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A far-right populist wave is washing over Europe
Leaving the EU is now "far right"
Rejecting the globalist agenda used to be slammed as "populist". Now they're slimed as "far right". I wonder what the next slander will be
Treebeard🌿 on X - "Just saw another LGBTQIA+ thing where the “A” was clarified to mean “Ace/Ally” and I just want to make it clear that while I love my ally friends SO MUCH, ally is nowhere in that acronym."
Inclusivity isn't good. Everyone needs a participation trophy
Zi char drama: Viral Mandarin-speaking Indian cook allegedly 'driven out' of business, sets up new stall at Cambridge Road - "In the last few years, the 39-year-old Malaysian garnered significant attention due to his linguistic prowess, displaying his ability to speak Mandarin and other Chinese dialects fluently. And thanks to media features about Devid and the stall, The Blacky Seafood, business was reportedly brisk. Incidentally, the stall's name was coined from his nickname, Xiao Hei, which translates to 'Little Black'."
Is this internalised racism?
Meme Library Jourmal: "Library collections continue to promote and proliferate whiteness with their very existence and the fact that they are physically taking up space in our libraries. Via @sofiayleung"
Weird. I thought only ignorant conservative philistines were against libraries
When Speech Isn’t Free | American Libraries Magazine - "I take issue with the notion that libraries are ensuring all voices are heard when they let hate groups speak. Hate speech considered in a vacuum might look merely offensive, but when viewed in a historical context, that speech is inextricably linked with physical violence... In “Words That Silence?,” a chapter from Speech and Harm: Controversies Over Free Speech, Caroline West argues that “racist hate speech may cause those it targets to withdraw from participation in public life and discourse.” Hate speech inhibits free speech because it effectively prevents others from speaking... If libraries want to promote free speech, creating an environment where everyone feels the psychological safety necessary to participate is vital. In a chapter of the book Trust and Distrust in Organizations: Dilemmas and Approaches, Amy Edmondson defines psychological safety as what “makes it possible for people to believe that the benefits of speaking up outweigh the costs.”"
If you disagree with the liberal agenda, you are promoting "hate" and don't deserve free speech. Of course, when Muslims are the ones condemning Jews, this is fine, because the history of anti-Jewish pogroms in the Muslim world and the reality of modern Muslim anti-Semitism don't matter, because power relations means never having to say you're sorry
These are the same people who go on about "white fragility". Of course, liberal hate speech and death threats don't cause those it targets to withdraw from participation in public life and discourse
University of Cambridge library ‘blacklists harmful books’ in decolonising drive - "The University of Cambridge’s national library has been accused of blacklisting books in a “sinister” new decolonising drive... The University Library, one of just six legal deposit libraries in Britain with some 10 million books, is asking lecturers to flag “problematic” books that might be “offensive/harmful”. Examples of such books are being sought from across the university’s colleges, with officials planning to draw up guidance for librarians and readers on how to cope with them. It has triggered a backlash from dons, who have demanded that Cambridge librarians stop “sitting in judgment”... the University Library said: “We would like to hear from colleagues across Cambridge about any books you have had flagged to you as problematic (for any reason, not just in connection with decolonisation issues), so that we can compile a list of examples on the Cambridge Librarians intranet and think the problem through in more detail on the basis of that list.” The memo also called for “anything you are already doing in your library to address this or similar issues” to be sent to a special “decolonisation” email address... Prof David Abulafia, a leading historian at Gonville and Caius College, said: “Identifying books because they are seen as problematic itself has a very problematic history – witness bibliographies in the Nazi period where books by Jewish authors are marked with a star. “It is absolutely not the task of librarians to sit in judgment, least of all in a university where they don’t do any of the teaching and where it is vital to promote free debate.” Another don warned it was “sinister, Orwellian and alarming” and said the books were being “blacklisted”. Dr James Orr, a lecturer in divinity at Cambridge, said: “Research libraries should not be joining the culture wars. Creating an index of books that are problematic for one side of an issue – one about which both academics and the public profoundly disagree – would be a sinister development. It would undermine the University Library’s justified reputation as one of the finest institutions of its kind in the world. “Institutional neutrality matters now more than ever, because without it academics will feel less free to dissent from the fashionable orthodoxies influencing the decolonisation movement.” Cambridge’s University Library, founded in 1209, established a “decolonisation working group” in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, but it is continuing to expand with 17 current members. The group says it is “actively re-contextualising library holdings which are a legacy of colonialism and occupation” and developing “policies and guidance relating to decolonisation”. The decolonial movement has come in for fresh criticism since the Hamas-Israel war began, as some of its strongest proponents have sided with Palestine and refused to condemn Hamas, bringing their “anti-racism” credentials into sharp focus."
