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"
