By Selwyn Duke
“Sugar and spice and everything nice; That’s what little girls are made of,” goes the old Romantic Period poem. Grown women are characterized differently, the work holds, and female leaders? Poem author Robert Southey didn’t say.
But pundit Tucker Carlson just did.
In fact, he stated while addressing the notion that “women in charge” would yield a more peaceful world that the exact “opposite” appears true.
By Selwyn Duke
“People often ask, ‘Where are all the leaders?’ But it’s the wrong question. They should instead ask, ‘Where are all the followers?’”
This statement, which I made on a radio show many years ago, mirrors the old aphorism, “People get the government they deserve.” It also is essentially what’s lamented by an author who asks about Kamala Harris’s supporters: “Are these people crazy?”
By Selwyn Duke
Sweden long ago became the world’s first officially “feminist” government. Will it now be followed by what some might think is, outside the Islamic world, the unlikeliest of places: Mexico? This may be the case if its president-elect, ex-academic Claudia Sheinbaum, has her way.
In fact, while Sheinbaum — a radical who reportedly supported Colombian revolutionary-socialist guerrilla movement M-19 — will preside over a dysfunctional narco-state in psychopathic cartels’ grip, she has made clear that her priorities are more Gloria Steinem than Eliot Ness.
By Selwyn Duke
It has been pointed out that during our history, it is Democrats who’ve gotten us involved in most of our wars. They’ve also had a strong hand, to say the least, in sparking our failed ones. This didn’t stop MSNBC from claiming otherwise in a hit piece on GOP vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance.
Written by one Alexander Nazaryan and titled “JD Vance’s revisionist history about who launched America’s failed wars,” the issue is actually MSNBC’s revisionist history about our failed wars and Vance’s Republican National Convention (RNC) speech.
Nazaryan also repeats an “agreed upon myth,” to quote Napoleon’s theory of history, about weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq that absolutely should be addressed.
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:
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