Young people told to 'toughen up' as historian claims racist language should not be removed from classic books or shows - "Historian David Olusoga has argued that racist language should not be removed from classic books or TV shows, suggesting that young people should "toughen up" instead. Speaking at the Hay Festival, Olusoga said it was more beneficial to confront offensive language from the past rather than censor it. "I think we need to be tougher. Our ancestors had those words shouted at them; we just have to read them in a book," the historian stated... "To understand how that form of entertainment delivered racism, delivered racial stereotypes and delivered racial language into the British idiom, you have to confront those words." He argued that sanitising such content diminishes understanding of its harmful impact. "I don't think it is possible to get across just how toxic it is unless you put your hand in the fire," he said... While acknowledging the validity of Black History Month, Olusoga suggested it "doesn't solve the big problem" and may even reinforce the idea of Black history as separate from mainstream history."
Eyal Yakoby on X - "Hasan Piker, sitting at a table with an LGBTQ+ flag, says: “Overall, my favorite flag is Hezbollah.” This is progressivism today—a guy in a tank top, in the West, praising a terror group that executes gay people, right in front of a pride flag."
Clearly, Hezbollah are poor, innocent minorities who are unjustly killed by Oppressors, so any Decent Human Being would support them having their Basic Human Rights
Meme - Oz Katerji @OzKaterji: "Will never not be funny to me that this dipshit's 'community' called me a LARPer for reporting from Ukraine (after 15 years of war correspondence under my belt) and this dog shocker is cosplaying while walking around in a peaceful city wearing Kevlar with press chevrons.
This guy would shit his pants and crawl into the foetal position if someone let off fireworks too close to his vicinity. *Hasan Piker*"
Thread by @77_steeze on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I don’t know that I fully understood the casual sadism on the left until I transgressed on the Covid vaccine question. You realize that all the pretexts they have for wishing the worst on people who transgress their orthodoxies are just that- pretexts and cover. It’s not actually “public health”, it’s not actually “Zionism”, it’s not actually “transphobia”. The sadism is there a priori, looking for a home. all of those things are little holding compartments for it Like, they can tell you til they’re blue in the face about how they’re glad Henry Kissinger is dead because of Vietnam, but that righteousness gets pretty diluted once you realize that they’re also quite chuffed that some dude who didn’t get the Covid shot ended up dying in hospital"
As usual, left wingers project. "The cruelty is the point"
Meme - summerthedietitian: "I was today years old when I learned that blueberries are a n@z* dog whistle and so I don't ever wanna hear anyone tell me, a dietitian, that food isn't political, ever again.
I been telling yall."
Everything is a dog whistle to left wingers if it pushes the left wing agenda. Where do you go after "blueberries are a Nazi dog whistle"?
Redditor defending naked men infront of kids in Toronto's pride parade : r/CanadianConservative
Clearing of downtown encampment for Pride event draws criticism - "One of Toronto’s major LGBTQ+ community organizations is under fire after an encampment in the Church–Wellesley Village was cleared by the police to make way for its annual Pride fundraiser happening this week. Ahead of The 519’s Green Space Festival which kicks off at Barbara Hall Park this week, police arrived at the park on Monday and cleared an encampment of several tents, arresting four people who were alleged to be resisting their efforts. The City of Toronto confirmed at least 13 people have been removed from the encampment."
