The saddest graph of the year
In a year full of sad graphs, most of them one way or another connected with COVID, I came across this one the other day: COVID, whatever its origin turns …
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What invasive species are you?
Is your fish demeaning to others? Worry not, there is always a bureaucracy ready to step in and right the wrong: The Asian carp is getting a new name from …
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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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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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Selling the rope to hang them
Legal Insurrection reports from the frontiers of Market Marxism: It’s no secret that the Black Lives Matter movement and its co-founder (and self-identified “Marxist”) Patrisse Cullors has long accused American …
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Celebrity strikes? Yes please!
Twenty-twenty is providing a much needed reminder of the absolute importance of essential workers and first responders. In times like these, it’s quite courageous for celebrities of all kinds to keep …
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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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Dr Scherenkoss, I presume?
It’s 2020, so everything is racist, including misspelling non-Anglo names. Over to Samoan-Australian journalist at ABC, Tahlea (or Tali) Aualiitia (and I cut and pasted it because I’m very likely to …
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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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The worst take on the Kurds
Debate continues to rage about the rights and wrongs of Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw a handful of US troops from their posts along the Syrian-Turkish border, where they have …
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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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Of shitholes – foreign and our own
Donald Trump doesn’t mince words – in fact they’re usually like a very rare steak with blood still dripping as you slice through. Some months ago, “the controversy of the …
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Miss World America – no dogs or conservatives allowed
Seems like Republicans are not welcome in beauty contests anymore: Miss World America's State/National/Chief Director accused me of being racist, Islamaphobic, and insensitive. They stripped me of my Miss Michigan …
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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 …
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The 24 hour media rule
The mainstream media – and the social media – are so good at generating instant outrages that I now have an informal rule: try not to comment on any new …
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Hey white women, hope you’ve enjoyed your minority status
…because it’s getting revoked, you traitors and mindless enablers of white patriarchal supremacy! I’ve written a while ago about the Asian (specifically Asian-American) people being revoked their minority victim status …
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