I don’t often find myself praising celebrities. Hollywood tends to be a place where virtue signaling is currency, and the only place that I’ve seen more hypocrites was on an episode of The 700 Club. So when I see celebrities start to speak up against cancel culture, I find myself a …
Read More »Hook-up culture evolves but murder never changes? Revivals of Sex And The City, Sopranos spark debate about morphing social mores
Both shows appeared on HBO in the late 90s and early 2000s, becoming huge hits. Sex and the City, which aired between 1998 and 2004, followed the lives of four women living in New York City as they juggled careers and relationships. Crime drama The Sopranos was featured on HBO …
Read More »Scholarship in the age of wokeness: Top 10 ACADEMIC targets of cancel culture in 2020
Academics are supposed to be engaged in the disinterested pursuit of truth. And universities are meant to be places where you attack the argument, not the man. But in recent years, many scholars in the English-speaking world have found themselves embroiled in controversies just for expressing an unorthodox opinion or …
Read More »Decision to back F1 ace Mazepin after ‘groping row’ was defeat for cancel culture. Now his team need to ride out tide of woke fury
Haas announced on Wednesday that new signing Mazepin, 21, would remain one of their two drivers for next season, defying calls from irate fans to jettison the young star over a video posted to his Instagram account in which he was seen grabbing at the breast of a female friend …
Read More »Thou shall not forgive! Is ‘cancel culture’ stunting our growth as a species?
Another week, another batch of ‘cancel culture’ stories. As sure as the world keeps turning, someone somewhere will be getting a kicking on social media for something they said or did, while people fight about the merits of said kicking, and the sun sets and rises again. If you haven’t …
Read More »Musk invokes TRANS fury after wading into culture war by branding gender pronouns an ‘esthetic nightmare’
“I absolutely support trans, but all these pronouns are an esthetic nightmare,” Musk tweeted in response to an article titled ‘Real Friends Interrupt You When You Are Making A Mistake’, which criticized his penchant for edgy memes. Displaying personal pronouns on Twitter bios is often seen as a form of …
Read More »‘Cancel culture at work!’ Trump shares his surprise amid reports Cleveland Indians to drop their name after 105yrs
The Ohio-based Major League Baseball team will announce the decision to drop its current name as soon as this week, the New York Times and ESPN reported, citing sources. Trump quickly tweeted that it was “not good news, even for ‘Indians,’” and was “cancel culture at work.” According to reports, …
Read More »BBC presenter claims UK gardening culture is so ‘RACIST’ that ‘racism is baked into its DNA’
Wong – who has presented several BBC shows, including Countryfile, and serves as an ambassador for London’s Kew Gardens – made the bizarre claim in a series of Twitter posts. Replying to another tweet that claimed gardens are not allowed “political agency” because they’ll “reveal uncomfortable politics of individual ownership” …
Read More »Tara Reade & Rose McGowan: Surviving rape culture and the Democratic cult
In 1993, I was a young staffer for then Senator Joe Biden. In 2019, I spoke about Joe Biden sexually harassing and assaulting me when I worked for him. I tried to come forward then but was silenced. There is an inherent danger coming forward about any powerful man but …
Read More »Apex of culture war: Marxism is trending on Twitter, because of…a left vs right fashion row?
The December issue of the fashion magazine features One Direction’s Harry Styles, the first male to ever get a solo cover in Vogue. Styles “makes his own rules” the cover stated, backing the blurb with a photo of the star wearing a dress. More photos of gender-bending clothing choices came …
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