Meme - Gloria Lucas nalgonapositivitypride: "People are like "I am an empath" and then say nothing during a genocide."
The left only cares about certain "genocides"
Meme - Kyrsten Sinema @kyrstensinema: "#OnThisDay in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech to 250,000 Americans at the March on Washington."
sairarao @sairasameerarao: "The hypocrisy and violence of white women in one tweet."
Liberals just hate white people
Meme - Dr. Erik Wade @erik_kaars: "Lot to say about The Northman's ahistorical "Viking" masculinity, but it's troubling as hell that the faux-runic font of the title features the ethel--a rune tied to modern white neo-Nazi movements--as the "o". Hard not to read this as a racist dog-whistle. #MedievalTwitter"
Runes are racist. White culture and history are racist
Meme - "Everyone in the Batwoman situation is gay, so regardless whoever you side with, you're homophobic."
Meme - Buck Sexton @BuckSexton: "Really all the Soviets needed to do was convince Americans that criticizing communism was "hate speech"and they could have won the Cold War"
Child molestations by homosexual foster parents: Illinois, 1997--2002 - "Do those who engage in homosexuality disproportionately sexually abuse foster or adoptive children as reported by child protective services? Illinois child services reported sexual abuse for 1997 through 2002. 270 parents committed "substantiated" sexual offenses against foster or subsidized adoptive children: 67 (69%) of 97 of these mother and 148 (86%) of 173 of these father perpetrators sexually abused girls; 30 (31%) of the mothers and 25 (14%) of the father perpetrators sexually abused boys, i.e., 92 (34%) of the perpetrators homosexually abused their charges. Of these parents 15 both physically and sexually abused charges: daughters by 8 of the mothers and 4 of the fathers, sons by 3 of the mothers, i.e., same-sex perpetrators were involved in 53%. Thus, homosexual practitioners were proportionately more apt to abuse foster or adoptive children sexually."
Damn discrimination and stigma!
Meme - "I never exactly "left" left-wing ideology, it's just that 90% of leftists became hypocrites who I don't want to associate with They say they're against fascism then go all in on covid fascism. They say they're against the establishment and then hype up joe biden, They say they're against capitalism but are fine with corporations controlling the media as long as it supports their message. They say they're anti-racist yet view everything through the lens of race. They say they're pro free speech but then cheer when someone has their voice taken away by a social media megacorporation, They say they support trans people and then treat us like infants who can't handle somebody saying the wrong pronoun. They say they support the working class and then demonize the people who do all the actual important work in this country. They're just all full of shit and have no principals, they only want welfare and for their specific to get special privileges nobody else has"
Meme - Ben Shapiro @be...: "TFW you finish third but still finish first in the self- involvement Olympics"
Gad Saad @GadSaad: "She may have gotten the bronze but she is aiming for gold in the Oppression Olympics."
Meme - *Liberal upset at conservative walking down the street, imagining that the conservative is mad at a black person walking down the street*
Meme - Reddit Lies @reddit_lies: "The man who beat a robbed a 91 year old in france wasn't black, he was a dark-skinned white person."
Recuckgnizant: "Cushitic (Hamitic) peoples. Dark skinned white people that reside in Africa. Ethiopians, Somalians, and all of the other Horn of Africa Cushites would deeply resent your comment of calling them Black. Your phrenology racist brethrens classified them as Caucasoids. Learn your history before you spew anti Black racism please.
Edit: I guess this is more referring to the comment above rather than directly to you... Unless you're a racist as well."
“Exclusively black” theatre argues white complainant can’t claim racial discrimination - "A Toronto theatre that hosted a performance “exclusively for black audiences” is demanding that the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario dismiss a complaint because the complainant is white and therefore has “no standing” to claim racial discrimination. The complaint was filed by former People’s Party of Canada candidate Robert Stewart earlier this year concerning “Black Out Nights” performances hosted by Theatre Passe Muraille... In his human rights complaint, Stewart argued that the theatre violated Section 13 and Section 1 of the Ontario Human Rights Code for admitting attendees based on their race, which in turn, caused him a “serious level of discomfort and discouragement.” In response to Stewart’s complaint, Theatre Passe Muraille’s lawyer, Morgan Sim, filed a response vehemently denying the allegations and asserting that the complainant, being white, is not entitled to any relief for racial discrimination. The theater’s legal argument draws on a previous Ontario human rights tribunal ruling, Lisikh v. Ontario (Education), which held that white individuals and those who are non-racialized do not have standing to claim racial discrimination."
