The Week That Was Woke

JD Vance @JDVance

Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.

Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won't be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response--the only response--is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.

It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody--nobody--should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.

Carl Benjamin said that we should view the UK police as the "colonial police" -- the colonial police protect the interests of the colonizers, and enforce the colonizer's will against the indigenous, conquered people.

Brendan O'Neill:

[T]his horror speaks to a deeper moral rot: It reveals the corrosive effect the ideology of wokeness has had on the institutions of our society.

The reason the cops believed the knife-wielding monster and dismissed his dying victim is simple: The killer was a brown-skinned man, and his victim was a white-skinned man.

Critical race theory is rife in Britain's police forces.

Under official guidance, cops must believe every accusation of a "hate crime."

They're trained to always be on the lookout for racism.

Indeed Hampshire Police, which covers Southampton, boasts of its devotion to the woke state's holy mission of hunting down "hate."

Its "race action plan" fizzes with the kind of critical-race drivel you hear on every Ivy League campus.

It describes the Minnesota death of George Floyd in 2020 as a "pivotal moment" for Britain's police, too.

That tragedy compelled the force, it says, to be "anti-racist" in all police actions.

The irony is thick: This force claims to have "learned the lessons" of the death of a black man who cried "I can't breathe" -- yet just six years later its officers are horribly mistreating a white boy who pleaded the same.

It's precisely their embrace of the post-Floyd BLM mania that led these cops to grossly demean young Henry.

Having imbibed the infantile script that casts whites as oppressors and non-whites as oppressed, they were primed to believe Digwa and to doubt Henry.

To them, he was just a white man, and what could be worse than that?

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer and virtually our entire political establishment took the knee for the career criminal Floyd.

They've done no such thing for the kind, thoughtful Henry Nowak.

And there it is: the "virtuous," obscene racial prejudice of the woke elites.

David Lammy, a top Labour politician commu-splains why he refuses to take a knee now: He says he took a knee for George Floyd because that was "during Covid" and it's different now because it's not during Covid.

What?

They're all pretending there is no two-tier policing -- despite having previously explicitly demanded two-tier policing:

The Telegraph @Telegraph

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Police may not always need to treat people of different racial origins equally, David Lammy has said.

The Justice Secretary suggested there could be cultural circumstances in which police officers might treat someone from an ethnic minority differently

James Talarico's "church" is totally "Christian" you guys.

For many self-described religious Democrats, squaring their support for abortion and radical gender ideology with their faith is a challenge. But at Texas Democrat James Talarico's church, supporting abortions is part of the congregation's "goals for the world."

At the Texas church where the Democrat senate hopeful preaches sermons on the need for abortion in the "trans community," church funds are sent not only to abortion giant Planned Parenthood, but also to radical organizations that pay to help facilitate out-of-state travel for women to kill their unborn babies, and an organization that runs a summer camp for transgender-identifying kids as young as 11.

St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, the woke Austin church attended by Talarico, lists Planned Parenthood, which ends the lives of hundreds of thousands of unborn babies every year, as one of the organizations that shares its "vision and goals for the world."

The church, which The Daily Wire reported last week stocks sexually explicit books aimed at young people in its library, sets aside money every year for Planned Parenthood, according to its website. It also describes itself as a "Reproductive Freedom Congregation," meaning it believes that "abortion is a blessing."

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The church's position on abortion is in line with Talarico's own support for codifying Roe v. Wade into federal law to create a so-called right to an abortion. Talarico grounds his support for abortion in the biblical account of an angel visiting the Virgin Mary and telling her that she would miraculously conceive and give birth to Jesus Christ.

"I say all this in the context of abortion, because before God comes over Mary, and we have the incarnation, God asks for Mary's consent," he said during an appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast. "You cannot force someone to create... so that's how I come down on that side of the issue."

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The radical pro-abortion groups are just a sliver of the liberal causes supported by the church. Other organizations St. Andrew's lists on its donation page included Out Youth Austin, the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Evergreen Action, and the Carbon180.

Out Youth Austin describes itself as a group that provides "a safe space for LGBTQ+ youth to come together, receive support, and make friends who understand who they are." One of the programs it offers is a summer camp for kids between the ages of 11-17 who identify as gay or transgender.

