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Kirby Was Right (Again)

Posted on | June 28, 2019 | Comments Off on Kirby Was Right (Again)

When I spoke to my brother Kirby about the arrest of Ayoola ‘AJ’ Ajayi in the murder of Mackenzie Lueck, he said: “Something tells me this wasn’t this guy’s first time at the rodeo” — he must have had some prior criminal history. And, as usual, Kirby’s hunch was right. Ajayi was investigated as a rape suspect five years ago:

“Ayoola Adisa Ajayi (DOB 4/22/1988), who is in custody as a suspect of the Salt Lake City Police Department in relation to the disappearance of MacKenzie Lueck, lived in North Logan, Utah from 2013-2015, according to our local police records. In 2014, North Park Police Department investigated a Sex Offense/Rape complaint with Mr. Ajayi listed as the suspect. The adult female victim in this incident did not wish to pursue charges in the matter.”

He skated on that charge, but predators seldom stop at one victim. Considering that he asked a contractor to build a sound-proof “secret” room at his house, Ajayi’s arrest in the Lueck case may have prevented him from becoming a serial killer. Ajayi is a native of Nigeria, although it’s unknown when he emigrated to the United States, but it was before 2011: “Ajayi and his ex-wife married in 2011 in Texas, and they separated in 2017; their divorce was finalized in January, according to court records.” What do you think are the chances that DNA will link Ajayi to other unsolved crimes? I trust Kirby’s hunch on this.

UPDATE: The murder of Mackenzie Lueck comes eight months after the murder of another University of Utah student:

Lauren McCluskey was returning from class Oct. 22 when she was shot to death on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City. McCluskey was a 21-year-old senior from Pullman, Washington, who was a member of the university’s track team. She was on her cellphone talking to her mother at the time of her fatal shooting, and her mother heard Lauren scream, “No! No! No!” The killer was Lauren’s ex-boyfriend, a man she had met less than two months earlier. On Sept. 2, the first week of her senior year at the university, Lauren went to the London Belle, a Salt Lake City bar, where she met Melvin Shawn Rowland, who was working as a bouncer at the bar. However, Rowland didn’t tell her his real name. He also didn’t tell her his real age — 37 — nor did he tell his new girlfriend that he was a registered sex offender who had spent nearly a decade in prison after being “convicted of attempted forcible sex abuse and enticing a minor over the internet in 2004.”

Just another random coincidence, I guess.

UPDATE II: If readers think my assessment of this situation was unnecessarily harsh, you might consider the reactions at Kiwi Farms, where anonymity protects brutally honest appraisals, e.g.:

“Stupid, stupid girl. She didn’t deserve to be murdered, but damn it, you’d think people could do basic f–king risk analysis when they’re past their teen years.”

and:

“It’s almost like sex for money is dangerous or something, here in the real world or even online. Lol, like it or not you’re actually taking just as big a chance selling your a– online as you would be selling it down at the highway truckstop.”

See, most people actually get it. It’s not as if common sense has ceased to exist, it’s just that in the current climate of journalism, academia and politics, expressions of common sense are strictly forbidden. People actually know things that they are not allowed to say, and this enforced silence serves to protect young people from learning the harsh truths about human existence and “basic f–king risk analysis.” By thus prohibiting the expression of common sense, we guarantee that victims keep piling up like cordword, led like lambs to the slaughter, sacrificed to the idols of Diversity and Inclusion.


 

Category: Crime

UPDATE: Mackenzie Lueck Is Dead; Police Charge Ayoola Ajayi With Murder

Posted on | June 28, 2019 | Comments Off on UPDATE: Mackenzie Lueck Is Dead; Police Charge Ayoola Ajayi With Murder

Fox News reports:

One person has been taken into custody Friday morning in relation to the disappearance of University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck, Salt Lake City police announced.
Further details on the arrest — which came a day after police finished searching a home whose owner they identified as a person of interest — were not immediately available.
Lueck, 23, was last seen meeting an unknown individual around 3 a.m. on June 17 near a park in Salt Lake City after being dropped off by a Lyft driver.
Salt Lake City police are expected to reveal more about the arrest at a press conference at 1:30 p.m. ET.

