Category: The Tolerant Left

Merriment Detected, Fretting Ensues

Forward! The Tolerant Left 5 Comments

White people strum banjos, have fun. Fretting ensues at University of Sheffield:

Obviously, activities that are chiefly indulged in by white people – in this case, folk singing – must be deemed suspect and found problematic with great urgency, and then probed for hidden wrongness. At taxpayer expense. And all this scholarly rigour ain’t cheap, you know…

Behind this mannered waffle is the weird implication that devotees of folk music are somehow, simply by existing, excluding racial minorities. Shooing them away. Though, as so often, details on this point are neither obvious nor forthcoming.

Still, perhaps we can look forward to an academic interrogation of classic car shows in Nottinghamshire as some heinous bastion of “white-centricity.” Another item on the list of Things That Must Be Decolonised And Morally Corrected.

“Our aim,” say our tearful academics, “is to break down the barriers for people to get involved in folk music. Opening up the genre to different audiences.”

Different audiences. Not the audience that folk music actually has, mind, the one it attracts and which is arrived at via choice and musical inclination. And again, no actual barriers to participation are specified. But the audience is nonetheless all wrong, apparently.

One of these.

The Excuse Factory

Canada’s Bolsheviks The Tolerant Left We Are All Treaty People 13 Comments

It’s hard to imagine that anyone with a shred of moral conscience could face themselves day after day after delivering a judgement which brazenly excuses such psychopathic behavior.

Mr. Garlow is the personification of intergenerational trauma. I cannot imagine more sympathetic circumstances or mitigating factors that cry out for some compassion. Punishing him with a further period of incarceration for the sake of the common good would be unjust,” wrote Justice Brenda Green, who recently handed Garlow a suspended sentence and three years of probation.

The judge saw a “clear, causal nexus between his father’s brutalization in residential schools and the trail of damage and devastation that slammed like a wrecking ball through the next generation. I cannot imagine a case with a more shocking example of the detrimental impact of colonialism, intergenerational trauma and the attempted cultural genocide by seizing children from their communities only to be placed in horribly abusive environments.”

‘Tis But A Scratch

Cold Dead Hands Jonestown Precinct 6 Comments

John Leake- Mass Stabbing on UK Train Casts Spotlight on British Stabbing Epidemic

In the year ending March 2025, 53,000 knife or sharp instrument offenses were recorded in England and Wales (population 61 million) which represents an 81% increase over the last decade.

Compare that to 84,000 gunshot incidents in the United States (population 340 million) in 2023. While gunshots have a much higher case fatality rate than stabbing, knives can still inflict horrible injuries with lifelong sequelae. The spectacle of man coming after you with a knife is also one of the most terrifying experiences imaginable.

They Seem Nice

The Tolerant Left 6 Comments

Adam Zivo- My evening among the Gaza protestors

Holly wanted a one-state solution under Palestinian rule, which she believed would be safe for Jewish citizens. After I pointed out that many Israeli Jews were previously expelled from neighbouring Arab countries, she replied: “As long as they’re not killing Palestinians, generally, the Jews there are safe, yes.” So I pushed a little more: with Hamas killing over 1,000 Jews on October 7th, could they truly be protected? She ended the interview.

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