Transgender Terrorism: British Feminist Professor Targeted for Harassment

Posted on | December 7, 2018 | Comments Off on Transgender Terrorism: British Feminist Professor Targeted for Harassment

The transgender cult tolerates no dissent:

A law professor says she has been threatened with rape and murder and forced to hide behind trees to avoid transgender-rights activists who allegedly drenched her office door in urine.
Prof Rosa Freedman, 35, of Reading University, said an anonymous caller had also found her personal mobile phone number and made a series of ‘harassing’ calls to her overnight.
Women’s rights expert Prof Freedman is among a number of academics that have called for sex and gender to be defined differently in law, which would mean transgender women could be barred from entering ‘women’s only’ toilets or prisons.
Prof Freedman believes her abusers could have been buoyed by academics calling her a ‘bigot’ and ‘transphobic’ over her views on social media.
She has called police and said she was concerned the attacks could escalate after reporting the attack on Twitter in the early hours of this morning.
She wrote: ‘I found my office door covered in urine, including some that had seeped under the door, and I spent time cleaning it up because I could not bear the smell or the shame of what had happened.
‘Last week I discovered criminal damage explicitly encouraging me to leave the University.’ . . .
‘Last night someone seems to have accessed my mobile phone number and has been calling it through the night. . . .
Asked if she was concerned the attacks could escalate, she said: ‘It’s concerning, that being said there’s a student society on campus who are strongly opposed to everything I say – but they’ve come out quite strongly today that they condemn this type of behaviour.’
She added: ‘This started over the last year for many academics that speak about sex and gender being two separate things.
‘I’ve been on Women’s Hour in the last couple of weeks. Yesterday we had a women’s rights meeting organised by Women’s Place UK – it was in Reading and a couple of others were speaking.
‘Some students tried to shut the meeting down and have a protest so that meeting may have started it.’

The lunatics are running the asylum.

Category: The Transgender Cult

Comedian Kevin Hart Quits Oscar Host Gig Over ‘Homophobia’ Accusations

Posted on | December 7, 2018 | Comments Off on Comedian Kevin Hart Quits Oscar Host Gig Over ‘Homophobia’ Accusations

The SJW Thought Police take another scalp:

Kevin Hart is stepping down from hosting the Oscars after homophobic tweets surfaced on Thursday.
The tweets, between 2009 and 2011, included derogatory language referring to gay people and made disparaging comments about sexuality. Some of the tweets have since been deleted.
One of the tweets from 2011, that has since been deleted, said “Yo if my son comes home & try’s 2 play with my daughters doll house I’m going 2 break it over his head & say n my voice ‘stop that’s gay’.”
“I have made the choice to step down from hosting this year’s Oscar’s,” Hart, who is currently performing in Sydney, Australia, said via Twitter. “This is because I do not want to be a distraction on a night that should be celebrated by so many amazing talented artists. I sincerely apologize to the LGBTQ community for my insensitive words from my past. I’m sorry that I hurt people… I am evolving and want to continue to do so. My goal is to bring people together not tear us apart. Much love & appreciation to the Academy. I hope we can meet again.” . . .
“The reason why I passed is because I’ve addressed this several times,” Hart said. “I’m not going to continue to go back and tap into the days of old when I’ve moved on and I’m in a completely different space in my life.”
Chad Griffin, the head of an LGBT civil rights advocacy group called the Human Rights Campaign, responded to Hart on Twitter.
“You have a rare opportunity to take responsibility, teach people in this moment, & send a message to LGBTQ youth that they matter & deserve dignity & respect. You say you’ve grown. Show us. Make amends for hurtful things you’ve said & affirm LGBTQ people,” Griffin said. . . .

Why not just have Rachel Maddow host the show and be done with it? Ratings are in the toilet anyway. “Get woke, go broke.”

Category: Gays, Hollywood

Lena Dunham Lied About Rape, Again

Posted on | December 6, 2018 | Comments Off on Lena Dunham Lied About Rape, Again

A year ago, at the height of the #MeToo revelations, a young actress named Aurora Perrineau filed a police report accusing Murray Miller, writer and executive producer of HBO’s Girls, of raping her in 2012, when she was 17 years old and he was 35. Girls creator and star Lena Dunham defended Miller, claiming she had “insider knowledge of Murray’s situation” and was confident that he had been falsely accused.

