Tribunal member formally rebuked after recusal for 'perception of bias' during Christian teacher case - "A member of an employment tribunal who made anti-Christian comments and described Tories as ‘tumours’ has been formally rebuked after being dramatically recused from a Christian teacher case. A ruling from the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office this week, supported by the senior president of the tribunals and the Lord Chancellor, said that Mr Jed Purkis’ comments amounted to misconduct... the comments made by Mr Purkis, who describes himself as lifelong socialist and trade unionist, were unearthed. On his social media accounts, which at the time of the hearing were accessible globally but have now been made private, he described Conservatives as ‘tumours’ and said his social media timelines were ‘clogged up with right wing nutjobs.’ In response to a comment that only atheists should be in public office, Mr Purkis said: ‘Damn right, you won’t catch us killing in the name of our non-god.’ In response to social media comments from a user that they find ‘Christians worse than woke’, Mr Purkis had said: ‘If they are so f***ing super how comes there is so much s**t going on in the world’, and added, ‘I need no higher power to tell me the right way to treat people and behave.’ Posting in response to Professor Mark Barber OBE saying the ‘woke bullying’ of former Conservative MP, Lee Anderson, by the ‘Marxist BBC must stop’, Mr Purkis said: “If you lead with your chin expect to get hit.’ Mr Purkis had also ‘liked’ posts which suggested: ‘There is no opposite of “woke”, because there is no definition of “woke”. It’s just a fresh dollop of ethereal stupidity, invented to provide a new bogeyman for the bewildered…now the equally ethereal Brexit has turned into something tangible…and that tangible thing is s**t.’ Mr Purkis also liked a post picturing Suella Braverman which said: “nowhere on God’s green earth would you find a politician as evil, stupid and repulsive as this f*****g ghoul.” Furthermore, Mr Purkis had ‘liked’ posts questioning the existence of cancel culture which ‘alt right cranks keep bleating about’."
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ on X - "The ethnic studies director for Seattle Public Schools created a fake identity as an oppressed Latinx, married a convicted child molester, and pressured her child to become transgender. She helped design identity-based curricula for 54,000 kids."
i/o on X - "So much information packed into 280 characters. Not a wasted word. A distillation of the depravity and destructiveness of wokeness."
wanye on X - "The Atlantic says that race is a social construct, which is weird in that you can spit in a tube, mail it to a stranger, and then they can from that deduce which social construct you are with a high degree of accuracy"
Richard Hanania on X - "Ezra Klein on Barack versus Michelle Obama. Barack is the optimistic vision of America where you can talk to your neighbors and we may all come together. Michelle is the “harder edge version” of Obamaism, which finds racism everywhere and is much more negative on the country."
Transcript: Ezra Klein on Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s Convention Speeches - The New York Times
Meme - Elon Musk @elonmusk: "Nerfing of the gun emoji matches rise of the woke mind virus, as a core tenet is equating fake harm with real harm"
"Apple Google Microsoft Samsung Facebook X"
Kristan Hawkins on X - "Woke = "Willingly Overlooking Known Evil""
What is abrosexual? It took 30 years for this writer to realise - "For those of you who don’t know what abrosexuality is, in layperson’s terms, it simply means when someone’s sexual identity fluctuates and changes."
Weird. We keep being told that sexual orientation is fixed and you're a bigot if you think it can change
“Let me invent a new word for something so that someone will pay attention to me for 15 seconds.”
