Brian Allen on X - "Gavin Newsom just said the quiet part out loud: “All this anti-woke stuff is just anti-Black. Period. Full stop.” And he’s right. “Anti-woke” was never about ideas, it was a marketing campaign to sanitize racism, roll back progress, and make bigotry sound intellectual."
Michael Shermer on X - "This is grade A BS. “If you disagree with me you’re a racist” is not an argument. The vast majorities of Americans both liberal and conservative disagree with woke ideology. Why? Because its tenets are wrong, irrational and, ironically, racist (in judging people by skin color)."
Adrian Vermeule on X - "The tweet that confirms everything conservatives say about higher education:
“Challenges traditional norms” — c’mon you’ve been teaching the same tired “critical theory” for two generations now, that itself is the encrusted tradition"
John Carney on X - "meullarmine I call this a “mask of opposition.” Even when the entire university agrees with them, they claim they are challenging norms."
On the AAUP
Bernie on X - "🚨Absolutely OUTRAGEOUS scenes in Parliament. Tommy Robinson is called a Far right racist hate preacher. And Elon Must is compared to Putin as a National threat… because he’s paying his legal bills. A reminder, we pay the legal bills of thousands of illegal migrant criminals but not Tommy Robinsons."
Ironically, in the Tommy Robinson terrorism case she is talking about, he was acquitted and it was recognised that the police were politically persecuting him
Columbia Law School Tells Students To Avoid Offensive Terms Like 'Crazy Uncle' and 'Grandfathering' - "At a mandatory training for Columbia Law students, a vocally anti-Trump diversity consultant warned that the terms "crazy uncle" and "grandfathering" could be offensive and attacked President Donald Trump for complimenting the president of Liberia on his English, calling the comment a "microaggression."... Facilitated by Marguerite Fletcher, a former corporate attorney at WilmerHale, the training was organized around a single "case study" in which a student complains that it is difficult to schedule events around Jewish holidays. In audio of the training, Fletcher—who has wished her clients a "HappyChrismaHanuKwanzakah"—described the complaint as a paradigmatic "microaggression" and encouraged students to list other examples. When one student mentioned complimenting a foreign person’s English, Fletcher launched into a diatribe against Trump, who in July had praised Liberia’s president, Joseph Boakai, for speaking better English than his own cabinet. "I know I shouldn't go political, but our president did that recently to an African president, [the] president of Liberia," Fletcher said. "‘You speak English better than the people in my office.’ Hmmm… yes, he does." Elsewhere in the training, Fletcher argued that lawyers should avoid the term "grandfathering" because of its "racist origins" in the Jim Crow South. And she described how, at a "lawyer well-being group" in Massachusetts, she had been chided for using the term "crazy uncle" because it could stigmatize those with mental health issues... The training at Columbia—where one student, Khymani James, infamously said that "Zionists deserve to die"—did not address the sort of comments that made Jewish students fear for their safety during the anti-Israel protests that prompted the Trump administration to freeze more than $400 million in grants and contracts to the university in March. A Columbia Law School spokesman said the training was intended to fulfill the accreditation standards of the American Bar Association, which requires law schools to "provide education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism" at the start of their legal education... the session offers a window into how even schools seeking to appease the president have continued the DEI programs that he is attempting to destroy... she said that she doesn't alert men when they are entering women’s bathrooms, lest she inadvertently commit a microaggression against transgender people. "If it was a man, then by saying something I would have helped a stranger avoid momentary embarrassment," she wrote. "However, if it was a woman, then I would have committed a textbook microaggression. The person was going about their day, and a total stranger made a comment that singled them out as different. Even if my intent was to be helpful, the impact would cause harm.""
Meme - Sall Grover @salltweets: "A actually marginalized or oppressed group cannot achieve anything like this. *whole street full of Trans Pride flags hanging*"
National pride is declining in America. And it's splitting by party lines, new Gallup polling shows - "“Each generation is less patriotic than the prior generation, and Gen Z is definitely much lower than anybody else,” said Jeffrey Jones, a senior editor at Gallup. “But even among the older generations, we see that they’re less patriotic than the ones before them, and they’ve become less patriotic over time. That’s primarily driven by Democrats within those generations.”"
Insurrection Barbie on X - "92% of Republicans are proud to be Americans. 32% of democrats are proud to be Americans. Btw, Republicans were just as proud to be Americans under Obama. Those are some wild numbers."
We're still told that left wingers don't hate their countries
Mark Seddon on X - "The hard Right in Britain will not be content until they have fermented rice riots in our country. The language here is extremist, inflammatory and written by an unapologetic apologist for Netanyahu and his band of zealots for an increasingly febrile & unhinged @Telegraph."
Ike Ijeh on X - "Islamists effectively banning Jews from Birmingham. Migrants stabbing people to death in Uxbridge & Manchester. Children raped en masse by Asian gangs. And still liberals cling to the fantasy of the "far-right" being to blame. Denial like this isn't just deluded, it's dangerous."
If you condemn Islamism you're "far right". Telling.
Sara Sharif: chances to prevent murder ‘lost to racial sensitivities’ - "Sara Sharif was murdered by her father and stepmother after a professional may have “feared causing offence” and failed to question why she was wearing a hijab that hid her injuries, a damning review has found. The report, commissioned by the Surrey Safeguarding Children Partnership, found that “race was a bar to reporting possible child abuse” and “professionals never explored how [her Pakistani heritage] impacted on Sara”. The child safeguarding practice review found that professionals did not investigate why Sara began wearing a headscarf at the age of eight, despite it being “highly unusual for such a young child to decide to wear the hijab without either members of their family or peers doing the same”... In 2021, when Sara was eight, she began wearing a hijab to school. The head teacher was commended for asking the family about the change but was told that it was Sara’s choice after becoming interested in Pakistani culture after a family holiday. The review said: “We now know that the wearing of the hijab did, in the later period of Sara’s life, hide bruising and injuries to her face and head.”... In November 2022 an occupational therapist visited and “noted that Sara was the only person wearing a hijab but did not think this was unreasonable at the time, although she has reflected that she may have been reticent to talk about it for fear of causing offence”. Neighbours also told the review that they had been reluctant to report concerns because they “feared being branded as being racist, especially on social media”. The report said: “While understanding their point of view, this is concerning that race was a bar to reporting possible child abuse and it needs to be overcome.”"
Once again, wokeness kills
There must be a full reckoning for Sara Sharif - "Sara was known to social services from birth and had been taken into social care twice. Social workers had raised “significant concerns” that she was at risk of abuse. She went through three sets of family court hearings. Her father, despite facing numerous allegations of abuse and domestic violence, was awarded custody in 2019... The safeguarding review reached the conclusion that Sara’s death was not caused by “one specific malfunction within the safeguarding system”. This is clearly correct, but perhaps should go further. Sara’s death was caused by her father and stepmother: it was enabled by almost everyone she came into contact with. Rather than hiding behind institutional responsibility, individual decision-makers should reflect on their culpability."
Allie Beth Stuckey on X - "Yes, one of the arguments in my book is that toxic empathy - and one of its consequences, social justice - are the result of misplaced mothering. Many progressive women who don’t have children to love pour their affection into politics, pets, plants & professions. Progressive politics hoists up a victim that liberal women adopt as their imaginary child. That’s why they get so incredibly angry when you argue with them. It’s a perversion of the mama bear instinct."
Camus on X - "Bret Weinstein just said something that won’t leave my head: For the first time in 300,000 years of human evolution, we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented — sex and pair-bonding. Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the evolutionary lottery ticket without paying the 20-year mortgage of pregnancy, diapers, sleepless nights, and college funds. Result? An entire generation of 18–35-year-olds walking around with the energy, libido, hormones, and protective instincts that evolution spent millions of years calibrating for child-rearing… but with zero actual children. That energy didn’t disappear. It got redirected. Heather Heying’s observation is brutal: young women especially began treating ideologies the exact way evolution wired them to treat babies. Climate change, social justice, whatever the cause of the month is — it gets defended with literal mama-bear ferocity, the same neurochemistry that once guarded a toddler from predators now guards an abstract idea from wrong think. And now Elon is promising the second shoe is about to drop: AI-driven abundance will make money as “free” as sex became in the 1970s. Both of evolution’s primary carrots — mating and resource acquisition suddenly cost almost nothing. Weinstein’s ice-cold question: When producing and protecting actual children is no longer the central organizing principle of adult life… and when creating wealth is no longer required for status, security, or attracting a mate…What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure? Are we about to become a species that invents bigger and bigger dragons to slay just to feel alive? Or do we drift into total listlessness? This 3:52 clip is genuinely haunting. Watch it all the way through, then tell me — honestly — does this explain the absolute intensity we’re seeing in culture right now, or is Bret completely missing something? Real answers only. Quote-post if it hits you in the chest like it hit me."
