Oxfam considered scaling back disaster aid to focus on political ‘influencing’ - "Oxfam considered abandoning disaster response work to become an “influencer” on climate, gender and inequality... Amitabh Behar, the chief executive of Oxfam International, reportedly put forward the proposals to “reimagine” the work of the global aid organisation. The proposals were resisted by Oxfam GB, one of 22 Oxfam organisations around the world, because of fears they could breach British charity laws that prohibit charities having political purposes... One serving staff member told the newspaper: “If the UK public think for one second that Oxfam is turning its back on the humanitarian role it’s upheld for over 80 years to become just another lobbying shop, they’ll abandon the charity. We’ll never come back from such a betrayal. The plan would destroy Oxfam.”"
The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution
Clearly, it's time to tax churches
Brandon Warmke on X - "Philosophers discover that fetal ultrasounds are "obstetric violence." "Fetal ultrasound is a normalized and gendered intrusion that can cause epistemic harm, scaffold obstetric violence, and may sometimes constitute a form of obstetric violence in and of itself.""
Russell Blackford on X - "This is the kind of thing that's bringing academia - but also today's cultural and academic Left more generally - into disrepute. When they keep producing this sort of nonsense, it's very difficult for traditional liberals (like me) to defend the value of academia and our other cultural institutions."
Conservatives hate learning and education and are ignorant of facts
Meme - "r/fuckcars
Classic cars need to be banned
By driving a classic car or attending a classic car show you are celebrating and reinforcing an era of misogyny, racism and homophobia. This offensive and makes people who experienced these things feel unsafe. Therefore we need to organize to get classic cars banned to make the world a safer and more equitable place."
Meme - Musa al-Gharbi: "Even the take "most white people are decent and we want them to vote blue" -- apparently intended to be a reductio ad absurdum proof -- is also actually an absolutely correct take! Good luck winning elections without white voters! Or, for that matter, good luck making literally any substantive social change happen (at any point in U.S. history running through the foreseeable future) without white support. Also, Democrats have been consistently bleeding non-white voters for the last decade (musaalgharbi.substack.com/p/a-graveyard -... ), so without offsetting those losses with white voters, they've got zero shot nationally. They should absolutely want whites to vote blue! They should also want more men to vote blue. "Radical" takes to the contrary are wildly antipolitical."
talmon joseph smith @talmonsmith: "derek was right and everybody has lost their minds"
"Yeah seems like Derek Thompson's response to the Left's horror at Ezra is "Hold my beer" He deleted this tweet Lmaooo but wow"
To Bree or not to Bree @BreeEsq:" "David Duke sucks but also most white people are awesome and we want them to vote blue' shouldn't be that hard to think or say"
Derek Thompson @DKThomp: ""Andrew Tate sucks, but also most men are awesome, and we want them to vote for the Democrat" shouldn't be hard to think or say"
To Bree or not to Bree: "Is @DKThomp getting jealous of the Abundance of hate his co-author has been getting lately? Does he have a humiliation fetish or something? WTF is he tryna do here?"
Left wingers hate white people and men so much
Meme - "Holocaust survivors, despite the unimaginable atrocities they endured, did not go on to terrorize Europeans for generations. The Yazidis who were slaughtered by ISIS did not grow up to become terrorists or blow themselves up at concerts in Europe. The Druze who were massacred in Syria did not turn into terrorists or drive vehicles into crowds at Christmas markets Israeli survivors of the October 7 massacre, whose families were murdered, raped, and tortured on the morning of the holiday, and those who spent nearly two years in Hamas captivity, did not become terrorists or blow themselves up at train stations either."
davidrebelll: "Suffering does not produce terrorism. Ideologies and cultures that glorify violence do"
oliansell: "The Germans, after having their country flattened after world war two, immediately got up and worked to become the biggest economy in Europe today. Imagine if they had spent the past 80 years as generational refugees, refusing to rebuild and instead exporting terrorism all across Europe?"
Meme - "East Asian Literature:
A government official helps a female prisoner escape with the hopes of infiltrating her rebel group but ends up falling in love.
A gay couple slowly break up during a spur of the moment trip to Iguazu Falls.