CMV: If we have to respect dress code laws in the Middle East, we should respect them in France, too. : r/changemyview - "A few weeks back the new government in Syria announced a law banning bikinis in public beaches (and discouraging tight-fitting clothing everywhere), but I believe this law was quickly appealed due to backlash. According to CNN, the Tourism Minister of Syria Mazen Al-Salhani stated “Visitors to public beaches and pools, whether tourists or locals, are required to wear appropriate swimwear that takes into account public taste and the sensibilities of various segments of society. More modest swimwear is required at public beaches and pools (burkinis or swimsuits that cover more of the body).” The law doesn’t apply to private beaches and international / 4-star resorts and hotels, though. Which means only Syrians with the means to pay to enter these places get to wear bikinis. The assistant minister of tourism, Ghiath al-Farrah, says it’s not a “ban” on western beachwear simply because the ruling doesn’t mention the word “prohibited” (though it quite literally says required). Some Syrians argued that rules dictating beachwear (or modesty laws in general) never existed before in Syria and that they used to wear bikinis at the beach all the time, and other Syrians defended the law basically saying “Syria is a Muslim country, what did you expect? If you come to our country you have to respect our modesty laws.” This line of thinking tracks with other conservative Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia, and whenever people complain about it, it’s almost always met with the same argument: you can’t go to the Middle East with your “Western” ways of thinking and expect to wear whatever you want wherever you want, this is the Middle East not the West, we’re Muslim countries so you must respect our modesty laws, don’t come here with your Western entitlement and so on and so forth. This same logic should be applied when people argue against France’s laws on head coverings, crosses, and other religious symbols in certain public spaces. Since 2011, it has been illegal to wear religious symbols like the cross and the hijab in public schools, and it’s illegal to wear the full face covering (like niqab) in any public place due to identity verification reasons (and thus hijab is allowed in public because it doesn’t obscure one’s identity). There are other aspects to these laws, like minors under the age of 15 not being allowed to wear hijabs, and hijabs being banned in sports, etc. If you disagree with the laws in France, you should disagree with them in countries like Syria and Saudi Arabia. If you agree with laws in Syria and Saudi Arabia, you should also agree with them in France. I disagree with modesty laws in Syria and Saudi Arabia, and so I disagree with the laws in France, too. However, if you hold the belief that “you can’t go to the Middle East with your ‘Western’ ways of thinking and expect to wear whatever you want wherever you want, this is the Middle East not the West, we’re Muslim countries so you must respect our modesty laws, don’t come here with your Western entitlement and so on and so forth” don’t say anything about France."
If you don't respect the culture in non-Western countries, you are ignorant and racist. If you want non-Westerners to respect the culture in Western countries, you are ignorant and racist.
Collin Rugg on X - "NEW: Jamaal Bowman says black people suffer from heart disease and obesity because they carry the stress of being called the N word every day. “The reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community…” “Is because of the stress we carry from having to deal with being called the N word directly or indirectly every day.”"
Meme - Aragorn: 'There has been another Orc terror. attack. How should we defend the West?'
Legolas: 'We will unite against the hate that caused this'
Meme - Groomer: "HEY KID WANNA GENDER LOLLIPOP?"
Woman: "GROOMER!"
Groomer: *CLOAK OF INVISIBILITY*
Policeman 1: "Groomer WHERE?"
Policeman 2: "I DON'T SEE NOTHIN'"
Meme - David Hogg @davidhos...: "Fuck the Supreme Court. Fuck the Federalist Society. Fuck Mitch McConnell."
David Hogg @dav...: "Wow I had no idea that we could casually just stay fuck off to the Supreme Court when they do something we don't like. Gonna come in handy with this court! Bye bye Heller, Citizens United, Bruen and Dobbs!"
Meme - *Moses with stone tablets and Ten Commandments looking annoyed*
Black woman at desk: "GOVERNMENT CANT IMPOSE MORALITY."