Libraries are being destroyed from within - "One of these libraries, that of Pembroke College, immediately complied and emailed staff promising that it was ‘working to better support readers’. The implication here is that readers (university students, no less) are unlikely to be able to cope with the threat posed by problematic texts... formally speaking, this is not censorship. Arguably though, it represents something even worse than that – it is an attempt to control how readers react to texts. It suggests that librarians have started to behave like therapists, obsessed with micromanaging the thoughts and feelings of readers. Many have tried their utmost to present the collections for which they are responsible as a risk to the general public’s wellbeing. Similar moves are afoot in the US, also in the name of ‘decolonisation’. In 2021, the American Library Association organised a webinar titled ‘Decolonising the Catalogue: Anti-Racist Description Practices from Authority Records to Discovery Layers’. This webinar aimed to discuss efforts to ‘remap problematic, outdated and offensive’ catalogue subject headings. In line with this approach, the library at Columbia University issued a statement later in 2021 titled ‘On Outdated and Harmful Language in Library of Congress Subject Headings’. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Washington, DC is taking a similar approach. NARA issued a statement in 2022 to warn that its ‘catalogue and webpages contain some content that may be harmful or difficult to view’. The document asserted that: ‘NARA’s records span the history of the United States, and it is our charge to preserve and make available these historical records. As a result, some of the materials presented here may reflect outdated, biased, offensive and possibly violent views and opinions.’ It is mind-boggling that NARA felt the need to remind its readers that a collection of historical documents may reflect outdated views. What else should one expect when inspecting centuries-old texts? With important institutions like the National Archives and university libraries seeking to ward their readers away from ‘problematic’ texts, it was only a matter of time before ordinary public libraries followed suit. Already in England numerous local libraries have removed books that are critical of gender ideology, for instance. The practice of hiding controversial books from the public has the full support of many officials involved in running public libraries. Guidance issued in 2022 by Calderdale Council, for example, advised that action be taken to stop LGBT people seeing ‘offensive’ gender-critical books, by hiding them from view and limiting the number of stock. It states that ‘we, along with many in the LGBTIQ+ community, find these books offensive’. Therefore, the twisted logic goes, no one else can be allowed to view them. Once upon a time the library was a place of refuge, where readers could get away from the noisy conflicts of public life. Unfortunately, the library has become yet another battleground in the culture war. Not only does this kind of censorship infantilise readers, but it also threatens people’s freedom to choose which texts they read and what ideas they are exposed to. Reading should be a journey of discovery, where people find out for themselves how they feel about the books that they read. There are no problematic books, only problematic censors."
When libraries support censorship. They're not old enough to remember when liberals said that if you were offended by a book, don't read it
Opinion | How to Create a Black Space in a Gentrifying Neighborhood - The New York Times - "one morning, glancing out my front window, I saw a young white couple stopped at the library. Instantly, I was flooded with emotions — astonishment, and then resentment, and then astonishment at my resentment. It all converged into a silent scream in my head of, Get off my lawn! The moment jolted me into realizing some things I’m not especially proud of. I had set out this library for all who lived here, and even for those who didn’t, in theory. I would not want to restrict anyone from looking at it or taking books, based on race or anything else. But while I had seen white newcomers to the neighborhood here and there, the truth was, I hadn’t set it out to appeal to white residents... What I resented was not this specific couple. It was their whiteness, and my feelings of helplessness at not knowing how to maintain the integrity of a Black space that I had created... Instead of the blatant racism of what happened at Bruce’s Beach, we now have gentrification. It’s perfectly legal, but ultimately it causes the same racial displacement, on a much larger scale. The stratospheric rise in home prices alone has meant that the Black population of Los Angeles has been declining for decades, and has dropped to around 9 percent... The anti-gentrification strategy articulated by many of my longtime Black neighbors is this: Stay put. Don’t sell. Stand your ground. While that is possible for some of us (I won’t be selling because, really, where would I go?), it’s not for everyone, and it’s not a permanent solution. It also doesn’t solve the bigger crisis of belonging. Ultimately, the moment with the couple I saw through my window raised for me a serious moral question about how I should act. Screaming at them to get off my lawn would be adopting the values of the oppressor, as my racial-justice activist father used to say. Yet my resentment was not analogous to the white resentment of generations past (and of now, I’d argue). White resentment has always been legitimized, and reinforced, by legal and cultural dominance"
When modern liberals support racial segregation. Of course, if house prices in black neighbourhoods are low because there's no "gentrification" (because white people don't want to live there), this is all also racist
Weird how the liberal elite obsessing over racism is not cultural dominance
How To Be a Model Minority in an Elite School
Seems the moral of the story is that to prevent minorities from being distressed, there needs to be racial segregation
Meme - Aria: "you'll burn in hell for laughing at the attempted murder of black people. sick white supremacist. yeah it's real funny. can't wait til someone kills your family. you're hideous miserable and lonely. go fucking kys.