There's this really big lizard ...
A working class family scams their way into the lives of a wealthy couple.
A business executive is ruined when blackmailers kidnap his chaffeur's son by mistake.
A samurai asks to commit suicide in the courtyard of a local lord, who suspects his motives.
Asian American Literature: THERE'S THIS BOYFRIEND. HE'S WHITE. WE CALL IT WHITE BOYFRIEND
AltAzn @Alt_Azn: "Asian-American media is so cringe because it's dominated by women. They write the same shit over and over and over again "I grew up around white people and was insecure"
"I dated a white boy""
Meme - Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminlee: "I already said this 2 days ago But are Asian diaspora women capable of doing literally anything online besides whining about their white boyfriends and their Asian food sob stories"
I,Hypocrite @lporiginalg: "Asians wanna be oppressed so bad."
"Angela's Substack. The self-betrayal of dating a white person as a racialized person. ANGELA HAN"
The Bathtub Fallacy and Risks of Terrorism - "Bloomberg economics commentator Justin Fox is tired of being told that his chances of getting killed in a terrorist attack are (much) lower than his chances of slipping, falling, and dying in a bathtub. Implication being—suck it up, people, and quit being such irrational babies when it comes to assessing risks from terrorism. Having also grown weary of hearing some version of this following terrorist attacks or government security responses, I was interested to find out why Fox (who's a very smart guy) thinks such comparisons should be reckoned a bad form of argument. Why does he think comparing fatal bathtub accidents and fatal terrorist incidents is fundamentally inapt, to the point of calling it "The Bathtub Fallacy"? (For those who don't know his work, Justin Fox is a sophisticated business and financial journalist with a keen understanding of the literatures of statistics and risk assessment, and he's also the author of the outstanding revisionist history of the “efficient market hypothesis," The Myth of the Rational Market, 2009.) What's “The Bathtub Fallacy,” according to Fox? Following a terrorist incident or government counter-measure, he says (quoting a recent Financial Times (paywalled) column by its principal political columnist, Janan Ganesh), statistics are “dug out to show that fewer Westerners perish in terror attacks than in everyday mishaps. Slipping in the bath is a tragicomic favourite. We chuckle, share the data and wait for voters and politicians to see sense.”"
We're told that in the US you're more likely to die in a bathtub than from terrorism, so if you're worried about terrorism, you're racist. Yet, you're more likely to be killed by a cow in the US than from a school shooting, and left wingers constantly obsess over school shootings
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan on X - "On the anniversary of the Westminster attack, we remember Leslie Rhodes, Andreea Cristea, Aysha Frade, Kurt Cochran, and PC Keith Palmer. My thoughts are with their loved ones. It was an attack on our city, but it could never break the values we hold dear."
Ike Ijeh on X - "Sadiq Khan is more than happy to refer to Islam incessantly when it comes to Ramadan lights, Donald Trump or Trafalgar Square iftars. But he is strangely reticent about referring to the role it played in the tragic deaths below. I guess deception is our strength too."
Jeff Fynn-Paul on X - "A colleague argued in a paper that "medieval Europeans were racist." I replied that medieval Muslims were as well, and cited several sources. They said "that is whataboutism... we're not talking about Islam, we're talking about Europe." But the whole point presumably, of saying medieval Europeans were racist, was to point out that medieval Europeans were unusually bad. If everyone was equally racist, then what is the point of singling out Europeans? Why not argue that indeed, racism was prevalent across many cultures in the middle ages? The "whataboutism" counter is therefore a fallacy. If someone is arguing that one group was exceptionally bad, then by pointing out that every other group was equally bad, and therefore that the first group was not exceptionally bad, then you have defeated the original argument. "Whataboutism" is simple deflection, against an argument which does in fact render your original argument meaningless. Now, if someone had been arguing that medieval Europeans were better than everyone else, then, the revelation that Europeans were racist would be a salient point, and the "whataboutist" argument would hold water if someone tried to point out Islamic racism as a counter-argument. But 9 times out of 10, the original argument made by Western scholars is based on the idea that Europeans were in fact worse than other groups. Sorry, dear colleagues, but maybe we should reinstate basic logical training in high school and college..."
