Above Photo: Greta Acosta Reyes (Cuba), Women Who Fight, 2020. ‘[T]here is great intellectual poverty on the part of the right wing’, Héctor Béjar says in our latest dossier, A Map of Latin America’s Present: An Interview with Héctor Béjar (February 2022). ‘There is a lack of right-wing intellectuals everywhere’. Béjar speaks with a great deal of authority on these matters because, for the past sixty years, he has been intimately involved in the intellectual and political debates which have taken place in his native Peru and across Latin America. ‘In the cultural world’, Béjar notes, ‘the left has everything, the right has nothing’. When it […]
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Fascist Culture, Critical Pedagogy, And Resistance In Dark Times By Henri Giroux, Counterpunch. October 24, 2020 Fascist Culture, Critical Pedagogy, And Resistance In Dark Times2020-10-242020-10-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/refinery-e1603566578933.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Nathaniel St. Clair. We must believe in the Principle of Hope. A Marxist does not have the right to be a pessimist – Ernst Bloch Across the globe, democratic institutions such as the independent media, schools, the legal system, certain financial institutions, and higher education are under siege. The promise, if not ideals, of democracy are receding as the barbarians who breathe new life into a fascist past are once again on the move subverting […]
Grammy-winning recording artist RAC explores the business of music and how crypto experiments could shift the balance of power. Today’s Breakdown is a conversation with Andre Anjos – aka RAC, a Grammy Award-winning recording artist and music entrepreneur. Starting the “Remix Artist Collective” as a business Evolving from remixing to performing artist The challenges and trade-offs of working with major labels How the music industry beat back technology innovation where other industries failed How NFTs, tokens and other crypto innovations are opening up truly free markets for music and culture Source link
https://www.bitchute.com/video/u02RAWCyfmqh/ Kevin MacDonald is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at California State University–Long Beach. After receiving a Masters degree in evolutionary biology, he received a Ph. in Biobehavioral Sciences, both at the University of Connecticut. He has published widely in personality psychology, child development, and evolutionary approaches to human behavior. A longer bio is on my website: http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/ I edit The Occidental Observer (op-eds and longer pieces): https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/and I edit The Occidental Quarterly (more academic-type articles): https://www.toqonline.com/ My books are available as follows (from my website: http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/books.htm) A People That Shall Dwell Alone (with Diaspora Peoples) A People That Shall Dwell Alone: […]
British actor John Boyega is quitting as global ambassador for the UK perfume and scented candles giant Jo Malone after the company replaced him with a local actor in a commercial made for the Chinese market. Boyega said that the original ad, which he created and directed, celebrated his “personal story,” featuring his hometown, friends and family members. The company also shot an ad tailored for the Chinese market, keeping most themes and elements from the original concept, but replacing Boyega with popular actor Liu Haoran. Boyega said that it was “wrong” to do so without his consent. “While many brands […]
HONG KONG—Students, teachers, parents, and others are staging protests in Inner Mongolia, a semi-autonomous region in northern China, by surrounding police stations and gathering outside schools. Thousands are congregating in rare displays of open defiance of governmental orders. These demonstrations were sparked by the Chinese government’s directive issued in the summer to broaden the footprint of Mandarin Chinese in state-compiled textbooks and classroom instruction within the region, displacing the Mongolian language in academic environments and daily usage. From Sept. 1 onward, the authorities will shift public elementary and middle schools’ language of instruction to Chinese, specifically for three courses—language and literature, […]
Overfunding The Military Drives Climate Crisis And White Supremacist Culture By Jack Delaney, Peace Data. August 26, 2020 Overfunding The Military Drives Climate Crisis And White Supremacist Culture2020-08-262020-08-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/pentagon1-e1598457390568.jpg200px200px Above photo: Ivan Cholakov / Shutterstock. As the U.S. now approaches the third month since protests erupted following the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and countless Black Americans calls to defund and abolish the police are resonating throughout public consciousness. While the Black Lives Matter movement rightfully pushes for the defunding and abolition of a white supremacist institution, it must be recognized that another institution — U.S. militarism — is also an overfunded […]
