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       Re: Cancel Culture
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: May 24, 2022, 9:53 pm
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  HTML https://www.southbendtribune.com/story/news/2022/05/20/notre-dame-responds-john-gaski-writing-buffalo-shooter-payton-gendron-manifesto/9852623002/
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       > SOUTH BEND — Notre Dame officials say they are appalled that
       an article authored by a Mendoza College of Business associate
       professor was cited in a white supremacist justification written
       by the suspected gunman believed to have killed 10 Black
       shoppers in an apparent racism-driven rampage last weekend in a
       Buffalo, NY, grocery store.
       >
       > But Notre Dame officials stopped short of condemning the
       contents of the article from nearly nine years ago, and did not
       address the faculty members' employment status with the
       university.
       >
       > The writings of the associate professor, John Gaski, came to
       light this week after social media posts drew attention to a
       2013 story published by Investor's Business Daily, a website
       specializing in business news and stock market analysis.
       > ...
       > Notre Dame's statement Thursday quickly triggered reaction on
       social media voicing disappointment in "weak" language used to
       address the situation.
       >
       > "Why aren't you appalled by the racist article itself
       .@NotreDame?" one Twitter user wrote.
       >
       > "This statement is a whole lot of nothing," another wrote. "A
       racist terrorist cited the work of one of your associate
       professors before one of the worst attacks in the recent
       history, and THIS is the best you could come up with?"
       --- End Quote ---
       BOYCOTT NOTRE DAME!
       By the way, Gaski also looks like what we would expect:
       [img]
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       #Post#: 14315--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Cancel Culture
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: June 24, 2022, 1:24 pm
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       We need more of this:
  HTML https://www.amren.com/news/2022/06/student-kicked-out-of-uk-college-for-supporting-deportation-of-illegal-immigrants/
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       > “Today my college has refused to take me on for a second year
       because I made some tweets they didn’t like about Rwanda,”
       tweeted Liam O’Malley. “That is the state of Modern Britain.”
       >
       > According to O’Malley, he has been effectively expelled from
       Burnley College for endorsing the Conservative government’s
       immigration policy.
       --- End Quote ---
       The tweet:
       [img]
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       Since he claims to like Rwandan weather, he should migrate there
       himself (while refugees who like UK weather should be allowed to
       stay in the UK). Since he hasn't migrated to Rwanda himself, his
       praise of Rwanda is obviously disingenuous. Disingenuous
       tribalists do not deserve a college spot. Well done Burnley!
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       Of course, the problem is not solved by cancelling his college
       spot alone. His bloodline needs to be eliminated.
       #Post#: 14443--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Cancel Culture
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 2, 2022, 7:54 pm
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  HTML https://reason.com/2022/06/30/criticizing-lack-of-grocery-stores-in-the-south-bronx-means-twitter-mob-will-request-your-firing/
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       > "I've literally been to like five of those now, and I don't
       know what the fuck I'm about to do for dinner," said NYC
       newcomer Griffin Green in a TikTok video posted this past week,
       referring to the bodegas of the South Bronx. "Like, where are
       the Krogers and the Whole Foods at? I'm about to eat fuckin'
       cereal and ramen for dinner," Green continued.
       >
       > This, and other TikTok videos in the style of day-in-the-life
       vlogs (that have since been roasted and riffed on), seem to have
       gotten him fired from software company Outreach, which had hired
       him as an entry-level sales development representative. "I'm in
       the Bronx for a few weeks so I'm like the only white dude in
       this whole gym, so I got this NAACP shirt so these people vibe
       with me more," said Green in one video. He talked about how many
       gay people there are in NYC (during Pride celebrations) in
       another, innocuously displaying
       dude-from-Michigan-lands-in-the-big-city culture shock.
       --- End Quote ---
       Thank you, Outreach!
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       > Are software companies in the business of moral adjudication?
       What types of moral indicators are they looking for, per whose
       standards?
       >
       > But companies fear being the mob's target of the week more
       than they fear hastily punishing innocent people. Consider the
       case of Emma Sarley, who in fall 2021 was fired from her job at
       tech company Bevy after allegedly telling a black couple "stay
       in your hood" after an altercation in a Williamsburg, Brooklyn,
       dog park.
       --- End Quote ---
       I fail to see a problem. Thank you, Bevy!
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       > Sarley's case took Bevy CEO Derek Andersen less than 48 hours
       to rule on. She was quickly fired, just as Green was quickly
       fired from Outreach. Perhaps this indicates appropriate risk
       calculation from management. Or perhaps it indicates something
       more insidious: that our poorly worded jokes or clumsy
       invectives in moments of frustration can be found by bad actors
       on the internet, trotted out for all to mock, and assumed to be
       representative of our character. No mercy, no weighing of our
       own account of what happened, and certainly no job at the end of
       the public cross-examination.
