Please Just Fucking Tell Me What Term I Am Allowed to Use for the Sweeping Social and Political Changes You Demand - "You know personally I’ve been achingly specific about my critiques of social justice politics, but fine - no woke, it’s a “dogwhistle” for racism. (The term “dogwhistle” is a way for people to simply impute attitudes you don’t hold onto you, to make it easier to dismiss criticism, for the record.) But the same people say there’s no such thing as political correctness, and they also say identity politics is a bigoted term. So I’m kind of at a loss. Also, they propose sweeping changes to K-12 curricula, but you can’t call it CRT, even though the curricular documents specifically reference CRT, and if you do you’re an idiot and also you’re a racist cryptofascist. Also nobody (nobody!) ever advocated for defunding the police, and if they did it didn’t actually mean defunding the police. Seems to be a real resistance to simple, comprehensible terms around here... If you ask these people, are you part of a social revolution?, they’ll loudly tell you yes! Yes they are! They’re going to shake society at its very foundations. Well, OK then -what do I call your movement? You reject every name that organically develops! I’ll use the name you pick, but you have to actually pick one. You can’t just bitch on Twitter every time someone tries to describe your political cohort, which again you yourself say intends to change the world. Name yourself or you will be named. The basic stance of the social justice set, for a long time now, has been that they are 100% exempt from ordinary politics. BlackLivesMatter proponents have spent a year and a half acting as though their demand for justice is so transcendently, obviously correct that they don’t have to care about politics. When someone like David Shor gently says that they in fact do have to care about politics, and points out that they’ve accomplished nothing, they attack him rather than do the work of making their positions popular. Well, sooner or later, guys, you have to actually give a shit about what people who aren’t a part of your movement think. Sorry."
"This is happening, and it's good that it is". As the left knows from 1984, their instruction manual, when you control language you control thought
Liberal politics is about virtue signalling to other liberals, so it's no surprise they don't care about persuasion
Keywords: defining wokeness, define woke, define wokeness, definition of woke, definition of wokeness
‘We’re Coming For Your Children’ chant at NYC Drag March elicits outrage, but activists say it’s taken out of context - "In the 21-second clip, circulated by a right-wing web streamer channel, dozens of people march in the streets and are clearly heard chanting, “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re not going shopping.” But one voice that is louder than the crowd — it’s not clear whose, or whether the speaker was a member of the LGBTQ community — is heard saying at least twice, “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children.”... Griffin said he chanted obscene things in the past, like “Kill, kill, kill, we’re coming to kill the mayor,” and joked about pubic hair and sex toys during marches... The “coming for your children” chant has been used for years at Pride events, according to longtime march attendees and gay rights activists, who said it’s one of many provocative expressions used to regain control of slurs against LGBTQ people. And in this case, they said, right-wing activists are jumping on a single video to weaponize an out-of-context remark to further stigmatize the queer community... According to multiple Drag March regulars, the “coming for your children” variation has been used before. Last year, Gothamist reported, people at the Drag March chanted, “Ten percent is not enough: Groom! Groom! Groom!”... Photos of this year’s march show on social media people with signs reading “Groom Cisies” and “Trans, Your greatest fear, your biggest fantasy.”"
