Taller People More Likely To Be Conservative, According To Studies - "Is there a link between a person's height and their political ideology? According to a 2016 study from Ohio State University, if you want to predict what political party someone will support, you can take note of their height. Sara Watson, the study's co-author and assistant professor of political science at the university, said, "If you take two people with nearly identical characteristics – except one is taller than the other – on average, the taller person will be more politically conservative." Not only are taller people more likely to be Republican, but more attractive individuals are, too. According to another 2017 study published by Cambridge University Press, "Controlling for socioeconomic status, we find that more attractive individuals are more likely to report higher levels of political efficacy, identify as conservative, and identify as Republican." Scientific Reports also found that attractive women were more likely to be "right-wing," while women whose faces displayed contempt had higher chances of being "left-wing.""
This adds to the evidence that left wingers are hateful
Time to sack ‘activist’ judges, says Robert Jenrick - "His explicit declaration that the only way to tackle the small boats crisis was pulling the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) was put at the centre of his Tory leadership campaign last summer. Jenrick lost that race, beaten by Kemi Badenoch in the final two. But now Badenoch, who dismissed the position at the time as too hastily declared, looks set to formally adopt the stance at her party conference in the autumn... It is time to make it much easier to sack “activist” judges. “I come to this from the simple principle that judges are there to uphold the law which is made by Parliament,” explains Jenrick, talking through his new idea with The Telegraph and also taking stock a year on from his party’s hammering at the election. “If judges want to enter the political sphere themselves, then they should stop being judges and go into politics. We have to have a situation where judges who act politically and bring their own personal politics into their job as a judge are held to account and frankly, can be removed.” The thinking is, for Jenrick, a natural progression of his arguments on the ECHR. Abandoning the ECHR and reforming Britain’s human rights would make it markedly harder for people who reach Britain illegally to fight deportation on family grounds, as his argument goes. But then it would be time to reform the judiciary. Are judges really acting on personal politics rather than the law? Absolutely, Jenrick says: “I have exposed a number of examples of this, judges who have in the past tweeted highly political, partisan messages. “Judges who, in the past, have been trustees of charities which are highly partisan. I think that is bringing the historic independence of our judiciary into serious disrepute, and we’ve got to change that.” So what exactly is Jenrick proposing to do about it? Two things: Tighter checks for partisanship on appointment and a more robust system for removals if political meddling is proved... Surely this is all a step towards greater politicisation of the judiciary? Jenrick argues the opposite – the moves are needed to weed out judges who are already acting on their partisan instincts. “In some areas, our judges are among the most respected in the world, like in the commercial courts,” he says. “But in others, like immigration tribunals, the independence of the judiciary is being brought into disrepute. “There’s no point extricating ourselves from activist judges in Strasbourg only to be beholden to activist judges here.”... Jenrick has called Boris Johnson’s loosening of the border after Brexit, which saw annual net migration peak at 900,000, “probably the worst public policy decision of my lifetime”. He resigned as immigration minister from Rishi Sunak’s government in December 2023, calling for a tougher Rwanda deportation policy. (He says now removal to third countries is still an essential part of the solution to the small boats challenge.) And the rhetoric deployed has become markedly more punchy. “I want every single illegal migrant in this country to be deported”, Jenrick says... To those who argue his rhetoric risks fuelling hostility towards immigrants, Jenrick has a similarly firm rebuttal: “It’s not my language that’s fuelling anger and division in this country. It’s the disastrous policies that we’ve had as a country for most of my adult lifetime. I’m not going to be squeamish about taking on these issues. Millions of people in this country are crying out for politicians to call it out and say it like it is.” Those with a keen political ear may well hear in Jenrick’s patter an echo less of President Trump than a populist insurgent closer to home: Nigel Farage. The support surge for Reform UK has been jaw-dropping. Two years ago, the party was hovering around 6 per cent in the opinion polls. Now, with Farage, the old scourge of the Tories back at the helm, it is hovering around 30 per cent, way out in the lead... “I like to say that we are living through an interregnum, the period between two political orders,” he says near the end of the interview, like De Gaulle’s France or Britain in the 1970s before Margaret Thatcher. “We’ve got a small number of very big things very badly wrong in my adult lifetime: mass migration; asymmetric multiculturalism; over-regulation; the rise of quangos and a big, unaccountable state; the financialisation of housing and failure to build; a collapse in confidence in our institutions like museums and schools; net zero that’s de-industrialised our country and is impoverishing many working people."
