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Sunday, June 14, 2026

Links - 14th June 2026 (2 - General Wokeness)

Melissa Lantsman on X - "🚨Last year, Canadian Heritage handed $20,000 of your money to the Muslim Association of Canada, through the Anti-Racism Program (the same department that promised accountability after the Laith Marouf scandal), to the same MAC that platforms Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas-tied speakers, and that just last week promoted a “Jew-free world” to young people at a conference in Toronto. They promised to vet this. They lied. Again. Once? Scandal. Twice? Policy. Enough."

Meme - Diandra Krueger: "What's your hottest take about horror movie fans?"
James Horror @jamesxhorror: "You simply cannot be a horror fan and then still hold racist, misogynistic, transphobic, religiously conservatist or anti socialist views. The two aren't compatible."
Crimson_01 @01_Crimson_01: *H.P. Lovecraft*
James Horror @jamesxhorror: "Is this man a horror fan?"

Matt Van Swol on X - "Everything about the Left is fake. Once you understand it, everything make sense.
>Eat the rich... from your mansion
>Save the planet... from your private jet
>Everyone is racist... while you fund the racism.
>Billionaires are evil... unless you fund our candidates.
>Words are violence... but my violence is actually speech
>Wrong pronouns are assault... but burning a courthouse in a protest is mostly peaceful
>We love immigrants... unless you send them to Martha's Vineyard then we call ICE too
>Democracy is sacred... unless we lose, then it was stolen by Russia, misinformation, or Elon
>Diversity is our strength... unless you're a Black conservative, then you're a race traitor who needs to be destroyed
>Tax the wealthy... while your foundation, your trust, and your three LLCs are structured specifically to avoid paying a dime of it
>Capitalism is oppression... posted from an iPhone, on a platform worth a trillion dollars, while wearing merch sold through the your merch store linked in your bio
It's all fake, it's all performative and should be endlessly mocked into oblivion. Give them zero comfort. The doctrine is always designed so the cost lands on someone else. The cashier pays for your protest. The suburban parents pays for your sanctuary city. The trade school kid pays for your student loan forgiveness. The taxpayer pays for your foundation's tax shelter. The working mom pays for your gas stove ban. The factory town pays for your Green New Deal. The girl on the swim team pays for your pronouns. The cop's widow pays for your bail reform. It's a massive, evil, cost-transfer operation that pretends the evil they are pushing, is moral. ...and it's just evil"

Meme - Michael A. Arouet: "Wait, what? I didn't have the German LGBTQ community voting for the AfD on my bingo card. What am I missing here?"
"Gays for AfD.A survey of 60,560 German users of Romero, a gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and non-binary dating app."
*Voting intention (in %): AfD 27.9% (highest party)*

Meme - BBC News (World) @BBCWorld: "Selling children to survive: Afghan fathers forced to make impossible choices"
Readers added context: "BBC frames Afghan fathers selling daughters as sympathetic. All profiled cases involve girls (e.g. 5-year-old). Selling daughters for marriage is a longstanding cultural practice in parts of Afghanistan. BBC focuses on fathers' distress over outcomes for the girls (rape)."

Meme - "Alan Dershowitz: "I've lived a long life. I'm 87 years old. I've dealt with many professionals, psychiatrists, doctors, you name it. The most unethical group of people I have EVER worked with in my life have been journalists."
Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen: "No one is being "forced" to sell their 5-year-old daughters to pedophiles. They are voluntarily doing this to make money, as they have in the Middle East for centuries. Any half-decent father would starve to death before selling his child to a rapist. These are evil men"
TAiR: "BBC: This Is Sick Beyond Measure"
BBC News (World) @BBCWorld: "Selling children to survive: Afghan fathers forced to make impossible choices"
Cruadin @cruadin: "Yeah, it's quite a feat to describe a young girl being sold into sex slavery and framing the narrative to portray the PERSON WHO SOLD HER as the sympathetic figure in the story. Who but the BBC?"

Lauren Chen on X - "The BBC has more sympathy for Afghan fathers who traffick their daughters to pedophiles than they do for British nationalists. Absolutely wild."

