Pro-Pedophilia Activists Marched for 'Equal Rights' At 2022 Cologne Pride - "According to a post on the website K13online, members of the pedophile community called Krumme-13 congregated at the parade, colloquially known as Christopher Street Day (CSD), on July 2, and displayed a flag representing “minor-attracted persons” pride. The post uses the acronym LGBTIQ+P and demands the “official inclusion of pedophiles” within the LGBT movement. Describing the symbolism of the MAP flag, Krumme-13 says that the colors “connect pedo-, hebe- and/or also partheno-/ephebophiles,” which are sexual paraphilias that distinguish the preferred age ranges for sexual abusers. The baby blue and pink stripes in the MAP flag which symbolize a sexual interest in young boys and young girls, respectively, correspond with those seen in the transgender pride flag... Krumme-13, along with other German child sex abuse advocates, call for the inclusion of pedophilia as a protected “sexual identity” in accordance with Article 3 of Germany’s Basic Law, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of certain characteristics, including race and sex... The German government has its own dark history of supporting and even subsidizing child sexual abuse. Throughout the late 60’s – 80’s, German sexologists — including the originator of the term “cisgender” — began to frame adult sexual relations with children as progressive and harmless rather than abusive. The infamous ‘Kentler Experiment’ conducted by Berlin-based sexologist Helmut Kentler saw foster children placed in the homes of pedophiles beginning in 1969 for the purpose of facilitating child sexual abuse. This experiment was authorized and subsidized by the Berlin Senate. In 1988, nearly two decades later, Kentler described the project as a “complete success” in a report he submitted to the Senate. So pervasive was the cultural trend towards the legalization of pedophilia that even Germany’s Green Party advocated for the abolition of Paragraph 176 of the German Criminal Code, which criminalized sexual activity with children under the age of 14. According to leading German women’s rights advocate and journalist Alice Schwarzer, feminist groups were the only ones vocally opposing the legalization of pedophilia being championed by members of the Green Party... Schwarzer has explained that feminists were slandered for “exposing the whole mess”. She also pointed out how women were accused of homophobia for calling attention to attempts to legalize child sexual abuse. “In this discourse, homosexual pedophiles have taken the lead, although straight pedophiles are in the majority. They cleverly mixed their demands with the fight against discrimination against homosexuals,” wrote Schwarzer in 2013. Members of the modern German pedophile community who protested at the Pride event on July 2 made no reports of being physically or verbally assaulted for promoting their views. In contrast, during the same parade, a group of women were attacked by transactivists and called “TERFs” for implying that men could not identify as lesbians. One of their detractors was an organizer for the Dyke March."
Libs of TikTok on X - "NEW: MAP Union, an organization dedicated to defending and destigmatizing MAPs (aka p*dophil*s), claimed that the cancellation of the recent MAP CAMP in Vermont was a form of "oppression" and that criticism of the event should be considered "hate speech.""
Meme - "Press Release: Mu denounces the hysterical and violent response to MAP Camp
Mu is an international umbrella organization seeking to represent the MAP community. While it supported the MAP Camp event being held, it has no ties with MAP Camp itself, nor with the organizers of the event.
MAP Camp was a planned social gathering for minor-attracted people (MAPs) that was scheduled to be held this weekend at a campground in Vermont. It was first organized in July of this year by civil rights group MEDAL (MAP Equality, Dignity, and Liberation) but soon after became independently run. Preparation for the camp seemed to be going smoothly until bullies on X (formerly Twitter) caught wind of the event and decided to launch an attack against it, doxxing some of the people involved in the camp in the process and jeapordizing their safety. Many of the comments on X involved death threats and incitements to violence; comments that would be deemed hate speech if directed at any other minority group. Local law enforcement authorities were also contacted, but after looking into the event they concluded that no illegal activities were planned and that the MAPs involved were free to exercise their right to free speech and association. At a 3-hour long Marshfield Selectboard meeting on Tuesday, Lt. Thomas Howard, Vermont State Police’s Berlin Barracks commander, responded that “people having certain thoughts does not necessarily mean that they’ve committed a crime.” Mu applauds this stance in standing up for society's most oppressed minority group. While it is appropriate for law enforcement to investigate crimes when they occur, no-one should face legal sanctions for speaking freely about a sexual orientation they did not choose, nor for meeting up with others who have the same orientation."
