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Tuesday, December 02, 2025

Links - 2nd December 2025 (1 - General Wokeness)

John Robson: Cousin marriage has no place in society - "If I express relief that Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) praised cousin marriage, you might denounce me as insane, perverted or both. But while things look terrible in the United Kingdom, and ominous for Canada given our tendency to strike out boldly in their footsteps, I was encouraged because surely this preemptive surrender to Islamism constituted “jumping the shark.” Too crass and obsequious, it would become a rallying point for people fed up with the woke-Islamist alliance and takeover. And I think it is. According to the Daily Telegraph, “The NHS has been urged to apologise” because “Guidance published (in September) by the NHS England’s Genomics Education Programme says first-cousin marriage is linked to ‘stronger extended family support systems and economic advantages.’ But the practice has also been linked to oppression of women and also has a proven increased risk of genetic disease in offspring of first-cousin relationships.” I suppose in these enlightened materialistic times it’s predictable that birth defects would get most attention. And that the story would refer delicately to “cultural practices,” “cultural relativist-obsessed sociology professors” and “cultures.” But nobody was fooled. One culture prone to cousin marriage accounts for a troublingly disproportionate share of genetic birth defects in Britain and everybody knows which one. As for “stronger extended family support systems,” I can think of another word. And say it: “tribalism.” An important 2019 paper in Science by economists and evolutionary biologists found that strict Catholic Church disapproval of marrying close relatives had a massive positive social impact over centuries, enhancing individualism and independence but also, perhaps surprisingly, trust in strangers. If you couldn’t marry within the family, you had to develop positive connections with people outside your clan, reinforced by becoming in-laws. And surely not even the most cultural relativist-obsessed sociology professor could be induced to call Pakistan a high-trust society. The state may suppress it and editors of newspapers may substitute euphemisms. But around what’s left of the dinner table (which a surprising proportion of British homes no longer have) people are saying it. Because everybody knows, in favour or against, who the NHS was pandering to. And when frank talk is suppressed by the state, good things don’t happen. The capture of the elite by self-hating radicalism is chilling. The once-prestigious British Medical Journal sniffed, “NHS pulls controversial blog on first cousin marriage — but expert argues that it was ‘factually based.’” (Which the American National Library of Medicine echoed.) And naturally the Guardian bellowed, “MP’s call to ban cousin marriage is prejudiced” over a letter from Dr. Qurratul-Ain Rehman. But it is fair to assume, given the tradition-hating British government’s obsession with DEI hiring, these perspectives have been welcomed at the NHS. Yes, tradition-hating. As in, as The Times reported last week, “Public sector workers view Britain less favourably than the public and are more sympathetic to adversaries such as Russia and China and terror groups such as Hamas.” Gosh. Detect a pattern here?... In their hearts, officers hated making a mockery of Robert Peel’s rules about police retaining “the respect and approval of the public” by always living up to “the historic tradition” of “being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.” Confiscating or tearing down the national flag, British or especially English, while nodding at those of Hamas, the Islamic Republic of Iran, ISIS and so forth didn’t qualify, and people are no longer passive in the face of it. Just as Canadians, incongruously, made the maple leaf an international symbol of liberty despised by our elites during the Freedom Convoy. And when state-funded propaganda called the Red Ensign a far-right hate symbol, I promptly flew one. Likewise, as more and more Britons fly the Union Jack or even the flag of St. George, including online, the British state, like the fledgling Islamic one incubating within it, will be unable to suppress them. One day most politicians may even decide they don’t want to anymore."
We all know that birth defects are due to racism and colonialism, not consanguinity. Those who criticize first cousin marriage are dog whistling, and this shows the importance of cracking down on Islamophobia

Deport Foreign Criminals on X - "The Met have a now buried and secret report into corruption of Cousin officers, they found they’re 10 times more likely to be corrupt than any other demographic, there allegiance was found to be to there community and mosque before GB!
21 June 2025 A former West Yorkshire Police officer has been charged with 13 counts of misconduct in a public office. Pakistani Jenade Yamin, 30, who worked in the Calderdale district at the time of his arrest, is due to appear at Bradford Magistrates' Court on Tuesday. The charges follow an investigation into computer misuse, unauthorised disclosure of police information, assisting an offender and fraud, a West Yorkshire Police spokesperson said. The offences allegedly took place between November 2019 and May 2022. Mr Yamin, of Branksome Grove in Shipley, resigned from the force in 2023 while under investigation."

