How Cancel Culture Produced INSUFFERABLE, WOKE, Pseudo Comedy
Author, Ben Burgis, discusses his book, “Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique Of The Contemporary Left.”
Paul Gottfried and Bill Lind discuss “What is Cultural Marxism?”
Broadcast live on Friday, November 13, 2020. This week’s Backchannel is a free discussion between Chronicles Editor Paul Gottfried and military historian and author Bill Lind on the topic, “What is Cultural Marxism.” Gottfried and Lind wrote complimentary essays in the November 2020 issue of Chronicles in which […]
REFLECTIONS ON THE ORIGINS OF “WOKENESS”
As I said in another post on here yesterday, I generally hold to the view that the central thrust of PC/SJWism/Wokeness/whatever is largely just the latest rendition of bourgeois morality, filtered through the lens of sectarian WASPish Protestant pietism in its “progressive Christian” and “social gospel” forms. It […]
The University as the Woke Mission Field: A Dissident Women’s Studies Ph.D. Speaks Out
A pretty good discussion of why totalitarian humanism and its derivatives are dangerous. Right now, US political culture faces three primary authoritarian dangers. The most immediate is the consolidation of a totalitarian humanist regime by the Center, and the use of inherited anti-crime and anti-terrorism laws to repress […]
What is the New ‘Woke’ Military Really Preparing Us For?
By Casey Chalk, The American Conservative As a U.S. Army medic in the early 1970s, my father worked with wounded veterans who were suffering from what we would now call Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. At the time, so my dad told me, many of these PTSD victims were heavily […]
Western Democratic Extremism Is Out Of Control
By Andrew Korybko, One World Prelude Since 2015, Western society and culture have been going downhill more and more. While it was difficult enough in 2008 after the banking crisis, the refugee crisis in 2015 gave the death blow to Western democracies and culture. The C-virus was the […]
Biden Purging the Military Brass Like a Third World Dictator
All of this is unfolding about like I thought it would. The Bidenist ruling class unity regime (the new popular front) is purging the military of conservatives, possibility using the criminal law to eliminate the Trumpists, using the “war on terrorism” to eliminate the far right, purging the […]
Woke Ideology Mimics Precursors to Totalitarian Slaughter, Experts Say
Currently, there are three authoritarian dangers on the horizon in the USA: “totalitarian humanism” from the Center, “right-wing revanchism” from the Right, and “progressive National Socialism” from what gets passed off as the “Left.” By Petr Svab Epoch Times Some of the core tenets of the “woke” ideology spreading […]
Meet the Censored: Bret Weinstein
By Matt Taibbi Canceled on campus for speaking his mind, he’s now going through a sequel at the hands of Silicon Valley. On May 23, 2017, not so long ago in real time but seemingly an eternity given the extraordinary history we’ve lived through since, a group of […]
Why Millennials Hate Free Speech and What to Do About It
Andrew Doyle is an Irish journalist and writer best known as the creator of the Twitter personality Titania McGrath, a parody of an ultra-woke, 24-year-old, militant vegan who thinks she is a better poet than William Shakespeare. Though the 43-year-old Doyle describes himself as a left-winger, he is […]
UK Charity Teaches Staff ‘White Women Reporting Rape By Black Men Support White Supremacy’
My guess is that this story is probably (mostly) true, but selectively chosen. Both the left and right like to pick out the worst examples from “the other side” they can find and hold those up as representative of their opponents generally. By Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge In […]
‘North Korea was crazy, but not this crazy’
For the most part, universities have more in common with Wal-Mart than with North Korea, in the sense of having making money as their first priority. Higher education has become very corporatized in the past couple of decades, part of the “McDonaldization” process sociologists like George Ritzer started […]
US Military Going “Woke?” Republicans Object
The totalitarian humanist revolution is being consolidated.
Is Soft Totalitarianism Coming to America?
By Tim Challies I grew up in the era of the Cold War. From my youngest days I was taught that the West was the bastion of democratic freedom and the Soviet Union the stronghold of oppressive totalitarianism. We knew who the enemy was, and we knew he […]
Soft Totalitarianism
By Bill Hull, The Bonhoeffer Project Hard totalitarianism is easy to see. It is Soviet tanks rolling through your streets. It is the secret police in the former East Germany bugging your home, following you, arresting you, torturing you, and imprisoning you with a show trial or no […]
Soft Totalitarianism, Coming or Going?
