“Peak F*cked Up” – Page 4

The Semantic Burden of Speaking While White

As yet another racial etiquette study shows, it’s getting harder to talk about race.

As I read in the Guardian, an operation called “Reframing Race” has accepted as its mission the task of teaching people, white people in particular, the semantic niceties of racial etiquette.

Some of the stuff we have heard before, such as the need to avoid words that associate whiteness with purity or cleanliness and blackness with evil and destruction. But the reframing regime goes deeper. One particular paragraph in the Guardian caught my attention:

Other recommendations include avoiding the phrase “white working class” and rather using “multi-ethnic working class” or “working-class people of all ethnicities” because the use of the former wrongly excludes black and minoritised people from the class group.

by Blazingcatfur•July 21, 2023July 20, 2023•0•"Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Woke"

A Pandemic of Cruelty

There is a pandemic in the Western world — especially, but not only, in America — that few are talking about, let alone addressing.

This pandemic doesn’t actually kill people. But it does destroy people, ruin lives, crush families and cause permanent, debilitating pain – far more than have the vast majority of cases of COVID-19.

This pandemic consists of adult children who have decided never again to speak to one or both of their parents. The vast majority of these people were never sexually or physically abused. In fact, nearly all were loved by their parents.

by Blazingcatfur•July 12, 2023July 11, 2023•0•"Peak F*cked Up"

No, asexuals are not oppressed

In today’s climate, many people like to claim that they are part of a marginalised group. This can offer a shortcut to deferential treatment, endless attention and even media opportunities. But how can you portray yourself as oppressed when you don’t really have much to gripe about? Adopting a trans identity could work. But transitioning seems like an awful lot of effort and commitment. And declaring yourself ‘nonbinary’ is a bit 2019.

by Blazingcatfur•July 6, 2023July 5, 2023•0•"Peak F*cked Up"

A Toronto-area middle school is in crisis. Administrators pin the blame on teachers

This mural would be enough to set me off.

At Tomken Road Middle School in Mississauga, Ont., in the suburbs west of Toronto, the last day of school on Friday cannot come soon enough.

The school of 900 or so students in grades 6, 7 and 8 (aged 11 to 14) is in crisis, not only because of uncorrected misbehaviour by students that puts safety at risk and undermines every student’s education, but also because of bitter acrimony between teachers and board administration about how to respond.

by Blazingcatfur•June 26, 2023June 26, 2023•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Woke", Education

One Flew Over the Kangaroo Court: My Close Encounter With Ontario’s Human Rights Bureaucracy

… My son was interested in learning Java programming through SummerUP. But when we got to the online application process, it requested he confirm his identity as black. It turns out the entire program is only available to black students.

by Blazingcatfur•June 1, 2023May 31, 2023•0•"Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Woke", Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists

Washington State’s New Climate Curriculum Attacks ‘Rational Thinking’

Teaching climate science in schools can be valuable, but not when it’s blatantly oriented toward ‘social justice’ and views rationality as an obstacle to proper learning.

One sentence from Washington State’s new high-school curriculum on climate science betrays how bizarre the discussion about teaching science has become:

For too long, science and science education have prioritized my rational thinking.

Instead of prioritizing rational thinking, the purportedly scientific curriculum argues that “we must learn to pay attention to our own emotions and those of other people.”

by Blazingcatfur•May 24, 2023May 23, 2023•0•"Environmentalists", "Peak F*cked Up"

NYC college professor cursed out anti-abortion students tabling at school

A Manhattan college professor flipped out on a group of students who set up an information table opposing abortion inside the school building — cursing and tossing their pamphlets, video of the interaction shows.

Shellyne Rodriguez, an adjunct professor, told the pro-life students they were “triggering” her students by tabling inside Hunter College in Manhattan earlier this month.

by Blazingcatfur•May 23, 2023May 23, 2023•0•"Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Woke"

Canada’s grave errors

Why does a country once regarded as a model of moderation and sanity now view itself as a seething den of blood-soaked bigotry and white supremacy?

Canadians used to have a reputation for being sane and moderate,” Oxford University professor Nigel Biggar said to me on a recent Quillette podcast. “If you have time, I’d like to know why you think Canada has gone the way it has.”

