Cancel Culture (Examples)

[Kryztian]

Facebook bans scenic canal over ‘obscene’ name, dubs it ‘hate speech’
https://nypost.com/2021/09/16/facebook-bans-canal-over-obscene-name-dubs-it-hate-speech/

It’s a ban Dyke.

Facebook sent UK users in a tizzy after prohibiting posts that mention a picturesque canal in Norfolk on account of its seemingly dirty name.

The body of water in question is the Cockshoot Dyke, a spot that’s reportedly popular with local anglers and sightseers due to its scenic views.

“People found it hilarious, saying it should be called ‘the waterway that shall not be named,'” Steve Burgess, administrator on the Love the Norfolk Broads Facebook page, told the Sun. The fishing and gift shop owner said the issue first came to light after a member posted about parking her boat at the profanely named canal, which reportedly leads to a place called Cockshoot Broad.

Facebook promptly removed the post, citing that it contained “violence and sexual content,” according to Burgess. The social media giant has since banned any mention of the name and classified its algorithms as “hate speech.”

Burgess, for one, believes that the measure is a bit heavy-handed.

“They have put two and two together and got 58. You’ve got to laugh,” he said, adding that the ban is ironic, as FB contains “so much that is really obscene or violent or sexual but nothing is done.”

Interestingly, the name isn’t even inappropriate in British vernacular. “Cockshoot” is actually a hunting term that refers to the pursuit of a wading bird called the woodcock. Meanwhile, “dyke” in this context simply means a barrier used to regulate or hold back water from a river, lake or even the ocean.
see also
f--king-fugging-name-change
The infamous town of F–king was renamed Fugging — and no one noticed

Nonetheless, the business owner claims that anglers were banned for even mentioning fishing sites at the Dyke at Cockshoot Broad, and that he himself was prevented from posting Facebook pics for a full day. Other places that have fallen afoul of the algorithm include Plymouth Hoe, in Devon, and Devil’s Dyke, in West Sussex. No word as to whether posts about the notorious Austrian town of “F – – king” — now named “Fugging” — received the same treatment

However, despite deeming the digital prohibition a bit “Big Brother-esque,” Burgess said it does make sense to protect the millions of people who use the networking site.

This isn’t the first time a seemingly innocuous post has landed someone in the social media gulag. In July, a Detroit woman said she was temporarily banished from Facebook for “hate speech” after commenting on a meme labeling the opposite sex as “dumb.”

[Ernie Nemeth]

So, the more groups you create, the more division you sew.

You just made the argument for global government, and vilified all countries.

In Canada, a catch phrase seen everywhere: 'Strength through diversity'.

And my very most favourite: 'Stand apart to stand together'.

[Mike]

So, the more groups you create, the more division you sew.

You just made the argument for global government, and vilified all countries.

In Canada, a catch phrase seen everywhere: 'Strength through diversity'.

And my very most favourite: 'Stand apart to stand together'.


The groups I'm talking about in that post are the ones that make up the near endless lgbqt etc etc etc acronym. And of course the heavy emphasis on this racial group and that racial group, and so on.

Depending on who you ask, there might be as many as 150 separate genders. Remember how confusing it was as a kid when there were just two to worry about? This endless multiplying of groups and "identities" is an invitation to nothing but chaos and division.

The reason: in this new era of victim Olympics, what happens when you endlessly multiply these alleged "identities" is something akin to the snake eating its tail. As you continue to divide the victim groups into smaller and smaller parts, those smaller parts will begin to identify the "victim" groups preceding them as oppressors. Oh, you're a black woman eh? Well I'll see your black woman and raise you a black trans woman! It's like that. And it never ends. Goes on and on and on and on. That's why intersectionality is so dangerous.

Countries separate people by borders, but also by cultures and values. This creates some chaos but it also creates a very necessary order. In order to preserve cultures and values and agreed upon laws, you need countries. Often a border is separating bad ideas from good ones (think North and South Korea). I think Mexico is a wonderful place in many ways, but it's not the USA, and a very distinct separation is required there.

I think countries create much more order than chaos is what i'm saying in a nutshell. So those divisions are useful. I don't think they can be compared to the manufactured separation between the endlessly manufactured "identity" groups we see now, or the manifactured divisions we're seeing between white and black, and so on.

So I'm in favor of countries.

Re "strength thru diversity": diversity these days usually is only referring to the near endless identity/victim groups emerging left n right. Generally speaking it has nothing to do with ideological diversity...otherwise conservative voices would be allowed in all those "safe spaces"

[Ernie Nemeth]

I hear a lot about post-modernism and the like. And I always wonder, when exactly was this modern era that is now over? Unless all that is meant by modern is recent, which in my mind is not synonymous.

Every time we go down this road of division we end up bandying about terms with unclear definitions. 150 genders, you say? I'd like that one explained to me by any of its proponents. Some ideas are crazy, and must be treated that way. The very largest majority thinks it is crazy. It has no legitimacy and deserves no response - but it also must be demonstrably handled that way by an unbiased media and government officials who purport to serve their constituents. Otherwise, the insanity becomes the official policy of the government and propaganda must utilize the media and corporate sponsors to bend minds to their rhetoric.

When the lie becomes the truth chaos results.

Interestingly, when the lie becomes the truth, the truth is far more easy to see, if one still has eyes to see and ears to hear.

We always lived in an inverted world. It's just that most were happy to learn to see and hear upside down and inside out. But that is not the intent of this universe. So now the lie will live and die in the souls of those that have been deceived, played out in all its gory details in plain view. No one can ignore the truth when the lie becomes exposed to this level. At this level even the metaphysical becomes tangible.

It is kind of where science and spirituality meets...

[rgray222]

This is one of the most despicable acts of the cancel culture that the United States Government has ever engaged in, there has been no violence at these meetings but even if there were it would be a job for the local police, not the FBI. Clearly, intimidation towards parents by the Federal Government. This is shameful.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDSygQM6b9o

"I'm not aware of anything like this in American history... You're using the FBI to intervene in school board meetings!" – Sen. Josh Hawley

[rgray222]

Cancel culture backfires when banned lecture by Princeton professor at MIT draws thousands

Cancel culture seemed to have backfired in one instance, as thousands have registered to attend a guest lecture at Princeton University by a geophysics professor whose initial speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was canceled amid pressure from campus activists.

"I'm delighted to report that we've expanded the Zoom quota for Dr. Dorian Abbot's Princeton lecture – the one shockingly and shamefully canceled by MIT – and literally thousands of people have registered," Princeton professor Robert P. George tweeted on Monday.

The lecture, titled "Climate and the Potential for Life on Other Planets," is scheduled to take place via Zoom at 4:30 p.m. ET on Oct. 21 – the same day it had been scheduled to take place at MIT.

https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/1447207382484930563

George, who is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, wrote in a follow-up tweet Tuesday, "I extend a special invitation to those MIT students, faculty, and alumni who believe in truth-seeking and understand that its indispensable conditions include freedom of thought, inquiry, and discussion, to Zoom into Dr. Dorian Abbot's Princeton lecture. #solidarityintruthseeking."

https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/1447556467259854857

Dr. Dorian Abbot, a geophysical sciences associate professor at the University of Chicago, was slated to deliver the John Carlson Lecture, which is billed by MIT as an annual lecture meant to communicate "exciting new results in climate science to the general public," in light of his research on climate change. But MIT retracted his invitation, not because of the content of his planned lecture, but instead after activists and MIT academics took issue with Abbot's past comments arguing academic evaluations should be based on merit, not on race or ethnic identity.

Abbot, and his colleague, Ivan Marinovic, had criticized diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives by universities and some employers in an August opinion piece for Newsweek titled "The Diversity Problem on Campus."

After MIT announced it had canceled Abbot’s participation in the lecture, the geophysicist wrote a piece on the "Common Sense with Bari Weiss" substack noting that, "a small group of ideologues mounted a Twitter campaign to cancel a distinguished science lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology because they disagreed with some of the political positions the speaker had taken."

"I am a professor who just had a prestigious public science lecture at MIT cancelled because of an outrage mob on Twitter," Abbot wrote. "This is not a partisan issue. Anyone who is interested in the pursuit of truth and in promoting a healthy and functioning society has a stake in this debate. Speaking out now may seem risky. But the cost of remaining silent is far steeper."

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/us/cancel-culture-backfires-princeton-lecture-geophysics-professor-mit

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

More on above story in the clip below.

Glad to see bright - and brave - young people taking a stand against the madness.

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[Bill Ryan]

Not only Halloween, but also Valentine's Day is now canceled. :facepalm: :bigsmile:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrBDH7hCc1o

[Tyy1907]

Bobcat Goldthwait's perspective:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/oct/25/bobcat-goldthwait-interview-police-academy-joy-ride

[iota]

https://i.redd.it/y25volf6g2w71.jpg

why does it feel like there is a need for an organization to protect WHITES from discrimination?

[iota]

ill be frank because i'm not good at beating around the bushes anyway

something needs to be done,

this is beyond what daddy was complaining about late 70's of "Reverse discrimination"

this is outright AND blatant discrimination

to be at the effect of it and be silent

is something likely to be regretted

and just enables the condition to persist

[rgray222]

When this thread was started some time ago the purpose was to document some examples of the cancel culture. Of course, the cancel culture has been around for a long time but it really started to hit its stride in 2019/2020 and it shows no signs of slowing down in 2021 and the years beyond. Sadly the examples that are shown in this thread are not the outliers they are pretty much everyday run mill examples of what happens when the cancel culture becomes a weapon of politics. The example shown below is certainly part of the cancel culture but with a twist. The people using the cancel culture as a weapon (mainstream media, politicians mostly from the left but not confined to the left) want us to believe things that are untrue and will never be true. See for yourself.

Winsome Sears - White Supremacist
Winsome Sears is the new Lt. Governor from Virginia. She has been labelled a white supremacist by most of the mainstream media. One example (video): https://www.foxnews.com/media/liberal-dyson-msnbc-joy-reid-winsome-sears-black-mouth-white-supremacist

Dr Rachel Levine - First Woman Admiral in the USA
Born Richard Leland Levine in 1957 he started to identify himself as a woman in the 2000's says he transition over in 2011. Richard Levine now goes by the name Dr Rachel Levine and has been appointed a Four-Star Admiral.

The vast majority of people will not have a problem with Rachel Levine's appointment but what will never be true is that Rachel Levine will never be the first female four-star admiral in the USA. Rachel Levine will certainly hold the tittle of "first transgender four star admiral".


“I am humbled to serve as the first female four-star officer of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and first openly transgender four-star officer across any of the 8 uniformed services,” Levine said in a statement.
Dr, Rachel Levine
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnstaceyennis/2021/10/19/call-her-admiral-rachel-levine-now/?sh=70d0a3045b8b

https://ktla.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/11/VirginiaGovernor.jpg?w=2560&h=1440&crop=1
Gov Elect Youngkin and Lt Gov Elect Winsome Sears

https://static.onecms.io/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2021/01/19/rachel-levine-1.jpg
Biden and Dr Rachel Levine

[Mike]

Yes, the left is accusing newly elected Lt. Gov of Virginia, Winsome Sears, of being a "white supremacist". For those that don't know, Sears is black:bigsmile:. They did the same thing to Larry Elder, a black conservative who recently ran in the recall election in California. The Washington Post ran an article accusing him of being "the black face of white supremacy."

Faced with growing numbers of outspoken/conservative black political leaders and intellectuals, the left has resorted to their bizarre linguistic trickery in a futile attempt to make their ideology seem coherent. The trick is this: being black isn't what counts anymore, they say...what counts is being "politically black". They are perfectly willing to cast black folks who disagree with them to the wolves. And most of them are absolutely monstered in the most vile ways, with tactics involving reputation destruction and vicious name calling ("coconut", "race traitor", "uncle Tom", etc)

It's typical authoritarian behavior. You are not allowed to disagree. They are incapable of imagining a world where people who disagree with them aren't "white supremacists". And Joy Reed is calling the Republicans "dangerous"? Whew. She's a piece of work (..and also a blatant homophobe btw, judging by her own blog posts from several years ago which she conveniently claims were the result of "hacking")

The Republican drubbing of Democrats in these recent elections is a very positive sign. People are waking up to what so called "wokeness" really is (even James Carville, legendary democratic strategist, blamed the Democrats' loss on "stupid wokeness"). People now know what Critical Race Theory is. Parents are showing up at schoolboard meetings and demanding changes. And it was their votes that turned the tide...

The strategy of the Dems now is threefold (and weirdly contradictory):

1) some are just pretending CRT is not being taught in schools
2) some are pretending it doesn't even exist (exact words of some msnbc lunatic: "critical race theory does not exist"
3) those that admit it exists and is being taught are claiming it merely teaches the history of racism in America,..and those who want it shut down, they say, are racists who don't want the "true history" of America taught in schools. The Republicans are being "paranoid" they say. Textbook gaslighting there.

Racism, racism, racism. They're like programmed robots who are only capable of uttering one word. I watched all the lefty channels last night to see how they'd spin their defeat, and they all said the same thing: racism. Actually what they kept saying was "dog whistle racism". That's how they describe parents' aversion to CRT, which was the major issue in the election. The parents weren't against neo segregation, notions of group guilt, repackaged racism aimed directly at whites, and all the rest. NOOOO, that couldn't possibly be it. All those parents voted the way they did because they're racist. Every last one of them, apparently:)

So, the lunacy marches on but it's getting exposed for what it truly is ...and the people are resisting.

[iota]

is it ok to post a victory that was gained in combating this manufactured "cancel culture"?

if it doesn't belong here? i apologize and maybe a mod can move it to Breaking News instead

i put it here, because the impact that this phenomenon has had? has been REAL and consequences destructive

but ALWAYS will someone arise against injustice instead of obliging their agenda in acquiescence

and i have AWESOME news!! someone DID ~~~~ and they WON!!!! yay!!!



https://www.minthilltimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/NH_COH_Exterior-Front_100317_L-2.jpg

"Jury Awards $10 Million to
White Male Executive in Discrimination Case"


The New York Times Reports:

"By Michael Levenson


"A federal jury in North Carolina has awarded $10 million in damages to a former health care executive who argued that he was fired because he is a white man and his employer was trying to diversify, court records show.

The employer, Novant Health, which oversees 15 hospitals and hundreds of outpatient centers and clinics, argued that the former executive, David Duvall, had been fired because his superiors “had very little confidence” in him as a leader — not because of his race and sex.

But a federal jury found on Tuesday that Mr. Duvall’s race and sex had been motivating factors in his termination and that Novant Health had failed to prove that it would have fired him regardless of those factors.

The jury awarded Mr. Duvall $10 million in punitive damages, a sum that is likely to be reduced by the trial judge, according to Sachin S. Pandya, a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law. He said that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act caps punitive damages at $300,000 for employers with more than 500 employees.

Mr. Duvall’s lawyer, S. Luke Largess, said on Friday that his client also has a discrimination claim under North Carolina law in which the $300,000 cap does not apply. He said there will be a hearing in 30 days on the amount of back pay and front pay to be awarded.

The verdict came nearly two years after Mr. Duvall filed a federal lawsuit against Novant Health, contending that he had been fired to achieve racial and gender diversity, in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That law prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

“We are pleased that the jury agreed with Mr. Duvall that his race and gender were unlawful factors in his termination — that he was fired solely to make room for more diverse leaders at Novant Health,” Mr. Largess said in a statement.

He said that the jury had included six women and two men and that six were white, one was Hispanic and the forewoman was Black.

Mr. Duvall’s lawsuit was “decidedly not a statement against diversity and inclusion programs,” Mr. Largess said.

“The lawsuit was only about the need to run such programs lawfully,” he said. “We believe the punitive damages award was a strong message that an employer cannot just fire employees based on their race or gender to create opportunities to achieve diversity targets. That is plainly unlawful and very harmful, and that is what the jury denounced here.”

Novant Health said that it disagreed with the verdict.

“We are extremely disappointed with the verdict, as we believe it is not supported by the evidence presented at trial, which includes our reason for Mr. Duvall’s termination,” Novant Health said in a statement. “We will pursue all legal options, including appeal, over the next several weeks and months.”

Novant Health, a nonprofit organization with more than 35,000 employees, said the verdict would have no effect on its efforts to diversify its work force.

“Novant Health is one of thousands of organizations to put in place robust diversity and inclusion programs, which we believe can coexist alongside strong nondiscriminatory policies that extend to all races and genders, including white men,” the organization said. “It’s important for all current and future team members to know that this verdict will not change Novant Health’s steadfast commitment to diversity, inclusion and equity for all.”

In his lawsuit, Mr. Duvall said that he had a successful career in marketing and public relations when Novant Health hired him as a senior vice president of marketing and communications on Aug. 5, 2013.

On July 30, 2018, Novant Health fired him without warning and ordered him off the premises immediately, the lawsuit states.

Mr. Duvall said that his superior had told him that his termination had “nothing to do” with his work performance and that he had “done everything asked of him and more,” according to the lawsuit. Mr. Duvall’s job performance “had been very highly rated, both internally and externally,” the lawsuit states.


In 2015, Novant Health signed onto a commitment by health care systems nationwide to address health inequities, which spawned a commitment to diversity and inclusion, Mr. Duvall said in court documents.

By 2018, that commitment “had turned into avowed, even boastful, ‘strategic imperative’ to rely on racial and gender targets to reshape Novant Health’s work force and leadership to reflect the community it served,” according to the documents.

“As a direct result,” Mr. Duvall was fired and replaced by a white woman and a Black woman, and other white men were also dismissed without warning and replaced by women or members of minority groups, his court documents said.

Novant Health argued that Mr. Duvall’s claims were “premised on complete speculation wholly lacking in evidence.”

As a highly compensated senior vice president, Mr. Duvall was expected to “perform exceptionally, not just demonstrate good or adequate performance,” Novant Health said in court documents.

Mr. Duvall “fulfilled what was asked of him,” according to Novant Health, but “demonstrated over time that he was not exceptional or a successor” to his superior.

For example, Novant Health said that Mr. Duvall was “unable to speak publicly” in front of the board of directors, which prompted the chief executive “to question his command.”

Mr. Duvall’s superior “did not see him as an enterprise leader” who was willing to collaborate with others, Novant Health said. And Mr. Duvall missed a critical meeting to discuss the “patient experience” with other executives, Novant Health said.