"This is not happening, and it's good that it is, and it's your fault for being a bigot for noticing"
The liberal copes I've seen range from this being fake (since the liberal media are almost all ignoring this) to this being satire to this being a minority/one person
Opinion | Why I’m Not a Liberal Catholic - The New York Times - "To my mind, what serious Catholics should be looking for in this era of unsettlement is a synthesis, a viewpoint that makes sense of change in the church but also maintains the deep continuity with the Catholic past that’s essential if the church is what it claims to be — an institution founded by God, entrusted with history’s most important revelation. This is what Benedict XVI, especially as Joseph Ratzinger, was always searching for: As Matthew Walther argued in The Times earlier this year, the German pope was never a traditionalist but rather someone who wanted 20th-century reforms and the deep tradition to be compatible, to belong to the same story and the same institution. On current evidence we can say his work was incomplete, but his goal — for liberalization and tradition to make sense in light of each other — is one that any serious Catholic school of thought should share. An initial problem with liberal Catholicism, then, is that in the Francis era it has often ceased to make sense in light of itself. When suddenly invested with real power within the church, the liberal tendency has often betrayed its own core insights, trading longstanding arguments about the limits of ecclesiastical authority for a papal positivism that cheers the raw exercise of power as long as liberal ends are served. Instead of defenses of pluralism and principled dissent, we now get reports of papal critics being dismissed or forced into resignations, complaints about the presumptions of conservative laypeople from the liberal academic guild and liberal praise for a progressive pope’s “steely” determination in dealing with the threat of a traditionalist “church within a church.”... as experienced today, in the battles of the Francis era, the liberal tendency doesn’t seem open to secular or liberal or non-Catholic arguments as much it seems to be steered, and therefore defined, by the demands of an increasingly post-Christian culture. Put another way, it’s perpetually difficult to distinguish the specifically Catholic aspect of the liberal Catholic program — meaning the thing that distinguishes its agenda from a generic post-Sexual Revolution progressivism, the things it wants to do that don’t all just converge on making the church more like a friendly secular N.G.O... the tacit presupposition is always that Catholicism needs adaptation or replacement wherever it falls afoul of progressive moral consensus, with the focus on specific issues a strategic rather than substantive narrowing of those ambitions... the decline of belief and practice, rather than resilience or revival, in the Christian churches that have gone farthest with the liberal program is one of the most salient facts of contemporary religious history in both America and Europe... If liberal forms of Catholicism claimed to be comfortable as a remnant out of step with the spirit of the age, then diminished numbers wouldn’t necessarily demand a self-critique. But again, liberals are the ones most likely to insist that the signs of the times should compel the church to shift in their direction, as an alternative to marginalization or extinction"
On Distrusting The Left - "France is a country where Catholicism is evaporating — except for the Trads... In the US, perhaps the church that has taken the lead on all things progressive is the Episcopal Church (TEC)... The more woke TEC becomes, the more people abandon it — or, to put it another way, the less able it is to attract modern people, even as the broader society liberalizes... This is a church that does not have enough priests to fill the pulpits of its dying parishes, yet its leadership is still worried about an insufficient number of non-white clergy in its ranks. This reminds me of the kind of angst that gripped newspaper industry leaders around twenty years ago, when I was working in a newsroom. I would see the regular dispatches from the American Society of Newspaper Editors, which regularly lamented the failure of their initiatives to meaningfully increase the number of racial minorities working within newsrooms — this, at the same time that newspaper readership was cratering. As a leadership class, they could not let go of the idea that increased “diversity” (as they define it) was the secret to reviving a dying industry. Facts and logic rarely penetrated the iron-hard will to believe. So too with liberal clergy... Most church people have had the experience of liberals within arguing that they only want “diversity,” or to achieve modest goals like “tolerance” for their favored factions within the whole — only to become intolerant and authoritarian once they achieve power. Those conservative Methodist laymen who voted to remain with the national United Methodist Church are going to be in for a rude shock when they discover, as they surely will in the next few years, how all that talk of the value of diversity and loyalty from their Remainer co-religionists was merely a tactic... liberal Catholicism in power has betrayed itself, and vindicates the warnings of conservatives that the liberals were only appealing to liberal principles for the sake of disarming conservative opposition... We have lived through seeing the Left utterly repudiate its Civil Rights era, MLK-derived principles on race, in favor of straight-up anti-white racism. In other words, it has gone from being liberal to being illiberally progressive. But nothing illustrates this more than LGBT activism, and what the LGBT movement has done with its power... ‘We’re Coming For Your Children’... I searched Google News for any mention of this. The only thing that turned up was this piece from the Narrative-Enforcers (that is, the Mainstream Media, in this case, ABC) which put forth the