“Cancel Culture” – Page 17

Denouncing The Diagolonoids

A Canadian right-wing nut is peddling a satirical meme about a diagonally-shaped North American superstate. Needless to say, much of the country’s intellectual class is terrified.

Last month, Pierre Poilievre, the populist front-runner in the race to become leader of Canada’s federal Conservative party, was photographed shaking hands with Jeremy MacKenzie, a former soldier facing weapons and harassment charges. MacKenzie is an odd duck who combines a penchant for extremist right-wing rhetoric with a predilection for ironic Internet memes. But almost no one in Canada knew his name until that now infamous handshake. As for Poilievre, he says he didn’t recognize MacKenzie, or form any particular memory of having met him—a claim that even progressive journalists have admitted is entirely credible.

by Blazingcatfur•September 3, 2022September 2, 2022•0•"Cancel Culture", "extremists", "far right", Canada's Corrupt Political Class

West Point defends controversial KKK plaque dedicated in 1965 that ‘documents both tragedy and triumph in our nation’s history’

The West Point military academy has defended a controversial 1965 bronze plaque depicting a Ku Klux Klan member, saying it is part of America’s history.

The plaque was recommended to be removed by the Naming Commission, an agency tasked with reviewing and changing military assets that memorialize Confederate figures.

Good.

by Blazingcatfur•September 2, 2022September 1, 2022•0•"Cancel Culture", USA

Bronze Ku Klux Klan plaque and relics to Confederate chief Robert E. Lee need to be stripped down from West Point, congressional panel says

A congressional committee has said that a bronze Ku Klux Klan plaque and relics to Confederate chief Robert E. Lee hanging at the prestigious West Point military academy ought to be removed.

The request from the Naming Commission, which is tasked with reviewing and changing military assets that memorialize Confederate figures, was aired in a report published by the agency Monday.

Or you could do the smart thing and use it to teach some history.

by Blazingcatfur•August 31, 2022August 31, 2022•0•"Cancel Culture"

US Heading Toward China’s Cultural Revolution, Warns Asian-American Coalition for Education President

The United States is dangerously close to repeating China’s Cultural Revolution, according to the Asian-American Coalition for Education president and author Mike Zhao.

“The communist playbook, unfortunately, … they used to destroy China during the Cultural Revolution … 50 years ago. Today, the radical left uses the same playbook to destroy America,” Zhao said in a recent interview with NTD News, The Epoch Times’ sister media.

by Blazingcatfur•August 31, 2022August 30, 2022•0•"Cancel Culture", USA

Stupid Snowflakes Ruin Cool Books For Everyone

German publisher pulls Winnetou books amid racial stereotyping row

A German publisher has announced it is withdrawing two new books paying tribute to a highly popular character in children’s fiction after facing accusations of racism and cultural appropriation.

Ravensburger Verlag, a leading publisher of children’s books in the German-speaking world, said its latest books on Winnetou, a fictional Native American hero who made his debut in 1875, would be pulled from its schedule and that it would also be considering whether to continue publishing other Winnetou titles in future.

Bookshops have reportedly been stopped from ordering the books from Ravensburger and they also appeared to have been pulled from Amazon on Tuesday. Editions by other publishers were still available.

by Blazingcatfur•August 23, 2022August 23, 2022•0•"Cancel Culture"

Exclusive — University of Virginia Newspaper Calls to Remove Thomas Jefferson: ‘Buildings Must Be Renamed and Memorials Removed’

The University and the greater Charlottesville, Virginia, area in which it is located has taken it upon themselves to be defined not by academics, or history, or any other trait. Rather, those in charge of local government and University administration prefer to be defined by a single characteristic: the August 12, 2017, “Unite the Right” rally.

One week ago was the five-year anniversary of the rally, and Charlottesville residents and University students and alumni were reliably accosted by “never forget”-style messages, being told that everyone needed to “do more” to atone for what happened there.

by Sarcasticat•August 21, 2022August 20, 2022•0•"Cancel Culture", history, History - distortion of

Do you want free speech to thrive? Then it has to be regulated, now more than ever

Freedom of speech is one of the most slippery concepts in political philosophy. John Stuart Mill pronounced it absolute but qualified it, as he did all liberties, where it causes “harm” to others. On that tenuous footing has grown an edifice of laws on slander, libel, incitement and, more recently, the causing of offence.

