“Peak Woke”

Comedian Dave Chappelle reportedly mocked several students at his high school alma mater while he performed there on Tuesday after the students got mouthy with him in front of the crowd.

Chappelle performed in front of nearly 600 students during a surprise visit to D.C.’s Duke Ellington School of the Arts, which came after the school reportedly canceled a fundraiser involving Chappelle after some leftists complained about jokes that he made about transgender people during his “The Closer” special on Netflix.

Now that San Francisco has seen three days’ of smash-and-grab robberies on its remaining retailers, following the shutdowns of many more, he’s making noises about being tough on crime.

The problem for him? Nobody’s buying it.

“Indigenous peoples have been stewards of this planet since time immemorial,” tweeted Canadian Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault from the Glasgow Climate Change Conference earlier this month. “The fight against climate change is not possible without their knowledge and leadership.”

It was an odd thing to post. In recent years, many Canadian Indigenous groups have become full commercial partners in oil and gas development projects, and so have no particular incentive to apply their “knowledge and leadership” toward assisting white environmentalists such as Guilbeault in limiting carbon emissions. But even if First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples fully answered his call, it’s not clear why they would have any special insights to offer in regard to how densely urbanized nations such as Canada can best shift their industrial base, power generation, and transportation networks to low-carbon fuel sources.

h/t DM

Social media ripped woke supposed criminal experts for saying that the public should not refer to the string of thefts across California as ‘looting.’

Those interviewed by a Bay Area news station, including a professor of criminal justice and ex-cop, think the steals should be referred to as ‘organized smash-and-grabs.’

The distinction originates from the California penal code, which defines looting as ‘theft or burglary… during a ‘state of emergency,’ ‘local emergency’ or ‘evacuation order resulting from an earthquake, fire, flood, riot or other natural or manmade disaster.’

Woke America is obsessed with symbolism, which only turns everything into a grift

It’s bad enough when someone actually thinks reposting an “I Stand With…” meme is an act of woke resistance. But when the problem is enlarged to a societal scale, it hurts us all. Nothing actually broken ever gets fixed, and a deep sense of cynicism is injected into once-believers when they realize they’ve been conned. We live inside a con job where the appearance of action is mistaken for action.