By Selwyn Duke

It seems as if Archie Bunkers are everywhere today — only, their prejudice has gone woke.

Bunker, the seasoned among us may know, was the famously amusing ’70s sitcom bigot in hit show All in the Family. Apropos to the story here, in one episode Archie was apoplectic because a black family was poised to move in to his all-white Queens neighborhood. His attitude was meant to be considered unenlightened, the epitome of risible racism born of ignorance. But much has changed in 50 years.

Now being upset about your neighborhood’s changing demographics is considered enlightened — if it’s the “wrong” kind of change. What kind would that be?

Well, leftists, who detest Archie Bunker-like bigotry, have a name for it: “whitewashing.”

Oh, it has also been called a “bleaching out.”

In another case of art imitating life, this casual-bigotry reality is reflected in a new television work….

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By Selwyn Duke

Ice-cream maker Ben & Jerry’s is committed to “truth,” (social) justice, and the un-American way. It’s so committed, in fact, that it, the very soul of class and timing, observed the U.S.’s birthday by tweeting that our nation sits on stolen “indigenous” land and should return it. In particular, the “Chunky Monkey” maker mentioned that Mount Rushmore should be “given back” to the Lakota. But now Ben & Jerry’s can test its commitment — because its headquarters also sits on “stolen” land.

And a Vermont Indian chief says his tribe wants it back.

Oh, and you can put hot fudge, whipped cream, and a cherry on top of that.

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By Selwyn Duke

Perhaps it’s that a fat “trans” person identifying as in shape is small potatoes compared to identifying as the opposite sex in the first place. Whatever the case, it apparently doesn’t matter if “transgender” recruits’ pectorals are invading their belly as their belly conquers their belt’s last button because, according to a report, the U.S. Army is offering such enlistees “an indefinite fitness standards exemption.” So much for equality.

Reporting on the story, Hot Air writes, “Diversity is our strength. Except, apparently, the more diversity the military seeks, the less strength it requires.”

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By Selwyn Duke

In the wake of the 303 Creative v. Elenis ruling, leftists are very upset. “The Supreme Court is giving people the right to discriminate!” they howl. “What’s happening to this country!”

What’s happening is called freedom, actually. In fact, far from establishing a precedent, the court is simply preventing governments from doing the unprecedented: forcing Americans to express ideas they find morally objectionable.

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By Selwyn Duke

Imagine a scenario: An expansionist force that has already seized 70 percent of its neighbor’s territory invades another 15 percent of what remains. The defenders push back and, though outgunned, manage to oust the invaders from 25 percent of the newly taken territory. Yet despite still having lost much land, including during their adversary’s current campaign, something curious now happens:

The media portray the defenders as the aggressors for seeking to recapture what just last week was their own domain.

This would be a very effective con if you could pull it off, if you could, let’s say, somehow convince all and sundry that Ukraine is the aggressor for seeking to retake the eastern Donetsk from the Russian invaders. That’s not happening, of course, but this illusion is being effected in a different conflict: the culture war.

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By Selwyn Duke

Six years ago, French intellectual Christian de Moliner suggested that his nation essentially be divided, with the creation of a quasi-Sharia state within its borders, to avoid civil war with its Muslims. While de Moliner was wrong in his prescription — appeasement never works — his prognosis appears spot-on. In fact, France has for days been torn apart by rioting, and President Emmanuel Macron has been fiddling while Paris burns.

Ostensibly, the spark lighting this inferno, euphemistically called “protests” by some, was the police killing of a 17-year-old Muslim boy named Nahel Merzouk. Yet this motivation wouldn’t explain why the miscreants used gasoline to burn down an elementary school; have dragged drivers from vehicles and beaten them; had reportedly released zoo animals, which then roamed the streets; have desecrated a Holocaust memorial; are ransacking and looting stores; have already caused tens of millions in damages; and, as one observer put it, “are burning down everything in [their] path.”

This said, it’s hard to know the exact magnitude of the situation. But the following tweets, with embedded video, provide a disturbing glimpse.

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By Selwyn Duke

It’s a seductive appeal: “Soak the rich!”

“Make them pay their fair share!”

“Get your piece of the pie!”

As Norway is proving with its “wealth tax,” however, there’s a simple reason why this doesn’t work:

The rich will simply take their pie to greener (and less meaner) pastures.

In fact, ever since Norway’s Labor Party won power in 2021 and kept its promise to increase the nation’s wealth tax, the Scandinavian country’s rich have been leaving — taking tens of billions of dollars with them. The result?

While the raised wealth tax was projected to increase revenue steeply, it’s now on track to generate 40 percent less revenue than it has in recent years.

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By Selwyn Duke

All other things being equal, should black Americans be given more Social Security (SS) benefits? A college dean may think so, claiming that the program’s “structural inequities” shortchange blacks. And what is the problem, according to Thomas LaVeist, the dean of Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine?

White people live longer, which allows them to collect benefits for a greater period of time.

LaVeist concluded that we have to “intervene” in how the “system operates” as a remedy but provided no specificity, such as whether we should strive to lengthen blacks’ lifespans, shorten whites’, or calculate SS benefits based on quota.

Oddly, the dean also neglected to mention if any possible remedy would address the phenomena whereby women, Asian-descent Americans, and Latinos live longer than, respectively, men and whites.

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By Selwyn Duke

About two decades ago, ex-Vice President Al Gore famously proclaimed that on climate change, the “debate is over” (“in the scientific community,” he added). It wasn’t that many years later that former head of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit Phil Jones confessed, in the Climategate scandal’s wake, that the debate among scientists is not over. But something else isn’t only not over, but is now all over the place: a Gore-esque, pseudo-elite tendency to claim an issue is beyond debate — and then take your ball and, well, flee to MSNBC.

This is witnessed perhaps most prominently with the dispute over Covid “vaccines.” On Sunday, for example, Stanford University School of Medicine Professor Dr. Thomas Lew stated in a USA Today headline, “Joe Rogan, RFK Jr. don’t get it: Vaccine science isn’t up for debate.” Lew was responding to an offer Rogan, the famous podcaster, made in which he offered to donate $100,000 to vaccine proponent Dr. Peter Hotez’ favorite charity if the virologist would debate vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on his show.

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By Selwyn Duke

Many American statists have long desired European-like “hate speech” law, which can be used to stifle anti-establishment dissent. A bill that recently passed the Michigan House of Representatives could deliver just that, too, as it would punish threatening actions — and determine what’s “threatening” based on the “victim’s” feelings, according to The Epoch Times. In an age in which are heard complaints about “microaggressions” and that even “silence is violence,” you can only imagine how such a law could be (ab)used.

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