UPDATE: Mackenzie Lueck is dead. Ayoola ‘AJ’ Ajayi, 31, has been charged with aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping, obstruction of justice and desecration of a body. DNA evidence confirmed that charred remains found at Ajayi’s home were those of Lueck.

 

UPDATE II: Background on the accused killer:

 

Ayoola Ajayi, who has worked as a model, claims to be an IT specialist, and once wrote a novel about a murder, is now accused in the disappearance and murder of 23-year-old University of Utah student MacKenzie Lueck. The California woman was last seen on June 17 after taking an early morning Lyft ride from the Salt Lake City airport to a park in North Salt Lake, where she met someone in another vehicle, according to police.
Chief Mike Brown said police are filing charges of aggravated murder, kidnapping and desecration of a body “in the homicide of MacKenzie Lueck.” The man charged is Ayooli Ajayi, he confirmed. Lueck’s last communications “were with the arrested person,” the chief alled. Police accuse Ajayi, 31, of admitting having some text communications with Lueck, but they said he denied that he had met with her or seen a photo of her despite “having several photos of her and the profile photo.” However, Brown alleged that Ajayi was also seen burning something with gasoline in his yard. According to Brown, a search of the property found a burned area that contained charred items consistent with personal items of Lueck. Horrifically, “female human tissue,” was then also found, and it matched via DNA testing to MacKenzie Lueck.
The location of Lueck’s and Ajayi’s phones pinged at a park within less than a minute of each other, at which time her phone stopped receiving data, said Brown, who added that police would continue investigating Lueck’s death to see if Ajayi allegedly “had help.” . . .
A modeling website in the name of Ayoola Ajayi says he is 31, stands 6 foot 1 inches tall, and has a 45 inch waist. He lists his ethnicity as “Black/African roots.” In posts that are riddled with grammatical and spelling errors, he compared himself to the actor Samuel L. Jackson and described himself as “buffed” and funny. . . .
On LinkedIn and other social sites, Ayoola Ajayi claims to be an IT support specialist. On Facebook, he wrote, “Systems Administrator at Goldman Sachs.”
His LinkedIn page claims he was a “Senior Technical Support Analyst at Dell” based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He says he was employed at Dell as a “technical support analyst” from September 2018 to present and worked as a “mobile tech” for Goldman Sachs from 2017 to present.

UPDATE III: A frightening angle in the case:

A handyman in Utah told Fox News exclusively on Friday the suspect arrested in the murder of a University of Utah student had asked to build a secret, soundproofed room in his home’s basement with hooks on its walls. . . .
Brian Wolf, a local contractor, told Fox News on Friday the individual who owned that home reached out to him in April and asked him to build a “soundproof” room there.
“He slowly added on other requests, like building a secret door and adding hooks to the wall,” Wolf said, explaining how the individual asked him to come to the home and give him an estimate for the potential project.
Wolf added the person said he wanted construction done as soon as possible, “before his girlfriend got back into town.”
The contractor, who owns a home-repair business in Utah, said he was “weirded out” by the whole scenario and turned down the job offer, telling the individual he was too busy. . . .
Meanwhile, a neighbor of the homeowner who is a person of interest told Fox News on Thursday “many women” frequented his home.
“There were always so many women coming in and out at all hours of the night,” the neighbor, who did not want to be identified, told Fox News.

Were these “women coming in and out” prostitutes? As previously reported, Mackenzie was prostituting herself through “sugar baby” sites. Here is a report from Inside Edition on her “seeking arrangements”:

 

What is defended by Third Wave feminists as “sex work” is always dangeorus work, because the kind of men who pay for such “work” are not generally very nice guys. There are many thousands of college girls involved in this “sugar baby” racket, and in most cases, their parents have no idea how their daughters get their spending money.

