Inclusiveness

The War Against Christmas competition at VDARE is worth checking out. From a blogger’s point of view, it’s a public service that saves the rest of us from having to list all the seasonal enormities, for example the community bulletin board in England that doesn’t allow notices about Christmas carols or the policy of the … More ...

More blessings of diversity in the Anglophone world:

• In England, a prison officer with an unblemished 21-year record was sacked for insensitivity. He threw some keys hard into a metal chute and someone asked him about it. He said there was a picture of bin Laden at the bottom. Unfortunately, three Asians (the officer

Someone with some knowledge of the dispute over the proposed NYC parent councils read what I wrote about it and protested that I had misread a reasonably objective report by the New York Times as a partisan political statement. My (somewhat edited) response:

Thanks for the note! It’s a useful reality check to get comments

Recent changes to Canadian law greatly broaden the scope of binding arbitration. Under the new rules, if people don’t want to go to court to settle civil disputes they don’t have to, but can get a legally enforcible decision from an arbitrator. One consequence is that it is now practical of Muslims in Canada to … More ...

In a multicultural society, common sense gets abolished because it’s a matter of settled inarticulate understandings (a.k.a. “deeply rooted social stereotypes”). Bureaucrats must therefore run everything in accordance with their own form of rationality. There’s nothing to keep the society’s fundamental logic from getting carried to completion, so that’s what happens.

For example: in … More ...

Dispatches from the front in the war for the final victory of tolerance:

• “Isn’t That Fascism? No, Because We Don’t Call It Fascism”. I’ve suggested that “zero tolerance” rules are a consequence of the demand for inclusiveness (if you want to get rid of discrimination you have to be indiscriminate). This discussion of harassment

It’s hard to make out exactly what’s going on, but it appears that in the Australian state of Victoria if you give the term “jihad” its usual meaning and say Muslims believe in it, you’ll be taken to court for “religious vilification” and the Catholic Church will take the side of your prosecutors.

Nobody’s ever good enough: Gandhi attacked as racist in South Africa.

Statements in a radio interview given by Anglican bishop Martin Reynolds display the essentials of liberal antihomophobia: Anti-gay archbishop Jensen likened to Hitler. According to Reynolds, the claim that deviant sexual intercourse is bad, so homosexual couplings aren’t equivalent to marriages and those who affirm such things in their lives shouldn’t be pastors of … More ...

Affirmative action is a sacred cause, so if you’re sarcastic about it they don’t like you. Authorities at Southern Methodist University and University of California at Irvine have shut down bake sales put on by conservative students at which beneficiaries of affirmative action were charged less than white male students. At SMU officials called the … More ...