Apparently Harry Potter actress Emma Watson needs a little help coming up with lines that aren’t written for her, or at least with names for her new “feminist book club”, so she reached out on Twitter for suggestions, according to a new fluff piece on Breitbart.
We were going to suggest Tomes For Twats, but apparently her mind’s already made up as she went with the rather socialist-sounding “Our Shared Shelf.”
Larry King wannabe Piers Morgan has somehow managed to be right about not one but two things in a recent column for The Daily Mail referencing some dumb stunt that Ellen Degeneres pulled on some dumb awards show involving showing a shirtless pic of some dumb actor and comparing it to some cricket player flirting with a female reporter (who shot him down anyway) before comparing it to the backdrop of the New Year’s Eve rape mobs:
But true gender equality surely dictates that both sexes should be held to equal behavioural judgement?
…And on a wider point, it was fascinating and frankly disturbing to see ‘Gayle-gate’ attracting wider attention, comment and news coverage around the world than the appalling incident in Cologne, Germany where over 1000 men of Arab and North African origin sexually assaulted dozens of innocent women on New Year’s Eve.
Particularly as the female Mayor of Cologne, Henriette Reker, shockingly seemed to put the onus on women to stop these attacks happening again – suggesting a ‘code of conduct’ they should adopt including maintaining an arm’s length distance from strangers.
If a male mayor has said this, all hell would have broken loose, and he’d have probably, and rightly, lost his job.
Sexism, in all its myriad guises, is a bad thing – let’s all agree on that.
But so is hypocrisy.
Enjoy it while it lasts, it might be a long time before we agree with Morgan on anything ever again.
Originally from 2013, this just goes to show how little has changed:
Occupy forces that have been sat in barracks for over two years now woke up this morning to discover that they were once again being mobilized, but that this time they would find themselves fighting on the same side as the forces of corporate cronyism that they stood against in 2011.
In a bizarre twist of My enemy’s enemy is my friend, string-weaving street punks and shouty one-dimensional leftie students across the continent awoke this morning to be told by the liberal media that Cliven Bundy was a rich greedy landowner supported by domestic terrorists trying to take food stamps off millions of poor children, whom the federal government was duty bound to protect along with the interests of Nevadan Senator Harry Reid.
The stand off between Bundy, his supporters and the federal government over cattle grazing rights has proven politically divisive in North America, with many on the liberal left now realizing that they hate white farmers in rural America more than they hate corrupt bankers and their political errand boys in Washington. The logic seemingly being: that if you have food stamps, you don’t need farmers.
The speed and enthusiasm with which the liberal left has jumped aboard the totalitarian government regime train should alarm everyone. Various liberal news outlets continue to bay for blood and salivate on air over the prospect of a Waco style takedown of Bundy & his supporters, which according to former Texan Senator Ron Paul, could still be very much on the cards.
Whatever the eventual outcome of this drama, it should be abundantly clear to anyone and virtually impossible for the progressive left to argue that they want a gun ban for anything other than political & strategic reasons.
Those of us who entertained the idea that we were all on the same side have been given a wake up call; this crisis has served to illuminate that the progressive liberal left are the all-too-willing tools of government, and hungry for a bit of state murder.
For the time being just be glad that they can’t shoot, or even be trusted to maintain their weapon.
Sadly, political correctness afflicts much of the world; in particular the Western world.
What started as a legitimate change to bring about equality and transformation of how we viewed, treated and spoke about each other has now ossified into a rarely breached wall of silence; a silence reinforced by the onset of the West’s indifference to its own — good, bad or ugly but — distinct societies, their values and norms; call it white man’s burden or guilt; a guilt for the sins of the past now manifesting itself in the white man’s fear.
Jim Goad on the death of Lemmy Kilmister, and acceptable and unacceptable forms of rebellion at the start of punk and metal vs. now:
These days punk rock is almost entirely a tool of extreme leftist propagandists, while rappers are ironically in love with shameless capitalism as exemplified by Donald Trump. Heavy metal isn’t entirely in the thrall of leftist dogma like punk is, but it’s still subject to relentless calls to “diversify” its ranks. The simple economic truth is that you aren’t likely to get a record contract if you run around Sieg Heiling and flashing swastikas, even if no one has a problem with you singing about eating skulls and sacrificing virgins. Praising genuine current threats such as ISIS and Kim Jong-un won’t earn you nearly the same scorn that will befall you should you dare to make a non-condemnatory comment about a German dictator who’s been dead for seven decades.
