Current approaches to outer space are “heavily Western, state-centric, militarized, masculinized, and colonial,” and encourage practices that are “racist, exploitative, elitist, and environmentally destructive.”
That’s according to an intersectional feminist report on outer space bankrolled by the Department of National Defence to the tune of $32,250 in taxpayer cash.
This week, conservative political commentator Matt Walsh’s new film Am I Racist? is released in cinemas across the US. The film follows Walsh as he dons skinny jeans and a man bun to speak undercover with various antiracist experts.
In one memorable scene, Walsh sets up an interview with antiracist academic Robin DiAngelo, in which he pretends to be a concerned citizen interested in her ideas. First he talks her into supporting segregation: it would be fair for her and a black colleague to take separate hallways, she concedes, after that colleague complained that she hurt him both by smiling too much at him and smiling too little.
“Victor Laszlo published the foulest lies in the Prague newspapers until the very day we marched in. And even after that, he continued to print scandal sheets in a cellar.” So ran the accusation by Colonel Strasser in Michael Curtiz’s impeccable 1942 film noir, Casablanca.
Strasser was vilifying the upstanding resistance leader who challenged the prevailing regime in Morocco that attended France’s surrender to Germany in the summer of 1940. Today, in Canada, more than three-quarters of a century later, this enduring scene begs comparisons to a new, looming rebellion, this time between doctors and their regulatory agencies, and one that bears all the same hallmarks of defiance.
City bureaucrats ordered a 140-year-old stone carving depicting Christopher Columbus to be removed from display and hidden in a wooden area in Scarborough’s Guild Park in 2021, the Toronto Sun has learned.
The single-most animating phenomenon of the modern left in Canada and across the English speaking world is not class, it is racial resentment. Entire grassroots and intellectual movements are dedicated to what is essentially ethnic cleansing of people and artwork, as well as keeping old world blood feuds alive.
On Aug. 6, Ottawa’s Capital Pride released a pro Palestinian statement which likely garnered considerably more attention than its authors imagined it would. The statement vaguely attempted to call out all intolerance, including antisemitism, but could not hide the fact that it was itself decidedly antisemitic, though that irony was obviously lost on Capital Pride.
Screw that. No prisoners.
Nietzsche can help us understand the phenomenon of self-abasement.
My X feed has recently been flooded with parodies of the “White Women for Kamala” Zoom call, where a kindergarten teacher turned social media influencer “gentle parented” a group of white women, explaining that “our BIPOC sisters have tapped us in as white women to step up, listen, and get involved this election season.” Among many ridiculous and troubling elements of the call—Democrats now support separate but equal political gatherings?—one particularly glaring aspect was the kind of self-flagellation on racial grounds that has gained widespread adoption since at least the publication of Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility.
“As white women we need to use our privilege to make positive changes.” What privilege? All this tells me is that liberal white women think they’re better than me. The condescension is nauseating. https://t.co/chu5phLI4u
— Adele Scalia (@AdeleScalia) July 29, 2024
Given the Olympics are up and running, it’s fitting to reflect on how the image that cartoonists most often use to show that women and ethnic minorities have a disadvantage is one of the hurdles.
The illustrations recur: Of women and people of colour literally having to jump over more and higher hurdles than white people or men to reach victory in their fields, particularly politics.
A businessman worth around £200 million is seeking planning permission to fly a flag reading “woke-free zone” outside his company’s headquarters.
Alex Lovén, 36, came under fire for erecting the anti-woke flag outside the Net World Sports base on the Wrexham Industrial Estate.
Canada’s Dalhousie University Medical School has taken down portraits of its former “old” and “white” deans because they are “no longer representative of the school’s student body.”
According to Do No Harm, Dean of Medicine David Anderson announced the move in a mid-July message regarding the school’s “Valuing People” initiative.
h/t KT
The opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics were deeply offensive to Christians around the world. Numerous people from across the denominational spectrum have described this event as blasphemous and even demonic.
However, I would like to say something to the non-Christians who may be uneasy about the opening ceremonies but cannot quite explain why. Perhaps the opening ceremony bothers you, but you’re not quite ready to align yourself with its Christian critics.
For several years, activists and self-styled “advocates” have been attempting to change the way we speak about social problems like homelessness, drug addiction, crime and unsocial behaviour.
The intention is clear: to remove stigma and any overt suggestion of personal responsibility. The new names are meant to reorient our thinking so that we understand that the real causes of misfortune to be societal or systemic. If a word has shameful connotations, that seems to be enough to warrant change. The goal here is to refrain from describing anyone who could plausibly be identified as a victim as having any personal responsibility for their own fate.
Is anyone else bored of ‘queering’? Everything’s getting ‘queered’ these days. We’ve had ‘Queering the Curriculum’. ‘Queering the Arts’. And my personal favourite: ‘Queering Palestine.’ This entails academics ‘unpack[ing] the multiple intersections of queer politics and the Palestinian struggle’. Hot tip for these profs: if Hamas ever invites you to discuss your theories, don’t agree to meet them on the high floor of a building. ‘Queering the Pavement’ is the only thing they’re interested in.
I haven’t watched the Olympics in years because it’s such a scam.
It wasn’t barbarians at the gates that caused the downfall of one of the world’s greatest empires but the uncivilized savages within that led to the slow decline of Rome.
The glory that was Rome eroded with the weakening of its culture, its institutions and its way of life. How could the empire exist when the people could no longer define what it meant to be Roman?
Bullies aren’t only in school playgrounds.
Manitoba school trustee Paul Coffey has been under fierce attack since his presentation Racism Anti Racism Nice Until It Isn’t during an April 24 Dauphin-based Mountain View School Division (MVSD) board meeting.
