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Category Archives: Culture
Ferdinand (2017)
Is it just me or does the trailer for the animated film Ferdinand signal coded references to standard pro-diversity, pro-immigrant sentiments? https://youtu.be/jyJgGsZo2wA
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MacDougald on “Fascists and Revolutionaries”
Over at American Affairs, millennial Park MacDougald has a very well-written piece titled “Fascists and Revolutionaries”: Millennials, in short, encounter a world in which our culture’s mythologies are crumbling. The most dynamic political forces on both the left and the … Continue reading
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The New Yorker: Exploring the Freedom of Being Multiple
The subject of the profile is (based on the picture) a blacke female. It’s The New Yorker, so the writer of the piece is naturally ***ish. (“A Startling Début Novel Explores the Freedom of Being Multiple” by Katy Waldman). The … Continue reading
Posted in Culture Wars, Political Correctness, Postmodernism
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PSU: “Let’s Talk About Diversity”
Although we read about it daily, there is no substitute for seeing PC insanity in action, such as this recent event (“Let’s Talk About Diversity”) at Portland State University, which focuses on the James Damore incident as a gateway to … Continue reading
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They Need ‘They’
The writer of a piece in Aeon titled “We need the singular ‘they’ – and it won’t seem wrong for long” is: Jewish? Check. Feminist? Check. Lives in NYC? Check. Like the white and Jewish progressives who experienced tearful catharsis … Continue reading
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NYT: Child Worship, Pt. 31
As I have previously noted, it is downright creepy how the MSM (and the so-called ‘paper of record’) is engaging in a cultish form of child worship.
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Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film
It’s never enough. From a piece in Variety actually titled “Hollywood Sexism Rules: Number of Female Protagonists Falls in 2017”: Rey, Diana Prince, and Belle may have anchored some of the biggest box office hits of 2017, but they were … Continue reading
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Heathers (2017)
The SJW jihad to turn every new TV show into a simultaneous anti-white pogrom & ‘Coalition of the Fringes’ lovefest marches on… except this one may have backfired (?): Heathers (2017) turns the premise of Heathers (1988) on its (Diet Coke) head. The … Continue reading
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Child Worship
It is truly remarkable how the bastions of progressivism are treating these FL high school kids like supreme arbiters of public policy and constitutional interpretation (and only because they lean liberal rather than conservative.) It is quite normal for kids … Continue reading
The New Yorker: Profile of Peter Sloterdijk
In The New Yorker, Thomas Meaney has a profile of Germany’s gadfly public intellectual Peter Sloterdijk (“A Celebrity Philosopher Explains the Populist Insurgency”). Of Sloterdijk’s slightly pomo brand of pastiche philosophizing: This profligacy makes Sloterdijk hard to pin down. He … Continue reading
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