The Week In Woke

Over a quarter of Gen Z people say they're "queer." I say the number is closer to 100%, myself.

Over 25% of Americans born between 1997 and 2012 identify as LGBTQ, significantly higher than previous generations, according to a Tuesday poll from the Public Religion Research Institute.

The poll found that nearly 50% of Gen Z are more likely to identify as liberal and tend to be less religious than their millennial, Gen X or baby boomer counterparts. Meanwhile, 28% of Gen Z consider themselves LGBTQ, compared to only 16% of millennials, 7% of Gen X and a mere 4% of baby boomers.

Gen Z was also more likely to identify as "liberal" at 43%, with one out of six of the generation now eligible to vote, according to the poll. The poll respondents said that 31% of them identified as Democrats, 30% as Independents and only 21% claimed to be Republicans.

It's not viral contagion at all, guys. It's that that the natural level of homosexuality in humans is at least 50%. We're not at that level yet only because of Society.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School has decreed that only white people can be racist and if a black person has a racist hatred of white people, that's not racism, that's just white people deserving what they're gonna get.

A mandatory diversity training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison teaches students "people of color" cannot be racist against white people.

The first-year law student training, developed by consultant Debra Leigh, also says it is racist for someone to say they are colorblind -- and to ask for help with not being racist.

The list, required reading prior to the "Re-Orientation" includes 28 ways in which certain attitudes and behaviors "indicate a detour or wrong turn into white guilt, denial or defensiveness."

Winning the tournament puts him in a position to win a entry on to the LPGT tour.

After Davidson's Women's Classic "win" and the heat that came along with it, NXXT responded brilliantly, allowing the players to vote on the Davidson situation -- basically killing the transgender golfer's progression without having to get their hands dirty. Brilliant!

"In light of recent events, we have initiated a poll among our tour players to gather their opinions on our gender policy. We believe it is vital to consider the perspectives of those directly affected by these policies," read the Monday statement from NXXT.

And it gets even better.

"Furthermore, in maintaining the integrity of our standards, we have requested Hailey Davidson to undergo additional testosterone testing to ensure compliance with the appropriate guidelines."

A vote sounds like a good idea. If the women vote against it, the cowardly organizers can say "It was out of our hands." If the women vote for it -- well, that's their doom, and they're welcome to it. I'll be entering the a women's tournament next year. I hit from the Ladies Tee anyway.

The Wall Street Journal writes that we may be seeing the popping of the DEI bubble.

Have we reached peak DEI? The unraveling of "diversity, equity and inclusion" initiatives had already begun--five states banning DEI programs; Google, Facebook and others cutting DEI staff; Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard--well before Harvard President Claudine Gay was demoted.

Author Christopher Rufo, echoing 1960s student activists, called the rise of DEI a "long march through the institutions"--a 50-plus-year ideology infiltration into universities, K-12 schools, government, media and corporations with the goal of telling us all how to live. That's why I enjoy that the word "rot" is back in style to describe what is happening inside the walls of academia.

Like everything based on the writings of Karl Marx--seeing oppressors and colonial struggles everywhere--DEI was doomed to fail. The uniformity of thought known as intersectionality, fostered by DEI, meant all oppressed people must support all others who are oppressed. But that idea burst on Oct. 7 when Hamas raped, murdered and kidnapped Israelis. Many liberals, especially Jewish ones, couldn't support genocidal "colonized" terrorists. Pop! The long march is in retreat.

But is it?

The Daily Caller warns that corporations aren't actually walking away from DEI --they're just hiding it, to avoid the backlash.

Many corporations are reforming their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives to be less overt in response to recent backlash, The New York Times reported on Monday.

Hundreds of firms recently have been reassessing their DEI programs after the Supreme Court ruled against race-based college admissions in June, prominent business executive resistance and technology layoffs impacting associated employees, according to the NYT. Many businesses are updating their programs to be less aggressive in order to avoid pushback and criticism.

For instance, some human resource workers have pushed their DEI initiatives "under the radar," Harvard DEI expert Frank Dobbin told the NYT. Business leaders have also been talking about how to implement DEI "in a less in-your-face way" at recent conferences he has gone to.

Law firm Jenner & Block partner Ishan Bhabha and his colleagues concluded that, following the Supreme Court decision, corporations would be likely to face legal backlash, according to the NYT. Bhabha started collaborating with numerous Fortune 500 firms to examine their diversity initiatives and make sure they do not violate any laws.

"'Look, if I was sued over this and I have to become the face of defending D.E.I. against a conservative backlash, I'd be happy to,'" some of Bhabha's clients say, but "the vast majority of my clients [are] not in that bucket. They think, 'We'd like to keep our heads under the parapet.'"

Certain corporations have been looking into swapping out notorious programs such as required anti-bias training for less controversial measures like diversity task forces, according to the NYT.

Welcome to DEI Airlines -- you're going to die. Free WiFi, though.*

* The WiFi on DEI Airlines is free. It also does not work. Enjoy. You're about to die.

The Bee:

My friend neither_steve_in_hb_nor_not_steve_in_hb likes to imagine, when he's feeling nervous about turbulence, that the pilot is a big Englishman (or Australian) named Nigel. The "Nigel" name helps get him through the storms.

NPR's new CEO is such a leftwing partisan she had to scrub her more obnoxiously leftwing tweets... to not embarrass NPR with her moonbattery.

National Public Radio's new CEO Katherine Maher appeared to have scrubbed her social media of hyper-partisan, left-leaning posts before rising to the helm of the government-backed news network.

"Donald Trump is a racist," the former chief executive of the Wikimedia Foundation -- the nonprofit behind the online encyclopedia -- posted on Twitter in 2018, according to a snapshot of the tweet on the site Archive.Today.

It's unclear when or why Maher deleted the post from her account, or if it was related to her new gig at NPR, which touts its "fact-based reporting; opinion and commentary are secondary."

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Maher, who is slated to take the reins at NPR on March 25, has made several hyper-partisan posts in the past.

She once justified the shoplifting epidemic in Los Angeles on the sins of slavery.

"I mean, sure, looting is counterproductive. But it's hard to be mad about protests not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression founded on treating people's ancestors as private property," Maher wrote in 2020 on Twitter, which has since been rebranded as X.

Maher, 40, also told her 26,500-plus X followers that same year that "white silence is complicity."

"If you are white, today is the day to start a conversation in your community," she urged.

However, she had admitted shortly prior to using "that hysteric white woman voice."

"I was taught to do it. I've done it. It's a disturbing recognition. While I don't recall ever using it to deliberately expose another person to immediate physical harm on my own cognizance, it's not impossible. That is whiteness," Maher posted.

Maher said "whiteness" is something she's fallen victim to in a thread on X...

She is the Ultimate AWFL Karen:

And the GOP is still funding this anti-American, racist, pro-terrorist propaganda mill.

James Fishback examines what the NAMBLA Left claims are "banned books."

Over the last couple years, the media have peddled a narrative of "book bans" sweeping the nation. Book bans (ostensibly by the right) are "eating away at democracy," according to The Guardian, and are "taking an emotional toll," warned CNN. The outrage has reached such a fever pitch that free-speech advocacy group PEN America co-filed a lawsuit (along with parents, authors, and publisher Penguin Random House) against Florida's Escambia County School District and School Board, accusing them of removing books "discussing race, racism, and LGBTQ identities." Oral arguments in the court case began on January 10.

But the truth is a lot more complicated.

Last spring, I wrote about the hijacking of high school debate for The Free Press. I detailed how judges disqualify students for advancing conservative arguments that the judges personally disagree with--effectively taking the debate out of high school debate.

Since that article, I've spent time meeting with students, parents, teachers, and school board members. Several students complained that their school libraries had become one-sided, offering only books in line with progressive orthodoxy.

So I decided to investigate just how one-sided things actually are. I surveyed the library catalogs of 35 of the largest public school districts in eight red states and six blue states, representing over 4,600 individual schools. All of these records are publicly available online. (Here are just three online catalogs I searched: Broward County, FL, Austin, TX, and Oklahoma City, OK.) What I discovered isn't so much a problem of banned books. It's that kids are often exposed to only one side of the story.

For example, How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, which argues that the "only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination," is stocked in 42 percent of the U.S. school districts I surveyed.

Meanwhile, only a single school district--Northside Independent School District (ISD) in San Antonio, Texas--offers students Woke Racism by John McWhorter, a book that challenges the borderline religious "anti-racist" ideas advanced by Kendi.

Felix Ever After, a book by Kacen Callender that claims that girls who hate "being forced into dresses and being given dolls" are transgender, is available in 77 percent of the districts I surveyed. But not a single school out of the nearly 5,000 I searched offers books critical of trans theory. Students won't find books like Trans by Helen Joyce or Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier, both recent bestsellers that present skeptical takes on the rapid rise of transgender identification among adolescents.

Much more at the link.

In Illinois, the morbidly obese Slobbering Ham of a governor is bragging about how much pot they're selling.

Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker

For the third year in a row, Illinois had record-setting growth for adult-use cannabis sales.

We’re building the most prosperous and accessible cannabis industry in the nation – taking steps to repair the damage of the past and creating real opportunity for all Illinoisans.