Douglas MechArthur ☭⃠ on X - "Anyone who had been to Afghanistan knows this is true. You will partrol multiple villages per day and see approximately 5% of the male population actually working. Most squat down by a wall and talk about nothing of significance, while those who do work are five guys standing around watching one man dig a hole. Likely a hole the US forces paid them $10k to dig. Their entire culture is full of lazy stupid PDFfiles. The only ones capable of hard work are the ANA troops, and they're still walking around in sandals and doing nothing."

6 eighth graders face criminal charges over 'hateful and racist' online chat: DA - "Six Massachusetts eighth graders face criminal charges in connection with "hateful and racist comments" in a group chat that allegedly included threats and a mock slave auction"
The same people who want adults to be free to call for killing Jews love this. Freedom of speech is only meant to push the left wing agenda

Quote by Thomas Sowell - "Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole"

All 11 teachers accused of creating toxic climate at Montreal school have their licences revoked : r/canadanews - "How fucking toxic was it to result in 11 teachers not just fired, but losing their licenses?"

All 11 teachers accused of creating toxic climate at Montreal school have their licences revoked : r/canadanews - "WHAT did they DO?"
"Isn't it disturbing how media just reports these things and leaves that out
The "Toxic" Climate: Investigations found a "dominant clan" of teachers used intimidation tactics, such as forcing students to stand by walls for not doing homework and calling them "lost causes," according to the Montreal Gazette.
Religious Influence: Reports indicated some teachers, largely of North African descent, were influenced by a local mosque and attempted to introduce strict religious concepts into the public school, the Town and Country Today reports."

All 11 teachers accused of creating toxic climate at Montreal school have their licences revoked : r/canadanews - "Hello, from Quebec and followed this for the last couple years Since the article dosent explain it Basically this was a non-official muslim school were children were obligated to follow strict muslim rules like segregation from sexes, religious prayers, Islamic teaching, refusing to follow the QC curriculum for children, refusing to explain other religious courses, things like that Also the teachers formed a very strict alliance between them and ruled over the school and over other teacher that tried to interve"

All 11 teachers accused of creating toxic climate at Montreal school have their licences revoked : r/canadanews - "If you are considering reading the article to learn what the toxic behaviour actually was, don’t bother, the ceeb just dances around it"
"Preaching to the choir here, but the CBC editors and journalists should be able to say these were Islamic practices and they were abhorrent."
"They'll follow the usual playbook and bury it asap."
"And not isolated but a concerted community effort, which is much more concerning."

Meme - sam @___TheGOOdWitch: "The way Christians explain how Christianity spread across the world *laughing church and Jesus running to hand Bible to laughing, loving earth*
How it actually happened
*war scene*"
Mark Howard @HowardMarkLouis: "The painting in the bottom frame is of the DEFENSE of Acre in 1291."
We all know that Christians and white people are not allowed to defend themselves, because that's literally genocide, war crimes and a violation of international law

Meme - "THE EVOLUTION OF LIBERAL MEN. FROM THE PARTY OF THE WORKING CLASS TO THE PARTY OF THE IVY CLASS
1996 UNION DEMOCRAT
Strong Unions
Good Pay
Secure Borders
Welfare Reform
Personal Responsibility
Proud of America
Built America
2004 ANTI-WAR ACTIVIST: "NO WAR FOR OIL"
End the Iraq War
Healthcare for All
Expand Rights
Help the Poor
Environmentalism
Question Authority
Questioned the System
2012 CORPORATE PROGRESSIVE: "Coexist"
Love is Love
Obama Pride
Diversity Matters
Tolerant & Inclusive
Believe in Science
Global Citizenship
Joined the Profession
2020 ONLINE ACTIVIST: "DEFUND EVERYTHING. BLACK LIVES MATTER. NO BORDERS. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS"
Defund Police
Abolish ICE
Cancel Culture
Pronouns Matter
Systemic Everything
Virtue Signal Daily
Lives Online
2026 IVY LEAGUE PROGRESSIVE: "Why won't these people just evolve?"
Trust the Experts
Open Borders
UBI Someday
Eat the Rich
Pronouns + Bio
You're All Problematic
Looks Down on Everyone Else"