If "whataboutism" were so bad, why does common law, philosophy and one of Jesus' most popular sayings revolve around it?
AF Post on X - "Screenshots from the Manhattan Institute's college rankings show the rankings giving greater weight to Jewish safety than to curricular rigor, with curricular weight accounting for 2% of a certain school's rating and Jewish campus climate accounting for 5%. A school loses points for even having an "anti-Zionist" organization. Follow: @AFpost"wa
bumbadum on X - "When I was an irresponsible freshman in college I had this western civ exam that I didn't study for. So two hours before the exam I find an empty study hall room just down the hall and decide to do some last minute cramming in hopes to not fail. After being there for about 45 minutes or so, some frizzy afro haired black chick walks in and looks at me confused. I casually wave at her and get back to my cramming about Tacitus' Histories or something. She then clears her throat, I look at her and she says "you're not supposed to be in this room." Confused I ask "Oh is this a class room, I thought this was a study room." She then crosses her arm, visibly upset and says "no this is a cultural space YOU aren't supposed to be in here. Didn't you READ the sign." I said no, because this room had been a study hall since I started school that year. She then, in a very black bitchy attitude, explains that these rooms were deliberately selected to be "safe spaces" for "people of culture" and that I needed to leave or she was going to get a professor. So I left and went to the empty study hall on the other side of the hallway. It turns out like a week prior or something my university implemented a new program called "cultural spaces" where certain study halls would only be for non-white students. According to Manhattan's grading, this behavior would have no effect on a school's score, but if some jew had something mean said to them then that would. What a joke."
Father Christmas is ‘too white’ - "Father Christmas is too white and should stop putting children on the naughty list, a museum has said. Brighton and Hove Museums claimed Santa Claus needed to be decolonised in the name of diversity, in a blog on its website. The blog also said that Santa should work alongside elves in the name of equality and a “Mother Christmas” would help tackle the patriarchy. The museum post said the concept of Father Christmas and his naughty and nice list was a “Western binary” that teaches children that the “coloniser has the power to judge all people”... “But who decided Santa should be the judge of children’s behaviour in every community? How can he assess, for example, Indigenous children practising their own cultural traditions? “Told like this, the story presents Santa as the ultimate authority of all societies. This asks us to accept colonial assumptions of cultural superiority.” The museum post also urged parents to “challenge the colonial gaze” by stopping Father Christmas “rewarding children based on a Western binary of ‘naughty/nice’”. “Focus on bringing joy to kids of all backgrounds rather than judging them,” it said. The museum urged parents to recast Father Christmas as a “more diverse character who celebrates cultural exchange”... “Include people from around the world in Santa’s workshop. This acknowledges global input. Put Santa to work in the factory alongside the elves. This shows him and the elves as equal.” Alternatively, Father Christmas could become “Mother Christmas”. “An inclusive adaptation could include many Santas from different regions,” the document said. “Include some Mother Christmases. Patriarchy and colonialism went hand in hand. Show the next generation that men don’t have to be in charge.” It concluded: “The goal is moving away from a colonial narrative of dominance. Instead, tell a story that emphasises cultural diversity, exchange and respect.”... Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, director of Don’t Divide Us, said: “The idea that Santa Claus needs to be decolonised is laughable. It also shows that there are no limits to what [lengths] ideologues in cultural institutions ... will go to in seeking to rupture our sense of belonging to a common past and culture. “This playing at faux radical, anti-West politics by museums is boring, tedious and intellectually vacuous. This isn’t culture, it’s playpen politics which should not be getting public funding or official endorsement from witless museums. The museum could get Grinch of the Year award, though.”"
More proof that the War on Christmas is a myth
National Trust boss: Ethnic minorities don’t know what to wear in countryside - "Non-white people do not feel welcome in the countryside because they do not know what to wear, the head of the National Trust has claimed. Hilary McGrady said it was the heritage and conservation charity’s job to stop ethnic minorities feeling the outdoors was “not a place for them”. The trust’s director-general said research found minorities did not feel welcome and that the organisation had a duty to respond because it was “here for everyone”... In 2024, the charity Wildlife and Countryside Link claimed the countryside was a “racist colonial” white space “governed by white British cultural values”... The previous year, academics specialising in British colonialism and hate studies were commissioned to record the “lived realities” of ethnic minorities living, working, or hiking in the country to gather evidence of “rural racism”."
