Dalia Gebrial on X - "The overwhelming majority of shock stories of 'woke gone mad' are right wing caricatures and fabrications."
Maven Politic on X - "> The Left invents the term 'woke'
> Right starts attacking it
> Right wins the argument in the public square
> Left stops using woke
> Left starts saying "what is this woke thing?"
> Starts claiming that woke doesn't exist
Exactly the same cycle as "political correctness"."
WeAreFairCop on X - "BREAKING: The College of Policing’s cunning plan is to RENAME Non Crime Hate Incidents in the hope that the public won’t notice they’ve disguised a turd by calling it a sausage. @CollegeofPolice Lord Herbert is Baldrick. And @AllisonPearson just blew the toilet doors off."
Andy Ngo on X - "Nearly five years after the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots and the woke insanity from local Democrats, Portland, Ore. is now in an "urban doom loop." High-paying taxpayers are leaving the city, businesses continue to shut down and tax revenue is drying up. Portland also ranks second to last in 81 cities for outside investment in a survey by the Urban Land Institute. Meanwhile, Oregon's governor @GovTinaKotek says her priority during the second Trump presidency is stockpiling abortion pills and protecting the transitioning of minors and allowing males to play in female sports."
Eric S. Raymond on X - "A reasonable request. I've decided to draw aside the veil a little, exactly because I think it's advice the Democrats are utterly incapable of taking. The rationalist community around the blog Less Wrong has developed a lot of techniques for improving the quality of arguments. One of these tactics is to notice when some key words used in an argument are generating more heat than light - causing people to stop thinking and dig into their positions rather than examine evidence. So, in an argument proceeding under rationalist discourse conventions, any participant may say "I notice that word X is causing a problem. I think we should taboo it for the remainder of this discussion." That means not using the word, and rethinking any assertions we want to make that would use it. If the person making this suggestion is sufficiently respected, he or she can actually make it stick. So: if the Democrats actually want to climb out of the hole they're in (which is indexed by the fact that they have a historically low 31% approval rating) here are my suggestions for four words that they need to taboo in their public relations and their policy discussions for at least the next 8 years: "racism", "sexism", "homophobia", and "privilege". In terms of retail politics, the reason to taboo these words is that most Americans now experience them not as pointers to actual problems, but as verbal cudgels employed by grifters and deviants to bully normal people who hold down jobs and pay taxes. (See also: historically low 31% approval rating.) This is a big change from past times, when these words had positive moral valence. But the more fundamental reason for the Democrats to taboo these words is because they or what rationalists call "thought-stoppers". They're so emotive for the people using them as cudgels that they shut down creative reasoning about policy or public relations. Before the Democratic party can take novel actions that improve its standing with the electorate, it needs to be able to think about what those novel actions ought to be. Right now, the party is incapable of doing that, because it's stuck inside a Foulcauldian power-relations framework in which these thought-stopping words are central features. By tabooing these words, it may be able to escape the limitations of that framework."
Jared Taylor on X - "Black concrete subcontractor on $830 million (and ugly) Obama Presidential Library is suing and screaming "racism" because the structural design firm said the concrete job was no good. Design firm released photos of the work."
Obama Center subcontractor files $40 discrimination lawsuit against engineering firm
Lego can be anti-LGBT, says Science Museum - "Lego can be anti-LGBT, the Science Museum has said. A self-guided museum tour on “stories of queer communities, experiences and identities” includes a display of Lego bricks alongside a guide stating the plastic blocks may reinforce the idea that heterosexuality “is the norm”. The tour, devised by a Gender and Sexuality Network at the museum, also claims in the “Seeing Things Queerly” guide that Lego adds credence to the view that there are only two genders. This is because people supposedly describe Lego bricks as having male or female parts that are made to “mate” with each other. This is “heteronormative”, the guide states, which is the idea that “heterosexuality and the male/female gender binary are the norm and everything that falls outside is unusual”. The Science Museum guide claims that people think “the top of the brick with sticking out pins is male, the bottom of the brick with holes to receive the pins is female, and the process of the two sides being put together is called mating”. No source is provided for the alleged view that people consider Lego to be gendered, or that sticking bricks together is called “mating”... In 2023, the museum dismantled a trans-inclusive display following complaints it was pushing “propaganda” and not biology. A cabinet titled Boy Or Girl? displayed quotes describing the transition from the “wrong body” as a “hero’s journey”, and labels characterising gender as something “difficult to define” which “may not match your biological sex”. The display featured a fake penis and chest-binding equipment."
