Basil the Great on X - "🚨NEWS: THIS MIGHT BE THE WOKEST THING I’VE EVER HEARD Glasgow Life has REMOVED the Egyptian Mummies on display at Kelvingrove Art Gallery because the deceased mummies DID NOT CONSENT to be on display. I wish I was joking. Absolutely true"
Max Klinger on X - [On the execution of Melika Azizi for dissent] "Let’s check in with leading ‘anti-racists’ and pro-Palestine activists, who spend their lives lecturing everyone else for ‘being on the wrong side of history’, to see how they’ve responded to the Iranian mullahs committing these unforgivable crimes.
Mothin Ali, deputy head of the Green Party: While she was awaiting her death sentence for blaspheming against Islam, he was giving speeches at large events surrounded by the flag of the jihadist regime that would murder her.
Jeremy Corbyn: Was literally paid to present propaganda on the Iranian state TV channel. He now builds a career labelling everyone else in society oppressors.
George Galloway: paid to present propaganda on Iranian TV channel.
Zack Polanski: has given multiple speeches to large crowds flying the flags of her killers
Bushra Shaikh: held up by channel 4 as a ‘moderate Muslim’ who would teach a lesson to any racist out there I - travelled to Iran while this woman was awaiting execution, praised the regime
I could go on. These people are massive, massive frauds."
Terrorism supporters want to destroy the West, after all
sim on X - ""Free Congo, Free Sudan, Free Syria, Free Palestine.""
ADONIS on X - "> be Congo
> colonisation ends
> immidiately descend into civil war
> every road, hospital & mine the Belgians built just sits there rotting
> no engineers left to run anything
> 70iq warlord Mobutu grabs the throne for 32 years
> steals billions
> Congo enters the deadliest African conflict
> drags another 9 countries in it
> 5 million people die
> world now needs cobalt for phones and cars
> kids go back to working in the mines
> militias & chinese run the mines together
> 7 million people get displaced
> country is ranked among the most corrupt countries on earth almost every single year since
“Free Congo” from what, from africans?"
Will Chamberlain on X - "Abdul El-Sayed wrote about the harms of Arab women dating White men in college. Zohran Mamdani wrote about his frustrations that white women were "impossible to talk to" because of his skin. Radical politics springing out of dating frustrations?"
Rob Henderson on X - "It is shocking how much of politics on both the left and the right come down to either frustrated desire for (or envy of) white women. Use this power wisely."
Richard “Beebo” Russell on X - "I’m going to let you in on a secret about rape that I learned while bouncing at 3 nightclubs concurrently for my entire undergrad. 500 nights at the club dealing with women and creeps have produced some insight. The first thing to understand is that 99% of date-rape cases are just patently false. Every weekend like clockwork a new tiny girl who hadn’t eaten all day would confidently down 5 shots of tequila then claim she was drugged once word got around that she shit herself in a cab, or fell asleep in a dumpster. I’ve lost count of how many of them were perplexed to report that their drug tests came back clean the next morning. BUT… In my 500 nights of service, I witnessed it happen for real, bill cosby style, twice. And in 100% of those cases it was a black or an Indian guy. The first was a guy named Sohil who had actually openly made some suspect remarks to people I knew. Why was nothing done? Because the concept was so completely alien to the white guys around him that they simply didn’t believe what they were hearing. It was exactly like the scene from American Psycho where he talks about a girls head on a stick as though it’s the punchline to a joke, and his friends just exchange a weird look and carry on. That’s how crazy the prospect of rape sounds to white guys, he might as well have said he had a head in his freezer. Ultimately, Sohil was caught trying to sneak into a drugged girl’s bedroom window after her roommates had shuttled her home for the night. He was sentenced to 2 years in prison. There was no international outrage, no big news articles, nothing. Just a post on Facebook shared between the bar staff. The second was a black guy from Martinique. He was a charming niggardly character who hung around the bars every weekend bumming cigarettes or making a few bucks selling fake cocaine. He lived in someone’s walk-in closet for $300 a month. He had rumours circulating about his predation, but nobody had anything concrete until he was finally caught inappropriately touching an incapacitated girl and force feeding her drugs. He was quickly and brutally sentenced to a swift release and a mild scolding from a social worker. He had successfully argued to the judge that people would kill him if he were sent back to Martinique, and was therefore let off with not even a slap on the wrist. The funniest part of this whole ordeal is that we have reason to suspect that he was a refugee in the first place because he had raped the wrong guy’s sister back home. You genuinely can’t make this shit up. Word got around to the bars, but this was back in the day. We didn’t have ID scanners, and hiring was a revolving door. Every Fortnite we’d have a new roster of Dianabol enthusiasts standing at the entrance letting groups of bombshells skip the line. It was impossible to entirely keep people out. And so within 2 months it happened again. Exactly the same as last time. And the black guy hit the judge with the exact same excuse. Luckily the judge finally came to his senses, and sent him back to a third world shithole. He has lived in Paris France ever since. I tell these stories because I’m at my whits end with headlines like the one I see below. At this point we’re so used to being gaslit that the omission of a description is as good as a 4K portrait. So I’ll do my small part to set record straight. It is never the white men."