Andrew Follett on X - "Cat Lady Thesis of politics remains undefeated. The altruism of women which should be directed towards their kids becomes pathological when they don't have them...and ends up directed towards govt approved victim groups who become a kind of surrogate kid.
Variety of reasons...
Anti-kid propaganda for decades
Difficulty in meeting people during the APPocalypse
Life starting after college, which reduces the amount of fertile time to have kids.
Etc."
classicalliberty on X - "And they get to rob white men to fund these programs, as a cherry on top."
Where did wokeness come from? - "It is often said that woke ideology is the expression and fulfilment of ‘cultural Marxism’. Many take issue with this claim and this phrase, not least those who are familiar with Karl Marx and his writings. They reply that he concerned himself foremost with economic matters, not those related to culture. If we can detect any connection between Marxism and the project of transforming a society’s attitudes and collective psychology it can probably be found in the work of the German intellectuals in and around the so-called Frankfurt School. They conceived of awakening the proletariat from its slumber, of developing class consciousness, as a cultural problem rather than a material, political task. Political scientist Eric Kaufmann also takes issue with the phrase ‘cultural Marxism’, preferring ‘cultural socialism’. In fact, in his new book, Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Produced a Cultural Revolution, he takes issue with the entire idea that wokeness has its roots in Marxism or radical ideology. Sure, the broad creed that has broken into the mainstream over the past decade co-opted a lot of radical theory during its earlier development, including the thought of 1960s icons such as Herbert Marcuse and Michel Foucault – indeed, the latter bequeathed the theory of power being invisible and ubiquitous. But wokery, Kaufmann insists, is fundamentally a form of hyper-liberalism, an extreme egalitarianism. It is less a cast-iron ideology and more a soft religion. This explains why some of its claims can seem so bizarre – because that’s how the tenets of religions usually appear to outsiders and non-believers. Kaufmann argues that hyper-liberalism had its roots in 1960s America. It was then that white, middle-class Americans first awoke to the grievous racial injustices embedded in society. There was a wider liberal shift in political attitudes that decade, but the issue of race came to dominate. From this point, a new secular credo developed, expanded and entrenched itself: the belief that minorities needed to be liberated. This began as an extension of a simple, classic liberal belief in equality, but over time it became warped. As this new religion evolved, so did certain key doctrines: that minorities, being perpetually downtrodden and sinned against, are morally superior by virtue of that fact; and that the majority, by extension, are inherently malevolent and culpable. As Kaufmann puts it: ‘Among egalitarian liberals, a pre-1965 cultural liberalism of rights and opportunities morphed into a post-1965 cultural socialism, powered by a progressive identity which seamlessly bridged the two mindsets through a “minorities good, majorities bad” set of affective attachments.’ Important, too, was the language and thinking of psychology and therapy. These helped shape the idea that minorities need protection from hurtful words that might cause trauma and damage to people’s self-esteem. Kaufmann calls this shift in the mid-1960s, from cultural liberalism to cultural socialism, ‘the big bang of our moral universe, from which taboos around sexism, homophobia, and transphobia were to later spring’. He continues: ‘While radical ideas like critical race theory or gender ideology have gained ground, they only succeeded because they resonated with an established left-liberal hypersensitivity around identity issues.’... Like other ideologies and religions, it has gradually become more extreme, with each devotee seeking to prove himself more pure and righteous than the next. Kaufmann shows convincingly how modern liberalism morphed into wokeness, capturing the institutions one by one: academia, schools, the public sector, museums, cinema, language and no doubt the world. It’s here to stay, too, he says. As I write these words, two news stories suggest Kaufmann is right. In one, a British university is decolonising its course on Medieval history to excise the word ‘Anglo-Saxon’; in the other, the Bank of England is telling its staff to use ‘gender neutral’ pronouns when addressing colleagues. There may have been some pushback against this ideology in recent years, especially when it comes to trans. But Kaufmann is not persuaded that we are approaching the ‘end of woke’. He believes woke tenets are now firmly entrenched in our society, particularly in the minds of tomorrow’s rulers, educators, policymakers, advertising executives and so on. As a middle-aged man, Kaufmann seeks to put it as delicately as possible, but he cannot refrain ultimately from calling out those who he deemed to be the most fervent custodians of our new morality: namely, young, middle-class, highly educated women. He sees woke less as a coherent ideological system and more as an amorphous ‘caring’ credo (or ‘vibe’, as we might now say). He argues that this creed is spread and evangelised not from above, but horizontally by true believers who really think that they’re on the side of the angels. Converts to woke think likewise. ‘Incremental guilt and compassion, much more than envy or the desire to overthrow the existing order, have led us down this path’, he writes. ‘Left-liberal conviction, not cowardice, accounts for the power of cancel culture and critical race / gender ideology in organisations.’ Yet at the same time, he notes that the new ideology can connive and cajole when it needs to, through what Kaufmann calls a ‘velvet glove’ strategy. Today this often involves invoking the amenable-sounding trio of ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ to conceal wokery’s iron fist of compelled speech, unreason and illiberalism... That’s why overcoming woke will take far more than a few laws or a change of government. It will involve rethinking what we mean by ‘caring’ and ‘uncaring’. It will involve daring to be regarded in public as ‘bad people’. It will mean we cannot shy away from the culture war."