Great British Railway Journeys among shows flagged by counter terror scheme 'for encouraging far-right sympathies' - "SOME of the UK's most beloved TV shows have been flagged by counter terror programme Prevent. Hit shows like Yes Minister and The Thick Of It and even Michael Portillo's Great British Railway Journeys were bizarrely described as "encouraging far-right sympathies". Meanwhile, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare were placed on a list of "key texts" for white supremacists. A report by the programme's Research Information and Communications Unit (RICU) said that extremists posted "reading lists" on online chat boards. The document shared a list of these "important texts" under pictures of Nigel Farage and 1930s British Union of Fascists leader Oswald Mosley. Works from BBC's 1990s political thriller House of Cards to classic film The Dambusters to John le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy made the rankings. House of Cards screenwriter Andrew Davies said that he had thought the list was "a joke" and emphasised that his show was a satire of the Right. Historian and broadcaster Andrew Roberts told the Daily Mail: "This is truly extraordinary. This is the reading list of anyone who wants a civilised, liberal, cultured education. "It includes some of the greatest works in the Western canon and in some cases – such as Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent – powerful critiques of terrorism. Burke, Huxley, Orwell and Tolkien were all anti-totalitarian writers." Meanwhile, noted author and Sun columnist Douglas Murray was shocked to discover that one of his own books had been flagged... The list comes after a damning review into Prevent by William Shawcross. Mr Shawcross found that the scheme applied a "double standard" to Islamist terror threats compared to far-right issues. His report said that Prevent had highlighted material that "fall well short of the extremism threshold altogether". It added that the programme had prioritised right-wing terrorism over its Islamist counterpart. Home Secretary Suella Braverman slammed the scheme for having "defined right-wing extremism too broadly" in a way that included the "respectable Right and the centre-Right"."
From 2023. Previously quoted, but I didn't know Shakespeare was also a "far right" text
We're still told that left wingers don't hate their countries
Nathan J Robinson on X - "Sowell is a propagandistic pseudoscientist so he's exactly the sort of writer I'd expect to be lavished with honors by the Trump administration"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "This guy calling the author of "Basic Economics" a "propagandist" is a sort of general metaphor for the modern left."
Meme - John Boyega @JohnBoyega: "I really fucking hate racists."
Dexy Dale @DexyDale: "Nobody loves racists. I'm from Nigeria my ex said she hates whites so broke up with her"
John Boyega @JohnBoyega: "I am talking about WHITE on BLACK racism. The kind that has ruined the world not caused a lil break up with your girlfriend."
Meme - hoe_math @ItIsHoeMath: "Here's a great strategy for arguing with leftoids (God forbid you waste your time, but if you ever have to) When they say that they're so full of "empathy," make them prove it by having empathy for YOU and explaining YOUR feelings in a way that you AGREE with. They're not physically able to do it! They will either try to wriggle out of the losing position by fleeing or throwing mud at you in some way, or they will give you a cartoon caricature of your worldview that makes you sound like you stomp on puppies for fun. And then you just say "I don't agree that I feel that way, so you actually really suck at empathy bro, sorry, you're a psychopath""
hoe math: "This is what envy looks like. This is a very pure, highly refined example of what drives the left. They hate what they can't be, so they want to kill it. THIS IS THE ONLY THING THAT LEFTISM IS. The rest is just a smokescreen for envy and hatred."
OneEyeking: "I would call myself a leftist, and what drives me is empathy for another human being. It might be just me tho"
hoe math: "Oh cool! Have empathy for me right now then, and explain my worldview in terms that I would agree with!"
When left wingers keep going on about "empathy", they mean selective and weaponised empathy to push the left wing agenda, since we know they don't understand and empathise with people they disagree with
Meme - Joel Berry @JoelWBerry: "Darrin Bell, the cartoonist who made this, was just arrested with child porn on his computer"
*Face with left half being a MAGA-hatter shouting 'groomer!' and the right being a Nazi brownshirt shouting "Jugendverderber!" [Groomer]*
"Modern American. The original German"
BLAIRE WHITE on X - "There are a lot of people who assume they are hated for their sexuality/race/gender, when in reality they are just unlikable cunts."
