Students at the University of Florida are being invited to study horror in literature and film through a racial lens, with the professor asking how works such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein are about ‘racial identity and oppression’.
The course is provided as part of the African American Studies program.
Entitled ‘Black Horror, White Terror’, it is taught by Professor Julia Mollenthiel, whose dissertation was on the same theme. Mollenthiel is also writing a book on the subject.
Canadian Railroad Trilogy, the late songwriter’s hymn to progress, would not make it past CBC gatekeepers today
On the northernmost point of Tudhope Park, on a narrow peninsula reaching into Lake Couchiching just outside the Ontario town of Orillia, 150 kilometres due north of Toronto, stands a statue of Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian singer and songwriter who died Monday at the age of 84. The park, which is home to the Mariposa Folk Festival, is not far from where Lightfoot was born.
It’s becoming abundantly clear that with Tucker Carlson being put out to digital pasture, Fox News is falling on hard times and may come to regret its decision. Its viewership and market share are plummeting while Tucker will find “fresh woods and pastures new” in which to pursue his career of incisive reporting and unabashed truth-telling. Tucker Carlson has become a first name, which indicates that he is not simply an internet commentator but something of an institution. To believe that he is no longer a force is merely wishful thinking.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) used to be a regulatory body established by the federal government. As of late, the CRTC has been acting as a state censorship body. That the CRTC is even considering banning the Fox News Network from Canadian distribution due to complaints from activist groups shows just how broad the CRTC feels its mandate for controlling content is.
Do we even need a CRTC nowadays?
An LGBTQ rights group asked the CRTC to ban Fox News over ‘false and horrifying claims’ made by host Tucker Carlson regarding transgender individuals
h/t XC
Online activists are the new revolutionaries and, as with their historical counterparts, they are becoming radicalised and violent in pursuit of their political goals.
The press at large have been ignoring most of this thuggish behaviour because it doesn’t fit with their official narrative of weakness and victimhood. Even when public figures such as female author JK Rowling found themselves receiving rape and bomb threats, the press remained reluctant to openly criticise the trans movement.
Why is anyone shocked that authors reflect their times?
The republic of letters has been providing the world with some characteristic examples of courage in recent years. In 2020, we had the sight of junior staffers staging a walkout over the plan of their employer, Hachette, to publish a memoir by Woody Allen. The book was duly canceled, because what major publisher would ever want to go against the whims of a few twentysomething graduates in their first job?
“I stand by my words.”
In 2006, I visited New York City for the first time. A member of the city’s cultural cognoscenti flew me over, on the strength of one blog comment I had left, to participate in a colloquium on the digital transformation of society. That experience left me with an indelible love of the Big Apple: the beating heart of intellectual life in America—and the world. It’s a sleepless, restless, questioning place, where you could find yourself bantering about metaphysics with someone over pizza at 3 a.m., then never see him again.
Last week The Telegraph reported that Agatha Christie’s novels are being sanitized for re-release. HarperCollins, their publisher, is removing references to physique, race and ethnicity in new editions of Miss Marple and selected Poirot novels. Christie joins Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming on the list of dead literary icons whose works have met similar fates in recent weeks. Shakespeare, Dr. Seuss and Mark Twain have been curbed in other ways. If it seems like small potatoes, you may be missing the big picture. When publishers defile literature, you know the writing is on the wall.
h/t felis gracilis
The publishers of “Gone with the Wind” will amend the latest printing of the classic American novel to include a trigger warning over racism and a new introduction that addresses “white supremacy.”
The London-based publishing house, Pan Macmillan, determined that a cautionary note was necessary to include with Margaret Mitchell’s detailed depiction of slavery in America during the Civil War.
“Rechte Richter” (“Right-Wing Judges”; no English edition so far) is a book published in 2022 by journalist and trained lawyer Joachim Wagner. Its subtitle asks the question: “A danger to the rule of law?”
Wagner is referring to cases like that of Jens Maier, who was a member of Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party between 2017 and 2021. After his spell in parliament, he wanted to return to his post as a judge in the eastern state of Saxony.
This, however, didn’t happen, because Saxony’s Justice Minister Katja Meier took the matter to court and was successful: Maier, categorized as a right-wing extremist by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), was sent into early retirement. The verdict is not yet final, however, because the suspended judge can appeal the decision.
Michigan State University (MSU) issued its latest style guide and Chairman Mao couldn’t be happier.
The style guide is updated yearly and appears easily translatable from its original Chinese (that’s a joke… I think… ). The new additions are sure to annoy you—and brainwash your kids—who are forced to toss the 1st Amendment into the trash lest they “offend” the school’s incoming milksops.
It turns out that the disruption by several dozen Stanford University law school students of a speech to be given by federal judge Kyle Duncan was not a spontaneous exercise of freedom to protest.
It was a well-planned and carefully orchestrated effort to prevent other Stanford students from hearing the judge’s conservative views. The disruption was organized by the local chapter of National Lawyers Guild as part of a nationwide effort to suppress conservative speech. Although not all the participants were associated with the NLG, the main organizers were. The Guild praised “every single person” who participated in the disruption, and called it “Stanford Law School at its best,” suggesting it would confront “judicial architects of systems of oppression” with “social consequences for their actions.” Here the consequences went beyond “social” to censorial.
A Christian theology lecturer who reportedly claimed he was threatened with a referral to a counter-terror programme after tweeting that ‘homosexuality is invading the church’ has been sacked.
Dr Aaron Edwards, 37, was sacked from Cliff College, Derbyshire, after he was found to have brought it ‘into disrepute’ following a social media post.
The father-of-five, who refers to himself as a ‘cancelled Christian lecturer’, is understood to have subsequently been informed he could be referred to the government-led counter-terror counter-extremism programme Prevent.
SEXISM in sports writer melts down into shrieking pool of DUMB over James Reimer’s LGBTQ jersey statement
A statement from Goaltender, James Reimer: pic.twitter.com/GwhWxhbmb4
— San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) March 18, 2023
