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       Re: Cancel Culture
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: August 5, 2023, 4:32 pm
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       Thank you, Museum of Pop Culture!
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/museum-airbrushes-jk-rowling-exhibition-152736750.html
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       > A museum has airbrushed JK Rowling out of its hall of fame and
       Harry Potter exhibits because of her gender-critical beliefs.
       >
       > The Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) in Seattle, Washington,
       accused the author of holding “super hateful and divisive”
       opinions in a lengthy blog post explaining its decision.
       > ...
       > Explaining the removal of Rowling from MoPOP’s hall of fame,
       Moore wrote: “For the time being, the curators decided to remove
       any of her artefacts from this gallery to reduce her impact.
       It’s not a perfect solution, but it’s what we were able to do in
       the short-term while determining long-term practices.”
       --- End Quote ---
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  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_J._K._Rowling
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       > British author J. K. Rowling, writer of Harry Potter and other
       Wizarding World works, has garnered attention for her support of
       the Labour Party under Gordon Brown and her criticism of the
       party under Jeremy Corbyn
       > ...
       > On 22 October 2015, a letter was published in The Guardian
       signed by Rowling (along with over 150 other figures from arts
       and politics) opposing the cultural boycott of Israel
       > ...
       > She condemned societal beauty standards in "this
       skinny-obsessed world" and magazine covers that feature people
       who are "either seriously ill or suffering from an eating
       disorder".[136]
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://theprint.in/opinion/pov/jk-rowling-has-always-been-tone-deaf-just-look-at-the-harry-potter-universe/439064/
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       > The wizarding world first created by Rowling is of, for and by
       White people. I don’t think there’s much to argue there.
       >
       > The few non-White characters she does introduce in the books
       are underdeveloped lazy additions that highlight her prejudice.
       >
       > Take for instance the Patil sisters. Remember their agonising
       outfits at the Yule Ball in the Harry Potter and the Goblet of
       Fire — dull, unflattering lehengas, which seemed like a mockery
       of Indian culture. A lot of us are still and will always be
       unforgiving of that travesty.
       >
       > Then comes Cho Chang. In a world full of fantastical names
       like Severus Snape, Albus Dumbledore, Dolores Umbridge,
       Nymphadora Tonks, Luna Lovegood and so on, Rowling settled on
       mixing two Korean surnames to portray the only visible Asian
       character. Rowling may as well have introduced another Karen or
       Susan type character instead of creating a token Asian character
       she clearly put no thought into.
       > ...
       > She was slammed for the way she wrote about ‘Native American
       wizards’, and was attacked for “using an ancient culture as a
       convenient prop”.
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       #Post#: 21379--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Cancel Culture
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: August 7, 2023, 1:56 am
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/same-sex-care-demands-delayed-153256089.html
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       > Hospital cancelled my surgery after I complained about
       transgender nurse
       > ...
       > Teresa Steele was informed over email that her operation at
       the Princess Grace, a private hospital in central London, which
       specialises in women’s health, had been scrapped as a result of
       her request that only biological women be involved in her
       intimate care and later developed an abscess.
       > ...
       > Emails between staff, seen by The Telegraph, said that they
       “perceive the patient’s request and rationale as a
       discrimination on gender and sex against… hospital employees”.
       >
       > At 7.36pm the following evening, which was a Friday, Maxine
       Estop Green, the hospital’s CEO,  emailed her notifying her that
       “we do not share your beliefs and are not able to adhere to your
       requests” and therefore the operation was being cancelled.
       --- End Quote ---
       ;D
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       > “I was very traumatised and on the point of collapse following
       the cancellation,” she said. “There was a sudden and observable
       deterioration in my health. An abscess that had not been visible
       on scans only a short time earlier had suddenly appeared. They
       endangered my life by cancelling that operation. I could have
       died of sepsis.”
       > ...
       > Ms Steele said: “That second surgery has taken me months to
       recover from. I now have unnecessary deep scarring and my
       mobility was impacted for months; as a result, I developed a
       back problem as a knock-on effect of a protracted convalescence.
       The second surgery has really affected my long-term health.”
       --- End Quote ---
       Behold TERF fragility.
