12 Posts of Christmas, 2015 (Day 1)

Posted on December 13, 2015 by The Political Hat

     Not all snowflakes go to college to throw temper-tantrums.  Some snowflakes are literal snowflakes.

     And there are many different types:

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Gender Unicorn

Posted on December 12, 2015 by The Political Hat

     You thought the “Gender Bread Man” was bad when it came to “teaching” the brave new world of how gender and biological sex were totes not the same thing, then get a load of the “Gender Unicorn“:

     Note that not even one’s actual biological sex is important, but just “sex assigned at birth”.

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Hope for South America

Posted on December 11, 2015 by The Political Hat

     Socialist presidents running cults of personality are part and parcel of South America’s history since their independence.  But from “Chavismo” in Venezuela, to Peronists in Argentina, the people might finally be standing up to these thugs.

     In Argentina, Peronist President Christina Kirchner’s hand-picked successor was defeated by pro-free-market center-right candidate Mauricio Macri.

“[President] Fernández [Kirchner] has hoarded power and suppressed dissent. She has bent the central bank to her will, muzzled the government’s statistics institute and bullied the media. She has tried, less successfully, to suborn the independence of the judiciary. . . . The country is in danger of running out of reserves; the budget deficit this year is likely to be 6% of GDP; inflation is estimated at 25%; and growth is absent.

“…

“She represents a phobia towards globalisation, similar to movements such as Occupy Wall Street in America or Ukip in Britain, anti-globalisation movements of either the right or left. For a long time, Argentina voted in that direction, but the mood has shifted to the point that Argentina now seems poised to vote in favour of a pro-market political force for the first time.”

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Quick Takes – Marx’s Revenge; Marcuse’s Revenge; Maxentius’ Revenge

Posted on December 10, 2015 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: Take THAT Western Civilization

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     While the Soviet Union collapsed, Communism and it’s related ideologies are on the verge of total victory:

“You know how Karl Marx claimed that history occurs twice, the first time as tragedy, the second time as comedy? I have to say that when you consider the tragic loss of life spawned by the Communist vision around the globe and, in our time, the unintentionally hilarious nonsense engendered by the Frankfurt School (‘triggers,’ ‘microaggressions,’ ‘white privilege,’ the cult of victimhood and the rest of that crapola), you have to admit that old Karl kind of, sort of, got it right.

“Ironically, though, it is these later lunacies, silly as they are, and not old school Communism (which went down to defeat decades ago, not long after a Republican implored a Communist to ‘tear down that wall!’), that are helping pave the decline and fall of the West.

“In so doing, they are handing Karl Marx the posthumous victory that was snatched from his hands (symbolically, at least) when the Soviet Union fell.”

     Marx is not the only one smiling from the grave…

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The ACLU Supports Arbitrary and Capricious Suspension of Civil Liberties to Fight “Terror”

Posted on December 9, 2015 by The Political Hat

     The American Civil Liberties Union likes to pretend that it “wubs” civil liberties for American.  However, they only pretend when it is politically useful for them to do so.

     Case in point: No fly lists.

     The ACLU is suing against the use of “no fly lists”, considering prohibiting someone from using one particular form of transportation as unacceptable.  Indeed the arbitrary and capricious nature by which people can be added to a list, with no recourse to remove themselves from the list, is indeed noxious worthy of nothing but opposition.

     The loss of any civil liberties in such and arbitrary and capricious manner, without recourse to regain such civil liberties, should be eschewed.  The abandoning of both due process or the concept of innocent until proven guilty is something that a real pro-civil liberties organization would fight against.  The ACLU is not a real pro-civil liberties organization.  With “reforms” they have no problem with allowing bureaucrats to arbitrarily and capriciously suspend people’s 2nd Amendment civil liberties, as ACLU’s media strategist Josh Bell mentioned:

“There is no constitutional bar to reasonable regulation of guns, and the no-fly list could serve as one tool for it”

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Seven Signs White Privilege Doesn’t Exist

Posted on December 8, 2015 by The Political Hat

     Yet another laughable article tries to tell White people that they have “White Privilege” which oppresses everyone else, and that White people need to take it on faith because they are somehow racially unable to understand any of it.

     The Idea of “White Privilege” has already outed as nonsense.  But some of the arguments made in this new article are particularly silly.

“Upon hearing the term, most white people assume it is an attack upon them. They believe it is being used to accuse white people of being inherently racist, but that is not the case. White privilege, while a product of racism inherent in a predominantly white society, runs deeper and is a part of the oppression non-whites face throughout their lives that white people don’t experience as a result of their skin color.”

     When you declare that this evil “White privilege” is “inherent” when you have too many White people with their icky White cultures, you are indeed accusing them of being “inherently racist”.

