Jamie Sarkonak: Racial discounts for sex offenders undermine justice
One would hope that a justice system would punish rapists equally: Non-white immigrant or white fourth-generation Canadian, they should be looking at a similar jail sentence for that kind of vile crime. In reality, though, rapists who can play the diversity card have a decent chance of getting a Canadian judge to lighten their sentence.
After Oct 7, some purple-haired genderqueer activists on TikTok have taken to reading the Koran and are pondering converting to Islam. That may seem like a leap, but once you’re a teenage girl who decides to be a boy for internet clout, changing to Islam is less difficult.
Hijabs, like dyed hair and androgynous clothes, have long become just another accessory of restless social change. Commercials that claim to relate to the youth invariably include a woman in a hijab as a progressive marker alongside a purple haired they/them, an ascetic activist type in a t-shirt and random minorities laughing together while having lattes on a college campus.
A 1930s nightmare on the horizon?
Something eerie, something creepy, is happening in the world—and now in America as well. The dark mood is brought on by elite universities, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion industry, and massive immigration from illiberal nations and anti-Enlightenment societies.
At Hillcrest High School in Queens, New York, hundreds of students rioted on news that a single teacher in her private social media account had expressed support for Israel. Waving Palestinian flags, and screaming violent threats, the student mob rioted, destroyed school property, sought the teacher out and tried to crash into her classroom—before she was saved from violence by other teachers and an eventual police arrival.
In a recent statement by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, we learned that Christmas is not racist.
This clarification, while reassuring, highlights a troubling trend that a holiday with religious origins is being challenged as racist and discriminatory at all. This matter isn’t rooted in the holiday’s current essence or practice, but stems from the mere acknowledgment of Christmas as a national holiday at all. It’s a concerning fate for a holiday that for most Canadians is secular in all but its namesake.
In several of the courses that I have taught (e.g., consumer behavior or international marketing), I have at times covered how cultural misunderstandings can result in costly business mishaps. For example, it is always a good idea to apply back translation when developing advertising copy across foreign markets. Take an advertising slogan in language A, have it translated to language B, and then have someone else translate back to language A. This reduces the likelihood of having translation errors when otherwise conducted in only one direction (from A to B).
Progressives will turn on Hispanics as fast as they did conservative blacks and pro-Israel Jews.
Will the far-left target Hispanics next? If that sounds far-fetched, then you have not been paying attention to the far-left. Now targeting American Jews for supporting Israel’s right to self-defense and Israeli hostages’ right to freedom, how will far-left extremists react as Hispanics continue to desert President Biden and the Democrats?
A working group under the auspices of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada believes training future doctors should concentrate more on social justice and anti-racism than “medical expertise.”
The idea was proposed by an anti-racism expert working group as a potential addition to CanMEDS, the framework for physician training slated for renewal in 2025. If implemented, it would elevate what is increasingly a destructive, divisive Marxist ideology over the Enlightenment ideals of science and reason.
The End of Woke (And the Man Who Killed It)
They almost had it. They were so close.
It began with the gay marriage debate in 2012. Barack Obama was reelected president partially as a result of his stance on the issue, despite opposing same-sex marriage in years past. Most of… pic.twitter.com/9vYhReuFtK
— Jason James (@jasonjamesbnn) November 24, 2023
Worth a look.
Not every young person is joining the campus radicals. In the West, some are rebelling by turning against progressivism.
Like Hunter Biden, I did a lot of foolish things when I was young, only I stopped before middle age. I had a good time. Sometimes I think my generation was the last that could go to a party without having to worry about pronouns or tell politically incorrect jokes in college without having a secret file opened on you.
Harry Styles, Greta Thunberg, Osama bin Laden. The pin-ups of Generation Z might mystify us. But it’s important we pay attention to them – certainly to the latter, most recent entry into this rogues’ gallery.
Over the past week, the late al-Qaeda leader has been causing a stir on TikTok. Bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’ – an anti-Western, anti-Semitic screed, penned a year after 9/11 to ‘justify’ al-Qaeda’s slaughter of innocent New Yorkers and its holy war against the West – has been blowing influencers’ minds.
Even students in Oregon who aren’t required to learn much of anything to graduate can spot BS when they see it. And now, what these students in a Portland area suburb did to a tampon dispenser in their school bathroom has become the stuff of local — meme-able — legend.
Academia’s narrative about “land appropriation” and “cultural genocide” is not only dubious factually—it also offers a justification for revenge against certain groups.
The newest chapter in grievance politics is being written in American schools. This emerging narrative of “land appropriation” and “cultural genocide” is one-sided, divisive, and contrary both to history and to widely accepted ethical and constitutional principles of individual accountability and due process.
On our campus, the University of Chicago Civic Knowledge Project (UCCKP), together with the American Indian Center, has proposed a land acknowledgment to “demonstrate[] a commitment to beginning the process of dismantling the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism and genocide.” UCCKP recognizes that this and other “social justice” processes “will probably take nothing less than the democratic socialist transformation of the U.S.”
“Western Civilization is being ideologically colonized.” The culprit is the virus of woke ideology, which has spread across the organizational systems of liberal Western societies to infect established institutions. The aim is a purified utopia based on the comprehensive enforcement of ‘equity,’ ‘diversity,’ and ‘inclusion.’ This is the starting point of the short book, Counter Wokecraft, written by engineering professor Charles Pincourt and the founding president of New Discourses, James Lindsay; their main ambition is to supply an antidote to the cultural infestation.
I’m a Marxist. Though I’m a fairly unorthodox one at this point, I would still love to see a Marxist revolution. You know, an international movement of workers rising up and taking control of political and economic systems, and distributing resources and labor based on need, while organized under the principle of shared ownership of the productive apparatus of society.
But with American progressivism focused on identity politics, not class interests, forever wandering from the righteous to the ridiculous, this appears to be an unrealistic dream. So I’m left to settle for a set of lefty policy preferences that I can live with—a child tax credit, far more muscular laws protecting labor organizing, single-payer health insurance, reparations for slavery, and so on.
Royal Navy personnel are being told to introduce themselves with their pronouns before meetings in official guidance seen by The Telegraph.
A guide on trans and non-binary awareness tells staff: “Introducing yourself with your pronouns at the start of meetings and interactions is a good way to be inclusive.”
The guidance, available on the Royal Navy intranet, says: “Some people do not associate with gender binary and may use different pronouns like they/them or neo-pronouns like ze/hir/hirs. You should use the pronoun that a person shares with you.”
h/t Mauser