“From a talent development, strategic planning, and succession planning perspective, I knew we could improve on talent in David’s role,” Mr. Duvall’s superior wrote in court papers.

article source: here (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/us/david-duvall-firing-lawsuit-diversity.html)


another article with really great video with attorney here:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jury-awards-10m-former-exec-who-said-he-was-fired-n1282605

the article above has a really great video and interview with the attorney who won the settlement and i highly recommend watching it

below i will post a short video from MSM that came out within a very short period of the announcement. they got an attorney to do a short recap with explanation of the factors involved in a suit such as this and what needs to be proved.

perhaps because of the shortness of time? they did not know what she would say and the "spin" that typically accompanies these announcements? was refreshingly absent!

another yay!!


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[Bill Ryan]

Many familiar with Monty Python will know the British comedian John Cleese. (Far funnier than Python was the universally loved 12-episode series, Fawlty Towers, one of the the most revered pieces of classic comedy the world has seen... no exaggeration.)

John Cleese is also a formidable intellect, highly regarded for his intelligence by everyone who's ever known him. And now he's canceled himself. :)


https://thetimes.co.uk/article/john-cleese-cancels-himself-in-support-of-hitler-mimicking-historian-andrew-graham-dixon-fxt5g76c0

John Cleese cancels himself in support of Hitler-mimicking historian Andrew Graham-Dixon

John Cleese has blacklisted himself from speaking to students at Cambridge University after the union’s president banned a speaker for impersonating Hitler as the comedian did in Fawlty Towers and Monty Python.

Cleese, an alumnus of the university, said that he had been due to speak at the union but announced this morning that he had pulled out. “I am blacklisting myself before someone else does,” he wrote on Twitter.

[happyuk]

I couldn't resist it...

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[iota]

I couldn't resist it...

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OMG!! that is absolutely hilarious!!!

would it be ok to repost this on the VIDEO memes and popular culture (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114794-VIDEO-memes-and-popular-culture)thread?

i couldn't stop laughing

:sun:

and @ Bill?




John Cleese cancels himself in support of Hitler-mimicking historian Andrew Graham-Dixon

John Cleese has blacklisted himself from speaking to students at Cambridge University after the union’s president banned a speaker for impersonating Hitler as the comedian did in Fawlty Towers and Monty Python.

Cleese, an alumnus of the university, said that he had been due to speak at the union but announced this morning that he had pulled out. “I am blacklisting myself before someone else does,” he wrote on Twitter.

was he being fascetious? smart move? or "what the heck is he thinking?" move?

sorry to ask about what is probably super obvious ...

(i think my brain might, at long last, be fried on sensory overload )

:facepalm:

[Bill Ryan]

was he being facetious? smart move? or "what the heck is he thinking?" move?

Well, he's a highly intelligent man. He's now 82, but as sharp and witty as ever. And he's 100% totally against any kind of 'woke' cancel culture.

That sketch (which is just a few minutes of a full 30 minute Fawlty Towers episode) is famous, and every Brit over the age of about 12 knows it off by heart. :) It was aired in 1975 — 46 years ago! — but is still regarded as one of the funniest things that was ever on the BBC, comedy genius of the highest order.

John Cleese, who wrote it himself, was interviewed about it countless times. The backdrop, not shown in that brief clip, is that his character had concussion, which is how come he had a bandage on his head. And as a result of the head injury, he was unable to suppress saying out loud everything he was thinking.

Of course, it's not an insult to any Germans anywhere. (Most Germans think it's hilarious. Do read the YouTube comments! :) ) It's a parody about the character he plays (Basil Fawlty), who was always a manic, out of control, extreme, straight-faced figure with anger management problems and an inability to handle almost any situation in the small hotel which he owned (Fawlty Towers).

But the whole episode, which was one of the greatest timeless classics of British comedy, was itself canceled by the BBC in 2020. So John Cleese, when declining his invitation to speak at Cambridge University (where he got his degree), was making a strong point to protest the humorless, authoritarian 'woke' culture. He knew full-well that it'd be widely reported in the British media — which it was. :)

[iota]

So John Cleese, when declining his invitation to speak at Cambridge University (where he got his degree), was making a strong point to protest the humorless, authoritarian 'woke' culture. He knew full-well that it'd be widely reported in the British media — which it was. :)

bless you Bill Ryan!

now i can sleep! hahaha!

it IS a classic! i'd seen it when i was younger!
what a comedic genius!

the world could use some of that right now!

thank you!
:flower:

[happyuk]

So John Cleese, when declining his invitation to speak at Cambridge University (where he got his degree), was making a strong point to protest the humorless, authoritarian 'woke' culture. He knew full-well that it'd be widely reported in the British media — which it was. :)

bless you Bill Ryan!

now i can sleep! hahaha!

it IS a classic! i'd seen it when i was younger!
what a comedic genius!

the world could use some of that right now!

thank you!
:flower:

Indeed it is. The only remaining soft spot I have for the BBC is largely because of the cracking comedy I grew up with: Fawlty Towers, Only Fools and Horses, Porridge, Eric & Ernie, among a long list.

But that’s the problem. It’s come an almighty long way downhill ever since.

'Comedy' like 'King Gary (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07w7686)' ? Kin’ hell. Most BBC dramas and comedies these days are dire or drearily "woke". Ditto their political coverage. The Corporation has become a bloated, biased behemoth, sustained by a licence fee which effectively promotes failure. Few people I know under 35 want to watch the BBC, let alone pay for it.

There are glimmers of hope, but you won't find it on the BBC. Harry Hill’s Alien Fun Capsule (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXbBANr4Rk4) on ITV is quite a good 'un: just a bit of silly-half-hour, slapstick nonsense that doesn't take itself seriously.

[Ewan]

Wonder how many of these iconic sports people from yesteryear would get cancelled today?
(Could be cross-posted to 'When Men were Men (Masculine) and Women were Feminine (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?103734-When-men-were-men-women-were-feminine)' perhaps).

Some very funny stuff on this show back in the day.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0MODssX8EQ


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrUs4TFBFfw

I yearn for the old days, seriously.

Edit: For non-Brits, this is very British.

Bike is/was slang for a lesbian.
Dog is/was a rough looking woman.
Bollocks is/was testicles.

Anymore just ask...

Double Edit:

Sorry, this is offtopic. Thread title asks for examples. Delete it after you finish chuckling. :)

[rgray222]

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The outrageous censorship of Nadia Murad

When the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) initially cancelled an event with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad, the reason given was that such an event could foster Islamophobia.

Murad was invited to speak at a book club founded by Tanya Lee, where teen girls from various secondary schools hear from female authors.

But TDSB superintendent Helen Fisher expressed concern over Murad’s book The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State, telling book club organizer that students should not participate in an event with the author scheduled for February.

At the age of 14, Nadia Murad was kidnapped by Islamic State jihadis and taken into sex slavery.

In the words of Rex Murphy of the National Post: “From that pit of hell, [Nadia] incredibly found the personal resources to escape, champion the cause of brutalized young women everywhere, and ascend to the heights of the world’s high honour, the Nobel Prize.”

For many of us who have followed the mass murder of the Yazidi people of Iraq and have marvelled at the courage of Murad, the TDSB decision came as a shock. It reeked of ignorance and subservience to an Islamist attitude that has infiltrated too many institutions of Canada, especially urban schools where cafeterias have been turned into prayer halls, with gender apartheid on full display.

Shocked by the exchange with Helen Fisher, Tanya Lee says she then sent her an email containing detailed information on the Islamic organization, coming from the BBC and CNN.

“This is what the Islamic State means,” she wrote to the superintendent: “It is a terrorist organization. It has nothing to do with ordinary Muslims. The Toronto school board should be aware of the difference.”

Source and to read the full article: https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/fatah-the-outrageous-censorship-of-nadia-murad

[Gemma13]

Cross posting.


Fauci is the father of Cancel Culture

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[Ewan]

I never thought that it would be possible for the cancel culture to swing its broad sword at mathematics. It seems the cancel culture could not pass up the opportunity for a 2 for 1, dumbing down society while at the same time screaming systemic racism.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/racistmath.jpg

Oregon promotes teacher program that seeks to undo 'racism in mathematics'

The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) recently encouraged teachers to register for training that encourages "ethnomathematics" and argues, among other things, that White supremacy manifests itself in the focus on finding the right answer.

Part of the toolkit includes a list of ways "white supremacy culture" allegedly "infiltrates math classrooms." Those include "the focus is on getting the 'right' answer," students being "required to 'show their work,'" and other alleged manifestations.

"The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so," the document for the "Equitable Math" toolkit reads. "Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict."

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/us/oregon-education-math-white-supremacy

Just noticed one of my kids watching the following on Youtube, I was quite delighted when he asked me why the world was so crazy..


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh3Yz3PiXZw

If only it were as simple as the end of the short movie..

Sadly, despite encouraging converations with complete strangers in my day to day travels, they inevitabley end up mentioning being vaxxed and having just had the booster, or just going for their booster, and it becomes apparent that these people are not going to stand up. They WILL follow the herd and join in the 3 am kicking in of the door, the stones being thrown will be thrown by them also.

And "*doublespeak (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak)" increasingly being noticed (by me) in everyday situations. I drive through roadworks eveytime I head out of north England heading south. A sign proclaims the the 'narrow lanes (are) for you safety'. In what bizzare universe does narrowing the lanes increasing the proximity of other vehicles equate to a safer driving environment?

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See George Orwell ~ 'Newspeak' or 'Doublethink'.

[Kryztian]

https://i.imgur.com/F3Rspcn.jpg

[Frankie Pancakes]

Maybe this belongs here?

Read this passage from a memoir of being young in 1920s Germany, and compare the 2020s:


“A generation of young Germans,” [Sebastian] Haffner writes, “had become accustomed to having the entire content of their lives delivered gratis, so to speak, by the public sphere.” The stability that followed Gustav Stresemann’s becoming chancellor in 1923 marked “the return of political liberty,” which, Haffner writes, Germans regarded “not as a gift, but as a deprivation.” Haffner goes on: “The great danger of life in Germany has always been emptiness and boredom. The menace of monotony hangs, as it has always hung, over the great plains of northern and eastern Germany, with their colorless towns and their all too industrious, efficient, and conscientious business and organizations. With it comes a horror vacui and the yearning for ‘salvation’: through alcohol, through superstition, or, best of all, through a vast, overpowering, cheap mass intoxication.”

From Charles Tayler’s review of Sebastian Haffner’s Defying Hitler (Salon 2002). The review has this tag line: “A newly discovered memoir by a German classified as ‘Aryan’ describes the insidious early spread of Nazism and how hard it was to resist.”

(In 2021, it’s tempting to substitute “Wokism” and see how that tag line reads now. Insidious spread, indeed.)

[iota]

i thought this was pretty exceptional by today's standards ...

the TRUTH on MSM ... spilling on the Cancel Culture and their role in it

excerpt:

"..When you are not able to say outloud and in public

that there are differences betweeen men and women

the world has gone mad ..

When we are not allowed to acknowlege that rioting is rioting and it is bad

and that Silence is not violence but Violence is Violence, the world has gone mad .."



https://twitter.com/cabot_phillips/status/1450122050278940673

so refreshing to hear the truth spoken aloud ...

[Bill Ryan]

From The Libertarian Institute, yesterday:

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/eighteen-offensive-words-you-cant-say-in-canada

Eighteen ‘Offensive’ Words You Can’t Say in Canada

Think that the U.S. is the wokiest nation on the planet? Think again. Canada is coming up fast, and with its latest initiative, appears to be on the inside track.

What has the Great White (pardon me for using this word) North done to warrant this characterization? They have come up with eighteen words that are offensive (https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jesse-kline-cbcs-18-words-you-cant-say-is-the-dumbest-thing-ive-ever-heard); you say them only at your peril, at least in the frozen country to the north of the U.S.

What are these words? They are as follows (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/words-and-phrases-commonly-used-offensive-english-language-1.6252274?cmp=rss):


ghetto
sell someone down the river
blackmail
brainstorm
savage
gypped
pow wow
tribe
spooky
black sheep
blind spot
blindsided
first world problem
spirit animal
tone deaf
lame
grandfathered in
crippled.

(The interesting article continues (https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/eighteen-offensive-words-you-cant-say-in-canada/), with much comment)

[Gemma13]

From The Libertarian Institute, yesterday:

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/eighteen-offensive-words-you-cant-say-in-canada

Eighteen ‘Offensive’ Words You Can’t Say in Canada

Think that the U.S. is the wokiest nation on the planet? Think again. Canada is coming up fast, and with its latest initiative, appears to be on the inside track.

What has the Great White (pardon me for using this word) North done to warrant this characterization? They have come up with eighteen words that are offensive (https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jesse-kline-cbcs-18-words-you-cant-say-is-the-dumbest-thing-ive-ever-heard); you say them only at your peril, at least in the frozen country to the north of the U.S.

What are these words? They are as follows (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/words-and-phrases-commonly-used-offensive-english-language-1.6252274?cmp=rss):


ghetto
sell someone down the river
blackmail
brainstorm
savage
gypped
pow wow
tribe
spooky
black sheep
blind spot
blindsided
first world problem
spirit animal
tone deaf
lame
grandfathered in
crippled.

(The interesting article continues (https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/eighteen-offensive-words-you-cant-say-in-canada/), with much comment)

Started looking into this... then stopped after reading this, from 2008! Didn't want to ruin the rest of my morning.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1027985/Council-bans-brainstorming-replaces-term-thought-showers--fear-offending-epileptics.html

Council bans 'brainstorming' and replaces the term with 'thought showers'... for fear of offending epileptics

By Steve Doughty for the Daily Mail21:30 AEDT 20 Jun 2008

Brainstorming has undoubtedly generated some bolts of brilliance and flashes of inspiration over the years.

But in genteel Tunbridge Wells, the council decided it might lead to the traditionally Disgusted residents of the town becoming Offended as well.

So now the expression brainstorming has been banned. And in future, meetings to generate new ideas will be referred to as 'thought showers'.

Brainstorming, first coined in the 1890s, was used by psychiatrists to refer to severe nervous attacks. And although since the 1940s it has meant a meeting to produce new ideas, councillors are concerned it may prove offensive to epileptics.

The National Society for Epilepsy said this was unlikely. It surveyed members three years ago to ask whether they found the phrase offensive.

Spokesman Amanda Cleaver said: 'The answer was a resounding No. It certainly wasn't deemed offensive at all. People thought it was a great word to describe the coming together and discussion of ideas.'

But diversity officers at Tunbridge Wells borough council are standing firm. Personnel chief Val Green said: 'We take equality and diversity issues very seriously. It is important to us not to offend people and we are sorry if through trying to avoid this, we have indeed caused offence to the very people we were trying not to offend.

'If the epilepsy association finds the term perfectly acceptable, then we welcome this clarification. If however, the term does in fact offend even a small minority, we would encourage people to get in touch with us.'

Thought shower has already replaced brainstorming elsewhere - including at Redbridge Education Business Partnership in East London, the Deanes School in Essex, and the Church of England's Diocese of Southwark.

But critics remained unenthusiastic. Richard Colwill, of the mental health charity Sane, said. 'Using brainstorming in the context of a council meeting I wouldn't imagine would cause offence.'

Of the thought shower, he added: 'I don't think it will catch on.'

[Gemma13]

Think I will savagely brainstorm with my spooky mates about spirit animals before we are blindsided and crippled with lame @#$%@#$%!

[Ankle Biter]

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Thought showers???

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.... that's an interesting list of seemingly benign words, I might need to delve deeper... I fear my white cis male privileged will result in more uncontrollable laughter.

[Gemma13]

I recently watched the film "Hell or High Water". I enjoyed watching Westerns with mates years ago but my metaphysical interests have prevented me from looking into other genres for many years, until Yellowstone piqued an interest to look into what else Taylor Sheridan has written.

In the film, when dialogue emerges between two Texas Rangers, it appears racist, bigoted, and unnecessarily cruel. So much so that I find it hard to imagine many claiming to be "woke" being able to continue watching the film after this point. Heck some might even run off for therapy for being traumatized. And that's a problem, because the language crafted between Cowboy and Indian is far from hostile.

Both Rangers have inherited the arc of racism from their cultures, but instead of harbouring aggression toward each other they have bonded in deep friendship, and this is cleverly reflected in the powerful disabling force of Friendly Social Sarcasm (FSS). A vocabulary that will be missed by many though, if the outer layer of language, words, is the only tool applied to interpret the relationship.

I understood the FSS vocabulary between the Rangers because it's similar to Aussie outback speak and I commend Sheridan for his writing prowess in bravely tackling it. For example, I have an older mate who has lived and worked both the sea and rugged outback all his life in ways that would make young boys shudder. A couple of years ago he had a stroke and was flown to the city where I have had to live for the past 12yrs.

Being one of those fortunate enough to have been exposed to FSS vocabulary, as well as being able to engage fluently, I was able to translate to the city nurses on a daily basis. This ended up being crucial as my friend was going to be categorized with mental issues, and drugged accordingly, because they thought his ramblings were hallucinatory instead of actual fragments of his life in the bush. And when the drugs and damage wore off I was also able to explain his FSS vocabulary so that medical staff could recognize compliments instead of default interpretation of his personality as cranky and nasty. This man would, and could, move mountains to help someone in need, but it is hard to spot in his rugged exterior.

We eventually got him transferred to a country hospital because, as you might well imagine, the city is kryptonite to him, and now he is back doing what he loves. When I return to the country for a visit though, the first thing I would likely say to my friend is, "FFS aren't you dead yet?"

And then it would be on, with neither of us missing an opportunity to take the p!ss out of each other. I might say something to someone and he'd say, "Don't listen to that idiot she hasn't even used her brain yet, it's still wrapped up in plastic." The FSS vocabulary that flows constantly between us is recognized and loved by many, but to someone new it can be shocking. People often whisper to mates, "WTF... do these two hate each other, or something?" To which our friends laugh and reply, "Far from it. They're best mates."

There is another extremely important layer to FSS vocabulary that many don't understand. The gift of being able to break down inherited cultural barriers that we unknowingly carry around as excess baggage. When one of us brings a newcomer into a social den full of people well versed in FSS vocabulary, which I've sadly only experienced in the country, the first thing to be identified is their race, or clothing, or voice inflections, or handicaps, or whatever.

