“Cancel” / Knee-Jerk Culture of 2020 and beyond

[Hedge]

I haven't seen the details on today's action yet, but:

 

 

[Buffalo_Gal]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note:  this bans it from the entire federal government, federal contractors, and will start the process of having the DoJ go after it as a Civil Rights hostile workplace violation.  

[B-Man]

 

 

TEACH THE CHILDREN WELL: My generation is being raised to hate America — it’s time to stand up for our history.

 

 

 

 

SHE’S NOT IMAGINING IT. AND CHILDREN’S CARTOONS ARE THE SAME. OR THEY WERE 20 YEARS AGO, WHEN I BANNED A LOT OF THEM FROM MY HOUSE:  

 

Am I imagining a change in children’s books?  or have today’s children’s books abandoned individual accomplishments for collectivism?

 

I think that parents who review that stuff can be like the little train that could and stop the infection of their children’s minds.

 

Remember, leftists like cuckoos don’t build their own nest. They steal other people’s.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

Good: President Trump’s executive order abolishing critical race theory has the potential ‘to cripple hundreds of academic projects’

 

[Hedge]

 

How long before they are shamed into stop using the term "brown rice"?

[Buffalo_Gal]

 

 

 

[Koko78]

1 hour ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

 

 

 

How much 'scrambling' is really necessary to just not hold a training class?

[Buffalo_Gal]

30 minutes ago, Koko78 said:

 

How much 'scrambling' is really necessary to just not hold a training class?

I think there is more to it than simply a training class.

[sabrecrazed]

46 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

I think there is more to it than simply a training class.

In this case wouldn't it just be cancelling said training class? 

[Buffalo_Gal]

1 hour ago, sabrecrazed said:

In this case wouldn't it just be cancelling said training class? 

Possibly printed propaganda? Website FAQs? Crap to run by the attorneys? 🤷‍♂️

 

[New Improved DC Tom]

2 hours ago, Koko78 said:

 

How much 'scrambling' is really necessary to just not hold a training class?

 

For a government contractor?  A lot.  Sensitivity training requirements still exist, and don't just go away because the bull#### training is cancelled.

[Buffalo_Gal]

 

 

[GOBUFFALO716]

1 minute ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

 

 

Were you pissed like the rest of your friends in the GOP who went after Starbucks for having plain red cups for the holidays?

 

Didn't Trump bring Christmas back?

[B-Man]

 

OH: Winthrop will hire prof who threatened to expose ‘White K-12’ teachers who express ‘pro-police’ rhetoric.

 

 

“Free Expression”  how disgusting. 

[B-Man]

 

JOY PULLMAN:  What Republicans Have To Do To Get Critical Race Theory Out Of Public Schools: Republicans have to start hacking the education bureaucracy to pieces. As Trump has realized, perhaps the chief way to do that is to starve these public enemies of public funds.

 

Well, teachers and public schools have spent the last 6 months demonstrating that they are nonessential.

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

College Football Coach Replaces BLM Sign Taped to Door With ‘All Lives Matter to Our Savior’ Sign;

Any Guesses if He’s Still Coach?

 

 

Edited October 1, 2020 by B-Man

[B-Man]

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: 

 

NBA playoff viewership falls of the cliff.

 

 

 

 

 

[Buffalo_Gal]

This article is so slanted it is not funny "workers with a conscience" gimmie a ***** break),  but essentially it comes down to "You are here to WORK. Now work when you are on the job!" What a concept!
 

Coinbase Is Showing Workers With a Conscience the Door

CEO Brian Armstrong called social activism divisive and a distraction in a recent blog post, and the company is offering any "uncomfortable" workers an exit package.
 

Coinbase, a major cryptocurrency exchange based in Silicon Valley, has announced that it will not engage with pressing social issues such as racial injustice and is offering exit packages to employees who disagree.
 

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[B-Man]

 

 

“FAR-LEFT FASCISM:”

President Trump’s July 4 speech at Mount Rushmore celebrated American history, with invocations of the Founders, the Revolution, and 1776 in Philadelphia. The monument provided an appropriate backdrop to review the legacies of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Panegyrics to past leaders and expressions of faith in the American spirit are standard fare for Independence Day oratory, as much to be expected as are fireworks displays. But this year was different. July 4 occurred amid a wave of protests in the wake of the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, public efforts to raise awareness of anti-Black racism, and a renewed push to remove public symbols of the Confederacy. As protesters tore down historical monuments of Southern generals, George Washington too was attacked, as well as figures on the Northern side of the epic battle around slavery: Ulysses S. Grant in San Francisco, the Saint-Gaudens memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment in Boston, the abolitionist Hans Christian Heg in Madison, Wisconsin, and even monuments to Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. At this moment of widespread vandalism, the presidential choice to speak at the perhaps grandest of monuments was destined to elicit controversy.

Amid his expected patriotic appeals, Trump also called out the “merciless campaign to wipe out our history” being carried out by an ideological movement that he described in attention-getting terms as “a new far-left fascism.” That designation is more historically specific and pointed than one associates with standard political attacks and should therefore give us pause. It provides an opportunity to think through some of the complex historical connotations of the accusation of “left fascism,” just as it challenges us to consider the applicability of the term to the current developments in the country.

 

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Trump’s accusation of left fascism stings because it contradicts the standard political map. Fascism is typically treated as an exclusively far-right phenomenon, a conservatism on steroids, as distant as possible from the left end of the scale. However, there is also a long-standing discourse around “left fascism” that originates in the early 20th century, not as an insult from the right but with critiques made by prominent leftists directed at their own movement. Two Jewish women, both associated with the left, though different parts of it—Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg—each played a crucial role in developing the intellectual framework necessary to describe and criticize left fascism. The concept has taken on other meanings as well over the course of its history, at times coming from fascists themselves. Examining these various strands of left fascist meaning and political tradition can shed some light on our current predicament. Since historic fascism was largely a European phenomenon, it is important to start in Italy and Germany, the crucibles of historic fascism, before coming back to our American predicament.

And then there was early “Progressive” H.G. Wells:

By 1932, a frustrated Wells found his superior wisdom bypassed time and again by the superior mass appeal of fascism and Communism. In a talk at Oxford provocatively titled “Liberal Fascism,” he called for liberalism to be “born again.” After his customary denunciation of parliamentary politics as an anachronism, he let out his frustrations, calling for fascist means to serve liberal ends by way of a liberal elite as “conceited” and as power-hungry as its rivals. “I suggest that you study the reinvigoration of Catholicism by Loyola,” Wells said. “I am asking for a Liberal Fascisti.”

The intertwining ideologies of the international socialists and National Socialists sounds like it would make a great topic for a book.

 

 

 

 

 

[BillsFanNC]