Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry on X - "A French left-wing MP was arrested for buying 3-MMC, a designer drug, and stated that he was planning on using it during a chemsex orgy. His allies are saying that this enforcing the law on him is homophobic because chemsex orgies are part of LGBT culture."
Mathieu Guglielmino on X - "Tous ceux qui lui tombent dessus sont des imbéciles qui n'ont rien compris. Le chemsex est sûrement un des derniers endroits où la communauté LGBT peut se retrouver, apprendre, partager, dans un contexte intergénérationnel, là où l'hétérosexualité a détruit tous nos lieux. Qu'ils aillent se faire foutre ! Et courage à Andy, qu'il veuille arrêter, ou non."
I thought it was homophobic to say that queer people are sexual deviants
Diana S. Fleischman on X - "Becoming a mom has made me more conservative overall- I'm more safety conscious and have a stronger preference for similar people who are reliable and have good judgement. I like religious people and moms way more. I'm more ambivalent about immigration. I was very annoyed by antisocial behavior before but now I get livid and want people who scare my kids to suffer. But, I'm relieved that I've become no more paternalistic. I still think that if people want to kill themselves, see prostitutes, take heroin or dress as leather puppies in public, I don't really care. I'm somewhat more sympathetic to pro-life views, namely that people in a majority pro-life state should be able to make abortion illegal in their state. But I myself would still not make abortion illegal up to 18 weeks. I'm still not very worried about progressive teachers preaching their views to students, kids socially transitioning, or kids acquiring weird views from their peer group. I am much more heartbroken about children being bullied by other kids or being unable to learn because of a bad school environment. I have the somewhat unpopular view that people with children in foster care or active drug addictions should be given incentives to contraception, but I had that view before."
Why the left is anti-natalist
i/o on X - "I've long speculated that the "extremism" Elon Musk seeks is basically the 1990s Democratic Party: Controlled borders, pro-growth economy, balanced budgets, relative peace abroad, free speech, and public schools not teaching students to hate their country and race and sex."
wanye on X - "A critical aspect of my self-conception and a reason that most liberal insults don't affect me that much is that you're not going to gaslight me into thinking my beliefs, which resemble those of 90s Democrats, are "racist" or "fascist." I was alive. It wasn't that long ago."
The cope is that the world has "progressed", and that the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice
Meme - Veronica @celestialbe1ng: "Not long ago, someone argued that progesterone, the hormone that skyrockets during pregnancy, can fix gayness (because being gay is a metabolic issue caused by your mother’s stressed state and inadequate progesterone during pregnancy), and I can’t stop thinking about it"
AF Post @AFpost: "Grimes says she became "way less gay" after pregnancy. Follow: @AFpost"
Why are there so many "lesbians" who sleep with men, or even marry them?
Labour candidate told she was 'not a proper Muslim' because of western name - "A Labour candidate was told that she was not a proper Muslim because she had a Western first name, she has revealed. Heather Iqbal was heavily defeated in Dewsbury and Batley by Iqbal Mohamed, after a campaign she said was characterised by “intimidation”. Ms Iqbal said Mr Mohamed’s supporters chased her down the street and shouted that she was a “child murderer” and a “genocide agent”, while a loudspeaker van blared out the message that Labour was a Zionist party. In an interview with The Telegraph, Ms Iqbal revealed she had to stop taking her baby son out with her when she knocked on doors because of the heated nature of the campaign. She said Muslim Labour members in Dewsbury were under huge pressure to quit the party because of its stance on Gaza, with their children bullied at school for having a parent in Labour. Her testimony provides a worrying insight into the kind of sectarian politics apparently on the rise in parts of the UK in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel. The news came as Labour gathered for its annual conference. On Sunday, delegates had to pass a large and noisy group of pro-Palestinian activists to enter the venue... Ms Ramsay said she reported independent supporters to the police on three occasions. On one occasion, while a small group was canvassing in a Muslim area of Batley, an independent supporter ran up and “very aggressively shouted at us that we weren’t welcome in that area”. “He collected leaflets from some of the doors that we had delivered to. He said it was an independent area; if we didn’t get out he would be calling people so that they would remove us. “We were the genocidal party, we were responsible for the death of women and children. We were supporting the killing of babies, we were Zionist.” The police were called, but did not come. Elsewhere in Batley, she said, Ms Iqbal was campaigning with members of her family and some other Muslim activists who had stuck with Labour. “There was a man who was saying to them that they’re not good Muslims,” said Ms Ramsay. “If they’re Muslims they need to re-look at their faith because of the genocide. "
This is also why the left support fundamentalist, extremist Muslims and Islamists. To be an authentic Muslim, you can't be modern, integrated and/or liberal
Time to protect Muslims by cracking down on Islamophobia by jailing the "far right"
We Need to Talk About Gay Sex in Space
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Meme - Cascadian Barbarian @CascadianDennis: "Ever notice how white people have been raising their kids to not see race, while everyone else has been raising their kids to hate them?"