Ridvan Aydemir | Apostate Prophet on X - "Until a few weeks ago, I had no idea who Carrie Prejean was. Most people didn't. Most people still don't. I read about her history. Oh boy.
1. She participated in Miss USA 2009 where she said she believes marriage is between a man and a woman for which she faced backlash. So far so good. Respect.
2. Semi-Nude photos of her emerged. She took them willingly and posed for them. She then claimed the photos were taken accidentally.
3. Multiple NUDE PHOTOSHOOTS emerged where she clearly posed topless for different people and sources. She maintained that these were unintended. Yeah, right. (Don't look it up.) The nude photos broke her contract with Miss USA which is why she was falsely claiming that they were unintended.
4. She then tried to sue Miss USA, accusing them of breaching her privacy and not respecting her "values" along with libel and slander. Miss USA countersued to get back loans she took for breast implants and other things. During the trial a SEX TAPE she recorded at the age of 17 emerged, which resulted in her dropping of the lawsuit. The hypocrisy...
5. For her repeated lies and breaches, she was fired from Miss USA. She blamed it on her "values" and "religious discrimination." Donald Trump initially defended her but then agreed to firing her.
6. She went on Larry King Live. Larry King rightly asked her why she settled her lawsuit with Miss USA if she is on the right side of things. She walked off stage.
7. In the COVID era, she became politically active and supported Trump. Last year, she became a Catholic (supposedly).
8. Trump gave her a new chance and appointed her to the Religious Liberty Commission together with other Catholics. What he didn't know was that she was getting close with anti-semitic people and organizations, which clearly goes against the foundations of the Religious Liberty Commission. She defended and made anti-Jewish remarks. After backlash, she said she was being persecuted for her Catholic faith. There are multiple Catholics on the Religious Liberty Commission...
9. She wore a Palestine flag and met with the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD-LINKED CAIR which openly supported her. She thanked them. CAIR is an advocate for Islamists and has a long history of Muslim Brotherhood ideas and ties.
10. After her repeated fake victim-playing and antisemitism, masked as Anti-Zionism, she was removed from the Commission. She then blamed it on religious persecution due to her "Catholic faith." (while multiple Catholics are still on the Commission) and started attackiny Donald Trump, the very same man who gave her a second chance.
Carrie Prejean is a cancer who always has the same pattern. Do outrageous and messed up things, lie about them, then blame everyone else and play the victim, and burn bridges."
Thomas Massie on X - "Religious Liberty Commission member @CarriePrejean1 was reportedly removed for making statements that mirror remarks from the Pope. Removing members for religious viewpoints undermines the very purpose of the Commission. I’m asking two Congressional committees to review."
Dana Loesch on X - "I'm surprised at you on this. She was reciting texts sent to her by her Islamist hosts, who attended the commission event with her. She hijacked a discussion on American Christians and made it about herself and Israel. None of the other Catholics present on the commission behaved in such an embarrassing, unprofessional manner, which is why they're still on the panel, which proves this has nothing to do with Catholicism and everything to do with a habitual drama queen seeking attention. There is no debate."
Of course I saw left wingers spin it as censorship of a Trump critic
Nathan Cofnas on X - "Pierre Thiriar—a Justice on the Court of Appeal in Antwerp—wants me in handcuffs "When he states that genetic variants influencing intelligence may be unevenly distributed across populations and that this can explain differences in cognitive performance, this constitutes not merely a neutral hypothesis, but the empirical basis for a hierarchical view of human nature....the boundaries of Article 21 have been manifestly crossed." "Belgian case law has made it clear that packaging a discourse as 'scientific', 'philosophical', or 'critical' does not prevent it from being punishable when it objectively incites discrimination or propagates ideas of racial superiority.""