Meme - "MAPs need community like everyone else
MAPs struggle massively with isolation; many feel unable to tell even their closest friends and family due to the extreme stigma and assumptions of criminality connected with being a MAP. This causes severe emotional distress, which is of benefit neither to MAPs nor the wider community. Events such as MAP Camp fill a pressing social need without involving the commission of unlawful or unethical activity, and purposefully exclude those under the age of 18. Such fellowship helps to prevent mental breakdowns and suicides, which are harmful to the individual, their family, and others who care about them. Unfortunately, while many MAPs would appreciate professional mental health support and non-MAP friends within the local community, they are rightfully terrified of confiding in anyone other than fellow MAPs. This is an extremely unfortunate reality that can only be solved by the wholesale destigmatization of minor-attraction.
MAPs are people who need a community of friends"
Meme - Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕 @jeremykauffman: "The First Amendment is on its way to being Great Replaced"
"African Americans and Hispanics Most Supportive of Hate Speech Laws. Would you favor or oppose a law that would make it illegal to say offensive or insulting things in public about...
% Who Believe It Should Be Illegal to Say Offensive or Insulting Things about..."
Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil: "Apparently about 60% of women and a bit under half of all men think the Constitution of the United States contains laws against hate speech. Hate speech is protected by the First Amendment."
Glenn Greenwald on X - "The minute liberals see non-white voters refusing to do what they're told -- ie: refusing to blindly vote Dem -- they unleash racist screeds, like this from the NYT, implying that non-white can't think for themselves and are only out of line because someone manipulated them:"
Trump Spreads His Politics of Grievance to Nonwhite Voters - The New York Times
Thread by @matthewstoller on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "progressive elites dramatically overvalue civility and order, and thus disdain much of the cultural stuff that young guys enjoy. I once attended a Young Dems conference, and there was an hour when all the different caucuses met. Disability caucus, black caucus, women's caucus, LGBT caucus, et al. What was left were a group of straight white guys just standing around, awkwardly. What kind of shit is that? How many Democratic activist-types actually listen to Joe Rogan? He's funny and weird and not at all how he's portrayed. Think about the angry reaction to Rogan endorsing Bernie. That's just Dems being annoying mean weirdos. Of course it is. The civility tone policy is extremely irritating to everyone."
Matthew Randazzo V on X - "100% true, applies to many Native American young males I work with as an adviser to Tribal governments. The sense of progressivism as Political HRism, policing speech and humor and media, is extremely repellent to many young males, of all races."
Thread by @wanyeburkett on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I had a tweet a while ago, which I can’t seem to find now, about how one of the things that draws me to conservative circles is that you can mostly just say what you mean and expect that you’ll get a fairly charitable response in return, whereas in progressive circles the norm is to do a lot of throat clearing and, “to be clear,” and 20 or 30 rounds of, “of course we’re just talking about averages and there are exceptions” that won’t ever be enough, because there’s always somebody who says, “you say that’s the average, but how can you explain that I just thought of an exception?” no matter how careful you are. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn there’s a gender dimension to this. The thing about young men is that when they are together in a group they like to be crass, they like to generalize, they like to throw out absurd hypotheticals they can’t defend, they like to have arguments just for the sake of it. It’s basically the exact opposite of every progressive norm.
It couldn’t be clearer that progressives no longer even believe that these are mere preferences, that you could of course have an environment like the one I describe and that would be fine, it’s just that it’s not for them. No, they really quite clearly believe that their mode of discourse is correct and the other mode of discourse is immoral. They don’t think you’re allowed to just talk about anything you want any way you want. This came for the workplace first, but these norms have spread to every organization they influence. They genuinely believe that the mode of discourse I’m describing is deeply wrong, immoral, and illegitimate. Certainly this is part of what’s going on with the debate about misinformation. And its core, they don’t like the way a guy like Joe Rogan approaches the world. They think there are things you just shouldn’t talk about in certain ways. They start with that proposition and then backfill specific instances of things he’s said that are convenient for making the argument they were already emotionally committed to."
I read this article where the author commented that when writing articles for right wingers, you can get straight down to business, but when you're addressing the left, you need to waste a lot of time doing emotional labour, like reassuring them you agree with them on a lot of things, that you have common values even if you disagree on interpretations of data, and things like that
The Return of Blasphemy and Sacrilege Laws in the Most Unlikely Places - "Denmark surrendered to threats of violence by terrorists and authoritarian states by implementing a sacrilege law that one would expect to find in Iran, the Spanish Inquisition, or ancient empires. Under this new law, Danes who peacefully express their disdain for religious teaching by desecrating a religious text will be sent to prison for two years for the mere crime of using their free expression in ways the government believes to be distasteful. At least a Danish prison is better than the Iranian gallows...
