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Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Links - 6th May 2025 (2 - General Wokeness)

Meme Coddled affluent professional @feelsdesperate: "4/ This paragraph may have been the funniest thing written in the past 10 years."
"Why The Review Was Unacceptable. After we published the review, we heard from Latin readers who believe the portrayal of Salma Hayek's taco was racist and that it reinforced harmful stereotypes. We heard from readers who were upset that we labeled the taco a lesbian when it seems more likely that she was bisexual. We heard from readers who questioned the consent of the sexual encounter between the taco and the hot dog bun. We heard from readers who found the taco to be a damaging portrayal of a predatory queer woman."

Canadians have constitutional right to unequal treatment: new report - "Equity, not equality, is a constitutionally protected right in Canada, argues a new report published by a Calgary-based think tank.  “Canadians have been sold a bill of goods,” Bruce Pardy, the author of the report and a Queen’s University law professor, told National Post by email. “Many of them think that they have a right to equal treatment under the law. They think that discrimination is illegal. But nothing could be further from the truth. In Canada, discrimination is lawful as long as it is committed against the right groups — and in particular against straight white men. “This isn’t just the law, but part of the Canadian Constitution. Unequal treatment is embedded as a constitutional standard — and in some situations, a constitutional requirement.”  In Canada, the principle of equity — seeking to achieve identical group outcomes — has made judicial inroads across the country, Pardy argues in a report published this week by the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy.  “Equal treatment and equity are opposites,” writes Pardy, who is a senior fellow with the Aristotle Foundation. “The law cannot simultaneously apply the same laws and standards to everyone and also adjust them depending upon the group. Equal treatment and equity are mutually exclusive and cannot co-exist.”  This issue should be particularly concerning to young Canadians who could be “squeezed out of opportunities because of their identity”... The paper centres the discussion around equity versus equality by comparing the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to America’s Constitution, arguing that the latter has truly enshrined the principle of equality for all.  The report uses the June 2023 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on race-based university admissions, otherwise known as affirmative action, as a jumping-off point. Pardy cites the landmark decision to show how America’s constitutional protections of equality are anchored in the fifth (due process) and 14th (equal protection of the law) amendments. While the American constitution sets out limits on the powers of legislatures, Pardy writes, “For most of its history, Canada did not have an equivalent.” In 1974, the Canadian Supreme Court underscored this point by saying that while citizens are entitled to the application of law “in a neutral way,” lawmakers are not curtailed from drafting unequal laws.  “This kind of equality meant only that courts applied laws as written, even if those laws treated people differently,” Pardy writes.  Pardy points to a 2008 Supreme Court ruling, R. v. Kapp, as an example of how unequal treatment in the name of addressing historic discrimination became ingrained in Canadian law.  The case revolved around a federal government policy aimed at boosting Aboriginal representation within the commercial fishing industry. The Aboriginal Fisheries Strategy permitted Indigenous Canadians to fish the Fraser River in British Columbia and sell their catch, but barred others from doing the same. When a group of non-Aboriginals sought to apply for the same fishing licence, they were denied. Several of them decided to fish anyway and were ticketed. The group challenged the ruling, but the Supreme Court defended the policy, citing carve-outs to Section 15 of the Charter, the equality provision, that permitted “substantive equality.”  The concept of equity was further entrenched over a decade later, in Fraser v. Canada, Pardy writes, following debates over a job-sharing program where two or three people could “split the duties of one full-time position.” Each individual would be entitled to their proportional share of the role’s pension. Because women with children more often enrolled in the program doing a smaller share of the overall job, compared to men, the Supreme Court deemed the program unconstitutional. Though the justices acknowledged the program was not discriminatory, the results were uneven between men and women. In their view, the program thus perpetuated “a long-standing source of economic disadvantage for women.” As Pardy writes, “In Fraser, the Supreme Court found that a voluntary program available to everyone on the same terms violated the equality guarantee. In the name of equity, section 15(1) does not now merely allow discrimination but may require it.” Pardy told the Post that while similar discriminatory practices are “happening in the United States,” the affirmative action ruling last year has given the country “some chance of sorting themselves out in time.”  By comparison, “in Canada, unequal treatment has become the constitutional standard. So we are stuck with a big problem”... “Our Supreme Court is largely to blame, but of course our foolish politicians and woke bureaucracies have had a big hand in fostering it as well.”"