       Woke comments:
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       > If it was critical to her being alive and she chose to request
       a different nurse, any delay from that is on her.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > And if that nurse cannot be replaced for your procedure team
       until a later date, then the patient can go to another physician
       or wait.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > That’s like a racist saying “don’t give me that persons blood
       they aren’t…” yeah… don’t complain about pain if you are the one
       making things harder.
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       > What the problem with hospitals personnel delaying her
       surgery? She had a choice and chose not to use it. Let her find
       another facility to use.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > If you don't want the care that's available, then I guess you
       don't want the care.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > SHE made her choice......Don't blame others.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > Good. I hope those months she was in pain were excruciating.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > So what. Let bigots die.
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       #Post#: 21460--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Cancel Culture
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: August 11, 2023, 6:55 pm
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  HTML https://nypost.com/2023/08/09/big-brother-contestant-luke-valentine-booted-from-show-after-using-n-word/
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       > Valentine, 30, said the slur in a streaming video — available
       on the Paramount+ site — for the CBS series.
       >
       > “Luke violated the BIG BROTHER code of conduct and there is
       zero tolerance in the house for using a racial slur,” the
       network and series producers said in a statement to The Post.
       “He has been removed from the house. His departure will be
       addressed in Thursday night’s show.”
       > ...
       > “Luke slipped up! That is apart of his daily vocabulary and
       vernacular!! Big Brother needs to remove someone that is so
       casually using slurs. He said my bad because he slipped and he
       know it’s wrong but he chooses to use it depending on who he
       around,” one viewer said.
       --- End Quote ---
       Valentine also looks like what we would expect:
       [img width=1280
       height=854]
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       #Post#: 21815--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Cancel Culture
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: August 30, 2023, 5:31 pm
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       BOYCOTT DENNY'S!
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PI5J2Vuaog
       This is not an isolated incident:
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny%27s#Discrimination
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       > Denny's has been involved in discrimination lawsuits involving
       food servers denying or providing inferior service to racial
       minorities, especially black customers.[33]
       >
       > A 1993 incident occurred when six black United States Secret
       Service agents visited Denny's restaurant in Annapolis,
       Maryland. They were forced to wait an hour for service while
       their white companions were seated immediately.[34][35]
       >
       > In San Jose, California, in 1991, several black teenagers were
       refused service unless they agreed to pay in advance.[36][37]
       >
       > In 1994, Denny's settled a class action lawsuit filed by black
       customers who had been refused service, forced to wait longer,
       or pay more than white customers. The $54.4 million settlement
       was the largest under federal public accommodations laws
       established thirty years earlier.[38]
       >
       > In 1995, a black Denny's customer in Sacramento, California,
       was told that he and his friends had to pay upfront at the
       counter upon ordering their meals. He questioned the waitress:
       "We asked the waitress about it and she said that some black
       guys who had been in the restaurant earlier had made a scene and
       walked out without paying their bill. So the manager now wanted
       all blacks to pay up front."[39]
       >
       > In 1997, six Asian-American students from Syracuse University
       visited a local Denny's restaurant late at night. They waited
       more than half an hour as white patrons were regularly served,
       seated, and offered more helpings. They complained to management
       and their server but were forced to leave the establishment by
       two security guards called by Denny's management. Then,
       according to the students, a group of white men came out of
       Denny's, attacked them[40] and shouted racial epithets. Several
       of the students were beaten unconscious.[41][42]
       > ...
       > In 2014, a Denny's location in Deming, New Mexico was
       subjected to a discrimination claim by an LGBT group, alleging
       that wait staff used homophobic slurs and refused to serve a
       group of gay, lesbian, and transgender customers who were
       attending a gay pride celebration. One year later, Denny's
       agreed to donate $13,000 to Deming Pride, pay $3,250 to a female
       customer who was subjected to abusive behavior by wait staff,
       and retrain its employees about discrimination policies.[47]
       >
       > In 2017, the staff at a Denny's in Vancouver was accused of
       making an Indigenous woman pay for her meal before it was
       served.[48] After the customer left, restaurant staff called
       police to report the incident, alleging that the patron had a
       sharp metal object in their pocket.[49]
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       #Post#: 22179--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Cancel Culture
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: September 17, 2023, 5:02 pm
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  HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/16/arts/music/jann-wenner-removed-rock-hall.html
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       > Jann Wenner, the co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine, has
       been removed from the board of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
       Foundation, which he also helped found, one day after an
       interview with him was published in The New York Times in which
       he made comments that were widely criticized as sexist and
       racist.
