Guest Post by Simon Black
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice.
Columbia University to hold separate but equal graduation ceremonies
In addition to its main online graduation ceremony, Columbia University will hold smaller, more intimate, segregated online ceremonies.
The university will hold separate but equal celebrations for people who identify with six various victim groups.
They will hold a Black, Latinx, Native, Lavender (LGBTQIA+ community), Asian, and FLI (First-generation and/or low income community) Graduation.
Such a wonderful example for an institute of higher learning to send graduates out into the world with.
Click here to read the full story.
California Public Schools want to introduce prayer— to Aztec gods of human sacrifice
A proposed curriculum in California for elementary and high school students would attempt to “decolonize” American society with an “ethnic studies” course.
In the course, children will be instructed in Aztec chants to various gods of human sacrifice and cannibalism, asking the gods to make them warriors for social justice.
This is all to help the children “challenge racist, bigoted, discriminatory, imperialist/colonial beliefs” rooted in “white supremacy, racism and other forms of power and oppression.”
For example, Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of war, was traditionally worshipped with human sacrifice. The school children will ask the deity to instill in them “a revolutionary spirit.”
The curriculum’s vision statement admits this is not about education, but rather a “tool for transformation, social, economic, and political change, and liberation.”
Click here to read the full story.
To protect women, UK politician suggests 6pm curfew for men
UK politician Jenny Jones, a Baroness in the House of Lords, said she might introduce “an amendment to create a curfew for men on the streets after 6 pm, which I feel would make women a lot safer, and discrimination of all kinds would be lessened.”
Except of course discrimination against the vast majority of innocent men who go out every evening and don’t harass women.
But hey, that logic didn’t stop public health officials from ordering a curfew for healthy people when a small minority of the public became infected with Covid-19.
Precedent suggests that a curfew for all men would be an entirely appropriate solution if violence against women is labeled a public health crisis.
During her comments, Jones referenced the recent murder of Sarah Everand, who disappeared during a nighttime walk in London.
The only problem with Jones’ solution: a Metropolitan Police Officer has been arrested for the murder.
But perhaps that just means all officers on duty after 6pm would also have to be female. Why not create a parallel female society, so women never have to come into contact with men?
Naturally, anyone who has a problem with this logic must be science denier.
Click here to read the full story.
Social Justice Warrior mistakes black guy for white guy
Esquire published an article on Wednesday called It’s Good to Be White When You’re Doing Crimes.
It followed the story of a man named Mark Ponder who participated in the January 6 protests at the Capitol in Washington DC.
Video and images show Ponder attacking Capitol police with a flag pole, which is an obvious crime.
Ponder was detained by police, but released about a half hour later when officers realized they were needed for further crowd control.
After Ponder was released, he went straight back to the Capitol.
The article concludes that “it’s impossible to imagine this kind of scenario if the detainee were Black.” And the entire point of the article, in fact, was to complain about white privilege, and that the only reason Mark Ponder was given such leniency is because he is white.
There’s only one problem with Esquire’s logic: Mark Ponder is black.
If the author of the article in Esquire had bothered to glance at the indictment documents he referred to, he would have seen the pictures of the suspect’s face.
Think about it— not only did the author of the article fail to perform any basic research, but this glaring and obvious mistake was also not uncovered by the magazine’s proofreader, assistant editor, and editor-in-chief.
No one at the magazine bothered to even look. Someone presented them with a story about white privilege and they automatically published it without hesitation.
The article has since been completely re-written with the most insipid preface
“We made an incorrect assumption about the race of the suspect in the original version of this post. The story has been updated. We apologize for the error.”
A more appropriate statement would be
“We are fanatical zealots who have no regard for facts or basic journalistic standards. Yet we still expect to be taken seriously.”
Click here to see screenshots of the original article.
Covid Hypocrite of the Week: John Kerry
Former Senator, Secretary of State, and Presidential candidate John Kerry now serves as U.S. special presidential envoy for climate.
That means President Biden is his direct boss. And President Biden has been quite vocal about demanding that everyone wear masks while traveling.
He directed the CDC to publish an order that “People must wear masks that cover both the mouth and nose when awaiting, boarding, traveling on, or disembarking public conveyances.”
But apparently those rules don’t apply to people above the law, like John Kerry. He was photographed on a recent flight casually reading after removing his mask shortly after boarding the flight— and no, he was not eating or drinking at the time.
But Kerry is a seasoned hypocrite. In 2010, when he was the Senator from Massachusetts calling for higher taxes, Kerry saved about half a million dollars in state taxes by parking his yacht in the neighboring state of Rhode Island.
Click here to read the full story.
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Columbia University will be installing separate drinking fountains and restrooms later this semester.
All will be marked with “No White’s Allowed” signs to prove they are truly woke.
Sad, but true most likely.
Don’t tell the nons they are actually bidets.
Don’t forget the all important segregated dining areas and dormitories. That will definitely help.
And I thought I’d enjoy MLK getting spat upon…
Too stupid to understand; nitwits galore.
Police Depts around the country know that white trash and.brown people ain’t got the money that the rich white kid.with the.correct zip code has, so they cut.the scum loose to make room for the young children of self reliant boomers becauseitiswherethemoneyis.
By the way, the the California State Board of Education voted unanimously on Thursday to pass the Aztec worship bill. No joke.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/03/critical-race-based-california-ethnic-studies-curriculum-passes-state-board-of-education-vote/
There is no such thing as social justice. It is a chimera to cover for the fact that life is unfair. The hero’s story lies in those who overcome this and lead beautiful and authentic lives not as victims but as rising angels aspiring to reach the highest reaches of human potential.
You know, we just might be on the Biblical road to the end. Surely we cannot survive such stupidity?
Lets hope so.