Posted onFebruary 27, 2021byifnm|Comments Off on America’s culture and campuses are ‘under SIEGE’ by the woke brigade’s attempts to cancel conservative thought, Scott Walker tells CPAC
Accused liberal activists of ‘attempting to cancel conservative thought’
Former Wisconsin
Governor Scott Walker has claimed that American culture and college
campuses in particular are ‘under siege’ from woke activists who want to
restrict free speech and prevent debate.
‘America
is under siege. We see it on our campuses,’ Walker said in a speech at
the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida on Friday.
‘We
see it in our culture, and increasingly we see it in our communications
with the censorship from Big Tech, left-wing professors, liberal
activists, mass media, even some of our major corporations are
attempting to cancel conservative thought,’ he added.
‘They don’t want to compete with us in the battle of ideas because they know they lose. They just want to cancel,’ said Walker.
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Posted onFebruary 19, 2021byifnm|Comments Off on Looking Forward as the West Declines
A horrid new order is being set up. For a brief while it may yet resemble the Old Republic, but only as Count Dracula resembles a living person.
Germany’s defeat in World War II was accelerated by Hitler’s
unwillingness to accept reports at odds with his increasingly
fantastical view of reality. His self-deceptions were believed with such
firmness that, by mid-1944, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel concluded that the Führer was living in a Wolkenkuckucksheim (“cloud cuckoo land”).
The same diagnosis applies to the establishment Right, both in Europe and the U.S., which still assert that we live in an imperfect yet improvable world in which the West is dominant and has the energy to reinvent itself. The luminaries at Heritage Foundation, their Euro-doubles, and assorted believers in civic nationalism reject all evidence that the Western world is declining vis-à-vis its global competitors, still advocating legislative solutions to civilizational challenges. For Conservative Inc., any warning that Western power is but a façade which conceals rot and weakness is paleo-reactionary propaganda and unpatriotic defeatism.
Posted onDecember 31, 2020byifnm|Comments Off on New York Times: Tiki Bars Need ‘Reclaiming’ Because Racism
The problem Katz and McGiff have is that the two California entrepreneurs who made tiki bars wildly popular were white guys. A lot of predictable social justice warrior filler follows. “Cultural appropriation” and “imperialism” get mentioned. Apparently “tiki” can be a trigger word too. That’s probably something that no one would know — or even believe — had this article not been written.
Welcome dear readers to the fourteen billionth “Not the Onion” moment from The New York Times that’s occurred just this year.
What a tedious, wearisome thing it must be to have to live the modern
American progressive lifestyle. They truly believe that everything is
awful, despite the fact that by almost every objective measure Americans
are living pretty good lives even here in 2020.
One of the biggest drags on their collective psyche is the fact that
they see racism EVERYWHERE. I will concede that modern American society
still has some problems with racism if you look at the things that are
actually, you know, racist. There is still enough of that floating
around out there that nobody should have to contort themselves to see
racism in places where people would normally never think to look.
Posted onDecember 2, 2020byifnm|Comments Off on What TV Can Teach Us About the White Working Class
From Archie Bunker to Shameless, narrative television has often portrayed them sympathetically. But will it still post-Trump?
Even in a nation obsessed with representation in the media and
politics, the white working class has often gone forgotten. Their
economic decline, cultural decay, and frustration with the political
system went unnoticed until it helped swing the 2016 presidential
election. Yet even as cable news hosts and politicians were completely
blindsided, narrative television did a decent job of showing this
group’s suffering—even when it wasn’t portrayed accurately.
The
white working class has been looked down upon since the earliest days of
narrative television. As early as the mid-1950s, TV shows such as The Honeymooners and The Flintstones depicted
working-class men as agents of chaos who got themselves into scrapes
that their wives or middle-class bosses had to fix. Characters like
Ralph Kramden were loud, overweight, and scheming to get ahead, while
fathers and husbands on shows that depicted middle-class families—such
as I Love Lucy, Father Knows Best, The Dick Van Dyke Show, and Bewitched—were sensible figures who brought stability to their families.
When All in the Family premiered in 1971, the character of Archie Bunker received similar treatment. He was a loud-mouthed bigot who often looked like he was taking his wife for granted and couldn’t understand his countercultural daughter, Gloria, or Mike, his hippie son-in-law.
