By Selwyn Duke
“The white race is the cancer of human history,” wrote feminist author Susan Sontag in 1966. While Sontag has passed on, her idea has passed on to critical-mass stage; in fact, the notion that whites are history’s “oppressors” and everyone else is the “oppressed” is now left-wing dogma as much as “four legs good, two legs bad” was in Orwell’s communist allegory Animal Farm. But it’s also something else, states Newsweek’s Dan Perry: nonsense.
By Selwyn Duke
It’s no surprise that black Americans used to be Republicans. The GOP is, after all, the party of Lincoln and slavery abolition. For more than half a century, however, blacks have given approximately 90 percent of their support to Democrats every election. What’s more, laments a black writer and speaker, “Democrats are guilt tripping us into voting.”
By Selwyn Duke
Asian-descent Americans have long enjoyed notably higher incomes than their white countrymen do. It’s also true that men earn more money than women do. Now, question:
Are both, neither, or just one of these wage gaps seen as a “problem” to be “remedied”?
If you answered “just one” — and know which one it is — then you just may be acquainted with a fashionable modern form of discrimination: treating some inter-group disparities as more equal than others.
By Selwyn Duke
“New research makes it increasingly clear that companies with more diverse workforces perform better financially,” proclaimed McKinsey & Company in 2015. McKinsey’s study was taken seriously, too; in fact, it would be transformational.
Citing McKinsey in 2016, the Harvard Business Review announced, definitively, “Striving to increase workplace diversity is not an empty slogan — it is a good business decision.” Woke capital leviathan BlackRock made McKinsey Exhibit A when making the case for a board-diversity target of 30 percent, Nasdaq and a Securities and Exchange Commission figure touted it when lobbying for policies pressuring companies to embrace diversity, and multitudinous activist groups have done likewise while encouraging various diversity-oriented social-engineering schemes. There’s a problem, however:
The McKinsey study, it turns out, appears to be hogwash.
By Selwyn Duke
If the current enviro-doomsayer predictions frighten you, don’t worry. Just wait a bit.
They’ll change.
The kicker is that “predictions” about the past will change, too. A case in point is a recent Washington Post admission that all the “fossil fuels” we’ve been burning have had a global-warming-neutralizing cooling effect. And if this frightens you because you fear for your AGW agenda, don’t worry. Just wait a bit.
By Selwyn Duke
The mainstream media never claimed “both sides” were culpable for the J6 riot, even though the Left had already normalized political violence (BLM/Antifa). But with Saturday’s assassination attempt against President Trump, it’s different:
To dilute their own responsibility, leftist media are asserting that “both sides” are responsible for the act.
My, how even-handed!
Or maybe evil-handed. That’s essentially an incredulous Donald Trump Jr.’s reaction, anyway. As he wrote in a Sunday tweet:
By Selwyn Duke
“There’s no England now,” stated the Kinks in 1984, in a song that, in part, lamented the 20th-century loss of English identity. Today, in the 21st century, perhaps it could be said that there’s no Germany now.
By Selwyn Duke
Self-delusion is an amazing thing. Despite Joe Biden’s nation-shocking debate performance, there are still those refusing to see that the emperor has no clothes. In particular, heard is the notion that “Biden isn’t cognitively impaired, no, no — he just has a stutter.” A longtime commenter at my website just asserted this with all sincerity on Wednesday. Then there was MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and his wife, Mika Brzezinski, who had the following exchange on a recent episode of their show, Morning Joe:
By Selwyn Duke
“C’mon, man!” would often be an exclamation used in place of argument for Joe Biden. But now he may want to say “C’mon, men!” — even though it likely won’t help. With what?
Biden is underwater with male voters, a phenomenon that has only worsened since his cognitive decline was on full display during the presidential debate.
In fact, Biden is even bleeding support among black and Hispanic men, two demographics that have traditionally supported him.
By Selwyn Duke
Overlapping with the “Enlightenment” and a reaction to it, the lesser-known “Romantic Period” (1790-1850, supposedly) stressed not reason but emotionalism and involved the exaltation of women. Over time this spirit metastasized into an attendant demonization of men; thus do we hear today about “toxic masculinity.” But this is essentially a toxic lie, says an author and life coach, pushed by media and other forces that portray men as society’s “bad guys.”
In fact, says Michael Taylor, male “problems” are actually the result of the man “not being connected to his authentic masculinity.” But while Taylor takes on the spirit of our time, is he, like most moderns, losing sight of the timeless?
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