Meme - "The Genecuck
Refuses to breed so his ideological enemies' children have a future
Sets himself on fire to raise awareness of a conflict no one cares about
Bicycle got stolen yesterday, but is okay with it because the robber was probably happier than he would be with a bike
Rushes to defend the honor of women who think he's kinda gross ant
Favorite insult is incel; has not had sex with a willing partner in 11 years.
Believes representation matters, unless you're white and male
Donated to Bernie Sanders twice"
i/o on X - "Only 3% of "progressive activists" are black. Except for the most conservative category in the US ("devoted conservatives"), progressives are the least racially diverse group in the country. And they are tied for being the richest.
Progressives remind me of Lenin's "vanguard of the proletariat" — affluent and privileged authoritarians that claim to speak for and act in the interests of the unenlightened unwashed masses."
Hidden Tribes: A Study of America’s Polarized Landscape
Magills on X - "Jeff Bezos watched his ex wife blow a billion dollars of his fortune on Left Wing causes and did the funniest thing ever"
i/o on X - "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, nor like that of the ex-husband of the scorned woman when he sees that $357,000 of his ex-money got donated to the Queer Theater Ensemble of Omaha to stage a reimagining of Death of a Salesman in which Biff is a disabled Chicanx transwoman."
Meme - i/o @eyeslasho: "Psychology can't replicate its research findings largely because the field is contaminated by "social justice" and equalitarian concerns. But its two most politically incorrect findings — IQ and stereotype accuracy — have no problem reliably and robustly replicating."
Charles @JiffjoffI: "Reminder that when the replication crisis came for psychology and almost washed away all of its empirical work - the most controversial / offensive work is what withstood the wave with robust results, large sample sizes and effects (intelligence research, stereotype accuracy)"
"1. Over 50 studies have now been performed assessing the accuracy of demographic, national, political, and other stereotypes.
2. Stereotype accuracy is one of the largest and most replicable effects in all of social psychology. Richard et al (2003) found that fewer than 5% of all effects in social psychology exceeded r's of .50. In contrast, nearly all consensual stereotype accuracy correlations and about half of all personal stereotype accuracy correlations exceed .50
3. The evidence from both experimental and naturalistic studies indicates that people apply their stereotypes when judging others approximately rationally. When individuating information is absent or ambiguous, stereotypes often influence person perception. When individuating information is clear and relevant, its effects are "massive" (Kunda & Thagard, 1996, yes, that is a direct quote, p. 292), and stereotype effects tend to be weak or nonexistent. This puts the lie to longstanding claims that "stereotypes lead people to ignore individual differences."
4. There are only a handful of studies that have examined whether the situations in which people rely on stereotypes when judging individuals increases or reduces person perception accuracy. Although those studies typically show that doing so increases person perception accuracy, there are too few to reach any general conclusion, Nonetheless, that body of research provides no support whatsoever for the common presumption that the ways and conditions under which people rely on stereotypes routinely reduces person perception accuracy."
Ayishat Akanbi on X - "It’s naive to think that you wouldn’t have taken part in historical atrocities once considered normal if you embrace all the trendy ideas of today."
Old lefties need to grow up - "On hearing this week that a purple-haired Extinction Rebellion activist (keen on vintage clothes and ‘fantastic sex’) had suggested that Baby Boomers should be ‘euthanised’ as revenge for their contributions to climate change, I expected the culprit to be the usual fresh-faced millennial who we’ve all become bored of being scolded by. But on seeing photographs of 59-year-old (only three years younger than me) Jessica Townsend, it all made even more recognisably ludicrous sense, despite her comment supposedly being a joke. (Would she have made it about any other group? No. Therefore it wasn’t a joke.) For she is one of the growing tribe of left-wing old people who identify as Forever Young... When men used to be accused of having the male menopause, we mocked them as sad old salary men, keen to get hold of the fast car and the foxy girlfriend after a lifetime of wage slavery – but lefties, bohos and artists are just as bad."