Now, Dunham says she “made a terrible mistake”:

I didn’t have the “insider information” I claimed but rather blind faith in a story that kept slipping and changing and revealed itself to mean nothing at all.

She then goes on to address Miller’s alleged victim directly:

To Aurora: You have been on my mind and in my heart every day this year. I love you. I will always love you. I will always work to right that wrong. In that way, you have made me a better woman and a better feminist. You shouldn’t have been given that job in addition to your other burdens, but here we are, and here I am asking: How do we move forward? Not just you and I but all of us, living in the gray space between admission and vindication.

Publishing this mea culpa in the Hollywood Reporter might not be the most tasteless thing Lena Dunham has ever done — she’s habitually tasteless — but it’s perhaps the most insulting.

Lena Dunham lied. She lied to protect a man accused of raping a teenager. But rather than admitting she’s a liar, she claims this was a “mistake” based on her “blind faith” in Miller. Let’s take a walk down Memory Lane, shall we?

The most important thing to understand about Lena Dunham is her dishonesty. She wrote a book in which she falsely claimed to have been sexually assaulted by a Republican when she was in college. She refused for months to admit her fabrication, nor did she apologize to the innocent person harmed by her deliberate (and politically motivated) defamation.
Lena Dunham lies routinely and habitually. Slander is her raison d’etre and deceit is her modus operandi. No honest person would willingly associate with Lena Dunham, and only bad people admire Lena Dunham.

Lena Dunham is the worst sort of celebrity trash, and Chicago Tribune columnist Heidi Stevens has had enough of her:

At this point, Dunham’s apology is little more than performance art. The latest episode of her favorite show: Project Lena.
The more we watch, the deeper she digs into her own not-that-fascinating psyche, tuning out the lived experiences and thoughts and pain of other people, except as they relate to hers.
Enough. I can’t watch anymore. I feel complicit in her marginalization of literally every person whose orbit she enters. Farewell, Lena Dunham. Please get better soon.

Just shut up, go away and take your gynecological problems with you.

Category: Celebrities

In The Mailbox: 12.06.18

Posted on | December 6, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #460
357 Magnum: Brazil Moving Toward More Armed Citizens
EBL: NASA Wants An All-Female Mars Mission Crew – To Prevent Sex During The Trip?
Twitchy: The UN’s Latest Fail Should Be The Final Nail In Their Corrupt, Feckless Coffin
Louder With Crowder: Seattle Antifa Threatens Independent Journalist – Seattle PD Defends Antifa

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Stefan In The Middle
American Power: Brandon Hobson, Where The Dead Sit Talking
American Thinker: Time For An Ellis Island Approach To Immigration
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily #MeToo News
BattleSwarm: The Weekly Standard‘s Ongoing Suicide Finally Achieves Results
CDR Salamander: Figuring Out China’s Next Naval Move Isn’t That Hard
Da Tech Guy: But Will They Listen? also, Farewell To A President
Don Surber: Britain Discovers Coal, also, Gays Vs. Blacks In Hollywood
Dustbury: It Is, After All, December
The Geller Report: Judge Gives No Jail Time To Man Who Shouted About Killing Jews While Brutally Beating Elderly Jew, also, In Canada, Hate Crimes Against Jews Up 60% From Last Year
Hogewash: Hooked On Trump, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: New Oscar Host Kevin Hart Attacked In Record Time, also, Why McKay’s Vice Had A Great But Awful Week
JustOneMinute: Mueller Skepticism In Vanity Fair
Legal Insurrection: Brenda Snipes’ Legal Fight Takes A Hit, also, Former Fauxcahontas Adviser Says DNA Test “A Strategic Failure” That Was “Depressing & Unforgettable”
The PanAm Post: Putin Backs Venezuelan Regime As Maduro Reaches Out To Authoritiarian Bloc For Support
Power Line: Drill, Barry, Drill! also, The Post Gets One Right
Shark Tank: Stewart Resigns As Education Commissioner
Shot In The Dark: How The Other Half Fumes
STUMP: The Return Of Mortality Monday, And RIP President GHW Bush
The Jawa Report: Hey Mr. Tally Man, Tally Me Dead Taliban, also, The Taliban’s Super Realistic Combat Training
The Political Hat: Institutional Privilege Checking – Mentoring Experts, Unjust Syllabi, “Honorary Whites”
This Ain’t Hell: A Weasel In Frogman’s Clothing? also, Thursday Is For Cooking
Victory Girls: Kamala Harris Pleads Ignorance Regarding Staffer’s Sexual Harassment Case
Volokh Conspiracy: Professor Dershowitz Responds
Weasel Zippers: Liberal Christian Church Debuts Christmas Play From Muslim Point Of View, also, MSNBC’s Katy Tur Complains Life Is Pointless If We’re Not Focused On Climate Change
Mark Steyn: Borders, Bollards, & Betrayal, also, Big Climate Vs. The Voice Of The People