"Stop hate crimes" "Gun free zone" *Trans Pride flag* "Black Lives Matter" *Gender neutral restroom sign* "Trans rights are human rights" "Bring back Roe" *HRC equality logo*
A Sexist Australian Wine Ad Was Banned for Mentioning Bush - "a recent wine ad from Australia destined for Brits’ television screens was packed with so much sexual innuendo that it ended up being banned in the UK. The ad in question features an Aussie woman in a white dress holding a glass of red wine. While proclaiming her love for reasonably priced wines, the woman tells viewers that she “goes for Premier Estates Wine every time,” and begins to enumerate the reasons why. “Take this exquisite Aussie shiraz, a mere £5.99 a bottle,” she says before taking a sip, and describing the wine’s bouquet in a breathy voice: “Luscious, earthy, bursting with fruit and spice.” The nameless Australian woman then places the wine glass down on a suspiciously low table in front of her, and the remaining wine creates a v-shaped outline directly over her crotch area—you get the idea... Premier Estates’ foray into this territory was a risky move and drew numerous complaints not only from the UK consumers whom it was targeting, but even from Wine Australia, the statutory body within Australia in charge of promoting the consumption and sale of Australian wine overseas. As a result, the UK’s ad watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), found the ad to be in serious violation of its guidelines."
Ad
Kassy Akiva on X - "MIT’s class president, Megha Vemuri, spent her graduation speech bashing Israel. Then President Sally Kornbluth spoke immediately after and oh boy was that awkward."
Zubin on X - "I like to play this game. Every time an Indian origin kid in the West signals their progressive virtue in woke-speak -- from 'yoga is cultural appropriation' to anti-colonialism takes -- I google their last name for caste origins. 10 times out of 10 it is South Indian Brahmin. Coz the best people to lecture the world on oppression are those who benefited from 3000 years of upper caste hegemony that would make Southern White slave-owners from the Jim Crow South look humane."
Mark Lutchman 🇺🇸 on X - "1.6%. Only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860, when slavery was at its PEAK. So you can stop basing your hate for the entire white race for the actions of a mere 1.6%. Am I right? 👌🏾"
Not all of those were white either
Nigel Farage urges US to oppose UK on free speech laws - "Responding to Farage's appearance at the committee, Labour's Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said: "Jetting off to another country and hyping up the prospect of the UK's trade with our closest allies being hit is about as anti-British as you can get." Earlier in the day Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer accused Farage of having "flown to America to badmouth and talk down our country" adding: "He has gone there to lobby the Americans to impose sanctions on this country that will harm working people." In his written recommendations to Congress, Farage suggested the US government should use "diplomacy and trade" to defend its position on free speech against the UK."
Left wingers are calling him a traitor. But of course Americans who want the US to be sanctioned because of Trump are fighting fascism. So much for loving your country means holding it to high standards
Meme - "THE AMERICAN EAGLE AD THE WOKE WANTED: *fat blue haired woman with spectacles*"
Meme - *Sydney Sweeney posing with car*
Partially-shaved head woman with light blue hair and Pride BLM pendant: "IF YOU LIKE THAT, YOU'RE A FASCIST!!"
Boy to father: "DAD, I THINK I'M A FASCIST"
Stacy is Right on X - "Let me get this straight. By saying Black Lives Matter, you’re not saying that other lives don’t matter… You’re just saying that Black Lives Matter. Saying Sydney Sweeney has good jeans… you’re saying that only people with blonde hair and blue eyes have good genes? Fuck off."
Pino Americano on X - "Sydney Sweeney never said anything political. Never wore a MAGA hat, nothing of that sort. They attacked her anyways. Why? Because of the color of her skin. Thats racism."
Meme - Rosie: "Sydney Sweeney even has a white dog. I literally CANT with this girl."
Defiant L’s on X - "Scott Weiner: "LGBTQ people have been massively and disproportionately targeted and subjected to being slammed on the s*x offender registry.""
Meme - Mariano Desiderio: "Bluesky Libs have gone scorched Earth racist against Matt Yglesias for not being lefty enough."
wmkjones.bsky.social: "With a last name like "Yglesias" and the current attitude towards Hispanics and others, you might think this dipshit would realize that diversity, equity, and inclusion is why he makes money writing and not pennies picking strawberries."
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social: ""DEl is pointless rather than menacing" seems like a reasonable take to me, but if that's the case it's still bad."
