Matt Walsh on X - "Body cameras killed the BLM movement. Now every time they try to canonize a new martyr, we quickly see the footage and it’s painfully obvious that the would-be martyr had it coming. Body cameras destroyed BLM. If the cops had been wearing them in Ferguson, BLM could have been extinguished a decade ago."
Michael Parson on X - "There was this one “Live PD” episode that was an eye opener for me. After a lengthy car chase, the car being pursued by police flipped over in an apartment complex. As the pursuing officer approached the vehicle, the male driver exited with what appeared to be a 2-3year old child. The driver then began swinging the child while trying to fight off the officer. The child somehow broke free and hit the ground running away from the driver and officer. The driver then was quickly restrained. If not for the body & dash cam recordings of the incident there is little chance I would have believed someone capable of such behavior."
Thread by @rational_wiki on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "It's important to remember that it was BLM that pushed for body cameras. It's the only positive contribution to society that the organization ever made. However once major police departments began requiring body cameras and the public began seeing what police endure in their 20 to 30 million interactions each year with black citizens and criminals, some BLM leaders reversed their position and expressed opposition to their continued use."
Meme - iamyesyouareno @iamyesyouareno: "“His life was stolen by police” vs. The bodycam footage. Thank goodness for bodycams these days. Without them, we’d probably be watching another city go up in flames and a shopping mall get looted."
"Deshawn Dante Leeth was a force in his community. a father to a beautiful daughter. and a tender homie i met organizing. his life was stolen by the police. if able donate please. and boost widely."
*pacific Deshawn Dante Leeth* *crazed, feral Deshawn Dante Leeth attacking police officer*
Benny Johnson on X - "So, this is the “Black community leader” the Corporate Media is saying was murdered by a police officer. Seemed like quite the leader. Body cams remain undefeated."
Meme - RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9: "You genuinely couldn’t pose a better picture than this. It should be hanging in a museum somewhere. A perfect composition, conveying a message that’s impossible to ignore."
Microaggressions are passé. Welcome to the new world of micro-niceties - "There’s a good deal that’s been written in recent times about the prevalent social pathology that beseeches us all to “just be kind.” Advocates of this superficially anodyne sentiment — one that is difficult in our modern era to contradict without being labelled a “bad person” — have ushered the tiresome concepts of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) into every corner of our lives. In his bestseller, “The Parasitic Mind,” Gad Saad identifies this status quo as having been motivated in large part by the collective suicidal tendencies of a swathe of people who have been infected with an ideological virus. The parasitized victims are easily identified by their consequentialist approach to life: they seek short-term rewards afforded by the stockpiling of social capital, rewards that in turn lead to career advancement and higher pay. One symptom of this disease is the acceptance of microaggressions, an idea that has spread even as far as the science laboratory. This concept has transcended mere impoliteness or veiled prejudice and now frames every unguarded comment, every passing joke and every criticism as an affront to someone’s — anyone’s — dignity as a human being, which must then be punished with disproportionate force... Even as leading universities hurry to divest themselves of DEI initiatives, three woke professors, two from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, have been busy shape-shifting the social justice terrain by rapidly planting signposts announcing a repertoire of new concepts they collectively term “micro-affiliations,” but might just as well be called “micro-niceties.”... professors Xian Zhao, Geoffrey Leonardelli and Soo Min Toh duly elaborate with admirably straight faces by introducing four new portmanteau categories of these micro-affiliations. The first of these, so-called micro-celebrations, embodies the very worst kind of patronizing insincerity, couched in typically stilted language. Micro-celebrations, it appears, are “deliberate expressions of … appreciation for differences in culture that can help … celebrated groups feel like their identities are acknowledged and appreciated.” In short, coworkers are expected to tip their hats throughout the year, not just on days of religious or cultural significance. The thought of being wished a happy Pride by gullible straight coworkers who are brainwashed to sermonize about trans inclusivity — oblivious of the trans movement’s embodiment of modern-day homophobia — fills me with