       > ...
       > the dismissal of Mr. Wenner comes after an interview with The
       Times, published Friday and timed to the publication of his new
       book, called “The Masters,” which collects his decades of
       interviews with rock legends like Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, John
       Lennon, Bruce Springsteen and Bono—all of them white and male.
       > ...
       > In the interview, David Marchese of The Times asked Mr.
       Wenner, 77, why the book included no women or people of color.
       >
       > Regarding women, Mr. Wenner said, “Just none of them were as
       articulate enough on this intellectual level,” and remarked that
       Joni Mitchell “was not a philosopher of rock ’n’ roll.”
       >
       > His answer about artists of color was less direct. “Of Black
       artists—you know, Stevie Wonder, genius, right?” he said. “I
       suppose when you use a word as broad as ‘masters,’ the fault is
       using that word. Maybe Marvin Gaye, or Curtis Mayfield? I mean,
       they just didn’t articulate at that level.”
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       Thank you, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!
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       About Wenner:
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jann_Wenner
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       > Wenner was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, the son of
       Sim and Edward Wenner.[6] He grew up in a secular Jewish
       family.[7]
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       What our enemies think:
  HTML https://vdare.com/posts/rolling-stone-founder-jan-wenner-canceled-over-the-white-black-iq-gap
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       > Nothing is more radioactive in the 2020s than an allusion to
       the white-black average IQ gap or to the wider distribution of
       the male than female bell curves (which more or less got Larry
       Summers fired as president of Harvard).
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       About Summers:
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers
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       > Summers was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on November 30,
       1954, into a Jewish family, the son of two economists, Robert
       Summers (who changed the family surname from Samuelson) and
       Anita Summers (of Romanian-Jewish ancestry)
       --- End Quote ---
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       #Post#: 22275--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Cancel Culture
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: September 21, 2023, 6:22 pm
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/grievous-southern-baptist-convention-expels-204355749.html
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       > The Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest
       Protestant denomination, has kicked a rural Oklahoma church out
       of its membership after photos and videos of their pastor
       impersonating singer Ray Charles in blackface emerged on social
       media.
       >
       > A spokesperson for the organization said the executive
       committee ruled that the Matoaka Baptist Church in Ochelata,
       Oklahoma, was “not in friendly cooperation” with the convention.
       The decision came after the church, led by the Rev. Sherman
       Jaquess, failed to “cooperate in resolving concerns regarding
       discriminatory behavior on the basis of ethnicity,” according to
       CNN.
       >
       > Jaquess, a white man, was seen in a video dressed in a Jheri
       curl wig, black body paint (face, neck, hands), and red lips
       during a Valentine’s Day talent show in 2017.
       > ...
       > “We have people [who] are offended by a lot of things, but
       it’s hard to play Ray Charles if you don’t play a Black man; it
       wasn’t anything,” he said.
       >
       > The clergyman was shocked at people being offended despite him
       looking nothing like the brown-skinned Charles, who wore his
       hair for most of his career in a military-styled crew cut.
       >
       > During a sermon, he said, “I just want to publicly say I don’t
       have a racial bone in my body. I’m not racist at all.”
       > ...
       > The pastor has a history of dressing up as different races.
       Once, during a cowboys-and-Indians-themed event at the Falls
       Creek church camp, he appeared as an indigenous woman in
       brownface.
       >
       > Lewis took to social media to congratulate the convention.
       >
       > “Way to go @SouthernBapCon for kicking this racist out. Thank
       you supporters for keeping the pressure on,” he tweeted.
       --- End Quote ---
       Jaquess also looks like what we would expect:
       [img]
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       And, as the article points out, his blackface costume looks
       nothing like the actual Charles:
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       Best comment:
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       > god commanded “let there be racism” and there was. Side note,
       jesus wept.
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       If only the commenter could have written "Yahweh" instead of
       "god", this would have been a Gnostic comment.
