Woke Leadership: Beating the S**t Out of White People

Posted on May 18, 2017 by The Political Hat

     A queer communist foreign national illegally in the United States has openly called for racially motivated violence after winning an award by the University of California, Berkeley for leadership amongst illegal aliens including helping fellow foreign nationals illegally present in this country with legal support and financial aid.

     Unsurprisingly this privileged little snot has, while basking in his power to flaunt the law, declared himself to be the victim.

“But I see how this fits into your agenda, and no matter what I say, you’ll write your article so that I continuously get threats for the next two weeks until white supremacist [sic] have another person of color to attempt to silence via virtual bullying.”

     He even went to far as to demand people help him break the law:

“‘My mom broke legal bounds to get me here,’ stated Prieto, ‘and that’s what we need allies to be doing.’

“‘I need you to break laws with us. Break the legal bounds, untie your hands because tied hands are not going to get us anywhere.'”

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Quick Takes – Privilege of Family; Coercion of Equality; Immaturity of Progressives

Posted on May 18, 2017 by The Political Hat

     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: Hissy Fits for Justice!

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     A good upbringing with loving parents who instill venerable values in their children will usually result in adults who are much better off for it.

     This, of course, is why the Left wants to destroy this “privilege”:

“Who are the people responsible for inequitable treatment? I think when it comes down to it, when we talk about privilege, we are usually talking about parents who try to help their children succeed. They provide safe homes, teach their children social skills, ingratiate them with valuable connections, and submerge them in a culture in which they will learn how to get to and through college, and into the workplace. Of course, it’s more than a one generation phenomena. Parents are enabled to privilege their children in part because of the privileges they themselves have received. Privilege moves from parent to child from generation to generation. And the web gets very thick. But at its heart, privilege is family.

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“To avoid the unwanted baggage of privilege, several utopian experiments like Oneidans have attempted to communalize sex so that ‘private ties’ would not trump ‘communal solidarity.’ But the inevitable result is that people are not satisfied with the communal arrangement. They want privileges. Eventually, communal solidarity seems like an empty, meaningless, and unnatural replacement for romance.”

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California Embraces Communists

Posted on May 17, 2017 by The Political Hat

     California is poised to end the ban on actual and literal Communists being government employees.

“Lawmakers narrowly approved the bill to repeal part of a law enacted during the Red Scare of the 1940s and ’50s when fear that communists were trying to infiltrate and overthrow the U.S. government was rampant. […]

“It would eliminate part of the law that allows public employees to be fired for being a member of the Communist Party.

“Employees could still be fired for being members of organizations they know advocate for overthrowing the government by force or violence.”

     Considering California’s continuous assault on actual civil liberties, the idea that this move to embrace Communists is somehow a win for liberty is… questionable at best.

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San Francisco No Longer Belongs to Americans

Posted on May 17, 2017 by The Political Hat

     Citizenship ought to mean something. At present, the right to serve on a jury, the right to elected office, and the right to vote, are generally the only rights reserved for citizens.

     Citizenship is an indicator of being a full-fledged member of a people and a civilization, with the right to participate in how it is run and in what direction its government shall take. It is not only a compendium of a dwindling set of rights, but a duty, obligation, and honor. What, then, does citizenship mean when foreign nationals, particularly those who are illegally in this country and hold no legiance thereto, can out-vote actual citizens in determining our very governance?

     We’ve already seen attempts to allow criminal aliens to sit on juries, and successful attempts to allow them to de facto register to vote under the color of law and serve as officers of the court. Now, San Fransisco is allowing illegal aliens to vote for school board elections.

“San Francisco voters approved Proposition N last fall to allow illegal immigrants to vote in the city’s future school board elections, and some believe it’s a problem that could soon “metastasize” to other school districts.

“Proposition N allows illegal immigrant parents of students in the San Francisco Unified School District to vote in November school board elections scheduled for 2018, 2020 and 2022”

     Of all the local elections to allow foreign nationals who are illegally in this country and thus are criminals to determine the governance of the schools that educate American children, school board elections are the most impactful.

     Americans’ children’s education should not be determined by the influence foreigners, or controlled by the vote of the same. A distinction of citizenship should allow Americans to determine how American children are educated.

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Queering The Shirt, Unqueered

Posted on May 16, 2017 by The Political Hat

     A shirt maker who refused to make a shirt with a message that he had qualms was attacked by so-called Kentucky Human Rights Commission because the shirt he refused to print endorsed a doubleplusgood message of queerness. This was appealed to the Kentucky Court of Appeals based on the idea that a political message is not concomitant with a persons sexual orientation.

     That shirt maker has won a victory for free speech.

     This has already dragged on over many years, and the resources of the allegedly unprivileged and dispowered are seemingly unlimited, while the resources of a small business owner are very finite, so this is likely far from over in the long run.

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In Sweden, Defecating in the Street isn’t Illegal, but Complaining about It is a H8 Crime

Posted on May 16, 2017 by The Political Hat

     A Seventy-year-old Swedish woman complained about immigrants setting fire to cars and defecating in the streets. The Swedish authorities took notice and did something about this outrage.

     Oh, they didn’t do anything about the public defecation or arson, they decided to go after the seventy-year-old Swedish woman for daring to point out the obvious and accused her of formenting hatred.