Amid Backlash Over Serena Williams Calling Out A Hotel’s Cotton Plant Decoration, Her Husband, Alexis Ohanian, Entered The Conversation - "Serena then seemingly removed a piece of the cotton and said, “Actually, it feels like nail polish remover cotton,” before shuddering as she rubbed it across her nails... some media outlets reported that Serena actually owned a cotton decoration herself, which further fueled the discourse."

Terror attacks and random savagery are part and parcel of European life now - "Not so long ago we did not have second thoughts about going to a concert, the cinema, a walk on the beach, a ride on a train or a stroll through a Christmas market. But years of random acts of violence and terror have turned what should be spaces for everyday pleasures into zones of fear.  This morning a man shouting “Allahu Akbar” drove a car into a crowd on the French holiday island of Île d’Oléron, leaving at least 10 people injured. It was the latest example of something that has become commonplace across Europe, something that our leaders refuse to deal with.  Instead we must learn to live behind barriers, with concrete blocks and assault rifle-toting police becoming a kind of set dressing for leisure.  The security is to a certain degree theatre. It’s there to reassure us and it’s better than nothing, but it also a reminder that things were not always this way and that governments are too ideologically-bound to actually tackle the issue.  Nowhere is that more visible than in Germany, where the tradition of the Christmas market is being quietly dismantled. In several towns and cities they will not go ahead as normal this year.  Overath, in North Rhine-Westphalia, has cancelled its market altogether as it cannot afford to defend itself from potential attack. It isn’t an isolated case. The market in nearby Kerpen, has also reportedly been cancelled.  In Hamburg, one of the city’s busiest districts has no market this year. In Munich, would-be stall-holders are waiting on a committee that may never meet. Piece by piece, the map of German Christmas is being dismantled not by war or pestilence, but by bureaucracy, timidity and fear. These cancellations are not simply administrative matters. They are the visible consequences of a society that refuses to speak plainly about what threatens it. Islamist terror – or even the fear of it – now impacts the architecture of public life. The markets that survive do so behind “controlled zones”: fenced pockets of reassurance in cities that pretend the danger does not exist.  The theatre of denial that surrounds the problem effectively kills debate. When any one politician dares to question the moral dogma of our age, others fall over themselves with performative outrage.  It extends beyond politics. When a Syrian asylum-seeker murdered three people at a city festival in Solingen this August, the national discussion quickly shifted from the act to the instrument: knife control, not ideology. The weapon, not the wielder, became the story.  It is as if much of the West has agreed that certain truths are too dangerous to articulate: that some realities must be processed through euphemism or not at all.  The result is paralysis dressed as compassion. Rather than confront insecurity, we cancel our traditions.  Tolerance without limits is not a virtue; it is surrender. A society that cannot even defend its Christmas markets will struggle to defend anything else. The markets that survive do so behind ramparts that would have seemed absurd a generation ago. Children now grow up thinking police at Christmas are as traditional as gingerbread.  This is how cultures fade – not through sudden collapse, but through small, well-meaning surrenders. Each cancelled market, each renamed festival, each silence accepted for the sake of “safety” is another retreat from the public square. need not strike again; the mere possibility has achieved their purpose. The attack in France on Sunday showed how fragile the ordinary has become. Germany’s response shows how easily fear can be mistaken for compassion."

