HEADLINES
'You're burning the wrong witch': Writer who set out to do piece on 'Transphobic JK Rowling Quotes' abandons it after failing to find 'a single truly transphobic message'
There’s Too Much Bull in Biden’s China Shop
The ‘Stochastic Terrorism’ Double Standard
Progressives can’t give themselves a pass for behavior they’d deem beyond the pale if it came from a conservative.
After Seeing the Crazy GA Grand Jury Foreperson...We Can Ignore Whatever Comes Out of This
Modern socialism has no class
The Left is too gentrified to care about work
A group of Stanford professors is pushing to end a system that allows students to anonymously report classmates for exhibiting discrimination or bias
Black Panther communist Angela Davis - who teaches that U.S. was built by racist colonizers - faces calls to pay reparations after genealogy show reveals her white puritan ancestor arrived in America on the Mayflower
The former Black Panther also discovered she had two white grandparents
Doctors, Nurses Say They Risk Career Ruin If They Challenge Health Care’s DEI Obsession
UNC–Chapel Hill Drops DEI Hiring Requirement amid Growing Backlash
NYT journo, ‘1619 Project’ creator lectures survivor of China’s Cultural Revolution on oppression
The WHO Pandemic Treaty Is a Back Door to CCP Control Over the US
QUOTES
“Hundreds of passages in new editions of Roald Dahl’s children’s books have seen the author’s language replaced with new language written not by Dahl, but by a team of sensitivity readers hired by the book’s U.K. publisher, Puffin…Driven, it would seem, by a desire to make more money on versions of Dahl’s books that have had the sharp edges removed so as to make them as inoffensive as possible, the sensitivity readers felt the need to change even the most innocuous phrases. All appearances of the word fat have been taken out of Dahl’s books, and the words father and mother have been replaced with parents or family. The Oompa-Loompas, once described as “tiny men,” are now called “small people,” and one witch who once tried to disguise her identity as “a cashier in a supermarket” has been changed to “a top scientist.””
=====
“The signatories to the open letter protesting The New York Times for its “transphobic” coverage are not the “thinkers” they presume themselves to be, but rather modern-day equivalents of Vaclav Havel’s proverbial greengrocer, the shopkeeper in a communist society who dutifully places signs in his store window asserting various party-approved slogans such as “Workers of the world, unite!”… Like the Marxism-Leninism of yore, radical gender ideology offers its believers a sense of righteous purpose, moralistic mantras, and devious enemies to despise (with J.K. Rowling fulfilling the role of Emmanuel Goldstein).”
======
“Until now, we normal people could simply ignore [] woke stupidity by taking refuge in the art of the past…Because the woke parasites are not content with denying us the artistic beauty of the present and future. Nay, they must deprive us of it in the past as well, and in all art…today, even young screen hotties can’t find work, because their very beauty works against them. As I describe in my aforementioned article, grotesquery and crudity now take precedence in art, with obesity and fake female masculinization leading the charge. Modern girls aren’t made for either the “male gaze” or traditionalist women, dammit. They’re made to repel femininity and replace sensuality with obscenity. Body parts and functions supersede well-built bodies and pretty faces. In this woke unreality, even the durability of beauties like Margot Robbie and Scarlett Johansson appears tenuous.”
======
“…the map of Chinese overseas finance is being redrawn. Banks are offering fewer loans to Africa. Instead, they are going to nearer countries, fresh commodity sources and places where Chinese firms are able to dodge Western trade tariffs. Malaysia and Indonesia have benefitted because of their proximity; Latin America owing to its minerals. A small but growing number of state-owned manufacturers are heading to countries that get on with both Beijing and Washington, making use of loans from state-run banks to set up shop with local governments and firms.”
========
“Chloe Cole, a detransitioned 18-year-old woman, announced the first official lawsuit in the U.S. against the hospital and affiliated medical group that facilitated her medical transition as a minor…“Chloe’s family sought medical treatment for her at Kaiser,” said Harmeet K. Dhillon, attorney and CEO of the Center for American Liberty. “Her physicians and other medical professionals violated the first norm of the profession, the Hippocratic Oath, when, instead of caring for her and providing medically competent diagnoses and treatment, they permanently disfigured her for profit.””
========
“In the liberal West, just implying that Pakistani communities have high rates of child sexual abuse (CSA) can result in accusations of bigotry. The subject is even more unmentionable in Pakistan itself. The nation has one of the highest rates of child sexual abuse in the world: over half a million children are raped there every year. (That is a conservative estimate.) According to recent reports, children are most at risk from the age of six, with nine being the most common age to be raped…One obvious reason is that these authorities were afraid of being seen as “racist” for focusing the investigation on the predominantly Pakistani men who are running these rings. But it’s equally important to recognise that these crimes were covered up by the Pakistani community itself, which allowed abusers to continue with impunity.”
========
"A professor of constitutional law at Columbia University, Philip Hamburger, argues in a recent law review article that education constitutes speech. Compulsory education laws coupled with the financial pressures to attend public school result in a large-scale violation of the First Amendment right to free speech, according to Mr. Hamburger. Parents, he says, are “not acting entirely voluntarily” and are subject to governmental pressure to substitute a teacher’s speech for their own. He asserts that “parents are being pressured in a way that abridges their own educational speech and compels them to adopt the government’s." For Mr. Hamburger, the “combination of mandated education and subsidized state schooling forces parents either to submit to government educational speech or pay to avoid it.”"
=========
“…Democrats are so fearful that Harris will lose the 2024 or 2028 election that they are trying to figure out how to “sideline her without inflaming key Democratic constituencies that would take offense.” Best of luck.”
=========
“It is interesting that Humza Yousaf, Forbes’s main competition in the SNP leadership race, has taken a different approach in explaining his beliefs as a practicing Muslim. Yousaf at first said that he was not “able to change what Islam says about gay marriage, or gay sex or what the mainstream Islamic view is.” But under sustained pressure he added that, despite his faith, he personally supports gay marriage. Still, Yousaf has failed to satisfy his critics as to why he missed the final vote on same-sex marriage in 2014.”
=========
“Now that he is out of government, Fauci is metaphorically patient zero for Republicans in control of the House who are conducting their own inquiry into the genesis of COVID.”
==========
“The allegation that DEI is hypocritical is true, of course. But it also misses the point. By focusing on the ideology’s failure to achieve its stated intentions, or defending a more “authentic” version of its goals … , conservatives fail to recognize that intellectual consistency was never the intention to begin with. For the Left, diversity, equity, and inclusion have very little to do with their formal public meanings. They are about a concerted assault on one set of values, and the assertion of another, radically different one in its stead.”
===========
“Republican lawmakers may have a clearer understanding of the term than those who allege it’s been co-opted…For quite some time, proponents of this reimagining of the American social compact used terms such as “woke,” “social justice,” and “equity” interchangeably, their nuances notwithstanding. Only when opponents of this philosophy co-opted “woke” so that it “now carries the implication that social justice ideals are absurd or insincere” did an effort to anathematize the word pick up steam. But seeking to cure the ills of discrimination with more discrimination isn’t complex, and you don’t need a Ph.D. to know what you’re looking at. Much like porn, you know it when you see it.”
No comments:
Post a Comment