line that LGBT people have never been at greater risk than they are today. Believe me, if that were remotely true, you would not have an LGBT crowd marching through a major city chanting, “We’re here, we’re queer, and we’re coming for your children.” The media lie, utterly and contemptibly, about this issue. We still do not have the manifesto that the trans person Audrey Hale left, presumably to explain why she massacred Christians, including schoolchildren. We probably won’t get it, either, unless it is pried from the hands of the authorities, who, I believe, are sitting on it to protect the Narrative. Now that they are in power, LGBTs and their Democratic Party allies (Team Biden, especially) are turning totalitarian... The Democratic Party is all in. So is virtually every major American institution, including the US military, law, medicine, sports, and, of course, academia and media, where it all began. Had you said back in 2003 that within twenty years, this is where we would be, you would have been roundly denounced as a bigot and an alarmist trying to scare people about a non-existent threat. Yet here we are. Legitimizing pedophilia is next — count on it... Those who would insist that they only mean the minds of children are, at best, useful idiots for those who want something more sinister. And even if they are coming only for the minds of kids, that’s still evil. Children should not be made to fear and loathe their own bodies. Children should not be forced to confront all the “secrets” of the adult sexual world... This is the Soft Totalitarianism I warned you about in Live Not By Lies! This is what the Left has become today. Don’t try to say, “But not the entire Left!” Yeah, but so what? Most of the Left in Russia on New Year’s Eve, 1917, was not Bolshevik … but they lacked the foresight, the courage, or the ability to stand up to the Bolsheviks... Sen. Rick Santorum was widely mocked for saying in 2005 that if we have gay marriage, what’s next, the legitimation of man-on-dog sex? It was easy to make fun of his vulgar remark. But when you have ideologically captured public schools recommending to middle schoolers searching out films where men costumed as ponies screw, Santorum’s line is not quite as mockable, is it?... If desire itself is self-justifying, then who are you to say that this person’s desire is wrong? The existence of those Canadian sex-ed cards, which teach kids about sex acts so vile that animals don’t even do them, largely vindicates Santorum... Do you honestly believe that a culture that grants a child agency for determining something as fundamental as changing their sex is going to be able to uphold prohibitions against pedophilia? The whole spectrum of queer grooming behaviors is there to sexualize children and prepare them for the simulacrum of consent. Do you think this is evil? I do. And I also can see with my own eyes that liberalism cannot save us from this. The language and the resources of liberalism have been captured by the radicals. Liberalism is used as a cover to anesthetize the potential opposition, and paralyze them. I’ve said many times here, and I’ll say it again, that I prefer to live in a liberal democratic society. But if you look at nearly every polity ruled with no opposition by the Left — think major US cities — you see crime, racism, dysfunction, and depravity rampant. And if you look at US institutions captured by the cultural Left, you see the Queering of The Imperial Hegemon in its late stages. Left-wing power-holders despise principled anti-woke liberals. It’s very hard for these despised liberals to grasp this, but they had better... The reason I believe that Viktor Orban is a model for emerging US conservatism is that unlike most leaders in the GOP, Orban has read liberalism correctly. He understands that its commitment to philosophical liberalism is a mask, and he also understands that it advances illiberal leftism under cover of thoroughly captured civil society institutions. Orban roots his politics in that reality. Orban lives in the real world. He knows that to preserve the normative liberalism we have now requires a commitment to ante-liberal principles that appear illiberal... what we call “liberalism” today is not really liberalism, and it is both a failure, and a trap, because the so-called “liberals” — really radicals in liberal clothing — keep moving the goalposts. A liberal democratic society can only hold if it has a vital center. Left-liberalism in power has obliterated the center. It does not want to live and let live; it demands capitulation. It demands our children — at minimum, that we deliver them to have their minds colonized to reject their families, their history, their religion, and any aspect of their identities not controlled by left ideology."
Higher Ground on Twitter - "Where Title IX once protected students from sex-based discrimination by schools, it's now used to police perceptions of student behavior toward other students re: sexual orientation/gender identity. The implications are enormous. Welcome to the sexuality surveillance state, kids"
If you hate the culture wars, blame liberals - "Since roughly the year 2000, according to survey data, Democrats have moved significantly to the left on most hot button social issues while Republicans have moved only slightly right... It is not conservatives who have turned American politics into a culture war battle. It is liberals. And this shouldn't come as a surprise: Almost by definition, liberals are the ones pushing for change while conservatives are merely responding to whatever liberals do. More specifically, progressives have been bragging publicly about pushing the Democratic Party leftward since at least 2004—and they've succeeded... Our election victory in 2020 was razor thin even though (a) the economy sucked, (b) we were in the middle of a pandemic, (c) voters had had four years to see just what Donald Trump was really like, and (d) our candidate was bland, amiable, white, male Joe Biden. This should scare the hell out of liberals...