Magdeburg Christmas market cancelled over 'safety issues' - "The Magdeburg Christmas market has been cancelled over safety fears, one year after the terror attack that claimed the lives of six people. Mayor of the city, Simone Borris, confirmed the cancellation following a special meeting to discuss the market. She said "all experts agree" that postponing it for 2025 is the correct decision. She said: "All experts agree that concrete counter-terrorism measures are a state responsibility, for which the organiser of a Christmas market cannot be held accountable."  Ms Borris suggested that it was not the city of Magdeburg's responsibility to create tougher security measures, as this was up to counter-terrorism police and the regional government of Saxony-Anhalt. According to local media reports, she was given a letter from state officials warning of the lack of security measures, including barriers to prevent cars from getting in... The [December 2024] attack saw a black BMW X3 driven through a gap in the security barrier around the market's perimeter, supposed to be in place at all German Christmas markets to prevent terror attacks."
Previously, the cope was that Christmas markets were cancelled because they couldn't pay for security (ignoring the question of why security is only a problem in recent years).

Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: An Islamist professor at Princeton University openly declares her and others’ true intentions: “Get the University’s money and use it to dismantle the University.” Why is she still employed by Princeton?"

Bushra Shaikh on X - "We are Muslims before any ethnic identity.  The flag of Islam trumps the flag of any cultural heritage.  Any Muslim being persecuted, no matter where in the world they are, will forever have my support.  And under this banner, we will stand together with ANYONE who is oppressed. Muslim or not.  Because Islam and humanity is ONE."
Time to imprison her for Islamophobia for pushing the myth that Muslims have dual loyalty

Margot Cleveland on X - "From a very smart friend: "I’m convinced that Jackson isn’t even trying to persuade the other justices. She doesn’t even care if other liberal justices join her dissents. Her audience is not her colleagues, or even the legal community. It’s the voting public. She wants to use her dissents to deligitimize the Court from the inside and fuel the fire for adding more justices. There is no other way to explain her hyperbolic ranting.""
Ibn Salami on X - "In Herbert Marcuse's 1972 book, "Counter-Revolution and Revolt", on page 55 he uses the phrase, "working against the established institutions while working in them." This seems like exactly what Jackson is doing. Here is the quote:"

Leviathan on X - "It was really nice to see @TorontoPolice @TPSOperations turn their bikes when the public Islamist prayers started to ensure no Canadian could object or interfere."

Myron Gaines on X - "Let’s have an honest, tough conversation.  I’m Muslim, I’ll never renounce it, and I need to be better.   That said, we need to rethink some practices.   In the west, the loud, public calls to prayer five times a day, praying in large groups that block streets, disrupting traffic, and inconveniencing others needs to stop.   We’re not doing ourselves or our non-Muslim neighbors any favors by disturbing their daily lives.  When Westerners visit Muslim-majority countries, they generally show respect.   They follow local customs.   Women cover up, men act with honor, and they don’t demand that these nations change their laws, build churches or synagogues, or take in more Western immigrants.   Muslim countries enforce strict cultural and religious norms, and visitors comply.   Everyone coexists peacefully.  Why can’t we show the same respect in America and western countries?   Let’s be real: this is a Christian-majority country.   Muslims make up 1-2% of the population.   We’re a minority, and in many ways, we’re guests here.   I don’t see Christians or Jews going to Muslim countries demanding special accommodations or disrupting local customs.   If they’re allowed to practice their faith (and pagans often aren’t), they might pay a jizya tax for the privilege, which also exempts them from military service.   Non-compliance could mean jail, deportation, or worse.  I know the counterarguments: “America has freedom of religion!” or “There’s separation of church and state!”   But let’s clarify something.   The phrase “separation of church and state” comes from Thomas Jefferson’s 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association.   It refers to a wall protecting religious freedom from government interference and preventing the state from controlling churches. It’s not a blank check to practice our faith in ways that disrupt others.  We don’t need to “assert dominance” with mass public prayers in symbolic Western locations.   That’s not faith...it’s provocation, and it disrespects our host nation.   Muslim-majority countries would never tolerate similar behavior from non-Muslims.   Why should we expect different standards here?  Let’s show the same respect we’re shown abroad.   Let’s practice our faith humbly, integrate thoughtfully, and live as good neighbors.   That’s how we honor Islam and earn respect in return.  If you want to openly hear the call to prayer 5x a day, there's plenty of safe, clean, and beautiful Muslim countries  you can visit or even move to (these countries love western expats).   Agree or disagree? Comment below.   Would like to have a good discussion on this."

