Cancel Culture Today: UCLA, LivePD, And Disney World

By William Teach June 11, 2020 – 3:00 pm

Will organizations ever learn that feeding the alligator never works, that appeasing Mobs of SJWs just means you’ve surrendered and they will demand more and more?

George Floyd protests: UCLA lecturer suspended after refusing lenient marking for black students

Cancel Culture AlligatorA lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has been placed on leave, after students criticised his response to a request that asked for him to provide leniency to black students during final exams, amid the George Floyd protests.

Accounting lecturer, Gordon Klein, was put on leave and placed under police protection, after his emails were posted online and subsequently angered students, according to The Daily Mail.

Mr Klein has been suspended for three weeks, and his “classes have been reassigned to other faculty”, according to a statement by the School of Management on Tuesday.

Got that? He’s suspended for 3 weeks for doing his job (if he isn’t getting paid, expect a lawsuit). Further, he needs police protection from the “peaceful” protesters

The incident occurred after a group of students, who described themselves as “non-black allies”, wrote to Mr Klein, and asked him to extend deadlines for projects, and to provide leniency to African American students, during their final exams.

They wrote that because of the trauma black students have faced in the last couple of weeks, “we have been placed in a position where we must choose between actively supporting our black classmates or focusing on finishing up our spring quarter”, according to Inside Higher Education.

Don’t you love how “non-black allies” have to protect blacks? This isn’t too patronizing, is it? Isn’t it rather racist to think that blacks can’t do things on their own?

Why Disney fans want to change the theme of Splash Mountain

Disney fans and some employees are calling for the company to change the theme of its popular Splash Mountain ride, which is based on the 1946 movie “Song of the South” that critics say is one of Disney’s most racist films.

An online petition calls for the Splash Mountain ride, which has been a longtime staple at Disney World and Disneyland, to be re-themed to the 2009 Disney movie “The Princess and the Frog,” which features Tiana, Disney’s first black princess.

“There is a huge need for diversity in the parks and this could help fill that need,” the petition reads. “Princess and the Frog is a beloved princess movie but has very little representation in the parks. Tiana could be one of the first princesses with a thrill ride, as well as giving her a much deserved place in the parks.

What’s the over/under on Disney caving? And once they cave, there will be more demands. Will they come after Disney owned networks like ESPN if they do not have enough minority representation?

‘Live P.D.’ Canceled By A&E Amid Nationwide Protests Against Police Brutality

A&E Network has decided to cancel Live P.D. amid the nationwide protests against police brutality. In a statement given to ET, the network says it will cease production and try to find ways to better tell the stories of the community and police officers.

“This is a critical time in our nation’s history and we have made the decision to cease production on Live P.D. Going forward, we will determine if there is a clear pathway to tell the stories of both the community and the police officers whose role it is to serve them,” the statement reads. “And with that, we will be meeting with community and civil rights leaders as well as police departments.”

There will now be a call for A&E to put more SJW/BLM programming on, to genuflect to the Cancel Culture mob.

What’s next? Law and Order? Chicago PD? 911? Brooklyn 99 All cop shows, which are big hits and money makers for networks?

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 11, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a rising ocean encroaching on housing because Other People took fossil fueled trips, you might just be a Warmist

IAYS

The blog of the day is No Pasaran, with a post on propaganda sob stories in the media.

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“Protesters” Who Took Over Seattle Area Have Demands

By William Teach June 11, 2020 – 10:30 am

Perhaps we should be calling them insurrectionists?

Seattle Protesters Issue Demands: Abolish Police, Grant Amnesty, Give Free Health Care and College

Protesters who have cordoned off several blocks in Seattle, declaring it a “cop-free zone” and “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” have released a long list of demands, including abolition of the Seattle Police Department and prisons, amnesty for all illegal migrants, and free health care and college for all, especially for blacks as a form of reparations.

“This document is to represent the black voices who spoke in victory at the top of 12th & Pine after 9 days of peaceful protest while under constant nightly attack from the Seattle Police Department. These are words from that night, June 8th, 2020,” the document states.

The demands are divided into four sections — the justice system, health and human services, economics, and education.

The justice system demands include that the “Seattle Council and the Mayor defund and abolish the Seattle Police Department and the attached Criminal Justice Apparatus.” This includes seizing police pensions. It also calls for prohibiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from operating in the city.

