People living near George Floyd Square are reportedly asking when Minneapolis police officers will answer their calls for assistance, according to WCCO.
The answer is, “After Gentrification.”
“Peak Woke”
Prosecutors seek longer sentence for Derek Chauvin
The Minnesota Attorney General’s Office argued in a new court filing Friday that Chauvin, who was convicted on murder and manslaughter charges last week, “inflicted gratuitous pain, and caused psychological distress to Mr. Floyd and to the bystanders.”
Canadian throuples and the future of parenting – A legal decision about polyamory is a bad omen for family life
Progressive campaigning, by definition, seeks to bring into being a desired world that — we’re told — would be an improvement over the existing cruel and ugly one. Recently, such campaigning has taken a radical new turn: the pursuit of legal reforms designed to enable everyone to bring into being the particular version of the world they wish to inhabit — often regardless of the degree to which that conflicts with others’ versions of reality.
Woke Up Call: Academic who backed ‘decolonising’ curriculum dropped from museum board
The chair of an influential museum group has resigned after an academic whose work calls for “decolonising” the curriculum was dropped from the board, amid reports of a government-sanctioned culture war.
… In a sign that ministers believe that a battle against “woke” culture plays well with voters, there have been a number of recent attempts to ratchet up a culture war. Following the Black Lives Matter protests last summer, Dowden threatened to cut funding to museums and galleries that removed statues associated with British colonialism.
In a warning to institutions last October, Dowden wrote: “As publicly funded bodies, you should not be taking actions motivated by activism or politics. The significant support that you receive from the taxpayer is an acknowledgment of the important cultural role you play for the entire country.”
Good for Great Britain.
Police arrest elderly Christian preacher after ‘he refused to stop reading from Genesis 1 that God made ‘only two genders’ and families should be ‘headed by a father and mother’
…A statement posted to a Christian Facebook his supporters read: ‘Whilst he was preaching, he expounded the final verses of Genesis 1, declaring that God’s purpose in creating mankind was to set human beings in families, headed by a father and a mother, not by two fathers, or by two mothers.
‘The distinction within mankind of just two genders, male and female, made in the image of God, constitutes the essence of God’s created order.’
Nickelodeon airs segment that discusses “environmental racism”
“What do these cities have in common?” said the host of the segment, CBS News correspondent Jamie Yuccas. “They’re all examples of environmental racism, a form of systemic racism where minority and low-income communities are surrounded by health hazards because they live near sewage, mines, landfills, power stations, [and] major roads.”
Johnny Rotten blames ‘wokeness’ for US ‘collapse’
In a recent profile with the Times UK, the aging punk rocker decried “cancel culture” and the activists who campaigned to tear down national monuments which they say promote historical racism. The statues include that of Winston Churchill, one of the UK’s most revered prime ministers.
Only the rich can afford to be woke – Culture wars only work in societies with First World problems
The meme of the First World Problem first hit the internet a decade ago, to satirise what pampered pooches we’ve become — “can only get 3G not 4G”, “had to stand on public transport” — when, really, we should all be pathetically grateful for our tech-enabled, progress-enriched lifestyles. Into this category, you could also tip many of the ‘problems’ that have come to dominate our news cycle. How should Afro hair be incorporated into British schools’ dress codes? Is it a ‘sexist’ fabrication that Carrie Symonds tried to get a minister fired — or is it just a fabrication? Should The National Trust celebrate LGBTQI+ culture, or should it perhaps get on with preserving historic buildings?
Tim Hortons apologizes for ‘speak English’ signs at Winnipeg restaurant
The signs, which appeared to say “we are an English speaking place of work” and “speak English,” were photographed by a customer, apparently behind the counter at a Henderson Highway restaurant.
Tulsi Gabbard Calls for an End to the ‘Racialization of Everyone and Everything’
Former Democrat Congresswoman and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard posted a video on Twitter Sunday asking people to stop what she describes as “racialization” and “racialism,” and instead look at all individuals as “part of the human family.”
Medical Racism – Preferential Treatments for Blacks over Whites – is Here
A report on this noxious development made it to Tucker Carlson Tonight on the Fox News channel on April 13 when DePaul University professor Jason Hill, Ph.D. – who is Black – appeared on the program. Hill called what is taking place in Boston “political eugenics in the medical field.” He said that it’s using “a reparations framework” to “advance Critical Race Theory.” “It’s racist,” he added. “It’s using health care to advance the socialist system.” Hill also noted:
I think for the first time, we are seeing hospitals that are being used by doctors as indoctrination centers and advancing their own politicized views that are using Critical Race Theory, which is a nefarious and quite racist kind of doctrine.
h/t Marvin
Fallout From the War on Cops
The cities. That’s where this anti-cop virus has already begun to affect law and order, especially in the high-crime neighborhoods that most need policing. Our war on cops is, naturally, a disincentive for them to act, and a disincentive for them to become the next poster boy for police brutality or racist policing. In fact, it’s a disincentive for cops to remain on as cops at all. So beleaguered cops leave the cities, and the cities go to hell. And their residents flee to the suburbs. But they bring their leftist politics with them, and the anti-cop squeeze continues.
Angela Rye: Black People ‘Carry Trauma in Our Bodies’ from Systemic Racism of American Policing
…how we solve for a system that, by design from its inception, was designed to capture and return and enslave people back to their masters.
Well we could make it so only blacks could shoot other blacks. Oh wait they do that already.
NYPD Officers Leaving In Droves, 75% Increase In Quitting Or Retirement In 2020
The members of the NYPD grew so disenchanted with their jobs in 2020 that over 5,300 uniformed officers either retired or quit, an astonishing 75% increase over the year before, amounting to 15% of the total number of officers on the force. The impetus for the officers quitting seemed to be the death of George Floyd and the unrest that followed; between May 25 and June 24, 2020, a whopping 272 officers left the force in one month.
Wokester apocalypse: Public school enrollment plunges in California — and everywhere else
Have the wokesters finally reached a tipping point?
Leftists of multiple stripes have been making public schools horrible places, and now students are bolting.