Meme - *Kristen Bell's Celebrity Dinner*
Jay "Affirmative Action Hack" Perkins @JohnathanPerk: "Serious question for well-meaning white people. When you show up at get-together like this, do you notice there are zero Black people, or nah? If so, do you say or do anything about it? To who? Please be honest. This is a safe space (unless you say something dumb or racist)."
"Since I never post publicly, I'll respond privately. I personally call it out whenever I'm at a function with no Black folks. It makes me feel uncomfortable. I'm white, however almost if not all other white folks I know do not do this. I do comfortably now. I don't know if I always did and if not when I changed, but I know I have for years now. It just signals to me that something is wrong and unsafe there. If there are no Black folks at a function, I can't help but wonder why, and the why regardless of how "reasonable" it may sound is always unnerving, It's not a kind or natural way to live. You must go out of your way often to not make Black friends. If you've avoided making them or made them and don't value them enough to be in invited, it's scary, be it says a whole hell of alot about your broader values."
Of course, if black people go to an event with only black people, that is "diverse"
Liberals just hate white people
Meme - "THE CELEBRITIES WHO TALK ABOUT BLACK PRIDE BUT DO EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO LOOK WHITER
Young Rhianna, Rhianna today
Young Beyonce, Beyonce today
Young Meghan Markle, Meghan Markle today"
DC: “Muslims Against ISIS” rally attracts only “small crowd” - "This is not the first time that attendance at a Muslim rally against terrorism has been decidedly underwhelming. There are thousands of Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan, but only 100 showed up for a rally against ISIS and “Islamophobia” in November 2015. And earlier that month, only 30 Muslims protested against the jihad massacres in Paris. In July 2015, a Muslim rally in Ireland against the Islamic State drew fifty people. In October 2014 in Houston, a rally against the Islamic State organized by the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) drew the grand total of ten people. In August 2013 in Boston, about 25 Muslims rallied against “misperceptions” that Islam was violent. About the same number showed up in June 2013 at a progressive Muslim rally in Toronto to claim that their religion had been “hijacked.” And back in 2005, a group called the Free Muslims Coalition held what it dubbed a “Free Muslims March Against Terror,” intending to “send a message to the terrorists and extremists that their days are numbered … and to send a message to the people of the Middle East, the Muslim world and all people who seek freedom, democracy and peaceful coexistence that we support them.” In the run-up to the event it got enthusiastic national and international publicity, but it ended up drawing about twenty-five people. Contrast those paltry showings to the thousands of Muslims who have turned out for rallies against cartoons of Muhammad or against Israel."
Related: Two thirds of British Muslims would not give police terror tip-offs
Half of British Muslims would not go to cops if they knew someone with ISIS links - "ALMOST half of British Muslims wouldn't go to the police if someone they knew was involved with supporters of terrorism in Syria. A staggering new survey also found that just 26 per cent of Britain’s Muslims do not believe in “extremist views exist”. The survey – dubbed the biggest ever of its kind – has revealed that only one in 25 British Muslims believe Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda were responsible for the 9-11 attacks. A Policy Exchange poll last night claimed 31 per cent believe the US Government was behind the atrocity than the terrorists – 4 per cent. And seven per cent said the attack, which killed almost 3,000 people, was a plot by the Jewish community. Two in five would support the introduction of sharia law, the legal system derived from the Koran. The poll also found that 40 per cent were in favour of gender-segregated classrooms, while a further 44 per cent thought schools should force girls to wear traditional Islamic dress. But the survey claimed that in nearly every walk of life the British Muslim community was no different in their views and priorities to their non-Muslim neighbours... the Muslim Council of Britain enjoys little support in the community, with just nine per cent of respondents backing it."