These girls are always traveling — you see their Instagram profiles with pictures of them at resort hotels — and how do they afford it? Their parents either don’t care, or are afraid to ask.

Watch your daughters closely, America. Warn them: Don’t be a whore.


 

Category: Utah, Violence Against Women

Democrat Debate Post-Mortem: MSNBC’s Obvious Bias and the ‘Beautiful Lunatic’

Posted on | June 28, 2019 | Comments Off on Democrat Debate Post-Mortem: MSNBC’s Obvious Bias and the ‘Beautiful Lunatic’

 

The 10 candidates onstage for Round 2 of the Democratic National Committee debates Thursday night spoke for a combined total of about 66 minutes. Four of those candidates (Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg) consumed 45:21 of that time. In other words, 40% of the candidates got almost 70% of the speaking time. It might be argued, of course, that the former Vice President of the United States deserves more time than other candidates, especially given the poll numbers as reflected by RCP’s national average: Biden 32.0, Sanders 16.9, Elizabeth Warren 12.8, Buttigieg 7.0, Harris 6.6.

Why, however, would Harris — currently polling at fifth place, in single digits, more than 25 points behind Biden — be given more time than second-place Sanders? Isn’t it obvious that the MSNBC hosts made a decision to lift up Harris, to the disadvantage of other candidates?

The MSNBC crowd still has not forgiven Sanders for daring to challenge Hillary Clinton in 2016, blaming him for undermining her support and (so they think) contributing to Clinton’s defeat by Trump. Furthermore, it seems obvious, the MSNBC hosts don’t want an elderly white male to be the Democrat nominee in 2020, so they deliberately set up a confrontation between Harris and Biden over the issue of race:

Joe Biden’s praise for segregationists followed him to the Democratic presidential debate on Thursday evening and exploded into a racial controversy that could put a huge dent in his candidacy after Kamala Harris lectured him on busing.
Harris, who is Jamaican-American, inserted herself into a discussion on the thorny topic, saying, ‘As the only black person on this stage, I would like to speak, on the issue of race.’
She said it was ‘hurtful’ that Biden had praised two notorious, Democratic segregationists who he served with in the Senate in the 1970s.
Harris confronted Biden about the remarks and his stance in the ’70s against busing encourage racial integration in schools – he worked with the two segregationists to try to prevent federal imposition of the policy.
She told him, ‘I do not believe you are a racist. And I agree with you, when you commit yourself to the importance of finding common ground.
‘But I also believe – and it’s personal, and I was actually very – it was hurtful, to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country,’ she said.

This confrontation did not happen spontaneously or by accident. It was a piece of made-for-TV political theater, staged by MSNBC staffers who prefer either Harris or Elizabeth Warren as the 2020 nominee.

 

Notice the optics, by the way: Biden and Harris arguing, with Sanders in the middle forced to stand there silently between them. My guess is that Bernie’s supporters deeply resented the way Thursday’s debate went. They feel they were cheated by the DNC’s bias in 2016, and now they see obvious favoritism in the DNC-controlled debates. Of course, I’m not exactly an impartial observer in this primary. Jim Geraghty rather humorously describes the performance of my favorite candidate:

I wonder if non-Republicans felt about Donald Trump in 2016 the way I, and it seems quite a few other conservatives, feel about Marianne Williamson. Marianne, you beautiful lunatic. Every time you spoke, I didn’t know whether you were going to do a rain dance, cast a hex, or hold a seance. On those rare moments you got a chance to talk, I leaned forward because I had no idea what kind of absolute insanity was going to come out of your mouth. It was as riveting as a hostage situation. She contends American have chronic illnesses because of “chemical policies,” she wonders where the rest of the field has been for decades (er, in public office), and her first call will be to the prime minister of New Zealand, and she wants to harness the power of love for political purposes. In many ways, she is exactly the candidate that today’s Democratic party deserves.