The ‘homicidal empathy’ of the Islamo-left - spiked - "The concept of ‘suicidal empathy’ is having a moment right now. Coined by Gad Saad in his book, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to be Kind, it’s defined by Wikipedia as ‘a purported phenomenon in which excessive, misdirected and pathological forms of empathy are destructive for the party that exhibits them’. We see it in Western countries, whose leaders tell their shivering populations that they’re not allowed to have cheap fossil fuels because of the polar bears. We see it in young liberal women, who would have a fit if a white man whistled at them, but bend over backwards to make men from rabidly misogynistic cultures welcome in their countries – and this despite the fact that we certainly don’t need to import sex offenders when we have enough of the homegrown kind. In extreme cases of this lunacy, we see alleged feminists voluntarily donning the hijab – the living shroud that so many brave Muslim-born women have been tortured and killed for trying to cast off. There was a shocking example of this in 2017 when Sweden’s self-proclaimed ‘first feminist government in the world’ donned hijabs and chadors on a trade visit to Tehran, in order to make themselves fit to be seen by the righteous Muslims of the Islamic Republic. They did this shortly after promising to promote a ‘gender-equality perspective’ internationally and adopt a ‘feminist foreign policy’, while ignoring the appeal by the Persian women’s rights activist Masih Alinejad, who had specifically asked European female politicians to defy the hijab demands when visiting Iran. Also in 2017 there was the Washington ‘Women’s March’, which involved the grotesque spectacle of many non-Muslim women voluntarily hijabing-up. We certainly see a massive dose of suicidal empathy among the Islamo-left, from Queers for Palestine – often mocked as Turkeys for Christmas – to Owen Jones. Jones probably thinks that he’s so unique that he could sprout wings and fly if he got thrown off a Gazan roof by the local gay-haters. Do these fools honestly believe that the facts about Hamas hating homosexuals are Israeli propaganda? Or are they so bound up in The Wonder Of Me, so convinced of their exceptionalism, that they are as deluded as that strange girl on TikTok, who mused on how she would be treated if taken hostage by Hamas: ‘They would probably comfort me, make sure I had medical attention, make sure I was doing okay…’ The message is loud, clear and strikingly ignorant. Other women / gays / infidels may get raped and / or murdered, but those big angry men would see me as special. We assume that such people are simply thick, or perhaps suffering from extreme narcissistic exceptionalism. A lot of them are mad at their parents and are acting up or acting out. Is it performative social masochism, in which liberal young white folk seek to outdo each other as if in some silly and sinister sport? Or is this a double bluff – and is it actual masochism, of the kind which provides a sexual thrill? I first thought this back in 2020 when, at the hysterical height of the Black Lives Matter protests, we were treated to the online spectacle of white people – of both sexes, including police officers – kneeling before or kissing the boots of black men. As one wit commented beneath footage of a blond girl doing the latter: ‘I saw it on Pornhub – it gets better!’ The horror of white-on-black slavery might conceivably drive white folk to go too far in their attempts at recompense. But what explains the sight of non-Muslims cheerleading for, gushing over and generally be-clowning themselves vis-à-vis our Islamic brethren? After all, the Muslim religion is the fastest-growing in the world – there are a whopping 53 Muslim-majority countries. Not only did Islam historically pursue empire-building (and the accompanying slavery), it also continues to do so in some cases. These people are not victims. But perhaps the claim of Muslim victimhood is exactly why a certain kind of mixed-up masochist is drawn to them? This is not a new thing; back in the 1970s, we had well-born white women who couldn’t get enough of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. This song-of-the-desert sexual shtick goes right back to Rudolph Valentino’s 1921 film, The Sheik... Then of course there were the Fry’s Turkish Delight TV commercials, featuring tents, veiled women and hot men in turbans – ‘Full of Eastern Promise…’ went the tagline. Sadly, the ads did not survive beyond the 1980s, due to fears of cultural stereotyping. Blame for the demise of these commercials can fairly be laid at the door of two figures: Edward Said with his 1978 book, Orientalism, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, who came up with the idea of ‘othering’ in 1985... Is it beyond the realms of possibility that those women – and gay men – once attracted to the sexual cliché of the sheikh might now be drawn to Islamism because it appeals to them in a less than wholesome manner? We’re not meant to say that things are sex-things now, even things which