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Saturday, November 09, 2024

Links - 9th November 2024 (2 - Trans Mania)

The Heretical Liberal ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿณ️‍๐ŸŒˆ on X - "I remember rolling my eyes when I first heard the term "woke mind virus", thinking it was a bit melodramatic. But what else can you call this? This woman:
- blocked her son's puberty
-pumped him full of estrogen
-has a micropenis due to the PB's
- has absolutely no sexual function and never has
And after all this, when he inevitably becomes suicidal at 20 (because of course he did) rather than show an ounce of self reflection and even consider for one second the possibility that it's because of all the physical, mental,emotional and spiritual damage she's inflicted upon him, she thinks the REAL problem is they haven't castrated him fast enough ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿผ‍♂️  it's like drinking alcohol throughout your pregnancy and then when the baby is born with severe birth defects, saying "oh no, if only I had drank more!"  This woke shit is a fucking malignant cancer, it fries otherwise normal ppls brains, it destroys the natural protective instinct parents have for their children and causes them to keep doubling down as they inflict more and more harm on their children.  This is fucking insane."
Meme - "I have no clue what to do, daughter can't get the bottom surgery and is becoming suicidal.
Hello, I have always been in support of my transgender daughter. When she was still a boy, and started expressing a want to be a girl, I did everything right. Therapists, then puberty blockers, everything. Now she is 20 and everything is falling apart. We had to hold off on the body surgery because of costs, but now finally had enough and went got several consults. All have said the same thing. The puberty blockers have left her with a micro penis. She has to get part of her vagina made with her colon. Well one of her friends had that surgery, and even years later it smells fairly colon like. Obviously my daughter is now distraught. She is in counseling, but is becoming worse and worse in her mental state and I am frantic. On top of this, she has never had any sexual function. NO urges, no erections, even when she tried masturbation to see if she could stimulate herself... nothing. The doctors say this may not change even after the surgery. Her dating life is dismal as well. We knew it would be hard. But its impossible. The one man who was with her for a while, soon just became frustrated by her lack of sexual anything and broke it off. I don't know what to do? A friend suggested I post here for advice. Please help me help my child!"
Left wingers like to mock conservatives for having no empathy, but when they have empathy for aborted fetuses and children who are transitioned, they are mocked for having it and told that they should mind their own business. Caring about other people is only good when it advances the left wing agenda

Jesse Singal on X - "Didn't realize that activists are seeking to enshrine in the New York State Constitution, via a bllot initiative, the belief that there is no tension between biological sex and gender identity"
Of course, we know the left love trans people more than women, so we know who will end up losing rights

Thread by @bourne_beth2345 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I wanted proof to show the world there was almost no stopping a trans-identified child from being medically "transitioned" at Kaiser Permanente once your child announced their trans ๐Ÿณ️‍⚧️ identity. I wanted written records from the pediatricians in my town (Davis, CA) exactly what would be their protocol for medicalizing a child, and if there were any guardrails in place for parents like me who were not affirming.  In order to do this, I pretended my younger child, my 15-year-old son, was interested in starting up on estrogen so he could present as female. Unlike his sister, my son had never experienced any distress over "gender" and wasn't likely to ever see this correspondence between his new pediatrician and me.  Within 2 days, I received all the proof I needed to show how every pediatrician was completely captured by radical gender ideology and no child was safe under Kaiser's care. The responses get more shocking as I ask harder questions ๐Ÿงต
Within 30 minutes, I hear back from my son's pediatrician. She says kids in Davis are often directly referred to the pediatric gender clinic, about an hour away in Oakland. I had already learned about the "Proud Clinic" with my daughter. This is a one-stop shop for transitioning kids with gender specialist counselors, fertility bank for storing sperm/eggs, and surgeons performing mastectomies "top surgery" on girls as young as 13. My next question is an easy one. "Could you tell me how you make the determination that a patient is ๐Ÿณ️‍⚧️transgender?"  Dr. Heidt quickly answers: "Usually it is the patient telling me how they identify. Some people feel strongly that they are male or female, no matter their gender at birth." So it's the child who is actually diagnosing himself or herself as transgender based on their feelings??!!
I ask the doctor if she might be willing to caution my son about the health risks of starting estrogen, feminizing hormone therapy, since he's only 15 years old.  Not only does Dr. Heidt skirt the issue of answering my question about the health risks associated with a 15-year old boy on cross-sex hormones, but she now responds with a message that now includes my ex-husband.  She says: "I am here to speak with Nathan (my patient, not sure what they want to be called now) if they feel ready and want to talk with me and of course am happy to discuss with parents as well. "
I already knew the answer to this question since I had done my own undercover investigation where I pretended to be nonbinary, and my daughter's psychiatrist had warned me about a patient (13-year "nonbinary" girl) of hers that was prescribed testosterone on the first visit. But I still asked it: "Could you tell me the minimum number of sessions with a mental health evaluator before XXX (my son) could be prescribed estrogen? " Dr. Heidt answers there is no "set number of sessions as every patient is different." She says not to worry, Kaiser isn't putting kids on wrong-sex hormones if they've only been thinking about it for a month or two as this would not be "consistent/persistent enough to meet the criteria." The criteria is 6 months. Insanity. ๐Ÿšฉ๐Ÿšฉ  She adds, "I know this can be very difficult as a parent but there are several excellent websites that you can check out." (all 3 are big TRA lobbying groups promoting the tran$ gender industry: TransParenting, Gender Spectrum, and Human Rights Campaign) ๐Ÿณ️‍⚧️๐Ÿณ️‍⚧️
Can children consent to being sterilized??  I decide to ask Dr. Heidt point-blank if she thinks my son is old enough at 15 to consent to taking life-altering drugs that could leave him sterilized.
My son's pediatrician acknowledges she can see in my son's records that his sister is "trans" and says parents need to consent. (What she doesn't say is that in California only one parent needs to consent and you will likely lose custody if you are the non-affirming parent holding the line.) ๐Ÿšฉ๐Ÿšฉ  She also says: "No one is going to force hormones on a child but rather offer support and affirmation for how a child is expressing themselves."
I pressed on and asked my son's pediatrician if there were any gender critical docs at Kaiser Davis. My friend in town had confided me in that there was a private group chat among her physician colleagues at Kaiser and a few docs had voiced their objection to being told to prescribe wrong-sex hormones to their patients - and instead were referring them to the new "gender affirming care" champion in the office, Dr. Yolanda Bakus. (The same doctor I met with for my undercover story where I pretended to be non-binary.)  ...and I can't help myself with this question "Could you recommend another doctor at Kaiser Davis for my son who is not an activist?" ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿคฃ
And here it is, the proof. The Kaiser Permanente pediatricians will take no responsibility or blame for the destruction (cancer risks, sterility, irreversible genital surgeries, etc.) to your child. Dr. Heidt says:  "As I mentioned in my first email, the primary care provider (whether it's a pediatrician or family medicine doctor) really has little oversight in this sort of situation."
It's a big money $$$ generating pipeline for confused kids ๐Ÿณ️‍⚧️๐Ÿณ️‍⚧️ as Kaiser is an HMO, so both the insurer and the provider. All of the Kaiser members are paying the shared cost of putting these kids on wrong sex hormones, needing fertility banks, providing cosmetic double mastectomies for teen girls, etc. It's the most horrific medical scandal of modern times.
My daughter grew out of her "trans-male" identity. She is proof that children should never be medicalized with puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and unnecessary double mastectomies."