Posted onNovember 5, 2020byifnm|Comments Off on Williams: Blacks of yesteryear and today
There’s little protest against the horrible and dangerous conditions under which many poor and law-abiding Black people must live. It is not uncommon for 50 Black people to be shot over a weekend in Chicago — not by policemen but by other Black people. About 7,300 Black people are murdered each year, and not by white people or racist cops, but mostly by other Black people. These numbers almost make our history of victimization by racist lynching look like child’s play.
I was a teenager, growing up in the Richard Allen
housing project of North Philadelphia, when Emmett Till was lynched in
Money, Mississippi, on Aug. 28, 1955, and his brutalized, unrecognizable
body later recovered from the Tallahatchie River. From 1882-1968, 4,743
lynchings occurred in the United States.
Roughly
73%, or 3,446, were Black people, and 27%, or 1,297, were white people.
Many whites were lynched because they were Republicans who supported
their fellow Black citizens and opposed the lawless act of lynching.
Tuskegee University has the best documentation of lynching. It records
an 1892 high of 69 whites and 161 Blacks lynched. By the 1940s,
occurrences of lynching fell to single digits or disappeared altogether.
At the time of my youth, today’s opportunities for socioeconomic advancement were nonexistent for Black people. For all but a few, college attendance was out of the question because of finances and racial discrimination. If you were not admitted to the Black colleges of Lincoln University or Cheyney State College, forget about college. I do not know of any student of my 1954 class at Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin High School who attended college. Though the quality of education at Benjamin Franklin is a mere shadow of its past, today roughly 17% of its graduating class has been admitted to college. The true hope for a youngster graduating from high school during the 1950s was a well-paying and steady job. My first well-paying job was as a taxi driver for Yellow Cab Company.
Posted onOctober 9, 2020byifnm|Comments Off on Victor Davis Hanson – Diversity, Nationalism and the Exploding Melting Pot (Video)
Victor Davis Hanson is an American classicist, military historian, columnist, and farmer. He has been a commentator on modern and ancient warfare and contemporary politics for National Review, The Washington Times, and other media outlets.
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Posted onJuly 27, 2020byifnm|Comments Off on Opinion: It’s wrong to call Confederate leaders “traitors” by Walter E. Williams
Even on the eve of the War of 1861, unionist politicians saw secession as a state’s right.
The Confederacy has been the excuse for some of today’s rioting,
property destruction and grossly uninformed statements. Among the latter
is the testimony before the House Armed Services Committee by the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley in favor of
renaming Confederate-named military bases. He said: “The Confederacy,
the American Civil War, was fought, and it was an act of rebellion. It
was an act of treason, at the time, against the Union, against the Stars
and Stripes, against the U.S. Constitution.”
There are a few facts about our founding that should be acknowledged. Let’s start at the beginning, namely the American War of Independence (1775-1783), a war between Great Britain and its 13 colonies, which declared independence in July 1776. The peace agreement that ended the war is known as the Treaty of Paris signed by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, John Jay and Henry Laurens and by British Commissioner Richard Oswald, on Sept. 3, 1783. Article I of the Treaty held that “New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to be free sovereign and Independent States.”
Posted onJuly 2, 2020byifnm|Comments Off on 5 Ways You Can Fight Back In The Cultural Civil War
It can be hard for ordinary Americans who oppose the radical agenda of the woke left to know how to fight back. Here are a few practical ideas.
Last week I wrote about how we’re in a cultural civil war
and it’s time for conservatives—and really, anyone who’s not on board
with the radical anti-American agenda of Black Lives Matter and the rest
of the woke left—to fight back.
But how? I was light on specifics, and subsequently heard from a
number of readers who wanted to know what they could do, personally, to
push back against the leftward lurch of the culture. Many said they feel
powerless and overwhelmed, and with good reason.
Silicon Valley, Hollywood, academia, the mainstream media, corporate America, and the entire Democratic Party (along with not a few Republicans and Independents) have all caved under pressure from the woke mob, more or less accepting the premise that America is fundamentally a racist country and an evil empire whose system of government and institutions need to be torn down.
Christopher Langan is well renowned as the Smartest Man in America and indeed perhaps the world. Now, he’s railing against the alleged election fraud that “delivered” the race for Joe Biden.
I watch Hollywood awards ceremonies where a supposed artist screams out for punching people in the face for political disagreements, and the entire horde of Botoxed brain zombies leaps to their feet in an ungodly and unholy howl of rampant bloodlust approval.
“We can call it Cultural Marxism, but at the end of the day, we experience it on a day to day basis, by that I mean a minute by minute, second by second basis. It’s political correctness and it’s multiculturalism.” – Andrew Breitbart