blatantly are. Cross-dressing. Men wearing huge prosthetic breasts. Dressing up as ‘leather pups’ and being taken out on a lead in public by a cruel-looking ‘owner’. But women write love letters to serial killers, so there’s no telling how murky things can get Down There, as my mum used to call it. If people want to make themselves into doormats for jihadis to wipe their feet on, that’s their business. But when you use the persecution and even killings of others as ammunition for your nasty little thrill, we move into the realms of not suicidal empathy, but of homicidal empathy. The term was originally coined to describe an irrational bias shown by juries towards violent suspects at the expense of a victim or a law enforcer. But we’ve seen it recently in the barely concealed sadistic revelling in anti-Semitism on the part of some of those on the left in this country. In France, where they always go further with these things, a popular song among the rioters and even the schoolchildren involved in the recent clashes has been ‘M*R*H’ by the rapper BORO700. The song, if it can be called that, name-checks the gunman Mohamed Merah, who killed three small Jewish children in 2012, and the Islamist slaughterers at the Bataclan in 2015. Was there ever a sicker contradiction? Sadistically glorying in the killing of others – yet masochistically wallowing in the destruction of one’s own civilisation. ‘Nothing human is alien to me’, said the Roman playwright Terence. Thankfully, some things are alien to those of us with one iota of decency, such as the pathological empathy – both suicidal and homicidal – now spreading like wildfire throughout the cities of the West."
The nonsense around human rights tribunals is even worse than you think | National Post - "When I became the Chair of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in 2014, I said some things I was not supposed to say. I made the observation that human rights tribunals had a bad reputation. This wasn’t received well. In my first Annual Report to Parliament, I asserted that “Discrimination is not widely accepted in Canada. It is not acceptable to most Canadians to even hear a suggestion of prohibited discrimination, let alone engage in it.” I still believe that remains true today. That’s not to say that no discrimination ever happens, and that is why human rights tribunals should exist. Like maintaining our good health, we need to remain vigilant to keep prohibited discrimination at bay. However, in that same report, I warned that our preservation relied on us making credible decisions. “We have a duty to make decisions that reflect broad Canadian values so that our work continues to be respected and valued.” Human rights tribunals were set up to keep discrimination cases outside of the courts, probably reflecting the idea that these matters were not as serious as criminality. The way the tribunals were originally set up supported the idea that complaints could be heard by a panel of non-lawyers over a few hours, decided upon quickly, and a decision rendered days later. Remedies could include an order to cease prohibited discrimination, pay restitution and perhaps a small penalty for injury to dignity. Now it takes years to get a case through the system. Most provinces have lifted damage limits, and awards in the tens of thousands of dollars for injury to dignity are routinely made. These same administrative tribunals have now been used to put forward class-action style cases resulting in massive awards, including one which led to a settlement negotiated by the government for a total sum of $23.3 billion. There have also been absurd cases, like the transgender woman who filed a complaint after being denied a scrotum waxing at various beauty salons. However, much of the human rights nonsense seldom makes the news. Many frivolous cases are settled at mediation where respondents are faced with paying money to make the complaint go away, or paying much more in legal costs to defend themselves at a hearing. Even if they win their case, they will rarely be able to recover any costs from the complainant. I mediated about 300 cases for the Canadian and B.C. human rights tribunals. At times I felt like an agent of a state-controlled extortion ring, persuading respondents to pay money to settle claims I knew they would never lose at a hearing. I kept track in my 12 years of doing this work. In my opinion, more than half of the complaints had no merit. There are so many cases that have strayed from what I referred to as broad Canadian values. There was the Ontario father who was told that discrimination laws don’t apply to his son because he is white. There have been hate speech cases which have imposed unclear rules about what you can and cannot say. Businesses have been fined tens of thousands of dollars because of pronoun disputes amongst their employees. The most recent controversy comes from the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal decision in B.C. Teachers Federation v. Neufeld. Barry Neufeld was an elected school trustee and a vocal online critic of the