Dries Van Langenhove on X - "Sadly, this conclusion is correct. Nathan Cofnas could easily be sent to jail in Belgium, as I was for statements that are far less easy to place under our dystopian ‘anti-racism laws’ than his. A month from now I must once again face criminal court and potential prison because I said, during a lecture at university, that parents will choose schools that are Whiter because these, on average, have better schooling quality. This is simply fact, but facts are illegal in Belgium if they go against the equality dogmas."
Trust the Science! Trust the Experts!
Why Belgium is sending in the army to defend its streets - "Soldiers have been deployed to bolster security around Jewish sites and neighborhoods in Brussels and Antwerp, following a spate of clumsy but troubling attacks across Belgium and the Netherlands. Synagogues have been targeted with arson and a Jewish school struck by an explosion... After deploying the army, Theo Francken, Belgium’s effective and plain-talking defense minister, declared Antwerp ‘a little safer again and the Jewish community too’. One suspects the reassurance is aimed as much at a jittery public as the Jewish community itself. While the attacks were amateurish – the work, it seems, of poorly organized youths rather than seasoned extremists – they have taken place in a country already uneasy about its security. Dutch police, meanwhile, have arrested a handful of teenage suspects (some with Dutch-Caribbean backgrounds, according to the Dutch daily, De Telegraaf) in connection with the arson attack in Rotterdam. The same shady group that claimed responsibility for an arson attack on London ambulances owned by a Jewish charity, Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia (HAYI), also said it was responsible for the attacks across the Low Countries. Experts do not know who is actually behind the incidents. Organized crime groups in the Netherlands frequently hire youths with migrant backgrounds to carry out jobs. HAYI’s statements reportedly contain errors in Arabic, suggesting they have been written by a non-native speaker – or at least someone lacking sophistication. That is not much comfort though to Jews in the region. There is another factor at play here in Belgium. It has justified deploying its military after the most recent attacks, but the return of soldiers to the streets has been months in the making. It was a move that had been delayed by protracted political wrangling over legal frameworks and rules of engagement... Belgium’s cities, and Brussels in particular, have in recent years acquired a reputation for lawlessness. Drug-related violence has crept into public view; firearms no longer remain in the underworld’s shadows. The police, by most accounts, are overstretched – one could even argue outgunned. And so the military is stepping into the breach. They are cheaper, readily available, better armed, well trained and, to many, reassuringly visible. There is a precedent here. After the Paris attacks in 2015, Belgium’s streets quickly filled with paratroopers in balaclavas. The deployment lasted until 2021 and had one excellent side effect: it reduced crime. Going back further still, the same happened in the 1980s, when troops were deployed after the elusive Brabant Killers terrorized the Greater Brussels area, resulting in 28 fatalities. However, the policy is not without its critics. Military unions dislike the lack of clear legal protections for their members, and have warned that soldiers risk being used as a cut-price police. The so-called “rules of engagement” remain, by all accounts, a work in progress. Talk of giving the military expanded powers, from identity checks to arrests, has alarmed civil libertarians and legal experts. The soldiers deployed in the past did not have a clear mandate. They were trained for war, not for the delicate ambiguities of civilian policing on a busy city street. To blur that line is to invite confusion at best. As one union representative observed, a misstep just beyond the letter of an order could leave an individual soldier personally exposed to legal risk – a heavy burden for a domestic deployment. Yet the federal government appears willing to take that risk, with security in Brussels spiraling out of control and the capital itself struggling with a near-constant political crisis. Deploying troops to back up local police may give Belgium’s federal government some leverage in improving the situation, especially given Brussels’s standing in the European Union. And so Belgium finds itself, once again, in a familiar place: a state seeking to project strength while at the same time quietly acknowledging its own limitations when it comes to policing its own neighborhood."
No wonder it's illegal to talk about the science on racial differences in Belgium
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "The transformation of liberals into "progressives" since 2013 has seriously been the worst thing to happen to American culture in my lifetime. Just absolutely gutted so much of what was good about this country. End of a golden age."
England ditch ‘woke’ St George’s Cross design on new World Cup shirt - "England have ditched the multicoloured St George’s Cross on their new jersey for the World Cup."
