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    I think it is important to document even the absurd so that people can look back and see how far they went down this slippery slope before they hit bottom with a resounding thud.
    Dr. Seuss was actually quite nuanced and aware of the underlying racial tonalities of his day.




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    They eat their own occasionally. Even the superwoke deplatform-triggerhappy Big Tech giant Amazon wasn't safe from the woke mob.

    Not that I would give a if Amazon were somehow being 'cancelled'.

    "From Dr. Seuss books to Amazon's logo, everything is getting pulled, banned or edited." (The "Amazon-Hitler" discussion starts at 12 minutes in).


    Also here's a more humorous take on the Gina Carano case by the 'Critical Drinker':


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    YouTube suspends RSBN for broadcasting Trump's CPAC 2021 speech, censors Trump's speech

    https://thepostmillennial.com/breaki...-trumps-speech

    “Our network provides very little in the way of commentary. We basically just turn a camera on and show you what’s happening- and let you decide. People can choose to watch it, not watch it, hate it or love it. That’s called freedom. If that’s no longer allowed then God help us,” wrote RSBN.

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    Feeling sad - one of my favourite Looney Tune characters, Pepe le Pew, just got cancelled for adding to the rape culture

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    Feeling sad - one of my favourite Looney Tune characters, Pepe le Pew, just got cancelled for adding to the rape culture

    Dang. Who did he rape? Speedy Gonzalez?

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    Feeling sad - one of my favourite Looney Tune characters, Pepe le Pew, just got cancelled for adding to the rape culture

    Dang. Who did he rape? Speedy Gonzalez?
    Tweety is calling out Petunia the Pig

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    So the way to teach math now is to do some tribal kumbaya thing while the students randomly shout out the wrong answers???

    Welcome to "Critical Math" folks. I'm glad this is posted here because it's another great example of what I was trying to explain on Star Mariner's 'Does Society Have A Mental Illness' thread. Social Justice, or "wokeness", as it is often called, is rooted in these insane critical theories. It's infecting everything. Not just the humanities but also the sciences now as well.

    And it's out in the world now - clearly! - running rampant like a hyper contagious virus. The New York Times, NPR, The Guardian, Google, and Penguin are all recent examples of high profile business entities getting torn in half by wokeness. If anyone thought it was some harmless thing confined only to universities, it's time to wake up now. And anyone who thought it was just all about fairness and righting historical wrongs, it's time to wake up now. There's no excuse anymore to remain ignorant or willfully obtuse.

    Wokeness is like an uber powerful solvent in that it destroys everything it touches, even as it professes it's desire to unify. It even destroys itself. That's it's nature. But not before it gets everything else first.

    It's a tiresome, emotionally exhausting topic. The tendency is to ignore it and hope it goes away. That's what it wants you to do. It demoralizes people into denial and then submission. And any distance you, dear reader, may feel from it at the moment is mostly illusory. You are not safe. You have to fight it whatever way you can, or you'll be eaten too.

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    It is the perfect communist tactic.

    Never forget, Mike, this is a wilful move by one of, if not the most, evil totalitarian regimes on the planet - the globalists. Aided by the CCP and Xi Jinping and abetted by their puppet masters at the UN. The sis gender, milk toast generation, cream puff, screaming Karens are their willing foot soldiers, along with their comrades in the BLM and Antifa organizations that are funded by NGOs run by billionaire extremists like Soros, Zuckerburg, Schwab, and Dorsey, among various others.

    I like throw them under one umbrella name...the Despicables.
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    Here is a short film from 2012 that is totally right on target about what is happening in the "woke" teaching of math. In this short film you can clearly see the effect of wokeness with math. It is not as easy to see the downstream effect of wokeness in the remainder of education.