'Over the last four years, white liberals have become a larger and larger share of the Democratic Party....And since white voters are sorting on ideology more than nonwhite voters, we’ve ended up in a situation where white liberals are more left wing than Black and Hispanic Democrats on pretty much every issue: taxes, health care, policing, and even on racial issues or various measures of “racial resentment.” So as white liberals increasingly define the party’s image and messaging, that’s going to turn off nonwhite conservative Democrats and push them against us... Black conservatives and Hispanic conservatives don’t actually buy into a lot of these intellectual theories of racism. They often have a very different conception of how to help the Black or Hispanic community than liberals do. And I don’t think we can buy our way out of this trade-off. Most voters are not liberals'"
LA Stage Alliance Disbands After Awards Ceremony Blunder - The New York Times - "The awards ceremony, streamed online last week, showed a picture of a different Asian-American actress when announcing her category. And it mispronounced her name. Lee laughed, reflecting a lifetime of trying to be a good sport. But her boyfriend grabbed a screenshot, and posted it on social media, and he was not the only one. The reaction was swift, and furious, as long-simmering frustration over the functioning of the LA Stage Alliance, which administers the awards, combusted with the pain and anger of an Asian-American community devastated by a wave of anti-Asian violence. Forty-six theaters resigned from the alliance — about a third of its members. And on Monday, the organization, which for nearly a half-century had been the main coalition for a sprawling theatrical ecosystem in the nation’s second largest city, announced that it was disbanding... The LA Stage Alliance was a nonprofit, dating back to 1975, that sought to support theater in Los Angeles"
From 2021. 不攻自破
Essex police deny Braverman rebuked them over pub seizure of golliwog dolls - "Essex police have denied being rebuked by Suella Braverman for seizing a collection of golliwog dolls that were on display in a pub. Officers from the force took several dolls from the White Hart Inn in Grays, Essex, last week as part of an investigation into an alleged hate crime reported in February.... The pub’s owner, Benice Ryley, said she has displayed the collection of about 30 dolls, donated by her late aunt and customers, in the pub for nearly 10 years. She told the PA Media: “They’re my childhood history, it’s a part of our inheritance. I can’t see any harm. I don’t know how they can find it offensive.” Ryley’s husband, Chris, is set to be questioned when he returns from abroad in May."
Vandals hurl a brick through window of pub embroiled in race row over the display of golliwog dolls - "Benice Ryley, 61, said she was left shaken when a brick was hurled through the window of The White Hart Inn in Gray's, Essex at about 12.40am on Sunday... Mrs Ryley hit back at allegations of racism, saying the pub frequently hosts Indian weddings, and said she does not understand how people could be offended by the dolls. She added: 'If they don't like it, they don't have to come through the door.' 'As far as we are aware we are not breaking any laws by displaying them. It took six officers to come and remove a shelf full of dollies. What a waste of taxpayers' money"
White Hart Inn: Pub in Essex that displayed golly dolls closes after backlash and supplier boycott - "Heineken and Carlsberg had since told the pub to stop serving its lager, while maintenance company Innserve refused to continue working on site. The pub had also been banned from being considered for any awards by the Campaign for Real Ales (Camra) and the group said it would not be included in its Good Beer Guide “while these discriminatory dolls continue to be on display”. Landlady Benice Ryley and her husband Chris said this week she had decided, after 17 years running the pub, to retire to Turkey and shut the doors... “Young people these days don’t understand from years ago where do the gollys originate from. It’s such a shame. “It’s my collection. They are antiques some of them and I want them back. This is my life now that they have ruined. We have a stigma about our name now and our pub.” She blamed someone on Reddit for “starting it all again”, adding: “I had them as children, my auntie bought me some. [Customers] have bought me the dolls and it started from there.”"
Clearly vandalism is "resistance" against "racism"
Vancouver Police Department announces official changes to handcuffing policy - "The Vancouver Police Department announced that it has officially updated its handcuffing policy, requiring officers to take into account a person's age, ethnicity, and the seriousness of an alleged incident prior to applying handcuffs."
Apparently different handcuffing rules based on race is not structural racism
Meme - The Meme Policeman: "Literally back to back posts."