Peter MacKinnon: York University's faculty hysterics expose desperate need for post-secondary reform - "Observers should pay no heed to the non-confidence motion brought by York University’s faculty association on March 19 against their university president, provost and board chair, for it is only another reminder that Canadian university governance is sorely in need of reform. The motion was a response to a decision by the university’s leadership in late February to suspend admission to 18 programs identified as unviable. The university is reportedly in serious financial trouble and must act to prevent a crisis, but these recent program cutbacks have been met with outrage from individuals and groups at York and some other universities. One York research group, the Critical Trafficking and Sex Work Studies Research Cluster, denounced the suspension for taking place “in a time when transphobia, anti-Black racism, queerphobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semetism, Sinophobia, Xenophobia, whorephobia, and misogyny are on the rise.” Now, four university senators are trying to take the university to court over the suspension. Non-confidence motions are tediously common at the institution and it is well known that these votes, at York or elsewhere, are easily won because faculty unions and their supporters can say what they like — no matter how slanted or disingenuous. Senior leaders, on the other hand, must be circumspect, avoiding the hyperbole that may aggravate differences. It is well known, too, that organizers and strong supporters of faculty unions are mobilized to vote while many indifferent or dissenting members distance themselves (or are distanced) from the proceedings without casting a ballot. In the York case, the non-confidence motion was “overwhelmingly” passed by the 200 faculty association members who voted — the other roughly 1,500 members didn’t participate at all... Change does not come easily to universities, a vulnerability that is hidden in good times but becomes apparent when money is short and trust is in decline. I have written earlier that universities have become captive to ideological and identity-driven issues that threaten them. The former were documented by a Macdonald-Laurier Institute study that described them as “political monoliths,” overwhelmingly left-leaning, with large numbers willing to “cancel” colleagues who do not share their views on social justice issues. Conservative professors (and, we might surmise, conservative students) engage in self-censorship for fear of reprisals from their left-wing counterparts. Identity-driven forces within universities, meanwhile, have been revealed in a study by the Aristotle Foundation that showed that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies are pervasive in these institutions: 477 out of 489 job advertisements at the largest public university in each province featured a DEI requirement in filling academic vacancies. Some of these postings required applicants to belong to a preferred identity group, others gave those applicants preference, while others required candidates to pledge support for DEI. Whether it is their obstruction to change, ideological capture or race-based staffing procedures, it is clear that our universities need reform. In particular, university governance requires an overhaul. Nearly all of our universities are bicameral with boards of governors overseeing management and finance, and academic matters entrusted to senates or their equivalents. Many boards are too large: York’s board can have up to 32 members, including faculty, students, staff, alumni and external members elected by the board. That number should be reduced by half, with at least 10 members with backgrounds in finance and strategic matters coming from outside the university."
Clearly, the only solution is more subsidies so they can continue to push the left wing agenda

FischerKing on X - "White liberals in New England have their opinions because they have no idea what’s going on. Watch Piers Morgan interview ‘Ben’ of Ben & Jerry’s - he just doesn’t know anything at all. He’s a complete ass.  New England generally is regarded as a nice place to live because it isn’t ’diverse,’ and it’s insulated from all the problems of black crime and migration. You could radicalize these people quickly by forcing mass migration on them."
Aka luxury beliefs

Allentown City Hall employee charged with planting noose at own desk - "An Allentown City Hall employee was charged with planting a noose at their desk in January, according to police.  LaTarsha Brown is charged with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and false reports to law enforcement... Brown reported finding what appeared to be a noose on her desk in her third-floor office at City Hall around 7:30 a.m. on Jan. 10. Responding police collected video and building access records from the time Brown left work on Jan. 9 and her 7:11 a.m. arrival on Jan. 10 to attempt to identify who placed the item on her desk.  Investigators interviewed all employees, and all agreed to provide a buccal swab for DNA testing except for Brown, Capt. Steve Milkovits said.  Milkovits said Brown was initially cooperative with the police investigation but later requested that it be discontinued.  The noose was submitted to Pennsylvania State Police for DNA testing on Jan. 14, according to Milkovits. A search warrant for Brown's DNA was approved and executed on Jan. 24. Three days later, it was submitted for comparison. Milkovits said a state police report was released on March 10 indicating that Brown's DNA matched swabs of the outer surface and inner-knotted portion of the noose. He added no other employee's DNA was found on the noose... The incident led to protests and demands for change at Allentown City Hall in January. Josie Lopez, a community organizer and friend of Brown's, claimed Monday that Brown has faced discrimination and retaliation in the past and believes her friend is innocent.  "This is not just an attack on LaTarsha. This is a warning to anyone in Allentown who dares to stand up against injustice," Lopez said. "This is a smear campaign. This is retaliation. Let me be clear. LaTarsha Brown is innocent. LaTarsha Brown deserves justice... Lopez said Brown was never offered security or protection after the incident and claimed Brown was never treated as a victim.  "City Hall did not follow any visible protocol to ensure her safety or well-being," Brown said. "Instead, they let a hate crime turn into an attack on her character.""

