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— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) June 26, 2024
“Cancel Culture”
Trans Advocates Force Conference Into Paying 50K Security Deposit
A trans and non-binary advocacy group failed to cancel the annual Reclaiming Canada conference in Victoria, but prompted a 50K security cost for organizers.
Canada is way behind normal countries in putting these cross-dressers in their place.
Richard Dreyfuss sparks mass walkout with ‘transphobic rant’ at screening
A theatre in Massachusetts has apologised for “distressing and offensive” remarks made by Richard Dreyfuss that triggered a mass walkout before a screening of Jaws.
Dreyfuss, 76, appeared at The Cabot in the town of Beverly on Saturday for what was billed as “an intimate evening” with the Oscar-winning actor.
MILKE: Cancel culture targets those who built Canada
It’s popular these days to cancel historical figures when their views do not exactly mimic our own.
For those who practice such deliberate historic amnesia, streets, bridges, and entire neighbourhoods are renamed, or statues removed, to satisfy an Orwellian need to block out what is assumed to be a blot on the human species — men and women who came before us and built Canada.
RCMP officer’s social media posts prompt calls for suspension from First Nation chief
A British Columbia First Nation is calling for the suspension and removal of an RCMP officer from Bella Bella over social media posts he made before joining the Mounties.
Heiltsuk Tribal Council Chief Marilyn Slett says in a letter to the Bella Bella detachment of the RCMP that the officer posted “racist text and images.”
Cancelling Joan of Arc?
Every year, the city of Orléans celebrates with pomp and circumstance the liberation of the city from the English yoke during the Hundred Years’ War, thanks to the victorious intervention of Saint Joan of Arc at the head of the French armies. For the occasion, a young girl from the town lends her features to the valiant fighter and is flanked by two young boys as her pages. This year, the town rejected one of the two selected candidates on the grounds that he had frequented the Action Française movement and espoused values “contrary to the Republic”. A kind of paradox: after all, didn’t Jeanne herself fight for her God and her king?
Don’t sack Cambridge academic for race views, say colleagues
Eminent philosophers and colleagues of a professor who has become embroiled in a race row have criticised attempts to remove him from the University of Cambridge.
Nathan Cofnas, a researcher in philosophy, is about to be expelled from Emmanuel College and is being investigated by the philosophy faculty and the Leverhulme Trust, which funded him.
He wrote a blog linking race to academic ability and suggested that in a true meritocracy black people would excel only in sports and entertainment.
Jerry Seinfeld is right: ‘PC cr*p’ is killing comedy
TV comedy just isn’t funny anymore. That’s the verdict of Jerry Seinfeld, stand-up comedy legend and star of Seinfeld, one of the biggest sitcoms of all time.
In an interview with the New Yorker at the weekend, he said:
‘It used to be, you would go home at the end of the day, most people would go, “Oh, Cheers is on. Oh, M*A*S*H is on. Oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on. All in the Family is on.” You just expected, there’ll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight. Well, guess what – where is it?’
John Cleese on Cancel Culture: An ‘Organized … Totalitarian’ Movement
John Cleese is the master of both silly walks and sublime comedy takes.
The Monty Python veteran is as feisty as ever at 84, slashing those attempting to crush comedy that breaks any kind of so-called rule.
Kristin Raworth: The progressive bullies came for me
Recently, Governor General Mary Simon came under fire for her decision to host an online harm symposium last weekend. Not because the concept is bad, not because it is inappropriate for the Governor General to use her office to highlight an ongoing issue with internet harassment, no. She came under fire for the fact that her office was doing so in support of Liberal party legislation with Justice Minister Arif Virani, who introduced the bill, in attendance. It is a pretty clear violation of the non-partisan role the Governor General is expected and constitutionally obligated to perform.
We Will Not Go Meekly
Is political speech free in the capital of Europe? Incredibly, given the antics of the Brussels mayor and other officials over the past few days, the answer seems to be no. Pay attention: the scandalous events of the last week have massive symbolic weight for the future of Europe.
Yoram Hazony has been hosting National Conservatism (NatCon) conferences on two continents for the past few years. On Monday, the day before the April 16 kickoff of this week’s event in Brussels, the Israeli-American scholar, who runs the Edmund Burke Foundation which is sponsoring the conference, should have been busy putting the final touches on the gathering.
.@Nigel_Farage: "We can see that legally-held opinions from people who are going to win national elections are no longer acceptable here in Brussels — the home of globalism." #NatConBrussels2 pic.twitter.com/6IfG7rKUfV
— Brussels Signal (@brusselssignal) April 16, 2024
UPDATE: The entrance of the venue is still under a police barricade. Delegates can leave, but they cannot return. #NatConBrussels2 pic.twitter.com/kTQzvHW4TI
— National Conservatism (@NatConTalk) April 16, 2024
Where Cancel Culture Must Go Next
… A modest suggestion for cancel culture is to start by focusing on Muslim countries in the Middle East. After all, far more blacks were taken as slaves from Africa to Middle Eastern Muslim countries than were taken to the New World.
The question for cancel culture becomes how to start making Muslims in the Middle East aware of their sin of slavery. In the United States, cancel culture had some success by focusing on well known slave owners such as the Founding Fathers. Cancel culture might want to use the same strategy and focus on well known slave-owners who were Muslims.
h/t quanga
Canada Wants to Regulate Online Content. Critics Say It Goes Too Far.
Canada has waded into the contentious issue of regulating online content with a sweeping proposal that would force technology companies to restrict and remove harmful material, especially posts involving children, that appears on their platforms.
While the intent to better monitor online content has drawn widespread support, the bill has faced intense backlash over its attempt to regulate hate speech. Critics say the proposal crosses the line into censorship.
America’s censors have committed their Guernica
America’s cultural mood calls to mind a bunch of people tentatively peering out from their hiding places in the aftermath of a torrential hailstorm. Is it over? Can we come out now? Are we still cancelling each other to death, or has the vibe finally shifted?