Green New Deal: "In my experience, the right is always asking "what about me?" Whereas the left asks what about them? And that, In a nutshell, is why I will always lean to the left"
"I can't pay no doctor bill. But whitey's on the moon - Gil Scott-Heron"
Gender Bias in Science or Biased Claims of Gender Bias? - "AAAS hosted a conference in April, 2016, which presentation after presentation by famous, influential, and prestigious scientists argued for the power and prevalence of implicit gender biases in peer review. Yet not a shred of evidence of implicit bias in peer review was actually presented. Just read this report – you can see for yourselves that there was ample evidence of gaps, but none that bias accounted for those gaps... Dr. Carnes’ own research produced a result exactly opposite to the one that she was promoting at the AAAS Conference! Women were held to lower, not higher, standards than men to warrant praise... rather than being an idiosyncratic outlier, this sort of thing is commonplace, when scientists allow their political agendas to drive their claims about science -- in general, but also specifically, with respect to explanations for gender gaps in STEM."
From 2017
Gender Bias in Science? - "If one wishes to reach a knee-jerk conclusion that “gap=discrimination” then, by far, the most extreme discrimination in the social sciences and humanities is not gender bias, and is not even race bias – it is political bias (because Republicans and conservatives are far more vastly under-represented in almost any social science field than are women or ethnic minorities). However, all gaps – race, gender, political, or any other – are simply correlations. And as any intro psych student knows, you cannot infer any particular causal mechanism (in this case, discrimination) produces any particular correlation (in these cases, gaps), without direct evidence showing such causal relationships...
Lloyd (1990), in an experiment holding manuscript content exactly identical and manipulating only the gender of the author, found that male faculty were unbiased in their evaluations of papers by male and female authors, whereas female faculty were biased in favor of female authors. This of course produces a net bias in favor of female authors.
Veldkamp et al (2017) surveyed scientists, and found that, whereas men viewed men and women as equally intelligent, rational and objective, women were biased in favor of women, viewing women as more intelligent, rational, and objective than men. Although this is not a study of peer review, it is disturbingly consistent with Lloyd’s (1990) findings, which was a study of peer review.
A study of German sociologists (Lutter & Schroder, 2014) found that women were 1.4 times more likely than men to get tenure, and needed 23-44% fewer publications to do so.
Like Lloyd (1990), found that male academics evaluated men’s and women’s productivity in academia as comparable, but women viewed women’s productivity more positively than they viewed men’s...
Unfortunately, the quickest way to improve the pace of scientific self-correction would be to increase the mortality rate among scientists"
California moves to provide surrogates to gay male couples in the name of 'fertility equality' - "California Bill SB 729 seeks to redefine "infertility" to be a status, as opposed to a medical condition. Changing the definition to "a person’s inability to reproduce either as an individual or with their partner without medical intervention" would classify gay men as infertile. The bill, which passed the Senate last month, would require insurance companies to cover in-vitro fertilization procedures. With the change in definition, this would also include forcing the firms to cover surrogacy for gay males."
Canadian MDs consider denying fertility treatments to obese women - The Globe and Mail - "Some studies find obese women face higher risks of medical complications while trying to become pregnant through in-vitro fertilization (IVF). The science is not certain and some believe a ban would be tantamount to discrimination, yet a growing number of fertility doctors worldwide already bar treatment based on a woman's Body Mass Index. "We've had many angry patients say to us, 'This is discriminatory' and I say, 'Yes, it is' But I still won't do it," said Arthur Leader, co-founder of the Ottawa Fertility Centre. The facility where he works will not treat women with a Body Mass Index (a measurement of weight relative to height) of more than 35. A BMI of 30 meets the clinical definition of obese. "A patient doesn't have the right to make a choice that's going to be harmful to them," he said... Research has shown women who are severely overweight require higher doses of fertility drugs to spur ovulation – increasing the risk of side effects. As well, obese women face a greater risk of developing high blood pressure, which can trigger strokes, and gestational diabetes, which can pose risks to mother and baby. While these risks during pregnancy apply to obese women even if they conceive naturally, Carl Laskin, president of the CFAS, believes fertility doctors have a responsibility to address them if a woman wants to conceive with medical help... For Dr. Leader, a major concern is that the "conscious sedation" used on patients while retrieving their eggs could disrupt breathing, but inserting a breathing tube into a patient who is morbidly obese is tricky and risky – "the patient could choke.""