Thread by @TwisterFilm on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "What motivates the Trans Lobby? Two images sum it all up. The first is of Robert Stoller the man who coined the term 'gender identity' and popularised the idea in the 1960s and 70s. Here he is in Papua New Guinea in 1979. Guess who took the photograph.๐Ÿ‘‰
The photographer was Gilbert Herdt who spent the 1970s studying the Sambia tribe who ritually abused young boys. Herdt went on to publicly defend child abuse in the 1990s. His work was then quoted approvingly by @petertatchell in his own defence of paedophilia in 1997.
The other image that explains the trans lobby is this one. "Virginia" Prince set up FPE, the first trans organisation, in the 60s and has been credited with effectively founding the trans movement. He was a psychiatric patient of Robert Stoller's for 27 years. It was almost certainly from " Virginia" that Stoller developed his idea that men embraced a trans identity as revenge on women. Trans identification was, he said, a form of sexual perversion rooted in hate and fear of women. Prince despised women.
That's why Stoller travelled to Papua New Guinea. The Sambia warriors also viscerally despised women. He and Herdt would later theorise Sambia child abuse was a type of behaviour motivated by the same fear fo women that drove trans identification back in America.
If a trans activist tells you their lobby is progressive remind them of its founding fathers: Virginia Prince who hated women (and gays) and his psychiatrist who concluded trans identification was akin to child abuse. Under the surface pathology still drives the trans lobby."
This would explain why MTFs hate women so much

Meme - Jesse Singal @jessesingal: "I'm confused as to how trans people or member of any other group can know the answer to an empirical question without conducting research on it?"
Few trans youths report regretting gender-affirming care, study finds - The Washington Post - "“I wish we didn’t need research like this, but we do,” said Chris Barcelos, an associate professor of women’s gender sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, who was not involved in the recent study. “It’s important that there is more data to support a thing that trans people … know, which is that there’s a really low rate of regret and really high rates of satisfaction with gender-affirming care for young people.”"
Left wingers Know things, and empirical evidence doesn't matter. A "myth" is a fact that left wingers hate, after all
Of course the media neglects to mention the problems with the "research" TRAs love to cite (the high sampling bias in this study they're citing, for example), and doesn't fact check the claims (like it being hard to get "gender affirming care", which Barcelos claims wrongly)

Meme - "If your vag needs a manual, it's probably not a vag. *MTF holding "The New Vagina Manual"*"

Thread by @The_Kyle_Mann on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The new Mass Effect board game has pronouns on its character sheets. The designer called anyone who complained about it a "manbaby". I'll be returning my copy, and I rated it a 1 on BGG.  I was then immediately kicked off the website I've been a member of since 2012 because of my religious beliefs that differ from the extremist gender ideology of the designer. Why the bigotry and exclusion, @BoardGameGeek?  Gatekeep your hobbies. Keep the woke extremists out. They will ruin your hobby in the name of "inclusion" and then kick you out and tell you you aren't welcome. My review even expressed a desire for more inclusion and diversity and they still kicked me off the site :( This also reminded me that a few years a go I replied to a BGG thread where someone said she was offended by the gendered nature of the term "dudes on a map" (referring to games with, you know, primarily male soldiers on a map, like Risk or Axis and Allies).  My comments were deleted and I was told by the admins that I was not allowed to disagree with the poster, no matter how polite I was."

Trannymaniacs full song - YouTube - "It's time for Trannymaniacs
They're disgusting to the max
Autogynaphiliacs
They wear skirts instead of slacks
They're Trannymanaiacs
Come join them on the discord server pronouns "she" and "her"
Soon enough they rope and they will change to "was" and "were"

They insist you call them "mam" though they look just like a "sir"
Adam's apple
Wide clavicle
Futa connoisseur
They are the Trannymaniacs
There's an axe-wound in their pants
They just can't accept the facts
They're looney to the max
They're Trannymaniacs
They say "Age is just a number", whenever they are found
Grooming minors on the internet or on the playground
They wait in women's restrooms when no one is around
Then they pop out
And whip it out
And swing it all around
They are the Trannymaniacs
They think they're cute but make me yak
No they can't transition back
But they're calling you the quack
They're trannymany
Totally insaney
Fucked up in the brainy
Trannymaniacs
Those are the facts"
BitChute Mirror

Colin Wright on X - "In this 2024 peer-reviewed paper in @jqtsie , the authors (both queer and trans) attempt to "queer" research and the traditional purpose of the academy so that it prioritizes "queer and trans joy, thriving, and life."  How do they do this? By utilizing "divination dialogues," which are "conversations that take place during and following a divinatory practice such as tarot reading, as a liberatory politic of community building and co-theorization on how to actualize our own futures in a colonial, neoliberal academy."  Through these "divination dialogues," the authors claim to have come up with "four ways that queer and trans academics can infuse our queerness into the academy as a reclamation of our space. The authors end the paper with a "Concluding Call to Action," which invites readers "to join our community, to allow us to celebrate in your abundance, to uplift you in your chrysalistic process of becoming" and to "be queerer, dream queerer, think more queerly, and embody all of the special elements of yourself in all that you do.""
Three Card Spread: Theorizing Queer and Trans Futurity for Tenure-Track Faculty Through Divination Dialogues

Meme - "Humans have two arms"
"UMMM WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE BORN WITH ONE OR EVEN THREE ARMS?! Because this happens sometimes that means how arms you have is a spectrum and humans actually have an infinite number of arms. My self-identity of having six.arms is now valid."

Meme - Wesley Yang @wesyang: "Making Vance weird is inseparable from the project of making Levine normal. If Levine is normal then Vance really is weird and vice versa.   The Administration worked tirelessly to enact this agenda for all four years."
"Biden Officials Pushed to Remove Age Limits for Trans Surgery, Documents Show. Newly released emails from an influential group issuing transgender medical guidelines indicate that U.S. health officials lobbied to remove age minimums for surgery in minors because of concerns over political fallout."

Meme - Ugly MTF: "I NEED FEMINISM BECAUSE "I AM A WOMAN" IS ALL U SHOULD HavE TO EXPLAIN ABOUT My GENDER"
"No one gives two flips that you say you're a woman. That's not the problem people have with you. The problem is your agenda.
- You want me fired from my job if I don't use the right pronoun of the 720 you just made up yesterday.
- If I disagree with your political opinion, or don't vote the way you want, then it's "violence against you".
- I've been oppressing you for thousands of years even though I was only born in 1981.
- Wearing a dress is all it takes for you to demand going into the women's locker room.
- You want masculinity to be medically recognized as "toxic" and a "potential mental illness".
- You want to teach my kids all this nonsense and make it where I can't withdraw them from school to avoid it.
Let everyone else live the way they want and nobody would even care what gender you think you are."

Meme - i/o @eyeslasho: "Sex offending rate of women: 3 per one million
Sex offending rate of men: 395 per million
Sex offending rates of transwomen: 1,916 per million"

Erin for Parental Rights on X - "๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿผ Starting the week with a big *WIN* for parental rights!
๐Ÿ™Œ๐ŸผParents in PA fought back when a first grade teacher taught their 6 & 7-year-olds that they might be born in the wrong body. With no opt-out for the lesson. ๐Ÿ™Œ
The judge ruled that this was a gross violation of their constitutional rights and parental authority.
How wild that teaching 6 & 7-year-olds about transgenderism in first grade history & civics — with no parent notification, opt-out or lesson transparency required — is now MANDATED in the state of Colorado. Parents here had better start suing!!! #parentalrights"
Wesley Yang on X - "Teaching a pseudo-mystical belief that people can be born in the wrong body and restored to their true selves by chemically castrating and cutting off healthy body parts as fact is a brazen violation of the Establishment clause and an assault on parental rights that must be purged from every public school without exception
"Unfortunately, state curricular standards in most Blue States mandate this grotesque assault on reason and reality.  It has to be stopped everywhere."

Decider on X - "When Elliot Page wanted their #TheUmbrellaAcademy character to come out as trans, showrunner Steve Blackman said via text, "oh my f**king God. Kill me now.""
If you don't shove the left wing agenda everywhere, you are a bad person

Meme - MTF: "I IDENTIFY AS FEMALE"
FTM: "I IDENTIFY AS MALE"
Robot: "HE'S A GUY, SHE'S A GIRL."
Trans people: "HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT!"
Robot: "I IDENTIFY AS CORRECT."

