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Rule 5 Sunday: Overall Beauty

Posted on | June 3, 2018 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The appetizer for this week was going to be blue jeans, but it turned out to be difficult to find a pic of attractive young women in jeans that wasn’t NSFW (as in, exposed boobs) or that didn’t overemphasize the woman’s butt. So, in accordance with the notion that one should go large or go home, I looked for women in overalls, and lo – today’s appetizer.

Not outstanding in her field, but pretty fine regardless.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box #272, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns; Animal Magnetism follows up with Rule Five Progressive Utopia Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

A View From The Beach may complain about lack of inspiration, but nonetheless delivers: Burn Notice’s Gabrielle Anwar, Red Sonja, Once More Into the Breach, Another Wet T-Shirt Thursday, Lesbian Wife Beater Free After Testosterone Defense, “I Wanna Get Me A Gun”, A Ragout of Russiagate, Post-Memorial Day Swimsuit Post, Swimming into Monday Morning and  “Call on Me”.

EBL brings in the 5:17 To Paris, Cultural Appropriation, Brownie Husband, Jessica Alba, Shakira, Gum Shower, and Lollipop.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Lori Loughlin, his Vintage Babe is Patricia Morison, and Sex in Advertising this week is all about vintage swimsuits. At Dustbury, it’s Riley Keough and Tatum O’Neal.


Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!


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NY Times: ‘Motherhood Is Hitler’

Posted on | June 3, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

The New York Times has a distinctly weird article, written by a British graduate student, smearing traditional stay-at-home mothers with the taint of “white supremacy.” The writer is able to find actual examples of neo-Nazi racialism in the online “tradwives” community, but it is always possible to find examples of anything on the Internet, e.g., Catholic schoolgirls who grow up to be blue-haired “nonbinary queers.”

Why this article? Why now? The author of the NY Times piece, Annie Kelly, published an article last year exploiting fears of the “alt-right”:

Alt-right extremism is a consequence of mainstream neo-conservative discourse on liberalism, manhood and national security post-9/11. Its success is measured by its ability to project an updated rhetoric of anti-left antagonism into the window of acceptable political discourse.
After the 2016 presidential election, as the US media scrambled for ways to understand the sources of Trump’s support, there was a dramatic proliferation on news sites of profiles of figures from the alt-right such as Milo Yiannopolous and Richard Spencer – many of them alarmingly deferential in tone. Almost immediately, however, there was an understandable backlash from liberal commentators and activists, urging journalists to stop using the euphemistic ‘alt-right’ moniker and to instead refer to the loosely defined digital subculture to which the label was attached as ‘neo-Nazi’.

So, we may conclude, it is the election of Trump that inspired this paranoid witch-hunt for “white supremacy” among mommy bloggers.

Like I keep saying, people need to wake the hell up.

The problem is not just that liberals are smearing their opponents as Nazis; that’s been going on for decades. The larger problem is that, as the “progressive” Left becomes more extreme and less tolerant of opposition, it provides opportunities for actual neo-Nazis. After all, if mainstream conservatives are being smeared as racists, if Christians are being sued for refusing to participate in same-sex weddings, if James Damore can be fired for criticizing Google’s “diversity” policies — in sum, if any expression of opposition to the Left is punished and silenced — why not just say, “F–k it” and go full-on Nazi? This is not a hypothetical danger, because I’ve personally witnessed intelligent people go down that road.

The first time I met Richard Spencer in 2007, we were both panelists at a forum discussing the Duke lacrosse rape hoax. Spencer was at that time a graduate student at Duke, and spoke about the climate on campus, whereas I was there to address the biased media coverage of the case. Spencer did not strike me as an “extremist” of any kind, although he was quite serious in his dismay at the attitudes exhibited by Duke faculty and students and, like a lot of other thoughtful young conservatives at the time, he was disgusted by the Bush administration’s failures.

Was it inevitable that Spencer would become a “Fourteen Words” type? I don’t know, but I would hope that his example might alert mainstream conservatives to a real danger in the 21st century.

If the Republican Party (and mainstream conservatives in other countries) cannot make effective arguments and enact effective policies to address the kind of social problems that give rise to neo-Nazism, many young people may give up on traditional politics and drift off into that shadowy fringe where voices whisper: “Blame the Jews!”

