Links - 24th April 2026 (3 - Indigenous People)

Unfortunately, I lost my draft links due to a copy/paste error and didn't manage to recover all of them. This is what I found in my Raindrop but inevitably some stuff that didn't go through there (or which did not have the "Indigenous" keyword) is missed. Big Tech censorship is all lost.

Meme - "IN MOST INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES, GENDER ROLES WERE A FOUNDATIONAL PART OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY. These societies were also hierarchical, authoritarian and often patriarchal in authority. PLEASE STOP ROMANTICIZING ANCIENT CULTURES THROUGH A MODERN WESTERN UTOPIAN LENS"

Meme - "Them: "I am a Native American I DEMAND decolonisation! Americans are living on STOLEN LAND!!" Their location: Bangladesh Their account: now deleted"
"Native American Soul @native_ame_soul. Account based in Bangladesh"

John Carter on X - ">Maori show up in New Zealand in 14th century
"We are the indigenous people, this country does not belong to anyone else, whites go home."
>English have been in England since the 5th century
"England belongs to everyone!""

Mark Hemingway on X - [On  Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee] "Reading Empire of the Summer Moon really drove this home -- the Comanche started out in Canada, and ended up controlling much of the plains and Texas through total conquest. And they do "land acknowledgments" to the Comanche at SXSW!"

Democrats on X - "On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor our country's first people and celebrate their culture, traditions, and contributions. We remain committed to honoring Tribal sovereignty and working in true partnership to strengthen Native communities every day."
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "You really have to pause to reflect on how utterly insane this is. American leftists fundamentally wish that Europeans had never settled in the Americas. Meaning that at a core level they wish the United States never existed. American leftists wish they had never been born."

Governor Tim Walz on X - "Today is Indigenous Peoples Day – a time to honor the 11 sovereign Tribal Nations and robust urban Native communities that continue to enrich our state’s cultural landscape, economy, and heritage.   It was a beautiful morning to celebrate on the shore of Bde Maka Ska."
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "I’m actually extremely happy that JD Vance is VP over Tim Walz because at least JD is happy that the United States actually exists. Walz feels guilt and shame for the fact that Europeans moved to the Americas and built new countries"

Meme - Vintage Maps @vintagemapstore: "Map of the World's Indigenous Peoples. Designed by Bhabna Banerjee and published by Visual Capitalist, based on data from the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) and World Bank (2010- 2022)."
Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630: "What does this even mean? Why aren't Bantu "indigenous" to Africa, or red-headed post-Yamnaya Celts "indigenous" to Europe?   What could they possibly be talking about?"
Adam Menszer @adam_menszer: "Also, the Norse arrived in Greenland before the Inuit."
Dan The Man 🦄💹🧲🍌🐱 on X - "Indigenous just means non European"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "Well...no. Blacks, at least the kind with steel and horses, aren't indigenous to Africa either. It seems to mean "never won a war.""
Mike Lemmer on X - "The ones who lost, apparently. Technically, seems like part of the criteria is self-identification and "distinctly different from everyone else", hence why the Han Chinese aren't identified as indigenous despite having a history in China stretching back before writing."

James O'Keefe on X - "$100 Billion Federal Contracting Scam Exposed: 8(a) Firm Admits to Violating Federal Law, Using Minority-Owned Status as a Front to Obtain $100M+ No-Bid Government Contracts While Outsourcing 80% of the Work. ATI Government Solutions Contract Manager, Melayne Cromwell Admits to Exploiting 8(a) SBA Program Through Pass-Through Scheme & Breaking Federal Law.  “I tell you pass throughs are a great thing!” “We only do 20%… The rest goes to subs..." “And remember, there's no competition…”"
Matt Swaim on X - "1. White guys start small tech company,
2. White guys sell 51% of that company to a Native American tribe.
3. Company awarded a no-bid government contract because of their Native American ownership.
4. White guys take a cut. Tribe takes a cut. The remainder of the money is used to subcontract a different—likely not underprivileged—company to do most of the actual work.
5. When the original company reaches funds limit, white guys create new company to sell 51% of the ownership.
Taxpayers paid white guys and a tribe money for very little work. Subcontractor cost was the real cost of the work. Multiply over and over and over."

Native American on X - "YOU'RE ON LOOTED LAND"
Robby Starbuck on X - "Actually more than half the country is made up of legal purchases of land and the rest was conquered, which by the way, is the same way many Native tribes won their land before losing it."

Meme - the Rich: @Duderichy: "remember kids the And to last person to steal something is the rightful owner"
Jordan @JordanTrails: "The Potawatomi took it from the Wagasooki who took it from the Tramikae who took it from the Skopifooga who took it from the Callugpoy who took it from the Jiti-duchawu who took it from the Regathidebo who took it from the Budjekkaq"
Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune: "Chicagoans and Northwest Indiana residents should know they are living on land that once belonged to Potawatomi Indians."

Adam Johnston on X - "Less than 3 minutes into the Ken Burns documentary on the American Revolution, and we get: 1. White people are bad. 2. Native Americans had a centuries-old democracy before British colonists arrived. 3. Benjamin Franklin copied the Native American blueprint."
Julia Claire @ohJuliatweets - "The League of the Iroquois being a framework for the Constitution is pretty basic middle/high school history textbook stuff my guy sorry you didn't pay attention!"
PolitiFact | Viral meme says Constitution 'owes its notion of democracy to the Iroquois' - "The Facebook meme said "the U.S. Constitution owes its notion of democracy to the Iroquois Tribes."  There’s a grain of truth here: The Iroquois system of government was known to 18th century leaders in the colonies and the new republic, and it shared some similarities with post-revolutionary attempts at governance.  However, the meme overstates the consensus among historians. Major elements of the Iroquois system are altogether absent in the U.S. government, including hereditary, clan-based governance, and the meme focuses on Iroquois influences to the exclusion of European precedents that are at least as important, and likely more so.  On balance, we rate the claim Mostly False."
wanye on X - "These guys really need to decide whether the founding fathers were irredeemable racists or woke Native American enthusiasts"

Bugman Hegel on X - "By the way, this dance bears virtually no resemblance to historical native dances and is basically just hip hop and other modern dance styles with feathers. A lot of the resurgence of “traditional” cultural practices and movements of minority groups originate from the 60s and they were recapitulated for political motivations and emotional blackmail.  The 1960s ushered in a “retvrn” movement for non-whites that served as the vehicle for white demoralization. It served as the leverage needed to frame “white culture” as containing within it the antithesis of authenticity and character and as only possessing the essence of violence and oppression: “hey look at all of these beautiful cultures with all this vibrancy that you and your oppressive Christian ilk lack.”  Predictably, the “retvrn” movements only ever revive the endearing happy feather dances and never make mention of the scalping, perpetual tribal conflict, rapes, murders, human sacrifices, and when they are brought up, they coyly and falsely try to claim that before the white man came and taught the non-whites violence and evil, humanity was basically in an Edenic like state, and any claim to the contrary of “natives lived in peace like harmony,” is framed as post hoc narrativization by the white colonizers which must be “reexamined” and “critiqued from new perspectives and other ways of knowing.”  It’s all just one big, fat, f*cking grift."

Skeptic Research Center Team on X - "Happy Thanksgiving! We all have an incredible amount to be thankful for.  One of the things we're thankful for is the capacity of human beings to think critically and discard false beliefs in favor of accurate ones.  So, in that spirit...  Nearly 80% of Black Americans and around 2/3s of Hispanic Americans incorrectly believe that "Prior to the arrival of the European Settlers, Native American/Indigenous tribes lived in peace and harmony."    Nearly 1 in 3 Americans identifying as "very liberal," along with around 1 in 3 GenZ and Millennial Americans,  incorrectly believe that "People around the world would be living in peace and harmony if it weren't for European colonization."   (See charts below)  In reality, Europeans didn't destroy the world and we all live today in the most peaceful and abundant era of our species' history!"
The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim on X - "You know where Chesapeake Bay got its name? From the Chesapeake Indians. No European ever met one because the Powhatans exterminated them b4 the Europeans arrived."

Court rules University of Washington violated professor’s First Amendment rights - "The University of Washington violated the First Amendment rights of a professor who mocked land acknowledgments in a course syllabus, a federal court has ruled.  On Dec. 19, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in a 2-1 decision that the university’s retaliation against Stuart Reges — which included an investigation and the creation of a rival course — violated his First Amendment right to free speech.  In 2022, Reges included a satirical “land acknowledgment” in a course syllabus: “I acknowledge that by the labor theory of property the Coast Salish people can claim historical ownership of almost none of the land currently occupied by the University of Washington.”

Indigenous heritage claims backlog grows despite $18m funding - "Forty-six applications under three key sections of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act filed prior to 2025 have yet to be settled, according to records obtained by this masthead using freedom of information laws. Eight were first lodged with the Environment Department before 2020.  Adding in applications made last year, unresolved matters under these sections stood at 63 on December 31, even though the 2024 federal budget gave $18 million “to reduce the backlog”.  New applications in 2025 included objections to the Brisbane Olympic stadium and two raising the “threat of drilling exploration” at a remote South Australian tenement once owned by billionaire Clive Palmer... Regis Resources is currently challenging a 2024 decision by then minister Tanya Plibersek to accept evidence of a Blue Banded Bee Dreaming story, which halted the company’s already-approved NSW gold mine project.  The Albanese government spokeswoman said it was important to protect culturally significant sites... a total of 17 heritage protection applications had been resolved across the four sections. But there had been 35 new applications, thereby confirming the backlog had increased.  The Opposition’s environment spokeswoman Angie Bell said the heritage protection law was “outdated” and “failing both Indigenous communities and the national interest.”  Ms Bell said the “government’s failure to deliver these reforms leaves Australia with a messy, unclear and adversarial system riddled with backlogs and failures.”"