Now many may recoil at the sight of crude book burnings, seeing shadows of the Nazi’s mass burning of books in their consolidation of power and purging of “un-German” ideas. Others may worry about the impact of anti-Islamic or antisemitic behavior on traditionally marginalized groups. But burning documents has also been a powerful and evocative form of expression across history. Danish free-speech expert Jacob Mchangama points out numerous examples:
Martin Luther burned the Papal bull that labeled him a heretic and called for the destruction of his writings.
Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison burned a copy of the US Constitution for its acceptance of slavery as “a covenant with death,” and “an agreement with Hell.”
Anti-Vietnam War activists and pacifists burned their draft cards.
The US Supreme Court has upheld the right of Americans to burn the American flag, overturning a Texas law forbidding the “desecration of a venerated object.”
By outlawing such sacrilegious speech, Denmark empowers the violent, showing that even the most liberal and secular democracies will fold when faced with religious fury. Artists and former Muslims that want to criticize Islam, or its interpretation by totalitarians and terrorists, will go to jail while those threatening violence are accommodated. As my fellow Cato colleague, Mustafa Akyol, has pointed out, this law also does not help Muslims at all. Forcing “respect” through threats of violence or legal censorship will likely only exacerbate conflict. In the midst of the Quran burnings, an Iranian burned copies of the Bible, Torah, and the Swedish and Danish flags in Copenhagen, and it barely even registered in the news. While Danes, Swedes, and other major religions tolerated such acts of expression, even the most liberal of Danes likely feels that Islam is too thin‐skinned—hardly a way to promote social harmony and respect."
Westbrook, Maine's Chick-fil-A is Owned by Two Married Gay Men - "Chick-fil-A was raising money and supplies for No Bowl Empty 2 Pet Food Pantry out of Waterboro. I was asked if I could help share this news. I felt trapped. I love this organization and of course, would love to help, but by helping I would have to tell people to eat at Chick-fil-A in Westbrook! What the hell should I do? The particular fundraiser ended in February, but No Bowl Empty 2 Pet Food Pantry is always in need of your help. That's when it was brought to my attention that the Westbrook CFA (I can't keep typing that out) was owned by a married couple -- Brad and Jeremy. Wait, what?! Yup. A gay couple owns the Westbrook CFA! Hold on -- that's a huge game-changer. This isn't a secret either. It's not like they are closeted and I'm spilling the beans. Nope. They have been with CFA for about 10 years now in the south and recently moved to Maine to open our second CFA (the first is in Bangor and has been open since 2016). This is Brad, Jeremy, and their best friend Sarge."
Clearly, this must be internalised homophobia, because gay men who oppose the left wing agenda aren't real gays
Meme - Man to sheep: "A WOLF BEHIND YOU!"
Sheep: "NO TO WOLF HATERS ! NO TO WOLFPHOBIA !" *booting man out* *happy wolf*
Meme - "Pascal's wager in the 21st century: God may or may not be real, but the other side is so passionate, so committed to worshipping Satan, evil, homosexuality and corrupting children that even if god wasnt real, believing in him to fend these demons off is preferrable."
Meme - Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen: "This Danish politician proposed a law to make it illegal to mock Islam: § 140. Anyone who publicly mocks the religious teachings or worship of a religious community legally existing in this country shall be punished by a fine or imprisonment for up to 4 months.""
"Sikandar Siddique @SikandaSIDDIQUE: "Former Member of Parliament (DK) Political leader of Independent Greens (Frie Gronne)"
I remember when the left was against blasphemy laws
Bath & Body Works controversy: Candle that looks like KKK hood pulled - "Meant to be a nod to a folded snowflake cutout, some folks online dubbed the design the Klandle and the KKKandle for the pair of cutout holes in the white pointed snowflake tips. The company issued an apology on Thursday about the Snowed In three-wick candle"
Meme - Mark J. Perry @Mark_J_Perry: "Narrative Destabilizing Fact: For the last four quarters and in 7 of the last 8 quarters, Asian women have outearned White men. For weekly earnings in Q3 this year, there was a 7% gender pay gap favoring Asian women and White men earned only 93 cents for every $1 earned by Asian women ($1,292 vs. $1,393) https://bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf What happened to the male patriarchy, systemic racism, and white privilege in America? @realchrisrufo @CHSommers @stevenfhayward @elonmusk"
Meme - NPCs: "Abort our own children. Import hostile immigrants. Disarm ourselves."