dread. This, then, is the ignorant majority feeding delusional bromides to gays who instinctively know better. Similarly, according to the authors, equitable colleagues must recognize and offer accommodations to Muslims during their religious observance of Ramadan. The article even suggests workplace nods to Uyghur Muslims, a people who are undeniably oppressed in China. This conjures a mental picture of Huawei executives hotfooting into the Shenzhen office to micro-celebrate their Uyghur employees, though that’s unlikely to happen any time soon. Farcically, the authors at once argue for the foregrounding of differences while urging us that, “Instead of viewing ‘American’ as equal to ‘white,’ micro-celebration may allow members of all ethnic groups to be equally perceived as Americans.” As if any American in their right mind born after the civil rights movement would be this deranged. When it comes to avoiding the social faux pas of mangling a foreign name, the new mot du jour is “micro-normalization” — small charitable acts that seek to embrace our commonalities. Unsurprisingly, the authors opt to finger-wag at anyone failing to rhyme the Arabic name “Nader” with “ladder.” Yet I can attest that most Canadians can’t correctly pronounce my Anglo-Saxon Christian name, either. Yet, somehow, I’ve survived without filing a workplace grievance. Other micro-normalizations include the insufferable habit of slapping Progress Pride stickers on office doors and wearing an orange shirt on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This is all virtue-signalling in its purest form. Astonishingly, these professors also believe that “to engage in micro-normalization, non-African American workers may participate in Black Lives Matter protests,” revealing that these academics still think there is glory in the movement that saw corrupt executives siphon off millions of dollars to fund their private real-estate ventures. Listed third is “micro-socializing,” which is academic speak for “work junkets.” The authors’ examples are sparse and comical, including going “bowling or visiting a farmers’ market on a weekend morning.” That employees might react with contempt at such forced teaming — driven by the widespread acknowledgement that work outings are excruciating — has not occurred to these academics. The final category is something called “micro-affirmation.” Essentially, a micro-affirmation is a compliment. The idea that we need three top-flight eggheads — two of whom cost the province nearly $693,000 a year — to remind us that complimenting your colleagues is a boon to the workplace reveals a lot about the current state of higher education. Indeed, these brilliant minds point to compliments as a way to combat alienation — what they jarringly term “belongingness threat” — in a competitive workplace. It’s an argument in pursuit of mediocrity that advocates for endless, aimless backslaps for people going about their jobs on a daily basis. How exhausting. They conclude with the profoundly dubious prospect that micro-affiliation theory “provides a welcomed breath of positivity in approaching the world’s commitment to becoming a kinder and more caring place.”I use the word “dubious” because it reeks of unrealistic utopianism. The truth of the matter is that in recent years, workplaces have become far less tolerable places. They have been infused with unending diktats handed down by intellectual elites that sharpen cultural awareness and amplify sensitivities. For the average employee, it’s more like navigating a no-man’s land fenced with razor wire"
EXCLUSIVE: School board trains staff that the term ‘family’ is harmful, racist - "Waterloo Region District School Board staff are being trained that the word “family” is a harmful concept rooted in white supremacy. True North obtained internal training materials delivered to the staff at Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School by the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation which assert that terms like “objectivity,” “perfectionism,” and “worship of the written word” are hallmarks of “Whiteness” and upholding white supremacy. Quoting from Culturally Relevant Pedagogy by Laura Mae Lindo, one slide states that “biases are the socialized teachings of the white culture,” and “we use key words and phrases to promote the dominant culture.” One of the offensive words in question is “family,” which is said to be harmful to racialized students because it implies male authority, demands obedience without question, and erodes personal boundaries by “prioritizing the family’s needs.” Another slide asserts that asking for evidence for claims of racism or acknowledging racism toward white people is a “characteristic of whiteness” that must be dismantled. “The pain and hurt and discomfort are not ancillary to antiracism work, they are the guts of it” it says. “Without them, change simply does not happen,” quoting from White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better. The WRDSB’s 2024 workforce