Twelve Days Of Deals, Day Five – Home
Amazon Warehouse Deals

Category: Linkagery

‘Be Not Conformed to This World’

Posted on | December 6, 2018 | Comments Off on ‘Be Not Conformed to This World’

The words of the Apostle Paul came to mind this morning when I read John Nolte’s article, “Conformity Killed the Weekly Standard”:

The easiest way to sum up the failure of the Weekly Standard is this: Why would anyone on the right offer financial support to the Weekly Standard when CNN will call us a racist for free? And why would anyone on the left offer financial support to the Weekly Standard when CNN will call us a racist for free? . . .
Smug virtue-signaling and superior Trump-bashing are the cheapest commodities in today’s news business. They are literally everywhere. And so, instead of offering a unique voice and perspective in an ocean of left-wing media, the Weekly Standard instead chose to sit in the middle of this ocean and sell saltwater. . . .

Read the whole thing. What’s the value-added of your journalistic product, as a conservative magazine, if your essential message is, “Liberals are right”? It is possible to dislike President Trump or to criticize his policies without joining Bill Kristol, Rick Wilson, Jonah Goldberg and Rich Lowry in the #NeverTrump chorus of sore losers whose basic argument is that the nearly 63 million Americans who voted for Trump were wrong to do so. According to the #NeverTrump chorus, because their favorite candidates did not win the GOP nomination, therefore Hillary Clinton should be president. They have devoted themselves to delegitimizing Trump’s presidency, and are we surprised that this message was so unpopular with conservatives that the Weekly Standard became a publication without a readership?

It is perhaps sacrilegious to invoke Romans 12:2 in such a secular context, but the conservative journalist, surrounded by liberals, is very much like the first-century Christian surrounded by pagans. We know that more than 90% of American journalists are Democrats, we know that dissenting from this hegemonic consensus will not make us popular with our peers, and we can expect only vilification from them.

For 20 years, the Weekly Standard had a “brand” represented by Bill Kristol’s frequent appearances on Fox News, which was no coincidence, because the magazine was originally funded by the same company that owns Fox News. The magazine was thus insulated from the market pressures of finding a readership. The Fox News audience was also the Weekly Standard‘s readership and, not coincidentally, a ready-made market for the lucrative Weekly Standard cruises.

As Kurt Schlichter says, “Ahoy.”

Just as Milton’s Satan would rather reign in hell than to serve in heaven, so also neoconservatives would never be part of any movement if they were not acknowledged as the movement’s intellectual leadership. Neoconservatives were content to have John McCain win the GOP nomination and lose to Obama, since this result did not impair the market for what Kristol, et al., were selling — political commentary and policy analysis. What really threatened their racket, however, was when Republican primary voters in 2016 refused to be herded into the camp of any of the neoconservative-approved candidates. Make no mistake, Bill Kristol would have much rather seen Jeb Bush or Chris Christie win the GOP nomination and then lose to Hillary, than to have a Republican president who wouldn’t take advice from Bill Kristol.

Questions of policy — is Bill Kristol in favor of enforcing our immigration laws, or not? — were ultimately less important to the fate of the Weekly Standard than their intellectual pride. Neoconservatives decided in 2015 that Donald Trump should not be the Republican nominee and, when their advice was rejected by GOP primary voters, the neoconservatives doubled-down and decided that Hillary Clinton should be president. When that didn’t happen, they doubled down again, and declared Trump’s presidency illegitimate. At no point, apparently, did it ever occur to them to ask, “What if we’re wrong?” The possibility of error was not something Bill Kristol (Harvard, Class of 1979) was willing to consider. Sort of like Kirby Smart calling for a fake punt on fourth-and-11.

