Category: Baiting The Left

Leftists Rewriting History Across the UK

At prestigious Cambridge University, activists on the student council, lead by head-SJW Stella Swain, have decided to squelch a motion that would have honoured war veterans. Many people aren’t happy:

And, of course, if anyone dares express their anger too emphatically then the likes of Ms. Swain are painted as victims, having to deal with “hate” and “death threats”. This tactic, out of the Leftist Playbook, is so commonplace but is allowed to be used over and over again.

Related: British Transport Police are forbidden from displaying poppies on their cars.

The Good Old Days

Think for a moment what would happen if such a report were released today, 21 months later:

  1. The restaurant would be picketed by SJWs.
  2. The waitress would be harassed by white SJWs, telling her that she is a sell out.
  3. CBS News would get a flood of hateful comments.
  4. The reporter would be fired.

Such are the New Rules that HRC and the rest of the M.A.D. cabal have crafted and stringently enforce.

Update — another link for the video here.

Enemy of the People

David Catron is fed up with Hillary Clinton and her comrades:

Like the passive onlookers to the attack on Senator Sumner, Clinton’s fellow Democrats have been silent concerning her thinly veiled incitement of violence. Only one of the self-styled moderate Democrats, Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, found Clinton’s remarks worthy of comment, much less condemnation. And, make no mistake about it, their silence equals consent. By refusing to call out this power-hungry harridan for deliberately casting doubt on the legitimacy of the democratic process and encouraging violence, these cowards render themselves complicit in the inevitable bloodshed.

Gooks In The Wire

Richard Fernandez;

The effects of a decision taken 16 years ago may not only helped sink Hillary, but forms the cornerstone of Trump’s strategy. As Steve Bannon told Bill Maher in a recent interview, Trump’s tariffs, renegotiation of trade agreements and tax policy are all aimed at reshaping the supply chain and reducing American dependence on China. The strategy articulated in Pence’s speech, which Victor Davis Hanson described as a declaration of Cold War II, can also be thought of as an attempt to roll back Bill Clinton’s “last great legislative victory.”

Update via Steakman — The Pence speech.

VDH Reflects Upon PKCS

Victor Davis Hanson has also recently penned this piece of wisdom:

After thousands of hours of internal Senate and FBI investigations of Kavanaugh, as well as public discussions, open questioning, and media sensationalism, Ford remained unable to identify a single witness who might substantiate any of her narratives of an alleged sexual assault of nearly four decades past.

To substantiate her claim, the country was asked to jettison the idea of innocent until proven guilty, the need for corroborating testimony, witnesses, and physical evidence, the inadmissibility of hearsay, the need for reasonable statutes of limitations, considerations of motive, and the right of the accused to conduct vigorous cross-examination. That leap proved too much, especially when located in a larger progressive landscape of street theater antics, including Senate disruptions, walkouts, and sandbagging senators in hallways and elevators.

h/t SDA commenter “yop”

Three Academics Expose Corruption in Grievance Studies

A trio of academics, fed up with how badly things have gone awry in the Humanities departments of many universities, set out to gain some data about just how bad:

We spent that time writing academic papers and publishing them in respected peer-reviewed journals associated with fields of scholarship loosely known as “cultural studies” or “identity studies” (for example, gender studies) or “critical theory” because it is rooted in that postmodern brand of “theory” which arose in the late sixties. As a result of this work, we have come to call these fields “grievance studies” in shorthand because of their common goal of problematizing aspects of culture in minute detail in order to attempt diagnoses of power imbalances and oppression rooted in identity.

We managed to get seven shoddy, absurd, unethical and politically-biased papers into respectable journals in the fields of grievance studies. Does this show that academia is corrupt? Absolutely not. Does it show that all scholars and reviewers in humanities fields which study gender, race, sexuality and weight are corrupt? No. To claim either of those things would be to both overstate the significance of this project and miss its point. Some people will do this, and we would ask them not to. The majority of scholarship is sound and peer review is rigorous and it produces knowledge which benefits society.

Nevertheless, this does show that there is something to be concerned about within certain fields within the humanities which are encouraging of this kind of “scholarship.” We shouldn’t have been able to get any papers this terrible published in reputable journals, let alone seven. And these seven are the tip of the iceberg. We would urge people who think this a fluke (or seven flukes) which shows very little to look at how we were able to do that. Look at the hundreds of papers we cited to enable us to make these claims and to use these methods and interpretations and have reviewers consider them quite standard. Look at the reviewer comments and what they are steering academics who need to be published to succeed in their careers towards. See how frequently they required us not to be less politically biased and shoddy in our work but more so.

Who Knew That Queens’ Students Were So Dumb?

A protest at Queens university in Kingston, Ontario against Lindsay Shepherd, claiming that she is a white supremacist, stretches bounds of … well, sanity. The video on the Global News page is priceless.

The leader of this protest group, Sofie Vlaad, has published an article that sheds much light on his/her “brilliance”. Here’s the abstract:

This paper seeks to develop a new framework for discussing transsexual subjectivities. Drawing on Karen Barad’s theory of Agential Realism, I posit sex not as an immanent quality, but one that exists through its relations. Agential Realism as a theory presents us with a framework for discussing things-in-phenomena, and the material-discursive practices from which they arise. Under this paradigm, I mark a distinction between transsexuality qua process as a natural function of sex by which determinate (sexed) boundaries are (re)articulated, and transsexuality qua subject as the determinate categories that boundary-making practices, such as sexology and state institutions, bring into being. Adapting Jay Prosser’s theory of transsexuality as a form of autobiography to Barad’s framework, I delineate the ways in which sex acts as a process of becoming. Finally, using the language of Freud’s Mourning and Melancholia, I describe gender dysphoria as both constructed and melancholic, existing as the psychic feeling of loss incurred when the determinate boundaries of sex are rendered legible to state institutions, but illegible to transsexual subjects themselves.

Would an SDA reader be so kind as to translate this into … you know … legible English for the rest of us.

Lest we forget, this person’s education is being highly subsidized by taxpayers.

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