I was a lesbian for more than a decade – then I had triplets with my husband - "Clune, 59, who has previously described herself as a “hasbian” (a lesbian who has turned heterosexual), was ostensibly straight until she turned 22, when she started dating women. For 12 years she was exclusively in relationships with women, several of them long-term. However, in 2001 she met her now-husband Richard Hannant at the Arts Theatre in London, where she was performing and he was the fire officer."
How ignorant. Doesn't she know that sexual orientation is immutable so she was really always bisexual?

Bible verse on pastor’s campervan ‘could be hate speech’ - "A church leader has claimed the police warned him that that Bible verses on the back of his campervan could be considered “hate speech”.  Mick Fleming, 59, said he was approached by a police officer who commented on his campervan while he was at a petrol station in Burnley, on Oct 27.  Mr Fleming, who recently gave up all of his belongings and now lives in a van, has the Bible verse John 3:16 emblazoned on the back of it.  The commonly quoted verse reads: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.”  Mr Fleming, who runs an independent church and anti-poverty charity in Burnley, was told “the writing could be seen as hate speech in the wrong context”... The advice he received from the police came despite displaying Bible verses publicly being generally lawful in the UK under freedom of expression.  However, it could cross into illegality if the wording were deemed threatening or intended to stir up hatred against people based on protected characteristics such as religion or sexual orientation... the Trump administration warned of a clampdown on free speech in Britain. It said there were “credible reports of serious restrictions on freedom of expression, including enforcement of or threat of criminal or civil laws in order to limit expression.”"
Anyone saying Christians are being persecuted is delusional and a far right extremist

Christian says he lost job because of his views on homosexuality - "Christians in Britain do not enjoy free speech, according to a man who claims he was discriminated against when he missed out on a job because of his views on homosexuality.  Felix Ngole, 47, applied to be a mental health support worker with Touchstone Leeds, based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire in 2022, and was offered the role. However, the offer was withdrawn after the charity’s management found reports on a case Mr Ngole won against Sheffield University in 2019.  He had challenged the university’s decision to prevent him from completing his social work degree after it became aware of a Facebook row in which he said homosexuality and same-sex marriage were sins... Mr Ngole, supported by the Christian Legal Centre, said the tribunal’s ruling set a dangerous precedent, effectively barring Christians who held traditional views on marriage from working in professions that served LGBT individuals."
Good luck if you discriminate against a Muslim for this

Meme - John Rain: "Healthy children are much more likely to be right-wing as adults: According to a study published in 2022, health status in childhood correlates with being conservative in adulthood."
No wonder left wingers hate being healthy so much, glorifying obesity and hating going to the gym

Meme - Dane @UltraDane: "A Polish woman's FB post right before she was stabbed to death by an African in a London alley."
Ania Jedrkowiak: "The only thing that Should be Separated by colour is LAUNDRY"
Ealing murder: Obsessive ex-boyfriend jailed for murdering woman - "Dennis Akpomedaye, 30, murdered Polish student Anna Jedrkowiak, 21, in an alleyway in Ealing, in May last year.  Kingston Crown Court heard she had previously ended their relationship to move to London for a new life... The trial heard Akpomedaye used a bizarre cover story for the killing, saying he was a sword performer whose trick had gone wrong. However, he had left a trail of blood from the scene, leading detectives to a pond in Gunnersby Park, where he had dumped items he had stolen from Ms Jedrkowiak."