From 2011. Today, the doctors wouldn't be able to say that (even if the policy remains)
BBC Radio 4 - Best of Today, Lewis Hamilton’s Today programme - "‘I'm not educated enough also. You know, growing up in UK, not, you learn about white history. Simple as that, I never learned about black history. I never learned about where my family of, from, I knew my family from Grenada but my dad hadn't really taking me through the history books of where my granddad's roots started, where my grandparents, great grandparents were from...
There is an attitude in some people, not everybody, but some people that to talk about the bad side of British history and the violence is to somehow talk the country down, that it is almost treasonous. And my argument always is, you know, Britain, is a wonderful country. But like every country that’s ever existed, it did some good, and it did some bad. And if we only focus on the good, we, we delude ourselves’...
‘Cassius Clay, Mohammed Ahmed, refused to take the American army oath. He maintains that his religion won't allow him to kill people of his own colour in Vietnam.’...
'People have changed, not just athletes in the game have changed, but people generally have changed. When you look at 2016, a national survey in America found that just 20% of people supported athlete activism, just 20% of people thought that the sports organizations themselves should support athlete activism. When you look at the Nielsen survey that came out this year, 70% of people in America now support athlete activism. So it's become a very different environment. One where, from one where in 2016 when Kaepernick took the knee, he lost his career, that was it for him. He was, he was constructively dismissed from sport to now where LeBron James, other athletes out there, including Lewis are able to make a difference. And in fact, it enhances their profile.'"
There isn't enough time to teach all of British history - but the history of the whole world needs to be taught, so everyone can learn "their" history
Ironically, I've never seen anyone denying the negative aspects of British history. Instead, what I always see is the opposite: whenever someone talks about the positive aspects of it, leftists get very upset and claim that it is whitewashing and want to obsess once more about all the evil that Britain did
Yellow and black people have the same colour?
BBC Radio 4 - Today, The Today Debate: Policing and us - how can we fix it? - "'The processes and procedures within the Metropolitan Police are disproportionately more likely to be racist. Misconduct, recruitment and so on and then finally I've found and again you know we found it's evidenced and accepted to some degree by colleagues in the police that certainly black people in London are overpoliced by you know such an extent: the use of force, the use of taser, the use of custody is just off the barometer and can only be about skin color'...
‘Organizations need to understand when they are systemically. institutionally, whichever word you want to use, disproportionately biased. You are 81% more likely to be the subject of misconduct in the metropolitan police if your skin color is black. I mean that is just off the barometer’"
When you beg the question, you can prove anything
On the one hand, we are told that misconduct in the Metropolitan Police is a huge problem and the police are misbehaving but on the other hand we are told that the misconduct process is fatally flawed and that it unfairly victimises minorities. Curious.
BBC Radio 4 - Best of Today, The Today Debate: Do we need a Monarchy? - "‘I was looking at polling today from YouGov on a whole range of uh attitudes towards different members of the royal family and institution of the monarchy and actually attitudes between ethnic minorities and the white population were almost exactly aligned. You could, there were a few percentage points difference in here and there’...
‘In terms of the actual material benefit it would bring to the British people to get rid of the spending on the monarchy, it's absolutely trivial in the great scheme of, of suspending it, so it's 0.01% of public spending, something like that is spent on the monarchy’
‘I don't think it's true on a breadline’
‘No it is trivial because if you, if you’
‘Not to live on a bread line I don't think so’
‘Yes it is actually because of, you need you need to make it different to living on the bread, and you really need to give sort of 20 30% of of of public spending to be distributed that way, not 0.01%. But the other thing is you wouldn't succeed in doing it if you got rid of it because look at what happens in other countries, look at France. France got rid of its king, killed its king and it's never really been able to quite work out what to do about that ever since and it's very divided on this subject even now. That it's not going to bring back the monarchy and so what you have is a president who aspires to collect the character of monarchy around him and he lives in great grandeur and but he's also, unfortunately because he's an elected president he can't rise above it all. So he's actually very controversial, not a very unifying figure and France is a constant, uh history of him. It’s had about four revolutions since the French revolutions and five republics and um another monarchy and and um it doesn't solve it and it doesn't solve the problem of magnificence, the problems of money. Um it just recurs in a different form’"