Say what you will about Richard Spencer, he is not stupid.

Duke graduate student Richard Bertrand Spencer has penned perhaps the single most perceptive commentary on the Group of 88’s intellectual origins. Spencer, a Ph.D. candidate in European intellectual history, explores “the ‘foundational myths’ that underlie the Group’s response and give meaning to its claims,” and in the process helps explain why the lacrosse case “has left serious people with a sense that something has gone terribly wrong with Duke’s academic culture.”

That was Professor K.C. Johnson writing in March 2007. If Spencer was capable of writing “the single most perceptive commentary” on the Duke lacrosse rape hoax, what should we deduce about his drift into disreputable extremism? Doesn’t this reflect badly on mainstream conservatives of the GOP, who have failed to do anything to remedy the increasingly intolerant hegemony of the Left in academia? If the Republican Party is willing to remain silent while our nation’s universities are surrendered to what Professor Johnson called “Intellectual Thuggery,” isn’t it likely that many more thoughtful young people will follow Richard Spencer’s lead, abandoning mainstream politics and drifting into the shadowy fringe?

We have reached the crisis years of the Trump era because soi-disant “mainstream” Republicans considered it disreputable to involve themselves with the kind of Culture War issues raised by the Duke lacrosse case. Why did working-class white voters in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan respond to Trump’s appeal? Isn’t it in large part because Trump was willing to call out the “fake news” media that has ignored or misreported the problems affecting the lives of those people? Isn’t it obvious that the establishment media has become part of the same degenerate intelligentsia as the faculty of Duke University? And don’t you think that, if conservatives fail to take this seriously, their failure will cause more and more people to heed those whispers from the fringe?

“Blame the Jews!”

In all seriousness, this is beginning to frighten me. Not long ago, I clicked onto a YouTube livestream hosted by a blogger I’ve been following since the 2014 #GamerGate controversy, and was disturbed to hear the participants mention “the JQ” — shorthand for “the Jewish question.”

Were they serious about this? Was this just “bad boy” posturing? Were they merely signifying their contempt for political correctness? I’m not sure, because I stopped listening to that livestream and didn’t bother to investigate the participants. What does it mean, however, when young men think it’s harmless to play games with anti-Semitism?

What’s perhaps most remarkable about this is that Jewish conservatives have been among those who have fought hardest and longest to address the very issues that concern the alt-right. If “tradwives” are concerned about demographic trends that threaten “the existence of our people,” they might be surprised to discover, for example, that the first notable author to examine these issues was Ben Watternberg, in his 1987 book The Birth Dearth: What Happens When People in Free Countries Don’t Have Enough Babies? Wattenberg, who is perhaps the textbook definition of a “neoconservative” (i.e., a former Scoop Jackson Democrat), followed up that landmark book in 2004 with Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future. Even if you go drifting towards “Fourteen Words” extremism, you see, there are Jews who share your concerns, and this is true in every aspect of the Culture War. Some of the most vocal and most persuasive early critics of modern feminism, for example, were Midge Decter (The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women’s Liberation, 1972) and Steven Goldberg (The Inevitability of Patriarchy, 1973).

The German socialist August Bebel once said that anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools, but it’s also the conservatism of fools.

So here comes the New York Times with “Motherhood is Hitler” — using a handful of Internet extremists to smear all defenders of the traditional family as Nazis — but what else are we to expect? This should be interpreted as evidence of desperation and despair on the Left.

The defeat of Hillary Clinton in 2016, and the subsequent policy successes of the Trump administration, have caused a panic in the degenerate intelligentsia. Leftists in academia and the media have taken off the mask, revealing themselves as totalitarians, who do not recognize the legitimacy of any opposition to the “progressive” agenda.

What the Left would like to do is to delegitimize every possible source of opposition to their cultural hegemony. One way to do this, of course, is to attach a stigma of Nazism or “white supremacy” to anyone who rejects what Thomas Sowell has called The Vision of the Anointed. Conservatives must resist this effort, by refusing to play by the rules that the Left wants to impose on political discourse. If the Left is able to dictate the rules, they guarantee that they will win the game. They know that there actually are neo-Nazis over there in the shadows, but we know this, too. Knowing that the Left will always use this kind of guilt-by-association smear against us, conservatives should prepare in advance to deal with these attacks. Don’t let yourself get caught in a situation where you panic, become defensive, and discredit yourself with absurd apologies.