More seriously, my hunch is that the “beautiful lunatic” could have a Trump-like impact. Doesn’t it seem logical that an outsider candidate might have the best chance of beating Trump? If the system is broken, you can’t fix it with someone from inside the system. I can’t get inside the minds of Democrat primary voters, but there’s actual evidence that Williamson caught people’s attention: She was the most-searched candidate on Google after Thursday’s debate. Here’s a video clip of her debate highlights:

A few excerpts:

I tell you one thing, it’s really nice if we have all these plans, but if you think we beat Donald Trump by just having all these plans, you’ve got another thing coming. Because he didn’t win by saying he had a plan. He won by simply saying, “Make America Great Again.” . . .
If you forcibly take a child from their parents’ arms, you are kidnapping them. If you take a lot of children and you put them in a detainment center, thus inflicting trauma upon them, that’s called child abuse. This is collective child abuse. … Both of those things are a crime. If your government does it, that doesn’t make it less of a crime. These are state-sponsored crimes.
What President Trump has done is not only attack these children, not only demonize these immigrants, he is attacking a basic principle of America’s moral core: We open our hearts to the stranger. . . .
I have an idea about Donald Trump: Donald Trump is not going to be beaten just by insider politics talk. He’s not going to be beaten just by somebody who has plans. He’s going to be beaten by somebody who has an idea what the man has done. This man has reached into the psyche of the American people and he has harnessed fear for political purposes.
So, Mr. President — if you’re listening — I want you to hear me please: You have harnessed fear for political purposes and only love can cast that out. So I, sir, I have a feeling you know what you’re doing. I’m going to harness love for political purposes. I will meet you on that field, and sir, love will win.

Now, you’re a conservative, I’m a conservative, and we would strongly dispute the assertion that Trump is guilty of “state-sponsored crimes.” But we’re not Democrat primary voters, are we? And that’s the thing: Marianne Williamson is speaking to Democrat primary voters in Iowa, and she’s pitching straight into their wheelhouse.


 

Category: Debates, Democrats

More ‘Red Pill’ Thoughts

Posted on | June 28, 2019 | Comments Off on More ‘Red Pill’ Thoughts

Went to bed early Thursday night — it was a long day — and woke up early to start putting together my thoughts on the Democrat debate I missed, but then started engaging the comments on “Missing College Girl Mackenzie Lueck Was a Social-Media ‘Sugar Baby’ Whore.” This inspired some thoughts that I want to record while they’re fresh in my mind, and I’ll get to the debate commentary later. As I said in that post:

If you criticize the “sugar baby” racket, feminists will condemn you for “slut-shaming.” They openly advocate the most irresponsible promiscuity, and consider any criticism to be “sexist.” . . .
Feminist “empowerment” means that there are no moral standards for women, so that the college girl will never encounter anyone in authority on campus who would dare to tell her that whoring around via social media is a bad idea.

This is a point that reflects Rollo Tomassi’s insight about the implications of living in a “feminine primary social order.” Western civilization’s tradition of chivalry toward women — the civilized man was taught to show an appropriate deference toward “the weaker sex” — has been leveraged as a force to advance the anti-traditional agenda of feminism. Yet because human nature cannot be changed by political force, women are still vulnerable in ways that traditional civilization understood, but which feminists wish to ignore or deny. Feminist attacks on sexual “double standards” — their insistence that criticism of female promiscuity is “sexist,” and therefore illegitimate — ignore the real harms experienced by women who attempt to pursue “liberation” in this manner.

Men and women are different, and these differences are socially significant. Forcing people to pretend otherwise is foolish, but that’s what our laws and policies against “discrimination” are about — compelling us to remain silent about real differences between men and women, while implementing an agenda that ignores these differences. Speaking out against the feminist agenda carries real risks (ask James Damore) and this has the effect of silencing common-sense objections to bad ideas promoted in the name of feminism. What this means, at a practical level, is that women’s behavior is off-limits to male criticism. In a “feminine primary social order,” male opinions are essentially irrelevant.