Under the health and human services portion of the document it states, “We demand the hospitals and care facilities of Seattle employ black doctors and nurses specifically to help care for black patients” and — even though police will be gone if these demands are met — a separate 911 line manned by mental health professionals.

In both the economic section and elsewhere, the protesters demand free college, socialized medicine, and free public housing.

A couple points. First, they built a wall around the area, so, apparently they’re good with walls. Second, why are so many white voices saying they speak for blacks?

Seattle estimates itself being 64.5 white, Asian 14.9%, and just 6.8%. I guess the uber-Leftist whites think that Blacks cannot do anything without the Helpful Hand of white government and white people. Kind of a racist attitude, don’t you think?

Third, I think we should give them what they want. We can try this for a 10 year period. However, no Seattle resident will be allowed to leave the city and move elsewhere. They must stay residents of the city. It’s important that all the pieces of the experimental group stick around. They can experience the crime, urban blight, theft, assaults, and more with no police department. We get to hear their complaints when they get beat up and calling 911 results in someone to give them a hug and a lecture on systemic racism. We get to hear their complaints when their taxes skyrocket to pay for all the free college and free healthcare. We get to hear them complain when they’re accused of being racists for not speaking Spanish. We get to hear the complaints when all those in prison for serious crimes cause problems when released. And the prisoners must also stay in Seattle.

We can wall of the entire place for 10 years. Sounds fair, right?

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Magazines Science, Nature, Shut Down For A Day Over Systemic Racism In Science Or Something

By William Teach June 11, 2020 – 7:55 am

If science is now up for activism, how can we trust it when they start yapping about ‘climate change’ and the climate crisis? I’ve posted many an article from both Science and Nature, and read plenty others

Radical Protests Shut Down Science, Nature for a Day

Radical activists persuaded top science journals to stop work on June 10 and to validate their claims of “white supremacy” throughout the American science sector.

The willingness of top scientists to submit to the radicals’ half-disguised political goals is a dangerous failure, said Bret Weinstein, a biologist and a champion for free speech. In a June 10 broadcast on YouTube, he argued thas the radicals will use the one-day June 10 concession to demand more damaging concessions from science, he said, adding:

If you think you’re helping black people by “Shutting Down STEM!,” you have not understood what’s going on. Science is the key to avoiding bias. It is the key to escaping oppression. It is the key to discovering what it is about our system that is systematically biased, and to eliminate it. So you are doing black people no favor by challenging that mechanism.

Weinstein’s response came after a small group of black academics and scientists used the emotional wave caused by the police death of George Floyd to demand that science be reorganized to help black Americans in science. The group pushed the hashtag #ShutDownSTEM.

It’s typical insanity. Science, math, technology, end engineering are hard disciplines. 2+2+4. That’s not racist. Things like the Law of Thermodynamics and Theory of Gravity are not part of white supremacy. Much like with hardcore feminists claiming STEM is sexist and women should go to college and acquire STEM degrees (while taking worthless degrees themselves), these black groups are claiming STEM is racist, and that blacks are being excluded. In reality, like with women, they can take classes and get a degree if the want to. Perhaps we should force a portion to get their degrees in STEM?

One of the manifestos demanded that the goal of “justice” be prioritized above scientists’ discovery of objective reality:

We must confront the institutional barriers to justice for Black people in academia and beyond, challenge the notion of the meritocracy whereby “objective and neutral” criteria infused with systemic racism are used to exclude Black people from physics and other academic disciplines, and rebuild our institutions and collaborations in a way that is just and equitable …

Huh what? Sorry, I don’t speak Radical Modern Socialist.

In response to the manifestos, two of the leading science publications, Science Magazine and Nature, agreed to halt their advocacy for science on June 10 and instead use their Twitter accounts to post demands and claims by some of the radicals.

Science did similar stuff, bending the knee to the black radicals and becoming their Useful Idiots.

It’s a long, long article, worth the read, and, the two magazines should remember two things. First, if they’re are claiming that science is raaaaacist, then they cannot be trusted on what they publish. Two, now that they have bent the knee, they SJWs will keep coming after them, demanding this and that and the other. They’ve shown their willingness to surrender. They SJW alligator never gives up.

