Wokeness at Noon
Are you Woke? It was not too long ago that such a question would have been greeted with a puzzled disdain for its grammatical barbarism. It is now the question of the moment, no longer limited to college campuses as part of the initiation rites to higher learning. In certain political circles, it has already become the code word for being taken seriously on policy questions.
As Mark Pulliam notes in “Slouching Toward Totalitarianism,” the rise of wokeness as a powerful political force has been extraordinarily rapid, “almost overnight.” In a few short years it moved from something living in assorted university departments to a thing being promoted by the public library in Pulliam’s small town in Tennessee. There are no less than three best-selling, widely discussed books pushing the agenda: Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me, Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility, and Ibram X. Kendi’s How to be an Antiracist. Indeed, it is hard to think of any other books on any topic in social policy that have commanded the attention these three books have received in the last few years. How did this happen?
Easily one of the best articles I’ve read about what’s been happening to American society over the last 80 years, and especially the last 4 years.
Biden’s Team Whines That They Won’t Get White House Twitter Followers That Trump Earned and They Didn’t
In a Dec. 23 statement, Biden-Harris transition spokesperson Cameron French told CNN that “Twitter’s reluctance to transfer millions of followers from the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration unnecessarily politicizes what otherwise should be a routine transfer of communication from one administration to the next.”
Insanity Wrap #114: Transgender Propaganda Claims Straight Is Hate
Be straight. Be gay. Be whatever it is you are to the best extent you can manage, and find happiness by being in accordance with what you are.
But if your brain is so divorced from your own chromosomes that you have to play dress-up or either chemically or surgically alter your body in order to find some simulacrum of happiness, then at least have the decency not to demand that the rest of the world play along.
OLIVER: Trudeau’s undermining of democratic traditions advances a socialist agenda
Trudeau’s recent behaviour is not an aberration precipitated by the crisis. Rather, it follows a pattern that started early in his government. Underpinning it is the special appeal left-wing autocrats hold for him, bequeathed by his father.
How many times has David Menzies been assaulted this year?
On a recent episode of our Rebel News Daily Livestream — subscribe to our YouTube channel now to never miss a stream! — David Menzies and Andrew Chapados looked back at the many, many times David was assaulted on the job in the past year.
Of the many attacks, one of the most memorable was the dog bite while documenting the homeless encampment at Trinity Bellwoods Park in Toronto.
100 apartments in 8 months: How Toronto built housing for the homeless at breakneck speed
In the face of overlapping crises, the city of Toronto has created a fast track to house people experiencing homelessness. As the impacts of the pandemic quickly hit this community harder than others, the city accelerated its efforts to build permanent supportive housing, using modular architecture. Just a few months after the project was launched, the city will have 100 new apartments.
