What Researchers Discovered When They Sent 80,000 Fake Resumes to U.S. Jobs : r/Economics - "Serious question, did they use middle class white names or poor white names? I would wager my boy Cletus or bubba would not get many call backs."
"They used Todd or Allisson for white-sounding names, and Leroy and Lakisha for POCs. the resume was the same. only the names differed. lmao."
"So they just ignored the work that the freakonomics people did about names and class. bad science."
Richard Hanania on X - "I’ve gone down the rabbit hole of videos of Asians who believe the success of their race is a Cold War plot to make capitalism look good, and I’m still trying to find out why they believe America didn’t help blacks succeed for the PR benefits too."
Richard Hanania on X - "White Americans are seen as not having culture in the same way fish don’t notice the water. It’s the culture of the entire world. Europeans walk by old cathedrals in American fashion brands while scrolling their iPhones."
South Of Midnight: Don't Understand The Controversy : r/gaming - "The community manager said that white gamers are a mistake That's the controversy."
"Another community manager that actively hates the community...I'd be rich if I got a nickel for each of those."
""white male gamers were a mistake." -Katie Robinson @PikaChulita
"Honestly? I hate gamers." -AKA the Community Manager at Compulsion Games "
James Carville slams Ilhan Omar over 2018 'radicalization of White men' comments - "Democratic strategist James Carville called out Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., on Wednesday, for comments she made in 2018 about White men. He said controversial members of Congress like Omar "are more trouble than they're worth" for Democrats. "Ilhan Omar says that White men are responsible for most of the deaths in the United States. So let me get this straight, 69% of the people — why I’m stuck on that number, I don’t know — but 69% of the people going to vote, are White. Of that, 48.5 are males. So, I don’t know, my rough math is 33%?" Carville said during a discussion at the Sir Harry Evans Investigative Journalism Summit in London. Omar said in 2018 during an interview that the U.S. should be "fearful" of White men and that the country should be creating policies to "fight the radicalization of White men." The interview resurfaced this week on social media, and was criticized by members of the GOP, including Vice President JD Vance. "That’s a lot of pissed-off 33% of people that vote, and that’s a smart strategy? And there are people that agree with her! There are people that actually agree with her! And I think it’s, honestly, I think these people are more trouble than they’re worth," Carville said on Wednesday. "I would say our country should be more fearful of White men across our country, because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country," Omar said in the 2018 interview with Al-Jazeera while discussing domestic terrorism threats in the U.S. and responding to a question about how much concern "jihadism" posed to the U.S. "And so, if fear was the driving force of policies to keep America safe, Americans safe inside of this country, we should be profiling, monitoring, and creating policies to fight the radicalization of White men," she added. The comments were called out by Vance and other conservatives on Tuesday, as the vice president likened Omar's remarks to "genocidal language."... Omar told Daily Caller News Foundation reporter Myles Morell to "f--- off" earlier this month after he asked her a question about fellow Democratic Party figures traveling to El Salvador to defend illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported to the country by the Trump administration"
We’re paying for a revolution led by social activists - "Elsa Tuet-Rosenberg, one of the activists involved in the doxxing of 600 Australian Jewish creatives, has a contract with the Australian Human Rights Commission with her company, Hue. Given this company is in receipt of public funds, and produces materials to be used in Australian schools, it is worth examining its work and overarching philosophy, and whether it is compatible with the AHRC’s remit. The first thing one notices about Hue’s website is that it does not limit itself to anti-racism. “Too often conversations about ‘Inclusion & Diversity’ are tokenistic and one dimensional,” the website reads. “The systemic nature of power & oppression is ignored, and there is no real investment in meaningful change.” Clicking through to Hue’s online shop, one can find an Anti-Racism Policy template for $300, a NAIDOC Week participation leave policy for $300 and a Gender Affirmation Leave Policy template for $300. If someone wants to go all out and purchase a Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Survey Licence and Support Package, they can expect to pay the handsome price of $4150. These documents are to be used in the workplace as guides in dealing with employees who might be “gender diverse”, Indigenous or a person of colour. Like other forms of social justice activism, the primary concern is to influence social norms through the introduction of workplace policies, speech codes and other forms of bureaucratic oversight. At first glance, one might wonder what gender affirmation has to do with racism. Why would a consulting agency dedicated to issues of race be in the business of transgenderism? It’s an important question because the answer sheds light on the all-encompassing nature of modern progressive