 

Now consider the case of Mackenzie Lueck in this light. Anyone with common sense could have told her that whoring herself out as a “sugar baby” was a bad idea, but she was in a bubble, using her private online accounts to conceal this behavior from anyone who might criticize it. Apparently, her friends knew what she was doing, but using social media and dating apps to hustle cash is considered acceptable by many college girls, so she was shielded from any sort of common-sense warnings about the risks involved in this form of “empowered” sexuality.

“Don’t be a whore” is always good advice, but Third Wave feminist ideology effectively prohibits any criticism of female sexual behavior. Because well-mannered men wish to avoid offending women, a sense of chivalry may lead men to cooperate with this prohibition, and some men will play “white knight” by rushing to defend Mackenzie Lueck (and other girls in the “sugar baby” racket) from any condemnation.

GUYS: YOU’RE NOT REALLY HELPING WOMEN
BY BEING A ‘MALE FEMINIST.’

The world feminists have helped create is not a better world for women than the world they’ve destroyed in the name of “equality.” Your grandmother’s world may have been less equal than the world we live in, but she had the benefit of certain traditional institutions and customs that younger women today are sorely lacking. Deprived of the security that women obtained from the institutions of a traditional social order, young women are now vulnerable to the toxic influence of a culture that promotes sexual exploitation as “empowerment.” But nobody can talk bluntly about this, because feminism won’t allow it.

If there is any hope at all of restoring sanity to our society, men must summon the courage to speak the truth, no matter how “offensive” such truth-telling might be to feminist-influenced women. Indeed, telling the “offensive” truth might help save a woman’s life.

The latest development in the Mackenzie Lueck case:

A former Army IT specialist who owns a home five miles from a park where University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck went missing, has been named as a person of interest, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Salt Lake City Police have been searching the home of a man they identified as a person of interest in Lueck’s case, revealing they had collected evidence from the home at a press conference on Thursday.
While police declined to name the homeowner, DailyMail.com learned it is owned by Ayoola ‘AJ’ Ajayi, 31, who lists a private room inside the home on Airbnb for up to $40 a night.
Officials announced they are now searching for a mattress and box spring that Ajayi had given away for free on resale website LetGo five days ago.
Salt Lake City Police requested for the person who picked up the items to contact them, as they continue searching for Lueck.
Lueck, a 23-year-old sorority member, disappeared after taking a Lyft car on June 17 from the airport to a park located miles away from her apartment.
Ajayi was employed by the Army as an Information Technology Specialist for nearly two years before leaving in June 2016, according to his LinkedIn.
He currently works at Dell as a Senior Technical Support Analyst and has so for the past 10 months.

No one should jump to conclusions here. Being a “person of interest” is not the same as being a suspect, and even then, this man would be considered innocent until proven guilty. Yet if this story continues developing in this direction, expect feminists to ignore it completely.

Because “intersectionality,” or something.


 

Category: The Red Pill, Utah, Violence Against Women

In The Mailbox: 06.27.19

Posted on | June 27, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.27.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Hollywood Is Officially Out Of Ideas
Bacon Time: Toaster Bacon?
EBL: Dalai Lama Warns All Of Europe Could Become African Or Muslim
Twitchy: Occasional Cortex’ Chief Of Staff Deletes Tweet comparing Blue Dog Democrats To 1940s Southern Democrats
Louder With Crowder: Arby’s Flips Off Vegans With “Carrot” Made Of Meat