When you really believe the party line that DEI is so non white straight men can get jobs
Meme - "The past
Life may be hard, but 'm doing my best. I'll try to make the world a better place for my descendants
The present
My ancestors were stupid and evil"
Misheru Katorin 🇳🇱 on X - "Borders are imaginary but white people stole sacred land from natives. White ppl are still colonizers in the US 300 years later but a black man in Ireland is just as Irish. Diversity is our strenght but Africa got ruined by making different ethnic groups live in one territory."
The Church of England’s plan to pay £100m in reparations explains exactly why its pews are empty - "Given Lenny Henry wants the British state to pay £18tn in slavery reparations, perhaps we should be thankful that the Church of England wants to cough up “only” £100m as part of its Project Spire, the Church Commissioners’ proposal to invest in “communities affected by historic transatlantic chattel slavery”. Not only does the Church want to spend this money, but a parliamentary response to a question asked by the Conservative MP Neil O’Brien this week highlighted how its leaders are jumping through a series of legal hoops to do so, including applying to register a new charity they propose to call The Fund of Healing, Repair and Justice. It all adds to the sense that those who want this do not represent anyone but themselves and they are in danger of dragging the entire institution down with them. The new Archbishop of Canterbury, Dame Sarah Mullally, has said nothing so far to suggest this will change. Mr O’Brien called Project Spire, launched in 2023, “divisive rubbish”, adding: “The Church’s hope has been to regain relevance by becoming an arm of progressive politics and it hasn’t worked. They are now facing unbelievable decline. It’s tragic.” I don’t disagree. Driven less by external pressure than by the liberal guilt of its leadership, the Church often gives the impression that it’s barely a church at all. In the past, its strength was that it was literally “the establishment”. Now that is its greatest weakness, as it fumbles for relevance in a culture of polarisation. Let’s be honest, the Church of England hasn’t been cutting edge since 1549, so it would be wise to concern itself less with relevance and more with keeping and attracting the faithful. The former head of the Church, Justin Welby, previously led the self-flagellation over “deep institutional racism” and committed it to net zero. This identity crisis comes amid a material one. Nearly one in three churches across Britain could be closed by the end of the decade. The number of adults attending church on a Sunday is down 40 per cent since 2003. The number of children going to a Church of England venue on a Sunday is less than half of what it was in that same year. But, as O’Brien says, the Church’s leaders want to spend £100m on what amounts to “a pure guilt trip”. It’s not a coincidence that the reparations scheme was devised at the height of the woke fever that followed the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Welby personally intervened afterwards to enure that artefacts with any tenuous links to slavery or empire were removed from churches around the country, while the bureaucratic nature of the Church meant Project Spire rumbled on despite the objections of prominent academics and clerics. A true service to the nation – and to the survival of the Church itself – would be to use that £100m to save threadbare parishes and invest in infrastructure. Instead the Church seems preoccupied with grand virtue signalling that is intellectually incoherent. It would be naive to describe the Church of England as a victim, but it is trapped by forces beyond its control. The qualities that once made it appealing – a lack of zeal, traditions rooted in local communities and a reassuring stuffiness – now make it an anachronism. Even more so since its perceived shift to woke obsessions have left the leadership here alienated from the rest of the world, in particular the 60 million or so Anglicans in Africa, many of whom have concluded those in England no longer share their values. Last week, the Global Anglican Futures Conference (Gafcon) met in Sydney and declared it was forming the Global Anglican Communion in response to the growing rift between what it perceives to be an overly liberal English church and the more conservative global Anglican movement... Political Christianity is