Evil does not matter to a movement that only cares about itself
It’s Pride month — and so it’s time to make rainbows. Any medium will do: parades, flags, biscuits, sandwiches and, of course, corporate branding. Look at the social media accounts of some of the world’s biggest companies and you’ll see that their graphic designers have been busy adding vibrant colours to normally sober logos.
The desire among so-called progressives to undermine the West, deconstruct its morally justifying narrative and overthrow its institutional order is an impulse that, ironically, takes for granted a more assured Western hegemony
It is customary on the left to dismiss the “culture wars” as a right-wing distraction. Lord Andrew Adonis, a former British Labour minister, asserted this week that the right’s “stoking” of the culture wars was designed to hide the British government’s lack of substance. And in their joint submission to the Times Education Commission, he and former British prime minister Tony Blair claimed that the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill en route through the U.K. Parliament was “a reform in search of a problem since free speech is hardly a key issue on university campuses.”
U.S. District Judge William Griesbach in Milwaukee issued a temporary restraining order Thursday suspending the program for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) MP Michelle Rempel Garner, currently the shadow minister for health, wrote: “I humble myself and ask forgiveness, and seek to make things right. I have privilege; I am cis/straight/white. But I am also a woman who works in a system dominated by white maleness.”
Leftist Kenn Kaufman, who is the author of a number of birding field guides and an artist, is calling for birds that are reportedly named after racists to be renamed in order to further social justice.
A black yoga instructor says that what’s more important to know about the practice than the poses is the racism and cultural appropriation by whites behind it.
In discussing her new book, “Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance,” author and activist Jessamyn Stanley told People Magazine that it is filled with essays that reflect on everything from racism to the cultural appropriation of American yoga, from consumerism to cannabis,” the outlet notes.
According to Professor Frank Lindblad, the current anthem contains references to the time of the Swedish empire and thus celebrates invasion and pillaging.
Professor Frank Lindblad has ruffled many feathers by suggesting that the Swedish national anthem is offensive and outdated, and on National Day at that.
In particular, it is the second verse that prompted ire from Lindblad, a child psychiatrist and professor emeritus, who brought forth his own suggestions for re-writing.
Would the same leniency be shown for right-wing Canadians tearing down what they disagree with? Of course not.
NORMANDY, France, June 6, 1944
In a surprise aggressive move, American and British troops are landing on the beaches in Normandy today. Germany’s Transocean News Service reports that Germans vacationing in the sleepy hamlets of this coastal region were awaked by the ships, planes, guns, and bombs of this sneak attack. A few brave German tourists quickly ran to bunkers and began retuning fire to protect their French brothers and sisters.
Earlier today Bari Weiss published the first in a series of stories about the spread of woke ideology in the field of medicine. The piece was written by reporter Katie Herzog who co-hosts a podcast with Jesse Singal, another critic of cancel culture. The piece opens exactly the way some previous pieces on this topic have opened, with a group of about a dozen people who meet regularly on Zoom to discuss what they see happening in their own workplaces. The only difference is that these people are doctors.
“Recently, the remains of 215 Indigenous children were found in a grave near a Residential School in Kamloops BC. Pierre Elliott Trudeau was the Prime Minister of Canada while this school was open, and refused to take action.”
President Joe Biden spent much of Tuesday urging the nation to focus on hatred, especially white-on-black hatred, or what he called “the stain on the soul of America.”
h/t Marvin
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden issued a lengthy proclamation for “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Pride Month.” He celebrated the openly LGBT members of his administration, pushed the Orwellian Equality Act, and condemned the states that are defending fairness in women’s sports against the transgender movement. Yet perhaps his most notable move involved the horrific Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016.
The climate mobilization in Canada, as I’ve written in previous columns, has yet to feel like a grand societal undertaking. Among the bold initiatives that would send such a signal — a Youth Climate Corps.
The fund aims to reduce some of the systemic barriers faced by Black Canadian entrepreneurs and business owners by providing them with the financing they need to start and grow their businesses. The federal government co-developed the fund in partnership with the Federation of African Canadian Economics (FACE) as loan fund administrator.
