Journalist and podcaster Angelo Isidorou was targeted by the cancel mob over a four year-old photo of him wearing a ‘Make America Great Again’ hat and flashing an “OK” sign. Isidorou sat down with True North’s Andrew Lawton to talk about how he’s pushing back against the mob both legally and culturally.
Over the past month, Lehigh University has taken actions to downgrade a video it had originally posted in late January by one of its professors on poverty and race after students on social media denounced the video as supporting racist thought.
Lehigh’s College of Business had asked Frank Gunter, professor of economics at Lehigh, to create a brief video from his recent op-ed “Three Myths About Poverty.” They posted his video on Jan. 28 as part of a series of videos directed at advising the new Biden administration on policy issues.
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.
Mount Allison University’s decision to launch an internal review following complaints about the personal blog of one of its professors is an “egregious” violation of academic freedom, a group dedicated to the protection of free speech and scholarship says.
How will Emmanuel Macron mark the general’s difficult bicentenary?
Paris may have avenues, boulevards, bridges and a railway station named after their most famous military leader’s armies, battles and treaties. But nowhere will you find an Avenue or Place or Boulevard named after Napoleon Bonaparte himself — apart from a narrow Rue Bonaparte on the Left Bank.
In 21st century France, Bonaparte is everywhere. And nowhere.
The cancel culture we are living in should itself be canceled. That must be obvious to most people, given the way in which it stifles the free expression of ideas, but I think there’s more happening than that. Cancel culture is the culmination of the cyberbullying, spiritually (and, sometimes, literally) homicidal social media experiment we’ve been running on the entire human race since the advent of venues like Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat.
(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…
The character assassins of cancel culture come for the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
The media of what used to be a free country has become indistinguishable from the press operations of Pravda or Der Sturmer whose stock in trade were fawning stories about Communist and Nazi leaders and character assassinations discrediting their opponents.
A staff member at Smith College, Jody Shaw, resigned her position as a student support coordinator because of the “hostile atmosphere” at the college. It appears that Ms. Shaw ran afoul of critical race theory fanatics who forced her to “participate in racially prejudicial behavior as a condition” of her employment.
Today’s blacklisters obsess over the injustice of others so much that they can’t see their own.
“Hey,” the bartender says of C3PO and R2D2. “We don’t serve their kind here.”
Forty-four years later, the Palpatines of the Star Wars empire say the same thing to rebels.
Disney wimps fired Gina Carano over social media for an opinion she expressed on social media. When did we reach the point where the latter rather than the former became unacceptable?
A decade ago, as part of his stand-up act, a Canadian comedian began telling a joke about a disabled young singer. This is how that joke ended up in front of the country’s top court.
Jeremy Gabriel was born with Treacher Collins Syndrome, a genetic disorder that can affect facial bone structure and, in his case, caused severe deafness.
Despite this, he fulfilled his dream of becoming a singer, performing for public figures from songstress Celine Dion to Pope Benedict XVI – all before he reached his teens – and achieving minor celebrity status in his home province of Quebec.
LONDON, ONT. — The owner of a bar in downtown London, Ont. is standing by a sign that has caused outrage as some have deemed its messages racist.
“Mr. Ford History will show lockdowns caused more damage 2 the public then the China virus,” is what the sign outside the Ale House on Dundas Street read earlier this week.
Backlash began to spread online and the sign was changed, but for many the change was no better.
Brought to you by the same “anti-racists” who claim having white skin makes you a racist I bet.
h/t David
In a recent article, “A Fraught Balancing Act,” Inside Higher Ed reported that “Some college leaders quickly cracked down on students and faculty voicing support for rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol. Others walked a fine line between protecting free speech rights and tamping down incendiary language.” Note well that what was cracked down upon was “support.”
Quebec Premier François Legault has steered his government toward yet another divisive ideological debate by declaring his intention to move swiftly to protect campus free speech from anti-racism activists.
The contentious part of this debate is not the merits of academic freedom per se. It’s widely accepted that scholars should be able to debate ideas without fear of repercussion from the powerful, or the popular.
Things turn controversial when it comes to identifying what, exactly, is threatening this ideal.
“Anti-Racism” is what they call anti-white bigotry nowadays.
Chicago statues of Columbus, Presidents Washington and Lincoln among commission’s list of 40 controversial monuments throughout city
Statues of Presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and William McKinley, as well as the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, were among the 40 public statues and other commemorative markers identified on a list from Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration on Wednesday for further review as part of “a racial healing and historical reckoning project” started last summer.
The city launched a website on Wednesday detailing the controversial monuments flagged by the mayor’s commission on monuments. Other statues on the list included a police memorial tied to the Haymarket Riot and a statue of Leif Ericson at Humboldt Park.