Some animals are more equal than others. Institutional racism is well and alive in Ontario
Opinion | My Native American father drew the Land O’Lakes maiden. She was never a stereotype. - The Washington Post - "That was my thought earlier this month when I heard that “Mia,” as the Land O’Lakes Native American maiden was known, had been taken off the butter box. She was gone, vanished, missing. I knew Mia had devolved into a stereotype in many people’s minds. But it was the stereotype some saw that bothered me. North Dakota state Rep. Ruth Buffalo (D), for instance, told the Pioneer Press in St. Paul, Minn., that the Land O’Lakes image of Mia went “hand-in-hand with human and sex trafficking of our women and girls … by depicting Native women as sex objects.” Others similarly welcomed the company’s removal of the “butter maiden” as long overdue. How did Mia go from being a demure Native American woman on a lakeshore to a sex object tied to the trafficking of native women?... In 1954, my father, Patrick DesJarlait, redesigned the image again. My father had been interested in art since boyhood, when he drew images related to his Ojibwe culture... After I was born in 1946, my family moved from Red Lake, Minn., to Minneapolis, where my father broke racial barriers by establishing himself as an American Indian commercial artist in an art world dominated by white executives and artists. In addition to the Mia redesign, his many projects included creating the Hamm’s Beer bear. By often working with Native American imagery, he maintained a connection to his identity... With the redesign, my father made Mia’s Native American connections more specific. He changed the beadwork designs on her dress by adding floral motifs that are common in Ojibwe art. He added two points of wooded shoreline to the lake that had often been depicted in the image’s background. It was a place any Red Lake tribal citizen would recognize as the Narrows, where Lower Red Lake and Upper Red Lake meet... Mia simply didn’t fit the parameters of a stereotype. Maybe that’s why many Native American women on social media have made it clear that they didn’t agree with those who viewed her as a romanticized and/or sexually objectified stereotype. Instead, Mia seems to have stirred a sense of remembrance and place, one that they found reassuring about their existence as Native American women... Mia’s vanishing has prompted a social media meme: “They Got Rid of The Indian and Kept the Land.” That isn’t too far from the truth. Mia, the stereotype that wasn’t, leaves behind a landscape voided of identity and history. For those of us who are American Indian, it’s a history that is all too familiar."
Oxfam‘s bizarre’ language guide says sorry for using English and warns staff not to use words like 'mother and people' - "Oxfam has been slammed for a "bizarre" new "inclusive" language guide issued to staff that warns against using a whole slew of normal words like "stand", "pregnant mother" and "people" - and even apologises for being written in English. The charity guide says that words like "headquarters", "local" and even "people" have colonial implications and should be avoided... Words related to age like "youth" and "the elderly" were also better off avoided, to allow people to remain dignified... Robert Buckland, the Conservative former justice secretary, said: "Most people will find this particular use of valuable time and resources by Oxfam totally bizarre. It would do them well to remember the old adage that actions speak louder than words."... The guide says headquarters... implies a colonial power dynamic", "aid sector... cements ideology where an agent with resources gives support on a charitable basis and "field trip" can "reinforce colonial attitudes"... The 92-page guide, which was released this week, advises staff to avoid saying they "stand with" people they support because it could be considered ableist and alienate "people unable to stand". Meanwhile even the word "people" should be used cautious, as it "is often misunderstood as only referring to men". The charity came in for stinging criticism for the guide, with some observers telling Oxfam to focus on their core mission of alleviating poverty... "In Africa, women have a one in 37 chance of dying in pregnancy. But Oxfam seems to think what's really important is erasing clear language about the very people who are most at risk. "Oxfam cannot safeguard women and children if they can't communicate clearly who women and children are." Lee Monks, of the Plain English Campaign, said: "Oxfam themselves say, by way of announcing their new guide, that words matter. It seems that what they mean is optics are more important than clarity." Nigel Mills, Tory MP for Amber Valley, said: "It's as though Oxfam are trying to take the word 'woman' out of the dictionary – it's nonsense." Toby Young of the Free Speech Union said it was "hard to take all this woke virtue-signalling seriously". He added: "It's rather like being lectured by a finger-wagging vicar from behind his pulpit even though he's been publicly disgraced. "It would be altogether more sensible if Oxfam focused on its core mission of alleviating poverty and starvation.""
