The Week In Woke

Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon

80% of DSA members have a college degree.
60% work professional jobs.
Just 4% are blue-collar.
85% are white.

This isn't a working-class movement but an elite one, for whom "Free Palestine" and "Abolish ICE" operate as a smokescreen for class privilege--just like climate and trans activism and identity politics once did.

"DECOLONIZE THE STACKS!," say woke librarians, determined to "queer the libraries" and insisting that neutrality in the culture wars is racist.

Critical race theory scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw was the keynote speaker for the American Library Association's annual Conference and Exhibition, she writes. Sessions reflected "a mishmash of critical theory argle-bargle," including "Charting Queer Visibility," "Read Trans Books," "Queer Kidlit Joy," "Decolonizing the Stacks," and "Cultivating Radical Empathy."

The ALA has enormous influence over K-12 libraries through its school library division, which sets standards, guidance, and so-called "best practices," Sanzi writes. It "shapes what books are purchased, displayed, and promoted," and fights "efforts to place age-appropriate limits on sexually explicit or heavily ideological materials."

The ALA explicitly rejected viewpoint neutrality in 2021, she writes. A resolution claims libraries have contributed to white supremacy and fascism through a "misplaced emphasis on neutrality."

Libraries are no longer positioned as open forums for ideas where texts from different viewpoints are celebrated. Instead, they are tightly curated spaces, dedicated to advancing a particular set of revolutionary values.

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Librarians are expected to celebrate "queer visibility" and "trans books," promoting "a specific (and not especially widely held) perspective on gender and sexuality."

Localities should mass-fire these woke librarians. They should pass ordinances forbidding woke ideology in librarian jobs. I don't even want to hear that's not viewpoint-neutral -- they explicitly reject viewpoint neutrality themselves.

Clay Travis @ClayTravis

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that states can keep boys from competing in girls sports. That's a no brainer decision. But 23 states still allow boys to compete in girls sports. This decision doesn't change that. And all three liberals said boys should be able to compete as girls.

All three votes to allow men to play women's sports were from women, by the way. The biggest obstacle to sanity in women's sports doesn't come from men, it comes from left wing women.

Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze

We've been saying this for years, ever since this whole idea started to become mainstream, that liberal women and feminists were going to have to speak out and stop the erasure of their accomplishments, but they are too scared of the political mafia to do so. Hostages in their own tribe. Lot of that going on over on that side these days.

Flashback, April 2025: A "trans woman" says he feels "unsafe" and is about to have a "panic attack" when told that trans women are not actually women. Then he flounces off the show.

Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley

Before reporting on the transgender case, NBC actually gave an effective trigger warning that it would be quoting the court in the use of terms like "biological male" and "biological female." https://tinyurl.com/fezze98u
This is how the press becomes a parody of itself.

J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling

A man (Samantha Tempest, here abbreviated to ST) is arguing in court that he belongs in a group for menopausal women. It is pointed out to him that menopause is the cessation of ovulation and that, being a man who never started, let alone ceased, ovulating he does not belong in such a group. He disagrees. He says he's had 'menopausal symptoms' like hot flushes and brain fog. This is like me claiming to have been in the army because I once shot an air rifle and quite like khaki.

I'm very concerned about Trans Violence:

I Meme Therefore I Am @ImMeme0

SHOCKING: Wisconsin trans Democratic staffer Teha Delaruelle is openly calling on leftists to "Kill Your Local Republican."

"We're going to make this the moderate position for the state of Wisconsin, but I need your help."

Carnival Cruises has banned a dozen of its classiest passengers.

More than a dozen travelers were banned from sailing with Carnival Cruise Line after fighting at the port in Miami.

The altercation took place in the Customs and Border Protection debarkation area, according to the company. The June 22 fight occurred between two families and police responded, the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office (MDSO) said.

"The incident was deemed a mutual combatant incident," MDSO told USA TODAY in an email. Police documented the fight, but the parties declined to press charges.

"We are appreciative of law enforcement's swift response and handling of the matter," Carnival said in an emailed statement. "We do not tolerate such behavior, and 16 people have been placed on our Do Not Sail List."

A video posted on Instagram shows a group of people shoving and throwing punches at one another in the terminal, with at least two people knocked to the ground and luggage strewn around the space. Police and the cruise line did not identify the people involved or the ship they were sailing on.

The prosecutor is horrified that the judge accepted this sentence on the recommendation of Maryland's Department of Juvenile Services. The double baby-rapist was let out on simple probation. "Don't rape any more babies, you scamp!"

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:40 PM

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