PC is about control, not etiquette. If PC truly was about kindness and respect, it wouldn’t need to be imposed on us. After all, we already have a mechanism for the social cohesion PC is said to represent: it’s called manners.
Political correctness is the conscious, designed manipulation of language intended to change the way people speak, write, think, feel, and act, in furtherance of an agenda.
PC is best understood as propaganda, which is how I suggest we approach it. But unlike propaganda, which historically has been used by governments to win favor for a particular campaign or effort, PC is all-encompassing. It seeks nothing less than to mould us into modern versions of Marx’s un-alienated society man, freed of all his bourgeois pretensions and humdrum social conventions.
Like all propaganda, PC fundamentally is a lie. It is about refusing to deal with the underlying nature of reality, in fact attempting to alter that reality by legislative and social fiat. A is no longer A. Read More
Steve Sailer tells of an intriguing approach to offsetting immigration risks: insurance.
Immigration insurance may sound like a wacky idea at the moment, but it actually could appeal to multiple politically powerful interest groups, such as insurance companies looking for a new market and trial lawyers looking for new reasons to sue insurance companies. Giving the backbone of Democratic donors—the trial lawyers—a financial incentive to dig up and publicize dirt on immigration would be political jujitsu of the highest order.
Sailer admits that only the legal immigrants would comply with such a policy, but then, the same is true about car insurance.
At present, forecasting that some applicants for immigration would be better than some other applicants is widely considered racist and un-American, a violation of the Zeroth Amendment inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. More sane countries, such as Canada and Australia, have complex points systems for evaluating applicants based on statistical models of how much good they are likely to do current citizens.
We do? Are you sure, Steve? Does the Canadian government actually pay any attention to the points, though?
Anyway, the bigger problem is how to implement such a notion without having your eardrums shattered from libtards screaming about it. But that’s the same with each and every notion about what to do about immigration crises, so no big whoop.
Taki’s Magazine’s Jim Goad on the latest fad, female to male transsexuals who breastfeed “chestfeed”:
Huffington Post, that digital safe space for menopausal liberals in the early stages of Alzheimer’s, ran an article a few weeks ago titled “The Troubling Erasure of Trans Parents Who Breastfeed.” Without a hint of a wink, the article states that the notion that “gender is tied to biology” is an “antiquated belief.”
Because of course just because she has a vagina, just gave birth, and is lactating, doesn’t mean she’s not a real, honest-to-goodness manly dudebro, you evil bigot.
Harvard University has made and distributed placemats with leftist talking points, perfect for students to use to wreck Christmas dinner by starting stupid political fights.
From the Daily Caller:
Harvard spokeswoman Rachel Dane told Campus Reform the placemats were deliberately intended to shape the conversations undergraduates have with their parents.
Another Harvard representative, assistant diversity dean Emelyn de la Peña, insisted the placemats do not constitute indoctrination despite presenting only a single point of view as correct.
This is very disappointing. We would have thought Harvard students were better than this.
I mean, if you can’t even memorize your talking points for annoying Uncle Frank, what kind of annoying leftist brat are you?
Lazy, lazy, lazy…
Now, after being mocked in certain corners of the press, Harvard backpedaled, no doubt worried more about potential loss of alumni donations and prestige than because they actually regretted their idiot indoctrination placemats.
The latest SJW kerfuffle in Australia relates to the above cartoon by Bill Leak, which they say depicts poor Indians as being too stuppid to know solar panels can’t be eaten, as opposed to, say, rich Westerners being too stupid to realize poor countries have more pressing concerns than renewable energy.
Theodore Dalrymple gives his take over at Taki’s Magazine:
The reaction to the cartoon, however, was indicative of what one might call the will to outrage. This will precedes any object to which it might attach, and many people wait as if in ambush for something to feel angry about, pouncing on it with leopard-like joy (the leopard, so I was told in Africa, is particularly dangerous, for it kills for pleasure and not only for food).
Aristotle's Bench Press 