activism. Today’s activism is shaped by a philosophical worldview known as critical theory... since racial, gender and, later, marriage equality have become formally enshrined by law, the focus of activists has shifted from the concrete to the abstract, with the goal now being to “dismantle power”. From the critical theory worldview, dismantling one system of power works towards dismantling other systems. This is why students carrying banners that read “Queers for Palestine” see no contradiction: it’s power that needs to be dismantled, not rights that need to be won. This gets us back to the AHRC. The AHRC’s remit is not to dismantle power. It is a statutory body funded by the Australian government and is tasked with ensuring compliance with Australian law, namely the Racial Discrimination Act. As an instrument of power itself, any attempt to “dismantle power” would become self-contradictory. The clash of worldviews doesn’t stop there, however. The Racial Discrimination Act of 1975 states: “It is unlawful for a person: (a) to refuse to allow another person access to or use of any place, by reason of the race, colour or national or ethnic origin of that other person or of any relative or associate of that other person.” But a visit to Hue’s website, (which is linked to by the AHRC) suggests this rule has been superseded. Hue offers events and workshops for “people of colour only”. One event, titled “Power & Resilience (People of Colour only)” purportedly “creates a safe space for people of colour at your organisation to share, reflect, connect and learn without the impact of the white gaze … the session also explores strategies for coping and wellbeing under oppressive and racist systems”. Yet the Racial Discrimination Act does not include carve-outs allowing certain groups of people to be exclusionary or racist towards other groups of people because they feel they are living under “systems of oppression”. The legislation itself is blind to race – it simply prohibits discrimination. It’s worthwhile asking: does Hue – and the AHRC more broadly – see itself as above the law? Unlike the Racial Discrimination Act, the critical theory definition of racism is not colourblind. Any condemnation of racism is determined by the identity of the actors engaged in it, rather than by the racism itself. And this selective condemnation also applies to rape, torture and murder. On Hue’s LinkedIn page, an article in reference to October 7 states: “Whiteness culture is … hyper-individual, emphasising harm that takes place on an individual level, and disguising the violent systems that give rise to that harm in the first place. This culture erases ongoing ‘israeli’ (sic) violence from our conversations and highlights and demonises the violence of resistance efforts and land defence.” In the critical theory worldview “land defence” now outranks prohibitions against mass rape and mass murder. The mistaken notion that today’s social justice activists are passionate advocates of equality and dignity for all, rather than the carriers of a radically sectarian moral framework, has allowed establishment institutions such as the AHRC to be duped into giving them access and influence. Activists with Tuet-Rosenberg’s worldview have effectively taken over institutions across corporate, non-profit and government sectors. Centre-leftists have no match for their zeal, and quickly find themselves defenestrated whenever there is conflict. With companies such as Hue in receipt of public subsidy, the Australian taxpayer is now funding a revolution."
Once again, the anti-racist crowd are incredibly racist. Why does this keep happening?
The left wing agenda is all connected
Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧🎗 on X - "A publicly funded British museum has declared Father Christmas "too white," "too patriarchal," and morally unfit to judge children. This is not satire, parody, or a student stunt. It is the official voice of Brighton and Hove Museums – an institution paid by taxpayers to preserve heritage, now treating it as a problem to be solved. Their complaint is not that Santa has been commercialised or cheapened, but that he exercises judgement. The naughty list, we're told, is a "Western binary." Moral distinction is "colonial." The solution is to scrap judgement entirely, rebrand him as "Mother Christmas," and recast the elves as co-workers in a flattened, grievance-managed collective. Charity without standards. Joy without meaning. Tradition without roots. What's being proposed here isn't reform but repudiation. A cultural authority has looked at one of the most benign figures in European folklore – a symbol of generosity, restraint, and reward earned through conduct – and concluded that the problem lies not with human behaviour, but with the civilisation that dares to distinguish right from wrong. That alone tells you how far the rot has spread. The attack on Santa isn't about Santa. It's about narrative control. If they can make you feel ashamed of a story as joyful and harmless as Father Christmas – a figure rooted in European folklore, Christian charity, and festive tradition – they can make you ashamed of anything. Your history. Your religion. Your nation. Your skin. This is what ideological colonisation looks like: strip a culture of its symbols, flood its traditions with guilt, and turn its festivals into battlegrounds for theory. First Christmas was too religious. Then it was too white. Now it's too binary, too judgmental, too "colonial." What remains if this logic