Meme - "r/WelcomeToGilead
Had a Financial Scare Yesterday
I was at a restaurant yesterday and went to pay with my credit card, but it came back declined (no way it should have, I had plenty left on it) and, given the recent circumstances, it nearly sent me into a full-blown panic thinking "today is the day they freeze access to my financial institutions". Thankfully my debit card was fine (credit card was frozen due to suspicions of fraud) and I was able to pay, but still... It's so freaking sad that something like this feels like it could feasibly happen any day now. I'm in edge every day wondering if today is the day I get fired or if today is the day I'm financially crippled... I know it's a silly question to ask (and I know the answer), but Anyone else?"
Left wingers love to claim that conservatives have a persecution fetish/oppression fetish. Like most of their accusations, this is classic projection
Meme - Garbage Human @GarbageHuman24: "Blacks and Hispanics make up 97% of shooters in NYC"
~~datahazard~~ @fentasyl: "Of known shooters in NYC:
- 11,456 are Black
- 155 are Asian
- 289 are White"
Nemesis 2025 @Nemtastic1: "Tangential, but holy f"
Structural and institutional racism!
Meme - Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal: "Wokeism suddenly makes sense when you realize it’s just literary criticism misapplied to reality."
Rob Henderson @robkhenderson: "lol"
"Why the Term ‘JEDI’ Is Problematic for Describing Programs That Promote Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: They are a religious order of intergalactic police-monks, prone to (white) saviorism and toxically masculine approaches to conflict resolution (violent duels with phallic lightsabers, gaslighting by means of “Jedi mind tricks,” etc.)."
This helps to explain why we have so much wokeness coming out of Literature
Ancient Masculinity on X - "Words that no longer hold any power in 2025:
Nazi Bigot Racist Sexist Far Right Misogynist Transphobe Xenophobe Homophobe White Supremacist Christian Nationalist
What did I miss?"
Meme - Lucas Tomlinson @LucasFoxNews: "Scoop: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth 'immediately pulling' retired Gen. Mark Milley's personal security detail and security clearance; panel to consider demotion in retirement..."
Susan Glasser @sbg1: "The pulling down of portraits and forced erasing the past is a reminder-check your 20th century history about what kind of regimes do this stuff..."
Readers added context: "Susan Glasser advocated for the pulling down of statues: She also advocated for the renaming of military bases:"
Meme - Manu Raju: "285-120, the House approves a measure to remove Confederate statues from the halls of the Capitol. It now moves to the Senate. All Dems voted for it. All 'no' votes were Republicans."
Susan Glasser: "120 votes for Confederate statues. I thought it was 2021, not 1921."
Meme - JD Vance @JDVance: "Imagine having lived through the last 10 years--the desecration of Washington, Jefferson, Lee, Roosevelt, and even Lincoln-- and then drawing the line at...Mark Milley."
Britons 'were mostly black 5,000 years ago', new study suggests - "The Britons responsible for the building of the iconic Stonehenge were probably black, a study has suggested. Data from 348 ancient genomes gathered from across Eurasia have been reconstructed by scientists at the University of Ferrara in Italy which show almost all Europeans had dark skin until around 3,000 years ago. With Stonehenge, just outside the town of Glastonbury, being constructed around 5,000 years ago, experts have said we can assume the builders had dark skin. Until around 1,700 years ago, the majority of Europeans had dark skin, the authors of the study say, adding that most of the ancient Greeks and Romans, and the Britons who built Stonehenge, had dark skin, eyes and hair."
Physical descriptions of people in Homer - "As I recall, when the hair colour of a hero is mentioned, it's usually blond (Achilles, Ajax, Agamemnon, Menelaus etc.). In contrast, Hector has dark hair. (Also, Poseidon has dark hair and dark eyes.) Athena's eyes are typically grey, blue or grey-blue, if the translator chooses to interpret glaukopis in colour terms, though that usage may actually be post-Homeric. Odysseus is shorter and broader than Agamemnon, with a thick-set build. In the Odyssey, he is fair-skinned (as are pretty much all of the heroes, I think) and has blond or red-brown hair but a dark beard."
