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sailorzakuro · 3 years

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Strictly 2021 Week 1 - Songs and Dances Revealed

FINALLY THEY'RE HERE thought it was coming on Tuesday but either they've changed it for this year or they just delayed it but WE HAVE THEM NOW LET'S GO.

AJ and Kai: Gold Dust by DJ Fresh (Jive) - Starting energetic for AJ I can kind of see that, I feel like she'd be good at that! Don't think I've heard the song if I have it's one of those songs I've heard but haven't a scooby of the name lol.

Judi and Graziano: Chain of Fools by Aretha Franklin (American Smooth) - I like that they're starting off Judi with a smooth ballroom dance, because of her career it's easy to bung her in a funny category to start off with but they haven't good for them 😂.

Katie and Gorka: Black Hole by Griff (Tango) - Put the soap star on a tango first I hear you 😂. Sorry I hear a song called Black Hole and I think of GWSN and that is not a tango song so I don't know.

Nina and Neil: Mi Gente by J Balvin, Willy William ft. Beyonce (Samba) - Oh no you're starting my sweetheart Nina off with a samba since when has starting with the hardest become a trend I don't like it 😭.

Rose and Giovanni: Shake It Off by Taylor Swift (Jive) - I was rather hoping we'd make it a bit longer without this song popping up again... like maybe 100 years or so but I guess I can see why Rose is doing it, anyway I think I've said before I think jive will be good for her getting into it so I look forward to it!

Tilly and Nikita: Consequences by Camila Cabello (Waltz) - Could be a very apt song title considering the stuff people are saying lol I had to, I am gonna avoid Twitter as well as news sites so shit talking won't get into my head while trying to be fair (lol me fair as if), but yeah it could be good idk lmao.

Sara and Aljaz: The Boss by Diana Ross (Triple Cha) - Oh what cos she's on Dragon's Den yeah very original I see what you did there BBC HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA right that's it 😂.

John and Johannes: Blue Monday by New Order (Tango) - I KNEW THIS ONE ALREADY and I'm very excited about it 80s tango gays it's gonna be a PARTY on Saturday night 😂.

Adam and Katya: Beggin' by Maneskin (Triple Cha) - MANESKIN EXCUSE ME??? Sorry I love Maneskin so much but I feel like saying it's Beggin' by Maneskin when it's actually a cover is just... trying to be popular cos Strictly have used the original Beggin' for triples chas for years 😂.

Rhys and Nancy: End of the Road by Boys II Men (Viennese Waltz) - Boys II Men because... he's on CBBC? Is that it? Idk 😂. Viennese Waltz could be interesting to see from them idk lol.

Dan and Nadiya: Everybody Needs Somebody by The Blues Brothers (Quickstep) - Is this cos the last time Nadiya had a giant of a partner he did well at the quickstep okay 😂. It's week 1 I feel like there has to be some sort of connection each song 😂.

Tom and Amy: September by Earth, Wind & Fire (Triple Cha) - GET IT DONE WHILE IT'S STILL SEPTEMBER GOOD IDEA 😂. I mean it's a good disco song maybe we'll get a good disco concept from Tommy I'm excited 😂.

Greg and Karen: That's Life by Frank Sinatra (American Smooth) - With Jamie last year Karen got to show off her more masc/androgynous style (which I certainly loved lol) but now starting off with a Frank Sinatra American Smooth idk if they're taking her back to old femme Karen, I mean it's not about her I'm sure Greg'll do fine I'm just saying 😂.

Robert and Dianne: Rasputin by Boney M (Triple Cha) - I knew this one as well LOVE A BIT OF BONEY M who doesn't love Boney M, I feel like this could end up being one of the "wally" dances of the night (good lord Chris Ramsey's vocab really rubbed off on me didn't it) unless Robert really focuses and surprises us so we'll see.

Ugo and Oti: Iko Iko (My Bestie) by Justin Wellington ft. Small Jam (Samba) - Sounds a bit like a Twitter conversation gonna be honest but Oti queen of samba will hopefully deliver 😂.

Song bingo I know about 6 but it's not about that it's about the DANCING it looks like a good lineup to start off the series with 😂.

#strictly come dancing #strictly come dancing 2021

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demon-dance-club · 3 years

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I posted 134 times in 2021

23 posts created (17%)

111 posts reblogged (83%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 4.8 posts.

I added 47 tags in 2021

#fer.al - 8 posts

#swearing cw - 8 posts

#feral wildworks - 7 posts

#wildworks - 6 posts

#caps tw - 4 posts

#genshin yanfei - 3 posts

#genshin scenery - 3 posts

#genshin screenshots - 3 posts

#genshin impact - 3 posts

#youtube - 2 posts

Longest Tag: 116 characters

#especially in countries where healthcare is free it’s pretty fucked the amount of stuff people still have to pay for

My Top Posts in 2021

Just saw the q force trailer and I regret to inform everyone that I am no longer attracted to men. I am attracted to everything but men. In fact I’m becoming one of those people who hate men. I am mhm now (men hating men). As I type this I am running away into the woods to hide from the world.

BUT ALSO WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT. I have two theories: the show actually sucks and was written by a team consisting of a straight 13 yo girl and a 50 yo straight man. Or: the show still sucks but it’s on purpose and the marketing team wants to exploit the power of hate watching.

Either way, don’t watch it whenever it comes out. Also I hope the queer voice actors are getting paid WELL for this. The straight actors,,,,idk the circumstances of their hiring but I sure hope they didn’t do it willingly cuz this is FUCKED UP.

Final thoughts: I would beat up the guy with drag makeup and a weirdly large mouth. On top of being stereotyped to hell and back he also ends up acting predatory and creepy towards the most “straight passing” guy of the group by making unsolicited comments about him. This is SO dangerous because it perpetuates one of the worst stereotypes about mlm: that we try to force ourselves on straight dudes.

Final thought 2: Also I’m confused as to why there seem to be two other dudes who are part of the “main group” but don’t get any lines?? My best guess is that they’re less “gay” as characters and that therefore they don’t have so many wild lines to show in the trailer.

Anyway if I’ve gotten anything wrong just let me know. I haven’t done much research or anything, I’m mostly going off what I saw in the trailer.

21 notes • Posted 2021-06-24 17:23:57 GMT

At last, a worthy sequel to my good old free to play feral post, fresh picked from the latest discord announcement and once again deep fried for effect~

Allow me to introduce all the players who got softlocked by broken challenges :DDDD

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My serenitea pot is finished! Or the main island exterior at least. I'd add more but the furniture limit is ridiculously low hhhh Anyway just look at that view~

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About the goddam WW Crypto thing

I really should have known by now wildworks was unable to do anything right...If they go through with this shit I'm gonna riot fr, gimme my fucking 8$ back lmao.

Anyway, here are some of my concerns:

1. Where is all this money/staff coming from, and why can't it go towards games that are already in development??

WW can barely hold 3 games (or two and a half, let's be honest...feral is STILL IN BETA NEED I REMIND YOU) together right now, from what I know there's very little staff and not much money to go around. Feral was taking staff from AJ for a while, and now that they've been sent back to AJ there's supposedly no replacements being hired. That may be because there's no money, but also it's likely that they've been planning this for a while...still you'd think that Feral is a number one priority. Are they *trying* to kill it or what? Once Fer.al is more finished, they should be able to rake in more sweet sweet cash (cuz spoiler alert, many people like to play games that aren't broken), so why hold it back in favour of a new project?

2. The hypocrisy of making Animal Jam and then THIS???

This needs no explanation.

3. This was so obviously the wrong move?

If anyone at the top tier of WW knew SHIT about their demographic, which is honestly probably the exact opposite of crypto bros, they would know that literally no one wants this. This company is so shockingly out of touch, how could this possibly happen?? Massive boomer energy lmao, they really don't have a single person in a leadership role who could have said "yeah idk how that's gonna be received bestie" Also HELLO DID Y'ALL NOT SEE THE MASSIVE BACKLASH FROM THE COOKIE RUN FANDOM WHEN DEVSISTERS STARTED TALKING NFTS???

Aight that's all I got for now, we better fuck this company up until they back down.

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Following my last Whining About Fer.al Advertising post I would like to call bullshit on this line in particular thanks to the decal paywall and jelly quests in the new sp (deepfried for emphasis <3)

I truly hate seeing this game go to shit man ://

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a-wlw-reads · 7 years

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Hey tumblr so I need your help! My school always had one of those “Read Across America” maps with young adult novels or romances or whatever (evidently, I’m American) but I’ve never seen anything comparable for wlw. I’ve tried to rely on my memory and on other people’s recs but I’m only (exactly) halfway through. Any suggestions to fill in these missing states? I’ve tried to avoid stories that take place across multiple locations. Or offer more options for the ones I already have, the more the merrier.

Alabama : Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flag

Alaska : Grief Map by Sarah Hahn Campbell, The Dead Go to Seattle by Vivian Faith Prescott

Arizona : Bright Lights of Summer by Lynn Ames

Arkansas : Cottonmouths by Kelly J. Ford

California : Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour, Honey Girl by Lisa Freeman, Frog Music by Emma Donoghue, The Necessary Hunger by Nina Revoyr, Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians by Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons, Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde, The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde, Under the Lights by Dahlia Adler, Far From Home by Lorelie Brown, The Summer of Jordi Perez (And the Best Burger in Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding, You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour, Excavation by Wendy C. Ortiz, The IHOP Papers by Ali Liebegott, Soft on Soft by Em Ali, She Is Me by Cathleen Schine

Colorado : Marionette by T.B. Markinson, Sleight of Hand by Mark Henwick, Snow Falls by Gerri Hill, Sadie by Courtney Summers, Tell Me What You Like by Kate Allen

Connecticut : Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg, Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller

Delaware : As I Lay Frying: A Rehoboth Beach Memoir by Fay Jacobs

Florida : Breathing Underwater by Lu Vickers, Roller Girl by Vanessa North, Down to the Bone by Mayra Lazara Dole

Georgia : Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith, Taking Flight by Siera Maley, Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir by Maggie Thrash, Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli, Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake, Odd One Out by Nic Stone, The Cherokee Rose by Tiya Miles

Hawaii : Razor Wire by Lauren Gallagher, Name Me Nobody by Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Idaho : Ship It by Britta Lundin, Her Hometown Girl by Lorelie Brown, Right Out of Nowhere by Laurie Salzler, Idaho Code by Joan Opyr

Illinois : Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair, How Sweet It Is by Melissa Brayden, What Matters Most by Georgia Beers, The Long Way Home by Rachel Spangler, Close to Home by Rachel Spangler, Memory Mambo by Achy Obejas, Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country by Chavisa Woods

Indiana : Tessa Masterson Will Go to Prom by Emily Franklin and Brendan Halpin, Hoosier Daddy by Ann McMan and Salem West

Iowa : A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley, Moo by Jane Smiley, The Butches of Madison County by Ellen Orleans, Death by Discount by Mary Vermillion

Kansas : Far From Xanadu by Julie Anne Peters, My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus by Kelly Barth

Kentucky : Run by Kody Keplinger, Dress Codes for Small Towns by Courtney Stevens

Louisiana : Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen, Beauty and the Boss by Ali Vali, Rusty Logic by Robin Alexander, Spelling Mississippi by Marnie Woodrow, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

Maine : Style by Chelsea Cameron, Double Exposure by Chelsea Cameron, A Good Idea by Christina Moracho

Maryland : Cytherea’s Breath by Sarah Aldridge

Massachusetts : Mermaid in Chelsea Creek by Michelle Tea, Map of Ireland by Stephanie Grant, Heart of Brass by Morven Moeller, A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo, P.S. I Miss You by Jen Petro-Roy, Hocus Pocus & The All-New Sequel by A.W. Jantha, Marriage of a Thousand Lies by AJ Sindu, Love & Other Carnivorous Plants by Florence Gonsalves, Marriage of Unconvenience by Chelsea M. Cameron, Cool for You by Eileen Myles

Michigan : The Liberators of Willow Run by Marianne K. Martin, Drum Roll, Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow, The Cold and the Rust: Poems by Emily Van Kley, Her by Cherry Muhanji, Vanished by E.E. Cooper, Radical by E.M. Kokie