Women's football team claim they are victims of 'transphobic violence' after rival team's local councillor claimed they fielded 'two bearded guys who consider themselves women' - "Alex Alcaide Llanos and Nil Alcon Labella play for CE Europa B in a Catalan women's league and are still registered as female while undergoing medical transitions and are barred from men's football. After they started in the 3-1 win against Terrassa, with Alex scoring, a local councillor from the right-wing Vox party, Alicia Tomas, claimed they were 'two guys with beards who consider themselves women'. Alex has now been taking hormones for over five years, as per Beteve, an outlet that once interviewed the player. Europa have since hit back claiming their players are victims of 'transphobic violence' and have released a statement opposing 'aggression and fascism'... Europa then hit back, writing: 'In light of the violence perpetrated against two of the players from the women's reserve team, we at Club Esportiu Europa say no to transphobic and LGBTIphobic violence and to any type of violence.' 'Throughout its century-long history, our club has stood out for its values of sportsmanship, fair play and compliance with current sporting regulations. It also works and fights for the right of all people to live lives free from all forms of violence. Lives that deserve to be lived. 'Combating hate crimes and transphobic violence is a collective duty that challenges all of society. We therefore reiterate and say loudly that we remain firm. Against aggression and fascism, we say not one step back.' On Europa's website, the club displays rainbow flag colours next to a box which reads: 'We say no (to): fascism, machismo (defined as 'strong or aggressive masculine pride'), homophobia, racism.'... As the team's coordinator Nany Haces told El Debate in 2022: 'There is a huge gap between our first team and our second team (the youth team) and every year we lose 10 players who we cannot accommodate in the first team. 'It was necessary to set up a strong reserve team to compete and in a few years end up moving up a category. 'Alex is developing as a player, he has obvious technical shortcomings, he is a fast player, but we have four or five more like him. He is not the fastest.'"
Disagreement with the left wing agenda is "violence" and "aggression and fascism"
Weird. Does this mean the left is now supporting "men" playing in women's sports? I thought taking hormones made you the other gender

Saskatchewan teachers get degrading messages after change room complaint - "In his pledge, Moe said his first order of business if his party is re-elected would be instructing his education minister to ensure all school divisions abide by the change room policy. He has said the proposed rule is meant to support all students. NDP Leader Carla Beck has said such a policy would make vulnerable children more vulnerable and voters have more pressing issues on their minds, including smaller classrooms, better health care and being able to afford gas. Beck has promised to repeal the province's pronoun law if the NDP forms government. Moe used the notwithstanding clause last year to pass a law that requires parental consent if children under 16 change their names or pronouns at school."
Weird. Voters have more pressing issues on their minds, but she promised to repeal the pronoun law

Meme - Skeptic Research Center Team @SkepResCenter: "This sort of academic absurdity has flown the coop of the ivory tower.   Just over 1 in 5 "very liberal" women say it is "true" that "men can get pregnant."  There is good news, though: outside of "very liberal" women, around 90%+ of Americans across the political spectrum understand that men cannot, in fact, get pregnant.   (see graph below)  For more sample and methodological details, see here: https://skeptic.com/research-cente"
"Men can get pregnant. % That Chose "True" (versus False) by Political Orientation and Sex Male"

"A Salary For Being Trans" : Trans Activists In Spain Prompt Outrage After Meeting With Politicians To Forward A "Transgender Pension" - "A prominent trans activist organization in Spain has put forward a proposal for legislation that would guarantee transgender people pensions upon reaching 65. The pensions would be issued regardless of whether the transgender applicant had ever paid into the pension throughout their life.  The proposal was put forward by Federation Platform for Trans Rights, who presented it last week to the parliamentary groups of the Congress of Deputies. The group, known colloquially as Plataforma Trans, was founded in 2015 “with the aim of uniting specifically trans collectives and entities and to fight for a new trans law that recognizes gender self-determination and depathologises trans identities.” During the meeting, all parties sent representatives except the right-wing Popular Party and Vox Party. Calling it the “Trans Memory Law,” the policy would grant people who identify as transgender a lifetime pension, along with priority access to public housing and housing assistance programs... The president of the Federation Platform, a trans-identified male named Mar Cambrollรฉ, declared at the time that “the Franco dictatorship and post-Francoism violated the most fundamental rights of trans and gender-diverse people, who not only suffered the worst effects of Franco and post-Francoism with deprivation of freedom, but also suffered [exile].” Cambrollรฉ claimed that trans-identified people were suffering from “extreme poverty” as a result of the legacy of Francisco Franco, a fascist leader who ruled Spain until 1975."

Transgender Muslim "Wannabe Firefighter" Requests Court Allow Him To Be Euthanized After Being Charged With Making Terroristic Threats - "A man who identifies as a Muslim woman is on trial after threatening to murder public safety officials in Jasper, Mississippi. Tanya Morgan, 64, has now demanded the court allow him to be euthanized... the situation first unfolded after Morgan was refused membership at the Rose Hill Volunteer Fire Department – something he attributed to discrimination on the grounds of his alleged Muslim faith. Enraged by the rejection, Morgan showed up to a June 4 meeting at the Jasper County Emergency Management office where he engaged in an altercation with firefighters.  After being asked to leave, Morgan made several frivolous 911 calls that culminated in him threatening to open fire into multiple county and city buildings. Morgan was arrested and taken to the Jasper County Jail. During his brief detention, Morgan claims he was “harassed … while I was naked and trying to take a shower” and was “dragged” and “locked up naked without my clothing or hijab.” He also claimed he was inappropriately photographed by a deputy who “appeared to have an erection.” Sheriff Randy Johnson has refuted the claims, noting video evidence exists to demonstrate the claims are false... Morgan has repeatedly asserted under oath that he is biologically female, despite ample evidence to the contrary. In one complaint he submitted to the Jasper County Court, Morgan wrote: “Instead of being a Muslim female, I’m being defamed and adjudicated as … a chick who cut her dick off or any other of the many homosexual slurs the Christian community of Mississippi embrace.”  During his August arraignment, the court asked him for his legal name – to which Morgan initially attempted to claim that he had a medical condition and was unable to speak.  After being questioned again by Judge Matthew Sullivan as to the name on his birth certificate, Morgan replied: “The name on my birth certificate is Matilda Jean Duffy.” But Sullivan, after reviewing some documentation, noted that Morgan appears to have previously been named “Matthew Duffy.” Morgan has also filed a bizarre request with the court to be allowed to go to Australia, Canada, Columbia, or Italy to be euthanized... Following the arraignment hearing, the reporter attempted to interview Morgan outside of the courtroom, but the scene quickly devolved into chaos as Morgan ran to the nearby Sheriff’s office to claim that the reporter had physically assaulted him. CCTV footage did not substantiate this claim."

Agatha All Along and Loki and Wokeness

Someone mocked the "Get Woke, Go Broke" slogan, claiming that Agatha All Along and Loki got 82% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Ignoring the problems with RT scores, how they aren't the same things as ratings, the myriad of counter-examples (e.g. Bud Light) and the issue of straw stereotypes (which, of course, are never applied to claims like "racism stops black people from getting ahead"), we can look at empirical evidence about whether Agatha All Along and Loki are considered woke.

Cosmic Book News is a website that often critiques wokeness in the media.

Google has 28 pages of search results for "site:cosmicbook.news woke", with similar results omitted.

When you search for "site:cosmicbook.news woke loki", only one item in the first two pages of search results is an article about Loki being woke, "Loki Now Gender Fluid In The MCU".

Interestingly, when you search for "site:cosmicbook.news woke agatha", nothing in the first two pages of search results is an article about Agatha being woke.

As a control, let us see what Cosmic Book News says about She-Hulk.

When you search for "site:cosmicbook.news woke "she hulk"", in contrast *seven* items in the *first* page of search results are articles talking about how woke She-Hulk is.

So we can see that complaints about Loki and Agatha being woke are/were minimal.

Links - 9th November 2024 (1)

The American Sunlight Project on X - "As election season ramps up so does the spread of disinformation. Election officials in key battleground states are struggling to debunk false claims amplified on social media. Nina Jankowicz warns: unchecked disinfo on major platforms threatens democracy."
Jerry Dunleavy IV ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ on X - "Nina Jankowicz (who runs this group) used Twitter in 2016 to push the Alfa Bank collusion hoax and used Twitter in 2020 to try to cast doubt on the Hunter Biden laptop & to falsely deny Iranian efforts to hurt Trump’s candidacy."

Jake ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ on X - "I'm not sure why Gen Z is wracked with anxiety and depression but part of it must be that elite liberal institutions have pathologized normal democratic activities like voting.  My college, for example, is "holding space" for "processing the collective experiences of harm throughout this election cycle towards disenfranchized communities," and an ultra-elite private high school near me is talking about getting the students therapy for the trauma the election may cause them.  We can't systematically pathologize routine democratic practices and expect people to remain mentally healthy. Nor can we pathologize democratic practices and expect democracy to remain healthy."
If you criticise media hysteria, you're a fascist

All men think they are marrying nymphomaniacs. : r/Jokes - "The problem is, after a few years, the nympho leaves and the maniac stays."