It’s 2018. Everybody is now “literally Hitler.” And if everybody is Hitler, then nobody is Hitler. Therefore, relax. You haven’t lost your mind. The world has gone crazy, and sanity is now a hate crime.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! A good time as any to remind you that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

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Category: Contraceptive Culture, Family, Intellectuals, Media Bias, Racism

FMJRA 2.0: Letters From Home

Posted on | June 2, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Soros Foundation Spends Millions Annually to Support Transgender Agenda
The Political Hat
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Before They Make Me Run
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach

Rule 5 Sunday: Eponymous Shorts
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

Mentally Ill Maryland Democrat Senate Candidate Makes Suicide Threat
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 05.29.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 05.30.18
Proof Positive

Why Freedom of Speech Matters (And Why ‘Hate Speech’ Is Protected, Too)
Nebraska Energy Observer
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 05.31.18
Proof Positive

TERF Wars: ‘Madness Takes Its Toll’
The Pirate’s Cove

In The Mailbox: 06.01.18
Proof Positive

Top linkers this week:

A View From The Beach & Proof Positive, tied at 5

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!



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‘Dickie Rebellion’ Gets Fired

Posted on | June 2, 2018 | 2 Comments

Readers will please excuse the lack of blog content since Friday, but I found myself staring into the abyss — the utter desolation of all hope for the future of humanity, evidence that our society has descended so far into decadence and depravity that recovery is perhaps impossible.

 

The Grey Fox is a gay bar in St. Louis, and one of the producers of the club’s entertainment is a “drag king” (i.e., a female who performs in male persona) who goes by the stage name “Dickie Rebellion.” Tuesday night, there was an altercation outside the Grey Fox which is being investigated by St. Louis police. Apparently, a crew of “nonbinary queers” assaulted a 24-year-old lesbian feminist, calling her a “TERF bitch” because she had “misgendered” one of them. There is an account of this incident at Gender Trender blog, but a source tells me that account includes several errors of fact. While I was trying to piece together enough details to write a news article about this, however, my research turned up some information that left me shocked and demoralized.

 

“Dickie Rebellion” is, in fact, Natalie Elaine Welage (pictured above at right, with her girlfriend Katy). Ms. Welage’s biography is remarkable. She is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio. As a child, she was a ballerina whose dance performances included The Nutcracker and also an appearance at the 2012 Orange Bowl halftime. She attended a Catholic girls’ school, St. Ursula Academy, where she graduated with honors in 2012 and then enrolled at St. Louis University, a private Catholic school where the annual cost of attendance is $53,132, including room and board.

 

How does a young woman with that kind of education end up, two years after getting her bachelor’s degree, as a blue-haired “nonbinary queer” doing drag shows at a gay bar? How did her life go so horribly wrong?

Oh, but it’s even worse than that. In addition to working nights as “Dickie Rebellion” in drag shows, Ms. Welage had a day job, as a marketing coordinator for a mortage company. After Tuesday night’s incident, Ms. Welage took to Twitter boasting about the “TERF” beatdown.

 

Those are just a couple of screenshots from Ms. Welage’s now-deleted account. You see, the lesbian feminist “TERF bitch” who got beat up has a Tumblr blog and lots of friends, who raced into action to identify her assailants, make copies of their Twitter conversations about the incident, and several of them contacted Ms. Welage’s employer.

 

It seems that Ms. Welage violated company policy, which is why as of Thursday, she is an ex-employee of the mortage company. Beyond that, her reputation is irreparably damaged, and it is likely that the former Catholic schoolgirl will have serious difficulty in her future career. Not to mention, of course, that her girlfriend Katy (allegedly one of the ringleaders of the attack) could be subject to prosecution for assault.

Where did Natalie Welage go wrong? How has her life descended into a catastrophic tragedy of despair and shame? Researching this story, I came across two possible clues:

  1. She minored in Gender Studies; and
  2. She’s registered to vote as a Democrat.

Parents, wake up! Don’t let this happen to your kids!

Steer your children away from the road to ruin of nonbinary queerdom. Just say “no” to Gender Studies and the Democrat Party!



 

 

Category: Sex Trouble, The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 06.01.18

Posted on | June 2, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.01.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in May!


