Our Moral Superiors™
Liberal intellectuals are convinced that the rest of us are so stupid we need them to tell us what to think. Their narcissism manifests itself as a contempt for the common sense of ordinary Americans, an attitude Thomas Sowell analyzed in The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy. What inspires […]
Feminist Barbie and ‘Rape Culture’
“Math class is tough!” With that simple four-word phrase, Mattel’s “Teen Talk Barbie” became the focus of a feminist uproar in 1992. The prestige of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) was invoked in a successful crusade to make the talking doll shut up. The abundant research showing that, on average, boys actually […]
Muslim Rape Gangs Attack Women, and Feminists Won’t Say a Word About It
Sexual savagery on the streets of Germany: Roving packs of men sexually assaulted dozens of women on New Year’s Eve in western Germany’s city of Cologne, officials said, describing the attacks as unprecedented. The spree suggested a “new dimension of organized criminality,” German justice minister Heiko Maas told a press conference on Tuesday. Police said […]
Chicago: Murder City, U.S.A.
If violent death is your idea of fun, Chicago is a fun place: The Chicago Police Department announced Friday that murders and shootings rose significantly in 2015 . . . The year-end crime statistics showed there were 468 murders in Chicago in 2015 compared with 416 the year before, a 12.5% increase, as well as 2,900 […]
Doxed Lives Matter
Alonda Cano (@People4Alondra) says her critics are racist. The tactic of “doxing” — publishing someone’s home address and other personal information on the Internet in order to expose them to harassment — was made notorious by hackers associated with the “Anonymous” conspiracy. Vox Day explains how “social justice warriors” (SJWs) use these scorched-earth tactics: The […]
Donkey Cartel, R.I.P.
Another promising young performance artist has been slain by social injustice and pistol fire, but mainly it was pistol fire: Daquan Westbrook, a rapper with an extensive arrest record, has been identified as the man killed in an officer-involved shooting at Northlake Mall in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Christmas Eve. Mr. Westbrook, 18, was a […]
Syed Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, Named in #SanBernardino Massacre
The Los Angeles Times reports: The suspects in the shooting rampage were a married couple who had just dropped off their 6-month-old daughter with a grandmother, family representatives said. Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, were married two years ago, according to Malik’s brother, Farhan Khan . . . On Wednesday morning, Farook and […]
The #SanBernardino Massacre
Everybody’s been watching this story develop live on TV: At least 14 people were dead and another 17 injured in a shooting Wednesday in San Bernardino, California, when multiple gunmen who were heavily armed and “on a mission” opened fire during a function at a center for people with developmental disabilities, police said. Up to […]
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