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Durham, Orange Counties To Require Face Masks In Public

By William Teach June 11, 2020 – 7:32 am

Remember when they told us that masks were for health care workers and people who are sick? Then they changed the rules because of so-called asymptomatic carriers?  Well, now that all the lockdown requirements have been eased and are going away, Government has to have some measure to control people

(WRAL) Orange County (North Carolina) has extended their state of emergency to require more people to wear face masks.

Customers and employees entering any store or restaurant are required to wear a face mask starting Friday. This requirement will be in effect until Aug. 31, the county said in a statement.

Anyone “in an indoor or outdoor situation” who can’t maintain a 6-foot distance from another person is required to wear a mask.

If someone is driving or riding public transportation, they also have to wear a mask.

There’s actually been heavy editing on this story since yesterday, most likely to soften the verbiage on how draconian this is. How is one supposed to actually eat with a mask on? Why do you need a mask when driving alone in your car? The order for Orange is almost identical for Durham County, both counties being two of the most liberal in the state of North Carolina

“Until there is a vaccine for COVID-19, face coverings are a part of our new normal,” Orange County Health Director Quintana Stewart said. “We know it will take some time to get used to, but it will help save lives.”

Move those goal posts. In the same breathe. First it is August 31, having ruined all the summer. Then till there’s a vaccine, which could be soon or years, especially since COVID-19 seems to be branching out, much like there are many different versions of the regular flu. They even go on to say you are allowed to not wear a mask in your own home. Authoritarians are granting you a boon.

Funny, but the Orange and Durham county leaders weren’t complaining about lots of people not wearing masks during the George Floyd protests. Anyhow, speaking of ruining the summer

Durham is latest to cancel fireworks celebration

Durham’s annual Independence Day celebration is the latest to fall to the considerations of coronavirus. The city announced on Wednesday that the baseball game and fireworks display that draw thousands of people to the Durham Bulls Athletic Park every year will not be held in 2020.

The event is produced annually in a partnership between the Durham Bulls and Durham Parks and Recreation Department.

“In light of the state and local safer-at-home orders limiting the number of people in mass gatherings and the recent data provided by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS), the event was canceled to protect the health and safety of residents and visitors,” the city said in a statement.

Yet, not a peep from the city on the large number of people protesting, gathered together, within 6 feet, many with no masks. Of course, let’s be honest, the uber-Leftists who run the city of Durham are probably thrilled to get away with cancelling the 4th Of July fireworks, because they hate the United States.

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Surprise: Germany’s Green Power Is Quickly Becoming Unaffordable

By William Teach June 10, 2020 – 3:30 pm

Well, it became rather unaffordable years ago, especially in the winter, when German citizens started purchasing wood pellets imported from the U.S. and Brazil for heating and cooking, like they did hundreds of years ago. Now it is how this “green” energy is financed

Germany’s Green Power Finance Is Becoming Unaffordable

The German program that’s spurred the nation’s switch to green power is buckling under the weight of surging costs and needs an urgent fix.

That’s the assessment of one of the scheme’s chief designers, Hans Josef Fell. Designed in 2000 to enable Germany to meet United Nations pledges on climate change, it has pushed renewable energy to make up over 50% of the nation’s energy capacity.

Yet the system’s increasing costs have become glaring in the during the coronavirus pandemic, the veteran Green Party lawmaker said. High and guaranteed payments made to investors in clean power plants are the problem Fell said in an interview.

German power consumers have to contribute to help finance the payments through a surcharge in their monthly electricity bills, and a quirk of how they’re calculated threatens to send the program’s costs skyrocketing, he said.

On one hand, you can see how consumers are going to get boned above the already boned level of energy cost they’re paying now, which leads to an increase in the cost of living. On the other, German citizens keep voting for the people who enact these Hotcoldwetdry policies, so, they’re getting what they voted for. Will they eventually get to the point of the French citizens and their yellow vest protests/riots? Of course, they haven’t voted out their Warmist nutters yet, so, I have little sympathy for them.

Power consumers make up the difference between payments made to investors and the wholesale power price. That causes the green surcharge to rise when wholesale prices fall, and they’ve dropped 20% since January as coronavirus lockdowns hit power demand.