wins? Lights without meaning. Songs without story. A hollow shell where memory used to live. And let's not pretend this is an isolated case. Across Britain, cultural institutions are infected by the same poison – a bureaucratic class that sees its role not as steward of the past but as its interrogator. Museums sneer at what they were built to protect. Galleries use public money to dismantle beauty in the name of "reimagining." Libraries swap storytelling for ideology, and schools tiptoe around December as if tradition itself were a threat. Ask yourself this: would any other civilisation do this? Would Saudi Arabia replace Eid with a seminar on white privilege? Would India allow its temples to host deconstructions of Diwali? Would Nigeria denounce its tribal folklore as oppressive binaries? Of course not. Only the West does this. Only the West funds the demolition of its own inheritance and calls it progress. That's the deeper point. This isn't cultural evolution. It's self-harm dressed as virtue. These people don't want to "reimagine" Christmas. They want to dissolve it – to turn a season of belonging and wonder into a classroom for resentment. They see children not as heirs to joy, but as blank slates to be programmed with guilt. "Santa is too white" is just another way of saying you are too white. "Judgement is colonial" is code for morality itself being suspect. And if they get away with this, it won't stop at Christmas. Every tradition will be rewritten. Every figure flattened. Every national story edited until nothing remains but apologies and disclaimers. This is Year Zero thinking – erase what was, replace it with what should be, and raise a generation that no longer recognises the country it inhabits. Britain is being taught to forget itself – and to hate what it remembers. So no, this isn't just about Santa. It's about a line in the sand. Push back now, or surrender childhood, heritage, and joy to a class of cultural saboteurs who believe the past must burn so they can rule over the ashes. "They see children not as heirs to joy, but as blank slates to be programmed with guilt. "Santa is too white" is just another way of saying you are too white.""
Dennis Noel Kavanagh on X - "I would only add to this that it is infinitely easier (and more fashionable) to sneer and “deconstruct” than it is to do the hard work of understanding how a practice or tradition has come to occupy the place it does in a culture. This is why this now rather passé sort of deconstruction has long been the home of otherwise unemployable midwits who plague this sector."
Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧🎗 on X - "That's exactly it. Sneering costs nothing. Deconstruction flatters the ego while demanding no understanding, no responsibility, no creation. Anyone can pull something apart; almost no one in these circles can explain why it endured, what human need it served, or what would replace it if it were gone. That's why this mindset clusters where it does. It offers status without achievement and authority without competence. Tradition is hard because it asks you to learn, to inherit, to judge carefully. Mockery is easy. And easy has become the currency of too many cultural institutions."
Bushra Shaikh on X - "Before blaming Muslims, Western Governments should investigate its own fingerprints on extremism. Blowback isn’t an accident- it’s the cost of Western nefarious intervention. An uncomfortable truth is, the West helped create terrorists."
Leo Kearse - on YouTube & touring on X - ""Remember, Westerners: it's your fault you got killed by an Islamist""
Trigger warning slapped on Harry Potter for ‘outdated attitudes’ - "Students at the University of Glasgow have been cautioned that Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone contains “outdated attitudes, abuse and language”. The work by JK Rowling appears alongside a number of titles, including Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, the dystopian 2001 novel Noughts & Crosses by Malory Blackman and Edith Nesbit’s 1899 book The Treasure Seekers, assessed as having the potential to cause offence. Another book deemed to be problematic was First Term at Malory Towers, the Enid Blyton novel from 1946 set in a girls’ boarding school, which has spawned a series of sequels as well as a BBC TV adaptation. The warnings have been issued to all students taking part in a module entitled British Children’s Literature... Jeremy Black, the author and former professor of history at the University of Exeter, said the warnings were unnecessary. “Glasgow University’s wish to warn that the values of the past are dangerous and disturbing offers a hilarious commentary on its present mindedness,” he said. “All such trigger warnings do is provide a form of confirmation bias for the follies of the present.” John Sutherland, emeritus professor of modern English literature at University College London, told the Daily Mail: “In the olden days, the British Library used to have a ‘poison cabinet’, for books judged dangerous to readers. It was large cabinet-sized. Nowadays, with the triggering epidemic, the triggered-lit cabinet would be the size of … King’s Cross station [next door].” Dame Margaret Drabble, the novelist, said: “Poor, poor students! Exposing themselves at their age to Lewis Carroll and Edith Nesbit and all those ghastly outdated stories glorifying public school. How they must suffer. They will need counselling from all the children who have survived these terrible tales and enjoyed them so much.”
