“Civilizationists”

Union Jack Girl speaks at Rally

A teenager banned from school after teachers told her she could not wear a dress bearing the Union Jack flag told a crowd of more than 110,000 protesters gathered in London that ‘British culture matters too’.

Courtney Wright, 13, was forced to spend a morning in isolation at Bilton School in Rugby, after staff told her she couldn’t wear her Spice Girls-style dress or make a speech like other pupils.

The straight-A student, who had planned to talk about history and traditions for a special Culture Day organised by the school in July, was told the dress was unacceptable, before being removed from her lesson and asked to wait in reception until her father arrived to collect her.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civilizationists", Camp Of The Saints, UK

Over 100,000 Britons Rally in London for ‘Unite the Kingdom’ March

By official estimates, more than 100,000 Britons gathered in central London on Saturday, September 13rd for the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march, set to be the country’s largest free speech festival. Organised by activist Tommy Robinson, the event brought crowds, including supporters from other countries, across Westminster Bridge before speeches near Downing Street.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civilizationists"

Thousands taking part in ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally and counter protest

Tens of thousands are gathering in central London for a march organised by far-right activist Tommy Robinson, with a counter protest by anti-racism campaigners also taking place.

Protesters who are forming the “Unite the Kingdom” march are heading towards Whitehall where they will hear a series of speeches from people including Donald Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon.

Meanwhile thousands more gathered in another part of London for the counter-protest, dubbed March Against Fascism, organised by Stand Up To Racism (SUTR).

Meanwhile in Toronto … I get the feeling this is a false flag given the history associated with the rally’s location of Christie Pits

Police to ‘ensure public safety’ at Christie Pits Park anti-immigration rally and counter-demonstrations Saturday

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civilizationists", UK

JD Vance: ‘Push back against crazies’ offended by English flag

The vice-president has waded in on the row over the depiction of the St George’s Cross in protest against immigration

JD Vance urged people to “push back against the crazies” who object to flying the English flag, in another transatlantic intervention from the US vice-president into freedom of expression.

Vance did not hold back when asked to comment on the summer grassroots campaign Operation Raise the Colours, which resulted in councils in Birmingham and Tower Hamlets pulling down flags from lampposts and bridges.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civilizationists"

What’s wrong with being proud to be English?

So the Lionesses were victorious in the UEFA Women’s Euros, holding the title they won in 2022. England forward Chloe Kelly, who scored the decisive penalty in the final against Spain, declared after the match: ‘I am so proud to be English.’

To hear a sports star make such a simple and patriotic statement was, for most of us, a pleasant breath of fresh air. Just as refreshing has been the muted response to her declaration of national pride. In the week or so since, there have been no online campaigns denouncing Kelly’s views as ‘problematic’. This raises the question: is it just the Lionesses who are allowed to be patriotic?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civilizationists"

Why Don’t Americans Care More About Rising Disorder?

 

A growing culture of Third Worldism—the belief that you’re entitled to use public spaces without any responsibility to care for them—is corroding civic life in cities.

Immigrants from poor countries like my own, Venezuela, often joke that Americans complain too much about “First World problems.” Back home, we don’t worry about microaggressions; we’re too busy figuring out how to put food on the table or stay safe from crime and government censorship.

But here’s the irony: increasingly, Americans aren’t complaining enough about Third World problems. Trash-strewn streets, loud music in public, brazen shoplifting, rising disorder, and a general decline in civility are becoming common in major U.S. cities. In New York, the problem is hard to miss.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civilizationists", USA

EU-Backed Report Labels Pro-Family Christians as ‘Extremists’

Last week, on June 26th, the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (EPF) launched The Next Wave, a “report” that purports to expose the rise of so-called “anti-gender” and “anti-feminist” religious actors in Europe, whose goal is to “dismantle decades of hard-won sexual and reproductive rights across Europe.”

Cloaked in the language of human rights, the document is, in truth, a politically charged dossier; reading more like a counter-terrorist threat assessment, and explicitly paints religious advocacy groups as part of an organized extremist threat that needs to be stopped at all costs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civilizationists", "Criminalizing Dissent", "Far Left Extremist"

British Born and Bred

A mirror of crisis, there is an ongoing debate in the news media and various podcasts about what it actually means to be “British” (i.e. beyond the possession of a passport). A particularly sensitive topic in that connection is the right of a nation to demarcate itself from the rest of the world. (In the United States, the political conflict is symbolized by a border wall.)