Classical Marxism has also been compared to a religion, so
Shane Gill | Facebook - "I rage against the culture of victimhood because it makes you less. It gives you every excuse for failure, every justification for mediocrity. And it takes away your power because if it’s never your fault, you can’t fix it. You become a passenger in your own life, staring at the road while some imaginary oppressor drives. I will never give that up. You’d have to pry it from my cold, dead hands. And even then I doubt you'll be able to. I’ve got all the “victim points.” Minority. Terrible schooling. Broken home. Single parent household. Bullied in school. Terrible disciplinary record. Caned so many times in school it didn't even matter to me anymore. Almost expelled multiple times. In the modern victimhood mentality, society owes me. Owes me a hell of a lot. Except it doesn’t. The world never has, the world never will. And thank God for that. The world’s indifference is a gift. It forces you to own your life, to get going, to learn to fight for every inch without expecting anyone to hand it over. I’ve literally seen the reaction my refusal to play the victim "triggers." (see what I did there? Nudge nudge) I’ve been at dinner tables of western leftists, people who prattle on about systemic disadvantage, privilege, and oppression and all the buzzwords. They look at me and say, oh how hard your life must be as a minority. And I say, “No, my life is amazing. I get more than I deserve.” Boom. It’s like a switch flips, and suddenly I’m not just wrong, I’m offensive. I'm a bad person. Me. A bad person. For telling the truth that flys in the face of their twisted racial fantasies. That left a mark. A permanent scar. Nothing seems to enrage them more than a "person of colour" (see? I know the buzzwords too!) who won’t buy into their mental prison. They despise anyone who refuses to claim injury, anyone who refuses to beg for their dues, anyone who sees life as a challenge to master, not a debt to collect. Somehow they call that, I don't know, liberation or something. Ass backwards. I’ve chosen accountability over entitlement. Strength over excuses. Action over complaint. When you refuse to see yourself as a victim, then you have the power to turn the situation around. It's in your hands and your hands alone. This is my declaration: I will never, ever give up my power. I will never let anyone tell me that my struggles define me. The world doesn’t owe me shit, and I don’t need it to. If anything, I owe this world. I owe the multiple people that have been absolutely instrumental in me becoming the man I am. Best part? All the people that carried me, Chinese, Malay, Indian, Eurasian. White. Why? Because they're good people. That's it. That's all it is. The colour of their skin never mattered. If there's one takeaway I've learned from this, it's that you can't effect the world in a good way, when you're convinced everyone is out to get you. It's impossible. And it's no way to live."