Meme - "Freedom of speech *globe*
People who still use the words gay and retarded *man holding up globe*"
Eric S. Raymond on X - "American Jews perplex the hell out of me. I like their food, I like their humor, I like their culture in general, and most of all I like their IQ distribution. If you're a gentile but you select your friends for being bright, it is statistically inevitable that a lot of them are going to be Jewish. (Full disclosure: genetic assays on my family suggest that we have a few percent of Ashkenazic markers. But my family has never thought of itself as Jewish and I don't self-identify that way.) The recent wave of virulent public anti-Semitism would greatly disturb me even if I didn't, in general, like Jews as individuals. Because I consider the Jews the canary in the civilizational coal mine - any society that treats them increasingly badly is probably in the process of flushing itself down the toilet of history and will certainly become a hostile environment for brainy gentile me before very long. But I said that American Jews perplex me, and here's why. They seem to be incapable, for all their above-average intelligence, of grasping how large a hand they themselves had in creating the monster that is now stalking them. There's this concept of tikkun olam in Judaism, repairing the world as a religious duty. It's expressed in both religious and secularized Jews as a persistent attraction to social-reform causes. Jews want to fix what's broken about society - which, in the abstract, is quite admirable. But... They keep buying into Marxism, either directly or as critical theory and "social justice". Jews disproportionally give their money and their leadership abilities to collectivist ideologies which will inevitably turn on them - because to a would-be totalitarian, the thinker and the Jew and the cosmopolitan are always a disruptive threat. I've been watching this colossal, self-destructive error play out all my life. It doesn't take much study of history to see that Jews, especially secularized Jews, have been repeating this mistake almost en masse since the mid-19th century if not earlier. Why? Why? You guys are smart enough to dominate the Nobel prizes and yet you keep failing to see the bloody obvious. For your individual and tribal self-preservation, you ought to be the staunchest anti-Communists and anti-socialists anywhere. Collectivism isn't good for anybody, but it's especially deadly to Jews. Instead, when Stalinists stuffed you in boxcars you failed to connect the dots so comprehensively that the red-diaper Communist families in the U.S. are still predominantly Jewish generations later. Nazis murdered six million of you and you still don't get that racial identity politics is poison? How can you be so blind? Today, it's the hard left in the US, again, organizing "anti-Zionist" demonstrations that are working themselves up to become pogroms, and judging by your voting and donation patterns you *still* don't get it. Can anybody honestly tell me that American Jews are waking up? I'd like to think so, because we need you on the side of liberty and individualism. History doesn't make me optimistic, though, and that colossal blind spot continues to puzzle me exceedingly."
Toronto Star says "Down with the air Show". Yeah? Who gave you the right to speak for all of us you claim to? : r/toRANTo - " Every summer without fail, one of the Star, Globe or any other failing left-leaning media outlet will invariably roll out an opinion piece like the one above bashing the Toronto Air Show. Now, it's a free country but what irks me is that every single one of them will use the angle of "THINK OF THE TRAUMA THIS BRINGS TO REFUGEES! HOW DARE THEY CELEBRATE AUTHORITARIAN FORCES LIKE THE MILITARY IN A CITY FULL OF POC'S"! Well, from their bios I can see that these writers grew up with a safe and conflict-free existence in Canada, so have never been through what a refugee has. And while this particular author is a POC, most of the people ranting about this in previous Star/Globe/CBC articles are White people claiming to speak for others. You know who is conspicuously not ranting, however? Refugees and POC. I am a person of color and I was born outside of Canada. I - and most of my friends who are similarly 'newcomers' - love the air show. I vividly remember the first summer I spent in Toronto and how excited I was to find out that there was an air show in the city! For free! Unlike a lot of similar events elsewhere I Canada, the US and Europe, this event is free and within city limits . Did any of these privileged writers ever stop to think (or ask) a newcomer with limited resources how grateful they are for a free event that they don't need a car to access? In one of the most expensive cities in the world no less; and your solution is to take it away for....what? In the 2022 air show, I was sitting in Ontario place watching the show next to a very visibly Muslim family, 3 kids and a father. As the USAF F-35 lit off a bunch of flares and went roaring into a steep climb, the 3 kids ranging from (I think) 11 to 16 years of age were positively going nuts with happiness shouting things like "THIS is the most awesome thing EVER". I stuck up a conversation with the dad, and it turns out that he was an engineer from Iraq who came to Canada as a refugee from the Saddam regime. I asked him what he thought about the air show, and he was positively beaming when he told me that this was family tradition he had with his boys, and he couldn't be happier that the air show had inspired the oldest kids to study science because they wanted to become an aeronautical engineer and a pilot respectively. You know who else I saw there? Kids. Hundreds of kids of every age, gender and ethnicity who were cheering and whooping as they saw the Snowbirds perform feats of airmanship against the sound of "screaming jet engines". Philip Morgan, just because you would want to confine your (probably non-existent) kids to the solitude of your elitist echo chamber doesn't mean the rest of us want to do the same. Babies might get bothered, but they grow up in within a couple of years to be kids. Kids who - being kids - just absolutely love the noise and spectacle of jet planes streaking in the sky. And as for the rant about military recruitment, have you seen the world we live in? So as you rant and huff and puff in your million dollar waterfront homes about a show put on by the same military that gives you the freedom to do said ranting, we have one favour to ask you. DO NOT CLAIM TO SPEAK FOR US THE REFUGEES, US THE NEWCOMERS AND US THE PEOPLE OF COLOR. And here's a suggestion if it bothers you that much - it's only one weekend a year; maybe you could use your privilege and go to your parents place up in the suburbs, or to the cottage that most of you have access to. Let us and the thousands of others like us enjoy this slice of Canadiana in our new homes"
It’s time to mothball the Toronto International Air Show
Left wingers just hate Western militaries
Toronto Star says "Down with the air Show". Yeah? Who gave you the right to speak for all of us you claim to? : r/toRANTo - "I'm an immigrant and I think the whole think of the refugees angle is dumb. You cannot change a country for refugees. They were given a chance to live in one of the greatest countries in the world and I'm sorry their home turned out to be so bad they had to flee. But you got to assimilate to where you are. If you don't you go against the grain which doesn't help you or the community around you. I know many folks are against this but assimilation is key if you want to be a part of your environment. I still carry my cultural upbringing with me but my environment is different from my culture and they need to exist in a manner that respects both sides. Gotta stop pandering to folks who make zero effort to integrate into their new environment. Maybe some people just need to go somewhere else that is more familiar to where they are from. I don't mean this in a racist or prejudicial way, but you can't expect everyone to conform to your needs we all live in a society."