Undocumented Latino Immigrants and the Latino Health Paradox - "Despite having worse healthcare access and other social disadvantages, immigrants have, on average, better health outcomes than U.S.-born individuals. For Latino immigrants, this is known as the Latino health paradox"
Damn racism and white supremacy!
High School Endorses LGBTQ Club But Rejects Pro-Life Club Because It's "Too Controversial" - "The Gulf Coast High School in Naples, Florida, officially recognized a pro-LGBTQ Club, but denied a pro-life club at a school board meeting earlier this year... The pro-life club, Sharks 4 Life, was rejected by the school principal because it was “too political and controversial.”"
Hillary Clinton: Lesson of George Orwell's '1984' is to trust 'leaders, the press, experts' - "The goal is to make you question logic and reason and to sow mistrust towards exactly the people we need to rely on: our leaders, the press, experts who seek to guide public policy based on evidence, ourselves"
‘Being Nice’ A ‘Tool Of White Supremacy,’ Female Racial Activists Warn - "“White women’s obsession with ‘being nice’ is one of the most dangerous tools of white supremacy,” Race2Dinner posted on their Twitter account... Race2Dinner leaders Regina Jackson and Saira Rao created the organization to offer white women an opportunity to “smash” their “white fragility” by hiring women of color to attend dinner with as they’re guilt-tripped for all the alleged suffering they have caused them by virtue of being white. The “mission” of the group is to “reveal the naked truth about RACISM in America and UNLEASH YOUR POWER as white women to dismantle it.”... Rao, one of the founders of Race2Dinner and a former Democratic congressional candidate, “blamed white people for making her life ‘miserable,’ and said that she can’t stand the sight of the American flag”... “The American flag makes me sick,” Rao posted in one tweet. In an other post, she wrote: “White people have done everything to make my life miserable. Yet I’m supposed to not hate white people?”... Race2Dinner said that “gaslighting is white people’s favorite” and claimed the United States was founded on violence."
Meme - Queen Mab @QueenMab87: "Dude don't speak for black people and again Bernie's record is completely insignificant"
Philip Shropshire @mrpshropshire: "l am black so...you know."
Queen Mab @QueenMab87: "Sorry your syntax in that tweet implied otherwise"
Meme - "I feel like leftists, as a collective, could bear to get better at fighting."
"this is a pretty bad idea - upper body strength in men is positively correlated with right wing political views, and do you really want the left represented by people who share the fascist aesthetic?"
"The concept of 'physical health', 'beauty' and body 'strength' is oppressive anyway. It implies some people are physically superior and others inferior based on arbitrary standards and social constructs. We're all valuable and equal as human beings."