NY Democrats just passed a bill to call mothers "gestating parents" and fathers "non-gestating parents."

The bill was sponsored by Democrats Amy Paulin in the State Assembly and Senator Luis Sepulveda in the State Senate. The bill now proceeds to New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul's desk for approval.

SO CLOSE TO PRIDE MONTH?!!! "Pride" events struggling as corporations close their wallets to gay evangelization.

Pride celebrations across the country continue to lose out on large sponsorships as corporations, a key source of funding, shrink their affiliation with diversity causes and LGBTQ+ events.

Corporate sponsorships of celebrations in several cities, including New York City, Salt Lake City, Louisville, St. Louis, Orlando, and Pittsburgh are down from previous years, organizers said.

Jordan Braxton, co-president of the United States Association of Prides, which supports Pride celebrations nationwide, said that while some smaller Prides have seen a growth in sponsorships, a majority have seen a reduction.

She said the Trump administration's dismantling of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, has scared corporations away from sponsoring Pride celebrations. "I think that's why some of the corporations have pulled back, because they don't want that government scrutiny," she said.

Randi Weingarten thinks she found the Real Villain responsible for plummeting student performance, and -- here's the shock -- the Real Villain is not Randi Weingarten.

Weingarten Blames Screens, Not Herself, For Falling Test Scores

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten is sounding the alarm about the decade-long decline in student test scores, pointing to screens and devices as a culprit. She's calling it a "call to action."

She left out the part about how she helped cause the problem in the first place.

For two years during the COVID pandemic, Weingarten and the AFT fought aggressively to keep schools closed. In July 2020, as the Trump administration urged schools to reopen, Weingarten called the push "reckless," "callous," and "cruel," and threatened the possibility of safety strikes.

Internal emails later released by a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee showed the AFT had access to draft guidance from the federal Centers for Disease Control before it was made public, as well as proposed specific language that could trigger renewed closures.

Research published afterward confirmed what was already evident: Districts with stronger teachers unions were significantly less likely to reopen for in-person instruction, even after controlling for local COVID conditions.

So kids stayed home. They got on computer screens and stayed there for two years, cut off from teachers, friends, and anything resembling a normal childhood.

The consequences were not abstract. The National Assessment of Educational Progress recorded the largest declines in math and reading scores in its history. Reading results dropped to levels not seen since the early 1990s.

Researchers documented surging rates of anxiety, depression, and social developmental delays among children who spent critical years in isolation. The damage, experts say, will take a generation to undo.

In her book published last fall, Weingarten wrote that she "...led the AFT in developing a concrete plan to reopen schools as quickly and safely as possible." That's a remarkable claim given the documented record of what her union actually did.

Weingarten told Congress in 2023 there were "... things we really didn't get right," including the impact of prolonged closures. That acknowledgment was notable, but what followed it wasn't accountability. It was a pivot.

The same union that lobbied to keep students off school grounds is now positioning itself as a champion of children's well-being, pointing an accusing finger at Silicon Valley while the learning-loss data keeps compounding.

France: Seven out of ten believe crime is out of control.

Over seven in ten people in France believe that crime is 'out of control', a year after fears emerged that the country was sliding towards a 'Mexicanized narco-state'.

According to a poll this week from CSA for Le Journal du Dimanche, 72 per cent of the French population believes that crime has dramatically escalated beyond previous levels.

This belief is strongest among supporters of the centre-right Républicains, at 92 per cent, followed by 83 per cent of National Rally, and 62 per cent of supporters of President Emmanuel Macron's neo-liberal bloc.

The conviction was also held by a majority of left-wing voters, at 55 per cent overall.

This included 58 per cent of supporters of the far-left La France Insoumise party, founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and 51 per cent of Socialist voters.

Only Green Party supporters were below a majority, at just 45 per cent, in not believing that France is in danger of becoming like Mexico, where the state has lost authority to rogue criminal networks.

Women were more likely than men to view the situation as out of control, at 76 per cent compared to 69 per cent.

What can explain the stupid public believing that crime is out of control?

Only one thing: Racism.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:30 PM

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