Thread by @k_mahlburg on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Tony Armstrong told ABC viewers the First Fleet committed genocide by intentionally introducing smallpox to Aboriginal people.  The foremost historian on the subject disagrees. So does the virus itself.  A thread on what happens when ideology replaces evidence 🧵
Armstrong's case rests on one primary source: Captain Watkin Tench, 1791.  Tench didn't accuse the British of intentional introduction. He listed it as a speculative origin — then called the idea "unworthy of consideration."  That's the foundation of the ABC's genocide claim. The science alone dismantles it.  Smallpox cannot survive three weeks at 35°C and 65% humidity.  The First Fleet took eight months to reach Sydney Cove.  Summer temperatures before the 1789 outbreak regularly exceeded 40°C.  The virus would have been dead long before landfall. Not one member of the First Fleet developed smallpox during the voyage or after arrival.  Smallpox leaves permanent facial scarring. It's one of the most visually documented diseases in history.  If it was on the fleet, someone would have shown it. Then there's Tasmania.  If biological warfare was British policy, Tasmania — the site of the most violent colonial conflict — should have seen it deployed.  It didn't. Early Tasmanian settlers had zero smallpox cases.  Armstrong's theory has no answer for this. Judy Campbell wrote the definitive history on this topic: Invisible Invaders (1998).  Her conclusion: "In the absence of any reliable evidence that smallpox was introduced into the Aboriginal population by the British in 1789... other sources must be explored." Those other sources point to Indonesian fishermen.  Around 2,000 Macassan sailors traded with Aboriginal communities in the north every year.  They had sustained, documented contact with Aboriginal communities across the coastline. The timeline fits.  Skilled Indonesian navigators could reach northern Australia from South Sulawesi in 10–15 days — within smallpox's incubation period.  The First Fleet took eight months to cover the same distance.  The virus cannot survive eight months. This actually happened.  Smallpox did reach Aboriginal communities through Indonesian contact — in 1830 and again in 1860.  Campbell documented both outbreaks. The transmission route from the north was established and repeatable.  The 1789 outbreak followed the same pattern. An Aboriginal man named Jack Davis from Port Essington recorded in 1870 that his people called smallpox "Meeha-meeha" — and that the disease had been on the Cobourg Peninsula "a long time ago."  That's the northern coastline. Closest to Indonesia. Furthest from Sydney Cove. British doctors treated Aboriginal smallpox patients after the 1789 outbreak.  If the goal was extermination, this requires explanation.  Stuart Macintyre and Manning Clark — two of Australia's most eminent historians — both reject the intentional introduction thesis. Armstrong's final claim: Australians won't confront their colonial history.  Colonisation is in the national curriculum. The ABC covers it extensively. Tens of thousands march on Australia Day every year.  The silence Armstrong describes does not exist. What does exist is a public broadcaster presenting contested ideological claims as settled historical fact — without engaging the most authoritative scholarship on the subject.  That's a different problem. And it deserves a direct answer. The problem isn't how much we talk about colonial history.  It's how rarely rigorous historical evidence is used by the people loudest in that conversation.  Read Luke Powell's excellent coverage of this topic here:"

RAW EGG NATIONALIST on X - "I think we all need to think a little bit harder about what’s going on here and what function these atrocity narratives, tied to the founding of European nations in the New World and Australasia, actually serve.  These alternative narratives—the 1619 Project in America, the residential schools hoax in Canada, the First Fleet and smallpox in Australia—all serve one purpose: to undermine the established positive narrative of the foundation of these nations. Simply put, they were illegitimate from the beginning and therefore they deserve to be overthrown.   These narratives all establish the case for “reparations” and radical redistribution of land from the descendants of European settlers to so-called “indigenous” peoples and even people who came after the foundation of these nations, so long as they are not white.  The truth of these narratives doesn’t matter, only that they gratify the seething resentment of non-whites and the guilty consciences of whites fed a steady diet of self-hatred propaganda for the better part of a century."

White Papers Policy Institute on X - "Native Americans are some of the most enthusiastic for reducing legal immigration. A majority also view diversity as a threat to the United States. They were also the only group besides White Americans to vote for Trump in 2024. 68% cast their ballot for him."

Syracuse lacrosse pulls ‘Burn the Boats’ shirts after complaint term ‘glorifies Indigenous genocide’ - "Syracuse University men’s lacrosse team will stop wearing shirts before games with the phrase “burn the boats” on them after the term was accused of glorifying “Indigenous genocide.”  The tradition was only a few months old, implemented by defensive coordinator John Odierna, who sought to inspire the athletes to push as hard as they could through games as part of the team’s national title aspirations, Syracuse.com reported.  “The origins of ‘Burn the Boats’ trace far back to the 1500s and Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés, who famously ordered his men to burn their boats as a sign of no retreat in battle,” the outlet reported.  The term is also the title of the 2023 book “Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential,” focused on how to eliminate any thoughts of retreat as a successful life strategy."

Colin Wright on X - "🚨NEW: A recent Nature profile highlighted a scholar who made a literal river the first author of her academic papers.  The profile, titled “Why I made a river my co-author,” explains that Anne Poelina gives first authorship to “a source with deep knowledge about water — the river itself.” Nature actually treats this as a serious challenge to “Western and colonial views of what knowledge is and who holds it.”  It gets...more insane. The river now has an ORCID (a unique researcher ID used to track an academic’s work), so its papers and citations can be catalogued like a normal human scholar.  One example (among many) is a paper in PLOS Water.   In the paper's author note, we are told the “Martuwarra, RiverOfLife” is “a living Ancestor Being,” that this is a “multi-species approach,” and that the river was made the first author because “without Country, without the River… there would not be a paper.”  The abstract tells readers that the paper is “led by the sacred ancestral River, Martuwarra, who is given agency as a published author,” and then the human authors explain their authority is gained through “lived experience,” kinship, friendship, and a “deep and enduring relationship.”  The paper concludes by rejecting “colonial approaches” to science, makes appeals to “Mother Earth,” and a calls for an ethic of “care, love, and peace” guided by Indigenous wisdom and planetary citizenship.  Our science journals have become laughingstocks."

Bonchie on X - "As the first humans to ever step foot there, Americans are indigenous to the Moon. It would be a violation of our human rights for any other country to colonize it by going there and violating our sovereign right to the land."

Francynancy on X - "South Australia was the highest no vote of any Australian state in the indigenous voice referendum. 64.17% said No to the voice to parliament yet the Malinouskas government went ahead regardless. Now calls are growing to repeal the SA Voice after two delegates were elected with just 15 votes and six female delegates were elected without needing any votes to satisfy gender requirements."

Will Australia ever effectively "Close the Gap" for Indigenous Australians? : r/australian - " Not until Aboriginal culture changes.  That's the big elephant in the room that won't be discussed. The problem isn't money, it's trying to make a thousand year old, very different, very problematic culture fit into a modern western society neatly. It never will until it changes...  The ancient hunter gatherer culture is just fundamentally incompatible with modern culture and morals.  For example, look up humbugging, attitudes to women, children, group conformity, kinship duties, work ethic, private property, sorry business, lateral violence, anti-accumulation, demand sharing"
"It's funny because this is all the stuff the Close the Gap Initiative talks about yet it all seems to get ignored.  You also left out one of the big ones "Pay back": they never let go of a grudge. I.e. guy breaks into a house and dies fighting the owner, the relatives come in to burn the house down and kill the occupants. Doesn't matter who was in the right. Only that there is revenge."

Graham Platner for Senate on X - "The first bill I intend to introduce as Senator: true sovereignty for the Wabanaki tribes, whose rights have been trampled on for far too long, and the extension of federal beneficial laws."
𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 on X - "The United States negotiated with the Wabanaki tribes to settle their land claims. It was fair, even-handed, even generous. Among other benefits, we gave them over $300 million in today's money. And ever since, the tribes have been trying to renege on their end of the deal."

Pope Leo Double Standards / Apologising for Being White

"When MUSLIMS Destroy EUROPE *sleeping Pope*
When MUSLIMS Slaughter CHRISTIANS in AFRICA *sleeping Pope*
When MUSLIMS Burn CHURCHES Worldwide *sleeping Pope*
When AMERICA Bomb MUSLIM Countries *upset, hectoring Pope waving finger"

Daniel Concannon @TooWhiteToTweet: ""No one ever asked you to apologize for being White." No, it was just an entire anti-White industrial complex telling us our very existence is unacceptable."
"No, It's Not OK to Be White Fazer Domino
Why 'It's OK To Be White' Is Racist Newsbroke
No, It's Actually Not Okay to Be White and Here Are 3 Reasons Why Laura M. Quainoo
No, It's Not OK Why It's Not Okay to Be White Kevin Luo
Actually, It's Not "OK to be White" Tim Wise
The trouble with saying 'it's okay to be white' THE CONVERSATION"

Links - 24th April 2026 (2 - #MeToo)

Meme - Coddled affluent professional @feelsdesperate: "We find out the Second Gentleman knocked up the nanny and slapped around a girlfriend and they’re still trotting him out for interviews.  I’m enjoying the Post-MeToo Era."
Tim Miller @Timodc: "Talked to @SecondGentleman  about how @VP  has encouraged him to lead in the fight against the crisis of anti-semitism and how seriously they would take it in the White House."

