Wokism
If you pay attention to non-leftwing media and/or haven’t blocked or muted anybody who isn’t progressive on social media, you’re likely to have heard that Anheuser-Busch has taken a huge financial hit after a young marketing executive aligned the company fully with radical gender ideologues by partnering with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, a man whose…
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the factors behind Rhode Island’s inability to raise sufficient funds for major projects.
And we definitely should not understand the alternative to be aggression and disregard of others’ humanity. Still, we have to recognize that it will not stop with the cause of the day. Just as it did not stop with same-sex marriage, it will not stop with the trans demands. Similarly, it did not stop when…
Woke is a parasitic derivative of Marxism providing cover for dishonesty with the claim that reality is subjective and aggression with the weaponization victim status and the psychological instability of its adherents. Its purpose is to destabilize our civilization under the theory that a perpetual revolution will somehow boil away the imperfections of society, leaving…
You can watch it happening in particular with advocacy organizations. Where once they had very specifically defined missions — like RI Kids Count keeping track of information about children in the state of Rhode Island — that mission becomes merely a mild flavor differentiation from every other progressive organization. Witness: The divisive racism is bad…
One of the ways in which our society has gotten to its current predicament is a combined corruption of and overreliance on science. Contrary to those who treat it as a source of existential truth, science is merely a process for answering questions. My preferred formulation is that it’s a way of coming to agreement…
A broad review of history suggests that the time to stop a dangerous social or political trend is when the changes being implemented are relatively minor and the concerns are arguably still hypothetical. At that stage, the general value of cooperation can overcome the preferences of this or that faction. As the factions disregard the…
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the madness permeating our state.
Like him or hate him, this thread of tweets from Jordan Peterson should be a wakeup call as to the direction of Western Civilization: BREAKING: the Ontario College of Psychologists @CPOntario has demanded that I submit myself to mandatory social-media communication retraining with their experts for, among other crimes, retweeting @PierrePoilievre and criticizing @JustinTrudeau and…
Grappling with matters of identity and the complicated experience of being human isn’t, of itself, the problem. The follow-on transgressions, such as a willful action to deceive and undermine others’ beliefs based on false pretenses, are: “Recently, the Committee on Canonical Affairs and Church Governance was made aware of instances where it had been discovered…