sexual orientation and gender identity curriculum — known as SOGI 123 — being provided to B.C.’s K-12 students since 2017. Neufeld’s online criticism resulted in the tribunal finding him guilty of hate speech and being ordered to pay $750,000 in damages for “injury to dignity, feelings and self-respect” to an entire class of people he didn’t directly work with or even know. Far from being a minor administrative matter designed to stay out of the courts, decisions like Neufeld suggest financial ruin could await anyone offending the Human Rights Code, just for doing something like challenging the accepted narrative on transgender issues. It always occurred to me, how many times do certain politicians need to hear about these types of cases, straying far away from broad Canadian values, before they get to a point where they say, enough is enough? It should not be surprising that recently in British Columbia, an opposition member of the legislature proposed a bill (entitled Human Rights Code Repeal Act) to entirely eliminate the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal and the B.C. Human Rights Commission. The first reading of the bill was supported by the Conservative caucus, including one candidate for leadership for the party. Other leadership candidates have not dared to say out loud that they wish to shut down the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, but their criticism of the Neufeld decision and others is starting to send the message that major reform, if not outright repeal, is on the horizon. Human rights adjudicators have an obligation to be neutral decision-makers, giving as much of a fair hearing to the respondent as the complainant. Their role is not that of an activist who wishes to push the progressive envelope. It is important that ordinary Canadians buy into and value our work. If we push too far, the day will come when the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater and the whole system will get tossed."
Tara Armstrong on X - "The Human Rights Tribunal exists to silence conservative speech and anti-woke opinions. Even its former chair is calling it a “state-controlled extortion ring.” The government shouldn’t be fining its citizens for offensive words. It’s time to abolish the HRT."
Tearing down B.C. Human Rights Tribunal should be only the start - "Luckily, the proposition to abolish the tribunal is not an extreme position. Saskatchewan abolished its human rights tribunal in 2011, placing the majority of case management with its human rights commission and sending cases that could not be settled to the Court of King’s Bench. B.C. has also made major reforms to its human rights regime in the past. In 1983, Premier Bill Bennett abolished the B.C. Human Rights Commission in a slash-and-burn move, part of a massive budget overhaul that found its employees on the streets the very same day. The Free Speech Union has been calling for these tribunals to be abolished for months... Mere weeks ago, the Canadian Constitution Foundation had a recent victory in defence of a realtor targeted by the B.C. Financial Services Authority for social media posts critiquing the closure of Joffre Lakes Provincial Park... A further move to protect the free expression of professionals would be the immediate repeal of Bill 36, the Health Professions and Occupations Act. The act exposes doctors to potential frivolous complaints, with broad prescriptions to mandate the implementation of vague anti-discrimination principles in order to “foster physically, culturally, socially, emotionally and spiritually safe practices.”... Since the 2023-24 school year, students must take mandatory Indigenous classes to get their high school diploma. One of the courses that can be taken to fulfil this requirement is “Indigenous Peoples 12,” in which one of the “Big Ideas” is how “through self-governance, leadership, and self-determination, B.C. First Peoples challenge and resist Canada’s ongoing colonialism.” Or take as another example, “English First Peoples 12,” which aims to teach an understanding that Indigenous “oral histories are valid evidence of ownership of the land within Canadian law.” We may be given a rare chance here to actually undertake transformative change. Let us not continue to teach our children that they live in a genocidal country, or that the biological reality of their sex is something to be questioned. Nine years ago, it was unimaginable that a doctor could be disciplined for refusing to administer an irreversible puberty blocker to a child. It was unthinkable that commenting on the issue could solicit name-calling, social ostracization and perpetual disciplinary action. We need to champion free speech and civil discourse here, and we must call upon a prospective B.C. Conservative government to make doing so a priority."
David Coletto on X - "NEW POLL: One in three Canadians says a strong leader who does not have to bother with Parliament and elections could be a good way to govern. Among Canadians under 30, that rises to 47%. The divide over democracy is increasingly generational."
Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 on X - "This attitude, together with the declining attachment to Canada amongst Gen Z, is partly the result of shredding Canadian history and civics in our school curricula. How many of these young people who prefer a strong-man republic could write a paragraph accurately describing our constitutional monarchy rooted in the Westminster Parliamentary tradition? How many of them have been taught the fascinating story of the organic development of Parliamentary government over eight centuries? How many of them have been taught to be proud of having inherited one of the most stable, democratic systems of government in the world? A system that created the concept of the rule of law through the Magna Carta, the Common Law, habeas corpus, trial by jury, religious liberty, the abolition of slavery, etc.. How many of them have been taught anything memorable about the fight for responsible government in Canada, and how it is embodied in our Parliamentary institutions? Or the division of powers in our federal system? How many of them know that Canada is the fourth oldest continuous democratic state on Earth? Not only have they been denied this basic civic literacy that is a requisite for responsible citizenship, but they have been denied access to the poetry of patriotism: the old stories and heroes (including ordinary heroes like the voyageurs and pioneers,) that formed and transmitted pride in Canada for generations. Instead they are more likely to have been taught that Canada is a genocidal white settler society built on stolen land; that our British and French roots and institutions are the regrettable vestiges of Eurocentric colonialism; that our founders were nasty racists; and that we continue to be characterized by systemic racism. So is it any wonder that rather than embracing the customs and institutions that made Canada one of the most successful nations on Earth, the emerging generation prefers a strongman? This is the rotten fruit of the Canadian educational establishment having been dominated by Gramscians pumped out by OISE and adjacent institutions for decades."
Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇱🇹 on X (Translated) - "YOUNG PEOPLE ARE PATHOLOGY.
1. We’ve produced a generation of people who have access to the entirety of human knowledge in their pocket, yet know absolutely nothing at the same time. They don’t know history, geography, economics, or their own country, but they have an opinion on EVERY topic. Back in the day, to be an ignoramus, you at least had to lack access to books. Today, ignorance requires active effort.
2. They don’t control their own emotions. Everything is “toxic,” “traumatic,” “problematic,” or “triggering.” Criticism becomes an attack. Discomfort becomes suffering. Failure becomes trauma. Instead of teaching a person to cope with reality, we’ve taught them to develop ever more sophisticated vocabulary for describing why reality should adapt to them.
3. They also can’t appreciate what they have. They live in one of the safest and richest periods in history, surrounded by technology their great-grandparents couldn’t even have dreamed of, yet they act as if they’ve been exiled to a salt mine in the 14th century. Warm housing, a full fridge, a smartphone, vacations, streaming, food delivery to the door—and a permanent sense of grievance.
4. They’re poorly raised. Not because they don’t know which fork to use for fish. Worse: they don’t understand that public space belongs to other people too. Blasting speakers on the bus, scootering through crowds of pedestrians, phone calls at the dinner table, screaming in public places. The world is a stage, they’re the main characters, and the rest of society needs to get out of the frame.
5. They can’t wait. They can’t be bored. They can’t sit for five minutes without stimulation. The phone has to be checked during meals, conversations, walks, work, and probably someday their own funeral. The generation with the greatest access to information in history has trained itself to have the attention span of a goldfish on amphetamines.
6. They can’t fix anything. They can’t build anything. Some can’t even cook five normal dinners, sew on a button, unclog a drain, or organize their own day without an app. But they know perfectly well how the entire society should be reorganized.
7. They have no patience for competence. They want results without practice, positions without hierarchy, money without experience, and authority without achievements. If someone’s been doing something for twenty years, they’re not an expert. They’re a “gatekeeper.”
8. They don’t understand money. Subscription here, delivery there, coffee for 25 zł, phone on installments, five apps deducting money from the account every month—and then the great economic discovery: YOU CAN’T SAVE.
9. They have no relationship to the past, because for them, the past starts roughly around 2016. Everything before that is either incomprehensible or morally suspect. A person without historical memory looks at institutions that have existed for centuries and, after fifteen seconds of reflection, declares that they’ve just figured out how to fix them.
10. They don’t even live in the same reality. The algorithm gives everyone their own private universe, private facts, private authorities, private outrage, and a private epidemic of a problem that a normal person has never even heard of. Then they log off the internet and are surprised that society didn’t read the same feed.
The most impressive thing, however, is the combination of all these traits. Never before has a human been able to know so little, be able to do so little, control themselves so poorly, and yet possess such unshakable conviction that it’s precisely HE who should be lecturing all previous generations of people on how the world should have been arranged."
