There’s been a movement in recent years to infuse social politics into all aspects of our lives, from the food we eat to the cars we drive, from our workplaces to our public institutions. This movement has its merits but at some point, we stopped settling for argument and persuasion. We started to move to demonizing, banning, cancelling and forcing our own various agendas on others.
They should have done the Muslical Ride trampling old ladies.
The Big Sleep, considered one of the greatest works of crime fiction, has been reprinted with a cautionary note by publishing house Vintage
Traditional Chinese culture, thousands of years old, is filled with beautiful Confucian philosophies, kinship rituals, artistic symbolism, mythologies, and regular devotion to family ancestors. To observe any of these ancient customs in person, however, it is Taiwan — not China — where a visitor must go. When mainland Chinese communists bulldozed over China’s rich heritage and Mao Zedong’s “Cultural Revolution” purged the “Four Olds” — old customs, culture, habits, and ideas — from Chinese society, Taiwan became the de facto last refuge for one of the world’s oldest great civilizations.
Corporate behemoths have given up on the pretence of neutrality
The debanking of Nigel Farage demonstrates the power of a law that is already being enforced without having been formalised. Found guilty of crimes by state censors, secret committees of bureaucrats, or inscrutable algorithms, individuals can be disconnected and de-personed by institutions that they didn’t realise possessed such powers. Today it is banks terminating customers for their beliefs; tomorrow it may be primary schools and hospitals. The powerful consensus that once upheld the neutrality of key institutions as essential to maintaining peace in liberal societies is collapsing.
I was just fired from my job at The Seattle Times after defending Hitler. The only problem is, I never defended Hitler. In fact, my family was hunted by the Nazis; my grandfather was a Nazi killer who later almost died in a concentration camp; and some of my best journalistic work has been exposing neo-Nazi lies. But if you want to hear a story about the intolerance in our country’s “most tolerant” city and the erosion of civil discourse in American life, read on.
It is right that the NatWest CEO has resigned.
This would never have happened if NatWest had not taken it upon itself to withdraw a bank account due to someone’s lawful political views. That was and is always unacceptable.
I hope the whole financial sector learns from this… https://t.co/W4i3WYgeyX
— Andrew Griffith MP (@griffitha) July 26, 2023
NatWest boss quits after Nigel Farage leak admission
The music video for Jason Aldean’s country song “Try That in a Small Town” has become a massive hit in the wake of a woke backlash that accused the song of evoking racism.
Despite CMT pulling the video from its rotation, the music video for Aldean’s song has increased viewership by a whopping 999 percent.
The BBC has apologised to Nigel Farage for suggesting that Coutts cut ties with him only because he lacked the funds needed to hold an account.
Simon Jack, the business editor, wrote that the former Ukip leader had lost his account with the bank because he had failed to borrow or invest at least £1 million or hold £3 million in savings. His report played down Farage’s vindicated claim that the closure was driven by his political views.
His lawyers call Toronto psychologist and bestselling author Jordan Peterson a colourful and controversial “online provocateur” whose YouTube videos and tweets are liked by millions.
Peterson’s detractors see him as a showboater who uses controversy to make money, espouses anti-feminist and anti-trans views and spreads misinformation about areas he knows little about; his climate change commentary on a podcast last year was derided by scientists as “stunningly ignorant.”
As street violence in North America rises, so does the risk of public figures facing baseless accusations of racism. The latest case: country singer Jason Aldean says he’s been unfairly accused of writing a “pro-lynching” song in “Try That In A Small Town.”
🚨🚨🚨 @Jason_Aldean here’s the infamous video everyone is talking about – Try that in a small town… It’s a truly an awesome song!!! Show your support and retweet🔁pic.twitter.com/jnIjjgpZUM
— 🌟🇺🇸Nancy Hamm🇺🇸🌟 (@nancy_hamm1) July 20, 2023
Nigel Farage delivered a stark warning about the threat from ‘woke’ banks tonight after going public with a dossier showing Coutts axed him for not being ‘inclusive’.
In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, the prominent Eurosceptic warned that his experience is just the tip of the iceberg.
Vowing to ‘fight all the way’ against the Natwest-owned firm, Mr Farage said people needed to realise that ‘if they can cancel me, they can cancel you’.
The success of ‘Fast Car’ is being memory-holed to fit an identitarian narrative.
The year 1988 feels like a very long time ago to anyone who remembers it, and ancient history to anyone who doesn’t. I turned 20 halfway through it. So I’m afraid whatever travails and traumas I was undergoing have now been blotted out by the middle-aged person’s rose-tinted remembrance of being young. The grass was greener then, my memory tells me, unreliably.
Thousands of parents and students in Denver are calling foul and demanding the reinstatement of a popular middle-school principal who was fired last week after he tried to keep a student charged with attempted murder out of his school and then spoke to a local TV station about his concerns about school safety.
When people make their personal lives public, they hand them to the Left. Cancel culture is nourished by consuming the others’ lives.
Cancel culture, like most of our contemporary cultural revolution, began in China.
Over several years, rural Chinese migrated to massive mega-cities whose impossible population densities were matched by the growing interconnection of the internet. While three quarters of China’s population is now on the internet, in 2006 it grew by a quarter to encompass only 10%.
In these cramped quarters, physical and social, there was no room for the individual.
Sheree Di Vittorio was left ‘baffled’ when she was dismissed from AutoTrader the day after CBC published an article smearing her for speaking out at the school board meeting.
