“Peak Woke” – Page 71

I Left Islam for Liberal Values. Now Woke Liberals Are Embracing a New Religion

I was raised in a religious Muslim home and practiced the faith for a long time. Eventually, I realized I was not a religious man, after spending a long time educating myself, immersed in our texts. Certain things bothered me after I investigated them deeply. I felt the hijab was misogynistic, and I opposed the strain of violence that had emerged from our holy books. Then there were the blasphemy laws outlined in the Quran, which seemed like the opposite of the liberal values I believe in. As a secular man, I went about my life, working as a contractor for the Canadian military for over a decade in Kosovo, Sudan, Bosnia, Haiti, and then Afghanistan. I encountered other Muslims, and others like me, who were no longer Muslim. But when I came back to Canada in 2014, I returned to a different country than the one I had left.

by Blazingcatfur•April 24, 2021April 24, 2021•0•"Cancel Culture", "Peak Woke", Islam, Islam and violence

The Question Of Whether Americans Should Pay Reparations Is Thornier Than You Might Think

After being first proposed more than 30 years ago by Rep. John Conyers, D-Michigan, the 116th Congress of the United States voted last week to advance H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-American Act. Aided by the Democratic Party’s control of the executive and legislative branches of government, the current sentiment in the country regarding racial justice and equity may provide the bill’s proponents the opening they seek.

by Sarcasticat•April 24, 2021April 23, 2021•0•"Peak Woke", Reparations, USA

Jonathan Kay: Oh look: Now the ravines are racist, too

I’m getting vaccinated on May 5, a milestone that I regard (at least symbolically) as marking the beginning of my slow return to pre-pandemic life. But even when the lockdowns are over, my daily routines will remain permanently altered.

Prior to the pandemic, I spent almost my entire life indoors. I’d wile away the days staring at a computer, sitting in a car, and working out in a gym. I didn’t even like outdoor restaurant patios because I always had anxiety about whether there’d be an inside table available if it suddenly rained. Plus, allergies.

The Toronto Star had a similar piece some years ago. The woke see everything through an outraged racist lens. Swimming, camping you name it and it’s racist. But I have to admit declaring the preservation of nature a racist white concept set a high bar for sheer lunacy.

“Are Toronto ravines still the domain of white people? And if so, what should we do about that?”

“African American people feel safe in cities and less safe in nature,” says Fearn, who is black. “Preserving wild places is a white concept, going back to Rome.”

by Blazingcatfur•April 23, 2021April 23, 2021•0•"Peak Woke", WTF?

Why does the left so passionately want to venerate criminals?

If there is one thing that characterizes the left today, it is the fervent need to pretend men like George Floyd, Daunte Wright, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Rayshard Brooks, Eric Garner, and others are pillars of society, hapless victims of police brutality and racism. Those mentioned above all died resisting arrest. All had criminal records, some of them extensive and for violent crimes.

Not one of them complied with the police when pulled over for a traffic stop or when they were in the process of being apprehended after committing a crime. All of them attempted to resist, flee, or harm the police who were present. In nearly all these cases, their own behavior brought about their demise, however tragic they may have been.

by Sarcasticat•April 23, 2021April 22, 2021•0•"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, "Peak Woke", "racial justice", Batshit crazy lefties, Batshit Crazy Racists, Crime

Jane Austen’s tea drinking will face ‘historical interrogation’ over slavery links

Jane Austen’s tea drinking will be subjected to “historical interrogation” over its slavery links, the director of a museum dedicated to the author has said.

The writer’s cottage in the Hampshire village of Chawton, where she wrote Emma and Mansfield Park before her death in 1817, is now a museum and place of “Janeite” pilgrimage dedicated to her life and work.

Staff at the museum are now re-evaluating Jane Austen’s place in “Regency-era colonialism” in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests.

by Blazingcatfur•April 20, 2021April 20, 2021•0•"Identity Politics", "Peak Woke", WTF?

Advocates Push For Consensual Incest To Be Decriminalized, Laugh Off ‘Grooming’ Allegations

Supporters of consensual incest are advocating for the taboo arrangement to be decriminalized after the recent story about an anonymous New York couple suing to have the state’s anti-incest laws overturned.

by Sarcasticat•April 20, 2021April 19, 2021•0•"Peak Woke", Batshit Loony, sex crime

Purged: $57,000-a-year NYC school fires teacher for threatening ‘wellbeing’ of kids by speaking out against woke race lessons

Rossi is now claiming headteacher George P. Davison privately agreed the school is now ‘demonizing white people for being born’

The math teacher who spoke out against a New York City school’s anti-racism curriculum has been ‘relieved of his teaching duties’, it was confirmed Monday.

Grace Church School teacher Paul Rossi was ousted after he accused the $57,000-a-year school of indoctrinating students last week.