Andrew Potter: Why cancelling Canada Day until further notice would backfire - "Back in the late 90s, the American philosopher Richard Rorty wrote a little book called Achieving our Country that was a series of essays exploring the promise of America, a promise that he said remained substantially unfulfilled. But he also warned that American life had become dangerously polarized as a self-hating and self-mocking cultural left ceded the domain of patriotism to a chauvinistic and militaristic right. And so while Rorty conceded that the cultural left offered well-founded criticisms of America, he worried that it had become merely destructive, or what he called “spectatorial”: it had no positive patriotism to offer, no programme for a national narrative that accepts the failures of the past and present but points the way towards a hopeful future. In a passage from the book that was widely circulated during the Trump years, Rorty warned that the inevitable outcome of this culture war would be the rise of a vulgar authoritarian strongman supported by blue collar workers grown sick of having their tastes and habits and manners mocked and condemned by university graduates. As Rorty saw it, the left needed to drop the mocking spectatorial pose and adopt a more constructive approach. He said this progressive path must be based on a sense of national pride that gives people the emotional drive and motivation to make their country better... The thing about patriotism in a place like Canada is that it is a habit that is easily broken. You stop celebrating your national holiday for a couple of years and eventually you wonder why you ever bothered in the first place. But the emotions and feelings of pride that drive patriotism don’t go away, they just get poured into new vessels, focused on new symbols. If you “Cancel Canada Day” until such time as you think the country has finally become worthy, that’s never going to happen. And if you’re on the left, you had better have a firm plan for what you hope is going to take its place."
We're still told that liberals don't hate their countries. But even Rorty thought they did
Does Maltreatment in Childhood Affect Sexual Orientation in Adulthood? - "Epidemiological studies find a positive association between physical and sexual abuse, neglect, and witnessing violence in childhood and same-sex sexuality in adulthood, but studies directly assessing the association between these diverse types of maltreatment and sexuality cannot disentangle the causal direction because the sequencing of maltreatment and emerging sexuality is difficult to ascertain. Nascent same-sex orientation may increase risk of maltreatment; alternatively, maltreatment may shape sexual orientation. Our study used instrumental variable models based on family characteristics that predict maltreatment but are not plausibly influenced by sexual orientation (e.g., having a stepparent) as natural experiments to investigate whether maltreatment might increase the likelihood of same-sex sexuality in a nationally representative sample (n = 34,653). In instrumental variable models, history of sexual abuse predicted increased prevalence of same-sex attraction by 2.0 percentage points [95 % confidence interval (CI) = 1.4–2.5], any same-sex partners by 1.4 percentage points (95 % CI = 1.0–1.9), and same-sex identity by 0.7 percentage points (95 % CI = 0.4–0.9). Effects of sexual abuse on men’s sexual orientation were substantially larger than on women’s. Effects of non-sexual maltreatment were significant only for men and women’s sexual identity and women’s same-sex partners. While point estimates suggest much of the association between maltreatment and sexual orientation may be due to the effects of maltreatment on sexual orientation, confidence intervals were wide. Our results suggest that causal relationships driving the association between sexual orientation and childhood abuse may be bidirectional, may differ by type of abuse, and may differ by sex. Better understanding of this potentially complex causal structure is critical to developing targeted strategies to reduce sexual orientation disparities in exposure to abuse."
From 2012. It probably couldn't be published today - you're not allowed to say CSA might lead to queerness/homosexuality/being gay. Previously quoted, but I didn't quote the abstract
Meme - Liberals: "NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE! BURN THE CITY DOWN!"
NPCNN: "PEACEFUL PROTESTS ARE VITAL TO DEMOCRACY AND THE DEFEAT OF SYSTEMIC RACISM"
Jason Aldean: "TRY THAT IN A SMALL TOWN!"
NPCNN: "RACIST! CANCEL JASON ALDEAN!"
