“Peak Woke”

North Korea defector compares woke US ideology, education to regime tactics

“They were in Manhattan, living in the freest country you can imagine, and they’re saying they’re oppressed? It doesn’t even compute,” Yeonmi Park told The Post of students at her alma mater, Columbia University. “I was sold for $200 as a sex slave in the 21st century under the same sky. And they say they’re oppressed because people can’t follow their pronouns they invent every day?”

The 29-year-old defected from North Korea as a young teen, only to be human-trafficked in China. In 2014, she became one of just 200 North Koreans to live in the United States — and, as of last year, is an American citizen.

The news that Disney is making additional sequels to Frozen, Toy Story, and Zootopia put me back in mind of Frozen II, which I saw in the theater when it came out in late 2019. Its plot perfectly captured the trouble with woke virtue-signaling. It is, in fact, a fascinating document not only of the woke impulse at work in the world of Disney, but also of how trying give an audience of young, female humans what they want collides with that impulse.

Scientific American magazine has been around since 1845, evolving into a reader-friendly purveyor of hard science, a respected, slightly intimidating denizen of supermarket checkout lines. But judging by the recent ridiculous trend of stories and editorials, it’s been wholly captured by the woke blob.

A commemorative plaque celebrating a watershed moment of citizen resistance to the ‘Freedom Convoy’ last year has been taken down.

The plaque commemorated the so-called ‘Battle of Billings Bridge,’ when hundreds of people blocked an intersection to prevent convoy protesters from driving downtown on the third weekend of the occupation.

A New York school has apologised after serving what it called an “inexcusably insensitive” lunch on the first day of Black History Month.

Students at Nyack Middle School were served fried chicken, waffles and watermelon on 1 February.

The foods have been used as racist tropes against African Americans.

When it comes to race, “Woke” is the new Nazi.

On Jan. 30, 1933, Paul von Hindenburg, the beleaguered president of Germany’s Weimar Republic, reluctantly appointed a former corporal to be chancellor of his politically chaotic nation. Ten weeks later, Adolf Hitler and his Nazis began codifying a series of anti-Semitic laws that would culminate in the Holocaust. Yet few realize that the Nazis’ anti-Semitic ideas came primarily from two intellectuals from the 19th century.

Ninety years later, that fact should provide a sober warning for Americans.

Problems created by push for women and ethnic minorities come as crisis-hit Armed Forces also face sex harassment scandals

The RAF has been accused of discriminating against 160 white men in its effort to meet “aspirational diversity targets”.

Tobias Ellwood, chairman of the defence select committee, told MPs that the RAF’s former head of recruitment had identified the cases before she resigned in protest.

After the revelation, Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston, head of the force, was asked if he had presided over a “lack of integrity at the top of the RAF”.

I bet they’re wondering why recruitment efforts are drastic failures.

… Smith isn’t just blowing smoke. He’s talking total war, including investigating the “morally superior” academics who have defamed his family: Satan worshippers, Marxists, people supporting mutilating children’s bodies, anti-free speech absolutists, and vaccine totalitarians.

In closing, Smith demands not only the return of the $51 million that the campus turned its back on when it defamed and rejected T.C. Williams but also “the other substantial gifts my family made to the University and the return of this money as well.”

Well played.

Reading too many novels causes a great deal of anguish for the naive heroine of Northanger Abbey, and students studying the book could be similarly troubled.

This is according to academics who have issued a trigger warning for Jane Austen’s work because it depicts “gender stereotypes”.

CBC style.

“Once upon a time, if it was a Disney movie, you knew it was going to be safe for children,” Media Research Center (MRC) Founder and President Brent Bozell says at the beginning of a new documentary, “Walt’s Disenchanted Kingdom,” set to premiere next week on Monday, January 23.

Subtitled “How Disney is losing its way,” the film explores Disney’s degeneration from an iconic, beloved family entertainment enterprise to an activist political operation opposing parental rights and bent on indoctrinating children into liberal, “woke” gender and sexual ideologies.

h/t WB

After the revolution, the real terror may be yet to come

On the face of it, any comparison between the woke Left of the 21st century and the Bolsheviks of the early Soviet Union is absurd. Whatever one might think about the ‘libs’, they’re not mass murderers.

The writer is a serving police officer.

IT IS a widely held belief that public bodies have, these days, been completely captured by woke ideology amid the ongoing culture wars. HR departments are having their collective heads turned by intersectional dogma and managers care more for what’s said about them on Twitter than they do in performing efficiently.

Particular concern has been focused on the police, which, as if to illustrate the point, now prefers to be called a service rather than a force. Some otherwise sensible folk are of the opinion that, surely, an institution which deals with catching often violent offenders and bringing them to justice simply cannot have been taken over by this quasi-religious ‘be kind’ zealotry? Unfortunately, dear reader, I’m here to tell you that it has.

An outpouring of online abuse after a non-binary Joan of Arc and the staging of “Wokeo and Juliet” has raised fears from the artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe that she may be putting performers “in harm’s way”.

The theatre’s recent productions have been cast into the heart of the so-called culture wars, with Michelle Terry lamenting a “bilious” response on social media. “I have to sit with them before they go on stage and put themselves on the front line and go, ‘Is this the safest thing for you to do,’ and that is really worrying,” Terry said of her performers. “That is my concern. Is this a really safe place for nuanced debate.”