Tag Archives: WTF

What Do Tweens, Drugs, Rape, and Incoherent Rants Have to Do with Each Other? A Middle School Teacher

Posted on March 7, 2017 by The Political Hat

     A public middle school in Madison, Wisconsin has a spoken word class. This sounds fine and dandy until you realize that the “spoken word” the middle school students are learning is a series of incoherent rants about rape, drugs, oppression, … Continue reading →

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#BlackLivesMatter vs. Yakub’s Soulless Albino Mutants

Posted on March 3, 2017 by The Political Hat

     It would seem that a co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter, Yusra Khogali, has “decolonized” her mind and embraced “alternate ways of knowing“… which apparently include Black supremacist pseudo-scientific garbage: “A co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto argued that white people are ‘recessive … Continue reading →

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From Canada, In Your General Direction

Posted on February 17, 2017 by The Political Hat

     Canada, indicatively suffering under a Prime Minister who makes Barack Obama seem intellectual by comparison—quite a feat indeed—the Canadian Parliament is discussing the important questions… like the use of the word “fart”:

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You’re Not A Mermaid, You’re Just Crazy

Posted on January 30, 2017 by The Political Hat

     A little girl wanting to be a mermaid princess when she grows up is adorable. An adult woman who quits her job because she believe she is half fish and half human is just plain crazy in the head. “When … Continue reading →

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Triangle of Oppression

Posted on November 14, 2016 by The Political Hat

     A professor of geology at Brooklyn College was almost fired without ever being told the reason why, let alone by whom. What for? Free speech and triangles, but mostly triangles. “I teach geology at Brooklyn College, part of the City … Continue reading →

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Science and Racism, or Why Witches Throwing Magical Lightning Bolts Don’t Exist

Posted on October 19, 2016 by The Political Hat

     Just as Feminists consider science to by Sexist and a plot of The Patriarchy, it is claimed that Science is Racist and a tool of oppression wielded by the White oppressor. The solution that is proffered is to “decolonize” science … Continue reading →

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According to Academia, Mountains are People Too

Posted on July 25, 2016 by The Political Hat

     We are familiar already with how glaciers are misgendered, but now we can learn about how to get intimate with… mountains.      A graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Bryanne Young, suggests just such a course. … Continue reading →

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The Ultimate Tool of White Supremacy (in the 3rd grade)? Brownies!

Posted on July 19, 2016 by The Political Hat

     Brownies, the moist chocolaty treat, is now considered racist. “A third grader had made a comment about the brownies being served to the class. After another student exclaimed that the remark was ‘racist,’ the school called the Collingswood Police Department, … Continue reading →

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The Ultimate Tool of The Patriarchy? Carbon Fiber!

Posted on July 11, 2016 by The Political Hat

     Did you know that carbon fiber isn’t just a useful material, but a tool to oppress women and the disabled through intersectional oppression?  Thanks to academic Anna Hickey-Moody, and her paper “Carbon Fibre Masculinity, disability and surfaces homosociality” we do! … Continue reading →

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Fighting The White Man With Native Feminist Time Traveling Dogs

Posted on July 5, 2016 by The Political Hat

     Time traveling ghosts may certainly make for an interesting read in a fantasy fiction story.  As a serious academic study, they invoke laughter cum despair at the state of academia today.      Such is the “study” by a newly minted Ph.D. … Continue reading →

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