Meme - "Reading libs online ranting about how Jason Aldean's new song is anti-black bc the lyrics say you shouldn't commit crimes or behave like an animal
"Interesting""
Joe Rogan mocks outrage over Jason Aldean's 'Small Town' hit: 'Hundreds of rap songs out there that are infinitely worse' - "“The racial aspect of it was crazy, because the real Antifa problems that were happening during the BLM, I think there was a lot of white people doing that wasn’t it? It was a lot of lost liberal whites who are very angry, who decided to take up this movement and smash things,” he said. “So the racial aspect of it, there’s nothing racial about the lyrics,” he added."
Meme - "Jason Alaean "we dont sucker punch old ladies or rob liquor stores in my town"
Democrats - *ballistic*"
Meme - "Try That In A Small Town / Lyrics
Sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk
Carjack an old lady at a red light
Pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store
Ya think it's cool, well, act a fool if ya like
Cuss out a cop, spit in his face
Stomp on the flag and light it up
Yeah, ya think you're tough
Soyjak: I'M STANDING UP FOR YOU BY BASHING THIS SONG!
Black person: ... THE SONG MAKES YOU THINK OF ME?"
If you keep hearing dog whistles, you must be the dog
Liberals think black people are criminals, then claim non-liberals are racist
Meme - "All the "it's just a beer can" people sure are throwing a temper tantrum over a country song"
Meme - The lowa Citizen: "In a world full of Jason Aldeans, be like Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson
All those Jason Aldean, FLAG loving, aid drinking racists can get bent."
We're still told that liberals don't hate their countries
Meme - "JASON ALDEAN'S COUNTRY SONG 'TRY that in a SMALL TOWN' is RACIST and SHOULD BE BANNED...
NOW BACK to GANGSTA RAP that GLORIFIES CRIMINAL ACTIVITY and DEGRADES WOMEN."
The woke are pro-crime anyway
Meme - "Rappers talk all the time about what'll happen if you come in their hood, what's wrong with Jason Aldean and country music doing the same?"
Meme - "Jason Aldean Sang: "Sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk"
Machine Gun Kelly Sang: "Then I'll F..... stomp him in the face."
Jason Aldean Sang: "Carjack an old lady at a red light"
Snoop Dog Sang: "Cause I'm a pistol strapping car jacking h.."
Jason Aldean Sang: Pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store
Sublime Sang: "The first spot we hit it was the liquor store I finally got all that alcohol I can't afford"
Jason Aldean Sang: "Ya think it's cool, well, act a fool if ya like Cuss out a cop, spit in his face"
Body Count Sang: "I'm 'bout to bust some shots off I'm 'bout to dust some cops off"
So, I need someone to explain why y'all are all upset with Jason Aldean, but I don't remember a mention of MGK, Snoop Dog, Sublime or Body Count ... His whole point of the song is we don't stand for that. It's ALWAYS been the double standards for me."
Some people were claiming that Snoop Dogg went to court for his lyrics, but that was because he was tried for murder, not because of the lyrics themselves.
Ricky Davila on Twitter - "In a world full of trashy racist MAGA lunatics like Jason Aldean, Kid Rock and Ted Nugent, strive to always be decent loving human beings like Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson and Garth Brooks."