By “the way it has,” Prof. Biggar was alluding to my country’s strange, somewhat manic-seeming lurch into progressive radicalism since the election of Justin Trudeau, whose government now litters its policy agenda with paeans to intersectionality and anti-racism. This has been done with the express approval not just of Canada’s academic and activist establishment, but of the many Canadian journalists who now devote much of their time to hectoring readers and viewers about privilege, systemic racism and “decolonization”.

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2023April 4, 2023•0•"Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Virtue Signalling", "Peak Weimar", "Peak Woke"

Translating Liberalspeak

Liberals often talk about things but actually mean other things. For example, “trans rights” really means elevating the trans agenda to unearned prominence and insisting people pay attention. It is not about giving trans people “rights.” They have the same rights everyone else has. They just want more. “Trans rights” also means shoveling cartloads of money into trans causes.

by Blazingcatfur•April 3, 2023April 2, 2023•0•"Peak F*cked Up"

2 + 2 = White Supremacy: How Woke Ideologues Corrupted Canada’s Math Curriculum

Two plus two no longer equals four, according to members of the Ontario Mathematics Coordinators Association (OMCA), who consider the equation to be a white-supremacist dog whistle instead of a basic mathematical truth.

According to a webinar created by OMCA president Jason To, proponents of math’s political neutrality who use the phrasing “2 + 2 = 4” are engaged in an act of “Covert White Supremacy.”

Has the Ford government done anything to counter this lunacy?

by Blazingcatfur•March 27, 2023March 27, 2023•0•"Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Woke", Education, Ontario, Ontario - Your Future Is Elsewhere, WTF?

Virginia Teachers Union Pushes Senate Democrats To End ‘Anti-Asian’ Victims Of Communism Day

The Virginia Education Association whipped the commonwealth’s Senate Democrats into opposing a Victims of Communism commemoration bill due to its “anti-Asian” sentiments, demonstrating the union’s historical ignorance, woke ideology, and educational incompetence.

by Blazingcatfur•March 10, 2023March 10, 2023•0•"Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Weimar", "Peak Woke"

Toronto Raptors Video Honoring Women Backfires for Honoring Women?

The Toronto Raptors recently decided to get in on the Women’s History Month virtue-signaling and apparently failed to realize that you can’t just honor women because doing so isn’t inclusive enough.

by Blazingcatfur•March 5, 2023March 4, 2023•0•"Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Virtue Signalling", WTF?

Douglas Todd: Why being ‘woke’ is not left wing

Democratic Socialists Protest Involvement in WW II

Opinion: The identification of wokeism as left wing fractures traditional left politics and can help the rise of the right

It’s becoming uncomfortably clear the left wing of the political spectrum in North America today is increasingly divided. It’s also confused.

The old left, which has fought many successful battles for justice for all, especially for economic fairness, is having trouble understanding an emerging movement that also thinks of itself as left-wing.

It might help the Right? The Horror!

This reminds me of when the Left protested involvement in WW II – until Hitler invaded the Soviet Union and also of Trudeau warning that exposing his government’s suspicious behavior with Communist China actually helps the ChiComs undermine our society.

by Blazingcatfur•February 24, 2023February 24, 2023•0•"Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Woke", Canada, WTF?

Two Woke Authoritarians Make Their Exit

First New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern, and now Scotland’s Nicola Sturgeon: the world’s chief nannies are quitting before voters have a chance to push them out. The pair thrived off imposing Covid restrictions, only to find far less sympathy for their blend of woke politics and authoritarian control in 2023. It seems that, freed from lockdowns, many people are no longer willing to be nudged, cajoled, hectored, censored, monitored, checked, and approved. Nor are they willing to sacrifice their rights, their children’s safety, and their standard of living to appease a leader’s appetite for hollow displays of virtue.

by Blazingcatfur•February 19, 2023February 18, 2023•0•"Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Virtue Signalling", "Peak Woke"

The use and abuse of the rise of the Nazis

There was nothing ‘democratic’ about Hitler’s seizure of power.

Ninety years after the Nazis came to power in Germany, fascism is not remotely on the rise in any real sense today. There are no militarised groups of brown-shirted men fighting street battles with Communists. And there are certainly no totalitarian dictators on the brink of storming the chanceries of Europe.

by Blazingcatfur•February 13, 2023February 12, 2023•0•"Peak F*cked Up"