Meme - Furry, MTF and FTM: "We accept all identities!"
Normal person: "I identify as normal."
*annoyed Furry, MTF and FTM*

Religious school leader appointed Ofsted chairman - "A religious school leader has been appointed as chairman of Ofsted for what is believed to be the first time.  Sir Hamid Patel will take up the interim role until a successor is found for Dame Christine Ryan at the schools regulator.  He is the chief executive of Star Academies Trust, which runs nearly 40 primaries and secondaries, including several Islamic schools... He was previously the headteacher of Tauheedul Islam Girls’ High School in Blackburn.  While in that role, the school became one of the first in the country to urge pupils to wear a hijab outside of school.  Guidance reportedly told pupils to “recite the Koran at least once a week” and “not bring stationery to school that contains un-Islamic images”, such as pictures of pop stars. The school was criticised over a visit in 2010 from Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Sudais, a Saudi Arabian cleric who had described Jews as “pigs”.  Sheikh Sudais also prayed for God to “terminate” the Jews and, discussing his visit, Sir Hamid told The Sunday Times in 2013: “The girls wanted to see this guy with 5 million followers. They had seen him on YouTube. He stayed 20 minutes.”"
Luckily, he's not from a Christian school, or that would be theocracy

Meme - "Lynnie, 22
I'm pan pansexual *Pride flag and rainbow*, panromantic, allo allosexual, alloromantic, poly polyam polyamory polyamorous, nerd, nerdy, gamer, gaymer, fem feminine, femgirl feminine girl, girly girl, cis cisgender, cissexual, Igbtqia2s+, romantic, sexual, switch, she/her/hers/herself/they/them/ their/their/themself/themselves, aesthetic, pastel, geek, geeky, masc masculine, masc girl masculine girl, tomboy, emo, goth gothic, woman, and female."

The charts that show youngsters are rejecting the Left’s culture wars - "A growing mass of evidence suggests that far from the Leftie snowflake cohort of lore, Gen Z are disparate in their politics and care about the same things older generations do – jobs, houses, security – more than culture wars or social issues. A landmark report from the John Smith Centre at Glasgow University, published this week, has added to this feeling. Working with the polling company Focaldata, the institute conducted 260 interviews with people aged 18 to 29, using those conversations to inform a 40-question poll of 2,039 young people across the country. Contrary to what may have been expected, it found that Gen Z are more worried about crime than the environment, surprisingly split on the benefits of migration, and focused on jobs, housing and family above all. “It goes back to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs,” says Eddie Barnes, the director of the John Smith Centre. “The bottom of that triangle is basics (including food, water, shelter, sleep, housing, health, finances). That’s where the younger generation are. This is a generation that has not had much in the way of wage growth, they’ve had extremely high housing costs, and financial insecurity. Those, not culture war issues, are the top priorities. What do people care about? It’s the financial stuff. Crime ranks much more highly than the environment, which was a big surprise.” When asked what the biggest contributors were to them feeling “nervous, anxious or on edge”, respondents replied: “financial worries” (37 per cent), “work pressures” (23 per cent) and “job security or unemployment” (20 per cent). Climate change languished on 10 per cent. Another question asked: “When you think about community, which of the following groups or places come to mind?” Some 42 per cent said family, 38 per cent said their “local town or city”, and 36 per cent said their “friends and social circles”. Gender, by comparison, was only seven per cent. The “most important issues facing the UK today” were inflation and the cost of living, health care, housing and crime. Only 20 per cent said climate change and the environment. The figure is down on a global survey from 2019, which found that 41 per cent of young people thought climate change was more pressing than anything else... "There was a feeling Covid was yet another thing that had damaged young people’s upbringing,” he says. “One young person said, ‘We’ll never get that time back’. There wasn’t bitterness or anger, but a feeling of lament.” Whatever the various causes, the result is a generation apparently more hardened to economic reality than millennials. “Home ownership and the economy are far more important than climate change,” says 25-year-old Oliver Freeston, a Reform councillor from Lincolnshire. “Climate change is natural, it’s been happening for thousands of years. If we have this crazy drive to net zero it’s going to bankrupt the country. It’s not lowering bills, it’s increasing them. For young people it’s already tough with stagnating wages and a high tax burden. We don’t need it to be made any harder.”... Some 51 per cent of respondents surveyed for the John Smith Centre research agreed immigration had changed their communities for the better, but 32 per cent disagreed. Immigration had more support among better-educated and higher-earning groups, as it does in older generations... Gen Z are less homogeneous in their voting intentions than previous generations"
"How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words"

