Why everything is racist
You have no doubt noticed over the past few years – but accelerating wildly and widely in the last one or two – how everything now seems to problematic. The …
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On being transethnic
One of the circles to be yet squared by the transgender theory and practice is that if gender is, as we are told, a social construct, then being transgender means …
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Dazed and confused by the media bull
Over the years of travelling around the globe and speaking at all sort of forums, Swedish public health expert, the late Dr Hans Rosling, would conduct an informal experiment, asking …
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Dating while racist
We all have certain preferences about appearance, certain characteristics we find attractive in others. It might be the age, height, body shape, hair or eye colour, complexion, muscle tone, hair …
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Where to for the Republican Party?
Donald Trump had turned out the record number of supporters ever for a sitting president. Joe Biden had turned out an even greater record number of supporters ever for a …
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Chelsea Handler’s intellectual slave-owning
Exactly two months ago (and not for the first time, either), I wrote about the left’s attitude to minorities, namely their claim on the exclusive ideological allegiance by women, people …
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Much Ado About Gadot
Israeli actress Gal “Wonder Woman” Gadot has been cast in a new movie to play Queen Cleopatra, so predictably, lots of people who know nothing about history are upset. Former …
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160 years on, Democrats still think they own blacks
Cheap shot? Sorry, I usually prefer expensive ones too, but that’s all I have tonight with #UncleToms trending on Twitter and Jake Tapper complaining on CNN that the first night …
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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be oppressed in this racist hell
As many have remarked over the years, it is somewhat of a mystery why millions of people from the developing world continue to migrate to Western countries, which we are …
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Teaching young to hate their own
There is plenty of negativity to go around these days just about everywhere you look, but if you want to be particularly depressed today, I recommend this article from “The …
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Why I Am a Racist*
* and so, most likely, are you** ** according to the new nomenclature I was born in another time and another place. It was a different world – the past …
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When Only Some #BlackLivesMatter
Black Lives Matter. To me certainly, a black life matters as much as my white life. However to say something like that, or that “All Lives Matter”, is now considered …
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Racist eyes have it
When people say that members of other races all look the same to them, are they just being lazily racist or is there some truth behind the observation? Commonly referred …
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1619 and all that
A very good piece from Andrew Sullivan about “The New York Times Magazine” and it’s “1619 Project”, which dismissed the entire history of European settlement in North America as a …
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Sometimes you’re just a dick
Nick Kyrgios is a dick. I don’t know Nick, so I apologise to him if I’m wronging him – not that he particularly cares what I think of him – …
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The stupidity of (all) identity politics
Actress Rosanna Arquette is in the news for tweeting the other day “I’m sorry I was born white and privileged. It disgusts me. And I feel so much shame.” No, I …
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Pussy Galore in the new Bond
The meh news of the day: Since Daniel Craig announced he was standing down as James Bond, debate has raged whether the next 007 should be a woman, or black. …
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Westeros So White
The old leftie George R R Martin discovers that you can never be woke enough. Because the world of the Chronicles of Fire and Ice can hardly be criticised for …
Read More The price to pay for slavery
In a further sign of the Democratic Party’s drift to the left, two presidential contenders, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, have now expressed support for a policy that until now …
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But is it any good?
Paul Tassi at “Forbes” notes an important pop-culture milestone being reached: This week we got a look six years into the future of The Walking Dead, a timeline after the death (well, disappearance) …
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