You either die a liberal or live long enough to see yourself become a bigot
Glasgow’s JK Rowling trigger warning underlines importance of CAF’s latest campaign - Committee For Academic Freedom - "A spokeswoman for the Russell Group institution defended the practice, insisting that content advisories “help students prepare for critical discussion. Unlike children reading for pleasure, undergraduates analyse these texts in depth, which can highlight outdated attitudes around childhood, race or gender.” The spokeswoman continued: “We believe that content advisories have an important role to play in an educational setting, allowing lecturers and students to engage in a positive learning and teaching experience on issues across the whole range of human experience and history. They also ensure we can engage with course content in as sensitive and respectful a way as possible.” It’s a revealing statement. Branding a work “outdated” appears to prejudge precisely the sort of question that ought to be thrashed out in a seminar room, not decided in advance by central decree – after all, isn’t the concept of “outdated attitudes” itself ripe for unpacking in a humanities classroom? The language also seems carefully calibrated to chime with recent guidance from the sector regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), which is notably cautious about content notes, warning that they risk chilling teaching unless there is “evidence [that] they are in fact helpful” in enabling students to “access material”. There is a growing body of empirical work suggesting that, in scholarly contexts, trigger warnings often exacerbate anticipatory anxiety rather than easing it, and can function as ideological cues, subtly shaping how students are expected to read a text. Yet Glasgow’s statement, with its confident assurances about how content advisories “help students prepare” and “ensure” sensitive engagement, presupposes a countervailing research base. As it happens, we may soon find out what that evidence looks like. CAF has submitted Freedom of Information requests to all 24 Russell Group institutions asking what evidence they hold that trigger warnings are helpful in enabling students to, as the OfS puts it, “access material”. One of the themes to emerge from the responses received so far is that universities, as central corporate bodies, often claim they are simply unable to say. A typical reply runs that the university “does not hold any evidence” on content notes, and that “the information you have requested is held at school level and is not collated”. Given the clarity and confidence of Glasgow’s public statement about the benefits of content advisories – where the evidential basis for their use appears to have been miraculously easy to hand – it will be interesting to see whether, when responding to our FOI, the university now pleads the familiar line that the relevant information is scattered across departments and couldn’t possibly be “collated”."
Now leading Scots university issues a trigger warning - for Harry Potter - "The University’s warning applies to the module of nine set texts and does not highlight the content of any particular novel."
Now students are being ‘triggered’ by Harry Potter - spiked - "When trigger warnings first started cropping up on university course lists, they were initially reserved for the most sensitive and serious of subjects. Think sexual abuse, genocide, torture and the like. Yet now the University of Glasgow has issued a warning to its students about the potentially dangerous, toxic and confronting content they may encounter when leafing through Harry Potter... young adults at a university, which helped give birth to the Scottish enlightenment and whose alumni include Adam Smith, are not only taking courses devoted to books for children, but also seem to be finding the course content a bit too emotionally taxing... Then there’s Glasgow’s dismissive line about ‘reading for pleasure’. This seems to capture the cold, antagonistic approach to books, and indeed the arts in general, that has become dominant in the modern university. Not every book needs to be enjoyed, of course. But loving books is a necessary step to understanding them, and to building that intimate acquaintance with an author’s mind – a person you will almost certainly never meet – which is both humbling and enlightening, and the real purpose of reading. Students who approach a book with hostility, conditioned to see nothing but racism, or classism, or sexism, are simply binding themselves to prejudices they profess to hate. Inevitably, they will end up as joyless, narrow-minded pedants. It isn’t immediately clear what books are left for students to study that aren’t considered triggering. Before moralistic academics and administrators came for Harry Potter, they came for The Canterbury Tales, basically every play written by Shakespeare, and that most traumatising of texts, Peter Pan. Authors like Dickens have so far survived, but one suspects that this is only because his books are quite long, and so too much of a struggle for academics, let alone students, to get through. Modern academics are proving to be no different from the puritans who sought to have the likes of DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover banned on account of its portrayal of sex and class. ‘Is this a book you would even ask your wife or your servants to read?’, the prosecution famously asked in the novel’s obscenity trial in 1960. It is the same impulse that appears to drive the University of Glasgow’s morality police. At least in 1960, the great and good were asking those questions about adult masterpieces – not children’s fantasy novels. After years of infantilising students and traducing all authors worth reading, universities have now reached the point where even children’s books are deemed unsafe. When Harry Potter can be cast beyond the pale, we are in a very dark place indeed."
