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The curse of Aaron - David Cole, Taki's Magazine , 13 April 2021 https://www.takimag.com/article/the-curse-of-aaron/ O, why should wrath be mute, and fury dumb? I am no baby, I, that with base prayers I should repent the evils I have done: If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from ...

Jailed father fighting to block gender transition of his child denied bail - Erin Perse, The Post Millennial , 20 March 2021 https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-jailed-father-fighting-to-block-gender-transition-of-his-child-denied-bail A father who is fighting in the family courts for the right ...

I am not ready to reenter white society - Elie Mystal, The Nation , 23 March 2021 https://www.thenation.com/article/society/after-covid-racism/ As the pandemic wanes, and I have to leave the safety of my whiteness-free castle, I know that racism is going to come roaring back into my daily life. I’v...

Jailed father fighting to block gender transition of his child denied bail - Erin Perse, The Post Millennial , 20 March 2021 https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-jailed-father-fighting-to-block-gender-transition-of-his-child-denied-bail A father who is fighting in the family courts for the right ...

Quite a kerfuffle over at Quillette about the comments to their article 'Leaving Portland' by Michael J. Totten: https://quillette.com/2021/03/14/leaving-portland/ Quillette's motto is 'Free Speech Lives' but it appears that criticism of the author was just too intense for them. The comments are no ...

Reason | The dream of the '90s died in Portland Interesting, as I knew nothing about the history of Portland. No mention of people moving to Portland from California over the last 20 to 30 years. The author herself moved to Portland from Los Angeles less than twenty years ago. Whenever I visited th...

Meghan ’n’ Joe’s empire of the sentiments - Dominic Green, The Spectator, 12 March 2021
https://spectator.us/topic/meghan-markl ... entiments/

Biden dispenses serotonin the way Barack Obama dispensed drone strikes

And here is Robyn Bourgeois:






The people she grew up with more than 2000 miles away from the nearest Cree reserve are known as the Pink Cree.



Lovely outfit. Suitably Indigenous.

From the new vice-provost's writings, heavily promoted in Brock University's newspaper: At Concordia University in Montreal, for instance, a dozen researchers are collaborating on a project called “Decolonizing Light,” whose aim is to “investigate the reproduction of colonialism in and through physi...

There were hundreds of comments about this on the Quillette forum, of which I contributed a few. A short time later this appeared: How a single anonymous Twitter account caused an ‘Indigenized’ Canadian university to unravel - Jonathan Kay, Quillette , 6 March 2021 https://quillette.com/2021/03/06/h...

The problem with ‘Indigenizing the university’ - Frances Widdowson, Quillette , 24 February 2021 https://quillette.com/2021/02/24/the-problem-with-indigenizing-the-university/ I've read both Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation and Separate but Un...

I guess as a member of a group that doesn't really consider skin color as a meaningful factor, simply because almost every other factor one can fathom is more influential in the quality of one's life, I'm kinda out of the woke loop. Kind of like discussing Tibetan pop music lyrics, "It's all G...

The population of China tripled between 1700, when it was about 150 million, and 1850, when it was about 450 million. Opportunities did not expand commensurately. A corollary of the population problem was what might be called a talent glut--a predicament familiar to many developing nations today, in...

The six volumes series The History of Imperial China devotes considerable attention to the civil service examination system. Of the three levels of examination under the Qing, the lowest was given every year and a half at the local level. The odds of passing this exam were remote, and some candidate...

35jJNyFuYKQ 'The White Tiger' blows colorism and the caste system wide open - James Killough, pfc , 29 January 2021 https://www.purefilmcreative.com/killough-chronicles/the-white-tiger-blows-colorism-and-the-caste-system-wide-open.html This year in particular the caste system is of paramount import...

Hello Liz, I posted the link to this speech by Glenn Loury to this thread a few days ago. His audience no doubt needed to hear it. Dr. Loury seems to be taking up the mantle of Thomas Sowell. Since he has an online video channel, perhaps he'll be more successful at spreading the word than was Sowell...

Unspeakable truths about racial inequality in America - Glenn Loury, Quillette, 10 February 2021
https://quillette.com/2021/02/10/unspea ... n-america/

Australia is chock full of all types of wokelings and they love the masks - your social concious is visible on your face. in my country the only 2 demograpics i can think of that are anti mask are the lefty crystal sniffing, anti vax, mental hippies and the right wing "moi freedoms" types...

Humans evolved experiencing actual risks, extreme adversity, and often death on a daily basis. Now that most people in industrialized nations are "safe as houses" by comparison, it may due to our nature that imagined risks and adversity are created to fulfill a need driven by our evolutio...

Critical Race Theory is coming for the dogs: Katja Guenther’s “The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals” - Nathan A. Winograd, Aero , 1 February 2021 https://areomagazine.com/2021/02/01/critical-race-theory-is-coming-for-the-dogs-katja-guenthers-the-lives-and-deaths-of-shelter-animals/ ... in her re...

Thanks for that piece in Tablet, CS. Nicely put.

Are you ready for the climate lockdowns? - Stephen L. Miller, The Spectator , 5 February 2021 https://spectator.us/topic/ready-climate-lockdowns-environment/ ... Once your leaders enforce one under the guise of public health, they will not simply set aside their power to do so again. Don’t worry th...

Went to put this in the thread about the 2020 election and see that it is locked.


Maybe it's just as appropriate here:


The secret history of the shadow campaign that saved the 2020 election - Molly Ball, Time Magazine, 4 February 2021

https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

He wants to save classics from whiteness. Can the field survive? - Rachel Poser, New York Times , 2 February 2021 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/magazine/classics-greece-rome-whiteness.html Dan-el Padilla Peralta thinks classicists should knock ancient Greece and Rome off their pedestal — even ...

https://thegloriousamerican.com/law/local-man-devoured-by-mostly-peaceful-shark-california-officials-say-reversepic/ On Wednesday Santa Monica swimmer, Doug Patterson was eaten alive by a great white shark. Thankfully, California officials have confirmed that the 21-foot shark’s interactions with Pa...