Meme - RIGBY @EggscellentRac: "Fuck Chick-Fil-A *furries showing third finger*"
-/Kapt'n Krunch/- @Kaptainkrunch97: "I just want you guys to know that the one with the blue fursuit head ate their own shit."
Muslim teacher claims discussing Rushdie’s Satanic Verses is harassment - "A Muslim teacher has sued for discrimination after her colleagues discussed The Satanic Verses in front of her. Rabia Ihsan claimed she was harassed on religious grounds when one of her colleagues brought up the Sir Salman Rushdie novel in what she claimed was a deliberate attempt to “provoke [her], incite hatred and create a hostile environment”. The book was discussed when, not long after the assassination attempt on Sir Salman in New York, a colleague asked for book recommendations. Ms Ihsan claimed the book, which was condemned as blasphemous by Ayatollah Khomeini, the late Iranian leader, was “offensive to Islam”... In Ms Ihsan’s case, it was ruled that it was not “reasonable” for the biology teacher to conclude that her colleagues had harassed her by talking about it. The tribunal, held in Glasgow, heard that Ms Ihsan, who is Pakistani, started working for Park Mains High School in Renfrewshire in 2010. In October 2022, a teacher Laura Gardiner had asked for suggestions of audiobooks, and Mairi Lagan, another teacher, stated that after the stabbing of Sir Salman in August 2022 she “downloaded a sample of Satanic Verses intending to learn more about the circumstances. “However, she did not find that to be the kind of book she would read so she read no further.” Ms Lagan was reportedly “not aware that the book had any connection to Islam”, and her colleagues “stopped talking about” the book when Ms Ishan raised that it is “offensive to Islam”. The tribunal heard that Ms Ihsan thought the conversation was “pre-planned to trigger her” and she believed it was “an attempt to provoke [her], incite hatred and create a hostile environment”. A Muslim teacher has sued for discrimination after her colleagues discussed The Satanic Verses in front of her. Rabia Ihsan claimed she was harassed on religious grounds when one of her colleagues brought up the Sir Salman Rushdie novel in what she claimed was a deliberate attempt to “provoke [her], incite hatred and create a hostile environment”. The book was discussed when, not long after the assassination attempt on Sir Salman in New York, a colleague asked for book recommendations. Ms Ihsan claimed the book, which was condemned as blasphemous by Ayatollah Khomeini, the late Iranian leader, was “offensive to Islam”. Sir Salman, 78, was forced into hiding for a decade after a fatwa was issued against him calling for his death. Iranian women protest against Sir Salman Rushdie Sir Salman Rushdie’s outspoken views on Islam have made him a target of extremists Credit: Norbert Schiller/Getty In Ms Ihsan’s case, it was ruled that it was not “reasonable” for the biology teacher to conclude that her colleagues had harassed her by talking about it. The tribunal, held in Glasgow, heard that Ms Ihsan, who is Pakistani, started working for Park Mains High School in Renfrewshire in 2010. In October 2022, a teacher Laura Gardiner had asked for suggestions of audiobooks, and Mairi Lagan, another teacher, stated that after the stabbing of Sir Salman in August 2022 she “downloaded a sample of Satanic Verses intending to learn more about the circumstances. “However, she did not find that to be the kind of book she would read so she read no further.” Ms Lagan was reportedly “not aware that the book had any connection to Islam”, and her colleagues “stopped talking about” the book when Ms Ishan raised that it is “offensive to Islam”. The tribunal heard that Ms Ihsan thought the conversation was “pre-planned to trigger her” and she believed it was “an attempt to provoke [her], incite hatred and create a hostile environment”. Ms Gardiner told the tribunal that she “didn’t realise that anything had happened” and Ms Lagan said she became “concerned about how relatively innocent comments were being perceived by [Ms Ihsan]”. A month earlier, in September 2022, Ms Ishan had been “very upset” when staff in the science department put pages of the Creationist book, the Atlas of Creation, in the bin after discovering it had been “sent unsolicited” to schools, and that its author had been convicted of sex crimes. Ms Ihsan was “very upset about the destruction of the book because of the holy symbol on the front cover” and raised her concern to the school’s headteacher... She was signed off sick with work-related stress in August 2023, and resigned in March 2024 while the grievance proceedings were still ongoing. Employment Judge Muriel Robison said that regarding The Satanic Verses, “neither of the staff directly involved knew that it was a book about religion”."