On the second night of its national convention, the Party of Trump resorted to reruns, hammering home the message he’s been pushing for four years: That the radical left—with help from Communist China and the Lamestream Media—is hellbent on destroying the traditional (white) American way of life, and the only person who can stop them is Trump. Among the invitees to take up the theme was Nicholas Sandmann, the Kentucky prep school student who became a darling of the right after he and his MAGA hat went viral following an incident with a Native American activist last year. Sandmann blasted the […]
A black Muslim woman berated an Asian Boba tea store owner in Aurora, Colorado on Friday for not being “black owned.” The black Muslima accused the Asians of “stealing black culture” and then turned her ire toward a black customer who was defending the store owners and called him a “coon.” “This establishment is not black-owned, but you’re stealing black culture,” the Muslima said. “Is this not black culture? Trap Tea…” “No! You’re thieves! Asian people stealing black culture once again! Once again!” she said. “It’s okay, you’ll be exposed though! You’re not black-owned! You’re stealing black culture!” TRENDING: Police Make […]
What makes Ethereum culture click? Maker Foundation board member Tonya Evans and former ConsenSys chief marketing officer Amanda Cassatt joined CoinDesk senior reporter Leigh Cuen on Monday to discuss Ethereum’s ethos in an hourlong conversation streamed to the CoinDesk homepage. “In terms of its structure and what it accomplishes in the world, it’s by default a global movement,” Cassat said of the world’s leading smart-contract blockchain. Evans, also a law professor at Penn State’s Dickinson Law School, said Ethereum can yield a more equitable version of global finance. Inclusion is baked into the platform but shouldn’t be taken for granted, she […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/18/1079969399_0:134:3077:1865_1200x675_80_0_0_3358fdd2f4eb4c6aea8ea6403d45ca3a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/uk/202007241079969354-cancel-culture-misunderstands-main-purpose-of-life-john-cleese-says/ The former “Fawlty Towers” actor explained that cancel culture does not let people enjoy life and have fun, and humour is about being critical, which is incompatible with being “woke”. British actor John Cleese criticised cancel culture as he was speaking to Reuters about the show “Why There is No Hope”. According to Cleese, cancel culture “misunderstands the main purposes of life, which is to have fun”. The actor explained that people who are trying to be perfectly polite and kind are boring, and being funny is about people who do not do that. […]
Most Americans familiar with “cancel culture” – deplatforming or firing people due to public outcry over a supposedly offensive or objectionable comment or action – believe it’s done serious harm to society, a new poll has found. Some 46 percent of Americans think cancel culture “has gone too far,” according to the poll conducted earlier this month by Morning Consult and published on Wednesday. While just over a quarter (26 percent) of respondents claimed to have no opinion on the matter, those who thought cancel culture had overstayed its welcome dramatically outnumbered the 10 percent who suggested it hadn’t gone far […]
The senator was previously ostracised for her criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement and lambasted online by a former Clinton campaign adviser, both of which took place amid US-wide anti-racist protests, largely led by the BLM movement. Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn has lambasted comments made by a grassroots organiser for the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign, Democrat Adam Parkhomenko, calling his racism accusations against her “another example of the virulent response to people who oppose leftist orthodoxy”. Blackburn noted that left-leaning politicians never apologise and never “make excuses”, remarking on Parkhomenko’s claims that the Republican senator is “inbred racist trash”. No […]
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Chris Hedges: Don’t Be Fooled By The Cancel Culture Wars By Chris Hedges, ScheerPost. July 13, 2020 | Educate!, Featured Campaign Chris Hedges: Don’t Be Fooled By The Cancel Culture Wars2020-07-132020-07-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/megaphone-by-mr.-fish-e1594657914440.jpg200px200px The politically correct speech and symbols of inclusiveness, without a concerted assault on corporate power, will do nothing to change the system. The cancel culture — the phenomenon of removing or canceling people, brands or shows from the public domain because of offensive statements or ideologies — is not a threat to the ruling class. Hundreds of corporations, nearly all in the hands of white executives and white board members, […]
For a decade, Michael Krieger’s Liberty Blitzkrieg has been an essential alternative financial and cultural voice. As outrage culture ramps up, here’s why it’s ending. Our main conversation is with Liberty Blitzkrieg creator and editor Michael Krieger. Michael announced just before recording that he is done publishing on the LB site. He and NLW discuss: Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups. Source link
Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen insisted that President Donald Trump’s continued embrace of Confederate memorials and bases named after Lost Cause generals has nothing to do with any “love” for the Confederacy but rather the desire to defend them from “cancel culture.” Thiessen, a Washington Post columnist who recently held court with Trump for an obsequious interview, appeared Friday on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom to discuss some of the revelations from his friendly chat with the president. Besides claiming Trump is apparently unconcerned about his plummeting poll numbers because the president “remains confident” due to his own internal polling, Thiessen weighed […]
On Thursday Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue praised President Donald Trump in the White House during the president’s meeting with Hispanic leaders. Robert Unanue: We’re all truly blessed at the same time to have a leader like President Trump who is a builder. And that’s what my grandfather did. He came to this country to build, to grow, to prosper. And so we have an incredible builder and we pray for our leadership, our president. And we pray for our country that we will continue to prosper and to grow. CEO of Goya Foods, Robert Unanue: "We're all truly blessed to […]
It was the letter that launched a thousand tweets. Maybe even ten thousand—many of them, as happens so often on social media, brimming with insults and recrimination. And that doesn’t even account for several impassioned essays, some pro but mostly con, that the so-called “Letter on Justice and Open Debate” has provoked among the self-avowed intelligentsia—a tiny yet purportedly influential group of academics, artists, philosophers and journalists—since it was released on Tuesday by Harper’s magazine. “The controversy surrounding the letter shows the venom that these anodyne statements produced—statements that wouldn’t have been inflammatory ten years ago,” Harper’s Vice President Giulia Melucci […]
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of…a bunch of wealthy blowhards deciding that now, of all times, is the appropriate moment to ask us all to stop being so mean to them on Twitter. On Tuesday, Harper’s Magazine—the musty magazine of choice for musty magnates—published a ridiculous and delusional open letter signed by such luminaries as J.K. Rowling, Bari Weiss, David Brooks, Jesse Singal, and Malcolm Gladwell. The purpose of this screed? Ostensibly, to encourage “open debate.” But upon closer inspection, the upshot appears to […]
Trump at Mt. Rushmore by Annie Karni/NYTimes WASHINGTON — Standing in a packed amphitheater in front of Mount Rushmore for an Independence Day celebration, President Trump delivered a dark and divisive speech on Friday that cast his struggling effort to win a second term as a battle against a “new far-left fascism” seeking to wipe out the nation’s values and history. With the coronavirus pandemic raging and his campaign faltering in the polls, his appearance amounted to a fiery reboot of his re-election effort, using the holiday and an official presidential address to mount a full-on culture war against a straw-man […]
US President Donald Trump has launched a scathing attack on “cancel culture” – an in-vogue concept that has seen Americans ostracized for voicing views at odds with the mainstream – branding it the hallmark of totalitarianism. Speaking at the ‘Salute America’ event to mark Independence Day at South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore National Memorial on Friday, Trump pulled no punches tearing into the notorious phenomenon which has come to be known as “cancel culture.” The idea has led to the “cancelling” of public figures and regular Americans alike, typically hounded out of polite society for their views on polarizing social issues, such as race […]
Actor Dean Cain, who portrayed Superman for a 1990s TV show, has set Twitter ablaze after arguing that modern ‘cancel culture’ would have outlawed the superhero’s catchphrase – “Truth, justice and the American way.” Speaking with Fox’s Ainsley Earhard on Thursday, the conservative actor took aim at ‘cancel culture,’ dubbing it “like an early version of George Orwell’s 1984” which would have barred the 90s-era character from uttering his iconic slogan. “I promise you that Superman – I wouldn’t today be allowed to say: ‘Truth, justice, and the American way,’” Cain said, responding to a recent op-ed in Time Magazine calling […]
Germany’s defense minister revealed on Wednesday that a unit of the Kommando Spezialkraefte (KSK), the country’s elite commando force, would be disbanded. The dissolution follows a report published in January revealing that hundreds of soldiers may embody far-right extremist ideologies. On Wednesday, Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer told the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper that the KSK, an anti-terrorism and hostage rescue unit with roughly 1,300 soldiers, had created “a wall of secrecy” around itself and that the force has a “toxic leadership culture” that “cannot continue to exist in its present form,” NPR reported. Kramp-Karrenbauer also confirmed that some of the 70 soldiers […]