i/o on X - "The real estate website Redfin decided a couple of years ago to stop showing neighborhood crime data (and encouraged other real estate sites to do the same) because publishing these data would "reinforce racial bias." It argues, bizarrely, that crime data doesn't answer homebuyer questions about neighborhood safety. If crime data doesn't, then what would?"
Meme - "r/NoStupidQuestions
Why is support of Islam considered to be a progressive standpoint while a lot of it is very conservative in nature?"
"Removed: Loaded Question. Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of NoStupidQuestions."
Ironic. They know the answer is really obvious
Meme - "ACTUALLY, GAY RELATIONSHIPS ARE JUST AS NORMAL AS STRAIGHT ONES."
*Takes PrEP*
"What's that?"
"MEDS TO PREVENT GAY RELATIONSHIPS FROM KILLING ME."
Raya and the Last Dragon: why it’s time to retire ‘Asian’ as a film category - "As an adjective that applies to 60% of the world’s population, from Turkmenistan to India to China, it’s not exactly fit for purpose. Was it ever? Raya and the Last Dragon illustrates how unhelpful a description it can be. It is set in the fictional realm of Kumandra, which is very much south-east Asian. Its artists researched cultures across the region: Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia. That work is reflected in the movie’s meticulous visual detail: the architecture, the landscape, the food, the weaponry, the costumes, the colours. To an outside eye, at least, it seems to have been done diligently and respectfully. One problem: apart from Tran (whose parents are from Vietnam), most of Raya’s voice cast are of Chinese or Korean descent – so east Asian, rather than south-east Asian. The move has inevitably drawn criticism online. One open letter to Disney from a California university dismissed Raya as “not real representation”. In its defence, many of Raya’s team are south-east Asian, including the writers Qui Nguyen and Adele Lim. But the issue is compounded by Raya’s fictionalised setting, which effectively smushes together a highly diverse region. Disney has some form in composite fictional realms: see Aladdin (set in “Agrabah”, AKA “some Arabic kinda place”), or Moana’s Polynesian isle of “Motunui”. Not to mention Black Panther’s Wakanda, although its geographic obscurity was part of the point, and faithful to the comic books. In contrast, Disney’s European tales tend to be more specific: Brave’s Scotland or Beauty and the Beast’s France. How would we feel about a movie land that smushed together, say, England, France and Germany? Then again, Frozen, with its pan-Scandinavian setting, comes close. As does some Japanese anime: Kiki’s Delivery Service, for example, takes place in a generic “Europe”."
Another reason Oriental is superior to Asian as a term
What is the story behind the growing network of French far right-funded schools and universities?
It's only okay to be associated with the far left
Meme - The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole84: "The Woke Mind Virus in Academia"
"Frequency of Terms Denoting Prejudice in 175 Million Scholarly Abstracts
racism. racist. racists. xenophobia. white supremacy. sexism. sexist. misogyny. patriarchy. gender discrimination. homophobia. homophobic. anti-gay. transphobia. transphobic. islamophobia. islamophobic. anti-semitism. anti-semitic. ableism. ableist. ageism. ageist. fatism. fatphobia *soaring frequency for all but racists, anti-gay, anti-semitism*"
The Brandeis Language Police Have Suggestions for You - The Atlantic (aka "Even Trigger Warning Is Now Off-Limits") - "according to counsel from Brandeis University’s Prevention, Advocacy & Resource Center, or PARC... we must retire victim, survivor, trigger warning, and African-American too. We must do so, that is, if we seek to ignore some linguistic fundamentals while also engaging in distinctly callow sociological calisthenics. When we are to even “consider” avoiding the word prisoner (try person who was incarcerated) or walk-in (because not all people can walk) and the phrase everything going on right now (I’ll leave you to find out what’s wrong with that one), we are being preached to by people on a quest to change reality through the performative policing of manners... The PARC list is a sign of our times, in which language policing has reached a near fever pitch, out of a sense that labeling common terms and expressions as “problematic”—that is, blasphemous—is essential to changing society. The Brandeis guidance could easily have come from innumerable other advocacy groups, university bureaucracies, or corporate human-resources offices, and it merits a closer look... On the list, metaphors must be taken literally, such that words’ basic meaning never shift... Where do you draw the line? Let’s consider a phrase not included on the Brandeis list: That sucks. Upon reflection, we know that the original reference was sexual, but