“Peak Woke”

The foolish woke challenge to the University of Texas fight song — “The Eyes of Texas” — is heating up again, with faculty members making threats. They’re factually wrong, and U.T. needs to call their bluff.

When I first got to U.T., I was charmed by “The Eyes of Texas.” First, it was sung to the tune of “I’ve been working on the railroad,” so it had a nice familiarity. It was sung at football games, with its vaguely menacing promise to the other team that “The eyes of Texas are upon you … You cannot get away. Do not think you can escape them … The eyes of Texas are upon you, ’til Gabriel blows his horn.” It was a good fight song.

The CIA is now using ‘intersectionality’ to push its imperial designs.

The last thing we need is more bureaucracy.

Emboldened by President Biden’s social experimentation on our military, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) may soon succeed in her years-long quest to take away military commanders’ ability to decide whether or not to prosecute sexual assault cases. If she succeeds, it will be because two key Republicans — Texas’s Ted Cruz and Iowa’s Joni Ernst — have inexplicably decided to support her bill.

Biden has already done much to harm the military. He has revoked former President Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military despite the fact that “trans” soldiers have a very high rate of psychological problems and suicides.

“A kiss he gives to her without her consent, while she’s asleep, which cannot possibly be true love if only one person knows it’s happening,” noted a review on news website SFGate, which questioned why the park would add a scene with “such old fashioned ideas of what a man is allowed to do to a woman.”

“Haven’t we already agreed that consent in early Disney movies is a major issue? 

The chair of an influential museum group has resigned after an academic whose work calls for “decolonising” the curriculum was dropped from the board, amid reports of a government-sanctioned culture war.

… In a sign that ministers believe that a battle against “woke” culture plays well with voters, there have been a number of recent attempts to ratchet up a culture war. Following the Black Lives Matter protests last summer, Dowden threatened to cut funding to museums and galleries that removed statues associated with British colonialism.

In a warning to institutions last October, Dowden wrote: “As publicly funded bodies, you should not be taking actions motivated by activism or politics. The significant support that you receive from the taxpayer is an acknowledgment of the important cultural role you play for the entire country.”

Good for Great Britain.