A guaranteed price for shoddy, already expensive, unreliable power.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 10, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is air that’s very hazy from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

IAYS

The blog of the day is Never Yet Melted, with a post on Forest Fenn’s treasure being found.

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TV Show Cops Cancelled After 31 Years By Woke Network

By William Teach June 10, 2020 – 10:30 am

It definitely makes sense, because you surely do not want a TV show highlighting the good work police officers perform and what the criminal element acts like

Cancel Culture Alligator(Breitbart) Whatcha gonna do when the woke mob comes for you?

Cops — the long-running reality series following  police officers on high-speed chases, drug busts, and other dangerous missions —  has been cancelled after a more than 30-year run as anti-police sentiment continues to sweep through Hollywood following last month’s death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody.

The Paramount Network has decided not to bring Cops back after it put the show on hiatus last week in the midst of #BlackLivesMatter protests and growing demands to defund police departments around the country.

“Cops is not on the Paramount Network and we don’t have any current or future plans for it to return,” a network spokesperson told multiple outlets on Tuesday.

The ViacomCBS-owned cable channel has publicly supported the #BlackLivesMatter movement, saying in a recent tweet that “these racist and brutal attacks must end.”

Cops has been around since 1989 on Fox, and then moved to Spike, which became Paramount, in 2013.

Police-themed TV shows now face an uncertain future as demands to defund the police continue to gather steam. A&E has put its Live PD documentary series on indefinite hold. Sony’s L.A.’s Finest was scheduled to debut on Spectrum,  but has been postponed until later this year, according to Deadline.

Live PD shows cops taking care of crime and helping people, giving people a virtual ride-along in real time. LA’s Finest features Jessica Alba and Gabrielle Union, a Latina and a black, as the leads. Will wokeness kill it off? The Washington Post published an op-ed calling to shut down all police shows and movies just six days ago. Will we get rid of NCIS, Criminal Minds, Fargo, Ozark, the 37 different Law and Orders, Chicago PD, SWAT, Bosch, FBI, Killing Eve, 9-1-1, Prodigal Son, and so many more? How about Carnival Row? Sure, it’s periodic and features fae-folk and monsters, but, it has police, and some police being mean!

And, while we’re at it, let’s stop showing replays of cop shows. No reruns. No on-demand streaming of old shows. Take them off Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Youtube, and everything else. Not even Dragnet. Take the cop movies off the streaming services. Hollywood not allowed to make any movies with cops.

This is Cancel Culture, and all those who support Cancel Culture should remember that it takes just one tiny mistake for your friends in the mob to turn on you in a heartbeat.

Oh, and Cancel Culture managed to get HBO Max to remove Gone With The Wind. Hattie McDaniel was the first African American actor to win an Oscar for her role in Gone With The Wind. It’s also her birthday today.

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Lockdown Totally Shows What ‘Climate Change’ Looks Like In Sheffield

By William Teach June 10, 2020 – 8:17 am

Charlotte Compton of the Sheffield Telegraph takes the exactly wrong lesson, but, that’s what cultists do

Lockdown has highlighted climate crisis

A city, not so long ago characterised by constant hustle and bustle, shut down its industries, shops and bars.

However, in the silence, the needs of the environment can easily be heard.

With fewer cars on the road and reduced transport services, the skies have taken a break from the smog which has lingered since its industrial past.

PHD student Rohit Chakraborty, who has been monitoring the impacts of the lockdown on the local air quality, says: “There was a drop of 40 per cent in nitrogen dioxide levels in the week after the lockdown announcement, compared with the previous week.”

This improvement, caused by reduced exhaust emissions, follows the national trend, as road traffic in the UK fell by 70 per cent in the first weeks of lockdown.

But, that is environmental issues, not a global warming issue. But, let’s consider one thing: the drop in pollutants effects the urban heat island effect, whereby urban areas hold more heat. Or it should have, right? Because the data isn’t showing any real difference, meaning that it is less anthropogenic and more what has always happened, nature doing its thing.

The lockdown has also seen the return of wildlife.

In Sheffield city centre, a morning commuter spotted a badger outside the railway station, while a deer was seen near The Moor Market.

That has zero do do with the “climate crisis”.

On a global level, the natural world has blossomed in the absence of people and industry, as a third of the world’s population are confined to home and economic activity has paused.

