CBC says it will only commission new programs in which nearly a third of the key creative team is made up of members of under-represented communities.
“Peak Woke”
Thanks To Cancel Culture, Charles Barkley’s Fun Is Over
“You can’t even have fun nowadays without these jackasses trying to get you canceled and things like that,” Barkley said. “I’m trying to hang on for another couple years until I’m 60 and then they can kiss my ass.”
Victoria’s Secret Swaps Angels for Female Empowerment. Will Women Buy It?
The embattled lingerie giant is attempting the most extreme brand turnaround in recent memory: an effort not just to redefine itself but also the very idea of what “sexy” is.
Victoria’s Secret goes woke
Victoria’s Secret is going woke.
No, not in the most obvious sense. What it’s doing is scrapping its long-built brand of sexy underwear on super-thin supermodels — and exchanging it for underwear displayed on fat models, transgender models, lesbian models, tattooed models, people whose taste and presentation in “sexy” is not quite the same as it was in the past, expecting the public to buy it, like it or not. They’re going virtuous, they’re going inclusive…
85% of Liberal Students Think Professors Should Be Reported for Offensive Comments
While most students think their professors adequately encourage diverse viewpoints in the classroom, don’t want speakers disinvited from campus, and are comfortable sharing controversial opinions, 85 percent of liberals think professors who say something offensive should be reported to the university.
Nickelodeon Ratings Crash Amid LGBTQ Push
There’s growing evidence that Nickelodeon’s hard push to promote the LGBTQ agenda to children is having a negative impact on the network’s ratings.
In the last two weeks, both Nickelodeon and its preschool-targeted network, Nick Jr., have released videos championing “trans,” “queer,” and “pansexual” inclusion. One video that sparked mass outrage depicted a cartoon version of drag queen Nina West singing about various LGBTQIA groups “[loving] each other so proudly” on “Blues Clues and You,” a show for two- to five-year olds. That same video showed a female-to-male transgender beaver who appeared to have post-operative surgical scars on its chest.
Senate passes bill to make Juneteenth federal holiday, memorializing end of slavery
The bill would make Juneteenth the 12th federal holiday. The holiday commemorated when the last enslaved Americans learned they were free – on June 19, 1865 – after Union soldiers brought news of the Emancipation Proclamation to Galveston, Texas, at the end of the First Civil War.
To commemorate this holiday, the descendants of slaves will bestow their praise and gratitude onto the descendants of the people who freed them, as well as pledging to be proud, patriotic US citizens.
Willing To Go Broke For Woke: Church of England investigates possible slave trade origins of £9.2bn fund
The Church of England is to investigate possible slave trade links to an 18th-century endowment that has grown into a £9.2bn investment fund supporting parishes and cathedrals across the country.
Queen Anne’s Bounty, a sum of money set aside to augment the incomes of poor clergy in 1704, could present a “reputational risk”, said the annual report of the Church Commissioners, the body that manages C of E assets.
WTF?
Woke-o-meter going off the charts 📈🚨🤯 @thewillwitt pic.twitter.com/wabjdUiPBD
— PragerU (@prageru) June 16, 2021
The Whiteness of Woke
Building a Marxist flavor of racism makes elites Marxist — and everyone else racist.
“If You’re Not Outraged, You’re Not Paying Attention” the bumper stickers on a thousand S
‘UVs in the upscale bedroom communities of dysfunctional cities read. “Deutschland Erwache,” the National Socialists used to shout in the streets of Munich. Woke compresses it all to one word.
Wokeness means believing that politics is all there is to life. And nothing is whiter than that.
Wokeness won’t save you
James Corden has somehow become embroiled in a food-related race row.
That James Corden – actor, presenter, one of Britain’s worst cultural exports – is still a thing in America may be a bit perplexing for us in the UK. But one thing he clocked early, it seems, is that to get ahead in Hollywood you have to mouth all of the right platitudes.
Boredom, the hidden element in wokery
… But there’s one element in the woke mind-set which has been under-explored, probably because it conjures an image of mundanity rather than mendacity. That element is boredom. The breed of middle-class, middle-aged Englishwoman (and it’s often a woman) who faithfully turn up at pro-‘Palestine’ rallies is searching – desperately, in many cases – for meaning in her life.
Flying the flag for woke imperialism – The Biden administration is committed to exporting Pride and Black Lives Matter.
Secretary of state Antony Blinken has authorised US embassies to fly the Black Lives Matter and rainbow Pride flags. The immediate spur for this decision is clear. Late May marked the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death and June is Pride month. But to fly flags other than the Stars and Stripes from the buildings that represent the US abroad is still extraordinary. It shows that the Biden administration is committed to exporting its woke values around the globe.
Woke Chipotle Pushes Drag Queen Burritos to Gather Donations for Cultural Marxist Groups
Many conservatives have grown accustomed to doing business with companies that are at least a little “woke.” It’s hard to go about our daily business without running into such companies, which seemingly is most of them these days. Still, there are some of us who refuse to do business with any company that is not at least politically and culturally neutral and we actively seek out companies that are truly patriotic in nature such as MyPillow (promo code “TLD” for those asking).
MALCOLM: Celebrate Canada’s history — don’t appease the woke mob
Canada is a great country, it’s a country worth celebrating.
A statement like that used to be banal and universal. Not too long ago, there was a general consensus not just among the political parties, but prevalent throughout Canadian society, that we lived in a pretty special place.