This person is unavailable on Messenger."
The #BeKind crowd strike again
Why are the Tolerant Left so Intolerant? - "Ben Shapiro spoke at Memorial Auditorium in November, causing intense upheaval. Following the speech, Daily headlines asked, “When will Stanford begin to protect its students?” Activists portrayed Shapiro as a cockroach to be exterminated. A large crowd amassed outside Memorial Auditorium to harass attendees, shouting loudly about the lives that had “come under attack” as a result of Shapiro’s appearance. Does something so trivial as a speech by a conservative really warrant this type of hysteria and outrage? The mainstream at Stanford singles out conservatives as evil, a familiar feeling to many Republicans in liberal hotbeds like California. But there is no critical reflection of Left-wingers who are wildly popular on campus. Take Bernie Sanders, a man who has praised Fidel Castro for his “literacy program,” complimented the USSR on their “youth engagement,” and said that breadlines are “a good thing.” One wonders what standards can possibly justify Stanford’s definition of “mainstream” political views. As crazy as these positions are, you would be hard-pressed to find a crowd to protest Bernie on Stanford’s campus. As expected, many of the same people protesting Shapiro and the audience for being conservatives are die-hard Bernie supporters. Nobody seems to even acknowledge the moral quandary in supporting figures like Sanders, yet attack those willing to just listen to conservative ideas! Many left-wing and socialist ideas are offensive to those who respect the process of democracy and a society based on personal and economic freedoms... At least, unlike Leftists, we tend to highlight why their ideas can have detrimental ramifications, rather than claim those ideas put our lives in danger. Activists on the Left have deemed basic conservative ideas -- capitalism, individualism, limited government -- to be dangerous, even violent. Therefore, violence may be necessary against any who hold them on campus. Even in California, Republicans do exist. People hold conservative values for a number of reasons, and the Left’s breathless assertion of moral superiority beggars belief. Stanford students hail from a myriad of backgrounds, countries, and family structures. They also think differently. No one should make the assumption that everyone grew up in a PC bubble like the Bay Area. Stanford strives to have a heterogeneous student body, and that should include politics. Diversity and tolerance are important, but must also be afforded to political minorities on campus. We should be celebrating diversity of thought in the same way we celebrate all other forms of diversity."
Meme - Goodwill Shaming: "3 of these were found yesterday at the same Goodwill. was found the same day at another goodwill. Funny how once the "movement" or "next bandwagon to jump on" goes out of style and the dust settles, people donate their symbols of worship and "I'm a good person" to the thrift store. Says a whole lot..."
"I can't breathe" x2
"I've been vaccinated"
"Sandra Bland
Stephon Clark
Atatiana Jefferson
Philando Castile
Mike Brown
Alton Sterling
Tamir Rice
Jordan Davis
Freddie Gray
Walter Scott
Trayvon Martin
Ahmaud Arbery
Breonna Taylor
Botham Jea
Eric Garner
George Floyd"
What 'Queer Ducks' can teach teenagers about sexuality in the animal kingdom - "Schrefer said he wished a book like this existed when he was younger when he felt alone in his identity."
Of course, it is not problematic at all pretending that the concept of sexuality makes sense for animals
A New Florida Bill Could Spell Literal Death for Queer and Trans Citizens - "Florida has somehow become an even more lethal place to live for queer and trans Americans, thanks to the passage of two new bills. The first, SB 1342, stipulates that sexual child abuse and acts of pedophilia may be punishable by the death penalty. The second bill would make it easier for a jury to send the accused to the gallows. According to Reuters, the bill “allows juries to recommend the death penalty in capital cases on an 8-4 vote” instead of a unanimous vote.
