Despite pressure from Prime Minister Theresa May and the UK Conservative Party, Britain’s former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has refused to apologise for his critical remarks about women in burkas, the full-body Islamic veil. The senior Conservative politician stirred a controversy this week after likening burka-clad women to “letter-boxes” and “bank robbers”.
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If modern BBC suits had a time machine, we’d never see silly walks, dead parrots or limbless knights.
An executive for the British Broadcasting Company recently said the new comedy mission had little room for “six Oxbridge white blokes.”
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Who wants to tempt fate by trying to tell jokes to an audience full of people who will be offended no matter what you say?
Campus Reform reports:
PC culture causes growing rift between colleges, comedians
Comedians are becoming increasingly reluctant to perform on college campuses due to a sensitive culture of political correctness,...
This may sound unusual coming from a bishop but on today’s college campuses, it’s an act of defiance to embrace pretty much anything traditional.
The College Fix reports:
Bishop to graduates: ‘You have to be politically incorrect’
A Catholic bishop recently urged graduates of Thomas Aquinas College to be “politically incorrect,” instructing them to...
I am thrilled to be able to be able to share some of my “cultural appreciation” experiences with our Legal Insurrection friends.
In fact, this idea came from a response I was going to make during the social justice brouhaha over 18-year old Keziah Daum’s Chinese cheongsam prom dress. I, too have...
The American Alliance of Museums (AAM), with an annual budget of some $10 million, serves as an advocacy group for museums, including setting
The College of Holy Cross, a Catholic school, has decided to drop its knight mascot and change the name of the school paper because it links them to the horrible violence that occurred during the Crusades. Because, you know, only the Christians did horrible things during the Crusades.
DePaul University law professor Donald Hermann recently used the n-word in a lecture. He wasn’t trying to insult anyone and he didn’t direct the word at a person. He was making up a hypothetical case, in other words, teaching law. Now he is under attack.
If you want to get away from political correctness, leaving academia is a great first step.
Campus Reform reports:
Former prof recounts her ‘escape’ from political correctness
A professor emerita at California State University-East Bay has written a book about how she “escaped” political correctness with the help of evolutionary psychology.
How I Escaped Political...
James Damore is the former Google employee fired after he shared a memo addressing diversity issues at Google that was deemed not politically correct.
We covered the story in August 2017, Google Senior Engineer FIRED for diversity memo:
Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager have partnered to make a documentary film about political correctness and the danger it presents to comedy and free speech, particularly on college campuses. The film is called “No Safe Spaces” and will be released this fall.
Ithaca, NY, is a notoriously liberal town, and is the home of Cornell University.
Ithaca High School’s spring musical was “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” A story whose message is one of inclusiveness and acceptance should be welcomed and encouraged.
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President Trump has an amazing knack for pushing leftist buttons. His trolling of the media is epic; they always bite, chasing his squirrels and making genuine donkeys of themselves in the process.
The latest example of this involves a “saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again” tweet and an ad released by America First Policies. ...
Alex Kozinski was perhaps the most well-known member of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and was its former Chief Judge.
It’s hard to characterize Judge Kozinski in terms of the political conservative/liberal split. He was nominated by Ronald Reagan, but because he was on the 9th Circuit, popular opinion tends to...
For many years I’ve been writing about how Islamism and Leftism have come together in Europe to form a particularly nasty form of anti-Semitism in which Walking While Jewish in European cities
The cover story has been, and still is, anti-Zionism and Israel hatred. It’s what, in February 2010, I called Malmö Syndrome:
An excellent Open Letter to the President of the Vassar College from a Vassar alumnus, published in the student newspaper, is a must read as to what happened when I spoke at Vassar on “hate speech” and free speech. President Elizabeth Bradley’s response is here.
That letter exchange was the subject of...
I recently attended a “baby reveal.”
It’s often done by cutting a cake to reveal pink or blue inside, for girl or boy. This time it was a box filled with either pink or blue balloons. We only found out when the box was opened.
