It looks like something plucked straight out of another age, a foreign culture where freedom of expression is always subject to a censor’s whims. Not only is it labelled ‘False Information’ but the accompanying image is greyed out, a design no doubt honed by the ‘user response experts’ at Facebook to dissuade users from clicking on it.
But this is the UK in 2021 and the post is an UnHerd article from yesterday that has now been labelled as misinformation by Facebook.
There’s an ancient Wall Street joke about a visitor to the Hamptons who is shown harbors full of the yachts of stockbrokers and bond salesmen. He naively inquires, “But where are the customers’ yachts?”
We might ask the same question about the clients of diversity consultants.
These days, we are constantly lectured that hiring more diversity is the route to riches. Studies, we are assured, prove that organizations that employ more blacks, women, or whatever will make more money.
Yet the people who get paid to tell us that diversity-inclusion-equity (DIE) is good for us seldom can remember documented examples of organizations that gained an enduring competitive advantage by fighting racism or sexism.
When a video of an assault on a 91-year-old Asian man went viral, the media and civil rights groups were quick to blame President Trump for using the term, “Chinese Virus”.
“We stand with our Asian American & Pacific Islander community against the rising tide of racism and hate crimes that have been stoked to a fever pitch, much of amplified by the actions of our last president,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez tweeted another false accusation.
On 25 January, Dr Ibram X Kendi, author of How To Be An Antiracist, took part in a conversation with the New York State Association of Independent Schools on the topic of ‘How To Be An Antiracist School’. I am only aware that the eSeminar took place because an ‘EXCLUSIVE CLIP’ allegedly from it was shared on Twitter.
In the clip Kendi speaks for less than a minute and recounts for those in attendance via Zoom how ‘I think it was last week my daughter came home and said she wanted to be a boy.
The freedom of speech is on the ropes, and it just received another body blow. Over at Amazon, you can still get Friedrich Nietzsche’s God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. You can still get Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion. You can get Christianity Disproved: The conclusive proof that Christianity is false. You can get God Needs To Go: Why Christian Beliefs Fail. You can get All That’s Wrong with the Bible: Contradictions, Absurdities, and More. You can get Four Disturbing Questions with One Simple Answer: Breaking the Spell of Christian Belief. And on and on and on. But you can’t get Allah is Dead: Why Islam is Not a Religion by the New English Review’s Rebecca Bynum.
Dr. Richard Horton’s “The COVID-19 Catastrophe” tells the politically correct story of the pandemic.
It is clear to everyone that the world of COVID-19 into which we have been hurled will become a turning point in our history. I started writing for this august publication about COVID in early March 2020, as the pandemic hit a nursing home within walking distance of my house. Something big was happening. We could feel it in our bones.
It is therefore inevitable that we would start logging the history of this pandemic before the pandemic is even over. In the first few months, it seemed to me that this turning point would bring us together as a nation and perhaps as a global community. But as the months went on, it became clear that there were a set of people who sensed opportunity in the air. This moment of history was not, to them, a moment to heal and unite, but a moment of leverage in which we can craft the right narrative to bend the curve of history when it is most pliable.
Infamous race-faker Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who was outed for pretending to be black in 2015, still insists she’s African American and complained in a recent interview she’s been unable to secure a new job for six years.
Dolezal, 43, who now goes by the Nigerian name Nkechi Amare Diallo, sat down for a talk on the “Tamron Hall” show to whine about how she wishes people could see her for who she is rather than “what” she is.
I see Lunatic.
OTTAWA — The Liberal government is poised to introduce legislation as early as next week aimed at strengthening gun control.
The long-promised bill would flesh out last spring’s ban of many firearms, propose stricter storage provisions and target gun smuggling.
The government outlawed a variety of firearms by cabinet order in May, saying they were built for the battlefield, not hunting or sport-shooting.
Trump’s defense has up to 16 hours to present their case. On Friday, the defense team argued that Democrats have incited violence. The defense played video clips of Democrats’ speeches about fighting in the Trump era. After showing harsh rhetoric from Democrats, Trump’s defense queued up footage of the violent protests that happened last year after the death of George Floyd.
A Philadelphia elementary school recently forced fifth-grade students to celebrate “black communism” and simulate a Black Power rally in honor of political radical Angela Davis.
…The William D. Kelley School has long been one of the most troubled in the district. The school’s student population is 94 percent black and 100 percent “economically disadvantaged.” Academically, it is one of the worst-performing schools in Pennsylvania. By sixth grade, only 3 percent of students are proficient in math, and 9 percent are proficient in reading. By graduation, only 13 percent of Kelley students will have achieved basic literacy.
The New York Times is an influential newspaper with a worldwide readership and 130 Pulitzer Prizes for excellence in journalism to its name. It is known to have a liberal bias, but it has still generally been recognized for reporting the news, rather than for making it.
This month, however, the Times itself has been the stuff of headlines. Cancel culture is reaching disturbing heights all around, and the Times is at the centre of many of the stories.
Related… Read the column the New York Times didn’t want you to read
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson said on the Thursday night episode of his program that his show has been targeted for cancellation.
Carlson said that “in the last several weeks, and particularly in the last 24 hours, the call to take this show off the air by groups funded—for real—by the Ford Foundation, or by George Soros, by Michael Bloomberg, by Jeff Bezos, has become deafening, going after our advertisers, going after the companies that carry our signal into your home.”
What’s more, he added, there has been a “cowardice and complicity” on behalf of the “entire media class in all of this,” suggesting that eventually, reporters at legacy news outlets will be targeted as well.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) waited until after US President Joe Biden took the oath of office before unilaterally handing itself territorial jurisdiction over Israel — more than a full year since the pre-trial chamber was asked to rule on the matter. Mindful of President Donald J. Trump’s sanctions against ICC staff, including revoking Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s US entry visa, and his warnings against efforts to brand Israel and other allies as war criminals, court officials lacked the steel to make an announcement while he remained in the Oval Office.
A Somalian double rapist has been allowed to stay in the UK on human rights grounds after a judge said he would face ‘degrading’ treatment in his home country due to his mental health.
The 49-year-old arrived in Britain in 2004 and claimed asylum, but the Home Office sought to deport him after he amassed eight convictions in the space of six years.
Robbery, trying to pervert the course of justice, and raping two different women were among his offences.