Minnesota : Sister Mischief by Laura Goode, Being Emily by Rachel Gold, My Year Zero by Rachel Gold, Bend by Nancy Hedin, Hallowed Murder by Ellen Hart

Mississippi : Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy

Missouri : Deliver Us from Evie by M.E. Kerr, Heart of the Game by Rachel Spangler, Jam on the Vine by LaShonda Katrice Barnett

Montana : The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth, Innocent Hearts by Radclyffe, Storms by Gerri Hill

Nebraska : Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz, Over You by Amy Reed

Nevada : Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee, Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule, Bittersweet by Nevada Barr

New Hampshire : Good Moon Rising by Nancy Garden, Snowsisters by Tom Wilinsky and Jen Sternick

New Jersey : A Cup of Water Under My Bed by Daisy Hernández

New Mexico : Beauty of the Broken by Tawni Waters, So Far From God by Ana Castillo, The Last of the Menu Girls by Denise Chávez, Like Water by Rebecca Podos

New York : Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova, Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde, Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown, We Are Okay by Nina LaCour, Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg, Thaw by Elyse Springer, Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger by Kelly Cogswell, Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman, Tailor-Made by Yolanda Wallace, The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri

North Carolina : The Ada Decades by Paula Martinac, Challah and Callaloo by La Toya Hankins

North Dakota : Prairie Silence: A Memoir by Melanie Hoffert

Ohio : Fat Angie by E.E. Charlton-Trujillo, Taking the Long Way by Lily R. Mason, The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka, Eat Your Heart Out by Dayna Ingram, Juniper Lane by Kady Morrison

Oklahoma : Tumbleweed Fever by L.J. Maas, Edited Out by Lisa Haddock

Oregon : Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera, Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before by Karelia Stetz-Waters, Dryland by Sara Jaffee

Pennsylvania : Fun Home by Alison Bechdel, In the Silence by Jaimie Leigh McGovern, The Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzie

Rhode Island : The Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan, Homecoming by Nell Stark, Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult

South Carolina : The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison, The Revolution of Little Girls by Blanche McCrary Boyd

South Dakota : Charity by Paulette Callen

Tennessee : Secret City by Julia Watts, If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo, South of Sunshine by Dana Elmendorf, Choices by Skyy, Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer by Chely Wright

Texas : Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory by Emma Pérez, Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey, The Unraveling of Mercy Louis by Keija Parssinen, Gulf Breeze by Gerri Hill, Gulf Dreams by Emma Pérez, Lay Down the Law by Carsen Taite, Far From the World We Know by Harper Bliss, Spinning by Tillie Walden, Mean Deaf Little Queer by Terry Galloway, The Dime by Kathleen Kent, Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home by Leah Lax

Utah : Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That’s When My Nightmare Began by Alex Cooper

Vermont : Dismantled by Jennifer McMahon

Virginia : As I Descended by Robin Talley, Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley, Jericho by Ann McMan

Washington : The Edge of Nowhere by Elizabeth George, Dreadnought and Sovereign by April Daniels, About A Girl by Sarah McCarry, Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear, The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz, Stuck Landing by Lauren Gallagher

Washington, D.C : Madam President by Blayne Cooper and T. Novan, Pulp by Robin Talley

West Virginia : The Winter Triangle by Nikki Woolfolk, Blue Apple Switchback by Carrie Highley, Sugar Run by Mesha Maren

Wisconsin :

Wyoming :

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stuff-i-want-to-save · 7 years

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1. Think of the last person who said I love you, do you think they meant it? it was my mum so i hope so lol 2. Would you date an 18-year-old at the age you are now? no im a minor 3. When’s the last time you were aggravated and happy at the same time? when my brother broke into my room and made my bed 4. Would you ever smile at a stranger? i do every day 5. Is there someone mad because you’re dating/talking to the person you are? my best friend didnt like my girlfriend in the beginning but theyre good now 6. Have you heard a song that reminds you of someone today? um i heard that one song that unexplainably makes me think about joe biden?? 7. What exactly are you wearing right now? captain america pants, a tshirt trying to save a school that closed down seven years ago 8. How often do you listen to music? every day pretty much i can hear the loud stuff 9. Do you wear jeans or sweats more? when im in school, jeans, but because ive been so sick recently its been sweats 10. Do you think your life will change dramatically before 2015? lol didnt check the year 11. Are you a social or an antisocial person? in the middle i think 12. Have you ever kissed someone whose name begins with the letter ‘A’? yeah aj 13. What about ‘R’? nope 14. Can you drive a stick shift? nope 15. Do you care if people talk badly about you? yep haha 16. Are you going out of town soon? nopity 17. When was the last time you cried? literally like 30 minutes ago 18. Have you ever told someone you loved them? yes 19. If you could change your eye color, would you? no 20. Is there a boy who you would do absolutely everything for? my brother?? my friend matthew?? im 21. Name something you dislike about the day you’re having. my headache!!!!!!!!! 22. Is it cute when guys kiss you on your forehead? um i am a lesbían. no. lol but when girls do it, yes please!!1!1!1! 23. Are you dating the last person you talked to? no 24. What are you sitting on right now? my bed 25. Does anyone regularly (other than family) tell you they love you? my friends 26. Have you ever wanted someone you couldn’t have? yaaaaa 27. Who was the last person you talked to before you went to bed last night? my best friend lucia 28. Do you get a lot of colds? yes i have immune deficiency lol 29. Where is the shirt you are wearing from? comfort colours 30. Does anyone hate you? i think, theres a boy i used to be best friends with but we majorly fell out. i h9 him 31. Do you have any empty alcohol bottles hidden somewhere in your room? no im a Good Kid 32. Do you like watching scary movies? NO 33. Do you want your tongue pierced? NO 34. If you had to delete one year of your life completely, which would it be? 2015 35. Did you have a dream last night? i had So Many 36. When was the last time you told someone you loved them? four seconds ago 37. Do you think you’ll be married in 5 years? no 38. Do you think someone has feelings for you? ya 39. Do you think someone is thinking about you right now? no? idk 40. Did you have a good day yesterday? NOO 41. Think back 2 months ago; were you in a relationship? ye 42. In the next 48 hours, will you hang out with a girl? hopefully 43. Has anyone told you they don’t want to ever lose you? yes 44. What’s the best part about school? seeing my friends & art class 45. Do you have any pictures on your Facebook? yes 46. Do you ever pass notes to your friends in school? yes 47. Do you replay things that have happened in your head? all the time 48. Were you single over the last summer? yup 49. Is your life anything like it was two years ago? nooo 50. What are you supposed to be doing right now? sleeping 51. Do you hate the last guy you had a conversation with? no i love him hes my sibling 52. Are you nice to everyone? eh 53. Have you ever liked someone you didn’t expect to? yeah 54. Do you think you can last in a relationship for 6 months and not cheat? yeah 55. Are you good at hiding your feelings? Too Good 56. Do you think you like someone? yup 57. Have you kissed someone whose name starts with a ‘J’? nope 58. Do you prefer to be friends with girls or boys? uhh idc 59. Has anyone of your friends ever seen you cry? most 60. Do you hate anyone? yeah 61. How’s your heart? um idk 62. Is there something that happened in your past that you hate talking about? yeah A Lot 63. Have you ever cried over a guy? yeah the one who hates me we used to be close friends 64. Who is probably talking a load of crap about you right now? ^^ 65. Are your toenails painted pink? no 66. Will your next kiss be a mistake? no 67. Girls love it when boyfriends cry; correct? what 68. Have your pants ever fallen down in public? yeah when i was seven my leggings that had daisies on them fell down in my driveway 69. Who was the last person you were on the phone with? my oma 70. How do you look right now? like SHIT 71. Do you have someone you can be your complete self around? my best friend 72. Can you commit to one person? yeah 73. Do you have someone of the opposite sex you can tell everything to? yeah 74. Have you ever felt replaced? yeappapa 75. Did you wake up cranky? yeppp 76. Are you a jealous person? yeppppppp 77. Are relationships ever worth it? yes 78. Anyone you’re giving up on? no 79. Currently wanting to see anyone? yes yes yes 80. Name something you have to do tomorrow? feel better? lol 81. Last person you cried in front of? my mum 82. Is there someone you will never forget? umm my close friends 83. Do you think the person you have feelings for is protective of you? yeah 84. If the person you wish to be with were with you, what would you be doing right now? FUCKING jk hugging 85. Are you over your past? no lol 86. Have you ever liked one of your best friends of the opposite sex? no like i said i am un lesbian 87. Is there anyone you can tell EVERYTHING to? yeah! 88. If your first true love knocked on your door with apology and presents, would you accept? uhhhh idk 89. So, the last person you kissed just happens to arrive at your door at 3AM; do you let them in? yes for sure 90. Have you ever liked someone who your friends hated? yup 91. Will you be in a relationship in 2 months? idk 92. Is there anyone you know with the name Michael? yeah like a million 93. Have you ever kissed a Matthew? yeah it was a dare hes gay 94. Were you in a relationship in January? How was it going? started jan 5 95. Were you happy with the person you liked in March? yes!! 96. Don’t tell me lies, is the last person you texted attractive? yes!! 97. Who do you have texts from? a lot? 98. If the person you like says they like someone else, what would you say? i would just cry lmao 99. Have you ever kissed someone older than you? by 33 hours yeah 100. Who’s in your profile picture with you? on insta my friend lucia 101. Ever kissed under fireworks? no 102. Has anybody ever given you butterflies? yes

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restoreamericanglory · 4 years

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NYC Democrats “Very Concerned” About Taking Help From Christian Group

Talk to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, or any of the journalists covering the coronavirus situation in the Big Apple, and you get a single, unified message: New York is hurting, New York is running out of medical supplies, New York needs all the help they can get. They need Navy hospital ships. They need to turn the Javitts Center into a makeshift hospital. They need 30,000 ventilators from the federal government. They need, in short, everything.

But help from a Christian organization? Hmm, well…maybe not?

“Samaritan’s Purse is running a makeshift hospital in Central Park. NYC mayor DeBlasio (and many residents I’ve spoken with) are ‘very concerned’ that there is an anti-gay evangelical relief org setting up shop in their backyard,” reports Christian journalist Jonathan Merritt.

If you’re not familiar with Samaritan’s Purse, it is a nonprofit run by prominent evangelical pastor Franklin Graham, himself a frequent target of scorn on the left. Graham’s charity has set up an emergency field hospital in Central Park to help treat patients who can no longer fit into a bed at Mt. Sinai. You would think that New York City, besieged by far more COVID-19 cases than can be found anywhere else in the country, would be more than grateful to take the help. But no, apparently they’re more concerned about what kind of “anti-gay” sentiment the organization might be bringing to New York.

Mt. Sinai Hospital – the very hospital that Samaritan’s Purse is there to help – actually made the organization sign a pledge to treat all patients equally. Like…what? These are still health care workers. Do you really think they’re going to deny care to someone because they happen to be gay? It’s right there in the name: SAMARITAN. That whole story is about looking beyond a person’s “identity” to treat them as a human being. Guess the Democrats in New York never read that parable.

“We’re going to send people over from the Mayor’s Office to monitor. I am very concerned that this is done right. But if it is done right, we need all the help we can get,” said NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio.

That was followed by this statement from NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson: “This is very disturbing. We need reassurances from the city and from Mt. Sinai that Samaritan’s Purse and its volunteers will be monitored, and that the LGBTQ community will not be discriminated against in any way. This is a crisis, but our values remain.”

Well, Johnson is right about one thing, it is “disturbing.” It’s disturbing that New York City Democrats are so filled with ignorance and hate for Christians that they would reject help in a public health crisis.

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deadcactuswalking · 5 years

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REVIEWING THE CHARTS: 31st March 2019

Yeah, this is quite a bit frickin’ late but I’ve been busy tonight and you got the Beauty of “Doin’ Your Mom” this week anyway so I hope it’s fine that this is pretty late. Anyway, I don’t care, let’s get to the top 10, and this episode might barely get to the minimum word limit; we’ll see.

Top 10

Lewis Capaldi is at the top spot for what I believe is his fifth week with “Someone You Loved” at number-one.

At number-two we still have “Giant” by Calvin Harris and Rag ‘n’ Bone Man as the runner-up.

Tom Walker is up a spot to number-three with “Just You and I”, at a new peak.