       --- End Quote ---
       How is it not representative of your character?
       #Post#: 14491--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Cancel Culture
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 4, 2022, 11:00 pm
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       Our enemies are now defending Lana Del Ray from a leftist
       cancellation attempt:
  HTML https://vdare.com/articles/lana-del-rey-too-good-or-too-white
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       > One social media post read:
       >
       > Girl, if you don’t shut your mouth…you’re only making shit
       harder for yourself. You literally didn’t need to say anything
       about this.
       >
       > Another comment read:
       >
       > Lana we’re tired please stop. Your white is showing.
       >
       > The recriminations continued for months.
       > ...
       > A blogger named Holly Mosley opined that Del Rey had
       “fragility” issues. “It’s probably about time,” Mosley wrote,
       “she learned to tone down the attitude when responding to such
       criticisms before she makes matters even worse for herself”
       [Racism or Fragility: We Need to Talk About Lana Del Rey, by
       Holly Mosley, ContactMusic, January 11, 2021].
       >
       > A black blogger, Lauren McEwen, in a hit piece titled “Lana
       Del Rey Has Always Been Problematic, We Just Never Talked About
       It,” called out the singer’s “history with race and internalized
       misogyny” as enabling “white people who traffic in casual,
       underhanded, or coded racism shut down the moment they are
       called out for their behavior.”
       > ...
       > [T] his society was built on a racist, patriarchal system, and
       those who refuse to listen to women of color when they are
       called out for this kind [Del Rey’s kind] of behavior are doomed
       to repeat it.
       > ...
       > Cancel culture is real. Its enforcers, heavily female, have
       their knives out for Lana Del Rey because she hasn’t apologized
       for her exquisite Celtic whiteness.
       > ...
       > Canadian poet-social justice activist El Jones explains how
       violators of race and gender protocol should be treated:
       >
       > When we cancel somebody, we’re basically saying that a person
       has done something harmful and we want people to know about it
       and for them to face consequences for it.
       > ...
       > Lana Del Rey deserves her large and loyal audience. Her
       talentless tormenters, consumed with rage over her “problematic”
       twin offenses of artistic genius and white beauty, deserve
       nothing of the sort. They need to get a life and respect her
       independence.
       >
       > But of course, they won’t. That’s why Lana Del Rey needs our
       support—whether she appreciates it or not!
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       Who wrote the above enemy article?
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       > Carl Horowitz [Email him] is a veteran Washington, D.C. area
       writer on immigration and other issues.
       --- End Quote ---
       Once again:
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       And don't forget to laugh at Horowitz's praise of Del Ray's
       looks, given she looks like this:
       [img width=1280
       height=853]
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       Anyway, what else do we need to know about Del Ray?
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lana_Del_Rey#Social_views
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       > Del Rey stated: "For me, the issue of feminism is just not an
       interesting concept. I'm more interested in ... SpaceX and
       Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic
       possibilities. Whenever people bring up feminism ... I'm just
       not really that interested."[265]
       --- End Quote ---
       We have our conclusion: CANCEL DEL RAY!
       #Post#: 14598--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Cancel Culture
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 9, 2022, 5:01 pm
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       Continuing from:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/court-packing/msg14580/#msg14580
       BOYCOTT MORTON'S!
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/mortons-flooded-phone-calls-fake-195706339.html
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       > A steakhouse chain is being flooded with phone calls and fake
       reservations over its defense of Associate Supreme Court Justice
       Brett Kavanaugh's "right" to "eat dinner" at one of its
       restaurants, where demonstrators gathered outside to protest his
       support of overturning Roe v. Wade.
       >
       > Morton's this week sent a memo to its restaurant managers
       telling them to brace for more backlash to its remarks defending
       the jurist, Politico reported Saturday.
       > ...
       > In addition to the phone calls and phony reservations, the
       Morton's restaurant where Kavanaugh dined has seen a handful of
       1-star Google reviews opposing its initial statement.
       --- End Quote ---
       #Post#: 14801--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Cancel Culture
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 21, 2022, 1:55 am
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  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWK-oBCt0YQ
       See also:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/msg10156/#msg10156
       #Post#: 15295--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Cancel Culture
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: August 24, 2022, 7:38 pm
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       CANCEL TINA FEY!
