“Identity Politics”

Global should know better – Garbage In Garbage Out

This: ‘A narrative that already exists’: How Toronto police prepared to publish data confirming systemic racism

The problem is the “data” did not confirm anything beyond the fact that it was skewed by design in order to push the preferred race-baiting narrative as Lorrie Goldstein so ably pointed out.

GOLDSTEIN: Here’s why we no longer talk honestly about police race-based data

… But what the report excludes are the crime rates in the various communities with which the police interact.

Logically that’s part of the equation because if they are higher in some communities than others, that will impact the frequency and type of their interactions with police.

However, it has been illegal for police forces in Ontario to gather or reveal this data for decades.

GOLDSTEIN: Policing report exposes flawed logic of race-crime statistics

… In other words, while Blacks were disproportionately charged by police compared to whites (15,122 per 100,000 compared to 3,853 per 100,000), whites were disproportionately charged by police compared to visible minority groups other than Blacks (3,853 per 100,000 compared to 2,116 per 100,000).

The problem with this logic is that it infers that for the police to prove they aren’t  racist, they must demonstrate the percentage of people they arrest and charge in every racial group reflects their percentage of the population.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics", "Law and Order", "racial justice"

Sundance Liked Her Documentary on Terrorism, Until Muslim Critics Didn’t

The film festival gave Meg Smaker’s “Jihad Rehab” a coveted spot in its 2022 lineup, but apologized after an outcry over her race and her approach.

Meg Smaker felt exhilarated last November. After 16 months filming inside a Saudi rehabilitation center for accused terrorists, she learned that her documentary “Jihad Rehab” was invited to the 2022 Sundance Festival, one of the most prestigious showcases in the world.

Film critics warned that conservatives might bridle at these human portraits, but reviews after the festival’s screening were strong.

“The absence of absolutes is what’s most enriching,” The Guardian stated, adding, “This is a movie for intelligent people looking to have their preconceived notions challenged.” Variety wrote:

The film “feels like a miracle and an interrogative act of defiance.”

But attacks would come from the left, not the right. Arab and Muslim filmmakers and their white supporters accused Ms. Smaker of Islamophobia and American propaganda. Some suggested her race was disqualifying, a white woman who presumed to tell the story of Arab men.

Link fixed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", "Identity Politics", "Islamophobia", Hollywood, Islam's 5th Column, Islam's Useful Idiot Apologists

Divide and Confuse

In addition to being condescending and divisive, the phrase “people of color” also obscures reality.

The expression “people of color” has always seemed to me in equal measure stupid, condescending, and vicious. It divides humanity into two categories, whites and the rest, or rather whites versus the rest; it implies an essential or inherent hostility between these two portions of humanity; and it implies also no real interest in the culture or history of the people of color, whose only important characteristic is that of having been ill-treated by, and therefore presumably hating, the whites. Compared with the phrase “people of color,” the language of apartheid was sophisticated and nuanced.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics"

Leicester and the unravelling of multiculturalism

Leicester – Multicultural Vibrance

How identity politics is whipping up hatred and violence in our communities.

There are two disturbing things about the Muslim-Hindu clashes in Leicester. The first is the violence itself. Gangs of men have clashed across the city. Hundreds of Muslim and Hindu youths in balaclavas and Covid masks – those plague-era face-coverings still have their uses, it seems – have confronted each other on normally quiet suburban streets. Glass bottles have been thrown, a knife was allegedly wielded (one man was arrested on suspicion of possessing a ‘bladed article’). It really blew up on Saturday night into Sunday morning, as the rest of the country was preparing for the queen’s funeral. You couldn’t have asked for a better, more depressing snapshot of fragmented Britain: a display of solemn unity in Westminster, violent religious streetfighting in Leicester.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity", "Identity Politics", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Multiculturalism"

Kanye: ‘What The F*** Is Kwanzaa And Who Made That Bulls*** Up?’

On Wednesday, rap icon Kanye West, who confused many of his followers when he acted in a friendly manner toward former President Trump, issued a tweet (later deleted) in which he questioned the validity of the holiday Kwanzaa.

Kwanzaa was created by black activist Maulana Karenga in 1966; in 1971 he was convicted of felonious assault and false imprisonment. He currently serves as chairman of the Africana Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach. The Kwanzaa festival is observed starting the day after Christmas for 7 days, and involves celebrating seven Swahili values; a candle is lit each day on a candleholder.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics"

Color-Coded Mental Health – The American Psychological Association has fully committed itself—and its field—to identity politics.