@amuse on X - "GENOCIDE: When Democrats, like this Minnesota university professor say the United States must be “dismantled” and “decolonized” to save humanity, they are not speaking in metaphors. They mean it. This isn’t rhetorical flair. It’s a revolutionary premise rooted in postmodernism, Marxism, and racialized grievance politics, an explicit rejection of the American project and its founding ideals. The Democrats want no America because America, at its best, represents the opposite of everything they believe: ordered liberty, personal responsibility, upward mobility, a colorblind justice system, and national sovereignty. These are not mere policy preferences, they are existential threats to the Marxist’s utopia. We must reject the premise. America is not a colony. It is a nation born in revolution, tempered by civil war, expanded through hardship, and perfected, not by deconstruction, but by generation after generation striving toward its ideals. The Democrats who cry “decolonize” are not oppressed. They are pampered malcontents who drink lattes while posting manifestos from their iPhones, protected by rights they didn’t earn, in a country they detest but refuse to leave. h/t @shaunmmaguire"
She says that "Palestine is the alternative path for native nations". Apparently 80 years of "genocide" with no end in sight is a good thing. She also calls Palestine "the tip of the spear", once again demonstrating how the left wing agenda is all connected (she evokes eco-extremism and goes on about how indigenous women are supposedly oppressed, blaming the "settler regime" for what is mostly the fault of indigenous men). This was after October 7th, and it's scary how mass murder energises the left - it reveals they want to kill all their opponents in their quest for "justice, equality and peace"
Meme - Endymion @EndymionYT: ">Be Angry Joe
>Mad Halo is used by conservatives
>Composer of series is conservative
>Games entire plot is a religious allegory
>Flood, Ark, Halo all Bible references
>Plot is defeating beings who invade & impose their religion & ways upon humanity against their will ( sound familiar? )
>Point of series goes over his head
These people are retarded guys"
Joe Vargas @AngryJoeShow: "FUCK ICE! and FUCK Donald Trump! Get the FUCK outta here with using HALO for your shitty dehumanizing police state Propaganda! No one thinks your shit is cool besides low IQ hur hur MAGA cult members on X. Half of which are bots. Yall gonna find out soon in the next Election!"
dhsgov and whitehouse: "DESTROY THE FLOOD. JOIN.ICE.GOV"
Meme - Kevster: "STAY AWAY FROM THE FRANCHISE I LOVE YOU FACIST PICE OF SHIT"
Frasier Payne: "What's the matter? Don't like when franchise is used to push an agenda?"
Halo: "Happy Pride Month. Embrace love, diversity, and inclusion by equipping the Unity '24 armor coating, nameplate, and emblem in Halo Infinite this June. Let's stand together in honoring our LGBTQIA+ community and forging a future of unity and acceptance for all. #Pride2024"
Meme - Blue haired individual in pink cut out shorts and nothing else (not even shoes) to man holding cross with microphone and speaker: "STOP SHOVING YOUR BELIEFS Down EVERYONE'S THROAT!"
*Pride flag bench* *Pride flag crosswalk* *Topless interracial couple with one shoeless person making out in street* *Passed out drug addict holding onto rainbow bin* *Motorcycle with Pride flag licence plate* *Trans Pride Flag* *Love is Love sign* *porn shoot in apartment visible from outside* *Pride flag neon sign above door* *Woman with Pride flag skirt* *Shoeless druggie with needles sitting on sidewalk* *Pride flag mask abandoned on sidewalk* *Man naked except for underwear and red boots holding whip and chain with black man naked except for g-string, slippers and dog mask* *Dirty road with thong, bikini top, condom, shit and urine on it*
Meme - Socioeconomic factors forcing a black man to shoot a three year old girl"
If the Picts were black, answer me this - "A new children’s book about Scottish history portrays the ancient Picts as black. I must admit that I was somewhat surprised by this. Mainly because I’d always thought they were blue. At any rate, the book apparently claims that Scotland has always been “multicultural and diverse”. If that’s the case, it will utterly revolutionise how we think about our history. Although not necessarily in ways that the book’s authors might expect. For one thing, Left-wing politicians will have to stop lecturing everyone about the crucial historic importance of “the Windrush generation”. After all, if huge numbers of black people already lived in Britain – indeed, had already lived in Britain for thousands of years – the arrival of the Windrush was surely a complete non-event. In fact, when she docked at Tilbury in 1948, I don’t suppose anyone in this country even raised an eyebrow. “A few hundred immigrants from Jamaica? Big deal. Britain has always been multicultural and diverse. Especially Scotland. Did you know that Robert the Bruce was born in Trinidad, and William Wallace was a Zulu?” In light of this transformative revelation about our island’s past, therefore, I expect the Government will be duly removing all public memorials to the now insignificant Windrush generation, and replacing them with enormous statues of black Picts. And possibly some Afghan Angles, Somali Saxons and Bangladeshi Celts. In the meantime, I look forward to reading further unexpected insights into our distant ancestors. How many Iceni identified as non-binary? Was Stonehenge erected in memory of George Floyd? Did Neanderthals voice their concerns about climate change by drenching cave paintings in Heinz Cream of Tomato? I can’t wait to find out."
