VII’s pre-Remake Vincent Valentine denied in return. “Not at all what we’re talking about. Is this from your collection? Should never be in a school.” “That is the book ‘Gender Queer‘,” explained @ChrisCHanBoi2. “That is one of the books that people are up in arms about being in Elementary Schools. Look into it. See how you’re being lied to.”"
Liberals keep spreading fake news about "book banning" and exalt "banned books", while at the same time calling books they hate "harmful" and restricting them far more than removing books school curricula or school libraries ever could (Amazon has almost half of the market share in the US so getting a book banned by Amazon is a lot more impactful than removing it from schools, even if you ignore the books' merits)
Liberals support sexually explicit books being in schools, then claim that calling them groomers is hate speech
Fact check: Fake list of banned Florida books circulates widely online - "many prominent people on social media have been claiming that a slew of books were immediately banned in schools and libraries statewide by the law. They have circulated an image of 25 book titles listed on a piece of paper. The book list includes novels that have been taught in schools for generations, including "To Kill a Mockingbird," "Catcher in the Rye" and "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." It also includes the Harry Potter series and the biblical Song of Solomon. The image of the banned book list has been shared by American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and Star Wars actor Mark Hamill on Aug. 21 and 22. Hamill's tweet has racked up more than 30,000 retweets and 150,000 likes. An Aug. 21 Facebook post featuring the image of the book list has been shared 80 times. The post reads, “Florida's Current Banned Book List. Tragic How Many Totalitarian Third World States Exist in the USA in 2022.” But the list is a fiction. While school districts can ban books through a process created by the new law, Florida has not banned any books at the state level, a spokesperson for Gov. Ron DeSantis told USA TODAY. In fact, several works on the list have been recommended to school districts by the state Department of Education. Weingarten corrected and deleted her tweet within several hours of posting it. Numerous other posts featuring the list, such as Hamill's, have remained online... Florida does not issue statewide bans on specific books, Bryan Griffin, DeSantis' press secretary, told USA TODAY in an email. Instead, under the new law, "the state sets guidelines regarding content, and the local school districts are responsible for enforcing them," he said These content guidelines require specialists to review reading materials and prohibit reading materials that are "inappropriate for the grade level and age group for which the material is used" or contain "pornographic content." Claims that the books shown in the image are banned in Florida are false, Griffin said. "The image is fake – as far as I see it, this is just a completely fictitious list," he said. USA TODAY also found no credible source for the list. In addition, at least five of books on the list are endorsed as exemplary of a "rich literary tradition" in a guide to the state's current educational standards for English Language Arts, including "To Kill a Mockingbird," "1984," "Of Mice and Men," "The Call of the Wild" and "Lord of the Flies""
I saw so many liberals sharing this fake news about "book banning". Fake news is good when it helps their agenda
Dave Smith on Twitter - "What does the term “extremist” even mean when the people who advocated for endless wars of aggression, torture, mass spying, banker bailouts, lockdowns, vaccinating 6 month olds, destroying the currency and giving puberty blockers to 10 year olds are considered moderates."
How Oxfam lost its way over anti-racism - "There have been promising signs recently of a growing backlash in Britain to some of the institutionalised excesses of wokeness. The Government has given the kibosh to unconscious race bias training in Whitehall, and cracked down on universities’ ability to no-platform speakers deemed racist (and transphobic, and all the other ics and ists). Last week I wrote about the Office for Students’ decision to investigate higher educational establishments, including the universities of Hull and Worcester, who claim it is racist and Euro-centric to mark down essays for bad English. But alongside the prickings of hope there is still a current of deranged woke thinking bubbling up in certain environments with chilling regularity. Last week Oxfam offered a sharp reminder of just how far the extremes of anti-racism ideology have seeped through. It is hardly surprising that a charity working with people in developing countries has an interest in race that, given contemporary fixations, invites theorising about white privilege and white supremacy. What is more surprising, what takes one’s breath away, is the sheer insulting viciousness of this interest; more of a fixation, really. The charity circulated a “whiteness” survey to its 1,800 UK staff, 88 per cent of whom are white. The survey stated that whiteness is “a power construct created by white nations for the benefit of white people”, bulldozing, as contemporary race zealots are wont to do, all notion of class or gender. It’s hard to imagine that the Irish labourers and Lancaster loom workers of the Victorian period, working in infernal conditions, or men slaving in mine shafts, or working class women facing their 11th baby, would have felt in receipt of a “power construct” to their benefit. But hey ho. With the stone-cold hostility of tone that has become the hallmark of social justice warriors, the survey intoned that those who quibble with blanket condemnation of whiteness as a form of racism itself should think again: Oxfam “does not recognise reverse racism”. The ideas and tone of the survey raise the question of how leadership – or whoever has the power to determine organisations’ internal literature and their “training” programmes – can be so badly out of sync with what ordinary people deserve or think. Oxfam staff rightly felt insulted. “Why are they presuming their workers, who are working for a humanitarian charity, are racists and bigots?” asked one employee. It is a sign of the times that Oxfam is investing its energy in lunatic, insulting documents that appear to favour a kind of armchair race war while failing to make any material difference at all to the cause. The proportion of ethnic minority employees at Oxfam GB actually fell from 16 per cent in 2019 to 11.8 per cent in 2020. There is an added unpleasant irony to Oxfam’s vicious line on whiteness: its apparent neglect of interest in gender and the wellbeing of women. The charity is still reeling from the Haiti sex scandal in 2018, in which it was revealed that top staff paid earthquake survivors, some allegedly underage, for sex, along with further charges of a culture of harassment, bullying and intimidation. In April, a female aid worker quit, alleging a “toxic” culture in which her sexual harassment complaint had been ignored. Earlier this month, meanwhile, Oxfam sacked three aid workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo after allegations of sexual misconduct, sexual harassment, intimidation, nepotism and fraud. As one employee subjected to the whiteness survey last week pointedly asked: “Surely the time and money should be better spent on the real findings that some of the men they employ are sexual predators? It’s not just that Oxfam seems to prefer going on about critical race theory to thinking about actual women’s welfare: its fixation with race and particularly whiteness has led it to open hostility towards women. A training pamphlet put together by the charity’s LGBT network in 2020 and seen earlier this month by The Telegraph included gems like: “Mainstream feminism centres on privileged white women and demands that “bad men” be fired or imprisoned”. In reporting rapists and other criminals, white women “[legitimise] criminal punishment, harming black and other marginalised people”. Then there was the charming assertion that the women who report men of colour for rape are “contemptible”. The document advises staff to read Sussex gender studies professor Alison Phipps’s book Me Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism, which concludes that “Mainstream feminism is supporting, not undoing, the root causes of sexual violence”. The four-week “learning journey” links to Phipps’s Twitter account, which, in its own summary of the book, declares: “White feminist tears deploy white woundedness, and the sympathy it generates, to hide the harms we perpetuate through white supremacy.” Come again? The pamphlet was optional, but the existence of documents like it, and its race survey, indicate the infiltration of an ideology that is redefining what Oxfam is – a theory-twiddling charity more obsessed with race than with the wellbeing and dignity of its female staff. Most Britons – and especially most people working at Oxfam – are deeply sympathetic to the fight against racism. Attacks on their integrity, such as that of the whiteness survey, are not only entirely uncalled for, they serve to sow racial tension where there was none."
