Speaking to gathered experts and journalists in Sochi on Thursday, the president expressed his opinion that the fight against racism and discrimination has turned on its head. “The fight against racism is a necessary and noble cause, but in the modern ‘cancel culture’ it turns into reverse discrimination, reverse racism” …
Read More »‘Feeling over fact’? Report on ‘institutional racism’ facing black scientists in UK draws ‘race-baiting’ accusations
The featured scientists, black professors, and PhD holders told the BBC that race plays a factor at every stage of their academic career – from rejected job and grant money applications through to the lack of “support” from institutions and white colleagues. The problem of “definitely institutionally racist” academic research …
Read More »Black takeover day? UK broadcaster Channel 4 is campaigning against racism… by being racist
On Friday September 10, Channel 4 will be holding a ‘black takeover’ day. From 6am, all of the channel’s presenters will be black: ‘The Big Breakfast’ will be brought back with black hosts, all the newsreaders will be black, teen soap ‘Hollyoaks’ will have an all-black cast, all of the …
Read More »French president boycotts UN conference on racism over ‘history of anti-Semitic remarks’
“Concerned by a history of anti-Semitic remarks made at the U.N. conference on racism, known as the Durban conference, the President of the Republic has decided that France will not participate in the follow-up conference to be held this year,” the statement from his office read. France is the latest …
Read More »‘In math, let’s stick with math’: Ontario premier rejects anti-racism agenda in math class after province cuts it from curriculum
“In math, let’s stick with math,” Ford told reporters on Thursday, a day after Canadian media outlets reported that language about racism and colonialism no longer appeared in an explanation of the curriculum on the provincial government’s website. “Other social issues, let’s talk about it, there’s no doubt, but let’s …
Read More »Racism won Euro 2020: Italian football team has too many damn Italians, The Economist argues, in bizarre racial rambling
Italy beat England 3-2 in a nail-biting penalty shootout on Sunday night, winning the UEFA European Championships for the first time since 1968. However, while Italians erupted in celebration, some dismayed England fans turned their anger on their team’s three black players who missed their penalty kicks. Much has been written …
Read More »Mel Gibson’s survived charges of sexism, racism and anti-Semitism… but saluting Trump could finally get him canceled
Mel Gibson, the movie star and Academy Award-winning director, has long been a lightning rod for his problematic behavior and beliefs. But, over the weekend, he finally crossed the line and committed the most egregious of mortal sins in the New Hollywood: he saluted Donald Trump. For those of you …
Read More »Beatings, racism and political point-scoring: Euro 2020 laid bare much of England’s festering underbelly
Though a continent-wide affair, Euro 2020 was in essence England’s first home tournament in 25 years. Save for the quarter-final, a 4-0 rout of Ukraine in Rome, England played every one of their other six games at Wembley stadium. Conceding just two goals, neither of which were in open play, …
Read More »US public schools are poised to teach students the new 3Rs – ‘racism, racism, racism’ – as Critical Race Theory invades classrooms
Riding on a wave of the “fiery but mostly peaceful protests” that accompanied the death of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer, students in the US public school system are about to receive a noxious dose of what critics call “state-sanctioned racism” mixed into their regular curriculum. …
Read More »‘Racism, imperial hegemony & neo-Nazism’: Russian Foreign Ministry slams suggestion that EU shouldn’t recognize Sputnik V vaccine
Writing on Telegram, Maria Zakharova criticized France’s foreign minister, Clément Beaune, who told TV channel France 2 on Thursday that those who were inoculated with Russian or Chinese vaccines should be shut out of the EU. “Unacceptable statements,” she said. “It is a hybrid of racism, imperial hegemony, and neo-Nazism: …
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