By James M. Patterson, Law Liberty Many Americans today live on edge. The arrival of COVID-19 has introduced an invisible enemy that attacks without reason or mercy. The policy responses of quarantine and shutdown have led to lay-offs, business failures, evictions, and foreclosures. Those still lucky enough to […]
‘Hundreds’ of Whistleblowers Say Military Forcing ‘Anti-American Indoctrination’ on Them: Sen. Cotton
Tom Cotton is a total douchebag and one of the right-wing’s most dangerous figures (as a bridge between the neocons, Likudniks, Saudis, MIC, supply-siders, Reaganites, Trumpists, evangelicals, and nativists). He is also smarter, shrewder, and more calculating than similar figures like Cruz, Rubio, and Hawley. But he is […]
On Having Whiteness
Change the title of this to “On Having Jewishness” and the problematic aspects of this line of thinking are illustrated. This article, along with the writings of Ibram X. Kendi, is the most extreme example I have seen to date of full-blown “left-racial supremacism” entering into mainstream discourse. […]
Why Millennials Hate Free Speech and What to Do About It
The creator of ultra-woke poet Titania McGrath makes the definite case against cancel culture.
Companies Are Using Pride Month to Rainbow-Wash Bombs and Tasers
by Edward Ongweso Jr Vice Raytheon, a military contractor with a business model that centers on making killing machines, changed its logo colors to a rainbow palette. June is Pride Month, which means it’s time for corporations that normally contribute to the deaths of marginalized people in the […]
Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn You
Unfortunately, I was more correct in my prediction about this kind of stuff than I would have thought, and it has happened a lot more rapidly than I would have thought.
Against the Rainbow Capitalists
I advise the paleo-populists to jettison the capitalist class and conservative “big media.” By Keith Preston, Chronicles Broad swaths of conservative opinion today would have it that the enemy of the right is some variant of Marxism. But this does not accurately describe people like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, […]
At Last: The Military-Industrial Complex is Atoning for Its White Privilege
By Matt Purple, The American Conservative As bombs rain down on Yemen, Lockheed Martin has finally realized it has a problem: a lack of woke consultants. Don’t ever say there isn’t healing in America today. From Christopher Rufo at City Journal: Last year, Lockheed Martin Corporation, the nation’s largest […]
Cancel culture is real, and it sucks. (a lib’s take)
In this video, Laci makes her case against cancel culture. She highlights 5 ways that cancel culture fails as a method of justice, or actively perpetuates injustices.
Naomi Wolf vs. The Therapeutic State
A Jewish woman questions whether having the state enact “Where are your papers?” laws in the name of health and hygiene is a good idea. Gets called a reactionary by enlightened progressives.
“Our Atheists are Very Pious People”
Max Stirner seems to have nailed it 175 years ago.
Maddow’s INSANE Plea For ‘Compassion’ On Mask Wearing
The therapeutic state and “public health” cult are fundamental building blocks of totalitarian humanism. Saagar Enjeti and Ryan Grim react to Rachel Maddow’s comments on the CDC’s new mask policy.
Freedom of Speech in England: A Proposal for Its Recovery
Freedom of Speech in England: A Proposal for Its Recovery Sean Gabb (9th May 2021) It is now an official fact that England is a country where freedom of speech is in danger. According to the Secretary of State for Education, Despite the development and publication of [non-binding […]
Glenn Greenwald: American liberals confused on where power lies
Journalist Glenn Greenwald reacts to the left’s embrace of intelligence agencies on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ Watch here.
John McWhorter on Cursing, Anti-Racism, and Why ‘We Need to Stop Being So Afraid’
If advocates of “wokeness,” “critical race theory,” and “anti-racism” seem to be acting like religious zealots who must crush all heretics, that’s because they are, argued Columbia University linguist John McWhorter at a 2018 debate at the Soho Forum. “Anti-racism as currently configured has gone a long way […]
Biden’s DOJ Uses Woke Language To Ask For MILLIONS To ‘Fight Domestic Extremism’
The DOJ, the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon. The totalitarian humanist revolution is complete. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the Biden administration’s domestic violence extremism review.