Christian Heiens 🏛 on X - "No political party ever goes quietly off into the sunset without a fight. At some point, the Democratic Party WILL rebrand in response to these disastrous numbers.  But when that moment inevitably arrives, it's going to be entirely cosmetic in nature.  Anti-White Hatred, Misandry, Open Borders, Oikophobia, Transgenderism, and Anti-Natalism are not going anywhere. The labels attached to these things will simply be dropped in favor of more "neutral" terms.  We're already seeing it. Both "Woke" and "DEI" were labels the Left applied to itself to describe core fundamental beliefs. Once those concepts became overwhelmingly negative, they were dropped.  Make no mistake, Democrat operatives are paying attention to the near total collapse in public approval for their party, and they will act on it. But Progressivism as a pseudo-religious creed is not going anywhere."

Meme - "THE TRUTH ABOUT LIBERAL VIRTUE SIGNALING
*HATE HAS NO HOME HERE*
UNLESS ITS HATE FOR TRUMP, HIS SUPPORTERS, WHITE MEN CHRISTIANS + CONSERVATIVES"

Meme - Steak 'n Shake @SteaknShake: "America deserves the best. America gets the best when fries are cooked in 100% Beef Tallow. Only available at Steak 'n Shake. 100% Beef Tallow Throwback Fries"
something witty @Stcmb76: "You chose the Nazi font?"
Steak 'n Shake: "Old English font style is not Nazi it's Old English! Get over the Nazi nonsense!"
Left wingers just hate white history. That's why if you talk about Anglo-Saxons you're a Nazi too

Meme - "Anti Woke VS Woke
Anti Woke
-Worships Elon Musk for some reason
-Lives on 4chan
-Believes in imaginary god
-Gets offended by pronouns
-Dislikes Diversity
Woke
-Hates Elon Musk for no reason
-Lives on Reddit
-Believes in imaginary biology
-Gets offended by anime and games
-Dislikes straight white people"

Richard Hanania on X - "Who is against considering aging a disease so we can help cure it? I regret to inform you public health is at it again. Yale professor: “Classifying aging as a disease can become part of structural ageism.”"

madi🥀 on X - "If you’re using the Bible to hurt other people, you’re using it wrong. “Love does no harm to its neighbor, therefore love is the fulfillment of the law” Romans 13:10"
If you tell an alcoholic that alcohol is bad for him, you're hating him

MEme - "All my friends are turning into Nazis and I can't stand it anymore.
I'm a 30 year old white guy. I just wanna chill, play games, and watch movies with my boys. But the older we get the more of them out themselves to me as racist, homophobic, or just straight up Nazis. I'm not talking edgy humor, I'm talking about stopping our Mario Kart game to go on a 30 minute tirade about how race-mixing is bad or that all gay and trans people are all secretly child molesters. They weren't always like this. When we were kids we all agreed that bigotry like this was for stupid old people. I feel like it's really kicked in the last few years. I've heard of people getting more conservative as they age, but I never imagined It'd be like this. And now I'm the only one left in the friend group who believes ludicrous things like "gay people should be allowed to get married" and "black people are human beings". I feel like a fucking crazy person and don't know what to do or where to go from here. I've argued, debated, and shown evidence until I'm blue in the face but I should have known from the start that was pointless. The worst part is they're technically good friends! They've supported me, laughed, cried, grieved with me through every up and down through my life. Some of them would take a bullet for me without a second thought. I used to think I was the luckiest guy in the world. But I just can't take it anymore. I feel like my soul is dirty after every hang out, listening to this vile shit coming out of their mouths. I know I gotta walk away but it's tough, I've known these people since I was a child, and being 30 having to start completely fresh and make new friends just sounds impossible. Shit sucks. I just wish it didn't turn out this way."
So much for the "empathy" the left keeps boasting of having

Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 on X - "Meet Cynthia. She’s a manager at the Staples on Wilshire in Los Angeles.  When a Jewish woman came in to print postcards celebrating Jewish joy, her employee refused to help—called it “racist.” And instead of correcting him, Cynthia stepped in and defended it. She stood proudly on the side of blatant ILLEGAL antisemitic discrimination.  This wasn’t a “misunderstanding.” Cynthia didn’t accidentally violate someone’s civil rights. She took a stand—and that stand was: Jewish pride is unacceptable.  This is who @StaplesStores  puts in charge.  Disgusting."
They should've asked them to bake a Jewish cake

Dan Burmawi on X - "I lived as a Muslim for 20 years, and the first time I heard that jihad meant “self-struggle” was from Western university students. Yet they’re convinced that I’m wrong, and they’re right."