🇺🇸Travis🇺🇸 on X - "I never knew just how much Justin Bieber went through in Hollywood. I hope he exposes them all, especially Diddy and his friend."
No one cares about men

I’m not surprised people are suing a dating app company – our addiction to swiping makes us miserable - "a lawsuit was brought by six people in the US against Match Group, the company behind dating apps such as Tinder, Hinge and Match. The suit blames dating apps for game-like tactics that, they say, contribute to addictive behaviour, making miserable swiping addicts of us all. Match Group denies this, calling the claims “ridiculous”. But anyone who, like me, has spent years on and off the apps knows that there are clear parallels between love algorithms and online gaming – only with dating apps, we are the commodities. Addiction may have been baked into these apps from creation. Tinder’s co-founder confessed to being inspired by psychology experiments on pigeons. Experts have highlighted how the gamification of dating apps releases neurochemicals such as dopamine and serotonin, which are responsible for boosting your mood, into the brain. It’s unsurprising, then, that dating apps can feel so addictive. As the lawsuit claims, we’re being programmed to constantly seek a dopamine hit from each swipe in what it calls a “pay-to-play” loop. That’s probably why the “most compatible” feature on Hinge always brings up someone you likely couldn’t see yourself with in a million years, and why when it’s time to delete the apps, you’re offered alternatives such as “freeze your account” or “reset”. Dating apps are profit-driven, not powered by love, community or kindness. Yet even though most of us know the pitfalls we still choose to participate, even at the cost of our mental health. Dating app addiction has wreaked havoc on my life, and on those of my friends in their late 20s and early 30s. Apps, in my view, are responsible for entrenching a very particular physical “type” I look for when I am dating, which I think is dangerous and reductive. They have also cost me time and money. In my mid-20s, when outsourcing love to the algorithm still felt thrilling and not at all nausea-inducing, I would pay for premium features on Hinge (“more likes”) or Tinder (“rewind” swipes), only for my investment to come to nothing (selling premium subscriptions is the cornerstone of most apps’ business models). Last year, I became concerned when one 30-year-old female friend bounced between a series of failed casual relationships on Hinge, but refused to stop using it. “Am I addicted? Yes,” she says bluntly when I ask her about her usage. “Has my mental health been affected by them? Yes. I plummeted into the depths of depression last year. I felt as if men were seeing me solely as a commodity.”... The very notion of romantic love (and gender roles) has undergone a radical transformation since my parent’s generation. Women have enjoyed a sexual revolution and there has been a total rethinking of the economic rationale behind partnership, but also, I would argue, a breakdown in basic respect and communication – thanks in part to dating app culture. Nobody knows what they want, how long they want it for, or how to ask for it. Having a digital smörgåsbord of global partners at our fingertips convinces us there’s always a better option if we just keep on looking."
When you frame picking up women offline as sexual harassment, this is what happens

Hollywood Forced Ewan McGregor to Have an 'Intimacy Coach' on Set While He Filmed a Sex Scene. With his Smokeshow Wife.

Coddled affluent professional on X - "The same sort of libs who want to outlaw dating in the workplace assure me it’s normal to knock up the babysitter. Also, when dad knocks up the babysitter it may be an opportunity for everyone in the family to undergo therapeutic personal growth."

Meme - 2 women: "How is it we are in a stadium full of men and still not one man came up to hit on us or even talked to us"

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art explains why it refuses to take down "Thérèse Dreaming" by Balthus - "American art lovers have their knickers in a twist with one painting hanging at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Thérèse Dreaming by the Polish-French painter Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola) depicts 11-year-old Thérèse Blanchard sitting carelessly, lost in deep thought. The oil painting has been exhibited in various museums around the world—from London to Tokyo—without causing a big stir. It was donated to the Met in 1998 and now hangs in its modern and contemporary art gallery.  At a time when the US is besieged by an almost daily update of famous sexual aggressors and the people behind the #MeToo movement were named TIME Person of the Year, Balthus’s painting stirred one outraged viewer to petition the country’s largest public art institution to remove the painting. “I was shocked to see a painting that depicts a young girl in a sexually suggestive pose,” wrote Mia Merrill in her online petition. “It is disturbing that the Met would proudly display such an image…The Met is, perhaps unintentionally, supporting voyeurism and the objectification of children. Merrill, who heads the HR department at a finance start-up, suggested that Thérèse Dreaming be replaced by a work created by a female artists in the same genre. She later published an update saying that she would settle for an explicit warning written on the wall text... Weine’s statement is a timely reminder of the museum’s purpose in daily life. There’s something that’s gone awry with how many Americans “consume” museums. With more institutions catering to the multi-tasking, social media-savvy generation, going to a museum today has become a drive-by excursion. How often do we catch ourselves spending more time with the wall text than actually looking at the art? It’s heartening that Merrill was so bothered by Balthus’s painting to take action against it. Presenting difficult and provocative ideas is part of a museum’s purpose.  In some eyes, Balthus’s canvas is simply a picture of freedom, of that precious age before crippling self-consciousness takes hold of a young woman. “She is at home in her youth. She has the countenance of someone who knows other things are coming, eventually,” Jen George writes in the Paris Review last year. “When asked about the provocative poses of preadolescent girls in his work, Balthus said, “It is how they (young girls) sit.” Asking museums to post disclaimers on the wall can drown viewers in information and contextual caveats. Too much information robs us of the opportunity to have strong ideas about a work of art, like Merrill did.”
From 2017. Too bad, with BLM, museums succumbed to the woke wave

Rona Wang on X - "went to a wedding & watched this guy ask the bride if the maid of honor was single"
Emma Camp on X - "I do not understand how this is remarkable Have we just fully entered the phase where any kind of IRL attempt to flirt with someone is taboo?"
Ben Dreyfuss on X - "The whole point of going to weddings as a single person is to hook up with another single person. The gen z prudes are now attacking one of this country’s most cherished traditions"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "Bit weird to say, but at some point people are going to have to start standing up for sex and violence.  No, it is not "weird" to hit on the maids or men at a damn wedding. No, it is not "creepy" to expect your lover to fairly often want to sleep with you. No, it is not "traumatic abuse" to spank a kid.  These therapy raised rabbits seem incapable of negotiating the most banal environments without "trauma.""
Geology Jill on X - "Yet they fetishize traditional non-Western societies, where sex and violence are a big part of existence."

Meme - Richard Hanania @RichardHanania: "Stormy Daniels originally treated her affair with Trump casually, but now describes it as a great trauma. NYT ensures us that “experts” say this is normal.  You can see how mental illness has taken over the culture by the way women are encouraged to retcon their sexual pasts."

Meme - "That moment when you realize Oprah didn't bring you here for a new car"
"Oprah Winfrey introduces young actress to Harvey Weinstein"

Meme - ""I was petrified" - Gwyneth Paltrow *friendly with Harvey Weinstein*
"His behavior was outrageous" - Kate Beckinsale *friendly with Harvey Weinstein*
"I kept saying no" - Ashley Judd *friendly with Harvey Weinstein*
"It was a nightmare" - Asia Argento *friendly with Harvey Weinstein*
"Everyone knew" *3 actresses, Uma Thurman, Heidi Klum and one other, kissing Harvey Weinstein*

Why Have Women Become Much More Liberal Than Men? - Daniel Cox - YouTube - "'With the #metoo movement... one of the things we heard from these young women again and again was how formative that experience was you know growing up and sort of seeing this happen in real time. Uh uh there there I think was a source of like uh we're in this together. Um this idea of kind of shared or link fated. That um you know if this thing was happening to this person it could happen to me too... and then for for young men what was really interesting is a lot of them said like well this is not really about me. Uh this is about celebrity or this is like the kind of malevolent dudes out there who are kind of you know awful and I have nothing to do with them'...
'Two-thirds of young women believe that in most or every way what happens to women in the US will have a bearing on their own lives'...
'Gallup tracked the how um how women and men felt about the position of women in society, were they satisfied with the way women were treated. And over the last like 20 or so years roughly similar numbers of men and women said that yeah they were basically satisfied with how women were being treated. And then around 2016, 2017, uh women just plummeted. So they were like 61% uh 16, 17, and then today they're in the like the mid-40s'..
'Despite the fact that you've got rising socioeconomic success for women. Improvements in education, graduation from University, two women for every one man completing a four-year US college degree, women earn 1,111 pounds more between the ages of 21 and 29 on average than men do etc etc etc'...
'You can't look objectively at whether it's economic data or data about politics um or just understand the way the culture is evolved and how we treat issues like uh sexual harassment and discrimination and not think that things are better for women than they were, you know in the 1970s. But interestingly um some sociologists have actually looked at the way young women felt in the 70s versus today in terms of how much gender discrimination was a problem and how much they experienced it and actually women today feel like they have things worse'...
'I'm not in an office but what it feels like from at least friends that work there, um, their felt senses that trepidation, that they're they're in a lot of fear... it allowed her to use other people's experiences to form a sense of putting a guard up. I'm not convinced that putting a guard up based on other people's experiences, especially if it's a guy glancing over in the gym, or you know like some social media campaign, that kind of maybe makes mountains out of molehills. I'm not convinced that that forms uh robust psychologically healthy women. I think that that makes them hypervigilant, scared of lots of men, always on edge and that can't be good for them either... that's not the sort of uh environment I want for women to inhabit from other women'
'Yeah and I think one of the problems is and we could talk about this a lot is taking so many of our cues from social media right versus our own personal experience... the men in my life you know uh siblings uh cousins friends are all great. Um but I think overall men are kind of terrible. And well where are you getting that perspective from? Because your real world experience is actually telling you a very different story. But well I'm I'm seeing these terrible men online and well what what kind of, you know what do you think the algorithm is doing? Is it, is it putting you know the kind of boring polite respectful men, are you think they're overrepresented on social media? Of course not'...
'People identify as bisexual but still date heterosexually mostly'...
'Oh you know professors are turning people uh into marxists and atheists. And the professors that I know says that we can't even get these kids to read the damn syllabus... I think what's going on there is is probably that uh for on a lot of these campuses the the peer environment is exercising pretty significant influence. And so your your peers, politics and then also the the longer trajectory in terms of where you end up. So if you go to college you're more likely to end up in a city um possibly a coastal city that and then uh among you work in places with lots of other college educated folks'
Clearly women in the 70s were stupid and didn't know they were oppressed. We must accept unconditionally and unquestioningly all claims of oppression made by "minorities"