Meme - *Drake Hotline Bling* "THE OLSEN TWINS *Mary-Kate and Ashley*
THE OLSEN TWINS *Elizabeth Olsen exposing cleavage*"

Meme - "DID YOU KNOW ? Since its release Squirtle has had one of the most loyal and passionate fanbases around the world! To find out more Google "Squirters""

Meme - Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen: "Left-wingers and women are more inclined to say that too many children are being born in the U.S. than too few.   Even though you have a replacement fertility way below replacement. Even that is not low enough. They want the population to dwindle away faster. Many of them think that more people will bring climate catastrophe. But this is a not true.  Since 1980, CO2 emissions have not increased in the U.S., although the population has.  New people contribute to emissions, but they also innovate more, decreasing overall emissions."
Left wing anti natalism strikes again. This is more evidence for the left wing death wish

Judge Rules That "Canadian Rail" Scheme Violated the Jones Act - "  Since 2017, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been investigating a unique logistical arrangement that ASC created for transporting pollock from Alaska to Maine. An ASC subsidiary, Alaska Reefer Management (ARM), charters foreign-flag reefer ships to transport fish from Dutch Harbor to New Brunswick, Canada via the Panama Canal. At Bayside, New Brunswick, the fish is offloaded at a terminal operated by ARM subsidiary Kloosterboer International.  The cargo is then loaded into truck trailers and driven onto a two-car, one-track train, the Bayside Canadian Railway (BCR). This miniature onsite rail line carries each laden truck 100 feet to the south, then 100 feet back north, completing a round-trip "Canadian rail journey" (video at top). From the BCR's loading ramp, the truck drives over the border into Maine, finishing a 7,500 nm foreign-flag cargo shipment between U.S. points.  The Jones Act ordinarily bans foreign-flag vessels from transporting cargo in U.S. coastwise trade, but the law contains an obscure clause - the "Third Proviso" - that exempts shipment routes that are "in part over Canadian rail lines." According to ARM and terminal operator Kloosterboer International, the Bayside Canadian Railway - small as it may be - is indeed a "Canadian rail line" for the purposes of compliance. U.S. Customs and Border Protection disagrees, and in August, it issued fines totaling more than $350 million to ARM, ASC, Kloosterboer and other participants in the Bayside program.   On Wednesday, Judge Gleason agreed with CBP andd ruled that the Third Proviso requires "transportation" to occur during the Canadian rail portion of that route. Since the rail portion of the route starts and ends at the same point, it does not result in forward progress and therefore does not meet the statute's standard for "transportation," she ruled... This, however, does not mean that CBP has the green light to proceed with enforcement. Gleason determined that by immediately pursuing fines against ARM, CBP reversed its own previous guidance. In 2004, CBP had advised in a letter ruling that "any use of Canadian rail" - no matter the size or scope - met the standards of the Third Proviso."

There is no evidence that time spent on social media is correlated with adolescent mental health problems: Findings from a meta-analysis. - "The issue of whether social media use does or does not influence youth internalizing mental health disorders (e.g., anxiety, depression) remains a pressing concern for policymakers, parents, and psychologists. Widespread claims suggest potentially harmful effects of social media use on youth. This was investigated in a meta-analysis of 46 studies of youth social media use and mental health. Results indicated that the current pool of research is unable to support claims of harmful effects for social media use on youth internalizing disorders. Some types of methodological weaknesses, such as evident demand characteristics and lack of preregistration, remain common in this area. It is recommended that caution is issued when attributing mental health harm to social media use as the current evidence cannot support this"

Meme - "Every Spider-Man Frame in order: "Spider-Man (2002) - Frame 16595 out of 27816" *Looking like the Green Goblin is fucking Spider-Man from behind on his glider*"

Meme - "Publicidad
*Painting painting what looks like it'll be a naked woman, with more and more men gathering to watch*
"¡ARF! ALIMENTO PARA PERROS" *dog* (Translation: dog food)

Meme - "Sydney Sweeney is being considered for the role of Black Cat in Spider-Man 4 The resemblance is uncanny *cleavages covered in black clothing*"

Meme - "Emily Elizabeth *woman showing her ass*"
"I hope she named the dog Clifford. That would be funny."

Grummz on X - "Redot launched officially yesterday and has been under a deluge of vile attacks, threats of doxing, being called white supremecists  and more.  The Godot community managers approve of this and goad it on in the official Discord.  This is the true face of what you are dealing with if you ever just go “build your own.”  They want redot creators lives destroyed, just for forking a politically neutral engine.  The Godot team are vile, aggressive and violent people. Do not support them. Do not support any game that uses them."

Reason why companies are rapidly firing Gen Z employees revealed in new study - "In a newly released study that looked at responses from nearly 1,000 business leaders in August, it was found that more than half of employers had already fired college graduates who were hired in 2024.  With this in mind, one in seven employers said they might refrain from hiring graduates in 2025.  Intelligent's Chief Education and Career Development Advisor Huy Nguyen said in the report, as per Newsweek: "Many recent college graduates may struggle with entering the workforce for the first time as it can be a huge contrast from what they are used to throughout their education journey." He went on: "They are often unprepared for a less structured environment, workplace cultural dynamics, and the expectation of autonomous work. Although they may have some theoretical knowledge from college, they often lack the practical, real-world experience and soft skills required to succeed in the work environment."  Of the 1,000 employers who took part in the study, reportedly 75 percent of them said that some or all of their recent college graduate hires were unsatisfactory. Yikes.  The main reasons for this were lack of motivation, poor communication skills and lock of professionalism... Doubling down on this, 2023 figures suggested that nearly half of students didn't feel that their degrees armed them with the right skills, as per FE News.  An additional 20 percent said they would have found work experience more beneficial."

Meme - New York Times: "What Happens When You Fight a 'Deep State' That Doesn't Exist"
New York Times: "It Turns Out the 'Deep State' Is Actually Kind of Awesome"

Luke Zaleski on X - "There is no deep state. Trump lost. Vaccines work. Elon is a rightwing oligarch. Taxes help pay for things we all need and use as a society. Politicians lie. Trump lies more than any other US politician. His Big Lie is the basis for the insurrection. Trump incited the j6 attack."
Sean Kelly ๐Ÿช“ on X - "lol... I'm a Christian, so I know a Confession of Faith when I see one. This one might even qualify as a creed. The Zaleski Creed."
Mike Benz on X - "Can you tell that to CIA director John McLaughlin, who, sitting next to CIA director John Brennan and CIA director Michael Morell, credited the deep state for Trump’s impeachment in 2019, proclaiming to the room: “Thank God for the Deep State.”"

Meme - "Most men find a relationship as they age *90% of men being in a relationship by 42*"

Meme - "The first time i've seen a frog riding a fish"

Meme - "The captive orca Tilikum looking at its trainers. There have only been 4 human deaths caused by orcas as of 2019, and Tilikum was responsible for 3 of them."

Meme - "Convicted of murder. Christopher Robin"
*Shocked Hundred Acre Wood animals Pooh, Rabbit and Tigger*

Meme Austria: "This is my neighbor, Germany. He is a pain in my assholes. I speak German. He speaks German. I have good classic musics. He has good classic musics. I provoked two World Wars, he gets all the blames. Great success!"

Meme - Elon Musk: "Tell me the truth...I'm...I'm ready to hear it."
Peter Parker: "It's always going to be called Twitter"
Elon Musk:

Meme - "Who is this?"
"I am the guy you are talking and have been talking to for a couple of weeks now. I created this new account to talk to you, but I am not going to say my name so I can see if I am the only guy you are talking to. You will say my name so I can see if you're cheating on me. So what is my name?"

Actual Fact Bot: Revived | Facebook - "Big Bird is a Golden Condor. During an episode in the 11th season of Mr. Rogers, Big Bird was asked if he was related to a cassowary, and Big Bird noted to Mr. Rogers that he was a Golden Condor."