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    Quote Posted by Ernie Nemeth (here)
    It is the perfect communist tactic.
    Stewart Swerdlow, who came from a communist family, said the communist tactics are:

    demoralize
    destabilize
    create a crisis
    normalize

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    Quote Posted by Ernie Nemeth (here)
    It is the perfect communist tactic.
    Stewart Swerdlow, who came from a communist family, said the communist tactics are:

    demoralize
    destabilize
    create a crisis
    normalize
    stay positive
    stay resolute
    stay calm
    resist
    "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
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    Another Victory For The Cancel Culture. After 75 years, Warner Brothers has terminated Pepé Le Pew, the cartoon French skunk. Warner Brothers and Disney both say they are now considering the cancellation of other cartoon characters from previous generations.



    The Woke Warriors are not satisfied and now they are coming after Academy Award cartoon winner Speedy Gonzales, Road Runner, Elmer Fudd, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Yogi Bear and Wile E. Coyote.

    Bugs Bunny is one of the few cartoon characters that now passes the litmus test.

    AP notes "Disney has pulled several cartoons and iconic films because of their portrayal of stereotypes and other negative depictions." Pepé Le Pew, the skunk from “Looney Tunes” that a New York Times columnist recently said “normalized rape culture,” has been permanently canceled. Pepé's scene has been deleted from the LeBron James-led basketball Warner Brothers film, “Space Jam: A New Legacy” that is set to be released this summer. Pepé appeared in an earlier Space Jam film with Michael Jordan.

    According to AP, "Le Pew's quest for love often features him lusting after the non-consenting Penelope the cat and other partners. He came under fire from Charles Blow of The New York Times who found the cartoons offensive. A scene filmed with Le Pew playing a bartender and kissing actress Greice Santo on the arm before she poured a drink on him and slapped the skunk has been removed from the film. Santo was not pleased and said Warner Brothers made with the wrong decision. Her spokesman said “Now the scene is cut, and she doesn’t have that power to influence the world through younger generations who’ll be watching ‘Space Jam 2,’ to let younger girls and younger boys know that Pepe’s behavior is unacceptable.”

    The Hollywood Reporter says there are no plans to have the character appear in “Looney Toons,” “Bugs Bunny Builders”, “Tiny Toons Looniversary” or other future projects. Liana Kerzner responded by saying "There is nothing sinister in these cartoons. "Penelope the cat rejects Pepé not just for his 'pushy' advances, but BECAUSE he is a skunk and smells. "Pepé isn't looking for SEX, he's looking for LOVE, and his crime is that he loves a woman 'above his status'. "Pepé was bemoaning racial barriers in romance. When Penelope later thought Pepe was a cat, he was great.

    It seems odd because no one truly believes young children are getting their views of masculinity from a cartoon French skunk. "

    John Nolte noted: “Pepé Le Pew is the butt of all the jokes, who always, always, always loses in the end — usually violently at the hands of his so-called victim.”
    Former Secretary of Senate Kelly Johnston writes "I don’t remember a cartoon where Pepe ever 'got the girl'.”

    Apparently the sins committed by these guys
    Road Runner was sending the wrong message about driving too fast.
    Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam because they are hunters who carry guns.
    Daffy Duck, who has a lisp
    Porky Pig who stutters.
    Yogi Bear who steals picnic baskets.

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    I'm canceling Charles Blow right now for normalizing insufferable c#nt culture.

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    On one hand I want to see you at an open mic night but on the other hand I suspect it would turn into an angry dude screaming into a microphone, "And another thing!"

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    On one hand I want to see you at an open mic night but on the other hand I suspect it would turn into an angry dude screaming into a microphone, "And another thing!"

    oh come on. that's bullsh!t. angry? who? what? me? i'm a pretty laid back guy...wait, where are you going? i'm still talking here. hey i'm not done yet!!

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    A small win that will hopefully have significant future impact and I do hope it disturbed "those" that didn't want their "comfort" disturbed.

    Before anyone jumps to an assumption that I am being vindictive please consider the following.  Who in their right mind thinks this ridiculous war on words that demands thumb sucking areas at universities is going to help one iota when confronting a terrorist and their ideology.

    "Ah Sir you are making me most uncomfortable.  I will not allow you to disturb my comfort zone.  Stop talking and put away your gun because I am cancelling you.  Talk to the hand!"