Toronto Star says "Down with the air Show". Yeah? Who gave you the right to speak for all of us you claim to? : r/toRANTo - "This Op-ed reads as classic NIMBY-ism cloaked in faux empathy for refugee or asylum seekers, pets and pet owners, children and parents, etc. The author gives off strong curmudgeon vibes who wants to live in a major urban city and is perturbed by any noise level above pin-drop silence. Yet, he is too cowardly to say that he dislikes the air show and so he hides behind the fictional and baseless opinions he fabricates for minority, marginalized, and vulnerable demographics as a way to solicit support for his stance. I do believe that everyone is entitled to their opinion, but the author is ridiculous to believe that he is entitled to generating everyone's opinions."
Edward Dutton on X - "In Finland, there is a clear linear pattern: the more Woke the political party, the more mentally unstable its voters are."
Do conservatives really have an advantage in mental health? An examination of measurement invariance - "Many studies have found that conservatives show an advantage in mental health and happiness and various causes of this have been debated (e.g., religiousness, ideology, or genetics). However, not much attention has been given to examining whether this advantage is psychometrically real, or whether it is due to test bias. We analyzed data from two large Finnish surveys of adults (Ns = 848 and 4,978) from Lahtinen (2024), that measured general anxiety and depression symptoms, as well as a new wokeness scale. Using differential item functioning tests, we found no evidence for measurement bias in these scales. The correlation between index scores of wokeness and mental health (internalizing) was −0.36, which increased to −0.41 when measurement error was removed. The association between wokeness and anxiety (r = −0.33, adjusted r = 0.37) was stronger than wokeness and depression (r = 0.20, adjusted r = 0.22)."
kuya (she/her)🏳️⚧️ on X - "insanely annoyed hot take: i do *not* trust the vast majority of chinese singaporeans complaining about how bad it was to be in america/UK and how unsafe and dangerous it is, *for them*"
Edward C. Yong ن on X - "the only racist violence i experienced in a decade in London was from a black teenager."
Thread by @aaronsibarium on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "NEW: Robin DiAngelo tells her "fellow white people" that they should "always cite and give credit to the work of BIPOC people who have informed your thinking." But she appears to have plagiarized numerous scholars—including two minorities—in her doctoral dissertation.🧵
"When you use a phrase or idea you got from a BIPOC person," DiAngelo says, "credit them." But according to a complaint filed last week with the University of Washington, where DiAngelo received her Ph.D. in multicultural education, she hasn't always taken her own advice. The 2004 dissertation, "Whiteness in Racial Dialogue: A Discourse Analysis," lifts two paragraphs from an Asian-American professor, Northeastern University's Thomas Nakayama, without proper attribution, omitting quotation marks and in-text citations. DiAngelo also lifts material from Stacey Lee, an Asian-American professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in which Lee summarizes the work of a third scholar, David Theo Goldberg. The passage creates the impression that DiAngelo is providing her own summary of Goldberg rather than using Lee's language—a misleading move that Peter Wood, the president of the National Association of Scholars, likened to "forgery." "It is never appropriate to use the secondary source without acknowledging it, and even worse to present it as one's own words," said Wood, a former Boston University provost who led several research misconduct probes. "That's plagiarism." The complaint describes dozens of cases in which DiAngelo, who rakes in almost $1 million a year in speaking fees, passed off the work of others as her own.