Trigger warnings may only encourage people to keep watching - "irrespective of whether or not people said they suffered from trauma, they were ignored. The study, published in the Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, found that of the 261 participants, 90 per cent of them happily clicked through, and some said they were more likely to do so precisely because of the warning. Crucially, those who reported suffering from trauma were no less likely to click. One even told the researchers it was an inducement, saying: “Sometimes my brain wants to be triggered, so it grabs my attention more.”... do they work? Do they change behaviour, and do they help when they do? There has now been a decade of research into this, of which her study is just the latest. “They all come to the same conclusion. Trigger warnings don’t really change people’s behaviours or emotions at all. I’m quite certain that the warnings don’t emotionally prepare people.”... she suspects, amid the proliferation of trigger warnings there is one constituency they do serve: the organisations that post the content. “What’s the utility of sharing a beheading video, for instance? It’s not going to raise awareness more than telling people a beheading happen, but it’ll get clicks"
Thread by @Will_Tanner_1 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "It’s sickening watching ISIS destroy these statues, some of which date back thousands of years before the Romans. But that’s more or less what the left wants to do to America as it destroys statues and history. It’s also my pet conspiracy theory for why Obama aided them 🧵👇
First, this is mainly just idle speculation based on what similarities I see between the woke left and history hating Islamists, namely their willingness to destroy artifacts of history they now see as heretical. There’s no hard evidence Obama supported them for that reason. But remember, under the Timber Sycamore program, Obama did have the COA provide weapons to Islamist groups including ISIS. Relatedly, there’s a 2012 DIA report that indicates Obama and allied countries provided aid to the groups that became ISIS, one about which @GenFlynn was damned for speaking. He also nixed at least one operation that would have destroyed them early on
So Obama was involved in ISIS’s rise, though the degree to which he was is debatable and subject to much speculation given America classifying everything. And what did ISIS do with the weapons “we” gave them? Atrocities used to justify American involvement in the region, murders of Christians that Assad and Russia eventually stopped, and an utter destruction of historical artifacts, including the ancient statuary in the video at the top. The statuary aspect was particularly tragic as it was irreplaceable. Like older versions of the Buddhas destroyed by the formerly CIA-supported Taliban in Afghanistan, no one’s making more statues from ancient Babylon of the other Bronze Age Kingdoms, nor is anyone making another Palmyra.
The Palmyra case is similarly tragic. One of the best preserved Roman cities, an excellent example of Roman city building and beauty and a center of history given the role Palmyra played in the late Roman Empire period. Yes ISIS was allowed to destroy it because it was fighting the Syrian government for the city. Our bombers were invading Syrian airspace anyway and could have decimated ISIS before it destroyed one of the great relics of history. Instead ISIS destroyed Palmyra until the area was liberated by Assad and Russia, who saved parts of it like they saved the surviving Christians
And as the terrorists his program directed arms toward destroyed irreplaceable artifacts in Iraq and Syria, Obama declared a similarly total, if less bloody, war on American heritage. The battle flag that Nimrata Haley tore down outside the South Carolina capitol was attacked by Obama, for example. Further, Obama was generally hostile to and ignorant of real American history and heroes, and promoted that myopic worldview. @BrionMcClanahan wrote an excellent essay for the Washington Times that touched on how Obama’s election shows the sorry state of knowledge and attitude in America as regards our history and heroes. Further, his legacy has been used to justify other attacks on American history and memorials to it. That could be seen in 2020 and 2021, where Obama’s presidency and legacy were used to justify statue removal and hostility to history. He also cheered the statue-destroying protesters. And it’s hard not to see the statues destroyed by (Obama supported) BLM thugs in much a different light than those destroyed by (also Obama supported) ISIS thugs. In both cases, the statues were destroyed for ex post facto heresy; their views from and why they represented about yesteryear mean they can’t be tolerated in the radical, extremist present. So ISIS destroyed statues of gods and kings it despises for their heresy to Islam as BLM destroyed statues it despised for their heresy to modern race communism and egalitarianism
I have no real proof that Obama and the CIA supported ISIS because they wanted to further the war on history, it’s just speculation. But it’s at the very least a strange coincidence that the man who waged war on American history and aided those doing the same likewise contributed to the radical war on history abroad. At the very least, his acolytes are motivated by the same impulse"