Then the games begin... and any awkwardness the newcomer may have felt in the first 3 minutes is rapidly dissolved as they start laughing at themselves, as well as everyone else, because no-one is immune from being a target. In other words, all layers of difference and division are quickly dispelled with FSS. Everyone then has a great time communicating from the hidden layer that we are all commonly bonded in...love and friendship. God I miss that!

Hopefully this brings me to my point, which is the insane ignorance of the language police and Cancel Culture that are trying to distill complex human communication into basic a,b,c's. This is devolution, imo, not evolution toward further understanding the intricate tapestry of words, thoughts, emotions, body language, and love.

At least Siri will be happy as humans continue to retard their vocabulary, and the power of Friendly Social Sarcasm, let alone comedy, becomes a dying relic so that artificial technology can catch up.

N.B. Narcissists and sociopaths don't stand a chance in a room full of people fluent in Friendly Social Sarcasm Vocabulary... there's just no room for them, and you have to be super quick to avoid being cut off at the knee caps. So it makes sense that they too would want to partner up with Siri.

On a good note though, apparently this film was nominated for numerous awards. I have to wonder why...

[Mike]

Gem I've seen 'Hell Or Highwater' maybe 5 times now. Great movie. I just kept coming back to it over n over again.

The woke misfits we see today aren't very good at FSS. They're not very good at humor or irony either. They don't understand it and they don't want to make an effort to understand it. Instead, they want to cancel it and bring everyone down to their miserable level. They know that things like humor and sarcasm expose their irrationality, lunacy, and narcissism..things they desperately try to hide behind a veneer of virtue and victimhood.

When you can't compete in traditional hierarchies (ones based on merit, talent, and effort) you try to invent new hierarchies built on something nearly the opposite. Bearing one's burden nobly, working hard, and personal responsibility have been traded in for complaining, embracing the victim's role, and blaming everyone else for one's shortcomings. A whole new language is required to make that work, and that language cannot include sarcasm, irony, or humor because once evoked those things will instantly reveal the hypocrisy behind such a movement.

The amusing banter between the cowboy and the Mexican officer is much more of a comfortable shorthand than it is racism or anything else. That seems obvious to me. But some can't see it and many more refuse to see it..because the void left by their lack of humor has been filled with a kind of bitterness that demands no one else enjoy a type of fun they're incapable of

[Gemma13]

Hey Mike, great that you've seen and appreciate the film.  I am concerned about how the world is going to be able to counter the onslaught of cancel culture moving forward though, but I'm staying hopeful that FSS, irony and comedy will somehow survive.

Added: I like the directors comments too:

https://www.flicks.com.au/features/hell-or-high-water-director-david-mackenzie-on-filmmaking-racism-masculinity-trump/

We’ve seen a line that was being tread there, and it comes directly from the script and you know there’s lots of script that we improvised, whether we adjusted. But that stuff we kept as was, because it felt awkward and uncomfortable to most of us who are in the film industry making the film. There was a temptation to kind of soften that a little bit.

I know Gil [Birmingham] and Jeff [Bridges] were a little bit uncomfortable. We thought, “No, no, let’s go straight at it and use that material and understand that this character appears a little bit close to the edge in terms of racism,” you ask questions about that then you start realising that maybe it’s more race awareness than racist, maybe it’s more affectionate, and it’s about the weird relationship that men have, where you know there’s a bit of tough love that goes on.

There’s a lot of masculine communication in the film that is not necessarily about even saying what they mean. It feels like you start that journey being a little bit awkward, and then by the time you get to the end of that journey, you realise that what you initially thought is only one part of it, one part of the equation.

It’s interesting to be touching on those sensitive subjects and then doing something with that. That feels like good storytelling and being able to look at these sensitive issues in the eye is something that feels important.

[Kryztian]

Not the Babylon Bee but an actual new story. :facepalm:

‘Harry Potter’-inspired sport to change name over Rowling stance
18 Dec, 2021 00:27

https://www.rt.com/pop-culture/543580-quidditch-rename-rowling-transphobic/

https://i.imgur.com/rXYCo6d.jpg

The US-based Quidditch associations are exploring new names for the sport, adapted from a fictional game played in the wizarding universe of ‘Harry Potter’ books and films, citing copyright woes and the author’s “transphobia.”

US Quidditch and Major League Quidditch (MLQ) issued a joint statement on pursuing renaming possibilities on Wednesday, but it didn’t catch media attention until Friday. MLQ Commissioner Amanda Dallas said both leagues have been “quietly collecting research” and discussing it extensively with trademark lawyers “for the last year or so.”

“Renaming the sport opens up so many more revenue opportunities for both organizations, which is crucial to expansion,” said USQ Executive Director Mary Kimball, adding that picking a new shared trademark would enable both leagues to “pursue sponsorships, broadcasting on major TV networks and other projects that'll address some of the biggest barriers to playing the sport, like access to equipment.”

The term ‘quidditch’ is currently trademarked by Warner Bros. as part of the licensing rights for J.K. Rowling’s best-selling book series. While this is officially cited as the primary reason for the name change, the leagues did admit they wanted to “distance themselves from the works” of Rowling, “who has increasingly come under scrutiny for her anti-trans positions” in recent years.

Our sport has developed a reputation as one of the most progressive sports in the world on gender equality and inclusivity, in part thanks to its gender maximum rule, which stipulates that a team may not have more than four players of the same gender on the field at a time,” the joint statement said. “Both organizations feel it is imperative to live up to this reputation in all aspects of their operations and believe this move is a step in that direction.”

Rowling first drew the ire of transgender advocates in 2019, when she publicly defended an accountant fired for referring to trans women as biologically male. Just this week, she mocked Scottish police’s classification of trans rapists as women and assigning them to female prisons.

“The sport needs its own space without limits on its growth potential and changing the name is crucial to achieving that,” said Alex Benepe, who together with Xander Manshel adapted the fictional sport in 2005, at Middlebury College in Vermont.

Manshel and Benepe’s version tries to get around the inability to fly by having players run around the field with broomsticks between their legs. The magical “golden snitch” worth the most points is attached to the pants of a “snitch runner” who must evade the opposing team. It is “one of the few mixed-gender full contact sports,” according to the International Quidditch Association, which has a tally of more than 450 teams in over 30 countries.
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[Kryztian]

the powerful disabling force of Friendly Social Sarcasm (FSS).

I thought for a moment that ""Friendly Social Sarcasm" has to be a thing. An idea that someone in academia has written about. There had to be a Wikipedia page for it. But no, nothing terms up in the search engine for that term. Bummer.

But it should be a thing, it needs to be a thing. Perhaps there is another term for it?

I think I get your idea of FSS. A friend of mine, Italian-American would drive through Brooklyn with friends in a car and would say something disparaging about a black person or a Hasidic Jew. Those of us who knew him, knew that he was channeling the racist remarks he heard as a child from grandparents, and that he was just trying to shock us and give us a laugh. His comments weren't really about the people on the street or their ethnicity, they were about the small minded things he heard said by grandparents many decades before. Is that Friendly Social Sarcasm ? Why is the N-word usually a demeaning term, yet two black people can use it as a term of endearment? Friendly Social Sarcasm? What about the language drag queens use to stereotype and berates others or rural mountain people who intentionally misspell signs at their farmer's market to crank up the hillbilly mystique? I think this term has a lot to say about the complexity of language which the PC fundamentalist just don't get.

[Gemma13]

Kryztian:  His comments weren't really about the people on the street or their ethnicity, they were about the small minded things he heard said by grandparents many decades before. Is that Friendly Social Sarcasm ? 

Not really. FSS is spontaneous wit made up on the spot and even though past references can be incorporated into the quips, generally they are quite unique to the individual, the circumstances, and the environment.


Kryztian:  Why is the N-word usually a demeaning term, yet two black people can use it as a term of endearment? Friendly Social Sarcasm? What about the language drag queens use to stereotype and berates others or rural mountain people who intentionally misspell signs at their farmer's market to crank up the hillbilly mystique?

This is a good example of intra-racial/cultural FSS but is unfortunately useless and unappealing, imo, because it is used as a form of elitism against people of different cultures.

True FSS is universal, refusing to have preferences or favourites as this would defeat its purpose for removing barriers. For example, FSS might bring the concept of racism into sharp focus and then annihilate the ideology of harbouring hostility toward anyone because it doesn't belong in the room.

And of course FSS doesn't have to be about racism at all. For example, if an individual lets their ego out it will be carved up into little pieces until the person returns to healthy humility and equality.

Mike may be able to help out with further defining the term as I've just posted quickly off the cuff and will have to come back later. But really appreciate your questions.

P.s Then there are times when the person delivering the quip, will cleverly turn the quip onto themselves, to highlight the ridiculousness of something someone said.

Then there are the compliments which will come across as the complete opposite of the compliment being delivered.

It's a tricky language, but like any language, when you've been exposed to it long enough it becomes very easy to pick up. Bit like learning a different dialect in different regions.

Sheridan was highlighting this "dialect" in the Hell or High Water film and is why the actors were initially uncomfortable delivering the lines, but thankfully the director didn't soften it because it is exactly what FSS is like.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

to get around the inability to fly by having players run around the field with broomsticks between their legs.
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Wait, what...this is really a thing? Grown adults actually do this?

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=48115&d=1639833969

[Gemma13]

@Kryztian :) Your questions were great because they forced me to think deeper about something that I am personally very familiar with, having listened to, and engaged in, FSS on a daily basis for many years. It is not a common language/dialect, especially in cities, and this makes it difficult to explain how FSS can have the appearance of being caustic, but has no intention or purpose for scathing bitterness.

I will try and simplify a further explanation because FSS is very difficult to demonstrate with words alone and even difficult in film because the tone, or energy, if you like, of people fluent in FSS is the key.

Social Sarcasm can range anywhere from casual humour, to friendly, to bitter, to downright cruelty.

Friendly Social Sarcasm has one range only and it starts and finishes with this range. No prejudice! At all.

Words used can only come from the databank that society has educated with, but the intention and meaning of those words are cleverly crafted to reveal the hypocrisy behind movements of division, as Mike explained in his post, and this is the power behind FSS.

Topic information is also informed by society, be it racism or politics or handicaps, etc and is why the language of FSS is so jarring. It literally rips a gaping hole in preconceived notions and belief systems.

Because the intention behind FSS starts from a neutral place, from a genuine belief that all men/women are equal, it has the power to not only challenge belief systems, but disable them. Even if it's only during the time that one is exposed to FSS neutrality. And that's a good thing in my book.

It's easy to understand why FSS is predominantly found in smaller country locations where higher academic learning, mental analysis, and political/economic social engineering are almost non-existent. The non-prejudice remote country people, (you also get the prejuduce ones of course), are educated in labour skills, informed by the land, and are able to genuinely demonstrate love and help to their neighbours... while teasing and taking the p!ss out of them at the same time, lol!

This is why the city nurses were appreciative of the translations I was able to provide for my friend because they didn't *feel* he should be wrongly diagnosed and medicated for a mental disorder. They were then armed with information to report to medical superiors that prevented it from happening.

An academic paper on FSS could actually be a good thing, if done by the right person able to capture the true essence of FSS, as it could prove to be a great tool in helping counter some of the ridiculous socially engineered definitions being flung around today.

I realize now that I probably bit off more than I could chew with my film reference for FSS, but hope this helps.

[Gemma13]

Adding to my post above:

Another really important thing in understanding FSS is the limitation of poetic vocabulary in many outback/remote communities.  Beauty in these locations is experienced and shared in silence... words cannot describe such wonders, so they are infrequently used.  Hence the twisting of harsh words to lighten life circumstances with humour.

[Gemma13]

I've started another thread, "Cancel Culture vs Friendly Social Sarcasm", and apologies for veering a bit off topic here :)

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?117162-Cancel-Culture-vs-Friendly-Social-Sarcasm--FSS-&p=1469758&viewfull=1#post1469758

[rgray222]

Tough way to get cancelled, I guess criticism at the sports arena is a no-no.

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[Kryztian]

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John McWhorter is called both a conservative and a liberal, depending on who people ask.

He now argues that the current anti-racism ideology is a new religion of the left.

In his new book, “Woke Racism,” McWhorter lashes out at what he calls the “third-wave anti-racism,” which positions racism to be the totality of Black American experience.

He also calls out the Black names such as Ibram Kendi, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Nikole Hannah-Jones for promoting these ideas that he argues infantilize Black people.

McWhorter joins Marc Lamont Hill on “Black News Tonight” to discuss the book.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

LEGEND

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[Matthew]

Following on from Robert Malone's increasingly warning people against the vaccination on twitter (one yesterday or so cross post link (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?113668-Vaccination-Injuries-On-Record-for-Covid19&p=1471472&viewfull=1#post1471472)), going as far as calling the vaccination the 'clot-shot', he is now removed from twitter. Sometimes twitter reinstate people quickly, it's possible they will reinstate Malone, but my gut tells me they won't.
:popcorn:

https://twitter.com/accountingetc/status/1476242568925040643
Graham Kemp
@accountingetc
Can you believe Robert Malone has been cancelled from Twitter?

[Matthew]

...Robert Malon is now removed from twitter. ...

This meme deserves the context

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHy6Xm8VEAYo-d-?format=jpg&name=900x900

[rgray222]

Steve Harvey blasts cancel culture: 'Every joke hurts somebody’s feelings'

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FI66rtfVEAAys51.jpg

Comedian and actor Steve Harvey criticized cancel culture and the need to be politically correct.

Harvey told reporters Tuesday while promoting his new ABC courtroom comedy series, Judge Steve Harvey, that he cannot do stand-up comedy anymore without losing sponsors and ending his career.

“We’re in the cancel culture now,” he said while speaking during the Television Critics Association press tour, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “Nobody can say anything he wants to — Chris Rock can’t, Kevin Hart can’t, Cedric the Entertainer can’t, D.L. Hughley can’t. I can go down the list. The only person that can say what they want to say onstage is Dave Chappelle because he’s not sponsor-driven. He’s subscription.”

The comedian added that jokes have to be about something, and the most interesting topic is people.

“Political correctness has killed comedy, has killed it,” Harvey noted. “Every joke now, it hurts somebody’s feelings. What people don’t understand about comedians is that a joke has to be about something. ... Some of these jokes have to be about people — because that’s the most interesting topic. So if I come back, I have to wait until I’m done [with my TV career]. And I’m not done. I’d have to call it This Is It or something like that.”

Harvey’s new show is a comedic take on small claims court cases based on his opinion and lessons learned in real-life challenges.

“You’ve got to understand being misunderstood,” Harvey said. “You’ve got to be able to deal with being talked [about] — nobody talks about you if you’re not doing nothing. You’ve got to develop tough skin.”

Source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/steve-harvey-blasts-cancel-culture-every-joke-hurts-somebodys-feelings

[rgray222]

Some may think that this is simply an overreaction but when I see freedom of speech being lost, institutions and race used as weapons (IRS, DOJ, etc) I honestly start to fear for the country and society. If banks begin to pick and choose their customers based on politics then society it truly lost.

Everyone regardless of their political leaning should be more than alarmed over this story.

Undercover Audio Footage Of Lindell Being Debanked Should Shake All Americans Awake- This is Why

https://djhjmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/20220116_121625-750x375.jpg

Action taken against Mike Lindell (My Pillow) this week, by his bank- even after they admitted he had done nothing wrong to deserve being “fired as a client” could expose a dangerous government agenda by our Government “overlords” to shift America’s Republic into something we have never experienced before. Something where the Government controls who the banks can do business with.

Key Point: Think about this- while reading the following story– In a socialist economy, there is a government-controlled central bank that creates money for the government. This allows it to redistribute money to who it wants. This allows the government to reduce taxes while increasing spending, making up the difference in money creation.

NOW- HERE IS THE STORY ABOUT MIKE LINDELL BEING DEBANKED

Lindell appeared on The War Room Pandemic on Friday to discuss the details of how he was being forced out of his bank, and to talk about an undercover recording of the conversation- where a bank employee talked to a representative of his company and laid it all out.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1482106370182856706

Source: Read the entire story and listen to the podcast. https://djhjmedia.com/kari/undercover-audio-footage-of-lindell-being-debanked-should-shake-all-americans-awake-this-is-why/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3BjA9VxLF2A6QSch30mFavm3zuB6Uo_0N15rBBRHQoEmPybnqh-L0mO2o

[rgray222]

Spotify removes Neil Young after he calls for Joe Rogan to go

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Neil Young's music is being removed from Spotify after the rock star called for the streaming platform to choose between him and podcaster Joe Rogan.

Accusing him of Covid misinformation, Young told Spotify this week: "They can have Rogan or Young. Not both."

Rogan has been criticised for interviewing an infectious disease specialist who opposes Covid-19 vaccines for children.

Spotify said it "regrets" the move and hopes he returns to the platform soon.

The Canadian-American musician behind classic rock hits such as Harvest Moon and Heart of Gold publicly accused Spotify on Monday of "spreading fake information about vaccines - potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them".

In another statement posted to his website on Wednesday he called the music streaming giant "the home of life-threatening Covid misinformation", adding: "Lies being sold for money."

He also thanked his record label, Warner Brothers-owned Reprise Records, for supporting his decision, saying that around 60% of all of his streamed music comes from Spotify listeners.

"Thank you Warner Brothers for standing with me and taking the hit - losing 60% of my worldwide streaming income in the name of Truth," he wrote online.

Spotify reportedly paid $100m (£75m) for rights to The Joe Rogan Experience podcast in 2020. The programme is the top podcast on Spotify, and is reportedly downloaded almost 200 million times a month.

On Wednesday, Spotify replied to the singer's ultimatum.

"We want all the world's music and audio content to be available to Spotify users. With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators," it said.

"We have detailed content policies in place and we've removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to Covid since the start of the pandemic."

Spotify has more than 300m monthly listeners, including more than 170m who pay for a subscription to the service.

It has defended Rogan in the past, including after an episode in 2020 that featured the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

"We want creators to create," chief executive Daniel Ek told The Financial Times at the time. "It's what they do best. We're not looking to play a role in what they should say."

At the time of writing, no other artists have followed Young's lead.

Steve Sladkowski, the guitarist for Canadian rock band Pup, gave one explanation why, tweeting, "It rocks that Neil can take his music off [Spotify] but the fact remains that the vast majority of us can't afford to do that because the (very meagre) royalties are one of the few ways to cobble together any semblance of a living."

Source: To read the full story - https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60149951

[BoR]

I always enjoyed Neil Young’s music, but not that much that I can’t live without his music. I won’t listen to it anymore and I won’t miss it. What he did was promoting a deadly poison while trying to have Spotify censor free speech. The first thing can be ignorance, but the last thing is unforgivable.

I read that he and his children have auto immune health issues. And he never considered the possibility that vaccinations could be the cause? It’s ironic he is willing to lose some income via streaming to support the very thing that likely ruined his, and his children’s, immune system.

[Bluegreen]

Ever wonder what The Illuminati look like? Wonder no more.

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[Kryztian]

Tennessee school district bans Holocaust novel ‘Maus’ over violence, profanity
By Evan Simko-Bednarski
January 27, 2022 3:32pm
https://nypost.com/2022/01/27/holocaust-book-maus-banned-by-tennessee-school-district/


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Art Spiegelman, who wrote and illustrated the book, said he was "baffled" by the decision.

A Tennessee school district has banned a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust over its violence, nudity and swearing.

The McMinn County School Board voted unanimously to remove Art Spiegelman’s book, “Maus,” from classrooms on Jan. 10, according to meeting minutes.

The book, completed in 1991, tells the story of the author’s father and his experiences as a Holocaust survivor in comic book form.

The school board cited its graphic scenes and profanity as among its objections to the reading.

“I am not denying it was horrible, brutal and cruel,” school board member Tony Allman said of the Nazi genocide that killed 6 million Jews.

He argued that the book should be censored to make it more palatable. “It’s like when you’re watching TV and a cuss word or nude scene comes on — it would be the same movie without it,” he said.

“It shows people hanging, it shows them killing kids,” Allman said. “Why does the educational system promote this kind of stuff? It is not wise or healthy.”

Board member Mike Cochran agreed. “This idea that we have to have this kind of material in the class in order to teach history, I don’t buy it,” he said.

“We can tell them exactly what happened, but we don’t need all the nakedness and other stuff,” he added.

Director of Schools Lee Parkison also suggested redacting it “to get rid of the eight curse words and the picture of the woman that was objected to,” referring to a drawing of a nude woman drawn as a mouse.

Julia Goodin, a former history teacher and an instructional supervisor for McMinn County, defended the book.

“It’s hard for this generation, these kids don’t even know 9/11, they were not even born,” Goodin said. “Are the words objectionable? Yes, there is no one that thinks they aren’t. But by taking away the first part, it’s not changing the meaning of what he is trying to portray.”

Melasawn Knight, another instructional supervisor, agreed.

“People did hang from trees, people did commit suicide and people were killed, over 6 million were murdered,” she said. “I think the author is portraying that because it is a true story about his father that lived through that.”

The board briefly considered writing to Spiegelman for permission to redact the book, but ultimately voted 10-0 to remove it from the classroom.

Spiegelman, 73, told CNBC he was “baffled” by the decision.

“It’s leaving me with my jaw open, like, ‘What?’” he told the network, adding that its removal of the book was “Orwellian.”

McMinn County, some 50 miles northeast of Chattanooga, is home to 53,000 people, according to the most recent census.

https://nypost.com/2022/01/27/holocaust-book-maus-banned-by-tennessee-school-district/

[rgray222]

There is so much going on with this faux cancellation that it is almost painful to comment. First off two weeks paid suspension is not a cancellation it is a vacation. Secondly, she says when you look at this through race it takes it down an entirely different road. What a loaded and correct statement. Virtually everything in the USA is being intentionally viewed thru the prism of race because this is the road that gives power to progressives. At the heart of this is the thought that white people can be victims is absolutely intolerable to some people. They must be the oppressors at all times otherwise the narrative about minorities being victims is turned upside down.

I suppose it warrants comment that Whoopi is not the brightest spark in the fire, she is the one that said Biden's wife should be made the Surgeon General because she was an excellent doctor (https://www.thedailybeast.com/whoopi-goldberg-thinks-jill-biden-not-a-medical-doctor-should-be-surgeon-general). She has a doctorate in education Ed.D. Lastly, Goldberg is such a political hack that she gives little thought to any other viewpoint other than her own. A recipe that stops one from any further learning and also serves to divide society even more.

I find if somewhat humorous that Whoopi Goldberg's real name is Caryn Johnson, in other words she is truly a Caryn

ABC suspends ‘The View’ host Whoopi Goldberg for saying Holocaust ‘not about race’

Goldberg made the comments Monday during a discussion on "The View" about a Tennessee school board’s banning of “Maus,” a graphic novel about the Nazi death camps.

ABC News suspended "The View" host Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks after she said the Holocaust was not about race, the network said Tuesday.

In a statement, Kim Godwin, president of ABC News, called Goldberg's comments "wrong and hurtful."

"While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments," Godwin said. "The entire ABC News organization stand in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities.”

"The minute you turn it into race, it goes down this alley," Goldberg said. "Let’s talk about it for what it is. It’s how people treat each other. It’s a problem.”

Goldberg apologized hours later.

"On today’s show, I said the Holocaust ‘is not about race, but about man’s inhumanity to man,’" she said. "I should have said it is about both. As Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, ‘The Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systematic annihilation of the Jewish people — who they deemed to be an inferior race.’ I stand corrected."

A representative for Goldberg did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


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[Matthew]

The future of cancel culture in the UK

Considering what is truth changes, this won't go well; I'd go as far as saying we all know how this will pan out. Not nice food for thought but whatever happens don't get snagged by denial!! ❤️❤️❤️

https://twitter.com/offshorebella/status/1490048494412959750

Daily Mail Online @MailOnline
Spreading Covid disinformation to become a criminal offence under Online Safety Bill
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10478581/Online-Safety-Bill-force-web-giants-protect-users-fraud-hate-crimes.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline
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[Matthew]

A bad review is impossible! Recalculating, please wait...

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[Kryztian]

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So Art Spiegelman's book was banned by a Tennesse school board. Whoopi Goldberg was cancelled by ABC. It's not easy to pinpoint the exact motivation behind both actions, but we could say the action against Spiegelman came from the right and in the case of Whoopi from the left.

Interestingly, when it comes from "the right" we tend to call it banning and often focuses on books, movies, music. When it comes from "the left" we tend to call in "cancelling" and it focuses on sculpture, celebrities, and ideas which are deemed "unscientific". But it is the same thing either way. It is the suppression of speech, of artistic expression, of critical thinking no matter where it is coming from.

If you support freedom of speech for the people who you agree with but don't react with the same outrage when people you disagree with are banned/cancelled, they you really are not a supporter of free speech.

[Ewan]

Not a big fan of Piers Morgan, but starting at 4:43 below

Piers Morgan argues cancel culture is ‘fascist illiberalism’


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_E3EmzsSug

[Mike]

Not a big fan of Piers Morgan, but starting at 4:43 below

Piers Morgan argues cancel culture is ‘fascist illiberalism’


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_E3EmzsSug


Piers is one of these guys that's easy to dislike. Why is that? Not sure, but he's been growing on me in recent years. I differ with him on quite a few things, but on the most important we're in total agreement. He's firmly anti-authoritarianism, and isn't afraid to speak out on controversial things..which is actually much riskier to do in England than in the US at the moment. So, way to go Piers.

[Bill Ryan]

https://twitter.com/alessabocchi/status/1498811089676558337
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[Kryztian]

https://twitter.com/alessabocchi/status/1498811089676558337
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Update: College Backtracks on Banning Teaching Dostoevsky Because He's Russian
https://www.newsweek.com/college-backtracks-banning-teaching-dostoevsky-russian-1684080


A university in Italy has backtracked on a decision to postpone a course about the work of Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky following a backlash.

Italian writer Paolo Nori posted a video on Instagram on Tuesday saying he had received an email from officials at the University of Milano-Bicocca, in Milan, informing him of the decision to postpone his course following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

"Dear Professor, the Vice Rector for Didactics has informed me of a decision taken with the rector to postpone the course on Dostoevsky," the email said, according to Nori's video.

Article continues, but here is the money quote:


Matteo Renzi, Italy's former prime minister who is now a senator for Florence, tweeted that it was "insane" to prohibit studying Dostoevsky because of the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"In this time we need to study more, not less: in the university we need teachers, not incapable bureaucrats," Renzi wrote.

If a college or university were to continue on that path, they would also have to ban Chekhov, Pushkin, Turgenev and the whole study of Russian language. The music department would have to ban the works of Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky, the chemistry department would ban Mendeleyev's periodic table of elements, the math department would trash Lobachevsky's geometry, etc, etc, etc.

[Kryztian]

The Metropolitian Opera has just fired one of the greatest opera singers in the world, Anna Netrebko, because she has not done enough to distance herself from Vlad Putin. Netrebko was born in Krasnodar Russia and in 2004 Putin awarded her the Russian Federation National Award. In 2014 she gave a donation to the Donetsk opera house and in a photo op was seen touching the Novorossiyan flag (https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/donation-to-ukrainian-opera-house-puts-netrebko-in-a-political-spotlight/).

She made a post on Instagram calling on Russia to end “this senseless war of aggression” against the Ukraine, but that was not enough for the Metropolitian Opera,


management at the Met wanted the Russian diva to go a step further and personally denounce Putin, with a source telling the Guardian that the company pressured her several times to do so.

“It is a great artistic loss for the Met and for opera,” said Met General Manager Peter Gelb. “Anna is one of the greatest singers in Met history, but with Putin killing innocent victims in Ukraine, there was no way forward.”
https://www.rt.com/news/551327-soprano-fired-opera-putin/

Netrebko is one of the greatest sopranos the Metropolitan opera has ever seen and is right at the height of her career. She has insisted that she is not a political person, but the Met Opera, which has received so many contributions from oil companies, needs to involve her in a war to stop the Nord Stream pipe line. An opera house is a place that brings together hard working, talented artists and an audience that appreciates and enjoys their gifts, but when operators like Peter Gelb, Met Opera General Manager, get in the way, another agenda takes priority.

Three and a half years ago I moved closer to New York, and one reason was so that I could attend the Met Opera more frequently. The Covid quarantine closed the opera house for over a year, and now one can not get into the opera house without a vaccine certificate, even though New York City has lifted it's vaccine mandate. The pharmaceutical industry is another major contributor to the company.

I have so much more to say about Peter Gelb who has sold out artists and the arts to corporations and their war games, but it probably will not get by the profanity filter here, so i will just end with a few clips of the marvelous Anna Netrebko as I lament the fact I will probably never get to see her sing live again.

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[mizo]

I visited a friends house yesterday they had their TV on in the background showing a ITV Sunday afternoon movie the film was Stardust a whimsical fantasy movie that has it's amusing moments.

My friend was watching the movie and he mentioned he'd never seen it before.

A particular scene was coming up and I mentioned when I watched it years ago it actually made laugh: De Niro who really hammed up the role of 'Captain Shakespeare' who was, in fact, playing a cross-dressing pirate who abhorred violence.
Scene:
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Needless to say the funniest 'one liner' in the film was "It's all right, Captain. We always knew you were a whoopsie." was edited out of the movie and it just pissed me off...

Seriously who is being protected by this inane censorship?

Or am I so insensitive and archaic that I still find that scene funny?

[Bill Ryan]

Will Smith cancels Chris Rock at the Oscars. (This had to go somewhere, and this thread is as good as any :) )

https://twitter.com/moreoffilms/status/1508277114398978048
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[Kryztian]

Princeton University cancels an art exhibit because two of the principal artists fought in the Civil War on the Confederate side, and justifies this as "academic freedom."

Firestone exhibition of Jewish American artists featuring works from Confederate soldiers canceled
https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2022/03/princeton-milberg-ezekiel-confederate-firestone-library-exhibition
Kalena Blake *** March 27, 2022



On Dec. 14, an exhibit dedicated to Jewish American artists in the late nineteenth century was canceled because it would feature the works of two soldiers in the Confederate army: sculptor Moses Jacob Ezekiel and painter Theodore Moise.

The exhibit was funded by Leonard Milberg ’53, who as of 2019 had gifted well over 13,000 items to Princeton. The University had agreed to organize the exhibit last summer to complement Milberg’s fifteenth publication, a collection of essays tentatively titled “Yearning to Breathe Free” and slated to be printed in 2022. It was co-edited by historians Adam Mendelsohn and Jonathan D. Sarna.

Milberg had previously organized an exhibit at Princeton entitled “By Dawn’s Early Light: Jewish Contributions to American Culture from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War” which opened in Feb. 2016. Given that the art museum is currently undergoing renovations, Milberg had hoped to arrange this new exhibit in the Firestone Gallery.

According to an article in Religion News Service, problems with the exhibit began to emerge in the fall of 2021.

The centerpiece of the exhibit, which included approximately 50 objects, was a marble copy of a figure called “Faith.” Sculpted by Moses Jacob Ezekiel, “Faith” is a “64-inch marble sculpture of a boy grasping a flaming lamp in one hand as he raises his other hand to the heavens,” according to Religion News Service. During the Battle of New Market, Ezekiel fought as a member of the Confederate Army. Ezekiel is best known for his 32-foot Confederate Memorial at the Arlington cemetery. Another painter in the exhibit, Theodore Moise, attained the rank of major in the Confederate Army.

In explaining why the exhibit was canceled, Anne Jarvis, the Robert H. Taylor 1930 University Librarian, deferred to the University for comment.

The University held that it was honoring the academic freedom of the librarians to decide what was appropriate for the gallery.

article continues at https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2022/03/princeton-milberg-ezekiel-confederate-firestone-library-exhibition


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"Religious Liberty" by sculptor Moses Jacob Ezekiel, 1876


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"Henry Clay" by painter Theodore Sidney Moise

[Kryztian]

And look who agrees that cancel culture is a problem!

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Of course, no actual references to instances where Republicans are doing this. Nor any concern about Bidens plans to use Homeland Security to stop the spread of "False Information."

[Kryztian]

Museum Renames Degas’ ‘Russian Dancers’ in Nod to Ukraine

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/londons-national-gallery-renames-degas-russian-dancers-to-ukrainian-dancers-180979868/


The change arrives amid a push for cultural institutions to recognize distinctions between Russian and Ukrainian culture

After an outcry from Ukrainians on social media, London’s National Gallery has changed the name of Edgar Degas’ Russian Dancers to Ukrainian Dancers, reports the Guardian’s Ben Quinn. Created around 1899, the pastel drawing depicts figures bent over in motion, legs in mid-stride as they perform a traditional Ukrainian dance. The dancers’ hair is adorned with blue and yellow ribbons—the national colors of Ukraine.

“The title of this painting has been an ongoing point of discussion for many years and is covered in scholarly literature,” a museum spokesperson tells the Guardian. Given Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the gallery “felt it was an appropriate moment to update the painting’s title to better reflect the subject of the painting.”


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The Degas painting formerly known as "Russian Dancers"

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/londons-national-gallery-renames-degas-russian-dancers-to-ukrainian-dancers-180979868/

[Patient]

Museum Renames Degas’ ‘Russian Dancers’ in Nod to Ukraine

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/londons-national-gallery-renames-degas-russian-dancers-to-ukrainian-dancers-180979868/


The change arrives amid a push for cultural institutions to recognize distinctions between Russian and Ukrainian culture

After an outcry from Ukrainians on social media, London’s National Gallery has changed the name of Edgar Degas’ Russian Dancers to Ukrainian Dancers, reports the Guardian’s Ben Quinn. Created around 1899, the pastel drawing depicts figures bent over in motion, legs in mid-stride as they perform a traditional Ukrainian dance. The dancers’ hair is adorned with blue and yellow ribbons—the national colors of Ukraine.

“The title of this painting has been an ongoing point of discussion for many years and is covered in scholarly literature,” a museum spokesperson tells the Guardian. Given Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the gallery “felt it was an appropriate moment to update the painting’s title to better reflect the subject of the painting.”


https://i.imgur.com/mpAOF6C.png?1
The Degas painting formerly known as "Russian Dancers"

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/londons-national-gallery-renames-degas-russian-dancers-to-ukrainian-dancers-180979868/

I remember when I was a kid and I was at a bus station.

I got on the wrong bus but didn't realize it until it left the station and there I was stuck on this bus going the wrong way.

I kinda feel like that now.

[Mike]

Glenn Beck said it best recently when speaking on the "woke".

He said:"they're trying to call our free speech "violence" while calling their violence "free speech"." :)

What a great line.

[Matthew]

https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1528639839490514944
GB News, @GBNEWS
HSBC suspend banker who described climate change warnings as 'unsubstantiated'


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Article link: https://www.gbnews.uk/news/hsbc-suspend-banker-who-described-climate-change-warnings-as-unsubstantiated/300500

extract:

Lending giant HSBC has reportedly suspended a senior banker after he dismissed climate change warnings as “unsubstantiated” and claimed central bankers have exaggerated global warming risks.

Stuart Kirk – head of responsible investing at HSBC – has been suspended while the bank carries out an internal investigation into a controversial presentation he made at an event in London last week, according to the Financial Times, which first reported the story.

The bank has come under pressure to sack Mr Kirk after he told a conference there is “always some nut job telling me about the end of the world” and showed slides stating that “unsubstantiated, shrill, partisan, self-serving, apocalyptic warnings are ALWAYS wrong”.

In the presentation, entitled “Why investors need not worry about climate risk”, he accused officials at the United Nations and the Bank of England of overstating the financial risks of climate change.

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[Bill Ryan]

Posted here, yesterday:

https://en-volve.com/2022/05/23/the-national-science-teachers-assoc-just-banned-use-of-words-including-mother-father-man-and-woman-because-they-are-oppressive

The National Science Teachers Assoc Just BANNED Use Of Words Including ‘Mother’, ‘Father’, ‘Man’ And ‘Woman’ Because They Are ‘Oppressive’

Not a joke. :) (These people are mentally ill... a serious comment.)

[Kryztian]

The WHO is changing the name “monkeypox”…is it really because of racism?
Kit Knightly
https://off-guardian.org/2022/06/16/the-who-is-changing-the-name-monkeypox-is-it-really-because-of-racism/

Yesterday Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), announced the WHO was officially changing the name of the monkeypox virus.

This decision was allegedly taken due to “stigmatization” and “discrimination” of the current “inaccurate” name.

I’m not sure how “monkeypox virus” can be an inaccurate name for a virus allegedly found in monkeys that allegedly causes pox, but that is the contention of the “experts” who called for an “urgent name change” in this report from last week.


In the context of the current global outbreak, continued reference to, and nomenclature of this virus being African is not only inaccurate but is also discriminatory and stigmatising,”

Of course, the problem here, as always with mainstream news, is their own mutually contradictory stories/agendas.

Because, according to the official narrative the virus does come from Africa, where it is endemic in some West African nations.

Changing the name of the virus will not change that, or make people forget they said so, will it?

So why do it?

Well, in yet another parallel with Covid, it allows them to fold a racism storyline into the greater narrative. With Covid they first engendered, suspicions about China and Chinese people being “the source” of the non-existent problem. Then they condemned these suspicions as racist.

Here, they are spreading fear about Africa, and then claiming that fear is racist.

It is just another great way to divide and distract people.

Alongside this, the irrationality itself seems to serve some purpose.

With Covid we were warned that “super-spreader events” were incredibly dangerous…but that Black Lives Matter protests were the exception because “racism is a worse pandemic than Covid”.

With Monkeypox, despite the narrative claiming it’s spreading among “men who have sex with men”, any decision to cancel pride events or close known cruising spots is apparently “homophobic”.

So maybe there’s an element of simply being irrational for irrationality’s sake. Confusing people to the point they don’t know where to stand.

There’s another potential answer too, a directly pragmatic answer related to other Monkeypox news that came out the last few days.

On June 14th it was announced the WHO will be meeting next week to consider whether or not to declare monkeypox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).

In the US, the CDC has released updated guidelines and case definitions for monkeypox symptoms aiming to “encourage broader suspicion for monkeypox”.

Earlier today, Bloomberg was reporting the US had “not learned from Covid” and “testing bottlenecks” could mean monkeypox cases being missed.

And yesterday Hans Kluge, the WHO’s regional director for Europe, released a statement calling monkeypox a “neglected disease”, going on to say:


The magnitude of this outbreak poses a real risk; the longer the virus circulates, the more it will extend its reach, and the stronger the disease’s foothold will get in non-endemic countries. Governments, health partners and civil society need to act with urgency, and together to control this outbreak;

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So, do you know what I think?

I think the real problem here is that they want to take the monkeypox narrative to the next level, but they’ve saddled themselves with a silly name that will never frighten anybody.

That is why they’re changing it…they want people to be afraid, and “monkeypox” just isn’t scary.

https://off-guardian.org/2022/06/16/the-who-is-changing-the-name-monkeypox-is-it-really-because-of-racism/

[Open Minded Dude]

In Germany right now we have a Cancel Culture debate about a simple silly party song.

When I first heard about the 'Layla' song scandal here yesterday I wondered why poor old Mr Clapton had now been banned for it exactly. But hey, no, it's a different song.

As said an utterly stupid and bad one but now it is a great hit because of the leftist wokies who cry 'sexism' and want it banned everywhere from being played. :facepalm:

Well, to be honest, it certainly is 'sexist' in a way because it is about (pay)sex. And no, I do not advocate for prostitution either. Still, it should not be banned anyway.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/07/13/sexist-pop-song-banned-parts-germany-demeaning-brothel-reference/





Germany was embroiled in a sexism row over a chart topping anthem banned in parts of the country for its demeaning references to brothels.

The country's justice minister, Marco Buschmann, waded into the national debate over DJ Robin and Schuerze’s Layla, which has topped the German singles chart for almost three weeks, saying: "You don't have to like pop song lyrics. You can even find them stupid or tasteless. But to ban them officially, I think, is one step too far."

Earlier this week, authorities in the Bavarian city of Würzburg banned the song, which includes the lyrics "I've got a brothel and my madam's name is Layla/She's prettier, younger, sexier", from being played at the annual Kiliani festival.
The song was also banned from the upcoming Rheinkirmes fair in Dusseldorf, where four million visitors are expected to gather on Friday.

"I think this song belongs everywhere – just not on our fairground," one of the festival’s organisers, Lothar Inden, told the DPA news agency.
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The song's video features two young male partygoers arriving in a new town, where they are led to the eponymous Layla – represented in the video as a man in drag.

The subject matter is a well-worn trope of a genre of music known as ballermann – a portmanteau of the German word ballern, a colloquial word for drinking alcohol in excessive quantities, and mann, or man in English.

The music has origins in the German party scene in Mallorca and combines electronic beats with the catchy pop vocals of traditional German Schlager music.

Those behind the song say they don’t understand the debate.

“We can't quite understand the discussion. Everyone can have their opinion, but in every German rap song the lyrics are worse. Nobody gets upset about that,” Robin Leutner, who records under the name DJ Robin, told German daily Bild.

The Junge Union, the youth wing of the conservative CDU-CSU alliance, also came under fire for playing the song at a regional party conference in Kassel last month.

Rival Social Democrat politician Sophie Fruehwald accused the organisation of "sheer sexism" and said it showed the party was not serious about promoting women.

Be warned if you click on it. The song is really dumb, musically and lyrically.

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It also makes me think about all the sleazy stuff in Rock or Rap songs. Also think back to The Police's 'Roxanne' or (if you happen to know it and know German) Spider Murphy Gang's 'Skandal Im Sperrbezirk' and other examples who were also hit songs with lyrics about prostitutes. Shouldn't it all be banned now? Seems the party really ended now for good. :Party:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxanne_(The_Police_song)

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skandal_im_Sperrbezirk

[Vangelo]

Sweet Karma: Rabid ‘Social Justice ‘ Movement Implodes, Self-Cannibalizes (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-08-05/sweet-karma-rabid-social-justice-movement-implodes-self-cannibalizes)
FRIDAY, AUG 05, 2022 - 15:01
by Ben Bartee via The Daily Bell

As the snake devours its own tail, SJW ideology reaps its karma.

The façade is crumbling because it lacks any foundation. The SJW house — built on weird, self-contradictory, incoherent academic dogma — victimizes itself with its own inertia.

Such ideologically-driven social engineering endeavors fail, on a long enough timeline, without exception. The principal cause is that they are not rooted in material reality. Nor do they justify themselves. Nor are their abstract theories sufficiently tested in real-world conditions.

The SJW phenomenon went supernova circa 2014, and is now in the process of imploding into a black hole. The star that burns twice as bright, as the expression goes, burns half as long. The quickening is palpable.

———–

No previously untouchable protected minority – not Anne Frank nor the diverse pale-skin LGBTQ+++© sexual minorities – is immune from the SJW cannibalism.

<< twitter screenshot that said "... yeah, Anne Frank had white privilege..." >>

Similar in function to the military-industrial complex, SJW ideology depends on the continual advent of new enemies to maintain its vitality.

The framing of the white heterosexual, Christian man as the devil is now passé. That horse has been beaten to death, and no longer satisfies the SJW bloodlust. The mob requires newer adversaries in the out-group to be hated at ever-greater intensities.

The absurdity accelerates towards the point that, in the near future, the only “marginalized” voice deemed worthy of consideration will be that of an ultra-intersectional BIPOC, genderqueer, non-binary, neurodivergent, disabled, non-binary transgender lesbian furry.

The woman below in blue lipstick and some sort of Kentucky Derby/Harry Potter hat with a matching doo rag (both an aesthetic win and a sure sign of mental stability) explains. White women don’t get to have opinions about the recent Roe vs. Wade overturn.

The delicious irony is that baby-boomer white women in liberal arts colleges — products of the 60s counterculture in which abortion rights were front and center — singlehandedly drove the development of the ideology that has now turned on them.

And now they can’t talk about abortion.

Eventually, even the most privileged SJW voice — like the non-binary BIPOC (apparently) bipolar one above — will be silenced for some reason or other. She breathes air – and that’s asphyxiation-phobic against non-breathing individuals or whatever.

At the risk of mixed metaphors, SJW ideology is a rabid animal, lashing out at anything it can, and becoming more degenerate, unrestrained and undisciplined in its violence by the day.

This is the inevitable dead end of an ideology with nothing substantial to support it — no sustaining principles at its core except victimhood as a virtue and the visceral satisfaction that hate of the “oppressor” provides.

The left is an unlikely hodgepodge of blacks, Hispanics (although increasingly not so as they identify less and less with the Democrat Party), other racial groups, women, feminists, transgenders and related gender ideologues, Marxists, academics, religious minorities like Muslims, etc.

In the absence of any real class solidarity or shared economic aims, the bonds that ultimately tie these groups together are merely resistance to the phantom “white patriarchy,” which itself is a conjured specter.

The left, therefore, is, by its nature, weak. Its various divergent elements can be manipulated, reconfigured, or disbanded at will. The left won’t ever seriously threaten the power structure because their constituent parts can simply be pitted against one another at will.

The alliance among the many factions of the left is a ticking timebomb. Their only uniting feature is hatred of their own society based on various identity-based grievances.
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The canceler becomes the canceled
YouTuber Ethan Klein, host of h3h3 Productions, earlier this year deleted his old interview with Jordan Peterson in a virtue signaling gesture. He denounced Peterson as “transphobic” based on out-of-context soundbites.

In reply, Peterson sent the following prescient warning to Klein:

“You will be held to higher and higher and soon impossible to maintain ethical standards by the very mob you currently wish to please. Then you will make a mistake, and they will devour you. With glee.”

Mere months later, Klein found himself cancelled for making what, in context, was an obvious joke about bombing an NRA convention. Taken in full context, no reasonable interpretation could be made that it was a literal incitement to violence.

However, his political opponents clipped out a 10-second soundbite, disseminated it without context, and he ended up suspended from YouTube.

Unless you are genuinely a member of the power elite, censorship will always come back to bite you. Promoting of censorship is promotion of your own eventual future silencing.

Third-wave feminists birthed the social justice monster, now it eats them
Social justice activists inevitably bite the hand that feeds.

“Matricide” is the technical term for killing one’s own mother.

The delicious irony is that baby-boomer white women in liberal arts colleges — products of the 60s counterculture in which abortion rights were front and center — singlehandedly drove the development of the ideology that has now turned on them.

And now they can’t talk about abortion, “transgender” men usurping their place in women’s sports, or any of a dozen of sacred cows.

JK Rowling, a prominent leftist feminist, is now persona non grata at Harry Potter events for defending basic biological reality (ie being “transphobic”).

Portland, Oregon lesbian bar shut down for ‘transphobia’
A lesbian bar opened in ultra-progressive Portland and closed no more than a week later, due to its failure to accommodate penis-packing men who self-identified as lesbians. The owners were also accused, of course, of racism and non-compliance with COVID safety measures.

Delicious.

The mob will unleash itself on everyone in due time
The problem with mobs – while they do serve political utility in the short-term (i.e., BLM) – is that they are unruly. Their chaotic energy requires an outlet; like a fire, they consume whatever they can in their immediate reach.

Ideological motivations, to the extent that they were ever really central to begin with, become an afterthought to the mob. The prime directive is to feed.

The beautiful thing is that, because of its totally manufactured, plastic nature, imploding the SJW movement requires exactly zero effort from the opposition.

Kick back and enjoy the implosion of “social justice” – the greatest cultural scourge of the 21st century. The end is nigh. Dance on its grave, in celebration of the demise of the moral obscenity.

Above: Social justice marches inexorably towards its fate

Ben Bartee is an independent Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Follow his stuff via Armageddon Prose and/or Substack, Patreon, Gab, and Twitter.

[Bill Ryan]

From Sky News Australia, a couple of days ago:

Cancelled dancer Rosie Kay speaks out on ‘horrific’ bullying


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47Z-dEOglFk
~~~

Dancer and choreographer Rosie Kay says she will not shy away from the “horrific” cancel culture and bullying which led her to resign from a dance company. Ms Kay resigned from her dance company following a mob witch-hunt which targeted remarks she made during a dinner party at her home.

Ms Kay said she was not enforcing her views on anyone. “Those of us that have had to run the gauntlet of these kinds of horrific, houndings or cancellations, we have to use this now,” she told Sky News Australia. “We have to stand up against this, this is bullying.”

[onawah]

Teaching Reading Again: The Struggle
Aug18 2022
by Jon Rappoport

https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2022/08/18/teaching-reading-again-the-struggle/

"Time Magazine reports there is an internal struggle among teachers and school systems across America—in an attempt to turn back the clock and teach the basics of reading to first and second grade students.

It seems that phonics was dropped by the side of the road years ago, because many teachers didn’t have the patience for it. They wouldn’t go through the laborious step by step process of imparting the basic sounds of letters and letter combinations to young minds.

And trying to read without learning those sounds is a complete failure for all but a relatively few students.

But now, phonics is on the way back in some school districts. I guess it’s too embarrassing to show parents reading-test scores that come in lower than sea-bottom.

I recall learning phonics day after day in the first and second grade, in 1943 and 1944.

Memo to school boards buying text books these days: We had no text books.

The teacher taught phonics using the blackboard.

When we’d progressed far enough, we read, bit by bit, from Dick and Jane books. And those books weren’t new. They were handed down from class to class every year.

My earliest memory of reading instruction (first grade): Each student had a little box containing small squares of cardboard. On each square was a letter. The teacher printed a simple sentence on the blackboard. We dug into our boxes, pulled out the squares, and laid out that sentence on our desks.

Those were the primitive conditions of yesteryear.

They were more than adequate. The TEACHERS were the key.

As we moved up from grade to grade, there was the excitement of knowing we could go to the school library, find books, check them out, and read them. We knew how to read.

When I was 11, I was on a baseball team playing in a tournament in Niagara Falls. Just before climbing on the bus for the long ride back to New York, I ran into a store, spotted a book rack, and grabbed a paperback.

It was Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles.

Reading it on the way home, I thought about becoming a writer for the first time.

I still remember my first grade teacher, Miss Hampe. She was patient, disciplined, and kind. No student ever considered getting around her and avoiding schoolwork.

The child geniuses who inhabit classrooms these days can call us prisoners. But we did eventually throw off our chains.

When we were ready. When we had learned enough.

And no moron or monster ever asked us, “Have you thought about what gender you are?” "

(I came to first grade a bit late because my family moved from D.C. to Denver, so I missed the initial teaching about phonics, and I felt so lost, scared and stupid until the teacher finally took me aside and explained it to me.
I caught on quickly after that and reading became the main joy of my life.
I worked as a nanny for a time and one of my charges was a little girl who was having the same problem but didn't get the benefit of being taught phonics in school at all.
She started crying one day when I was reading a story to her and I had to coax her into explaining why because she felt so stupid and ashamed.
I was able to teach her the secret in about one hour, and as with me, the ability to read became a major, joyous revelation.
It makes me furious to think of all the kids who have been suffering for years now, having been deprived of such an easy lesson.
Much like the devastation the "New Math" must have been wreaking on kids as well.
But it looks like common sense may yet prevail if the trend of returning to phonics continues.
They also need to start teaching how to read and write cursive. What a waste of time and energy it is having to print everything! )

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/299226974_10225130004655668_8795070838068272329_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=hdnhDsETNSYAX-4Fd4j&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=00_AT-4WF2Q4SFRxJG9toWbBtqsMldP2CJ4KEZ0yZfXYAsQwQ&oe=6303AB39

[onawah]

Teacher Suspended for Not Using Student’s Preferred Name, Pronoun--Gets $95,000 Settlement
by Mimi Nguyen Ly
Sep 4, 2022
https://www.ntd.com/teacher-suspended-for-not-using-students-preferred-name-pronouns-gets-95000-settlement_835504.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2022-09-05&utm_medium=email[/url

(Victory for common sense. As if teachers don't already have enough to contend with...)

"A teacher in Kansas has received a $95,000 settlement after she was suspended by her former employer for refusing to use a student’s preferred name and pronoun.

Pamela Ricard, who had taught math at Fort Riley Middle School before she retired in May, was suspended for three days by the school in April 2021, and received a formal written reprimand that same month for “addressing a biologically female student by the student’s legal and enrolled last name,” according to a lawsuit Ricard filed in March against school officials
(pdf: [url]https://adfmedialegalfiles.blob.core.windows.net/files/RicardComplaint.pdf ).

In a statement on Aug. 31, Alliance Defending Freedom announced that Fort Riley Middle School officials “have agreed to pay $95,000 in damages and attorneys’ fees for violating a math teacher’s First Amendment rights when they reprimanded and suspended her for addressing a student by the student’s legal and enrolled name and forced her to conceal the student’s social transition from the student’s parents.”

Attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom and Kriegshauser Ney Law Group represented Ricard in her lawsuiit.
As part of the settlement, school officials agreed to issue a statement that Ricard was in good standing without any disciplinary actions against her at the time she retired in May, the Alliance Defending Freedom announced in a statement. https://adfmedia.org/case/ricard-v-usd-475-geary-county-schools-school-board-members

Because of the settlement, attorneys for Alliance Defending Freedom filed a dismissal (pdf) of the case on Aug. 31.
( https://adfmedialegalfiles.blob.core.windows.net/files/RicardDismissal.pdf )

School Board Denied Appeal
According to the account of events, a school counselor emailed Ricard in early April 2021 to say that a student asked the school counselor to tell Ricard to refer to them by their preferred first name and the he/him pronouns, which are different from the student’s biological female sex and from the student’s enrolled name.

Following the email, Ricard decided to refer to the student as “Miss [legal last name]” and was disciplined by the school for doing so with a three-day suspension and reprimand. She appealed the discipline in July to the superintendent and the Board of Education of Geary County Schools USD 475.

At a closed board hearing in August 2021 over her employee discipline, Ricard said that her decision to do use”Miss [legal last name],” instead of using the student’s preferred first name, was “intended to be respectful to the student without compromising Ms. Ricard’s own conscience and religious beliefs.”

At the hearing, Ricard also requested a religious accommodation, asking if she could continue to address students by their names but refrain from using preferred pronouns or other gender-specific language when they do not match the student’s biological sex.

The school board on Sept. 7, 2021 voted to unanimously deny Ricard’s disciplinary appeal, as well as deny her request for a religious accommodation. At the same hearing, members of the board “adopted a new district-wide policy expressly mandating the use of students’ preferred names and pronouns.”

First Amendment Rights
Ricard’s attorneys stated in the complaint that any policy that requires her to refer to a student by a “gendered, non-binary, or plural pronoun … or other gendered language that is different from the student’s biological sex” actively violates her religious beliefs.

“Ms. Ricard is a Christian and holds sincere religious beliefs consistent with the traditional Christian and biblical understanding of the human person and biological sex. Ms. Ricard believes that God created human beings as either male or female, that this sex is fixed in each person from the moment of conception, and that it cannot be changed, regardless of an individual person’s feelings, desires, or preferences,” reads the complaint.

The suit asserted that school officials “have retaliated against Ms. Ricard for exercising her First Amendment rights, including her right not be compelled to engage in particular speech or expression, have violated her First Amendment rights to free speech and free exercise of religion, have violated the unconstitutional conditions doctrine, have deprived her of due process and equal protection of law, and have breached their contract with her.
“Thus, this action concerns the denial of Ms. Ricard’s fundamental and clearly established rights under the Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment, the unconstitutional conditions doctrine, and the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
Alliance Defending Freedom hailed the settlement as “a victory for free speech at public schools.”
“No school district should ever force teachers to willfully deceive parents or engage in any speech that violates their deeply held religious beliefs,” Tyson Langhofer, senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom said in a statement.

“We’re pleased to settle this case favorably on behalf of Pam, and we hope that it will encourage school districts across the country to support the constitutionally protected freedom of teachers to teach and communicate honestly with both children and parents.”

The Epoch Times has reached out to Reginald Eggleston, the superintendent of Geary County Schools USD, and Kathleen Brennan, principal of Fort Riley Middle School, for comment. The Geary County School District had declined to comment when reached by The Hill.

The case is Ricard v. USD 475 Geary County Schools School Board Members, No 5:22-cv-04015."

From the Epoch Times

[rgray222]

I thought this must be fake news but apparently, it is true. See link below.

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a913xN0_460swp.webp

Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/teacher-jailed-for-contempt-of-court-refusing-student-gender-neutral-pronouns-ireland/

[JackMcThorn]

I thought this must be fake news but apparently, it is true. See link below.

It is true to a point. He was barred from going to the school to teach and was jailed for violating this order. He wasn't jailed for not using the desired pronouns.

https://www.rte.ie/search/query/Enoch%20Burke/

[rgray222]

I thought this must be fake news but apparently, it is true. See link below.

It is true to a point. He was barred from going to the school to teach and was jailed for violating this order. He wasn't jailed for not using the desired pronouns.

https://www.rte.ie/search/query/Enoch%20Burke/

Technically you're correct but ultimately it was this teacher's refusal to use gender-neutral pronouns and his desire to continue to work that had him arrested. In my mind, there are two genders only and there will always be only two genders. If men desire to be identified as women more power to them but people should not be put in jail, lose their job or be cancelled in any way whatsoever.

Speaking from an American perspective, we are being told that the border is secure, but this is not true. We are being told that crime is not out of control, but this is not true. We are being told that there are more than two genders but this is not true. We have been told that if you take the covid vaccine you cannot get covid, this was never true. The list just goes on and on. There is a sizable section of the population that wants everyone to believe that black is actually white.

I believe that there are millions of people like myself, we have no problem with gay or trans people we just refuse to go along with the lie about more than two genders. Truth and common sense should be our guiding principles.

[rgray222]

I am not necessarily a fan of Rosanne Barr but I do like the fact that people and companies are saying screw the cancel culture.

Fox Nation Ignores Cancel Culture, Brings Roseanne Barr Back for Comedy Special

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9f15cad4bed05210e5837b53760d6f933f936d09/476_156_3285_1971/master/3285.jpg?width=620&quality=85&dpr=1&s=none

Remember Roseanne Barr, the actress that was canceled shortly after her show on ABC, “Roseanne,” was revived by ABC in 2018? If not, the backstory is that she posted a tweet that the usual suspects called “racist”.

The Daily Wire, reporting on that incident, said:

In 2018, Barr was fired from the reboot of her incredibly popular ABC series “Roseanne,” following a tweet that was quickly labeled racist. The show was canceled and the series later came back to the network without her, retitled “The Conners.”

She recently spoke about that tweet — which read, “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby” — and was aimed at former White House senior adviser to President Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, as The Daily Wire previously reported.

Roseanne later apologized somewhat for the tweet, blaming it on her Ambien use and saying “I shoulda not did it, but by God, I was really pissed that day. I did something I wouldn’t do if I hadn’t been on that Ambien. It makes you do a lot of crazy s***.” She also apologized on Twitter for her anti-Jarret tweet on Twitter, saying “I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans. I am truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks. I should have known better. Forgive me-my joke was in bad taste.”

But, despite those apologies, ABC went ahead and canceled the show anyway. At the time, many, particularly those on the right, suspected that the real reason for the cancelation of the show and Roseanne herself was that she is a known Trump supporter, and so is someone that a mainstream network would want to get rid of.

Well, now Roseanne is back! Despite the left’s attempts at canceling her, she’s being brought back by Fox Nation, the Fox News-connected streaming service. Jason Klarman, president of Fox Nation, spoke about the new show, which will debut in 2023, saying:

“Roseanne is a comedy icon whose humor connects with the American audience like no other. Her ability to channel the challenges of everyday people and find the humor in it all has earned her the passionate following of millions of dedicated fans. We are thrilled to add her comedy special exclusively to the Fox Nation catalog.”

Deadline, adding more context regarding Fox Nation’s other offerings, reported that:

The special is the latest Fox Nation entertainment offering, as the streamer has tried to build on the Fox News audience beyond news programming. Other recent content includes Duck Family Treasure and the upcoming Sharon Osbourne: To Hell & Back and Yellowstone: One-Fifty with Kevin Costner.

So they tried canceling Roseanne but, thanks to Fox Nation taking a chance on her and wanting to keep her around, she’s back on TV and will be making conservative audiences laugh once again. Good for her and good for Fox Nation, it’s fun to watch cancel culture fail!

Source: https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/boom-fox-nation-ignores-cancel-culture-brings-roseanne-barr-back-for-comedy-special-wiley/?utm_source=ORW&fbclid=IwAR38iY2HAcqK7jQ53rUdS6E5eSvePKD0izFcoUhdwxsyIV524HTuqW-AZfo

[rgray222]

Where is the cancel culture or more aptly stated the social terrorist when they are actually needed?

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/amA7qmj_460svav1.mp4

[Ewan]

An attempt at cancelling apparently failed. See/hear Gabriel Iglesias tell the story..
(BTW, in case you never heard of him he is a really funny guy).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X41OzNHQc3w

If the media ignored it cancel culture wouldn't get to first base.

[gini]

Katie Hopkins: In support of those speaking out. And punished for ‘wrong-think’.--14/1/23--8 min-ErcXoV5EfmQ

[arwen]

Incentivizing Censorship: A Snitch in Every Skull. “The Totalitarian Virus” (https://www.globalresearch.ca/incentivizing-censorship-snitch-every-skull/5805536)

Anti-war academic Dr. TJ Coles is at the center of two raging controversies over freedom of speech - and one overarching assault on human rights

An informational iron curtain is coming down across the West, and its architects are determined to make examples out of those who refuse to pick a side.

Our Democracy™ has adopted a zero-tolerance policy for pollution of the information ecosystem, and the Thought Police are standing by to halt rogue infodemics in their tracks, lest the people lose trust in their institutions.


Dr. Tim Coles, a freelance writer and postdoctoral researcher until recently at the University of Plymouth didn’t realize he was in their crosshairs until he found himself locked out of his university email account in October. Tech support was no help; department staff refused to talk to him, closing ranks and sending him a threatening email demanding he cease contact. Clearly, he had violated some unwritten law. But what?

The chain of emails that had culminated in his removal only raised further questions about why an apparent stranger whom Plymouth has refused to name – a university employee, he suspects – had complained about his writing for Australian magazine Nexus to his old PhD examiner.

In a Kafkaesque turn, the complaint lacked a single concrete accusation of wrongdoing that Coles could defend himself against, instead equivocating around familiar “conspiracy theorist” tropes. At any rate, no one had thought to consult Coles, perhaps believing him to be a disgruntled ex-student trading on his old university email rather than a researcher whose work at the university was funded by an outside trust and had nothing to do with his political writing. Rather than pause for clarification, his PhD examiner appeared to jump in with both feet, urging tech staff to help get Coles “off [the university’s] books.”

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While a prolific writer on many controversial topics – US funding and training of neo-Nazis in Ukraine, the West’s neocolonial plunder of Africa under the guise of fighting terrorism, and Big Pharma’s giant power-grab under cover of Covid-19 unholy alliance of Big Pharma and Big Tech amid the coronavirus outbreak are just a few – Coles believes he ran afoul of the university censors with a series of articles about intelligence agencies blackmailing people with child sexual abuse that ran in Nexus not long before the cancellation effort began. That particular subject has a tendency to get journalists killed, and Coles wonders if his ejection from Plymouth might be a warning shot from groups displeased with his inquiries. He acknowledges, however, that the timing may be a coincidence – Hope Not Hate and other intelligence-controlled censorship advocates were apparently trying to have Nexus banned in the UK around the same time for its publication of unorthodox views on Covid-19.

While he believes the evidence in the email chain is enough to prove wrongdoing by the university, Coles couldn’t even file a complaint through the normal channels, as his inquisitors had roped the complaints department into their conspiracy by including them in the email chain. He has considered releasing the messages publicly as a last resort, but first plans to employ an outside arbitrator and give the System one last chance – more than he was given, at any rate.

Lessons from The Lobby

Coles is far from the first to be booted from a British university campus for thought crime. He sees parallels between his case and that of David Miller, the University of Bristol sociology professor who was subjected to a ferocious academic inquisition and ultimately drummed out of his post in late 2021 after the Board of Deputies of British Jews deliberately misinterpreted comments he had made about Israel weaponizing Jewish students abroad. The university’s Union of Jewish Students had been attacking him for years before seizing upon the supposedly discriminatory comment, which they only heard because they had sent in an activist ’spy’ to monitor one of his classes – ironically validating the professor’s claims better than his own arguments could have

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Like Coles, Miller was never directly confronted by his accuser, who opted for mealy-mouthed pseudo-accusations (“conspiracy theorist,” “inciting hatred”) over potentially-disprovable crimes. Like Plymouth, Bristol took the side of the accuser against its employee almost reflexively. Former Labour MP Chris Williamson, himself a victim of the Israeli lobby’s devastating smear machine, joined the Support David Miller campaign in warning that the university’s failure to stand up for the professor would only encourage “bad faith actors” to pursue further censorship.

Shortly before the lobby finally convinced Miller’s university to mount an investigation into his supposed bigotry, he observed that such pressure tactics were imported from the Israel lobby in the US and pointed out that if any other foreign lobby attempted to wage such total war on its critics, they would be “laughed out of the room.” But Coles’ experience suggests other groups have taken lessons from the Israelis – and that Williamson’s warning was prescient.

Academic “cancel culture” is a well-known scourge of American campuses, where careless tweeting costs lives and professors can be axed for using the wrong pronouns. But while most discussion of the phenomenon centers on the targeting of conservative professors, it has targeted left-wing heterodoxy with equal fury, as tenured New York University media studies professor Mark Crispin Miller discovered when a student demanded his firing via Twitter after taking offense to a discussion questioning the utility of masks in his 2020 class on Propaganda.

Like Coles and the other Miller across the pond, Miller was attacked by university colleagues with vague allegations of “attacks on students and others in our community,” “aggressions and microaggressions,” and “explicit hate speech” and an investigation was launched behind his back even in the absence of any specific forbidden act. Administrators went one step further and contacted all his students to remind them of the CDC’s mask guidance, lest their fragile minds have been corrupted by the conspiracy theorist in the classroom. They couldn’t fire him – he was tenured, after all – but they did their best to make his life so miserable that he would leave, forbidding him from teaching his beloved Propaganda class, and he has been on sabbatical since.

Even Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch, was recently denied a fellowship at the Carr Center for Human Rights, part of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, on the basis of wrongthink – what its dean described as his “anti-Israel bias.” Roth has toed the line on foreign policy groupthink elsewhere, dutifully demonizing Putin, Assad, Trump, and so on as the needs of Empire demanded. But his refusal to ignore Israel’s increasingly bold apartheid policies got him the David Miller treatment despite years of faithful service. If Roth isn’t safe, many academics have begun to wonder, what the hell are they going to do to me?!

Will Censor for Food

While Coles questions if universities were ever really the freethinkers’ utopia so many academic misfits yearn for, there is no denying groupthink has tightened its hold in recent years. While an academic might once have been left alone to research controversial subjects on his own time so long as he didn’t embarrass his employer, this laissez-faire approach has been replaced by an administrative panopticon that is both hyper-responsive and reflexively condemnatory – a “cottage industry of shutting people down,” in the words of its recent target. Censorship has been outsourced from the state and its corporate minions to “academics and think tanks who are given a well-funded government hammer so they see everything as a nail of disinformation,” Coles explains. Not simply salaried, they are financially incentivized to bag-and-tag as many pieces of “disinformation” as they can, essentially bounty hunters for inconvenient truths, enabling a much tighter, more granular control of information than was ever possible under a traditional totalitarian model.

These programs and campaigns – with names like Integrity Initiative, Center for Countering Digital Hate, Trusted News Initiative – initially appear to be independent nonprofits that just happen to share a common devotion to fighting fake news.

However, their cooperation is more than superficial, with many of the same entities ultimately directing their actions as they work together to artificially muscle the discourse in the desired direction, choking off competing narratives while maintaining plausible deniability regarding their connections to the state.

In this model of soft totalitarianism, the dissident is not so much ordered to cease publishing objectionable ideas, or even threatened with execution or creative torture. He is merely subjected to mounting insults, ‘nudged’ in certain directions, and gradually stripped of resources, especially any public platform he may have had in accordance with his refusal to follow the rules. Amid this complex ballet of carrot and stick, he is constantly reminded that these are his decisions, making him (in his own mind, at least) a willing participant in his own spiritual suffocation.

Fact-checkers, once mere newsroom employees tasked with verifying the details of major stories, have been artificially elevated into a caste of gatekeepers, deemed impartial arbiters of truth even as their donor lists burst with conflicts of interest from Pierre Omidyar to Bill Gates to George Soros. This veneer of independence allows them much greater latitude than any equivalent government body, as the ignominious collapse of the US’ Disinformation Governance Board last year proved. This official Ministry of Truth, which would have operated out of the Department of Homeland Security, was a bridge too far even for the American media establishment, which had long since embraced its unofficial equivalent censoring tweets and Facebook posts to keep the world safe for democracy.

The full article is embedded in the link above in the title.

[JackMcThorn]

This is a pretty serious example of cancelling a teacher on the Emerald Isle. He refused to address a transgender student with a new name and the pronouns they/them based on a conflict with his religious beliefs.

He was actually imprisoned from September until December of last year for attending school whilst being suspended with pay.

He continues to attend the school, but is not let in the gate. Instead of more prison, the judge insists a fine of €7oo per day starting at 2pm to-morrow.

This one article will get one up to date on all the events thus far.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0126/1351944-enoch-burke-court/

[arwen]

I was not quite sure where to post this as it involves the approach to mainstream journalism, but this does seem to be the most fitting category.

Objectivity is now cancelled.......

Major News Outlets Say They’re Ditching Objectivity In The Name Of ‘Diversity’ (https://dailycaller.com/2023/01/31/major-news-outlets-objectivity/)

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Leaders of prominent news organizations are eschewing journalistic objectivity, claiming it is antithetical to a diversity of views in their newsrooms, according to a series of interviews conducted by two journalism scholars.

Former executive editor for The Washington Post Leonard Downie Jr. and former CBS News President Andrew Heyward interviewed over 75 media leaders to gauge how the industry views the concept of “objectivity.” The media figures argued that journalists should include their own beliefs, biases, and experiences to convey truth, and that journalistic objectivity was either unrealistic or undesirable.

“Objectivity has got to go,” said Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor-in-chief at the San Francisco Chronicle.

“[I]ncreasingly, reporters, editors and media critics argue that the concept of journalistic objectivity is a distortion of reality. They point out that the standard was dictated over decades by male editors in predominantly White newsrooms and reinforced their own view of the world,” Downie Jr. wrote. “They believe that pursuing objectivity can lead to false balance or misleading “bothsidesism” in covering stories about race, the treatment of women, LGBTQ+ rights, income inequality, climate change and many other subjects. And, in today’s diversifying newsrooms, they feel it negates many of their own identities, life experiences and cultural contexts, keeping them from pursuing truth in their work.”

“Journalists of color” and LGBTQ journalists said that reporting objectively “negates their own identity, life experiences and cultural contexts, keeping them from pursuing truth in their work,” according to Downie Jr.

Journalists believe objectivity prevents them from accurate reporting, as it bars them from channeling their background and beliefs, the survey found.

“It’s objective by whose standard? … That standard seems to be White, educated, and fairly wealthy,” said Kathleen Carroll, former executive editor at the Associated Press.

The media shouldn’t simply use “neutral language” by default, New York Times executive editor Joseph Kahn said. For instance, if there is undisputed evidence of racism or falsehoods, journalists should be direct with readers.

The Los Angeles Times allows their staff to write personal essays so they can share more of their identities, said editor Kevin Merida. Such essays appear on the first page, including a gay reporter’s story about marriage and the legalities of gay marriage.

USA Today has no problem allowing their reporters to write about their own experiences, so long as the stories aren’t too biased, said editor-in-chief Nicole Carroll. She also welcomes a diverse group of journalists to express their experiences when discussing newsworthy stories.

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“What we found has convinced us that truth-seeking news media must move beyond whatever ‘objectivity’ once meant to produce more trustworthy news,” said Downie Jr.

Many of the interviewees seemed to be in support of such a change.

“This appears to be the beginning of another generational shift in American journalism,” Downie Jr. said.

[arwen]

Cancel culture has occurred repeatedly throughout history. This epic quote from Milan Kundera, author of the seminal classic novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being) serves as a reminder of that.

https://cdn.ciudad.com.ar/sites/default/files/styles/grizzly_galeria/public/nota/2020/07/30/milankundera.jpg?itok=0CJTc4Zd



"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history, Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster……The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."


The quote is from his book, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Laughter_and_Forgetting), published in 1979.

[rgray222]

Roseanne Barr discusses her return to stand-up after becoming a victim of cancel culture on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight. In particular, she discusses comedians being canceled.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gojtvz_73U

[Bill Ryan]

https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/20973

UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/20973

[arwen]

Norwegian Museum Drops Classic Painting of America's Discovery as 'Colonialist' (https://sputniknews.com/20230221/norwegian-museum-drops-classic-painting-of-americas-discovery-as-colonialist-1107647126.html)

https://cdnn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e6/0a/0b/1101705184_0:94:3073:1822_1920x0_80_0_0_23b3cfe1b6ba42ec2c744bded62e48e9.jpg.webp


The decision to remove a classic 19th-century painting of Viking voyages as "romanticization of colonialism" was slammed as "ahistoric," "frightening" and tantamount to censorship.

The Norwegian National Museum in Oslo has landed in hot water by its recent move to demote a classic painting by Christian Krohg depicting the Viking discovery of America into the basement. Krohg's "Leif Ericsson Discovering America" from 1893, was received as a gift from Leif Erikson Memorial Association in Chicago in 1900 and adorned the museum's staircase until deemed "colonialist" by its authorities.

It shows a group of Viking seafarers, who are thought to be the first Europeans to discover North America around the year 1,000, after crossing the Atlantic ocean in their longships. In doing so, they formed a short-lived settlement named Vinland.

"The picture is a romanticization of Norwegians who went to America. It is a colonialist image," National Museum department director Stina Högkvist told Norwegian media, justifying the move that immediately sparked a hot debate over what many interpreted as unacceptable censorship, devoid of history.

Art historian and author Tommy Sorbo called this move "both ahistorical and frightening."

"It is classic censorship and it says that you are not mature enough for this picture," he told Norwegian media. "Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Michelangelo. Down in the basement with it. Censorship, censorship." He emphasized that it is a-given that works of art carry with them the attitudes and ideologies of their time. "We're not that stupid that we don't see through it as an audience," he concluded.

Politician Mimir Kristjansson of the Reds Party argued that neither the painting nor the image were colonialist. Furthermore, he stressed the necessity to "endure" historic images that don't necessary meed the moral and politically correct standards of the 2020s.

https://cdnn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e7/02/15/1107646882_0:0:611:503_1920x0_80_0_0_31303727a6b400109f88274d71aff6ee.jpg.webp


Art critic Agnes Moxnes slammed the move as ill-advised.

"We are talking about a national museum, with all it entails. In means the national icons should be highlighted. Feel free to discuss them. But jumping straight to the 'colonialist' argument and taking it down that's really unwise!" she wrote on social media. Moxnes also mused that it's not the National Museum's task to censor or cancel art.

Writer Fredrik Horn Akselsen called Krohg, who was inspired by the realism art movement and often chose motifs from everyday life, a "free-spirted humanist" who fought against poverty, for social reforms and equality. Krohg also served as the director and the first professor at the Norwegian Academy of Arts until his death in 1925.

Full article in the title link above.

[arwen]

Shakespeare flagged as ‘far right’ literature in UK (https://www.rt.com/news/571736-uk-shakespeare-far-right/)

The works of the British playwright were among those reportedly included in a list of ‘key texts’ read by white nationalists

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Several of the UK’s most respected television shows, movies and works of literature have been included in a list of works that could potentially encourage far-right sympathies, compiled by the taxpayer-funded and government-led ‘Prevent’ counter-terrorism programme, according to the Daily Mail.

Works by JRR Tolkien, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell and even William Shakespeare, as well as classic movies ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ and ‘The Great Escape’ were cited in a list published by the British paper on Saturday as being highlighted by the counter-terrorism watchdog, for their potential use by far-right agitators to promote troublesome viewpoints online.

“This is truly extraordinary,” historian and broadcaster Andrew Roberts said of the list to the tabloid. “This is the reading list of anyone who wants a civilized, liberal, cultural education.

“It includes some of the greatest works in the Western canon and in some cases – such as Joseph Conrad’s ‘The Secret Agent’ – powerful critiques of terrorism. [Edmund] Burke, Orwell and Tolkien were all anti-totalitarian writers.”

In addition to movies and works of literature, television shows such as the original ‘House of Cards’ series and even the BBC’s ‘Great British Railway Journeys,’ presented by former Conservative politician Michael Portillo, are mentioned by ‘Prevent’ as being potentially attractive to people with far-right viewpoints.

It said in a recent report by its Research Information and Communication Unit (RICU) that far-right corners of the internet had promoted ‘reading lists’ and ‘important texts,’ as well as other media which could potentially stoke radicalism online.

The ‘Prevent’ counter-terrorism programme was set up by the British government in 2011 as a means to safeguard against “vulnerable people being drawn into criminal behaviour,” with an emphasis on combating ultra-right groups and Islamic extremism.

However, a recent audit of its practices found that ‘Prevent’ “often falls well short of the extremism threshold altogether” and that it “has a double-standard when dealing with the extreme right-wing and Islamism.”

Amnesty International has also been highly critical of the project, saying it is “deeply prejudiced” and has “no legitimacy”.

Despite its perceived failings, as highlighted by the review into its standards and practices, major changes are not expected in the management of ‘Prevent,’ which has operational costs of £49 million per year.

[arwen]

Scott Adams' Dilbert cartoon cancelled: (7 minutes)

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And this is what Scott said to cause that:

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[Ewan]

Gary Lineker has been told to step back from his role as presenter on Match of the Day..

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/world/europe/gary-lineker-tweet-match-of-the-day.html


By Michael Levenson and Tariq Panja
Published March 10, 2023Updated March 11, 2023, 5:13 a.m. ET

A beloved soccer program that has been a mainstay on British television since the 1960s has been thrown into turmoil after the BBC suspended the program’s host, the former English soccer star Gary Lineker, over comments that he made criticizing the Conservative government’s immigration policy.

By Saturday, the decision to remove Mr. Lineker from the program, “Match of the Day,” had sparked a boycott drew in not only his co-hosts, but also their potential replacements, related play-by-play commentators, and even players and coaches from the Premier League, which told the 12 teams set to play on Saturday that they would not receive interview requests — possibly to spare the broadcaster the indignity of having them rejected.

The BBC released a statement late Friday saying that “Match of the Day” would go ahead as scheduled, but without hosts or commentary. Instead, a spokesman for the BBC said, the program, which is watched by millions every week, will “focus on match action without studio presentation or punditry.”
more (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/world/europe/gary-lineker-tweet-match-of-the-day.html)


The whole article/situation is farcical and vomit inducing.

The BBC has to retain its stance on impartiality! That is so laughable considering their coverage of the Ukraine situation to name just one current mess.

If it continues like this no opinion, except the ones dictated to you, will be able to be expressed without repercussions in all walks of life - it is already fast heading that way. I don't even agree with Lineker's comments with respect to a much bigger picture but he sure had the right to express them.

The BBC should chage it's name now to the BGBC - the British Government Broadcasting Corporation (incorporating paedophile protection as standard. Jimmy Saville Jill Dando* (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Dando)).

*


Following the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal a claim was made that Dando had investigated a paedophile ring at the BBC during the mid-1990s and had handed a dossier containing her findings to BBC management, purportedly prompting a revenge attack. The BBC said it had seen no evidence to support the claim

[Bill Ryan]

Gary Lineker has been told to step back from his role as presenter on Match of the Day..
Wow. There's quite some backlash. For non-Brits, Lineker, an ex-England footballer of quite some fame, was and is an immensely popular and likeable TV personality.

Here's the real-time live news feed on this, as dozens of his friends and colleagues stand up to support him. :thumbsup:

https://bbc.com/news/live/entertainment-arts-64895316

Summary as of the time of this post:

~~~

What's the latest?

If you're just joining us, fall-out from the Gary Lineker row is coming thick and fast, so here's a quick recap:


Football presenters have been pulling out of key BBC programmes in support of Lineker after he was told to "step back" from Match Of The Day.
Football Focus has been replaced by Bargain Hunt on the BBC One schedule, shortly after presenter Alex Scott said it "doesn't feel right" to go ahead with the show.
Final Score also disappeared from the BBC One list, with The Repair Shop now listed for 4:30pm after presenter Jason Mohammad also said he would not appear today.
Presenter Colin Murray said BBC 5 Live's Fighting Talk was not airing today "for obvious reasons", (https://twitter.com/ColinMurray/status/1634519405097889796) which he said was "a decision taken by the entire FT team and myself".
Match Of The Day pundit Ian Wright has said he'll quit if the BBC "gets rid" of Lineker.
Greg Dyke, a former director general of the BBC, said the corporation was "mistaken" (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64918162) to take Lineker off air.
The BBC has not commented this morning, but yesterday it said it considered Lineker's tweets a breach of its guidelines and that he will remain off air until it gets "an agreed and clear position on his use of social media".

[grapevine]

Yes, the Gary Lineker furore is very much on the lips of most people in the UK right now and I'm getting the popcorn ready. Strangely, my "mainstream" friends are mostly of the opinion that he should be fired, except for one Jewish friend who sees the connection with Freedom of Speech and not as anti-semitic rhetoric. And while protesting about Lineker's comments about 1930s Germany (who is also Jewish btw), they say nothing about MP Suella Braverman's comments about the Refugees, herself a second generation immigrant. As for the BBC, they're prepared to shield paedophiles (Jimmy Savile) for years, not to mention helping to secure huge loans for incompetent Prime Ministers (Boris Johnson) but bow to the left wing militant MPs.

As usual hypocrisy rules the waves in Britannia.

[rgray222]

As far as I know, this guy has not been expelled yet. It seems to me that his university should offer a class on "the problem with academia."'

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a3Z5AZQ_460svav1.mp4

[rgray222]

Cancel Culture backfires

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/amAG8qy_460svav1.mp4

[Pam]

This isn't exactly about cancel culture, but it really has more to do with a culture that definitely needs to be cancelled. I don't normally look at social media but I came across this and at first thought it was a joke, although it would have been in poor taste. Just when I thought our US culture couldn't sink any lower I read this. Apparently the actual incident occurred several years ago, but it went as far as the court system where the 6 year old, maybe older at the time had her case thrown out.

The "offense" that this child was arrested and handcuffed for was kicking a teacher. That could have been dealt with a hundred other ways. Eventually the cop who was assigned to the school was fired because he didn't consult his supervisor before arresting the child, and apparently the principal said she would prefer not arresting the kid, the reality is no one stopped this hideous process until it went to the courts. That means no one at any point said this is insane, I am not going to participate in this. They booked this terrorized kid, they fingerprinted her , the whole nine yards.

A Warning this is very disturbing to watch. I am sure this kid will be forever traumatized over this event. It turns out this cop was hired with some indication of past domestic violence and then thrown in a school.




6 year old gets arrested by police while crying for help

https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1288lcl/6_year_old_gets_arrested_by_police_while_crying/

[Jamie]

This is beyond heartbreaking... how on earth could any adult be comfortable doing such an act to a six year old.
Truly heart breaking.

[rgray222]

Very funny and a small sign that the tide is turning.

Bill Maher Honors Those Who Fought Cancel Culture With ‘The Cojones Awards’ On ‘Real Time’


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sma7s2UBH80
Bill Maher touched on a number of topics during last night’s episode of Real Time, including Fox News‘ $787.5M settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, but cancel culture was front and center once again.

The HBO host shared that he was moderating a discussion at a prominent Hollywood producer’s home about a year-and-a-half ago when the idea for “The Cojones Awards” was conceived.

Although it never came to fruition, he has now decided to make it an annual staple on his show. The makeshift awards segment, complete with brass trophies (of testicles), honors “the brave people who have fought back” against cancel culture.

He presented the first award to Martha Pollack, the president of his alma mater Cornell University, for standing up to students who “demanded trigger warnings before all the lectures in case any of the adult subjects you specifically went to college to learn about came up.” Maher said Pollack responded by not caving in or hiring a new “Dean of Sensitivity” but instead simply said no, explaining that “college is for introducing you to new ideas.”

He quipped that he’s “just amazed at how this generation can simultaneously be too sensitive for anything distasteful and somehow also so into eating a**.”

His next award went to Trader Joe’s for responding to a petition claiming that their beer, Trader José, was racist and should be rebranded. Maher joked that management “did the right thing” and burned down all their stores and killed themselves.

“No!,” he exclaimed, “they didn’t. They said f**k off you oversensitive little s**ts. Get a life and a sense of humor.” He then shared the statement they released which read “we disagree that any of these labels are racist and we do not make decisions based on petitions.”

One of his final two awards went to Ted Sarandos for standing up to dozens of Netflix employees who walked out “over Dave Chappelle‘s reckless decision to perform comedy on his comedy special.” Maher said he responded by reminding employees that “comedy exists to push boundaries.”

Maher’s last award went to Ben Stiller for responding to critics of his film Tropic Thunder. Stiller tweeted that he makes no apologies for the movie and that it has always been a controversial title since they opened, adding that he’s proud of it and the work everyone did on it.

The overall point of Maher’s awards segment was to show people that “if you stand up to the mob for just a day or two, their shallow, impatient, immature, smartphone-driven gerbil minds will forget about it and go on to the next nothing burger and you still will have your cojones.”

You can watch Maher’s full Cojones Awards segment above and catch new episodes of Real Time on HBO on Fridays at 10PM ET.

Source: https://decider.com/2023/04/22/bill-maher-honors-those-who-fought-cancel-culture-with-the-cojones-awards-on-real-time/

[Kryztian]

Concerns over sex content leads Florida schools to pull Shakespeare
By Jeffrey S. SolochekTimes staff
Published Aug. 8|Updated Aug. 8
https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/08/08/concerns-over-sex-content-leads-florida-schools-pull-shakespeare/


The big story: After Florida adopted its Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking standards in 2020, the Department of Education distributed recommended reading lists it said included “top of the line literary works with world renowned titles.”

Authors on the high school list included William Shakespeare.

Three years later, some Florida school districts are shying away from Shakespeare, along with other classic and popular materials. They say they’re attempting to comply with new state law restricting books with and instruction about sexual content.

Hillsborough County became the latest to take this step, telling teachers they could assign excerpts of plays such as “Romeo and Juliet,” but not the full text.

“I think the rest of the nation — no, the world, is laughing us,” Gaither High teacher Joseph Cool said after learning of the directive. “Taking Shakespeare in its entirety out because the relationship between Romeo and Juliet is somehow exploiting minors is just absurd.”

[Kryztian]

Gay emojis must be banned – Russian MP
Some of the pictograms used in smartphones promote LGBTQ values in violation of the country’s laws, Aleksey Zhuravlev has said
https://www.rt.com/russia/591088-lgbtq-emoji-ban-duma/

At least two dozen emojis found in smartphones promote nontraditional sexual relations and should be banned in Russia, the first deputy chairman of the parliamentary defense committee, Aleksey Zhuravlev has stated.

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Some pictograms depict “same-sex couples with children, kissing men, kissing women, a pregnant man, a male-bride with a mustache, bearded women” and others, the lawmaker told Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Friday. Zhuravlev is the leader of the Rodina (Motherland) party and a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) in the State Duma.

Emojis are mainly employed in instant messengers and social media sites, which are the most popular platforms among users, he noted.

“All this is seen by kids, who constantly send those emojis to each other,” Zhuravlev said.

The MP pointed out that a law banning LGBTQ propaganda in Russia is already in force, insisting that the pictograms represent “exactly the type of propaganda” that it’s supposed to tackle.

“Measures must be taken to remove those emojis and block their use in Russia,” he declared.

A ban on disseminating LGBTQ material among those aged under 18 was introduced in Russia in 2013.

In 2022, the legislation was expanded to include both minors and adults. The law on the “protection of traditional values” made it illegal to promote LGBTQ, pedophilia, and sex changes in advertising, books, movies, and media.

In November last year, Russia’s Supreme Court outlawed the “international LGBTQ public movement,” designating it an extremist organization.

[Ewan]

Gay emojis must be banned – Russian MP
Some of the pictograms used in smartphones promote LGBTQ values in violation of the country’s laws, Aleksey Zhuravlev has said
https://www.rt.com/russia/591088-lgbtq-emoji-ban-duma/

At least two dozen emojis found in smartphones promote nontraditional sexual relations and should be banned in Russia, the first deputy chairman of the parliamentary defense committee, Aleksey Zhuravlev has stated.

https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2024.01/l/65ae7930203027427f7486a9.jpg

Some pictograms depict “same-sex couples with children, kissing men, kissing women, a pregnant man, a male-bride with a mustache, bearded women” and others, the lawmaker told Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Friday. Zhuravlev is the leader of the Rodina (Motherland) party and a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) in the State Duma.

Emojis are mainly employed in instant messengers and social media sites, which are the most popular platforms among users, he noted.

“All this is seen by kids, who constantly send those emojis to each other,” Zhuravlev said.

The MP pointed out that a law banning LGBTQ propaganda in Russia is already in force, insisting that the pictograms represent “exactly the type of propaganda” that it’s supposed to tackle.

“Measures must be taken to remove those emojis and block their use in Russia,” he declared.

A ban on disseminating LGBTQ material among those aged under 18 was introduced in Russia in 2013.

In 2022, the legislation was expanded to include both minors and adults. The law on the “protection of traditional values” made it illegal to promote LGBTQ, pedophilia, and sex changes in advertising, books, movies, and media.

In November last year, Russia’s Supreme Court outlawed the “international LGBTQ public movement,” designating it an extremist organization.

As liberal as I am, to my core, I agree with the above. These emojis, along with so much social media, are deconstructing society as we have know it since year dot!

Confuse the kids, tell parents they have to understand. It is MADNESS - except it is an agenda, a narrative, for more control - by design.

The nuclear family is all but gone, the local community, at least in the west, clings on by the barest margins. In cities they don't even know their neighbours name. The key is to remove all sense of identity and replace it with whatever they decide is fashionable, control, control, control - and hope they (the sheeples) don't notice.

[Mike]

Gay emojis must be banned – Russian MP
Some of the pictograms used in smartphones promote LGBTQ values in violation of the country’s laws, Aleksey Zhuravlev has said
https://www.rt.com/russia/591088-lgbtq-emoji-ban-duma/

At least two dozen emojis found in smartphones promote nontraditional sexual relations and should be banned in Russia, the first deputy chairman of the parliamentary defense committee, Aleksey Zhuravlev has stated.

https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2024.01/l/65ae7930203027427f7486a9.jpg

Some pictograms depict “same-sex couples with children, kissing men, kissing women, a pregnant man, a male-bride with a mustache, bearded women” and others, the lawmaker told Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Friday. Zhuravlev is the leader of the Rodina (Motherland) party and a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) in the State Duma.

Emojis are mainly employed in instant messengers and social media sites, which are the most popular platforms among users, he noted.

“All this is seen by kids, who constantly send those emojis to each other,” Zhuravlev said.

The MP pointed out that a law banning LGBTQ propaganda in Russia is already in force, insisting that the pictograms represent “exactly the type of propaganda” that it’s supposed to tackle.

“Measures must be taken to remove those emojis and block their use in Russia,” he declared.

A ban on disseminating LGBTQ material among those aged under 18 was introduced in Russia in 2013.

In 2022, the legislation was expanded to include both minors and adults. The law on the “protection of traditional values” made it illegal to promote LGBTQ, pedophilia, and sex changes in advertising, books, movies, and media.

In November last year, Russia’s Supreme Court outlawed the “international LGBTQ public movement,” designating it an extremist organization.

As liberal as I am, to my core, I agree with the above. These emojis, along with so much social media, are deconstructing society as we have know it since year dot!

Confuse the kids, tell parents they have to understand. It is MADNESS - except it is an agenda, a narrative, for more control - by design.

The nuclear family is all but gone, the local community, at least in the west, clings on by the barest margins. In cities they don't even know their neighbours name. The key is to remove all sense of identity and replace it with whatever they decide is fashionable, control, control, control - and hope they (the sheeples) don't notice.


It's a tricky one.

I'm no fan of censorship. Nor am I in any way homophobic. But sadly the gay community (if there is such a thing) and the rest of the LGBTQ community have been co-opted and weaponized by the woke Marxists. And they're not playing a fair game. It's sort of like terrorists hiding amidst innocent citizens to avoid attack.

I don't think it's necessarily an anti-gay act by the Russians. It's more like an anti-woke act. Woke Marxists always hide their quest for power behind the LGBTQ flag. Surely they're screaming homopboia and bigotry atm, but I don't think that trick works quite as well in Russia.

[Bill Ryan]

Gay emojis must be banned – Russian MP
Some of the pictograms used in smartphones promote LGBTQ values in violation of the country’s laws, Aleksey Zhuravlev has said
https://www.rt.com/russia/591088-lgbtq-emoji-ban-duma/

At least two dozen emojis found in smartphones promote nontraditional sexual relations and should be banned in Russia, the first deputy chairman of the parliamentary defense committee, Aleksey Zhuravlev has stated.

https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2024.01/l/65ae7930203027427f7486a9.jpg

Some pictograms depict “same-sex couples with children, kissing men, kissing women, a pregnant man, a male-bride with a mustache, bearded women” and others, the lawmaker told Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Friday. Zhuravlev is the leader of the Rodina (Motherland) party and a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) in the State Duma.

Emojis are mainly employed in instant messengers and social media sites, which are the most popular platforms among users, he noted.

“All this is seen by kids, who constantly send those emojis to each other,” Zhuravlev said.

The MP pointed out that a law banning LGBTQ propaganda in Russia is already in force, insisting that the pictograms represent “exactly the type of propaganda” that it’s supposed to tackle.

“Measures must be taken to remove those emojis and block their use in Russia,” he declared.

A ban on disseminating LGBTQ material among those aged under 18 was introduced in Russia in 2013.

In 2022, the legislation was expanded to include both minors and adults. The law on the “protection of traditional values” made it illegal to promote LGBTQ, pedophilia, and sex changes in advertising, books, movies, and media.

In November last year, Russia’s Supreme Court outlawed the “international LGBTQ public movement,” designating it an extremist organization.

As liberal as I am, to my core, I agree with the above. These emojis, along with so much social media, are deconstructing society as we have know it since year dot!

Confuse the kids, tell parents they have to understand. It is MADNESS - except it is an agenda, a narrative, for more control - by design.

The nuclear family is all but gone, the local community, at least in the west, clings on by the barest margins. In cities they don't even know their neighbours name. The key is to remove all sense of identity and replace it with whatever they decide is fashionable, control, control, control - and hope they (the sheeples) don't notice.


It's a tricky one.

I'm no fan of censorship. Nor am I in any way homophobic. But sadly the gay community (if there is such a thing) and the rest of the LGBTQ community have been co-opted and weaponized by the woke Marxists. And they're not playing a fair game. It's sort of like terrorists hiding amidst innocent citizens to avoid attack.

I don't think it's necessarily an anti-gay act by the Russians. It's more like an anti-woke act. Woke Marxists always hide their quest for power behind the LGBTQ flag. Surely they're screaming homopboia and bigotry atm, but I don't think that trick works quite as well in Russia.~~~

I find it quite easy to answer in microcosm.

If anyone proposed adding things like this to the Avalon smilie list, I'd personally categorically veto it and there'd be zero chance of me ever changing my mind.

:)

[Mike]

Gay emojis must be banned – Russian MP
Some of the pictograms used in smartphones promote LGBTQ values in violation of the country’s laws, Aleksey Zhuravlev has said
https://www.rt.com/russia/591088-lgbtq-emoji-ban-duma/

At least two dozen emojis found in smartphones promote nontraditional sexual relations and should be banned in Russia, the first deputy chairman of the parliamentary defense committee, Aleksey Zhuravlev has stated.

https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2024.01/l/65ae7930203027427f7486a9.jpg

Some pictograms depict “same-sex couples with children, kissing men, kissing women, a pregnant man, a male-bride with a mustache, bearded women” and others, the lawmaker told Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Friday. Zhuravlev is the leader of the Rodina (Motherland) party and a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) in the State Duma.

Emojis are mainly employed in instant messengers and social media sites, which are the most popular platforms among users, he noted.

“All this is seen by kids, who constantly send those emojis to each other,” Zhuravlev said.

The MP pointed out that a law banning LGBTQ propaganda in Russia is already in force, insisting that the pictograms represent “exactly the type of propaganda” that it’s supposed to tackle.

“Measures must be taken to remove those emojis and block their use in Russia,” he declared.

A ban on disseminating LGBTQ material among those aged under 18 was introduced in Russia in 2013.

In 2022, the legislation was expanded to include both minors and adults. The law on the “protection of traditional values” made it illegal to promote LGBTQ, pedophilia, and sex changes in advertising, books, movies, and media.

In November last year, Russia’s Supreme Court outlawed the “international LGBTQ public movement,” designating it an extremist organization.

As liberal as I am, to my core, I agree with the above. These emojis, along with so much social media, are deconstructing society as we have know it since year dot!

Confuse the kids, tell parents they have to understand. It is MADNESS - except it is an agenda, a narrative, for more control - by design.

The nuclear family is all but gone, the local community, at least in the west, clings on by the barest margins. In cities they don't even know their neighbours name. The key is to remove all sense of identity and replace it with whatever they decide is fashionable, control, control, control - and hope they (the sheeples) don't notice.


It's a tricky one.

I'm no fan of censorship. Nor am I in any way homophobic. But sadly the gay community (if there is such a thing) and the rest of the LGBTQ community have been co-opted and weaponized by the woke Marxists. And they're not playing a fair game. It's sort of like terrorists hiding amidst innocent citizens to avoid attack.

I don't think it's necessarily an anti-gay act by the Russians. It's more like an anti-woke act. Woke Marxists always hide their quest for power behind the LGBTQ flag. Surely they're screaming homopboia and bigotry atm, but I don't think that trick works quite as well in Russia.~~~

I find it quite easy to answer in microcosm.

If anyone proposed adding things like this to the Avalon smilie list, I'd personally categorically veto it and there'd be zero chance of me ever changing my mind.

:)

Fine. I guess that means I'll have to give up my quest for pronouns in our profiles:)

[Isserley]

As always, hypocritical of Russia.
Apparently, they care about "true family values", and on the other hand, Russia was the first country IN THE WORLD to introduce abortion in 1920 (then the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic). Now they are waging a war against everything woke just because it came from the west. To this day, abortion rates are higher in Russia than in "woke" country like Germany, Netherland or Canada.
I don't agree with woke movement or those emojis, nor do I use them.. I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy here, because in my world they are pieces of the same puzzle.

And I will emphasize once again that I am not convinced that Russia is better than the West in anything (I mean in terms of core values). They spin the regime's media just as well as the West.

BTW all smileys are gender neutral here on PA, they all look the same :silent::laughs::p

[Isserley]

A few more details.. the coffee gave me a nice lift, so I have inspiration this morning :)
I remember back in 2003 that we were all horrified watching Eurovision and the Russian candidates - the female band T.A.T.U whose main asset was that they were lesbian or bisexual, I don't remember, but that was all the people talk about. At that time, that was unimaginable even in the West :) .. After that, they sent the lesbian group Serebro to the Eurovision Song Contest again in 2007.. yes, I used to follow the Eurovision Song Contest.. I was young, what can I say.

Today, Serbs constantly send woke singers to the Eurovision Song Contest, and I don't even have to mention who their prime minister is - Miss Ana Brnabić - the epitome of woke gone-wrong. (if you didn't know, Serbs have the same basic values ​​as Russians)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/28/ana-brnabic-serbia-prime-minister-interview

https://www.kosovo-online.com/sites/default/files/styles/og_image/public/2023-11/ana_brnabic.jpg?h=8abcec71&itok=aMRi3Mac

[Bill Ryan]

BTW all smileys are gender neutral here on PA, they all look the same :silent::laughs::pExactly!! :P:ROFL:

[Kryztian]

Tony Greenstein is the co-founder of Britain's Palestine solidarity campaign is arrested for calling Israel 'Hitler's Bastard Offspring'. There is no such thing as the 1st Amendment in Great Britain.

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[rgray222]

Cancel Culture is far from over but Trump is making great strides to turn the tide.

Trump said at his inauguration that the Government will only recognise two genders, men and women
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Trump signed an executive order excluding men from women's sports.
https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a4Pn3Py_460svav1.mp4

Trump cancels all DEI programs at all Federal agencies.
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[rgray222]

A great woman erased from history by politically motivated idiots.

The branding of the syrup was a tribute to this woman’s gifts and talents. Now future generations will not even know this beautiful woman existed. What a shame. The world knew her as “Aunt Jemima”, but her given name was Nancy Green and she was a true American success story. She was born a slave in 1834 Montgomery County, KY. and became a wealthy superstar in the advertising world, as its first living trademark. Green was 56 years old when she was selected as spokesperson for a new ready-mixed, self-rising pancake flour and made her debut in 1893 at a fair and exposition in Chicago. She demonstrated the pancake mix served thousands of pancakes, and became an immediate star. She was a good storyteller, her personality was warm and appealing, and her showmanship was exceptional.

https://scontent-atl3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/480338538_10223609745672320_6718018808554401009_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=833d8c&_nc_ohc=b4yPD0lMXRUQ7kNvgGuKJjW&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-2.xx&_nc_gid=AV2HSveK0s7cY0-_fIMRk9B&oh=00_AYDWNqUULOQYzqcC_V23QDCaSLnZDoOqFlenvR7E9nxWFA&oe=67BEF301

[Ewan]

A great woman erased from history by politically motivated idiots.

The branding of the syrup was a tribute to this woman’s gifts and talents. Now future generations will not even know this beautiful woman existed. What a shame. The world knew her as “Aunt Jemima”, but her given name was Nancy Green and she was a true American success story. She was born a slave in 1834 Montgomery County, KY. and became a wealthy superstar in the advertising world, as its first living trademark. Green was 56 years old when she was selected as spokesperson for a new ready-mixed, self-rising pancake flour and made her debut in 1893 at a fair and exposition in Chicago. She demonstrated the pancake mix served thousands of pancakes, and became an immediate star. She was a good storyteller, her personality was warm and appealing, and her showmanship was exceptional.

https://scontent-atl3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/480338538_10223609745672320_6718018808554401009_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=833d8c&_nc_ohc=b4yPD0lMXRUQ7kNvgGuKJjW&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-2.xx&_nc_gid=AV2HSveK0s7cY0-_fIMRk9B&oh=00_AYDWNqUULOQYzqcC_V23QDCaSLnZDoOqFlenvR7E9nxWFA&oe=67BEF301

So what did the " politically motivated idiots ", do?

[Bill Ryan]

https://scontent-atl3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/480338538_10223609745672320_6718018808554401009_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=833d8c&_nc_ohc=b4yPD0lMXRUQ7kNvgGuKJjW&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-2.xx&_nc_gid=AV2HSveK0s7cY0-_fIMRk9B&oh=00_AYDWNqUULOQYzqcC_V23QDCaSLnZDoOqFlenvR7E9nxWFA&oe=67BEF301

So what did the " politically motivated idiots ", do?From her Wiki page: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Jemima)
In June 2021, amidst heightened racial unrest in the United States, the Aunt Jemima brand name was discontinued by its current owner, PepsiCo, with all products rebranded to Pearl Milling Company, the name of the company that produced the original pancake mix product.

[rgray222]

A great woman erased from history by politically motivated idiots.

The branding of the syrup was a tribute to this woman’s gifts and talents. Now future generations will not even know this beautiful woman existed. What a shame. The world knew her as “Aunt Jemima”, but her given name was Nancy Green and she was a true American success story. She was born a slave in 1834 Montgomery County, KY. and became a wealthy superstar in the advertising world, as its first living trademark. Green was 56 years old when she was selected as spokesperson for a new ready-mixed, self-rising pancake flour and made her debut in 1893 at a fair and exposition in Chicago. She demonstrated the pancake mix served thousands of pancakes, and became an immediate star. She was a good storyteller, her personality was warm and appealing, and her showmanship was exceptional.



So what did the " politically motivated idiots ", do?From her Wiki page: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Jemima)

In June 2021, amidst heightened racial unrest in the United States, the Aunt Jemima brand name was discontinued by its current owner, PepsiCo, with all products rebranded to Pearl Milling Company, the name of the company that produced the original pancake mix product.


There was a fairly large uproar by her relatives when this happened. Here is a story about it. https://abcnews.go.com/US/untold-story-real-aunt-jemima-fight-preserve-legacy/story?id=72293603/

[Kryztian]

It looks like Donald Trump has unleashed a new form of cancel culture.

Military to Remove 'Enola Gay' Photos for Violating DEI Rules
https://www.newsweek.com/military-remove-enola-gay-photos-dei-rules-2041029?fbclid=IwY2xjawI5woBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHe6bly7YoqiLp1xdxqFQ2rWAklKznAki06Cd_c7HmEBUa-rdbvihQWXEUA_aem_xhxQ7RQ4TbfQVaChOIViVw

Images of "Enola Gay," the aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan are among those targeted by the U.S. military in an initiative to eliminate content related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

https://i.imgur.com/CtAlaHQ.jpeg

They are among a number of photos unrelated to DEI that have been mistakenly flagged, including those from an Army Corps of Engineers dredging project in California, seemingly because an engineer in the image had the last name "Gay."

Why It Matters

The military is set to remove thousands of photos and online posts in the DEI purge following an executive order issued by President Donald Trump.

The Pentagon's directive to remove DEI-related content has resulted in the flagging of more than 26,000 images across all military branches, though officials suggest the final count could exceed 100,000 as reviews continue.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has defended the move, arguing that DEI initiatives undermine military cohesion and operational effectiveness.

What to Know

The executive order mandating the removal of DEI-related content required all military branches to review years of archived material, including website postings, photos, news articles and videos.

If the materials could not be reviewed by the deadline, they were to be "temporarily removed from public display" until further assessment.

A Marine Corps official stated that all flagged images within their database had either been removed or would be removed soon.

However, the process has been slow because of limited personnel numbers. The Marine Corps has only one civilian employee handling the removals, and an estimated 1,600 military-related social media accounts remain under review.

The removal effort has sparked confusion, as some images appear to have been marked for deletion because their filenames contain the word "gay," including those of service members with that last name and the Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 aircraft that dropped the first atomic bomb in combat during World War II.

The vast majority of the Pentagon purge targets women and minorities and it also removes a large number of posts that mention various commemorative months—such as those for Black and Hispanic people and women.

Images of historically significant military achievements or personnel, such as the Tuskegee Airmen and the first female Marine Corps infantry graduates, have been flagged for removal.

And a photo of Army Corps biologists was on the list, seemingly because it mentioned they were recording data about fish—including their weight, size, hatchery and gender.

What People Are Saying

Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot confirmed the removals: "We are pleased by the rapid compliance across the Department with the directive removing DEI content from all platforms. In the rare cases that content is removed that is out of the clearly outlined scope of the directive, we instruct components accordingly."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said: "DEI is dead. We are returning the focus of the military to merit and mission readiness."

What's Next

Military branches are continuing to review content, but officials have acknowledged that inconsistencies in archival procedures may make it difficult to recover deleted materials.

Some historians and military experts have raised concerns that the removals could lead to the loss of important records documenting the evolution of the armed forces.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

We're fortunate in the UK not to be subjected to the Jimmy Kimmel show, but what snippets I've seen of him, he sets a low bar. Now he's just got cancelled for inappropriate remarks (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?130341-Charlie-Kirk-assassinated-10-Sept-2025&p=1685704&viewfull=1#post1685704) following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

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https://x.com/nypost/status/1968672244801933471

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I can't say I oppose this, and I also can't say I'm immune to a small amount of attendant schadenfreude. After all...

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https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1968502145788809291
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@mazemoore
2023. Jimmy Kimmel celebrates Tucker Carlson getting fired from Fox.

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But, doesn't this fly in the face of the free speech position that many conservatives, or just common-sense people, take, in that, free speech must be for ALL, not merely for those whose speech we agree with? The Leftist media is beating that very drum today as this news breaks far and wide.

But what short memories they have. I'd also say, they're too small-minded to recognise their own hypocrisy.

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G1IGOKJWoAEcQGZ?format=jpg&name=900x900

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I tend to think this isn't necessarily an example of "cancel culture" but suffering the natural consequences of a mistake, of reaping what you sow, and, what's more, running afoul of popular opinion. And that's just the way things go sometimes.

So long, Jimmy Kimmel.

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