It calls into question the key credential on which DiAngelo built her career, which has relied on the notion that her therapeutic workshops—which can cost up to $40,000 and insist that all white people are racist—are backed by scholarly expertise. "No one who respected the basic expectations of scholarship would do this," said Steve McGuire, a member of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni and former professor of political theory at Villanova University. "The amount of copying of verbatim language without quotation marks or clear and consistent citations in these examples is appalling." The doctorate has become a centerpiece of DiAngelo's marketing. Her website, "Robin DiAngelo, PhD," refers to her as "Dr. DiAngelo," notes that she is a professor at the UWashington, and states that she coined the term "white fragility" in an "academic article" in 2011. The first use of that phrase actually came in her dissertation, where she formulated the concept that would define her career. "White fragility," she wrote, "is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves." The complaint suggests that the paper responsible for these ideas violated bedrock scholarly norms. DiAngelo, for example, copies a page of material from Kristin Gates Cloyes—her classmate in the university's Ph.D. program—and frames it as original language. She lifts another page from Debian Marty, an emerita professor of communication at California State University, Monterey Bay, keeping the structure of the passage the same while swapping out synonyms and details.
defines this sort of splicing as "mosaic plagiarism," in which a source's phrases are interspersed, uncredited, with one's own. "Plagiarism need not be intentional," the University of Washington states, "and 'I didn't know' is not a defense."
Once an obscure professor at Westfield State University, DiAngelo emerged in 2020 as the high priestess of progressive racialism. Her most famous book, White Fragility, published in 2018, flew off the shelves following George Floyd's death, beating out How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi—a black man—on USA Today's best-seller list. DiAngelo has become a staple of teacher trainings, corporate affinity groups, fundraisers, and "antiracist" book clubs. She even addressed 184 members of Congress, including then-House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), about what it "mean[s] to be white," telling the Democratic caucus in 2020 that its members would continue to "hurt" black people until they reckoned with the question. The talk was one of the myriad of speaking engagements that launched DiAngelo into the top 1 percent of American earners and helped her afford three houses worth $1.6 million. At one of those houses, a cabin in rural Washington State, DiAngelo has been photographed relaxing with a group of friends who, by all outward appearances, are exclusively white.
Last week's complaint is part of a wave of plagiarism allegations unleashed by the resignation of former Harvard University president Claudine Gay, who stepped down in January after half of her published works were found to contain plagiarized material. Subsequent complaints targeted diversity officials at Harvard, Columbia, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The allegations ranged from mild sloppiness to copying huge chunks of text without attribution. DiAngelo falls on the severer half of that continuum, lifting longer chunks of text than some officials, including Gay, and displaying telltale signs of deliberate plagiarism. Though she cites all of her sources in her bibliography, DiAngelo omits quotation marks, footnotes, and other forms of attribution that would mark off her words from those of her sources. And while a verbatim quote could have been copied accidentally, she often tweaks her sources' prose—suggesting she is aware of what she is doing and intentionally misleading readers. In a sentence taken from Queen's University's Cynthia Levine-Rasky, for example, DiAngelo changes just one word.
"It could be one of those signatures of the habitual plagiarist in which a minor change is meant either to throw people off or to justify the pretense of taking someone else's words for oneself," Wood said. "It shows that DiAngelo was fully conscious of what she was doing." A similar case involves two sentences from Bronwyn Davies, a professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne, and Rom Harré, a deceased philosopher and psychologist. DiAngelo copies the sentences almost verbatim, tweaking a word here or there to avoid an exact reproduction. "It does look like plagiarism," Davies told the Washington Free Beacon. Other scholars named in the complaint did not respond to requests for comment.
Tldr: The most famous white diversity consultant in the country plagiarized numerous scholars, including two minorities, over the course of her doctoral thesis. Sounds like she has a bad case of white fragility!"
Clearly, this is just motivated by racism, and a white person would never be subject to such scrutiny. "Plagiarist" is the new n-word
Meme - Nathan Cofnas @nathancofnas: "Researchers at Harvard Medical School found race differences in brain structure The only possible conclusion: "These findings offer another chilling reminder of the public health impact of structural racism.""
"Our research provides substantial evidence of the effects structural racism can have on a child's developing brain. These small differences may be meaningful for their mental health and well-being through adulthood. "The dataset in our study included children younger than 10 years old - children who have no choice in where they are born, who their parents are, and how much adversity they are exposed to. These findings offer another chilling reminder of the public health impact of structural racism and how crucial it is to address these disparities in a meaningful way,' said Harnett."