I’m surprised that Jonas Brothers have been able to survive increased longevity, as their single “Sucker” moves up a single spot from last week to number-four.

Somehow, Ariana Grande’s “break up with your girlfriend, i’m bored” is still moving up spaces, one this week to number-five.

Dave’s “Location” featuring Burna Boy is up two spots to number-six.

We also have a new arrival in the top 10, with “Fashion Week” by Steel Banglez, AJ Tracey and MoStack. It’s producer Steel Banglez’s second top 40 hit and first ever Top 10 hit as a lead artist, AJ Tracey’s fourth top 40 hit and first ever Top 10 hit, as well as MoStack’s fourth top 40 hit and first ever Top 10 hit. Congratulations, guys, but we’ll talk about the song itself later.

LAUV’s “i’m so tired...” with Troye Sivan is up a space to number-eight.

At number nine, we have “Walk Me Home” by P!nk up three spaces to number-nine thanks to the video.

Finally, NSG’s “Options” featuring Tion Wayne is up a single spot to #10.

Climbers

We have three notable climbers this week, all of which are top 20 entries, with “Boasty” by Wiley featuring Idris Elba, Sean Paul and Stefflon Don moving up 11 spaces to #11 and “Here with Me” by Marshmello and CHVRCHES making its way up nine positions to #14. We also have Ava Max with “So Am I”, up 12 spaces from last week’s debut to #18.

Fallers

We have seven fallers and they can be set into three pretty distinct categories. First, we have the songs from Dave’s PSYCHODRAMA gradually making their way out, with “Disaster” featuring J Hus down five positions to #15 and “Streatham” falling eight positions to #22. Then, we have the songs affected by UK chart rules and the streaming cuts that songs with legs typically experience, with “Don’t Call Me Up” by Mabel collapsing down 13 spaces to #16 just as it makes its breakthrough in the US and “7 rings” by Ariana Grande thankfully being completely demolished as it moves down a whopping 22 spaces to #29. Finally, we have the expected yet somewhat premature songs clearing the way for a soon exit, like “Please Me” by Cardi B and Bruno Mars down eight to #25, “Nights Like This” by Kehlani featuring Ty Dolla $ign down five to #33 and “How it Is” by Roddy Ricch, Chip and Yxng Bane featuring the Plug down six to #40 (The faster the better).

Dropouts

We just have four of these this week, with “Juice” by Lizzo sadly making its exit from #38 off the debut, “Nothing Breaks Like a Heart” by Mark Ronson and Miley Cyrus finally leaving from #36, and two songs that never really took off, “Bally” by Swarmz and Tion Wayne from #40 and “wish you were gay” by Billie Eilish from #39, although the latter will probably rebound thanks to the album impacting next week. There are no returning entries so let’s get straight to the new arrivals—

FEATURED SINGLE

“Free Uzi” – Lil Uzi Vert

Produced by DJ L Beats

It’s weird to put Lil Uzi Vert in this section in particular, but I don’t think this song will ever chart considering Lil Uzi Vert’s main audience is probably using Spotify, and this track is only available through a YouTube video, SoundCloud and I think TIDAL because of course, why not? Anyways, Lil Uzi Vert signed a contract when he was young and offered money by DJ Drama, Don Cannon and their label Generation Now, a subsidiary of Atlantic. To cut it short, and to disregard all the drama (No pun intended) like the leaks, Uzi saying he’s going to retire music and “Wake up back in 2013”, him being cut off of NAV’s album due to label shenanigans, Lil Uzi Vert cannot release music when he wants to and has been revealing this info via depressing Instagram Live streams and to see him so defeated is kind of painful, so when I saw that Uzi released a song called “Free Uzi” I figured it wouldn’t be introspective and would be more of an anthem for young aspiring artists who are being shelved by their label... I now understand that 1.) That’s an incredibly niche market, and 2.) No, the song’s about having sex and shooting people. Using a beat ripped from a G Herbo track from 2012 to express his anger towards the label in the oddest way, using a pitched-up version of his voice (To the point where he kind of sounds like Playboi Carti). This song screams raw Uzi, and is a middle finger to his label by being relatively inaccessible in comparison with what the label would want Uzi to make for a comeback single. It’s got an entirely uncleared sample, an almost complete lack of ad-libs which are otherwise incredibly prominent in Uzi’s discography, a monotonous flow that instead of droning as it’s used for the entire song, becomes a mantra, the lo-fi video by some unknown director which is just Uzi smoking and performing really wacky, cute dances with his friends (And NAV) in a corner store, the very abrupt ending and some of Lil Uzi Vert’s more explicit sexual and violent lyrics, including an outrageous line about Colin Kaepernick – search it up, it’s pretty hilarious. It’s such a vengeance song against his label, and I never expect Uzi to be this furiously stubborn and willing to jankily put together a half-unfinished song just for the sake of making DJ Drama even more panicked. It’s an absolute joy to watch and listen to, and I hope it makes it onto Eternal Atake if that ever comes out. Oh, and:

I still watch Big Bang Theory, that’s the nerd in me

Yeah, no, that line’s inexcusable.

NEW ARRIVALS

#38 – “Pretty Shining People” – George Ezra

Produced by Cam Blackwood – Peaked at #12 in Scotland

So this is the fifth single from George Ezra’s second album Staying at Tamara’s because he can’t stop milking his most mediocre effort yet, and also Ezra’s sixth Top 40 hit overall. The record has been winning awards left and right so I don’t blame him for pushing this single – although it was already pushed a year back with a music video as a promotional single – and at least this song is generally pretty inoffensive, although Ezra’s voice sounds odder here than ever, and has a country twang to it that matches the production but does not fit in the slightest, although immediately it is not nearly as noticeable after just the first verse. Overall, this is actually just kind of a pathetic, plastic folk-pop song with some nice guitar licks in there, sure, and an electric guitar riff that is way too distant in the mix, with the hook being an overwhelming pile of absolute cheese that I haven’t heard since R.E.M.’s “Shiny Happy People”. I do appreciate how it is mostly live instrumentation, and I do love the steady drum beat here, but otherwise I wasn’t impressed the first time and it’s worse now that I know his hit song formula and that this “New” track follows it to an absolute T. It’s not awful, but I’d skip it. Next.

#32 – “Piece of Your Heart” – MEDUZA and Goodboys

Produced by MEDUZA

So, I feel this one needs some backstory. MEDUZA is an up-and-coming DJ collective or EDM producer band from what I can gather, and by up-and-coming I mean they literally have two songs available on their Spotify page, and one of them is a remix, so yes, this is technically the debut single from the Italian dance music band, and Goodboys? Well, it’s their debut single too, I’m pretty sure, as they have nothing except a picture up on their Spotify page. Looking at Genius, I now know that they are a London-based pop trio consisting of three producers and I’m assuming vocalists. Hm, two artists, both with no single released yet, collaborate for their debut single, so the only idea I have to base my expectations off is “EDM”, and yes, I suppose it is, and I actually quite like it, to be completely honest, more of a guilty pleasure – if you think those exist, of course. In reality, this is generic deep house that isn’t really much of a novelty or anything special, at least on the surface. The vocalists from Goodboys have very distinct British accents that make their repetitious hook sound hilarious, and I like the glitchy synths harmonising with the synths before the “Drop”, which, by the way, is one of the dudes from Goodboys vocalising the drop as if he was on that Radio 1 show where DJs have to guess their own drop, and it’s pretty cute if anything. Not only does it replicate the drop, which is nice in itself, but it really gives it a homegrown feel because it sounds like someone trying to sing along to it at home. Oh, and the melodies in the post-chorus are pretty gorgeous, and I love how the drop kicks in the second time with the stray snare before everything. Is it generic? Yes. Is it janky? Yes. Do I still like it? Hell yes. If you like this Loud Luxury brand of house-pop, this might just be for you.

#19 – “Keisha & Becky” – Russ and Tion Wayne

Produced by Gotcha Bxtch

So, when I say Russ, I mean Russ splash, a UK rapper known for his top 10 hit “Gun Lean”, which he lazily interpolates in his second Top 40 hit (and Tion Wayne’s third). I don’t mean the American rapper who everyone hates, and I made this distinction last time. Whilst it’s annoying, it’s separated on both Spotify and Genius as Russ splash so it’s not like it’s going to be confusing to a casual listener. Anyway, this is a song by two UK grime rappers known for faux-dancehall and trap bangers in which they talk about killing people, so how can they pull off trying to make some sort of love song? Well, they don’t. I don’t think I’ve heard a less sexy “Very sexy” in my life. In fact, there’s not really a synth melody to carry this song, just an ambient stock sound in the background with just heavy bass and trap percussion to give it much of a beat and honestly the stark minimalism really works. If you ignore the hook’s existence, Tion Wayne sounds as enthusiastic as ever and I’m starting to really love this dude’s charisma. He has an insane ad-lib that is just a really long screech on here as well, which I think is an explanation in itself to why I like this dude. The first half of the hook is exciting until, well, “Very sexy” (It isn’t), and when Wayne and Russ start trading bars it gets pretty fun, in fact Russ sounds pretty great on the song. His rapid flow and nasal delivery is a perfect fit, but honestly I can’t get over how it’s decidedly unsexy for a song about how Keisha and Becky are “Very sexy”, and makes no effort to be because it’s just a trap song about gang violence and attractive women like they all are, but there’s not really much storytelling to explain who Keisha and Becky are or anything, it’s just that one line that irritates the hell out of me, “Keisha, Becky, very sexy”. Like the rest of the song, it’s so bare minimum that it nearly works, but it still misses the mark for me. Sorry, Wayne, I’m excited to hear your next song, but Russ? He can go away, he’s kind of worthless, but I see some improvement.

#7 – “Fashion Week” – Steel Banglez, AJ Tracey, MoStack

Produced by Steel Banglez and TheElements

What Steel Banglez does is make these who’s-who collaborations between British rappers almost like he’s DJ Khaled, although in this case you can tell Steel Banglez actually co-produced the beat because he does have a signature style, which is trap with a sprinkling of dancehall... so, yeah, he’s a producer who just makes generic beats that everyone else makes, right? Why is he so big? Well, he’s kind of a pioneer, because he was one of the first to combine UK rap, dancehall and pop hooks as well as keeping that ruthlessness and bloodthirsty attitude of British trap, to great success. So, is he any good? Usually, no, he kind of sucks and his style does nothing for me. This one definitely has a Caribbean rhythm that I like but there’s not enough bass to make the beat really hit, and MoStack is an absolutely pathetic rapper who gives one of the worst performances I think I’ve ever heard in UK rap as he mumbles in his offbeat falsetto without a care, with the mix barely even caring enough to keep his vocals audible. Compare it to AJ Tracey, with a strong delivery, odd and urine-related yet actually witty wordplay, multisyllabic rhymes, and he’s on the same song and does the hook. If MoStack wasn’t on this and the beat had some more bass than it does, maybe this could have been serviceable, but especially with the awkward instrumental section, despite me personally liking the strings and AJ Tracey’s verse, I can’t like this as much as I want to.

Conclusion

Wow, not a great week, huh? Well, MEDUZA and Goodboys take away Best of the Week for “Piece of Your Heart”, even though I wouldn’t say it’s exactly great or even all that good. Worst of the Week obviously goes to Steel Banglez, AJ Tracey and MoStack for “Fashion Week”, but nothing else is even notable enough for Honourable or Dishonourable Mention. See ya next week, and free Uzi.

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IN LAMMY’S WORLD ONLY GAY AND ABORTION ACTIVISTS CAN BE WHITE SAVIORS

Once upon a time, in the days of Rule Britannia, white saviors went to Asia and Africa and saved women and children. Today, in the era of Cool Britannia, white saviors conspire to control our former colonies with the gospel of gay sex and abortion. Progressive white saviors seek to destroy, not save—to kill unborn babies and prevent procreation.

British colonial rulers in India banned female infanticide in 1870, after Jonathan Duncan, resident in Benares, drew attention to the bizarre Hindu custom. Instead of converting Hindus to Christianity, in 1791 Duncan founded the Sanskrit College for the study of Hindu Law and Philosophy.