census reports that 90% of staff are white and 79% are women... Within staff circles, caution has become routine as the source was advised to “be careful” when sharing information with outsiders. They pointed to the case of Ontario teacher Chanel Pfahl, who the Ontario College of Teachers investigated after publicly criticizing anti-racism education... Another slide promotes the use of “BIPOC affinity groups,” described as exclusive, invitation-only spaces for non-white staff or students. These groups are deliberately kept confidential, justified by the claim that school culture is inhospitable to racial minorities. Despite their private nature, the groups are cited in WRDSB board meeting minutes and equity reports as markers of institutional progress. Despite denials, Ontario’s Ministry of Education endorses culturally relevant and responsive pedagogy, which serves as the applied form of critical race theory... According to Stephen Reich, a PhD student in educational leadership and policy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the concept of “whiteness” is directly borrowed from critical race theory. Reich, who studies the politicization of education, told True North that there is no experimental evidence showing that anti-racist approaches reduce discrimination. In fact, he argues these methods often “create bias where none previously existed.” Reich noted that there is “no evidence that anti-oppression education narrows learning gaps” adding that limited studies attempting to measure any benefits have found that such programs “make students more fluent in anti-oppression language—nothing more.” The WRDSB previously denied that critical race theory is part of its programming. In June 2022, trustee Cindy Watson introduced a motion requesting a report on the use of critical race theory in lesson plans... Anti-racist hiring practices have followed similar lines. On March 23, WRDSB hosted a job fair specifically for “Indigenous, Black & racialized individuals.” The stated rationale was to ensure that students “see themselves reflected in the education system.”"
Left wingers were claiming this was fake, of course. "This is not happening, and it's good that it is"
Meme - "I BRING THAT FREE PALESTINE ABOLISH ICE TRANS RiGHTS ARE HUMAN RiGHTS BLACK LIVES MATTER ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS LOVE IS LOVE NO countries no borders LAND BACK EAT THE RICH FREE LUIGI 8647 workers of the world unite ENERGY TO THE BBQ"
The left wing agenda is all connected
Glendale Arizona FOP Lodge 12 on X - "Earlier this year rapper Macklemore released a "song" declaring.. "F' the police" and calling us "actors with badges" protecting property and a system designed by "white supremacy." Well. His house just got robbed by masked men. The actors w/ badges were hastily called."
Kent news: Free speech row erupts as boy, 12, branded RACIST for repeating Roald Dahl joke found in school library: 'Afraid to speak!' - "A father has accused a Kent school of “killing academic and comedic freedom” after his 12-year-old child was given detention for telling a joke that appears in a Roald Dahl book available in the school’s own library. Andrey, a Year 7 pupil, was called out in front of his Latin class after telling a joke taken from Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. The Roald Dahl novel, which is a sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, is available to pupils through the school library. Andrey repeated the joke, originally written by Dahl, in front of a number of classmates, saying: “Why is it difficult to make telephone calls in China? Because there are so many Wings and so many Wongs, you might Wing the Wong number.”... the Latin teacher described the comment as a “racist joke” and noted that Andrey had been kept behind and questioned by members of staff. A two-hour detention was subsequently issued. In a follow-up email, the deputy head then appeared to misquote the joke, writing it as: “Why are Chinese people bad at ringing the phone?” He also said the "joke marginalises Chinese people by mocking their pronunciation of English words". Greg said this altered the meaning significantly and unfairly portrayed the joke as an insult, rather than the wordplay it originally was, adding: “They deliberately twisted what he actually said to make it sound worse.” He continued: “In reality, the joke is a play on last names- a kind of malapropism- since there are Chinese people with surnames like Wing and Wong. It’s similar to saying, ‘At my school, there are many teachers of colour: Mr Green, Mr Brown, Mr White, Mr Black, Mr Gray…’ "That wouldn't be considered a racist joke, would it? It’s simply wordplay involving English surnames that happen to be colours.” The father said his son was never given a proper explanation for why the joke was considered racist. “He told me they kept saying, ‘You know why it’s racist. You know why it’s racist,’ but wouldn’t explain it,” he said. “That’s not discipline, that’s intimidation. If you’re going