Meme - Sophie Fullerton @florida_sophia: "It’s been obvious for years that the Western anti-imperialist left has been riddled with racists and white saviors who mask their disdain for people of color behind a progressive veneer. For figures like Johnstone, minorities are little more than a tool meant to advance her own ideological passion projects regardless of which oppressed group gets trampled in the process. She does not care about the people she speaks on, she cares about leveraging their suffering for her own personal gain. At least the far-right is open about their contempt for minorities. The alt-left, while also openly vile, has been savvy enough to hide their racism, Islamophobia, and dehumanization of oppressed groups under the guise of “anti-imperialism.”"
Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz: "Tell Iranian diaspora warmongers to shut the fuck up. Tell pro-sanctions Cuban diaspora to shut the fuck up. It's so obnoxious how these assholes will show up in my replies all "Excuse me you're not from that country so you don't get to oppose dropping bombs on it." Uh, how about you shut the fuck up? I'm going to oppose the most evil and depraved agendas of the western power structure I live under, thank you very much. If you don't like it you can go choke on a dick. If you support yet another disastrous US military intervention to topple yet another middle eastern government, then you're a piece of shit. You're a piece of shit regardless of what country your family happens to come from."
As usual, left wingers only value "minority" voices when they push the left wing agenda, so they're liars and hypocrites when they talk about listening to "minorities"

Meme - End Wokeness: "What's a video that defines peak woke?"
Raven @raven_brah: Anansi The Local Punk @Anans...: "You should be training to fight fascists. They're training to kill you. This isn't a joke or a meme. If you are non-white and/or queer, people are training daily for the sole purpose of killing you. You should be training just as hard."
Golden #GeneralStrikeR...: "Can barely feed myself or keep my house clean (it's not actually clean). I am working on exercise but my body actively tries to kill me during it (cholinergic allergy) so it's hard. We have to develop more than just strength. Helping each other is going to be crucial."
The Boys Spoilers @Mediocre_...: "I'd love to be doing bjj rn but I'm trying to survive Covid first and with this monkeypox shit going around. it's looking like gyms are the worst place to be for both rn"
Witchy Advocacy @CinnamonB...: "Too disabled. But I'm hoping the abled people Remeber I exist if shit goes down. Canada is already killing us here"
Average Henry Hill PFP @Swelli...: "Anarchists consider the fact that some people aren't allowed to buy weapons challenge, IMPOSSIBLE."
attenton: "Anarchists, those noted law-abiders."
scotty @transgemder: "I... I can't even pick up heavy items without being immobile for several days after. How could I survive a homicide attempt"
Mensa cutejewelrystore @cutejewelryst: "So how exactly do disabled and chronically ill do this? AND please please do not give me chair exercises some of us have more complex medical issues"