Venice Pride Festival vendor causes uproar over ‘icebreaker’ display - "A gay pride festival last weekend at a Venice city park is causing a firestorm after photos of a vendor’s booth showing openly displayed sex toys surfaced on a website and social media... “The City was very disappointed to learn that some of the actual event activities did not align with the approved event description. The City of Venice was not informed of and did not approve the details of these activities,” the statement said... Roger Capote, CAN’s vice president of marketing, also told ABC7 his organization did not know the event was being billed as “family friendly.” Had they known that, they would have brought a different activity to display."
How convenient
Meme - Evil (Political) Scientist @knrd_z: "Liberals are so smart they can't draw inferences from their own very simple bar charts-- the higher a field's intellectual floor the *more* conservative it is."
evan loves wort @esjesjesj: "Yeah this is because conservatives are legitimately dumber"
Elon Musk: "Wow "
Meme - The Rabbit Hole: "Democrats dominate academia"
"PROFESSORS ARE DEMOCRATS. Therefore, "experts" are Democrats too.
*Descending order of Democratic percentage* Communications Anthropology Religion English Sociology Art Music Theater Classics Geoscience Environmental Language Biology Philosophy History Psychology Poli Sci Computers Physics Mathematics Professional Economics Chemistry Engineering"
So if fewer black people go to university, this means that they "are legitimately dumber", right?
Wilfred Reilly on X - "There are people among us who "believe" that ~2pt political IQ gaps are the reason 100% of Anthropologists are Democrats."
All the evidence of discrimination against conservatives must be fake
Meme - Alexander @datepsych: "Also interesting in this chart - most psychologists of both sexes believe to some extent that:
1. Sex is binary.
2. Sexually coercive behavior is an evolved adaptation.
3. There are evolved psychological sex differences."
Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen: "Contrary the the impression one gets, male academics are quite open to the possibility that genetics can contribute to racial IQ differences (in anonymous polls). There is a large gender gap, with female academics being far more skeptical."
"Supplemental Figure S1. Gender Differences in Taboo Beliefs Among Psychology Professors"
Meme - The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole84: "Woke: White privilege causes the wage gap.
Feminists: Male privilege causes the wage gap.
Asian Women: What wage gap?"
"Median Weekly Earnings of Full-Time Workers Asian Women vs. White Men"
The Problem With 'Problematic' - The Atlantic - "Academics like me love to describe things as “problematic.” But what do we mean? We’re not saying that the thing in question is unsolvable or even difficult. We’re saying—or implying—that it is objectionable in some way, that it rests uneasily with our prior moral or political commitments... In principle, every usage of the term problematic should be followed by an explanation. Is the situation or person in question unjust, immoral, or unfair? Racist, sexist, or otherwise bigoted? Wrongheaded, perhaps, or just plain wrong? All too often, the explanation never comes. Snark artists on Tumblr have parodied pretentious, pejorative uses of problematic for years. Yet today, they are as popular in mainstream publications as with professors. According to a recent article in Scientific American, JEDI is “problematic” as an acronym for “Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion” initiatives because, among other issues, the Jedi protagonists in Star Wars employ “toxically masculine approaches to conflict resolution.” Elsewhere, we’re told that the facial features of Bond villains are “problematic” because they cast aspersions on people with disfigurements, or that West Virginia’s long history with the coal industry is “problematic”—at least, according to members of the Rockefeller family. Which other academic buzzword can boast of going so decisively and pervasively mainstream?... We ultimately owe problematic, however, not to Foucault, but to his Marxist colleague Louis Althusser, for whom the phrase la problematique described a structured, theoretical system through which ideas are processed. Incidentally, Althusser also strangled his wife, Hélène Rytmann, to death in 1980. The fact that many who embrace his terminology today would now reflexively describe Althusser himself as “problematic”—instead of “misogynistic” or “violent”—illustrates how successfully the word has slipped the bonds of social theory to become an all-purpose term not of art but of opprobrium. Problematic may have escaped the academy, but scholars and teachers still bear a lot of responsibility for its current use. Like any casual Twitter user, academics use problematic as an innuendo, or better yet, an “insinuendo.” Rhetorically, this usage divides our audiences between those who know already what our commitments are—in many cases because, on a politically homogeneous campus, they share them—and so are presumptively in the