Again, nothing to do with the climate crisis, except this is what a world with enacted Cult of Climastrology policies will look like. People not working, people not able to go anywhere, people without money to go anywhere. Only the rich and elites will have the ability to purchase and use a $100,000+ all electric vehicle.

Peter Betts, previously the UK’s lead climate negotiator, says: “Closing down our entire economies for a period of weeks or months is not going to get us toward decarbonising.”

Unfortunately, just as the climate challenge started to build momentum, the cause has had to be put on hold.

Did Betts, and the Sheffield Telegraph, just advocate to close our economies down for years, if not permanently?

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LA Teachers Union Calls To “Defund” Police In Schools

By William Teach June 10, 2020 – 7:59 am

See, for all those proclaiming that “defund the police” doesn’t mean defund the police, eliminating the police force, they should pay attention, because in most cases, it means defunding the police, not reducing their budget. “Defund” must not be polling well, shockingly

L.A. Teachers’ Union Calls for Elimination of School Police Force

The United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), representing teachers and support staff in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), called Monday for the elimination of the 400-member police force protecting schools in the district.

The Los Angeles Times reported that the teachers’ union made the announcement at an event with Black Lives Matter leaders, and called the move a step toward dismantling “white supremacy”:

Leaders of United Teachers Los Angeles said Monday they support a movement to eliminate the Los Angeles School Police Department, a force of about 400 that serves the L.A. Unified School District and accounts for about $70 million of the district’s $7.9 billion budget.

“We have to dismantle white supremacy. We must … defund the police and bring in the mental health services that our students need,” said Cecily Myart-Cruz, the incoming president of UTLA, which represents about 30,000 teachers, nurses, counselors and other staff in the school district.

You know what? I think this is a great idea. Let’s pull all those 400 officers from the schools. Let the teacher’s union and other Modern Socialists in Los Angeles deal with solving the violence, assaults, theft, and other crime. Let them deal with students who are beyond unruly. Let them deal with the kids who bring guns and knives. Let them deal with the kids who will assault teachers in the classrooms. Assault the nurses, counselors, and other staff. Steal their cars. Let’s see how well “mental health services” deal with kids in the neighborhoods where cops are required in schools. I’m sure they will totally respond to some hugs, right? And a lecture on their privilege if their aren’t black, right?

Someone asked me on Twitter about going through with defunding in certain places, using them as an experimental group, because we already know liberalism is bat guano insane. Well, see, some of us know it, but, most people need a reminder what hardcore Modern Socialism brings to the table, including your average person who is simply a Democrat voter, not a nutty leftist. Quite frankly, Trump should shut up and not tweet right now, let the Democrats dig their holes. As the saying goes “never interrupt your enemy in the midst of making a mistake.”

What Minneapolis Will Look Like After They Abolish Their Police Department

After a week and a half of national and global demonstrations protesting George Floyd’s death and uplifting the Black Lives Matter movement, nine members of the Minneapolis City Council on Sunday declared their intent to abolish the city’s police department. The nine-person majority behind this action, of 12 members total, presented the public with their veto-proof decision during a rally held by social justice organizations Reclaim the Block and Black Visions Collective at Minneapolis’ Powderhorn Park.

The council members, all of whom individually took to the mic to express their support for disbanding the Minneapolis Police Department, noted in a released statement that “We will be taking intermediate steps towards ending the MPD through the budget process and other policy and budget decisions over the coming weeks and months.”

The ultimate goal, according to the council, is to abolish the MPD entirely, which is still in it’s early stages. However, they detailed that the first steps to this include a commitment to listening to the community about what would better serve them, including listening to what residents think a “police-free future” looks like and engaging with community members “over the next year to identify what safety looks like for everyone.”

See, when they mean “defund”, they mean “defund”. Eliminate. The article is a little short on what Minneapolis will look like, but, I’m betting something like Mogadishu in the 1990’s, at it’s worst. Heck, if you though Detroit was bad with a police force that took an average of 55 minutes to respond, just wait till we get Minneapolis. I’m figuring the tax base of middle and upper class citizens will disappear. The businesses will leave. No one should be surprised if many are trying to get out now. It will be somewhat easy for many businesses that rent/lease their storefonts, but, what of those who own those spots? Same with those who own their homes. Who wants to buy, knowing that the city will soon be a 3rd world lawless zone.

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