Toby Keith, Willie Nelson, Jason Aldean & Country ‘Lynching’ Songs - "the seething contempt and hyperbole associated with the backlash to this song based on patently incorrect assertions is dangerous in the way it attempts to impinge on the creative expressions of an artist (albeit, bad ones), as well as setting up a “boy that cried wolf” scenario if a song that actually does what the press is accusing this one of doing ever materializes. The idea that the song is actively condoning or encouraging the lynching of Black people is beyond ludicrous and based in absolutely no factual information. It is the frothing, reactionary opinion of a groupthink lynch mob who will continue to ratchet up the rhetoric against Aldean until he’s forevermore extricated from popular society, which is never going to happen. Furthermore, these excessive and distorted characterizations are only fueling a counter backlash that will take a mild, late career pseudo radio hit for Aldean to a Song of the Summer-level smash. That’s already happening as the song has rocketed to #1 on iTunes, and will surely show new significant traction on the next update to the charts due to the controversy. The Streisand Effect is in full force as we speak. But while the prudish pearl clutchers of the politically correct class writhe and seethe over this song, there is actually another country music song that without having to make any leaps of faith or draw any conclusions from inferences in the lyrics can objectively be concluded to be about lynching and vigilante justice. Unlike Jason Aldean’s “Try That In A Small Town” though, there was no cancellation attempt against this song. In fact, it was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 2003. Unlike “Try That In A Small Town,” it wasn’t banned by CMT. Instead, the cable television station actually stepped up to release an entire movie around it in 2008. And unlike “Try That In A Small Town,” nobody asserted the song was racist, nobody said it was an attempt to portray a white supremacist/white nationalist view of the United States, or anything similar. “Beer For My Horses” was written by Toby Keith and Scotty Emerick, and released as a duet with Willie Nelson in 2003. The song went straight to #1, marking Willie’s first #1 in 14 years at that time. It was also Willie’s last #1 in country, and it also made him the oldest artist to ever have a #1 country song (he was 70 at the time)... But “Beer For My Horses” faced no significant backlash. There was nobody drawing conclusions that it was actively attempting to condone the lynching of Black people, even though the act of lynching appeared directly in its lyrics. Willie Nelson still regularly sings the song in concert today. It’s part of his common repertoire. So what’s the difference 20 years later? The difference is in 2003, people understood that it was just a song, and art. It was a work of fiction and personal expression. Granted, “Try That In A Small Town” strikes a slightly more angry tone, and undoubtedly some may pick up on America’s troubled history with race when they hear the lyrics. But if we can’t separate personal expression from the personal responsibility everyone has for their own actions, the indictment of songs will spread much farther into music, and if anything, affect Black creators and hip-hop disproportionately. We have entered a new phase of uptight cultural prudeness indicative of Tipper Gore’s PMRC and the “Explicit Lyrics” sticker era. As terrible as “Try That In A Small Town” might be, it is in no way so out of bounds to be receiving the kind of ubiquitous and irresponsible backlash that will only fuel its ascent. But as we’ve seen with similar incidents, the press and supposed activists just can’t help themselves... Similar to the lack of controversy around “Beer For My Horses,” the fact that “Try That In A Small Town” was out there in the wild for two months without any criticism, and then CMT—which is known for taking very left-leaning stances on their coverage and promotion of country music—vetted the video and agreed to premier it across their platforms really speaks to the uneven and flimsy premise of why this song should be removed from public consumption. The whole linchpin of the controversy is the revelation of the The Maury County Courthouse where the video was shot being the site of a lynching. But all evidence points to this being an oversight as opposed to an active effort to underpin Aldean’s song and video with a more surreptitious message. It’s a media “gotcha” as opposed to a substantive criticism. The Maury County Courthouse is just a courthouse located conveniently to Nashville. As the production company TackleBox has pointed out, the location has been used to film scores of films and videos without controversy, including 2009’s Hannah Montana: The Movie with Miley Cyrus, a 2022 holiday film, A Nashville Country Christmas with Tanya Tucker, and another 2022 holiday film, Steppin’ into the Holiday with Mario Lopez and Jana Kramer. Opportunistic and bad faith attacks on “Try That In A Small Town” are only strengthening Jason Aldean’s position, and allowing right-wing media to exploit the poor reporting and portray Aldean as a victim. "
Ironic.
Ben Shapiro on Twitter - "As I also discussed on the show, my only real concern is that the women involved -- who apparently require a "bucket and a mop" -- get the medical care they require. My doctor wife's differential diagnosis: bacterial vaginosis, yeast infection, or trichomonis."
