@olivia_p_walker @CultureExploreX De-colonize is woke code for cultural suicide. It is really is time to tell these people to sod right off.
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Eric Flynn
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Question: “What do the ‘woke’ mean by de-colonize?”
Answer (read below, and): “In the context of modern social justice activism, "de-colonize" refers to the active process of identifying, challenging, and dismantling the continued influence of European colonialism, white supremacy, and Western hegemony across all aspects of life […] the term is used broadly to attack Western culture or serves as a
‘boutique position’ for academic activism rather than practical change.”
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You do not honor other cultures by weakening your own. You honor them by standing firmly in what is yours.
Shakespeare is not a symbol of domination. He is one of the clearest expressions of what human language can reach at its highest level.
His work survived because generation after generation, across cultures, found truth in it.
What they are calling decolonising is diluting something rooted, tested, and refined over centuries. This is what happens when a civilization loses confidence in its own inheritance.
The idea that Shakespeare being universal is harmful reveals something deeper. It suggests that greatness itself has become suspect. That if something endures across time and place, it must be explained away, not studied. That instinct erases standards.
Tradition is not exclusion. It is memory. It is the record of what a civilization discovered was worth preserving. Once you start apologizing for that, you create a vacuum where nothing holds.
A culture that cannot defend Shakespeare will not be able to defend anything else that made it.
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@realMaalouf I thought Japan had a near-zero immigration policy. When did that change?
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JAPAN: Authorities arrested a Pakistani migrant who tried to rape a schoolgirl in Tokyo.
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Let me help you @MayorofLondon
Less Islamic = less violent – less occupier – less supremacist – less hateful – less misogynistic – less jihadist – less theocratic – less expansionist – less sectarian – less punitive – less censorious – less apostasy-obsessed – less blasphemy-enforcing – less gender-segregating – less honor-culture-driven – less domineering – less triumphalist – less invasive – less intolerant – less conquest-oriented!
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You're suggesting that criticism of The Koran's command to kill 'infidels' is intimidation ?
Are you expecting people like me to cheer as the prospect of being massacred ?
You are a very, very silly little man
In fact I suspect you are a Roman Atkinson sketch
Liza Rosen@LizaRosen0000
What is your response to him?
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@PathogenScribe I chose evidence, but wish there was an option for wild type health risk vs vaccine risk. I’ll take an even moderately effective / slightly risky vaccine for a potentially lethal pathogen.
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It's time for a #PathogenPoll 🦠
When you’re trying to decide if vaccine information is trustworthy, what matters most to you?
Vote below and if you have a different metric let me know in a comment!!
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@newstart_2024 @peterboghossian I *have* watched this insanity unfold in real time. I think gender ideology has done the most harm because it touches everything — biology, evolution, data collection, law, parental rights, psychology, women’s rights, … Tho the “post-modern turn” has been lethal to truth.
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The moment the West decided evidence no longer mattered — if it got in the way of utopia.
Melanie Phillips (former Guardian journalist):
“Objective evidence was cast aside because it was too inconvenient. The very idea of reason and rationality was dismissed.
All these ideologies — multiculturalism, lifestyle choice, deep green environmentalism, moral relativism — were utopian. They promised perfection. Anyone who brought facts against them wasn’t just wrong… they were evil.”
Result?
- Evidence became “right-wing”
- Dissenters were bullied, ostracized, fired, threatened
- The Guardian itself became the heart of this ideological machine… until she fell foul of it.
When ideology is sacrosanct and the world must be perfected, facts become the enemy — and truth-tellers become heretics.
Have you watched this shift in real time — where inconvenient evidence gets labeled “hate” or “misinformation”?
Which sacred ideology do you think has done the most damage to open debate?
Your honest take 👇
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@wesyang Yes, that’s it exactly. I don’t think that boys can be any kind of girl. From this clarity, all else follows.
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ACLU lead trans right litigator Chase Strangio: "The starting premise of this and all anti-trans arguments is that women and girls who are transgender are *really* male."
Yes. Yes it is.
Benjamin Ryan@benryanwriter
ACLU litigator Chase Strangio in a 2021 Medium essay: "The assumption behind the anti-trans rhetoric is that there is a single biological characteristic that one can locate and name that demarcates the so-called biological line between the binary of maleness and femaleness." Actually, there is: the gametes. There is no spectrum. They do not come in size medium. There is only large or small.
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@mysteriouskat No. Celebrity culture was and is a mistake. Facebook, Instagram, etc are games where the goal is celebrity status. It brings out the worst in their user populations because the most compelling incentives are perverse. Otoh, Amazon’s business model does not do this.
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@dailyglimps24 What utter rubbish. There must be reasons why they stay … 🤔
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🚨BREAKING: A new poll finds 48% of Muslims living in Britain feel they don’t belong in the UK.
Many claim that the rise of “Islamophobia” is making them consider leaving Britain imminently.
What do you think of this?
[Source: muslimcensus]
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@Sassafrass_84 @JChimirie66677 I have never encountered an ideology so chock full of contradictions.
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@BadgerBitesUK @SpeechUnion Restore Britain — How about we don’t do that anymore.
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Matthew Wright proves our point on LBC this morning.
The official definition of Islamophobia — now repackaged as “anti-Muslim hostility” — is already silencing legitimate debate and criticism of Islam and its practices. It amounts to a de facto Muslim blasphemy law.
The treatment of Nick Timothy by Labour MPs is deeply sinister. The Shadow Justice Secretary criticised mass Muslim prayer in Trafalgar Square, was reported to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, branded “Islamophobic”, and faced calls to resign from Labour MPs and even the Prime Minister.