even someone who has decided that we can’t take a shot at anything would likely say that the usage of sucks has drifted so far that its origin point is essentially irrelevant. The same verdict applies to killing it and trigger warning, which this list also includes (we are told to substitute the flavorless content note). In the same way, the list proscribes calling things crazy or insane, because these terms can be construed as disrespectful of people with actual psychological problems. Better to say bananas... One can imagine a future list condemning bananas not just because it too mocks mental illnesses but also, perhaps, because it dismisses the hard work of those who pick the fruit. A disclaimer atop the Brandeis list declares, “Use of the suggested alternatives is not a university expectation, requirement or reflection of policy.” Good, because the authors do not appear to know or care how far their recommendations reach. Do they really intend to stigmatize the singing or playing of Patsy Cline’s “Crazy”? Or to banish the expression rule of thumb because of an obscure and probably false folk etymology—namely, an antique British law that allowed men to beat their wife as long as the instrument used was no wider than a thumb? Elsewhere our language crusaders miss that replacing an expression with negative connotations is like swatting away gnats, because those same connotations regularly coalesce on the new term as well. Crippled was changed to handicapped; after a while, this needed replacing, and thus came disabled; today terms such as differently abled attempt yet again to elude the negative associations some assign to physical disability. This is an old story, one that the cognitive scientist Steven Pinker calls a “euphemism treadmill.”... PARC is inconsistent here: Why is homeless person mean but enslaved person is okay? Are we next to say persons without freedom?... The PARC list further teaches us to not refer to people as survivors of a traumatic experience because it implies that what they went through is their essence. Not long ago, survivors was itself the euphemism-treadmill alternative to victims. Today, we are urged to describe them as having experienced or been impacted by something bad. Who would really welcome this verbal Kabuki? A person who has been impacted by an earthquake? A person who has been impacted by cancer? We must wonder whether the composers of the list would in fact tell someone who has been a victim of racist abuse that they really ought to phrase it as though they have merely experienced it... the Brandeis authors seem like people with a hammer to whom everything is a nail, driven by mission creep from sensible language pruning into obsessive, self-congratulatory language policing—reminiscent of those rare souls back in the day who only semi-jokingly called the Sony devices “Walkpersons.” At one point the authors, rooting out verbal crimes that no one commits, warn us to resist our urge to refer to people as “hermaphrodites.” Well, I’ll try my best!... Couched as compassionate counsel, this list is mostly a series of prim concoctions by people who, one suspects, simply need more to do"
From 2021
School children are using homophobic slurs 'without even realising they're hateful' - "‘gay’ being used as an insult is nothing new. Stonewall launched a campaign in 2013 to tackle the ‘epidemic levels of homophobia’ riddling schools, with 99% of youths at the time saying they heard the phrase, ‘That’s so gay,’ at school."
Since intent does not matter, queer people "reclaiming" "slurs" are being bigots too
White Brits are dying faster than other ethnic groups - "White Brits are dying at higher rates than ethnic minorities because of their drinking and smoking habits, new figures have revealed. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), white Brits were dying in higher numbers then any other ethnic group in almost every town, city and village in the UK from March 2021 to May 2023. People from Bangladeshi backgrounds in smaller towns and cities were the only exception to the rule... The pattern of white people dying at higher rates in Britain goes back many years and was only disrupted during Covid when ethnic minorities died at a greater rate."
Left wingers will mock them for falling behind despite their "privilege"
Meme - End Wokeness @EndWokeness: "We have reached the point where our Capitols are removing Jefferson while monuments to Satan are erected. Realize where we are."
Meme - "Isn't it weird that in America, if you fly an American flag, everyone knows who you're voting for?"
We're still told that left wingers don't hate their countries
End Wokeness on X - "Europe's conquest of America and the creation of Western civilization is not something to be ashamed of. We ended slavery here. We banished cannibalism. We eliminated human sacrifice. We made the best nation on earth. We should be PROUD of our history."