What an odd thing to say. I thought it was homophobic to say they were more likely to be child sex offenders
Is Islamic Homophobia a Western Import? - "A common argument one hears on the left is that widespread homophobic attitudes in the Muslim world are not the outcome of religious doctrine or practice, but almost entirely a vestige of British colonialism and conservative Victorian mores. We can call this argument EHT (European Homophobia Thesis)... Consider the late nineteenth-century reformist Indian Muslim scholar, Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi. This religious luminary was hardly a member of the Anglicized elite, led a Sufi order which appealed to the spiritual leanings of rural, lower-class Indian Muslims, had no exposure to a Westernized education system, and expressly justified his moral condemnation of same-sex relations according to his well-known Urdu-language interpretation of the Qur’an. On what basis can one claim that, despite all this, Riza Khan had still internalized a specifically Victorian homophobic outlook? Exactly how did it manage to poison the moral worldview of nearly all South Asian Muslims? This is what makes EHT rather precarious. In trying to identify the root causes of pervasive Muslim homophobic attitudes, it relies too heavily on speculative psychology, suggesting that socially conservative Muslims today have subconsciously mimicked a Victorian sexual ethic... we would need to locate in a colonial subject’s writings or behavioral history a specifically Victorian and/or Orientalist logic on the question of sexual deviancy. Where writings and behavioral histories are not available—as in the case of most ordinary colonized Muslims—the onus is on those defending EHT to illustrate how internalized Victorian homophobia coursed through the veins of Muslim society and corrupted the masses. After all, EHT also seeks to explain how we’ve arrived at the present moment, where large numbers of ordinary Muslims display homophobic attitudes. Some academics recognize the need to strengthen EHT by offering a more sophisticated analysis of the psychology underlying the internalization of colonial homophobia. They argue, for example, that nineteenth-century Indian Muslim poets like Altaf Hussain Hali and Muhammad Husain Azad expunged homoerotic themes from their work because they had already introjected Victorian values. Indeed, they had so thoroughly internalized the horror of colonialism that they came to think their culture deserving of British ridicule for becoming too decadent and swerving from the formal Islamic juridical position on same-sex relations. Hali and Azad may have thought they were upholding Islamic values, but were really just embracing Victorian ethics. The trouble with this account is that it renders colonized Muslims intellectually fragile, even masochistic, in the face of imperial might. And since it’s based on speculation, it’s no more plausible than the claim that these poets—far from feeling ashamed of their literary culture—were actively resisting British demonization of that culture, and did so by confidently reviving in their writings an Islamic past that disapproved of same-sex relations. At the very least, this explanation doesn’t turn Muslims into self-deluded, docile objects of European colonialism. EHT may have some merit as a speculative hypothesis, but in challenging arguments insisting on the essentially homophobic nature of Islam, it goes too far in the opposite direction by blaming the contemporary homophobic posture among Muslims almost completely on imperial violence. In either scheme, Muslims lack real agency."
Only white people have agency
Matthew Lau: Having run its schools into the ground, Ontario’s government takes on other challenges - "That Ontario’s public school system is a shambles is unlikely to inspire confidence in the government’s ability to manage other things efficaciously: whether multibillion-dollar battery plant investments, supporting the federal government’s takeover of the child care sector, or — to pick at random a recent government announcement — reorganizing the demographics of the trucking industry by pushing women into careers as truck drivers. Specifically, on the last item, the government is spending $1.3 million to train 54 women and others from “underrepresented” groups for trucking careers. “Only two per cent of Ontario truck drivers are women,” the government explains. What percentage of truck drivers should be women, and how it arrived at this figure, the government did not say. But I eagerly await the government’s verdict on whether Ontario has the correct proportion of tax accountants who are Indigenous, evolutionary biologists who are Chinese, restaurant chefs who are Hindu and software engineers who are Catholic — and what taxes, subsidies, or regulations it has planned to correct the over- or under-representation of these groups in those professions... At Tomken Road Middle School in Mississauga, he writes, violence is widespread, chronic and uncorrected. Teachers are subject to verbal abuse and outright threats, but the offending students face little or no disciplinary action. Property is damaged or defaced with graffiti. One teacher described the school’s bathrooms as “battlegrounds” — some students, afraid of going inside, avoid them altogether. Others do drugs in them. When a whistleblowing teacher released an anonymous public letter about the crisis in the school, instead of taking corrective action the school board launched an investigation into who wrote it. Tomken