     But the truly laughable examples all come from the media and Hollywood, both of which are predominantly Hard Left in its worldview.

“White privilege can even be seen in the media. The predominant race on television and in movies is, of course, white. The ‘token’ black friend is even a common television trope that clearly shows the lack of black characters on television.

“Some white people do not understand the effects this misrepresentation of POC has. They have no trouble seeing themselves portrayed because all they have to do is turn on the TV.

“In 2012, the University of Southern California conducted a study explaining the lack of representation for people of color. ‘Across 100 top grossing films of 2012, only 10.8 percent of speaking characters are black, 4.2 percent are Hispanic, five percent are Asian, and 3.6 percent are from other (or mixed race) ethnicities.’ The study also showed how these roles were portrayed in a negative and stereotypical way.”

     Happy to concede that the Hard Left in media and the news are racist.

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At UCLA: Begging A Final Solution

Posted on December 7, 2015 by The Political Hat

     Yet another race related walkout/protest occurred at UCLA against “‘racist, oppressive’ universities”… despite the fact that the university pushes “diversity” with a “diversity” vice-chancellor and special privileges and perquisites that discriminate against White on the per se basis of race while shoveling millions of dollars to student whiners to spout racial hatred.  The rhetoric “offered echoes of a race war“:

“[A] crowd of several hundred students swelled in the middle of the quad, many with signs declaring ‘solidarity with Mizzou.’ A large banner with images of the black youths killed in recent controversial police incidents was hoisted above the throng. Members of socialist groups passed out The Sparticist newspaper to students willing to take them.

“…

“Another speaker, a graduate student at UCLA, told the crowd that black Africans are the ‘alpha and the omega.’ He said that all of civilization was birthed out of Africa, and black students should use this fact as a source of strength and black power.”

     Not only is radical Leftist nonsense being passed around, but demanding a rewrite of history that would put the Thule society to shame.

“A second professor, who mentioned she held a position of leadership in the academic senate, reiterated past comments and added that one day she hopes to ‘see a classroom that looks like this,’ as she gestured to the gathered group of protesters, nearly all of whom were students of color.”

     Of course, “racial justice” and “diversity” just means less Whites… and inevitably less students of Asian ethnicities as well.

Having a “Diversity” Vice-Chancellor was not enough for some.  One professor demanded a “dean of white supremacy and black hate”.  Perhaps a Dean who could formulate a “final solution” to #Problematic Whiteness?  The mindset is there, if not openly publicized.

     Ultimately this is about gaining power by pushing a religious fervor against a convenient boogie-man (i.e. the “Kyriarchy“, specifically “White Supremacy”) which exists only in their fevered imaginations:

“Afrikan Student Union leaders first led the crowd in chants, including ‘Bring down Babylon. Black students are the bomb.'”

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News of the Week (December 6th, 2015)

Posted on December 6, 2015 by The Political Hat

 

News of the Week for December 6th, 2015


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Is Hogwarts a Trangender Only School?

Posted on December 5, 2015 by The Political Hat

     Apparently Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley from the Harry Potter are all transgendered…

     And yes, the mods of this Tumblr blog honestly believe that all fictional chracters are trans, to the point where they proudly proclaim: “Down with Cis”

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Move Over Rotherham Here is the Next Child Sex Slave Loving English City Council

Posted on December 4, 2015 by The Political Hat

     Rotherham has become infamous for the city’s covering up of the child sex slavery rings because they were committed by those of [REDACTED] ethnicity and [REDACTED] religion.  Turns out that an even bigger city has been quashing the truth in order to protect child sex slavers for decades was revealed not that long ago:

“Birmingham City Council ‘buried’ a report linking Asian private hire drivers to child sexual exploitation victims 23 YEARS ago, the Mail can reveal.

“Researcher Dr Jill Jesson was asked by the authority to look at the issue of child prostitution involving girls in care back in 1990.

“The following year, after six months research, she produced a critical two-part report which showed child protection failings by social workers and other agencies.

“Her report also highlighted claims that some Asian private hire drivers were linked to the sexual exploitation of young white girls in care, including some who had been cautioned for prostitution offences.

“Yet when Dr Jesson presented her draft findings to a steering group, she was ordered to remove all reference linking ethnicity and the private hire trade.

“Incredibly, her full amended final report was never published. A meeting planned to discuss it was cancelled – and all copies were to be destroyed.”

     Since that report was quashed twenty-four years ago, things have gotten worse.

“[A]n official West Midlands Police report – completed in August 2012 – had shown that 75 per cent of known on-street groomers in the region were [South] Asian, while 82 per cent of girl victims aged 14 to 16 were white.”

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