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Why Hasn’t Scott Israel Been Fired?
Twitchy: “Little Rocket Man” Sends Comically Large Letter To White House
Louder With Crowder: John Goodman On Roseanne Cancellation – “I Wasn’t Winning An Emmy Anyway”
According To Hoyt: Coherence Evades Me
Monster Hunter Nation: Origins Sent Out Another Message About Me
Vox Popoli:Everyone Always Knows

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Thinker: Does Gun Control Lead To Genocide? also, Is “Sex Work” Pro-Woman?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Progressive Utopia Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For June 1
BLACKFIVE: Clive Cussler & Robin Burcell, The Gray Ghost
CDR Salamander: The Drone Economy Of Scale, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Why The Samantha Bee Thing Is Worse Than Roseanne In Three Sentences
Don Surber: “My God, I Thought. What Have We Become?”
Dustbury: To The Manner Born
The Geller Report: Valerie Jarrett Must Explain Her Clinton Foundation Coverups, also, Swedish Church Collects Money For Mosque Construction
Hogewash: Blogsmoke, also, National Doughnut Day, also also Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
JustOneMinute: The MAGA Jobs Report
Legal Insurrection: May Jobs Report – Unemployment hits 18-Year Low At 3.8%, also, Things Keep Getting Worse For MSNBC’s Joy Reid
Power Line: The Curious Case Of Mr. Downer, also, The Smearing Of Fred Fleitz
Shark Tank: President Trump’s “Yuge” America First Agenda
Shot In The Dark: Berg’s Seventh Law In The Headlines
STUMP: Around The Pension-O-Sphere
This Ain’t Hell: Samantha Bee Is The Feckless C***t Here, also, Assad Wants American Troops Out Of Syria, Threatens To Attack
Victory Girls: An Ex-Con Pedophile Is Running For Congress – You Can Thank Terry McAuliffe!
Volokh Conspiracy: Manning Loses Wikileaks First Amendment Appeal
Weasel Zippers: NY AG – Let’s Prosecute People Twice For The Same Crime, also, Susan Rice’s Son Is An Outspoken Pro-Trump Republican At Stanford
Mark Steyn: The Holmes Front


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TERF Wars: ‘Madness Takes Its Toll’

Posted on | June 1, 2018 | 4 Comments

 

The problem with explaining what’s going on with the transgender movement is this: When you try to explain craziness, you sound crazy. People look at you like you’ve lost your mind, because no sane person can imagine the arguments being made by these deranged activists.

Lesbian feminists are being attacked as “TERFs” (trans exclusive radical feminists) because they don’t want to date men in dresses, nor do they want to cede control of the feminist movement to men in dresses. Transgender activists are insulting lesbians as “vagina fetishists.”

 

“SJWs Always Project,” as Vox Day says, and who are the real “fetishists” here? Isn’t it the men playing make-believe as “women”? And isn’t the stark irrationality of their arguments symptomatic of their profound mental illness? Should sane people let these lunatics boss us around, accusing us of “hate” if we disagree with them?

Transgender ideology is a mirror-reverse of reality, an inversion of social norms, a direct attack on the moral order of civilization. It is an attempt by mentally defective men to obtain by deception both the courteous deference due to women in traditional culture, and the political authority which feminism seeks for women. The traditionalist and the feminist alike would object to men engaging in such public bullying toward women, yet by claiming to be “women,” transgender activists engage in this bullying behavior and call it “social justice.”

What was the point, after all, of liberal outrage over Donald Trump’s “grab ’em by the p–sy” comments, if liberals are going to demand that women submit to insults from transgender activists?

By the way, a conservative need not endorse homosexuality to believe that lesbians should not be insulted as “TERFs,” etc. What is at issue here is a matter of basic liberty. The First Amendment, which guarantees both freedom of speech and freedom of religion, likewise safeguards the principle of freedom of association. In guaranteeing “the right of the people peaceably to assemble,” our Constitution expresses this principle. A woman who chooses to avoid intimacy with men is exercising her basic liberty and, while we might lament her choice, the friends of liberty cannot in good conscience compel her to do otherwise. Forcing citizens to associate with others against their will is not “social justice.”

The Christian is as free to eschew association with non-believers as the homosexual is free to eschew the companionship of the opposite sex. For decades now, the Left has accused Christian conservatives of seeking to “impose their morality” on others. But what is it that transgender activists are attempting to do now? Aren’t they attempting to compel others to do their bidding, and to silence their critics?

It’s astounding.
Time is fleeting.
Madness takes its toll.

Those lyrics from The Rocky Horror Picture Show keep coming to mind as I contemplate the increasingly bizarre conflicts over “gender” and “sexuality” in 21st-century America. It is truly astounding to find myself defending lesbian feminists against transgender totalitarians.

Like I keep saying, people need to wake the hell up.



 

 

Category: The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 05.31.18

Posted on | June 1, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.31.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
First Street Journal: Is The C Word The Equivalent Of The N Word?
EBL: An Important Announcement From Starbucks
Twitchy: Tammy Bruce Levels Sally Fields’ Tweet That Unwittingly Speaks Volumes About Hollywood
Louder With Crowder: Ted Cruz Calls Out Jimmy Kimmel, Challenges Him To Basketball

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Pat Conroy, Beach Music, also, Democrats’ Double Standard On Celebrities In The White House
American Thinker: The Permanent Adolescence Of The American Left
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Knife Control News
BattleSwarm: Hey, Did You Notice That Israel/Hamas War?
BLACKFIVE: Carole Avriett, Coffin Corner Boys
CDR Salamander: Three Days Of The FREMM
Da Tech Guy: Twelve Years Ago Today At Instapundit, I Became A Villain To The Left
Don Surber: Obama Worked To Undermine Trump After The Election
Dustbury: My Phone Is Dumb
The Geller Report: Greeks Afraid To Leave Their Homes Due To Violent Muslim Migrants, also,  Jihad In The Netherlands
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Joe For America: California Punishing Hospitals That Provide Too Much Care
Legal Insurrection: Samantha Bee Calls Ivanka A “Feckless C*nt* On Her TBS Show, Apologizes Under Fire, also, All The President’s Pardons
Michelle Malkin: Stop One To Stop False Accusations – Exposure
Power Line: Global Establishment Closes Ranks Against Tommy Robinson, also, Cindy McCain To Succeed Her Husband In The Senate?
Shark Tank: DeSantis Backs Trump On “Spy” Assumption
Shot In The Dark: The Juggernaut Strikes
STUMP:  Pew Pensions Report
The Political Hat: Thought Police Arrest Autistic Student For Crime Of Imaginary Gun Possession
This Ain’t Hell: Veterans Join Together For Gun Control, also, Taliban Fighters Wore U.S. Uniforms In Kabul Attack
Victory Girls: CNN Guest Says If You Voted For Trump, You’re Racist
Volokh Conspiracy: Liberty Comes To Liberty HS – “Trump Border Wall” T-Shirt Allowed
Weasel Zippers: Watchdog Group Discovers Hidden Iranian Missile Base, also, This Strike Could Bring Down Iran’s Mullahs, But Mainstream Media Ignore It
Mark Steyn: Where The Bee Sucks


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Why Freedom of Speech Matters (And Why ‘Hate Speech’ Is Protected, Too)

Posted on | May 31, 2018 | 1 Comment

“Truth is great, and will prevail if left to herself . . . [Truth] is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.”
— Thomas Jefferson

When news of Tommy Robinson’s arrest in England made headlines, Americans were shocked. A judge had sentenced Robinson to 13 months in prison for attempting to publicize the trial of men accused of operation a criminal sex ring that trafficked underage girls in Leeds.

The case involved one of several so-called “grooming” gangs that have been exposed in England in recent years, the most notorious of which was The Rotherham Horror. Basically, lower-class white English girls are seduced (“groomed”) by young Muslim men, mostly the sons of Pakitani immigrants, and then gang-raped and/or pimped out as prostitutes. The racial aspect of this phenomenon obviously has the potential to inflame public opinion, especially since investigations have shown officials failed to act promptly in many cases because of political correctness.

Why was Robinson arrested?

The Contempt of Court Act 1981 lays down strict limitations on what can be reported in the press regarding active criminal proceedings. This is to prevent outside influences from affecting jurors, ensuring that the defendant has a fair trial based only on the evidence put before the court.
Robinson was already serving a suspended sentence for contempt of court concerning a 2017 case in Canterbury when he was arrested by police while live-streaming on Facebook outside a grooming trial in Leeds on Friday morning.
In the broadcast, played to the court, Robinson “got into a shouting match with several men who appeared to be defendants in the case”, Buzzfeed reports. He also read out the names and charges against the men, some of them inaccurate.
“No-one could possibly conclude that it would be anything other than highly prejudicial to the defendants in the trial,” said Judge Geoffrey Marson QC, presiding. . . .
A temporary order had been imposed by the court banning media coverage of Robinson’s trial and conviction while the Leeds grooming trial was ongoing over fears it could further publicise Robinson’s prejudicial broadcast.
“If the jurors in my present trial get to know of this video I will no doubt be faced with an application to discharge the jury,” Marson told Robinson on Friday, the Hull Daily Mail reports.
“If I have to do that it will mean a re-trial, costing hundreds and hundreds and thousands of pounds.”

Apparently, either (a) English courts do not have the authority to sequester the jury in high-profile trials, or (b) the courts are deliberately attempting to suppress public knowledge of the Leeds case. As an American unfamiliar with British law, I can’t say which is true, but I do know that there is a smoldering resentment among many Britons about the role of the “respectable” media in cases like these.

One sees Robinson described in headlines as a “far-right” figure, or an “anti-Muslim” activist, but who is to blame for this situation? When you examine the facts surrounding The Rotherham Horror and other such cases, it is apparent that the media was largely complicit — along with the police and other public officials — in permitting the problem of the so-called “grooming” gangs to flourish. Class prejudice was clearly a factor in this. Most British journalists are from the college-educated upper classes, while the girls being raped and pimped out by these Muslim gangs were mostly from a class that Americans would call “white trash.”

It’s not as if the “grooming” gangs were a big secret, after all. Young Pakistani men were parking their cars in front of schools to pick up their 14- and 15-year-old “girlfriends” and, because these girls were generally from the welfare-dependent lower classes, nobody seemed to care. Police, educators and social-service agencies ignored what was going on, and as for the media, well, they wouldn’t want to be accused of “racism” or “Islamophobia” for reporting on this phenomenon.

One of the first journalists to call attention to this problem was radical feminist Julie Bindel, who wrote a 2007 column in the Sunday Times of London about two men — Zulfqar Hussain, 46, and Qaiser Naveed, 32 — who had pleaded guilty to abduction, sexual activity with a child, and the supply of a controlled drug:

Blackburn, in common with many northern towns, is experiencing a huge upsurge in pimping, and it is an unpalatable truth for the authorities — and indeed the police — that many of the newest wave of pimps come from within the Asian community. . . .
The Mall in Blackburn is popular as a meeting place for the town’s young men and women. Set on two floors, with over 100 high-street stores, it is brightly lit and usually busy. It teems with young women with pushchairs, elderly people window-shopping, and teenagers meeting up with their friends. The crackle of security guards’ radios mingles with the cheesy piped music.
Not everyone is there to shop. Well-dressed Asian teenage boys can be found on the lookout for young white girls, following them around those stores that sell cheap jewellery and perfume. Meanwhile, older men sit on the benches, watching their workers and potential recruits in action. The older men are “employing” the boys to chat up the girls and eventually hand them over.
The Mall is widely known locally as the Lap because of the way young men and girls circle around the arcade, seeking each other out. The girls, keen to hook up with a boyfriend, call it “doing the Lap”. Young men stop to chat to the giggling girls, teasing and flirting. To many, they look like any other group of teenagers. One security guard, asked if the men are pimps, said he neither knew nor cared. “It’s the girls,” he says, “they love the Pakis. We can’t get a look in.” Nearby, a young man takes two of the girls into a shop, where he buys them make-up and perfume. Later on, the groups of men move on to the Vue cinema complex near Blackburn station. The younger men are on bicycles, the older ones in expensive-looking cars, sound systems blaring out bhangra and gangster rap. Girls begin to approach them, and are soon driven away in cars by the older men. It is possible that they are taken to “slag houses”, where they will be sold for sex.

“It’s the girls. They love the Pakis.”

One might think such a sentence, reported in the Sunday Times, would have caused responsible adults to raise an eyebrow and become curious as to what was happening with young girls in Blackburn, and in other communities in rundown post-industrial northern England. Oh, but these girls were just lower-class “slags” and, like the mall security guard, the upper classes who run England’s”respectable” media were indifferent to the fact that teenagers were being whored out by Pakistani pimps.

It was this attitude of class snobbery, compounded by concerns about inflaming “Islamophobia,” that created the vacuum into which Tommy Robinson and other “far-right” figures eagerly leaped, providing coverage of a phenomenon that the respectable media had deliberately ignored.

Is Tommy Robinson racist? Is he irresponsible? Were his efforts to call attention to the Leeds trial a species of “hate speech”?

British law is different than American law, where the First Amendment guarantees our rights to free speech and a free press. In America, our devotion to liberty is such that in 1977, neo-Nazis were permitted to march in Skokie, Illinois, a notorious decision mocked in a famous scene in the 1980 movie The Blues Brothers: “I hate Illinois Nazis.”

 

Yeah, Jake, we all hate Illinois Nazis, too. But what happens if, in our eagerness to suppress “hate speech,” we accidentally silence the truth?

This is a question that has consequences far beyond issues of neo-Nazis and “Islamophobia.” As Jefferson said, truth “is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error,” and a free people can tolerate even free speech for Nazis, as long as we are “permitted freely to contradict” them.

What has happened, however, is that our institutions of higher education have been taken over by soi-disant “progressives” who have taught a generation of young Americans to believe that certain facts are “hate speech.” This problem has concerned me ever since I began researching radical feminism four years ago, and discovered how far academia has gone to enshrine Third Wave feminist “gender theory” as an Official Truth which no one on campus is permitted to criticize.

According to this theory, there are no natural differences between men and women.  Instead, young people are now taught, all apparent male-female behavioral differences are produced by the social construction of the gender binary within the heterosexual matrix, to summarize the argument of Professor Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. For many years, Professor Butler’s book has been required reading for university students in Women’s Studies courses, which may explain the increasingly bizarre arguments emerging from the feminist movement. If the leading voices of feminism in politics and journalism have been indoctrinated with a particular theory of “gender,” and if critics of this theory are effectively prohibited from speaking on university campuses, is it any surprise that common-sense talk about human sexual behavior is now routinely denounced as “misogyny,” “rape culture,” “homophobia,” etc.?

The suppression of disagreement and criticism as “hate speech” on university campuses has had consequences far beyond academia. If major corporations are hiring “the best and brightest” from our universities, should we be surprised to see the regime of political correctness being imposed in companies like Google? When it is possible to be fired from the world’s most powerful information provider for daring to raise questions about their “diversity” policies — which is what happened to James Damore — shouldn’t we be concerned that truth is being “disarmed of her natural weapons,” as Jefferson warned?

It is perhaps not entirely coincidental that Julie Bindel, who courageously reported on Pakistani “grooming” gangs more than 10 years ago, has been “no-platformed” at British universities because she is also a critic of transgender activists. Bindel is a hard-core radical lesbian, and not someone that American conservatives would agree with on most issues, but she refuses to be bullied away from the important truth that male and female are meaningful biological categories. Maybe you don’t like radical lesbians any more than Jake liked Illinois Nazis, but friends of liberty must always defend “free argument and debate,” as Jefferson said, because we are confident that “truth is great and will prevail.”

It encouraged me to see Ben Shapiro speak up for Tommy Robinson. Shapiro has been whipsawed between competing camps of hatred in recent years. Whenever he shows up to speak on campus, the Left throws a riot. He has been smeared as an “alt-right” fascist while, at the same time, he is a target of Jew-haters in the “alt-right” ranks, and it’s remarkable how he’s maintained his sanity amid the Trump-era madness.

Shapiro calls Robinson “kooky” and “fringe,” even while arguing in defense of Robinson’s efforts to call attention to “grooming” cases. And this is an important point: You don’t have to like Tommy Robinson, or agree with 100% of everything he says and does, to be concerned about what his arrest means for the issue of free speech. Likewise, you may consider Julie Bindel a kooky fringe feminist and still believe it is wrong for universities to “no-platform” her because of her “transphobia.”

In a world where it is considered sane to look the other way while English girls are being raped and pimped out by Pakistani gangs, people will turn to the kooky fringe to find the truth. And if the truth is silenced as “hate speech,” then only liars will be permitted to speak.



 

 

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