    Yep, that'll work.  The rising global powerhouses are rolling on the floor with belly aching laughter over the successful infantilization of a good percentage of our younger generations.  Thanks to older generations who sold out for the coin, or are infantilized themselves.

    Until it has no more crucifixion power there can never be too much coverage of this topic.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/suprem...g-2021-03-08-5

    Quote Supreme Court Sides With Students Seeking $1 Nominal Damages in Campus Speech Case

    BY GQ PAN March 8, 2021 

    The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Georgia college should be held accountable for its now-rescinded policies that prevented two former students from speaking on campus about their Christian faith.

    In an 8-1 opinion (pdf) in which Chief Justice John Roberts was the sole dissenter, the high court said just one dollar in compensation, sought by students who argue that the college’s speech code violated their First Amendment rights, is enough to keep the case alive.

    The case stems from a 2016 incident in which Georgia Gwinnett College students Chike Uzuegbunam and Joseph Bradford, both evangelical Christians, were told that they could only speak about their religion in two designated “free speech expression areas.” But when Uzuegbunam tried to speak in one of the small free speech zones, a campus police officer again asked him to stop, citing a school policy that banned any expression that “disturbs the peace and/or comfort of person(s).”

    In response to the First Amendment lawsuit, Georgia Gwinnett College ultimately chose to discontinue the challenged policies rather than to defend them, allowing speech in any outdoor area of campus. The policy change and Uzuegbunam’s graduation from the college led a federal district court to declare the case as moot, a ruling that was upheld by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

    The Supreme Court overturned the lower court decision, saying that the $1 nominal damages, previously deemed inadequate to save a case from mootness, were not purely symbolic.

    “Nominal damages are not a consolation prize for the plaintiff who pleads, but fails to prove, compensatory damages,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the majority. “They are instead the damages awarded by default until the plaintiff establishes entitlement to some other form of damages, such as compensatory or statutory damages.”

    “Because nominal damages were available at common law in analogous circumstances, we conclude that a request for nominal damages satisfies the redressability element of standing where a plaintiff’s claim is based on a completed violation of legal right,” Thomas wrote.

    Roberts, however, wrote in his dissenting opinion that the redressing of a case is meant to alleviate the plaintiff’s injury, either by compensating for a past loss or by preventing an ongoing or future harm. In the free speech case of Uzuegbunam and Bradford, according to Roberts, the $1 nominal damages do not serve either of those purposes.

    “They are not intended to approximate the value of tangible or intangible harms, or the deterrent effect required to prevent further misconduct,” Roberts wrote. “And they are not calculated with reference to either of these purposes.”

    Roberts warned that Monday’s decision “risks a major expansion of the judicial role.”

    “Going forward, the Judiciary will be required to perform this function whenever a plaintiff asks for a dollar,” Roberts argued. “For those who want to know if their rights have been violated, the least dangerous branch will become the least expensive source of legal advice.”

    Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the conservative legal group representing the suing students, applauded the decision, saying they are pleased that the Supreme Court “weighed in on the side of justice for those victims.”

    “Officials within our public institutions shouldn’t get a free pass for violating constitutional rights on campus or anywhere else,” Kristen Waggoner, a general counsel with ADF, said in a statement. “When such officials engage in misconduct but face no consequences, it leaves victims without recourse, undermines the nation’s commitment to protecting constitutional rights, and emboldens the government to engage in future violations.”

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    Newly hired Teen Vogue editor fired because of decade old tweets:
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/teen-v...ticles&via=rss

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    Quote Posted by Mike (here)
    Newly hired Teen Vogue editor fired because of decade old tweets:
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/teen-v...ticles&via=rss
    When are they going to fire all the people who slap us oldies with the term “boomer”? So far no letting up.
    The other day I made a derogatory remark about chicken nuggets and their nutritional value, or lack thereof, and got lynched, with “boomer” being their preferred ad hominem. Also was told to be careful, as my “privilege” was showing.

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