Ben Cobley on X - "Basically, for this teacher, to not abide by Muslim taboos in the presence of a Muslim is illegitimate and constitutes harassment. A dangerous principle, thankfully dismissed by the tribunal, but the government's proposed Islamophobia definition could strengthen such a case."
Labour’s new definition of Islamophobia will be disastrous for theatre - "Part of theatre’s purpose is to hold a mirror up to society, and a culture which restricts its areas of concerns is hastening its way to irrelevance. We owe that sense of mission to the ancient Greeks – who looked at the demands of the state, the commands of faith and the imperatives of the individual: the fanaticism of a religious cult in The Bacchae, our capacity to go mad and self-destruct in Medea. Theatre goes to the darkest places, and in doing so, sheds essential light. Often it has run the gauntlet of disapproval and censorship: nearing the end of its run in the West End, Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession was banned in its day for its portrayal of prostitution but valuably anatomised dire economic realities."
Meme - ~~datahazard~~ @fentasyl: "Black Women consistently commit homicide at a higher rate than White Men before mass-incarceration made America exceedingly safe in the 1990s. The DOJ used to publish charts on this until the program was scrapped during Obama Admin."
African Descent Festival cancelled after Vancouver Park Board refuses permit over 'unresolved' issues - "the society has "outstanding financial obligations" to both the Park Board and the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) from previous events, and that while a multi-year repayment agreement was recently reached, it was too late to allow for proper planning this year. Park Board staff said they offered to relocate the festival to Thornton Park, the site of previous editions, or postpone it to allow for preparation, but both options were declined... "Our public image as organizers has been assassinated," Solomon said, adding that in previous years the festival has taken place "without any major issues" and "zero incidents.""
If you don't pay your bills, it's other people's fault.
African Descent Festival in Vancouver cancelled after park board denies permit - "“The festival has lost now, over this, about half a million dollars,” Kiraga Misago said on Friday. “I want the public to know about this.” He told CTV News when he showed up to English Bay on Friday morning, police were on site to prevent the event from setting up, and he accused the city of “racism” and “injustice” for not supporting the festival."
Of course they blamed racism
Hang on, did a Maga lout just try to kill me because he thought my car was too woke for Idaho? - "To our horror, he – and I’m sure it was a he without having registered a face – appeared to be barrelling head-on towards us... After discussing it endlessly with each other and with American friends and acquaintances, we are almost sure now that the perpetrator was some kind of Maga maniac incensed by our distinctive British Columbia number plates, and possibly by the kind of car we had."
Amazing article. There wasn't even a Trump sticker and they couldn't even see the driver, but they make up an elaborate story about his motivations. Left wingers just make up shit to be scared about. No wonder they're always "terrified"
What Toronto loses with the naming of Sankofa Square - "As municipal officials in Toronto get set to host an event inaugurating the newly renamed Sankofa Square (formerly Younge-Dundas Square), it’s worth pondering what could have been. The word “Sankofa” is not organic, it does not grow out of the Torontonian experience and it is not authentic. Nor it is even original: in the United States, there are endless shops, schools, arts centres and community organizations named after the concept. By adopting Sankofa, Toronto is losing its sense of identity. “Sankofa” is a word from a Ghanaian language, Twi, that means something to the effect of “learning from the past.” It is a wonderful idea. But why did city council choose to express such a meaningful thought of the Akan people, whose principal legacy was slave owning and slave trading, in a tongue no one can imagine, let alone speak? Why not “wēn gù zhī xīn,” which in Chinese means “to review the old and learn the new,” or “cóng lì shǐ zhōng xué xí,” which means “learn from history.” There are hundreds of thousands of Chinese speakers in Toronto. At least it would mean something to those Canadians. In English, the common language of the city, the concept could have been portrayed by calling it “Remembrance Square” or “Commemoration Square.”... The plaza could have been called “Canada Square” or “Confederation Square,” but that would mean honouring the country, something Toronto city council would never dare to do. I also think Toronto could do a great deal more to honour a distant place, as well as its war casualties. Why not rename Yonge-Dundas “Vimy Square” or “Passchendaele Square” after the iconic battlefields where thousands of Toronto kids lost their lives, their limbs and their sanity?... If the purpose of renaming Yonge-Dundas Square was to honour Black Canadians, why not honour an individual who deeply affected her or his contemporaries and who left a positive legacy? There are many to choose from, and each of them has personal lessons to teach to us"
Left wing logic: it's okay to waste money on renaming everything because it's a small fraction of government spending. But of course they get very upset over CEO pay, even though it's a small fraction of corporate costs
Charlottetown café refuses to use coffee sleeves featuring ‘problematic’ John A. Macdonald image - "A Charlottetown café owner says when she agreed to participate in a fundraising campaign run by the Confederation Centre of the Arts, she didn’t expect to be asked to distribute “problematic” imagery. Laura Noel, who owns a café in downtown Charlottetown, said she was contacted by the centre and asked to participate in the campaign by using branded coffee sleeves. However, upon opening the box, she was surprised to find Sir John A. Macdonald’s face printed on the front of the coffee sleeves... She said putting the sleeves on cups could lead to uncomfortable customer interactions that business owners aren’t prepared for... She also questioned the decision to print the sleeves in orange, widely recognized as the colour of Indigenous reconciliation in Canada during a campaign that would run into September, which is National Reconciliation Month... According to email chains between Bellamy and Noel, the CEO said that orange has been part of the centre’s brand since 1964. But Noel felt the response overlooked the broader meaning of that colour in today’s context, especially when paired with an image of the former prime minister who pushed for residential schools... The coffee sleeves were part of a national campaign titled “Where Canada Connects,” intended to promote dialogue about Canada’s past and future."
