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The hours-long stream of tweets on Friday kick-started with the grime artist posting that Jewish people and the Ku Klux Klan were the two groups "who nobody has really wanted to challenge."
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The hours-long stream of tweets on Friday kick-started with the grime artist posting that Jewish people and the Ku Klux Klan were the two groups "who nobody has really wanted to challenge."
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University of North Carolina-Wilmington professor Mike Adams is seen in this undated photo from Twitter.
University of North Carolina-Wilmington professor Mike Adams is seen in this undated photo from Twitter.
Lieutenant J.J. Brewer of the New Hanover County Sheriff's Office said deputies found the body of University of North Carolina-Wilmington professor Mike Adams, 55, while performing a wellness check at his home, according to The News & Observer of Raleigh.
Deputies were conducting a death investigation, but investigators did not release additional details about the circumstances of Adams' death.
Floyd's death, which kicked off months of historic unrest across the US after the excruciating eight-minute video took social media by storm, was no mere lynching; it was a crucifixion, according to America Magazine, which styles itself as the "leading Catholic journal of opinion in the United States."
The outlet attempted to draw several parallels between Floyd's on-camera demise and the death of the best-known religious figure in the western world in an article published on Thursday. It opined that the ancient equivalent of police would have carried out Jesus' crucifixion, and noted that both men apparently suffered from thirst in the moments before death.
Comment: That's actually pretty close to the mark, in terms of symbolizing how most supporters of George Floyd/BLM feel about 'the cause'.
Here's Floyd recently 'elevated' in holographic form, and currently touring US cities as a kind of 'modern icon' for people to worship:
Then there's the whole act of submission via 'taking the knee'... What does it say in the Bible? "He is risen! He is Lord! Every knee shall bend..."
Prosecutors in Chiapas state said Tuesday that most of the children were between two and 15 years old, but three babies aged between 3 and 20 months were also found during a raid Monday at the house in the colonial city of San Cristobal de las Casas.
San Cristobal is a picturesque, heavily Indigenous city that is popular among tourists. It is not unusual to see children and adults hawking local crafts like carvings and embroidered cloth on its narrow cobblestone streets.
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Constructed as a Byzantine cathedral work on the Hagia Sophia was completed in 537.
Constructed as a Byzantine cathedral work on the Hagia Sophia was completed in 537.
The Friday prayers marked the monument's reopening for worship after Turkish President President Tayyip Erdogan declared it to be a mosque once more. Prayer mats were laid out in Sultanahmet Square as the call to prayer rang out.
Peter Tatchell
UPDATE 23.07.20: Peter Tatchell responded to the publication of this piece with comments regarding the factual accuracy of three sections of the piece. We have included an update at the bottom of the piece, before the interview with Mr Tatchell, discussing those concerns and why we have decided all of the highlighted sections are accurate and free of factual error. Click here
Peter Tatchell, born on the 25th of January 1952, is one of the most high-profile LGBT activists in the UK, and arguably one of the most high-profile LGBT activists in the world. He has worked primarily in Britain, although he himself is Australian by birth, but also in many other countries across the world.
He has been involved in LGBT advocacy in the UK since the earliest days, when being openly gay in the UK and advocating greater rights for homosexuals carried real physical risks to one's health. He has remained active in the LGBT movement as it has grown from a small number of tightly-knit groups into the broader, more popular, more professional movement that it is today.
Washington Post to pay Covington student Nick Sandmann after he wins $250 million defamation lawsuit
The Covington kids were called names and social media erupted with comments as to Sandmann's "punchable face." Criticism erupted over Sandmann's political expression, and the Washington Post assumed that the boys were racist and derogatory to the man Sandmann can be seen here talking to.
The terms of the settlement have yet to be disclosed. Sandmann was also involved in litigation against ABC News, CBS News, The New York Times, Gannett, & Rolling Stone. CNN recently settled a $275 million lawsuit with Sandmann.
In 2019, the CBC had to apologize for their broadcast of the fake news about the Covington kids. Sandmann filed lawsuits against multiple news outlets.
The story of the Covington kids highlights the mainstream media bias that has been directed against conservatives and Trump supporters since the heated 2016 election season.
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Comment: Imagine if the the same thing was said to a female celebrity. All of the Left would be up in arms, screaming "Sexist!!!". But since it's a man who doesn't follow Woke Orthodoxy, it's entirely fine to make sexist statements. This is the state of logic in the Woke Leftist paradigm.
Lifestyle mag Men's Health is clutching its pearls over podcaster Joe Rogan's conversation with a transgender-skeptical writer - but they were fawning over his workout and diet just months ago. What changed? Not his politics.
Rogan's number-one podcast is "putting lives in danger," freelance writer Philip Ellis shrieked in the pages of Men's Health earlier this week. Ellis pointed a quivering finger of outrage at the former MMA commentator over an episode guest-starring journalist Abigail Shrier, in which the pair bemoan what they see as a coordinated push within the medical industry to railroad young girls into irreversible gender transitions.
Declaring Rogan "has a history of platforming divisive voices," Ellis accused him of "actively fanning the flames of hate" and exposing millions of subscribers to "bigotry" and "hate speech," all for the sake of clicks. By inviting Shrier on his program, the writer claimed, Rogan "lend[s] a veneer of credibility to some truly dangerous prejudices."
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'White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism' has recently ensconced itself in the global zeitgeist. Despite being written in 2018, its popularity has soared this year in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and global Black Lives Matter protests-cum-riots. It is currently on both the New York Times and Amazon bestseller lists, no doubt making its author, Robin DiAngelo, a very wealthy woman.
I didn't want to read this book; Scandinavian detective novels are more my bag to be honest, but given the prominence of it, I thought it best to see what all the fuss was about. Thus I subjected myself to this exhausting, boring read, so you don't have to put yourself through it - or further line the pockets of Professor DiAngelo.
The book's argument is simple: if you are white, you are a racist. There is no way out of this fact as DiAngelo says that white people denying they are racist is simply further proof that they are racist. This, she argues, is the eponymous 'white fragility' which is a product of white people growing up in a society which is steeped in 'white supremacy'.
You may well have thought that white supremacy was confined to meetings of skinheads with swastika tattoos and rallies full of hooded lunatics setting fire to crosses. However, DiAngelo argues that Western society is built on white supremacy and as a result it pervades everything. Again, denying that our society is inherently racist only serves to compound and protect that white supremacy on which it is built.
Comment: This pretty much sums it up:
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Juan Tang
Juan Tang
According to court filings in U.S. District Court in San Francisco this week, Juan Tang, who worked at the University of California, Davis, falsely claimed on her visa application that she had not served in the Chinese military. She was charged with visa fraud on June 26.
The Justice Department official told reporters Tang was detained on Thursday night and did not have diplomatic immunity as she was not declared as a diplomatic official.
"She'll make her initial appearance in court later today," he said, alleging that Tang was part of a network of associates who concealed their military affiliation when applying for visas.
The Chinese embassy did respond to a request for comment on the case.
Comment: Does the 'cancelling' of professors accused on tweeting 'wrong think' now include a death sentence?
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