Meme - Rob Salyers: "If you hate Taylor Swift, just know that she forgives you and that her love for you is as great as her net worth. Tay-men. *Taylor Swift as Jesus*"

Meme - em @grovndcontrxl: "Someone asked me for a nude so sent them a really zoomed in picture of gordon ramsay's forehead wrinkles and said it was my cleavage and then they sent a wanking video and now i'm in tears some guy just wanked over gordon ramsay's forehead"

Meme - "Jenna"
"Do you wanna touch my Jennatils?"
"that made me laugh! and that is the last tinder message i will ever receive because you have driven me to delete the app, thank u"

Meme - Bumper stickers on same car: "AT LEAST I DIDN'T RAISE A SCHOOL SHOOTER"
"MY DAUGHTER SUCKED HER TEACHER'S DICK TO GET ON HONOR ROLL"

Meme - Science Acumen: "Did you know that the crisp white and vibrant red stripes on a windsock are not just for adding a pop of color to airport terminals, helipads, or high-rise buildings? They actually indicate precise wind speeds, serving as a vital visual aid for pilots, meteorologists, and engineers to gauge air currents and navigate safely. Here's how the carefully calibrated stripes provide essential information in the blink of an eye."

Meme - Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood: "Iranian chess player Dorsa Derakhshani was given an ultimatum by the Islamic regime to wear the hijab or she won’t be allowed to compete.    She refused to wear the hijab, and switched to the USA team. Dorsa left Tehran and moved to Barcelona in 2015 after she received an invitation by a chess club that also supported her studies.  She was awarded the titles Woman Grandmaster and International Master by the World Chess Federation in 2016."
"IRANIAN CHESS PLAYER EXPELLED FOR NOT WEARING HIJAB PLAYS FOR U.S."
Islamophobia!

Meme - "Are Esports Too Dependent on Sponsors? - Esports Weekly with Coca-Cola"

What is the fish hook theory? - "The so-called horseshoe theory that the far-left and far-right more closely resemble each another than they do the political centre has been around for decades, but now an alternative is gaining ground: fish hook theory.  Instead of a straight line, or a horseshoe where the two ends almost touch, the fish hook theory sees the political Left out on one end, and the Right bending around like a hook to end up close to the centre.  The suggestion is that people who are politically centrist are actually a lot closer to far-right politics than their “centre” label suggests."
There's no better illustration of how deluded the far left are, when they claim everyone to their right is "far right"

Elon Musk on X - "The term “far right” has been watered down so much by the legacy media as to render the term meaningless by historical standards, which is a terrible thing for them to do"
i/o on X - "I've talked about this before. The term "far-right" isn't usually used anymore to describe someone whose views can mostly be found at the far right of the political spectrum. It's almost exclusively used as a slur against people who hold opinions on race or immigration that don't conform to bumper sticker platitudes, even if few of these same persons' other political views code as rightwing.  An example: Marine Le Pen is referred to as far-right, despite the fact that at various times she's advocated economic policies that were to the left of those contained in the platform of the Democratic Party in the US.  At a more personal level, my account has been referred to as "far-right" in media and by prominent Twitter accounts, and I'm not even a conservative (and have never voted for a Republican in a national election). (Also, anyone who follows me knows that I'm a critic of the extreme right.)   The offense that warrants this slur being used against me is that I post data about race and European immigration that doesn't get reported in the mainstream media. Most of the people who call me "far-right" know I'm not right-wing, but they don't care, much like most of the people who call ordinary liberals or progressives "communists" don't care that they're mislabeling someone."

Meme - The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole84: "People should use the “far right” label more accurately.  The label is currently so loosely applied that it’s effectively useless in sniffing out genuine cases of extremism and more often used to slander reasonable people."
*Bell curve with the left tail being "left", the middle of the left tail being right" and anyone to the right of the centre-left being "far right"*

Meme - iamyesyouareno @iamyesyouareno: "Loving your nation makes you a Nazi nowadays.   You don’t hate the media enough."
"Vile neo-Nazi group spread sick campaign of hate to Scotland's highest peak. The Hundred Handers sticker exhorting white people to "Love Your Nation" was stuck up inside a hut on the 4411ft peak. The vile group has spread their hate to Ben Nevis"
"Love Your Nation"
We are still told that left wingers don't hate their countries

Meme - "Hey. Rum and coke"
"Hey Charlie! Pepsi okay?"
"Sure"
*Coke and Pepsi and annoyed Charlie*

Meme - "Reddit. Yiyang Silvia : r/goddesses __2
Related search: Nissan Silvia "

Jason Aldean trolled with awkward old photo of Trump kissing wife amid anger over controversial music video - "Country singer Jason Aldean is being trolled after an awkward photo of Donald Trump kissing his wife resurfaced.  Commenters were quick to riff on the title of his current song, with its controversial video, “Try That in a Small Town”.  The former president is seen kissing Brittanny Kerr, whom Aldean married in 2015, on the forehead while she sits at a dinner table at an event, the date of which is unknown... Other comments ignored the kiss and were more concerned that Aldean had kept his cowboy hat on both inside and while dining."

Meme - "BIG TIDDY GOTH"
"Can you guys let us cross the Danube river and let us settle on the Empire land? we promise we'll become Foederati. Oh yeah btw tell the Emperor, the Huns are coming. Are you guys listening to me!?"
Roman soldier 1 with bulging eyes: "Mama..."
Roman soldier 2 with bulging eyes: "O'Flavius look..."

Meme - Father: "What's your wish, honey?"
Girl: "I wish no one was sad ever again."
Parents: "Awwwwww" *girl blows out candles on birthday cake*
*Comet hurtling towards earth ready to kill everyone*

Meme - Girl with dead plants: "EVERYTHING I TOUCH DIES."
Grim Reaper: "WE ARE HIRING IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A JOB."
Girl: "SURE" *shakes Grim Reaper's hand*
*Grim Reaper dies*

Meme - ""Too much garlic'? What's next? Too much love? Too much desire?"

Meme - "When the Limewire song by Korn feat. Limp Bizkit feat. Linkin Park feat. Metallica feat. Marilyn Manson feat. Kittie turns out to be a virus"

Set Phasers to Awesome • headgirlily: voldemort calls harry ‘weak’ while... - "voldemort calls harry ‘weak’ while he literally cannot kill a frickin 15 yr old boy. i could kill a 15 yr old boy."

Meme - "Voldemort knew what he was doing with this one
Hello. My name is Tom Riddle. I see you have found my Nokia. Good Luck destroying this horcrux"

Meme - Harry Potter: "Ron was here? Is he all right? What about Hermione?"
Dumbledore: "It seems that in your anger... you killed them."
Harry Potter: "Noooooooo!"

Meme - *Voldemort dating profile*
"Voldemort. Like: Snakes, Magic & Death. 0 Match. *Selfie with snake*"
*Sad Voldemort*
"1 Match." *happy Voldemort*
*Voldemort in love on date with Medusa*

Meme Jesus Sermon: "Take memes personally and argue with strangers."

Meme - The thicc husban... @lukeisamazing: "Mozart dropped before The Winds of Winter"
"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Previously unknown Mozart music discovered in German library"

Meme - *Facebook marketplace*
"JUST THE CHANGING TABLE. $45 $100
changing table in great condition. *baby sleeping in crib*"

Meme Man: "I'd never date someone who has a cat. I would try to convert her into a dog lover, and persuade her to give her cat away"

Meme - ""Hello?"
"What?"
"i'm fine. thank you for accepting my invitation. I hope I do not disturb you ??"
"No problem are you a robot?"
"How old are you?"
"4 thousand years old"
"me i'm 22. what's you job?"
"I I basically bring souls across an interdimensional portal to feed to the Ancient Ones. What do you do for fun?"
"me i'm a Caregiver. what are you doing now?"
"Harvesting an elderly lady for organs and eventually collecting her soul"
"I'm alone in my room and naked, you want to see me ?"
"Not really, this old bitch is kinda putting up a fight. Maybe later."
"promise me that it will stay between us OK ??"
"Bitch, I just admitted to harvesting organs You better be the one to keep quiet Snitches get stitches"

Meme - "The longer you stay single the more they fuck your future wife"
"What if my future wife isn't born yet."

Meme - "Let's analyze this logically, and treat this as presented, as you supposedly believe at face value. You think the Greeks, the Native Americans, the Japanese, the Celts, the Egyptians, the Romans, the Mongolians, and the Moors histories were built upon the seeds of black culture, and were powerful black empires of themselves, until outside intervention. So by your own belief, time and time again, at the height of your power, everyone on earth was able to defeat you, drive you out, take your history and culture as absolutely as could ever be done, and expunged you from it and the land. Everyone, and I mean absolutely everyone on earth, had a turn breaking your people and culture so thoroughly as to erase all marks you made on history, as they claimed everything by conquest for themselves. That must be a crushing inferiority complex you have going, if you believe this as presented."