Road Middle School is under the Peel District School Board, but there are parallel examples in the neighbouring Toronto District School Board (TDSB). Last fall, media reported news of weapons, mass brawls, drug overdoses, drug dealing, assaults and death threats against teachers and a full-on riot at York Memorial Collegiate Institute. The anarchy was emboldened by a lack of disciplinary action by the school board and administration. This particular school may be an extreme case, but one supply teacher who has worked in many schools wrote the Toronto Sun to say several Toronto public schools are in similar shape. Other public school misadventures were the focus of a report in the Toronto Star two weeks ago. It described the TDSB’s lunatic social experiment in its newest school — Jean Lumb Public School — where boys and girls do not have separate washrooms. The school has only gender-neutral facilities, a decision promoted both by the school board and the local trustee as one that promotes inclusiveness. The entirely foreseeable results, flagged by a parents’ group, include severe deficiencies in safety, hygiene and comfort, particularly for girls. The parents’ issue is not that the school has some gender-neutral facilities, but rather that it has none that are gender-specific. “Inclusion” is not only the stated intention for the absence of gender-specific facilities in Jean Lumb Public School, but also for the TDSB’s new race-based lottery system for its public specialty programs. Admissions to these educational opportunities, formerly determined by merit, will now be decided by a lottery that allocates 20 per cent of spaces to students from “historically and currently underserved communities (students self-identifying as First Nations, Métis, Inuit, Black, Latin American and Middle Eastern).” Race-based decision-making is also present in Peel, where Brean’s feature on Tomken Road notes “there is an element of racial politics in the board’s approach to discipline.” In addition to influencing administrative decisions, a focus on “inclusion” and “social justice” has become increasingly prevalent in instruction. This has not had the effect of improving learning. The latest round of assessments from the province’s Education Quality and Accountability Office show student achievement continuing to decline. In Ontario’s English-language schools, only 59 per cent of grade three students, 47 per cent of grade six students and 52 per cent of grade nine students are meeting provincial standards in mathematics."
A fear of taco trucks is a fear of Mexican women - "Marco Gutierrez, founder of the group Latinos for Trump, warned that Mexican culture is so dominant, that “if you don’t do something about it, you’re going to have taco trucks on every corner.”... The fear of Mexican culture and “taco trucks on every corner” is, of course, a fear of Mexican women as both laborers and mothers... The fear of “taco trucks on every corner” is also a fear of the Mexican woman who makes more Mexican babies. The villification of Mexican and Latinx women as “spicy,” hypersexual, loud, and aggressive goes hand in hand, as Hortensia Amaro argues, with stereotypes that present Mexican-American women as reluctant to use birth control and desirous of large families. In claiming that something must be “done about it,” Gutierrez is using the same logic that led to the forced sterilization of Latinas in the late 1960s through the mid-1970s. Women, as laborers (many of whom sell tacos for a living) and as mothers who reproduce Mexican people and culture, are the perceived threat."
???
Of course, if "white" culture is dominant, this is a bad thing
Meme - "*Nun, woman in hijab*
Why is the first one not judged but the second one offends?
Nuns don't randomly explode"
I’m a white, middle-class yoga teacher – and that’s a problem - "My name is Boudicca and I am a yogi. A thin, white, bendy, middle-class millennial female with a silly name, who loves yoga. How original. Until two years ago I was cool with being a cliche. Yoga has been a great anchor in my life... Anji Gopal, a teacher from a South Asian background, is less perturbed than some by the issues of race and cultural appropriation that have troubled the yoga community. “The majority of people I teach in my yoga studio classes are white, middle aged, middle class women. Is that a problem? No, I don’t think so. I live in Ealing and on one side of me is Southall and there’s a lot of yoga going on there, but it’s taught by Indian teachers to British Asians.” While the West is often accused of commoditising the practice, it’s also an export that India is rightly proud of. Gopal prefers to find the nuance in the issues around cultural appropriation, saying that when she started learning yoga, many of her own teachers were white. She feels the bigger question is: what is yoga and what are you teaching?"
Better for white people to abandon yoga. If it dies, too bad
Meme - "RECOGNIZE THE DIFFERENCE!
Harmless Graffiti Never investigated by Police
Fuck Ice. Fuck Police
Nazi Republicans *Swastika* Leave town or else
Fake clinic. Fund abortion ABORT GOD. Jane's revenge
Death 2 Israel
No mercy for jews *3 hung figures*
If abortions aren't safe then you aren't either
Hateful Racist slurs whose creators will be arrested
It's okay to be white
All lives matter
Irish Lives Matter
Trump 16 MAGA
She knew *over Hillary Clinton's eyes* *Anti-Epstein*
It's not racist to impose limits on immigration
Give me Freedom or Give me death. If we burn you will burn with us. Free Ughurs. Fight for Freedom"