braced for a revival, in part a reaction to the increasing prominence of political Islam in British society. It’s ironic then that the Church least equipped to maximise any Christian resurgence is the one that most ties itself to politics. Its wokeness – and its weakness – make the Church of England doubly irrelevant: too politicised to appeal to conservatives seeking muscular Christianity, and too institutional for progressives who are largely atheist and anti-establishment. It seems reparations, like almost everything the Church of England does, are a gesture that will please nobody. And like the facile, cliched graffiti recently stuck on the walls of Canterbury Cathedral, they will attract no one new to the fold while alienating many others. Before it embraced muddled notions of political relevance, the Church could roll onwards like a glacier. But like a lot of glaciers these days, it is at risk, almost imperceptibly, of disappearing altogether"
Taxpayer cash funds foreign students to study ‘transnational queer feminist politics’ - "A leading scholarship scheme for foreign students is funding courses in gender studies, human resources and interior design, a Telegraph investigation can reveal. The Chevening Scholarship – set up in 1983 and funded with more than £500m from the foreign aid budget over the past decade – is meant to pay for British master’s degrees for people with “outstanding leadership potential” from developing countries. Boris Johnson, the former prime minister, described the scheme in 2016 as “a critical mass of human talent” achieved through “palpable, tooth-and-claw academic competition”. It is intended to boost Britain’s soft power abroad and train future leaders to change the world in fields such as politics, journalism, science and human rights. But hundreds of students have been awarded places at underperforming universities to study low-quality courses, with five students having received funding through the Chevening Scholarship to study transnational queer feminist politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) over the past decade... Data released under Freedom of Information laws show that 23 per cent of Chevening scholars since 2015 have gone to universities where graduate salaries are below average... In total, three quarters of the Chevening scholars who have come to the UK over the past decade studied humanities or social science degrees, with the figure climbing to around 90 per cent for students from countries including China, Georgia and South Korea. While many Chevening scholars enrol on prestigious courses such as natural sciences at the University of Cambridge, hundreds are also being funded by the British taxpayer every year to study topics like social media, marketing, pest control and lighting design. Alongside the five students studying transnational queer feminist politics at SOAS, a further 48 people have enrolled in gender studies courses at the London university through the scheme since 2015. In total, 317 Chevening scholars have come to the UK in that time for gender studies-related courses, excluding those combined with law. More than a third of them studied at the University of Sussex. Eight students from countries including Panama and Iraq have won Chevening scholarships to study interior design over the past decade, while 62 studied human resources, 114 studied marketing and 44 studied tourism. Other Chevening scholars have received Foreign Office funding to study video game design at Birmingham City University, socially-engaged photography at the University of Salford and e-marketing and social media at Middlesex University. The scholarships cover students’ tuition fees, travel expenses and living costs, a total of almost £50,000 per student. Many of the degrees awarded to Chevening scholars, such as fashion design or filmmaking, are also desirable among UK students but would require them to take out large student loans with high interest rates to complete. The Foreign Office has insisted the Chevening Scholarship is extremely competitive, with only two to three per cent of applicants securing a place. The scheme also counts 21 current or former heads of state among its alumni, including Elijah Ngurare, the prime minister of Namibia... Earlier this week, the Government announced it would toughen its stance on low-quality degrees in an attempt to “ensure public money is spent only on courses that deliver for students and the economy”."
