“Right-wing blogs are mad because I said Pepe Le Pew added to rape culture,” Blow wrote Saturday, tweeting a scene from the Warner Bros. classic cartoon series. “Let’s see, he grabs/kisses a girl/stranger repeatedly, without consent and against her will. She struggles mightily to get away from him, but he …
Read More »Cancelling Dr Seuss is the self-appointed culture gestapo’s latest unforgivable act in the woke war on the books our children read
Delicious irony came knocking this week as the jackbooted diversity gestapo chose Book Week to raid the back catalogue of Dr Seuss, scrapping the further publication of half a dozen of his books over concerns about racist and insensitive imagery. Nothing says ‘we support children’s literacy’ more than a good …
Read More »Cancel culture refuses to stop coming after Woody Allen, despite having no new ammunition
HBO Max’s new docuseries ‘Allen v. Farrow’ has the world asking yet again: Is Woody Allen a sexual predator? It’s a claim that’s been bandied about for decades now, but which has really only led to professional consequences for Allen in recent years, as his work has struggled to find …
Read More »A #MeToo rape scandal has rocked the Australian parliament, but woke culture is obscuring what’s most important: the facts
During a week in which Prime Minister Scott Morrison was looking forward to basking in the glory of the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine program, he has spent most of his time trying to deal with the fallout from an allegation that a junior female political staffer, Ms Brittany Higgins, …
Read More »Gina Carano is showing how to beat cancel culture by making a movie with Ben Shapiro. Others must go independent and follow suit
Earlier this week, a crisis public relations consultant told The Hollywood Reporter that publicists have told their clients to “steer clear of politics, especially anything leaning right.” This, of course, follows the dismissal of Carano from ‘The Mandalorian’ for a social media post that compared the treatment of modern-day conservatives …
Read More »Chris Hedges: Cancel culture, where liberalism goes to die
This article was originally published by ScheerPost. The Rev. Will Campbell was forced out of his position as director of religious life at the University of Mississippi in 1956 because of his calls for integration. He escorted black children through a hostile mob in 1957 to integrate Little Rock’s Central …
Read More »Laura Loomer: Gina Carano is right to compare cancel culture to a Holocaust precursor
As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in The Gulag Archipelago, his account of living in a communist labor camp, “Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” We have seen this cruelty first-hand through the historical documentation of communist gulags and Nazi concentration camps, and the way that …
Read More »Guardian writer insists cancel culture doesn’t exist, gets whacked by the granddaddy of all special interests: Big Israel
Current Affairs editor Nathan Robinson, a columnist for the Guardian, tripped over Tel Aviv’s time-honored third rail back in December. He was incensed – as any sane American might be – by the truly preposterous piles of money that were being bundled off to Israel as part of what was supposed to …
Read More »Guardian writer insists cancel culture doesn’t exist, gets whacked by the granddaddy of all special interests: Big Israel
Current Affairs editor Nathan Robinson, a columnist for the Guardian, tripped over Tel Aviv’s time-honored third rail back in December. He was incensed – as any sane American might be – by the truly preposterous piles of money that were being bundled off to Israel as part of what was supposed to …
Read More »Lefties are the worst when it comes to cancel culture & handing out Twitter fatwas – why are they always hunting for traitors?
One of the worst literary cliches in the book is quoting some dead white man as an opening gambit – just to show your opponents how clever you are. As Oscar Wilde wrote: “I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies …
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