       Other woke comments:
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       > the devil is definitely running the show with evangelical
       christians
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       > These people can't help themselves. It's almost like an
       addiction.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > Of course he did not think it was a big deal, of course. This
       kind of disrespect and hatred towards black people has not
       stopped and is not going to stop. White people do whatever they
       want to black people, sometimes they have consequences and
       sometimes they don't. It's always the response. I did not think
       what I did was offensive, I did not have any bad intentions.
       Pure nonsense.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > White people see nothing racist in demeaning people as a way
       to honor them. He demeans Ray Charles to honor him.  These are
       the same people who support the idea among conservatives that
       slavery was good and beneficial to Black people.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > Let's be honest here, including you white people. We have
       NEVER seen any black person in this country who looks like this.
       Why do yall keep this characature alive, it literally doesn't
       make any sense. It's ignorant, false, and racist.
       --- End Quote ---
       #Post#: 22806--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Cancel Culture
   DIR By: McDonaldTrump
       Date: October 15, 2023, 3:59 pm
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       #BoycottMcDonalds Trends As Protest Erupts Over Free Meals For
       Israeli Troops While Gazans Starve
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       > US fast-food chain McDonald's has been facing heat after its
       Israeli franchise announced to give free meals to hospitals and
       troops of the Israel Defence Forces. Several people on social
       media site X (formerly Twitter), protested the move and the
       hashtag #BoycottMcDonalds started trending. In Lebanon,
       pro-Palestinian groups attacked a McDonald's outlet in Sidon.
       Watch this video to know more.
       >
       > #mcdonalds #freefood #israelisoldiers #boycottmcdonalds #us
       #foodchain #usfoodgiant #middleeast #palestinians #gaza #gazans
       #nofood #nowater #freemeal #pakistan #lebanon #kuwait #oman
       #critisicm #standwithgaza
       >
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       McDonalds Proudly Feeds Israeli Soldiers
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       #Post#: 22885--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Cancel Culture
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: October 18, 2023, 4:17 pm
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/star-animated-voice-actor-tara-094825747.html
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       > The upcoming animated series Boxtown has confirmed it dumped
       star voice actor Tara Strong over her recent posts and comments
       on Israel and Palestine.
       >
       > Boxtown and Bandit Mill Animation said in a statement Tuesday
       night that Strong, whose voice became famous on Teen Titans,
       Rugrats, The Powerpuff Girls, and Ben 10, was removed due to a
       “trend among Tara’s recent online activity, including posts that
       promote controversial messages regarding the peoples of
       Palestine currently being affected by the ongoing
       Israel-Palestine crisis.”
       >
       > Last week, Boxtown had posted that it was recasting the role
       of Bill the Orphan, the character Strong voices, but offered no
       details. Strong posted afterward, saying she found out the news
       online. “Fired for being Jewish,” she wrote.
       > ...
       > Strong reportedly liked a tweet that equated all Muslims to
       Hamas and ISIS, while in another post, she reportedly wrote,
       “they were smart to start with a country people love to hate.
       > ...
       >
       [img]
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       Thank you, Bandit Mill Animation!
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       Re: Indian attitudes
   DIR By: NoVisasNeeded
       Date: October 20, 2023, 12:53 pm
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       Arab Nation Bahrain Sacks Indian Doctor For 'Insulting' Islam,
       Backing Israel Against Palestine
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       > Amid the ongoing Israel-Palestine war, an Indian-origin doctor
       was fired from the Royal Hospital Bahrain for sharing
       anti-Palestine posts on social media. The hospital called the
       doctor's post "insensitive" and terminated him from his post.
       The Indian-doctor later issued an apology on social media,
       acknowledging the 'insensitivity' of his statement. Watch this
       to know more.
       --- End Quote ---
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       #Post#: 24778--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Cancel Culture
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: January 11, 2024, 5:18 pm
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  HTML https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12945597/Woolworths-dumps-Australia-Day-merchandise-stores-nationally.html
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       > Woolworths will no longer sell Australia Day merchandise.
       >
       > The supermarket giant, which also owns Big W stores, confirmed
       in a statement that any items related to January 26 celebrations
       will not be stocked on shelves.
       >
       > 'There has been a gradual decline in demand for Australia Day
       merchandise from our stores over recent years. At the same time
       there's been broader discussion about 26 January and what it
       means to different parts of the community.'
       --- End Quote ---
       Thank you!
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