Actress Gina Carano has been fired by Disney for purportedly controversial remarks she made in social media comparing the treatment of conservatives by progressives to how in its beginning years the Nazis mistreated Jews. No doubt the oppression against Jews during the 1930s was of a much higher degree and based on a pronounced bigotry exclusively against Jews.
The woke Left has come for Odysseus, that hyacinth-haired favorite of Athena, master mariner, foremost of men, and King of Ithaca. Last month, a teacher named Heather Levine bragged on social media that she’d gotten the Odyssey removed from her school’s curriculum. Her effort is part of a larger woke movement called #DisruptTexts.
The New York Times is an influential newspaper with a worldwide readership and 130 Pulitzer Prizes for excellence in journalism to its name. It is known to have a liberal bias, but it has still generally been recognized for reporting the news, rather than for making it.
This month, however, the Times itself has been the stuff of headlines. Cancel culture is reaching disturbing heights all around, and the Times is at the centre of many of the stories.
Related… Read the column the New York Times didn’t want you to read
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson said on the Thursday night episode of his program that his show has been targeted for cancellation.
Carlson said that “in the last several weeks, and particularly in the last 24 hours, the call to take this show off the air by groups funded—for real—by the Ford Foundation, or by George Soros, by Michael Bloomberg, by Jeff Bezos, has become deafening, going after our advertisers, going after the companies that carry our signal into your home.”
What’s more, he added, there has been a “cowardice and complicity” on behalf of the “entire media class in all of this,” suggesting that eventually, reporters at legacy news outlets will be targeted as well.
Robert F Kennedy Jr has been banned from Instagram for what the company said was repeatedly sharing misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
“This video is a must watch. It is the prosecution video of the horrific violence that took place in Washington. It is truly shocking. Impeachment is the least of what should befall Donald Trump,” tweeted Angus linking to a heavily edited video of the event.
LifeSiteNews was founded by the Campaign Life Coalition in Toronto in 1997. The outlet gives a voice to social conservatives and emphasises “traditional Judeo-Christian principles” in its reporting.
The cancel culture mob is after Tucker Carlson again, employing the help of big-name companies to punish him for his blunt refutation of the narratives spewed by Democrats and other people in power who don’t want to hear them.
George Orwell published Animal Farm in August 1945, in the closing weeks of the Pacific War. Even then, most naïve supporters of the wartime Soviet-British-American alliance were no longer in denial about the contours of Moscow’s impending postwar communist aggression.
Donald McNeil Jr., the New York Times’ award-winning science reporter of 45 years, no longer works at the paper of record after his use of a “racist slur” while on a Times-sponsored trip to Peru with students in 2019 became public.
This is a dumb story about dumb hot takes. We live in a dumb time full of overly serious people who left to their own devices will destroy art and usher in another dark age. That’s where we are thanks to social media, which was supposed to connect and enlighten us all.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and fellow House Democrats on Thursday voted to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) from the Education and Budget committees to which she had been appointed by the Republican minority.
Most Republicans stuck by Greene, arguing that her adherence to an array of conspiracy theories predated her election and that the vote would set a worrying precedent for removing minority-party legislators from posts.
In my view, the French and bilingual lyrics of O Canada now need revision. The bilingual version uses two lines from the French version. First, “ton histoire est une épopée des plus brillants exploits,” officially translated as “your history is an epic of brilliant deeds.” I embrace this line as an eloquent evocation of the best moments of our history and an aspirational goal for the future.
The second line, however, gives me pause: “car ton bras sait porter l’épée, il sait porter la croix,” translated as “for your [Canada’s] arm knows how to wield the sword, your arm knows how to carry the cross.” These words, of course, reflect the importance of the Catholic church in 19th century Quebec, the context in which O Canada was written. But to me, as a Jew, they now sound non-inclusive and obsolete.
h/t Marvin
A study commissioned by beauty giant Sephora on racial bias in the U.S. retail sector is having reverberations in Canada — at Sephora’s Canadian stores and for those in the beauty industry.
Students are launching a nationwide project to champion free speech in universities over fears that debate is being stifled in favour of woke culture.
It aims to address a free-speech crisis on campuses and encourage the young to embrace wide-ranging opinions without the fear of saying the ‘wrong’ thing.
The news comes after a survey found more than a quarter of students censored their own views on politics or ethical matters, and 40 per cent believed their careers would be harmed if they expressed their true thoughts.