to accuse a child of something that serious, you have to explain it. That’s just basic justice.” In the email, the deputy head also wrote: “While this joke appears in a Roald Dahl book, its presence in literature does not make its use appropriate.” Greg rejected that explanation, saying: “That’s indoctrination. If you're being told to read books and punished for having the wrong opinion about them, that’s not education.” He went on to highlight what he sees as inconsistencies in how the school defines and polices offensive speech, arguing that Christian students are frequently subjected to blasphemous language from staff without any consequences. “I’m a practising Catholic - my son’s an altar boy at Church. I hear from pupils that teachers regularly use expressions like ‘Jesus Christ’ or ‘Christ on a bike’ in class. That’s offensive to Christians. But nothing is done about that.” Greg also highlighted the kind of teasing that often goes unchallenged, even when it’s rooted in a child’s cultural or family background. He recounted how his son, who is of Ukrainian and Russian heritage, is regularly mocked at school with wordplay based on his surname... He said the school is setting a dangerous precedent that discourages children from speaking openly, saying: “Another boy, his [Andrey's] friend, who’s a shy kid, said he’s constantly stressed about what he can and can’t say at school. They shouldn’t be afraid to speak.” In response to the school, Greg said he would not permit Andrey to serve the detention unless the school could clearly explain how the joke was objectively harmful. He believes the school is engaging in selective enforcement, influenced by political fashion. “What I really hate with these people is the badgering. The kind of elitist, holier-than-thou attitude. They act like high priests of what you’re allowed to say and not say,” he added. In their behaviour and antibullying policy, the Kent school outlines "significant unacceptable behaviours". The policy states: "While outcomes are determined on a case by case basis, the following behaviour is regarded as completely unacceptable and will in most cases result in disciplinary actions at Level 3 / Level 4, including possible suspension or exclusion." The list includes: "Significant inappropriate language including discriminatory racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, biphobic or other etc.""
How ignorant. Doesn't he know that academic and comedic freedom is only meant for calling for the death of Jews and the destruction of the West?
The same people who go on about "book bans" want you to be banned from discussing books they disapprove of
Stephen Fry says JK Rowling’s been ‘radicalised’. I’ve got just one question for him - "LGBT Pride is about to enter its fourth week. Best wishes to all who are still celebrating. I hope no one will be offended, however, if I respectfully ask why this event now has to last for an entire month. It does feel like quite a long time. Especially when you compare the lengths of certain other annual events. For example, we have Pride month – but Remembrance fortnight. So we now spend twice as long waving rainbow flags as we do honouring those who died defending us. There’s nothing hateful about suggesting that Pride has started to drag on a bit. When people complain about shops putting their festive decorations up in September, it doesn’t mean they hate Christmas. It just means they think Christmas should last 12 days, not four months. Mind you, there are now so many different groups under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella, I suppose it takes about a month just to list them all."
How The Politics Of White Liberals And White Conservatives Are Shaped By Whiteness - "we asked white Americans in our research to list the characteristics, traits or behaviors that they think other people associate with white people. Participants came up with a variety of responses, including positive stereotypes like “hard working” and negative ones like “arrogant.” They then rated those characteristics, describing most of them as either extremely positive or extremely negative. But whether white Americans believed others thought of whiteness positively or negatively varied a lot by ideology — white liberals were more likely than white conservatives to list negative stereotypes... A wealth of research on this topic has shown that the discomfort of being associated with either racism or privilege can lead white people to adopt a variety of defensive beliefs and attitudes. In fact, studies found that concerns about being seen as racist lead many white people to avoid situations where they may say or do anything that could be construed as racist, including having conversations with Black people. Psychologists Samuel Gaertner and John Dovidio call this “aversive racism,” or a form of racial discrimination rooted in avoidance. They find this practice more common among white liberals, who tend to be more motivated to protect their self-image as egalitarian."
Weird. We're told it's a myth that people hate white people. We must ignore the research on white people having negative in-group bias too
It’s not racist to believe in English identity - "The English “can trace their roots back over generations” and have a history which is “the legacy of our collective identity”. This should be an uncontroversial claim. When the Venerable Bede wrote his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, almost 1,300 years ago, he felt no need to define the English, and even described “the English nation” as existing in the 6th century. The first King of the English, Æthelstan, was crowned in 927AD, and it was during his reign that the word “England” was first written down, by Ælfric of Eynsham. The English have been a people, and England a country, for a very long time. We are what the Bible calls an ethnos; a people and a nation. Yet when Matt Goodwin made these arguments in an interview with Spectator editor Michael Gove, drawing a distinction between Britishness, a wide, cultural identity, and Englishness, a “very distinct identity… which goes back for centuries”, many commentators reacted with fury and disgust. David Henig, a trade expert, described Goodwin’s remarks as “unashamed racism”. Simon Schama, the historian, said they were “pure recycled Enoch Powell”, and journalist Oliver Kamm posted that “it’s alarming how far racism has become normalised in public debate”. John McTernan, who served as Tony Blair’s Director of Political Operations, went even further, saying that “the concept of the ethnic English is truly evil”, in a tweet so unpopular that it had been viewed almost a million times, and attracted fewer than 50 likes before he deleted it. McTernan went on to claim that “races and ethnicities don’t exist”, despite having described himself as “Irish” and “never English”. When I asked him to explain, he claimed that any definition of Englishness “is either wooly and meaningless or othering and malign”. I find these reactions very strange. Is it racist to recognise that the English exist? I asked Oliver Kamm to explain his thoughts. He said “it’s obvious what the subtext is, and it’s alarming… moreover, the reasoning is spurious… very few people can ‘trace their roots over generations’ – my own ancestors, like many Central European Jews, came off the boat at Liverpool and settled”. Is Kamm right? Can it really be true that “very few” English people can trace their roots in this land back for generations? Adrian Targett, a teacher from Cheddar in Somerset, has been shown to be the direct descendant of “Cheddar Man”, a 9,000 year old skeleton found in the area. And according to Laura House, Genetic Genealogist at Ancestry, “the majority of people from the British Isles will be able to trace their ancestors back to the 19th century… [and] for people with Christian ancestors… there’s a good chance researchers will be able to trace at least one line into the 1500s”. As with any people, there are fuzzy edges and exceptions. But the existence of these exceptions doesn’t mean the people don’t exist. Would these commentators say the same if the Irish, Igbo or Han identified themselves as a distinct ethnos? I suspect not. What is different about the English? Bijan Omrani, historian, churchwarden and author of God is an Englishman: Christianity and the Creation of England said McTernan’s tweet is “unhinged”. Omrani told me that the hostile response to Goodwin’s interview is “an amazing manifestation of our intelligentsia hating itself”, something he links to an education system which, since the 1960s “doesn’t even want to pass on any knowledge or vision of Englishness”. Omrani agreed with Goodwin that there is “undoubtedly an ethnic element to Englishness”, although he sees this as one aspect, alongside language, culture and our Christian faith... It seems that this anger and horror that the English might identify as an ethnos is grounded in a prideful self-loathing. To suggest, as McTernan did, that it is “truly evil” to even conceive of the English as an ethnic group, is to deny our right to describe, recognise and understand ourselves. That is the true evil."
We are still told that left wingers don't hate their countries.
Of course, if you question non-white identities, you're the racist one
Teacher claims he was fired for reading n-word in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - "A teacher in Washington state said he was recently fired for reading his class a passage from “To Kill a Mockingbird” without censoring the n-word. Matthew Mastronardi, a Spanish teacher at West Valley High School in Spokane, was filmed reading out loud a section of the 1960 Harper Lee novel about racism and injustice in the Jim Crow-era Deep South. The Spanish teacher said in a lengthy X post Wednesday that he only spoke the slur — which is used repeatedly in the classic work — as a “teachable moment about context and literary honesty in reading” when he heard students saying they felt they “must ‘skip over the n-word.'” “I was astonished and expressed disagreement, saying, ‘That’s silly; it undermines the book’s historical context and disrespects the author’s intent to use accurate language’,” Mastronardi said. “A girl asked me in front of the class, ‘Would you read the word?’ I replied, ‘Yes, I would read every word.'”... The school repeatedly stated the decision wasn’t solely down to the book saga — but officials apparently refused to provide other reasons, he claimed. “There are no parent complaints, no documented disciplinary actions and I’ve passed every teaching evaluation,” he said."
Left wingers go on and on about "banned books", but read from a book and you get fired