Commenting on yet another case of campus SJWs run mad, in which a college junior made the mistake of expressing his disinterest in black girls and was subsequently suspended for six months, Walter Hudson nails their end game:

In a real sense, relationships are a privilege. In a world where relationships are consensual, they are a privilege sustained by mutual consent. I retain certain privileges with my spouse, my children, my friends and co-workers, the members of my congregation, and anyone else willing to associate with me.

If we’re going to bemoan such privilege as somehow unfair to those we choose not to associate with, the only practical remedy is removing consent from relationships.

And this is the point where things get interesting, as one group of campus radicals insists on such things as Yes Means Yes consent rules where you pretty much have to ask permission not only for sex but every step along the way (can I kiss your neck? can I touch your right boob? what about the left one? can I kiss your neck again? etc.) while another group wants to eliminate consent, or at least make it so you can’t not consent to their sexual advances even if they can refuse yours.

Some nutjobs even call it “reverse rape” as in this piece from Thought Catalog that we hope is satire:

That’s as much a Patriarchal power move as rape—in fact, it is rape. Denying a woman sexual fulfillment is rape. He didn’t force me to have sex with him, but he forced me not to have sex with him when I really wanted to—this is obviously just as bad.

…except we’ve seen screencaps from Tumblr expressing the same sentiments that sure didn’t seem to be kidding.

Consent for me but not for thee. The battle of the activists is starting to get entertaining, better make some popcorn.

Transgendered is so last month, now all the cool kids are trans-aged. Here’s Steven Crowder’s take:

So a 52-year-old transgender man decides to abandon his family to live the life of a 6-year-old girl. Leftism demands we accept this as normal, but just how normal is it really?

The idea that the vastly imperfect governments of this world, who between them cannot guarantee anything six months out, can speak with serene confidence on the Whole Atmosphere of our Great Dynamic Planet nearly 100 years from now? As long as the faith holds, there is no call for certainties.

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The Petition to ban Donald Trump from the U.K reaches 400,000. Just how do you justify trying to ban Donald Trump when Islamist hate preachers are allowed to go about their work unhindered?

Islam is not a religion of peace. Anyone who still claims this in 2015 is either stupid or lying.

Have you been criticized for having something adverse to say about a candidate, particularly of your own “Party?” Told you are somewhere along the lines of “ill-mannered,” “negative” or “grumpy?” Slapped on the wrist for your supposed “political incorrectness?”

I am a Democrat. I am a woman. And I have profound concerns about Hillary Clinton.

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Some liberty proponents are more than happy to believe in particular mainstream dynamics. They are happy to believe, for example, that the growing “conflict” between the East and West is legitimate rather than engineered.

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It is one of William Faulkner’s most quoted lines. “The past is never dead,” he wrote in his novel Requiem for a Nun. “It’s not even past.” In fact, it’s being rewritten all the time for contemporary contexts. But when college students try to erase whole parts of the historical record, as many seem to want to do these days, it’s time to point out the lessons history has to offer about the consequences of such behavior—and how easily zealous righteousness is transformed into tyranny.

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The voices of civil libertarians, as well as community and legal activists, were strangely silent last month despite the announcement by Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne that she wants to institutionalize racial profiling by the government itself.

Yes, that’s right. Racial profiling will apparently be a good thing, not a bad thing, when done by the Wynne government.

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The opening of the Paris conference on climate change will be the occasion for the customary lamentations about the imminent demise of life on Earth if we do not pull up our socks as a species and reduce carbon emission levels, and thus avoid the toasting of the world. The adduced scientific evidence does not justify any such state of alarm. Every sane and informed person in the world is concerned about pollution and demands vigilance about any clear trends of climate change and any convincing evidence that human behaviour influences the climate.

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