We’ve gone from “stay out of the bedroom” to tossing condoms to children in public.
WATCH: Condoms thrown at kids during Jacksonville Pride Parade where mayor Donna Deegan is the Grand Marshal pic.twitter.com/9irDEPylLh
— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) October 8, 2023
The Marxist/Woke Left often talks about “decolonization”. In most people’s minds, this just means letting foreign people’s have democracy and do their own thing. But the attack by Hamas, and the support they have from the “decolonizing” Left shows exactly what they mean by “decolonization” and how being declared a “colonizer” give people a green light to do any vile thing they can think of.
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DECOLONIZATION!!!Many woke "social justice" activists and academics are cheering on Hamas attack on Israel as an act of DECOLONIZATION, all while justifying, ignoring, and minimizing the rape and murder of women and children.
So, let's talk about Decolonization,
A Thread🧵 pic.twitter.com/hZp01owUCi
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) October 9, 2023
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To begin we must understand that"decolonize" is a well defined term-of-art that comes out of something called "postcolonial theory"
This means that even though the term has begun to pop up in mainstream discourse (see pic) it comes loaded with an entire worldview and ideology pic.twitter.com/fMqH0Q8iQe— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) October 9, 2023
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So what is the ideology behind post-colonial theory?Post-Colonial Theory is one of the big-three sub-domains of Critical Social Justice (AKA, "woke") Scholarship along with "Critical Race Theory" and "Queer Theory"
As such it shares similar intellectual DNA with CRT and QT
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) October 9, 2023
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Post-colonial theory, like all woke theories is built on a fusion of postmodernism and critical theory, and the goal of post-colonial theory is to do "critical theory" in a way that will dismantle, deconstruct, delegitimize, and otherwise invalidate Western Society and ideals.— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) October 9, 2023
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Post-colonial theory sees all of western civilization as a corrupt, racist, sexist, imperial, evil empire that must be dismantled and deconstructed.The first Post-Colonial text is generally thought to be the 1961 book "The Wretched of the Earth" by Frantz Fanon. pic.twitter.com/hlip2ZKwID
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) October 9, 2023
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Fanon focused on the psychological effects colonialism. He said colonized groups had been stripped of their humanity and thus suffered psychologically.
Now, the problem is not Fanon's observation that colonial wars created psychological scars…it's his SOLUTION that is scary.— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) October 9, 2023
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Fanon says the solution is "decolonization."What's decolonization?
Fanon says it is a "violent phenomenon" that occurs at every level of society in which "One 'species' of men is replaced by another 'species' of men." pic.twitter.com/fKqFE9R8rX
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) October 9, 2023
In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
The question of American troops fighting abroad seems to be a nonstop debate at times. Nixon’s Vietnamization plan resulted in South Vietnam, with Americans playing the support role, roll back North Vietnam’s Easter Offensive, which held until backstabbing Democrats after their 1974 Congressional sweep withheld support and funding. Over half-a-century ago, William F. Buckley, Jr. discussed the question of Vietnmization with Harrison E. Salisbury and Douglas Eugene Pike.
Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.
The focus this time: Some… are more equal than others.
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
Health equity means that you will be denied prompt medical care because you are not the right race… all in the name of “equity” of course.
“New Zealanders this week were debating a thorny health care issue — whether ethnicity should be a factor in determining when patients get surgery.
“It turns out that in some parts of Auckland, the country’s largest city at 1.4 million people, clinicians have been using an algorithm to adjust where patients sit on elective surgery waitlists. Clinical need remains the top factor, but the algorithm also takes into account how long patients have been on the waitlist, where they live, their financial circumstances, and their ethnicity.
“Indigenous Māori and Pacific Island patients are given a higher priority on the list, pushing down white New Zealanders and other ethnicities. The idea is to balance out longstanding inequities in the publicly funded health system.”
Move over “Genderbread Person” and “Gender Unicorn”, all the woke kids are being taughtm, by the dictates of the Wisconsin Department of Education, to talk about snowmen and how they are all special little snowflakes!
The Wisconsin Department of Instruction plans to teach our children to disabuse themselves of the foolish notion that there are only two sexes, male & female.
When you were born, the doctor and your parents saw your genitalia and made a guess. Turns out…they might be wrong. pic.twitter.com/4OMYQtrDXb
— Scarlett Johnson (@scarlett4kids) September 27, 2023
Of course, all of this is nonsense. There are two biological sexes. Those sexes are not “assigned at birth”, and one’s inner fantasy of what they “feel like” inside has no basis in objective reality.
Wisconsin DPI: The combination of anatomy, chromosomes, and hormones that are typically classified as male, female or intersex. Sex is usually assigned at birth based solely upon a person's visible external anatomy.
GENDER IDENTITY
A person's innermost concept of self as being… pic.twitter.com/0qQBIDKXDD— Scarlett Johnson (@scarlett4kids) September 27, 2023
Your humble author will not be posting through the coming week and change due to work and travel.
Until I return, here are some kitties.
Nothing says “Social Justice” in California than telling little White children that racial segregation and exclusion is legitimate and proper.
A California elementary school reportedly held a race segregated “playdate social” for all students except the white kids.
A parent blasted the school on social media, “we’ll look back and cringe so hard that we tried to beat racism by segregating kids of color from white kids” pic.twitter.com/LhBMCtwSEq
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 28, 2023
A father impregnating his intellectually disabled daughter is a crime, even in Canada. Four to six year in jail is the typical sentence… but not if you are Black, in which case a “more nuanced approach” that results in two years of house arrest is more politically correct.
“Normally, incest would be punished with a jail sentence: two years on the low end, and 14 years maximum. Applying progressive sentencing principles, a majority of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal decided late August that the father should only have to serve two years of house arrest (more reasonably, the dissenting judge believed that four years in jail was apt).
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“At trial, the Crown had argued that the father should spend four to six years in jail, based on sentences that had been handed out in similar situations. It lost. On appeal, it argued the same. This was a severe crime, and it was made worse because the father violated his position of trust over his disabled daughter. Worse, he impregnated her, risking genetic harm to the child. (The Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Service told me Wednesday that it has not yet decided whether it’ll appeal once more to the Supreme Court of Canada.)
“The trial court, and a majority of the appeal court, didn’t buy the Crown’s argument. Why? Because the offender was remorseful and was determined unlikely to re-offend.
“Another reason was that he is Black.
“While the Crown established, using past cases, that a jail sentence of four to six years was normal for this kind of crime, the appeal court dismissed this as merely a guideline. The court also noted that the offenders, in previous cases, were not African Nova Scotians. When deciding whether offenders of such heritage should serve house arrest or jail, the court wrote that “a more nuanced approach” was required. In short, a racial discount was to be applied.
“‘The moral culpability of an African Nova Scotian offender has to be assessed in the context of historic factors and systemic racism, as was done in this case,” wrote the trial judge, with whom the majority of the appeal court agreed. “Sentencing judges should take into account the impact that social and economic deprivation, historical disadvantage, diminished and non-existent opportunities and restricted options may have had on the offender’s moral responsibility.’
“As an African Nova Scotian, the father had been impacted by “historical deprivation, social and economic deprivation as well as diminished and virtually non-existent opportunities.” In sentencing, these broad factors didn’t have to be linked to his crime to be relevant — they just needed to be present.”
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