know about what we find objectionable. To this audience, problematic indicates where the problem is; they do not need to be told what it is... In effect, problematic communicates that those who don’t share our commitments at the outset are not worth arguing with, let alone persuading. It relies on a subtle sort of bullying in place of mutual justification. It excludes, rather than explains... Academics are also human beings, often with imposter syndrome, and we come to rely on words such as problematic precisely because they are vague enough to preempt objection. Students, especially, would rather agree with us than admit that they don’t understand what we mean. In this way, problematic is highly efficient. But it is also disastrous for learning. This is why I find the word problematic to be, well, problematic"
Edited for spelling mistake: Does anyone else feel left out by SCSU? They only seem to talk about Muslim, black, or Palestinian problems, I've never seen them venture far from these 3 focuses unless it's to appear like they support "equality". : r/UTSC - "the sooner people realize that SCSU’s version of equality is equality for their own only and not others, the sooner you’ll learn that they have very specific agendas. I have friends that wrote a group letter to SCSU a while back about the possibility of speaking out against asian hate and asian blaming for covid, not a single reply or acknowledgment. I have a friend who wrote an anonymous letter on addressing anti-semitic intimidation and again, silence. This group isnt after equality"
This is the Scarborough Campus Students' Union
John Tillman on X - "Everyone wonders why Kamala can’t answer questions confidently and coherently. Meanwhile, Donald Trump and JD Vance do dozens and dozens of interviews, long form and short, riffing easily on a vast array of subjects. But I know why: She fails Because she has no core beliefs other than doctrinaire progressivism that she knows are out of step with voters. Riffing on those beliefs will tick off some swaths of voters she needs. So she is frozen and trying steer the verbiage. Trump and Vance have a worldview well settled; they are confident in their beliefs and confident a majority of voters agree if they are well persuaded. The two tickets are not the same."
Colin Wright on X - "Before I became publicly anti-woke, being part of the Left and in academia felt like being in a verbal prison. Social gatherings became tense, especially with new attendees, as everyone knew that uttering even a single word considered potentially insensitive could trigger a meltdown. The more Kamala speaks, the likelier she is to stumble over one of the many invisible lexical tripwires that surround her. And when she does speak, her words must be carefully rehearsed, as deviating from the script could be extremely costly."
UniquelyDefined🦎 on X - "When I was a radical leftist I was constantly engaged in keeping up with the current language and popular views because it was necessary to keep signaling allegiance properly. At first I liked it because it felt like education, but over time it felt like indoctrination."
Colin Wright on X - ""At first I liked it because it felt like education, but over time it felt like indoctrination." This is an important point. The woke disguise their ideology as education. They present 100 "gender identities" or use clownfish and seahorses to discuss transgenderism in humans while pretending they're teaching biology. Kids, and unfortunately many adults, can't tell the difference."
Philip Cross: Young people are embracing conservatism. What does that mean for the future? - "Rising support for conservative politicians and ideas among young people reflects several trends. Most obvious is that many reject the radical woke agenda espoused by a small but vocal minority. When confronted with the reality of an economy that is not generating the jobs, incomes and housing they desire, they prioritize results over ideology. That’s especially true for young people who came to Canada for economic reasons. Unfortunately, the importance young people put on results is driving many to question the usefulness of democracy. In his 2023 book The Fourth Turning Is Here , historian Neil Howe cites polls showing one in four young Americans would prefer a dictatorial president unconstrained by Congress, while only one in 10 Americans over 65 agrees. Howe’s analysis is based on the proposition that historical movements occur in cyclical ebbs and flows rather than straight lines. After a career spent studying business cycles, I find this argument intuitively appealing. There are regular cycles in financial markets and the economy, partly because long periods of prosperity and bullish financial conditions lull people into under-estimating the risks of a downturn. This complacency inevitably precipitates the sort of risky decisions that trigger a slump. As economist Hyman Minsky wrote, “Success breeds a disregard of the possibility of failure … Stability leads to instability. The more stable things become and the longer they are stable, the more unstable they will be when the crisis hits.”"