Batley Grammar School closes for second day as protesters gather in wake of Prophet Mohammed row - "The school at the centre of a row over the showing of a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed in class closed today after crowds gathered at the gates for a second day. Batley Grammar School in West Yorkshire has switched to remote learning as around 50 protesters again called for the sacking of the teacher who showed pupils the image. Crowds gathered again on Friday to complain about the image, which parents said had been taken from the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The school has apologised over the "inappropriate" image, which was shown during a religious studies class this week, and suspended a teacher... One protester whose children attend the school, who only wanted to be identified as Mr Hussain, said: "What people are trying to convey here to the media and to the British public at large is we would not like any form of extremism, any extremist viewpoints, to be taught to children." He said the western world "is at a loss in understanding the reaction" from the Muslim community when the Prophet Mohammed is "insulted in any way, shape of form"... Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said: "I was disturbed to see scenes of people protesting outside the school - that is not right. "We shouldn't have teachers, members of staff of schools feeling intimidated, and the reports that a teacher may even be in hiding is very disturbing. "That is not a road we want to go down in this country, so I would strongly urge people who are concerned about this issue not to do that."... The DfE came under fire for amplifying divisions after it branded the protests "completely unacceptable", and said they included "threats" and "intimidation". Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of Manchester-based Ramadhan Foundation, said: "It is alarming that the Department for Education chose to amplify those divisions by attacking the parents and pupils rather than looking how we can come together to have a respectful discussion and seek an end to this issue."... In the petition’s description, the unnamed student said: "He [the teacher] warned the students before showing the images. "He had the intent to educate them. He does not deserve such large repercussions." The student added that the teacher is "not racist" and that he did not support the cartoon or caricature of the Prophet Mohammed that he showed his pupils "in any manner". According to one report, the teacher did warn the children that what he was about to show them would be controversial and that they would tell their parents. The student said the issue had gotten "out of hand" and warned against a "repeat of what happened to the teacher in France when he showed the same pictures," in reference to the murder of French history teacher Samuel Paty by a suspected Islamist terrorist."
From 2021
Blasphemy laws are only bad when they're about Christianity
Religious education and current affairs are extremism. Trying to get a teacher fired for doing his job isn't extremism
Education Secretary condemns threats to Batley teacher amid Prophet Mohammed cartoon row - "Gavin Williamson said that the protests outside a West Yorkshire school on Thursday were "completely unacceptable", adding that teachers are allowed to expose pupils to “challenging or controversial” issues... The 29-year-old Religious Studies teacher is said to have shown the image to pupils during a lesson on Monday. On Thursday night, he was understood to be in hiding after police raised concerns for his safety when he was named online... "It is never acceptable to threaten or intimidate teachers. We encourage dialogue between parents and schools when issues emerge."... The department of education's response was criticised by the Manchester-based Ramadhan Foundation. Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the organisation, said the community rejected any violence or threat of violence, and said the incident "will now be hijacked by those who have an interest in perpetuating an image of Muslims"... Gary Kibble, the headmaster of Batley Grammar, had attempted to diffuse the situation by sending a letter to parents earlier this week. He offered “sincere and full apology”, adding that the picture shown was “completely inappropriate”... A senior police source said the teacher was receiving police protection... “Officers have been especially assigned to him,” said the source. “This is obviously very sensitive. Local Muslims are up in arms. There is obviously significant risk around the individual now.”... The teacher was named in a statement posted online by Purpose of Life, a local charity which has worked with Batley Grammar School. Its chief executive Mohammad Sajad Hussain accused the teacher of “sadistic behaviour” adding that the charity would not work with the school again until the teacher is “permanently removed”... Dr Paul Stott, associate fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, said: "Secondary schools have a duty to introduce pupils to contentious ideas and debates, as part of a process of teaching children how, rather than what, to think. "Schools in the UK must not concede policy to angry mobs at the school gates.”... "We have immediately withdrawn teaching on this part of the course and we are reviewing how we go forward with the support of all the communities represented in our school... Mr Hussain said the actions of the teacher were tantamount to “terrorism to Islam”. He said: "It seems to me there are people out there that want to abuse the freedom of speech by insulting our beloved Prophet. "To me this is clearly showing what hatred people have for the beautiful religion of Islam and is clearly sadistic behaviour.”"