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/not-fetch-tina-feys-allegedly-233804947.html
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       > Tina Fey is facing backlash after TikTok videos showing the
       comedian-actor making Asian people the butt of her jokes and
       purportedly normalizing anti-Asian racism went viral.
       > ...
       > “She has a very specific way of talking, that I realized she
       kind of sounds like a prostitute in a Vietnam movie,” Fey says,
       drawing laughter from the audience. Fey then goes on to mock a
       Vietnamese accent, comparing her daughter’s speech to the lewd,
       stereotypical depictions of Vietnamese women on screen.
       > ...
       > @Buiside also goes on to mention how she makes a joke out of
       Asian people in several of her movies and shows, from Korean
       nail salon workers who speak broken English in the 2015 comedy
       movie “Sisters” to Dong Nguyen’s character in the Netflix
       sit-com “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.”
       >
       > “She casts a Korean guy to play a Vietnamese refugee. And the
       problem that I had with that is that he had to speak Vietnamese
       for his lines,” says @Buiside. “He also needed to have a
       Vietnamese accent, which he butchers both because he’s Korean.”
       >
       > The TikTok user continues, “The worst part is she named him
       Dong Nyugen. And there’s a running joke that his name means
       ‘penis.’ She even makes him say a joke that ‘Kimmy’ means
       ‘penis’ in Vietnamese — which it doesn’t. But she doesn’t even
       care to be correct. Because at the end of the day she makes
       being Asian the joke, itself.”
       >
       > “If you want to know why racism is so normalized in the U.S.,
       it’s because of people like her. And how she portrays Asian
       people in her media. It’s disrespectful,” he concludes.
       --- End Quote ---
       About Fey:
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Fey
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       > Greek Orthodox
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       #Post#: 15782--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Cancel Culture
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: September 23, 2022, 5:52 pm
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       Introducing the shameless Amy Wax Defence Against Cancellation:
  HTML https://www.thedp.com/article/2022/09/penn-law-amy-wax-memorandum-postpone-proceedings
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       > Amy Wax's legal team submitted a memorandum seeking the
       dismissal of the ongoing University disciplinary proceedings
       against her on grounds of a "disabled state" from illness.
       >
       > The 59-page memorandum claims that Wax — the tenured Penn Law
       School professor who is facing potential punishment for her
       inflammatory conduct — is undergoing treatment for
       “life-threatening” cancer, and asks for postponement of the
       ongoing proceedings until “at least” the end of the year. David
       Shapiro, Wax’s lawyer, sent the document to Faculty Senate Chair
       Vivian L. Gadsden, who is overseeing the proceedings, on Aug.
       31.
       > ...
       > The memorandum from Wax’s lawyers claims that during the
       proceedings, Ruger has refused to provide medical accommodation
       to Wax throughout her cancer treatment under the Americans with
       Disabilities Act. The memorandum asked Gadsden to delay the
       current proceedings until Wax’s “disabled state” from treatment
       has abated, portraying their request as an issue of fairness.
       --- End Quote ---
       If she really wanted to prioritize medical treatment, she could
       voluntarily quit, thereby immediately ending the proceedings
       against her!
       --- Quote ---
       > O’Garro-Moore added that Wax represents someone who is testing
       how far she can get away with “unchecked” influence and
       protection while hurting those who have encountered her.
       --- End Quote ---
       This.
       Wax saga:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/debunking-rightist-anti-immigration-arguments/msg9868/#msg9868
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/msg10398/?topicseen#msg10398
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/msg10415/?topicseen#msg10415
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/msg10758/?topicseen#msg10758
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/msg12752/?topicseen#msg12752
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/re-trump-disapproval-377/msg12937/#msg12937
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/msg14829/?topicseen#msg14829
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       Re: Cancel Culture
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: October 25, 2022, 2:19 pm
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  HTML https://rmx.news/crime/somalia-is-a-shthole-country-following-deadly-knife-attack-by-migrant-berlin-public-broadcaster-fires-journalist-for-criticizing-somalia/
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       > “Somalia is a shithole country with Stone Age culture. When a
       migrant from Somalia stabs two people and injures two others,
       that’s a problem. When this happens 800 meters from your
       parents, in the place where you grew up, it’s shocking,” wrote
       former RBB journalist Jan A. Karon, who was born in Poland but
       grew up in Germany.
       --- End Quote ---
       Poland is a Turandom country with Western culture. When a
       journalist from Poland calls Somalia a "shithole country", that
       is a problem. When this happens in Germany, in the place where
       Hitler once ruled and heroically invaded Poland from, it's
       shocking.
