Donald McNeil Jr., the New York Times’ award-winning science reporter of 45 years, no longer works at the paper of record after his use of a “racist slur” while on a Times-sponsored trip to Peru with students in 2019 became public.
“Cancel Culture”
1970s Musical About 1950s Teens Meets 21st Century Stupid: Social Media Is Hating on ‘Grease’ Now
This is a dumb story about dumb hot takes. We live in a dumb time full of overly serious people who left to their own devices will destroy art and usher in another dark age. That’s where we are thanks to social media, which was supposed to connect and enlighten us all.
Pelosi, Democrats eject Marjorie Taylor Greene from House committees
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and fellow House Democrats on Thursday voted to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) from the Education and Budget committees to which she had been appointed by the Republican minority.
Most Republicans stuck by Greene, arguing that her adherence to an array of conspiracy theories predated her election and that the vote would set a worrying precedent for removing minority-party legislators from posts.
‘O Canada’ without the cross – why it’s time to revisit the lyrics of the national anthem
In my view, the French and bilingual lyrics of O Canada now need revision. The bilingual version uses two lines from the French version. First, “ton histoire est une épopée des plus brillants exploits,” officially translated as “your history is an epic of brilliant deeds.” I embrace this line as an eloquent evocation of the best moments of our history and an aspirational goal for the future.
The second line, however, gives me pause: “car ton bras sait porter l’épée, il sait porter la croix,” translated as “for your [Canada’s] arm knows how to wield the sword, your arm knows how to carry the cross.” These words, of course, reflect the importance of the Catholic church in 19th century Quebec, the context in which O Canada was written. But to me, as a Jew, they now sound non-inclusive and obsolete.
h/t Marvin
The retail sector has a racial bias problem — and this Sephora survey suggests it’s costing it customers
A study commissioned by beauty giant Sephora on racial bias in the U.S. retail sector is having reverberations in Canada — at Sephora’s Canadian stores and for those in the beauty industry.
Students fed up with woke culture at universities launch free-speech group to embrace wide-ranging opinions amid fears debate is being stifled
Students are launching a nationwide project to champion free speech in universities over fears that debate is being stifled in favour of woke culture.
It aims to address a free-speech crisis on campuses and encourage the young to embrace wide-ranging opinions without the fear of saying the ‘wrong’ thing.
The news comes after a survey found more than a quarter of students censored their own views on politics or ethical matters, and 40 per cent believed their careers would be harmed if they expressed their true thoughts.
McCarthyism fashionable again in Hollywood?
“…This is the same celebrity class that weighs in on, well, everything — immigration, voting rights, diversity, gun laws, Black Lives Matter. You name the issue, and stars have plenty to say about it. Heck, they can’t stop talking … except when the subject turns to free speech, apparently.
How ironic, since it’s the one issue they’re the most qualified to explore.”
The Purge Deepens, Literary Agent Fired Merely For Having Parler and Gab Accounts
We have covered a gazillion cases since last spring of people ‘cancelled’ for social media posting or public statements that offend the dominant leftist orthodoxy on campus and elsewhere. It’s very personal combat, almost always left cancelling right, and it’s setting the nation against itself.
This story though, reveals just how deep the intolerance and repression goes — a literary agent was fired not for what she said, but merely for having opened accounts on Parler and Gab to escape the stifling atmosphere on Twitter.
The witch-hunting of Boyz magazine
We are being punished by the ‘progressive’ establishment merely for debating trans issues.
We should be publishing Boyz this week. It was going to be our National HIV Testing Week issue as this year’s campaign starts on Monday (1 February). Each year we have devoted an edition of Boyz, the gay men’s lifestyle and health magazine, to this important campaign, funded by the government through Public Health England, and commissioned annually since 2012 from the Terrence Higgins Trust (THT).
They eat their own.
Cancel Culture’s Crocodile May Eat You Last but It WILL Eat You
Okay, folks, it’s confession time: I have never been more concerned about the future of this country as I am today. But it’s not because I fear China is about to nuke us, or that Anthony Fauci will soon declare Covid is actually incurable (he’ll reverse himself the next day).
Woke teacher behind renaming 44 San Francisco schools slammed as it emerges he ‘ridiculed’ idea of debating scholars and that research used to denounce famous American figures came from WIKIPEDIA
Acclaimed historians are hitting out at a chairman in charge of renaming San Francisco schools after he refused to consult them during the decision-making process.
Earlier this week, the San Francisco Board of Education voted 6-1 to strip 44 public schools of their current monikers because they honor ‘racist’ figures from American history.
Schools named after politicians including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln are now set to be rebranded in the coming months.
‘Despicable act’: India condemns BEHEADING of Gandhi statue in California
Indian authorities expressed outrage as the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Davis, California, gifted by the government of India in 2016, has been torn down and vandalized by unknown assailants.
“The Government of India strongly condemns this malicious and despicable act against a universally respected icon of peace and justice,” India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in a statement following pictures of the vandalism being spread on social media.
Could it be the work of BLM?
In 1903, when Gandhi was in South Africa, he wrote that white people there should be “the predominating race.” He also said black people “are troublesome, very dirty and live like animals.”
Reddit group that drove GameStop shares 1,700% higher and cost Wall Street short-sellers billions goes PRIVATE after messaging platform Discord BANNED their server for ‘hate speech’ in the wake of SEC and White House ‘monitoring’
The Reddit subgroup fueling the unprecedented surge of GameStop shares in a campaign that is rattling Wall Street, has been kicked off gamer messaging app Discord due to hate speech violations.
Discord on Wednesday confirmed it has banned the r/WallStreetBets server from its platform, where thousands of users had shared messages hyping up GameStop’s stock and urged other investors to hold on to their shares or buy more.
Cancel culture rarely survives a plague – Ideological mania can become too costly to maintain
Iam standing at the window of an old coaching inn, the Mistley Thorn, overlooking the moonlit River Stour, in lovely, rural north Essex. The mid-winter night is eerily silent, apart from the cries of waterbirds, flitting across the darkened sky, like tiny, frightened ghosts.
San Francisco School Board ditches ‘Lincoln High’ name, 43 others to send ‘moral message’
Abraham Lincoln, the man who issued the Emancipation Proclamation and freed the slaves, isn’t good enough for the San Francisco School Board.
A 6-1 vote Tuesday evening sealed the deal on the renaming of 44 San Francisco school sites due to connections with slavery and oppression.