Elliot Page had sex with Juno costar Olivia Thirlby during filming - "The actor, 36, reveals in the book (out now) that he and his Juno costar Olivia Thirlby had "sex all the time" while filming their Oscar-winning 2007 movie. Page says that he shared a hotel room with his mother while shooting the film in Vancouver, which "made it complicated when I met someone, the first woman I had a suitably consensual sexual relationship with."...   Page, who was assigned female at birth and came out publicly as a trans man in 2020, previously revealed while promoting Pageboy how he had a past relationship with Kate Mara, who had a boyfriend at the time. "The first person I fell for after my heart was broken was Kate Mara," Page says. "She had a boyfriend at the time, the lovely and talented Max Minghella [The Social Network, The Handmaid's Tale].""
So many layers one can use to problematise this. Her greater fame/her being the star, workplace sexual assault, her being "a man"...

Megan Thee Stallion Denies Allegations She Forced Cameraman Watch Her Have Sex - "A former cameraman for rap star Megan Thee Stallion is suing her for harassment and for creating a “hostile, abusive work environment,” according to documents obtained by NBC News. Emilio Garcia told NBC that he worked for the star, whose real name is Megan Pete, starting in 2018 through June 2023. Megan denied the allegations soon after, with her attorney, Alex Spiro, telling Page Six: “This is an employment claim for money — with no sexual harassment claim filed and with salacious accusations to attempt to embarrass her. We will deal with this in court.”... After that, Garcia said that she fat-shamed him and made comments about how he needed to “spit his food out” and called him a “fat bitch.”  He expressed his surprise at hearing these things from “someone who advocates about loving your body,” and added that the “harassment was so severe or pervasive” that the working conditions became “intolerable.” To make matters worse, in addition to the treatment, according to Garcia’s filing, his pay was also affected. He alleged that he was downgraded from a monthly flat rate to being paid per task, and had an overall decrease in work requests from the rapper."
Don't believe victims when they are men!

Kate McCullough on X - "In this piece, I look at what we know and don’t know about a McMaster University department plunged into chaos in 2020 after slew of sexual violence allegations triggered several internal investigations and two criminal trials."
Jonathan Kay on X - "What “we know” is that @McMasterU’s psych dept was plunged into a 2-year witch hunt over fake sexual assault accusations, in large part bcuz your newspaper published a 6K word love letter to a woman whose claims were debunked in open court. now you want to do it all over again?"

Why Men Can't Write About Sex Anymore - "Back in the early 1990s, I was one of the thousands of young, idealist Gen X Americans who moved to freewheeling post-Communist Prague to relive their version of “Paris of the 20s.”... Though there were plenty of women among the wine-sozzled bohemians of our expat massive, Henry Miller’s assertion that “Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation, and the other eight are unimportant,” was embraced by us all, regardless of gender. Men read poems called “Women who moan” at raucous expat readings, while girls wrote about their experiences with Czech lovers twice their age. Sex was the social currency of our close-knit literary community, and writing with brutal honesty about sexuality was a badge of honor. We were in decadent Prague after all, where writer Milan Kundera had ripped back the Iron Curtain to reveal its playful, sensual underbelly in novels like The Unbearable Lightness of Being.  Fast-forward a quarter of a century and it feels like we’ve all become characters in dystopian Samizdat novels, our actions proscribed by the progressive thought police who wield power over our lives and careers. Sexuality, which was once seen as liberating, and the purest expression of a free society, is now perceived through the lens of sexual harassment and the #metoo movement. Male desire has become entangled with the contentious issue of consent, so that its every expression has the potential to be exploitative. Having sex for a male in America now is like driving drunk: things might work out fine despite the risk, but you might just as easily crash and burn. When I was in New York last month, close male friends were reevaluating their entire sexual history, and wondering whether any of their past actions could be seen as rapey by today’s standards. This was during the contentious hearings on the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh who was accused of possible misdemeanors in high school! It’s no wonder then that it had men scanning their priapic pasts with urgent fear. A friend who had written an innocent and sweet essay about losing his virginity for a big name American magazine years ago was now fearful that it might be used against him in this new climate of sexual inquisition. It’s no wonder that bad boy male writing has almost completely disappeared from contemporary literature. There are no young Phillip Roths creating lecherous literary heroes like Professor David Kepesh from The Dying Animal who teaches his 24 year-old student how to be his “filthy little whore.” There is no Henry Miller glorying in his sexual adventures in hedonistic Paris of the 1920s. Junot Diaz was one of the few contemporary male writers who dared to write honestly about his sexuality in stories like “How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie),” but his reputation has been tarnished recently by allegations of sexual harassment. Though he has retained his teaching position at MIT, his claws have been sheared for now.  Instead, contemporary male literary icons like Jonathan Franzen, Paul Auster, and Don DeLillo write cynical, despairing novels that read as a lament on the alienation and anomie of modern America. Where is the joie de vivre, the laughter and mirth and raw sexuality of their predecessors? It now falls to female novelists like Gone Girl’s Gillian Flynn to write openly and dangerously about sex and desire. It’s a comment on the West today that bad girl writers are more prevalent than their male counterparts... by tarnishing male desire as “exploitative,” the conversation today has become too one-sided, with the pendulum swinging to the other extreme. Today, men are fearful of writing about their darker desires and urges, and rightfully so. Ian Buruma, the former editor of the New York Review of Books, was ousted for publishing an article hostile to the #metoo movement. In this fearful and inquisitorial atmosphere, sex is dangerous, and writing about sex is doubly dangerous. The neutering of male desire in literature and the arts has, however, also spilled out into real life. There has been a rash of articles recently in publications like the Atlantic—and even the New York Times, which has been a tireless cheerleader for the #metoo movement—bemoaning the decrease in sexual activity among Millennials and other Americans. The Atlantic article was originally entitled “The Sex Recession,” while Ross Douthat’s New York Times column was headlined “The Huxley Trap” and talked about the taming of the sexual revolution.  According to a November 2017 Economist/YouGov poll, 17 percent of Americans ages 18-29 now believe that inviting a woman out for a drink constitutes sexual harassment... At this rate, America will desperately need more immigrants to sustain its population... While the New York Times talks about various factors, including the alienation caused by technology and social media, the criminalization of male sexual desire is surely a powerful factor to explain the fall in marriages, and birth rate. In today’s climate of fear and incessant talk about sexual harassment, we desperately need more—not less—graphic, lewd, and dangerous writing about sexuality from confident men unafraid to bare their fantasies without fear of retribution. That writing could set an example for young millennial men unsure of how to express their burgeoning sexuality, and perhaps help foster healthier relationships among America’s alienated youth... It’s a sad comment on contemporary America that a young Henry Miller’s salacious writings would be just as “shocking”—and possibly “cathartic”—today as when they were first published in the 1930s, in the shadow of rising fascism and Freudian repression"