In a trivial sense, we are all equally human, belonging to the same humanity. However, it goes against the ordinary meaning of the word to claim that we all equally belong to the same “nation”. Arising from Judeo-Christian faith, Greco-Roman philosophy-oratory, and Enlightenment ideals, neither British nor broader Western values ​​are universal.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civilizationists"

This St George’s Day felt different English nationalism is rising

St George’s Day is a moveable feast: this year marked by the political world on its traditional date, rather than on the day next week chosen by an increasingly irrelevant Church of England. But it also shifts in terms of its meaning. A year ago, I remarked that the ghost of English ethnic nationalism, so often fearfully invoked by its detractors, was remarkable mostly for its dormancy. Yet other interpretations are available: just a few months later, Northern England was shaken by its most violent ethnic riots in decades, casting a cloud of doom over the new Labour government from which it has never yet emerged. Today, the country is in an unhappy state, the air heavy with the pressure of a storm about to break. Mild-mannered Telegraph columnists write anxious premonitions of approaching civil war, while the nation’s second city slips beneath the basic expectations of First World governance. Civil war may be unlikely, but that the very idea can be seriously entertained by credible people demonstrates a growing fissure entering British life, one which will take serious political reform to avert disaster: requiring a capacity, and appetite to undertake that the Government does not appear to possess. Translating the nation’s febrile atmosphere to an American audience, the writer Dominic Green observes in the Wall Street Journal that “The mood in England today is eerie. The government can’t govern. The police menace law-abiding people for speaking their minds. The borders are open. The country feels as if it is one Islamist bombing away from eruption.”

England is so fecked.

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism", "Civilizationists", Nationalism, UK

The Virtue That Enables All Others: A Conversation with Ayaan Hirsi Ali

For the past several decades, Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been everywhere. She has been a New Atheist, a Dutch parliamentarian, and a public intellectual living under Islamist death threats; now, to the shock of many, she has converted to Christianity and launched her own media platform to advocate for the restoration of the West called Couarge.Media.

In retrospect, there were indications that Hirsi Ali was considering Christianity. In 2021, I interviewed both Hirsi Ali and her husband historian Niall Ferguson within a few weeks of each other. Both had just released books; I was reviewing Ferguson’s Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe for The American Conservative and Hirsi Ali’s Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights for this publication. Later, going over my transcripts, I noted with interest that both Ferguson and Hirsi Ali had brought up—and defended—Christianity during the interviews unprompted.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civilizationists"

Putting Down Our Parent Civilisation: Do We Live in the West, or Euthan-Asia?

Many seek to force the old West into dying, so the civilisational slate can be wiped clean.

The latest act of senseless Western civilisational suicide comes from Nottingham University in the allegedly Christian country of England. Here, as previously reported on this website, a module upon its undergraduate English Literature course, “Chaucer and his Contemporaries,” has gained a vital new trigger-warning for the 2024/25 academic year, alerting students that the books on its reading-list may contain “incidences of violence, mental illness and [by far the worst!] expressions of Christian faith.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civilizationists"

With Teachers Like These, no Wonder British Youngsters Are so Unpatriotic

According to a recent survey, pride in British history is at an all-time low, especially among 18 to 24 year-olds.

This worrying trend doesn’t surprise me. Indeed, a revealing and sadly not uncommon conversation I had with a Year 10 class last term goes some way to explaining it. They asked me what I thought about the repatriation of the Elgin Marbles. “Should they be sent back to Greece?” one asked. Initially surprised by an unexpected foray into current affairs, I demurred from committing to a position, concerned that the wrong answer could land me in hot water with my woke colleagues, and aware of my professional obligation to remain neutral.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civilizationists"

One in five Britons are ‘ethnic nationalists’ — survey

The 2023 survey data published this week by the National Centre for Social Research is revealing on the subject of how Britons think about themselves. The survey shows that while the UK is an overwhelmingly inclusive society in terms of how people frame British identity and belonging, there remains a significant minority which continues to support more ethnocentric and exclusionary understandings of these qualities.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civilizationists"

Why Fight? A Civilization Not Worth Dying for Is Not Worth Living for Either

Secular values are simply not enough to motivate a people to live sacrificially to perpetuate their social order.

Sigmar Gabriel, the left-wing former German foreign minister and still an influential voice in European politics, is talking very tough these days. In a recent interview with Stern, Gabriel said Germany should be willing to escalate the war with Russia over Ukraine.

“I never thought I’d have to say this: However, we’ll need to checkmate Russia again as we did during the Cold War with the Soviet Union,” Gabriel said. “Putin must grasp our resolve.”

“The clear signal should be sent to Putin: Stop this war—or we’ll target you. If that entails deploying German air defense systems, assisted by the Bundeswehr, to establish no-fly zones in Ukraine to shield Ukrainian cities from Russian attacks on the civilian population, I wouldn’t guarantee Mr. Putin that we’d never act this way.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civilizationists"