Darya Safai MP on X (Translated) - "The Quran was sung during the opening of the academic year at the Catholic University of Leuven, a university with centuries-old roots in the Catholic tradition. They call this inclusivity. I call it cultural self-denial. The Quran is, for Muslims, the word of Allah. And in that same Quran are verses that prescribe or legitimize violence against unbelievers. That alone makes it outright problematic to use such texts as an intellectual or cultural opening for an academic ceremony, as if it were a universal symbol of tolerance. A university should not present religious texts uncritically as a symbol of inclusivity when parts of them directly clash with the principles of individual freedom, equality, and human rights. And no, the Catholic University of Leuven does not need to be "neutral." It is a Catholic university. It may be Catholic. It may express its Christian identity. There is nothing wrong with that. What *is* shameful is that a university with such a centuries-old Christian history seems to increasingly relativize its own identity and then puts forward the Quran as a sign of inclusivity. Europe has a Christian cultural heritage. We don't need to hide it away to be inclusive. Tolerance does not mean you have to accept everything uncritically. Inclusivity does not mean you have to erase your own identity. And respect for other religions does not mean you have to stay silent about ideas that fundamentally clash with our values. Those who constantly relativize their own culture create space for others to change it. This is not progress. This is cultural self-denial. @KU_Leuven"
Time to ban the Bible to prevent Theocracy
Will Tanner on X - "Never forget: Detroit was once known as the Paris of the Midwest. It was, per capita, the wealthiest city in America. It had thriving industry controlled by those who cared about and loved their city, and so they invested in it in incredible public buildings, such as the famously beautiful library. The workers had their neighborhoods in which they invested over generations, building social capital of the sort that makes life pleasant and worth living. And then it was destroyed. The Civil Rights Cultural Revolution brought with it out-of-control crime, rioting, and resultant white flight and blockbusting that ruined all of that. The neighborhoods and their social capital were wrecked, the factories left devoid of good men at the same time as union intransigence bit and globalization proved a siren song, and civilization collapsed. Now Detroit is a byword for dysfunction. The wages of equality are death"
The Decline of American Soft Power - "toxic identity politics trends, which have grown in the last few years, could cause the country’s soft power projection to take a major dive in the long-term... American success was so great that many foreign nations have gone to great lengths to emulate it. Over the last 70 years, countless countries have made genuine attempts to become liberal democracies, embrace capitalism, and join multinational institutions that the US is at the helm of. Most of this transition did not occur through military power or raw coercion. The very concept of the American dream—the belief that anyone can achieve a high level of success in a society that rewards hard work irrespective of a person’s social status—became an inspiration for millions of people around the world, who would make harsh journeys in hopes of attaining a lifestyle that could not be obtained elsewhere. Victorian-era Prime Minister William Gladstone said it best that “good government at home” is the first principle of a sound foreign policy. What has traditionally made countries like the US become powerful juggernauts on the world stage is a stable foundation at home. From a powerful economic base that allowed it to build a robust military machine to a stable federalist system that facilitated unprecedented jurisdictional competition, the US became the envy of the world by the middle of the 20th century up until the present... The growing embrace of wokism and other diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives presents a unique threat to the US both domestically and internationally. At its core, DEI is raw cronyism pure and simple. It’s all about rewarding jobs and benefits to people based on tribal grounds, with no consideration of merit. A country that wants to maintain its superpower status must be firing on all cylinders. When cronyism is embraced on a mass scale in both the private and public spheres, stagnation and decay begin to ensue. Moreover, the constant obsession about people’s race, gender, and lifestyle habits is not a sign of a healthy society. This type of internal tension will inevitably bleed into other facets of American public policy that foreign onlookers will be observing with interest, if not outright horror. In recent years, we’ve already seen some of America’s social ills gradually exported to foreign countries. For example, Japan saw its fair share of BLM protests in the summer of 2020. A bizarre scene to say the least for a homogenous country with no history of participating in the African slave trade. In France, a country that is no bastion of right-wing politics, political leaders have come out against the spread of wokism in various institutions. French President Emmanuel Macron lamented the penetration of American-style identity politics into France. In a similar vein, French education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer had choice words about wokism and the toxic influence it has had on French institutions. Even the US's most ideologically aligned allies have limits when it comes to embracing its most controversial cultural trends. US foreign policy has turned increasingly ornery, as numerous diplomats have used their positions to lecture other countries about their social inadequacies as opposed to working with them in a constructive manner... most foreign nations want to deal with a normal country that’s not going to lecture them about racial justice or export its pathologies abroad. Instead, they want to do business or cooperate in practical matters concerning defense. Rival countries may also use unrest and constant bouts of social instability for propagandistic purposes and portray the US as a hub of instability."