Wow! Another civilizational milestone! Keep your feet on the ground, everyone, but keep reachin' for the stars!

Jacob McHangma writes of the left ginning up its latest hysteria.

AI-powered lies and manipulation constitute the gravest threat to humanity. At least this is the dystopian scenario espoused by the collective wisdom of 1,500 experts surveyed in the World Economic Forum's 2024 Global Risks Report last week.

Unfortunately, such outbreaks of "elite panic" are a recurring phenomenon. Whenever the public sphere is expanded through new communications technology, the traditional gatekeepers fret about the dangers of allowing the general public -- too fickle and unlearned -- unmediated access to information.

As the WEF's annual meeting in Davos begins this week, the fear of democratic institutions drowned by lies in a "tech-enabled Armageddon" supercharged by AI marks the third wave of elite panic in the digital age. The first wave was ushered in by the widespread belief that Russian disinformation campaigns on social media contributed decisively to Donald Trump's 2016 election victory.

Weird -- no mention of the RussiaGate hoax foisted on the public by this same crew as one of the "waves of misinformation." No mention of the Hunter Biden laptop disinformation campaign.

The second wave was the so-called "infodemic" unleashed by Covid-19.

The "infodemic." You know, the information that was 90% true and which the elites and puffed-up "guardians of the truth" suppressed, oppressed, and stressed about.

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Quite often, it is the panic that causes more problems than the issue itself. Over the years, top-down measures used to "combat misinformation" have resulted in higher degrees of censorship, which can also be weaponised. The first two waves of elite panic demonstrate this danger vividly: between 2016 and 2022, 91 laws were passed to target false or misleading information around the globe, leading to the arrest of journalists and others who questioned official government policy.

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Elite panic doesn't just have serious consequences for the ecosystem of free expression necessary for the pursuit of truth. The tendency to focus on the dangers of technology and its users ignores that much misinformation -- not to mention outright lies -- comes from the very politicians and governments who want coercive powers to define what is true or false. Optimising a rapidly evolving information environment for trust and reliability is a crucial task in the years ahead. Achieving this goal will be difficult; guided by elite panic, it might just be impossible.

And right on cue, Al Gore was at Davos -- he basically lives at Davos -- shrieking about AI disinformation sparking off "artificial insanity."

Oh there's a pandemic of viral insanity all right, Alphonse. And you've got a bad dose of it.

And who's behind it all?

Of course. Of course.

Whoops, I did an antisemitism by correctly stating that George Soros and his filthy spawn are bankrolling a Big Money operation to impose censorship on the entire globe.

Maybe the ADL will report me to law enforcement claiming I'm a dangerous extremist:

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: The Anti-Defamation League flags "online amplifiers of LGBTQ+ hate" as extremists to be examined by law enforcement, an email obtained by The Oversight Project shows.

The revelation indicates that the Anti-Defamation League, "the leading anti-hate organization in the world," is specifically pushing law enforcement to scrutinize viral dissenters against transgender ideology, such as The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh and The Manhattan Institute's Chris Rufo. The email was obtained by The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project. (The Daily Signal is Heritage's news outlet.)

The ADL has historically focused on anti-semitism, but in recent years has directed heavy attention to hate and extremism. The ADL has described content pushing back against transgender ideology as both "dangerous" and "false," claiming that this content inspires "real-world extremist activities, threats, and even violence."

"The ADL, and similar organizations, are a key driver of government weaponization," Mike Howell, the director of the Oversight Project, a division of the Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal. "They provide the phony predication and intellectual cover in order to point the people with guns at their enemies. Our investigative work continues to expose examples of these groups driving government action."

A pussy woke Canadian reporter attempted to dog UFC fighter Sean Strickland with his gay-ass questions about how great it is to be gay and trans, and the fighter did not let this bitchmade bitch roll over him.

Later, the same (?) bitchy reporter whined to UFC president Dana White that he should censor and speech-patrol his fighters.

Dana White also disagreed.

LGBT and Trans propganda now begins... with the ultrasound.

Alphabet ideologists want to begin educating parents to dismiss sexual differentiation at the first ultrasound so they don't start thinking that their son or daughter is a boy or a girl. Advertisement

That is the message from Michelle Forcier, who famously asked Matt Walsh whether a chicken could cry.

No, I am not kidding. Her explanation for why human beings are not sexually differentiated is that we can cry and chickens cannot.

Lunatics often invent their own languages, freighting words with strange meanings conjured in their deranged minds. Usually only their psychiatrists and family members are forced to learn the secret code-speak of schizophrenics.

But now, all of us are required to learn the twisted speech of maniacs:

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:10 PM

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