Author: Blazingcatfur

Who Counts as an Expert?

A transgender activist at Harvard Law School is fact-checked in an academic journal.

The core question in lawsuits over state-level age restrictions on “gender-affirming care” or former patients suing their providers for fraud or malpractice is whether sex-trait modification is an evidence-based and ethical medical practice. Recognizing the limits of their own knowledge on such matters, judges have turned to expert witnesses to help them understand the key issues at play. But since both sides in these legal contests appoint expert witnesses to back their claims (typically medical doctors and mental-health professionals), judges must determine which are more credible.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

The Return of American Excellence

The 20th century was without a doubt the American century.

The former colonies left the 19th century as a relatively isolated nation, still growing, still searching for its place in a world shaped by centuries of European greatness. After much agony, the United States decided to enter the world stage by throwing its manpower and sizable industrial might into World War I.

Even though the war militarily ended in a draw, historians have written it as a victory for the American side. Right or wrong, the punishment of Germany, penned into ominously historic ink in a train car in Versailles, reinforced the image of American victory.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Philadelphia fights crime by banning ski masks

Plan on being cold this winter if you live in Philadelphia.

Dumb Donald hardest hit.

Why? Because the Philadelphia City Council passed a ban on ski masks, and the reason for that is that it covers the face of potential criminals.

So once again, law-abiding citizens have to pay the price of criminals because leftist politicians won’t address the actual problem. It’s the same type of thinking that people follow with gun bans. Because a gun, or in this case, a ski mask, can be used by a person to commit a crime, we’ll ban it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

The whole earth has come under the jurisdiction of Islam

Europe is in turmoil due to the mass migration policies of the EU elites. Immigration is the dominant issue throughout the EU.

“World-renowned author sees Islamists conquering Europe,” headlines the Danish newspaper Berlingske. “The forecast is grim, but award-winning writer Boualem Sansal has no doubts: Islamists will gradually take over democracies in Europe. The rise of Hamas is just the beginning of a threat that the ‘incompetent governments’ of the West have failed to understand. And the war is already underway.”
Sansal is not a passerby, but the most esteemed Arab novelist.

“The whole earth has come under the jurisdiction of the rule of Islam.” Thus in the latest Journal du Manche by Gilles Kepel, the most famous expert on Islam in France.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

The DEI industry’s most notorious grifters

Offences range from exorbitant fees to outright fraud

In the three years since the explosive growth of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in 2020, numerous high-profile leaders in the field have been exposed as grifters. This stretches from outright fraud — as in a recent Facebook case — to exorbitant charges for lectures and similar services, as in the cases of Robin DiAngelo and Saira Rao.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion"

The disturbing rebirth of Holocaust denial

An alarming number of young people now think the Nazis’ slaughter of six million Jews is a myth.

The results of a new poll, carried out by The Economist and YouGov, are deeply disturbing. They suggest that more than a fifth of young Americans, aged between 19 and 29, agree with the statement that ‘the Holocaust is a myth’. A further 30 per cent neither agree nor disagree with this statement. That means that just 47 per cent of American young people believe the Holocaust actually happened.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Is Israel’s Gaza mission impossible?

Is Israel engaged in a “mission impossible” in Gaza? The stated aim of Operation Swords of Iron is to annihilate Hamas, but after more than two months of fighting and bombardment, that military objective would seem to be unrealistic.

With the firepower and combat experience at its disposal, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) will have started the full-scale war confident of its ability to destroy a terrorist organisation of between 30,000 and 40,000 members, all within a strictly limited territorial area.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Pro-Palestinian protesters rally outside U.S. Consulate in Toronto for Gazan medical workers

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators held a rally outside the U.S. Consulate in downtown Toronto on Saturday afternoon to demand an immediate ceasefire in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

The demonstration is the latest weekend mass rally led by pro-Palestinian activists since the start of the current conflict on Oct. 7.

It began 2 p.m. outside the consulate on University Avenue, between Queen and Dundas streets.

They got Trudeau to join the anti-zionist ceasefire squad wasn’t that enough?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Ottawa youth arrested in alleged terror plot targeting Jewish community

Canada’s national police force has arrested a youth in Ottawa in relation to an alleged terrorism threat against the Jewish community, Global News has learned.

Two national security sources said the alleged plot was believed to be religiously motivated and targeted against the Jewish community. A male youth – who cannot be identified due to his age – was arrested in Ottawa Friday night in what one source described as a significant national security investigation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Ottawa’s ‘wartime housing’ is a start, but we’re still a long way from declaring victory

Growing up part of the Canadian generation born to baby boomers, I heard the phrase “wartime housing” spoken of both mythically and practically. Mythically, because it evoked a time when an incredible amount of housing seemed to be created almost overnight. Practically, because such housing could be found in cities across Canada, providing good shelter for people and families — then and for multiple generations since.

More than 30,000 homes were built in Canada, a large impact when the population was much smaller. This kind of housing was, and still is, an integral part of the urban fabric.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

We Were Taught to Hate Jews

The following five ex-Muslims grew up in Canada, Europe, and the Middle East, but they were all indoctrinated, they say, with the same views on Jews and Israel. They remember a childhood shot through with antisemitic moments ranging from the mundane (one woman recalls her aunt claiming Jews put cancer in her vegetables at the market) to the deadly (a former extremist went as far as to pick a location in London for a terrorist attack he planned to carry out at 17).

These hateful ideas, repeated by their family members, religious leaders, and teachers, are part and parcel of the same animus, they say, that fueled Hamas’s attacks on October 7.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"