“Teaching this horrible doctrine to our children is a form of child abuse in the truest sense of those words. For many years now the radicals have mistaken Americans’ silence for weakness. But they’re wrong. … American parents are not going to accept indoctrination in our schools, cancel culture in our work, or the repression of our traditional faith, culture, and values in the public square. Not any more.“
The Power Of No
Quick — you’re being targeted by the cancel culture mob. Your inbox is blowing up. Your Twitter mentions are filled with hate. There’s a petition demanding your termination.
What do you do?
Social Disease
Clippings From Elsewhere
But posing and posturing have become a mass phenomenon, the tattooing of our time. Of nothing is this more true than contemporary Woke morality. Whereas not long ago young people of the middle classes sought to express their sympathy for the lower and supposedly oppressed orders by imitating their tattoos and way of dress, imitation being the highest form of empathy available to egotists, they now express the same desire by making Wokeness the touchstone of their morality. They think they are rebelling when, of course, they are conforming. They do not realise that it is more difficult, and more courageous, to contradict a friend than to criticise a society.
Theodore Dalrymple on pretentious guilt and moral grandiosity.
And That’s The Way It Is
Visit The Washington Monument While You Still Can
It wasn’t hyperbole. It was prediction.
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said Tuesday she looks forward to advancing the recommendations made in a report that urged her to remove, relocate or contextualize the Washington Monument because of its “disqualifying” history.
The District of Columbia Facilities and Commemorative Expressions (DCFACES) said in a report Monday that it was tasked with evaluating whether statues and memorials in the city should be removed or contextualized if the historical figures they represent participated in “slavery, systemic racism, mistreatment of, or actions that suppressed equality for, persons of color, women and LGBTQ communities and violation of the DC Human Right Act.”
The working group recommended that Bowser, a Democrat, use her position on the National Capital Memorial Advisory Commission to support the removal or contextualization of the Christopher Columbus Fountain, the Benjamin Franklin Statue, the Andrew Jackson Statue and the Jefferson Memorial.
Embrace Hollywood!
There’s this weird sentiment that what he did was a risk: that somehow he hurt is career (which isn’t true, or possible), and that what he did was brave it difficult for anyone to do. I find myself angered that anyone sees it this way.
— Josh Denny (@JoshDenny) August 31, 2020
An excellent thread.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Now officially eating their own.
62 journalists at the Toronto Star have signed a letter to management concerning a "hateful, racist reply-all email" sent last week by columnist Rosie DiManno: pic.twitter.com/e4CcXanU7L
— CANADALAND (@CANADALAND) August 25, 2020
KNKX: Your Connection To Jazz, Blues, And Groupthink
“Cliff” Mass is an American professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington.
Last week I wrote a blog post–Seattle, A City in Fear Can Be Restored — criticizing violent individuals who have brought repeated destruction to downtown Seattle and attacked and injured numerous people (including reporters and dozens of police officers). I also criticized the irresponsible and reckless actions of members of the Seattle City Council, who allowed the violence to continue, tried to cripple and defund the Seattle Police Department, and who have persecuted Chief Carmen Best.
And was fired for it. But read the whole thing.
The Power Of “No”
T-Shirt Company Refuses to Bow to Antifa, Even After Getting Smeared as ‘Fascist’
The Power Of No
Trader Joe’s success shows it is possible ‘to stand up to woke mobs’
Related: Trump-loving grandma outs Portland ‘bomber’ to feds — and it’s her own grandson
Visit The TC Douglas Building While You Still Can
Resistance is racism; BigEagle-Kequahtooway understands there is some resistance to the name change, but she said that mentally leads to systemic racism.
h/t Derek
Trader Joe’s Says “No”
The California teen’s petition has fewer than 5,000 signatures but the fact that one bored teenager with a computer could cause an entirely successful corporation to change their grossly successful marketing strategy is a sure sign that we’ve lost the center of what began as an important discussion about race and government and has now devolved into cherry-picked temper tantrums.
More at Zerohedge.
It Begins
Residents are driving Black Lives Matter protesters out of Springfield, Oregon. pic.twitter.com/TThrmL1IBg
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 30, 2020
The Black Lives Matter agitator, who wants to abolish the police, demands that the police help them leave. Pathetic. pic.twitter.com/2b0V9osB9x
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 30, 2020
Frankly, My Dear
Olivia de Haviland has passed at 104.
I Amuse Myself
I agree with this decision by @cbcsports because many indigenous tribes owned slaves. #CancelIndigenousPeople https://t.co/sZR3po2it7
— Katewerk (@katewerk) July 24, 2020
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Barbara Kay has resigned from her National Post column, citing “severe pressures” editors face on sensitive issues and the “public shaming of Rex Murphy.”
It’s been two decades since my first byline appeared in the Post. For a woman who already was well into middle age when her career began, the experience has been a thrill and a privilege. Perhaps more importantly, it’s been lively, energizing and fun. The National Post was conceived in 1998 as a safe haven from the stale pieties that dominated (and still dominate) the legacy Canadian media. Unfortunately, the spirit now has gone out of the place. And I’ve decided to step away from my regular column, at least for now. I’ve been noticing for a while that much of the best writing about Canada is increasingly taking place on platforms that didn’t exist until recently (and in some cases aren’t even Canadian). Numerous international writers whom I admire have decided to find new ways to reach their audience. I will now join their ranks.
Related: WSJ Responds To Staffers Outraged About The Opinion Section
A newspaper with a survival instinct would fire them all.
Khmer Noir
Full length interview here.
Summer Of Love
Go home, simulation. You’re drunk.
How strange is it that the 2 victims of the Seattle crash on the 4th were SUMMER Taylor and Diaz LOVE?
"Summer of Love"- @MayorJenny pic.twitter.com/DyXJ8rw34g
— Haley Kennington (@kenningtonsays) July 6, 2020
Visit Mount Rushmore While You Still Can
Mount Rushmore was built on land that belonged to the Lakota tribe and sculpted by a man who had strong bonds with the Ku Klux Klan. It features the faces of 2 U.S. presidents who were slaveholders.https://t.co/pHmJScnYbb
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 1, 2020
The sound of Trump’s second term: … second South Dakota tribal leader called for the removal of the four sculptures on Mount Rushmore, which is carved into land sacred to the Lakota Sioux.