Panel REACTS LIVE As Trump FB Ban Upheld
The tech-oligarchy is increasingly assuming the powers of the medieval Catholic church or the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Team Rising discusses Donald Trump’s new social platform.
Why is Everything Liberal?
When the majority of the capitalist class and the intelligence services have adopted “wokeness” as their self-legitimating ideology, we know that the totalitarian humanist revolution is complete. By Richard Hanania In a democracy, every vote is supposed to be equal. If about half the country supports one side […]
Ben Burgis’ New Book: Canceling Comedians While World BURNS, A Critique Of Contemporary Left
Philosophy instructor & Jacobin columnist, Ben Burgis, discusses his new book “Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique of the Contemporary Left.”
CIA Goes FULL WOKE In Hilarious New Recruitment Video
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti break down the CIA’s new recruitment video.
The Origins Of Woke CAPITAL
President and Founder of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, Richard Hanania, weighs in on why all institutions are “woke.”
Humans of CIA Part 3
“I am unapologetically me. I want you to be unapologetically you, whoever you are. Whether you work at #CIA, or anywhere else in the world. Command your space. Mija, you are worth it.”
Humans of CIA Part 2
“I’ve wanted to be a librarian since I was four years old. I guess I was a bit different, even at that age, and libraries always offered a safe, quiet space. In this one room, I could find a number of mini-escapes.”
Humans of CIA Part 1
“I joined CIA almost straight out of college when it can be a challenge to speak up when you’re younger and adjusting to workplace norms, especially in such a unique environment.”
CIA & The Woke Totalitarian Generation
You’ve got to see this to believe it. By Rod Dreher, The American Conservative You have to watch this. You really do. It’s jaw-dropping. It’s a new CIA recruitment ad: READ MORE
STUDY: Identity Politics KILLS Progressive Popularity
The Democrats face the danger of losing working to middle-class moderate voters to the Republicans as the Democrats focus on the battle between corporate neoliberals and the cultural left. The Republicans’ best bet from a strategic perspective would be to adopt a lot of economic populist rhetoric as […]
James Carville Says ‘Wokeness Is A Problem And We All Know It’
Team Rising discuss James Carville’s claims that “Democrats might be poised to squander their political advantage against a damaged GOP.”
Left is the new right
By They/Them, The Spectator A regular column by an anonymous whistle-blower operating deep within heart of the Social Justice Movement. To protect their identity, they will go under the code-name ‘They/Them’. Wokeyleaks is a confidential news leak organization for anyone wishes to divulge classified information (and hilarious anecdotes) […]
Political Establishment Is Weaponizing Identity Politics To Disenfranchise Workers
Emily Jashinsky gives her thoughts on the “wokeness” problem and how it allows powerful people to “maintain their control.”
By Canceling Richard Dawkins, the American Humanist Association Has Betrayed Its Values
By Robby Soave, Reason Last week, the American Humanist Association (AHA) stripped British author Richard Dawkins of his 1996 Humanist of the Year award after he made a comment on Twitter that offended some in the transgender community. “Regrettably, Richard Dawkins has over the past several years accumulated […]
GOP Throws Free Speech Concerns In Trash To Crack Down On Protesters
Host of The New York Times’ The Argument, Jane Coaston, discusses Florida governor, Ron DeSantis’ controversial ‘anti-riot’ law.
Dem Rep To INVESTIGATE Why List Of Greediest CEO’s Doesn’t Include More Women
Team Rising reacts to a New York Times’ piece on the American CEO’s who earned the most money during COVID.
Should we cancel Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche?
But what about Marx and Engels? Lots of political incorrectness there. All past cultures and many world cultures today would be considered racist, sexist, ableist, ageist, homophobic, overly religious, etc. etc. by contemporary standards of the kind now found in Western Europe, North America, and Oceania. To eliminate any […]
Raytheon Honored As Best Place To Work For LGBTQ People
Krystal Ball and Emily Jashinsky discusses Raytheon’s positive PR amidst President Biden’s plans to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan.
Shareholder Activism: Woke Capitalism from the Inside
By Robert Stilson, The American Conservative Conservatives are rightly vexed by “woke capitalism,” exasperated at the ways in which big American corporations are increasingly weighing in on sociopolitical issues—invariably, it seems, in favor of the progressive left. Certainly, many businesses are under pressure to do so. Sometimes that […]
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