"This is not happening, and it's good that it is"
Teacher suspended after showing pupils a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed is STILL in hiding - "A teacher who feared for his life after showing pupils a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed during an RE lesson has been given a new identity but still remains in hiding almost two years later... He was immediately forced to flee his housing association home in Batley with his partner and four young children and since then has been living in a secret location outside the Yorkshire area. He has also been provided with a new identity... The family source refused to reveal if the teacher, who was head of RE at Batley Grammar, remains in the teaching profession. Yunus Lunat, a prominent local lawyer who acted as spokesman for Muslim parents at the time of the incident, said: ‘The teacher is leading a new life under another identity somewhere far from here. But even if he was to come back to Batley, I can assure you that his life would not be in danger. ‘We’ve all moved on, everything is calm and has been settled after the initial furore. It’s a shame that the teacher concerned did not have the confidence to allow a mediated return to work. That is what the community wanted to achieve but that got drowned out by the media and political frenzy.’... A former neighbour of the teacher in Batley said: ‘He was a wonderful, caring man and they were a lovely family. We miss them a lot because they were a big part of this community. ‘He used to send all of his Muslim neighbours Eid cards and would celebrate the festival with us. That’s what makes this so said because he was very considerate towards our culture and faith. There is no way he would have deliberately wanted to offend Muslims.’... After initially showing the cartoon in class, the teacher was suspended from his job. But in May 2021 he was cleared following an independent external investigation into whether he caused deliberate offence. He was told he could have his job back."
He is an Islamophobe for not wanting to risk being beheaded
Batley’s crybully Islamists - "A bewildered sense of hurt punctuates Islamists’ behaviour, as they shift between the aggressive and the pleading. One minute we see Afsar chasing Kim Leadbeater to a car – the next, we see him telling his audience how upset he is... As the Batley Grammar controversy showed, Labour and the left more broadly have too often appeased Islamists. And, in doing so, they have emboldened and encouraged Islamists to indulge in increasingly aggressive, crybully tactics – as Leadbeater and Labour canvassers have since discovered. What’s more, Labour has refused to use the word Islamist to describe the Batley Grammar protesters or even Afsar himself. Indeed, they are referred to instead as ‘Galloway supporters’ or ‘anti-LGBT’ activists. Labour is going to extraordinary lengths to avoid calling a spade a spade. An Islamist is someone who seeks to uphold and enforce the norms of Islam not just in their personal lives, but also in wider society. Whether shouting or crying, that is what Afsar is. And that is what those who protested against the Batley Grammar teacher are."
Why shouldn’t schoolkids see cartoons of Muhammad? - "Batley Grammar School in West Yorkshire was founded way back in 1612. Among its famous alumni is one Joseph Priestley, a Christian dissenter and supporter of the French Revolution. Priestly was forced to flee Birmingham in 1791 after his views were met with rioting, and he eventually lived out his years in exile in the United States. Events this week in Batley should remind us how often history repeats itself, although in this case as farce, rather than tragedy... A local charity, Purpose of Life, has issued a statement demanding not just the sacking of a man it names as the teacher responsible, but also bizarrely linking the case to that of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. It is unclear how schoolchildren discussing caricatures compares to people ‘who initially suffered (murdered, raped, burned alive) for purely being Muslim and this will only increase if we allow this kind of behaviour’. How many times do we have to say this: cartoons are not the same as murder or acts of terrorism. At the centre of this dispute is a simple fact. Batley Grammar is a secondary school in a liberal democratic society. Secondary schools have a duty to introduce pupils to contentious ideas and debates, in order to prepare them for the world outside. The education system works best when it teaches children how to think, as opposed to what to think. It would be an entirely legitimate teaching tool, for example, for a religious-studies teacher to bring in contentious Charlie Hebdo cartoons showing Muhammad, and ask one group of students to present a case that the cartoons should be freely circulated, and another to present the case against – be it on religious grounds or any other. That is how people learn – by testing arguments, beliefs and propositions in public. One thing that was obvious by mid-morning was that the school had largely given in to the protesters... there appears to be no suggestion that anything illegal or discriminatory has occurred – pupils have just seen something that could cause ‘offence’. One wonders how those pupils will cope in the wider community as adults if, as teenagers, they are always protected from things that might offend them. We risk creating a generation of infantilised adults if we wrap our children up in cotton wool. Additionally, Batley Grammar School is exactly that – a school. It is not a madrassa, nor is it a mosque. While pupils should be free to follow or not follow any faith they choose, orthodox Islamic doctrines should never apply there. The events at Batley Grammar also serve as a reminder of how much contemporary multiculturalism owes to historic colonialism. When the big white chief sees the natives getting restless, he calls in the big brown chief. It is unclear who elected Mufti Mohammed Amin Pandor – a local Deobandi cleric – to intervene on the issue, but he was invited in to speak to Batley Grammar school staff and report back to parents"
Exclusive: Student reprimanded after backing teacher who showed picture of Mohammed - "A teacher trainee was summoned to a fitness to practise meeting after saying he “would not hesitate” to use drawings of the Prophet Mohammed in class. The student, who is due to complete his Postgraduate Certificate in Education course this summer, has accused staff at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) of reacting in a “ludicrous” manner... He went on to argue that the protest was a “clear attempt to enforce a de facto blasphemy law on teachers and schools”, adding that the teacher in Batley had been “thrown under a bus”... The trainee teacher did not receive a reply from his course leader, and instead was contacted one month later by the head of the teacher education department who said he must attend a “fitness to practise cause for concern meeting”. He was told that this meeting may result in him being referred to a full Fitness to Practise Panel following his comments about his willingness to show a picture of Mohammed in class. That could be a breach of the Teachers’ Standards which include upholding “public trust in the profession”, his head of department said. When he asked for an explanation as to why his remarks had triggered the intervention, he was told that the concern “specifically relates to the Prophet Mohammed” due to the “particular sensitivities relating to drawings of him that do not exist for many other religious figures”."
