This month’s Doublespeak Award goes to the BBC. President Trump is spearheading a ‘purge’ of America’s top museums, it breathlessly reports. The madman in the White House has instructed the Smithsonian Institution to put back all ‘memorials and statues’ that were ‘improperly removed’ from federal property in recent years, the Beeb says. Hold up. Call me a stickler for linguistic accuracy, but isn’t a purge when you tear monuments down, not when you put them back up?
Several longtime corporate sponsors of San Francisco’s Pride celebrations are pulling their funding for the festivities, leaving Pride organizers searching for another way to raise $300,000.
In the past four weeks, multiple companies told San Francisco Pride, the nonprofit behind San Francisco’s annual Pride Parade and Civic Center celebration, that they would not support the 2025 Pride celebrations. In an interview with SFGATE, San Francisco Pride’s executive director, Suzanne Ford, said she was “really disappointed” by the developments.
Same thing happened in Toronto and of course they Blamed Trump but I suspect Trans advocacy triggered the about face.
Or maybe it’s just that Pride is regarded as an anachronism?
I had forgot about my “banned on YouTube” Pride vids. Here’s a blast from the past saved on Vimeo. Pride 2010 to be exact.
h/t DS
The next time someone blithely assures you that “woke is over” now Donald Trump is back, politely direct his or her attention to the following story. In the US state of New Jersey, hospitals have been giving new parents a questionnaire to fill in.
And this questionnaire asks them to specify their newborn baby’s sexuality.
It’s pretty hard to explain Doctor Who to someone who has never seen the show. For those that haven’t, it’s a British science fiction show which first aired in 1963 and has been on and off the air ever since. The show’s main character is The Doctor and super-genius alien who travels through time and space in a ship called the TARDIS which in theory is supposed to blend in with the surroundings but in practice always looks (from the outside anyway) like a British police box.
Most Canadians think that sharing gender pronouns on work calls and in video meetings has either no impact or actually “encourages stereotypes,” according to a new national survey.
The Leger poll found that 36 per cent of people agreed with the former and 29 per cent with the latter.
A new report looking at the prevalence of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI and EDI) practices in federal research grant-funding agencies says the ideology has “come to dominate” the academia and government.
The report by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute studied how DEI appears in academic and research bodies, including three federal research granting agencies.
Defence Secretary ‘speechless’ at MoD splashing out £5m on electric racers as he strives to cut out waste
Cash from the stretched military budget was splurged on sponsoring a “Formula Woke” racing team, an audit of defence spending has revealed.
Taxpayers’ money meant for front-line troops was instead used to emblazon the Ministry of Defence’s logo on the mudflaps of an electric rally car.
John Healey, the Defence Secretary, has now cancelled the £5 million contract with McLaren after being left “speechless” by the “waste”.
Children should stop being taught about the “greatness of the British Empire” as part of the Government’s curriculum shake-up, Bridget Phillipson has been told.
The Telegraph analysed almost 70 submissions from leading education groups to the Government’s curriculum and assessment review, which is due to publish its initial findings in “early 2025”.
The review will consider a root-and-branch overhaul of the current education system in England, from the first year of primary school until children turn 18.
Replacing the three musketeers with African immigrant women did not convince French cinema audiences.
Progressive culture is woefully lacking in imagination. When it comes to making people dream and telling stories, nothing beats recycling the great classics. This is the spirit in which Toutes pour une (All for one, in the feminine), a remake of Alexandre Dumas’ masterpiece The Three Musketeers, was shot. Dumas may recently have been transformed into a precursor of wokeism, but he remains a little too patriarchal: his works contain men, far too many men.
King Charles was involved in a decision to change the name of a new royal submarine from HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles, a move that was branded “woke nonsense” by former defence secretary Grant Shapps, the BBC has been told.
The name change was announced this week, and followed reports of concern within the Ministry of Defence that the original name for the vessel may have offended the French.
Agincourt refers to a battle England won against France in 1415, as part of the Hundred Years’ War.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will announce he is “immediately pulling” retired Gen. Mark Milley’s personal security detail and security clearance, multiple senior administration officials tell Fox News.
The secretary is also directing the new acting Inspector General to conduct a review board to determine if enough evidence exists for Gen. Milley to be stripped of a star in retirement based on his actions to “undermine the chain of command” during President Donald Trump’s first term, officials say.
A former corporate exec explains why the world’s CEOs are suddenly sucking up to Trump and ditching DEI.
Every January, world leaders and CEOs gather in the Swiss mountain town of Davos for the annual week-long meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF). There they discuss the big issues of the day and present themselves as global agenda setters.
But there was something very different about this year’s confab. All the reports from the WEF suggest that the attendees have started to warm to US president Donald Trump and many of his policies. Which has come as a shock to those accustomed to Davos bigwigs talking up workplace diversity, promising to fight climate change and denouncing the rise of ‘authoritarian’ populism.
Police officers have been told not to use the terms “black sheep” and “blacklisted” in case they offend someone.
A nine-page document, seen by The Telegraph, was published online in 2023 in a diversity, equality and inclusion reference guide for staff at Bedfordshire Police and Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire constabularies.
It stated that “pregnant person” should be used instead of references to pregnant women and “Christian-centric” language like the term “faith” should be avoided.
As the United States officially abandons the diversity, equity and inclusion agenda as the institutionalized bigotry that most of it is, and Harvard University has banned reasonably defined antisemitism and is incorporating the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, Canadian academia appears to be resolutely accelerating in the opposite direction. In recent months, activists from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the United Steelworkers (USW) university locals, promoting boycott, divestment and sanctions policies against Israel, have been pressuring faculty associations at the University of Toronto and other Ontario universities, demanding ”responsible investing” by the University Pension Plan (UPP), which holds $11.7 billion in assets for the 41,000 working and retired members of the plan.
The “University” is fast losing its value. Junk “studies” degrees and absurdly left indoctrination churns out incompetent young adults unable to support themselves.
OTTAWA—Wasteful. Weird. Wacko. Woke.
It may seem strange how four letters strung together, nestled among a series of alliterative buzzwords, bearing a modern definition so amorphous so as to be nearly meaningless, can evoke such clear feelings of something bad, of something reaching into places it shouldn’t.
But the word, lifted from the oeuvres of Black political activists, singers and writers, has became one of the terms Pierre Poilievre has relied on most to discredit his political rivals in his relentless bid to end almost a decade of Liberal rule.
The Star is delusional.
Society weaponized woke against the leftist loons who used it to cancel anyone or any idea they disagreed with.
Woke was always about control and turnabout is fair play.
