The pervasive myth of our time is that the Left desires equality. Critical race theory teaches that white people are a class enemy.
Batshit Crazy Social Justice Warriors
Turner Classic Movies Examines ‘Problematic’ Film Classics in New Series
Loving classic films can be a fraught pastime. Just consider the cultural firestorm over “Gone With the Wind” this past summer.
No one knows this better than the film lovers at Turner Classic Movies who daily are confronted with the complicated reality that many of old Hollywood’s most celebrated films are also often a kitchen sink of stereotypes. This summer, amid the Black Lives Matter protests, the channel’s programmers and hosts decided to do something about it.
The result is a new series, “Reframed Classics,” which promises wide-ranging discussions about 18 culturally significant films from the 1920s through the 1960s that also have problematic aspects, from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and Mickey Rooney’s performance as Mr. Yunioshi to Fred Astaire’s blackface routine in “Swing Time.” It kicks off Thursday at 8 p.m. ET with none other than “Gone With the Wind.”
h/t Marvin
Virginia School System Bans Dr. Seuss Books from Read Across America Program over ‘Strong Racial Undertones’
Dr. Seuss, whose real name is Theodor Geisel, is famed for classics including Horton Hears a Who, The Grinch, and Green Eggs and Ham, but the Loudon County school system now also says his work has “strong racial undertones,” the Washington Post reported.
Nolte: The Gloriously Inappropriate and Problematic ‘I’m Gonna Git You Sucka’ (1988)
So what makes Sucka so gloriously inappropriate and problematic?
In the same way Mel Brooks satirized his own Jewish culture and Lear satirized the working class — and both did so by mixing love with criticism — Wayans satirizes urban black culture, which is something you just aren’t allowed to do today.
If Sucka were released today, Wayans would be blacklisted by the Woke Nazis as a sellout who “makes it safe for white racists to laugh at black stereotypes,” a criticism that defanged Chris Rock permanently and Dave Chappelle for at least a decade.
Great movie.
Margaret Thatcher is removed from a list of inspirational women by woke students at Durham University art event – due to the ‘impact of her policies’ on the former mining town
Students at one of the country’s most prestigious universities have removed Margaret Thatcher from a list of inspirational women and apologised for including her.
Now They’re Hurting Kids: Boston Public Schools Suspend Advanced Classes Because, of Course, ‘Racial Inequities’
In yet another example of the complete grip “race” has on virtually every facet of American society, Boston Public Schools officials have announced that a program with advanced learning classes for high-performing students is being canceled over concerns that the advanced classes serve “disproportionate racial groups.”
The ‘Cat in the Hat’ isn’t black — and that’s a problem
Theodore Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, might be one of the most read authors in the English (or, more accurately, the sort-of English) language. Since The Cat in the Hat was published in 1957, generations of American children have sounded out simple words while reading about the eponymous cat and the havoc he wreaked with Thing One and Thing Two on a boring, rainy day. However, the wokerati have now come for Geisel, claiming that his weird, mostly zoomorphic creations are, in fact, racist.
Arizona professors develop VIRTUAL REALITY program to demonstrate ‘systemic racism’ & ‘microaggressions’
Five professors at the University of Arizona have launched a virtual reality project to show what it’s like to experience anti-black racism, providing yet another tool to help push academia’s social narratives.
Funded with a $50,000 grant from the state university, the researchers aim to create settings, such as department meetings and classrooms, where participants wearing virtual reality headsets can see what it’s like to be black – or at least what it’s like in the version of reality created by the authors.
McGill students find ‘racist’ phrase in novel from 1863, drop out of class, get reimbursed and receive credit for the course
(Note – Google Translate) … But first, a reminder of the facts: in class, a student complains of having read a shocking expression in Forestiers et Voyageurs, a novel written in 1863. The lecturer searches without really understanding, then comes across the expression “Work like niggers”, page 99. The teacher apologizes. The word slips from her lips. A discomfort ensues …
…The two students who lodged a complaint were able to report on Maria Chapdelaine rather than Forestiers et Voyageurs. Soon after, they dropped out of the course. We were still at the start of the session.
McGill University therefore reimbursed them for the course.
But not only.
“We had completed a project with the teacher, she had corrected it and me and my colleague had taken it. So, we asked how the grade for this first draft would be the grade for the rest of our session. ”
“After a lot of time and pressure,” she says, the university complied…
U. Kansas Cutting Humanities Department, As Wokeness Destroys Academia From Within
Humanities departments at multiple schools have seen reductions in recent years. At some schools, the departments have been completely cut.
That’s what seems to be unfolding at the University of Kansas today.
Peak Woke meets the education bubble meets the real world.
Wisconsin’s Capital City Is Trying To Ban White People From Police Oversight Board
When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 to deliver his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, he offered Americans, of all races, a compelling vision of a society no longer prejudiced by race. He envisioned a country where citizens are judged “by the content of their character” and not “the color of their skin.”
But to listen to today’s most prominent “antiracists,” King’s dream is what stands in the way of racial justice in 21st-century America. The result is the return of legal racial discrimination.
Combat the surge in attacks on Asian American with … more police!
The media have lit up in recent weeks with stories and cable news segments about a “surge” in anti-Asian American violence across the country. Presumably, we should be looking for a solution, but not a single person on CNN or MSNBC is suggesting the most obvious one: more policing.
But there’s a problem. There’s no federal data on trends in crimes against Asian Americans — these claims come mostly from nonprofit advocacy groups and from city governments such as New York and Oakland, California. And while, again, there isn’t much data on the subject, virtually every incident caught on video shows a black male perpetrator.
Chicago To Review 41 Potentially ‘Offensive’ Works Of Art Including Statues Honoring Lincoln, Washington, Grant
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Wednesday that the city would begin a “public process” of reviewing 41 “statues, plaques, and works of art” honoring potentially “offensives” historical figures, including statues of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Ulysses S. Grant.
“People are afraid to speak about liberty” | Manny Montenegrino on lockdowns & Charter rights
Civil liberties has been a common topic of discussion during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms seems to be facing a new challenge on a regular basis, with numerous restrictions being added, modified, removed, or reimposed.
Those who speak out about protecting Canadians rights are quick to be criticized by those in favour of strict preventative measures at the expense of the Charter, oftentimes by mainstream media as well.
Police log 120,000 ‘hate reports’ – but not ONE is a crime – as top cops defend system which helps ‘measure tensions’
Police have recorded hate-speech allegations against more than 120,000 people – yet cannot identify a single crime that has been prevented by the exercise.
Critics say the controversial practice of logging ‘non-crime hate incidents’, even after officers decided what was said or posted online did not break any laws, has a ‘chilling effect on free speech’.