Newsweek has kicked off a storm of controversy after running an op-ed arguing that conservatives have “weaponized cancel culture,” with critics insisting progressives are only getting a taste of their own bitter medicine. In a recent piece at Newsweek, writer Emma Nolan says left-of-center “cancel culture” – which looks to tear down public figures for their political transgressions (real or imagined) – had been taken up by conservatives to combat celebrities who criticize US President Donald Trump. While the drive to cancel the un-woke typically “comes from people predominantly concerned with calling out racism,” Nolan wrote, “some of the criticism comes […]
President Trump has declared himself the “president of law and order.” Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images President Trump has declared himself the “president of law and order.” Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Nearly a month after the killing of George Floyd while in police custody and the launch of massive protests against police brutality across the country, President Trump was asked what part of his response would he have handled differently. “I think that tone is a very important thing and I try to have a very good tone, a very moderate […]
A group of demonstrators in Portland has torn down a statue of Thomas Jefferson in front of a school bearing his name, fanning the flames of a growing cultural divide in the US as activists target landmarks deemed racist. Around 1,000 people gathered at Jefferson High School in Portland, Oregon on Sunday to listen to speeches before setting off on a Black Lives Matter march across the city. Later in the evening, a crowd reconvened at the school and set their sights on a statue of the third US president and principal author of the Declaration of Independence. Two ropes were […]
Black Lives Matter protesters have spray-painted “racist” on Churchill’s statue in London, accusing the prime minister of white supremacy. A campaign is gaining traction in the UK to remove other statues linked to racism and slavery, but the government defends them as necessary tool to educate people about past mistakes rather than erase them. Winston Churchill’s image has mysteriously disappeared from Google search results as the legacy of Britain’s wartime leader is being revised during anti-racism protests. Social media users in the UK and several other countries have noticed that the photo isn’t showing up in the carousel at the top […]
Senator Tom Cotton has accidentally kicked off an effort to rechristen the Washington Monument after mockingly dubbing it the “Obelisk of Wokeness.” Inspired netizens soon ran with the idea, however, even starting a petition. The Republican lawmaker laid into what he called the “woke child mob” in a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday, taking aim at a “cancel culture” that seeks to tear down anything not in line with fashionable progressive attitudes, from movies to monuments. “So, where does this cancel culture take us? What is the logical conclusion? What is the end of the cancel culture?” Cotton asked. […]
One question was all it took for Cracker Barrel to begin trending on Twitter, with users slamming the restaurant as racist and others worrying it may be the next target for cancel culture. “Y’all ever walk in a place that just FEELS racist?” one user tweeted, before sharing a story of alleged discrimination at a “Southern-charm” store. After doing my research, I went back to buy it today. When I got to the counter, the cashier asked me if I was aware it was several hundred dollars… as if I would’ve come to checkout without knowing the price of the mattress […]
US 15:22 GMT 06.06.2020Get short URL The US president’s daughter will now join a growing list of conservatives, including world-renowned figures such as Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, who have been prevented from talking at universities due to holding views that largely liberal university campuses deem politically incorrect. Ivanka Trump has condemned “cancel culture and viewpoint discrimination” after a graduation speech she was slated to give to students at a university in Kansas was canceled amid ongoing criticism of Donald Trump’s response to the killing of George Floyd. Just a few hours after Wichita University and WSU Tech announced that the 38-year-old […]
Californians enjoy the Manhattan and Hermosa beaches on the first day Los Angeles County allowed beaches to reopen after a six-week closure implemented to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Mark Ralston /AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mark Ralston /AFP via Getty Images Californians enjoy the Manhattan and Hermosa beaches on the first day Los Angeles County allowed beaches to reopen after a six-week closure implemented to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Mark Ralston /AFP via Getty Images Southern California passed a milestone on Wednesday: Los Angeles County reopened its beaches. The move affects beaches along a […]