My White Privilege Didn't Save Me - "As with millions of girls, puberty was a time of fearfully watching my body turn into something that I knew was sexually attractive to men. Nicky went the other way and became promiscuous. Girls like Nicky search for power where they can find it. When you see a young woman wielding her sexual power, it’s not always a cause for either celebration or scorn. My brother and I spent many party nights pulling her away from the clutches of predators. In the new sexually charged landscape that children encounter in school, activists lay out myriad sexual and gender identities to minors, on the possibility the child may see one as a mirror. They sift through children like sand, claiming other people’s sons and daughters as a member of this or that “community.” Both Nicky and her brother Kevin later identified as gay (which of course, they might well have been). They were both troubled, and Kevin committed suicide. Maybe it was an identity crisis, or maybe it was that they were being fucked when they were children. I have no tolerance for activists obsessed with aggressive cultural interventions in a child’s sexuality or gender issues. Heterosexual girls are the people who are the most vulnerable to sexual and domestic violence, and who are most likely to be murdered by a sexual partner. In response, modern feminism wants to teach little boys like Kevin that they are toxic, and little girls like Nicky that promiscuity is liberation. Neither is helpful... You won’t find it surprising to learn that I related easily to Marxist ideology. I liked the idea that my oppression was systemic, that I was marked for suffering before I was born, and that I was a victim of it. If this was all true, then the path to justice was corporate and institutional, rather than the terrifying path of facing my own issues as a powerless individual... Under the belief (delusional, as it turned out) that the problem was rooted in my drug and alcohol use, I gave up both. Unfortunately, without that self-medication, I found myself face to face with the underlying pain and paralysing fear. One night, I collapsed on the floor, crying and in such physical pain that I could barely move. I picked up a Bible and read a passage from 2 Corinthians 5—Awaiting the New Body—that left me completely undone. Not long after, I walked into a suburban Baptist church, full of strange, unfashionably dressed, conservative Christians. I was a Marxist, a feminist, foul-mouthed, a chain-smoker, and desperate. The love I received in that place is the reason that I will defend the rights of fundamentalist Christians to my dying breath. They were the kindest people I’d ever known. They loved me, on principle, and in doing so saved my life. People who advocate for a world without religion have no idea what it is like to find the relief that I found at that time. My purpose here is not to describe my “Amazing Grace” moment, but to explain why I have no patience for militant atheists. In the face of my evangelical Christianity, progressives (mostly men) have called me every unholy thing imaginable—including, of all things, a paedophile apologist... Unlike most of my fellow left-leaning students, I was genuinely working class. As a Cockney, my father wasn’t working class because of what he did; it was simply who he was. My mother regularly reminded us of the struggle of working women for fair wages. She failed me in the most fundamental of ways. But right or wrong, she was my greatest political influence. At the base of her politics was the real-life outworking of collective, pluralist power. Yet neither of my parents were Marxists. Like much of the postwar working class, they were dyed-in-the-wool Labor voters. Their politics was practical. My drift from Marxism was not a drift from the Left. I still saw the Left as the side of compassion, of advocacy for the poor, women, and the oppressed. Poor and disadvantaged children, such as I was, were given real opportunities as a result of leftist policies. True, I did feel a little sorry about leaving the academic Left for French cultural theory, but this part of the Left abandoned me, not vice versa. Unfortunately, as we’ve all seen, the academic Left eventually prevailed over the grass-roots leftism that my parents had supported. When I first voted Conservative about seven years ago, I went back to my car and cried. The postmodern re-engineering of left-wing political theory has included the redefinition of “privilege” in a way that is separate from economics, a definition of “sex” that is separate from biology, and a definition of “violence” that does not involve actual violence. It’s a language and a narrative that completely abandons the working class, while erroneously taking for granted our loyalty... Australian Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe, who is Aboriginal, recently walked into parliament wielding the “black power” fist gesture, and carrying a stick with a notch for every aboriginal death in government custody. Ms. Thorpe declared she would be a voice for Australian Indigenous people. In Indigenous communities, sexual assault, domestic violence, and incest are epidemic. Yet thanks to the fashion for prison and police “abolition,” it now isn’t unusual to see left-wing activists effectively shield the men who rape and abuse women and children, instead of urging the protection of these victims... ultimately, the politics of the modern Left is dominated by its fixation on power. And children have no power. It may seem creepy to some people, but I cannot look past the risk of sexual violence anywhere it exists. And I see it in the criminal-justice power plays of modern race politics. When people call for the defunding of the police, I think of Nicky and me as children. Predators are cowardly creatures who prey on the weak and lonely. The removal of police is exactly what they want. The call to separate the definition of women from biology also has huge implications for female safety... In most cases, a girl or woman receiving such care will prefer that they be served by a woman, not a man. People like Nicky have so few choices in their life. It seems another level of cruelty to force them to be bathed in their homes by biological males who self-identify as women. She lived a life that was almost always unsafe, specifically because of men... I have no desire to garner sympathy, to “weaponize” my victimhood, or to make men feel ashamed. But I am also unable to ignore the obvious vulnerabilities that accompany biological womanhood, and the way those vulnerabilities interact with economic and social disadvantage, not to mention sickness, culture, and disability. If this is what “intersectionality” really meant, I would be its greatest adherent."

