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Category Archives: Culture Wars
The Ballad of Atticus Finch
Atticus Finch, particularly as played by Gregory Peck, was and is a paragon of virtue, a liberal’s wet dream of a southern gentleman who is… just like them. The publication of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman has, um, problematized … Continue reading
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Progress in Silicon Valley
The gender equality bandwagon careens around another corner. NPR reports that “Facebook’s New Logo Is A Visual Nod To Gender Equality“. “A woman designer at Facebook recently updated the company’s iconic “friends” logo,” reads the byline, “making the woman’s silhouette … Continue reading
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Dreher on SCOTUS Decision
In Time magazine, Rod Dreher writes: “Orthodox Christians Must Now Learn To Live as Exiles in Our Own Country”: Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito explicitly warned religious traditionalists that this decision leaves them vulnerable. Alito warns that Obergefell … Continue reading
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“It’s Time to Legalize Polygamy”
It’s increasingly hard to tell liberal arguments from parody. Enter Fredrik DeBoer with the lead Politico banner: “It’s Time to Legalize Polygamy”: In Chief Justice John Roberts’ dissenting opinion, he remarks, “It is striking how much of the majority’s reasoning would … Continue reading
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Ain’t Jemima
“Former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal cried while reading about Caitlyn Jenner, says it ‘resonated’ with her” is a headline that perfectly represents the increasingly hyperactive and histrionic identity-politics machine that is Culture right now. The madness continues, more emboldened and … Continue reading
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Smith & Jones
Smith’s new admission policy: Men who “identify” as women can apply but not women who “identify” as men. Overcoming this discrimination will likely be a ‘civil rights’ cause in the next 3 years or so.
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NYT: Transgender Today
They’re breathlessly excited over at Slate about the NYT’s recent amplification of their already-plentiful, progressive, social justice-oriented, sexuality agenda: [T]he New York Times launched on Monday a ground-breaking editorial package called “Transgender Today.” In the opening piece, the Times expressed … Continue reading
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Trans Activism Threatening Women’s Colleges Mission
The logical entailments of World War T surrealism are great fun to witness. It is perfectly analogous to how liberal, heterosexual white male guilt fueled the progressive eradication (through charges of ‘racism’) of all things white, male, and heterosexual. In … Continue reading
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Non-White Trans Lives Matter
It seems the POC (people of color) transgenders are upset at the glowing media coverage of white transgender suicides (“Trans Women of Color Deserve to Be Mourned as Much as Leelah Alcorn”). When you compound the absurdities that is World … Continue reading
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The 2nd Court Jester Exits
Of Jonathan Leibowitz’s decision to leave The Daily Show, Hank Stuever has a piece in WaPo titled “It was time for Jon Stewart to wrap up the joke anyway”. The piece actually begins thusly: Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart got in … Continue reading
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