After British colonial administrators prohibited child sacrifice at the Ganga Sagar festival, 19 Christian missionaries petitioned Lord Bentinck, Governor-General of India, to ban suttee—the custom forcing Hindu widows to immolate themselves on their husband’s funeral pyre.

When lecturing at Liverpool Hope University, I would ask my students what they thought of such acts performed by the British in India. Chillingly, the snowflakes were silent. Even the feminists in my class would squirm when I asked them about the rights of Hindu widows. The idea of “white savior” Lord Bentinck banning this indigenous practice through the Bengal Sati Regulation Act (1829) was colonial, racist and white supremacist.

When Prof Allan Bloom’s posed the same question to his students at Harvard, he got a similar response. “They either remain silent or reply that the British should never have been there in the first place,” he writes in The Closing of the American Mind.

I’m sure this is how the Rt Hon David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham, would respond. Lammy has had enough of “white saviors.” I mean, just look at all the harm they’ve done! As a Hindu Brahmin, my mother wouldn’t be alive today if Bentinck hadn’t banned suttee. I’d have to mutter a few Sanskrit shlokas and give her the heave-ho onto my dad’s barbecue.

But white people have no business monkeying around for Comic Relief in Uganda, Lammy would say to Stacey Dooley. This white Barbie doll should check her white privilege and upload pictures on Instagram of her holding only obese white children with snot running down their noses. It’s racist for her to get the optics wrong. In Lammy’s tribal world, you’re defined by the color of your skin, not by the content of your character.

“The world does not need any more white saviors. As I’ve said before, this just perpetuates tired and unhelpful stereotypes,” Lammy lamely tweeted. “It’s a kind of missionary idea, and it’s deeply problematic because what it does is it keeps the continent of Africa poor, it keeps people in their place,” explains the race hustler.

Lammy is the Al Sharpton of British politics. Twinned with Dianne Abbott, their race-baiting keeps them in the spotlight. In 2013, while debating gay marriage in Parliament, Lammy compared Christian MPs opposed to same-sex marriage to parliamentarians who defended the slave trade 200 years ago.

Lammy suffers from “racial paranoia,” which author Dinesh D’Souza defines as a “reflexive tendency to blame racism for every failure.” He pursues “the white whale of racism with Ahab-like determination.” As if he’s reading a Rorschach inkblot test, Lammy imagines colonialism and racism in the rather cute picture of eminent documentary filmmaker Stacey Dooley holding a Ugandan child.

As someone with a privileged education—The King’s School, School of Oriental and African Studies and Harvard Law School—Lammy needs to ask a few more questions about “white saviors” over the centuries. Why did the Judeo-Christian West produce these saviors? The answer lies in theology and technology.

Ancient civilizations were fiercely tribal: a person of one race would not cross ethnic boundaries to help someone of another race. The theology of the Hebrew Bible shattered this tribalism. Israel would be “a light to the nations.” From Israel came Jesus, who claimed to be the Messiah—not to a tribe, but to the world.

Israel produced a brown-skinned Saviour. Hey! Lammy, did you know Jesus was not white? Jesus was “most likely dark brown and sun-tanned,” says Princeton biblical scholar James Charlesworth. This Saviour began an obscure movement on the margins of the Roman Empire that dislodged classical paganism and became the dominant faith of the West.

Breaking with Marxist assumptions (lower classes are more religious than the rich), sociologist Rodney Stark argues that people with a degree of privilege and sophistication were attracted to the Jesus movement. In Roman society, mercy and pity were considered pathological emotions. But Jesus’ followers behaved mercifully because they had received mercy from God. Tribalism was smashed as privileged people crossed forbidden boundaries of class, color, race, and nation to share the gospel of their brown Saviour and to help those in the most life-threatening exigencies—especially during epidemics and plagues.

Jesus’s parable of the Good Samaritan climaxes in the question: “Who is my neighbor?” My neighbor is someone who is not like me and is not part of my tribe! However skeptically one views the charitable work done by Stacey Dooley and Comic Relief or other charities providing relief to the Third World, they’re doing it because the idea of serving someone who is not like me, is part of our Western DNA. “Charity” derived from the Latin Caritas is a Christian innovation.

Christianity gave birth to science and technology. Without a theology committed to reason, the world today would be where non-European societies were in 1800 with many astrologers and alchemists, but no scientists, Stark comments. “Modernity arose only in Christian societies. Not in Asia. Not in Islam. Not in a ‘secular’ society—there having been none. And all the modernization that has since occurred outside Christendom was imported from the West, often brought by colonizers and missionaries,” he adds.

Our theology motivated “white saviors” to go to Asia and Africa; our technology gave us prosperity. Because we were technologically more advanced, we had something to offer to those who were technologically less advanced.

Postmodern progressives like Lammy are profoundly ashamed of our missionary heritage. They conflate Christian mission with racism, imperialism, colonialism and white supremacy. What they are proud of is the new mission civilisatrice where “white saviors” now seek to enlighten Asia and Africa (and immigrants of color to Britain) with the gospel of pansexual liberation.

Lammy should look at the picture in Monday’s Guardian—Andrew Moffat, head of Parkfield Community School in Birmingham is reading a book to five brown/black children. “White savior” Moffat is indoctrinating colored Muslim children with LGBT+ propaganda. Their families are outraged. Such sexual grooming goes against their culture and religion, but progressives don’t regard this as cultural or ideological imperialism!

In a previous column, I pointed out how Anglican LGBT activist Jayne Ozanne has set up her own foundation with ten white saviors to civilize sexual savages. “The new foundation has been set up to help educate and advocate on LGBTI and gender rights around the world, particularly within religious organizations that are opposed to non-heterosexual relationships,” said Ozanne’s website.

The government’s Wilton Park report urges engagement with the Global South to challenge the “heteropatriarchy of Christianity brought by western missionaries” and teach queer theology, feminist theology and a theology of inclusion in seminaries to promote homosexuality, transgenderism, and intersexuality.

In 2017, our so-called Conservative government announced it would spend over £1.1billion on overseas abortions. According to a 2015 Pew Report, 92 percent Ghanaians, 88 percent Ugandans and 82 percent Kenyans say they find abortion unacceptable. In Asia, the figures are as high as 93 percent for the Philippines, 89 percent for Indonesia and 85 percent for Pakistan.

“I don’t think that any Western country has a right to pay for abortions in an African country, especially when the majority of people don’t want abortion… that then becomes a form of ideological colonization,” Obianuju Ekeocha, founder of Culture of Life Africa told the BBC World Service (who were banging the global abortion drum).

The next time Lammy rails against “white saviors” and “poverty porn,” I’m sending him a copy of Keith Richburg’s Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa. Richburg, a black man, is correspondent for the leftwing Washington Post. He is “a descendant of slaves brought from Africa” and especially sensitive to the cynical and manipulative use of the race card by politicians like David Lammy.

“I’m tired of all the ignorance and hypocrisy and the double standards I hear and read about Africa, much of it from people who’ve never been there, let alone spent three years walking around amid corpses,” he writes. It’s not colonialism, or racism, or the white man; the real root of Africa’s problems, he stresses, lies in the boundless corruption of its leaders.

“Thank God that I am an American,” and “thank God my ancestor survived the voyage” which brought him to the United States as a slave, concludes Richburg.

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We Can Be Heroes - Origins

A Quick Guide to Social Anxiety

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L E V I

"Kindaichi Creelman?" The teacher at the front of the class asks and I reluctantly raise my hand, "here" I all but seethe and the teacher looks up at me and smiles which I don't return, then he continues with the roll. You'd think people in this godforsaken school would be able to understand that I want to be called Levi. Its listed as my preferred name, so its really pretty simple to remember to not use my Japanese name.

I take my hand down and refocus my view to the window next to me. My window. Next to my seat. Which always has to be in the back. Where the teachers never pay attention or students can't be bothered to turn around and cause shit like throwing paper or bullying me indiscreetly because if they were to turn around to deliberately be assholes at least the teacher would notice. Well . . . maybe except Mr Freeman who was as blind as a bad and as deaf as a . . . I don't know . . . something that's deaf.

The seats in the back are a godsend to anyone who wishes to go throughout life without being noticed, invisible to the countless shitheads at Center Point Valley High School or CPVHS to those who can't she stuffed to say five words at a time.

A little Blue Wren flies past the window and settles itself into the Gumtree close by and my lip twitches in a small half smile. I'd rather be out there and free than trapped in this small room with a bunch of teens who care more about who their sleeping with than the actual knowledge they could be learning. Ahh well. They're the ones who'll be mangers of fast food restaurants in twenty years. Not me.

"Now if you divide this by the numerical you get your answer." The teacher continues and j wrote down the information without looking at anyone. I don't know where my fear of people came from . . . fear seems to be to strong of a word . . . a big dislike of humans deems to fit better. But I've been scared/uncomfortable in large crowds or parties or any place that has more than three peoples tops.

I've been this way ever since I was a kid - it isn't as if I have some dark and tragic anime background story. My father was a firefighter pasted away a few years ago so I live with my step mother and half-brother . . . my mother . . . well that's a long story for a different time. A long and complicated story.

Okay well maybe I do have s fairly anime styled back story . . . doesn't mean anything.

Really the only upside of my school life was meeting AJ.

One day when I brought in a delicious piece of chocolate cake to school – which looked like it would be the best cake in the whole damn world, a kid accidentally bumped into me and thus, I dropped the delicious looking cake and cried.

R. I. P.

Well the kids laughed which just pissed me off really, I turn around to see the douche that hit me and was met with a pair of very concerned and fear filled brown eyes. He said sorry almost immediately but I just left, not bothering with saying anything to him and I continued to ignore him for the rest of the week – not like that was anything new for me since I ignore everybody. But come the following Monday, this blonde haired, blue eyed child brings in a whole chocolate cake and said it was for me.

I kind of just stared at him until he passes me the plate of heaven and smiles.

“I’m AJ, sorry for making you drop your cake, I was just looking at a butterfly and I didn’t see you.” He says while blushing. “So I made you this cake all for you so you wouldn’t hate me anymore. I just moved here so I really, really want to be your friend.” The little ray of sunshine says excitedly, that’s when I realised – ‘hey, I kinda like this kid, he makes me cake.’ A very shallow thought but I thought that the fact that he made me a cake was the best thing in the world for an eight year old. I ended up inviting him over so we could eat the damn cake he made, my parents were so happy that I finally made a friend, that I wouldn’t be alone anymore – they make being alone sound like a bad thing . . . which it isn’t – and they just loved AJ’s happy-go-lucky personality and so did I. I secretly hoped he would rub off on me. Nothing seemed to bother him for long, he was like a giant magnet; everybody loved him and wanted to be around him. He was nice to everyone and as we grew older he never changed and I realised that soon, he’d find new friends to hang out with, to go to parties with and tell everything too. I mean why would a ray of sunshine want to hang out with the shadows? Damn that does make me sound Emo. But he didn’t. He didn’t get rid of me to find more fun loving friends, he stayed.

“Why would I want them when I have you?” was his reply, nothing made me feel so wanted. We were fifteen then and we are still friends. It’s now our last year of high school and that’s when it dawns on me – ten years. AJ has been my friend for ten years and he hasn’t gotten sick of me and I haven’t got sick of him.

I’ve had this sunshine in my life for ten years and I still haven’t got a tan.

I want to keep adding the years until the end.

He’s the best thing to ever happen to me.

A boy is introduced to the class and I lift my focus to the front of the room.

"This is our new student Gabriel. Why don't you take a seat up the back next to Kindaichi." The teacher says and my jaw clenches in anger.

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A J

I love dinosaurs.

I don’t even know why, I like the idea of something living that long ago, something that big and something that cool being able to have a family and eat foods and just live. I love the idea of life. That everything lives in its own way and how if you upset the balance just a little bit – you could end the life.

“Alexander–Jay Northing?” my P.E teacher asks, I turn to them and call out “Present!” I turn back to the game I was playing but it was too late – a received a volleyball to the face which sends me flying onto my butt. “Ouch” I complain as my face feels warm from impact. My class mate runs over to me and helps me up. “Nice kill Anthony.” I say and he laughs. “I’m really sorry Alex.” He says and I laugh with him. “It’s okay man, but I’m totally winning the next point.” I reply and he scoffs, “yeah right, you can’t serve for shit.” He jokes and I grab my heart. “Another kill Anthony, but just you wait.” I warn and walk back to serve. The ball flies up and I jump up to hit it but just when I expect to feel the sting on my hand I feel nothing until something hits my head which brings my teammates into another fit of laughter. I missed it? Argh I thought I was good at volleyball! I repeat the serve and this time hit it. The ball sails over the net and hits the other court before anyone could hit it. “YES!” I yell as my team wins the second set. “Guess my serves are a bit better than shit.” I tease.

I wonder what class Levi has. I know better than to call him Kindaichi, I know he hates his Japanese name. I always wonder what class he has, if he likes that class, if he hates that class . . . it’s obvious that he hates the people in his class. I mean he hates everybody; he even used to hate me. I still remember that fateful day, the day of which I made him drop that cake. I still don’t understand that guy’s obsession with sweets, he makes L Lawliet look like an amateur with how much sugar he puts in his body without gaining anything extreme; he’s cute and chubby and not very muscular and I wouldn’t want him any other way.

I told him I was distracted by a butterfly, which I was until I saw the kid with black hair and blue eyes, looking at the cake like it was the most important thing in his world. Then me being me I forgot to break and accidently bumped into him. I felt bad immediately, and my heart just about broke when he started crying. Then the other kids made fun of him and he stopped. I’ve never met anybody so beautiful as him, which is an odd thing for an eight year old to think but the shorter boy with black hair and pale skin with the darkest brown eyes I have ever seen who is looking at me like I murdered his entire family in front of him is beautiful.

I try to apologise but he just leaves and I bite my lip nervously. ‘Maybe he’ll forgive me tomorrow.’ I thought hopefully.

He didn’t.

I tried every day for a week to get the beautiful boy to talk to me but he ignored me. It made me sad and confused. I just wanted to be his friend, he always sat alone and the kids laughed at him when he spoke and stuttered which I just found adorable. I remember going home and crying to my mum.

“Mummy he hates me” I cried and she hugged me. “Who? Are you being bullied?” she asked worriedly and I shook my head. “No, but I accidentally made this boys cake drop and he keeps ignoring me, I just want to be his friend.” I cried and she hugs me tighter. “You big hearted, beautiful boy.” She says and squeezes. “What should you do to get him to talk to you? Was he upset when he dropped the cake?” she asks and I nod.

“He cried.” I replied. “I should make him a cake!” I thought excitedly and she nods, “that’s a great idea!” she responds.

We make the cake on Sunday, my mums long blonde hair in a bun as she hands me the ingredients that I put in the bowl.

“So what’s his name?” she asks and I smile. “It’s Kindaichi, but he likes to be called Levi, oh mum he’s so pretty! And he has this adorable stutter.”

I say and she smiles. “You think he’s pretty and adorable?” she asks and I nod, “is that weird?” I say quietly. “Nope. Not at all, you can like anyone you want baby, okay, I will never tell you otherwise.” She said. Little eight year old me had no idea what was so bad about thinking a boy was beautiful until I got older.

There was an openly gay boy in the year above us, Levi and I were only thirteen and I couldn’t grasp the thought of what was so wrong. But when the boys were picking on him and calling him names, I became a coward; I forced my feelings down and pretended to be as straight as a ruler. I still am pretending. I don’t know why I haven’t told anyone I’m gay, I mean my generation is pretty chill now but I guess there is this underlying fear of being rejected by everyone I love.

Even if that means keeping this secret from Levi.

The bell rings and I get changed back into my school uniform of long black pants, a white button up shirt and a black and white striped tie, and the occasional black blazer or jacket in the cooler weather. My stomach growls and I pat it. ‘Shh, you’ll be fed soon’ is my thought as I make it to the lunch areas, sitting down in the usual spot away from all the other seats, perfect for Levi. Speaking of that black haired, blue eyed boy, where is he?

Then, to my utter surprise, Levi walks out, that’s not what’s surprising. The thing that is surprising is the fact that he’s walking with another boy next to him. ‘What? But he hates everyone!’ is my defence, this has to be a mistake then he is standing before me with the other guy. “Hey AJ, this is Gabriel.” He says and looks to the boy with light brown hair and dark eyes that almost seem black. He gives him a pointed look and Levi laughs softly. “Sorry, this is Gabe. Gabe, this is AJ.” He says and I nod at him. Gabe? Their on a nicknames basis? Who the hell is this kid? And what has he done to Levi? My shy and people hating Levi.

“It’s nice to meet you. I don’t really like a lot of people so it might be nice to get to know you guys.” He says, well, that’s why Levi likes him. “Well how do you guys know each other?” I ask, careful to keep any dangerous emotion out of my voice. “The maths teacher last period told me to sit next to him and I did. He seemed not to like people either so I thought may as well hate people together.” Gabe laughs and opens his lunch box from his position next to Levi. “How was last period?” I ask him and he shrugs.

“Same old, boring class filled with the people I hate. What about you?” pHe asks and takes a bite from his sandwich. “Eh, I got hit in the face by a ball but my team won so…go me.” I say and he laughs just as Gabe takes out a piece of caramel cake. Levi’s eyes immediately focus on it and I shake my head with a chuckle. “Gabe, I’d be careful if I were you, Levi here has a thing for sweets.” I say and point to the salivating boy. “Do you want it?” Gabe asks and I cock an eyebrow. He’d just give him a piece of cake? What the hell? Levi nods as the cake is put in front of him. The sandwich that looks to have salad on it is forgotten as he digs into the cake and smiles.

“Thank you so much.” He says gleefully with his mouth full. That adorable idiot, you are eighteen years old, don’t talk with your mouth full. The rest of the lunch break went by, asking questions to the new kid who just moved here from a whole other state, reasons he didn’t want to disclose. Levi seems to like him which was enough to put me on edge. He hated me for a week until he was willing to be my friend. A week! And even after that, this friendship was one careful brick at a time. To see him get this far in friendship with a guy he just met today makes me uncomfortable.

Maybe he’s not the one that should be worried about me leaving him. Maybe I should be worried he’ll leave me. “AJ? Are you even listening to me?” I’m pulled out of my thoughts by a pouting Levi. No! Don’t be cute! “Huh? What were you saying?” I ask and he huffs and crosses his arms, Gabe watching intently. “I take that as a ‘no’ you weren’t listening.” He answers and I shrug sheepishly. “Sorry.” I reply and he rolls his eyes. “I said that you should invite Gabe to your birthday party.” He states while looking over to the silent boy. “What? You want him to come?” I ask, trying to keep all surprise out of my tone. “Not to your actual birthday with just us and your family, I mean the one that you invited the whole damn school too.” He says with an edge and a laugh escapes. “I’m sorry, but everyone is expecting I throw a party for my eighteenth. They’d complain and annoy me.” I say and he rolls his eyes again.

Damn, what an attitude he has today, he should at least be a little happier. I mean he’s had cake! “Well sorry Mr Popular. It’s not my fault that you seem to like all the shitheads at this school.” He says while sliding down further into his seat I laugh again and he glares at me. “This isn’t funny dumbass.” He snips which makes me laugh even more and Gabe just looks from me to him a few times.

“But I guess he can come to the big party before the birthday just for us.” I announce and Gabe looks up happily. “Really? When is it?” he asks and grabs a date planner out. “Um, next Friday.” I say and he flips to the page. “The third of April?” he asks and I nod in confirmation. “Yeah, my real birthday is the fourth.” I say and he nods before turning to back to Levi. “So you two spend your real birthday together?” he asks and Levi nods in response before turning back to the rest of his lunch. I follow suit before my eyes meet Gabe’s who gives me a knowing look.

Huh? He ignores me and continues with his lunch, his face turning back to neutral. What is with this guy?

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The bell rings and I groan. “Ugh, English. You think we can skip without getting in trouble?” I ask AJ and he laughs. “I highly doubt it Levi.” He responds and I groan and deflate. “Ugh – I hate English.” I mumble and Gabe laughs from beside me. “Me too Levi, I can’t stand English.” He responds and I smile, catching AJ look strange from the corner of my eye. “Well we better go; English is one of the only classes we have together.” AJ says and puts his bag over his shoulder. “Pfft, yeah. Can’t forget that we have cooking together.” I snicker and picture AJ and I in Mrs Davis’s class, AJ covered in flour and other ingredients. He’s as bad with cooking as I am with social interactions.

“What teacher do you have?” I direct the question to Gabe and he grabs a piece of paper out of his bag. “Mrs Cowell.” He responds and AJ snorts. “Good luck with her – the woman’s a tyrant. We had her last year.” He says and shakes his head at the memory of the teacher who would give the whole class detention if one person didn’t bring in homework. I shudder and stand closer to AJ about to depart for class. “I’ll see you later?” I ask Gabe and he smiles and nods and I nod back and start walking with AJ who is silent for most of the way there.

“AJ, are you okay? You’ve been really quiet and I’m starting to worry.” I bite my lip nervously at what could be wrong. “It’s nothing – I promise. I’m just confused about something.” He reassures but for some reason it doesn’t make me feel any better. “Okay…?” I answer and walk into hell – I mean class.

“Kindaichi Creelmen?” the teacher calls out and I roll my eyes as AJ laughs silently next to me. “Here.” I say flatly and bring my forehead to my desk and let out a groan which only urges AJ to laugh even more. “Don’t worry. They’ll get your name eventually.” AJ comforts and pats my back while biting his cheek to stop himself from laughing at my expense and I shake my head.

“No they won’t. They’ve had plenty of years to learn my name but they haven’t and they never will.” I complain and AJ just smiles and answers ‘present’ when his name is called on the roll.

Mr Tysilk, a fairly young teacher that for some reason has the whole female population of this hell hole in love with him walks from one side of his desk to the other, talking about some literally devices or something. I stifle a yawn and see AJ out of the corner of my eye repeat the action. See . . . English is boring.

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Portland: Liberal Media Cries when Antifa get the Cop Treatment they Deserve

The Huffington Post is generally considered by this magazine to be beneath our interest. After all, the content produced by Ariana's legion of volunteer undergraduates is notable only for their consistent anti-white agenda and lack of fact-checking. Still, on occasion, it is important to hold the hands of the feeble-minded and walk them through why reality looks the way it does.

In a piece entitled Violent Proto-Fascists Came To Portland. The Police Went After The Anti-Fascists the Huffington Post tries desperately hard to conflate proto-fascism with civic nationalist outfit The Proud Boys (led by the avowedly pro-Israel Gavin McInnes) and the pro-marijuana, pro-gay marriage, mixed-race Joey Gibson and his Patriot Prayer movement.

On one side of the parkway, in Tom McCall Waterfront Park, stood hundreds of out-of-towners belonging to the Proud Boys — a punch-drunk far-right group of self-described “Western chauvinists” dressed in helmets and body armor — and those aligned with Patriot Prayer and its leader Joey Gibson, a Republican Senate candidate from Washington state who has held a series of increasingly violent rallies in the Pacific Northwest since 2017.

Both groups have deep ties to white supremacists.

Dancing around the topic like this is a useful tactic to convince the casual leftist that if action is not taken, then the proto-fascists will magically transmogrify into actual fascists, which necessitates the anti-fascists to stamp on their heads. Though the noodle-armed Antifa invariably lose every engagement with the "nazis", we must not forget how this situation came to pass. The first blows were struck by anarchists. On the 4th of March 2017, an elderly man was pepper sprayed and 10 anarchists were arrested for violence in Berkeley. This followed February's incendiary near-riot at a Milo Yiannopoulos (remember him!?) speech at the town's campus. Eric Clanton, the 28-year-old "restorative justice" professor will be remembered more for his work with a bike lock at Berkeley than with a pen. People on the right began arming themselves around this time with helmets, to protect against being literally murdered.

Fast forward to today, and where are we?

CW: very graphic. My comrade was shot in the back of the head by @PortlandPolice today. He was hit with the very first flash bang the cops shot. Make no mistake this was an act of aggression and there will be hell to pay @tedwheeler #defendpdx #AllOutPDX pic.twitter.com/oSHqhpyzfC

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On the one hand, the body-armor worn by The Proud Boys is a terrible thing. On the other, the helmet worn by this communist saved his life. It's almost as if not getting your brain scrambled is conducive to long-term success. Back to the Huffington Post article.

This is America’s modern “free speech” rally in the era of President Donald Trump. Trollish far-right leaders, like Gibson, plan a battle royale disguised as a celebration of the First Amendment. People come decked out with weapons and armor to fight anti-fascists, and one of two things happens: The two sides beat the living snot out of one another en masse, or police break it up.

At the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, the former happened, ending with a neo-Nazi allegedly driving a car into a crowd of anti-racist protesters, killing Heyer and injuring 19 others.

If you can conflate everything from the First Amendment and Donald Trump to the hamburger related death of Heather Heyer and neo-Nazis and trolling and the far-right; well, I guess that's justification for by any means necessary, isn't that right, comrades? The overtly Antifa supporting elements of the press seem to overlook that in every single occasion -from Milo at Berkeley to Portland on June 30th, 2018- it has been Antifa who start the trouble. Their entire M.O is to attempt to force violence from the "Nazis" and thereby justify the further escalation of violence in response to the violence of the Nazis, thus proving themselves ideologically correct. It is bizarre mental-backflipping, perfectly illustrated by the Huffington Post bloggers who simultaneously ignore the incredibly benign nature of the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer in favor of creating a unified neo-Nazi right wing boogeyman against which violence can be justified.

On June 30 in Portland, the city declared a riot after police let Patriot Prayer and Proud Boys brawl with anti-fascists in the streets. Some half a dozen people were sent to the hospital after the day’s chaos, one with a brain hemorrhage.

The brain hemorrhage was received by an Antifa goon who was trying to beat unarmed people with a collapsible baton. No sympathy required here, folks. If you are so bad at fighting you can't spot and dodge a telegraphed punch, you need to stay in your lane.

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There were fears that Saturday’s rally would be even worse. But this time police successfully kept the sides separated — yet as they have at other Patriot Prayer gatherings, they targeted counter-protesters with their weapons and defended those aligned with white supremacy.

The multiracial, pro-Israel, Civ-Nat Proud Boys and an explicitly free-speech group headed by an Irish/Japanese activist are aligned with "white supremacy". For those that are keeping count, that's the second time we have been told that these groups are aligned with white supremacy, despite no evidence, nor any definition of where the actual white supremacists are. For the police captains, I am sure that the decision was an easy one. The legal, papered gatherings of the right-wing have passed off without incident in every circumstance that they have been permitted to do so unmolested. Antifa brings only disorder and violence. Therefore, if you remove the Antifa from your streets, order will return. Deploy the flash-bangs, lads!

“Police launched a violent attack on the left that was unprovoked in an attempt to allow Patriot Prayer and Proud Boys to go on their march,” said Effie Baum, spokesperson for Popular Mobilization, a coalition of anti-racist and anti-fascist groups formed for today’s counter-demonstration.

“When people say there was no violence today between the right and left, there was absolutely violence, and it was perpetrated by the police on the left.”

Effie was quoted prior to the event in proto-Communist blog Truthout:

“We know that we outnumber them, and history has shown in Portland, … when we have large numbers of people coming together, it shows the right wing and hateful groups that their rhetoric is not welcome in our city...As they grow and become a larger threat, we need a larger group of folks to combat their ideology.”

The right-wing, as a whole, is conflated with hate. This is what these people believe; and to call back to the opening paragraph of the Huffington Post piece, the use of Proto-Fascist is telling indeed. As the Daily Caller reported last year, Google has already re-defined Fascism itself to be explicitly right wing, and so the use of "proto-fascist" to describe mild right-wing groups in the liberal press is very troubling indeed.

It bears repeating again, that Antifa and related so-called anti-racist groups are little more than pawns for globalists, stirred up by articles like this one in the Huffington Post to prevent at all costs the gathering of nationalists and patriots. The media points, and the communist street-gangs -mostly populated with wastrels and society's losers- throw the excrement. It's an easy decision for cops to make- do you shoot the communists who are launching bottles of piss at you, or the "Nazis" who are chanting and praying? Well done, Portland P.D. May more police agencies follow your example of protecting the constitutional rights of citizens against those who wish to dominate the West using thought-control and violence.

To the leftists out there, if you decide that you don't want to be shot in the head by police with a flash-bang, or get your skull fractured while trying to baton people, or unfortunately drop dead from heart failure when a car misses you by a country mile, just leave conservatives alone to do our thing, and see us at the ballot box. The way you are going on, it's going to lead to a time when you wake up in the middle of the night, terrified that somewhere nearby you can hear a rotary-engined aircraft landing.

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Archbishop Welby Hosts Muslim Leader Who Calls Homosexuality a "Disease"

“What will Christian pastors who accept homosexuality tell Jesus?” It was not a Christian, but a Muslim who asked this inflammatory question at the Islamic University of Syarif Hidayatullah, in South Tangerang, Indonesia in 2016.

The Muslim asking this question was no ordinary Muslim. He is the most revered Sunni Muslim leader in the world. Sheikh Ahmed al Tayyeb is Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University in Egypt.

Over the last two days, Sheikh al Tayyeb has had the opportunity to ask the same question to the leader of 80 million Anglicans. If he had been as blunt as Donald Trump and popped the question to his host at Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury wouldn’t be tweeting his praises from the top of the minaret.

Tonight, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar and I shared our gratitude and admiration for the Christian and Muslim #EmergingPeacemakers who have been with us at @LambethPalace this week. You are a sign of hope for our world. #EPForum18 pic.twitter.com/NgooMHEctx

— Archbishop of Canterbury (@JustinWelby) July 18, 2018

I thought the Lord Jesus Christ was the "hope for our world", not the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar! Unless, of course, Welby’s Muslim messiah is a tolerant and inclusive liberal, who is deep into "good disagreement" and "mutual flourishing" and who licked his fingers after tucking into a full English breakfast of bacon and black pudding at Lambeth Palace to prove his credentials.

But let’s not pour kerosene on the glowing embers of cynicism. Welby must have had good reasons to invite such a towering figure from the Muslim world. Things have been getting hot for Christians in Egypt. Copts, Anglicans and evangelical Christians are living in fear. The Religion of Peace is busy firebombing churches.

So after reading Donald Trump’s Art of the Deal, it is possible Welby could have invited the Sheikh to do a deal. “Let’s just shake on it, Sheikh, and we can all live in peace and write books together,” Welby might well be telling his Muslim counterpart. Sheikh al Tayyeb is just down the road at Al-Azhar Uni and because now that Welby is his pal and they follow each other on Twitter, all the Sheikh has to do is to issue a fatwa putting an end to Christianophobia in Egypt.

This morning we had an excellent meeting with the Grand Imam of @AlAzharUniv to discuss how religious leadership can be reimagined for the greater good of the world. #EPForum18 pic.twitter.com/lGyYW5lkdJ

— Archbishop of Canterbury (@JustinWelby) July 17, 2018

As President Donald Trump told the press following his meeting with Kim Jong Un: “Very good. Very, very good. Excellent relationship. We’ll solve the big problem, the big dilemma, that until this point has been unable to be solved. We will solve it. We will be successful. And I look forward to working on it with you. It will be done.”

Now if you are going to re-imagine religious leadership for the greater good of the world, you might begin by asking how to re-imagine a religion that believes in killing people who convert to another religion; the muslim apostates. Welby is passionate about evangelism. He set up his Task Group for Evangelism and Mission. Surely he would want to pop that question to Sheikh al Tayyeb?

So how do you think Sheikh al Tayyeb would re-imagine the concept of apostasy in Islam? You can find the Sheikh’s answer on several Egyptian TV channels and on the official YouTube Channel of Al-Azhar University, Sunni Islam’s most prestigious university. It is, of course, in Arabic.

Since Archbishop Justin speaks English and French, but not Arabic, I am supplying him with a link so he can listen to the liberal, inclusive, moderate and tolerant answer his new Muslim pal gives his Arabic-speaking audience.

The Sheikh doesn’t do Anglican fudge in front of his Muslim brethren. He gets straight to the point and gives the standard answer expected of any Islamic scholar. “The four schools of law all concur that apostasy is a crime, that an apostate should be asked to repent, and that if he does not, he should be killed.” Sheikh al Tayyeb goes on to deliver his exegesis of the relevant verses in the Quran and Hadith.

“There are two verses in the Quran that clearly mention apostasy, but they did not define a specific punishment. They left the punishment for the Hereafter, for Allah to punish them as He sees fit. But there are two hadiths [on apostasy]. According to the more reliable of the two, a Muslim can only be killed in one of three cases, one of which is abandoning his religion and leaving the community,” he says.

“We must examine these two expressions: ‘Abandoning religion’ is described as ‘leaving the community’. All the early jurisprudents understood that this applies to someone who leaves his religion, regardless of whether he left and opposed his community or not. All the early jurisprudents said that such a person should be killed, regardless of whether it is a man or a woman – with the exception of the Hanafi School, which says that a female apostate should not be killed,” he adds.

Feminists like Bishop Sarah Mullally, who was present at one of the meetings with Sheikh al Tayyeb and re-tweeted a picture of her sitting with other religious panjandrums, would surely ask the Sheikh to reimagine his idea of a woman.

I’m very grateful we were joined by #Anglican leaders from Egypt, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Holy Land. They are confronting questions of hope and despair each day – and living out the love of Jesus Christ for the world. pic.twitter.com/3jXSy3sCWY

— Archbishop of Canterbury (@JustinWelby) July 17, 2018

Why? When the interviewer asks al Tayyeb why a female apostate should not be hacked to death, the Sheikh gives an answer that would give even the mildest feminist an apoplectic fit.

“Because it is inconceivable that a woman would rebel against her community,” he notes. The Sheikh knows his hadith. After all, one of the most authoritative hadiths, Sahih Bukhari cites Muhammad as saying, “‘Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man?’ They replied in the affirmative. He said, “This is the deficiency in her intelligence’” (6:301).

So our cuddly Sheikh needs to re-imagine religious freedom and women’s rights. Surely the Grand Imam has got it right on human rights? After all, human rights are as universal as unicorns, no?

Here’s what the Sheikh says in the interview: “The concepts of human rights are full of ticking time-bombs.” At least he is not so naïve to affirm that the West and the rest share the same values. “The problem is that the [Islamic and Western] civilizations are different. Our civilization is based on religion and moral values, whereas their civilization is based more on personal liberties and some moral values,” he tells his interviewer.

That is why Sheikh al Tayyeb is not going to make a donation to Stonewall and apologise to Peter Tatchell for the Islamic sport of throwing gays from rooftops to see if they can defy gravity. Good grief, never! After all, the Sheikh thinks homosexuality is a disease!

“My opinion was – and I said this [in the West] – that no Muslim society could ever consider sexual liberty, homosexuality and so on to be a personal right. Muslim societies consider these things to be diseases, which must be fought and treated.”

Treat homosexuality? Surely Justin Welby is going to introduce Sheikh al Tayyeb to the Anglican LGBT activist Jayne Ozanne and to Penny Mordaunt, the women and equalities minister, who says that conversion therapy –sometimes referred to as "gay cure"– is “abuse of the worst kind and must be stamped out”.

So what else does Sheikh al Tayyeb have to say about gay rights and Christianity? “Unfortunately some Heads of Churches in the United States accept same-sex marriages. What will the heads of Churches in the US that accept gay marriage say to Jesus? I wonder what is left of the Bible in those Churches. And what will they say in front of Jesus, peace be upon him,” the Grand Imam told an international meeting organized by the Muslim Council of Elders in Indonesia.

So what do Anglicans like Jayne Ozanne and Sarah Mullally and Theresa May think Archbishop Justin should say to Sheikh al Tayyeb? After all, at the beginning of this month, Mrs May vowed to eradicate the "abhorrent" practice of gay conversion therapy as she published the world’s largest LGBT+ survey and a government plan aimed at addressing discrimination and health inequality.

Here is what Archbishop Welby actually said.

Thank you Grand Imam of @AlAzharUniv for an honest and hope-filled conversation about the role of religious leaders in our world today. And thanks to our Christian and Muslim #EmergingPeacemakers for your challenging questions and inspiring contributions. #EPForum18 pic.twitter.com/p4rG7Z2FeL

— Archbishop of Canterbury (@JustinWelby) July 17, 2018

Could it be that Sheikh al Tayyeb has been giving Justin Welby a masterclass in taqiyyah, the Islamic practice of dissimulation, which permits Muslims to lie to infidels? Or, could it be the other way round, with the Archbishop of Canterbury giving the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar a one-to-one drill in the use of Anglican double-speak and weasel words?

There is a difference between engaging with an alien religion and prostating oneself before it.

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Don't be Deceived by the Media’s Pro-Immigration Child Exploitation

American conservatives are crowing from the rooftops of Trump Towers. Their biggest foe, the mainstream media – the Prince of Darkness who masquerades as an angel of light, has been stripped of his horns and pitchfork. Lucifer has fallen from heaven into the shithole of Dante’s Inferno, and is being tormented by the angelic host of conservative radio commentators and Republican roosters cock-a-doodling at the cyclopean cock-up committed by TIME magazine.

The fakestream media have broken Jeffrey Archer’s eleventh commandment: "Thou shall not get caught." TIME was caught with its pants down and its picture of a crying three-year-old Honduran girl exposed as fake news. The girl was real, the crying was real, the picture was real, but the context was faked, framed and photo-shopped.

TIME shamelessly featured its child pawn like child porn on the cover page of its July 2, 2018 issue. It shows the girl facing Donald Trump, who is looking down on the child with bemusement. TIME would like its readers to interpret the look on Trump’s face as callousness. A canny three-word caption completes the toxic cocktail of half-truth and digital demagoguery: Welcome to America.

The image is further inflated by a TIME human-interest story zooming in on Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, John Moore, who sheds copious crocodile tears as he spins his tale of sanctimonious poppycock. Moore recounts photographing the child on the US-Mexican border as mother and child were trying to enter the US illegally and were apprehended by law enforcement.

"When the officer told the mother to put her child down for the body search, I could see this look in the little girl’s eyes," Moore tells TIME. "As soon as her feet touched the ground she began to scream." The Border Patrol is taking mother and child away in a van and Moore’s bleeding-heart explodes as if he is Mother Theresa. "All I wanted to do was pick her up. But I couldn’t," he recollects.

Am I sounding like a cynical son-of-a-bitch? To this day, I cannot forget what I saw when I was six – a child being separated from his parents. A man with a sack walked through the slums in Mahim, Mumbai. He stopped outside a hovel, picked up a child, threw him into the sack and walked away.

I froze, traumatized with terror, unable to cry or scream or call for help as I watched from the window of our first floor apartment. In India, children snatched from their parents are sold to gangs who cripple them and force them into beggary.

Since when does the Left care so much about keeping the family together?

To this day, I cannot forget what I saw later in life – a British working class grandmother who sat weeping through a service at the Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich, where I served as Chaplain. She accosted me at the door after the service and blubbered like a child about to break down.

She was holding pictures of three beautiful children. Her partner told me her story. Social Services (SS) had forcibly removed her grandchildren from her care. She was looking after her grandkids in lieu of her alcoholic daughter, but the SS wouldn’t let her even see the kids any longer. The SS were giving one child to a gay couple for adoption, despite grandma’s objections. We did our best to help her reconnect with her grandchildren, but the State had kidnapped them.

So when American’s leftwing media erupted into hyper-hysteria over Trump separating immigrant children from their parents and cruelly caging them in Nazi concentration camps and Japanese internment camps, my hermeneutic of suspicion went into overdrive.

"Since when does the Left care so much about keeping the family together?" I asked myself. After all, one of the primary goals of the Left is the destruction of the family. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels "usually wrote about the destruction, dissolution, and abolition of the family," observes historian Richard Weikart.

Marx fulminated against "the bourgeois claptrap about the family" and "the hallowed correlation of parent and child," both of which he found "disgusting". Charles Fourier, a utopian socialist proposed that children be separated from their parents and raised communally. Robert Owen, one of the most influential advocates of utopian socialism declared war on the family. In his commune, children after the age of three were removed from their parents for proper education.

Under Mao, children pulled from their parents. All parents were to eat in large mess halls while their children went into day nurseries. Bolshevik feminist Alexandra Kollontai was adamant that the "worker-mother must learn not to differentiate between yours and mine," but "must remember that there are only our children" who would be wards of the state.

If you think this is history, think again. Prof Melissa Harris-Perry, who holds the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University, believes that children should be separated from their parents. Harris-Perry laments the lack of "a very collective notion" of our children. She wants us "to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities".

Since when does the Left care so much about keeping the family together? I asked myself again. There can be no more permanent separation of a child from his or her mother than killing the child in its mother’s womb. And what about the Left’s dogma of single-parenthood separating children from father or mother and depriving the child of its most fundamental human right to two parents?

Don’t be deluded into believing that the Left cares about children. They are using children as a battering ram against Trump – a socially acceptable form of child abuse, I thought, as the 'separation of immigrant children’ debate raged. But surely, they wouldn’t stoop to the gutter and use images of little children for their political agenda? Wouldn’t that be a socially acceptable form of child pornography?

My worst suspicions were confirmed when it was revealed that the images of immigrant children in metal cages were actually four years old and taken during the Obama administration. Gotcha! Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau was among the many to condemn the photos – until he realised they dated back to His Master’s Reign.

Then came the bombshell – the crying girl in the border picture on the cover of TIME was actually never separated from her mother! It was fake news. TIME took its own time to issue a correction, but chief editor Edward Felsenthal stood defiantly by the picture, saying that while agents may not have taken the child, the photograph captured the mood of the story.

I remembered how the mainstream media had abused the image of three-year-old Alan Kurdi – the Syrian boy tragically drowned while going from Turkey to Kos. The MSM couldn’t even give the little boy the dignity of getting his name right, and called him Aylan Kurdi. The family were trying to get to Canada and join their relatives in Vancouver. The media, activists and politicians fanned the flames of the picture and cried themselves hoarse demanding open borders.

Brendan O’Neill, writing in The Spectator, responded and termed the use of the child’s image "moral pornography". "It’s more like a snuff photo for progressives, dead-child porn, designed not to start a serious debate about migration in the 21st century but to elicit a self-satisfied feeling of sadness among Western observers," wrote O’Neill. "When it comes to producing moral porn for the right-on, it seems the normal rules of journalism – and civilization – can be suspended," he scathingly added.

They will exploit suffering, dying and dead children in a contemptible game of moral and emotional blackmail.

One of the most morally despicable stories of the media’s use of child porn is the case of Kevin Carter’s picture of a dying girl in the Sudan in March 1993. The girl, no more than five years old, had collapsed while crawling toward a UN feeding center. As Carter crouched to take her picture, a vulture landed nearby, awaiting her death.

Carter waited for 20 minutes, hoping the bird would spread its wings so he could capture a better shot. It did not, and after he took a few images, he shooed the bird away and watched the girl continue to struggle. TIME, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers emblazoned their pages with the picture.

Only later did people raise questions about the girl’s fate and about the "appropriateness, decency, vulgarity, and the tasteful function of photojournalism", writes Barbie Zelizer in her book About to Die: How News Images Move the Public. Why did Carter not help the girl or make certain the vulture was gone before he moved on? "Which is the true vulture?" asked one reader in a blistering indictment of the media.

Carter’s callousness cost him his life. Hounded by phone calls in the middle of the night criticizing him for not rescuing the girl, he killed himself in 1994.

The mainstream media doesn’t give a damn about children. The Left doesn’t give a damn about the family. Their agenda is open borders and uncontrolled immigration. They will exploit suffering, dying, and dead children in a contemptible game of moral and emotional blackmail. Their ultimate goal is totalitarian control. For once a country is swamped by immigrants and Balkanized into warring ghettos –all warring with each other– people will turn to the supreme nanny-state for security and salvation.

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Equality is a Lie: Men, Women, and Everything In Between

“I am a modern day Nero / So hand me a fiddle and bow / ’Cause dancing on ashes and graves / Is the only joy I know.”-This Is Hell, “Procession Commence”

“And we danced like a wave on the ocean, romanced / We were liars in love and we danced.”-Hooters, “And We Danced”

It doesn’t get any more tiresome than the same re-hashed social justice causes that are essentially no longer causes. Physics Today bemoaned the fact that there’s still a gender pay gap between men and women (5.7% after factoring in age and experience), which the magazine then goes on to unintentionally explain away as women being less aggressive in salary negotiations and in asking for raises. It’s a small gap to begin with, and we now have the solution right there in front of us. Case closed. Right? Wrong.

Maria Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd College, states that in negotiations, men are more likely than women to request higher salaries: “Women say ‘Thank you very much.’ I’ve done that myself, several times—it’s embarrassing.” I thought women could do anything a man can, so simply speaking up shouldn’t be an issue, now that the root cause has been identified, right? Again, wrong. Nancy Hopkins of MIT believes that women should be on hiring committees proportional to their numbers in the field of physics, but I don’t see how that solves the issue of gender disparity or the pay gap in the field. Claude Canizares, also of MIT, states that;

“Men need to be more proactive about equity for women and underrepresented minorities”

Equity, as you should know by now is a clear SJW red flag; but quite beyond the fact that the bizarre comparison between men and minorities (are there not male minorities?) has been made at all is that this is an empty platitude uttered exclusively for virtue-signaling brownie points. Most of the physicists interviewed attributed the stubborn pay gap to the ever-elusive “unconscious bias.” Mind you, we’re talking about a very small percentage which, as I mentioned, the article already attributes to a pair of correctable factors. Nancy Hopkins observes, “It seems like women have been talking about gender discrimination forever.” Yes, yes it does.

Education Researcher recently released an article that revealed the “disturbing” fact that there is a gender gap in PhD article submissions and publications. On average, men submitted an average of 5.9 manuscripts for publication and women submitted 3.7 publications; the number of submissions published were 4.9 for men and 2.9 for women. So men submitted more often and were accepted more often…but women, statistically speaking, were more likely to be published. The article goes on to explain that more women teach and more men serve as research assistants, so logically, would the fact that men are involved in more research and hence more potential papers not explain the disparity in submissions? Also, could these causes get any more niche?

Once again, I see no one’s talking about the gender gaps in mining, logging, and garbage collection. I wonder why? Less lucrative? Less visible? More physically demanding? More likely to be killed on the job? If we want true equity, we had better goddamn well start seeing equal numbers of men and women slinging trash. For your consideration, a few of the most dangerous occupations in the United States, accompanied by the male percentage of the profession and their fatality rate per 100,000 workers (courtesy of the Bureau of Labor Statistics):

Logging: 97.2% / 132.7 Fishing: 99.9% / 54.8 Garbage Collection: 89.6% / 38.8 Truck Drivers: 94.9% / 25.2 Construction: 97.3% / 15.6 Police Officer: 86.4% / 11.7 Mining: 99.9% / 11.8

It can’t have anything to do with wanting to have your cake and eat it too, can it? Can it?

Consider the following news item from last June, where the “accidental gay parents” Biff Chaplow and Trystan Reese announced their “trans pregnancy”; Reese is a biological woman who “identifies as a gay man” and Chaplow is a gay man who identifies as the “mom.” Reese told NBC that, “We know a lot of transgender men who have babies. We have several in our close friend circle.” (S)he explained to CNN, “I’m OK with my body being a trans body. I’m OK being a man who has a uterus and has the capacity and capability of carrying a baby. I don’t feel like it makes me any less of a man. I just happen to be a man who is able to carry a baby.” As Stuart often repeats in Hello Ladies, “I don’t know what the rules are!” We are through the looking glass, people.

Gender and sexuality are, as we “know,” fluid, n’est-ce pas? I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t “taught” who and how to fuck, nor cajoled into rendering myself sterile when I was a child because I was a child, and thankfully my parents aren’t evil, like lesbian couple Pauline Moreno and Debra Lobel who have their eleven-year-old on hormone blockers (direct quote from The Daily Mail: “The mothers say that one of the first things Thomas told them when he learned sign language aged three - because of a speech impediment - was, ‘I am a girl’”) nor did they send me to a “transgender day camp” like the one in San Francisco that caters to children as young as four, though according to UC San Francisco professor Diane Ehrensaft, children understand their gender by age two. What could possibly go wrong?

Brad/Ria Cooper, who had his first sex change at fifteen, has decided he will now undergo his third sex change to make himself more like a woman again, as at age eighteen Cooper “transitioned” back to his biological sex to live life as a “gay man.” Cooper originally took hormone blockers to stop puberty and, per The Sun, “had female hormone injections to help [him] form breasts and cut down [his] body hair, but [he] didn’t have full gender reassignment surgery.”

Let me say this, and I’m appalled I even have to: children are off limits. We do not have sex with them, we do not sexualize them, and we do not project our feelings, desires, or inadequacies on to them or make executive decisions on irreversible hormonal treatments while they’re still developing, but the Social Justice Warriors do this all the time. As for the rationale, well, it is the current year, so simply because we mark this year on the Gregorian Calendar as 2018, training yourself to be bi-sexual or something should be a given with no further explanation. Try this one on for size: “I mean, why isn’t there a white ethno-state? It’s 2018!” What do you make of that? Or as Ricky Slade says in Made, “Can I color me that?”

Color indeed: the demography of the future is downright harrowing. Fear of a black planet? Not exactly, but there are very serious consequences coming our way regarding the shifting demographics of the post-modern era. While Westerners are busy dressing their one adopted nine-year-old in drag or out “dogging” in the woods (or is that no longer a thing “because current year”?), the demographic time-bomb between the Tropics is set to explode. In the past, due to high infant mortality rates, diseases, and other causes, it was often necessary to have a good number of children, but today, with our modern advancements in medical care and vaccines, in order to sustain the population, reproductive levels do not need to be what they were in previous eras.

What concerns me, however, is that in Africa particularly and to a lesser extent most of the rest of the Third World, these people are not adjusting accordingly, which bodes very ominously for the future, especially when you consider Westerners have simply given up on reproducing altogether, unless they are mixed-species gender-queer vegans. The people of the Third World are not showing a willingness or, more terrifyingly, ability to adapt to their changing circumstances. I know many people get into a tizzy when I mention biological realities, but this really does have a lot to do with differing levels of time preference or the ability to plan and manage resources. It’s not at all unreasonable to use race as a civilizational proxy. The Japanese build Japan, the Swedish build Sweden, and the Somalis build Somalia. The issue is when you import Somalia and expect to get Sweden. Just ask Maine or Minnesota.

The real questions, to my mind, are, however, how many of the people in charge, and/or to what degree, do they actually expect identical outcomes? How much of this is egalitarian window-dressing masquerading as “tolerance,” “equality,” and “diversity”? For some, perhaps many, the fiction is too tantalizing to resist, or maybe they simply don’t know any better, but for others, there can be no question that the large-scale importation of the Third World is designed explicitly to at minimum atomize whites and in their isolation make them easier to control, but more likely in the face of mounting evidence, the Final Solution is not to move them all to Madagascar, but to erase their very existence.

The literature strongly suggests that the host (white) population in Western countries is being adversely affected by the sustained commitment to the diversity agenda, and it’s directly responsible for the squandering of what Robert Putnam terms our “social capital.” In his 2006 study, Harvard professor Robert Putnam found that, based on analysis of the responses of almost 30,000 Americans, the greater the diversity in a community, the less people trusted each other, the less they donated to charity or worked on community projects, and the less they voted and were civically-engaged. In the communities “enriched” by diversity, neighbors trusted one another half as much as they did in homogeneously white communities. From the very beginning, there was a concerted effort to ensure that the citizens of the West would have no say in the mass importation of alien peoples who, it has clearly become evident, do not share our values and don’t particularly care for our delicate, liberty-oriented political systems that’ve evolved in fits and starts since classical antiquity. Though immigration started after World War II in certain parts of Europe in the form of “temporary workers,” it wasn’t until the mid-1960s in the United States and a while later for most of the other non-Eastern Bloc Western countries that the numbers started to trickle in, but by the turn of the century, that trickle became a (relative) flood—though that flood is going to get Biblical when the population in Africa hits four-and-a-half billion! And there’s only a relatively small strip of water separating Africa from a Europe that’s largely proven unwilling to defend itself.

As Jared Taylor says, “The purpose of immigration is not to set a moral test for natives.” Ah, but it appears that it is. Louis Farrakhan recently used his bully pulpit to call for an end to the White Man, “because his nature is not in harmony with the nature of God.” He continued:

The white man was only given 6,000 years (6 days) to rule. You cannot deny he has ruled but on what principle did he rule? Righteousness? Truth? Justice? Fairness? I don’t think so.

How interesting that the most open and tolerant societies the world has ever known have somehow become the bad guy. In this inversion of reality where not only Farrakhan but a majority of the world now lives, the people who abolished slavery, the people who established the doctrines of self-government, who enshrined women’s rights, and civil rights, and gay and transgender rights, the people who built the modern world, these are the wicked and the cursed, these are the ones denied a heritage, these are the ones told to debase themselves. As Jim Goad catalogued:

The more that white people apologize, the more they get mocked. The more they concede, the more that is demanded of them. The more frequently they make gestures of goodwill, the more they get emotionally sandblasted with malicious rhetoric about how “whiteness” is a poison that needs to be uprooted and eradicated…Whites are publicly reprimanded if they dare to notice anything in white history beyond slavery, colonialism, and the Holocaust. Look with disgust upon these squirming white worms with their endlessly tacky public displays of self-flagellation, exulting in the idea of their own wickedness, trying to drown their historical sins in a cleansing wave of softly genocidal immigration. Afflicted with a perverse sort of racial body dysmorphia, they would crawl out of their white skin if they could only find a way. This is the sort of thing that happens in the late stages of a crumbling empire, when the fat, lazy, and pampered have grown so soft they’ve blinded themselves to the wolf pack waiting at the door that’s eager to tear them to pieces. Believe this—if white people actually held such iron-fisted power and were remotely as ruthless as they are portrayed, there would be no such mocking.

And so the wicked shall fall. Between Goad’s “cleansing wave of softly genocidal immigration,” and whites’ self-abnegation, learned helplessness, and their genderless, barren-wombed, de-fanged Eloi-like existence, Farrakhan won’t have long to wait before we’re nothing but a memory. Then the world will know true peace, harmony, and prosperity. In the meantime, it’s much better to focus on niche issues like “dead-naming” and “transphobia” than the fact that the entire fabric of Western civilization is coming unraveled.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming”

That blood-dimmed tide sounds an awful lot like Enoch Powell-by-way-of-Virgil’s “River Tiber foaming with much blood.”

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Kermit The Frog Should Be Arrested For Hate Crimes

It's not that easy being green, as Kermit the Frog sang nearly 50 years ago, at the tail-end of the hippy movement. Ride on brother, I feel you. The notable puppet is talking about the difficulty inherent in existence, that you are, for better or worse, trapped inside a shell that is immutable. Kermit, being enlightened, realized by the coda of a two-minute song that there are just some things that we cannot change- they are integral to us. You cannot be someone other than yourself, but you can take joy in that and make yourself a better version of that same self, right? A Radical idea in the late 1960s, and still one today. It must be said, Kermit hasn't quite been the classic frog we grew up with since the death of Jim Henson in 1990.

What then, I wonder, would everyone's amphibian friend make of the modern West? Kermit always struck me as a very self-reliant kind of guy, despite his slightly toxic relationships; and that included making up your own mind about things. I bet he liked Ron Paul. The problem is for Kermit is that we do not live in a world where it is a good thing to make up your own mind, or thing very hard about anything at all.

In the light of Kermit the Frog's curious past, I read with interest the new hate crime sentencing guidelines just published by the UK authorities that, as one might expect, still fail to define what they mean by hate crime in any objective sense. Instead, we are reliably informed that;

"Among the cases analysed there were a number of ‘hate speech’ type offences, where inflammatory speeches were given by influential figures with the intention of stirring up racial hatred.

Other cases involved publication on YouTube of content inciting serious violence towards particular racial or religious groups, websites being published including abusive and insulting content, with some activity continuing over a long period of time and intended to reach global audiences.”

This is very un-green. See, it's very hard to produce people who are satisfied within their society and culture when you pose them as the permanent out-group, and create victim-classes held in a perpetual state of having a grievance. Neither party benefits very much from this state of affairs; so, one must conclude that the system itself hates us all equally, but hates some of us more than others.

As I wrote back in December in The Religion of the Faithless Left:

It will stun future generations to hear that we have become such a self-hating society, riddled with such preposterous levels of self-inflicted and undeserved guilt and paranoia.

What Kermit stands for politically is quite well defined.

I don't get too involved in politics, but I am an amphibitarian. I'm in favour of wetlands, green jobs (that's jobs for anyone who is green) and I'm opposed to interspecies marriage between pigs and frogs. - Kermit, speaking to The Guardian, 2012

It appears at the very least, Kermit is identity-woke. He loves his wetlands, and apparently promotes hiring practices that would be discriminatory in every Western nation. I doubt, therefore, he would accept the position of the UK government that certain protected characteristics need to be enforced with draconian codes offering up to 6 years in jail for anyone hate-filled enough to criticize Islam or transgenderism? Clearly not, given his opposition to interspecies relationships; which one need only explore the depths of Tumblr to realize are already on the agenda of the Movement To Accept Everything No Matter What.

In this sense, we might consider Kermit to be leaning towards Ayn Rand's position when she said:

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

It may not be that easy, being green, but it sure is an authentic reality. He might have some slightly edgy opinions about interspecies erotica (which is the exact opposite of what you might think, in that interspecies erotica is good and you are a bigot) but It doesn't appear that at the end of Kermit's classic hit that he is looking for state intervention to protect his green-ness.

When green is all there is to be It could make you wonder why, but why wonder? Why Wonder, I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful! And I think it's what I want to be.

Even though he is a member of a species which has great diversity, Kermit, as you should already know, is thus a racial supremacist and a thoughtcriminal. More than this, he is certainly already guilty of hate-crimes. Britain's Sentencing Council points out that:

The most severe punishments will be handed to those “in a position of trust, authority or influence and abuses their position to stir up hatred,” such as political leaders or figureheads and anyone whose offences are “persistent.”

Kermit the Frog is surely a leader of millions of children (and adults), trusted by them and, therefore, a perfect target for arrest by the British state. Not only on the grounds that Miss Piggy surely exhibits many protected characteristics; despite the fact that she is no-doubt an abuser, violent and also haram. Kermit refused the advances of a creature that society considers fat; and that is body terrorism. Let's not even begin to address the inherent misogyny in Kermit's position, or his blatant Green Supremacist ideals. It cannot be allowed that people say it is okay to be green. Can a body of work over 50 years in length be considered a "persistent" offence? I think so. The solution is clear; we must arrest and execute Kermit the Frog for hate crimes. Only when we bring this fiend to justice can the children of the world sleep peacefully once again.

Ok, I'll break character there and circle back to the start. My point in this exercise is, I hope, clear. There's nothing much to be gained by trying to legislate against human nature- whether that was historic laws against race-mixing or homosexuality or postmodernist laws that, I contend, are designed to facilitate a decidely globalist agenda at a state level and are only effective in sowing discord at a time of great civilizational upheaval.

The simple message of Kermit is surely an admonition against Orwellian state power. Though Kermit is an imperfect character, he understands existential reality in incredibly deep ways- ways that, for whatever reason, institutional powers the world over have failed to do. In fact, Kermit the Frog is the antithesis of the social justice ideology that now informs so much of government policy throughout the Western world. Read that again. Kermit the Frog is a libertarian-identitarian guy.

If I can argue (however weakly) that Kermit the Frog is guilty of hate-crimes, what hope for you and I? As Joe Bob Briggs wrote in Taki Magazine yesterday:

Remember the scene in All the King’s Men when Willie Stark, the Governor of Louisiana, tells his idealistic assistant that he wants some dirt on his political opponent, but the assistant tells him that, no, they can’t find anything, the guy he’s running against is totally clean, honest and upright?

Stark knows better. “Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption,” the governor tells the younger man, “and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something.”

Yes indeed, there is always something. Even on Kermit, despite singing on Rainbow Connection which is one of my personal top 10 gay anthems. God only knows how many skeletons are in Gonzo's closet, and Fozzy Bear already dresses like a sex offender. The lens of critical theory is restless, friends.

"Without ridiculous optimism, there's a good chance none of us would be here today." ~Kermit

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