Covid lockdowns did no favors to Americans’ mental health, but many psychologists are occupied by other matters. Consider the transformation of the American Psychological Association, which, over the past two years, has committed itself—and the field of psychology along with it—to identity politics.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics"

GOLDSTEIN: Canada’s divider-in-chief is Trudeau, not Poilievre

While Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre keeps getting pounded by fellow leadership contenders, MPs in other parties and much of the media for dividing Canadians, suggesting he is the instigator of verbal attacks and threats aimed at Liberal and NDP politicians and journalists, let’s not forget who the divider-in-chief in Canada is.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics", Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Brave New Ways To Waste Your Tax Dollars

Funding for community groups a central plank of Canada’s first ever LGBTQ2S+ ‘action plan’

The federal government says it will prioritize direct funding for community groups under Canada’s first ever federal LGBTQ2S+ “action plan,” stating that they are the best-placed organizations to identify and deliver the support needed to address “persisting inequities” and improve the wellbeing of LGBTQ2S+ individuals in this country.

Through the plan, the government is also pledging to study emerging criminal justice issues such as HIV non-disclosure; adopt the usage of the “more inclusive” 2SLGBTQI+ acronym; and launch an awareness campaign aimed at combatting discrimination.

Tell me an election isn’t in the wind. This should be fun as the TERF wars heat up so there’s that.

I hope Justin appoints Laith Marouf as Minister For Gays.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics", Big Gay, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Leaked emails that PROVE the RAF is prejudiced against white male recruits

The Air Force apologised after requesting diverse pilot to be their face at Top Gun 2 premiere

No one draws a crowd quite like Tom Cruise, and when the Hollywood star came to London to promote his new Top Gun movie, Her Majesty’s Royal Air Force was handed a priceless PR opportunity.

Specifically, its ‘Media & Comms’ team was asked if they could find a real-life British fighter ace to join Cruise at one of the media events scheduled around the film’s glittering premiere in Leicester Square. In late April, an RAF publicity wallah named ‘Sarah’ therefore emailed officials at RAF bases, looking for someone to take on the job.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics"

New York City Exempts Some Illegal Aliens From School Vaccine Requirements

According to the program, migrant students will receive backpacks full of supplies, mental health counseling, and enrollment assistance as they choose which schools to attend. These families will also have access to shelters and lodging, and the city will prioritize school bus “routing for all students in temporary housing.” The city also says it will coordinate with its Department of Youth & Community Development “to prioritize after-school enrollment for students/ families impacted communities.”

Under the “Vaccinations” section, the plan stated that the government will “link these families to [Federally Qualified Health Clinics] and health centers not just for immunizations but also for on-going pediatric care.”

The city advised families, “As a reminder, students in temporary housing are excluded from immunization requirements as part of their right to immediate enrollment.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", "Identity Politics", Double Standards, Immigration invasion, New York City, vaccine controversy

Record number of Canadians reporting first language other than French or English: StatsCan

The number of Canadians who predominantly speak a language other than English or French hit a record high in 2021, according to new census data released on Wednesday.

English and French remain the dominant languages in Canada according to Statistics Canada, but the number of people who speak a non-dominant language at home grew to 4.6 million, or roughly 13 per cent of the population.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity", "Identity Politics", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Multiculturalism"

Demographic suicide

Borders exist only to be crossed, identity is a relic to be deconstructed and overcome and society a supermarket. Germany as a model.

“A country loses faith in its future when its citizens no longer dare to have children”, said former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, mindful of being part of the “Flakhelfer” generation, the children used as auxiliaries of the Luftwaffe in the terrible days of the end of the war.

Thirty percent of German women today will never have children. They had thought that the society in transformation, selfish and consumerist, which is satisfied with a BMW in the garage, quiet holidays in Carinthia and in Italy, professional mobility, and silence, was sustainable.

More than a decade ago, the late historian Bernard Lewis warned in German newspapers that if current migration flows continue, Europe will be Islamic by the end of the 21st century. “Europeans marry late and have few or no children. But there is strong immigration: Turks in Germany, Arabs in France and Pakistanis in England. At the latest, following current trends, Europe will have a Muslim majority in the population at the end of the century”. German political elites – moderate (Merkel) and progressive (Scholz) – are at the forefront of making this prediction come true.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity", "Identity Politics", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Multiculturalism"

The collapse of the ‘diversity’ industry can’t come soon enough

Far from promoting racial cohesion, hyper-political HR activists have normalised racism in the workplace

Many black people will attest that it isn’t unusual to fall prey to “well-meaning” assumptions about our supposed “victimhood”. There are those, usually on the Left, who think that we ethnic minorities are always suffering and that we therefore require their support and counsel, whether we know it or not.

That is what seems to have happened at the broadcaster Sky, where a diversity officer told a colleague of Latina heritage that she must have been “oppressed”. The colleague rightly objected and she later won a claim of race discrimination at an employment tribunal for the comments.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Corporate Social Justice Warriors", "Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, "Diversity", "Identity Politics", "Oppression Olympics", "Peak Woke", "Soft racism of lowered expectations"