In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
The 1978 election was disappointing for Republicans, just as the 2022 election is today. With many independents and moderate Republicans refusing to support many Republican candidates, let us look back on when William F. Buckley, Jr. and Charles McCurdy Mathias discussed the role of liberals in the Republican Party.
Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.
The focus this time: Canada wants you to die.
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
Nothing says “buy or product/service” like waxing poetic about killing people via the new euphemism for euthanasia “Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID)”.
“Simons released an ad earlier this month glamorizing and watering down assisted suicide in an ad.
“The ad features Jennyfer Hatch, who used ‘medical assistance in dying (MAID) after dealing with complications and chronic pain associated with her diagnosis of Ehlers Danlos syndrome, a group of inherited disorders that affect the connective tissue supporting many body parts.’
“In the ad, Hatch shared ‘her thoughts on life, death and her quest to fill her final days “with beauty, with nature and with connection.”’”
The ad:
Canadian retailer Simons promotes assisted suicide in new ad campaign: pic.twitter.com/WUJbJ5kflr
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 27, 2022
News of the Week for Dec. 4th, 2022
In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
In this day and age when we debated what the future should be, let us look back on a serious debate on the future of the Panama Canal, which is a question that still weighs upon us, with William F. Buckley, Jr., debating the question with Pat Buchanan, Elmo R. Zumwalt, Ronald Reagan, Roger W. Fontaine, James Burnham, Josn S. McCain, Ellsworth Bunker, and George F. Will.
If it is impossible to change a person’s gender identity, why do trans advocates work so hard to do just that… and even fail when parents stand up to them. In a purportedly conservative school district, a girl was encouraged to be trans with the school actually helping her hide this from her parents.
In a conservative WI school district, a young girl began to experience rapid onset gender dysphoria, along w/significant anxiety & depression.
Despite her parents stated objection, The Kettle Moraine Middle School allowed her to covertly adopt a male name and pronouns at school. pic.twitter.com/sbGHgFs9WE— Scarlett Johnson (@scarlett4kids) November 29, 2022
Parents Defending Education sent a public records request to Kettle Moraine School District and obtained emails and documents of district staff attempting to help a sixth grade student transition against the will of the child’s parent.@DefendingEd
— Scarlett Johnson (@scarlett4kids) November 29, 2022
Former superintendent Patricia Deklotz acknowledged that the girl's parents disagreed w/the child transitioning.
But I guess pesky parents weren't going to stop the love bombs. The therapist & school became the woke cheerleading squad of a girl experiencing acute mental distress. pic.twitter.com/y3SVZrF8vU— Scarlett Johnson (@scarlett4kids) November 29, 2022
The naive parents, believing they actually had parental rights that a school district & mental health clinic would not violate, let the school contact their child's therapist.
Together, they decided to "affirm" the 6th grader w/ mental health issues and ignore concerned parents. pic.twitter.com/yMD9C3GX9Q— Scarlett Johnson (@scarlett4kids) November 29, 2022
There is so much actual systemic privilege and actual systemic power that comes with being “oppressed”, it is comes to no wonder that a child of elites who goes to a woke elite college is programmed by the cult of wokeness to identify as oppressed and so much so that said child’s Leftist parents needed to pay a deprogrammer to save their child from said cult of wokeness.
“Annabella Rockwell, 29, graduated from Mount Holyoke in Western Massachusetts in 2015 and said it drove her to drink and made her briefly become estranged from her mother, who threw a vase during one of their arguments.
“Prior to attending the elite school to study history, which charges $60,000 a year, Rockwell said she grew up in a ‘traditional’ household and had considered herself to be open-minded.
“However, the politics minor claimed the all-women’s school ‘totally indoctrinated’ her into thinking she was an oppressed victim of the patriarchy.
“’This professor tells me about the patriarchy. I barely knew what the word meant. I didn’t know what she was talking about,’ she told the New York Post. ‘I wasn’t someone that into feminism. I just knew that I felt I had always been free to do what I wanted. I never experienced sexism.
“’But I was told there’s the patriarchy and you don’t even understand it’s been working against you your whole life. You’ve been oppressed and you didn’t even know it. Now you have to fight it.
‘”And I just went down this deep rabbit hole.’
“’I saw everything through the lens of oppression and bias and victimhood. I came to the school as someone who saw everyone equally. I left looking for injustice wherever I could and automatically assuming that all white men were sexist.’”
Higher education in the United States had a laudable history. The purpose of higher education wasn’t just about specialized education as training for future employment, but to make sure that those who would be leaders in the future would have an understanding of the country they’d lead, either politically, in business, or simply as informed citizens. In the United States, this moulding of the citizenry was egalitarian and meritocratic, with many private—often religious—colleges and state colleges making higher education available to all who could meet the minimum standard to attend. However, this vaunted history was always alloyed increasingly with the utility of colleges as a way for those with money and power to keep their progeny in power and the hoi polloi out. Sadly, elite colleges as the gatekeepers of the modern day Nomenklatura—where future members are selected and undesirables kept out—are dropping even the façade of meritocracy or even education as a tool for financial betterment. And this gatekeeping starts with K—12 and preparation for college.
How admissions to top universities in the US really works as revealed by a simple comparison between one of NYC's top public high schools (Stuyvesant HS) and one of NYC's top private high schools (Horace Mann School). A short thread with some basic descriptive statistics 👇👇
— Aaron Chalfin (@AaronChalfin) November 26, 2022
Much has been said of the woke invasion of public schools, that has been over a century in the making, but less has been said of the take-over of private and charter elite schools that teach, nay indoctrinate, elite students to the proper way of thinking of the elites.
Chicago’s largest charter school network demand fealty to wokeness for all of its teachers.
Online job app for Chicago’s largest charter school network
Who controls the intake forms controls reality. https://t.co/dsFvKOkzp0 pic.twitter.com/4grNn6uq9p
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) November 27, 2022
Establish commitment to Kendian anti-racism and belief in gender identity as a loyalty test for educators — and an ever growing range of occupations.
That’s how you entrench yourselr institutionally https://t.co/dsFvKOkzp0 pic.twitter.com/t7keBD6RIG
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) November 27, 2022
News of the Week for Nov. 27th, 2022
This Thanksgiving, let us eschew politics and recognize the blessings that other do not have… and that of those few are just discovering, such as those who have escaped tyranny.
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