Friday, November 08, 2024

Links - 8th November 2024 (2 - Diversity [including Toronto Metropolitan University Racial Quota])

TMU’s new medical school aims to welcome students from underrepresented communities - The Globe and Mail - "Toronto Metropolitan University’s new medical school will have three targeted admission pathways aimed at addressing the underrepresentation of certain groups in the medical profession... It will have specialized admission consideration for Black students, for Indigenous students and for students from what it describes as equity-deserving groups. The third category is broad, and includes those who’ve grown up in poverty or in the child welfare system, who have a disability or chronic health condition, who identify as 2SLGBTQ+ or belong to a racialized group.  Dr. Dominick Shelton, assistant dean of admissions at TMU School of Medicine, said he expects about 75 per cent of incoming students will be admitted on one of those three pathways. His hope is that by better reflecting the makeup of a diverse community they will be better able to serve its health care needs... It has become relatively common in recent years for medical schools to create specialized pathways for certain underrepresented groups. All Ontario medical schools have programs to encourage the admission of Indigenous students, and the University of Saskatchewan has up to 20 seats for Indigenous applicants. At the University of Toronto, a program promotes the candidacy of students who identify as Black, although it has no specific quota. There are also programs across the country that prioritize applicants from rural areas, francophones and members of the Canadian Forces. Admission requirements for TMU’s medical school are designed to eliminate relatively few candidates. There are no course prerequisites, applicants can hold any type of four-year undergraduate degree with a minimum grade point average of 3.3, roughly equivalent to a B-plus. The Medical College Admission Test, a standardized exam used by many medical schools, will not be used in the selection process. Applicants will also be asked to answer a handful of questions that TMU says align with its mission and vision. One is about how an applicant’s lived experience prepared them for a career in medicine, one is about leadership with respect to advocating for marginalized groups and one is about the candidate’s connection to Brampton and Peel Region and their interest in practising in a culturally diverse community. Brampton is described by TMU as a microcosm of the Canada of the future. More than 53 per cent of its 650,000 residents were born abroad, with nearly 95,000 having immigrated between 2011 and 2021... “There’s going to be very much a focus on equity, even within the curriculum, to be able to better serve the community,” Dr. Shelton said."
One cope is that this is not racist because they're not taking unqualified black people off the street, and that those who think this is bad are the real racists, and that if you criticise "DEI", you mean to use the n word. By this logic, if a less qualified (but still qualified) white person was admitted into the program over a more qualified black person, this wouldn't be racist either
Another cope was that because some people were citing the Western Standard, this was fake news, even though this was literally on the university website, because if a news source not approved by the left says the world is round, that means it's flat
Is it racist for the university formerly known as Ryerson to invoke white replacement by saying Canada will become Indian in future?

Opinion: A hard diversity quota for medical-school admissions is a terrible, counterproductive idea - The Globe and Mail - "The unintended consequences are obvious: Canadian patients will start Googling their physician’s educational background and wonder if the resident doctor performing their next procedure was one of the TMU students who got into med school with an art-history degree, a 3.3 GPA and a compelling personal essay. Indeed, the school’s quota system will inevitably condemn all of its graduates to public skepticism about their qualifications and capabilities, even if the physicians TMU produces are in fact very capable, qualified and skilled. It’s a bias of the school’s own making that it will have to fight to counter, and probably lose anyway. The rigour of medical school, along with subsequent residency requirements and/or various certification exams, will likely weed out students who truly can’t cut it as physicians. But that should serve as little consolation when our province is desperate for doctors, and also swimming in debt. There is an enormously high financial burden borne by the province in educating prospective doctors, and each slot occupied by a student who, for whatever reason, doesn’t end up practising represents a colossal waste of time and money. That’s why med-school admissions requirements are typically so rigorous: Schools and governments want to be relatively sure that the students they invest so much time and money in will actually work as physicians. TMU’s experiment with its new law school, which doesn’t require a minimum LSAT score or GPA for admission, hasn’t worked out tremendously well so far. Its students signed a letter shortly after Oct. 7 that effectively blamed Israel for the Hamas attack, and some later tried to explain away their support by saying they didn’t read the letter closely before adding their names (which indicates a sloppiness and incuriosity unbefitting of prospective lawyers). Some big law firms have opted to overlook TMU students for summer positions.  But a crop of potentially bad lawyers doesn’t present the same moral, social and economic quandaries as does a crop of potentially ill-equipped doctors in a province with a critical doctor shortage, as well as an extremely limited number of medical-school slots. Doctors make life-and-death decisions every day, and they are expected to maintain their education throughout the course of their careers. That’s why we want them to be the very best learners, problem-solvers and critical thinkers our society can produce."
Wasting money on social justice when there's a shortage of doctors is good, because the left wing agenda is key

Opinion: A hard diversity quota for medical-school admissions is a terrible, counterproductive idea : r/canada - "I remember seeing a study that the lifetime economic impact of a good doctor vs a median doctor was in the several millions.  If you allow substandard doctors, who will invariably only serve people forced to rely on them, you are impoverishing the already disadvantaged. Meritocracy protects the underclass."
"Not to mention that the range of competency in doctors will ensure that poorer neighborhoods get the shit doctors and rich neighborhoods get the smart doctors, further intensifying the disparities between affluent and poor communities."
"Proponents will just imply that it's racist to say people accepted to med school based on a combination of race and qualifications make substandard doctors vs people accepted based on qualifications and ignoring race."

Opinion: A hard diversity quota for medical-school admissions is a terrible, counterproductive idea : r/canada - "We NEED more doctors from various backgrounds. Look at women's health studies."
"Women are already greatly overrepresented in medical school and have been for some time.  SE Asians and Chinese students are vastly overrepresented in med school (women in particular), but this policy doesn't address that either. Rural physicians and healthcare workers are in incredibly short supply, and many rural communities are in desperate need of doctors. Should we restrict acceptance of urban applicants in favor of rural applicants? Why not focus on bringing g those demographics back in line? Where does it start and end?  The thing is, this policy doesn't address diversity or representation. It just holds seats for two specific racial groups. Applicants are also able to self-identify as a member of those groups with no proof of heritage according to the programs stated DEI policies. I honestly hope students who have the highest grades, and most impressive qualifications use the self Identifying policy to get around this insane and self-defeating policy.  This isn't the 1800s. People of all backgrounds are able to apply to med school, and their are many robust bursaries and scholarships available for BIPOC applicants. I genuinely hope BIPOC communities take advantage of those financial supports to help make med school more accessible to them, but I do not think they should be given preferential treatment for acceptance into med school.  I'm so sick of this argument. My doctor has very little culturally or racially in common with me... who cares?!! She still provides me with absolutely excellent care. Should I stop seeing her and insist on having a white, male doctor with a rural Christian heritage because, according to policies like this, a shared racial or cultural background "provides better healthcare outcomes". Hell no.  That's such a bigoted way of thinking, and it says a lot about how broken our education and medical system is, that we would even consider, let alone implement policies like this... We should be looking for the best. We don't have the training resources to mess around with ridiculous social engineering policies in regards to healthcare."

Ford government pushback on race-driven admissions is welcome - "Toronto Metropolitan University’s new medical school admissions policy has taken race discrimination to a new level: straight white males will not be eligible for 75 per cent of its seats. These will be reserved for Indigenous, Black, 2SLGBTQ+ and other equity-deserving students for whom admissions criteria will be relaxed. The new medical school has been hailed by university president Mohamed Lachemi as an initiative that will “disrupt and drive change within the health-care system,” and by medical school dean Teresa Chan as one that “will provide a supportive and inclusive process” for equity-deserving groups... Governments can and should withhold funding from institutions that do not comply with the principle of non-discrimination. The Ontario government’s approach should be followed across the country. The first principle is non-discrimination as set out in Section 15(1). Affirmative action permitted by 15(2) should be strictly interpreted so as not to unduly interfere with that principle."
Destroying a system counts as disruption and change too

Josh Dehaas on X - "Even more disturbing than the fact that TMU has put a quota on SWMs and dropped standards for everyone else is the fact that students will need to make statements showing fealty to the woke equity ideology. Only true believers & liars get to be doctors. Your tax dollars at work."