Left wingers only want a monologue
Mr. S.T.A.R. on X - "“I’m an Aryan super fascist and I want the entire world to bow to me”
*is actually a fairly normal person who wants sane, stable governance*
“I’m a moderate leftist, I support empathy and human decency”
*actually wants to genocide kulaks*
is there a name for this phenomenon?"
"Kindness", "empathy" and "being a deent human being" mean pushing the left wing agenda, and those who claim they are all about "empathy" have no ability to emphathise with people they disagree with
Meng Hu on X - "New paper by Joseph Bronski shows that paternal age predicts leftism, controlling for individual's age. Paternal age is used as proxy for mutational load (older fathers pass on more mutations to their children). Leftism is viewed as being influenced by harmful mutations."
Meme - "Me looking over to another white guy in Disneyland after socioeconomic factors caused people to start fighting" *black people fighting*
Meme - sophialeetravel: "7 days till I travel to Afganistan solo as a 20 year old American girl.. any recommendations?"
"why do you want to go a place where women have less rights then the camels and goats. ????"
"She's going to Afghanistan, not Florida."
Left wingers are so deranged that they think that women have fewer rights in Florida than Afghanistan. They just hate the US/the West
Meme - "We need young men who can 'construct buildings' not 'deconstruct whiteness'"
Crusade arrives in Holy City to say sorry - "Trek to Jerusalem apologises for Christian carnage 900 years ago"
Will Tanner on X - "The Crusades were one of the most justified military campaigns in history. The Muslims treated Christian pilgrims abominably for years, waged brutal war upon the Byzantines, and plagued the Mediterranean with their slave-rowed pirate galleys. The the First Crusade liberated the Holy Land, with God’s help"
The left believe white people and the West aren't allowed to defend themselves, after all
Midwife who praised Oct 7 attacks sues hospital for referring her to Prevent - "An NHS midwife who praised the Oct 7 Hamas attacks on Israel is suing the hospital where she worked for referring her to Prevent. Fatimah Mohamied retweeted a post on X which said Palestinians have a “right to resist” occupation, writing above the post “, hell yeah”... Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust referred her to the Prevent anti-radicalisation programme and the Nursing and Midwifery Council regulator, a year after she had resigned from her employment and following a complaint about her online activity from UK Lawyers for Israel. The mother of two, who lives in London, alleges that the referrals breached her rights under the Equality Act 2010 and constituted post-employment harassment and/or discrimination, according to the law firm Leigh Day... Ms Mohamied, who was a cultural safety lead midwife and had worked at the trust since June 2019, resigned in March last year."
Time for Prevent to focus on the true threats: incels, Islamophobia and the far right!
