Category Archives: Political Correctness

NYT now advocates for the end of the merit principle altogether

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Link to New York Times page

Indeed. Contemplate the enormity. It is Harrison Bergeron being demanded and nothing less. The Dystopian future novels set is nearly complete.

Resignation letter to the New York Times of Bari Weiss

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This was powerful enough that it was worth getting out of bed and posting.

I joined the paper with gratitude and optimism three years ago. I was hired with the goal of bringing in voices that would not otherwise appear in your pages: first-time writers, centrists, conservatives and others who would not naturally think of The Times as their home. The reason for this effort was clear: The paper’s failure to anticipate the outcome of the 2016 election meant that it didn’t have a firm grasp of the country it covers. Dean Baquet and others have admitted as much on various occasions. The priority in Opinion was to help redress that critical shortcoming.

I was honored to be part of that effort, led by James Bennet. I am proud of my work as a writer and as an editor. Among those I helped bring to our pages: the Venezuelan dissident Wuilly Arteaga; the Iranian chess champion Dorsa Derakhshani; and the Hong Kong Christian democrat Derek Lam. Also: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Masih Alinejad, Zaina Arafat, Elna Baker, Rachael Denhollander, Matti Friedman, Nick Gillespie, Heather Heying, Randall Kennedy, Julius Krein, Monica Lewinsky, Glenn Loury, Jesse Singal, Ali Soufan, Chloe Valdary, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Wesley Yang, and many others.

But the lessons that ought to have followed the election—lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society—have not been learned. Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.

Please read the rest at Bariweiss.com

We suggest downloading and saving the page as it likely won’t be online long.

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“The real story is the loss of the news altogether, and the news cannot report on it”

The Neo-Marxist 2-step get to authoritarian communism

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Not that long ago, the left pushed the narrative that speech was violence.

The idea was, if you said anything Neo-Marxists did not agree with, it was the same as if you had applied physical violence to oppose their agenda, and therefore any sort of violent defensive action was justified.

Much like the Islamic idea of “Defending the Faith”. Where not allowing Muslims to impose their religious laws on you is grounds for jihad against you as you have attacked their religion/religious rights to impose Islam on you.

In Marxist terms, if you said anything they could reframe as “Racist, Sexist, Homophobic, Transphobic, and lets be clear, that includes saying things that are true, such as “biological sex is real“, they would use violence on you, even mob violence and whatever other means they could think of to destroy you, your career, family and relationships.

And now, like true communists do, they have deployed phase two:

(Also like the Islamic concept of “Hijra”, which means two things. A Muslim moving to a non-Muslim area in order to make it Islamic, or increasing the degree of Islamic adherence of an area by upping demands. Ottawa residents for example might remember a year around a decade ago where you simply never saw a Muslim head cloth and nearly never or never a face cloth and then all of a sudden, they were everywhere like Dandelions)

Phase two of the Marxist hijra is “Silence is Violence”

This means that it’s now, not enough to keep your non-Marxist opinions to yourself. You MUST speak out and support the never ending cycle of leftist negation of all things Western and if you don’t, you justify violence against you. They will hurt you, and it will be your own damn fault.

And we move closer and closer to the 1984, 3 minutes of mandatory state imposed hate. But 3 minutes will never be enough. And the demands on you to submit will never be enough until you submit that your life, your children, and all your efforts are the sole and total property of the state and any injustice you perceive is done to you by the state, including your death, you should consider to be an honour to have the chance to sacrifice to the state.

The Left will not stop until we are Aphids. And as we are not Aphids, they will not stop until we, and all we have built or accomplished, are destroyed, or we stop them.

Eeyore for VladTepesBlog.

President Trump reminds the media who they really are and what they really do

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More Soviet like abuse of rights by UK authorities

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The only objection should be that this man was far far too polite and respectful to authoritarians who have zero legal rights to enter his home

Here is the direct URL in case the embed doesn’t work

Keep yesterday’s video in mind. The UK police have now taken on Soviet like powers with Soviet like reasons for abusing those powers. Americans, now you KNOW why you have a first amendment.

Canadian sportscaster icon, Don Cherry, fired for speaking obvious truth

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American readers might think of Don Cherry as a kind of Canadian Howard Kossel but who focuses exclusively on hockey. Don is probably the CBC’s most popular personality, but is far from a socialist so is likely not to popular at the office Christmas party.

Here is his remark that got him fired:

Obviously the tweeter agrees that you should not be allowed to say some true and important things. But judge for yourself.

Reader, Johnny U added these thoughts in the comments:

I heard about his firing this afternoon.

Not an iota of surprise here. Cherry has always called it like he saw it. When the Russian kicked and speared in ’72 he called them dirty, which they were. When the Europeans took dives like in soccer (football) he called them fakers. When the Swedes wouldn’t hit he called them sissies. Hardly anyone escaped his wrath over the years. He was threatened with dismissal numerous times for remarks, but the revenue he generated always made the broadcaster (CBC) more money than anything else they aired. In fact I could be mistaken, but his 5 or so minute segment on Hockey Night in Canada has had the highest ratings of any program in Canada for many years. He switched to another broadcaster in recent years, but I’m sure he made them plenty of money, too.

He’s always been a great patriot and supporter of the armed forces.

Criticism of white European or North American players was never an issue for his employers. Make a likely-true remark about the downtown Toronto demography, however, and it’s off with your head!

I can’t think of a more appropriate way for this old warrior to go out. Good for him. At 85 years old he’s done his part.