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Update On Hag Rape
American Greatness: Climate Crusaders Defeated In Oregon, For Now
American Thinker: America – Talked Out Of Liberty
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Armed Jews News
Babalu Blog: During A Rally In Miami (A City Full Of Cuban Exiles) Bill De Blasio Quotes Mass-Murdering Socialist Che Guevara
BattleSwarm: Kiddie Table Debate Reactions
Camp Of The Saints: The Never-Eradicated Plague That Is The Red Menace
CDR Salamander: On LCS Manning, Even The Atlantic Goes Salamander
Da Tech Guy: The Bladensburg Cross, SCOTUS Precedent, & The Dirty Dozen, also, Debate Dud & Other Thoughts Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Constitution Mandates Gerrymandering, also, Highlights Of The News
Dustbury: Where It All Began
The Geller Report: Pennsylvania Expected To Become Third State To Ban Child Marriage, also, Obama Appointee Judge Talwani Invents Sanctuary Courthouses
Hogewash: Knit Picking, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Critics Weaponize Loudest Voice Against Fox News
JustOneMinute: A Character Building Opportunity
Legal Insurrection: SCOTUS Says No Census Citizenship Question For Now, also, Iranian Foreign Minister Claims They Won’t Build Nukes Because They’re Forbidden By Islam
The PanAm Post: Interview With Guaido’s Coordinator For Humanitarian Aid
Power Line: Occasional Cortex Cries Over Empty Parking Lot, also, Ted Cruz Wants To Know
Shot In The Dark: Safety
The Political Hat: Buckley Ban On Reddit – A Prelude To More Or An Impudence For Less?
This Ain’t Hell: The Long Arm Of Fustercluck 2015, also, Bad Messaging Choices
Victory Girls: Photo Of Drowned Family Not What Democrats Say It Is
Volokh Conspiracy: The Rights And Wrongs Of Overruling Precedent
Weasel Zippers: Obama’s ICE Chief Says Don’t Blame Trump, Cages For Illegals Were Built During Obama Administration, also, Flashback Montage – Media Insists Trump “Manufacturing” Border Crisis
Megan McArdle: Fauxcahontas’ Support For Abolishing Private Insurance Is Bold And Risky
Mark Steyn: That’ll Be One Palestinian Piranha Pedicure, Please

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Category: Linkagery

Missing College Girl Mackenzie Lueck Was a Social-Media ‘Sugar Baby’ Whore

Posted on | June 27, 2019 | 1 Comment

Mackenzie Lueck displaying her YOLO attitude on Instagram.

Every so often, the Case of the Missing Blonde becomes a national media sensation. This is predictable — the public has an insatiable appetite for these damsel-in-distress stories — and nine times out of 10, the story ends with police finding her body and then the public loses interest, with the trial of her accused killer attracting little notice. It was the mystery of her disappearance that caused the excitement, and once she’s just another dead girl (usually murdered by an ex-boyfriend), the TV audience interest isn’t quite the same. In the case of missing college senior Mackenzie Lueck, however, her story just took an unexpected turn:

Missing University of Utah nursing student Mackenzie Lueck is a ‘sugar baby’ who sought out men over the age of 35 online, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Lueck, 23, disappeared on June 17 after landing in Salt Lake City, Utah, and taking a Lyft ride to meet a mysterious man in a park around 2am.
The college senior’s social media accounts reveal that she considered herself a sugar baby, and boasted about having at least two unidentified sugar daddies which she found through online sites Seeking Arrangement and Tinder.
DailyMail.com obtained screenshots of Lueck’s posts made nearly three months ago in a private Facebook group where Lueck gave advice on how she finds sugar daddies – wealthy older men who lavish younger women with gifts and money in return for company or sexual favors.
‘Try tinder and be blunt about it. Mine says ”I want a SD/SB relationship with a real connection.” If [they] don’t know what a SD/SB is, tell them bluntly sugar daddy and sugar baby. But if they don’t know, they aren’t really worth your time,’ Lueck’s comment reads.
‘Set your age preferences from 35+. You’ll have the most luck there. Private message me, if you have more questions! I have experience.’
In another message Lueck revealed she has two sugar daddies and which sites she uses to obtain them.
‘I have some experience on seeking arrangements, online only, tinder, and currently have two lol.’
Aside from her personal Instagram, Lueck also operates an alias account under the name @NovaBaby96, with a profile photo that shows a woman in panties that read ‘Daddy’ on the back.
This comes after Lueck’s friends came forward to police to say she was casually dating several people and was interested in older men. Authorities didn’t specify if they’ve spoken with anyone she was dating.

 

Let’s be blunt: Mackenzie Lueck was a whore. Also notice my use of the past-tense verb “was” — they won’t find her alive. And her parents will have to ask themselves how they failed so badly: Why did their daughter turn into a whore? This has become a widespread phenomenon:

Thanks to the wonders of 21st-century communications technology, young women — indeed, teenage girls — are very aware that they are in possession of a valuable commodity which can be leveraged for cash money. This behavior doesn’t necessarily involve the most obvious fee-for-service transactions, but in general, a young woman with an Instagram account full of sexy selfies isn’t just posting those bikini pictures for her own self-validation; this is marketing, and her body is the product.
Ask yourself: If every good-looking girl knows she can leverage her youth and beauty for financial advantage — “Hit me up on Venmo” — simply by posting her photos online, what sort of influence does that have on their attitudes toward men? Answer: Not a good influence.
Many thousands of young women have been utterly corrupted this way. Once this pattern of behavior becomes a habit, it’s quite nearly impossible for a woman to see men as anything other than potential customers — chumps to be exploited for financial gain. . . .
Once you become aware of this phenomenon, a lot of otherwise mysterious behavior by young women becomes less mysterious. Consider, for example, the so-called “wanderlust” culture of young women traveling the world, recording their experiences on blogs, YouTube, Instagram, etc. How is she paying the bills for that trip to a resort in Bali, huh?

Feminists justify and defend such behavior. If you criticize the “sugar baby” racket, feminists will condemn you for “slut-shaming.” They openly advocate the most irresponsible promiscuity, and consider any criticism to be “sexist.” Kelly Tyler published a column announcing she’s had sex with “well over 100 men, but that does not define me as a slut.” Two days later, she followed up with another column: “I Was Slut Shamed and Harassed by r/TheRedPill.” Got that? A woman can publicly celebrate her promiscuity, and all negative reactions are “harassment.” We are only allowed to praise women, never to criticize them, no matter what they do.

And it’s all fun and games until a “sugar baby” winds up dead, you see?

Oh, wait — I forgot to mention that Mackenzie Lueck was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority. Care to bet that every girl in AXO knew what she was doing and didn’t think anything was wrong with it? Because most of them were probably doing the same thing. Feminist “empowerment” means that there are no moral standards for women, so that the college girl will never encounter anyone in authority on campus who would dare to tell her that whoring around via social media is a bad idea.


 

Category: Crime, Sex Trouble

Google’s LGBTQ+ Totalitarians

Posted on | June 27, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

A perfect example of how the SJWs have taken over at Google:

Dozens of Google employees have sent an open letter to the organizers of San Francisco’s annual Pride parade urging them to kick Google’s company float out of the parade.
In a letter posted to Medium, the employees wrote of a work atmosphere where concerns from LGBTQ employees are regularly brushed aside.
“We have spent countless hours advocating for our company to improve policies and practices regarding the treatment of LGBTQ+ persons, the depiction of LGBTQ+ persons, and harassment and hate speech directed at LGBTQ+ persons, on YouTube and other Google products,” the letter read.

Stephen Kruiser summarizes: “The gist of the letter isn’t that Google’s LGBTQ+ employees are being treated badly at work, but that the company isn’t stringent enough about cracking down on WRONG SPEECH on YouTube.” In other words, Google hires gay people who then seek to damage the company they work for, in order to pressure the company to engage in totalitarian censorship of anyone they don’t like.

