Judith Butler: Enough Already!

Angry old bull dyke plagiarizes the cover of Bowie’s ‘Low’

If I were Judith Butler, I would desist from giving interviews to journalists. She has done a few lately (with Owen Jones on YouTube, with Slate magazine last year, with the Guardian a few days ago, etc.) and in each and every one of those interviews, she repeats the same thing. And in this repetition, she affirms she still lives in the 1990s. It may not be altogether her fault. She is repeatedly interviewed about her book Gender Trouble that was published in the ‘90s, the occasion being the contemporary dominance of the trans movement. And so she opines on what she said in the book. The trouble, though, is that she opines as if what she says is “subversive,” a radical parole in a langue of traditionalism. “We need to rethink the category of woman,” she repeats in her latest interview with the Guardian (September 7th) as if we had not already done far more than that.

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Have Canadians wearied of Trudeau’s vapid wokeness?

Will the world’s wokest leader be reelected? When Justin Trudeau called the election to Canada’s 44th Parliament at the end of August, he was comfortably ahead in the polls. Crises bolster all but the most obviously useless incumbents, and Canada has had, as measured by deaths, vaccine rollout, and economic impact, a better pandemic than many comparable countries.

The pleasant, handsome, vapid prime minister, who has been leading a minority government since the 2019 election, understandably saw an opportunity to give himself an absolute majority.

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Marine Le Pen targets France’s ‘Talibanised’ zones and ‘narco-estates’ as she launches general election campaign

The 53-year-old far-right leader blasted ‘arrogant’ incumbent Emmanuel Macron while promising to restore law and order in France.

‘There will be no place in France where the law does not apply,’ she told flag-waving supporters. ‘We will eradicate gangs and mafias and all those, Islamists or not, who want to impose rules and ways of life that are not ours.’

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The problem with white saviours

There is a logical fallacy called the Kafka Trap. It describes the condition of always being wrong. If you are accused of something, and you deny it, that denial is taken as an admission of guilt; only a guilty party would go out of their way to deny an allegation of wrongdoing. Alternatively, if you say nothing in the face of the allegation, that’s also an admission of guilt: your silence means you have accepted the allegation.

Many describe Franz Kafka’s disenchanted fables as tragic. And this is certainly true. But they are also farcical. To watch someone being relentlessly wrong can be grimly enjoyable — as long as you’re not the person in question.

The term white feminism, as it is commonly used today, is a classic example of the Kafka Trap. If you show too much interest in the lives of people of colour, you risk being accused of white saviourism — which is another way of saying you have a suspiciously condescending attitude to people of colour. But if you don’t show enough interest, you are insufficiently intersectional. You only care about the white, middle-class cisgendered women in your social circle.

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Revolver Investigation: “Two Faces of Fauci” — The Structure of the Pseudo-Scientific Covid Revolution

Nearly two decades ago, a well-known figure gazed into one of C-SPAN’s cameras to answer a question during a live call-in program. “[Y]ou can’t control people’s behavior, but what you can do is you can educate, and you can try to modify behavior,” the figure advised. “[T]he only way you can do that effectively is to create an environment in which you don’t force people who are the subjects or the targets of your education and behavioral modification . . . underground.”

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Pathological lying is a mental disorder in which the person habitually or compulsively lies

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THE NEW ORDER OF FEAR – A work of fiction

THE NEW ORDER OF FEAR – A work of fiction

THE NEW ORDER OF FEAR – By Tom Quiggin

Justin Trudeau is found dead in bed, strangled with a pair of Halal socks that had been given to him by Cabinet Minister Omar Alghabra. This assassination is just one event as a series of mysterious terrorist attack trigger the beginnings of the Great Reset.

This new fictional thriller book is part of a Trilogy on the Great Reset.  In the first book, the reader is warned of the social and political violence that will emerge as our political classes move us toward the Great Rest, also known as Build Back Better, Stakeholder Capitalism or the New Green Deal.

The New Order of Fear: The Great Reset Trilogy: Quiggin, Tom, Rick Gill,: Books – Amazon.ca

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UN chief: World is at ‘pivotal moment’ and moving in wrong direction

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a dire warning that the world is moving in the wrong direction and faces “a pivotal moment” where continuing business as usual could lead to a breakdown of global order and a future of perpetual crisis. Changing course could signal a breakthrough to a greener and safer future, he said.

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It’s Time to Acknowledge Anti-White Racism

As any student of George Orwell knows, no authoritarian government can ever gain complete control unless it commandeers people’s thinking through the manipulation of language. Thus, the dystopian powers in “1984” deliberately turned the meaning of words upside-down in a process known as double-think.

The same process is happening today with the words used to discuss racism. In true Orwellian fashion, Ibram X. Kendi (pictured) insists that the only way to fight racism is to embrace racial discrimination in perpetuity. This “anti-racism,” as he calls it, is as likely to stamp out genuine racism as Orwell’s Ministry of Truth was apt to stamp out falsehoods.

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Complaints About ‘Vote-Splitting’ Falsely Implies Parties Are Entitled To Voters

It’s easy to get locked into the ‘vote-splitting’ narrative during federal elections.

Most analysts, pundits, and commentators – myself included – find it easy to talk about vote splitting because it’s such a simple narrative when looking at polls.

One party goes up, another party goes down, margins rise, margins fall.

And when parties on a similar side of the spectrum move in the polls, ‘vote-splitting’ is the quickest way to describe the potential impact.
However, when we think more deeply about it, ‘vote-splitting’ is a tired and anti-democratic narrative.

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