We cannot know what the future holds. President Trump’s election contradicted all the “expert” predictions, and so the prognostications of the political elite are now useless. By repeatedly doubling-down on its #NeverTrump stance, the Weekly Standard squandered its credibility, and everyone associated with that publication must be regarded by conservatives as permanently tainted by their failure. Let us hope that younger conservatives viewing the sorry end of that once promising publication will learn a valuable lesson. Selah.

Category: Intellectuals

Catch and Release: MS-13 Killer Avoided Deportation Because of Obama Judge

Posted on | December 5, 2018 | Comments Off on Catch and Release: MS-13 Killer Avoided Deportation Because of Obama Judge

Henri Salvador Gutierrez (left); Judge Mario Sturla (right).

In September 2016, a lawyer named Mario Sturla was appointed as a federal immigration judge by President Obama’s attorney general, Loretta Lynch. Sturla is himself an immigrant, a native of the Dominican Republic who graduated from Brown University in 2003 and got his law degree at Yeshiva University in 2006. In June, Judge Sturla heard the case of Henri Salvador Gutierrez, a 19-year-old Salvadoran entered the country illegally in 2014. Gutierrez, whose MS-13 nickname is “Perverso,” had been arrested three different times since his arrival in the U.S. and, by the time of his June 22 hearing in Boston, had been in federal detention for seven months. Homeland Security testified that Gutierrez had been determined “to be a risk to public safety as a verified and active member of the MS-13 gang in the Boston metro area.” Incredibly, Judge Sturla turned the foreign criminal loose on the streets:

“Lastly, the court finds that the respondent has made attempts to rehabilitate himself after multiple arrests for carrying knives and machetes,” Sturla wrote in his decision. “The respondent testified that he wants live a peaceful life.”

As might be expected, Gutierrez’s “peaceful life” didn’t last long. Within a matter of weeks after he was released, according to an affidavit, Gutierrez and five of his MS-13 accomplices stabbed to death 17-year-old Herson Rivas, who they believed was an informer:

“The nature and circumstances of the (charges) are troubling and horrific,”?a federal criminal affidavit reads.
That includes killing 17-year-old Herson Rivas on Aug. 2 with a large knife like they were “chopping wood.”
One of the accused, according to the affidavit, stabbed the defenseless teen “with such force his knife became warped during the attack.” . . .
“Four of the six defendants appear to have entered or remained in the United Status unlawfully. At least four of the six defendants have MS-13 tattoos indicating that they are MS-13 homeboys, suggesting that they committed a murder or other violent attack.
“At least two of the six defendants have felony records. At least two of the six defendants were previously in immigration custody but were released and went on to commit … murder,” prosecutors state.
One of the suspects was arrested yesterday and the rest are locked up on state charges or in immigration custody, and will appear in federal court soon.
“MS-13 is a ruthless, transnational gang operating in our backyard,” said U.S. Attorney in Boston Andrew E. Lelling. “This group routinely commits senseless acts of violence, including murder, to maintain control and instill fear.
He added: “Dismantling MS-13 in Massachusetts and elsewhere is a top priority of the Department of Justice. Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies will continue working together to investigate and hold MS-13 members responsible for these heinous crimes.”

(Hat-tip: Ace of Spades.)