Meme - Tea ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ @Tea_O_CANADA: "If a white person where to make this statement they could be charged with a hate crime - these people are patting themselves on the back for it Could care less what my doctor looks like as long as they are qualified"
tmu_medicine: "Learn more about TMU's bold new approach to medical education and person- centred care. Listen to the latest episode of the award-winning podcast The Forefront: Ideas for cities hosted by Amanda Cupido: "When you see someone who looks like you... it makes difference." The Forefront Season 5 Episode 1: Shaping the future of medicine"

Evidence shows why TMU's race-based admissions policy will fail - "In an article in Econ Journal Watch, John A. Gentry of Missouri State University’s School of Defense and Strategic Studies outlines the effects of affirmative action and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies on the operational performance of 18 U.S. intelligence agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and the Defence Intelligence Agency. Like other federal agencies, Gentry writes, the intelligence agencies have “been a setting of burgeoning DEI policies and programs, especially since 2011, designed to favour privileged demographic groups in hiring, promotions, awards and assignments.” What have been the results? First, while the intelligence community has historically emphasized apolitical public service, the introduction of DEI inserted political motivation into its procedures and activities. Second, teamwork was damaged because “the heavy-handed orthodoxy of DEI is causing significant self-censorship by government personnel who do not support the DEI agenda.” Third, numerous intelligence officers have said that DEI resulted in more tolerance of bad management and poor operational performance in the name of protecting diversity. This has damaged human intelligence collection. Intelligence analysis was likely negatively affected for similar reasons. Lastly, DEI-motivated activism reduced public confidence in intelligence agencies. “Politically driven advocates of DEI not only fail to understand that domestically demographic diversity does not improve the performance of foreign-focused intelligence services, they have significantly damaged the operational performance of the agencies,” Gentry concludes."

Meme - Carl Benjamin @Sargon_of_Akkad: "A lot of things the left does make more sense when you remember that they consider access to white people a human right."
Mack @kenzietuff: "One reason they're worried about school choice is integration. If you pay attention, a lot of the rhetoric is focused on White families leaving schools. They're very concerned with White families being able to escape "diversity." Diversity must be forced at all costs."

AF Post on X - "US Army removes diversity requirement for selecting high-level noncommissioned officers. Follow: @AFpost"
Weird. How come they don't know that diversity is how you get the best officers?!
Guess the risk of war has gone up

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ on X - "EXCLUSIVE: Northwestern Law Review published a special issue featuring only black women. But, according to material unearthed in a new lawsuit, the issue was rife with plagiarism. This is how DEI corrupts academic standards. ๐Ÿงต"
Andrew Egger on X - "My pet theory is that all of academia is just riddled with plagiarism and other corner-cutting shoddiness, that it's basically the subprime mortgage market circa 2007, and the only person checking any of it is Chris Rufo because he's got this DEI axe to grind"
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ on X - "Not really. We have noticed huge disparities by discipline, and by race and sex. In our research, black women in DEI fields exhibit, per capita, the highest concentration of plagiarism."
Dr. WTF on X - "I believe DEI is self selective for people who intend to shortcut hard work and merit in the first place. In other words they pick DEI and humanities because the intend on circumventing merit in the first place."

Meme - DEI 4 White Guys @DEI4WhiteGuys: "This is the greatest review and recommendation we’ve ever received.  Thank you @AsInTheJar sincerely. Your very existence motivates us."
mason @AsInTheJar: "I just discovered the account @DEI4WhiteGuys & I'm filled with a blinding hot rage. The whole premise is to try to undermine DEl using the language & process of DEI. They're fighting for the bigots. I've blocked them, but I may have found my nemesis."

Steve McGuire on X - "This piece really highlights the ugliness of DEI:  The author complains that six of seven new Harvard leaders are white, but then also that “four of these new appointments are Jewish.”  “The prevalence of new white leaders comes at a time when Harvard is under intense pressure — first by the conservative right…and then by Jewish students, alumni, and donors.”  The piece goes on to say that “some faculty have suggested that the elevation of Jewish leaders is a way to appease vocal donors and alumni.”"
Harvard University leadership is so white, post Claudine Gay ousting

TEDx Brags UK School Replaced Holocaust Books to Decolonize Curriculum (aka "U.K. 'De-Colonialism' Activist Brags That Her School Replaced a Book on the Holocaust") - "A Muslim woman affiliated with a U.K. high school is going viral for bragging about “decolonizing” the curriculum by replacing “controversial” books, including ones about the Holocaust.  “We refined the English curriculum to provide students with a more representative approach to the literature they studied,” announced the speaker during her TEDx talk, in which she advocated that society “rethink” the “very foundations of our education system.” She then bragged how Nottingham Girls’ High School, where she worked, “replaced controversial books by white male authors, such as ‘Of Mice and Men’ and ‘The Boy in The Striped Pajamas,’ with “pieces of literature that celebrates a diverse array of authors and themes.”  “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” is a fictional story about the young son of a Nazi commandant whose family lives outside the Auschwitz death camp during the Holocaust. The child, ignorant to the genocide happening next door, and to his father’s complicity in it, stumbles across the camp’s fence, where he befriends a Jewish child imprisoned on the other side. You’d think the DEI cult would align with that touching message of unity and understanding, but NOPE. Virtue signaling progressives want the book “canceled” because its author is not Jewish. In the name of “anti-racism,” you can only write about a historical event if you’re a member of the demographic that was oppressed by it.  But now, some Leftists want to minimize Holocaust education entirely, because they think the 6 million Jews who were murdered were too white...   After lecturing the audience that we all need to “adapt” to her forced re-education, the speaker ended by quoting philosopher George Santanyana’s famous warning “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” But before she could even bring herself to recite his line, she apologized that she was “ironically” about to quote another white man, lamenting how she “struggled to find an equally popular and relevant quote” by a “woman of color.”"
William Clouston SDP on X - "Glee in removing John Steinbeck from the curriculum - because he is a ‘white male author’ - reveals both backwardness and anti-western prejudice."
Removing books on the Holocaust is only bad when it threatens the left wing agenda

Brianna Wu on X - "Call me crazy, but I’m a feminist and I don’t think removing John Steinbeck from schools for being a white man is going to further anyone’s civil rights. Building a culture of mutual respect works. Inverting the hierarchy of oppression does not."

Thread by @DEI4WhiteGuys on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "A how-to guide on making your company’s DEI department self destruct ๐Ÿงต
1. Search your company’s name and the word “diversity”. In this example, we’ll use Home Depot.
2. Scroll through their DEI page and find their employee network groups. They’ll likely have one for Black, Asian, Latino, Indigenous, LGBT, Disabled, Women, Seniors, and Veterans.  Home Depot calls them Associate Resource Groups. corporate.homedepot.com/page/associate…
3. Find out who your company’s chief diversity or people officer is, and get their email. You can find it in your company’s directory or LinkedIn.  Derek Bottoms is the Chief Diversity Officer of Home Depot
4. Using their own DEI language, email your chief diversity officer from your company email and ask if there is an approved process, standard, or procedure to create an employee network group, and that you’d like to create one for people of European descent or who identify as White.
5. Here’s an example to Derek Bottoms, Home Depot’s Chief Diversity Officer:
Mr. Bottoms,  I recently learned that Home Depot has Associate Resource Groups (ARGs) which promote our culture of inclusion, support diversity, and help drive employee engagement through fostering professional development, raising cultural awareness, celebrating diversity, and offering community outreach opportunities.  As far as heritage ARGs are concerned, I saw that we have an ARG for African American, Hispanic, Native American, and Asian American associates.  I would like to contribute and help increase the diversity of the ARG program, and promote Home Depot’s culture of inclusion by creating an ARG that includes, represents, celebrates, fosters professional development, raises cultural awareness, and offers community outreach opportunities for my heritage: Americans of European descent and/or who identify as White.  Is there an approved process, standard, or procedure for creating a new ARG?  Thank you for your time.
6. This template can be used for virtually every major corporation in America. They’re all set up the same way in compliance with ESG scoring.
7. The purpose of this is three fold:
1 - Getting representation for White people that’s afforded to every other group on the basis of race.
2 - Having them tell you no or retaliating against you for requesting the same thing they offer to every other group based on race, which gives you standing to sue.
3 - They cut off their nose to spite their face and end their DEI programs, because they would rather do away with it all than afford the same privileges to White people as a collective.
8. If they allow you to try to create one (believing you can’t on your own), we at @DEI4WhiteGuys can help you through the process of complying with their standards and procedures.  If they deny you or retaliate against you, we can help connect you with pro bono lawyers who are in the anti-DEI space.
9. We are not a law firm, we don’t give legal advice, we won’t ask for your info or for your employer’s info unless you want to share it, but we will also not ask you to do something we haven’t already done ourselves (and are still employed).
DEI departments are expecting individual White people to complain about DEI policies, but they never envisioned we’d collectivize and ask for equal treatment.  This is the safest way to fight for White advocacy and protect yourself in the process."