Colleagues who asked black worker about her hair were not being racist - "Ablack sales worker who sued for discrimination after colleagues asked about her hair, name and the food she was eating was told by an employment judge that they were not being racist and only showing a 'genuine interest' in her. Gifty Robinson launched legal action over a series of 'humiliating' incidents at Smile Publications, the publishing firm where she worked in Essex. The former sales caller claimed examples of discrimination included when her boss asked whether Gifty was her real name, whether she ate food with a fork or her fingers, and whether she wore a wig. Judge Paul Housego criticised Ms Robinson for being so 'acutely sensitised' that there was 'almost literally nothing' white colleagues could say to her without them being accused of racism. He dismissed her claims and ruled that colleagues were displaying a 'genuine interest' in her culture, within the context of a 'warm working relationship'... Ms Robinson started work at Smile Publications in Braintree, Essex, as a telephone sales worker on October 3, 2022 but she was sacked just a month later because her sales technique was 'not good enough'... her boss Jane Watkins said 'It's too dark in here' which Ms Robinson alleged 'was a reference to her skin colour'. Ms Robinson's account was that this comment was made more than once as she walked into the room. She said the others 'giggled or hid their heads' which would mean it must have been 'a comment poking fun at her'. But Ms Watkins said they had only recently moved into a new office so she was just commenting on how the room was 'gloomy' as autumn was approaching. Ms Robinson also alleged it was racist for Ms Watkins to ask whether Gifty was her real name or a nickname. Again, this was disputed by Judge Housego who said: 'There is simply nothing racist about this - it is an unusual name... The sales worker said Ms Watkins and an unnamed colleague had asked her whether she eats with a fork or her hand in relation to a portion of jollof - a popular rice dish from West Africa - she had brought in. It was heard Ms Robinson was eating the jollof with cutlery, while also using her fingers, so the allegation was a 'distortion' of what happened. 'This was no more than [Ms Robinson] bringing in an unusual (for her colleagues) appetising Ghanaian dish and them asking about it,' the judge said. Ms Robinson described to the tribunal an incident in November when Ms Watkins allegedly asked her 'Is that your own hair or a wig?'. It was heard the staff had 'no idea' that Ms Robinson habitually wore a wig until the subject of the Christmas party came up. The sales worker said she was planning on wearing a different wig to the festivities and claimed her colleagues made the comment and touched her hair. Notably, the wig matters were denied completely by Ms Watkins... Judge Housego said: '[Ms Robinson's] view is that there is almost literally nothing that a white person can ask a black person about themselves without it being racist.' They said Ms Robinson asked the panel to google '50 things you cannot say to a black person' yet said to Smile Limited's counsel 'You need to get some black friends, honey' which was both 'stereotypical and inappropriate'. The panel remarked: 'What occurred in the workplace was no more than genuine interest in someone else's life and culture, in the context of a warm working relationship.'"
It is dangerous to talk to "minorities" or show interest in them
EDITORIAL: Let’s shut the door on hatred - "At a time of heightened tensions in the Middle East and with anti-Semitism rampant in major cities, you’d think the federal government would be extra vigilant about who’s allowed into this country. If their plan is to peddle hatred, it would be a good idea to stop them at the border and tell them they’re not wanted here. Sadly, that didn’t happen with Assam Al-Hakeem, a Saudi Arabian-based Imam accused of fomenting anti-Jewish hatred. As Toronto Sun columnist Brian Lilley has documented, Al-Hakeem broadcasts around the world to mostly English-speaking audiences. He sees Jews as enemies and conspirators plotting against Islam. His messages are not just anti-Semitic. They’re considered by some to be misogynistic and anti-gay. In one video, Al-Hakeem describes how, when Islam comes to your country, you have two options — submit or pay a tax for not being Muslim. If you don’t accept either of those outcomes, then Islamists will fight you, he says. He also preaches that Muslims should not take up the citizenship of Kafir countries. (Kafir is generally translated as an infidel or someone who’s a non-believer in Islam). Al-Hakeem names Canada as Kafir and says Muslims should not follow the laws of a Kafir country. He’s already visited Calgary, Milton, Mississauga, London, Montreal and Vancouver. We don’t need irresponsible views in this country right now... The federal government has been quick to ban fundamentalist Christians with extreme views. It’s time for some soul-searching on the part of our politicians and Immigration department. They must weed out those who would spew hatred and make sure they get the message that they’re not welcome here."
It's only hate if it threatens the left wing agenda
Sweden prosecutes Quran burners with hate crime - "Two men have been accused of committing "offenses of agitation against an ethnic or national group" for burning Qurans in front of mosques and other public places."
When the left supports blasphemy laws. It's only theocracy if it's Christian
Leonarda Jonie on X - "The propaganda destroying the West is aimed at and works only on White people:
Are Mexicans having less children bc they’re worried about climate change? Are Indians handicapping their GDP bc of “the environment”? Are Muslims concerned with women’s rights? Who else is letting in refugees bc they don’t want to be called racist?
Enough is enough. White people we need to stop being such cucks that rather than be called a “bad word” we let our whole society crumble, our children be murdered, and our people go extinct."