Holly Doan on X - "Cabinet advisor lobbied for Muslim prayer rooms in federal buildings though only 2% of employees self-identify as Muslim. Failure to accommodate is “Islamophobia in the workplace,” @AmiraElghawaby wrote in notes disclosed thru Access To Info #ATI #cdnfoi"

Will Tanner on X - "The Space and Nuclear Age prompted the last great era of optimism. Then “we” decided to give it all up in favor of decolonization and race communism that created Global Zimbabwe. We have now spent more on DEI programs than it would have cost to colonize Mars multiple times over"r

Mila Joy on X - "Privilege isnt being White. Privilege is living in government housing, and calling people oppressors or facists, while we pay your fcking bills."

Glenn Greenwald on X - "The phrase "Suicidal Empathy" is a propaganda term fed to you by a fanatical Zionist to justify blowing up Israel's enemies without feeling bad about it. Did you think Jesus also preached the evils of "Suicidal Empathy"? Try to find it in the Gospels. Matthew 7:12 is empathy."
Wilfred Reilly on X - ""Suicidal Empathy" is a clear and accurate description of 100 lunatic, feminized leftist policies - "defund the police, no human being is illegal, listen to the trans kids" - most of which you yourself oppose or used to."
"All sex work is work" also comes to mind."

Record number of over-60s are referred to anti-terrorism scheme amid overall explosion in 'extreme right wing' views - "Home Office figures show 127 adults in their 60s or beyond were put on Prevent's radar in 2023/24 - the most since records began in 2016.  Of them, 43 had sparked alarm for expressing 'extreme right wing' views. Extreme right wing ideologies 'can be broadly characterised as cultural nationalism, white nationalism and white supremacism', officials say. Guidance published online states they also use violence to further their aims. Yet free speech campaigners fear that anyone critical of mass immigration might be being wrongly labelled an 'extremist'. Last month, it was revealed how Prevent training documents listed sharing the view that Western culture was 'under threat from mass migration and a lack of integration' was a 'terrorist ideology'.  And in 2023, it emerged that popular British sitcoms, including comedies Yes Minister and The Thick Of It, were marked as 'key texts' for white nationalists. Even the 1955 epic war film The Dam Busters and The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare were flagged as possible red flags of extremism by Prevent's Research Information and Communications Unit... the overall number of referrals under the Islamist umbrella has plunged by 75 per cent, from 3,706 to 913 - or 13 per cent of the total.  Islamist terrorism relates to 'the threat or use of violence as a means to establish a strict interpretation of an Islamic society'. A damning public report warned in 2023 that Prevent had been experiencing a 'loss of focus' as it had become distracted by far right cases, rather than concentrating on Islamists. In his long-awaited 188-page report, William Shawcross claimed too many resources were being focused on right-wing terrorism rather than its Islamist equivalent, which has been responsible for far more deadly attacks. Since 2015, the law has placed public bodies, such as schools and the police, under a legal duty to identify people in danger of turning to extremism. But the £49million-a-year Prevent scheme has faced huge criticism over its failures in spotting Islamist terror sympathisers, including those with links to notorious hate preacher Anjem Choudary. Southport murderer Axel Rudakubana was also missed, despite being referred to the deradicalisation body three times before he went on to knife three children to death in July 2024... Critics warned the definition of 'cultural nationalism' is too broad and could even encompass the likes of Sir Keir Starmer's 'island of strangers' speech - despite polling showing most Brits agreed with him... Prevent faced a barrage of criticism last year when a 12-year-old schoolboy was investigated by counter-extremism officers after he declared there 'are only two genders'. The child made a video, posted online, in which he also stated: 'There's no such thing as non-binary'. But the school told the boy's mother they would refer him to Prevent amid fears he could be at risk of being radicalised by the far-right. The boy's mother was visited by Prevent and Northumbria Police officers, in a meeting she described as 'an interrogation'.  Other teenage boys face investigation by anti-terrorism officers if they make sexist remarks in the classroom, it was claimed.   One source said previously comments about a 'woman's place being in the kitchen' could be enough to spark a referral to the unit... the latest data shows incels make up less than one per cent of Prevent referrals."
Clearly, William Shawcross is a far right extremist who whitewashes their threat, which is the most pressing problem the UK faces. He must be forced to watch Adolescence (again)