Never-before seen footage from Rebel Wilson and Sacha Baron Cohen's 2016 film shows she was on board with THAT butt scene and casts doubt on her claim he sexually harassed her - "Footage from the sex scene in the 2016 film where Rebel Wilson claims Sacha Baron Cohen told her to 'stick her finger up' his butt seems to show that the action was actually part of the script and the actress was on board with the scene.  Several never-before-seen clips from the movie The Brothers Grimsby that failed to make the final cut have been obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com and they depict Wilson and Cohen's characters using a cellphone to film themselves getting intimate.   But Wilson, 44, is sticking by the claims she made in her upcoming memoir, Rebel Rising, where she says that Cohen, 52, requested she 'stick your finger up my a**' while his 'male friends' stood around laughing and recording on an iPhone.  Clips from the scripted scene, which was read and approved by Wilson before filming began, tell a different story, insiders from the movie say... Still on camera but out of her character, Wilson can be heard discussing the blocking, telling Cohen, 'I'll do a slap [of your butt] and I'll do a – going down the crack', to which Cohen replies, 'It's almost as if you're going to ram your fingers inside.'  She answers, 'Yeah.' Indeed, producers tell DailyMail.com Wilson was well aware of the intimate scene at the time she accepted the role of Dawn and she was 'fully engaged...confidently kissing Nobby'... Wilson's version of events has changed several times over the years, from claiming the incident took place in a room with 'male friends' recording, to being 'summoned' by Cohen and told on the spot that they needed to film an additional scene... Several people who worked on the movie and who were present during the filming of the scene have come forward to tell about their experiences on set, supporting Cohen.   They insist that Wilson approved scripts in advance, confirmed that the 'finger in butt' direction came from the script, and say everyone on set acted professionally... Insiders from the movie say only around five people were present for the shooting of the scene. They included both men and women.   One film insider suggests that Wilson was so comfortable with the scene that she took 'ownership of the production' and 'dictated ''rolling'' to the production team even though she wasn't a director or producer on the film. She was fully engaged.'  Another production source said Wilson 'had the power and agency to withdraw from the film, or to have refused to have participate in the sex scene. She did not.'   The actress has also claimed that Cohen pressured her to go nude, writing, 'It felt like every time I'd speak to SBC, he'd mention that he wanted me to go naked in a future scene. I was like, ''Ha, I don't do nudity, Sacha.'... Months later, Wilson even flew to South Africa to reshoot a sex scene and never expressed she was uncomfortable, they said... Ironically, Wilson appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live in 2019 when she told the host that she stuck her finger in actor Tom Hardy's rear without consent while filming the 2012 movie This Means War... Many familiar with the filming contend that Wilson only made the allegations when she realized most of the scenes she improvised ended up on the cutting room floor"

The Southern Poverty Law Center Is Everything That’s Wrong With Liberalism

This is a good time to post this 2019 article. I guess we know what they did with all their money now. Notably, this criticism comes from the left, so left wingers can't dismiss it so easily. But then, the brand name has power - a left winger once told me that if the SPLC said The Economist and New York Times were hate groups, he would trust it:

The Southern Poverty Law Center Is Everything That’s Wrong With Liberalism

"The Southern Poverty Law Center, the wealthiest civil rights organization in the country, has ousted its founder, Morris Dees, and president, Richard Cohen, amid unspecified allegations of workplace misconduct by Dees. Dees had been with the organization since creating it in 1971, while Cohen had joined in the mid-’80s, and the SPLC’s shake-up can be seen as part of the MeToo reckoning in which conduct that was accepted for years is finally being dealt with appropriately.

But the organization has long been dysfunctional in even deeper ways, and the story of Dees and the SPLC is useful for illustrating some of the worst and most hypocritical tendencies in American liberalism. If we understand the full extent of what went wrong in this organization, we’ll better understand the ways in which a shallow “politics of spectacle” can take hold, and see the kinds of practices that need to be categorically rejected in the pursuit of progressive change. 

The Southern Poverty Law Center perfectly shows social change done wrong. It was a top-down organization controlled by an incompetent and venal leadership.* It was hypocritical in the extreme, preaching anti-racism while fostering a racist internal culture and being led by men whose own commitment to equality was questionable. It didn’t care about listening to and incorporating the viewpoints of the people it was supposed to serve. It was obscenely rich in a time of terrible poverty, and squandered much of its considerable wealth. Finally, it picked the wrong political targets, and focused on symbolic over substantive change. Each of these practices goes beyond the SPLC, and is endemic to a certain kind of “elite liberalism” that desires “progress” without sacrifice. It is the kind of liberalism recognized by Phil Ochs in 1966, and its chief characteristics are a deep hypocrisy and a lack of willingness to seriously challenge the status quo. 

A 1994 Montgomery Advertiser report on the center confirmed that “no blacks have held top management positions in the center’s 23-year history, and some former employees say blacks are treated like second-class citizens.” Nor did the SPLC change course after that exposé. Apparently “there were sporadic pledges to try to address these inequities, but they persisted” and a former board member said she did not recall “any concrete steps that the board took to address” workplace racial disparities. In 2013 the composition of the organization’s leadership was still blindingly white.

The Advertiser quoted black Harvard Law School graduate Christine Lee, who interned there, saying “I would definitely say there was not a single black employee with wh.om I spoke who was happy to be working there. Of 13 black former employees the Advertiser contacted, 12 had said they “either experienced or observed racial problems inside the law center… Three said they heard racial slurs, three likened the center to a plantation and two said they had been treated better at predominantly white corporate law firms.” Dana Vickers Shelley, formerly one of the highest-ranking black employees at the center, commented that “They weren’t even trying to be diverse in terms of reflecting the people who they served.”

Some of the racism was egregious. A paralegal heard Dees comment of black women that “I like chocolate.” When a black employee, Dana Vickers Shelley, left the organization, president Richard Cohen asked her what her subordinate, also a black woman, intended to do next. Ms. Shelley said she didn’t know. Cohen’s reply shocked her: “His response to me that I will never forget was, ‘Well, the 13th Amendment says she can do whatever she wants.’” Former employees have reported that “racially callous remarks at the center were not uncommon, and that professional voices of people of color were often sidelined, affecting the center’s work and priorities.”...

The “workplace blindspot” is common among wealthy liberals. I can’t tell you how many friends I’ve talked to who have worked at “progressive” nonprofits that mistreated and exploited their employees. The boss at a women’s rights nonprofit does not notice that they are cruelly bullying women every day, or the head of a pro-labor organization demands absurd hours from their workers...

Dees even “earned cash by doing some legal work for the Ku Klux Klan.”...

Dees was as successful at selling causes as he had been at selling cakes. Fueled by Dees’ direct mail campaigns, the Southern Poverty Law Center brought in million after million. Last year it took in $136 million, and it now sits upon an endowment of nearly half a billion dollars. Yet even after some within the organization thought it should stop raising money, and despite promises by Dees that it would do so, its fundraising pitches in the mail became ever more desperate and frantic. A 1995 pitch, sent when the SPLC was sitting on more than $60 million in reserves, told potential donors that the “strain on our current operating budget is the greatest in our 25-year history.” All sorts of tricks were tried, and a former Dees associate reported that the organization once used about six different low-value stamps on envelopes, to give the appearance that it could barely afford to cobble together 35 cents of postage. 

(Sometimes all of this became downright grotesque. In the 1980s the SPLC sued the Klan over the lynching of Michael Donald, and won a $7 million verdict for Donald’s mother. The Klan, however, had by this time diminished to almost nonexistence. Its sole asset was a warehouse that was sold for $55,000, which was all Donald’s mother got. She apparently used a large portion of this to pay back an interest-free loan that the SPLC itself had extended her. Afterward, the SPLC began using photos of Michael Donald’s corpse in its fundraising letters, raising $9 million off the case. Donald’s mother evidently saw none of this money, though when she died barely a year later Morris Dees was quoted in her obituary praising her bravery.)

Yet the SPLC has been criticized for decades for doing very little with its vast resources. It spent less than a third of the money it took in on its programs. (The NAACP, by contrast, spent nearly everything it took in. So did the Southern Center For Human Rights.) A death penalty lawyer who collaborated with the center said: “I was naive at first… I thought the Southern Poverty Law Center raised money to do good for poor people, not simply to accumulate wealth.” The SPLC did spend $15 million on its current office building, a 150,000 square foot behemoth designed by a New York architecture firm and dubbed the “Poverty Palace.”...

The SPLC is bringing in over $360,000 every day and only spending a fraction of it on its legal work. 

In fact, Dees never even wanted to run a poverty law firm. In a 1988 article in The Progressive, he was explicit: “We’re not a public interest law firm, not a legal aid society taking any case that comes in off the street. We only want the precedent-setting cases… Maybe our name is part of the problem.” But the United States is in need of more public interest law firms! The kind of representation poor people receive in criminal cases is often horrendous, and legal aid is woefully underfunded. Many of the SPLC’s donors surely think they’re donating to a public interest law firm. In fact, they’re mostly donating to an ever-growing giant pile of money, a portion of which is used to finance some progressive legal work...

What the SPLC doesn’t do with its money is a problem. But there is also a problem with what it does do. The story here has been told many times: After beginning as something vaguely resembling a “poverty law” firm in the ’70s, and winning a number of important anti-discrimination fights, the SPLC turned much of its attention to going after “hate groups.” It pursued the Ku Klux Klan in court on behalf of its victims, winning large judgments. Over time, it began to track “hate” across the country, and it now has a 15-person staff producing “intelligence reports” on hate groups.

The SPLC’s shift toward focusing on hate groups was controversial within the organization. Some felt that it would make sense to focus on more systemic problems, like mass incarceration, rather than targeting (usually small) far-right fringe groups. But Dees saw an opportunity for both publicity and fundraising, and he was right. The organization mostly stopped taking death penalty cases (too controversial with donors) and instead focused on neo-Nazis, a group that pretty much everyone despises. 

The SPLC devotes a phenomenal amount of effort to chronicling “hate” across the country. Its quarterly “Intelligence Report,” a beautifully-produced glossy magazine about hate groups, is mailed out by the hundreds of thousands. It writes long profiles of hate figures documenting their every bigoted utterance, and keeps tabs on hate groups through its signature “Hate Map.”

There has long been controversy over the SPLC’s “hate watch” activities. Conservatives are constantly complaining that they have been unfairly labeled racists, with mainstream conservative organizations like the Family Research Council landing themselves on the SPLC list. When Maajid Nawaz, a controversial critic of Islamism, was labeled an anti-Muslim extremist by the SPLC, he sued and received a $3 million settlement, plus an apology. One problem here is that the definition of “hate” is very unclear. It supposedly means having “beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people,” but in that case I’m a member of a hate group myself, since I despise bourgeois liberals. The SPLC includes “black nationalism” on its list of hate categories, which means that every time it reports the number of hate groups in America it is including the “New Black Panther Party” (and doing precisely what FOX News did in its own disgraceful reporting on the supposed threat posed by roving gangs of New Black Panthers). 