Meme - Conservatives want to be oppressed so bad it should be classified as BDSM: "For anyone who thinks we are over-reacting to project 2025 These are women in Afghanistan in the 1970s"
This is a perfect reminder that left wingers love to project. The irony is palpable

Voivod on X - "🇪🇸 Homosexual socialist politician Víctor Sáez visits a kebab shop in his locality in Spain to shoot a propaganda video to show that Muslims are tolerant people, but gets beaten up by the shop owner and his staff and thrown out for being gay"

Montreal officially replaces city hall welcome sign that included woman wearing hijab - "The City of Montreal has officially taken down a welcome sign that stirred controversy last fall because it depicted a woman wearing an Islamic headscarf. The sign in the lobby of the newly renovated city hall, which showed a woman wearing a hijab, drew criticism online, prompting Mayor Valérie Plante to commit to taking it down in the name of secularism."
Islamophobia! Of course, if it were a Christian sign, that would be an unacceptable sign of theocracy

UK security warning as Gaza issue harms integration - "Young British Muslims are growing more disillusioned and isolated because of the Middle East conflict and the government must consider integration a national security issue, a senior Islamic figure has said. The conflict in Gaza has “exacerbated” issues of division and integration between Muslims and non-Muslims, which can then allow extremism to breed on both sides, according to Sheikh Mohammad bin Abdulkarim al-Issa. Issa, the head of the Muslim World League (MWL), said that it presented a significant challenge not only to social integration but also to the UK’s long-term national security. He told The Times that both Muslims and non-Muslims should focus instead on domestic issues of shared concern as “a political situation outside should not interfere with integration inside”... Nearly one in five Muslims wanted religion to play a role in politics, compared with 5 per cent of non-Muslims... Young Muslims viewed Britain as far less tolerant than their older counterparts, and were more likely to say that concerns around Islam in Britain were not legitimate or based on sensationalist media portrayals. Less than 10 per cent aged 18 to 24 viewed Britain as a tolerant country."
Islamophobia! He must be a Zionist!
Time to disband the Church of England to prevent Theocracy
Clearly, left wingers obsessing over "Islamophobia" is not a self-fulfilling prophecy in alienating Muslims, and older Muslims are just ignorant about reality

Muslim charity accuses prison officers of ‘Islamophobia’ after jihadist attack - "A Muslim charity has accused prison officers of Islamophobia amid calls for a crackdown on Muslim gangs after the knife attack on staff by a jihadist.  Data obtained by Maslaha, a Muslim charity, show that prison officers were more likely to use force against Muslim inmates than other prisoners.  The official figures, obtained through Freedom of Information (FOIs) requests, showed that Muslim prisoners in eight of the nine jails with high Muslim populations were more likely to be confronted with batons, made to wear rigid bar handcuffs or deliberately held in a painful position... Hashem Abedi attacked three prison officers at Frankland with two home made knives and hot oil."
If Muslim prisoners were more likely to be violent and thus require force in being subdued, that was only due to Islamophobia

Chris Rose on X - "Jordan has now banned the Muslim Brotherhood, they now join: Austria Bahrain Egypt Kazakhstan Libya Russia Saudi Arabia Syria Tajikistan Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan They’re not banned in the UK and we’re discussing “Islamophobia” laws instead. 🥴"

Police reissue Isis terrorist's mugshot after she complains she was not wearing a niqab - "A police force reissued a mugshot of a convicted Islamic State (IS) terrorist after she complained she was not wearing a niqab in it.  Farishta Jami, 36, was found guilty of terrorism offences on Thursday for planning to fly to Afghanistan to join IS.  West Midlands Police initially released an image showing her full face and hair – but then published a second that showed only her eyes beneath a navy blue niqab. Matthew Brook KC, Jami’s barrister, told Leicester Crown Court on Friday that she had experienced “considerable distress” because of the photograph showing her full face.

Meme - "*Heaven looking down* Hitler's ghost watching the left as they draw swastikas everywhere, destroy minority businesses, and assault Jewish students"

Lou DiBella🥊 on X - "Never forget who we are and what our fathers fought for. Take back the meaning of patriot. #America #HandsOff2025 🇺🇸"
@evolian 🧬📊 on X - "I absolutely love the libtardification of the people who fought in WWII by the left today. A vast majority of these people explicitly believed in racial segregation between Whites and blacks — not only in training, but uniform, rights, etc."

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