Culture Wars

[Mr King]

35 minutes ago, Ivanhoe said:

How to maximize virtue signaling points; adopt a black kid and raise it trans;

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/8896397/charlize-theron-child-girl-jackson-adopted-baby-son/

 

15 years ago, all the Hollywood celebs had to do to virtue signal was adopt brown and black kids. Now they have to adopt brown and black kids and groom them into being trans. What's the next 15 years going to bring?

[Ivanhoe]

Blind them or amputate their legs, I suppose.

 

[rmgill]

Munchausens by proxy as a legal requirement ? 

[Tim Sielbeck]

 

[Ssnake]

You'll compete for 2nd place only until the next few men discover their inner womanhood, girl. This isn't the fight to give up. If women don't fight this insanity, they will lose professional sports.

[sunday]

Wrong thread

Edited August 2 by sunday

[Murph]

This:

 

[Mr King]

What's the next 25 years going to hold?

 

 

 

 

[Peasant]

@sunday 

 

Edit: ok

Edited August 2 by Peasant

[sunday]

Mistake corrected

Edited August 2 by sunday

[sunday]

15 hours ago, Peasant said:

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-05-07/explainer-the-controversy-surrounding-the-antisemitism-bill

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The Controversy Surrounding the Antisemitism Bill, Explained
The bill, which was passed by the House, codifies a federal definition of antisemitism and has drawn criticism from both sides of the aisle.

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A bill that would codify the definition of antisemitism in response to unrest on university campuses is making its way through the Senate – albeit slowly and not without controversy.

Despite overwhelming support for the Antisemitism Awareness Act in the House, where it passed last week on a 320-91 vote, the bill drew criticism from both sides of the aisle – with some Republicans saying it could outlaw Christian biblical teachings and some Democrats saying it infringes on free speech rights.

That same criticism is now threatening the bill’s future in the Senate, prompting lawmakers to work behind the scenes to determine a path forward.

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What Does the Antisemitism Bill Say? 
The legislation would for the first time enshrine a definition of antisemitism into federal law by adopting wording settled upon in 2016 by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, a group of 35 member countries that includes the United States and Israel. The definition could then be used for enforcement of federal anti-discrimination laws on campuses.

The intergovernmental organization founded in 1998 to increase and promote education, research and awareness related to the Holocaust adopted legally non-binding language in 2016 that defines antisemitism as "a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.” Examples of the definition’s application include "accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group" and making "dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective."

The definition also includes “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination,” claiming that Israel’s existence is a “racist endeavor” and drawing comparisons between current Israeli policy and Nazi policy.

The bill currently before the Senate would instruct the Department of Education to "take into consideration the definition of antisemitism as part of the Department's assessment of whether the practice was motivated by antisemitic intent" when investigating allegations of discrimination against Jewish students on college campuses. If universities fail to restrict statements covered by the definition, they could risk having their federal funds withheld.

This is the definition of ansemitism used:

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Adopt the following non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism:

“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”

Examples:

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To guide IHRA in its work, the following examples may serve as illustrations:

Manifestations might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity. However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic. Antisemitism frequently charges Jews with conspiring to harm humanity, and it is often used to blame Jews for “why things go wrong.” It is expressed in speech, writing, visual forms and action, and employs sinister stereotypes and negative character traits.

Contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life, the media, schools, the workplace, and in the religious sphere could, taking into account the overall context, include, but are not limited to:

• Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.
• Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.
• Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews.
• Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust).
• Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.
• Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.
• Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.
• Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.
• Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.
• Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
• Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.

 

[sunday]

The curious case of the wandering post - wonder if there is some German having fun.

[urbanoid]

29 minutes ago, sunday said:

The curious case of the wandering post - wonder if there is some German having fun.

Made me think about a classic:

[sunday]

More or less...

[Murph]

I want to have a friend like this:

 

[Ivanhoe]

 

 

Madness.

[sunday]

12 minutes ago, Ivanhoe said:

(...)

Madness.

More evil than mad, IMHO.

[Stargrunt6]

On 8/2/2024 at 8:54 AM, urbanoid said:

Made me think about a classic:

Lol it's not a work ethic, it's a cope.

[sunday]

[sunday]

On the favorite online encyclopedia of the world, that one that keeps asking for donations:

How the Regime Captured Wikipedia

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Inside the cultural revolution at wikipedia, which pivoted it from a decentralized database of all the world's knowledge to a top-down social activism and advocacy machine

Wikimedia's Movement Strategy, which launched in 2017 with a plan to fund Wikimedia "in perpetuity" with its Wikimedia Endowment, was a significant pivot from Wikipedia’s mission: "where Wikipedia had been built on the principle of decentralized knowledge, the Movement Strategy would veer into the hyper-centralized space of top-down social justice activism and advocacy"

The Endowment is an independently governed long-term fund that bankrolls Wikimedia "projects." It was set up as a donor-advised fund at progressive megafund Tides for its first seven years; Tides' former General Counsel left to serve as Wikimedia Foundation's top lawyer around this time

Flush with well over a hundred million dollars in cash, the Wikimedia Endowment has funded initiatives that seek to abolish the police and create an "intersectional scientific method," among others

 

Edited August 6 by sunday

[Mr King]

Why would any sane person want to join this military?

 

[rmgill]

Oh. That platoon. 

[Wobbly Head]

At least you would know you would be well supported in the rear.

[rmgill]

3 hours ago, Wobbly Head said:

At least you would know you would be well supported in the rear.

They're probably the type that when the rest of the company gets back from a 2 day ruck and week long FTX, demands that they get help cleaning the barracks. 

[sunday]

Cops Threaten To Take Kids From Family Terrorized by Anti-Christian Reddit Group

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J.D. Lott and his wife Britney were eating lunch with their eight kids on April 30 when he missed a call on his cellphone. The family was three years into a cross-country, homeschooling, Instagram-documented road trip in a bus they refashioned into an RV. A day earlier they had been staying at a Florida campground. The next day, they were in Georgia on their way to meet friends—or so they thought.

Half an hour later, the missed caller sent a text saying that they were from the Department of Children and Families (DCF) in Florida. It continued: "Please respond we need to follow up and verify the children are safe. If we cannot complete this we will have to see an Order To Take Into Custody which is enforceable nationwide. Please work with us so we do not have to do that. Thank you."

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The Lotts' Instagram account, @AmericanFamilyRoadTrip, has over half a million followers. On Reddit there's a group, FundieSnarkUncensored, that makes fun of people it believes are Christian Fundamentalists. The Lotts are often the target of the group's criticisms. Lately, the snark had been getting darker.

When Britney had her eighth child, Boone, two weeks earlier and posted a video with him, the Reddit group started armchair diagnosing him. They said the healthy newborn had "severe sunburn," "was lethargic," and had "jaundice."

Participants on the Reddit group whipped themselves into a frenzy, convinced that Boone was in grave danger and his parents were to blame. They used a screenshot of a video the Lotts had posted from their Florida campground stay to geolocate the family. Then someone called the local Florida DCF office and repeated, verbatim, the accusations posted on Reddit: The newborn was sunburnt, lethargic, and jaundiced.

A county caseworker drove to the campground and was upset the family wasn't there. She reached the Lotts using a phone number the campground supplied, and J.D. Lott explained the strange situation to her.