The biggest problem with the hate map, though, is that it’s an outright fraud. I don’t use that term casually. I mean, the whole thing is a willful deception designed to scare older liberals into writing checks to the SPLC. The SPLC reported this year that the number of hate groups in the country is at a “record high,” that it is the “fourth straight year” of hate group growth, and that this growth coincides with Donald Trump’s rise to power. There are now a whopping 1,020 hate groups around the country. America is teeming with hate.

Let’s dig into this number a bit. The first thing you should note is that it’s meaningless. The SPLC consistently declines to identify how many members these hate groups have. It just notes the number of groups. Without knowing how large they are, what does it mean that they exist? Are they one person? 1000? Hypothetically, the number of hate groups could be dropping while the number of people in hate groups was actually rising—say, for instance, small organizations were consolidating into a large, powerful national organization. Or it could be the other way around: The number of hate groups could be increasing because the neo-Nazis were becoming weak and fragmented and splitting into tinier and tinier units.

In fact, when you actually look at the hate map, you find something interesting: Many of these “groups” barely seem to exist at all. A “Holocaust denial” group in Kerrville, Texas called “carolynyeager.net” appears to just be a woman called Carolyn Yeager. A “male supremacy” group called Return of Kings is apparently just a blog published by pick-up artist Roosh V and a couple of his friends, and the most recent post is an announcement from six months ago that the project was on indefinite hiatus. Tony Alamo, the abusive cult leader of “Tony Alamo Christian Ministries,” died in prison in 2017. (Though his ministry’s website still promotes “Tony Alamo’s Unreleased Beatles Album.”) A “black nationalist” group in Atlanta called “Luxor Couture” appears to be an African fashion boutique. “Sharkhunters International” is one guy who really likes U-boats and takes small groups of sad Nazis on tours to see ruins and relics. And good luck finding out much about the “Samanta Roy Institute of Science and Technology,” which—if it is currently operative at all—is a tiny anti-Catholic cult based in Shawano, Wisconsin. 

Even when the groups are functional, they’re mostly pitiful. A Portland group called the Hell Shaking Street Preachers tried showing up to the local pride parade and simply got laughed at and glitter-bombed. The websites mostly look like they haven’t been updated since the Geocities days. (See, for example, the masterpiece design job on The Divine International Church Of The Web.) The “Wotan’s Nation” site still has its Lorem Ipsum text. I did stumble across one group, a terrifying-looking neo-Nazi biker gang called the Aryan Nations Sadistic Souls, who were definitely serious racists and looked as if they were probably up to no good. But in the “events” listed on their website, it seems they mostly get together for canoeing trips and pool parties. Here are the Nazis on the march...

The SPLC doesn’t actually link to or provide details about many of the groups it profiles, perhaps because this would reveal what a joke many of them are. When it does dive deeper, the results are often predictably comical. The Georgia map lists something called “Wildman’s Civil War Surplus and Herb Shop” as a “hate group.” The SPLC evidently sent a reporter to Kennesaw to investigate the group, which turns out to consist entirely of a bearded old bigot who runs a Confederate memorabilia shop...

My God, the whole Kennesaw community has embraced hate. They gave a Confederate sympathizer a historic preservation award in 1993! And as recently as 17 years ago, they let him have a supporting role in a community theater production of The Nutcracker!

This whole SPLC set-up strikes me as fraudulent in the extreme. I don’t know how else to describe it. They have a team of people investigating these groups. They have to know that they’re inflating the danger. They know that when they report “over 1,000” hate groups in America, they’ve deliberately excluded membership numbers in order to sound as scary as possible. They’re perpetrating a deception, because they don’t want you to know that groups like the “Asatru Folk Assembly” are no political threat. The SPLC has continuously sent out terrifying lies to make old people part with their money. They’ve become fantastically wealthy from telling people that individual kooks in Kennesaw are “hate groups” on the march. And they’ve done far less with the money they receive than any other comparable civil rights group will do. To me, this is a scam bordering on criminal mail fraud. If you tell people things that aren’t true so that you can take their money and then not use that money for the thing you said you would use it for, you’re a fraudster. I hestitate to say that because I know lots of great people who have worked at the SPLC, and good work is done there. But the Morris Dees model is a scam: It finds as much “hate” as possible in order to make as much money as possible.

If you trawl through the Hate Map for a little while like I did, you may also feel uncomfortable for another reason. Most of the people they’re listing as threats seem as if they are poor and unschooled. I bet if you compared the average annual salary of the SPLC staff to the average salary of the people in these hate groups, you’d find a massive class divide. Whether it’s poor Black people joining weird sects like the United Nuwaupians, or poor white people getting together and calling themselves things like the “Folkgard of Holda & Odin,” these are people on society’s margins. A lot of this seems to be educated liberals having contempt for and fear of angry rednecks."

Links - 24th April 2026 (1 - Scottish Politics)

SNP’s claim Scotland props up UK economy is ‘whopping lie’ - "The SNP has claimed Scotland should get a second independence referendum because it props up the UK economy in what has been described as a “whopping lie”... the Tories said this was a “whopping lie”, with official figures produced by SNP ministers showing that Scotland received far more from the Treasury than it provided in taxes.  They found that Scots received nearly £2,700 more public spending per person compared with the UK average last year, thanks to the Barnett formula – the mechanism used by the Treasury to work out expenditure to the home nations.  Scotland’s deficit – the difference between total tax revenue and expenditure – surged to 11.7 per cent of GDP. This was more than double the UK figure of 5.1 per cent and higher than anywhere else in Europe... John Swinney, the SNP leader, has claimed that his party winning an outright majority at the polls, at least 65 seats, would give him a mandate to demand that the Prime Minister allow a second independence referendum.  He has cited the 2011 Holyrood election as a precedent when Alex Salmond led the SNP to a majority win and David Cameron agreed to transfer the powers for the 2014 referendum.  But Sir Keir has made clear he will not give the green light for another vote on breaking up Britain, regardless of the result. SNP ministers said the 2014 referendum was a once-in-a-generation event, before they lost."
Maybe the SNP plan is to demand reparations after independence to continue to subsidise their lavish spending

SNP's disastrous election night puts independence question to bed - "The SNP's bid for Scottish independence has taken a huge blow after the party was almost completely wiped out by Labour... 'I understand their desire for change, I know there'll be a huge sigh of relief that we finally ended 14 years of total chaos and failure'"