This morning, FSU External Affairs Officer @_ConnieShaw was invited on to discuss the comments made by Nick Timothy. Matthew Wright didn’t want to hear it.
After the interview, he told another guest he had “closed her down” because she was “putting out anti-Muslim hatred”. Farcical.
In a crowded field, Matthew is this week’s runner up as for chief enforcer of the blasphemy law this week. 👏
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@stellacreasy Muslim mass prayer exists to project power. People praying, even silently, outside clinics are there to pass jusgement by their presence. We should not tolerate either.
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Buffer zones don't ban prayer. They uphold the privacy of women having an abortion.
If prayer was banned in public then no one could do it. Those getting upset about iftars in public seem to want to agree there's a 'time and place' for everything.
Hyperbole and hypocrisy do not for reasoned debate make.
Victoria Freeman@v_j_freeman
I mean, she did. Whatever her reasons she did do that. Creasy can’t then argue others having an issue with public prayer are more suspect than her. But some religions are more readily attacked by MPs than others & for some inexplicable reason that includes our state religion.
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@Martina I’ve been to Israel twice. It’s one of the most cosmopolitan places I’ve ever been. I met more people from all over the world than there than anywhere I’ve been , except maybe Silicon Valley. The idea that Israel is some sort of bloodthirsty apartheid is completely upside down.
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This ideology cannot survive, can it?
Nadira Ali🇵🇸@Nadira_ali12
A settler on Israeli TV claims the Torah gives them permission to erase anyone who isn't obedient to Israel. "The land must be emptied of every Arab who refuses to kneel to us." Not a fringe view. This is mainstream Israeli ideology, the religious justification for Genocide
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@ProjectLincoln The aimless lying and flip-flopping has always been there. Now it’s being applied to something consequential everyone can see. Hope it will start to matter.
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If we don't use it then why beg other countries to help open it?
If we don't need it, then why send 2,500 troops to open it?
If we don't use it then why is it drastically affecting our gas prices at home?
Disclose.tv@disclosetv
NOW - Trump: "We don't use the Strait [of Hormuz], the United States, we don't need it."
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@ImWatson91 @valawakened My fiance and I learned to cook together. It was super fun and has enriched our lives. We used Elaine Corn’s “Now You’re Cooking” and learned a new recipe every week. You might try something like that?
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@valawakened Are you one of those men who bitch about how useless "modern women" are when you can't even throw a basic stir fry together? Because if so, I don't see marriage in your future.
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Here’s to restoring Britain…
Have a great weekend.
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@JoshPhillipsPhD @gianlucarizza No, it’s important to understand that this is deliberate cultural vandalism. It’s code for erasing the contributions of straight white men.
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@gianlucarizza No one actually knows. They just throw around buzzwords they learned in grad school.
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The more I read this, the more I realize how it is utterly illiterate.
How exactly do you decolonize someone’s birthplace? He lived there. No one came in and conquered his house. It’s just a house of a man that exists.
These people are exhausting
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@Frede_Vad Synes du at kriminelle udlændinge bør smides ud af landet?
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En del af de folketingsmedlemmer og kandidater, som nu puster sig op på udlændingeområdet i valgkampen, har vi savnet i dag-til-dag kampen de sidste tre år.
Både i folketingssalen og i den generelle debat. Faktisk har flere af dem primært kæmpet for lempelser.
Nu har de så opdaget, at danskerne er trætte af kriminelle udlændinge og islamister, så den får hele armen.
Håber de husker deres engagement i udlændingekampen EFTER valget. #dkpol
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@AmitSegal @NoahCRothman So many questions … so much empty space under the usual bylines.
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I wonder if, after the murder of six Palestinians tonight in Hebron by an Iranian missile, there will be protests on campuses. I wonder if Mamdani will condemn it. I wonder if Al Jazeera will go into a frenzy.
So interesting.
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@jonatanpallesen I fully support remigration, but I worry that your lump sum payment will encourage people to come just to claim it and allow themselves to be picked up? I am totally on board with paying airlines directly to facilitate return.
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The commenters are raging at the idea of paying immigrants for leaving, saying they should get nothing.
Guys, raging on the internet has done nothing for any Western European country. We need a solution that can actually happen in our European democracies. And as soon as possible.
5 more years of the current situation would amount to the same fiscal cost as my entire program of remigration. And in 50 years my suggestion would have earned itself back ten times.
So let's go for a compromise with the empathic left, instead of just continuing with the status quo.
Jonatan Pallesen@jonatanpallesen
My 3 point plan for saving the future of Europe: 1. Give each immigrant $60k to leave Europe. 2. Make a deal with third countries with low cost of living that they will take immigrants if it is not safe in their home country, in return for large financial support. 3. Cut all welfare to immigrants. This will save billions and billions over the future decades, and prevent a large number of rapes, and not a single immigrant will be left destitute or unsafe.
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@JewishWarrior13 @davidfrum In other words, we’re winning the war. They are contemplating the previously unthinkable. Keep the pressure on.
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🚨 NYT: The elimnation of Ali Larijani is causing anxiety among many regime officials in Iran. “There was a widespread feeling of anxiety that Israel would not stop until all Iranian leaders were killed and the Islamic Republic fell." Two senior Iranian officials described their security concerns: one said he received calls from other officials worried about the safety of Iran's leaders and their own. Everyone wondered, "Who will be the next target?" he said. Another senior official said he trembled when he received the news of Larijani's killing.
Raylan Givens@JewishWarrior13
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 ALI LARIJANI, THE DE FACTO LEADER OF IRAN, WAS ELIMINATED - ISRAEL DEFENSE MINISTER JUST CONFIRMED IT
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