Topher Nichols, the school spokesman, told DailyMail.com Monday: ‘I can confirm that Paul was relieved of his teaching duties.

by Blazingcatfur•April 19, 2021April 19, 2021•0•"Peak Woke"

I Refuse to Stand By While My Students Are Indoctrinated

I am a teacher at Grace Church High School in Manhattan. Ten years ago, I changed careers when I discovered how rewarding it is to help young people explore the truth and beauty of mathematics. I love my work.

As a teacher, my first obligation is to my students. But right now, my school is asking me to embrace “antiracism” training and pedagogy that I believe is deeply harmful to them and to any person who seeks to nurture the virtues of curiosity, empathy and understanding.

by Sarcasticat•April 19, 2021April 18, 2021•0•"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, "Peak Woke", Education, Indoctrination

Unhinged Cuomo: White Kids Need to Be Killed for Gun/Police Reform

After putting on a ridiculous voice and suggesting people who supported police believed “comply or die,” Cuomo’s eyes became wild and manic as he described what was needed for reform to happen.

“And you know what the answer is. You really do. You don’t like it, I don’t like it, it scares me,” he told his audience while throwing up his hands. “Shootings, gun laws, access to weapons. Oh, I know when they’ll change. Your kids start getting killed, white people’s kids start getting killed.”

by Sarcasticat•April 19, 2021April 18, 2021•0•"Peak Woke", "racial justice", Batshit crazy lefties, Leftist scumbags, Leftists - intolerance of political right, Race Baiting Grievance Mongers, Racist!

Racial Justice Riots: Calling Evil Good and Good Evil

I’ve been watching the Atlantic Crossing miniseries on PBS Masterpiece. It tells the story of the Norwegian royal family during World War II. I couldn’t help being especially moved by the first episode, in which the Norwegians, secure in their geopolitical obscurity and history of neutrality, keep telling each other — with feigned confidence — that no one has ever attacked a neutral country, and the British would never allow a German invasion. Then suddenly the Germans are there, and they find themselves on the run — their faces reflecting the stunned realization that the things that could never happen have happened, and their lives have been altered forever.

There are those who will call me paranoid, but when I see people marching in the streets of my community, promoting an ideology that makes race a moral category, I see a parallel. When I see store windows broken, people singled out and bullied for their political views, and books banned, when I hear that criticism of the government must be muzzled due to a national emergency, I see a parallel. When I’m told that passion, not reason, must guide our policies, I see more than a parallel.

by Sarcasticat•April 19, 2021April 18, 2021•0•"Peak Woke", "racial justice", Batshit crazy lefties, riot

London Mayoral Candidates Urged to Include ‘Black Manifesto’ in Platforms

In an open letter to candidates noting that “the whole world was rocked by the Black Lives Matter movement” in 2020, with society “forced society to hold a mirror up to itself and confront its deep rooted issues with systemic racism and unconscious bias”, the All Black Coalition (ABC) said that candidates vying for the position of London mayor — currently held by Labour’s Sadiq Khan, whose first term was extended by election delays following the onset of the coronavirus pandemic — should implement policies from a “Black Community (UK) Manifesto”.

by Sarcasticat•April 18, 2021April 17, 2021•0•"Peak Woke", "racial justice", #BlackLivesMatter, Britain, Race Baiting Grievance Mongers, Racism

American Fascism

The national lynch mob has claimed another victim. Kim Potter a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center police force with a stellar record of protecting the city’s residents has been arrested, assigned a $100,000 bail bond and charged with second-degree manslaughter. All in the absence of an investigation of the facts—in other words, without a scintilla of due process. But that is the essence of a lynching. First the verdict, then the trial. Or else. No justice, no peace.

by Blazingcatfur•April 17, 2021April 17, 2021•0•"Peak Weimar", "Peak Woke"

The Associated Press Stylebook Is A Growing Mouthpiece For Leftist Language Manipulation

The AP Stylebook has guided the media industry on language use since 1953, decades after releasing similar guides and rules for professional writing — like the 1909 first internal edition. The AP is arguably the most influential news agency in the world, with 248 news bureaus in 99 countries. Its work forms the basis for most articles read inside the United States.

by Sarcasticat•April 17, 2021April 16, 2021•0•"Cancel Culture", "Peak Woke", Language, Liberal Core Beliefs

The media myth that police are hunting down black people

Contrary to the perception (almost entirely created by the media) that police are on a racist rampage gunning down black people, the truth is that almost all police interactions with black people are identical to children visiting an ice cream truck. But look at any set of data about police interactions or police shootings, slice and dice it whatever way you want, and the numbers simply don’t bear out the notion that black people should be quivering in fear of law enforcement.

by Sarcasticat•April 16, 2021April 15, 2021•0•"Peak Woke", "racial justice", Anti-White Racism, MSM bias to the left, MSM Lies, MSM Shitweasels, race/ethnicity, Racism