How a Tory peer and his 28 staff turned the tide on non-crime hate incidents - "It may go down as one of the most unsuccessful operations in the history of British policing, with thousands of arrests, yet barely a single dangerous criminal taken off the streets. But after millions of hours in manpower – sorry, human resources – it seems the case is finally being closed on “Operation Woke”. On Monday, Scotland Yard announced that it would no longer be investigating so-called non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) – acts perceived to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards a person’s race, gender or another “protected characteristic” but not serious enough to be considered a criminal offence – as it disclosed that the comedian Graham Linehan would face no further action following his arrest last month over posts on social media... his lawyers come courtesy of the Free Speech Union (FSU), the British campaign group set up to defend freedom of expression – be it from armed police, an overzealous student campus, or HR managers intent on enforcing diversity policies. Set up five years ago by the former journalist, Toby Young – now Lord Young, having been nominated for a life peerage by Kemi Badenoch last December – the organisation has handled more than 4,500 cases, from members of the public arrested over tweets deemed to be politically incorrect, to office workers disciplined for querying seminars on critical race theory. For some clients, the FSU has simply won a written apology. But for others, it has secured a £500,000 payout at industrial tribunal. If there’s one thing most cases have in common, according to Young, it is that they shouldn’t have happened in the first place. Linehan’s arrest, in which the Met acted “like the Stasi”, being a case in point. “I think this statement from the Met shows that they have got fed up with this stuff – they recognise that the public want them to prioritise serious crimes like burglary, car theft and mugging,” says Young, who has called for all police forces in the country to follow Scotland Yard’s lead. “I also think that in Linehan’s case, the police realised they’d been manipulated by a trans-rights activist who understood exactly how to weaponise the police guidance on investigating hate crime incidents, and to turn the police into an enforcement wing for their own agendas.”... In April, Ministry of Justice figures disclosed that police were making around 12,000 arrests a year nationwide for allegedly offensive posts on the internet. While most would result in a caution or no further action, that is still almost twice the 6,923 arrested per year for county-lines drug dealing – a much higher priority for the average citizen. True, many of the arrests involve posts made while drunk, or in anger – as per that of Lucy Connolly, jailed for 31 months for urging people to “set fire” to asylum seekers’ hotels. But Young says the majority of the FSU’s 4,500 cases are brought on behalf of people whose only “crime” has been to stand up for what they believe in. “About 40 per cent of them are women who’ve been reported to the police, or reported to their employers or their university, for saying they don’t want to share toilets with non-biological women,” he says. “That, right now, is the frontline of the free speech crisis.”... “Most people don’t particularly want to put their heads above the parapet, but they do baulk at all this nonsense in the workplace, whether it’s unconscious bias training, trans-inclusion at work, or endless language guides about what is and isn’t appropriate language,” Young says. “But about 80 per cent of the time when we’ve gone to bat for people who’ve been fired for saying the wrong thing, we’ve been successful. We also have some quite senior lawyers on our legal advisory council, so when we send a letter on behalf of an employee or university student, they will often back down.” Critics accuse the FSU itself of an agenda, citing Young’s position as an associate editor of the Right-leaning Spectator magazine – itself a noted critic of cancel culture. This, he insists, is simply an occupational hazard of the culture wars. He adds: “You’re much more likely to get into trouble for saying something Right of centre than you are Left of centre”. But he says the FSU has wielded cudgels on behalf of figures on the Left too. The typical FSU client who gets into trouble over gender-critical matters, he points out, is not a Linehan, but a “Guardian-reading feminist in her 40s to 60s”. Ironic, Young jokes, given that when the FSU first started, the newspaper and its like ran “a hit piece every day”. “They said that cancel culture was all the invention of Right-wing culture warriors, and the FSU would go under in less than six months,” he says. “But cancel culture is very real, and while the Linehan case is a step forward, the battle isn’t over yet. “I await the day when the author of one of those Guardian pieces contacts me for help.”"
Meme - London & UK Street News @CrimeLdn: "London firrworks last night for Diwali TT (jake90s)"
Hindutva Knight @HPhobiaWatch: "Reverse colonisation is so beautiful"
Yeezy Crusader @TrumpCrusader9: "Thank you for openly admitting it. I'm happy the younger whites are much further right and will hopefully take action against ur kind."
When they admit mass migration is about punishing the west
Meme - personality_of_colt: "FYI, "low IQ" is eugenesist language."
bc3000bc3000: "The preferred term is "fucking retarded""
mattaecole: "The world is healing."
Anthony Bradley on X - "Conjecture: Turning Point wouldn’t exist if universities hired faculty with real viewpoint diversity. Students shouldn’t need a nonprofit to bring alternative/conservative views to campus. Want fewer TP-like speakers? Stop keeping conservatives off the faculty. Problem solved."