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       > Shortly after Karon’s post criticizing Somalia, a left-wing
       “anti-racism” activist, Jasmina Kuhnke labeled Karon’s tweet as
       “hate speech” and wrote to RBB’s Twitter feed demanding
       consequences for the 30-year-old employee’s statement. RBB
       quickly responded, writing, “We understand and share the
       criticism of the statements.”
       --- End Quote ---
       Thank you, Kuhnke and RBB!
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       #Post#: 17091--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Cancel Culture
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: December 17, 2022, 8:58 pm
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       It's OK for commencement speeches to be "white"?
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPu5_ueGR0
       As I always say, a sincere apology would include cutting off his
       own tongue. He has not done this, therefore he has not
       apologized.
       CANCEL PURDUE UNIVERSITY!
       Woke comments:
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       > His apology is pure BS!!! As a college chancellor to call it
       off the cuff is just egregiously  wrong & truly reflects his
       true attitudes.
       --- End Quote ---
       --- Quote ---
       > that so-called 'apology' hit every marker for a NON-apology.
       >
       > it was an "unplanned response to another speaker"-- i.e. this
       was a private thing between that speaker and me and you wouldn't
       understand/you have misunderstood.
       >
       > "my words have caused confusion, pain, and anger"--  (1)  my
       words, not me.
       > (2)  confusion as in you don't understand (again), your fault,
       your problem.
       > (3)  anger as in your fault, your problem for being incapable
       of understanding.
       > (4)  pain as in i'm sorry you feel that way-- i.e. your fault,
       your problem.
       >
       > "we are all human, i made a mistake"-- i.e. i'm being
       persecuted here.
       >
       > "i assure you i did not intend to be hurtful..."--  i.e. i'm
       such a racist that i thought what i said was all in good fun.
       >
       > "my comments do not reflect my personal values."-- this could
       mean two things.  either
       > racist words randomly spew forth from my mouth unbidden, or
       > i was forced to say what i'm saying right here in this
       bullshite apology.
       >
       > a real apology says i hurt you, i feel terrible about it, i
       will do what you need me to do to fix it if that's possible, and
       i won't do it again.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > It’s not just the racist mockery, but the fact that he
       believed (and may still do) it was “funny” qualified
       > as a joke tells you more about this guy (and those around him
       who laughed at his “joke”).  Somebody like this shouldn’t be a
       school custodian, let alone a University chancellor. Purdue is
       a joke for continuing to support this guy.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > The fact that Chancellor Keon was comfortable enough to make
       such an ignorant and insensitive remark at a public event makes
       one wonder what he says behind closed doors.
       --- End Quote ---
       --- Quote ---
       > The thing is...this is something he did without thinking about
       it...which means he does this every day
       --- End Quote ---
       --- Quote ---
       > People like this person do this all the time when he is around
       his family and friends
       --- End Quote ---
       --- Quote ---
       > How the hell can someone be so out of touch with reality to
       think that they can say that in public, to a large crowd of
       people, and not suffer the consequences of their actions?
       --- End Quote ---
       --- Quote ---
       > Q: "...and not suffer the consequences of their actions?" A:
       He's a white man.
       --- End Quote ---
       --- Quote ---
       > This was not off the CUFF This was in his heart on his mind
       because it's in their Blood. This is who they're and they will
       never change. They will only say that they're Sorry. But they're
       not
       --- End Quote ---
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       > It’s not just the chancellor as mentioned those professors
       behind him are laughing too. This is very telling about this
       institution.
       --- End Quote ---
       --- Quote ---
       > The plan is to offer a few words of appeasement,  pretend to
       be have a 'diverse' task force offer their input, and when
       things die down, to continue business as usual.  A  'they'll get
       over it'  approach.  They will laugh it off in private.
       --- End Quote ---
       --- Quote ---
       > these people think it will just go away if they apologize.
       --- End Quote ---
       --- Quote ---
       > Everyone who laughed along to the racist 'joke' should be
       fired as well.  In fact, anyone on the faculty who didn't
       vociferously object to the racism at the time should be fired.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > Pretty much everyone else sitting on that stage laughed, not a
       single one showed any surprise, anger, or disapproval of what
       was said.
       --- End Quote ---
       --- Quote ---
       > This is the new kind of racism, say racist comments and then
       others come along and gaslight and excuse the behavior.  This
       normalizes the behavior and action.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > This is one of the things that happens when a group allows
       others to prop them up as the model minority and stay out of the
       fight against prejudice for so long.  I am so glad that more
       Asian people are starting to wake up and speak out against
       bigotry
       --- End Quote ---
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