by Sarcasticat•August 17, 2022August 16, 2022•0•"Cancel Culture", "Criminalizing Dissent", Censorship, Freedom of speech, Hypocrisy

FUREY: Cancel culture has only encouraged Islam’s free speech problem

As despicable as it is, it should come as no surprise that the government of Iran believes that Salman Rushdie had it coming and appears quite satisfied with the attempt on the author’s life that occurred last Friday.

by Blazingcatfur•August 15, 2022August 15, 2022•0•"Cancel Culture", "Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

UK University ‘forces out’ diversity adviser for supporting bullied professor who resigned after threats from trans activists

“Far-Left” university bosses have been accused of forcing out their own diversity adviser after staff protested that criticism of transgender activism was “threatening”.

The equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) adviser at the University of Sheffield had been employed for more than two years working on LGBT+ inclusion and a race equality action plan.

But in October last year, his colleagues from a trade union complained to managers about him signing a “statement of solidarity” with Prof Kathleen Stock, the philosophy expert who quit the University of Sussex after a lengthy bullying campaign by trans activists.

by Blazingcatfur•August 14, 2022August 14, 2022•0•"Cancel Culture", Big Tranny, WTF?

Alberta minister faces calls to resign for awarding essay linking immigration to ‘cultural suicide’ in government contest

Alberta’s associate minister for the status of women no longer represents the province at the Canadian division of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians and is facing Opposition calls to resign from cabinet, after serving as the head judge in an essay contest that awarded a prize to a submission accused of misogyny and racism.

Blah Blah Blah…

by Blazingcatfur•August 12, 2022August 12, 2022•0•"Because Shut Up!", "Cancel Culture", "Criminalizing Dissent"

Hard-left academics ‘plotted gender ID witch-hunt’ on colleagues

Staff planned to ‘inform’ on those they believed were transphobic, The Times reveals

A group of hard-left academics has been accused of stifling free speech on university campuses by plotting a witch-hunt against colleagues on gender identity.

University and College Union (UCU) members pledged to compile a list of university backroom staff suspected of holding gender-critical beliefs, the minutes from a meeting leaked to The Times reveal.

The plan was to use this information to “inform” UCU university branches of their colleagues’ views, accusing them of being “transphobes” and “gender-critical activists”.

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2022August 10, 2022•0•"Cancel Culture", Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Big Deviant, Big Tranny

The Point of No Return

This is an election year. But the issues this year are not about Democrats and Republicans. The big issue is whether this nation has degenerated to a point of no return — a point where we risk destroying ourselves, before our enemies can destroy us.

If there is one moment that symbolized our degeneration, it was when an enraged mob gathered in front of the Supreme Court and a leader of the United States Senate shouted threats against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, saying “You won’t know what hit you!”

There have always been irresponsible demagogues. But there was once a time when anyone who shouted threats to a Supreme Court Justice would see the end of his own political career, and could not show his face in decent society again.

You either believe in laws or you believe in mob rule. It doesn’t matter whether you agree with the law or agree with the mob on some particular issue. If threats of violence against judges — and publishing where a judge’s children go to school — is the way to settle issues, then there is not much point in having elections or laws.

by Sarcasticat•August 4, 2022August 4, 2022•0•"Cancel Culture", Supreme Court, Thomas Sowell, threats

Dr. Peter McCullough says medical establishment has threatened ‘disciplinary action’ over COVID stance

Dallas-based internist, cardiologist, and epidemiologist Dr. Peter McCullough, who has authored 54 peer-reviewed publications on COVID-19 and testified before the U.S. Senate on the pandemic response, told LifeSiteNews during a Tuesday interview that he has received notice of potential disciplinary action from the American Board of Internal Medicine because of his stance on the COVID-19 response.

by Sarcasticat•August 3, 2022August 3, 2022•0•"Cancel Culture", "China eats weird animals disease", "Comply!", "Criminalizing Dissent", "Science"

Twitter Begins Censoring Anti-Pedophile Term After Left-Wing Pressure Campaign

The term groomer describes adults who form inappropriate friendships with children in order to prime them for sexual abuse, and it has been used by some commentators to refer to those who expose young children to sexual content through drag shows and lessons on gender identity and sexuality.

by Sarcasticat•July 23, 2022July 22, 2022•0•"Cancel Culture", "They really do want your children", Censorship, pedophilia, Perverts, Twitter, Twitter is Evil