Anglo-Saxon Protestant ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ on X - "DEI in any type of media is purposely being used to influence the way certain people see others from "marginalized" communities.  One example comes from the 1990's - Will and Grace - placing homosexuality on a pedestal in a sitcom. (see excerpt of writers' opinions on the show, below).  When people state that they want "representation" in certain media, or how "diversity" can make something improve, what they really want to do is bring a certain group of people to the forefront, to influence the way the viewer / partaker in the medium views those from the community they "represent," to be more "tolerable" of those from that specific community.  And, Hollywood is at the forefront of this psychological trick.  Such is the way with social media, creating rules against discrimination of individuals based on gender, race, sexuality, etc."

Rawle Nyanzi on X - "Several people have asked: why does ‘diverse’ content spark backlash now when it didn’t before?  I think it comes down to one thing: removal.
In the past, inclusionary moves didn’t try to clear out the previously enjoyed things. Kim Possible did not replace James Bond, she was just another secret agent you could watch alongside James Bond. In video games, serious action girls existed alongside miniskirted vixens, and everyone was fine with that. Avatar: The Last Airbender existed alongside Teen Titans. The Hunger Games existed alongside Harry Potter or Percy Jackson.  But now, the priority seems to be not addition, but subtraction.
It’s not enough to have a new Jedi; you have to remove the old ones. It’s not enough to have a female super-spy; you have to remove James Bond. It’s not enough to have serious action girls in your video game; you have to cover up or delete the vixens. It’s not enough to have new video games with modern sensibilities; you have to remove the old ones, or censor them in re-releases. It’s not enough to have new novels that fit modern ideological priorities; you have to censor the old ones.  That’s the chief difference between then and now when it comes to inclusionary work. New Thing was treated as something cool you could watch, in addition to what you already liked; there was no sense that Old Thing was bad and had to be erased from existence.
And thus, inclusionary work has an unfair stigma attached to it. Because works with badass female protags have been used to replace or denounce well-liked male heroes, or characters get race- and/or gender-swapped to get rid of the “problematic” old version, having any female protag, or any non-white protag becomes an uphill battle that doesn’t need to happen. The cultural context has shifted due to all the attacks on classic works in the name of inclusion.  Which sucks, because I enjoy writing female characters — not because of some inclusionary mission, but because of taste. It did not need to be this way, and there is very little I can do to change that. All I could do is find people who can appreciate what I do, even if it’s not a broad audience."
The left will continue to pretend that conservatives just don't want to see black people, gay people, women etc in the media, and that representation is woke, even though there have been so many examples in the past that no one complained about - because this is the key point: the woke want to destroy the old order

CreaTV | THE CREATORVERSE on X - "Identity, gender and racial politics used to be cleverly intertwined to capture reality in a fictional format. Now it is hamfisted and exaggerated to no end, not to mention body positivity used as a means to make characters ugly, instead of being artistic expressions."
Scarebro ๐Ÿ’€ ๐Ÿฆด on X - "It's also a stigma that won't be shaken off for 10 to 20 years. They did it to themselves They decided to purposefully degrade an already mediocre product by injecting it with "woke" or "DEI" and then called the audience bigots for not embracing it."
Kinetic Zen on X - "That's largely correct, but it's not just subtraction -- it's a cowardly, arrogant attempt by insecure modern writers to push the wholesale subversion of existing characters & their legacies. Luke in TLJ was the Typhoid Mary of this trend. It's all about control & messaging."
Aaron D. Schneider on X - "I think you hit the nail on the head but go a step further. The removal is a play for consolidation of power. If there is a variety of things to enjoy they are that much harder to control, and for our current overlords that is unacceptable. Can't have us thinking for ourselves."
Dave Guy ๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ on X - "That's half of it, the other half is that they're spending so much effort on the preaching that the art suffers. It's gotten so bad that if you see a "diverse" cast it's almost a warning sign that the product will be terrible."
Alvin De Cruz on X - "It was palatable back then to have inclusion and diversity as part of the package, rather than be the forefront of what you're selling."
Sir Dammed on X - "In addition to everything you said, which I wholeheartedly agree with btw (the people who champion "inclusion" are deconstructionists who view gaming as we know it as "problematic" and therefore wish to change it)... It's also largely about the *intentions* and *motivations* behind diversity/inclusion. When diversity is natural and the product of a creative vision, that shows and is obvious. The same is true in reverse: when diversity is *not* natural, and is rather the product of some equity initiative (which inherently makes diversity a box to be ticked)... that shows and is very obvious. It comes across as hollow and superficial, and often leads to an inferior story and product."
James Kelly on X - "In addition to the intentional erasure of the old heros these new leads seem to be stand-ins for the cultural and political message of the far left. These "characters" have no character, there's nothing to them deeper than their ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender."
Joe Wheeler on X - "Makes sense most people don't want legacy characters and IPs that have been established for years to be used as a springboard to promote something that most don't recognize or respect as a likely successor. It often reeks of entitlement both narratively and in advertising."

Andres Aray on X - "Very well put ๐Ÿ‘ I would also add that while before there were great Female (Samus, Chell, The Bride) and Diverse (Alan Scott, Northstar, Midnighter) characters, they were still greatly written and presented, with compelling elements. Now they are just checking boxes for quotas."
Rawle Nyanzi on X - "The new stuff tends to be written out of spite."
Nathan Abrahams on X - "Spite is an apt descriptor. "We've made your favorite character totally different. Does that annoy you? Good. That was the point.""
๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ’ชSeed Oil Aficionado๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ’ช on X - "Well said, 100% correct, and follow. There's a reason that Samus, Ripley, Sara Connor and the like are still held as action heroes. They were well written, fleshed out characters with strength and weaknesses, that just happened to be women. And they rock."

Aurondarklord - FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! on X - "It's also the rank hypocrisy. The "bigoted when YOU do it, righteous when I do it" attitude of the people behind this. They'll say shit like Batman should be black, then send you death threats if you even joke about making Black Panther white. Race swaps used to go both ways."
Rawle Nyanzi on X - "The hypocrisy is a flex, a way to say that they can lie to you and you can’t do anything about it."

Meme - Joseph Massey @jmasseypoet: "Some people have asked what I mean by DEI infecting the literary world. This poem, published in Poetry magazine a few years ago, is a great example. Poetry magazine used to be one of the most well-respected poetry magazines in the world, but now it is a crap factory."
"My baby first birthday
my mother had two vaginas
one to birth me and one to keep me
inside the first one I had two names
my given name and my other given name
my twat had a name too
it was forgotten because the climate changed
the climate changed because of God
obviously
we as a society
stopped naming our twats
the old ways make way
for some way of being again
in this world where we bury the old
inside their baby bodies
this way when we wake up from our dead sleep
we shall be little bright stars
dead to the world and dead to the love
our teeny tiny gods created
their cunts hugging so tenderly at the moment of creation
that I think this world was truly made for us
still we won’t live forever
we won’t know how to tell the others
who will have surely lived like we lived
inside the total darkness of their mothers too
where it doesn’t matter what we know and what we do not"

Showing the Bum / Boyfriends come and go / Curvy vs Fat


"Shownme ur bum. Lol"
*photo of bum*
"Gross"


"Boyfriends come *guy kissing girl*
And boyfriends go *girl in bikini*
Mine definitely came *Girl with balloons*
And now I'm a single mum *girl with baby*"

This is jadeotanzasz / Jadles


"Dear girls ....
This is "being curvy"
This is just being fat"

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