It's amazing how poor liberals' comprehension skills are. They keep insisting Shapiro admitted that he cannot make his wife wet. But at the very most, you could just say that he's never made his wife squirt. Someone criticising him with the misinformation claimed that "I literally watched him say what he said", but this was a tweet - on-air he just read out the lyrics and called them vulgar
Am I Leaking Urine or Discharge? Identification and Treatment - ""Releasing more than 1 teaspoon (roughly the size of a penny) of discharge in a 24-hour period is considered excessive, according to Swarup. An unexpected change in volume, consistency, odor, or color may occur from:
atrophic vaginitis
BV
cervicitis
chlamydia
douching
genital hygiene products that contain alcohol, fragrance, or other irritants
gonorrhea
pelvic inflammatory disease
trichomoniasis
UTI
yeast infection"
So Monte Swarup, MD, OB-GYN, founder of the leading health information site Vaginal Health Hub, can't make his wife wet either. Also, Gabrielle Kassel, who wrote the article, and Stacy A. Henigsman, a physician specializing in obstetrics and gynecology, who reviewed it, need to have better sex, since they are dry during sex.
Interestingly, Gabrielle Kassel is queer, so we can't blame men for the bad sex she's having.
Why the neurodiversity movement has become harmful - "about 40 per cent of children with autism do not talk at all, and at least a quarter acquire basic language at 12-18 months of age, but then lose it... Autism often presents with co-morbidities. More than half of children with ASD also have an intellectual disability (defined as having an IQ below 70), and up to half exhibit symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Autistic children are psychiatrically hospitalised much more frequently than others, with 13 per cent of their hospital visits being due to a psychiatric problem, compared with 2 per cent for children without ASD. In autistic adults, the lifetime prevalence of anxiety and depression is 42 per cent and 37 per cent respectively. Autism also commonly co-occurs with epilepsy, with the highest rate in those whose IQ is below 40. Autism is arguably one of the most controversial subjects of our time. Due partly to a lack of understanding of its causes, current discourse on this subject is a narrative jungle strewn with young, overgrown and ill-conceived ideas jostling for a spot in the sun, including uncompassionate ‘refrigerator mothers’, microbial infections, vaccinations, and environmental pollutants and toxicants, to name but a few. Into this maelstrom came the neurodiversity movement, whose advocates celebrate autism as a gift that is an integral part of identity... there has been a backlash against this – growing numbers of people are now speaking out against the neurodiversity movement, claiming that it does not represent them and, more importantly, that it ignores the plight of those with severe autism. The term ‘neurodiversity’ was coined in the late 1990s by the sociologist Judy Singer, who argued that autistic people had been oppressed in much the same way as women and gay people, and suggested that their brains are merely wired differently from those of ‘neurotypical’, or nonautistic, people. The movement is an extension of the civil rights movement and the deaf pride movement that emerged after the introduction of cochlear implants. Writing in The Atlantic magazine in 1998, the investigative journalist Harvey Blume said: ‘Neurodiversity may be every bit as crucial for the human race as biodiversity is for life in general.’... On the face of it, this sounds admirable – the neurodiversity movement has indeed empowered many with autism, most recently, the young climate campaigner Greta Thunberg who described it as her ‘superpower’. But the movement is proving to be harmful in a number of ways. Firstly, neurodiversity advocates can romanticise autism. While many with mild forms of autism might lead relatively ‘normal’ daily lives with little or no assistance, many who are more severely affected cannot function properly without round-the-clock care. Yet John Marble, the self-advocate and founder of Pivot Diversity – an organisation in San Francisco that aims to ‘pivot autism towards solutions which empower autistic people, their families and employers’ – posted on Twitter in 2017: ‘THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SEVERE AUTISM, just as there is no such thing as “severe homosexuality” or “severe blackness”.’ Worryingly, this trend of romanticising autism has extended to other conditions that can be severe, debilitating, and life-threatening. There are now groups of self-advocates who celebrate depression and schizophrenia. This could also be related to the growth of pro-anorexia websites, as well as the more recent emergence of ‘addiction pride’. The idea that autism is ‘a variation of normal’ is at odds with scientific understanding of the condition... Neurodiversity advocates still label those who express a desire for treatment or cure as Nazis and eugenicists... some advocates have become authoritarian and militant, harassing and bullying anyone who dares to portray autism negatively, or expresses a desire for a treatment or cure. This extends to autism researchers in academia and the pharmaceutical industry... One widely used treatment is Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA), which involves intensive one-on-one therapy sessions aimed to develop social skills. However, neurodiversity advocates consider ABA to be cruel and unethical, and campaign for withdrawal of government funding for the treatment. Furthermore, they are trying to legitimise self-diagnosis of autism... The neurodiversity movement is dividing both the autism community and autism researchers. Advocates make the distinction between autistics and ‘neurotypicals’, or nonautistics. This fosters an ‘us versus them’ mentality, wherein nonautistic people are regarded as an oppressive enemy. It also fosters intolerance towards different ways of thinking about autism, as well as a deep and unhealthy mistrust of the scientific and medical communities. Ironically, a social-justice movement that aims to highlight the ways in which autistic people have been mistreated by society is now directly responsible for the mistreatment of the most vulnerable of all autistics – many of whom are too severely affected by their condition to speak up for themselves. In standing up for their rights, a group of marginalised people are effectively hyper-marginalising the very people they claim to be advocating for... It also poses a major problem for autism research... individuals considered to be ‘low-functioning’ are being overlooked by the research community."
The Creeping Orthodoxy of the Neurodiversity Movement - "parents of autistic children were bullied by neurodiversity advocates online for expressing their views... Spectrum News reported a story in 2019 about a puppet show that had to be canceled following the circulation of a petition that gathered 12,000 signatures, even though the author of the show was the carer of an autistic child who wrote the script seeking input from people on the spectrum. The neurodiversity movement's central claim is that autism is a difference, not a disorder. Autistic people struggle because society is not sufficiently accommodating, not because there is anything inherently wrong with autistic people... Neurotypicals outnumber autistic people by a ratio of around 54:1, so expecting billions of people to educate themselves on autistic modes of communication is unrealistic... since every autistic person is different, no single advocate can realistically hope to represent the group as the whole... Neurodiversity in its current form is simply unsustainable. Already there are movements such as Mad Pride which celebrate mental illness as a reaction to the historically deplorable asylums and institutionalization conditions of the past. This idea makes a sort of poetic sense in a book like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, but from a practical standpoint, it is not of much use. Try telling someone experiencing a psychotic episode that they should be “proud” of what they are going through. (Yes, some Shamanistic cultures see schizophrenia as a sign of spirituality, but most people would still say it is profoundly disabling.) Try telling someone with crippling anxiety or depression that their condition has its redeeming qualities. Neurodiversity advocacy seems to assume that one must have redeeming qualities in order to be valuable. While it is true that advocates try to educate on behalf of all people regardless of their level of “functionality,” and are staunch supporters of the non-speaking, they usually put the most articulate, best-educated, and most socialized individuals forward as leaders. The problem is that even though autism can inhibit communication and comfort in social settings, advocates need to be good communicators. So, only a small proportion of the autistic population are being represented by neurodiversity... an alarming dogma has arisen. Neurodiversity advocates don’t like to be told their own personal story is “inspiring.” They call this “inspiration pornography”—unintentional ableism that actually tells disabled people they are a burden and reinforces stereotypes. So if you offer a neurodiversity advocate a compliment of that kind, they are likely to take offense, even if it is well-intended. The suspicion is that you are simply trying to make yourself feel better about who you are as a person. (I try to accept any compliment I am given. Call me naive.)"
Ableist discrimination is why society doesn't approve of autistic individuals who start screaming in public
Most black adults say race is central to their identity, feel connected to black community
Blacks are the most racially conscious, followed by Hispanics, Asians and Whites. Since liberals tell us that race-blindness is racist, this proves that white people are the most racist of all, followed by Asians, and blacks are not racist.