     What’s worse is that she can potentially go to jail for this:

“The penalty for hatred against a group of people is imprisonment for a maximum of two years or fines. If the crime is considered to be grossly convicted, the accused is sentenced to imprisonment for at least six months and no more than four years.”*

     When a government aggressively attacks its own people in order to excuse and even accept the worst actions of a protected group, rather than promote tolerance, it will invariably lead to something far, far more confrontational.

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Venezuela Slides Ever Faster Towards Ever More Oppressive Dictatorship

Posted on May 15, 2017 by The Political Hat

     It is a sure sign of trouble within a repressive regime when the people no longer feel restrained from violently tearing down the statues of regimes objects of a cult of personality:

“In one Venezuelan city, a statue of former dictator Hugo Chavez was torn down and smashed in the streets.”

     If any other sign was needed, than being marched against by brave women in white ought to be sufficient.

     But nothing quite says “evil repressive regime” like a whip with nails…

     Of course, what would an disreputable evil regime be without disappearing political enemies:

“In Venezuela, if you loudly and strongly criticize President Nicolas Maduro, you’re invited to take up residence in a heavily fortified prison where you eventually disappear from sight… assuming you’re still even alive.

“That seems to be what’s happened to opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez. For those not familiar, Lopez was one the earliest public opponents of Maduro’s regime, speaking out and calling for reforms. His reward for his civic participation was to be locked away in the heavily guarded Ramo Verde prison. And that took place back in 2014, just as a reminder to those of you who might think that Maduro’s tyrannical antics only began recently. For a couple of years he was at least getting visits from his wife and other relatives, but in April of this year Lopez simply disappeared and nobody was allowed to see him.”

     And the protesters that are arrested aren’t dealt with by civilian authorities, but by secret military tribunals…

“But when the authorities rounded up suspects for the vandalism, they were not taken to an ordinary court. Instead, they were hauled off to a military base, where they faced the judges of a military tribunal this past week.

“President Nicolás Maduro, beleaguered by a second month of protests against his rule, has prosecuted political rivals under terrorism laws and expanded his powers by emergency decrees. His backers on the Supreme Court have even tried to dissolve the national legislature, which is led by the political opposition.

“Now, the president is turning to military courts to tighten his grip further, prosecuting demonstrators and other civilians in tribunals that the government closely controls.”

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Mandatory Trans

Posted on May 15, 2017 by The Political Hat

     One of the arguments for legalizing abortion was the “right to privacy” between a doctor and a patient… even if that patient wasn’t old enough to consent to get pregnant. Indeed, other medical treatments can still require parental consent, or at least notification. Yet this “right to privacy” ceases to be a “right to privacy” when the Progressive Left deem it to be doubleplusungood.

     Something, to the Progressive Left, is only a “right” if they favor it as an outcome, or as a tool to achieve an outcome. If it is undesirable, than it can, shall, and will be banned or criminalized. The perfect example of this is “conversion therapy”.

     To the maddening Left, “coming out” is a one way street. A straight person can come out as being gay or lesbian, with such homosexuality being declared normal and lack of prior identification therewith blamed on the “Kyriarchy” being oppressive. On the other hand, a person who identified as gay or lesbian can not “come out” as being straight, with such “coming out” being blamed on “systems of oppression”.

     Similarly, if a child “comes out” as being “transgendered”, even if it is only due to Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, than such declaration is taken as absolute and irrevocable truth that they were “born that way” (which somehow includes radical medical procedures and hormone altering drugs being a “human right”). That this must be invariable is required by the current ideology of the Left, in order for discrimination laws to be applicable.

     To enforce this, children must be denies any possibility of “going back” on their potentially coerced declaration of transgenderism or homosexuality. Most concerning is the question of transgenderism and the push to stunt puberty and begin “transitioning” at ever younger ages—treatment that can leave them sterile or worse. Most children who identify as a gender not concomitant with their biological sex end up abandoning such nonsense and end up “cis-gendered”. In other words: It’s just a phase.

     This, the Progressive Left and LGBTQ&c. advocates can not allow.

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News of the Week (May 14th, 2017)

Posted on May 14, 2017 by The Political Hat

 

News of the Week for May 14th, 2017


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The Age of Synthetic Catgirls is Nyaa-igh

Posted on May 12, 2017 by The Political Hat

     Being an honest and open advocate of Mad Science, your humble author supports research to such and as the genetic engineering of catgirls for domestic ownership.

     Now, researchers involved in the Human Genome Project are developing synthetic human DNA:

“[T]his group of scientists, while encouraging debate and public involvement, would be wary of attracting too much attention. Their project is an effort to synthesize DNA, including human DNA.”

     Oh, there are side benefits of course…

“[Director of the Institute for Systems Genetics at NYU School of Medicine, Jef] Boeke is particularly excited about what he calls an “ultrasafe cell line.” Certain types of mammalian cells intended to produce certain types of large molecule drugs, called biologics.

“‘[Cell lines] have been cultured in dishes in labs for decades. But you can’t engineer the genomes — the tools for doing that are quite crude, relatively speaking,’ Boeke said. Sometimes these cells get infected with a virus, and it completely shuts down drug production. A synthetic cell that lacked unnecessary genetic material could, evidence suggests, be virus-resistant, consistently producing useful drugs to treat disease.

“The results of GP-write could also lead to stem cell therapy that doesn’t run the risk of infecting the patient with another disease, which appears to be what happened to one patient who received stem cell treatment in Mexico. Or they could create a line of microorganisms that could help humans generate some of their own amino acids — nutrients we usually get from food.”

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