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Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has - absurdly - been accused of anti-Semitism after some mentally unhinged progressives decided that the Gringotts goblins are Jews.
This shouldn't need saying... but if you look at a goblin and think "that looks like a Jew", you're the anti-Semite.
As for why this is only coming out now, 20-something years late, we can only conclude that it's J.K. Rowling's stances on other issues, most notably in the transgenderism debate, that have made her a target. After all, many of the people making this nonsense claim were quite happy to vote for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party at a time when it was riddled with actual anti-Semitism.
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In one of the most dangerous and absurd legal decisions in living memory, a jury has found that four radical left wing vandals were justified in tearing down a statue to Edward Colston in Bristol because the statue was committing a hate crime.
Apparently it is acceptable for mobs to commit flagrant acts of violence and vandalism if they are sufficiently offended by the thing they are attacking. Will it be Winston Churchill next?
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Emma Watson has been docked 12 points from Gryffindor for posting a message of "solidarity" with the "Palestinians" on Instagram, leading to stern rebukes from the Israel ambassador and claims that she is anti-Semitic.
She's not. But she is an idiot, and idiots who are uncritically pro-Palestine are very useful to genuine anti-Semites.
It is at least suspicious that a group that so frequently elects genocidal maniacs who want to finish the job Hitler started get so much public support from fashionable celebrities and political activists, while much less objectionable groups - the Uighurs, the Tibetans, the Rohingya, Christians in the Middle East - get next to nothing.
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Tony Blair has been given the highest Knighthood bestowed in the UK, apparently for the good work he did in destroying the country. From mass immigration to ruining the economy, from the War in Iraq to his craven support for the EU, everything Tony Blair has ever touched has been left in ruins.
There is a petition to get it revoked. It topped 500,000 signatories in just 2 days. But some people apparently think he deserves the honour. We take a look at their arguments.
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#USNews #USPolitics #Biden
Gripped by an inflation crisis and with the Omicron variant of Covid-19 out of control, a majority of Americans are waking up to the fact that Joe Biden is not the answer to their problems.
He is, in fact, making all of them worse.
He now scores lowest on his handling of the economy of any President in over 40 years. Two-thirds of independent voters hate him. Almost a quarter of his own party think he's rubbish. Which he is.
His Build Back Better bill has flopped, but it was never a solution to begin with. Spending trillions more on social security will make the problem worse, not better. He believed the nonsense about him being a "transformational" President, like FDR or LBJ, but he governs more like Jimmy Carter.
He never had a mandate to pursue the radical Leftist agenda being pushed by the Squad and the far-Left Democrats, but he tried it anyway, and he failed. Thankfully the midterms are coming up. This is your chance, Americans, to do the right thing: vote out his party; and, when the next general election comes around, vote him out, too.
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#News #Politics #FreeSpeech
Finally, some good news about free speech: the courts have found in favour of ex-police officer Harry Miller in his battle against the police force that tried to investigate him for thought crime after he posted a "transphobic" limerick on Twitter.
If you don't have laws around hate crime and hate speech in your country, you're lucky. In the UK, the police could investigate you - and you could lose your job, and be barred from working - for "non-crime hate incidents", where anyone - and sometimes nobody at all - perceived anything you (or your dog, or your car) did as being motivated by racism, hatred, bigotry, misogyny, or prejudice.
There have been 120,000 of these non-crimes recorded since 2014, and they have included a dog barking at a stranger, a woman beeping her horn in a car park, a teenager quoting rap lyrics, and a woman repeating the scientific fact that you cannot change your biological sex.
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The comics industry is dying, but DC and Marvel seem not to care. They are much more interested in making every character they can get their hands on gay.
Batwoman, Robin, The Flash, Superman, Wonder Woman, Hulkling - whatever that is - and Wiccan; Rictor, Shatterstar, that one from the Eternals movie nobody watched; Iceman; Green Lantern; there is plenty of talk that Spiderman will get at least the bi treatment in the near future.
This kind of forced diversity is bad for fans, but it's bad for gay people, too. By making "representation" a substitute for story, they deny us characters that actually have some relation to the lives we lead; and by making established characters gay, they set up a zero-sum game where writers try to take from the existing fandom to appeal to an hypothetical queer one.
There is no need for any of this. Gay people don't need tokenistic "representation" in the form of gaying up straight characters. If you want more gay characters, write new gay characters. Put as much time, love and effort into them as you once put into the creation of the Avengers or the Justice League. The fans will follow, and thank you for it, whether they are straight or gay.
But that would require work, and the publishers are much more interested in film franchises like the MCU than they are in the comics that provided the stories and the characters. The comics industry has been left to rot, stuffed with social justice hacks like Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose sole aim is to have themselves and their politics reflected on the page, and to lecture the fans who dare not to like it.
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New census data shows that barely 50 per cent of the people of the United Kingdom think of themselves as Christian, a decline of more than 8 per cent in a decade.
The number of people stating that they have no religion, or who preferred not to state their belief (which is reported as being the same thing, though it isn't) has grown from 32 per cent to 38 per cent in the same time.
No word yet on Islam, though we confidently expect that to be the fastest growing religion in the UK, which is... no problem at all, obviously.
The Church of England has decided to "rebrand" itself - again - in an attempt to appeal to young people, by ditching all the God stuff, decolonising Jesus, and swapping out old hymns for modern stuff with guitars and lots of cringing.
Perhaps it's time for the CofE to realise that people have no respect for this kind of thing, preferring the clear guidance of a strong faith to one that tries to be fashionable and modern.
And maybe the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, should spend more time talking about God, and less disavowing the political beliefs of his remaining congregation.
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Sadiq Khan is still awful. Though he often tells us that climate change and Covid-19 is the biggest threat facing the planet, apparently it's not quite as catastrophic as unemployed actors: he has decided to limit the congestion charge on weekends and eliminate it over Christmas in a bid to get people back into West End theatres.
Has he admitted that the congestion charge makes it harder to do business? That's the logical conclusion of this move. But no, he hasn't admitted it, because that would require a shred of honesty.
He is also set to hike council tax to plug the gaping black hole in Transport for London's budget. TfL has always been an economic basket case, and his attempts to blame the Tory government in Westminster do not wash.
Probably wasn't a good idea to make bus travel free throughout the first lockdown, was it. Probably wasn't a good idea to freeze fares, either. Both of these things cost huge amounts of money. Maybe, rather than placating militant unions in their demands for astronomical wages, he should be looking to automate as much of the system as possible?
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Until very recently, if you suggested Coronavirus was man-made or suggested that the lab-leak theory was plausible, you'd have been branded a conspiracy theorist on par with holocaust and climate change deniers, and banned from social media.
Now, however, the true conspiracy is starting to unravel. A British parliamentary inquiry has heard what many of us have suspected all along: the lab-leak theory is not only a plausible explanation, it is the most likely explanation.
But we are barely scratching the surface of a vast conspiracy of silence, one which encompasses the American corporate media, the American government (which was almost certainly funding gain-of-function research, despite Fauci's denials), the tech giants, international bodies like World Health Organisation, and medical journals like the Lancet.
A clear pattern is emerging, and its origin is in China.
Chinese money and influence has corrupted medical journals, which have suppressed the lab leak theory; the man responsible for the Lancet's famous letter denouncing the theory, who also led the World Health Organisation's investigation in Wuhan, has extensive ties to the Chinese government; the US government has been trying to hide the fact that it was funding THE SAME MAN, whose company was working in partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on engineering SARS-COV-2; and American tech giants have been censoring social media - and kicking off users - based on "fact checkers" who are themselves partisan activist, thus making themselves complicit in the cover-up.
The fact that several of these tech companies are looking to expand into the Chinese market is, I'm sure, purely coincidental.
China is a bigger threat to the world than the Soviet Union ever was. It is a bigger threat to the world than Nazi Germany ever was. Its malign influence is now felt in every major corporation and international body. It has its fingers in all the pies.
It is time we stopped rambling on about Russia "stealing" elections, and focussed all our attention on China. It has grown rich on theft and genocide, and it is well past time we started treating it like the pariah state that it is.
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December 15th marks the 10th anniversary of Christopher Hitchens's death.
Since he was a formative influence to both of us here at the Little Platoon, I thought I'd upload my own - suspiciously terse, he might have said - reflections on who he was, what he meant, what he teaches; and, most importantly, on how *not* to treat him today.
The irony he might have appreciated, but the fact there is something of a cult around the man and his legacy just proves how many people have lost the point. It is a cruel fate for an iconoclast to be made an icon.
Christopher Hitchens was a remarkable man, and one sorely missed. He was - for the most part - right on the big questions of his day, a quality he himself attributed to George Orwell. That his days are not ours, also, is one of the great modern tragedies.
But we oughtn't parrot him, or treat his words as though they were themselves some holy writ divinely inspired, whether we are talking about religion or politics, God or Iraq, booze or literature.
Disagreeing with Hitchens, where disagreement is warranted, is a more fitting way to celebrate him than is repeating his words and his arguments like an incantation.
Not that I'm unaware of the irony, but as he himself wrote, in Letters to a Young Contrarian: "Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way."
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#News #Politics #Covid-19
Boris Johnson's Conservative government managed to pass a raft of new Covid-19 restrictions governing masks, mandatory vaccines for care workers, and vaccine passports. But he had to rely on the Labour Party to get the measures through, having suffered a rebellion of no fewer than 99 Tory MPs that comfortably wiped out his governing majority.
It also amounts to nearly a third of the entire parliamentary Conservative Party. The rebel MPs were (rightly) concerned that the new restrictions were unjustified, that the science didn't support them, that they would do more harm than good, and that what we know of the Omicron variant does not justify knee-jerk reactions and further curbs on civil liberties.
Naturally, this led totally impartial BBC presenter Evan Davis to call them "extreme libertarians". It has left us in a bizarre world where Labour shadow cabinet members like Wes Streeting were giving sterling speeches in defence of the government, and attacking Tory MPs for not backing government policy. This, again, is from the OFFICIAL OPPOSITION.
Boris Johnson's authority has been shot to pieces, and it looks likely that a leadership challenge will be launched in the next few months unless he finds a way to reverse course. But the greater problem is this: Covid-19 has broken British politics. The official opposition agrees with the government on the most important issue facing the country, and the only actual opposition is coming from the government's own back benches. We can't go on like this.
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In perhaps the most surprising story of the year, a Hollywood actress has said something sensible: Jennifer Lawrence said she had no problem with Leonardo DiCaprio being paid more than her for their new film, Don't Look Up, because he brings in more money than she does.
This astoundingly simple explanation also happens to be true, and is one that others - Kirsten Dunst, Megan Rapinoe - should learn from before spouting nonsense about a non-existent "gender pay gap".
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Doxxing J.K. Rowling is only the latest episode in a campaign of violence, abuse and intimidation being prosecuted by so-called trans activists. Almost every word they utter is a lie. These people are a danger to women, to gay people— and to the trans people they claim to speak for.
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Nigel Farage writes in the Telegraph that several high-profile donors have asked him to return to politics, and he is giving it "serious thought".
He attacked Boris Johnson's Conservative government for its inept handling of the immigration crisis that has seen more than 21,000 illegal migrants cross the English channel this year alone. But will he make a difference? We look at the numbers.
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It's 2021, and there are a huge number of very important issues to discuss - climate change, immigration, Covid-19, vaccines, lockdowns, the NHS - so of course we're all in a panic over British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's comments about Peppa Pig in a speech to the CBI.
What does this mean? Does it mean anything? Why does Peppa Pig World have safe streets, good schools and working infrastructure while the British people do not? Should we all move there? (It probably protects its borders, too.)
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Tucker Carlson's documentary about the January 6th riots has prompted two prominent conservatives, Jonah Goldberg and Steve Hayes, to quit Fox News over fears that its Trumpian populism is dangerous.
They might be wrong. But Trump supporters shouldn't be celebrating their departure. If the Conservative movement fractures because the national populists and the mainstream right cannot set aside their differences, the Left will win.
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Joe Rogan joined Tim Pool, Alex Jones, Blaire White and Michael Malice in a camper van to do lots of shouting. In the course of which, they got onto advocating drugs - specifically, hallucinogens like DMT - as a solution to the world's problems: conflict, violence, government tyranny and oppression; apparently we can solve these things by... getting high?
But this is exactly what the hippies of the '60s and '70s said about LSD. The hippies were wrong then, and Joe Rogan, Tim Pool and Alex Jones are wrong now.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said we "cannot rest" until 50 per cent of MPs in the House of Commons are women, because only then can we solve problems like climate change.
But why? Do women automatically make things better? Do they make for better leaders? The evidence - Hillary Clinton, Angela Merkel, Aang San Su Kyi, Jacinda Ardern - suggests not.
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MSNBC is a garbage organisation run by garbage people. Having been thrown out of the Rittenhouse trial because one of their staffers stalked the jurors' bus - threatening to reveal their identities and their home addresses to a rabid mob - you'd think they'd have kept quiet on the Rittenhouse case.
They are, after all, the last people to lecture Americans on the principles of justice given the lengths they've gone to to pervert the course of justice.
But this is MSNBC, and they have no shame. Not content with lying before the trial, not content with defaming an innocent boy, not content with putting the jurors' lives in danger, MSNBC is still at it— lying, defaming, and then insulting America.
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