Safety is only for groups the left approves of
Muslim media watchdog ‘wrongly labelled terror attack coverage as Islamophobic’ - "Policy Exchange, a think tank, said that factual news reports of such incidents had been assessed by the Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) as examples of “Islamophobic, negative” journalism. Those criticised by the centre, which was originally a Muslim Council of Britain project but is now an independent entity, include the Associated Press, a leading news agency, after it reported on a terror attack in Manchester on New Year’s Eve in December 2018. The CfMM said the coverage was an example of negative reporting about Muslims because it included the phrase “knife-wielding man yelling Islamic slogans.” However, Policy Exchange said this had been an accurate account of what happened. The watchdog also complained that describing Mohammed Emwazi, the British Islamic State executioner known as “Jihadi John”, as a terrorist was misleading because he had never been convicted. It further said that the decision by BBC News to call Khalid Masood, who killed five people in a terror attack near the Houses of Parliament in 2017, an “Islamic extremist” was “anti-Muslim language”. It said that “it can be argued that linking the word ‘Islamic’ with extremism is an oxymoron as the word ‘Islam’ comes from the Arabic root word ‘Salam’, meaning ‘peace’.” Policy Exchange claimed the centre’s critique was part of a campaign to “give legal and official force” to the concept of Islamophobia, ahead of moves by the Government to introduce a new legal definition of it. The think tank’s report, which is due to be published on Tuesday, said: “The aim of this campaign, in the words of its own supporters, is to control and prevent conduct ‘far beyond’ anti-Muslim hatred or discrimination (which all can agree are wrong, but which are already illegal),” said the think tank’s report. “It is to impose ‘appropriate limits to free speech’ when talking about Muslims, and special protections for Muslims. An official Islamophobia definition would give CfMM and its like a significant new weapon.”... The CfMM also claimed that almost 60 per cent of news stories about Muslims were negative, saying this proved the media’s “widespread… Islamophobia.” It said Reuters, AP and AFP, the respected international news agencies, were the “top three offenders”. This included criticism of AFP for using the term “Ramadan violence” during coverage of three killings during the holy period. By its own account, CfMM said it aimed to “take control of the narrative,” telling journalists they should never use the terms “Islamism,” “Islamic extremism” or “Muslim extremism.” It has also attacked news outlets for describing terror groups, including Hamas and Islamic State, as Islamist. In a foreword to Policy Exchange’s report, journalist Andrew Neil, a former editor of The Sunday Times and BBC broadcaster, said the research showed that the CfMM, as well as its “evidence” and conclusions, were “badly flawed.” “It shows how CfMM is part of a wider campaign for legal restrictions on what you can say about Islam, with fundamental implications for free speech,” he said."
Bloomingdale mayor's controversial rant about "privilege" forces city council to respond - "In a post that was later deleted, Mayor Ben Rozier wrote in the 'Gossip Bloomingdale GA' Facebook group Tuesday night, taking issues with those who don't work and live off government assistance at the expense of taxpayers... "Privilege is wearing $200 sneakers when you've never had a job. Privilege is wearing $300 Beats headphones while living on public assistance... Privilege is having as many children as you want, regardless of your employment status, and be able to send them off to daycare or school you don't pay for...paid for by the people who DO HAVE TO DEAL WITH RISING TAXES AND COSTS! ... you know, us so called "PRIVILEGED" the ones who pay while you TAKE TAKE TAKE!"
Meme - "What is privilege?... Privilege is wearing $200 sneakers when you've never had a job. Privilege is wearing $300 Beats headphones while living on public assistance. Privilege is having a Smartphone with a Data plan which you receive no bill for. Privilege is living in public subsidized housing where you don't have a water bill, where rising property taxes and rents and energy costs have absolutely no effect on the amount of food you can put on your table. Privilege is the ability to go march against, and protest against anything that triggers you, without worrying about calling out of work and the consequences that accompany such behavior. Privilege is having as many children as you want, regardless of your employment status, and be able to send them off to daycare or school you don't pay for. Privilege is sending your kids to school early for the before school programs and breakfast, and then keeping them there for the after school program...all at no cost to you....paid for by the people who DO HAVE TO DEAL WITH RISING TAXES AND COSTS!...you know, us so called "PRIVILEGED" the ones who pay while you TAKE TAKE TAKE!"
Official guidance urges police to confirm suspects’ ethnicity - "Police forces should reveal the ethnicity and nationality of suspects charged in high-profile cases, according to new guidelines issued after the authorities were accused of “covering up” offences by asylum seekers. The interim guidance by the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and the College of Policing comes after officers refused to disclose the immigration status of two men arrested over the rape of a 12-year-old girl in Warwickshire... Dame Diana Johnson, the policing minister, said the government was “very supportive of being as open and as transparent as possible”. She told the BBC that when suspects are charged “usually [names] and addresses are given … we also, in most cases, will want to see nationality or ethnicity given as well”. She suggested asylum status would not be routinely shared, however. Instead, the Home Office would decide whether to release the information in certain cases."