Now do you understand what the firing of James Damore was really about? The LGBT community has become toxic in its politics, abandoning any pretense of seeking “tolerance” and instead demanding that the rest of us obey their diktats or else be banished into outer darkness.

Just the other day, a survey found “that young Americans — generally regarded as the most socially tolerant generation — are less comfortable with LGBTQ people than in previous years. The survey . . . found that Americans aged 18 to 34 who say they are comfortable interacting with queer people fell from 53% in 2017 to 45% in 2018 — even among those whom the report considers ‘allies’ to the LGBTQ community.” This is very much like the little-mentioned backlash that followed the triumph of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Prior to the mid-1960s, sympathy for the plight of black people in the South under Jim Crow was widespread in the North. But after passage of the landmark civil-rights legislation in 1964 and 1965, there occurred a wave of urban riots across the North, and rather suddenly the Yankees realized that maybe “integration” wasn’t going to be a risk-free process for them. These were the years (1966-69) when radicals like Eldridge Cleaver abandoned non-violence and intergrationist rhetoric, instead demanding “Black Power,” and threatening violence in pursuit of that goal.

So now, after their triumph in the Obergefell case, LGBT activists have taken a similar radical path, and even young people who consider themselves “allies” are becoming uncomfortable with them.

Somebody should warn Taylor Swift she’s on the wrong side of history.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!


 

Category: Gays

DNC Debate Night I: The Aftermath

Posted on | June 27, 2019 | Comments Off on DNC Debate Night I: The Aftermath

Stephen Green nails it: “It was a high-speed multiperson press conference where the questions were asked by cheerleaders. That’s the show the DNC wanted, and it’s the show NBC delivered.”

Julian Castro had the biggest gaffe of the night:

In the first 2020 Democratic presidential debate on Wednesday, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Julián Castro said that “reproductive justice” involves allowing “trans females” to get abortions. Even in terms of pandering to the transgender community, this was a huge fail.
“I don’t believe only in reproductive freedom. I believe in reproductive justice,” Castro declared. “Just because a woman, or let’s also not forget someone in the trans community, a trans female, is poor doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have the right to exercise this right to choose.” He went on to pledge that he would appoint judges who would uphold Roe v. Wade (1973).
In this brief statement, the former HUD secretary not only supported taxpayer funding for abortion, overturning the Hyde Amendment (which protects pro-life taxpayers from having their money being used to fund abortion). Castro also mixed up the meaning of transgender identities.
According to transgender identity, gender identity is more real than biological sex. A “transgender male” refers to a biological female who identifies as male. A “transgender female” refers to a biological male who identifies as female.
While transgender activists would call for abortion access for transgender people, they would demand it for “transgender men,” not “transgender women.” It is impossible for a “transgender female” to get an abortion, unless he gets a womb transplant.
Feminist author Sady Doyle called his error “a wild rollercoaster of emotion.”
“Castro supports overturning Hyde and confuses trans women with trans men in the same sentence, which is a wild rollercoaster of emotion,” she tweeted.

National Review‘s Jim Geraghty:

Elizabeth Warren treaded water, Cory Booker and Julian Castro found their grooves, Bill de Blasio vented his anger and may have created some buzz, Beto O’Rourke had a terrible night, and everybody else on the bottom stayed on the bottom. . . .
It’s time to call it — [O’Rourke] thoroughly underwhelming as a debater and wildly overrated as a public speaker. Answering the first question in Spanish, unprompted, looked like a pandering gimmick. He had some better moments as the night progressed, but he was hit so many times by so many other candidates he must have felt like . . . a piñata.

Roger Kimball:

The best comment I heard tonight came from my 11-year-old daughter. Walking into my study at one point and overhearing something Elizabeth Warren said about ‘corporations’ or ‘Medicare for All,’ she asked ‘does she know about a thing called money?’

Indeed, while the liberal media seem to think Warren did just fine, her wild-eye attacks on corporations — profit is bad! — indicated a woman who knows nothing about money except how to spend it.



 

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