Category: Crime, Immigration

In The Mailbox: 12.05.18

Posted on | December 5, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.05.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Sorry about the lack of posting yesterday; was under the weather.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Is The Weekly Standard Doomed?
Twitchy: Daily Show Catches Heat For Using 41’s Funeral To Mock Trump
Louder With Crowder: How To Tweet Like Alexandria Occasional Cortex In Five Easy Steps, also, Senator Hirono Claims Democrats Have Trouble Connecting With People Because “We’re Too Smart”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Older Brother Podcast #30 – The Anime Girlfriend Pillow Episode
American Power: Heather MacDonald Interview, also, The Case For Spending More To Help Israel
American Thinker: Maxine Waters Wants Revenge
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Electoral Shenanigans News, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Maureen Dowd Talks About Maureen Dowd (And A Little Bit About Bush The Elder), also, All The Feels
CDR Salamander: How An Officer Acts When Captured By The Enemy, also, Brave New China
Da Tech Guy: General Locusts, also, Five Quick Would-Be Tweets Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Mueller Inadvertently Exonerates Trump, also, Oh No! Joy Behar May Quit The View!
Dustbury: This Seems Stressful
The Geller Report: Muslim Defense Contractors Charged With Defrauding DoD Nearly $9 Billion, also, Canadian PM Trudeau Backs UN Migration Pact That Could Erase Canadian Identity
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, Get Woke, Go Broke, & Facebook Isn’t Your Friend, also, Poker v. Chess
Hollywood In Toto: Pop Culture Clobbered Conservatives In 2018
JustOneMinute: We’ll Always Have Paris, also, Out Like Flynn
Legal Insurrection: WI Republican Legislature Passes Bills Limiting Powers Of Incoming Democrat Gov, AG, also, Mueller Claims Flynn Gave Him “First-Hand” Details About Trump Transition Team’s Contacts With Russia – Which Aren’t Illegal
Michelle Malkin: Stop Partisan Corpse Abuse
The PanAm Post: Bolsonaro Rejects Slavery For Cuban Doctors, AMLO Approves It
Power Line: The Danes Have Had It With Illegal Alien Criminals, also, Analyze This
Shark Tank: Rubio Says Nation’s Future Is “American”, Contra Gillibrand’s Assertion That It’s “Intersectional”
Shot In The Dark: Lie First, Lie Always – Nancy Nord Bence’s Unbroken Streak!
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday -The French Are Revolting
The Jawa Report: Abu al-Umarayn – He’s Dead, Jim
The Political Hat: The Neo-Luddites And The Populist Temptation, also, Drag Queen Openly Admits Grooming Children
This Ain’t Hell: Goodbye, Old Friend, also, U.S. Warship Sails In Sea Of Japan Waters Claimed By Russia
Victory Girls: Macron Blinks, Will Defer Global Warming Fuel Tax For Six Months
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Court Rules Against Administration In Sanctuary Cities Case
Weasel Zippers: Air Force Obliterates Taliban Training Camp In Helmand Province, Afghanistan, also, Jihadi Work Accident – 37 Taliban Losers Killed By Own Car Bomb
Megan McArdle: The Incredibly Unpopular Idea That Could Help Stem Opioid Deaths
Mark Steyn: Last Call, also, The Long Goodbye

Twelve Days Of Deals, Day 4: Personal Computers
Amazon Warehouse Deals

Category: Linkagery

‘The Title IX Reign of Terror’

Posted on | December 5, 2018 | Comments Off on ‘The Title IX Reign of Terror’

Professor Dennis Gouws (left); Dean Anne Herzog (right).

Springfield College in Massachusetts is a small private liberal arts school with about 3,200 students. Perhaps best known as the place where James Naismith invented basketball, Springfield recently became the site of a feminist dean’s persecution of Professor Dennis Gouws.

This case illustrates what Peter W. Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, calls the “Title IX Reign of Terror” unleashed by the Obama administration’s 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter. This was most obvious in what K.C. Johnson and Stuart Taylor Jr. have called The Campus Rape Frenzy. However, beyond the proliferation of sexual assault accusations, the Obama administration’s Title IX policy also made it possible for university officials “to discover ‘discrimination’ and ‘harassment’ pretty much wherever they want”:

A new campus regime emerged in which it became dramatically easier to threaten and to intimidate anyone who crossed the invisible and often imaginary lines.
The case of Professor Dennis Gouws at Springfield College in Massachusetts provides the best-documented instance of how this works. Gouws first came to national attention in spring 2016, when his department cancelled his popular undergraduate course, “Men in Literature,” which paralleled another offering in the English department, “Women in Literature.”
The course on men in literature had been offered for many years and wasn’t controversial, but all at once the dean of the college, Anne Herzog, decided Gouws’s interest in teaching about men was, as we now say, problematic. . . . Herzog seized on a complaint from one student in “Men in Literature” to demand that he revise the course. . . .

Read the whole thing. All it takes is one complaint for a feminist administrator to destroy a professor’s life and career.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)