Moments after being introduced as Manitoba’s new Indigenous affairs minister, Alan Lagimodiere gets interrupted by Manitoba NDP Leader Wab Kinew. Lagimodiere stares blankly and has no idea what to do.
“Peak Woke”
Why must everything — from ‘Real Housewives’ to the NFL to yoga — be about race. It is toxic for America
“The Real Housewives of New York” has turned into a tiresome ongoing race spat, and has predictably been rewarded with record-low ratings. The National Football League is playing the “black national anthem.” That effort effectively rebrands “The Star-Spangled Banner” as a white national anthem and further divides America in what is supposed to be a unifying ceremony.
University of East Anglia To Cease Teaching Shakespeare After Declaring English A Colonizer Language
English ‘operated as a language of the coloniser’, students at top university that produced several world-renowned authors are told
Students at a university that has produced a string of world-renowned authors are to be taught that English ‘operated as a language of the coloniser’.
The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia – which boasts Nobel Prize laureate Kazuo Ishiguro and the Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan and Anne Enright among its alumni – is to ‘decolonise’ its courses following demands from students.
The decision is the latest controversial move by institutions to make lessons more diverse – but critics claim it is ‘anti-academic’ and ‘corrosive’.
The Left’s Manipulation of Religion
Only a politicized faith is permitted in public life.
The policy of modern liberals is to keep religion out of politics while inserting politics into religion. On this view, the religious can only enter politics if they shed their religion and serve as mouthpieces for the politics of the Left. This explains the paradox of a secularist political movement that champions the “Reverend” Al Sharpton and the “Nuns on the Bus.”
“If You Do Not Have Free Speech You Are Not Free” – Refugees from Communism Horrified at America
Today in America there is a new generation of exiles from Communist regimes fighting a new political correctness, called wokeism.
Czeslaw Milosz, before he was a Nobel laureate for Literature and author of The Captive Mind, fought two totalitarianisms in his native country, Poland: first Nazism, then Communism, which took its place. In 1945, after joining the Polish diplomatic service, Milosz was appointed cultural attaché to the embassy in New York, where he served until being recalled in 1950. In 1951, he defected to France.
Meet the Newest Woke Catchphrase: Anthropocentrism
This latest woke ideological project is especially pernicious.
The nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association, held its annual meeting last week, and suffice it to say that the measures the delegates passed were radical.
One measure passed by the delegates warrants special attention.
The measure called on the union to issue a study criticizing “empire, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society.”
Toronto to officially rename Dundas Street and two subway stations
The ambitious move has been called for by residents and community groups for more than a year now and comes, in the City’s own words, “in an effort to promote inclusion and reconciliation with marginalized communities” due to Henry Dundas’s controversial and problematic legacy.
How the Left Weaponized Race in Its War on the West
We shortchange the ambitions of the left and minimize the perils of our time when we focus on race. Race is just a weapon the left is using in its ongoing cultural revolution, which aims to dismantle the pillars of Western culture.
Pizzeria owner says he will no longer accept $10 bills with John A. Macdonald on them
“As of today, July 1, BellyBusters will no longer accept any $10 bills with John A. Macdonald on them. Like and share for a chance at 1 of 3 $50 prizes,” wrote owner Paul MacDonald on Facebook.
h/t Marvin
WATCH: AOC will only support infrastructure ‘centering frontline, Indigenous, black and brown, and low-income communities’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said that she “will not support bipartisan legislation” on infrastructure unless it is “centering frontline, Indigenous, black and brown, and low-income communities that are polluted on” and “often experience the greatest brunt” of climate change-related infrastructure failures.
Navy is not ready for war because sailors are forced to focus on diversity training with officers blaming poor leadership
A scathing new report commissioned by members of Congress has claimed that the Navy’s surface warfare forces have systemic training and leadership issues, including a focus on diversity that overshadows basic readiness skills.
The report prepared by Marine Lt. Gen. Robert Schmidle and Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, both retired, came in response to recent Naval disasters, including the burning of the USS Bonhomme Richard in San Diego, two collisions involving Navy ships in the Pacific and the surrender of two small craft to Iran.
The authors conducted hour-long interviews with 77 current and retired Navy officers, offering them anonymity to identify issues they wouldn’t feel comfortable raising in the chain of command.
Want to Save America? Don’t Act Like a Conservative.
Chest-Thumpers and ‘Aw, Shucks’ Conservatives Personify the Right’s Love Affair with Losing
Chris Rufo is doing something so spectacularly unconservative, he may need to update his political affiliation: he’s winning.
Last week, Rufo’s successful legislative efforts to ban critical race theory in the classroom found critique in the New York Times. The guest essay conspicuously avoided naming him; then again, it didn’t have to.
Can Britain survive the woke wave?
Conflicts over national identity have the potential to tear the fabric of civil society
Back in 1963 a landmark study by academics Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba called, The Civic Culture, looked into why the British did not follow the Germans and the Italians into the abyss of fascism, and why communism has similarly failed to take root here. They concluded that the country’s political culture made it inhospitable to radical ideologies. The British didn’t do ideology.
Now Belief in Creationism Is ‘White Supremacy.’
In a silly non-scientific op-ed at Scientific American, Allison Hopper declares that “denial of evolution” is a form of “white supremacy.” No, it’s not a satire piece. It’s a bigoted anti-Christian rant masquerading as a science op-ed. In it, Hopper, whose bio says she’s a “filmmaker and designer,” claims that “evolution denial” perpetuates violence against black people…
VIDEO: Charlottesville Takes Down Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea Statue
The city’s remaining contested statue was torn from its pedestal Saturday once Charlottesville’s City Council voted unanimously to take down the statue of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacagawea.