Culture
Rolling Stone wrote one shockingly un-American column
“Woke” leftists are beating liberals into submission.
That’s why so-called mainstream media institutions have drifted hard to the Left.
And Rolling Stone wrote one shockingly un-American column.
The political correctness movement of the late ‘80s-early ‘90s was ultimately defeated, but it has come back with a vengeance in the form of “wokeness.”
Hard-left activists don’t even hide the fact that they have disdain for the Constitution because it was written by old white men.
Elie Mystal of The Nation went on The View and called the Constitution “trash.”
Now a writer for Rolling Stone is arguing in favor of cancel culture, which has a chilling effect on free speech.
Ernest Owens penned a piece promoting his new book titled, “The Case for Cancel Culture: How This Democratic Tool Works to Liberate Us All.”
Cancel culture is essentially a way for hard-left ideologues to make an end run around the First Amendment in order to punish people for speaking up.
And it’s all under the guise of simply holding people accountable.
Owens wrote, “Cancel culture has leveled the playing field for those who can’t always rely on the government to protect them. Right now, bigots are protected under the First Amendment to fuel disgusting rhetoric without state-sanctioned consequence. The America that tolerated white supremacy in their policies and laws is the same country that wants to remind us how such forms of hate are still legal via free speech. Cancel culture is the poison to those in power that have benefited from unchecked free speech.”
It could not be more clear that Owens does not believe in free speech.
Leftist activists like Owens have adopted the idea that “hate speech is not free speech,” which is not true.
Moreover, leftists deem anything that counters their narrative as hate speech.
For example, refusing to use a transgender person’s preferred pronouns would be considered a form of hate speech to the Left.
In reality, that would be an example of compelled speech, which is the political battle that propelled Canadian psychologist and professor Jordan Peterson to international acclaim.
Peterson and others like Professor Gad Saad railed against Bill C-16, which they viewed as a form of compelled speech.
As Owens said, he wants more cancel culture because “state-sanctioned consequence” is off the table.
If Leftists could throw people in the gulag for wrong-think, they would do it in a heartbeat.
Owens added, “When conservatives on Fox News declare that it’s a ‘free country’ and that cancel culture is ‘un-American,’ they forget speech works two ways: It allows for discourse to take place but grants all voices can be heard.”
Cancel culture does not grant that voices can be heard; it’s a tactic to silence political opposition.
Owens would not be so sanguine about cancel culture if someone dug through his entire social media history and found objectionable statements, then called for him to be fired.
That’s the nature of cancel culture, and that’s what Owens wants to defend.
Pants on Fire News will keep you up-to-date on any developments to this ongoing story.
CNN
CNN just reached peak “woke” stupidity with a wild claim of racism
The Left have let the radicals loose on society.
And they are spreading chaos wherever they go.
Now CNN just reached peak “woke” stupidity with a wild claim of racism.
The Left are constantly pouring cultural poison into the American mainstream.
The latest goofy idea that is being given a trial run is a concept called “digital blackface,” which is when someone who’s white uses a nonwhite gif or meme when sending a text message or social media post.
Last year, Women’s Health tried to normalize the idiotic concept, and now CNN has picked up the topic.
CNN tracked down author and cultural critic Lauren Michele Jackson, who wrote an essay on the very, very serious problem of digital blackface.
Jackson said that digital blackface “includes displays of emotion stereotyped as excessive: so happy, so sassy, so ghetto, so loud…our dial is on 10 all the time — rarely are black characters afforded subtle traits or feelings.”
It didn’t stop there.
CNN reported that “critics say digital blackface is wrong because it’s a modern-day repackaging of minstrel shows, a racist form of entertainment popular in the 19th century.”
So posting a humorous gif is now equivalent to a minstrel show.
This is what happens when students go six figures into debt for a worthless critical studies degree.
They are experts in nonsense.
Jackson added, “We are your sass, your nonchalance, your fury, your delight, your annoyance, your happy dance, your diva, your shade, your ‘yaas’ moments…The weight of reaction GIFing, period, rests on our shoulders.”
The civil rights movement was composed of serious people.
Today activists like Jackson pale in comparison.
Worse, their terrible ideas like “digital blackface” go largely unchallenged by the mainstream media.
CNN quoted Erinn Wong, another “academic,” who said, “Historical blackface has never truly ended, and Americans have yet to actively confront their racist past to this day…In fact, minstrel blackface has emerged into even more subtle forms of racism that are now glorified all over the Internet…[Digital blackface] culturally appropriates the language and expressions of black people for entertainment, while dismissing the severity of everyday instances of racism black people encounter, such as police brutality, job discrimination, and educational inequity.”
The great irony of these leftists is that they end up “canceling” the people they claim to be defending.
Jackson concluded, “If you find yourself always reaching for a black face to release your inner sass monster, maybe consider going the extra country mile and pick this nice Taylor Swift GIF instead.”
So Taylor Swift is taking away a position from a black person.
Somehow this is supposed to be progress.
No wonder CNN is a failing news organization.
Culture
Megyn Kelly slams ESPN for a politically correct story that’s wrong in every way possible
As part of the larger Disney Company family ESPN is held to certain left-leaning standards.
Now Megyn Kelly is absolutely slamming the network.
And it’s all over a politically correct story getting women fired up.
In only six years Hollywood’s #MeToo movement has been pushed to the side.
Now the transgender agenda is taking over.
And recently, part of an ESPN series for Women’s History Month had former Fox News host Megyn Kelly saying “OH HELL NO!”
Kelly added that commentary as she shared a post written by former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines taking a swipe at ESPN over honoring a biological male for Women’s History Month.
Gaines had responded to the article on Twitter writing, “Lia Thomas is not a brave, courageous woman who EARNED a national title.”
“He is an arrogant, cheat who STOLE a national title from a hardworking, deserving woman,” she added.
She’d know since she was that woman.
Gaines is a 12-time All-American swimmer who has turned into a crusader for women’s sports as the transgender movement reshapes women’s competitive athletics worldwide.
She competed against Thomas in the 200-freestyle final of the NCAA championships after the transgendered swimmer switched from competing on men’s teams to competing against women.
That’s a race Gaines says she ultimately lost to political posturing.
“We go behind the awards podium where they hand out the trophies and you’re kind of paraded out. The NCAA official looks at me and says great job. You guys tied, we only have one trophy and we’re gonna give to Lia. And so I press him, and I say okay can I ask you why you’re giving this trophy to Lia and he said well for photo purposes, Lia has to have it,” Gaines explained in an interview with the Washington Examiner earlier this year.
“In that moment I felt like we as a women were being mocked,” she added. “We were being reduced to a photo op for to validate the feelings of and the identity of a man.”
Before that point, Gaines says she expected someone would stand up for female athletes.
“I thought surely there would be someone, whether that be a coach, or another swimmer, or someone within the NCAA, I thought surely someone would stick up for us,” Gaines told reporter Amy DeLaura. “That’s when I realized it’s my duty as a female athlete who experienced this injustice to really use my voice and my platform to advocate for those female athletes who are emotionally blackmailed and gaslit into silence.”
Sadly, Megyn Kelly is one of very few high-profile members of the press willing to help Gaines draw attention to what’s happening to women athletes.
Pants on Fire News will keep you up-to-date on any developments to this ongoing story.
Culture
Horrifying death of this flight attendant is being ignored by the establishment media
The “woke” Left are on a crusade.
They don’t care at all about collateral damage.
Now the horrifying death of this flight attendant is being ignored by the establishment media.
Over the past several years, the Left have been pushing transgenderism relentlessly.
The message has moved from tolerance to full-blown compliance and indoctrination of the young.
They claim that people experiencing gender dysphoria, the feeling of being trapped in the wrong body, are at higher risk of suicide—a shockingly high rate of around 40%—due to a lack of acceptance by broader society.
But what the activists don’t mention is that gender dysphoria and suicidal ideation do not go away after transition.
And United flight attendant Kayleigh Scott, born Kyle Scott, tragically committed suicide.
Back in 2020, Scott was featured in a United Airlines commercial.
Despite society being far more accepting, the suicide rate among transgender individuals remains high.
Scott wrote in a harrowing Instagram post, “As I take my final breaths and exit this living earth, I would like to apologize to everyone I let down. I am so sorry I could not be better…To those that I love, I am sorry I could not be stronger. To those that gave me their everything, I am sorry my effort was not reciprocated…Please understand that me leaving is not a reflection of you, but the result of my own inability to turn myself for the better. To Ashley, Cynthia, Regine & Sophia. I am so sorry. Please remember me for the good memories we have shared, and never for my downfall. I will see you all again on the other side.”
The tragic reality of Scott’s death is that indulging the transgender activists has not made much of a dent in suicide rates, but the bigger problem is that they are roping in young and impressionable kids into an ideology that leads to a greater chance of emotional and psychological misery.
Jazz Jennings, who literally became the poster child for early-life transition as the subject of a reality show on TLC, has since voiced regret about the entire medical transition process.
Jennings, who was born male, has to dilate a “neo-vagina” daily to prevent the “cavity” from healing.
The barbarism that’s being packaged as compassion is truly astonishing.
Pants on Fire News will keep you up-to-date on any developments to this ongoing story.
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