Lisa Cameron MP: 'I was bullied out of the SNP. They were autocratic and intolerant' - "Clever, principled, and relatable, Dr Lisa Cameron is exactly the kind of person our political system needs. Which is why her horrific tale of the bullying and abuse she suffered inside the Scottish National Party – which culminated in her defection to the Conservatives last October – is such a tragedy.  Over the past few weeks, the wider world has begun to understand the toxic “progressive orthodoxy” and political chaos that has been raging inside the SNP. This week its hapless leader Humza Yousaf finally stood down after a chaotic few days of coalition collapse and political turmoil, while just a fortnight ago, former leader Nicola Sturgeon’s husband was formally charged with embezzlement of party funds.   Meanwhile, Scottish public services are in disarray and the SNP’s policy of putting up taxes on higher earners has already caused 1,000 individuals and businesses to relocate to England. It is hard to believe that it is less than 10 years since the SNP was riding high on a wave of nationalism which swept away a generation of Labour MPs. Or that Nicola Sturgeon was once seen as the epitome of the modern leader...  “Nationalism is not the answer. It’s just made everything worse. It’s not been good for Scotland. It’s ushered in an era of aggressive, us-and-them politics, eroding compassion and creating polarisation.” So how did we get here? Cameron, 51, says that when she joined the Scottish National Party in 2014 she was enthused and convinced by Alex Salmond’s vision of a better future. “As a senior NHS psychologist I was in favour of the SNP’s policies of more money for the NHS, free prescriptions for the Scottish people and particularly free university tuition. It all sounded good but it hasn’t delivered. Education is very important for people like me.”... Cameron was not the only SNP candidate shocked to find themselves in Westminster in 2015; it was a landslide for the nationalists who won 56 Scottish seats in the House of Commons out of 59. Labour was wiped out. This week’s local elections point to a similar outcome in reverse at the next election with SNP losses to Labour likely to play a key part in helping Keir Starmer’s party to victory.   “The SNP experiment has failed. I see a clear move from nationalism and constitutional politics back to the old politics of Left and Right. I keep being asked by constituents: ‘How do we move on from the SNP? It hasn’t worked.’ Scotland is turning the page on nationalism.”... Cameron’s troubles began in 2019 when she “voted on my conscience” at the end of an abortion debate (she was a vice-chairman on the pro-Life All-Party Parliamentary Group so this shouldn’t have been a surprise to her colleagues)... “Christians are barely tolerated in the SNP. I was told my views meant that I would fail its vetting. That I shouldn’t be in the SNP because I wasn’t progressive enough. I was bullied because of my faith.”  This is something Kate Forbes, who was considering running for the leadership until supporting John  Swinney – and is a Christian – also discovered... She explains that the SNP that she joined under Alex Salmond was a “broad church, more tolerant”, and that the culture war-style “uber progressive politics came in after Alex Salmond left. Under Nicola Sturgeon, the party’s leftist politics became toxic. It was Nicola Sturgeon who said she ‘hated’ the Tories.  “That was a big moment for me, that meant Sturgeon hated my mum. That was not the Scotland I had joined the SNP to build.”... When she was badly stalked in 2021 – she had to go to court – she says, “Sturgeon never reached out to see if I was OK. No one from the SNP ever personally congratulated me on my work on disabilities, for which I won MP of the year.” Cameron was officially persona non grata... Cameron further riled the party hierarchy when she stood up for the young male victim of sexual advances by a leading SNP figure Patrick Grady (Grady was found guilty and eventually suspended briefly).   “I was the only person in the party to support the victim. I thought he had been really brave to come forward, he was very young. In the meeting the groupthink was that we should all ‘support the perpetrator’. I said, ‘what about the victim, we should support him’. I’m a doctor and a psychologist. I did what I thought was right.” She paid a high price. “I was ostracised in the tea room where none of my SNP colleagues would speak to me. They emailed me saying I had to move office. They sent boxes. I refused to move so they put the perpetrator in the office next to mine where I had to walk past him every day. It was awful. I felt I couldn’t cope.” Did she feel this was done deliberately? “As a psychologist assessing dangerous criminals you don’t listen to what people say – you watch what they do. Let’s just say it would be a strange coincidence that they just put him there.”... she told the SNP chief whip and many other party dignitaries about the state she was in and “no one was helpful. I sent emails to the different chief whips saying I needed support for my health. They had a duty of care, but they ignored me. I was anxious, depressed, having panic attacks.” Instead, she says, they “gaslighted me, told me I was making it up”... “There was no support for me from within the party. I was shunned.” It sounds like Mean Girls, I say. She nods. “Yup, pretty much.” Of course, at the centre of the SNP culture wars is the ongoing row around the Gender Recognition Bill, particularly around whether trans-women should be imprisoned in female jails. Particularly those, such as Scottish transgender woman Isla Bryson, who had committed rape as a man.   “This was something that I am an expert on,” Cameron says. “I’d done risk assessments in prisons as part of my job. Many female prisoners have a history of sexual abuse and trauma. Lots of women in my constituency wrote to me saying it was very important that rapists who’d raped women shouldn’t be in enclosed spaces, ie, locked up with women. My opinion on this matter was never sought by the SNP. They just took the view that this was the policy... accept it. This is the ideology.”... "no one could raise any concerns. The SNP view just became narrower and narrower. Anyone who disagreed was ostracised. It became a huge issue. Joanna Cherry also got lots of abuse and so did Kate Forbes.” It wasn’t just on the uber progressive agenda that any criticisms were shut down.   “There were concerns within the party about the finances. The treasurer Douglas Chapman complained and later resigned claiming he was not given proper access to the information.” She adds: “Then when Humza Yousaf was running for leader it got even worse. The SNP rounded on Kate Forbes during the leadership race saying she wasn’t suitable because of her beliefs. That was not the tolerant Scotland I grew up in. But the leadership thought they were right on everything. It got very autocratic and intolerant. It was, ‘Don’t question anything. Don’t disagree. If you disagree: shut up!’ There was no care for victims. The whole ethos of nationalism was exhausting.”... Intriguingly she says the first senior politician to show her any sympathy or compassion was Rishi Sunak... “The Tory party really is a broad church. They are pro-Christian; they respect different views.”"

MP Dr Lisa Cameron who defected to Tories 'forced into hiding' - "she had received a "torrent of abuse" in emails since announcing her defection on Thursday... She told the newspaper the threats were "where the political discourse has got to in Scotland""

I was sent death threats for joining the Tories… I had to go into hiding to protect my children - "One horrifying email sent to the mother of two after she crossed the House of Commons floor read: ‘Listen... your time living on this earth will come to an end soon, be careful.’ Another troll threatened to brick her in the street, while one said they hoped she ‘burned’... Dr Cameron told how the stress saw her suffer severe anxiety and panic attacks, attending 12 months of counselling sessions and being prescribed antidepressants.  While MPs from Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems contacted her to check on her welfare and offer support, there was nothing from the SNP and no attempt to investigate her concerns.  Even when her mental health battle was made public, senior Nationalist Mike Russell simply dismissed it as an ‘odd tantrum’, a response Dr Cameron felt was ‘demeaning and misogynistic’ as he had painted her as a ‘hysterical woman’. She said: ‘There was a moment when my GP said, “I can keep prescribing you these antidepressants, but it’s not a biochemical issue. It’s to do with your environment, and it’s not going to improve unless you change your situation.” I think at that point, I knew he was right.’"
Clearly, being a left winger is about "empathy". Only women who push the left wing agenda should be supported
The differing reaction to Jo Cox and David Amess's deaths is telling, since they were killed by people supported by different ends of the political spectrum

Scotland's top civil servant warns John Swinney he must slash services - "Scotland's new First Minister John Swinney has been told he will have to make 'significant' spending cuts in order to balance the books. In a fresh dose of misery for his party, the SNP leader was warned about a need to take an axe to public services due to the risk of financial meltdown... The senior official's warning will come as a bitter blow to Mr Swinney as he attempts to overhaul the SNP's fortunes after 17 years in power and ahead of the general election."
Time to blame England despite Scotland's leeching off them

STEPHEN DAISLEY: Politicians are good at one thing - spending cash - "As the independent Scottish Parliament Information Centre confirms, Scotland was allocated €941million (£800million) in 2014, with half coming from the European Social Fund and half from the European Regional Development Fund. All the Scottish Government had to do in return was distribute the money, usually to local authorities or quangos who would spend it on approved projects, then provide certified statements of expenditure to the European Commission. Spend the money and hand over the receipts. It doesn’t get much simpler than that. But it’s the SNP. They couldn’t walk in a straight line if you painted a guide in the road for them. That €941million allocation has been revised down to €783.4million (£666million) because Scottish ministers failed to meet spending targets within the necessary timeframe. As a result, Scotland has missed out on €157.6million (£134million). There is also an outstanding €280.4million (£238million) which ministers hope to claim for later this year or early next year... For the SNP government to sit on a mountain of cash during times of real need will strike them as perverse. If there’s one thing politicians are good at it’s spending money, but the Nationalists can’t even do that properly. This underspend might be forgivable if the SNP was new to government and still getting to grips with the machinery of the state. But it has been in power since 2007. There is simply no excuse for such a wanton dereliction of duty... how many times have we heard SNP ministers plead poverty and demand yet more money from the Treasury to top up Scottish government coffers? Their begging bowl is overflowing but it’s never enough. And their failure to invest European funds should serve as a cautionary tale to devolutionists who say Holyrood must have proper borrowing powers. Anyone who surveys SNP ministers’ handling of structural funding and concludes they need more financial responsibility might as well pile up taxpayers’ cash on Calton Hill and start a bonfire. However, this is not a story of mere incompetence, but one of profound cynicism. The Nationalists lambast the UK Government for its austerity policies and accuse it of failing to do enough for the worst off, yet their government chose not to pass on to Scotland’s most deprived communities funding that could have made a meaningful difference... This is not some fiscal abstraction: it’s real people with real needs who missed out because the Scottish government didn’t do its job. This is the latest breach of trust between Scots and the party that claims to represent them. I have frankly lost count of how many such breaches we have seen lately. The SNP seems incapable of doing anything right. Everything it touches turns to scandal."

Do you ‘identify’ as disabled? - "The SNP has reserved spots on its electoral lists for people who identify as BAME or disabled...   Qualification for the lists is entirely dependent on self-identification – the SNP won’t check that candidates are actually BAME or disabled.  According to the pro-independence blog, Wings Over Scotland, Emma Harper MSP, who has diabetes, is believed to be planning to run for the top spot in South Scotland, which is reserved for disabled candidates...   The policy is not only absurd – it is also probably illegal. Jonathan Mitchell QC was commissioned to advise the SNP on the legality of the new rules, and he told the party it would be susceptible to a legal challenge by any candidate who lost out as a result of the rules. He advised that the party would probably lose such a case. But the SNP is so committed to identitarianism that it has gone ahead with the rule change anyway.   We already knew about the SNP’s commitment to wokeness. Last week, Nicola Sturgeon released a cringeworthy, supposedly unscripted video in which she delivered a monologue about transphobia. She declared that ‘no debate can be a cover for transphobia’, in a swipe at the feminists in her party who are concerned about the erosion of single-sex spaces.  And in its desperate desire to force ordinary Scots to confirm to its woke beliefs, the SNP plans to introduce authoritarian hate-speech laws that would allow the state to police even conversations held in private homes."
From 2021