Steve McGuire on X - "Ibram X. Kendi is leaving Boston University for Howard University. His Center for Antiracist Research at BU will close June 30th."
Tyler Austin Harper on X - "It’s mind-boggling that Kendi was able to light millions of dollars on fire, run an institute into the ground, and allegedly exploit and manipulate his staff, all while his center produced almost no work, and he gets to do it all over again. Nihilistic, offensive, and shameful."
Jonatan Pallesen on X - "A telling example of how messed up academia is from my comments: I posted that I likely can't be hired anymore because I used my real name. A guy responds, claiming to be a professor, and says it's right that I shouldn’t be hired, because I "cannot take an unbiased view of data." The evidence for this is that I once posted a tweet positing that Blacks likely on average would be faster runners based on the fact that they are faster in the top end of the distribution. He then rambled on about how this could only be concluded if you have empirical proof that the trait is normally distributed, and that the variance is equal. (Which is correct. These are quite natural assumptions though.) Now comes the punchline: Following his long rant I take a look at his profile. And amusingly in one of his very first tweets, he commits the exact same alleged 'sin' that he claims ought to make me unemployable. He posted an analysis simulating law ability among top performers based on the mean — making the same unstated assumptions about normal distribution and equal variance, without empirical proof. (Either that or he posits that law ability is equal to IQ, which is an even shakier assumption.) And he also states that"Conservatives have a mean IQ of 90, and liberals have an IQ of 110", with his analysis hinging on this dubious claim. This is emblematic of the state of academia. If you tweet anything about racial differences in any trait, you're deemed incapable of an "unbiased view of data" and unfit to be hired. But if you make an analysis claiming conservatives are worse than liberals in some way, no matter if it has the same flaws or worse, it never even occurs to them to apply the same objections."
MILO on X - "In the 1980s and 1990s the gay lobby realized that to win they just needed to appeal to women in terms of “love” and avoid any mention of shitty sheets, drugs, promiscuity, dicks up bootyholes, etc. This reframing was accepted without much of a fight. That’s how we got here."
'Outrageous' decision to give ethnic and transgender criminals special treatment will be fought in the courts by Tories - "The Sentencing Council yesterday sparked fury for telling judges to take into account someone’s ethnicity, religion and gender when deciding whether to jail them. Labour’s Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has distanced herself from the “two-tier” rules and demanded they be scrapped. In a letter to the Sentencing Council urging a rethink, she warned she would legislate to overrule them "if necessary". Mr Jenrick had demanded a law change to let ministers overrule the unelected quango, and has hired a top KC to fight the decision."
Matt Walsh on X - "Sam Seder is offended by her definition of America’s identity but he has no alternative definition. This is how the Left plays the game. They condemn your definition but offer no coherent alternative. Their definition of everything is just “not that.”"
Matt Walsh on X - "According to the Left, our country’s identity has nothing to do with religion, ethnicity, tradition, borders, or laws. So then what is our country? What does it mean to be an American? What is our identity? They can’t answer. It’s the “what is a woman” problem all over again."
Meme - CrusaderPepe @crusadepepe: "I prioritize my family over foreigners "That's problematic" *Sam Seder* *liberal moral concern extending to rocks*"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "The idea that the United States has not historically been a MAJORITY white, Christian country inspired by European Enlightenment principles is...just unbelievably idiotic. This is not a thing we can debate."
Meme - Logan Hall: "break somebody who says "america is an idea" mind with this one simple trick:
"There's no way Liberia has our constitution."
"Practically a carbon copy, Peter.""
Meme - Grummz @Grummz: "A decade ago, gamers were attacked. There were UN speeches, big pushes to inject DEI into games, and thousands of articles written (and paid for!) about how gamers were toxic and evil and -ists and were "dead" and "didn't have to be your audience. But now we are winning, and their response is classic. They blame US for the toxicity in gaming, for WOKE games FAILING, for the job losses that THEY created. And now their DEATH THREATS are exploding on reddit as they thrash in their last gasps for relevancy...power spilling away from them at hyper speed. No. YOU did this. You f*cked with gamers, and you found out."