Leonid Sirota: Defunding universities will not rid them of wokeism - "both the professor he focuses on and far too many others are activists who have, in Jerema’s words, thrown rigour “out the window.” Most Canadian law schools ― and there is little reason to think law schools are exceptional in this regard ― are monocultures. Many are open about imposing ideological litmus tests in hiring. Just this week, the University of British Columbia’s Peter A. Allard School of Law published a job posting that requires applicants to provide a “statement describing current and future commitments or interests related to equity, diversity and inclusion as well as decolonization.” Dissidents need not apply. I have faced this sort of ideological discrimination myself. There are many reasons why, despite being Canadian and focusing most of my academic writing on Canadian law, I teach constitutional law in the United Kingdom, but my failure to toe the progressive line is one of them. Never mind the many law schools where I simply have not bothered applying because, like UBC, they are explicit about their intention to discriminate. I have been questioned about my political opinions in a job interview ― at a law school in a province where discrimination on the basis political opinion is against the law. At a different law school, which did not bother interviewing me for a job I was thoroughly qualified for, a friendly insider told me that, “The winds in constitutional law blow in a different direction.” So I’m open to the view that Canadian academia is rotten to the core. I am also open to the view that higher education is simply something students should pay for themselves, without taxpayer support. There is a case for defunding the universities on libertarian principles. Good luck making it to middle-class parents who want the wealthy (who pay more tax than they) and the poor (whose children are less likely to attend university) to subsidize their offspring’s education."
Amy Hamm: Shut up, British Columbians: our province now has its very own Online Harms Act - "British Columbia’s Human Rights Tribunal (HRT) — the same forum that achieved international notoriety in 2019 for considering if the state should force women to handle male genitals against their will — is at it again. This time, the quasi-judicial body has ruled in its own favour that it has the authority to regulate the online speech of B.C. residents... Take activist group Lawyers Against Transphobia, who’ve asserted in a newly-published handbook on alleged — and wholly imagined, as far as I’m concerned — transphobia in B.C. schools that a “common transphobic belief” is that “there are only two sexes: male and female.” They go on to encourage any victims who land within earshot of a transphobic thought criminal espousing such basic scientific knowledge to lodge human rights tribunal complaints. It’s a rigged system. The activists in our province know full well that our provincial human rights tribunal is in ideological alignment with their fringe views. One of the intervenors in Neufeld’s case, for instance, was the province’s Human Rights Commissioner, Kasari Govender. She argued in favour of the tribunal increasing their powers: “The Tribunal’s decision… will help to ensure that many people in B.C. who have been targeted by online hate speech are able to access justice. As the Tribunal has acknowledged, the internet is a significant part of our daily lives and a medium where harmful content can spread quickly and with profound consequences. I am glad to see that complainants can rely on B.C.’s human rights law when discriminatory content is published online,” Govender said. No ruling has been made as to whether Neufeld’s online speech was discriminatory — but the commissioner, by all appearances, has suggested that a guilty verdict is the foregone conclusion. That is chilling, both of spines and speech. It’s obvious: Malicious and vexatious activists will use this new jurisdictional ruling to either intimidate or bludgeon political opponents into silence. It is an intolerable attack on the free speech of Canadians — and must be overturned. We already know that our human rights tribunals are staffed (primarily) by the remotest fanatics of the political left, and that they hold a proven track record of ideological bias. They’re likely salivating over the Neufeld ruling — like foxes granted managerial powers over a hen house. Notably, one of the tribunal members who issued this ruling included Devyn Cousineau, the same member who ruled on the infamous testicle waxing cases. Back then, Cousineau referred to transwomen having their male bits stripped of hair as “critical gender affirming care.”... Lawyer Lisa Bildy, who defends Canadians’ civil liberties, told me in an email interview that she is concerned that other provinces could enact legislation to follow in B.C.’s footsteps... "If we must have human rights tribunals at all, their jurisdiction should be limited to discriminatory acts in the provision of services, and not to speech. It is far too ripe for abuse”"
"Hate speech" is good when it pushes the left wing agenda, of course, like calling for the genocide of Jews, in which case free speech becomes sacrosanct