The SNP giving bus passes to asylum seekers is a dangerous misstep - "Generous Scottish tax-payers are to spend £2 million on a pilot scheme to give free bus travel to asylum seekers. The largesse is being provided by the Scottish Government and a range of publicly-funded civic society groups who want to demonstrate their support for new arrivals in Scotland, who must hereafter be referred to as New Scots.  The justification? In the words of the SNP’s equalities minister at Holyrood, Kaukab Stewart: “Scotland has a proud history of welcoming those fleeing war and persecution, and we are dedicated to helping them integrate into communities from the day they arrive. It is vital…people seeking asylum…understand their rights and access employment and services to help them to rebuild their lives in Scotland.” The Scotland Act, which denotes which policy areas are reserved to Westminster and which are devolved to Edinburgh, makes asylum and immigration the responsibility of our national parliament in London. This is a point of frustration to the SNP, who, despite having lost their battle for independence, frequently behave as if Scots voted ‘Yes’ in 2014. Their ministers gallivant around the globe on the tax-payers’ shilling pretending to have responsibility for foreign affairs and defence, while at home, they connive to trim away any authority the UK government might have north of the border. This latest public relations initiative is an example of such. No one in the Scottish Government has the authority to make asylum policy or to authorise asylum seekers to work while they await the decision on their applications for refuge. So instead they use devolved powers to signal their virtue on the issue.  Yet the initiative is a risky one. Especially in the council housing estates which turned their backs on the SNP at last week’s general election, the nationalists’ performative sympathy with asylum seekers is not wholly reflected... If this were a simple act of charity rather than an obvious virtue-signalling attempt to emphasise the exceptionalism of Scots, it would be bad enough. But included in the Scottish Government’s new strategy for welcoming asylum seekers and refugees is a commitment to seek permission from the UK government for asylum seekers to have the right to work while they await their decisions on refugee status.  This has long been a demand by those who are employed in the refugee industry, who claim that having a job would help applicants integrate more easily into their new country. But such an assertion is surely based on the assumption that every applicant will be successful. What about those applicants who manage to secure a job but who are then informed that their application has been refused, that it has been discovered they are not, after all, fleeing “war and persecution” but are in fact economic migrants? Would those fighting for asylum seekers’ right to work then accept with a shrug of their shoulders that that’s just too bad and have a safe journey back to your own country? Hardly. Then the campaign against the “injustice” of removing someone from the country – someone who’s actually working and paying taxes – would begin. Governments of both colours have refused to allow asylum seekers to work because it would inevitably act as a magnet to other asylum seekers. SNP ministers don’t seem to disagree with this risk; rather, they welcome the prospect of many, many more asylum seekers choosing to make Scotland their home. Except that while the SNP are welcoming all those New Scots and promising them homes, jobs and free bus travel, the Scottish Parliament has declared a “housing emergency” due to the scandalous shortage of available homes for the existing population"
Easy. Just blame the British government for the housing shortage

A wasted decade of SNP's neverendum nonsense has damaged Scotland - "Ten years on from the historic independence referendum, Scotland is in a sorry state of disrepair and disunity. Since 2014, the endless debate about so-called independence - or breaking up the United Kingdom to be exact - has sapped the nation’s soul and inflicted wounds that will take many years to heal. A wasted decade of political purgatory has cost our country dear and left our economy and public services in a desperate mess. This only happened because SNP politicians - starting with Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon and John Swinney - arrogantly refused to accept the decisive outcome of Scotland’s biggest ever democratic exercise... In the immediate aftermath of the referendum, and without pause ever since, narcissistic nationalists have refused to take No for an answer and instead squander the Scottish Parliament’s precious time and far-reaching powers in pursuit of their endless obsession of breaking up Britain... At First Minister’s Questions, Sturgeon, Yousaf and now Swinney kept banging the same broken drum. If only the Edinburgh parliament had absolute control of the economy, taxation, security, defence and other reserved matters, they would have us believe that Scotland would become a tartan Nirvana. Their fantasy being untroubled by hard facts. Where did all that get us? Nowhere. In that time, the SNP advanced their case not one inch. No solutions were found or even, in truth, sought. The economic case for separation is even more fatally flawed than it was a decade ago. Meanwhile, Scotland remained trapped in a doom loop, with the SNP presenting ‘independence’ as the only solution to every ill and issue of the day."

Taxpayers forced to fork out £80,000 a year on a 'traffic cone tsar' - "Scotland's ‘traffic cone tsar’ is among an army of bureaucrats costing taxpayers millions of pounds a year. Now MSPs have demanded a halt to the hiring of such costly officials after warning the system is not fit for purpose. A network of ‘commissioners’ and their staff act as watchdogs, with combined annual budgets of £15million."

SNP 'failure' sees record number of kids in temporary homes

How refreshing for Scot to call out nationalism's 'wha's like us' guff - "A couple of years before Police Scotland announced they didn’t have the resources to investigate every minor crime, and wouldn’t do it any more, they launched their Gaelic Language Plan – or Plana Gàidhlig if you prefer – and outlined the resources they would be throwing into it. This included an audit of employees who understand Gaelic. An inventory would be compiled of all existing Gaelic and bilingual materials, including publications, stationery and online content. There would also be an assessment of internal and external signs to ensure ‘equal respect’ was accorded to Gaelic. Henceforth, all high-profile press releases would be translated into the language too. You may surmise one of two things: either that the police were heavily leaned on by the Scottish Government, which has been at pains to embed confected Scottish culture into the nation throughout its 17 years of power – or that men like Andrew Marr and me simply have it in for Gaelic. Let me address the second conclusion first. I’m enchanted by the fact Gaelic is still spoken regularly by 58,000 of us – or 1.1 per cent of our population – every one of whom, incidentally, is also fluent in English. I want the language to survive. Long before the SNP came to power there were extensive measures to ensure this happened. The Gaelic Television Fund, for example, was established in 1992. It brought jobs and high-quality programming in Gaelic to the areas in the West of Scotland and the Hebrides where the language was most spoken. It served the tongue and its speakers. What it didn’t do was pretend the 99 per cent of Scots who don’t speak it were something they were not. ‘The Scots are made up of many different peoples historically,’ said Mr Marr at an event at the Labour conference. ‘I think we should let languages rest and prosper where they come from.’... In Liverpool, the broadcaster fumed at ‘the Scottish Nationalist view that if you’re Scottish, you’re a better person; because you’re Scottish, you’re more innately liberal; because you’re Scottish, you’re more progressive’. The truth is because you’re Scottish, the facts will be misrepresented. You will be persuaded by those with no grounding in history that Scotland was colonised by the English when the truth is that, acting together, the two nations colonised much of the world. You will find propaganda masquerading as educational material – such as Education Scotland’s 27-page The Road to the Scottish Parliament, which baldly informed children that ‘for 800 years the Scots have been struggling against English oppression’. And you will discover at length, possibly years from now, that nationalism doesn’t make you a better person. The movement is not exactly noted for its ability to see the good in people, whatever their world view. Rather it is consuming; it is intolerant; it narrows vision and clouds the lens with a fug of grievance and bitterness. No, while I like and admire many nationalists, they are dear people in spite of, not because of, their independence dream."

Meme - Isabel Vaughan-Spruce @IsabelVSpruce: "So buffer zones in Scotland could now include someone speaking inside their own house about abortion. And neighbours are being encouraged to report each other. Well done 'Safer Scotland', I'm sure everyone is sleeping better knowing this."
"Dear Resident,  Your area will soon be situated within a designated Safe Access Zone for a local healthcare facility where abortion services are provided. You may not notice any changes, but this letter will explain what it means for you and your neighbours... activities in a private place (such as a house) within the area between the protected premises and the boundary of a Zone could be an offence if they can be seen or heard within the Zone and are done intentionally or recklessly... You can report a group or an individual that you think is breaking the law by contacting Police Scotland"
Since you cannot "influence someone's decision to access, provide or facilitate the provision of abortion services" is a crime, that means you technically can't be pro-abortion either

Thread by @Basil_TGMD on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "In honour of Humza Yousaf deciding to step down as an MSP at the next election.  I thought I'd take this opportunity to look back on some of the highlights of Humza's career  Feel free to add your own in the thread below🧵
Never one to shy away from calling absolutely everyone and everything bigoted and/or racist.  Humza couldn't help himself when it came to pointing out how infuriated he was that so many WHITE people important jobs in Scotland, a 95% WHITE country. He also signed into law the authoritarian HATE CRIME BILL which effectively made it illegal to purposefully call a transwoman a man. Cue massive protests, it also pushed JK ROWLING to break the law proving it's ridiculousness
On the first day the HATE CRIME BILL came into force, HUMZA's very own "WHITE SPEECH" was the most reported hate incident. He then went on to say that anyone reporting his speech to the police for racism were in fact "FAR RIGHT". This episode resulted in a huge backlash against HUMZA from all corners of Scotland including this particular favourite of mine by one @NiallFraser8. Again, not one to shy away from calling everybody he doesn't like bigoted, Humza also called the entire Conservative Party 'Institutionally Islamophobic'
Before we get on to more of his terrible behaviour, how can we not include this 🤣
in case you haven't worked it out yet, he really has a problem with white people.
And don't forget the time he sent Scottish Taxpayer money over to UNRWA the controversial organisation with multiple alleged links to Hamas. Speaking of which @ch_talks_to raised some very pertinent questions about Humza's actions on the ay of October 7th, a lot of questions around an email that was sent suggesting he may know quite a bit more than he let on. Check the video 👇
AND THE LESS SAID ABOUT HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW THE BETTER 😉
To top it all off, he routinely claimed to be a patriotic Scot yet here he is being sworn in wearing traditional Pakistani attire with a kilt and speaking in Urdu 🤡
Not one to miss out on an opportunity to smear Scottish History he named a Tartan for himself, is family being in the country for a whopping 60 years.  Usually Tartans are reserved for families going back centuries in Scotland. The rest is fakery, perfect for Humza Yousaf"
Clearly, if you criticise him, you're racist, xenophobic and Islamophobic