Aurora *trans flag* @SpectralAurora_: "it brings me so much joy to know that you feel like all your favorite hobbies are being stripped away from you. you will never get what you think you had back and that is hilarious"
"This is not happening, and it's good that it is". When they admit they're out to spite others with their creative choices...
Meme - inhumans of capitalism (Oj...: "Dog whistle to say you dont want to be around black and brown people"
Asian Dawn @Asia...: "French woman explains how safe South Korea is compared to France."
"Pov: you live in Korea and you can now experience the basic human right that is to walk alone at night without the tear of being murdered"
At some levels, left wingers know that the "bigots" are right
Meme - "No I'm not a Christian, But I'm the arbiter of what's Christian And Jesus would agree with me If you disagree with me you hate Jesus"
The left has a Soros problem, but not the one you think - "First, it’s our responsibility to call out a smear of this kind as not just an inexcusable attack on a specific individual — but an attack on all people of Jewish culture or faith. And second, this year in particular, we have an obligation to point out how attacks like this are dog whistles to a particular set of conservative voters, because antisemitism on the right is flourishing more than ever... Progressive advocacy organizations in particular can and should be proud of support from the Open Society Foundations, an organization with a history of supporting abortion rights, environmental protection, criminal justice reform and an end to racial and religious persecution. For organizations like ours, to say anything less is to be cowed by the opposition’s narrative that a charitable organization like the Open Society Foundations and the family behind it are bogeymen. We know too well what happens when the fear of bogeymen grows and is nurtured by cynical politicians."
Left wing logic: if you criticise Soros, you're Anti-Semitic, but if you call for Israel's destruction and want Jews to be killed, that's Solidarity. Just like the Koch brothers are evil demons for funding everything, but the left must be proud of Soros funding
Colin Wright on X - "So I usually just quote the most ideological and insane sections of the woke papers I share here, but the abstract of this new paper is so unhinged that I'll let it speak for itself in full. Queers, lesbians, cyborgs, robot dogs, trans-dog intimacies... it's got it all! 🤡"
Queer canine becomings: Lesbian feminist cyborg politics and interspecies intimacies in ecologies of love and violence: Journal of Lesbian Studies: Vol 0, No 0 - "This article offers a queer lesbian feminist analysis attuned to lesbian-queer-trans-canine relationalities. Specifically, the article places queer and lesbian ecofeminism in conversation with Donna Haraway’s work on the cyborg and companion species to theorize the interconnected queer becomings of people, nature, animals, and machines amidst ecologies of love and violence in the 2020s. It takes two key case studies as the focus for analysis: first, the state instrumentalization of dogs and robot dogs for racialized and imperial violence, and second, quotidian queer and lesbian-dog relationalities and becomings. In the first, the article traces how dogs are weaponized as tools of state violence and proposes a queer lesbian feminist critique of white supremacy and militarization that can also extend to a critique of the violence committed through and toward the dogs. In the second, the article analyzes how, within lesbian, non-binary, and trans-dog intimacies, dogs help articulate queer gender, sexuality, and kinship formations, and as such, queer worlds for gender, sexual, and kin becomings. The entanglements of violence and love in these queer dog relationalities provide insights into the complexities of queer and lesbian feminist worldbuilding. Lesbian and queer feminist cyborg politics can help theorize the potentials and challenges of these interspecies entanglements."
The Rabbit Hole on X - "How damaging were the BLM riots? Most Liberals think the BLM Riots resulted in less than $10 million dollars in property damage. Reality: The BLM Riots resulted in over $1 billion dollars in property damage."
Ed West on X - "Half of self-described 'liberals' in the US also believe that between 1,000 and 10,000 unarmed black men are killed by police each year (the actual number is about a dozen)"
Jonatan Pallesen on X - "I would be interested in a study looking at whether there is overlap between the following beliefs:
• "Covid is very dangerous to healthy, non-obese, unvaccinated 20 year olds."
• "Putin will go on and try to conquer the rest of Europe."
• "10,000 unarmed Black men are killed by police each year."
• "Global warming will make Earth uninhabitable within 15 years."
Optimally together with things like Big Five personality score, psychiatric medication, and consumption of and trust in mainstream news."