Why is Labour suppressing debate about Batley Grammar? - "It has banned a free-speech event in the constituency because, it says, it might not be Covid-secure. Laurence Fox, leader of the Reclaim Party, planned to hold a debate about Batley Grammar"
Unions' silence over Batley is shameful - "the school had ‘immediately withdrawn teaching on this part of the course’. This implied that the lesson was, in fact, part of the school’s pre-planned scheme of work. This would mean it was a product of detailed, structured, departmental collaboration, almost certainly following Ofsted guidance, and that the teacher had simply been delivering the lesson as intended. Nevertheless, the protesters, including a local Islamic charity, have vowed to continue protesting at the school until the teacher is fired. They have also called for further sackings. What have the teaching unions had to say about this threat to jobs? Absolutely nothing. Take Mary Bousted, head of the largest union, the National Education Union (NEU). After months of positioning herself as a champion of teachers’ rights, she has been mute in the face of this grave assault on a teacher who has been thrown to the wolves just for doing his job. Instead Bousted has found time to retweet about Brexit’s effects on cheese exports, and voter suppression laws in the United States, but nothing on the ugly situation developing in Batley. With no little irony, the top tweet in her timeline over the weekend proudly announced she is writing a book because ‘one of the things that upsets me most is how badly we treat our teachers’. Yet, when faced by a teacher losing his job simply for teaching children how to reflect critically on a picture, she doesn’t seem upset at all. There has been no statement of any kind from either of the other unions, the NASUWT and ATL. Together the three unions account for nearly all teacher union membership... This silence is in marked contrast to the strident, near-constant noise made by the unions in recent months, demanding that schools are kept shut during the pandemic. They even had the cheek, during the Black Lives Matter protests last summer, to insist publicly that ‘silence is violence’. Not when it comes to teachers’ jobs, it seems. This total lack of protection looks to have encouraged the protesters in their bullying of Batley. The Times reported that some protesters were warning darkly that the situation risked ‘becoming like France’, where teacher Samuel Paty was decapitated by an Islamist after showing pupils a cartoon of Muhammad. As one protester put it: ‘If one teacher can do it, another teacher can do it five years down the line, and we do not want this to be the case. Otherwise we are not responsible for the actions of some individuals.’... Perhaps the unions’ shameful silence shouldn’t surprise us. At the time of Paty’s brutal murder, Bousted and the leaders of the other teaching unions were unable to find it within themselves to comment, let alone campaign. While that was bad enough, this time the events similar to those in France involve one of the unions’ own members. And yet still they offer no support or protection. Their actions are inexcusable. At least pupils at Batley are rallying to the teacher’s side. They have launched a petition calling for the reinstatement of the teacher. It has gained over 50,000 signatures within two days of its launch. What a damning indictment of teaching today. Educators have to rely on their own pupils to defend them, while their professional representatives stand silently by as a fundamentalist mob seeks vengeance"