A Plea to Reform Academic Journals - "Social science journals have had a rough go of it over the past few months. A recent, extensive examination of social science papers found that only about half of previously published studies replicated—and when they did, the replicated effects were much smaller than those originally reported. Of papers where reproduction was possible, the study found just over half were precisely reproducible. Meanwhile, a report by the Progressive Policy Institute’s Richard Kahlenberg and Lief Lin details the ideological slant of the leading American studies journal, American Quarterly. Of 96 essays, 77 were fundamentally critical of America, 19 pieces were neutral, and zero manuscripts were coded America-positive. In recent years, the broader ideological imbalances that persist in higher education have garnered increased scrutiny, yet critics often overlook a primary motivator of ideological homogeneity among university faculty and thereby ignore a potential mechanism for remedying it: academic publishing. For university faculty, publication in scholarly journals is crucial to career advancement—oftentimes the main driver behind decisions that inform tenure and promotion in academic institutions. Thus, ideological gatekeeping not only prohibits heterodox ideas and interesting scholarship from mainstream publishing but hinders career advancement for heterodox scholars... The American Political Science Association’s flagship journal, American Political Science Review, for example, only subjected submissions from heteronormative white males to desk rejection by editors. Likewise, editors from the American Educational Research Association’s prestigious journal, the Review of Educational Research, pledged to only accept quantitative articles from scholars who apply critical theory in their work. Downstream from these ideological barriers to entry is the homogenous body of research they produce. Scholarly journals fundamentally lose their value as venues for high-quality research if they’re pushing a singular perspective by design. Moreover, political capture of academic publishing also adversely impacts the fields of study about which they publish, as academic journals are often regarded as authoritative voices and their arguments, as Maranto argues, “trickle down, shaping common opinions, policy, and practices across fields.” As a society, we cannot meaningfully discuss problems or determine possible solutions if scholarly publications only anoint one narrow set of views... enterprising academics have founded new journals, such as the Journal of Controversial Ideas and the Journal of Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences. Moreover, a scholarly editor himself, Maranto has worked to revitalize the heterodox Journal of School Choice. First, he suggests doing away with positionality statements that reinforce identity over integrity. Stressing an author’s immutable characteristics over their empirical work compromises the purpose of scientific inquiry, which prizes rigorous methodology, not preemptive, identity-based gatekeeping. Maranto also stresses the importance of creating a heterodox editorial board. Having a diversity of viewpoints improves the editorial process by introducing scholarly disagreement. Ideological monocultures that refuse to challenge dominant narratives will eventually produce stagnant results, undermining a core purpose of scholarly work, which is to challenge and test new ideas. Lastly, Maranto recommends an emphasis on merit above all else. Once processes such as peer review and even academia more broadly lose legitimacy, it’s difficult to regain public trust. Instances where shoddy research prevails should worry those who care about preserving the integrity of this work, no matter if you agree with the political end that research purports to serve."

Anshul Saxena on X - "Qatar on Eid: Do not perform the namaz in open outdoor areas; pray inside Mosques. Limit women's attendance as much as possible, as Eid prayer is not obligatory. Al Jazeera (owned by Qatar): India is restricting public prayers and telling Muslims to pray in Mosques. When an Islamic country does it, it becomes a guideline. But when a non-Islamic country does the same thing, it is labeled Islamophobia."
Left wingers believe that Arab countries are the biggest Islamophobes out there, after all. Good luck if Christians pray in public

Free Speech Union of Canada on X - "“Bill C-9 risks eroding Canadians’ most fundamental freedom. Criminal law should target conduct, not expression; violence, not dissent; and incitement, not unpopular opinion.” Watch FSU Canada Executive Director @LDBildy ’s full remarks on #BillC9, the “Combatting Hate Act” ⬇️"
Lisa Bildy on X - "I testified at the Senate yesterday on the "Combatting Hate" Bill, which impacts expressive rights. I also listened to every other panel discussion on this Bill, which was very illuminating and quite disturbing. Canada is on a precipice. We are a country of atomized groups simultaneously jockeying to be seen as the most oppressed, while also wielding considerable power as sacralized identities to push for restrictions on the expression of others — not just "hate", but also offence, dissent, and even opposing facts. Having listened to many of the other speeches before I prepared mine, I took the opportunity to speak against criminalizing "denialism". That would be a terrible path for Canada to take — even worse than the one we're already on. Criminal law cannot manufacture harmony (generously assuming that is what the activists want); only open debate and dialogue can."

Genetic structure of human populations - "without using prior information about the origins of individuals, we identified six main genetic clusters, five of which correspond to major geographic regions, and subclusters that often correspond to individual populations. General agreement of genetic and predefined populations suggests that self-reported ancestry can facilitate assessments of epidemiological risks but does not obviate the need to use genetic information in genetic association studies."
Clear proof that there is no biological basis for race and that race is socially constructed

Genetic ancestry and population structure in the All of Us Research Program cohort - "All of Us participants genetic ancestry was inferred using genomic PCA data analyzed with the Rye (Rapid Ancestry Estimation) program. Participant PCA data were compared with PCA data from global reference populations, taken from the 1KGP and the HGDP, to infer individual ancestry proportions from seven continental-level ancestry groups: African, American, East Asian, South Asian, West Asian, European, and Oceanian"

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