Thread by @matt_vanswol on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I ran down the rabbit hole last night...  What I've discovered is shocking.  I searched through thousands of arrests in my county and every single Hispanic individual who has been arrested is labelled as "WHITE"  Not one, not two... HUNDREDS  How long has this been going on?!!!!
Just to be clear, there are thousands and thousands of these records.  Some even just say "Unknown" for both Gender and Race.  How on earth are we supposed to trust any crime stats?!  I don't know why no one is talking about this."
Saggezza Eterna on X - "This isn't an accident; it's statistical warfare. They label Hispanics as "White" to deliberately inflate "White" crime stats and obscure the criminal impact of specific demographics, often linked to the border invasion the Left engineered. It's a shell game to fuel their "white supremacy" narrative while hiding the truth.  How long? Decades. It stems from archaic federal categories distinguishing race and ethnicity, which the Left now weaponizes to manipulate data and blame the wrong people. It's systematic deception."
Lauren Chen on X - "However bad the crime stats appear, the reality is even worse. I've never seen a white man accidentally booked as black or Hispanic. The "accidents" only ever happen one way."

Thread by @uncorrelated_ on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "White by Default? The viral posts were right. We scraped 5.5 million criminal records and 1.5 million mugshots from 39 states. 29% of Hispanics are being misclassified as White in official Department of Corrections databases. Even when Hispanic is explicitly classified 🧵
Everyone's seen these collages claiming non-whites get classified as White in criminal databases. The problem? Anecdotal. Cherry-picked. No way to verify. We had 1.5 million mugshots, names, and official racial classifications. Time to test it systematically:
We trained a multinomial logistic regression on 18 features:
• DeepFace racial probabilities from mugshots
• Census name demographics
• First and last name racial statistics
92.76% accuracy distinguishing Black, White and Hispanic.
The key insight: A sufficiently accurate linear model trained on biased data learns the TRUE signal, not the bias. Systematic deviations between predictions and official labels indicate mislabeling by authorities, not model error. Here's what we found.... 29% of predicted Hispanics were officially classified as White. Even at 95-100% model confidence, 22.4% of predicted Hispanics were still assigned White. Median confidence for these cases? 91.7%.
Visual inspection confirmed it. These are people classified as "White" in official records. Look at those names!
Furthermore, PC mapping revealed that many "Whites" were in Hispanic variable zones, but not the other way around. Measuring the euclidean distance from the centroids, Whites were just as distinguishable from Hispanics as Blacks were from Whites. To further confirm the validity of our method through visual inspection, we contrasted low and high confidence classifications. High confidence misclassifications almost always were the predicted race instead of the assigned race.
We corrected for misclassification:
Hispanic criminal record rates increase 20-31%
White rates decrease 4-6%
Black rates decrease 1%
The lowerbound being only high confidence reassignments (>90% confidence), the upperbound assuming all predicted = actual race.
State-level analysis showed massive variation.
Florida: 60%+ of Hispanics misclassified as White (Cubans tend to self-id as White?)
But no correlation with political ideology (r = 0.21, p = 0.472).
For the analysis, FULL REPLICATION, code, data, github check out my blog post on it: White by Default: Systematic Bias in U.S. Criminal Racial Assignment"
White people are even less criminal than the statistics say

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