“Cancel Culture”

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‘New Day’? Renaming of Canada Day events in Winnipeg sparks controversy

“We are reimagining a Canada Day, a new day, that includes a reflective, inclusive and fun day for everyone to come together,” says an events notice on The Forks’ website.

The celebrations, which news reports have said will be called “New Day,” will feature “spaces for healing, with Indigenous-led music, dance, and sacred fires,” food trucks and picnic spots, “family-friendly, multicultural entertainment,” including Indigenous games, a chalk and bubble station and an oral history tour with Indigenous elders.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", WTF?

Stupid students want more restrictions on free speech

Students want more restrictions on free speech and safe spaces on campus compared with six years ago, a survey suggests.

It reveals that far more undergraduates want to be protected from difficult viewpoints and see certain groups or issues banned from discussion.

Universities should set out explanations of “academic norms” to new students in freshers’ week, the report from the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) recommends. It also suggest that institutions should be careful not to invite too many controversial or inflammatory speakers.

While this is a UK survey I feel certain the same would hold true in North America. You have to wonder at the quality of education provided these young geniuses and whether it’s worth society’s continued investment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", Censorship, Education Bubble, Freedom of speech

Joe Rogan says Fox News and right-wing personalities ‘had my back’ against woke attacks and laments that Democrats abandoned their ‘pro-free speech’ views

Joe Rogan said that Fox News and conservative media outlets were the only ones that supported him when he faced accusations of spreading vaccine misinformation earlier this year.

‘They had my back through it,’ Rogan, 54, said. ‘It was Fox News that had my f*****g back.’

Speaking on Tuesday’s episode of his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan lamented that he felt Democrats had abandoned free speech and openness to other people’s ideas.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture"

Criticize multiculturalism and become a pariah

Famous author Uwe Telkamp is cancelled for saying that most Muslim migrants are not fleeing persecution but looking for social welfare.

“I have to justify even being German, to dare to refer to Goethe. Suddenly, you are like a pariah.” This is how Uwe Tellkamp speaks at the Süddeutsche Zeitung. His is the cultural case of recent years.

Not only because in 2008 Tellkamp published the great novel “The Tower”, which sold over a million copies and describes the last years of the German Democratic Republic through the educated middle class of Dresden. It has won numerous literary awards and has been celebrated by all feuilletons and literary critics.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", "Diversity", "Islamophobia", "Multiculturalism", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Ricky Gervais doesn’t punch down

Gender ideologues are the real bullies

The curse of the literal-minded strikes again. This time it’s Ricky Gervais’s new stand-up special SuperNature which has sent the congenitally humourless into conniptions. Predictably, Pink News led the charge with a report that disapprovingly quotes the most offending lines. The effect is not dissimilar to Mary Whitehouse reading aloud the contents of an erotic novel; few are likely to be aroused.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture"

Ricky Gervais under fire for trans jokes in Netflix special: ‘I am canceling’

Controversial comic Ricky Gervais is in hot water online yet again, this time over a series of perceived anti-trans jokes featured in his just-released Netflix special “Supernature.” The “Office” creator’s name was trending on Twitter Tuesday as the LGBTQ community urges viewers to boycott the special — with some folks vowing to cancel their Netflix subscriptions.

“I love the new women,” Gervais snarks in the special, which has only been on the streaming platform for several hours as of Tuesday morning. “They’re great, aren’t they? The new ones we’ve been seeing lately. The ones with beards and c–ks. They’re as good as gold, I love them.”

My prediction – a mass shooting by an unhinged tranny.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", Big Tranny

Professor smeared as racist for ‘dreaded Meghan’ comment won’t go down without a fight

A UK art professor whose livelihood was thrust into doubt after she lost her accreditation following innocent remarks about Meghan Markle is fighting back, taking legal action claiming a breach of contract by a national arts organization.

Dr. Anne Anderson who is an honorary professor at the esteemed Exeter University was thrust into a living hell after she made comments about the Duchess of Sussex prior to a Zoom lecture on IKEA furniture last year during small-talk about Markle and her emasculated husband Prince Harry’s interview with Oprah Winfrey, words that would be used to smear her as a racist and cut off a major source of her income.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", "Woke Royals"

The left hates Elon Musk because he’s a twin threat that doesn’t tolerate BS

Why does the left hate Elon Musk?

It’s simple, really: Because he can’t be controlled, and because he doesn’t tolerate BS.

The left can’t stand either. It insists on control, to the point of systematically eliminating or co-opting anything that might serve as an independent power center. (Their fear is justified: “Music clubs” turned out to be a major factor in Czechoslovakia’s 1989 anticommunist Velvet Revolution.) And it insists on not merely spreading BS, but on requiring people to repeat and endorse its BS as a sign of submission.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture"

Poilievre faces faux backlash from usual suspects for comments on Jordan Peterson podcast says “media”

Some are calling attention to a comment Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre made while appearing as a guest on controversial psychologist Jordan Peterson’s podcast in an episode posted on Tuesday.

“I’m a believer in using simple Anglo-Saxon words that strike right at the the meaning that I’m trying to convey,” Poilievre said in the interview. “And so I say things that people say, ‘Yeah, that actually makes sense.’”

Some have pointed out that the term has been used by those on the far-right to differentiate white people from immigrants and people of colour.

OMG! He said Anglo-Saxon! The best thing he can do is laugh in response and never apologize.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", "Criminalizing Dissent"

Tucker Carlson Not Surrendering

I’m thrilled that Tucker Carlson isn’t doing the usual right-wing thing and crumpling in the face of bad-faith attacks from the media and Democrats. Watch this 15-minute monologue from him last night, throwing the “Great Replacement” smears back in their faces. 

Early in the monologue, Carlson points out that last year, a Syrian immigrant shooter went into a Boulder, Colo., supermarket and allegedly (he has not yet been tried and found guilty) murdered ten people — same number of dead as in Buffalo. Unlike this week in Buffalo, Joe Biden didn’t fly to that crime scene, Tucker said. Why not? Because that mass shooting didn’t fit the Narrative. He was a Person of Color, not a white supremacist. Colorado Public Radio even did a story at the time about how worried Colorado Muslims were of “backlash” because the shooter was Muslim. The Washington Post ran an analysis that pointed out that the Syrian shooter was, in fact, legally white, and an example of “whiteness”. So the Narrative Managers were able to call this an example of white male violence after all!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", "Mass Shooting"

Are Financial Institutions Using ESG Social Credit Scores to Coerce Individuals and Small Businesses?

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics are a kind of social credit system designed to coerce businesses—and, by extension, individuals and all of society—to transform their practices.

Through a carrot-and-stick approach, investors and banks (and soon governments) use ESG to push businesses to change how they function, regardless of what the employees and customers of those businesses want. In many cases, however, corporate executives are all too willing to go along, because they want access to the cheap capital offered by investors and financial institutions.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", "Corporate Social Justice Warriors", Socialism

When Will They Cancel Karl Marx? Never, of course.

On the revealing double standards of the woke left.

Discrediting a thinker’s broad worldview or legacy by discovering some statement from the distant past revealing him or her to be a bigot by today’s standards is a depressing degeneration in our intellectual life. It speaks of a compulsion to moralize rather than to understand, to shut down rather than expand debate.

Picasso was morally monstrous; but his painting is transcendent. And if you cannot disentangle the two, you are attacking a key liberal principle: that ideas and works of art should be considered on their merits, and not on the virtue or vice of their proponents.

h/t LK

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture"