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    Quote Posted by Penguin Random House Publishing workers (here)
    “He is an icon of hate speech and transphobia and the fact that he’s an icon of white supremacy, regardless of the content of his book, I’m not proud to work for a company that publishes him,” one town hall attendee, who is also a member of the LGBTQ community, told Vice.
    that's the furthest from the truth possible?

    how can people calling for censorship not see that THEY are the NAZI party, they are doing/going-a-long-with exactly what the nationalist socialist party did.

    I don't even think white supremacy exists to a degree that it should even be mentioned; just more divisive language and fear porn
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    how can people calling for censorship not see that THEY are the NAZI party, they are doing/going-a-long-with exactly what the nationalist socialist party did.
    I'm basically speechless when it comes to this, seriously, I keep deleting and retyping because it's hard to put into words how absurd of a situation it is. Joking aside, it's like we're living in Bizarro World.
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    The ultimate aim of the cancel culture for the past few years was to cancel Donald Trump.

    The second part of canceling Trump is to cover it up, this is exactly where we are now. I have chosen this video to show that the election fraud was planned, thought out, and carried out. These are impeccable data scientists talking about what happened in the state of GA. To my knowledge, they do not have an ax to grind with either political party they are simply analyzing the data used by the state of GA.

    The third and final part of the cancel culture is for people to lose confidence in the institution of American elections. BLM and ANTIFA will continue to erode the foundations of America but destroying the election process was and is a critical step in moving the process forward.
    • If you are a Trump supporter this will infuriate you.
    • If you are a Biden supporter you will have to question the integrity and honesty of your party and its politics.
    • If you are an American, an advocate for free speech, if you aspire to a free and open society or if you desire transparency in politics this should give you sleepless nights.
    • For Global governance to succeed the United States must be brought to its knees.


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    Spot on ! ...............................................

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    Quote Posted by TargeT (here)
    Quote Posted by Penguin Random House Publishing workers (here)
    “He is an icon of hate speech and transphobia and the fact that he’s an icon of white supremacy, regardless of the content of his book, I’m not proud to work for a company that publishes him,” one town hall attendee, who is also a member of the LGBTQ community, told Vice.
    that's the furthest from the truth possible?

    how can people calling for censorship not see that THEY are the NAZI party, they are doing/going-a-long-with exactly what the nationalist socialist party did.

    I don't even think white supremacy exists to a degree that it should even be mentioned; just more divisive language and fear porn
    TBH the same could be said about Atos, and Shane Gibbs.

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    If you thought things couldn't possibly get any stupider, think again.

    "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
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    "We're all bozos on this bus"

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    When Cancel Culture Cancels Everything
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    This would be extremely funny if it were not true.


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    When SNL starts making fun of the cancel culture you know that things have gone way too far. The question is can the cancel culture be reigned in or has the barn door been left open forever. As with all things in the world, there is a small amount of good coming from even the most destructive behaviors. The cancel culture has called out some people for being truly racist, sexist, and homophobic but these people are only a small fraction of the total number that have been caught in the cancel culture dragnet.

    Once the cancel culture moved from attacking a few high profile racist and sexist individuals it clearly became an effort to cancel out Trump and his supporters. Then it quickly morphed into an effort to push the Democrat Party to the extreme far left. Many people and companies clearly understood that BLM followed and advocated a Marxist ideology. If organizations or individuals spoke out against BLM or even ANTIFA while cities burned and lives were destroyed they were quickly and publicly punished in the mainstream media. Once this happened the media left the rest up to their foot soldiers on social media to complete the annihilation.

    Now the big tech giants are so enthralled with the cancel culture they have picked up where the mainstream media left off, canceling hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of posts on a daily basis. Twitter is so delighted with their cancelation policy that they have now instituted a Civic Integrity Policy. They are now canceling people that are saying the lockdowns don't work. Just think about that for a moment. Facebook is now the arbiter of truth in society, Zuckerberg, a billionaire that stole his company from two brothers in college is now the guy who decides what passes for truth and honesty in our society. Just think about that for another moment.

    I note with some interest that the military is taking a "pause" for the next 30 days to root out extremism. They plan on canceling people within their own ranks that do not have the desired ideology. One of the main ways they plan to accomplish this task is by reviewing all military personnel Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit accounts. We have seen these loyalty tests in the military in third world countries many times before. Saddam Hussien was famous for exactly the same thing, the only difference is he put to death those that he suspected of being disloyal.

    Aligning our loyalties to a political party forces most people to accept government and corporate behavior that would normally be unacceptable in any society. Aligning our loyalties to embrace common sense along with a strong moral compass will enable people to disengage from politics and view the world in a much healthier and more realistic manner.

    I am not sure where this is heading but I suspect the end result will be more division, more anger, more hate, and the creation of real extremists.


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    If I documented here every cancellation I see or read about lately, it would be a full time job.

    But this one stands out. This professor, Jason Kilborn, who teaches at John Marshall Law School in Chicago, is under fire for an exam question. It's a civil law class - just for context - and the question on the test begins with a hypothetical scenario Kilborn has created that involves a woman who gets fired from her job and subsequently sues the company for racial and gender discrimination.

    In this hypothetical scenario, it is written that she's accusing her former employer of calling her a "n______ and a b____. " And it's written on the test exactly as I've written it here in this post. The actual words weren't even used.

    Well, this caused quite an uproar. Kilborn is suspended and on indefinite leave and the students are pressuring the admin to fire him.

    The school has crumbled and so has Kilborn, both apologizing for their egregious errors in judgement.

    We're talking about students that are actually training to be civil law attorneys here, WHO ARE EMOTIONALLY INCAPABLE OF VIEWING AN ABBREVIATED RACIAL OR GENDER SLUR ON AN EXAM, EVEN IF JUST FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES. One student was apparently so distressed by this that she had heart palpitations.

    As an aside: I've been working on some writing projects lately. Fiction stuff. One of them is about this cancel culture phenomena, and I'm finding that it's so absurd that - as a satirist - I don't even know where to go with it. There's no meat left on the bone at all. As my Brit friend Marcus recently said: "There's no room left for piss-taking mate. One can only stand back in horror. "

    https://reason.com/volokh/2021/01/15...dure-exam/?amp
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    Quote Posted by Mike (here)
    As an aside: I've been working on some writing projects lately. Fiction stuff. One of them is about this cancel culture phenomena, and I'm finding that it's so absurd that - as a satirist - I don't even know where to go with it. There's no meat left on the bone at all. As my Brit friend Marcus recently said: "There's no room left for piss-taking mate. One can only stand back in horror. "

    https://reason.com/volokh/2021/01/15...dure-exam/?amp
    Hi Mike. You might get some inspiration from this article, WHY CANCEL CULTURE CAN'T TAKE A JOKE, in particular:

    Quote https://www.afr.com/politics/why-can...0200707-p559pd

    A meme has been doing the rounds of the internet – you can try it too. It goes like this: you Google “is insert random object here racist”. The more often you do it, the funnier it gets. You see, the internet is teeming with earnest articles about how various random things which have nothing to do with race are, when you really think about it, somehow racist. Smiling, dogs, knitting, fairy floss – all racist, ad absurdum.
    I did the google suggestion by typing "is tomato racist?" and couldn't believe what came up.
    This article titled "Is having to pay for tomato ketchup racist"

    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...ketchup-racist

    So I tried another - "is knitting racist" and to my utter surprise I got these for starters:

    "The knitting community is reckoning with racism".
    https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/2...tagram-stories

    Knitting influencer gets in a tangle after mocking wokeness with yarn
    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...s-maria-tusken

    "Knitting websites war on Trump forces crafting community to confront racism". https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...onfront-racism

    Surely I wouldn't score a hat trick. I tried again with "is sandwich racist". And yep hit a winner. Loads of links to the "Racist Sandwich Podcast".

    Have fun

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    Gemma that's remarkable! But I'm not the least bit surprised, sadly.

    Next they'll be saying air is racist! HA! Wouldn't that be a hoot? OMG, that would be nuts. But even the wokesters wouldn't go that far...Right? ... Right??

    Wrong: https://www.motherjones.com/environm...l-disparities/
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    Ive promised myself that i will at least try to approach these topics with humor moving forward, so i offer this. 7 mins of hilarity, Bill Burr, just killing it. I don't think he could get away with this bit now. No way. Enjoy it while it's still available:


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    Gemma that's remarkable! But I'm not the least bit surprised, sadly.

    Next they'll be saying air is racist! HA! Wouldn't that be a hoot? OMG, that would be nuts. But even the wokesters wouldn't go that far...Right? ... Right??

    Wrong: https://www.motherjones.com/environm...l-disparities/
    Wow! Okay let's end this and take it off planet. "Is mars racist?" Hmm okay I get that one.

    HOW CAN OUR FUTURE MARS COLONIES BE FREE OF RACISM AND SEXISM
    https://www.google.com/search?client...e-gws-wiz-serp

    OK Let's go a bit further. "Is sun racist?"

    Well blow me over with a feather.

    SUNSHINE, FERTILITY AND RACIAL DISPARITIES
    https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF...+sun+racist%3F

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    Quote Posted by Mike (here)
    Gemma that's remarkable! But I'm not the least bit surprised, sadly.

    Next they'll be saying air is racist! HA! Wouldn't that be a hoot? OMG, that would be nuts. But even the wokesters wouldn't go that far...Right? ... Right??

    Wrong: https://www.motherjones.com/environm...l-disparities/
    Wow! Okay let's end this and take it off planet. "Is mars racist?" Hmm okay I get that one.

    HOW CAN OUR FUTURE MARS COLONIES BE FREE OF RACISM AND SEXISM
    https://www.google.com/search?client...e-gws-wiz-serp

    OK Let's go a bit further. "Is sun racist?"

    Well blow me over with a feather.

    SUNSHINE, FERTILITY AND RACIAL DISPARITIES
    https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF...+sun+racist%3F


    I quit. You win.

    Oh no, is surrendering racist?

    Wait, I think my quitting is acceptable if I let a person of color take my place. Pretty sure I got that right!

    Hey have I avoided cancellation??


    UPDATE: I have just been informed that I've been cancelled for positioning myself as a "good white". Drats!

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    Taking it to another extreme, we now find that those who love their dogs are racist. Most unfortunately, many people of the same sort will believe this psychopathic, anti-human, anti-Life crap and push it as far as they can.

    AMAIRUKUHN EDGYKAYSHUN STRIKES AGAIN: KINDNESS TO DOGS IS RACIST

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    It's been a very long time since I've had a rant about Amairikuhn edgykayshun, but this story, shared by V.S., vaulted right into the finals folder. When I read it, I didn't know whether to laugh, cry, or rant, and ended up doing all three. It seems that the latest lunacy to hit the Amairikuhn quackademy is the notion that being kind to animals - particularly dogs - is somehow a sign of white supremacy and patriarchy and... well, rather than me tell you, just read the article (if you can stomach it):

    So here it is:

    Quote In her recent book The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals, Katja Guenther claims that dogs are being killed because of “capitalism, anthroparchy, white supremacy and patriarchy.” She argues that allowing dogs to sleep inside is a privilege reserved for the white and wealthy and that policies against keeping dogs chained up in backyards are intended to oppress people of color by imposing “middle-class norms of animal keeping in which companion animals are considered family and treated accordingly,” which ignore the fact that people of color “are themselves trapped in poverty, may have few options for legitimate income generation and possibly rely on their dogs for … status.
    The first time I read this, I was angry, the second, I was sad, the third, I merely laughed. And what the heck is "anthroparchy"? And do I even care to know? (Probably not.) And most people I know that have dogs, whether inside or outside, have them because they like them. We'll get back to that. But wait, there's more:

    Quote She appears to be arguing that if a person of color can turn a profit or build a reputation through animal exploitation that excuses animal suffering—even in the case of sadistic animal abuse: “From a class perspective, wealthy people are believed to be too ‘civilized’ to engage in barbaric activities like dogfighting, and it’s no coincidence that the only affluent person who has been publicly shamed for dogfighting in the U.S., Michael Vick, is Black, newly wealthy after growing up in poverty.”

    Dogfighting, however, is not considered barbaric because it violates the norms of wealthy people—who, after all, have historically had their own versions of animal cruelty masquerading as entertainment, such as fox hunting and pigeon shooting. Nor is dogfighting considered uncivilized because of the skin color of the organizers—many of whom are white—but because of what it does to dogs.

    At Michael Vick’s property, investigators found decomposing dogs who died by “hanging, drowning, and being slammed to death.” As one of the rescuers involved wrote,

    The details that got to me then and stay with me today involve the swimming pool that was used to kill some of the dogs. Jumper cables were clipped onto the ears of underperforming dogs, then, just like with a car, the cables were connected to the terminals of car batteries before lifting and tossing the shamed dogs into the water. Most of Vick’s dogs were small—40lbs or so—so tossing them in would’ve been fast and easy work for thick athlete arms. We don’t know how many suffered this premeditated murder, but the damage to the pool walls tells a story. It seems that while they were scrambling to escape, they scratched and clawed at the pool liner and bit at the dented aluminum sides …

    ...

    That—and not his skin color—is why Vick was condemned publicly along with many others—many of them white people—who have been held accountable for harming animals.

    While Guenther explains away mistreatment if the perpetrator happens to be a person of color, she has plenty of harsh words for those trying to save animals. Day in and day out, rescuers and volunteers show tremendous courage and compassion when they visit their local pounds. At many high kill shelters, they face hostile treatment from staff and endure heartbreak at seeing animals destined for lethal injection or gas chambers. And yet they go back, again and again.

    Despite acknowledging these traumas, because most of the volunteers Guenther encountered were white, she accuses them of working to “reinscribe hierarchies of power and status within the shelter” against the non-white workers and thus “maintain existing social inequalities between humans even as they seek to help animals.” When a rescuer laments the condition of a dog “with sagging belly skin, elongated nipples, and enlarged genitalia” and expresses dismay that the former owners “confined their dog outdoors” and “used the pit bull primarily for income generation through breeding,” Guenther dismisses the criticism as “the animal practices of white rescuers.”
    Now, all of this would be news to my two next door neighbors, one a black family, and the other, an elderly white lady, or my young Indian neighbors across the street with their two dogs and two cats (one cat a rescue), or the old curmudgeon across the street and his two little dogs. The black family occasionally has visits from the rest of their family, with little kids in tow, and when the kids see me outside walking Shiloh, they love to come over and pet her and ask questions about her. The elderly lady had to give up her own dog for adoption by the rest of her family, but always leaves a little treat for Shiloh when we bring her mail to her front door. Lesson: kindness, compassion, and love for animals is merely human; it's not black, not white, not old, not young, not male, not female. It's merely human. In fact, I would go so far as to say loving an animal or animals humanizes us in ways we do not really understand, and my little dog reacts to all of them in exactly the same way, an excited wagging tail, a little doggie "dance", and some doggie kisses. It's those who view animals simply as machines - or in Ms. Guenther's case, as mere articles in an ideological creed or as cogs in a silly multi-cultural machine of virtue signaling and "concern" - that give me pause, for such people seem empty and machine-like themselves. Perhaps such people are only a step away from the other type of people who view animals as mere chemical-biological automatons, and who feel free accordingly to torture, starve, and abuse them.

    It's also a measure of just how inhuman, anti-human, and trivial, the Amairikuhn quackademy and culture has become if busybodies like Ms. Guenther not only have professorships but manage to get their drivel published and taken seriously. Recently, I read another article about a professor who was accusing minority supporters of President Trump of "multi-racial whiteness." (See https://www.npr.org/2021/01/24/96006...ump-supporters). I don't particularly care what one thinks of Trump. My point here is I wonder what Ms. Guenther would make of my two next door neighbors and their friendliness toward my little dog? Would my elderly neighbor lady be accused of "trans-sexual patriarchy" and my other neighbors of "trans-racial whiteness" and "anthroparchy"?

    My problem here is that my neighbors are simply showing human kindness, and that the end result of Ms. Guenther's meddling will be, as the article rightly sums up, a return to a kind of barbarism:

    Quote The most dangerous thing about Guenther’s book, however, is her view that human-animal relations are “a zero-sum political struggle involving identity markers like race.” In the early nineteenth century, cruelty to dogs was not recognized in law because they were considered property. Likewise, harming a homeless dog was not illegal because there was no property interest at stake. The animal did not matter. Guenther is once again suggesting a standard that excuses harm based on the interests of those causing it.

    For all her professed concern about hierarchies of privilege, Guenther’s prescription for human-animal relations could not be more inequitable, uncharitable and unkind. Her premise that not all animals should have the same rights and that not all humans bear the same responsibilities to those animals threatens to popularize defeatist and counterproductive dogmas of the kind that kept shelters killing animals for decades until the current generation found common sense alternatives.

    If such ideas gain traction, I fear the current moment will be remembered as a brief interlude between the ideological intransigence of two generations—both of which subordinate the rights of animals to the interests of those who harm them.
    Perhaps Ms. Guenther needs to spend some time with animal rescue organizations, like Hope for Paws in Los Angeles, whose many rescue videos are on Youtube, whose rescue and veterinary crews are Hispanic, male, female, old, young, and you-name-it, and who respond to calls from all sorts of kind people - black, white, Latino, old, young, rich, poor, tattooed bikers, homeless people, professionals, rich, and poor - reporting some animal needing to be rescued. Perhaps she needs to learn to shed a tear of compassion for a suffering animal, or a tear of gratitude to those rescuing them, rather than wallowing in the fetid sewers of quackademia and her loony theories.

    Yea, you can color me nauseated on this one. Shame on you Ms. Guenther.

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    https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/gina...101300636.html

    Actress Gina Carano, the star of 'The Mandalorian', was fired for tweets that made too much sense.

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    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.



    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-ed...hite-supremacy

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    "Cancel Culture Is A Dress Rehearsal For Mass Murder" is the title of this short 5 minute video. A chilling and profound title. When I saw it I thought, wow, of course it is! And then I was sort of embarrassed that the same thought hadn't really occurred to me as I've watched all this crap take place.

    This idea likely deserves a thread of it's own actually.


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    Quote Posted by Mike (here)
    "Cancel Culture Is A Dress Rehearsal For Mass Murder" is the title of this short 5 minute video. A chilling and profound title. When I saw it I thought, wow, of course it is! And then I was sort of embarrassed that the same thought hadn't really occurred to me as I've watched all this crap take place.

    This idea likely deserves a thread of it's own actually.


    Well, I'm downloading that immediately. The odds that'll stay online seem minuscule


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