Category: The “W” Word

White Rural Rage

Those Deplorables aren’t bad people, they’re just poor and stupid.

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The result — which at some level I still find hard to understand — is that many white rural voters support politicians who tell them lies they want to hear. It helps explain why the MAGA narrative casts relatively safe cities like New York as crime-ridden hellscapes and rural America as the victim not of technology but of illegal immigrants, wokeness and the deep state.

At this point you’re probably expecting a solution to this ugly political situation. Schaller and Waldman do offer some suggestions. But the truth is that while white rural rage is arguably the single greatest threat facing American democracy, I have no good ideas about how to fight it.

Chatter here.

How do they hate you? Let them list the ways.

Visit The Washington Monument While You Still Can


Democrat donations get results.

The contract for removing the Reconciliation Memorial was awarded to @MarstelDay, a Fredericksburg-based company

It’s a $770,372 contract. Now, can anybody find out who they’re subcontracting the actual work to?

So much for reconciliation. Or victory, for that matter. In miserable Olde England, history is written by the losers;

Admiral Horatio Nelson is one of the greatest heroes of British history. With the possible exception of Wellington, no one contributed more to winning the Napoleonic Wars. Nelson’s death at Trafalgar, his greatest victory, holds a place in British history analogous to that of Lincoln at the end of the Civil War.

But in recent years, Nelson has come under attack, and activists have urged that statues of him be destroyed – including the iconic one at the top of Nelson’s Column at Trafalgar Square. Why? The usual reason: he is alleged to have been pro-slavery.[…]

The “racist” smear against Nelson lives on, despite being supported by no evidence, because certain people want to perpetrate it. Such charges are not made out of any genuine concern for the long-gone victims of slavery through the millennia, but rather to discredit the history of selected countries–i.e., the United States and Great Britain, but not China or Brazil. The project is a purely political one.

Well, yes.

The “Appeal to the Noble Savage” Fallacy

The “Appeal to Authority” fallacy holds that experts are infallible: if a credible source believes something, well then, that thing must be true!2 The fallacy is not only that even truly knowledgeable people can be wrong, but also that many so-called authorities are not, in the end, all that knowledgeable.

If that’s the “Appeal to Authority” fallacy, let’s call this new thing the “Appeal to the Noble Savage” fallacy. It holds indigenous people to be the most worthy among all peoples, and incapable of engaging in human acts of cruelty. It holds them on a pedestal. The Appeal to the Noble Savage fallacy imagines indigenous people to be, well, not exactly human.

Whatsisname’s Britain – Bumped For More Chewy Diversity Goodness!

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and Bobbies bar native born British “right wing thugs” from reaching the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day.

Or, they attempted to.

Tense scenes in central London as police clash with people trying to get near the Cenotaph war memorial for Remembrance Day/Veterans Day. They eventually get through and it becomes calm.

Five weeks of pro-Hamas protest is just healthy diversity.

DIVERSITY UPDATE: Pro-Palestine mob deface WWI memorial and scale buildings as police lose control

A pro-Palestine mob have defaced a World War 1 memorial and scaled buildings in Central London as police lose control of the march.

Footage and photos from the scene show a World War 1 memorial covered in signs with a “Free Palestine” placard attached to the statue of the soldier.

Other memorials were targeted too. Taking to X, GB News contributor Darren Grimes said: “Pro-Palestine yobs drape our war memorials in foreign flags, desecrating the Machine Gun Corps Memorial at Wellington Arch. Where are the police?”

Close by two pro-Palestine protesters scaled a building only to be met by security on the level they decided to leave at.

Their actions come as police lose control of the protest which has seen over 100,000 people march through Central London on Armistice Day.

@RaheemKassamMuslims are terrorising the streets of central London tonight. No one is stopping them. Britain is on the cusp of recognising the importance of America’s Second Amendment.

I, Pocohontas

Canadians are so racist people pretend to be Indians.

A Canadian news documentary airing at the end of the week focuses on the Native identity claims of one of the most celebrated performers in entertainment history.

Titled “Making an Icon,” the description for the upcoming episode of The Fifth Estate on CBC News does not mention the name of the subject. But multiple Native people who took part in the documentary process told Indianz.Com that it’s about Buffy Sainte-Marie, whose decades-long career in music, television and education rests on her claim of being Cree from the Piapot Cree Nation, one of the First Nations in the province of Saskatchewan.

“An icon’s claims to Indigenous ancestry are being called into question by family members and an investigation that included genealogical documentation, historical research and personal accounts,” the description for the October 27 episode reads.

The documentary comes at a defining time for a performer whose life has been filled with groundbreaking moments. On August 3, Sainte-Marie, who turned 82 earlier this year, surprised her followers by declaring her “retirement from live performance. The announcement cited “travel-induced health concerns and performance-inhibiting physical challenges” facing the aging musician. […]

But the Native people who participated in CBC’s documentary process believe Sainte-Marie’s decision to step away from the spotlight is directly connected to the questions about her First Nations identity. According to the sources, work on the hour-long episode began more than a year ago and it grew to include interviews with individuals in the United States, where the performer was raised following claims to have been born in Canada and adopted out of Piapot.

Due to the lengthy production time associated with the CBC project, Sainte-Marie would have been well aware of the nature of the documentary — especially of its potential to unravel a career that began in the 1960s, the people said. The award-winning singer and songwriter has largely remained silent about her retirement decision, with no significant interviews appearing in mainstream media since her announcement more than two months ago.

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